Hi guys,
No matter what I do, the pictures of my contacts remain not only small, but also pixelated beyond recognition. I know there are replacement apps, such as UCS and BIG!, but isn't there anything I can do in order to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app?
Thanks!
zkvvoob said:
Hi guys,
No matter what I do, the pictures of my contacts remain not only small, but also pixelated beyond recognition. I know there are replacement apps, such as UCS and BIG!, but isn't there anything I can do in order to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app?
Thanks!
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nope.
zkvvoob said:
Hi guys,
No matter what I do, the pictures of my contacts remain not only small, but also pixelated beyond recognition. I know there are replacement apps, such as UCS and BIG!, but isn't there anything I can do in order to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app?
Thanks!
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Yes, it is. Get contapps in G Play. It will sync ur contacts pics.
Cheers
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pedrotorresfilho said:
Yes, it is. Get contapps in G Play. It will sync ur contacts pics.
Cheers
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thats not what he asked. he asked if theres any way to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app
gunness1991 said:
thats not what he asked. he asked if theres any way to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app
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Yes, exactly. I wonder, am I the only one's whose pictures are not as they should be? Perahps I've done something incorrectly, though I cannot imagine what....
Use friend caster pro. My caller id pics are crystal clear. App makes it look crispy
If you getting the pics from facebook then friendcaster is the way to go. Nice, clear pics
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Yes, exactly. I wonder, am I the only one's whose pictures are not as they should be? Perahps I've done something incorrectly, though I cannot imagine what....
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Its not you at all. I have had the same issue with several Android devices. Some had painful work arounds. I have seen this talked about numerous times for the RAZR and it is always the same. Use a different app or you will have crappy pics.
Its the same problem anyone with an android phone runs into.
When u sync your contacts with your Gmail/Google account the pics are reduced for the icon it uses online, and then resynced over your phones pics.
Absolutely the stupidest problem which should have been taken care of a long time ago.
either way u need to turn off the syncing. And then manually fix your pics. Or go the Facebook approach as mentioned.
Either way u need to turn off the sync or it will happen again
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gunness1991 said:
thats not what he asked. he asked if theres any way to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app
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And I said how to have nice pics in default app. After syncing with contapps all pictures will be there. This will not, of course, fix his buged contact app, but will make possible what he asked for.
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Easy fix. Take a pic of every person in your contact list and then assign them to the contacts. There is the answer as well as many others. This is not new to android. HTC seems to be able to produce a better image for some reason when synced w Google but still an overall android issue. Been like that since the DROID Eris.
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It gets really annoying that even when I get a single picture in a text, it plays it like a slideshow. Is there any fix for this, or any other way to disable it?
Aside from getting Handcent or GOSms that is.
Running CM9 btw.
Might want to post in the cm9 thread that you're using. It might be a bug with the rom that the developer could fix.
Nah, it's like that in every rom I've used. It's not a bug, its a "feature" of Android.
r1dr12aj said:
Nah, it's like that in every rom I've used. It's not a bug, its a "feature" of Android.
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Not a feature in any android rom I've used. Never have I gotten a single pic come thru as a slideshow on stock messaging or handcent.
You can long press on the message and press on download attachments. Then you could watch the pictures full sized on the gallery without any forced slideshow. I know it doesnt really fix things, but it's the workaround I use.
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pre4speed said:
Not a feature in any android rom I've used. Never have I gotten a single pic come thru as a slideshow on stock messaging or handcent.
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happens to me when my wife sends me more than one picture thru her Iphone. Never gotten it more than one from any other phone before to tell the difference.
phro321 said:
happens to me when my wife sends me more than one picture thru her Iphone. Never gotten it more than one from any other phone before to tell the difference.
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Yes that happens when its more than one picture for me as well, but OP is stating its a single (1) picture that shows as slideshow.
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Not a feature in any android rom I've used. Never have I gotten a single pic come thru as a slideshow on stock messaging or handcent.
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Everywhere I've seen, even for other phones as well, single pictures play back as slide shows for people, where you click the picture icon, and a play, next, and previous icon show up at the bottom.
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Everywhere I've seen, even for other phones as well, single pictures play back as slide shows for people, where you click the picture icon, and a play, next, and previous icon show up at the bottom.
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That's strange cuz I click on the pic and it asks which viewer I want to use when opening.
Thank you everyone for taking the time to answer these type of questions !! No matter how good you leave the quality of your photos when you assign them to a contact and that contact calls, the photo looks very grainy. Is this due to a crapy HTC phone.apk? Is there a way to get the photos to look better other than installing something like, full screen caller I.D.?
