Hi guys
I know this question has been asked before but can anyone give me a clear answer on contact pictures on the Xperia S? Is it actually possible to get large contact pictures to appear with the stock Xperia dialler? I've already tried out Full Screen Caller ID as a solution but it's pretty rubbish. I've used SyncMyPix by Neil Loknath and turned off syncing with Google Contacts (as I know this reduces the quality to 96x96 resolution apparently) and the pictures are high-quality but then only appear in a small square on the Xperia dialler.
Mine stretch to full screen width with a gray gradient overlaying the bottom when actually in call, but is it that you want them like that in just the contact view?
Anyways, dialler will no doubt change with ICS which is coming within 3 weeks(all going to plan sonys end) so just wait for that.
Well when I dial/receive a call the contact picture is in a small square in the middle of the screen with the person's name above it but when there is no contact picture assigned to the contact there is a nice large generic image of a person which stretches across the screen
MacTavishPapa6 said:
Well when I dial/receive a call the contact picture is in a small square in the middle of the screen with the person's name above it but when there is no contact picture assigned to the contact there is a nice large generic image of a person which stretches across the screen
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I believe that's cuz u sync with Google. It saves only small pics as far as I know
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It isn't though because the contact picture at this point is high quality. Can anyone help? :-(
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Anybody?
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hi, (and sorry if my english is bad)
I don't know if it will can help you but with some rom , large contact picture appear on all screen when a call arrive. Actually i use the rom modded xps and it is ok...
I use this app to sync fb profiles with my contacts, if u set the biggest download option, u will have a full screen caller contact.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...tssync&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
Yes, it's for fb contacts, but this can be a way
denaz you are a legend, you've given me exactly the answer I needed. Thank you so much!
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It blows me away that I'm asking this question still in 2011! I had the issue on WM a few years back and figured Google would allow their contact pics to be bigger by now.
After searching for quite a while, it looks to me like the only solution is to not sync your contacts with GMail. Has anyone found a way around this? 96x96 makes for a horrible looking full-screen caller-id.
depends, if they are on facebook syncmypix works. had some luck with motoblurs syncing.
Possible solution
Theres an app in the market place called Full Screen Caller ID FREE which can take over the screen when calls come in. It allows you to specify larger pics for contacts. It still uses the Motoblur Dialer for basic functionality like in call stuff.
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ddfault said:
Theres an app in the market place called Full Screen Caller ID FREE which can take over the screen when calls come in. It allows you to specify larger pics for contacts. It still uses the Motoblur Dialer for basic functionality like in call stuff.
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Thanks for the idea...
...tried it...started off well...took a while and added all my contact pics in...but it chooses a small portion of each picture to use as the default picture in the rest of the phone. Its usually not even a recognizable part of the picture. So now I have random sections for all my contacts....and only full pictures for when I'm receiving a call. Which isn't that important to me. I like to use the pictures when dialing. It would seem with today's screen resolutions Google would have an option to leave pictures full size on phone, and only shrink them down for web use.
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Thanks for the idea...
...tried it...started off well...took a while and added all my contact pics in...but it chooses a small portion of each picture to use as the default picture in the rest of the phone. Its usually not even a recognizable part of the picture. So now I have random sections for all my contacts....and only full pictures for when I'm receiving a call. Which isn't that important to me. I like to use the pictures when dialing. It would seem with today's screen resolutions Google would have an option to leave pictures full size on phone, and only shrink them down for web use.
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you can disable the picture option for your contacts so that it uses the original small-size photo you had for that contact before. got o settings -> miscellaneous and uncheck "Overwrite android picture"
i like the app, only complaint is i'm not a big fan of the answer screen layout.
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you can disable the picture option for your contacts so that it uses the original small-size photo you had for that contact before. got o settings -> miscellaneous and uncheck "Overwrite android picture"
i like the app, only complaint is i'm not a big fan of the answer screen layout.
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Just to be sure before I change anything...are you talking about settings inside 'Full-Screen CallerID' app istself, or a Google setting on the GMail side of things?
EDIT: Found setting in app...thanks.
The pictures in my gallery are appearing in reverse order, meaning the most recent pictures are to the far left, and older ones to the far right. Am I the only one experiencing this, or is this the default order in the Gallery app? This is driving me crazy that I can't see the photos in the correct order.
That how it is, you can download quick pick if you want I like it better the more recent in the far left personally
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it might be a default, mine is also like that
Thank you guys for the responses.
