Hey, I trying to find an app that will display a full screen photo when someone calls.
I know about Photo Contacts from PocketX, but it's too much other sh*t bundled in with it that screws up my phone!
All I want is a small app that will display a full screen photo of that contact when they call...
Any ideas, anyone ?!?
As far as i know photo contacts pro works good for me!
yeah, I'm sure it's a good prog, but I don't want any other functionality other than full screen photos. I'm not interested in extended ringtones, speed dialling, categorisation by groups..etc !
orbitmansion said:
yeah, I'm sure it's a good prog, but I don't want any other functionality other than full screen photos. I'm not interested in extended ringtones, speed dialling, categorisation by groups..etc !
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SAME THING FOR ME TOO. I HAD THAT ON FOR ABOUT 2 HOURS. IT WAS A LITTLE TOO MUCH FOR ME.
I've got to say Photo Contacts Pro all day long is the application for me.
Although I just don't like the way that I have to manually match the photos I'm using up with my Outlook address book.
You would have thought that M$ would have made it's contact pictures bigger in WM6. Nope. Still itty bitty small.
Did you try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314703 ?
You can also try Inesoft Address Book.
trapper said:
I've got to say Photo Contacts Pro all day long is the application for me.
Although I just don't like the way that I have to manually match the photos I'm using up with my Outlook address book.
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i was looking and couldn't find this app!!!!
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Which image size do you use for the pictures of a contact ?
I tried almost every combination but the picture of a contact/people in the Touch Flo 3d still remains of poor quality .
BerreZ said:
Which image size do you use for the pictures of a contact ?
I tried almost every combination but the picture of a contact/people in the Touch Flo 3d still remains of poor quality .
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I was about to start a thread about this too. The biggest pain is that there is no sample picture you can use to make your own pictures the same size. Does anyone know the answer?
256x256px 72dpi
BerreZ said:
Which image size do you use for the pictures of a contact ?
I tried almost every combination but the picture of a contact/people in the Touch Flo 3d still remains of poor quality .
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After some research I found it. The resolution is 256x256. I use a PNG, but jpg works as well. I found out by looking at one of the avatars you can use when you have no picture of your own. Now the contacts picture looks perfect
david-v said:
After some research I found it. The resolution is 256x256. I use a PNG, but jpg works as well. I found out by looking at one of the avatars you can use when you have no picture of your own. Now the contacts picture looks perfect
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How do you do it?
Take a pic of the person, crop the wanted part and downsize it?
Yes,
that's what I will do.
I will replace all of my contact photo's in Outlook that way.
Ofiaich
david-v said:
After some research I found it. The resolution is 256x256. I use a PNG, but jpg works as well. I found out by looking at one of the avatars you can use when you have no picture of your own. Now the contacts picture looks perfect
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Perfect??
I'm using a 256x256 JPG or PNG as well at 300 dpi...and it is still poor...
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Ok I tried it . The result is better but still far from perfect.
Does someone has another idea ?
I´ve heard, but not tested, that you could use S2V (Slide to view) to add contacts´ picture without downsizing to low resolution.
If anyone tries it and works, tell us here.
Could someone post how contact picutes look like on the HD so we can see whats you mean when you say its bad quality...
Thanks!
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Thanks HelderJr I tried 2SV and that worked perfectly.
There is a setting when taking pictures with your phones camera to take contact pictures.. also for some strange reason when you use the pictures and videos program to add a photo in your library as a contact image the quality looks like crap. What looks best to me on the touch pro is open the Album program and add an image to a contact from inside the program. The contact picture quality looks much better.
Now this could turn out different on the Touch HD, but it works like this on my Touch Pro.
The thing that I dont like with TouchFlo 3D Photo Contact ... There is no standard "matrix" view of the photo contacts, for example 5 x n number of photos.
With TouchFlo 3D, we need to scroll to the correct photo and take action.
It is nice to see that 3D animation, but it is better to have an option for the user interface like the old HTC HOME.
Correction
2SV does the job. But !!!!!!!!!
Touch Flo 3d became extremely slow especially when reaching the tab "PEOPLE" and even crash down . Has to perform a soft reset and then 2SV doen't seem to work anymore.
