Update hangouts app rolling out today.. It solves the blurry contact images on call and SMS on the watch... It has been confirmed.:thumbup:
I didn't get the update yet, but still uninstalling and installing the hangouts app fixes the issue
Here is the link from apkmirror for the latest update
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/hangouts/hangouts-2-5-81636427-apk/
PS... You don't have to use hangouts as default SMS app for this
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pakure said:
Update hangouts app rolling out today.. It solves the blurry contact images on call and SMS on the watch... It has been confirmed.:thumbup:
I didn't get the update yet, but still uninstalling and installing the hangouts app fixes the issue
Here is the link from apkmirror for the latest update
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/hangouts/hangouts-2-5-81636427-apk/
PS... You don't have to use hangouts as default SMS app for this
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no fix for blurry gmail contacts...and whatapps...i am sad panda
Same here, no fix for gmail, textra, or any of my other apps that get notifications. Maybe 2.0 will fix it
also linkedin.
I use hangouts and have updated. It's strange, the photo got less blurry, but seems just as much if not more pixelated. Could be a gmail contacts thing but not sure.
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Actually I just received a text via Hangouts and the photo looked awesome! Not sure if my watch rebooted or something else "took effect" but now it looks great!
impala454 said:
I use hangouts and have updated. It's strange, the photo got less blurry, but seems just as much if not more pixelated. Could be a gmail contacts thing but not sure.
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Actually I just received a text via Hangouts and the photo looked awesome! Not sure if my watch rebooted or something else "took effect" but now it looks great!
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From what I can tell, it's either only Hangout messages or people with Google+ contact images that get the high resolution treatment. If you receive an SMS from someone who doesn't have a Google+ contact image (ie. you had to upload your own image, or use something like Haxsync to get an image), it's just as bad a blurry pixelated mess as it used to be.
This isn't an Android Wear issue. It depends entirely on the quality of the image used for the notification on the phone.
Just wanted to amend my reply after using it for a few days. I tested with my wife's phone and here's what I came up with:
Photos I Have:
Photo A = Google Contacts (not Google+) (I set this photo for her contact in my Google Contacts)
Photo B = Same photo but larger and not cropped, nice resolution, only on my phone
Photo C = Photo she set for Google contacts (not Google+)
And here's the behaviour on my Moto 360
When I receive a call from her - Nice, crisp high res Photo B automatically cropped down to the watch somehow
When I receive a SMS from her - Photo A, not as blurry as before update, but still very pixelated
When one of her calendar event notifications pops up - Photo B, nice crisp, auto cropped (same as phone call)
Note- I never see Photo C at all
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I'll also add that folks with nice Google+ photos do show up nicely for Hangouts (non SMS) messages.
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This isn't an Android Wear issue. It depends entirely on the quality of the image used for the notification on the phone.
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you're partially correct but everyone who has tested this issue has found the contact photo resolution is not the problem. especially when the photo appears crisp on a much larger screen.
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you're partially correct but everyone who has tested this issue has found the contact photo resolution is not the problem. especially when the photo appears crisp on a much larger screen.
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More precisely, it's not Android Wear, but how apps communicate with Android Wear. It seems that its up to app developers to feed high resolution images to the watch, as evidenced by the fact that an update to the Hangouts app can impact the display of contact images, regardless of Android Wear version.
Problem still persists
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Use the Options>About Messenger>Report A Problem menu to report this to yahoo if you want it to be fixed.
Sorry, not what you expected but the only way
The more we are that report the issue the sooner it will get fixed, probably not by the time it's officially launched but it's worth the try.
Mention that you can't switch to the front facing camera but that the one on the back works.
Don't forget to specify device and OS version.
Maybe it's worth linking the original post in the Evo 4G section, which also includes download links.
Fyi, it's a version of Y! Messenger supporting Android to PC videocall
yup, got it myself from there. Hope we manage to bring this to yahoo's attention because once the app is released they really are slow to update...
yahoo messenger - front facing camera doesn't work
I just discovered the same problem on my Galaxy S 4G. I am able to make video chat calls from my PC to my phone, but the phone only uses the back facing camera. Also, the sound quality is horrible! Lots of static. In its current state, the software is useless. I hope-hope-hope that Skype will enable video chat calling on Android the way they have on the iPhone - Yahoo Messenger for Android is just a beta program that needs a lot of fixing.
