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[Q] Pics sent via MMS / Facebook don't include rotation information?

I'm having an odd problem that I haven't seen yet. I'm hoping I don't have a hardware issue. =(
When I send photos taken with my Nexus S via mms or upload directly to facebook, it seems like the rotation information is being stripped from the jpg.
I know the rotation information is properly embedded in the file because if I email the photo it is shown rotated properly wherever I view it...
It's not a show stopper, it's just annoying as heck. Has anyone else seen this phenomena? Is there a setting somewhere that maybe I fubared?
Thanks,
Ricky

rickysquared said:
I'm having an odd problem that I haven't seen yet. I'm hoping I don't have a hardware issue. =(
When I send photos taken with my Nexus S via mms or upload directly to facebook, it seems like the rotation information is being stripped from the jpg.
I know the rotation information is properly embedded in the file because if I email the photo it is shown rotated properly wherever I view it...
It's not a show stopper, it's just annoying as heck. Has anyone else seen this phenomena? Is there a setting somewhere that maybe I fubared?
Thanks,
Ricky
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I've seen it on MMS - don't use facebook. It is kind of annoying for MMS messages.

Any way to fix this problem? very annoying. Can't MMS or facebook a proper picture.

I'm seeing it too, even on CyanogenMod.
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even the SGS phones do it, its annoying but just take the pic in landscape mode

Try it again landscape problem has been corrected
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tdoughone said:
Try it again landscape problem has been corrected
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No it has not. its a software related isssue

I just noticed this as well... Pondering what it might be, also annoying as hell.

As far as I know, it's always been this way. It was on my Vibrant, anyhow. It would certainly be nice to get it fixed, but I think that's on the developers of the apps that use those pictures, unless it's a problem with the camera/gallery software somehow.

zorak950 said:
As far as I know, it's always been this way. It was on my Vibrant, anyhow. It would certainly be nice to get it fixed, but I think that's on the developers of the apps that use those pictures, unless it's a problem with the camera/gallery software somehow.
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It's not on the developers at all. This never happened on the Nexus One with Facebook or MMS, so It's Samsung's bad because it happens on Galaxy S phones too.

zachthemaster said:
It's not on the developers at all. This never happened on the Nexus One with Facebook or MMS, so It's Samsung's bad because it happens on Galaxy S phones too.
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Must be a camera/gallery firmware/software thing, then. :/

zorak950 said:
Must be a camera/gallery firmware/software thing, then. :/
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Im sure it can be fixed with a software update

slowz3r said:
Im sure it can be fixed with a software update
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Of course. The question is will they fix it.

zorak950 said:
Of course. The question is will they fix it.
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. updates are handled by google for us. im sure they will

Help mms size downgrade

Hi everyone,
Ive recently got a nexus 4, its been working awsome until recently.
My mms quality is really bad, like, i cant read anything bad, its just a big blob of pixels...
This happened right after i unlocked and rooted my phone... I also installed francos kernel, then fauxs, then back to stock to see if it improves, still nothing...
It was working fine when i was on stock, i have a friend whos on same network, same phone, rooted and unlocked, stock rom and kernel, and when he sends me mms, the picture is nice and clear...
I really have no idea how to fix this, i couldnt find anything usefull regarding this issue on this forum or on google, i tried go sms, same thing, couldnt find any pic size option in the settings...
Anyone know how to fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated
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Nobody knows anything about this? Any hints as to what i can do would be really appreciated.
Thanks
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I think its APN related. Which carrier are you on?
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I'm on Bell, i'll check my apns, thanks
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I checked my APN, there were some differences, so I created a new one with the right fields filled in, checked the new APN as my new default one, rebooted, same issue, MMS are just horrible, super bad quality
I also flashed a new ROM, so I wiped everything and reflashed, still same issue... I really don't know what to do, it was working great on stock ROM unrooted locked phone, so I know there must be a way to fix this...
Thanks for your help, its much appreciated.
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mtlgab said:
I checked my APN, there were some differences, so I created a new one with the right fields filled in, checked the new APN as my new default one, rebooted, same issue, MMS are just horrible, super bad quality
I also flashed a new ROM, so I wiped everything and reflashed, still same issue... I really don't know what to do, it was working great on stock ROM unrooted locked phone, so I know there must be a way to fix this...
Thanks for your help, its much appreciated.
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Odds are it's the UA Prof which the carrier reads to see what your phone is capable of. You did say you switched back to stock and the issue didn't go away so that might not be it but that's generally the cause. If the carrier doesn't know or can't read your UA then it assumes it's a dumb phone and resizes images to the lowest quality.
Did you go 100% stock or you meant stock kernel?

