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[HELP] Photos and Videos Thingy

Hi Guys
I got 2 problems related to the Album.
1. My photos appear extremly blurry on the main screen (the part where you flick through them). It's not a huge deal, but I wouldnt mind some focus.
2. When I make my way to a video album the videos are only displayed as windows media icons. No text and no thumbnail video preview. As a result I have to guess which one of the 50 videos is the one I want to show a friend.
Please help me.

Unbelievable
I just can't believe absolutely no-one has a solution, or some advice at the least.
If I can't get help here, I am doomed.
I thought this forum was over-run by brainiacs.
Guess not.

MaD-CoW said:
Hi Guys
I got 2 problems related to the Album.
1. My photos appear extremly blurry on the main screen (the part where you flick through them). It's not a huge deal, but I wouldnt mind some focus.
2. When I make my way to a video album the videos are only displayed as windows media icons. No text and no thumbnail video preview. As a result I have to guess which one of the 50 videos is the one I want to show a friend.
Please help me.
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Hey!
To be honest....it's not a solution I can offer you...because I think everybody has the same issue with the blurry pictures and no preview video, but I think I can explain why....The main reason I guess it's blurry, is because it will take too much time for the device to pre-load the images on the sceen ie...especially if you have many high resolution pictures, it takes forever to load for every picture...the same with the music...that can also takes some time to load when you slide to the music tab.....
for the video the same reason I guess..
Please anybody...correct me if i'm wrong....
BTW...If you see the amount of views for this topic, you'll see that a lot of people see your problem, but don't have a solution for it....so please newby...don't complain allright??? we all try to help each other......

I had the same problem very blurry photos. But I solved it on mine.
Copy the original photos onto your diamond into the internal storage. I put mine in my pictures for while I did this.
Then on the diamond go onto your people tab and on each of your favourite people click on the menu bottom (bottom left).
Select change picture.
Then select the photo from the location you copied them too earlier..
That's it.
Do that for each of your favourite people.
It seems outlook contacts get saved with much lower resolution photo's but if you add the photo's on the phone it's a much higher res.
Carl
BTW I deleted the folder I'd copied into internal storage once i'd completed this and the photo's all stayed so there's no need to have the copied photo's permanently on the phone

capt_carl said:
I had the same problem very blurry photos. But I solved it on mine.
Copy the original photos onto your diamond into the internal storage. I put mine in my pictures for while I did this.
Then on the diamond go onto your people tab and on each of your favourite people click on the menu bottom (bottom left).
Select change picture.
Then select the photo from the location you copied them too earlier..
That's it.
Do that for each of your favourite people.
It seems outlook contacts get saved with much lower resolution photo's but if you add the photo's on the phone it's a much higher res.
Carl
BTW I deleted the folder I'd copied into internal storage once i'd completed this and the photo's all stayed so there's no need to have the copied photo's permanently on the phone
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That's a good answer nice man! I knew the problem was also on the Favorites Contacts tab, where the photo's were blurry as well, but I didn't know you could also fix it on the Photo/Video Tab...!
Nice tip!

me confused
Capt_Carl, I think you are confusing "blurry pictures in Photo & Video Tab" (my problem) with "blurry contact pictures in the Favorite People Tab" (solved this a while ago).
Am I just misunderstanding Capt_Carl.
What do you think Pietje_1985?

MaD-CoW said:
Capt_Carl, I think you are confusing "blurry pictures in Photo & Video Tab" (my problem) with "blurry contact pictures in the Favorite People Tab" (solved this a while ago).
Am I just misunderstanding Capt_Carl.
What do you think Pietje_1985?
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Yes....to be honest...i'm confused as well.. because of the fact that I knew there was a problem with the Favorite People tab and the pictures, but for the Photo/Video tab, I still think you can't solve that problem....... I thought Capt_Carl had the answer, but I think not after I read your post MaD-CoW
Ne ways...I hope maybe somebody else is familiar with the problems and somebody has got a solution to it.....
Cheers

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Has anyone solved the blurry photos in the photo & video tab?

I have the same problem. 700 views and still no luck. I'll wait.

I'll join in the wait as well.

Update?
Maybe an update to the new official ROM 2.03 could help?

With the 2.03 ROM the problem started for me. On 1.93 it was fine.

Make the pictures 240x320

Low-quality images in the TouchFlo People tab?

I've loaded some photos onto specific contacts so they show up in the TouchFlo People tab as speed dial links. The photos look crap when they're shown in the flickable list. I've tried all resolutions (from large to small). One photo looks fine (no idea why) but others look like really heavily compressed jpegs.
Photo slides in the Photos tab look just as bad. The original ones loaded onto the machine looked fine but whatever resolution I try for my own images they look heavily compressed and pixellated. They're all jpegs, just like the originals.
Can anybody help please?

