Alow, for the last 4 days that i have my JAM i have concluded that the bundled caller ID that displays contact photos SUCKS!!
first of all i dont like applications that are slow, means they are badly coded, and caller id takes like 10 seconds to load my 260 contacts database. Other than that it seems too buggy and not usable enought.
I have also tried Photo Contacts which seems a nice alternative however the lack of an easy way to add contact pictures have put me off buying it. I dont wanna name files in order to assign contact pictures. Throught the contact list could have been superb. Althought the full screen contact pictures are awesome.
Any alternatives to them? or shall we start coding?
My wish is an application that use the photo from the contact.
In Outlook2003 you can assign photos to your contacts why not use them?
for that we will need to wait until WM5, if i am not mistaken in WM5 Pocket outlook supports contact pictures and hopefully activesync 4 will sync them as well.
Take a look at Photo Contacts v1.1 where you can assign photos from within the program. Works like a charm!
How do you do that? Its that one i hav tried, th trial version
Loboman can you send me your version to try it out to [email protected] ? it seems that the demo is version 1.0 and not 1.1!
Of course, I spend over $20 to get this program for my PDA2k (and now my JAM), and some guy posts the full, latest version right here.
DOH!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=20500
Have to admit, though, it's way better than IA Caller ID and it's full screen!
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Loboman can you send me your version to try it out to [email protected] ? it seems that the demo is version 1.0 and not 1.1!
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I can only point you to the previous post
nicely done
i hope it will please me
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S2V can be use to add a high-res picture to Outlook Contact directly without any complication^^ : suggested by emwdava
Hi ^^
As I switched from ASUS P525 to XPERIA which has 480*800 display, my old contact pictures seem to be a bit outdated. So I looked in to it and found out that Outlook 2007 has very limited resolution for contact picture.
Later on Ive learned that Inesoft Phone have the ability to import up to 240*240 picture into Outlook Contact(but thats not satisfy me).
Ive searched the web and this forum and found the wanted program "iContact BE 7.0 beta2". http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=402724
This program can import any resolution picture into the Outlook Contact (use original picture size in setting).
But again (I think it is a bug) when I import big picture (approx 300px+) it will make that contact unsyncable(sync fail).
After trying for many hours , I've got a trick for it.
1. Import large picture into the contact by using iContact BE.
2. Use Inesoft Phone to edit the picture, just open picture selection screen, click preview, then click ok(without touching the picture)
3. And now the cantact can be sync normally ^^
This may be just a little finding but I hope it helps.
Any comments are welcome ^^
which version of Inesoft Phone did you use to achieve this?
Inesoft Phone 4.4
S2V can also save a high quality picture to a contact.
And it's free.
A-C S2V
Or you could just do it the other way around, i.e. add the high res picture to your contact on your phone, which works.
But can it still sync without problems with Outlook after that?
Ive overlooked this method as I'm using only Inesoft Phone ^^
So...., Tested.
The picture can be add normally, sync fine.
BUT! This method just add that picture as picture attachment(noticed by clip icon in Outlook) and save only 108*108 picture into Outlook database(just right-click on the picture in outlook and copy then paste it in picture editing program to verify). This mean that any other programs(including CallerID) will see the picture as 108*108 pixels image.
As emwdava said that S2V and add the hi-red picture directly.
Tested and works!!! perfectly ^^
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Or you could just do it the other way around, i.e. add the high res picture to your contact on your phone, which works.
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yeah 240x240 sucks
Does anyone know of a comparable product to S2V for the desktop to allow high resolution photos to be added to Outlook contacts on the desktop as opposed to on the Windows Mobile device? S2V works very well for adding the photos on the Windows Mobile device, but for adding photos to many contacts it's much easier to work on the desktop so I'd love to find a comparable product?
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Does anyone know of a comparable product to S2V for the desktop to allow high resolution photos to be added to Outlook contacts on the desktop as opposed to on the Windows Mobile device? S2V works very well for adding the photos on the Windows Mobile device, but for adding photos to many contacts it's much easier to work on the desktop so I'd love to find a comparable product?
