Hello!
After the 2.1 update, we all noticed that even if we assign a high-resolution photo as contact picture, while on call still looks ugly.
After messing with the phone, I found that if we link Timescape Facebook contacts to the phone contacts and select to use Timescape Facebook as the contact picture, the pictures looks OK while on call.
Only problem is, third party apps cannot use those pictures, as they are restricted to Timescape and Phonebook. So, in chompSMS for example, pictures don't appear. They don't even appear on the SE Recent Calls Widget.
Is there any work around for this?
I also tried the Photo Unlocker (from Market) but didn't work.
thunderpossuem said:
They're bad if you use the default Facebook app for the contact photo. If you change them to use timescape Facebook for the photos they look significantly better.
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it helps a lot
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it helps a lot
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Yes, I know...
Only I was actually asking about a way to un-restrict those contact photos in order for 3rd party application to use them too.
There is a workaround for pictures taken from the Facebook application,
but not for the Timescape Facebook application.
Some dev should help us out! That's the point of this thread.
EDIT: I change the title, as it was indeed misleading!! lol!
Sorry, missed that. I haven't found any work arounds for it sorry. Though I've also found that using photos that you have stored on your sd card yields some nice results. They just won't update with Facebook.
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Posted this incorrectly. Sorry Bout that.
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With all the Timescape stuff etc, when I link my contacts to a Facebook profile, I was expecting it to link the profile pictures as well or at least give the option to do so.
Is this possible so when I get a text message in Timescape from somebody, their picture is the same as if they posted on status on Facebook? As it stands, the text is generic picture then they do a status and it is a 'different' person with a picture despite being linked.
If you understand what I mean lol..
The link in Timescape is for the "Infinity Button" I believe. You can sync contacts with Facebook using Facebook Sync! Just do a search on Android Market!
i was also wondering about this, strange that timescape wont sync photos. hope they fix this, i believe sense do this automatically?
l4rsh said:
i was also wondering about this, strange that timescape wont sync photos. hope they fix this, i believe sense do this automatically?
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its not really sense but HTC software does it auto even without sense. i have use vanila offerings on my hero prior to x10 and they were fine. i am rather annoyed with this ommittance as even though non essesntial its one of the features of FB syncing. must be a way but i havent found one yet
I have update my X10 to 2.1 and here are the things I don't like:
- Picture contact is poor and blurry when receiving and making calls even if you used high res pictures.
Is there a fx for this.
No actually cant be fixed but thats a Google Issue other Handsets have this too on Eclair and Froyo.
When saving contacts, save them to the phone and not Google. Of course this would mean no backup of contacts but its definitely a temporary fix for your problem.
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I use SyncMyPix to replace the blurry contact pictures with HQ pics.
They also work on the call screen, no blur for me after all
The app syncs with facebook too each time you run it and it recognizes contacts pretty well - without renaming them, like the damn social phonebook does partially . If it links contacts incorrectly, you can easily unlink them and do it manually.
just download it for free in the market!
oh, almost forgot, you have to enable "maximum quality" in settings, otherwise you'll still have blurry pix.
What the he'll does this have to do with development???
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qwer23 said:
I use SyncMyPix to replace the blurry contact pictures with HQ pics.
They also work on the call screen, no blur for me after all
The app syncs with facebook too each time you run it and it recognizes contacts pretty well - without renaming them, like the damn social phonebook does partially . If it links contacts incorrectly, you can easily unlink them and do it manually.
just download it for free in the market!
oh, almost forgot, you have to enable "maximum quality" in settings, otherwise you'll still have blurry pix.
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thank you
qwer23 said:
I use SyncMyPix to replace the blurry contact pictures with HQ pics.
They also work on the call screen, no blur for me after all
The app syncs with facebook too each time you run it and it recognizes contacts pretty well - without renaming them, like the damn social phonebook does partially . If it links contacts incorrectly, you can easily unlink them and do it manually.
just download it for free in the market!
oh, almost forgot, you have to enable "maximum quality" in settings, otherwise you'll still have blurry pix.
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I tried the app but still get blurry pics.
i sync them with the timescape contacts, and the definition is better than if u sync it with facebook
hush66 said:
I tried the app but still get blurry pics.
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I found the Problem skip the Crop and it works and looks good. The cropping is the Problem.
if i edit each contact`s picture, is there any app to backup those images? not all of my contacts are on facebook, so syncmypix wouldn`t do much for me, at least.
Is the blurry image display problem for incoming and outgoing calls fixed? I know the image doesn't look blurry if the contact has facebook account. But that image looks stretched hence looks ugly. Plus only few of my friends have FB account. Still I prefer to assign my own collection of photos to my contacts. In 1.6, the image displayed in great resolution.
I read about SE Sync solution but when I set up SE Sync account my Google contacts don't get sync'd from phone to SE website where I thought I can update the images. I have to create new contact on SE website and add image there. So, I basically end up with duplicate contacts grouped as SE Sync and Google Contacts which is a pain to maintain as I prefer to stick with Google Sync. But, even that solution has the same problem as with Facebook image problem which looks stretched from top to bottom.
I know about some apps that display high resolution images for calls but SE style is very cool. That feature worked so flawlessly in 1.6 and is such a basic and most visible feature. I guess SE developers and QA time completely missed as they probably used SE sync, Facebook, or never cared about using images for contacts.
the blurry images are an android problem, not SE
all devices are suffering from it:
http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=blurry+contact+pics+android
svtfmook said:
the blurry images are an android problem, not SE
all devices are suffering from it:
http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=blurry+contact+pics+android
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How come pictures updated with Sony Ericsson Sync on http://www.sonyericsson.com/user or Facebook don't have problem except for the aspect ratio issue?
