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Low resolution images with Opera

A colleague of another website pointed this, which went unnoticed until I paid attention. The problem is simple, fire Opera, load any website and see the images rendered in half resolution. All the images look pixelated when you double tap to zoom in; if you zoom in further it gets worser.
Anyone else?
Opera Mini 4.2 doesn’t have this problem, the built in Opera Mobile does.

Most likely your network proxy compressing them on the fly to save their bandwidth. I'm fairly sure orange do it.

Nope, I'm on WiFi connected to a network without any kind of proxy.

igalan said:
Nope, I'm on WiFi connected to a network without any kind of proxy.
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Also im noticing similar for example in Rss Hub, pictures just look disgusting, comprared to NetNewsWire in iphone for example. Opera is not this ugly, but I noticed that too when i got this phone. I thought its just my imagination...

I have the same problem also in PIE., but in opera it's even worst.

I have just tried with my Diamond, and same thing. So it must be Opera that has designed the browser to present lower resolution images in order to preserve memory or speed up browsing. Nevertheless, it's a pity that you don't have the real thing on such a high resolution screen.
Opera Mini 4.2 does use full resolution images, but more compressed. It looks much better.

and there's nothing in opera:config

Yes, I've looked at opera.ini but there's nothing related. The registry doesn't have any setting either .

Nice to find you also here igalan (nos leemos...).
Doesn't look so bad for me.
Make a try with google images in full resolution and zoom in. No pixelation at all until you zoom too much

Hi man!
Ok, I've found the reason of all this. When you double tap on Opera, the zoom level that is being applied is larger than 100% which means that pictures are stretched and results in some pixelation. Manually reducing the zoom level until you get the page rendered in 1:1 resolution (not zoomed out or zoomed in) gets you full quality images as well.

i connected my laptop up to mt hd via wifi to use it's HSDPA connection. browsing in firefox images are rendered in half resolution. when i hover over an image a message appears saying press shift+r to improve the quality of this image. when i do that it downloads the image again in full resolution.
the fact that i'm using firefox on my laptop and just using the internet connection on my phone makes me think that my network provider is the problem.
what do you think?

Poor Image Quality on Opera 9.7

Hi Guys,
Sorry if this is turns out to be something really stupid and simple, but I've looked about for ages and can't seem to fix this problem...
I was looking on the tweaks page and decided to try the tweak to allow me access to the iplayer website. All worked well and I had no problems on the web page, but ever since I've done this ever website i seem to goto all the images now seem really grainy and poor. I've since changed back the "Custom User-Agent" field to what it was before, but this hasn't made any difference.
Has anyone else experienced this problem, or at least know a way to restore it to how it was before? Just hoping for a quick-fix rather than another hard-reset...
Many thanks in advance

Haven't you experimented with Opera Turbo too ? Since new Opera Turbo uses pretty high image compression. Opera Turbo can be turned on somewhere in opera:config on HD2.

Hmm not that i can see, the option is still unticked there so i don't think it's that... But i'll have a play about and post back what happens. Thanks though!
UPDATE: I've had another look and Turbo is turned off. I even tried loading up a page on Internet Explorer just to check I'm not just being fussy, but the image quality is much better on IE that Opera all of a sudden...

normally you can set the image quality in opera. there must be a setting somewhere that lets you select high/medium/low quality.

Fry52 said:
...but the image quality is much better on IE that Opera all of a sudden...
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I agree, and I'm glad someone's raised this. It's one of those things that makes me think "I must check on XDA to see if anyone else thinks that the image quality is a bit pap", but I always forget.
Thanks for asking this

d3l1 said:
normally you can set the image quality in opera. there must be a setting somewhere that lets you select high/medium/low quality.
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I believe that only applies on Turbo.

I also want to sort the poor quality of the images in opera.. looks really naff!

I'm also dissappointed in the quality... Hope there will be a fix for this...

GeitjeG said:
I'm also dissappointed in the quality... Hope there will be a fix for this...
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I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on this one.. On a nice large screen I want all pictures to look their best. Things like the google logo etc looks terrible. Surely there is a mod/setting that can be changed!?

yes but opera mini has a built in turbo mode , and the picture quality is 110% sperior to everyhing else

change show pictures in user prefs to 2

maan1976 said:
yes but opera mini has a built in turbo mode , and the picture quality is 110% sperior to everyhing else
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In mini you can set picture quality.

Opera turbo has to be turned off if you want god picture qualities.

My apologies for having missed this thread: I started another one on the same subject here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622661
Seeing as this problem affects me not just in Opera but in IE as well, my tentative conclusion is that it's not the application that's the problem, but my mobile carrier (T-mobile in my case). If I (and others who came to the same conlusion, many before I did) are correct, then what happens is that the carrier detects you are requesting a JPEG image on your data connection, fetches the JPEG itself, recompresses it to make the file smaller, and then forwards on to you the compressed version. Opera or IE is unaware of this, and simply displays the image it gets. This image is also cached; so, if you fetch the compressed version you will see that same compressed version again the next time you visit the page, even if you're browsing over wifi. The only way to see the uncompressed version is to exit Opera, go back in, clear the cache, then connect to the page in question over Wifi or ActiveSync.

"Low" image quality in Opera!

