Hi all
Got my note today LOVE IT
One question I back my contacts up on gmail the contact pics when ringing someone are low quality . I have changed the contact pics with ones stored on my memory card but they are low quality . Can anyone tell me how to.get them to be high quality ?
Thanks in advance
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Sue Google for being extremely stupid and hope they correct their error.
Seriously, it's your only hope.
in the video for the annoucement of ICS this was addressed and fixed.
JFizDaWiz said:
in the video for the annoucement of ICS this was addressed and fixed.
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Really? I didn't see that on the announcement, and it's definitely still unfixed at this point in ICS. Where did you see this?
E_man5112 said:
Really? I didn't see that on the announcement, and it's definitely still unfixed at this point in ICS. Where did you see this?
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No Idea where you checked...
But in the first CM9 build of ICS (preAlpha) the pics are sharp and big...
Maybe you should have a look...
I used Google Exchange Synchronization on iPhone before. Since I had a Google Nexus and now a Galaxy Note, I can say at least one thing:
It's neither device nor OS dependent. I googled a lot when I was on iPhone with low quality contact pictures and I finally found the solution on one of Googles Message Boards.
The problem lies within the Exchange settings of google sync. Google set the maxumum size of contact pictures to a low resolution, any high-quality contact picture attached to your contact, will be immediately synchronized to google, transformed to a lower resolution and then synced back to your device in low-quality.
One of the moderators of google stated this on the bulletin board.
In 2010 they changed the resolution to a higher number, but still quite low-quality.
Source:
1. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=5d91a9267607c288&hl=en
2. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=794dab6733bb8812&hl=en
3. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=688a9bfba45e0696&hl=en
As long as you sync the contacts with google, they will be synced back in a lower resolution. Of course some Launchers or alternative ROMs allow to use a local contacts picture instead of the synced one, but that's not the soltuion for cloud-services like this.
In Android 4 (ICS) all of this is resolved!
Same info: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
Large photos
Android now supports high resolution photos for contacts. Now, when you push a photo into a contact record, the system processes it into both a 96x96 thumbnail (as it has previously) and a 256x256 "display photo" that's stored in a new file-based photo store (the exact dimensions that the system chooses may vary in the future). You can add a large photo to a contact by putting a large photo in the usual PHOTO column of a data row, which the system will then process into the appropriate thumbnail and display photo records.
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Bulut.O said:
No Idea where you checked...
But in the first CM9 build of ICS (preAlpha) the pics are sharp and big...
Maybe you should have a look...
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mdalacu said:
In Android 4 (ICS) all of this is resolved!
Same info: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
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He's asking about Gmail pictures. This is 100% separate from ICS. Try this. Delete the contact account on your phone, and reinstate it with gmail. It will sync really low res pictures to your phone. On my stock AOSP rom. I did the exact experiment described above. It synced low quality versions of the high res pictures I put on my phone.
ICS did something completely different. It allows you to locally put a high res photo on a contact. It does not allow you to put a high res photo on googles gmail servers. The only way to cloud sync a high res photo is through google+. Some people have had luck using some 3rd party facebook apps for the same thing. However, gmail contacts don't get high res photos. More than a few people I've seen have complained that gmail contacts have the high res photo overwritten on sync. I have just accepted the low res at this point.
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He's asking about Gmail pictures. This is 100% separate from ICS. Try this. Delete the contact account on your phone, and reinstate it with gmail. It will sync really low res pictures to your phone. On my stock AOSP rom. I did the exact experiment described above. It synced low quality versions of the high res pictures I put on my phone.
ICS did something completely different. It allows you to locally put a high res photo on a contact. It does not allow you to put a high res photo on googles gmail servers. The only way to cloud sync a high res photo is through google+. Some people have had luck using some 3rd party facebook apps for the same thing. However, gmail contacts don't get high res photos. More than a few people I've seen have complained that gmail contacts have the high res photo overwritten on sync. I have just accepted the low res at this point.
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I think that ICS is referencing a different picture location on gmail servers, the one with 256x256 resolution. All other versions and programs still points to the old location where a low res photo is stored. This is done for compatibility.
If you create a contact in ICS the Android will sync the picture in to places e one with hi resolution and one with the normal (old) resolution (96x96). The new programs will know how to check in both places, but until then only ICS does this.
