Hey guys,
I've read many threads for this reason with no appropriate answer.
For images see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402731 (1st page 18th post)
Because I can't upload in this forum
If you are using google sync , u need to transfer contacts to phone memory.
I just discovered how to apply HQ contact pics as shown in some SE website photos.
At first , it could be done by editing contacts from SE sync service which is no longer available.
So, the alternate solution is a pc software named mobiledit. You can set full screen photos as your contact pic.
Edit: I found that the pic shows best in the timescape app but it doesn't appear/ appears after sometime in Timescape widget , probably 'coz it cannot load the oversized pic. But you can resize the pic to low res and then set it.
Xperia Arc (rooted)
hope this helps many
Thanks mate.
I'll try this later and give a feedback.
EDIT:
Well, it works, but I don't really like it.
Only thing I need is the full screen call image.
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Full Screen Call Image
One thing more I love about Sony Ericsson. This is coming from their earliest phones. Back then All the other phones only displayed only a Tiny Image. When someone calls, If you have their Picture saved in the Contact, It is displayed Full screen (well Almost).
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The Best Part about this is, The Image is actually saved in the VCF file (Contact Card), So you dont have to keep it in the Phone memory. Earlier days, You had to keep the Photo in Phone memory, and It shows up in the gallery as well. Those days are gone it seems.
Even when browsing through the contacts, The image is displayed vividly across the header.
So, What is the Correct Image Size for a Contact Picture ?
Its -> 3264 x 1990 (pixels). Resize Any Image of your choice, and Transfer it to the SD card. Open the Contacts Application and Browse for the Image using the Gallery or a File Explorer. Once You add the Image, You can delete it from the memory.
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So so you know any other software like mobiledit which can assign HQ contact pic and can be seen in widget??
Which is the best app to resize pic??
Xperia Arc (rooted)
Sorry, I don't.
For resizing I'm using Photoshop.
Afzal57hhh said:
Hey guys,
I've read many threads for this reason with no appropriate answer.
For images see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402731 (1st page 18th post)
Because I can't upload in this forum
I just discovered how to apply HQ contact pics as shown in some SE website photos.
At first , it could be done by editing contacts from SE sync service which is no longer available.
So, the alternate solution is a pc software named mobiledit. You can set full screen photos as your contact pic.
Edit: I found that the pic shows best in the timescape app but it doesn't appear/ appears after sometime in Timescape widget , probably 'coz it cannot load the oversized pic. But you can resize the pic to low res and then set it.
Xperia Arc (rooted)
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your link redirects to the playstation suite thread
lastword112 said:
your link redirects to the playstation suite thread
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I know. I cannot upload pics in this thread. See the last post in PlayStation forum!!
Xperia Arc (rooted)
Can't really get your solution to work. Is it 3264 x 1990 in 72 dpi? Maybe you can upload one of your workning pics?
effore said:
Can't really get your solution to work. Is it 3264 x 1990 in 72 dpi? Maybe you can upload one of your workning pics?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402731
See second last post on 1st page of this PlayStation thread by me.
U have to download full mobiledit and then connect ur phone. Go to contacts in mobiledit , double click on a contact, click change photo and select any photo. See title bar , click on write. Ur done!!
To check perfect full screen res, goto above link
Xperia Arc (rooted)
This doesn't work if your contacts sync with google
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jatt101 said:
This doesn't work if your contacts sync with google
Sent from my LT15a using xda premium
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Move them to phone memory
Xperia Arc (rooted)
Related
Shake And Save, it's a print screen program for HTC Touch Diamond/Pro, HD or Samsung OMNIA.
Just shake your mobile, and the app will save the screen as image.
Supported 4 image formats (.Png, .Bmp, .Gif, .Jpeg)
Choose the format and start the ShakeAndSave, when you want to take the print screen, just shake the phone.
Then press "Yes" to exit or "No" to continue the screens shots.
Supported multiple screen shots.
You can download it from here, or at my site www.extreme-apps.com
Hold you phone tight. We are NOT responsible in case you drop it.
