Am I the only one that has (notices?) stretched/squashed icons on the contact list? The box that holds the picture is not a square, but the Google contact images must be squares. Any way to rectify this? I like the stock contact manager, but if another solves this issue I could switch.
No one notices?
I notice it with the contact photos I set from gmail but the contact photos I set on the phone do not.
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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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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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I'm having some issues with my contacts being displayed right on my Droid X. I'll have some contacts, A-Z, then #BAL, #DATA, #MIN, #PMT, #Warranty Center, and then some other of my contacts A-Z. I'm not sure why some of them are in the upper portion, some in the lower portion.
Any suggestions? It's really annoying when I look for someone under the top group of letters but then they are in the bottom half.
Bump.. does nobody else have this problem?
I was having problems with this but it turned out to be something to do with me having selected multiple contact groups...phone and google
I played with the selections under contacts then choose groups and it went away. All the #bal and anything you add on the phone get added to phone contacts and mine was displaying those separately from google contacts.
Pretty sure it wasn't doing this in the beginning, but don't remember for sure.
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The contacts app has to have a contact for the phone contact to link to...what a pain. Hope this is reworked on froyo. I read where some froyoed droids were experiencing the same issue
explained:
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/48594/~/droid-x---contacts
Does anyone else have this problem (or a solution) but when I link my core contacts (from my Google account who all have their own headshot that I chose ages ago) and link it with Twitter (which seems to be fine) and/or link it with Facebook your Facebook Profile photo of said contact overpowers your default one? Even if I go into edit, and change the photo to tell it to use the "Google" one or even if I select an image from my phone's SD card it'll appear for a second but then Facebook's image over powers it... is this just me? Or if it's not, does anyone have a solution other than unlikning Facebook accounts to your existing contacts?
Thanks!
I think I have it now. I think it was the fault of the old Touch Pro2 I used to have as the <HTC DATA> stuff in the "Notes" of some contacts was lengthy...
thats good to know, just in case anyone else runs into this we have a solution
I have this same problem on a new desire z - not had android before. I pick a photo from the gallery but a few mins later the crappy res facebook one takes over.
Would love to know how to fix it.
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Update... My idea worked, until Facebook did it's hourly sync from my phone! Back to square one!
Having done a bit of a google, im not sure theres a fix for this. Hopefully will come with 2.3.
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I have a solution, I'll post it in a few hours when I'm back from university!
Create a "phone" contact with the same name (or similar), give that contact the nice sized picture from your phone, then link it with your Google/Facebook accounts, let your phone "sync" to these services once, then go in, edit contact and select the "Phone" picture from the menu and regardless of how many times you sync it won't overpower your default (large) phone contact picture...
Nice workaround - but hopefully 2.3 will fix it properly.
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Agreed!
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UPDATE: I got excited too early thinking the problem is fixed. It's just the google sync took too long. So, we still have to use magnifying glasses to view the tiny useless image for caller id picture.
One of my favorite feature on SE android phones is how uniquely it displays contact image while dialing or incoming call. That got messed up in previous update.
Now, it looks fine and the google image is not over writing the image selected on phone.
I've still got the problem in 2.3.4, in case the phone book is sync with Google contacts.
How to fix the problem??
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The problem is still present in this update.
Tried using high res pics for my contacts.
Auto sync to Google contacts is enabled.
Viewed my contacts after the sync and picture size returned to low resolution.
Now I removed the check mark on "Sync Contacts" for a temporary solution and backed up the contacts on my desktop.
Sigh.
In my current 2.3.3 fw, the contact pictures do not have this problem if you go into album, select a picture, click on options and set it as caller image. However, if you go into your contact list and change the caller image by editing contact info, this problem comes up. Either way it's still too much hassle setting caller image for every contact in the phonebook. I'll bear with the tiny photo sync-ed with Facebook for now.
jjbbb said:
I've still got the problem in 2.3.4, in case the phone book is sync with Google contacts.
How to fix the problem??
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I waited for more than a minute and the high res image stayed. Must be some slow sync at that time. You are right it doesn't work even if you set contact picture form gallery instead of setting from Contacts - Edit.
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jerrytea said:
In my current 2.3.3 fw, the contact pictures do not have this problem if you go into album, select a picture, click on options and set it as caller image. However, if you go into your contact list and change the caller image by editing contact info, this problem comes up. Either way it's still too much hassle setting caller image for every contact in the phonebook. I'll bear with the tiny photo sync-ed with Facebook for now.
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If that worked in 2.3.3, it doesn't any more in 2.3.4.
I have solved this by adding the contact person manually as internal contact and not google contact. If you give it the same name it will automatically be linked to the google contact, you do not have to add any phone numbers, just an empty contact with the same name. This contact will have priority over the google contact and added highres pictures to the internal contact will be used instead of the small google/facebook contact.
I can see some reason to this, if you have 1MB pictures on over 100 contacts and you sync them all, that will cost allot for those who do not have unlimited data. Many users are not technically enough to be aware of this when setting up their new phone with a google contact, this could lead to allot of unhappy customers/users with huge bills just by synchonizing their contacts.
The other issue would be the huge cost of internal memory having 100MB consumed just to store high res pictures for 100+ contacts and time it might take to synchronize.
It might take some time to do this manually but once done the pictures will stay for the contacts. I do not mind this workaround to have high res pictures, but can see it might be a big hassle for those few how often reset their phones and would have to set everything up again and again.
Do any of you know where the contact pictures are stored? I would think the internal memory but I am not sure, I am only using high res pictures on a few of my contacts.
Use Sony sync for contacts and your images will remain the same.
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Don't worry this firmware is just a middle version the "full" version will come in october till november so there is still a chance to fix :]
anyone else spotted anything else exept contacts?
This problem is back in the ICS(at least the Arconium 2.2 ICS) The callerID is ok if I use facebook contacs sync app from play store. But the main Sheet of contact info is different. It only has this cmall little useless picture on the top left. I want the faded almost full screen like picture back. Any ideas?
this isn't a bug with the sony firmware it is a google contacts sync problem there is a bug filed on it in the google code group but after 10 min of searching i couldn't find it
Pvy.