I have managed to sort of solve the issue ... i have turned off sync and then replaced the pictures off my memory card ... which then retains the picture at the proper resolution ....
it appears that if you turn back on sync it will then sync back to google and the pictures go back to low quality
until google or who ever sort out the issue , i will leave off sync .... so i have good quality pictures on my contacts
thank you to everyone for your help .. roll on ics
Issue still persists... :crying:
"Facebook Sync" on the Play Store grabs 720x720 pics and it looks really good, BUT as soon as it sync's again with Google it grabs the fugly low-res versions again.
Google should fix this ASAP.
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You guys need to install Google Plus and sync your Google Plus contacts to your phone. Anyone who has a Public Google Plus profile would show as a high resolution pic on your Note.
I've made many of my friends force join Google plus just to sync their higher resolution pictures.
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Me too.. over 10 here... but i think in JB they solved this, they sync pics at 720px.
mdalacu said:
Me too.. over 10 here... but i think in JB they solved this, they sync pics at 720px.
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JB itself handles 720p images in "People" application, locally. Yet, Google still syncs it on 256x256, which looks disastrous on 720p screen. As long as you keep it away from syncing with Google, all looks fine. That's what I usualy do.
LordManhattan said:
"Facebook Sync" on the Play Store grabs 720x720 pics and it looks really good, BUT as soon as it sync's again with Google it grabs the fugly low-res versions again.
Google should fix this ASAP.
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Try Haxsync
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thank you. I will try it.
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Try Haxsync
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Same story. It'll grab low-res images the next time i sync. This is something Google has to fix on their side.
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haxsync
Haxsync will fix the problem. It will download all your friends on facebook as phone contacts... You just have to associate each facebook contact with your google or phone contacts. The phone will display high quality photos and google sync won`t change them ...
No need to anymore. Google updated their contacts page in Gmail yesterday. It supports 720x720 now.
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The stock gallery app on the Nexus One is HORRIBLE. Flashy, shiny, touchy, yes. But all of my photos are incredibly compressed and zooming in results in a massive JPG compression artifact fest.
I wrote a bunch of notes on a whiteboard and my friend with a Droid and I both took photos of it to keep a record with our phones, but to my horror, the notes were COMPLETELY unreadable on my phone: all of the detail was gone, even though the camera preview after I took the shot looked fine zoomed in.
The Droid does not have this problem in its gallery app.
I found another Gallery app meant for the Droid on the market and it does not have this issue. The photos I took were fine, it was the gallery app loading a piss poor quality version of the photo.
Does Google know their gallery app sucks? Do they just not care? It makes it seem like the Nexus One takes godawful pictures when really the pictures are just fine!
Yep.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6021
This also extends to setting wallpapers from the gallery app, which explains why every wallpaper from my camera looks like ass.
If you set wallpapers using "wallpaper set and save" from the market, your wallpapers are WAY, WAY higher quality.
So I guess my question is, how do we make sure Google knows about this bug?
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Yep.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6021
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Thanks for the link. I encourage everyone to vote for and comment on this issue so Google takes notice.
Make sure you "star" the issue to prioritize it for google. Dont add a comment unless you have something new to contribute, everyone who is subscribed will be an email)
To do this click on the white star below "New issue" on the top left. (its hard to notice)
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This also extends to setting wallpapers from the gallery app, which explains why every wallpaper from my camera looks like ass.
If you set wallpapers using "wallpaper set and save" from the market, your wallpapers are WAY, WAY higher quality.
So I guess my question is, how do we make sure Google knows about this bug?
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what do you mean by wallpaper set and save?
how to do that?
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what do you mean by wallpaper set and save?
how to do that?
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It is an app that's on the market.
Only 34 stars :/
Has anyone else noticed that the thumbnails timescape uses are pretty crap and pixelated?
I have a picture of my girlfriend on my phone that is high quality and is used on her facebook profile. However when it shows on timescape from her facebook, her picture is pixealted to hell, can barely make her face out.
Its not just my gf, but everyone including people from Twitter...
Any fix? It makes the homescreen of the phone look crap. If you go on the Sony X10 site, there demos have high quality pictures
For twitter i dont think you can do anything since the picture is condense by twitter themselves
For facebook, i dont find the the picture to be that bad on mine,
I dont know if u try to connect facebook, twitter into the person contact information
sorry, if it doesnt help that much
I think they will update the pic quality in firmware updates. So for now all pics looks like crap.
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Mine are fine, no pixellation
Which build number are you on?
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i think the new firmware has updated the timescape app so that the pictures are crisp and clean.
But we have not got it in UK yet.....................................
you sure? for twitter the pictures should be crap and for facebook it should be fine.
please list your full build number.
i have R1FA014.