shotta35 said:
Odds are it's the UA Prof which the carrier reads to see what your phone is capable of. You did say you switched back to stock and the issue didn't go away so that might not be it but that's generally the cause. If the carrier doesn't know or can't read your UA then it assumes it's a dumb phone and resizes images to the lowest quality.
Did you go 100% stock or you meant stock kernel?
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i went back to stock kernel, but at that point, i was on stock rom, i only flashed a rom afterwards to see if it would help.
i have found a workaround though for sending pics, i decided to play with my cameras quality settings, and reducedthe quality from 8 mega pixels to 5, and surprisingly, that solved the issue for pictures! so 5 mpix shots work good with mms!
i still have the same issue with 8 mpix shots, and screenshots though, i used to be able to take a screenshot of my work schedule, and send it to my gf, cant do that anymore...
is there a way to reduce the screenshot quality?

Google Voice MMS now supports VZW

Im sure most of you read the news about hangouts now supports vzw mms or vzw finally supporting google voice... regardless, this is great news for me since my primary phone has being my Google voice for a long time.
I'm looking forward to a way of making hangouts being less laggy on the Note, if anyone was able to make it more smooth, please share.
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le0.br4zuc4 said:
Im sure most of you read the news about hangouts now supports vzw mms or vzw finally supporting google voice... regardless, this is great news for me since my primary phone has being my Google voice for a long time.
I'm looking forward to a way of making hangouts being less laggy on the Note, if anyone was able to make it more smooth, please share.
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Thanks, good info! :good:

I guess I'll finally give Hangouts a try now, thanks.

le0.br4zuc4 said:
Im sure most of you read the news about hangouts now supports vzw mms or vzw finally supporting google voice... regardless, this is great news for me since my primary phone has being my Google voice for a long time.
I'm looking forward to a way of making hangouts being less laggy on the Note, if anyone was able to make it more smooth, please share.
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I heard if hangouts is laggy you have a bad phone...and should exchange asap. just something i read on another post here some where..

yznhmr said:
I heard if hangouts is laggy you have a bad phone...and should exchange asap. just something i read on another post here some where..
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I'm one of the people who think one laggy app can't be the result of defective device. Just makes no sense. Thanks anyway bro
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while I tend to agree with you, I have a note 4 on Verizon and hang outs is not lagging for me. If you do a search in xda there are people talking about this problem.

yznhmr said:
while I tend to agree with you, I have a note 4 on Verizon and hang outs is not lagging for me. If you do a search in xda there are people talking about this problem.
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Right... it is weird, it is very laggy on my wife's S5, was laggy on my S5. It is laggy on a G3 I have laying around and also on my Galaxy Tab S. I have a original Moto X and on the Moto X it isn't laggy... I'll keep an eye on the development of this issue, I have 2 year warranty anyway (and never keep a phone for that long) if it turns out to be a defective device I'll replace it.
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le0.br4zuc4 said:
Im sure most of you read the news about hangouts now supports vzw mms or vzw finally supporting google voice... regardless, this is great news for me since my primary phone has being my Google voice for a long time.
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Thanks for this! I've been giving out my Google Voice number for years and the whole MMS thing has been the one thing I hated about it.
I just tested with a friend who sent me a pic and it got shifted over to email. Not ideal, but since I get email on the phone too it's a lot better than it just disappearing into cyberspace.
I haven't integrated Hangouts with Voice yet so maybe that's why it got turned into an email. I've been hesitant to integrate the two. Does anyone know how to separate them again if I try it and don't like it?

hacksaw999 said:
Thanks for this! I've been giving out my Google Voice number for years and the whole MMS thing has been the one thing I hated about it.
I just tested with a friend who sent me a pic and it got shifted over to email. Not ideal, but since I get email on the phone too it's a lot better than it just disappearing into cyberspace.
I haven't integrated Hangouts with Voice yet so maybe that's why it got turned into an email. I've been hesitant to integrate the two. Does anyone know how to separate them again if I try it and don't like it?
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I don't know how to separate them, never tried really but the reason you got the picture on an email is because the Google voice app doesn't support pictures, even back in the day when T-Mobile and Sprint were the only two supported for MMS I think it was received as an email.
Make the jump to hangouts and it will all work fine. By the way, when you switch it to hangouts, you'll have to forward your calls again to your Verizon phone # OR you can use the hangouts app to make and receive phone calls. The calls handled by hangouts are over WiFi or data, like VOIP
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Thanks, le0.br4zuc4. Good info!

yznhmr said:
I heard if hangouts is laggy you have a bad phone...and should exchange asap. just something i read on another post here some where..
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I think that guy had more of a serious problem.
I have tested 8 Notes at 4 different verizon stores now and they all have horrible lag in hangouts.

crazed_z06 said:
I think that guy had more of a serious problem.
I have tested 8 Notes at 4 different verizon stores now and they all have horrible lag in hangouts.
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So tell me how you are experiencing lag? as I don't seem to notice any?

