Recently I took a pic directly as a contact pic .to check the quality and
Of the pic when some 1 gives me a ring and noticed the resolution is aweful
Does any one know the perfect fitting resolution for the best caller id ?
Thank you
It's a bug! Unfortunately, there isn't any specific resolution that'll fix this problem.
I use Facebook integration, thus all my contacts' pictures are from their default profile pictures.
When they call, the Caller IDs are gawd damn ugly. Pixelated and stretched.
Yep I've tried various things...
FB pics, my own contact pics etc
It's a widely reported issue, basically the thumbnails are stored as a tiny picture and stretched when used for a caller ID picture...
Maybe a custom rom will fix the problem as HTC won't be!
This has been an issue with HTC for ages... started on the Touch Diamond with TouchFLO and is still there with Sense.
Only way I think to try and get a fix is to bombard HTC with complaints. Their marketing materials show lovely high res contact pics... their handsets do not once you have synced to Google or any other service.
It would be simple to fix, the Sense UI creates two thumbnails, one for syncing (small) and a larger one for the call / calling picture.
Tweet them at @htc too.
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I don't know if this has been suggested before but I wanted to throw it out there. I think the picture in the dialer app while on a call is very small and not clear. Does anyone know if its possible to make the picture displayed bigger and maybe better definition? I'm sure there could be a software limitation but hope not.
Yeah, I hate how the Iphone has the whole screen filled with the caller's face and my phone doesn't. However I've always thought of this as an android problem.
Read somewhere that android only saves your contact photos as thumbnail pics. So when someone calls, android just blows up that thumbnail into a slightly bigger square, resulting in a very pixelated picture on the screen.
Sucks. I hope Google does something about this. I've no idea if a 3rd party app can solve this.
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.
Hi all
Just needed a little help with the above.
i have my phone (and contacts) synced with my google account for my phone numbers etc. I have noticed however that all my contact pictures blur when either i call someone or they call me.
Anyway around this?
Is it because all of the images have been pulled down by google?
Am i going to have to load images onto the phone from my computer and re-assign them to my contacts? bit of a pain if thats the case.
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60+ views and nobody any ideas
chances are it's because the images you have in google are low res/ small size, and therefore look crappy when blown up on the screen.. try putting a high res/ large image onto google and see how that looks once it's synced to your phone..
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Hi all
Just needed a little help with the above.
i have my phone (and contacts) synced with my google account for my phone numbers etc. I have noticed however that all my contact pictures blur when either i call someone or they call me.
Anyway around this?
Is it because all of the images have been pulled down by google?
Am i going to have to load images onto the phone from my computer and re-assign them to my contacts? bit of a pain if thats the case.
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This is because SE Xperia X10 and now Arc support higher resolution pictures than what Google stores for contacts. So, you have reassign them on your phone and it makes you crop the photos as Arc and X10 use a rectangular shaped photo while Google uses square shaped.
With X10, at least the facebook contact photos showed with higher resolution but ugly aspect ratio that made photos look squeezed. With Arc they look blurry just like Google contacts.
It's a painful job but makes sense to feel good about your phone.
I have had my Galaxy S2 for about a month now and all is well in Galaxy land.
However there is one thing that really boggles my mind and that is the appearance of the call screen. Whenever making or receiving a call the phone displays a small thumbnail of the caller (if present). Almost all of my contacts has a Facebook account and therefore also a profile picture synced from their Facebook profile.
However the caller picture that is displayed is minuscule in size and of a very poor quality (see attached image). I can't for the life of me comprehend how this made it past QA.
If they had just downloaded the facebook profile pictures without compression and put it full-screen with buttons/text on-top, problem solve :/
I haven't stumbled on any similar treads which I think is weird..
Am I the only one that have had similar thoughts? And if not, has anyone "solved/changed" this and how?
Sidenote: The "logs" tab should have a "all calls" options instead of showing both SMS and calls.. However this is a big deal..
I think it is related to the Facebook API. It does the same on the iPhone.
@thebrave - I'm not so sure.. On my previous phone, HTC Desire, the picture was twice the size and in much better quality.
It's because pictures were donwloaded with "Facebook For HTC Sense" and not with the app from the market.
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@thebrave - I'm not so sure.. On my previous phone, HTC Desire, the picture was twice the size and in much better quality.
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On my Htc it was good aswell. On the sgs2 it ugly as hell.
I have seen the app called "Full Screen Caller ID" in Android Market but that app just seems bloated and it's just not "quite there"... Try it and you will see what I mean.. :/
I would much rather prefer that Samsung made their own version of a fullscreen caller id facebook integation for the Galaxy S2 phone
that issue was present on the HD2 (running Android) as well after people synced their contacts with FB, all the picture where looking like the one in your screenshot.
All my contacts are only synced with google and all my picture look great.
Anybody else think Stephan looks like a Swedish rockstar?
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FIXED (the picture quality but not the size)
Back to what "513" said about HTC phones using Facebook for HTC Sense I found out that the SG2 also has two different Facebook accounts that can be synced.. "Facebook" and "Facebook for Social Hub"..
By using the "Facebook for Social Hub" account, instead of the standard one, my phone downloads the profile pictures in better quality (see attachment)..
However the size of the picture during a call doesn't change. It is still a very small thumbnail, as a matter of fact in most cases it's a little smaller because Facebook for Social Hub uses the images with the correct aspect ratio, but still restricted to the same max height/width..
- However this is still an improvement