When my wife sends a picture or screen shot through SMS/MMS it comes in real blurry and pixels. But friends on Android are fine.....
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tttuning said:
When my wife sends a picture or screen shot through SMS/MMS it comes in real blurry and pixels. But friends on Android are fine.....
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Did you use to have a iPhone? I heard sometimes apples serves will still recognize you as a iOS user and it can screw with MMS to and from iPhones . Maybe it's trying to iMessage you and it's failing or something or sending a different fetype because it thinks your still on iOS... I may be wrong but that's something I heard of.
nique0201 said:
Did you use to have a iPhone? I heard sometimes apples serves will still recognize you as a iOS user and it can screw with MMS to and from iPhones . Maybe it's trying to iMessage you and it's failing or something or sending a different fetype because it thinks your still on iOS... I may be wrong but that's something I heard of.
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Update.....It's just with screen shots and no I've never owned a iPhone...Just her
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tttuning said:
When my wife sends a picture or screen shot through SMS/MMS it comes in real blurry and pixels. But friends on Android are fine.....
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I heard it was the stock messaging app that lessens the quality. Try a 3rd party SMS app. I'm using Chomp.
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A Google Lead PM acknowledged the issue and quote:
"This is work in progress guys. We are fixing it "
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
A great step forward IMHO as we haven't seen any reaction from Google on this issue in years even on the official support forums.
Oldest dated bug seems to be Issue 4147 from 2009 on Android 1.5...damn.
Wow, finally!
This is the only embarrassing thing about Android when I show people my phone. I personally use Haxsync or find other ways to get high quality images for my contacts, but it should be a native function. It's a no brainer. I'm glad they're pulling their **** together and FINALLY addressing this!!
Right, it's irritating that I can save high resolution contacts, but upon wipe/resync they degrade.
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I look forward to the update. However, 256x256 is still not high resolution enough. The screen is 720p for Christ's sake. Even when I try to use 21mp portraits directly from my gallery, the images are downsized to 256x256. It's embarrassing.
256x256 is fine considering the size of the caller ID screen.
Few days? Yet this is still not fixed...
adrynalyne said:
256x256 is fine considering the size of the caller ID screen.
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The Caller ID screen takes up the full width of the screen, which is 720 pixels. I can certainly see the pixelation when I get a call, even after using a nice and sharp high-resolution image.
Finally! Great news!
This can't come soon enough.
Finally!!!! What took so long?
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...still need to relink all the new contact photos..grr..okay but worth it in the end if all works well
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I'm totally fine with redoing everyone's pictures but notice how the last "official" response was 11 days ago. This really should not be that complicated..
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jonathan3579 said:
I'm totally fine with redoing everyone's pictures but notice how the last "official" response was 11 days ago. This really should not be that complicated..
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i think we better start snapping new photos of our contacts as we bump into them to have them ready for the refresh. i've got some in there from ppl i haven't seen in ages, does this mean i have to meet old friends again?
so we have to sit tight and wait.....unless someone can pull this again
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSStkKxXTw
About time. It is embarrassing to show a pixelated contact picture. Its like watching a 700MB avi video on a 50inch 1080p LCD TV....ugh!
FINALLY! Nexus has such a beautiful screen, it looks so weird when someone calls and you see a pixelated picture!
For all those people shouting "Finally!" remember... it hasn't happened yet.
They were "working hard" to get Google Voice in Canada over two years ago...
arzbhatia said:
FINALLY! Nexus has such a beautiful screen, it looks so weird when someone calls and you see a pixelated picture!
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yea, so do the fruit labeled phones when using gmail contact sync
Unfortunately, the Google PM is keeping quiet, no real updates for the past month or so.
I have a feeling they're gonna fix something once Google Drive is launched...
hmm, do you see what i see @ 0:53?
http://youtu.be/V5E5revikUU
I bet it has not been fixed...
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Today I got a 3gp video mms from my wife who has an iPhone 4s. When I try to play it I only hear audio. The video does not play. Anyone else have this issue. Shouldn't WP be able to play those videos?
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That's odd, I've had people send me videos they have taken on iPhones and I haven't had any trouble viewing them. Are they sending them to you from the same network like AT&T? I don't know why that would be an issue but that's all I could think of.
