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Found solution for Blurry Pics!

I found the solution for X10. Use SE Sync instead of Google Sync and then open PC Companion on your PC then click SE Sync it should start your Browser log in there and you can edit your Contacts and set there your High Quality Pics for your Friends you must click the 2nd Icon there it shows a Pencil or somethign then add Pic and when your done click refresh right in the bottom and when you set all your Pics go to your Phone and sync your Contacts and now you have HQ Pics on Calls. When you never used SE Sync before you must first register on your Phone. Your Contact should be changed from Phone Contact or Google Sync Contact to a SyncML if its working.

Holy crap - sounds like a lot of work... but also sounds promising...

I'd rather have it just work in the first place, but thank you for providing another solution. My only concern is that when it syncs again, does it break your address book and corrupt all the entries again? Despite best efforts, I've seen this happen to a lot of people with myself being included. It's so irritating. I know it's something small, but I'm a stickler for quality and hate having 1996 quality JPEG-looking crap show up when loved ones call me

bongd said:
I'd rather have it just work in the first place, but thank you for providing another solution. My only concern is that when it syncs again, does it break your address book and corrupt all the entries again? Despite best efforts, I've seen this happen to a lot of people with myself being included. It's so irritating. I know it's something small, but I'm a stickler for quality and hate having 1996 quality JPEG-looking crap show up when loved ones call me
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What other solution i tried everyone i found on Net this was the only one that worked for me if i set HQ Pic with Mediascape it is HQ everywhere but not in Call Screen but with this it is HQ on Call Screen too. When you Sync with SE Sync the Pic always stays HQ i dont know if the Pic stays HQ when you Sync with Google but you can try it.

Wolfbreak said:
What other solution i tried everyone i found on Net this was the only one that worked for me if i set HQ Pic with Mediascape it is HQ everywhere but not in Call Screen but with this it is HQ on Call Screen too. When you Sync with SE Sync the Pic always stays HQ i dont know if the Pic stays HQ when you Sync with Google but you can try it.
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I may tinker around with it again in the future. I have a replacement handset I really need to setup so maybe I'll just bite the bullet considering how I'll need to invest some time in updating it and doing some testing anyway (have had multiple replacements, trying to get an X10 without low in-call volume).

Bongd did the replacements come direct from Sony?
Has the incall volume improved at all?

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Bennachie said:
Bongd did the replacements come direct from Sony?
Has the incall volume improved at all?
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Rogers, and its still low.

Wolfbreak said:
I found the solution for X10. Use SE Sync instead of Google Sync and then open PC Companion on your PC then click SE Sync it should start your Browser log in there and you can edit your Contacts and set there your High Quality Pics for your Friends you must click the 2nd Icon there it shows a Pencil or somethign then add Pic and when your done click refresh right in the bottom and when you set all your Pics go to your Phone and sync your Contacts and now you have HQ Pics on Calls. When you never used SE Sync before you must first register on your Phone. Your Contact should be changed from Phone Contact or Google Sync Contact to a SyncML if its working.
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bravo!!!!!!

Please delete thos comment

I tried the above method ..
Its getting sync with Sony Ericsson but contacts and other data's are not going to Sony site.

I tried this method but all my pictures are to big any pointers
Thanks

For my Pics it worked great all Faces are good to see and all HQ. But maybe some Pics it shows Body instead of Head becouse Pic is long or something but for mine it worked.

