I recently updated to the latest firmware, but I flashed the ROM posted in the development section. I had set pictures for a couple of my contacts, and after updating my phone and letting Google sync my contacts back onto my phone I noticed that the pictures will not stretch to fix the area for pics when making a call.
I should say that some pics are stretched. But some aren't. None of the photos that are used to set the contact pic is stored on the phone.
Google doesn't save it in hd when you sync.
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So how can I get the phone to display the pic in HD?
If it's only a couple of contacts then you can do what I do and make a folder on your SD card with the pictures of the contacts you want and then set them again every time you go to a new ROM. Get the pictures however you got them in the first place, or maybe go on their facebook or something. Depending on how many you want to set, it should only take a few minutes.
If you use fb you can get hax sync and it will use hd pics and you can back it up to your Google contacts
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Everytime you flash a new rom this will happen. I used to just go one by one reassigning pics, until I found this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jgarrison.hdcontacts
Just assign pics using the app and after you assign all the pics go into the settings and do a backup. After that when ever you flash a rom juat restore the pics using the app.
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When someone calls me or even when I place a call....why is it that the pix resolution looks crappy. How can I get to look better. I'm using pictures I take from my phone and its 8 megapixel. Is there a solution for this. Thanks in advance.
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jessegio34 said:
When someone calls me or even when I place a call....why is it that the pix resolution looks crappy. How can I get to look better. I'm using pictures I take from my phone and its 8 megapixel. Is there a solution for this. Thanks in advance.
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I would like to know this too!
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It has to do with having your contacts synced through Google. Once you set the picture and it syncs for some reason it lowers the picture resolution. If you turn contact sync off and reset the picture to the contact it will stay in good quality. Why it lowers the resolution I have no idea.
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Because it uploads the picture to Google, which converts it to a very small size, so if you get a new phone, Rom, whatever and you sun your contacts it won't take forever to download all the pics, so if sync is on your using googles pic that was uploaded to the server. Another way around this without turning sync off is to go into the people app, then pic the contact, then change it from google, to phone, of course, if your phone breaks any contacts you have set to phone that have never been set to Google will not be there when you get your new phone, but, there is a way around that also, you can export your contact to a file on your SD card, so as long as your SD card is ok, you can then import them from that to your new phone. To be extra safe, you can copy that backup file from your SD card to your computer so if a tractor runs over your phone and even destroys your card, you'll still have a backup, hide you've enjoyed readin this lengthy answer as much as I have writing it, I'm REALLY bored...
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I need to backup these photos because I'm going to wipe my phone. These photos are of higher resolution than what would be synced to my phone through GMail.
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I need to backup these photos because I'm going to wipe my phone. These photos are of higher resolution than what would be synced to my phone through GMail.
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I always assumed the contact pictures were not on the phone and were synced with Gmail. My Google Voice does not show contact pictures whenever there is a data/sync issue.
If you have taken the pictures with your camera, they should be in sdcard/dcim and if you have downloaded them in the sdcard/download, but that you probably knew already.
To be precise, I was wondering where Google stores the specific pictures shown when you use the People app. I do have the uncropped photos but it would be nice if I could take the cropped version and overwrite the low quality pics Google sync from GMail.
I believe with ics it's a system app called "contacts storage" that you can back up with titanium or the like.I can't confirm but that is my guess. Gl!
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Only problem with backing things like this up is it can cause issues if the system app version gets updated by asop. I wish android would sync all these kinds of things in the cloud. having to "remerge" all my contacts every wipe is annoying as well.
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So this is driving me insane.
Since I switched from an s2 to an s3 I've had this problem:
Every single photo I take creates its own hidden folder. I have my camera set to store to the sd not the phone bc that's what I prefer. I understand the phone creating albums for apps that take pics like instagram and such, but this is nuts.
Every single freaking picture has a hidden folder. Not just the photo is hidden, it's a folder too. Sometimes igs a thumbnail and sometimes it's the full image. I have one hidden folder I've created on purpose but to find it is impossible since all 500 of my photos have their own frigging album.
I'm using the stock camera app and this happened stock and unrooted as well as on the wicked rom and a sonic rom.
I also have drop box backing up my photos.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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jasonren29 said:
Try clear the cache and data of the gallery app and camera from app manager . Helped me.
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nope.
Thanks for trying though.
didnt do a darn thing.
switch it back to save internally, then wipe the cache and see if it makes folders there. if not then try again on sd card
Well, this is embarrassing.
Something I just found interesting about (what I assume is) a TW limitation?
When I want to take a picture to attach to an SMS, or attach an old picture to an SMS, I seem to only have the choices of the stock cam and stock gallery apps.
I thought that perhaps I had inadvertently set a default in the first day of ownership (although I don't remember doing so, and I am fastidious about these things), but there were no defaults to clear, either in the MSGing app, or the cam app.
