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Contact Picture with terrible resolution

Hi all, just wondering if there is a fix for this?
I sync all my facebook contacts with my google ones, but whenever I get a call it always shows a horrible low res picture instead of the high-res one that SHOULD be there.
Is there any app (non-rooted phone here) or fix that can remedy this?

..that´s a good question, would like to know that too...

This happens to me as well

Yeah..Wat up wit dat?

Unfortunately, I think this has to do with how much google compresses the pictures. It happens on my iPhone and on the TP2 I recently sold. Really wish google would fix this.

I was told that no matter what picture you take, it wil resize it to a specifc resolution, then uploaded and synced with your google contacts online. Thats why when you do a restore, your contacts + pictures will automatically be resized per "google" standards...

[Q] Low Resolution Contact Pictures...

I have done some searching but was not able to find any answers. I have been using Android pretty much exclusively these days. I noticed that when I sync my contacts with my Facebook account it adds pictures to the contacts, just like windows mobile. The difference though is that on Windows mobile the pictures are nice and clear. On Android the pictures look very low res and very blurry. It seems like it is using the same picture on the little thumbnail on the as it is on the picture during a phone call.
Does anybody have any thoughts on how to fix this?
Thanks!

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same issue here

yep..
I am disapointed with contact pics 2
very low res..

Same here for disappointment with contact pics resolution, I'm not Facebook sync'ing but selected the contact photo's using the gallery app. I'm sure they were good quality when I first set them, but on reboot they are much lower quality.
I was thinking this was an issue with the way we're running Android, via the SD? Can't think why, but I don't believe this could be a generic Android issue (surely).

I got this exact same question this morning.
Use friend stream that's Included on htc sense.
I believe the pictures are actually better.
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Still no answer? I believe the issue still exists. My profile pics are low res. On WM6.5 and WindowsPhone the pics are high-res and very nice.
Any thoughts?

There is an app called sync my pics it is on the market download it and sync your contact pictures on wifi..

This has probatly to do with the Exchange protocol, and how Google uises it. This is for WP7, but should also work for Android... At least; the second part;
1. Log into your Google account
2. Settings --> General (1st tab)
3. Under "Contacts' pictures" select "Only show pictures that I've chosen for my contacts"
4. Save, exit
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http://wpcentral.com/tip-get-high-res-photos-contacts-your-wp7-device

With NAND Desire HD build i got same problems...
but now i use mdj cyanogenmod 2.4 and pro launcher but i dont see facebook pictures from my contacts in the "person" widget from pro launcher?? What to do?

Bump. This issue is intolerable. I would like to link my phone contacts to FB and Gmail, but still be able to use my high-resolution photos of them. They get overwritten every time by either FB or Google.
There has to be a fix somewhere, I'll keep looking.

???
if anyone finds a fix...please post !

registering interest in a solution

I use the Full Screen Called ID App. works wonders, if u dont want full screen images to show when people call, just disable its appearance in the option settings. you can set it to use that contacts facebook display pic as their contact picture, although for people that ring often, I set a preffered picture of choice

[Q] Google Contact Sync

I've searched through previous threads and couldn't find an answer so I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.
Note that I'm on my 2nd Droid X. The screen on the first one died, but it too experienced this issue.
The issue I am having is with syncing contact pictures onto the phone. If I add them manually, the picture quality is fine. Note that I am using OS X to sync my contacts from Address Book with Missing Sync. The only problem is that as soon as I sync my contacts to Google, the picture quality goes to hell. I have disabled automatic contact sync and unlinked my Address Book from my Google account, but I'm just wondering if there is a workaround for this. It's not a big deal to sync everything manually, but being able link everything automatically with my Google account in case of a catastrophic simultaneous breakdown of my computer and my phone would be nice. Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: Not sure if this helps any, but my phone is rooted and running on stock Froyo 2.2.340.

No one have any issues with this?
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I'm sure everyone does but just accepts that Google just reduces the image quality when it's synced to their servers

Thanks for the reply. I was just being optimistic hoping there was a way to shut my iPhone friends up when they see crappy pictures show up in a call.

Are you on facebook? I use the app syncmypix to put the profile pictures of my contacts that are my friends on facebook cuz it seems launcherpro has trouble updating the pics... I know there is an option to use high quality pics... I don't know if that would solve your problem
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Yeah, unfortunately that doesn't seem to work either since as soon as the pictures are synced with Google, it's back to the low quality versions. The weird thing is my wife's Incredible syncs automatically with her Google contacts, and everything looks great so I'm not sure if the problem is with Motorola or just the way Google interacts with the Droid X.

The Incredible might be storing local copies of the hi-res images

Low res contacts pictures

How to get the contacts picture to display in higher resolution. My contacts are synced & backed up through gmail & have always displayed in crappy low res thumbnail, but now because of the hd screen of the note it looks even worse.

zen123 said:
How to get the contacts picture to display in higher resolution. My contacts are synced & backed up through gmail & have always displayed in crappy low res thumbnail, but now because of the hd screen of the note it looks even worse.
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Yeah, I have the same issue. Easiest way to deal with it is unsync the google contacts in the sync options panel and only update it occasionally when you add new contacts. My pics are now crystal clear, rather than pixelated.
I still can't believe that Google hasn't sorted this out! It's one of my main annoyances with every time I buy a shiny new Android, my pics look like they've been plastered in from my Nokia 7650, which I had back in 2002/3!!!
:-(

[Q] low res contact pictures...

