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?
Iskateforfree said:
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
ozzzzysh said:
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
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I've seen a few people ask about how to increase the MMS file size limit so I figured I'd post up this easy way to do it.
Download GoSMS from the market if you don't already have it installed
(I've attached Screenshots for you to follow along)
Go to Settings, click the "Advanced" tab, scroll down and click "MMS settings"
Click on "Maximum MMS size"
Set to desired file size limit.
Then press back button
Check the box to "Preserve image resolution"
And BAM, your done. Easy Peasy.
Even though I have no 4g here in Phoenix AZ, I usually have it set to 2M. It usually takes a little longer to send on 3G but I can confirm that it does in fact send.
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Yeah check with the person who receives it how big of a file he gets if ever gonna get that massage unlikely so. What you send is not what you get even when send to yourself try it.
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dito33 said:
Yeah check with the person who receives it how big of a file he gets if ever gonna get that massage unlikely so. What you send is not what you get even when send to yourself try it.
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I have, and when I click on the image I sent myself or my girlfriends phone, it is not grainy and the pictures are nice and big, not almost thumbnail like.
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My point is if you click on details info size would not be the same as they were sent
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This is good, but trust me. A few years back, people were walking around the office taking video and sending inter-office e-mail. One I liked and tried to send via MMS to family. No good. I then took like 10 second video to send, same thing, no good as it was too big.
Take 15 hour video and attach to e-mail! Then send to:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
(whatever, you get my point!) but it does the same thing! The only thing bad with Sprint is, you do not have use of your phone while transmitting! My "15 hour video" comment was a joke (and you would be stupid to try it) I did like 2 minutes of HD and it tied up my phone for like 10 minutes or so? WiFi would likely be better?
Well that's a good point but when comes to sending an email attachment just use regular email and every smart phone is tight to email account anyway and accomplish is the same, the struggle is how to send mms and either the phone or provider on either site compresses the attachment.
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Oh, and one last thing to remember, people that are on data plans! (My mother and my AT&T peoples with iPhones!)
Hey Guys.
I've been looking at how to do this for ages but...GoSMS is all well and good but, I like the stock SMS app...Its a little more...lets say, less "permisiony"...
But how can one do this change with the stick SMS app?? Is there an XML file you can edit?
Thanks.
Did you ever get any resolution to this? I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S4 Google edition and definitely want to stick to the stock messaging app, but outgoing photos attached via SMS from the camera are compressed to garbage. They're tiny and horrifically artifacted... it's killing me.
-Shane
Lambetts said:
Hey Guys.
I've been looking at how to do this for ages but...GoSMS is all well and good but, I like the stock SMS app...Its a little more...lets say, less "permisiony"...
But how can one do this change with the stick SMS app?? Is there an XML file you can edit?
Thanks.
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shanesaccount said:
Did you ever get any resolution to this? I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S4 Google edition and definitely want to stick to the stock messaging app, but outgoing photos attached via SMS from the camera are compressed to garbage. They're tiny and horrifically artifacted... it's killing me.
-Shane
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No fix for this then? i just sent a text on my one plus and its 90kb, danggg
I just tried this on my VZW S4 and it seems to work for sure at 2mb. HOWEVER, when attaching pix it does not give any means to pick "gallery" so that I can pick images to attach from their files, instead, taking you straight to what appears identical to the factory installed "picture" app where all images are shotgunned onto a single HUGE page. Can this be fixed?
Other than that, I love the app as it does give a better detailed report with each post time and DATE stamped as well as a little green check to indicated received. The stock messaging doesn't do that and also will not allow you to request a read receipt without getting the same audible notice that you get when receiving a message.
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.
Cheers
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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.
Is this customizable or is this an MMS standard. Every time I send a picture I've taken by MMS to my wife's iphone it's tiny. I'll take a cute picture of my daughter and my wife wants me to send it to her. The phone dumbs it down to some thumbnail size and she ends up with a low res pic. Seems like the pictures she texts me from her iPhone look better.
Video quality is also atrocious. I watched a short video on her phone that I texted her and it was unwatchable. I'm not expecting HD quality but surely it could get better than 160x120 or whatever that pitiful resolution is.
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Is this customizable or is this an MMS standard. Every time I send a picture I've taken by MMS to my wife's iphone it's tiny. I'll take a cute picture of my daughter and my wife wants me to send it to her. The phone dumbs it down to some thumbnail size and she ends up with a low res pic. Seems like the pictures she texts me from her iPhone look better.
Video quality is also atrocious. I watched a short video on her phone that I texted her and it was unwatchable. I'm not expecting HD quality but surely it could get better than 160x120 or whatever that pitiful resolution is.
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MMS images get compressed by default on stock (bugged me too), but developers have overcome this in custom ROMs. I can confirm that Viper4G doesn't do this.
MeanROM increases the limit from 1Mb to 5Mb for MMS as well.
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CBRRider said:
MeanROM increases the limit from 1Mb to 5Mb for MMS as well.
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so does all the other roms
Thanks. I was hoping there was an adjustable setting somewhere I hadn't found. Really not interested in rooting my phone at this point.
The stock HTC mms app is shrinks the photo res for some reason.
Use a 3rd party program to send mms. I use Handcent SMS. Mms works better.
This bothers me as well it's just annoying. Like op said doesn't need to be HD quality but a thumbnail is just ridiculous. Anyway to adjust on stock rom without using 3rd party app?
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This bothers me as well it's just annoying. Like op said doesn't need to be HD quality but a thumbnail is just ridiculous. Anyway to adjust on stock rom without using 3rd party app?
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I don't believe so...I looked everywhere prior to rooting and couldn't find anything.
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I use go sms for sending and receiving mms.