Hi there...
I Just have a question...Why the image quality in opera is soo low..in IE is much better,is there any way to incrase the image quality??
Thanks in advance!

Anyone help's...im getting nervous on zooming images and then just a blurry image...i would use IE but is terribly slow...pls help me!

maybe you have activated opera turbo? if so, deactivate it and try again

Opera turbo is only in the Opera 10 version but i currently using the 9.7 version anyone could help?

Anyone know something about my problem? Is that normal that the image quality is so low?

Should be in options as opera turbo or something similar, just try a few of them

pettekneuz said:
Should be in options as opera turbo or something similar, just try a few of them
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in options there is nothing similar only cache size,java script,pop up and thats it!
It s didapointing this quality...

I've noticed it too - and I don't have turbo mode on. Just seems to be low quality when you zoom in (normal zoom to the level where you can read the text - not magnifying zoom) on pics.
Would love a fix - I use flickr a lot for my photography but opera 10 (as I am using) often makes images have that 'jpeg saved at too low a quality' look.

Hi Guys.
This might sound stupid, but i once heard that it was your network operator who actually has something to do with it through the data plan.....
...apparantly they reduce the image quality through the data plan.

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turn off turbo mode homie

rumz82 said:
Hi Guys.
This might sound stupid, but i once heard that it was your network operator who actually has something to do with it through the data plan.....
...apparantly they reduce the image quality through the data plan.
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The way to check if this is happening is to try the image in a different browser such as PIE, if the image is clear then it's an Opera issue.
Or you could turn of the data connection and test via wifi, if it's still not high quality then it's an Opera issue.

Yes, some operators automatically resize the images before sending them to you, to save on bandwidth. Not much you can do if it's the case.

kilrah said:
Yes, some operators automatically resize the images before sending them to you, to save on bandwidth. Not much you can do if it's the case.
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So it wasnt stupid then!

images in browser/apps displaying in low res

Hi
just got a galaxy s on tmobile in the UK.
It's good but it seems that lots of images in the browser and displaying in low res, they all look blocky.
It's happening in apps too - the thumbs of peoples faces in facebook are blurred/blocky, images from the engadget app are blocky etc.
I've compared to another galaxy S and the images on that look fine.
Would anyone have any idea whats causing it? thanks
Edit - It seems to be intermittent too. For example, if i do a google image search, the thumbs are sharp, but if I click on a pic and it goes into the slideshow view all the images are REALLY blocky. If I click the link to the original page were the image is coming from the image loads up fine.

It seems to be my carrier, tmobile.
When i put other sim cards in the phone it works fine.
Very annoying, makes buying a nice phone like this for web browsing kind of pointless.
Anyone know of a way to bypass this?

[Q] How to fix screen resolution?

Hi everyone, this is my first post, I'm not sure if it's been posted yet. I'm a photographer and I do not use the camera on my HD2 because I just import my photos to the phone so I can display samples of my work to potential clients. The sharpness of my photos when displayed on the device was the main driving point for me purchasing this phone. One thing I noticed however, since flashing my photo to Windows Phone 7, my pictures are not sharp at all anymore. I just loaded a picture on to my friend's WinMo 6.5 HD2, and there is a drastic difference. I've seen posts about the camera taking blurry pictures, but I haven't seen any that just indicated general blurriness on the screen. Is there a fix for this or will I have to give up my WP7?

That's odd, my transferred pix are excellent, maybe you should reload WP7? Not much help I'm sorry but it doesn't take long to reinstall...

what res are the pictures?

I had the same problem but it seemed to only happen with photos that I transferred to the phone. I never found a fix, though I do not think it is a resolution problem with WP7. The issue might exist in the file transfer itself; perhaps a Zune issue? Anyway, I never found a solution so I'm back on 6.5.

Try this:
In the Zune software, go to
Settings > Phone > Pictures and Video
and set "Image Quality" to "Original"

I tried the settings in Zune and those settings were already selected. The resolution is 3744 x 5616, but it doesn't matter the photo size, they all still aren't crisp as they were before.

try changing them to 1024x1024, maybe wp7 is lowering them automatically because of how large they are

even the ones i had at 950 are blurry, no matter what photo I load into it...same result.

**Update**
Since my last post, I have flashed back to 6.5, loaded some photos on. Image resolution is far superior. Loaded WP7 back on, [a different ROM], and still photos are still not a sharp. Is it possible that the photos do not render as well in WP7 as they did in 6.5?

strange, i use both zune for pc and windows phone connector for mac to transfer my 12mp photos from my cannon450d and they are reasonably sharp for a screen with limited pixels.
Even my photos from facebook look reasonably good (not much difference on the small screen to be honest)

Yeah for me, whether it's from my Canon 5D Mark II, or my 50D, same problem. At this point, I just won't load any photos on the device! It sucks because my main reason for purchasing this phone was photos, and also that ability to put different ROMS on it.

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Yeah for me, whether it's from my Canon 5D Mark II, or my 50D, same problem. At this point, I just won't load any photos on the device! It sucks because my main reason for purchasing this phone was photos, and also that ability to put different ROMS on it.
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Email a photo to yourself, and save it on the phone. See it works that way.

It may be that the stock wp7 picture viewer doesn't display them as sharp. Maybe you can find another photo viewing app in app store and see if that makes any difference.