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Shake And Save, it's a print screen program for HTC Touch Diamond/Pro, HD or Samsung OMNIA.
Just shake your mobile, and the app will save the screen as image.
Supported 4 image formats (.Png, .Bmp, .Gif, .Jpeg)
Choose the format and start the ShakeAndSave, when you want to take the print screen, just shake the phone.
Then press "Yes" to exit or "No" to continue the screens shots.
Supported multiple screen shots.
You can download it from here, or at my site www.extreme-apps.com][/QUOTE]
nice program :D .. works greaTTT
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That's cool! Thanks
please download the v1.1 from the first post OR my site www.extreme-apps.com
the bug fixed...
thanks.....
There is the possibility to choose the location whre images are saved?
Thank you
giovag7 said:
There is the possibility to choose the location whre images are saved?
Thank you
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i will try it...
+1 Good app mate
Hi,
+1
Good Work...
BYE, Bobo
it's interesting how many people loved this simple idea, yet he got all the flames with his gPC...
Very cool app!!
THANKS!!
cool Program
Raudel
[MOD]: Saved screenshots in Internal Storage.
Download: http://4pda.ru/forum/dl/post/195469/ShakeAndSave_Setup_IS.cab
yea was wondering where it would save the pics can u plz upload to here instead cant realy understand that site so much plz and thanx
Dynomite232 said:
yea was wondering where it would save the pics can u plz upload to here instead cant realy understand that site so much plz and thanx
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Sometimes I have a problem to upload files to this forum, but now I did it!
See post above...
vadim_bogaiskov said:
Sometimes I have a problem to upload files to this forum, but now I did it!
See post above...
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Is there a way to get it to save to storage card?
I did a search of the registry and not sure if one of those is it.
They're all install path's that I found, so I don't think they are.
Is it in the exe itself?
Edit: Maybe a future addition: add a way to choose your own location the pics save at.
But I love this app! Thanks for this!!
I am able to take a screen shot and then I go to the file and click on the picture file and press copy.
I then go to a forum and when I want to paste the screenshot, I get a select all pop up, and not a paste pop up.
My question is how do I paste the screenshot within the text I am typing?
Thanks for any help. I am sure there is a simple answer
Great application!
Handy to take screenshots of your homepage for the "post your diamond home screen" topic !
Thanks m8
I am unable to Copy and Paste a screen shot to post them.
Any suggestions?
Good work, thanks.
Thanks
that's cool app.
can anyone post the in call/incoming call/outgoing call screenshots here? i want to see if the pics blur or not and how it looks..!
cant post a screen shot but mine blur once the go full screen
Mine is ok
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If you go to contacts, selected one and than change picture, you select a good resolution picture from your sd card and confirm, this way the pics won't be blurry. That was the solution on the x10, which had the same problem. Don't know if its the same with arc, as mine will be delivered today, but the problem of blurry contacts sounds very familiar.
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PollPixx said:
If you go to contacts, selected one and than change picture, you select a good resolution picture from your sd card and confirm, this way the pics won't be blurry. That was the solution on the x10, which had the same problem. Don't know if its the same with arc, as mine will be delivered today, but the problem of blurry contacts sounds very familiar.
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I can confirm this.
Original sync -> bad picture
manual set the picture -> good image
This is a real pain in the ass... but since there is no solution since the x10 (at least none that i've heard of...), I think we'll have to deal with this.
Only way out might be a way to change the dialer and contacts app. Is someone already looking into this??
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Mine is ok
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exactly what i was looking for.. thanks buddy!!
can you also post incoming call screen?
the issue isn't caused by SE or Android... it's simply because the images held on facebook are small thumbnails.. so when they're stretched to our screen it's quite pixellated.
I might try putting a higher res image on google for one of my contacts and see if that syncs well.
Sent from The Arc!
im_iceman said:
the issue isn't caused by SE or Android... it's simply because the images held on facebook are small thumbnails.. so when they're stretched to our screen it's quite pixellated.