R1FA016 is my Firmware and im in the UK.
I think i've figure that its because my gf's profile image when scaled to 320px wide it doesn't fit correctly.
If I scale my gf's profile picture to 320px it shows her eyes to chin, however the 320px on my phone shows her entire face.
What i've figured out is that it has scaled the photo to fit my gf's face into it and then zoomed in :/
Depends how u update mate. Over wifi it downloads higher quality images rather than 3g etc, where they are lower quality to reduce bandwidth usage.
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Depends how u update mate. Over wifi it downloads higher quality images rather than 3g etc, where they are lower quality to reduce bandwidth usage.
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that doesn't make sense because facebook pictures are like 100% way better than twitter pictures.
just turned on the wifi and did an update and twitter pictures still look crappy.
Evostance said:
... it shows her eyes to chin...
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it must be a new feature: content aware scaling
So yesterday I email myself a few pics of my car I had on my I pad. When I check them out I notice they are low on detail. I was thinking what the heck higher Res and less detail? I compared the same pic on the ipad and instantly notice the difference. Thinking its impossible I jump into the market and look for another photoviewer and low and behold it displays all that missing detail. I started comparing all my pics on the zoom in both apps on my device (for reference I downloaded viewpic basically it was the first free app I found).
Anyone else notice this? Looks like the stock gallary app is helping to hurt the first impression of the screen and camera when checking out pics. Thankfully it ain't a hardware thing.
Until Google fixes the stock viewer, here is a solution that works for me.
arrtoodeetoo said:
Q: Photos in the stock viewer are blurred when scaled to fit the screen. How do I view my DLSR pics and other high quality photos without the blur?
A: Download QuickPic from the market (free). It's a photo viewer that scales correctly without garbling photos.
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Yep, I have noticed the same, and my Vibrant had the same issue with it's gallery App when it first came out, it was eventually fixed.
I was wondering how one sends a "sound & shot" photo. I tried MMS, gmail, and chat on but all just send the photo without audio. Also recording .gifs in the camera with "animated photo", a nine second gifs is 29mb and there's no way to send that.
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I was wondering how one sends a "sound & shot" photo. I tried MMS, gmail, and chat on but all just send the photo without audio. Also recording .gifs in the camera with "animated photo", a nine second gifs is 29mb and there's no way to send that.
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I too do not see a way to share sound&shot pictures. Samsung ads show these shared, we can sue Samsung I bet they did not release the shared feature yet in this software that was most likely rushed to market.
My animated gifs come out at 700+ x 400+ pixels and at most 8Mb in size for most "animated" ones. Make sure you let a small part of the pic to be animated. That is the beauty of it actually - making one little detail move while everything else is still. If you want everything to move, just take a video.
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I too do not see a way to share sound&shot pictures. Samsung ads show these shared, we can sue Samsung I bet they did not release the shared feature yet in this software that was most likely rushed to market.
My animated gifs come out at 700+ x 400+ pixels and at most 8Mb in size for most "animated" ones. Make sure you let a small part of the pic to be animated. That is the beauty of it actually - making one little detail move while everything else is still. If you want everything to move, just take a video.
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Ahh I had to trim the gif and choosing a specific part to animate helped too! :thumbup: now we need to figure out the sound & share issue.
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OK on my Galaxy Note 3 Lte
I was was wondering if there is a setting that can be changed
Or an App
That will allow Full Screen Photos on Facebook on a Computer Screen
My past 2 phones Nokia 808 Pureview and Nokia N8 No problem Huge Photos but upload to Facebook and total full screen not boarders no frames
So why is it these new Phones don't seem to allow this??
What can be changed ????/
Or is there an App????
I thought with so many people using FB this would be a must
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OK on my Galaxy Note 3 Lte
I was was wondering if there is a setting that can be changed
Or an App
That will allow Full Screen Photos on Facebook on a Computer Screen
My past 2 phones Nokia 808 Pureview and Nokia N8 No problem Huge Photos but upload to Facebook and total full screen not boarders no frames
So why is it these new Phones don't seem to allow this??
What can be changed ????/
Or is there an App????
I thought with so many people using FB this would be a must
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There must be someone out there with an answer shorly
Is there a way of hacking an App to allow this
Gazzasore said:
There must be someone out there with an answer shorly
Is there a way of hacking an App to allow this
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No one interested in this topic
Are there any App builders out there that will take up the challenge Must be someone
or are the guide lines for uploading Photos to FB restricted