Back to trying Tango for now to make mobile to mobile cross-platform calls. So far, there is no software that works across all platforms for video calling. Skype! Can you hear me...?
videochat working on 2.3.4 version
Videochat is working in Google Talk.. update your android version into 2.3.4 and finally your front facing will be used.. tested and 100% working on my Mytouch 4G
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I just discovered the same problem on my Galaxy S 4G. I am able to make video chat calls from my PC to my phone, but the phone only uses the back facing camera. Also, the sound quality is horrible! Lots of static. In its current state, the software is useless. I hope-hope-hope that Skype will enable video chat calling on Android the way they have on the iPhone - Yahoo Messenger for Android is just a beta program that needs a lot of fixing.
Back to trying Tango for now to make mobile to mobile cross-platform calls. So far, there is no software that works across all platforms for video calling. Skype! Can you hear me...?
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Same here with the HTC Droid Incredible 2
i updated the mode i did for my atrix enabling the ffc for ym to support more devices. you can find the mod in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087769
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i try in my samsung galaxy S i9000 copy the jar to system/framework change the permissions to 644 but the image when spin to front camera is black, returning to te back camera is the only method for see video.
Any suggestion?
Thanks for all.
ricnar
ricnar456 said:
i try in my samsung galaxy S i9000 copy the jar to system/framework change the permissions to 644 but the image when spin to front camera is black, returning to te back camera is the only method for see video.
Any suggestion?
Thanks for all.
ricnar
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He's developing a fix for the problem right now, if you use the link in the post of the top of page 9 in this thead:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087769, there is a partial fix
Front facing cam doesn't work on my new HTC Sensation with Yahoo Messenger
Tried to video chat with my wife but it will only use the rear cam and not the front facing cam. Any help?
yahoo messenger front camera
If your device are running android 2.3.3 gingerbread rom.you can flip either front or back camera you want to use..just update your yahoo messenger and plug in,
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You can use now your front facing camera on yahoo messenger.just update yuor yahoo mssenger and plug in.mine is already working.both skype and yahoo.
My phone recently started displaying everything with like a cartoon effect where you can see all the pixels being thick? & I copied some images to my pc & they display correctly so I decided to take a screenshot of a picture, please look, any help?
Thanks in advance
hi does it do it when your on the se home screens and app draw or just with photos youv taken ?
Looks weird. Like the screen is only able to display a very little amount of colors which results in heavy banding in gradients. Or heavily compressed images.
Like the previous poster said, are only the photos affected or everything like homescreens too? If only photos, you haven't changed to camera quality settings to the worst (though I heavily doubt it could be that bad even if you did)?
Ooops you said they look fine on the computer which is weird. Maybe your screen if faulty somehow. Don't know. But if only the screen is faulty it should not show on a screenshot. Very weird problem indeed.
Its just affecting when I take pictures, or even when I download random images the same problem occurs, so just viewing images really
So just viewing images, It may be your image viewer.
Is that the stock photo app or camera360?
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Is that the stock photo app or camera360?
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It's the stock gallery app.
If it only affects images I would try and download another gallery application like Quickpic and see if the images display fine.
Maybe if you replaced the app with the one fro system dump?
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I used quickpic & it works fine its just gallery & some games
Wow, I found out what it was.... It was chainfire 3d, I accidently selected the unroll to 16 bit & when I uninstalled it it worked fine!
Every time I get a screen shot and share it I'll go to click on it and the screen shot is always very grainy. Is that just how it's supposed to be or is there something wrong with this
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Every time I get a screen shot and share it I'll go to click on it and the screen shot is always very grainy. Is that just how it's supposed to be or is there something wrong with this
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Actually I've been having the same issue. I'll take a screenshot and if you look at the image in the gallery it looks perfectly fine but as soon as I post\share it to G+ it looks grainy on G+. I also noticed that after uploading the image to G+ there would be 2 "versions" of the same image in Google's Photo App, the clear version that I uploaded and the grainy version which G+ is displaying.
I have no idea why it's doing this or how to correct it
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Actually I've been having the same issue. I'll take a screenshot and if you look at the image in the gallery it looks perfectly fine but as soon as I post\share it to G+ it looks grainy on G+. I also noticed that after uploading the image to G+ there would be 2 "versions" of the same image in Google's Photo App, the clear version that I uploaded and the grainy version which G+ is displaying.