When you hit send, the animation is all jerky. On Motorola devices or nexus, it's butter smooth

so you can receive mms messages now via hangouts.. but you cant send a mms via hangouts ... Is this correct?

u71n4444 said:
so you can receive mms messages now via hangouts.. but you cant send a mms via hangouts ... Is this correct?
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My understanding and experience so far is you can send MMS, get MMS, whichever. Group messages aren't working, though, so not that kind of MMS!

johnchad14 said:
My understanding and experience so far is you can send MMS, get MMS, whichever. Group messages aren't working, though, so not that kind of MMS!
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I didn't try group message yet, that's garbage that it doesn't work...
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le0.br4zuc4 said:
I didn't try group message yet, that's garbage that it doesn't work...
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According to this http://www.droid-life.com/2014/11/10/google-voice-mms-messaging-support-for-verizon-now-official/ , group messaging is being worked on and will "be enabled in a coming update".

MMS quality low

I'm on Verizon and my MMS photos come in very low. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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I had the same issue, tried every single SMS app, did a full wipe. No difference. Will be sending the phone back if I can't figure it out soon. I though it may have been an issue with Verizon not recognizing the phone. Will try to edit the build prop

Moto x 2014 on Verizon had the same problem. Thread died out so maybe they found a solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-2014/help/q-vzw-moto-x-mms-low-res-t2975525

I tried editing the build prop with a different phone make and model, no difference. Its going back to amazon.

This makes no sense. There has to be a solution
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I know this doesn't help, but I have no problem with MMS on At&t. I use YAATA as my MMS app.

Just wanted to add - Im on VZW as well, same low res images, I've only tried Google Messenger so far, and I agree would be a deal breaker for me.
This used to happen on other Phones if I used CM12.1, as it was a known bug, and I couldn't handle using CM becuase of it.

its verizon reducing the quality of the image in order to reduce its data footprint. Very doubtful its a problem just with the moto x

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its verizon reducing the quality of the image in order to reduce its data footprint. Very doubtful its a problem just with the moto x
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I came from Nexus 6 ( Also not bought via VZW) and did not have this issue. It's def VZW related though it seems.

gchase23 said:
I came from Nexus 6 ( Also not bought via VZW) and did not have this issue. It's def VZW related though it seems.
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The quality of MMS on my Nexus 6 isn't that great a lot of the time. How much worse is this? Are the pictures unusable?

you know, at first I was just somewhat annoyed by this, but after getting some over the last two days, it may be a deal breaker. The pictures are over saturated and grainy, and generally look like s#*t. If this is just " how it is", coupled with the other Verizon issues (no HD calling, no video chat) I may have to take a pass...

ret4425 said:
you know, at first I was just somewhat annoyed by this, but after getting some over the last two days, it may be a deal breaker. The pictures are over saturated and grainy, and generally look like s#*t. If this is just " how it is", coupled with the other Verizon issues (no HD calling, no video chat) I may have to take a pass...
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FYI - I think HD Calling works fine? - "enhanced 4g LTE mode" is on for me, you may have to call vzw to get it to work (I had to with Nexus 6), b/c it won't be turned on unless they mark you with a phone that they know is compatible. (also have to add it to your account, although its free).
But I agree, the photo quality is so low that you can't use them for anything, blurry photos.

The photo's are coming through at between 10-20kb, completely unusable.

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The photo's are coming through at between 10-20kb, completely unusable.
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Wow, really??? Yeah, I tried saving one and sending it to a friend, and he asked me if I got it off my dial up connection on AOL...

gchase23 said:
FYI - I think HD Calling works fine? - "enhanced 4g LTE mode" is on for me, you may have to call vzw to get it to work (I had to with Nexus 6), b/c it won't be turned on unless they mark you with a phone that they know is compatible. (also have to add it to your account, although its free).
But I agree, the photo quality is so low that you can't use them for anything, blurry photos.
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Is this something I can enable on my account page on myvzw?
Also the mms image quality is at an all time low. Any way to edit build.prop for better mms?
Edit: Sending mms isn't a problem. Sent mms to wife and her galaxy s6 received the image at around 720kb.
Sent me an mms and it comes in at 17kb.
I am rooted. So, if their is a root method to fixing this, that would be great.