Wolfbreak said:
What other solution i tried everyone i found on Net this was the only one that worked for me if i set HQ Pic with Mediascape it is HQ everywhere but not in Call Screen
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That sounds interesting to try. I had a look around on Google on how to do this but had no luck. Would you be able to spare a sec to explain how you set HQ Pic with Mediascape?
The album art in Mediascape is also similarly blurry which also sucks

Fineri said:
That sounds interesting to try. I had a look around on Google on how to do this but had no luck. Would you be able to spare a sec to explain how you set HQ Pic with Mediascape?
The album art in Mediascape is also similarly blurry which also sucks
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I go to the Pic with Mediascape and then left in the bottom there is a + click this and you can choose set Contact Pic. In 1.6 it worked for Call Screen and Dialer but in 2.1 the HQ Pic is only in Dialer but in Call Screen its blurry becouse it saves the Pic as Thumbnail and when you on Call screen it make small Thumbnail bigger instead of the original HQ Pic, but thats a Android Problem becouse Google crops the Images to 96x96 dont know why they dont make it bigger like 300x300 ore something. But SE Sync take the original HQ Pic and dont change it so it stays HQ and dont make a Thumbnail or crop it. My Mediascape Album Art is good.
felixpaul said:
I tried the above method ..
Its getting sync with Sony Ericsson but contacts and other data's are not going to Sony site.
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Try do deactive or delete Syncing on SE Site it should be in Settings and then set it up new

It worked
Thanks, I tried it, and it worked, but when I link it it to a facebook account, the facebook picture is prioritized.
What do I do

HEy you guys just go to the contact, click on edit and choose the pic on Timescape instead of the one that appears on your mail account... Easy as that
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[email protected] said:
HEy you guys just go to the contact, click on edit and choose the pic on Timescape instead of the one that appears on your mail account... Easy as that
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I tried that too but it still is a bit blurry after that but it is a improvement over the rest. The Problem is the Call Screen on the Rest most of the Solutions look good.

Wolfbreak said:
I tried that too but it still is a bit blurry after that but it is a improvement over the rest. The Problem is the Call Screen on the Rest most of the Solutions look good.
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Hi devs
I have noticed this issue if I sync with FACEBOOK APP. But if I sync with TIMESCAPE, it's high res! So, only the crappy Facebook app gives low res fotos.
So, you need to LOG OFF from your Facebook app, and then add account in Timescape.
It will helps you for sure! Happy NY guys!

The Sony Ericsson sync thing works perfectly, like he said, go to your sony ericsson sync database on the web, assign a high res pic, preferably from VGA to 2MP, then, sync and the picture appears in the contact's details.
Then, click edit, scroll to the sony ericsson sync picture, click it, and set it as a the contact picture, dial it, and voila, it's not blurred AT ALL, it worked perfectly for me.

Contact photos = low quality / pixel

Hey,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a fix for the horrible low quality in contact photos when syncing contacts to Gmail. It seems as if when you sync your contacts to Gmail, Google resizes it to a redicliously low quality and in turn once synced back, the photos shows terribly.
I've been looking around and only found a silly workaround where you create another contact on your phone (not synced with google), adding a photo and then linking it to your google contact. Tho, it is silly IMHO.
Is there a way to make google exclude the sync of the 'photo' field? or only do a one-way sync specifically for photos?
Hope there is a solution as its looking real bad on the SNS crispy screen

I believe this is a fault with android itself. I know when my x10 got its 2.1 update that contact pics problem occurred. Don't know of any fix but its not just nexus that it happens to.
Edit. Actually cannot fathom why its not been sorted in 2.3 as its a well known issue!

Found this: apparantely this is to do with Google's servers and not the Android platform/
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4147#makechanges
Tho, i'm guessing if one could exclude the sync field of the photo it should do the trick

co0kie said:
Found this: apparantely this is to do with Google's servers and not the Android platform/
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4147#makechanges
Tho, i'm guessing if one could exclude the sync field of the photo it should do the trick
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Very strange indeed. I mean its not a big problem but you would have thought Google would have fixed it by now

It's Google GMAIL responsibility.
Yeah, they should update GMAIL Contacts to use higher resolution.
I don't why GMAIL does not fix this.
It will look crap on 10.1 tablet!
willcpfc said:
Very strange indeed. I mean its not a big problem but you would have thought Google would have fixed it by now
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Agreed. The pics look so crappy, ugh. I've starred the issue.