So back to first question .
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UTVOL has it right.
Using the album(program) to assign a picture to a contact does almost the job.
Picture quality in tab "People" is largely improved but still not perfect.
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Perfect??
I'm using a 256x256 JPG or PNG as well at 300 dpi...and it is still poor...
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... i think you must save in 72 dpi to avoid resizing by the HD ... in 300 dpi, there is a resize to web definition.... i 'm currently trying becaus ei have same problem, ...i will post the answer later ...hope it works.
Charles
Add photos from Album
Hi, try to add photos to your contacts from Album application
the difference is tremendous ... see samples:
1. foto used in both tries
2. set in outlook and synced via activesync
3. viewed with touch hd fotoviewer and saved to contact
so are you saying we should use 446 x 446 res?
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so are you saying we should use 446 x 446 res?
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No!
256x256 pix. but you need to set it from the phone. Copy the picture to device, open it and set to contact. Outlook will blurr it.
I transfered all of my contacts and contact pictures over from my blackjack 2 to my X1. I installed TF3d, and the contact pictures are very low quality looking. But to get them to have a high quality look, u have to change the picture from within TF3D itself. So being that I don't have these pictures saved to my phone anymore, I would like to know where contact pictures are stored on the X1 (since the contact pictures still do exist somewhere) ?
inside the contact itself i think.
but thats not a problem of the contact pictures itself, its a problem of TF3D. it scales all thos pictures down (and looses tons of quality) unless they have a certain format / size.
it's not a problem with TF3d It's a problem with outlook, it only saves very low-res images within the contact database.
far too low a resolution to appear at a decent quality on our gorgeous Hi-res screens, after all these images are according to MS supposed to be a tiny thumbnail..
If you have Hi-res images on the blackjack then dump them to a folder, and load them from there. If not then I'm afraid you'll have to do what I did. Get new photos..
if thats true, how comes that the Contact pictures of my Mates touch HD are sooo much better!?
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if thats true, how comes that the Contact pictures of my Mates touch HD are sooo much better!?
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Did he upgrade them off another device?
If not then that's probably why, the ones I transferred across from my uni via the athena are really low quality.But the ones off the X1 are fine.
But I've had most of them for so long I've got so used to them that I couldn't get on with some changed ones.
nope! not upgraded!
just did a test with his phone. i ordered him to do a picture in the Contact size (240x320) and snd it to me.
i made a contact pic out of it and is definitely of better quality.
go try it yourself. (attachment)
maybe not TF3D related, but downscaling is the problem.
if it was a tf3d problem then his image would be poor!
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if it was a tf3d problem then his image would be poor!
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edited my text allready ^^
try saving a pic as a contact using S2V then sync with a pc.
do a contact backup with ppcpimbackup to be on the safe side
disconnect activesync, delete the entire contacts database, (can use sktools for this or ppcpimbackup)
then sync again and see what happens to the hires contact pic.
I've found that the image comes back lowres, ergo it's outlook that reduces the image quality.
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Having tested this in orifice 2007 at work, it didn't reduce the quality. so maybe it's only older versions that did?
simple solution for the blurry pictures!
open the PIC in HTC album, open options and choose "save to contact".
this seems to bypass the Outlook compression function.
All I do with mine is save them to a folder I made on my Memory Card. Then when I open the contacts list choose a picture, find it, attach it and jobs a good one. Very good quality too...
Hi -
I have read that the new Diamond2 will have better contactpictures. Is there a way to increase the quality on the Touch HD ?
Peter
duus said:
Hi -
I have read that the new Diamond2 will have better contactpictures. Is there a way to increase the quality on the Touch HD ?
Peter
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You have to use HTC album of the TF3D to assign your image has your contact and the quality will be very cool
Akimoun said:
You have to use HTC album of the TF3D to assign your image has your contact and the quality will be very cool
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This trick however does not work with newer Manila 2 from Topaz, since you get a crop feature that degrades the photo quality.
However, if you use Facebook accounts to link the photos, they will look good. The down side is you can't choose the photo - it has to be the one the person is using on his / hers Facebook profile.