Why is it when you try to use a picture you have taken on the phone as a wallpaper it makes you crop it and then stretches it to make it fit the screen? Why doesn't it show just like you are looking at it? I have tried resizing with no luck. Any suggesstions?
Do u mean scrollable? Bc it has to stretch to fit the screen. Otherwise there would be black on the sides. Idk if picspeed wallpaper apk did it or it was there previously, but there's a custom option that doesn't mess with the pic size as much.
This picture for example. You see how at first the whole picture is displayed but the crop area only allows at the most, half the picture to be displayed.
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This picture for example. You see how at first the whole picture is displayed but the crop area only allows at the most, half the picture to be displayed.
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Try downloading picspeed wallpapers. It gives u the options I have above. When u go to gallery>pic>more>set as>wallpaper it will show like mine were u can select the whole photo.
Works better than the stock wallpaper setting.
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Do u mean scrollable? Bc it has to stretch to fit the screen. Otherwise there would be black on the sides. Idk if picspeed wallpaper apk did it or it was there previously, but there's a custom option that doesn't mess with the pic size as much.
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Completely off subject but Did u actually have kittens sitting in $100 bills and take a picture of it?!
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Wallpaper Wizzardrii allows you to set wallpapers exactly as shown. Available in the play store.
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TW1L1GHT_K1N6 said:
Completely off subject but Did u actually have kittens sitting in $100 bills and take a picture of it?!
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No, I didn't, but I wish I did lol. Saw it on some chan site and used it as my wallpaper. Pretty funny in a cute way.
Hey guys (and gals),
Does anyone know if, and if so which, a different native/stock messaging app can replace the default one (recovery flashable zip or just apk) that will enable either FULL size MMS slideshow pics, or preferably "de-slideshow" them into clickable individual pictures? Kind of silly that it shows up on a phone with a 5.3" screen at 3/4 size...
I've tried the Handcent, GoSMS, Pansi, etc, and don't want/need the weight and customization abilities of them.
I have a friend with an HTC One S, and slideshows on his phone come up as simply as clickable individual pics. He is running a stock/unrooted phone.
Thanks folks,
Jack
zx7rou812 said:
Hey guys (and gals),
Does anyone know if, and if so which, a different native/stock messaging app can replace the default one (recovery flashable zip or just apk) that will enable either FULL size MMS slideshow pics, or preferably "de-slideshow" them into clickable individual pictures? Kind of silly that it shows up on a phone with a 5.3" screen at 3/4 size...
I've tried the Handcent, GoSMS, Pansi, etc, and don't want/need the weight and customization abilities of them.
I have a friend with an HTC One S, and slideshows on his phone come up as simply as clickable individual pics. He is running a stock/unrooted phone.
Thanks folks,
Jack
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I've never seen anything like this, but it'd be nice. Another SMS app is the slope sms app. Pretty cool, but idk if it has this feature or not.
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Hi I've noticed that some contacts have a large contact picture that fills up the top half of the screen but others will only display a smaller picture in the middle.
Is there a way to get all my contacts to display a larger image on the default call screen?
Contacts are synced using Haxsync so all of them have HQ photos.
Thanks in advance.
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hi all
have the same q
I noticed that if I add a picture to a contact directly from the device, the image appears at full screen in the dialer but if the image coming from Google a small square appears
How can I change the setting that all images Will display at all the screen?
cmeyal said:
hi all
have the same q
I noticed that if I add a picture to a contact directly from the device, the image appears at full screen in the dialer but if the image coming from Google a small square appears
How can I change the setting that all images Will display at all the screen?
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I believe that this is because the contact picture is converted to a low resolution when backed up to Google, even though the original is high resolution. That's why the picture is small when you restore from Google.
It is true, same happened for me. When pictures got downloaded from google at first, they were small, then synced with facebook and they are full size.
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I believe that this is because the contact picture is converted to a low resolution when backed up to Google.
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but with samaung devices its working perfct...
HugePotato said:
It is true, same happened for me. When pictures got downloaded from google at first, they were small, then synced with facebook and they are full size.
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which app u r using for the sync?
cmeyal said:
which app u r using for the sync?
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I'm using stock Xperia for Facebook app, it just synced like that. But you need to have contacts with exact same name. When I had Galaxy S3 with AOSP I used app named SyncMe which worked very well after turning off bell and whistles like in call UI and such. I can recommend it.