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I would be interested in this as well...
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I would be interested in this as well...
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me as well! any info would be appreciated.
Karine said:
Does anyone know of a comparable product to S2V for the desktop to allow high resolution photos to be added to Outlook contacts on the desktop as opposed to on the Windows Mobile device? S2V works very well for adding the photos on the Windows Mobile device, but for adding photos to many contacts it's much easier to work on the desktop so I'd love to find a comparable product?
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anybody an idea? would love to find such an app...
Karine said:
Does anyone know of a comparable product to S2V for the desktop to allow high resolution photos to be added to Outlook contacts on the desktop as opposed to on the Windows Mobile device? S2V works very well for adding the photos on the Windows Mobile device, but for adding photos to many contacts it's much easier to work on the desktop so I'd love to find a comparable product?
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still searching...
Outlook Pictures.
I should have thought that by now Microsoft would have fixed their contacts that we shall be able to add high resolution pictures and off course get them synced.
I hope they will pick up this matter in their 2010...
Still looking for a way to assign high resolution pictures to an outlook contact on my desktop-pc...
Is there any change with outlook 2010?
Outlook 2010 resizes contact pictures that have been added to 314x314 pixels IMHO - definitely better than the 72x72 pixels I got with Outlook 2003/2007.
Still, if someone knows a way to add highres pictures on the desktop to contacts I would be very much interested in this. I've searched the documentation for the .NET Outlook connector and I have not found how this can be done in C#.
Since iTunes can add high-res pictures (that have been set on the phone) back to Outlook 2003/2007, it must be possible somehow :-(
Hi
I wrote a little app called Fonebook which syncs your facebook friends photos into your outlook contacts - when you then sync with your phone you get the profile image.
Im looking at adding a few more features and possibly creating a "Pro" version to try and recoup the cost of the library Im having to use so I can get full sized images into outlook (the outlook api sucks!)
Im not sure which windows phone allow the caller id to be full screen (I know mine doesnt!) - if you know of anywhere I might be able to get a list of smartphones/pda's which support this could you point me in that direction please!
If you have any ideas for this type of application, or have any suggestions when it comes to creating a "pro" version of something as oppose to relying on donations could you please fill in this short survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xOAJWNgBXsnGAopW7zqDNQ_3d_3d
Thanks for reading this (the current version of the app is here in case you are curious: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2442338999
Thanks
Ross
you might wanna take a look at s2u2 it's a iphone slider app which gives us wm touch screen users full screen caller id if there was a way for your app to resize the facebook pictures to the size of the screen wqvga, qvga, vga, wvga
you may also want to look at skybook. I think it has a similar feature where it takes the profile picture from facebook and adds it to your contacts picture. I tried it once with skybook and it worked fairly well until I received errors with logging in, so I uninstalled it.
using the new facebook app from winmo 6.5 and don't have any issue logging in, only problem is that I can't update the photos like in skybook.
I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
good luck
I would also be interested in some way to sync the contact details from Facebook to WM.
people tend to keep facebook up to date with phone numbers email addresses etc, and it would be handy to have this information downloaded automatically.
EDIT: I see you have covered the fact that Facebook block this option on the page above, but I still think its a worthy idea and have joined the petition!
Fosimo was the only thing that I could get to work for syncing facebook data. My only complaint was that it added everyone's birthdays to my calendar...
I like the idea behind this, however, I do not use outlook on my home pc.
Does this work without hooking your phone to your PC? I ask because I rarely ever sync my phone with my home PC, I do sync to my work PC but I don't sync the email, and it's a work pc, so no facebook there....
I know that new SPB mobile shell program does this but I really don't see a point in installing that and keeping it around just to sync outlook pictures. I prefer to use my touchflo that came installed on my phone. I just picked up a Fuze, my old phone was an 8525 and SPB was the best solution for it...
Is there a standalone program that would do the same thing?
