i got a pretty annoying bug as of lately. Everytime i try to update a contact's picture on my at&t s3 it updates it to the same picture every time. This happens every time with every contact i try to change. I even deleted the original picture that keeps duplicating and it still updates to that same photo! The only way around this bug that i have found is to update my pictures on google contacts from my web browser. However when i do that all the pictures come out all fuzzy because of the low res. anyone have this same issue?
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Hi,
I came across problem with caller id photo quality is poor. It is blurry because stretched up.
This happen when you sync with Google Contact, because your original high-res caller id photo is replaced with Google Contact 96x96 size.
Is this still happening with Desire?
http://androidforums.com/support-troubleshooting/17728-poor-contact-picture-quality-caller-id.html
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1265
Noone is using Google contacts with photo having this issue?
I am having this problem. I think it only happens when you use the camera to take a photo when editing contacts. If you choose a photo instead of opening the camera to take a new photo, you will have the option to crop the photo and the resolution seems much better. I just tried it last night and it seems to work.
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When you link it to the Google account, it scales it down to a very bad resolution.
it also happens when you link your contacts with facebook accounts
cez10 said:
it also happens when you link your contacts with facebook accounts
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Ugh, this is not good. I just went over to the google forums, and see that this issue has been open for a long, long time.
Has anyone found any workarounds, especially for using the FB sync problem with Caller Id Photos?
I also have this problem, only on a Hero. The problem occurred when I flashed a 2.1 ROM on it. Sometimes the photos are blurry, and sometimes they disappear completely, replaced by the generic photo.
It seems to change when I connect/disconnect from wifi, but not every time.
Just thought I'd add the info, even though it's not on a Desire.
Before I had rooted my phone, all of my Caller ID photos would show up nice and clear when I was on a call with a person. Since rooting my phone, the picture that shows up whenever I'm on a call (assuming I have a photo assigned to that person) is a blurry mess.
I've tried clearing all the photos assigned to the contacts and reassigning them, but I'm still getting the same result. Since rooting, I experimented with all kinds of ROMs and kernels before settling on the stock rooted 1.47 with netarchy's fps fix kernel. Is it possible that one of the many ROMs/kernels I tried messed with the optimization or compression of Caller ID pictures?
Any help would be much appreciated!
I have the same issue. Except my pictures were blurry before I rooted...after I rooted the first time, after I un-rooted, and now that I am back rooted again. The stock Froyo picture is in good shape though.
It's a problem on Google's end. Something to do with them downsampling the picture on sync to save bandwidth.
Thanks for the help, guys. Turns out it is indeed Google Contacts syncing that's responsible for compressing the files. Turning off Google Contacts sync then removing the photos and reassigning them fixed the issue.
bihnkim said:
Thanks for the help, guys. Turns out it is indeed Google Contacts syncing that's responsible for compressing the files. Turning off Google Contacts sync then removing the photos and reassigning them fixed the issue.
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Another way to do this is to leave all of the Google contacts without pictures. Next, create contacts stored only on the phone with the same name and the picture. Then you can link the contacts together and no pictures will ever be messed up by Google.
It sucks that it also seems to distort Facebook contact pictures.
Hello,
I'm new to this forum but have done a google search for my problem. It seems like it's still an ongoing problem that doesn't have a solution as of yet.
My problem/issue is with MMS messages that contain more than one picture. I've got handcent and the original messaging app that came with my droid incredible.
The best way I know to describe the problem in detail is to give an example. Let's say I received an MMS message that contained 10 pictures. With handcent, I would download the message and it would/could come in in different ways. Sometimes it'll only show me the first picture(view thru some sort of picture manager), sometimes it would show me the first and last as some sort of a movie, and then sometimes it would show the entire set of pictures in a movie type format that would last for 1-2 minutes give or take with no way of scrolling from picture to picture. However, unless it shows all the pictures in a movie type format there is no way to view every picture unless I go into the messaging app that came on the phone.
When using the messaging app on the phone the MMS message comes in in 1 of 2 ways. The first is a slideshow that shows every picture with an option to scroll from picture to picture. I'm pleased with this and would like all of these types of messages to come in this way. The second is the pictures come in as attachments. With this I'm only able to view the picture one by one. I have to click on what picture I want to view then choose between "View or save to SD card" then choose how to complete the action by choosing between "View picture or ASTRO Image Viewer".
My question is why doesn't all MMS messages like this not automatically come in as a slideshow where I can manually flip between pictures, either with the messaging app that came with the phone or with handcent? Is this a droid issue, specific phone issue, etc.? Is there a system setting that needs to be changed or a phone update I need to do? I had an LG Dare before this phone and all messages like this came in in slideshow form and I could flip between each picture.
This is the only problem I'm having with this phone. It's rooted and I'm running RR rom. I just want to be able to view each and every picture by scrolling or thumbing through the message. It's just amazing to me that a phone with this capability would have an issue like this
Thanks for any help!
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does anyone have an answer?