While I find being forced to use the stock gallery for attachment annoying (I like QuickPic far better, for several reasons), not the end of the world.
But I use Vignette almost exclusively for taking pics, and having to close txt app > open vignette > take pic > close vignette > (wait for pic to process) > open txting > attach pic... P.I.T.A.
Am I missing something obvious? It's been quite some time since I used TW stock for any period of time. (On my E4GT I used anything but TW for the last 6 months of ownership...) But even then I still seem to remember TW offering me a choice of installed cams for attachments. Is this a Note II "thing"? Or something in the newer iterations of TW?
Thanks for reading, comrades-in-nerdiness.
Clear defaults in the gallery app?
I can't see your spam
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I can't see your spam
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10 post spam :thumbdown:
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w7excursion said:
Clear defaults in the gallery app?
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There are no defaults to clear in the cam, gallery or messenger. I am literally forced to use the stock cam in attaching a pic to a msg.
Can someone confirm that this is the case on stock for them as well?
Or perhaps confirm that on a different rom its Not the case?
(fu*king spam, thanks for the bump)
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I downloaded the quick pic and I get no option to use it when picking a picture from the messaging app. Maybe contact the developer about it.
Edit: actually it might be how the phone software is meant to handle attachments. I installed another gallery app and it doesn't show up either.
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I downloaded the quick pic and I get no option to use it when picking a picture from the messaging app. Maybe contact the developer about it.
Edit: actually it might be how the phone software is meant to handle attachments. I installed another gallery app and it doesn't show up either.
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thanks, if you're on stock, than I consider the issue confirmed. for stock at least. with gallery.
anyone on any other ROMs can confirm?
(I already assume that anything AOSP does not have the issue, but I am wondering if any TW base ROMs have tweaked something that would allow for other apps to be used as either defaults.)
I've only had the option to use stock camera/gallery on TW.
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When choosing to add an attachment if you choose take picture it defaults to the stock camera. But when u chose to attach an image and click on the stock images symbol you get options to choose from different apps. And quickpic pops up fine for me. Just downloaded it since above poster mentioned it.
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RayTrue04 said:
When choosing to add an attachment if you choose take picture it defaults to the stock camera. But when u chose to attach an image and click on the stock images symbol you get options to choose from different apps. And quickpic pops up fine for me. Just downloaded it since above poster mentioned it.
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thanks for that! would never have found that, counter-intuitive! (also, I tend not to attach many images from the gallery, usually take them on the spot.)
(found another cool little thing, if you long press any icon in the attachments menu, takes you to the app properties...)
still hoping to find a way to use a better/different camera app in attachments though. hrm. far more important.
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thanks for that! would never have found that, counter-intuitive! (also, I tend not to attach many images from the gallery, usually take them on the spot.)
(found another cool little thing, if you long press any icon in the attachments menu, takes you to the app properties...)
still hoping to find a way to use a better/different camera app in attachments though. hrm. far more important.
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What I hate is when browsing the gallery if you have your dropbox synced to it you don't have an option to share. However I do for my Facebook pictures which is also an online service. So in order to share I have to go to the messaging app and click attach from the dropbox in the attach photo selection I posted above. If you attach directly from dropbox it created a link to visit instead but if you use it from the massaging app it loads up the photo.
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Hello all. I'm using an M919 still running on the stock 4.2.2. I was wondering if there was a way to have the picture for the contact for incoming and outgoing calls to display at full screen like the image that I attached. On calls, the picture of the contact is not at full screen. Is there a way to change this? Again, I'm running stock 4.2.2 still.
Have you replaced the contact images? The way I do it is I back up all my contact images and then restore them whenever I change ROMs or phones.. Google saves contact images very poorly and rescaled, that's why they don't show full screen when they are restored from your account
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serio22 said:
Have you replaced the contact images? The way I do it is I back up all my contact images and then restore them whenever I change ROMs or phones.. Google saves contact images very poorly and rescaled, that's why they don't show full screen when they are restored from your account
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That worked! Thanks. Is there an easier way to upscale the default pictures without having to set new photos for each of my contacts? It looks like by default, the contacts is using facebook profile pictures.
You can use an app that will sync your contacts picture to Facebook, they didn't work very well last time I used them, but that was a while back, might be better now
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Thanks. I'll look into the app.
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Thanks. I'll look into the app.
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There's also an app called Full SCreen Caller ID.
It does exactly what it sounds like. It makes you caller ID the FULL screen. Every pixel. Not just the part above the dialer.
Workrs like a charm. No root required. There's a free version you can use to try it out and see if it's for you.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androminigsm.fscifree
There are all kinds of options as well for how to answer the phone and how the contact info looks. There are about 10 similar apps. This is the one that I've enjoyed the most. But it's all a matter of opinion.