Hmmm.... It dosent get any better at all :-(
peter
Akimoun said:
You have to use HTC album of the TF3D to assign your image has your contact and the quality will be very cool
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Rozenthal said:
This trick however does not work with newer Manila 2 from Topaz, since you get a crop feature that degrades the photo quality.
However, if you use Facebook accounts to link the photos, they will look good. The down side is you can't choose the photo - it has to be the one the person is using on his / hers Facebook profile.
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You can choose from the users entire home page picture folder. So any of the photos they have ever used for their profile.
Here is the review in danish with the new Diamond2 - look where there is a picture of the contacts, it is much better quality then i can get on HD.
http://www.mobilsiden.dk/?aId=8112
Peter
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Hi -
I have read that the new Diamond2 will have better contactpictures. Is there a way to increase the quality on the Touch HD ?
Peter
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Not sure if you mean the same thing, but contact pictures on my HD were terrible quality when I loaded JPEGs from my PC, synch'd, and then assigned them to the relevant contact. But then I tried the same with as PNG format and contacts pictures are perfect.
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You have to use HTC album of the TF3D to assign your image has your contact and the quality will be very cool
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This is true. In addition to above have to say do not assign image from contact list, in that case picture quality is really poor.
I don't know what is the situation with png format.
I had the same issue. If you go to contacts and select change/add picture they show up terrible. If you go your photos and the select save as contact they come out good oops didnt notice someone already answered this
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I had the same problem with the diamond touch. The option for that phone was to make the jpeg file in a different size.
if you have a picture that is 1200X800 or something you must increase it but i dont know the size for the HD
Well it is not really a problem per say but an irritation.
Can anyone port the touchflo contacts back to the leo. it was nice to be able to scroll rolodex-like through the photographs to your favorite contacts.
All these features were what drew me to the manila interface of HTC in the first place.
The current contact photos are too big and just like any other phone contacts software. Htc sence should stand out and parade all of its capabilities, and whats the point of having such a powerful phone if you cannot show off and use all of its power.
further more the music and photos have it so why not the contacts???
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Well it is not really a problem per say but an irritation.
Can anyone port the touchflo contacts back to the leo. it was nice to be able to scroll rolodex-like through the photographs to your favorite contacts.
All these features were what drew me to the manila interface of HTC in the first place.
The current contact photos are too big and just like any other phone contacts software. Htc sence should stand out and parade all of its capabilities, and whats the point of having such a powerful phone if you cannot show off and use all of its power.
further more the music and photos have it so why not the contacts???
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+1 from me.
I preferred the old TouchFlo style favourite contacts list. You could add as many as you like as well (I believe). I've had to be choosy as to who goes on the people as there's not enough there for me.
Damnit...
I Was searching and hoping for a way to increase the numbers of Fav contacs.. Tough luck..
omniajet13 said:
The current contact photos are too big and just like any other phone contacts software. Htc sence should stand out and parade all of its capabilities, and whats the point of having such a powerful phone if you cannot show off and use all of its power. further more the music and photos have it so why not the contacts???
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+1, You are absolutely right. Can someone, at least, come up with a tweak to add more favorite contacts, like the 20 shortcuts tweak for the home screen...
Message in a bottle
rzasharp said:
+1, You are absolutely right. Can someone, at least, come up with a tweak to add more favorite contacts, like the 20 shortcuts tweak for the home screen...
Message in a bottle
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i also finding the same thing....
All,
Can anyone help me here? I am trying to figure out the idea size of a picture for a contact in Outlook that will look best in the Sense UI. Anyone know? The contact pics that are picked up from face book look great, the ones I created look like crap. What is the trick here? Thanks!
Yes I have wondered this as well, I dont use the favorites tab b/c of this, every pic I have is blurry.
Anyone know?
A lot of views but no answers...anyone?
200x200 pixels
Try 200x200 pixels.
Use S2V (freeware) to assign pics to contacts. I always create 300x300 jpeg pictures (for future use). After you assigned the contacts they will also sync just fine with Outlook.
Even full screen caller ID's look wonderful!
S2V
Thanks that works well.