As the title says I've assigned photos to some of my contacts. I know the quality of the pics are fine as I use the exact same pics for my TD2. However when I make or receive a call from the contact, the picture displayed is very blurry, not clear at all.
I know that with the TD2 & all the previous WM phone I had I had to assign the picture to the contact using a different app (e.g. S2U2, etc) than the HTC in built one. Is that the case with the Hero? If so which app should I use?
Thanks
Facebook sourced contact photos appear not too bad, but as you say, any pic used from the camera or other image source appear very pixelated.
Please see this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544382
It is the same issue
i am running 2.3.3 pre-rooted gb rom. i have noticed that some of my contacts show incoming and outgoing call picture while others dont show at all. i tried all means but still it doesnt show when i dial. but when i open the contact for editing the contact pic i assigned is there. Any idea what is happening??? also the quality is still bad, i miss the quality of pic in 1.6 version.
its very bad
no matter where the pic source comes from
from facebook
from twitter
from google sync
from own gallery
Hi, guys!
I realize that adding photos at contacts was better at the old SE Android contact app.
Adding photos with "mediascape" at the old contact app was better... the "mediascape" always cropped the photo on a wide aspect, fitting OK on the contact page.
Now, it's always a square aspect that don't fit right on the contact page. Something wierd! And when you get an incoming call, the photo resolution is ****ty and zoomed. Too bad!
The contact photo not showing on outcoming and incoming calls, but when you open the contact it has a photo is due to the facebook integration. In EDIT mode, when you have a contact with a picture at the FB profile and no photo on contact app, if you press the picture and choose "set as contact picture", this will happen.
its very lousy of sony to release a failed update
Hey there, this is my first HTC and Evo. Actually it's an HTC Evo 3D GSM. Rooted and on a stock 2.3.4 rom and stock kernel.
The thing that bothers me is the low res caller screen. I linked many Google contacts with their Facebook accounts. And set their caller pictures as well. But they are in so low resolution that actually i can count the pixels. I couldn't find an option for this and it's pretty annoying. Do you guys have the same issue, is this an Evo 3D thing, or is it just me?
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Mine is slightly pixelated, but not even close as yours. See example below:
Yeah, mine has no hope. But i figured out something. The resolution of the caller picture has the same resolution which is used in little, tiny thumbnails on "People" section of contacts. I'm pretty sure that i dont have to change them manually. This shouldnt have happened at all. This is my third android phone. First one was Galaxy Mini, second one was LG Optimus Black. None of these used to have this kind of weird problem.
Mine does the same thing. It does look nasty.
If you have the contact picture stored on your sd then you can just edit the contact threw the people app and reapply the picture. I go threw the same thing after I wipe cache & davlik cache. It takes me like a good 35 to 40 min to reapply all the pictures in my contacts. I just leave it untill I have some down time to reapply them. Unfortunately I haven't figured out why this happens or a fix for it so I just work around it. Hope this helps.
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That's terrible quality. I haven't had an Android phone yet that had half-decent contact photos UNLESS I was using HTC facebook contacts sync (as shown by tgruendler's post). I think it's a known problem with Google that they've failed to even address at this point. Once the contact becomes a google contact, the photo goes to crap. Even if the contact is stored only on the phone and the pic is on the sdcard, you're still probably going to have a bit of pixelation going on. My advice is use facebook sync on a sense rom. Sucks but that's the only thing that's ever really worked for me.
ozturkselcuk said:
Hey there, this is my first HTC and Evo. Actually it's an HTC Evo 3D GSM. Rooted and on a stock 2.3.4 rom and stock kernel.
The thing that bothers me is the low res caller screen. I linked many Google contacts with their Facebook accounts. And set their caller pictures as well. But they are in so low resolution that actually i can count the pixels. I couldn't find an option for this and it's pretty annoying. Do you guys have the same issue, is this an Evo 3D thing, or is it just me?
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This use to really bother me when I first got my evo4G on release day. It's a very annoying issue that google refuses to address even know there is a huge thread about it on the google message boards. They just won't fix it. Sooooo since google is worthless here is your best work around that I have been using for a long time. Anytime you set a contact picture they get uploaded to google at which point they are are resized and over compressed which makes them look like crap.
Step #1 - Delete all contact pictures from your google contacts so they are blank.
Step #2 - Turn off facebook linking via htc sense & the facebook app.