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I dont use facebook! I have HQ pics on my phone or computer and use them.
kaisan1 said:
exactly what i was looking for.. thanks buddy!!
can you also post incoming call screen?
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That will be why mine are blurry then as they are synced from Facebook
Sent from my LT15i using Tapatalk
well as i said, i use HQ pics to, but i have to set them manually every time i reflash the phone!
Here is a thread on what we had to do on the X10:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943846
Hope that helps. Cheers!
hello
i update my xperia arc to 2.3.3 HK rom
after sync with facebook my contact picture still in low-res
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in other site and news it have hi-res contact picture like this :
is there any way to get hi-res picture from facebook ?
sorry for my bad english .Thank you
I haven't upgraded yet, but I do know that on 2.3.2, you have to set a photo from your album (as in taken from camera, or anywhere on your SD card), and set that as your contact picture. It fills up the entire top of the contact bar in 2.3.2, and I guess that they expanded that to the whole 2.3.3. You'll have to download your friend's photo (or just take a picture of your friend), and set it manually. See if that works.
One of the cool factor of Xperia's is it uses almost 16:9 aspect ratio for contact pictures. So, the one's from facebook and google not only download low resolution crap but even if they did (X10 does get high resolution contact picture from facebook) the aspect ratio of picture is messed up.
Only solution I am aware of is to always have a folder with pictures of all my contacts and then edit each contact and assign pictures from that folder. It's a pain in a** especially if you have way too many contacts. I only care about quality pictures for most frequently called people. For others, when I call them or they call, I just update their pictures.
It feels great to have quality pictures show up when we get incoming calls
After 2.3.3 update in the settings/accounts section there are 2 facebook accounts--one from facebook app and one for the native fb integration both with contact sync.
I turned off the facebook account contact integration and left the native contact integration on.
I like to get the High Resolution contact picture as well. My FB is turn off. Native is the one that is running.
@rumnyc : Are you getting full screen picture?
If you select the photo from your gallery, then full screen
If you pick the photo from FB, then Low Res.
Seem there is no solution to make the FB contact photo with High Res. / Full screen
Facebook pictures are thumbnails (which are "just acouple" of pixels). So the Xperia blows up the thumbnail to fill the screen. You know what happens when you enlarge 3 pixels ! Ha!
no i get 50x50 blown up pictures.
does anyone know if once you chose a picture from gallery, if you can go back to fb linked picture?
what app is that ? did the update and my fb doesnt look like that
after 2.3.3 update that is the native contacts app (not facebook app).
windmoon said:
If you select the photo from your gallery, then full screen
If you pick the photo from FB, then Low Res.
Seem there is no solution to make the FB contact photo with High Res. / Full screen
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I tried to select photo from the gallery but after i pick a photo i need to crop it and the photo is on a half screen
sorry for the bad EN
I've tried both gallery and facebook, and have even tried creating new contacts, gmail contacts, phone contacts, assigning gallery pictures, and just no success, all I get is the small corner picture
Check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1097733
I'll say it again:
You are enlarging a couple of pixels to a huge picture. 50x50 to 600x854. Do you get it? 3 pixels was an exaggeration to make a point. So, 50x50 is a couple of pixels. Facebook contact pictures are thumbnails. Use your local library for your contact pictures instead of blowing up "3" pixels. Because we know what happens....!
Muahh hahaha. Hahaha!
Just replace your Phone.apk, set permissions rw-r--r-- and reboot.
This is just a modded Phone.apk from Mildwild CM5.0.
Should work on all CM7-AOSP
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You will need HD Contact Photos from Market to have a good enough resolution
Sorry for my poor english, it isnt my main language
Great!
but I'm asking for more :angel:
Can you please do the same for mw oxygen 4.3, please?
bgumble said:
Great!
but I'm asking for more :angel:
Can you please do the same for mw oxygen 4.3, please?
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Just replace the xmls call_card.xml and call_card_person_info.xml in /res/layout with winrar and it should work.