You really should put a mirror of that file somewhere else, man. SkyDrive is being broken. I was searching for an app like that, saw Fonebook and OutSync. i don't care which one I get, i just want a link. Hors Skydrive, please.
well to be honest fonebook is the best app i saw so far for syncing facebook contact pics with outlook contacts.
i liked the feature to be able to choose manually which facebook contact corresponds to an outlook contact. (a missing feature to many other apps)
the only problem it has is that at the moment almost everyone use high resolution screen mobile phones with vga and wvga and the pics that sync with your app are very small and blurry when viewed in full screen incoming call apps like s2u2 that most people use. so a great addition to your app would be to add an option to download the contact pics to a chosen resolution that corresponds to vga/wvga/qvga/wqvga and to save the cashe somewhere in the pc even.
please keep this project up and running and update it asap
Got a Topaz, and have TF3D (the touchy interface from HTC), set that up to sync image to facebook.
So My images go Facebook -> phone -> outlook
instead of Facebook -> outlook -> phone
Works for me.
Personally, I don't think there's much money to be made on this (a pro version) when newer phones have this built in, and there's already other good free apps out there, unless you can add some seriously impressive functions, and even then, the free competitors would soon add those same features.
- Anthony
Hope can syncs the high resolution pics in next version.
And is it cannot syncs the birthday if the user didn't type the birthday year?
Hi,
i love my hd2 and have worked thought the camera and generic tweaks here. So glad to be away from my omnia and back with a htc and the knowledge here.
I have 2 remaining outstanding tweaks that i havent been able to find decent solutions to by searching here. The first is setting the emails to always show web pictures, i find it frustrating to have to select web pictures eachtime i view an email and as i am on an unlimited data tarriff i dont mind the data. How do i get this to work?
The second is sorting all my contacts by first name then second name. I am not sure if using googlemail as my exchange server, the HTC software or the microsoft sync is changing this but i am pretty tired of going through every day sorting my contacts correctly. Is there a setting somewhere once and for all to force contacts first name and then second name?
As an aside i never sync my phone via usb as i dont use outlook/windows and linux is happy enough pulling everything from googlemail.
Thanks;
Andy
I'll only answer for what I Know.
QUOTE: I am pretty tired of going through every day sorting my contacts correctly. Is there a setting somewhere once and for all to force contacts first name and then second name?
ANSWER: You will enjoy this tiny freeware software that does just that: almost instantly order your contacts by first name (or middle name or last name). Look here for Contact Changer. You run it once and 1 second after, all your contacts are sorted. The downside is that it doesn't change standard setting of the program, which means that the default order will still be LAST NAME first. But since the application is free and quick...
It sounds like your sync source is taking precedence over the phone. If you edit something on the phone and it gets replaced by the backup then that's wrong.
You need to check your server, not the phone.
I have the exact same problem. I don't use data connection (too expensive). There MUST be a way to sort contacts by there first name.... please
Helle
Hi HelleM,
If you go to the contact you want to change, select edit contact. scroll down to the bottom and select more and you can change it with the file as field.
If you can't download the program then you will have to do this with all of your contacts.
Or you could go to marketplace and download Contact Changer by Øystein Kalvø Stephansen. This app allows you to change the sorting in all the contacts. It's very cheap also.
I got it and it works fine. Don't get why HTC did not put that as a choise?
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I got it and it works fine. Don't get why HTC did not put that as a choise?
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Aaahhh so many basic things that HTC should heve put as a choise...
So has anyone worked out how i can get outlook email to auto download the pictures for me in emails? It seems a pointless click each time i open an email!
d'oh wrong thread
yeah the email pics issue drives me nuts. it should be a choice in settings somewhere not ask every time. never seen a solution anywhere either. surprising for something that everybody seems to hate and its such a simple little thing, you wold think it'd of been fixed long ago right?
Hi,
I finally got some of my friends phone contact to sync with facebook. I can see a little small picture of them in contact, but I don't seem to get the picture to display when I make a phone call. Am I missing something or can you make their facebook picture as dialing display picture by clicking on something ?
Thanks.
Mine does it, I log into facebook through my contacts and it puts all my facebook contact friends pic as the contact pic in my phone.
1) Hit people tab
2) all people
3) 3rd icon should be facebook (updates and events)
4) know tap on Me/ My Updates
Thats how I do it and it works flawlessly. GL.
