I hope this is not a noob question, but if it is I'm sorry and this is my first Android phone. Does anyone else notice that the contact pictures on the Evo are extremely grainy and compressed. I even changed one of the pictures manually, and it was fine initially but became highly compressed again. Is there a way to fix this please. Thanks
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lakeside00 said:
I hope this is not a noob question, but if it is I'm sorry and this is my first Android phone. Does anyone else notice that the contact pictures on the Evo are extremely grainy and compressed. I even changed one of the pictures manually, and it was fine initially but became highly compressed again. Is there a way to fix this please. Thanks
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I noticed this too. The pictures it pulls from my facebook contacts look great, but the ones from any other contact doesn't.
I have not noticed. My pictures are just like I took them or uploaded them.
I usually don't edit contact pictures like I would with my photographs that I take.
I hope this is not a noob question, but if it is I'm sorry and this is my first Android phone. Does anyone else notice that the contact pictures on th
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I noticed this too. The pictures it pulls from my facebook contacts look great, but the ones from any other contact doesn't.
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It does the same for all my pictures, even the ones pulled from Facebook. Is there any setting that needs to be changed for it to straighten out cause its really annoying.
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They were grainy for me at first, but after I sycned them to facebook, they looked great.
There was an issue with Exchange servers doing something to contact pictures. I don't use Exchange mail, so I haven't seen it.
The photos should be the same.
If you add a photo manually to a contact in Google, it should synch that photo to the phone as well.
I had this problem when I first synced Facebook with my contacts. The pictures were extremely blocky and low res.
Eventually it got better. Not sure how it happened, maybe a reboot or it finished syncing. No idea, glad it got there though.
Well lets hope mine eventually fixes itself..fingers crossed
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I had the same problem, I was linked to Gmail for syncing and Google compresses the pics wile syncing them back to evo. I change the pics on evo it’s good for few seconds and then back to grainy sync from Google. Google is been working on a fix, they have been aware of this problem for some time.
I turned off contact sync option, now calendar syncs ok without fuzzy pics
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At LAST!
High quality contact pictures when recieving or making a call.
No longer do people look like they're made out of Lego!
Amdathlonuk said:
At LAST!
High quality contact pictures when recieving or making a call.
No longer do people look like they're made out of Lego!
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How does this work? Are the high res photos the ones from Facebook or are they from Google Profile/Contact data? AFAIK, the size of Google Profile/Contact photos hasn't changed.
I need to know this because I still get Lego pictures, whether it's from my custom image or from facebook
If you take a picture with the camera, then set it, it seems to be pretty damn good to me. Not as good as the original photo, but good none the less.
So wtf is the OP talking about? He just posted a random statement without ANY info... way to go chief.
It's on Google contacts.
I have uploaded high quality images to my favourite contacts.
The quality is far better than stock or assigning pics from the phone.
Amdathlonuk said:
It's on Google contacts.
I have uploaded high quality images to my favourite contacts.
The quality is far better than stock or assigning pics from the phone.
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Stock what? I've always done it via gmail contacts.
Ah... finally saw how you guys were doing it through Gmail contacts. I like the pic synching with Facebook though... so I'll stick with that for now.
bofslime said:
Stock what? I've always done it via gmail contacts.
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Aha, that may be me then.
I've always assigned my pics from the phone with pictures in my gallery.
It may make a difference.
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At LAST!
High quality contact pictures when recieving or making a call.
No longer do people look like they're made out of Lego!
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Yeah some info on first post would be helpful, had me scratching my head there for awhile lol
uansari1 said:
Ah... finally saw how you guys were doing it through Gmail contacts. I like the pic synching with Facebook though... so I'll stick with that for now.
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How do you do it through Gmail contacts?
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How do you do it through Gmail contacts?
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Select a contact in Gmail, then notice when you mouse over the "blank" picture on the right, it says you can click to change the contact pic.
That will be static and will stay that way till you change it...even across system wipes and phones... but won't update with Facebook like it does now.
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Select a contact in Gmail, then notice when you mouse over the "blank" picture on the right, it says you can click to change the contact pic.
That will be static and will stay that way till you change it...even across system wipes and phones... but won't update with Facebook like it does now.
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Oh so it will look nicer then if you do it on your phone? Btw thanks!
Just wondering since my contact pics are fuzzy,(taken with a 14mp cam cropped on phone sent thru email) how is everybody's else fairing
Yeah, they get down-sized. I don't know how small, but it sucks.
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I personally would prefer fuzzy pictures as opposed to a longer delay when opening the contacts app. I am sure they do it to make it faster.
This is not a problem with the Vibrant.
It is something that is inherent to Android.
Agreed. This is something I've noticed across all the android phones I've played with. Even if you upload the contact pictures online they are cropped and get a fuzzy effect.
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It's not even specific to Android, it's from Google Contacts. I upload most of my pics there, and they get jacked then.