I've noticed this too. The pictures that are linked from my Facebook contacts look fine, but the ones I took on my phone or come from Google contacts look bad when selected as contact pics
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coal686 said:
I've noticed this too. The pictures that are linked from my Facebook contacts look fine, but the ones I took on my phone or come from Google contacts look bad when selected as contact pics
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I downloaded full screen called I.D. and it allows me to save the contacts as HD pictures and it looks great, I just do not like how it has taken over my messaging as well and I have to close it to get to my normal messaging program.
Been a issue for a long long time. Even back on the EVO .
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What seems to be happening is it scales and compresses the picture to look good as a tiny thumbnail (to save space) but then blows that up for other uses so it looks bad.
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coal686 said:
What seems to be happening is it scales and compresses the picture to look good as a tiny thumbnail (to save space) but then blows that up for other uses so it looks bad.
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I have gone through that thumbnails folder before and that seems to make perfect sense, but someone dropped the ball there at HTC. Well, I just hope someone realizes the huge mistake that was and corrects it. Thanks coal!!
You can drop a script into your int.d folder to run at boot to prevent the blurred contact pics. I've been using the script for a while. I snatched it from myns old 3.5 rom. Not sure If I can post it because its there script. But if you dl the rom and extract it you can find it.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
Last night once we got the JB update, I took the liberty of going to each one of my of my contacts facebook, saving a high res picture of them and then adding it to their contact profile in my phone from the SD card. I'm that guy that has to have good looking pictures for everyone when they call.
With ICS we got a bump in contact icon size. However when you switch roms and your contacts get sync'd to the new rom, their icons are blurry and low res like hell. This was supposedly fixed in Jellybean. So as I stated above I took the time (almost 3 hours actually) to update some 200 contacts.
I just want to let you guys know, don't waste your time, it's not fixed rofl. Googles contact sync feature still completely decimates high res pictures into 3x3 pixelated bogus.
That is all. -___-
All of mine are high res....just dont be in a hurry to sync everything or they will look like crap...Ive tested this with several installs...set up your google contacts when you first boot, nothing else...give the rom time to settle, especially let the sync icon stop..do your google play, whatever while you wait....then setup facebook with "existing contacts"...give it a bit to run and you should have high res contatcs..
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All of mine are high res....just dont be in a hurry to sync everything or they will look like crap...Ive tested this with several installs...set up your google contacts when you first boot, nothing else...give the rom time to settle, especially let the sync icon stop..do your google play, whatever while you wait....then setup facebook with "existing contacts"...give it a bit to run and you should have high res contatcs..
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I did exactly that when I discovered they didn't sync in high resolution. I did a factory format and started over and they still synced in low res quality.
Thats odd, cause Im sitting here looking at mine and there is a huge difference from ICS....Last night when I only set up Google then played around for awhile I noticed how great they looked...today when I reinstalled and rushed through the setup they looked horrible...reinstalled again and took my time and they look great again....
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Thats odd, cause Im sitting here looking at mine and there is a huge difference from ICS....Last night when I only set up Google then played around for awhile I noticed how great they looked...today when I reinstalled and rushed through the setup they looked horrible...reinstalled again and took my time and they look great again....
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I'm trying again. Just formatted factory. Signing all my stuff in now..
Only Google....leave everything else alone for a bit...
This pic looked horrible on ICS....(sorry about the dog as a example )
If you want proper hi-res contact photos, use a real JB ROM like CyanogenMod or an AOSP ROM. Contact photos will always be hi-res once you update the photo to a hi-res one.
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Only Google....leave everything else alone for a bit...
This pic looked horrible on ICS....(sorry about the dog as a example )
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How they look after being synced
How they look after re-adding the photo after sycing is 100% finished
See what I'm saying? It's doing butchering the contact icons. I'm not sure how you're getting them to sync properly but I've added the pics from the contact app and also at google.com/contacts @[email protected]
Wow, not getting that on mine...sorry dude.....are you stuck on 3g only maybe?? I dunno...Ive got 4g and thats the only other thing I can think of, amount of data downloading...
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Wow, not getting that on mine...sorry dude.....are you stuck on 3g only maybe?? I dunno...Ive got 4g and thats the only other thing I can think of, amount of data downloading...
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My phone is always on wifi when im at home. :/
kusanagi-sama said:
If you want proper hi-res contact photos, use a real JB ROM like CyanogenMod or an AOSP ROM. Contact photos will always be hi-res once you update the photo to a hi-res one.
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I uploaded them through both my phone and google.com/contacts, which is where they're pulled from for syncing. You'd think high res icons at the source = high res icons at the destination but I'm not seeing it lol.
New contact photos look sexy. thanks htc!
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New contact photos look sexy. thanks htc!
