I'm using Sense, I linked my Facebook profile so it automatically downloaded the Facebook profile pictures for my contacts and set them as their contact photos. However, some of them are off-center and cropped in the wrong places, a couple even cut off the peoples' heads so you just see their bodies. Is there any way to readjust the pics quickly? (without actually downloading their pictures and then manually setting them as the contact photo and cropping them)
At least with MCR v17 (Froyo), you can't.
Facebook contact information is not editable on this device
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my issue about contact picture:
I've link my phone contact with facebook. i've set my facebook to auto sync. it works well syncing event & updates & contact picture of my contact but when my friends changed the profile pic on their facebook, my desire won't change the contact picture according to their facebook profile pic.
Have you tried cropping them and then uploading to Facebook? Might then appear properly and not be truncated.
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antu_pogroms said:
my issue about contact picture:
I've link my phone contact with facebook. i've set my facebook to auto sync. it works well syncing event & updates & contact picture of my contact but when my friends changed the profile pic on their facebook, my desire won't change the contact picture according to their facebook profile pic.
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Yeah mine doesn't update either. It just shows the original picture it downloaded from the first time it synced them, and it never updates if they change them.
MasDroid said:
Have you tried cropping them and then uploading to Facebook? Might then appear properly and not be truncated.
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I'm talking about my friends' pictures, not mine.
Hi there, did a search but couldn't find anything.
Is there a reason why the image which appears on the top of each persons people contact is so low resolution? I have replaced some of the images of people on there with high resolution pictures but it just low res's them again!
Very annoying on a phone with such a nice screen.
Been wondering the same thing. There is no reason to make them low res, so it must be a bug of some sorts.
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Not sure what the exact solution to this is and I find it annoying too. I do however use haxsync and merge my phone contacts with their facebook profiles and that keeps them in a decent quality (well, as good as thier facebook profile picture at least). Not a ideal solution but it kinda works..
(Haxsynx also does other stuff, such as showing facebook status updates and history on contacts info but that part doesnt appear to work with the Sense people app, I was standard ICS contacts.. :/ )
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(Haxsynx also does other stuff, such as showing facebook status updates and history on contacts info but that part doesnt appear to work with the Sense people app, I was standard ICS contacts.. :/ )
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The standard people app does it as well, if the phone contact is linked to the facebook one. I know for sure because I have spent an hour unlinking them one by one, as I hate FB messing with my phone contacts.
If you're on about pictures you sync yourself then they go to the Google server where they become nice los res pictures as Google has screwed it up. Syncing to Facebook is a bit better but not perfect...Google+ seems to be the best resolution for contact pictures IMO
Remove the picture and re-attach it. I dont know why it happens but after a few tries, it will attach your picture with the proper resolution
This was an issue for me as well, but Haxsync on Google Play fixes it beautifully. It can force/sync high quality photos from Facebook.
iamholam said:
Hi there, did a search but couldn't find anything.
Is there a reason why the image which appears on the top of each persons people contact is so low resolution? I have replaced some of the images of people on there with high resolution pictures but it just low res's them again!
Very annoying on a phone with such a nice screen.
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You can try to create a new contact with the photo on "phone" (only photo in it), remove the photo from the "google" contact (if you already have one in it) and leave only the particulars like name and phone numbers, then link the "phone" contact to the "google" contact.
This means google will only sync the particulars from your "google" contact and leave the "phone" contact intact, so you will always have an uncompressed photo.
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Remove the picture and re-attach it. I dont know why it happens but after a few tries, it will attach your picture with the proper resolution
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If you do this you have to turn off contacts sync or it will just go low res again.
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joshnichols189 said:
If you do this you have to turn off contacts sync or it will just go low res again.
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I manually re-attached hi res pictures and disabled Google contacts sync from Accounts & sync > Google > Sync contacts but they still look terrible when I open the contact details or I receive a call. Any ideas why the hi res pictures are not displayed? I also tried to take a picture directly whit the camera and use it as contact picture but still low res. I had the same issue with my Incredible S but manually re-attach hi res pictures worked in that case.
