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.
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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.
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.
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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
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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.
I've tried everything from unlinking people and forcing my TB to use a high resolution picture, but it still get's knocked down, I am running Viruses ROM, and whenever a contact without a picture calls, the image looks perfect. Is there anyway I can force my phone to use a decent image?
Use the fb for HTC Sense photo as the primary pic. Not fb for Android. It will give you better pics. Dunno why.
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The phone will sync your high res image with Google Contacts, which downgrades it to low resolution, which gets synced back. That's why the image eventually looks terrible after a bit of syncing. DSB stated pretty much the only way I know of to get a higher resolution contact image, short of an app. I just personally hate using Facebook for contact pictures as people tend to use everything except for a picture of themselves.
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Use the fb for HTC Sense photo as the primary pic. Not fb for Android. It will give you better pics. Dunno why.
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How do i do that? Sorry....noobness.
Try to open Friendstream and it will ask you to login to a social networking account, put in your Facebook information. Fair warning, you will have Facebook integrated into a lot more of the phone than you currently do.
you could also try the app syncmypix, not sure if it will fix it though.
So I have my contacts synced with Facebook, which is really handy, but the problem is the photos are pixelated, low quality junk. I can't believe this is still a problem with Sense phones.
Does anyone know a fix or non-intrusive work around for this? Why does Sense pull low quality photos from Facebook?
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So I have my contacts synced with Facebook, which is really handy, but the problem is the photos are pixelated, low quality junk. I can't believe this is still a problem with Sense phones.
Does anyone know a fix or non-intrusive work around for this? Why does Sense pull low quality photos from Facebook?
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Would also love a solution to this.
I have HaxSync but it still appeared to pull low quality photos.
Could it be related to the stock prices? I hear that's low quality as well.
clownfart said:
So I have my contacts synced with Facebook, which is really handy, but the problem is the photos are pixelated, low quality junk. I can't believe this is still a problem with Sense phones.
Does anyone know a fix or non-intrusive work around for this? Why does Sense pull low quality photos from Facebook?
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its never been a problem with sense phones, maybe with this one that uses a different facebook to pull info down.
I use an app called facebook sync. It slows you to choose the quality of the profile pictures
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I have HaxSync but it still appeared to pull low quality photos.
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I tried HaxSync as well - no dice.
maxdamage2122 said:
I use an app called facebook sync. It slows you to choose the quality of the profile pictures
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Tried it. Picture quality was still low and pixelated.
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its never been a problem with sense phones, maybe with this one that uses a different facebook to pull info down.
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That's not true. I know I experienced it with my Evo early on and a google search will show others with the same problem on a multitude of HTC phones...there are threads all over XDA that go back years with this problem with a few workarounds.
One that used to work was uninstalling Facebook, syncing with "Facebook for HTC Sense" and then reinstalling Facebook. The only problem is Facebook for HTC Sense is no longer an option under Accounts and Sync.
I've uninstalled Facebook (as much as it will let me) and removed the syncing and then tried multiple different syncing programs and they all show pixelated, grainy photos.
It's really annoying.
Thumbnails look great. Everything else looks like trash. In fact, even when using a high-res photo I have saved on my phone in a gallery for a contact the full size photo on the contacts page looks pixelated, albeit less so than the Facebook synced ones.
I think what it's doing is grabbing the small profile picture that shows up on the main timeline page and blowing it up instead of grabbing the actual uploaded profile picture and downsizing it.
Bump for any more ideas.
Tried Friendcaster and it too pulled low quality photos even with the high quality box checked.
I can't be the only one having this issue, can I?
This is a highly annoying problem that has not been fixed since Sense was available for my Windows Mobile phone.
Anyways, here's what I have discovered about this phone.
I disabled the default facebook sync by HTC since the pictures are horrid.
I then installed haxsync, but here's where it gets really strange.
When you go to your contact list, the thumbnails are great!
Now click on the thumbnail itself. The popup has a good quality photo.
Now click on the Name of your contact to pull up full details. The photo is now the garbage. You can go to edit and change the photo to haxsync and then both are good quality. This then goes away the next time haxsync syncs your contact list.
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This is a highly annoying problem that has not been fixed since Sense was available for my Windows Mobile phone.
Anyways, here's what I have discovered about this phone.
I disabled the default facebook sync by HTC since the pictures are horrid.
I then installed haxsync, but here's where it gets really strange.
When you go to your contact list, the thumbnails are great!
Now click on the thumbnail itself. The popup has a good quality photo.
Now click on the Name of your contact to pull up full details. The photo is now the garbage. You can go to edit and change the photo to haxsync and then both are good quality. This then goes away the next time haxsync syncs your contact list.