Step #3 - Create a duplicate contact for the contacts you want to use high resolution pictures for. Very Important - the duplicate contact needs to be a phone contact & NOT a google contact. It should prompt you when making a new one.
Step #4 - Name the contact the exact same as your google contact. For example if your google contact is "Bill A" you would only fill out "Bill A" on your phone contact. Leave the rest blank, no #'s or anything.
Step #5 - While still in the phone contact you just created, set a picture on the PHONE contact. (At this point you should have all your high quality pictures saved & names on your sd card. I like to do 500X500 for mine) For best results use same amount of pixels across as well as down.
Step #6 - Once you have done that you need to link your phone contact to the google one. Most the time the phone will suggest this but sometimes it gets them wrong if it does just clear suggestion. Make sure when you do the link you start in the phone contact and not the google one.
Step #7 - You now have only 1 contact entry in your phone book with a high resolution picture that will show when the caller calls you or you dial out. The picture will not be backed up to google.
Tips: If you flash or reset your phone a lot, make a backup of your PHONE contacts only to your sd card before wiping. Don't backup anything else since the rest will be saved on google. Then when your done flashing, simply import the backups off your sd card. At this point you will have to manually go through and re-link the phone contacts to the google ones. Again make sure you set the link in the phone contact, not the google one. Sometimes when importing the phone backups it will have the phone number it backed up from the google contact. You have to delete the phone number from the phone contact or you get duplicates when sending texts which is kinda annoying.
I attached a full resolution screen shot below of one of my contacts looks like. I wish stupid google would just fix this but they don't seem to care. Hope this was helpful, good luck.
I've had this bug in so many ROM's.
I always get it fixed by either installing it if it isn't, or syncing the Facebook for HTC Sense. That one seems to get the crisp pictures, but the Facebook app is a bad one, that seems to be the culprit for pulling the blurry ones down.
ozturkselcuk said:
Hey there, this is my first HTC and Evo. Actually it's an HTC Evo 3D GSM. Rooted and on a stock 2.3.4 rom and stock kernel.
The thing that bothers me is the low res caller screen. I linked many Google contacts with their Facebook accounts. And set their caller pictures as well. But they are in so low resolution that actually i can count the pixels. I couldn't find an option for this and it's pretty annoying. Do you guys have the same issue, is this an Evo 3D thing, or is it just me?
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Use Friendcaster. It has an option for hi-res pictures. Its not crystal clear, but its way better than what you are seeing.
Hey guys, thank you very musch four you replies and I'm sorry that I couldn't write a thing for days. I was out of town for a few days. Whatever...
First thing I did was to unfreeze the Facebook for HTC application and freeze Facebook for Android. I linked the contacts with Facebook with HTC. The result was a little bit better than the old settings. I mean, not crystal clear but at least I can recognize the person calling me. But still, it's not like the way I want, or it should be. What a shame for Google. It's just a photo. Why do you have to resize it that way?
I believe this is solved in ICS. Hi-Res Contact Pics Was A Feature.
Via My HTC Evo 3D On The Now Network From Sprint.
Sorry if this topic seems rather mundane, but there is something about my contacts list on my GS2 that confuses me. Since the ICS update my contacts list looks great and I am happy with the overall design. I like the picture at the top 1/3 which shows the contact's image. On most conatcs this picture is stationary, as you might expect, however on a few instances, the picture is able to slide to the left to reveal the contact's GOOGLE+ pics and latest postings. This is great!! But not available on all my contacts and some DO have GOOGLE+ accounts, but they are not accessable from the slide left feature. Is there a setting that activates this feature? Is there a permission I need before it becomes functional?
If anyone has any guidence it is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Anyone know where the watch picks up contact photos from? I use HaxSync on my phone and the images are hi-res, but when I get a message on my phone it shows up really blurry.
dunjamon said:
Anyone know where the watch picks up contact photos from? I use HaxSync on my phone and the images are hi-res, but when I get a message on my phone it shows up really blurry.
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I noticed the same thing. The photos look terrible (blurry).
I'm assuming image is from cloud. My images are blurry on my watch as well
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I've found that it uses the small picture from the notification on the phone...hence the very low res. Also, the issue with hangouts where the notification doesn't show any picture seems to also happen on the watch. I'd rather have no picture than the blurry one.
Hoping this can be fixed in a future update
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