Any news or new workaround on that issue?
We are in the year 2012 now, running this great and beautiful ICS, but still have to look at this ugly contact pics
I just don't understand how it could be so hard for google to give us some more space for the pics.... grrr!

Full Screen Caller ID Oh, and I've got a problem with it... It has an option which allows to choose a FB picture to your contact. You can browse the fb picture folders, but when the photo is selected an editor window should come up, where u can crop, resize, rotate the chosen pic. It used to work flawlessly with my previous phone, but on Nexus S only a black window appears, and the picture won't load... Picture editing works, if i choose a photo from SD, even FB contact sync is working, but when I try to add a FB picture manually only black window shows up.
Anyone having the same problem, or have an idea, how to solve it?
And it's not only on ICS, I tried a loads of GB ROM also, the problem is always the same. I even tried some previous version of the app (FSCI), didn't help. It seems to me, the it's incompatibility with the phone's hardware. :/

off topic, but does FSCID support ISC-like call-acception (move circle to the green phone)?

MtheK0001 said:
off topic, but does FSCID support ISC-like call-acception (move circle to the green phone)?
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Nope. Has a swipe gesture, but noting like ics

Ceres66 said:
Agreed. The pics look so crappy, ugh. I've starred the issue.
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Could you post the link please?
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http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4147
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5046
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one more:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3870

It seems that the pics are in high res when :
1) Contact has Google+, it's in your circle and you synced it. Then ICS fetches the full res contact pic from G+,
2) You set the picture manually on the phone from Gallery.
In both cases, the picture is actually set on the phone. If you delete contacts and resync, you'll get crappy pics again. Only solution would be bumping the Google contact picture limit to the same as G+, but I think Google has done this on purpose to get ppl on G+. Pretty weak move if you ask me, G+ ain't bad, but the rape with it (not to mention it's a major battery hog on ICS out of the box) is leaving me with bad taste. I already deleted it from the device.

madd0g said:
It seems that the pics are in high res when :
1) Contact has Google+, it's in your circle and you synced it. Then ICS fetches the full res contact pic from G+,
2) You set the picture manually on the phone from Gallery.
In both cases, the picture is actually set on the phone. If you delete contacts and resync, you'll get crappy pics again. Only solution would be bumping the Google contact picture limit to the same as G+, but I think Google has done this on purpose to get ppl on G+. Pretty weak move if you ask me, G+ ain't bad, but the rape with it (not to mention it's a major battery hog on ICS out of the box) is leaving me with bad taste. I already deleted it from the device.
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Doing Nr. 2 works just fine. Even after editing contacts directly on google, they remain high-res. Don't know what happens when you edit the pic directly on google though.

Z3rO` said:
Doing Nr. 2 works just fine. Even after editing contacts directly on google, they remain high-res. Don't know what happens when you edit the pic directly on google though.
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Well yeah, editing the contact wouldn't break the picture linked on the phone. But deleting Contact storage or factory reset/reflash of ROM would mean linking all the contacts with their high resolution pics again. Which kinda blows. At least it would be kewl to know where the pics and linking data is stored, so someone could restore the data with Titanium backup or a dedicated app (which probably wouldn't be hard to develop). Would be a root only thing though.

[Q] Contacts Pictures - Black Mesh?

Hi everyone,
have searched around and can't seem to find anybody else with this problem so i though i'd create a thread to see if anyone has any ideas.
Upon loading the phone up for the first time, I synced all my contacts up from Google. I have pictures saved for most of my contacts, these have always synced up fine with my other devices, galaxy S3, Note 2, Nexus 4. But with the HTC one the photos are there but obscured by a sort of black mesh. So I took some more photos, replaced them and all was ok. Until I decided to unlock bootloader and flash Renovate. Upon syncing contacts again all come back up with this black mesh. I know it is only a small thing, but it just looks rubbish, and I don't want to replace them all only to go through same process when I flash another rom.
Just wondered if anyone else has same problem and have found a way around it.