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Did this and manually selected the haxsync photos. They are a lot better, but nowhere near the quality I think they should be. They still look like low res photos that are being blown up instead of photos that are being downconverted.
i just dont understand why there is a discrepancy between the popup when clicking the thumnail vs the pic in the full contact details.
New info?
Photo Unlocker, which requires root, is not helping me much here.
Any new development on this topic?
HaxSync works perfectly for me.. Try forcing it to redownload the pictures.
Mine all look fine.
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I used to think I had the same problem...but it turns out that I just have low-resolution friends. :cyclops:
I think that maybe the problem is in the phone app grabbing the wrong version of the contact pic, and not anything to do with the facebook app. But I'm just thinking out loud and have no proof.
I was curious about this also. pics on my OG Evo seemed fine. Maybe I'll try haxsync
I couldn't really find a useful answer but,
I sync my contacts via Facebook app and the exchange, but my contact photos like NEVER update. I tried resyncing many times but it still doesn't. Does anyone know how to make them update? I'm on Ineff GB btw
Also is there a way to automatically import the contacts to Google or do I have to manually enter them? Thx
I have several Rezounds and I noticed this on GB also. ICS ROMs update fine for me.
What I do is unlink my contact whose photo I want updated, back out of contacts, then go back in to the Google contact and link up their Facebook contact. It's a pain but the other way is to logout of Facebook, which loses all links, and then sign in again. Wait a while for linking to happen.
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Dang... That's lame. I've never had this problem on another phone with GB... I wonder if its the Rom?
Yea its pretty lame. I'm on CleanROM 1.7.5.
It syncs perfectly on my HTC Flyer with GB and Honeycomb.
Also the Thunderbolt and Incredible sync fine. Just not my primary Rezound.
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It also doesn't show a good bit of photos. Just shows a blank. Bleh annoying how it works whenever it wants to which is pretty much never. At one point I had all of my contacts working and updating and such.
i started using haxsync..actually bought it...then i realized everytime you reboot the phone or soemthing, haxsync pics turn into **** quality 96x96 or so pics for some reaosn (because HTC seems to create thumbnails and use those as the main pic instead of the high res pic) aaaaand the developer says he has no idea how to fix it basically.
dollar totally wasted lol
Lololol. It actually helps to completely logout of Facebook and delete HTC Sync or w/e from facebooks allowed applications thing. I think all my contact pictures actually loaded this time. They probably won't update though.
Edit: nope it didn't lol. I guess they will still trickle in though. Some of the ones that were missing did load though. For some reason it instantly finds like 30, but I have way more than that. Hmmm
Use Sync My Pix android app for import your FB friends contacts to your address-book.
Haxsync works pretty well for me on a Xperia play CM9.0 FXP 121 build
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I think it isn't getting the pictures for people who don't have their phone numbers on Facebook. But it seems like I remember it suggesting by name or something
android addicts said:
Use Sync My Pix android app for import your FB friends contacts to your address-book.
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I tried it and it doesn't do anything at all for me... I think its broken lol
don't use sync my pics because that sets the pics to their Google contacts, and if you sync your contacts to Google, those pics will be ****ty 96x96 because Google developers are a bunch of assholes who keep ignoring our requests since the start of android to raise the damn limit so it's not a pixelated mess.
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Try friendcaster
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i'm actually rockin freindcaster now. it doesn't sync my own contact tohugh, weird.
I used to use friendcaster pro for a long time before the Facebook app finally updated to the new style on android. It always worked well as I remember. I think ill install it again to see what's changed actually.
I think the contact names have to be an exact match for them to auto link. I went through and changed like 20 of them, now they work. Dunno of they will update though
friendcaster is now syncing low quality pics just like haxsync....sigh. i think its an HTC problem
jayochs said:
friendcaster is now syncing low quality pics just like haxsync....sigh. i think its an HTC problem
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Lol. Even with the high resolution setting checked? Friend caster still gives me errors and doesn't do basic things... It looks really nice now though
friendcaster shouldn't be causing issues. the latest version has working sync and high res photos for me. saves your battery more since it has better interval settings
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friendcaster shouldn't be causing issues. the latest version has working sync and high res photos for me. saves your battery more since it has better interval settings
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Lol. Even with the high resolution setting checked? Friend caster still gives me errors and doesn't do basic things... It looks really nice now though
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yeah, it's absolutely terrible. they're a pixelated mess even wtih high quality on..it's wierd man
Are you guys using Twitter?
I sort of have this issue, except my Twitter contact icons look terrible. *Sometimes* the Facebook icons sync and look great, and then sometimes Sense thinks the Twitter icons are better... And they're not. Even after manually setting it to use the Facebook or Google pictures, as soon as I get a text from the contact, it'll revert to the Twitter icon.
So now my contacts are a mix of hi-res pics, ****ty Twitter pictures, and blank pictures.
Sense 3.6, not 4.0, fwiw.