Just recently got the HD Touch myself coming off of the Pro Dual and yea, had the same "issue". Basically had to re-do my photos for contacts; ended up doing 500x500 saved as pngs...
Hope that helps!

Thanks for that. I'll try making some pngs and see if it helps.

Well png images for the People tab has certainly improved things. Thank you for that tip. They also look great in the Photos tab. I guess TouchFlo doesn't know how to optimise png images.
But what about the 'Photos' tab? My albums are full of jpegs and I don't want to have to reproduce them as pngs just for the bloody TouchFlo screen. Why do the original photos look so much better?
There are people in this forum complaining about the sharpness of the TouchFlo background image, but am I the only one whinging about these album pics? Grrr...

Try using photo album, then choose the photo and assign to contact.

i used the people tab and from there added the people and then choose menu --> change picture. looks a lot better and no resizing pictures needed.

mouki_9 said:
i used the people tab and from there added the people and then choose menu --> change picture. looks a lot better and no resizing pictures needed.
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I've tried all ways and the png method is the only thing that made a difference.

I had the same prob....You need to add the photo from the people tab using the menu button, they look fine if you do it this way.

I found the way that gave the best quality by far was to add them via the Favourite People tab as a 256 x 256 JPG. A bit of a pain in the arse to do but at least you only have to do it once.

calvin55 said:
Try using photo album, then choose the photo and assign to contact.
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calvin55 is right - I had the same problem and then moved good pictures into "My Pictures" folder and then from the photo album used the "assign to contact" option.
Big improvement !

OK, I've taken a photo of the screen to show you what I mean about the poor quality images in the Photo tab. Hopefully it's clear what's wrong with the preview image...

I confirm that the album method works fine and fix this problem.
Create thumbnails of your choice and move them all to My Pictures folder.
Then open Album, choose an image, and 'Save To Contact'. works great.

Can I remind all people to read the tips & tricks part of the wiki
It already has the solution to your problem amongst other tips/tweaks you may all like
Hi Res Contact Photos
Assign contact photos on your SD card directly to specific contacts for hi-res thumbnails. If you assign contact photos in Outlook and then sync, the contact photos on your phone will be low-res.
All contact photos should be saved to My Pictures folder on your Storage card

Normally, People will go to
>>menu>>change picture>>name.jpeg
But that will give u low resolution.
Try using this method, it eliminates the trouble to resize or change format.
>>file explorer>>[open pic file]>>menu>>save to contact>>select a contact
and this will solve your problem
refer to point 7 of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463783

Thumbnail Corruption?! Only 99 images in Sense gallery!!

Why is it some of my thumbnails look horrible like these and others are perfectly fine, and why can I only veiw 99 images in the Sense gallery view??
When I click to veiw full screen they display perfectly, just the thumbnails look horrible!
Cheers!

install the two hotfixes released by HTC. it will resolve the thumbnail issue and the storage issue.

What Hotfix's?
I've installed the Update for HTC HD2 – Digital Picture Enhancement to remove the pink, and I do not have a storage issue, the other Hotfix's are:
Update for HTC HD2 – SMS Function Update
Update for HTC HD2 SD Card Storage Capacity
ROM Upgrade for HTC HD2
Cheers!

The pics with horrible thumbnails are the ones taken pre-hotfix... if you look at them on a PC they dont look as good as they do on the HD2.
The storage hotfix updates the camera app to better compression and sorts a bug which lies about how many pics you have left to take. best to reboot before you install this.

Karlos G said:
What Hotfix's?
I've installed the Update for HTC HD2 – Digital Picture Enhancement to remove the pink, and I do not have a storage issue, the other Hotfix's are:
Update for HTC HD2 – SMS Function Update
Update for HTC HD2 SD Card Storage Capacity
ROM Upgrade for HTC HD2
Cheers!
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the hotfixes wont fix the already taken photos. the thumbnails are corrupted as they are. but newly taken pics are ok.

I have this issue too. Not with the thumbnails, but the sense gallery only displays 99? And I've applied every update/patch.

waynepyrah said:
The pics with horrible thumbnails are the ones taken pre-hotfix... if you look at them on a PC they dont look as good as they do on the HD2.
The storage hotfix updates the camera app to better compression and sorts a bug which lies about how many pics you have left to take. best to reboot before you install this.
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alexnvidia said:
the hotfixes wont fix the already taken photos. the thumbnails are corrupted as they are. but newly taken pics are ok.
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Thanks for your input chaps but the pics look fine on my PC and on the HD2, it's just the thumbnails, and they were taken after the hotfix was installed!
None of the hotfix's address why you can only veiw 99 images in the Sense gallery either!