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Not sure what the exact solution to this is and I find it annoying too. I do however use haxsync and merge my phone contacts with their facebook profiles and that keeps them in a decent quality (well, as good as thier facebook profile picture at least). Not a ideal solution but it kinda works..
(Haxsynx also does other stuff, such as showing facebook status updates and history on contacts info but that part doesnt appear to work with the Sense people app, I was standard ICS contacts.. :/ )
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Do u also have to enable standard facebook account for haxsync to work?
Because it gets automatically enabled when u first log in to haxsync.
Thank you
Hi everybody,
I just bought an HTC One X two days ago, which is a wonderfull device, but I have an issue ...
I'm syncing my contacts/mail/calendar with an Exchange server (I don't think it is related, but I prefer to tell), which downloads the contact pictures correctly. But they are of low resolution and poor quality. I go to edit the contact, I browse the gallery to 700x700 picture, choose it, and save the contact, but picture quality remains unchanged ... As if it was downsizing it and lot of jpeg artefacts on compression ...
Do you have the same issue and do you have some solutions ?
Thanks !
Hello, i have the same issue here.
Photo from contact are pixelated and have really bad quality.
It looks like the thumbnail has been upscaled ...
And i have no solution.
There is an app called friendcaster that will sort it
This app is called "Friendcaster for Facebook", but my problem has nothing to do with Facebook, in fact I don't want to use facebook at all ...
I just want to put highres pictures on my Exchange contacts, not more ...
Try haxsync from market and see if it solves ur problem....
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This is still a facebook app ...
I´ve created a folder in DCIM, called it contact pics and transfered all my contact pics to there. After this i´ve reworked the contact informations, that they take the pics out of this folder. Now i have always clean and sharp pics. They weren´t synced btw. changed by Google. Titanium backup restores this path after installing a new rom.
Neo XL said:
I´ve created a folder in DCIM, called it contact pics and transfered all my contact pics to there. After this i´ve reworked the contact informations, that they take the pics out of this folder. Now i have always clean and sharp pics. They weren´t synced btw. changed by Google. Titanium backup restores this path after installing a new rom.
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How did you do that ? I don't find this in the contacts parameters, where do you tell it the folder where it should search for the contacts pics ?
(I'm actually thinking this could be related to the 256x256 contacts picture size hardcoded in android ...)
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How did you do that ? I don't find this in the contacts parameters, where do you tell it the folder where it should search for the contacts pics ?
(I'm actually thinking this could be related to the 256x256 contacts picture size hardcoded in android ...)
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It is. Whenever your contacts sync with Google they are resized and synced back to your device.
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joshnichols189 said:
It is. Whenever your contacts sync with Google they are resized and synced back to your device.
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yea but he's syncing with Exchange not Google
zerozoneice said:
yea but he's syncing with Exchange not Google
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Exactly, I'm syncing with Exchange, and I suspect Exchange uses even a poorer resolution ...
I remember on my HD2, the picture quality from Exchange was poor, but I just had to set a higher resolution picture on the contact on the phone and it remained ok. Seems Android doesn't manage this correctly ...
I'm actually searching a way to root my One X without loosing data (The HTC Dev way tells me every personnal data on the phone will be lost), I read somewhere there could be a way to change this 256 pixels limitation when rooted, am I right ?
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How did you do that ? I don't find this in the contacts parameters, where do you tell it the folder where it should search for the contacts pics ?
(I'm actually thinking this could be related to the 256x256 contacts picture size hardcoded in android ...)
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I´ve choosed rework in contacts, then click on the little upper photo and choose albums and the file in the created folder on my sd card. After this i had always clean & sharp contact pics.
So what you're saying here is that you copy all the pictures to the phone memory, then go into each contact manually and assign a picture? I really can't be bothered doing this for 130+ contacts, and not be able to sync it with e.g. Outlook to keep a backup.
It there would be an app to do this automatically, given the photo file name is the same as the contact name - that would be useful indeed.
