And once again we are going back, to the X10 era problems!
I tried to manually change my contacts pictures but then the Google sync made it's magic and turned them back to the ugly 96*96 pixels resolution!
Is Google going to do something with this??????
We live in 2012 damn!!
I noticed the GMail notification icon and a couple of others are low resolution as well, perhaps ICS will resolve this since high DPI screens weren't around as much when 2.3 came out.
This is a Google contacts problem not Gingerbread's!
reptile64 said:
And once again we are going back, to the X10 era problems!
I tried to manually change my contacts pictures but then the Google sync made it's magic and turned them back to the ugly 96*96 pixels resolution!
Is Google going to do something with this??????
We live in 2012 damn!!
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Ive had this problem with x10,arc and now S so annoying
Malner27 said:
Ive had this problem with x10,arc and now S so annoying
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At least with Arc you could edit your contacts one by one and unless you recovered them with Google sync (after reinstalling a ROM) they stayed in high res!
You also could do a backup (with Titanium let's say) and recover them intact!
I tried syncing my contact's photos with facebook and facebook in xperia but it didn't work... All the information show up but no photos -.- do you have a clue?
Sony did it again
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I tried syncing my contact's photos with facebook and facebook in xperia but it didn't work... All the information show up but no photos -.- do you have a clue?
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Turn on your syncing with Facebook and in contacts/settings/filters.
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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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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 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
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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.
Hello I have a problem that my caller is pictures are really small... Is others the same size a mine? Look at my screenshot...
Edit contact and change photo from album
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Edit contact and change photo from album
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Yes but I can not do this on 200 contacts everytime I change my rom... When I do this its ok, but when I resync with Google account the pictures get small again! This is a real blunder from Sony! Android 4.3 fixed this for HTC, Samsung and LG... To bad to by a new top modell from Sony and this is still a problem
You think the pictures will stick if I not sync contacts with Google, but use the Backup/Restore feature on the phone instead?
The images in Google contacts are too small
I use backup but I haven't restored
daymon said:
The images in Google contacts are too small
I use backup but I haven't restored
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They are not to small on LG, HTC and Samsung... So I think something is wrong when you sync to Sony. S5 has same picture size on contacts and I get big pictures when I sync to that device from Google
So I just noticed some of the girls that I have as contacts that have changed their names because they are married and have both last names on Facebook, they don't match up with my contacts on my phone. That's fine because I had to match those up on my S3 too but I have to set the Facebook picture as the default and it's a very pixely picture compared to my S3. Everyone else having these problems?
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So I just noticed some of the girls that I have as contacts that have changed their names because they are married and have both last names on Facebook, they don't match up with my contacts on my phone. That's fine because I had to match those up on my S3 too but I have to set the Facebook picture as the default and it's a very pixely picture compared to my S3. Everyone else having these problems?
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I use "sync.me" from play store to load high quality pics from Facebook or linkein for my contacts. hope this helps !
avid.aria said:
I use "sync.me" from play store to load high quality pics from Facebook or linkein for my contacts. hope this helps !
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I am trying that out right now. I will see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestion.
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So I just noticed some of the girls that I have as contacts that have changed their names because they are married and have both last names on Facebook, they don't match up with my contacts on my phone. That's fine because I had to match those up on my S3 too but I have to set the Facebook picture as the default and it's a very pixely picture compared to my S3. Everyone else having these problems?
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I use Ubersync. It's a facebook API limitation, not android/lg.
burkett375 said:
I use Ubersync. It's a facebook API limitation, not android/lg.
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I second Ubersync. Been using it since my S4 for linking profile pictures. My only concern right now is I can't seem to find the setting in Contacts on the G3 that would allow me to link/merge contacts with Ubersync info that doesn't automatically link to a contact's name.
I love uber sync as well, I wish I could get my Facebook calendar to sync to my phone. You guys have any tips there?
Hacsync
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
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Hacsync
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
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I've always used Hacsyn. Best I've found for photos and contacts.
Krusej23 said:
So I just noticed some of the girls that I have as contacts that have changed their names because they are married and have both last names on Facebook, they don't match up with my contacts on my phone. That's fine because I had to match those up on my S3 too but I have to set the Facebook picture as the default and it's a very pixely picture compared to my S3. Everyone else having these problems?
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I've been using ubersync since it was called facebook contact sync and it has always worked perfectly to show contact images and updates to the images.