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It wouldn't be as bad if it actually adhered to the 1MB size, but it squashes it down to about 15-50kb instead. Setting it to 5MB I now get a notification that the recipient may not receive it due to the file size. This usually only happens when sending MMS to a carrier other than Sprint.
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It wouldn't be as bad if it actually adhered to the 1MB size, but it squashes it down to about 15-50kb instead. Setting it to 5MB I now get a notification that the recipient may not receive it due to the file size. This usually only happens when sending MMS to a carrier other than Sprint.
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Yeah, that's a good point...no point in sending an hq image if they can't receive it.
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Another option is using Dropbox. You can either have Dropbox upload all of your photos/videos automatically or you can manually upload one photo at time. Then simply send a link from your Dropbox and you get Zero compression! Works great with videos too. :good:
You can always just email them if you don't want to root or use a separate app for texting pictures. That's what I use to do before I rooted my phone.
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I have been scouring the internet and various forums for an answer to this issue. I have been having some serious MMS compression on all of the AOSP ROMs I have used, namely Orca, LiquidSmooth and Carbon. This stands for any SMS app I use as well, even GO SMS where you can disable MMS compression and such. Is this a common issue, or is there perhaps something up with my phone and/or data connection? Any help on the subject would be appreciated, as sending screenshots make them illegible and pictures just look really pixelated and bad, it's quite annoying. Thanks in advance!
In go sms... Did you do into mms settings and check preserve image resolution? My images were horrible as well until I changed that. If it is not checked, go sms will resize it automatically.
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koreankabachy said:
In go sms... Did you do into mms settings and check preserve image resolution? My images were horrible as well until I changed that. If it is not checked, go sms will resize it automatically.
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Yeah, I have that checked, it still makes the images all blurry and grainy. I'm not sure what the issue is here. I may flash it back to stock and see if the problem persists there. I was just thinking maybe there is an issue with the AOSP SMS apps on the Note 2 or something, but no one seems to be having any issues with this as far as I can tell, as I haven't really been getting feedback. It may just be an isolated issue with me.
only other setting i can think of is in MMS setting (go sms)...changing the Maximum MMS size. i have mine set to 1.2M and can send screen shots with no issue.
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only other setting i can think of is in MMS setting (go sms)...changing the Maximum MMS size. i have mine set to 1.2M and can send screen shots with no issue.
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Yeah, I've tried that already as well. I even changed it to the largest size possible in the Go SMS settings. Not sure what the problem is.
Edit: I do notice you are using Jelly Beans ROM. Are you using the AOSP SMS app as stock or the TW SMS app? Because as I stated before, I think it may be related to the AOSP SMS app on the Note 2 for some odd reason. I realize you are using GO as your SMS app, but what do you have installed as stock?
VZW will resize the image on the network side. You could send a 10MP image, but it would still arrive tiny on the other end. Don't think there is really anything you can do about it either.
I am on jelly Bean's Rom right now but was on asop prior and worked fine
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VZW will resize the image on the network side. You could send a 10MP image, but it would still arrive tiny on the other end. Don't think there is really anything you can do about it either.
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Well I never had compression issues like this with my GNex at all. I'm at a loss ha ha.
Well, Messaging will compress the image to adhere to VZW's network side restrictions. You could change it so that messaging sends the full image, the AFAIK, the recipient still gets a crappy small image if it is oversized.
I would like to know how to send a full sized MMS on sprint's network. Even if I install a rom that can send up to 5M, I notice the receiver always gets something along the lines of 200kb. I have tried both GoSMS and Handcent to send pictures, and neither work even when put at full size in options. So far the only way I've acheived this is to use Handcent's personal network, upload the picture there, then send someone the link to which they download from. Now this is rather inconvenient, as some of my friends don't have smartphones yet, so it's hard for them to view the file. I''d also prefer to not email pictures, as it's just very slow and difficult. Can anyone explain how to fix this? Thank you
I guess nobody knows...
Try this work around I posted elsewhere and it's helped a few people......
Add a random pic to the message (it will probably be a small file like you say), then add the picture you actually want to send (should be way bigger according to message size number, ie: goes from 200kb to 1375kb etc). Now long press on the first pic and remove it.....you SHOULD be left with the second pic and the size should be the original size of the pic 1375-200=1175kb.
Let me know if that works.
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onefasttreopro said:
Try this work around I posted elsewhere and it's helped a few people......
Add a random pic to the message (it will probably be a small file like you say), then add the picture you actually want to send (should be way bigger according to message size number, ie: goes from 200kb to 1375kb etc). Now long press on the first pic and remove it.....you SHOULD be left with the second pic and the size should be the original size of the pic 1375-200=1175kb.
Let me know if that works.
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Hmm it didn't work... Also, cm10.1 doesnt allow me to attatch more than one picture for some reason. I can either send, remove, or replace
Ooooh, yea cm10 I'm not familiar with. I'm sorry, I'm on sense 5 atm...that workaround works for sense 4+.....in sense 5 the pics send full size off the bat with no issues...
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All the AOSP roms seem to play funny with mms. I couldn't find a solution and tried quite a few things. Sense Rom was my solution.
I'd like to know if anyone else gets a text about the receiver having a size limit and your mms not going through?
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All the AOSP roms seem to play funny with mms. I couldn't find a solution and tried quite a few things. Sense Rom was my solution.
I'd like to know if anyone else gets a text about the receiver having a size limit and your mms not going through?
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Nope, never heard of such a thing.. at least from my end
I've received those notifications but only if sending a MMS to someone with a different carrier that sprint
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eazy401 said:
I've received those notifications but only if sending a MMS to someone with a different carrier that sprint
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Is that what it is? I guess that makes sense. Most people I know are on Verizon.