There are other threads on this. It is because Google contacts used to use low resolution pictures. The alternative would be awful blurred upscaled pictures. I think they made the right choice.
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I have one contact image that does that. It's caused by the fact that the image I use for that contact is insanely small, probably 96x96 or something. This One contact manager blows it up but makes the pixels circular rather than just upscaling them to square blocks.
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dazbutler1 said:
Hi everyone,
have searched around and can't seem to find anybody else with this problem so i though i'd create a thread to see if anyone has any ideas.
Upon loading the phone up for the first time, I synced all my contacts up from Google. I have pictures saved for most of my contacts, these have always synced up fine with my other devices, galaxy S3, Note 2, Nexus 4. But with the HTC one the photos are there but obscured by a sort of black mesh. So I took some more photos, replaced them and all was ok. Until I decided to unlock bootloader and flash Renovate. Upon syncing contacts again all come back up with this black mesh. I know it is only a small thing, but it just looks rubbish, and I don't want to replace them all only to go through same process when I flash another rom.
Just wondered if anyone else has same problem and have found a way around it.
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I think this was EXTREMELY smart on HTC's side... instead of leaving it like a crappy blurry image it..

Sorry I had check but couldn't find any. I had redone all the pics on my nexus 4 which loaded big pictures. In fact bigger than what's used in the HTC one. Plus that still doesn't explain why if I were redo the pictures now and sync them to Google then format the phone and sync them back again later you would expect that at least the ones redone on the HTC one would display correctly. Yet they don't.
Thanks for your help
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[Q] Please tell me why I bought this phone

Got an S4 today started playing with it and am really getting annoyed... I come from a long line of HTC devices and have never been this disgusted with a phone. All the cool bells and whistles are nice but I bought a phone to call people.. this phone takes way too many steps just to make a call. Where is the contact widget to simplify this to one touch. I have tried every contact widget on the market and either they dont work with touchwiz, have low res pictures, or they are really small icons. I know there is a small dialer app available on the phone but I dont want 8 individual little pictures of my contacts. I have tried Nova Launcher and it has what I am looking for but it has low res pictures. Also the contact app wont save my groups right I put 8 people in my favorite but if I try to use it in a contact widget it only shows 2 or 4 not the whole 8 that I put in it,,,,,,,
Ok now that I have vented I will ask the questions that I need.
1. Is there a contact widget like the one available in easy mode but high res (or better yet the one like htc sense one).
2. Why does the contact app keep forgetting who I put in a group.
3. When I link two contacts why does it not use the facebook picture as the contact picture on all contacts.
4. I want to keep this phone stock because I dont want to root it till I know I am going to keep it so don't suggest I root and go custom rom.
Thanks for any help.

Have you tried simple contact widget? It does a single 2x2 widget
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Looks like it would do what I want it to so I downloaded it and put it on a screen and it just says "no Contacts....initializing" for the past 10 minutes.

Finally got one to work while I was looking for the one you told me about. It is DW contacts it works great.

[Q] Replace Stock Gallery App with Quickpic?

I really dislike the default Samsung gallery app and I'm wondering if there's a way to specifically make it so Quickpic can be accessed through the stock camera app by pressing the preview button in the top left corner. Freezing/disabling the Gallery app does NOT prompt you to select a default gallery app when pressing the preview button.
Instead, it prompts this message:
(Because I can't post links to external images, see the first attachment.)
I should probably add that there are no permissions for gallery to open as the default gallery, so that's not the issue. (Quickpic is set as the default).
(Because I can't post links to external images, see the second attachment.)
Is there any possible way to get the stock camera app to use Quickpic as the default gallery? I'm rooted with no custom ROMs, just default TouchWiz.
Thanks in advance!

Nope
Sent from my Galaxy Note III; Previous owner/hacker of Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus, Droid X, HTC HD2, HTC Touch Pro 2, HTC Tilt, HTC 8525, O2 XDA II, O2 XDA.