NoFear1183 said:
Is this something I can enable on my account page on myvzw?
Also the mms image quality is at an all time low. Any way to edit build.prop for better mms?
Edit: Sending mms isn't a problem. Sent mms to wife and her galaxy s6 received the image at around 720kb.
Sent me an mms and it comes in at 17kb.
I am rooted. So, if their is a root method to fixing this, that would be great.
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When I tried to enable online it said I had to call in, so I did and was fine.
Yes I agree - I found a discussion for HTC phones where someone was manually editing mms.apk to allow for higher total, I didn't see anywhere on how to actually do it, or am I technical enough to do it.

Currently using MXP rooted on Textra and have not had an issue with mms. Granted my mom's phone is a POS but they're coming in at ~110-170 kbs

Also using Textra and get pics at 100-200 in size. Perhaps it's the default messaging app?
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I'm using Messenger, not the default messaging app. Quality suck azz

For those of you that rooted, did you use the heisenberg method? Im wondering if the alternative root method (windycity rocker) may be causing some issues
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Google Messenger image compression.

Anyone else having issues with blurry sent images (mms) using messenger? I've been using it since the G3 and have never had this problem before.. If I use the stock app I have no issues. It seemes to be soley messenger. Recieved mms are completely legible, it only effects outgoing.. The recipient cannot see the image either.

Swizzle82 said:
Anyone else having issues with blurry sent images (mms) using messenger? I've been using it since the G3 and have never had this problem before.. If I use the stock app I have no issues. It seemes to be soley messenger. Recieved mms are completely legible, it only effects outgoing.. The recipient cannot see the image either.
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Same. ?
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They've updated the app twice since the phone came out. Still has issues. Gonna see if an older version does the same.
Edit: Older version produces same results..

Swizzle82 said:
They've updated the app twice since the phone came out. Still has issues. Gonna see if an older version does the same.
Edit: Older version produces same results..
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Yup last I used messenger on my Shamu, it was sending SMS to the wrong contact and filing received SMS in a different wrong contact. Quite honestly I don't trust it...hence why I use Textra or Voice

Skripka said:
Yup last I used messenger on my Shamu, it was sending SMS to the wrong contact and filing received SMS in a different wrong contact. Quite honestly I don't trust it...hence why I use Textra or Voice
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It has done that to me too, but only after I restored messages from a back-up. This image compression thing has never happened until the V20. My G3, G4 and V10 never had this issue. Thinking google messed some sh*t up in updating it. The latest version has a new icon and also seems to have a lower dpi now, or it matches what ever the user has set in nougat's new dpi changer.. Looks kinda like a mini overhaul.

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It has done that to me too, but only after I restored messages from a back-up. This image compression thing has never happened until the V20. My G3, G4 and V10 never had this issue. Thinking google messed some sh*t up in updating it. The latest version has a new icon and also seems to have a lower dpi now. Looks kinda like a mini overhaul.
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Did that to me at unrooted stock with a clean database on Shamu. Did it to others so I heard with my contacts in the Shamu dev scene.
Google is just as terrible at making chat apps as Microsoft is at making and selling phone OSes

Swizzle82 said:
Anyone else having issues with blurry sent images (mms) using messenger? I've been using it since the G3 and have never had this problem before.. If I use the stock app I have no issues. It seemes to be soley messenger. Recieved mms are completely legible, it only effects outgoing.. The recipient cannot see the image either.
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I am wondering if its a Nougat thing. Same thing happened to me on my Nexus 5x, but not until I was on a 7.0 ROM...

gerg004 said:
I am wondering if its a Nougat thing. Same thing happened to me on my Nexus 5x, but not until I was on a 7.0 ROM...
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Whatever it is they need to fix it if they want people to use the app. I'm not gonna switch back and forth, I'll end up using something else.

Swizzle82 said:
Whatever it is they need to fix it if they want people to use the app. I'm not gonna switch back and forth, I'll end up using something else.
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Believe me, I hear ya. Its been frustrating the hell out of me. And even more disappointing its still happening on the new phone I'll have next week.'
Anyway I didn't do much research once I noticed it, but once I saw this thread, the only common denominator would be Nougat. We'll see if anyone else chimes in. I like Google Messenger too, hopefully it gets sorted out.

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I am wondering if its a Nougat thing. Same thing happened to me on my Nexus 5x, but not until I was on a 7.0 ROM...
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The app certainly went to pot come nougat. Not been a fan of it since. For a while I resorted to Google Voice and just not using MMS, then i switched to Textra.

Swizzle82 said:
Anyone else having issues with blurry sent images (mms) using messenger? I've been using it since the G3 and have never had this problem before.. If I use the stock app I have no issues. It seemes to be soley messenger. Recieved mms are completely legible, it only effects outgoing.. The recipient cannot see the image either.
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It's now December and I can confirm that on my V20, the sent messages look blurry and its only sent messages
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