I wont do it because i cant test it each time for both.
thank you very much. i was waiting for that a long time ago. but can you please explain how to sync pics wth hd contact photos? because my fb contact photos are ok, but with the contact pics (who are starred in the contacts in google) with no facebook the pics are still in 96x96. i dont know how to update pictures or so. may you can help me?
when i want to merge the google pic with the one starred in the sd card they were merged, but when i get a call it still show the 96x96 pic in full screen...
And also set permission to rw-r--r--
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app
Can you make a flashable zip for this thing? I haven't got a chance to change perms because it displays phone FCing every two seconds.
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botellito said:
thank you very much. i was waiting for that a long time ago. but can you please explain how to sync pics wth hd contact photos? because my fb contact photos are ok, but with the contact pics (who are starred in the contacts in google) with no facebook the pics are still in 96x96. i dont know how to update pictures or so. may you can help me?
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Just take a look at the playstore describtion of hd contact photos there is a instruction.
MetinKale38 said:
Just take a look at the playstore describtion of hd contact photos there is a instruction.
Sorry for my poor english, it isnt my main language
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i send you a p.m.
MetinKale38 said:
Just replace the xmls call_card.xml and call_card_person_info.xml in /res/layout with winrar and it should work.
I wont do it because i cant test it each time for both.
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No, didn't work.
"Just replace your Phone.apk, set permissions rw-r--r-- and reboot.
This is just a modded Phone.apk from Mildwild CM5.0.
Should work on all CM7-AOSP"
Hi, can you tell me exactly how i can install this, i try but i have "aplications did't install". I don't know what you mean with "set permision to rw-r--r--". What should i do exactly to install this
MetinKale38 said:
Just replace your Phone.apk, set permissions rw-r--r-- and reboot.
This is just a modded Phone.apk from Mildwild CM5.0.
Should work on all CM7-AOSP
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Thanks, but it cause android.process.acore FC if i use T9 option in dialer. (Photos are linkd by Facebook Sync, Picture Size is 512*512). Any idea what is the problem?
Sorry for my poor english, it isnt my main language
MetinKale38 said:
You will need HD Contact Photos from Market to have a good enough resolution
ToDo:
-Full ICS Theme
-Load contact pictures directly from SD-Card if exist, so you needn an extra app for good quality photos
-just ask if you want more
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could you do ICS theme similar to this one, but hdpi for desire resolution?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785016
Normally, picture is square. how to make it rectangle and which resolution to make it full?
Could you also provide screenshot for incoming call screen?
I will do it all, but i am on holiday and havent a computer.
You have to take square pictures yet and they will be cropped.
It would be awesome to mod CM9 default caller ID.
and can you make for XWLPT similar?
thank you
Thank you it work for me
can you make a version with half screen? 480x480?
or tell me how to do this
da.russe said:
can you make a version with half screen? 480x480?
or tell me how to do this
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There is one, by pan_ataman.
Personally, I still don't like text over image. It's hard to read. If possible, I would prefer 480x480 and smaller those buttons and make text in that area. Don't know how to do it myself though
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1825208
MetinKale38 said:
Just replace your Phone.apk, set permissions rw-r--r-- and reboot.
This is just a modded Phone.apk from Mildwild CM5.0.
Should work on all CM7-AOSP
Screenshot:
You will need HD Contact Photos from Market to have a good enough resolution
ToDo:
-Full ICS Theme
-Load contact pictures directly from SD-Card if exist, so you needn an extra app for good quality photos
-just ask if you want more
Sorry for my poor english, it isnt my main language
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Thanks
Would this work for lower resolution devices than desire?
I have LG Optimus one....
Hello everyone this is my first thread so show me love. ??
Contact pictures. What is going on with that.? We get a small picture rounded on the left and the whole screen the first letters and some random colour.
Is it just for me? Any way to make the contact picture shown in the big section of the screen?
Also another question. We don't have voice recorder, do we?
Hey I have the same issue... Maybe its because the contact automatically links with the contact of whatsapp or another account and the the picture became the circle in the left... Anyway, did you find a solution??