Yeh same network. I'll have her try sending it to just me. She sent it to multiple people earlier.
Spectre51 said:
Yeh same network. I'll have her try sending it to just me. She sent it to multiple people earlier.
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Very odd, A friend of mine sent me and 3 other recipients a video from his iPhone and it is a 3gp file and I played it just fine.
I would double check with AT&T that your plan is provisioned properly for your phone.
LordGreylock said:
Very odd, A friend of mine sent me and 3 other recipients a video from his iPhone and it is a 3gp file and I played it just fine.
I would double check with AT&T that your plan is provisioned properly for your phone.
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Well I took it into the store yesterday to get it switched over to the right data plan for the LTE. I can get other picture messages just fine. Gonna test some more and see what happens. Glad to know others can get videos from iPhones just fine though, at least lets me know it should work.
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Well I took it into the store yesterday to get it switched over to the right data plan for the LTE. I can get other picture messages just fine. Gonna test some more and see what happens. Glad to know others can get videos from iPhones just fine though, at least lets me know it should work.
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I don't know why, but I've had some videos from iPhones that I could not see either, just hear. I'll have to think back to who they were so I can try to find a pattern. My wife's 4s worked yesterday, but I believe my daughters 4 does not.
EDIT: I wonder if it has to do with how the video was made. ie: sent from within the text app, or pulled from the gallery...
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I don't know why, but I've had some videos from iPhones that I could not see either, just hear. I'll have to think back to who they were so I can try to find a pattern. My wife's 4s worked yesterday, but I believe my daughters 4 does not.
EDIT: I wonder if it has to do with how the video was made. ie: sent from within the text app, or pulled from the gallery...
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^^^You never know, it could be something strange like that.
I'll do some tests with my wife's phone and see if it makes a difference.
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Using Sprint and every few pictures are sent sideways....
Using Google Hangout as default messenger.
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imex99 said:
Using Sprint and every few pictures are sent sideways....
Using Google Hangout as default messenger.
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The picture will be oriented based on the way the phone was when it was captured. That info is encoded in the image and certain sites and apps use it.
I've never had a phone so that before (n5).... Weird when the pictures is upright and then send it and goes sideways
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Solarenemy68 said:
The picture will be oriented based on the way the phone was when it was captured. That info is encoded in the image and certain sites and apps use it.
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Something is not right.... I take pictures in portrait mode, send picture with hangouts and the picture is sideways! Really frustrating!
imex99 said:
Something is not right.... I take pictures in portrait mode, send picture with hangouts and the picture is sideways! Really frustrating!
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Yeah I have the same thing occasionally. Thought it was just the sms app I was using. Evolve Sms btw.
Yeah, happens to me every day now..... Get most of my complaints from iPhone users! IPhone 4s, iPhone 6 & iPhone 6+. Hopefully this gets fixed, very annoying!
imex99 said:
Yeah, happens to me every day now..... Get most of my complaints from iPhone users! IPhone 4s, iPhone 6 & iPhone 6+. Hopefully this gets fixed, very annoying!
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I don't think it will get fixed anytime soon. I have had the same picture orientation issue on all my Samsung phones, s2, s4, and now the Note 4. Seems to work good on Samsung apps, stock TW roms, other apps, phones appear to interpret the picture orientation data embedded in the file wrong. Proprietary crap, on my older bose headset made for iPhone, the earbud volume buttons won't work either... They're wired differently.
If this is ongoing issue, will be my first and last Samsung phone! I take lots of pictures of my 4 year old , 2 year old and 6 month old. Everyone texting me that pictures are sideways.
imex99 said:
If this is ongoing issue, will be my first and last Samsung phone! I take lots of pictures of my 4 year old , 2 year old and 6 month old. Everyone texting me that pictures are sideways.
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When I find out one of my friends has an iPhone I stop sending them pictures... Problem solved... [emoji12]
Let them know when the S5 is on sale for 1 dollar and they will thank you.
