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Is there a "fix" for this?

I'm currently running Jelly Belly, though I don't think that has any effect on what I'm posting about, because this issue was occurring even before I rooted and ROM'd up my phone a while back. Basically, the problem (well, more like personal annoyance, I guess) is that when I get a call while my screen is off, only a sliver of the top of the contact picture shows. I thought the entire picture was supposed to show? Here's an example of what it looks like (I blacked out the phone number, so ignore that part):
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When I bring the phone down from my face to end the call, the full picture is showing (along with a big red button to end the call), but when I actually get a call, it shows like it does in that picture I posted.
Is there any "fix" for this, or is that just how it's "supposed" to be?

I don't know why, but that picture looks creepy for some reason.
butter and jelly please...

My guess is that the incoming call is over laying the contact picture.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

;28705920 said:
I don't know why, but that picture looks creepy for some reason.
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Heh, my dad doesn't really like to be photographed, but I want all my contacts to have a photo, so... Working on taking a better one, but eh, you know how people can be.
rjcapp said:
My guess is that the incoming call is over laying the contact picture.
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So, is there a way to fix/ change that? Like I said, it's been like that even when my phone was stock, pre-rooted/ unlocked, etc. Another thing I noticed, too, is that when I'm listening to music (via Play Music), the album art in the lock screen kinda does the same thing. That wasn't as big a deal to me as the contact pictures when I get a phone call, though.

You have to remove the picture and when you add it back you need to adjust the crop box until you get the image sized and positioned to your liking.
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Contrast problems on the display?

Hi there,
i am fairly new to the HTC and Android scene. Yesterday i got my HTC One X and the very first i noticed is a problem with the contrast.
Especially when it goes from grey to black, there are blocks visible. It is a bit difficult to make a photo of this issue, but i think you can see it clearly.
Is this a known issue? Can i do something about that?
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Many thanks.

That's not contrast.
That is an image that seems to either compression artifacts or was produced with too little bit depth.
There's nothing wrong with the phone, it is faithfully reproducing a crappy image.

This was just an example. It shows the menu of a program (i think google maps).
I have also some photos that look the same where a black area goes into a brighter area.
Also some of dark HTC widgets, like the clock show this.
Like i said, difficult to make a photo of this issue:

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Probably you mean these horizontal stripes. They are there when you look at the angle, but when you look straight, they are not there. I guess this is a problem due to technology used and it looks the same on mine One X. Also, AFAIR there are two different displays used in HOX, both from different manufactures and one of them doesn't have this problem but there are some other minor problems like smaller contrast or brightness, can't exatcly remember right now. It also annoys me but generally it is still the best phone screen I've ever seen and somehow I can get over it

masc81 said:
This was just an example. It shows the menu of a program (i think google maps).
I have also some photos that look the same where a black area goes into a brighter area.
Also some of dark HTC widgets, like the clock show this.
Like i said, difficult to make a photo of this issue:
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these widgets in particular, and a lot of other things are supposed to change colour gradients, the notification bar being another.
just makes it look more fancy/3d
personally i don't think you have any problems except for the colour depth of the image not being enough, and that is why you see that, if there was more depth, then more detail and you wouldn't see that blocking
try switch your pc to a lower colour depth and youll see the exact same effect.

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Thanks. I had the same idea and it looks normal. I also upgrade it to CM10 which does not have these grey to black transitions at all.
So no problem there, just poor graphics by HTC.
Thanks

[Q] Tempted to get an M8, have camera concerns with scanning using CamScanner

I'm tempted to get an M8, it really seems like a solid and overall great device.
However, the camera did raise my concerns.
I don't take a lot of pictures, but when I do - it's usually in class. Either of the whiteboard (sometimes from the back of the class) or (more often) I scan notes of others using CamScanner (I use CamScanner A LOT, I capture at least 50 pages a week, and need them to turn out clear and readable).
Both types of pictures require zooming in on them to have things readable, which is what I aim to achieve (and the clearer the text, the better, obviously).
I couldn't care less about taking pictures at night, with low-night, with extra light, with HDR or whatever. All I want from my phone's camera is to do the two tasks above well.
Does anyone have any experience with using CamScanner in class for taking notes? If so, I would be most grateful if you could upload some sample PDF you took so I can see what the quality is like.

I use camscanner all the time and it ends up looking fine and I would upload but they're in pdf's

BadAzDB said:
I use camscanner all the time and it ends up looking fine and I would upload but they're in pdf's
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Could you maybe upload it to something like Mega? If XDA doesn't allow uploading PDFs.
You can also press Share in CamScanner (while in a scan) and from there upload to Google Drive/Dropbox/Any other app on your phone that supports saving files. Any of those would be great.

Bump.
Sorry for bumping, but I want to buy the device this weekend (my current phone is giving my tons of crap lately), and still didn't find any answer about this topic, if someone could help out that would be most appreciated.

