Well, Its great to see HTC did nothing at all to fix the contact image bug that results in the image being rubbished post Google Sync in the new firmware.
Why the hell can they not just link the image to the contact (because you as a user did this by choice) and not compress it sooo hard that it turns to ****e ??
Surely a user assigned image should take preference over the image it sends or tries to send to Google ??
SpaceBook images remain OK though, but your high res self assigned image gets destroyed as soon as you sync.
Mad. Considering its one of the highlighted (marketing wise) features of the Sense and TouchFLO UI's, I am amazed its not been fixed in the new firmware release.
Rant over.
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WoW.
Just been selecting pictures from my album of pics copied over from my computer (DSLR images mainly) to assign to a contact. Thought I'd redo them to see if the quality still gets reduced post syncing to Google with the latest formware (they don't BTW)... anyway.
Loaded up a picture containing two faces and blow me down, the picture appeared not with the usual single green cropping rectangle, but with two and a message requesting I select a face to assign to the contact. Very clever indeed.
If you want both faces in the image, just select one and then resize the resulting crop area as per normal.
Never noticed this in the 1.0 firmware.
cheers joe for this hint!!! wooooow i'm impressed
joemax said:
Never noticed this in the 1.0 firmware.
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It was in the first version of the firmware.
Really ? Cool.
They must have improved it then because with the same image it didn't detect the faces, this time round it picked both out.
I'm probably not the first to 'complain' about this... but I thought I'd put it all together in one post and see if anyone was having the same issues, or same results...
So...
Trying to 'Sync' Facebook contact pics with my x10 contact pics - tried a few apps, and while most of them did the job to some degree, with varying results, but mainly the same level of disappointment, one thing I found with all of them was that the resolution was abysmal to say the least...
I found also that if I opened Facebook, I could view any of my own profile pics, and I was given the option to assign them to a contact – great (sort of) providing the only people I know are myself. Friends pictures were ‘locked’ such that the assign to contact option did not exist - silly, really.
Now, while fiddling with my phone, I discovered that the some of the Facebook contact syncing apps actually downloaded a full quality pic to my device – perfect – now let me see if I can open them and assign them to a contact... nope, no luck – interestingly, they were ‘locked’ just like they were when I opened them through Facebook – no option to assign them to a contact.
Now, I move them to another folder (one which had pics that I could assign) and all of a sudden, they were unlocked... funniest thing was that pics left in the original folder I took them from were also unlocked... odd... good too, but odd.
So happily assigning all these full definition contact pics, I then had a look at them, and the resolution was again abysmal... WTF...! Anyway, one last go, and instead of going via the picture to assign it to a contact, I went through the contact then assigned a picture to it... Success...! this time proper resolution...!
So from this I assume that going through the picture, or any syncing apps, you’re only getting a contact pic as good a quality as the Android system expects. However, if you go through the contact, the x10 is getting a contact pic at the full quality it knows it needs to display...
Anyway, take what you will from this, but I thought it was interesting...
same over here, the pictures I assigned to my contacts are very high quality and they all look like sh#t on the phone when some one calls me.
It is full of noise and extremely blurry. Really don't understand why...They can't be made this for such a low quality so I assume we do something wrong, but I can't figure it out. Do we need very big resolution pictures to get them proper on this phone? But thanks for the tip, working the other way around does work good, but it keeps being strange...
Cheers.
Arnold
Consider that a phone call needs to pop-up right away. Why waste the processing speed to show a full resolution image?
Note: I think an update that went around to some regions cleaned up the resolution a bit.
iead1 said:
Consider that a phone call needs to pop-up right away. Why waste the processing speed to show a full resolution image?
Note: I think an update that went around to some regions cleaned up the resolution a bit.
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Not the brazilian update.
I'm willing to swear that it's a donut issue... mainly because going the Android way in is ugly, and the SE way in is on the money...
You'll also notice the Android way gives you a square pic, and the SE way gives you an elongated pic to fit with their interface...
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Consider that a phone call needs to pop-up right away. Why waste the processing speed to show a full resolution image?
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Agreed that it might be low res for this reason, but the x10 can handle the hi res just as good - and considering the contact pics are so large, you definitely want them full res.
Hopefully SE do some updates to improve this... Hopefully...
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You'll also notice the Android way gives you a square pic, and the SE way gives you an elongated pic to fit with their interface...
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Problem is, I don't wan't the elongated pic or the square pic.
With WinMo I could put any pic format.
Why should I be restricted in Android?
Is there anyway to make picture id size bigger?
This phone has such a beautiful screen, but I feel like I am not utilize it fully whenever I got call and see small picture id on my screen.
No way to currently resize the caller-id picture and I totally agree with you. The caller-id pic is way small for this device. Hopefully Samsung will realize and provide a bigger size caller-id picture in Froyo update.
Doubt it will be apart of the froyo update but I also agree that would be better. Maybe we can get a dev to work something out.
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Yes, the picture ID is so small, and it downgrades the photo a lot!!