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Thanks for the feedback it's good to know I'm not alone
speaking of Contacts, how to
when viewing my contacts (part of the OS), I clicked on the Updates top menu and it gave suggested links for other contacts. I made the mistake of linking that persons contact page with the place they work at and now they can only be found under the company name contact. Researching as to how to undo this link has come up with nothing. WTF? You can not un-link a contact once its linked?
Open the contact and hit menu. There are all the link and default options
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I'm not going to go into great detail about this, (I can if you need me to), because I'm sure most people know what I mean, but is there a way to keep high quality contact pictures with Google contact sync left ON?
I was hoping with a combination of Froyo, and the new contacts system in gmail, the problem would be gone. No such luck.
Thanks guys.
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sub'd for a hopeful solution as this bugs the **** out of me as well...especially because I keep a few contact widgets on my home screen
I was wondering the same thing. Thoughts?
same. bump!
It's not much of a fix really, but if you get the full screen contact app, you do have to manually select hi res images for it to work, but that hiquality image does because the contact pic as well (as a side effect I guess) I didn't want to go through my contacts and do all of that so i ended up removing it, but maybe that will get you what you want.
SyncMyPix has an option to pull high quality pics from your friend's facebook account. I think it is better quality than the normal facebook contacts sync.
On top of that, with the new Google search widget if you want it to recognize your contacts when you say them, for example "send text to Amy" you have to have contact sync turned on. So I want the functionality of the search, or the low res contact images that are just not ugly, but embarrassing. Why won't Google fix this?
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I've searched through previous threads and couldn't find an answer so I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.
Note that I'm on my 2nd Droid X. The screen on the first one died, but it too experienced this issue.
The issue I am having is with syncing contact pictures onto the phone. If I add them manually, the picture quality is fine. Note that I am using OS X to sync my contacts from Address Book with Missing Sync. The only problem is that as soon as I sync my contacts to Google, the picture quality goes to hell. I have disabled automatic contact sync and unlinked my Address Book from my Google account, but I'm just wondering if there is a workaround for this. It's not a big deal to sync everything manually, but being able link everything automatically with my Google account in case of a catastrophic simultaneous breakdown of my computer and my phone would be nice. Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: Not sure if this helps any, but my phone is rooted and running on stock Froyo 2.2.340.
No one have any issues with this?
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I'm sure everyone does but just accepts that Google just reduces the image quality when it's synced to their servers
Thanks for the reply. I was just being optimistic hoping there was a way to shut my iPhone friends up when they see crappy pictures show up in a call.
Are you on facebook? I use the app syncmypix to put the profile pictures of my contacts that are my friends on facebook cuz it seems launcherpro has trouble updating the pics... I know there is an option to use high quality pics... I don't know if that would solve your problem
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Yeah, unfortunately that doesn't seem to work either since as soon as the pictures are synced with Google, it's back to the low quality versions. The weird thing is my wife's Incredible syncs automatically with her Google contacts, and everything looks great so I'm not sure if the problem is with Motorola or just the way Google interacts with the Droid X.
The Incredible might be storing local copies of the hi-res images
I use facebook photos for most of my contacts, but when some of them updates their contact picture, it won't update in the contacts until some time after (don't know how much time actually).
I found out that Facebook cache wouldn't also update (if I go into the app and select 'Friends', their pictures are still old).
Is there something I could do to force a photo update? I don't want to use syncmypix because it doesn't center the photo in the face like Facebook does.
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I use facebook photos for most of my contacts, but when some of them updates their contact picture, it won't update in the contacts until some time after (don't know how much time actually).
I found out that Facebook cache wouldn't also update (if I go into the app and select 'Friends', their pictures are still old).
Is there something I could do to force a photo update? I don't want to use syncmypix because it doesn't center the photo in the face like Facebook does.
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In syncmypix, you can crop the images.
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Use Facebook contact sync
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In syncmypix, you can crop the images.
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Last time I tried it cropped the center of the image, so a full-body picture would crop the torso of the person. Facebook autodetects the face and make a picture with it.
Use Facebook contact sync
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Just tried it. Didn't do anything. Probably it takes the Facebook app cache that shows the same old pictures.
EDIT: Now it DID work by adding another layer of syncronization with Facebook and auto-setting the picture as default. But this also suffers from a crop problem. While the facebook thumbnails is perfectly cropped around the face in a square picture, this one is not. So in the square pictures used in the default stock rom of O1 are a little wrong-cropped.
Probably because the pictures they use is the original picture, not the thumbnail. The perfect way for O1 would be to use the thumbnail.
It also adds a painfully high time of synchronization even if I tell it to sync only once a week. And whein it syncs again it takes an awfully high amount of time syncing again.
EDIT2: The best way to do this is still to clear Facebook cache and data, open facebook app, re-login and then select the Friends page. It takes a while to re-create the cache, but this seems still the best way to do that.