I take pictures of text a lot (printed and handwritten notes) and the pictures are perfectly sharp, once you zoom in, the sharpness is very slightly less, but it is still super easy to read. For pictures of a whiteboard from the back of the class, you need to look elsewhere, this camera is hopeless in that category

Edit: will delete this comment later. Apparently you can't delete a commend from the mobile app.

n1234d said:
I take pictures of text a lot (printed and handwritten notes) and the pictures are perfectly sharp, once you zoom in, the sharpness is very slightly less, but it is still super easy to read. For pictures of a whiteboard from the back of the class, you need to look elsewhere, this camera is hopeless in that category
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Could you maybe post samples of some of those pictures please?

benthe said:
Could you maybe post samples of some of those pictures please?
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This is from my m7, just on my way to collect my replacement m8
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I'm not sure whether tapatalk compresses images though..
Edit:the image is definitely compressed, I'll give you a db link :

That's somewhat OK, I think, but my notes scanning are usually of one's with a smaller font (by far).
Not sure how well it'll work with the M8.
A PDF from CamScanner will be the final judge though.

[Q] How to send video as MMS

How do I send a video on the g3 as MMS
keep telling me file is to big.
Any way to compress?
Herman

Nope. Could sent a drop box link or buy an iPhone got imessage

Just click on the pin and choose record video.. That's it..
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Just click on the pin and choose record video.. That's it..
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Thanks for your reply,
But if you take a video with the phone and want to send through MMS the file size is to big and there are no way
to compress the file to MMS Size.
Even if you capture the video in low size, it is to big for mms.
Herman

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Nope. Could sent a drop box link or buy an iPhone got imessage[/QUOTE
Then I would go for the Dropbox.
But still to bad for a highend phone
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The limitation isn't with the phone... It's with MMS

success?
Anyone figure this out yet? Or a good alternative?
The phone is definitely capable- if you record video at the time of sending text(within attach) it can record up to 60 seconds and quickly send it via mms
I wonder how possible it would be to make a 'plugin' for mms to inlcude sending previously recorded
It seems all third party messaging apps ive tried require the receiver to also have the app

If I remember correctly, the maximum file size for MMS videos/files is something like 300K or maybe 3M at most. I can assure you that it is virtually impossible to record a video with those file sizes. Even if you would record 1 second of film, you would already exceed the limitation.
You could either try to record your video in 3GP format. If I remember correctly 3GP was created for these kind of situations. How you would go about recording in 3GP; I don't know.
Also, why would you even want to use MMS to send videos? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service
If you want to share videos that you recorded, services like Whatsapp already convert your videos to a lower resolution so it takes up less space/size for transferring.
If you want to keep the quality, you can use Telegram or services like Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube or Vimeo.
Maybe if you eloborate more on the subject we can give you a more appropiate/specific answer.
Cheers

This is my question as well but for the G4. Coming from the galaxy S4 where you can limit for mms in the video settings.

SMS-Messaging only 4 Lines? Help needed...

Dear XDAnauts,
I don't recall always having this problem but nowadays the LOS app for messaging and SMS/MMS shows only four lines while typing:
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And no matter how many lines you have typed, the window does not get bigger than 4 lines. Well, how shall I put it without using swear words?
Seriously, that is quite the flaw! You keep seeing all the previous messages in their full beauty but only 4 lines of your own text. Changing font size does not help...
Does anyone know how to change that? Or what other app to use?

I recently had to send an SMS, which I almost never do any longer. Hardly anyone does in Europe I believe, since these are still often charged. But I immediately saw the same problem. In any other messaging app the text field grows up to a certain number of lines.
Anyway, it's weird that the stock SMS has not caught up. Then again, I guess this is just AOSP, right? I'm not aware how much of AOSP's apps LineageOS actually provides better implementations of. Surely it's not this one. I just see the AOSP SMS app similar as the standard browser: they are just to have something until you install something better.
I guess where SMS text messaging is more common, like in the US, people who use LineageOS use something different. Perhaps just Google's version that can handle text messages. Sorry I lost track of which one that currently is. Also, I know that Signal can handle SMS. And what about Simple SMS Messenger on F-droid?
As an aside, of course for non LineageOS users, the majority just uses a vendor version of the (AOSP) app. It's actually a shame that SMS is not so much used in many areas of the world. It's nice when this is not controlled by a single app as a fully decentralised system. Perhaps if providers didn't charge for them, SMS would have progressed further and would have included encryption, more data types, and so on. There would be many good (and open source) SMS clients for many different outlets, giving people choice. Instead, only the service people are on is what drives competition, not the app development directly unfortunately.

Quigley said:
And what about Simple SMS Messenger on F-droid?
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Yay! Perhaps not as pretty, but it certainly works:
Thank you! I wonder how I missed looking up F-Droid Nice, it seems to be able to import/export, too!
Quigley said:
Hardly anyone does in Europe I believe, since these are still often charged
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Well, EUrope mostly seems to be a country of moronic WhatsApes. Getting asked twice a month by someone to install it.
Most people have a contract that includes free SMS... free for domestic. However, sending them abroad usually can cost whopping 0.49€...