One of the reasons it is so small is that the google contacts will resize the image and that is the max size image for a google contacts. Not sure if contacts created and stored locally on the phone (i.e. not created as a google contact) will have a bigger pic.
In the end... Google seriously needs to triple the size of contact images in google contacts on their servers... it makes android seem a bit cheap sometimes.
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One of the reasons it is so small is that the google contacts will resize the image and that is the max size image for a google contacts. Not sure if contacts created and stored locally on the phone (i.e. not created as a google contact) will have a bigger pic.
In the end... Google seriously needs to triple the size of contact images in google contacts on their servers... it makes android seem a bit cheap sometimes.
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I can agree with that.
I love my omnia 7 but I have noticed if someone rings me and I have their picture on my phone it shows up blurry on the ringing screen
I used a picture this evening which was stored on my phone on someones contact (took with camera) and it still shows blurry
anyone any idea's have to solve this ?? I know its only cosmetic but its damn annoying
i have this problem too. my contacts have pictures from windows live and facebook account and they allways show up blurry, when taking a call.
Are you sure the facebook photos show up blurry too? The main problem here is because of Gmail, which uses a pathetic resolution for the contacts (96x96?) and therefore, when you have GMail sync enabled, all the photos are replaced with lousy low-res versions, immaterial of whether you uploaded a hi-res version in the first place.
This has been discussed on several threads in GMail support, *WITHOUT* a solution:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=166e27ae27e71c7a&hl=en
Are you sure your WL and FB contacts are not showing their GMail pics? (I think WP7 defaults to facebook when available).
If GMail is not your problem, you might want to just do some removal/addition of the FB/WL accounts to see if it by chance fixes the problem.
i don't use gmail, so the issue is caused by something else.
I have noticed that images from facebook are displayed at decent (sharp) quality but if I allocate my own custom photos from the phone or taken by the phone camera, they appear blurry if a Google Contacts account is used.
If you use the Windows Live option, the image appears a lot nicer. In fact, I only did this test after reading this post and i'm going to deviate from using Google Contact and instead move them to Windows Live! Pictures are very nice.
Also, this affects the tiles if you pin the contact to the home screen.
Vozdra phobius
I previously had a LG Optimus 7 and this issue was there too--so unlike the Wiki states, this doesn't look to be an Omnia 7-only problem.
Anyway, I'll consider moving my contacts to Windows Live and see if that makes a difference.
EDIT: I recently updated to Mango--the pictures were still blurry. I re-added the contact pictures from photo albums (still saving them as Google contacts) and now the pictures are sharp! So it looks the this problem was fixed in Mango?
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I previously had a LG Optimus 7 and this issue was there too--so unlike the Wiki states, this doesn't look to be an Omnia 7-only problem.
Anyway, I'll consider moving my contacts to Windows Live and see if that makes a difference.
EDIT: I recently updated to Mango--the pictures were still blurry. I re-added the contact pictures from photo albums (still saving them as Google contacts) and now the pictures are sharp! So it looks the this problem was fixed in Mango?
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I have seen that even if you choose a photo you shot from your Omnia, because of the google sync, it gets downscaled. I have heard that people have succeeded by disabling the photo sync on google (don't recall how), but it did not work for me.
BTW, have you updated to Mango beta or the RTM? And, is it worth the effort (assuming it's not too easy to apply the official update after this upgrade).
Thanks!
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I have seen that even if you choose a photo you shot from your Omnia, because of the google sync, it gets downscaled. I have heard that people have succeeded by disabling the photo sync on google (don't recall how), but it did not work for me.
BTW, have you updated to Mango beta or the RTM? And, is it worth the effort (assuming it's not too easy to apply the official update after this upgrade).
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Yes you're totally right, Google Sync downscaled it. Damn.
I'm not sure the difference between the Mango beta and the RTM (I bought my Omnia unlocked and unbranded). I followed Duck's instructions in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1203948
Personally, I didn't have to do the firmware flash so it was very painless. In fact, it was no harder than running "update.bat" then updating the phone threw Zune. Considering almost no effort it's definitely worth it. Mango is faster, IE9 is much better, some of the additional features are nice (some multitasking, alphabet app-menu, etc).
I'd say, if you don't need to flash the firmware it's totally worth it (only took me 10 minutes). If you have to flash, I might reconsider (I have a lot of game saves, etc. that would be annoying to lose).
Hello guys/girls
I'm having a sort of "bug" when I zoom on or out on Google photos... The zooming seems to be very laggy and slow... Any of you experienced that?
Number firmware?
Nope, works fine in both Google Photos and QuicPick.
Do you mean when you zoom in on the image. First its little blurry and then the details are resolved ( image becomes clear)?
Does this happen on all images?
OR
Images taken by your device
OR
Pics backed up on cloud (google photos backup and you have removed that image from device storage)
If it happens on the downloaded images then what is the resolution?, Size?, Format?
Downloaded images shouldn't cause that bug until and unless image is of very high quality.(taken from professional cameras)
See you left out so many details.
Next time provide more information as it narrows down the cause of the problem. Which in turns gives faster solution.
Regards