Hi Guys,
I sold my S4 and now I own this powerful device since one week. But there is a problem for which I did not find a solution yet. I have high res contact pics in my google account but the G2 does only sync low res pics which makes me sick. I searched for a solution but did not find any. Does someone also have this problem? On my S4 everything was fine with the pics.
Thanks!

I think the only way is to 're do the pictures
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trh1341 said:
I think the only way is to 're do the pictures
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I already tried this... using a new high res pic for a contact (on gmail)... but g2 syncs the pixel variant....

I can't figure this out either. Some contacts it seems to use a higher res than others regardless of the source image. Something wierd going on there.

xgman said:
I can't figure this out either. Some contacts it seems to use a higher res than others regardless of the source image. Something wierd going on there.
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this has to do with gmails api supporting low res pictures only.
The res was increased somewhere in Android but not in gmail that results in this phenomenon when resyncing.
A workaround is haxsync that can replace the pictures on the phone with another source such as facebook

Android supporting high res but gmail yet to catch up?
Something strange is going on here.. this gotta be raised to Google methinks..

Not really a g2 problem, but general android issue. Google contracts used to only accept low res pics and you probably pushed those to your address book at some point. To get high res pics back, you are either manually have to go through and redo the pics, or you can use something like hacksync. It'll pull the facebook profile pics in high res and has the option to push those to your google address book,

This is a general android issue and it will happen with any non nexus phone. If you set a high res pic as a Google contact's pic,it will sync to all your devices as a low res 96x96 pic. It only syncs the high quality one across nexus devices (as far as i know , coming from a nexus 4 after using many samsung devices and now the g2). Minor or major issue depending on the person. For me i can live with it but i prefer the nexus way

I haven't yet tried it on this device, but HD Contacts was a good workaround for this on the last couple devices I had this issue on: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jgarrison.hdcontacts
I can't recall where I read this, but I think this issue is resolved across the board in 4.3 as well.

Found a weird solution.... I starred all contacts... deleted cache and data of contacts app --> all pics in HD....
really weird.... Google...FIX IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is their any other work arounds, I tried the starring all contacts but it didn't work

AndroidStop said:
Found a weird solution.... I starred all contacts... deleted cache and data of contacts app --> all pics in HD....
really weird.... Google...FIX IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It's really weird, all the contacts on my phone that I had starred were all in high quality, I never realized this until you mentioned your fix.
However, when I tried to star contacts and then delete cache/data in the contacts app, it didn't seem to change anything.
EDIT: IT WORKS!
Missed one step...
1) Star Contacts
2) Settings > Sync (this is the step that helped me ensure all contacts will sync with high-res photos).
3) Clear Cache/Data in Contacts App (I also cleared Contacts Data App)
4) Sync all your contacts back in and you got your high quality pictures
EDIT EDIT:
Make sure you clear cache/data in both Contacts App and Contacts Data. When I only cleared Contacts App, half the photos were still low-res.
When I cleared both apps and then synced, all photos were high quality.

yyz123 said:
It's really weird, all the contacts on my phone that I had starred were all in high quality, I never realized this until you mentioned your fix.
However, when I tried to star contacts and then delete cache/data in the contacts app, it didn't seem to change anything.
EDIT: IT WORKS!
Missed one step...
1) Star Contacts
2) Settings > Sync (this is the step that helped me ensure all contacts will sync with high-res photos).
3) Clear Cache/Data in Contacts App (I also cleared Contacts Data App)
4) Sync all your contacts back in and you got your high quality pictures
EDIT EDIT:
Make sure you clear cache/data in both Contacts App and Contacts Data. When I only cleared Contacts App, half the photos were still low-res.
When I cleared both apps and then synced, all photos were high quality.
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So step 2 your supposed to uncheck sync or make sure its checked?

krazie1 said:
So step 2 your supposed to uncheck sync or make sure its checked?
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Sorry if I was unclear, so if I go into Phone > Contacts > Settings (this is where you click "Sync Now") to make sure everything is synced before deleting all contacts data.

Is there a way to "Star" all contacts in one action?

yyz123 said:
It's really weird, all the contacts on my phone that I had starred were all in high quality, I never realized this until you mentioned your fix.
However, when I tried to star contacts and then delete cache/data in the contacts app, it didn't seem to change anything.
EDIT: IT WORKS!
Missed one step...
1) Star All Contacts or only Contacts with Pics
2) Settings > Sync > Sync Now (this is the step that helped me ensure all contacts will sync with high-res photos).
3) Clear Cache/Data in Contacts App & Contacts Storage
4) Go back to Settings > Sync
5) Sync all your contacts back in and you got your high quality pictures
EDIT EDIT:
Make sure you clear cache/data in both Contacts App and Contacts Data. When I only cleared Contacts App, half the photos were still low-res.
When I cleared both apps and then synced, all photos were high quality.
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Updated this Post to make it a little clearer, It does indeed work. Thanks. @AndroidStop you can update OP with these Instructions 1-5 & put SOLVED in the Title Thread

Try HaxSync in market
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I have noticed the same problem. Is there a solution other than getting images from Facebook or starring every single contact and clearing cache (that would drive me crazy)?
On my Galaxy Nexus using the standard contacts app all contact images are first low res after a new set up but after opening a contact for the first time the high res image is loaded.
On my G2 only the starred contacts have a high res picture while all others are low res.
Can I somehow install the AOSP contacts app to let it load the pictures or is there another work around?