I became aware of the issue when I noticed that there were no photos in the People and Photo hubs - just little grey squares. Selecting them took me to a larger grey square then the message "Cant get picture. Try again later" My Facebook and Photo feeds still updated though.
I then went into settings and tried to manually sync Facebook but got error code 800723ff.
A search on the net showed that this was caused by the data connection being dropped, but this is not the case as I was able to sync my email addresses and Facebook updates from my friends were loading.
I removed and re-added the Facebook account at least 5 times. Pulled the battery and the SIM card...all to no avail. I really don't want to reset the phone and have to reload all my apps again. I did that about a month ago because of an error with the Marketplace. If anyone has any ideas or came across this before and knows the solution it would be greatly appreciated.
Another thing... this is something I was able to confirm - at least for my phone - when I deleted and re-entered the Facebook account. The time it takes to load the Facebook content and load a post with comments increases as time goes by. I first noticed this back in January when I got frustrated because it started to take the What's New in the People Hub over a minute to load content. On a whim I deleted the Facebook account, added it back in and lo and behold... loading content in 1 - 2 seconds. Selecting a post by one of the fan pages I follow, such as Yankees or Rangers, that had up to 90 comments loaded everything in about 4 seconds. Prior to this, loading a post with 9o comments was an exercise in frustration. I'm talking almost 2 minutes.
Before this latest error, I felt that things were a bit slow again. Not as slow as in December, but still a bit of a delay. Now, with the Facebook account freshly entered I am again enjoying speedy load times. I just loaded a post with 99+ comments and that took only 3 seconds.
I am worried that this is the norm. That as time goes by, loading content in the People and Photo hub will become progressively sluggish. It reminds me of WinMo 6.1 where I had to do a hard reset every 8-10 months because the system slowed to a crawl.
So, can anyone else confirm my findings? If this is indeed the norm, then this is an issue that MS needs to know about and correct. I guess I can delete/re-enter the Facebook account every couple of months but why should I have to? It's a minor pain in the ass to go through my contacts and relink them everytime I do this.
no such issues on my HD7, maybe you should bring it to service ctr, if the data connection is dropping, it maybe the radio issue...
I have a problem with some pictures of my contacts linked to facebook not wanting to update, none of the other issues though.
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I have a problem with some pictures of my contacts linked to facebook not wanting to update, none of the other issues though.
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same issue here,i think it's the recent changes of Facebook that bring These trouble
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I became aware of the issue when I noticed that there were no photos in the People and Photo hubs - just little grey squares. Selecting them took me to a larger grey square then the message "Cant get picture. Try again later"
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I've just signed up to say that I've been having the same problem recently.
I experienced the problem with Facebook photos as well, it lasted for about 3 days. Today it started working again, must have been some bugged update on Facebook side that's gone now.
I just noticed that the "what's new" feed in the Picture Hub suddenly has gone completely empty and just says "no news to share now". Very strange and annoying.
I had the grey squares pictures issue, I turned off the https Facebook Account setting and they came through straight away.
Well I don't use facebook integration in contacts.
I rather use the app for that.... I visit FB maybe 10 minutes a day.
For weeks I had been frustrated because a few of my contacts would not appear in the People hub, nor link to their Facebook counterparts. It turns out there is a Facebook privacy setting that allows a Facebook user to prevent "platforms" from accessing their data. Thus, the Facebook app will show them, but the integrated Facebook support will not even show them as your friend. There is no workaround or solution for this, other than to ask your friends to turn this setting off in their privacy options. I understand this isn't the exact issue the OP is having, but it seems to me this thread is full of Facebook/WP7 interaction information and I thought it may help others who are experiencing the same problem.
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I had the grey squares pictures issue, I turned off the https Facebook Account setting and they came through straight away.
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Thanks! I completely forgot that I had turned that on. Turned it off and it works again.
I have big issues with the Pictures Hub.
I have not been able to upload any photos to either skydrive nor facebook for days now, and it doesnt even show my pictures from facebook, the only thing I have there is "Camera Roll" and "Saved Pictures".
I get the message "We cant upload pictures at the moment, try again later".
I have two Omnia7's right now, it works just fine on one, not the other.
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I had the grey squares pictures issue, I turned off the https Facebook Account setting and they came through straight away.
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Hey! I'm running into the same problem as described by the OP and I'd like to try out your solution - I'm just not sure what you mean by the https facebook account setting. Where could I find that?
I currently have secure browsing as disabled when viewing my facebook account in a pc browser through facebook's own website, under account settings > security
No problems like what's described in the OP but I did notice that not as many posts are displayed as before.
Anybody seen an issue where if you try to change a contact picture or create a new picture, it always reverts to one particular picture? My GF was just trying to change her contact picture of me and noticed it after she changed it, it went to a picture of her niece that was originally pulled from Facebook on an entirely different contact. I checked and sure enough every contact she tries to add with a pic gets assigned that same pic. I tried removing Facebook and changing it and still a no go. Any ideas?
Anybody with suggestions???? Anybody?????