Don't know why, but in all builds with Sense I've tried so far the picture quality of the contacts in the HTC Contact widget is more than bad. When I refresh the pictures the look good for a few moments but for some reason they look ugly and pixely after a short time. Anybody got an idea why it iw like this?
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Me to, got the same problem!
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This is because of the google contacts sync. Apparently the google server saves the contact pictures in very low resolution and when your phone syncs the photos back you get the ugly version. Just stop the sync and put high res version of your photos and it should work
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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 have done some searching but was not able to find any answers. I have been using Android pretty much exclusively these days. I noticed that when I sync my contacts with my Facebook account it adds pictures to the contacts, just like windows mobile. The difference though is that on Windows mobile the pictures are nice and clear. On Android the pictures look very low res and very blurry. It seems like it is using the same picture on the little thumbnail on the as it is on the picture during a phone call.
Does anybody have any thoughts on how to fix this?
Thanks!
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same issue here
yep..
I am disapointed with contact pics 2
very low res..
Same here for disappointment with contact pics resolution, I'm not Facebook sync'ing but selected the contact photo's using the gallery app. I'm sure they were good quality when I first set them, but on reboot they are much lower quality.
I was thinking this was an issue with the way we're running Android, via the SD? Can't think why, but I don't believe this could be a generic Android issue (surely).
I got this exact same question this morning.
Use friend stream that's Included on htc sense.
I believe the pictures are actually better.
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Still no answer? I believe the issue still exists. My profile pics are low res. On WM6.5 and WindowsPhone the pics are high-res and very nice.
Any thoughts?
There is an app called sync my pics it is on the market download it and sync your contact pictures on wifi..
This has probatly to do with the Exchange protocol, and how Google uises it. This is for WP7, but should also work for Android... At least; the second part;
1. Log into your Google account
2. Settings --> General (1st tab)
3. Under "Contacts' pictures" select "Only show pictures that I've chosen for my contacts"
4. Save, exit
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http://wpcentral.com/tip-get-high-res-photos-contacts-your-wp7-device
With NAND Desire HD build i got same problems...
but now i use mdj cyanogenmod 2.4 and pro launcher but i dont see facebook pictures from my contacts in the "person" widget from pro launcher?? What to do?
Bump. This issue is intolerable. I would like to link my phone contacts to FB and Gmail, but still be able to use my high-resolution photos of them. They get overwritten every time by either FB or Google.
There has to be a fix somewhere, I'll keep looking.
???
if anyone finds a fix...please post !
registering interest in a solution
I use the Full Screen Called ID App. works wonders, if u dont want full screen images to show when people call, just disable its appearance in the option settings. you can set it to use that contacts facebook display pic as their contact picture, although for people that ring often, I set a preffered picture of choice
Is there someway to get a bigger picture or something for the caller id?
Also when I used pro launcher to set up my contacts the pictures were so crappy looking (synced from faacebook pics) so I just ended up using the contact shortcut and placing all of my contacts on the screen.
Any work around to this?
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Anyone?
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There is currently no easy way to get bigger and better looking caller id photos. The reason is Google. When your contact pictures sync to your gmail account they get shrunk to 96x96 pixels. And so this is the maximum dimensions that Samsung uses for the caller id, as do most other companies besides HTC (their Sense UI shows an enlarged picture that is of better quality, but still not the sharpest looking).
What I have done temporarily is disabled contact syncing under my gmail account on the phone, and using SYNC MY PIX to provide high resolution pictures straight from Facebook.
Until the EPIC gets themeing capability so that a themer can replace the 96x96 image(s) that the phone uses, your caller id will still be the same size, but at least it'll be perfect quality
Thanks DigitalThug. The picture synching from facebook is crappy. I have tried overwriting the pics manually, but I guess this is only successful if you have sync disabled. I wish I could choose which pic I want, either facebook synced pic or the pic on the phone. I am using Sync My Pix and the quality looks like it is a bit better.
This is a qualm I've had with android for quite a while. Thanks for helping me with that. Does the vibrant have a themer?
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Hi all!
In the Favorites widget ( in the standard htc sense ), the pictures of the contacts I add, are so pixelated ( low quality ) and the same in the People (contacts) application..
there's a way to correct this? or it's the normal behavior?
Edit: The pictures are automatically downloaded from facebook by the dhd itself (I guess)
Sorry for my bad english xD
Thanks in advance for the answers
You must disable contacts synchronization and set contacts pictures from contacts app (and only from there). When you will enable synchronization all contacts pictures will be broken in few minutes. Blaim Google for this!
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than33 said:
You must disable contacts synchronization and set contacts pictures from contacts app (and only from there). When you will enable synchronization all contacts pictures will be broken in few minutes. Blaim Google for this!
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So if I want high res, I must apply a gallery/camera image instead of the facebook one, right?
Yes! And do it in contacts app.
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OK! thank you
Are there any apps to get this bback. I miss my contacts not having pictures
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I'm using SyncMyPix. It can download your facebook friends pictures. Also the pictures will be uploaded to google contacts.
Awesome cheers
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This is a life saver. And the fact that you can select some contacts where the names doesn't match perfectly makes this better than the official FB sync.
Thanks for posting this. However, there is one pretty big flaw, at least in my opinion. There's no option to prevent the app from overwriting contact icons that I manually set on my own. This can be annoying as many people have stupid pictures set as their profile pics on facebook.
Can i really sync all contact even the ones not on my phone or is it just for syncing a photo?
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my contacts dont have pictures on them only my girlfriend and me. as for facebook I deactivated a long time ago, I couldnt stand the site. only thing that annoys me is the fact games force you to have one, eg zynga poker, Loved it until I found out its facebook only
I use http://danauclair.com/addressbooksync/ and http://spanningsync.com for my Mac.