Looking for a solution also. Maybe contacts.apk need to be modified to change picture resolution for contacts.
the solution is in Google's hands which doesn't seem to give a **** for YEARS now.
latest thread on the saga is here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
they eventually gave up after some indians working for Google teased everyone with a solution, they shut up for the next 5 months...typical.
it's ****ing pathetic, everyone should flood Rubin's and all executives accounts with this issue.
long story short: ICS supports 256x256 contacts image size (up from 96x96) but Google Mail doesn't.
that's why our contact pictures once sync-ed with Gmail look like ****. Even the iPhone is affected by this....if you sync it with Google Mail.
they don't consider it a top priority, otherwise it would've been fixed like this:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSStkKxXTw
funny how Punit Soni's G+ account changed some time ago to "worked for Google"
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So what you're saying here is that you copy all the pictures to the phone memory, then go into each contact manually and assign a picture? I really can't be bothered doing this for 130+ contacts, and not be able to sync it with e.g. Outlook to keep a backup.
It there would be an app to do this automatically, given the photo file name is the same as the contact name - that would be useful indeed.
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I´ve done this one time and sync always with google without loosing the sharpened pics. After flashing a new rom i restore the contacts data (not the app) with Titanium; no problems since then.
zerozoneice said:
the solution is in Google's hands which doesn't seem to give a **** for YEARS now.
latest thread on the saga is here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
they eventually gave up after some indians working for Google teased everyone with a solution, they shut up for the next 5 months...typical.
it's ****ing pathetic, everyone should flood Rubin's and all executives accounts with this issue.
long story short: ICS supports 256x256 contacts image size (up from 96x96) but Google Mail doesn't.
that's why our contact pictures once sync-ed with Gmail look like ****. Even the iPhone is affected by this....if you sync it with Google Mail.
they don't consider it a top priority, otherwise it would've been fixed like this:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSStkKxXTw
funny how Punit Soni's G+ account changed some time ago to "worked for Google"
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I never sync mine with google contacts...still the pics are at worst display
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I have the same problem on my HTC One XL which I just bought in Hong Kong. Images of all my contacts in the contacts list look fuzzy and blurry. I am not using Google or Facebook Sync either. I also noticed that all other pictures taken with this phone look good initially on screen but once one zooms in the shi* hits the fan!
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Exactly, I'm syncing with Exchange, and I suspect Exchange uses even a poorer resolution ...
I remember on my HD2, the picture quality from Exchange was poor, but I just had to set a higher resolution picture on the contact on the phone and it remained ok. Seems Android doesn't manage this correctly ...
I'm actually searching a way to root my One X without loosing data (The HTC Dev way tells me every personnal data on the phone will be lost), I read somewhere there could be a way to change this 256 pixels limitation when rooted, am I right ?
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Anyone know if this is possible after rooting?
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Anyone know if this is possible after rooting?
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Tried Haxsync....tried Friendcaster Pro.... Nothing solves the low res pic problem....
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I am noticing with several of my joined contacts that I am not seeing a contact photo. They have photos through facebook but not through my other links such as Google or other programs that I have them listed as contacts. Does anyone know a way of forcing it to use the contact picture from Facebook or making that the default? In my SG3 before the JB update I was able to click on the photo and use it for the contact but that does not appear to be an option in JB.
I use Facebook contact sync from the market and it works fine
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
I know on the note one you had to edit the contact and choose what pic to use.
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I don't want to use third-party apps like Sync.Me.
I've correctly linked contact list with their Facebook profile. But some pictures Sync with HD, some pictures sync blurry and some picture won't sync at all. I'm sure they have their profile picture on Facebook and original image quality is not that bad.
I've tried removing Facebook account and add again from Settings-Accounts and Sync, Facebook->App Setting->Sync, Unlink and link again, scroll through all friend list in Facebook app. None of them worked for me.
I think it worked when I bought my phone. At least, when I go to specific contact and click the absent or blurry contact picture, it downloads from Facebook. I have no idea why it was stopped working.
Is there any workaround for that without using third-party apps? Thanks!!
I have the same issue
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I have the same issue
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And almost identical flags
Just kidding.. please tell me if you fixed it somehow..