Nah, just upgraded to iPhone 6 64gb, 128gb and 6+ 64gb
"Upgraded" ;D
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Nah, just upgraded to iPhone 6 64gb, 128gb and 6+ 64gb
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If your recipient has an android just tell them to rotate the picture lol. That's the beauty of android you can rotate pictures whatever way you want in the gallery. I highly doubt crapple phones will do that.
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First thing you need to know is that I've never owned an Apple device. I've been having this issue ever since Apple upgraded to iOS 6 & 7. My girlfriend and some of my friends are iPhone users, and sometimes they send me messages but I receive them late or even never receive them at all. Sometimes I get their text that got mixed with a text that they sent sometime before (even from convos that are days or weeks old) in the SAME message (WTF?). I event get spammed by the same message 5+ times, example http://i.imgur.com/ij8GtPu.jpg which is annoying and ridiculous!
Ive searched the web and did not find a single solution, only thousands of people complaining with no fix. The only solution to this is to use another chat app with the other person, which is really hard to convince someone to do that. Especially Apple fanboys and fangirls like my GF. I suggested Whatsapp or Hangouts and even suggested her to disable iMessage (there's a feature that lets you disable the iMessage feature so the iMessage app only sends SMS to the users) which my GF denied also. -_-
TLDR: I don't get texts and people wait for me to respond and think that I'm ignoring them or I get spammed. How to fix pls?
Edit #1: I've never been an Apple user so "disconnecting" my number from iMessage by sending a "STOP" text to 48369 probably wont help. BUT I did try it today and we'll see if that works lol...
Edit #2: Oh the irony... http://i.imgur.com/7gmUN54.png
Edit #3: My phone is stock. Never did any modding.
IMO, not much can be done on Android side but I remember reading a great article about this issue.
http://readwrite.com/2014/05/23/apple-imessage-for-android
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If you haven't used iPhone still try this.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage
.Ryker said:
If you haven't used iPhone still try this.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage
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Yeah that doesn't work. I don't receive a text with the code unfortunately.
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Khalil_y said:
Yeah that doesn't work. I don't receive a text with the code unfortunately.
Sent from Tapatalk because the people around me are boring.
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Thats bizarre. How long have you had the phone number you have got now?
.Ryker said:
Thats bizarre. How long have you had the phone number you have got now?
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I've had it since early 2011, so almost 5 years. It was a new T-Mobile number too, I got to pick the last four digits.
Khalil_y said:
I've had it since early 2011, so almost 5 years. It was a new T-Mobile number too, I got to pick the last four digits.
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I would maybe call Apple support. Even though you don't have an apple device it seems their system thinks that your number is register for imessage.
So I switched to an iphone 6 (i now have a 6s) from a note 4 almost 2 years ago and have gotten very used to the imessage app for texting. Im considering purchasing a note 7 but wanted to find out how the default messaging app on this phone compares to imessage.
When youre in a message thread is there a way to view all photos from that conversation like how the details tab in iOS does it?
Also, one of my biggest issues with the note 4 was the lag when typing. Has this been resolved? I see a thread about this exact issue but i'm wondering if this is affecting everyone or just a few users.
Any other tips for switching?
Sorry. Most of us don't speak iOS. No idea what iMessage does differently. Had an iPhone 6s. Lasted 10 days with it. Comparing the note 7 to the iPhone 6s is like comparing telegraph to email. If you even have to think about it, don't switch. You're just going to find reasons why you don't like it. Switch when your ready. You won't regret it.
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brfitzp said:
So I switched to an iphone 6 (i now have a 6s) from a note 4 almost 2 years ago and have gotten very used to the imessage app for texting. Im considering purchasing a note 7 but wanted to find out how the default messaging app on this phone compares to imessage.
When youre in a message thread is there a way to view all photos from that conversation like how the details tab in iOS does it?
Also, one of my biggest issues with the note 4 was the lag when typing. Has this been resolved? I see a thread about this exact issue but i'm wondering if this is affecting everyone or just a few users.
Any other tips for switching?
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Yes, it is similar to iMessages, you can view a recap of all photos sent.
Thanks, do they remain there indefinitely?
brfitzp said:
Thanks, do they remain there indefinitely?
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yup unless deleted manually or if you have app settings set to delete message automatically once a certain threshold is reached.