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you guys should really get hax-sync
its an app that lets you use proper photos from FB and syncs them to the contacts, although google has talked about this before and there is a fix in the works but dont expect it until key lime pie
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync&hl=en
fifasarajevo said:
you guys should really get hax-sync
its an app that lets you use proper photos from FB and syncs them to the contacts, although google has talked about this before and there is a fix in the works but dont expect it until key lime pie
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync&hl=en
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While Facebook sync is a great option for people who aren't picky about their contact icons, a lot of my friends have pictures of them kissing their girlfriends, or blowing out clouds of smoke or have profile pictures that aren't even them. I'm just confused to why google has said this is fixed, when it is not. I've done a factory wipe multiple times now and cannot get the high resolution pictures to stay high res once synced. Only way to do it is to manually set the picture phone side, and not google side.
If I back up my contacts through Titanium Back up with the high resolution icons, that theoretically would preserve everything, correct?
fifasarajevo said:
you guys should really get hax-sync
its an app that lets you use proper photos from FB and syncs them to the contacts, although google has talked about this before and there is a fix in the works but dont expect it until key lime pie
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync&hl=en
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If you're having issues just use Haxsync like mentioned above..I always used Haxsync but since upgrading to JB all of my photos are Hig Resolution already even after syncing(its even pulling high rez photos from my facebook contacts) So i've yet to re install Haxsync.
BrianBaker said:
If you're having issues just use Haxsync like mentioned above..I always used Haxsync but since upgrading to JB all of my photos are Hig Resolution already even after syncing(its even pulling high rez photos from my facebook contacts) So i've yet to re install Haxsync.
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FML. I feel like everyone has this feature working but me. hahaha
saboture said:
FML. I feel like everyone has this feature working but me. hahaha
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nope same here thats why i use hax sync, my contact photos would always be blurry as well so i had to use it but it sound like youve got a real conundrum there, hax sync was my only answer so im out
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FML. I feel like everyone has this feature working but me. hahaha
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i feel ya man..But Haxsync is Boss so your all good man..
Odd, mine is fine and HQ too...
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It is fixed. If you sync from facebook, go to your people app and just click a contact,back out,then go back in and it resizes automatically... For me at least.
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Some pictures come through as videos and some don't. It's really puzzling.
Stop me if I'm wrong but if you put 2 pictures in one text message it shows up as "video" and when you hit play it does a slide show between the two pictures. As oppose if you only have one picture in one text message it shows it as a picture text.
Does that make sense?
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if one mms contain two or more images or more than one pages. it will display like video. play button would be show to you.
but only one image will not.:laugh:
We've tested it with one image and the same thing happens.
Napoleon_PhoneApart said:
Some pictures come through as videos and some don't. It's really puzzling.
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I've had it happen occasionally, seems to happen when I have crummy signal.
Napoleon_PhoneApart said:
Some pictures come through as videos and some don't. It's really puzzling.
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Which Rom version are you using?
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Which Rom version are you using?
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ARHD 7.3. I went back to the stock app and everything's fine again.
i have same issue, Wanna know some thing i found out. Pinch to zoom in messaging app, can make it smaller. pretty cool.
Hey guys, I've had my S4 since it was released for VZW in May and I've noticed for some time that when sending/receiving any pics/screenshots to other people via MMS, it isn't clear until you tap the picture and save it to your storage. Any one know why this happens?
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Hey guys, I've had my S4 since it was released for VZW in May and I've noticed for some time that when sending/receiving any pics/screenshots to other people via MMS, it isn't clear until you tap the picture and save it to your storage. Any one know why this happens?
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The texting app has a built-in picture "shrinker."
MMS has a size limit to messages, so it shrinks them to fit.
This built in "shrinker" (sorry I'm drawing a blank on what it is called) is focused on speed more than quality of the outcome.
I'd recommend finding an app to shrink your photos yourself to prevent the gross built-in one from ruining your photos.
Edit: I never noticed the fact that saving makes it look nicer.. Idk. Good question.
Sorry for the unhelpful answer. haha
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The texting app has a built-in picture "shrinker."
MMS has a size limit to messages, so it shrinks them to fit.
This built in "shrinker" (sorry I'm drawing a blank on what it is called) is focused on speed more than quality of the outcome.
I'd recommend finding an app to shrink your photos yourself to prevent the gross built-in one from ruining your photos.
Edit: I never noticed the fact that saving makes it look nicer.. Idk. Good question.
Sorry for the unhelpful answer. haha
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Anything you'd recommend?
Email or send then with an app like whatsapp.
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had the same problem with the stock messaging app. dont remember if/how i fixed it but i use gosms now and its 100x's better. use either that or handcent