Presumably because it's not using the google sync app.
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Presumably because it's not using the google sync app.
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Even if you don't use Google Sync, if you just create a new contact on phone and assign a image to it, we see the same issue.
Anyone know which folder has the images that get displayed when we make a call? Maybe replacing those files with higher resolution photos will solve this issue.
use the timescape pic, it's fine. when you create a contact, it syncs to your google account. once it's sync'd, it will be blurry. if this was an SE issue, you would not see this issue on EVERY 2.1+ HDPI device.
svtfmook said:
use the timescape pic, it's fine. when you create a contact, it syncs to your google account. once it's sync'd, it will be blurry. if this was an SE issue, you would not see this issue on EVERY 2.1+ HDPI device.
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can you explain a lil further? what do you mean by timescape pic
svtfmook said:
use the timescape pic, it's fine. when you create a contact, it syncs to your google account. once it's sync'd, it will be blurry. if this was an SE issue, you would not see this issue on EVERY 2.1+ HDPI device.
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I am amazed reading about use timescape pic. First, I am talking about contacts who don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts. They don't show up with Timescape pic for my firmware version and I believe it must be the same for all. Second, even if you use the Timescape pic the person in the picture looks thin and tall as the picture aspect ration is stretched at the top and bottom. AND I am talking about the display of picture while the we are on call with the contact AND NOT when you view Info screen of the contact.
anyone else here use go sms? i can't figure out why, but for the contact pictures, it's pulling everyones picture from their google picture i have on there (which was from syncmypix like MONTHS ago, so they're all outdated)
i have checked "pull pictures from facebook" and have checked email, name and number..and it doesn't work. this worked correctly on my incredible, and it was able to pull their facebook images in gosms fine...won't work with the rezound.
anyone else have any insight? i'm wondering if it's because they got rid of Facebook for HTC Sense and only use the facebook app for syncing now :\
Mine has Display Facebook avatars checked and I have it Match by Name. It seems to prefer facebook avatars over what are in my google contacts. Not sure if any of that helps you :/
wtf mines opposite, it shows google pics over facebook, which is really annoying lol
Mines the same, if I have any Google photos, it shows those instead of Facebook. Where as it shows Facebook on GO Contacts. No matter how I configure the settings. It's weird. Lol.
I had this same issue. What I found out, is the official Facebook app does not support access to the friend photos by third party apps. That's why it uses the google contact photo instead.
The older phones had Facebook for HTC Sense, that obviously is not the official facebook app so it allowed third party access to the photos. I have run into the same issue with SMS popup. Try using Friend Caster to sync facebook photos to your contacts, that'll allow third party apps to access the photos.
I just deleted google photos and it defaulted to the Facebook ones
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i cant confirm this works but i have heard it works..
http://www.teambamf.net/f60/[fix]-restricted-contact-pictures-third-party-apps-3222/
let me know if it does
guys, great responses!
i didn't know friendcaster replaced facebook in terms of contact pics..i tried using it once and didn't really like it's UI.
as for that script, i'm going to run that tomorrow. i'm perm rooted, so he says you should just be able to push some lines of code to get it to work. great find, guys!!
I'm a huge fan of GoSMS, its definitely the best out of the third party sms apps on the Android market!
Handcent on the other hand seems to display up to date contact pictures. Which does it take from though, Google contacts or the Facebook app?
So basically GoSMS previously synced pictures from HTC Sense's Facebook, but now in Sense 3.5 it no longer exists being replaced by the offical Facebook app which doesn't allow access by 3rd party apps :/
mrbracht said:
i cant confirm this works but i have heard it works..
let me know if it does
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I know this thread has been quiet for a couple weeks, but just wanted to confirm that did indeed do the trick. I use Handcent normally, but I did download Go SMS real quick to test and that showed my contact pictures again too.
Is there any way to use the default gallery app in Facebook instead of the one Facebook offers? To clarify, Facebook's just shows all the pictures chronologically and not in the albums like in the gallery. In some situations when I want to select an older picture it's difficult to find. This becomes an issue when I am replying and want to use an older picture, but if I'm uploading to my feed I can obviously select from the gallery and hit share. Any help would be nice.
gordonzhao said:
Is there any way to use the default gallery app in Facebook instead of the one Facebook offers? To clarify, Facebook's just shows all the pictures chronologically and not in the albums like in the gallery. In some situations when I want to select an older picture it's difficult to find. This becomes an issue when I am replying and want to use an older picture, but if I'm uploading to my feed I can obviously select from the gallery and hit share. Any help would be nice.
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Why not try a new app like Friendcaster. It is better than the official Facebook app. Hope it will solve your purpose.
See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotifyFree
Ravi.
gordonzhao said:
Is there any way to use the default gallery app in Facebook instead of the one Facebook offers? To clarify, Facebook's just shows all the pictures chronologically and not in the albums like in the gallery. In some situations when I want to select an older picture it's difficult to find. This becomes an issue when I am replying and want to use an older picture, but if I'm uploading to my feed I can obviously select from the gallery and hit share. Any help would be nice.
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Pretty sure you are out of luck with that.
grtbhl said:
Why not try a new app like Friendcaster. It is better than the official Facebook app. Hope it will solve your purpose.
See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotifyFree
Ravi.
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There are a good number of complaints about us being slow as of late, Facebook already hangs sometimes. And I'm not too into the friendcaster up. Thanks.