If you're rooted and have the Xposed framework installed, try this xposed module:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-samsung-camera-gallery-fix-t2988640

gene.pavlovsky said:
If you're rooted and have the Xposed framework installed, try this xposed module:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-samsung-camera-gallery-fix-t2988640
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I'm sure he would've preferred that answer when the last reply in this thread was made.
A year ago.
Please don't revive old, dead threads.

I'm not posting this for the sake of OP, I'm posting it for anybody who asks the same question, gets directed to this topic by google, and gets disappointed by the NO answer - while in reality the answer is YES it's possible.
And by the way I've had the same question several years ago, when I had a Samsung Galaxy S, then again more than a year ago, when I got an S3. Didn't hear about Xposed then, so I just accepted "it's not possible" as an answer. So even a year later, the answer is still relevant and might be useful.

gene.pavlovsky said:
I'm not posting this for the sake of OP, I'm posting it for anybody who asks the same question, gets directed to this topic by google, and gets disappointed by the NO answer - while in reality the answer is YES it's possible.
And by the way I've had the same question several years ago, when I had a Samsung Galaxy S, then again more than a year ago, when I got an S3. Didn't hear about Xposed then, so I just accepted "it's not possible" as an answer. So even a year later, the answer is still relevant and might be useful.
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Thanks buddy, I needed that ?

gene.pavlovsky said:
If you're rooted and have the Xposed framework installed, try this xposed module:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-samsung-camera-gallery-fix-t2988640
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And how exactly to use it after installation? The module has no user interface. How get I get Quickpic into action?

mess18 said:
And how exactly to use it after installation? The module has no user interface. How get I get Quickpic into action?
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Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work with my SGS3. From my understanding you should uninstall/freeze the default gallery app and next time you try to open the gallery from the Camera app, the phone should ask which app should be used to view the picture.

gene.pavlovsky said:
Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work with my SGS3. From my understanding you should uninstall/freeze the default gallery app and next time you try to open the gallery from the Camera app, the phone should ask which app should be used to view the picture.
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I tried freezing. It won"t work either. My problem is getting to albums from the Contacts app, when I need to add a picture to a contact. If I freeze the Gallery there will be no Image option in the Contact Photo window opened for selection of the photo source for a contact. It means I cannot get into my albums for photo selection. And since my contacts photo album is organized by name, I am having hard times when looking for a right photo for my contacts. QuickPic could solve this...
Don"t understand how this so basic and obvious feature is missing in such a complex and long time running on millions devices OS?
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mess18 said:
I tried freezing. It won"t work either. My problem is getting to albums from the Contacts app, when I need to add a picture to a contact. If I freeze the Gallery there will be no Image option in the Contact Photo window opened for selection of the photo source for a contact. It means I cannot get into my albums for photo selection. And since my contacts photo album is organized by name, I am having hard times when looking for a right photo for my contacts. QuickPic could solve this...
Don"t understand how this so basic and obvious feature is missing in such a complex and long time running on millions devices OS?
Sent from my SM-G900T using XDA-Developers mobile app
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I feel your pain, I have similar idea. But maybe the blame is misdirected, the Contacts app comes from Samsung, doesn't it? They made some of their apps too tightly integrated with each other, not giving the user the flexibility to choose the gallery app. I'm planning to try another ROM (e.g. CyanogenMod) to get a look at the pure Android experience.

gene.pavlovsky said:
I feel your pain, I have similar idea. But maybe the blame is misdirected, the Contacts app comes from Samsung, doesn't it? They made some of their apps too tightly integrated with each other, not giving the user the flexibility to choose the gallery app. I'm planning to try another ROM (e.g. CyanogenMod) to get a look at the pure Android experience.
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Yes, you are right. Anyway, good luck!
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mess18 said:
Yes, you are right. Anyway, good luck!
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You too, cheers!