It should do that automatically. Have you tried with more than one person? I'm having a similar problem, but only with one contact. Works fine for the most part.
When you go to edit contact info, press their picture in the top right and you should have the option to set as facebook picture.
maybe its a manila 2.5 issue. I will try the same thing with a 2.1 manila rom and see if it will sync properly with the display picture when dialing.
Mine is also doing the same thing. It displays the picture under favorite people and in the contact list, but when making or receiving a call it does not display the picture. Im running ark666's rom
I have the same problem with Leo rom running sense 2.5/maxmanilla
I thought I was doing something wrong. I am running art666 Rhodium AF as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=552821
I will report this on his thread and attach this link to the post as well. Thanks everyone.
it works fine for me, but i have a problem, that whenever a contact changes his picture the picture isn't changed on my phone....i can't find anything to update the pictures.....i tried also to remove the pic and then to add the facebook link again, but i always get the old picture...
i forgot to write that i use the original HTC WM6.5 rom
for the most part the pairing to facebook pics work fine for me, however i've found that some of my facebook friends aren't available when i search for them to link to their contact info. there are about 30 friends on my facebook that for some reason aren't available to link. i'm using the tilt 2, stock ROM. any ideas?
I also have this problem
I found out that the dialer instead of using the picture from facebook, it uses the picture that is on the winmo default contacts...
Does anyone knows a fix to display only the facebook picture instead the one that's on the winmo contacts??
well i had this trouble but i updated my rom and backed-up my contact using pimpackup. it backups the contact and sets the current (facebook) picture as outlook picture. then you reinstall the backup file which will delele all your pim and install your contact with their default pictures as outlook thus end any dialer problems you're having. you should call and see their the picture you had
Hmm, I always use PIMBackup to backup and restore the contacts, and always have the default pictures from the outlook. But what I want is that facebook pictures become the default ones...
Which program are you guys using to sync your contacts with FB?
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Which program are you guys using to sync your contacts with FB?
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It is built in to HTC sense. If you go to all people and then slide over to updates and events then log into your FB account
Ohh, I have the TP2. . . can I download a program that will do this?
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Ohh, I have the TP2. . . can I download a program that will do this?
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it is built into the TP2, if you are using the touch flo ui. Slide over to the people tab and select all people and then slide over to udates and events and log in
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it is built into the TP2, if you are using the touch flo ui. Slide over to the people tab and select all people and then slide over to udates and events and log in
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Yeah, but I'm not using Touch Flo, so I"m looking for an App.
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Yeah, but I'm not using Touch Flo, so I"m looking for an App.
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You could try this, remember to read the whole thing first
I don't have an issue with the pictures, but stuff like birth dates. For some reason, when I sync contacts with FB, I get their birthdates and with a FB logo next to it. All well and good, except the birthdates won't pop up on my calendar, making it practically useless.
Now, if I type in their birth date manually it automatically updates the calendar.
Anyone know how to fix this?
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I don't have an issue with the pictures, but stuff like birth dates. For some reason, when I sync contacts with FB, I get their birthdates and with a FB logo next to it. All well and good, except the birthdates won't pop up on my calendar, making it practically useless.
Now, if I type in their birth date manually it automatically updates the calendar.
Anyone know how to fix this?
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Have a look here. It is what I use
ive had to flash my phone and it resync'd with outlook and all my contact pictures on htc hd2 (ALMOST 100 of them have pictures) are blurry..
is there a easy fix for this? or do i have to manually fix them all by searching my caller id pics on storage card?
Thanks for any help
Seconded. This is really annoying.
for high resolution pics of contacts, use iconsoft phone extension, and add the pics to the contacts from there...
Third for this! I just did it with the one at a time, took a while >_<
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for high resolution pics of contacts, use iconsoft phone extension, and add the pics to the contacts from there...
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tnx mate, that was great info, but, the trial software will last few more days, and I need permanent solution.
It would be great if somebody cam make freeware simple app "add/edit picture contacts in high quality mode". app designed only for that one task.
Do u have a cub