I have no idea why it's doing this or how to correct it
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Yeah it's rather strange. In the gallery they look fine, but sometimes there's a slight delay where they look a little grainy then the image clears up but when I share those same images, usually right after a screen shot, the screen shot will be grainy when I click on it in the convo. I guess I could just ask the recipient if it looks blurry on their end as well.
Yup.
Stock messaging distorts the image.
Only work around I've found is to use gosms
Got a good quality of screenshot on mine.
Depends on where you are sending them and how. Most messaging apps have limits on the size of the images that can be sent and reduce their size changing the way they look. Most of the time it isn't that noticeable, but the images that are on your phone should be the correct size and quality.
The shift you see when viewing in the gallery is a quick images that is updated with are more detailed on as it loads. Otherwise you would seen blank screen when you first look as it would have to wait until the full image is loaded.
Maybe its the resolution and quality, its a little different when viewing in a pc or other devices also.
I noticed that if you allow Google+ to auto backup the picture then share it, it's full resolution
Mine are always crystal clear on Facebook, Kik, Instagram, etc.
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Yes mine was just fine in Facebook and other sites.
synced my contacts to facebook and the photo res was just terrible! was able to get high res contact pictures on my note 3.
anyone with ideas?
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synced my contacts to facebook and the photo res was just terrible! was able to get high res contact pictures on my note 3.
anyone with ideas?
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This app works pretty nice and it's free so why not ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.syncme.syncmeapp
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sync.me does work very well, the facebook app's contact syncing is super low res.
oddly, haxsync didn't work for me, wasn't able to login to facebook with it
I used sync.me on my iphone previously and it works perfectly well but when i used it on my note 3 and then recently on the G3, the pictures are still super low res.
Is there any option on sync.me that allows high res syncing?
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I used sync.me on my iphone previously and it works perfectly well but when i used it on my note 3 and then recently on the G3, the pictures are still super low res.
Is there any option on sync.me that allows high res syncing?
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i didn't change any settings and just let it run. i will say when i open contact cards for the first time the image is lower res and then in a second or two it updates it to a high res image.
I've used Ubersync since my Incredible. Not sure why Facebook still doesn't have a high res sync option. If they are worried about server usage, they could make it check less frequently to compromise some.
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sync.me does work very well, the facebook app's contact syncing is super low res.
oddly, haxsync didn't work for me, wasn't able to login to facebook with it
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I thought it had synched high res photos, however after opening my contacts they are low res.... ?
Then again, some other contacts have high res so don't know.
Update: Have checked 1or 2of my contacts on Facebook and see that they have low res profile photos, so it looks like sync.me is working correctly, just that people put low res profile pics!
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I tried sync.me again and it still gives me low resolution pictures. think the app hates me
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Use ubersync for sure
Problem with ubersync is it doesn't allow me to custom some contact's photos. There are some that I don't want to use the Facebook profile.
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So I have tried to find the answer with no luck. How do I switch my text app, Facebook, Instagram apps to use Google photos as the default instead of Samsung photo app?
It will use both, just add a shortcut to Google Photos on your homescreen where Samsung Gallery was and use that instead
That definitely didn't solve the problem. It's just using the Samsung photo gallery, and doesn't even give me the option to make Google photos as my default.
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That definitely didn't solve the problem. It's just using the Samsung photo gallery, and doesn't even give me the option to make Google photos as my default.
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Try setting google photos as default app for photos will do.
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I am having the same issue. There's no way to change the stock Gallery app to google photos. When I had my pixel, my apps would source directly from Google Photos, and I guess I was spoiled. Even if a photo wasn't downloaded and I selected it to send, it would forward it after it downloaded.
It's a pretty dumb situation honestly with this phone. Your text app you can use the Google photo app, but anything else like , IG or Facebook you have to go into Google photos app and download it to the phone so the picture you want to post goes into the stupid Samsung gallery. I bought the app that someone had suggested to disable the Samsung gallery app and it didn't work. Also when you disable the app, it effects other apps on the phone, so you are pretty much screwed. Besides the fingerprint scanner, I think this whole, not being able to just use the Google photo app as default for everything is the next biggest ****ty thing about this phone. I still love the phone, but you pay the big bucks and you still have to deal with issues like this, when phones half the price offer these two things better. Oh well I guess?