OK, this is really a general android question but I'm asking it here because other solutions I've seen on the web seem to be for specific phones/versions of Android.
I've just recently bought the G2 after spending almost three years with an iPhone and I absolutely love it. But I was stunned to find out that one of the old issues that drove me crazy about Android still exists. The blurry contact images when someone calls. I've googled the net and read a lot about it and I can't seem to come up with a fix that won't be too time consuming. I've found apps that will sync hi-res photos from facebook but they stop there. I have a lot of work contacts that are pulled from LinkedIN and I don't want to ignore them. I'm also not interested in getting pictures of everyone I know and manually linking them with some third party app that will overwrite the pixelated 96x96 google profile picture. So....what are you more experienced Android users doing for this?
i had all my contacts backed up in google and i am coming from s4, even pictures taken with s4 and set as contacts come blurry, but worked fine on s4, the only think i tired which worked from me is to edit the contact by selecting the same picture if you have it on your phone and they come out fine in g2 contacts, odd
amorek13 said:
i had all my contacts backed up in google and i am coming from s4, even pictures taken with s4 and set as contacts come blurry, but worked fine on s4, the only think i tired which worked from me is to edit the contact by selecting the same picture if you have it on your phone and they come out fine in g2 contacts, odd
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jedthehumanoid said:
OK, this is really a general android question but I'm asking it here because other solutions I've seen on the web seem to be for specific phones/versions of Android.
I've just recently bought the G2 after spending almost three years with an iPhone and I absolutely love it. But I was stunned to find out that one of the old issues that drove me crazy about Android still exists. The blurry contact images when someone calls. I've googled the net and read a lot about it and I can't seem to come up with a fix that won't be too time consuming. I've found apps that will sync hi-res photos from facebook but they stop there. I have a lot of work contacts that are pulled from LinkedIN and I don't want to ignore them. I'm also not interested in getting pictures of everyone I know and manually linking them with some third party app that will overwrite the pixelated 96x96 google profile picture. So....what are you more experienced Android users doing for this?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621031&highlight=cm9
using this app
Found a weird solution.... I starred all contacts... deleted cache and data of contacts app --> all pics in HD....
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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...
First of all, sry if this is posted somwhere but doing severall search and nothing come out.
Sync Facebook to contacts, and Galaxy is doing some weird things to the contact pictures picked up from Facebook, shrinking or expanding to fit the total resolution available.
Leaving ppl with a really strange look, either to thin or to large.
Even in Samsung app Friends Now is happening the same. Or if you had a shortcut of a contact to UI.
My question, is it possible to prevent SGS to Stretch/Skew this pictures...?
Thanks in advance.
Strange to see close to 100 views and no one claiming to have same issue.
If someone as same problem pls reply.
Brgds
It fits the images to a certain box. That is how it works.
Dont know anything more helpful. Anoying yes but I havent really thought about it
Same here, images get stretched to fit the box. Annoying indeed. One fix would be creating a local contact and linking it to the facebook contact, then download a picture from the facebook site and add it to the local contact. That way the local picture will show up. I wish the phone did this automatically though.
Also, how come there's no "set as contact picture" option in the browser or in Facebook S? Cmon, it's a must feature!
So I love my fascinate except for the occasional lagginess, but one thing drives me insane and it's the fact that the contact pictures are so grainey and pixilated I imported all my contact pictures from facebook and i'm wondering if there's any fix for this......my brothers droid incredibles contact pictures look just fine and he pulled them from facebook.
The easiest fix is a temporary one--download Sync My Pix from the Market.
You have to turn off "sync my contacts with gmail" to keep it from reverting back. This is a known issue that different people use various methods to get around. You can dig around existing topics in the forums if you wanna know more.
thank you, this helps alot. The contact pictures are still super small when I call them unfortunately, I'm thinking this is samsungs fault though. Helped alot on my contacts widget with launcher pro.
The easiest way hands down is going to your google contacts via pc and picking contact photos there.
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
Hi all, I've done some searching but haven't been able to find a decent answer to this minor problem.
Basically, contact pictures (stored in Google, linked to facebook for HTC sense) are no longer updating. Previously, when people changed their photos on facebook, that would eventually filter through to the contact pictures displayed on my phone. This is no longer happening, possibly related to GB update but I can't be sure.
If I go into the person's contact page on my phone and move across to Updates and events, I see the correct photo attached to their recent updates. However, if I then try to edit the contact and choose the photo to be attached, the photo offered by Facebook for HTC Sense is incorrect. Manually syncing contacts in FB for HTC doesn't do anything.
I know it's a miniscule problem in the grand scheme of things, but it's annoying me. Am I missing any vital steps here? Is there a way of forcing a contact photo update?
Common issue with gb, just try delete Facebook for htc account and login in again, and then sync. It was help to me..
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Thank you georgito. I should have said that I've already been through that process once and, yep, it reloaded the pictures correctly the first time. Thing is, I seem to be stuck with those pictures now, so it's still not actually updating on the fly. I don't fancy deleting and reinstating the account every time I want to update photos!
Should also have said I'm on stock rom, etc. For now.
It's not just stock ROM problem, I had several cooked roms based on android 2.3. 3 and all shows same problem...
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Okay so. Sounds like I'll just have to get used to it. Wish I'd never noticed! Thanks again.