Nothing. It just seems so wrong to have random colours and letters on the big section of the screen and the contact picture in a small circle
Has anyone found a solution yet?
It is really annoying to have high-def pictures in contacts (contacts in phone do show big pretty pics), but whenever I call somebody - or receive a call - only this little circle in the lower left corner appears.
Running 6.0 btw, not rooted.
Thanks.
To be honest, the best solution I've found so far: Use the Google Dialer instead of the Xperia Dialer. At least it displays everything as it should
Phazonclash said:
To be honest, the best solution I've found so far: Use the Google Dialer instead of the Xperia Dialer. At least it displays everything as it should
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Does it really override the stock dialer? I've tried exDialer and tis only changes the gui.
I always had it like that, on xperia z it was like that.
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hickup said:
Does it really override the stock dialer? I've tried exDialer and tis only changes the gui.
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Works for me. All I did is change the default Xperia dialer (it's called "Contacts") for the Google one ("Phone")
Settings / Apps / you click on the small gear in the upper right corner / Default Apps / Phone app
Now whenever I make or receive a call, the Google Dialer is used instead of the Xperia one
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Not available for me on Google play store [emoji31]
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...google-phone-2-5-11_rc8-android-apk-download/
That's the one you need
Phazonclash said:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google...google-phone-2-5-11_rc8-android-apk-download/
That's the one you need
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Thanks, I tried the latest non-RC release on APK mirror but did'nt install then I tried the last RC and it seems to be working fine. I can't understand why sony doesn't have a nicer incoming call screen.
Actually from lollipop version google starts uploading contacts image in hd or full hd to there server depends your phone resolution.
Im earlier using Xperia z1 compact and because that is only hd resolution I also got small circle image in all my contacts.
Sollution is again edit each and every contact and add new image on it. After Sync google upload full hd image to google server and afterwards you will never get small image circle.
apopet26 said:
Hello everyone this is my first thread so show me love. ??
Contact pictures. What is going on with that.? We get a small picture rounded on the left and the whole screen the first letters and some random colour.
Is it just for me? Any way to make the contact picture shown in the big section of the screen?
Also another question. We don't have voice recorder, do we?
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This app will help
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.contactphotosupdater&hl=en
Please note that only a local phone contact will be shown as HD image in Incomming Call screen and the contact image must be at least 540x540 pixels. Other contacts will only be shown a small circle.
Phazonclash said:
Works for me. All I did is change the default Xperia dialer (it's called "Contacts") for the Google one ("Phone")
Settings / Apps / you click on the small gear in the upper right corner / Default Apps / Phone app
Now whenever I make or receive a call, the Google Dialer is used instead of the Xperia one
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Works almost perfect. But I've just encountered the issue that I'm not able to initiate a conference any more. When I try to establish the second call, it just returns to the active call screen. Do you have the same problem?
The problem appears to be a problem with Xperia contacts app. I went back to Lollipop and can get full screen caller photo but it goes away when I OTA update to Mashmellow.
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You have to set the contact pic yourself
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It's all set before, regardless it just appears as a round icon. We have to repeat this procedure again and again without any need on other dialer or phone.
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LiveSquare said:
It's all set before, regardless it just appears as a round icon. We have to repeat this procedure again and again without any need on other dialer or phone.
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That's bad. A lot of pictures were taken with the mobile camera and don't exist anymore. Guess I have to extract them from the google website, transfer them to my phone and assign them again and again and again and... This is absolutely annoying. One more reason to regret bying a mobile that's been altered with vendor specific softcrap.
hickup said:
That's bad. A lot of pictures were taken with the mobile camera and don't exist anymore. Guess I have to extract them from the google website, transfer them to my phone and assign them again and again and again and... This is absolutely annoying. One more reason to regret bying a mobile that's been altered with vendor specific softcrap.
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Yes, it's a real pain. I gave up as I had to send my phone for repair and when I setup again, I have to repeat the process [emoji16]
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