Karlos G said:
Thanks for your input chaps but the pics look fine on my PC and on the HD2, it's just the thumbnails, and they were taken after the hotfix was installed!
None of the hotfix's address why you can only veiw 99 images in the Sense gallery either!
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It's not abug. Just a software limitation to avoid manila slowing down the device too much.

skr_xd said:
It's not abug. Just a software limitation to avoid manila slowing down the device too much.
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Thats not right!!
It loads each image as needed not all at once, so makes no difference how many there are.

but it is how they have designed it, so like it or not its working "correctly"...

Karlos G said:
Thats not right!!
It loads each image as needed not all at once, so makes no difference how many there are.
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The images in manila photo tab should be and are cached for faster loading.
It is not done in realtime as you think.
Also,there will be some prerendering of images anticipating the next possible onces.
same method used in most softwares for anticipated rendering like in opera,gps softwares etc.

mkent_barbados said:
but it is how they have designed it, so like it or not its working "correctly"...
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Although it does appear this way how do you know this, or is it an assumption?
skr_xd said:
The images in manila photo tab should be and are cached for faster loading.
It is not done in realtime as you think.
Also,there will be some prerendering of images anticipating the next possible onces.
same method used in most softwares for anticipated rendering like in opera,gps softwares etc.
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Maybe one or two images ahead but not all images, if you scroll through them fast enough you'll overtake the loading/precached images.
So there is no need for a limit on how many you can view because it doesnt load them all into memory at once which is the only reason it would slow the phone down.

so no fix ?
no reg tweek ?

Camera Issue

Hi,
Today I took few pictures with my DVP camera and I noticed that the jpg files are no more than 100kb.
The Camera settup is 5mb. I changed the setting to lower res but still no more than 100kb.
Need some advice
Thank you,
Gur

gkazir said:
Hi,
Today I took few pictures with my DVP camera and I noticed that the jpg files are no more than 100kb.
The Camera settup is 5mb. I changed the setting to lower res but still no more than 100kb.
Need some advice
Thank you,
Gur
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Maybe a hard reset can fix this problem ?

josemedina1983 said:
Maybe a hard reset can fix this problem ?
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Thank you, but it didn't go well. Nada.....same as before

gkazir said:
Thank you, but it didn't go well. Nada.....same as before
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So even if you transfer the picture to your desktop still 100kb?

Yes. The most I get is 600kb on desktop and very bed resolution....

gkazir said:
Hi,
Today I took few pictures with my DVP camera and I noticed that the jpg files are no more than 100kb.
The Camera settup is 5mb. I changed the setting to lower res but still no more than 100kb.
Need some advice
Thank you,
Gur
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5 mb? Do you mean 5 MP? Instead of low res try high res. The higher the resolution the better the picture the bigger the file size.

You are right of course, but again there's no reason for 5mp camera with hires profile to be 100kb-600kb in jpeg.
My canon eos-10D has 5mp and it's hires jpeg is at least 1.5mb.
Damn pictures are not even worse downloading. I prefer the IPad or IPhone 5mp camera, better.

Maybe it's your settings in Zune software.
Open Zune and go to settings --> phone --> pictures & videos and look for image quality. Make sure it is set to original.

Camera thumbnail - How NOT to see all photos?

I noticed that the thumbnail in the Camera app on my Galaxy S7 Edge is showing the latest photos on my phone. It could be the latest screenshot, the photo I downloaded from Internet or the photo that’s transferred from my friend. Can I set the thumbnail to show only the latest photo taken by the camera?

Same problem here...
It also shows offline content downloaded from my RSS reader. Annoying

put a .nomedia file in the folder that you don't want to have shown.

Pet1981 said:
put a .nomedia file in the folder that you don't want to have shown.
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thats a good way of doing it manually, but is it not the manufacturer's mistake?
i didnt see all the photos under the camera thumbnail on an S6 or the OnePlus One or OnePlus 3T or any other phone i have used in recent past.
i have been asking/checking forums from the time since i got my S7E..

Pet1981 said:
put a .nomedia file in the folder that you don't want to have shown.
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That's a workaround but not for the common user.... a friend got the S8 and is facing the same issue.
Many of us have been using the .nomedia method for a long time but is there a system wide option to turn all images off or not? I have at least 20 albums that i would like to mute....
.nomedia doesn't seem to be a valid solution

Just checked. The .nomedia method does not work!