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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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
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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)?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Hello,
I just got an S4, previously had HTC One X. Now, there is a small issue which is bothering me and I couldn't find any posts about it. When you open up a contact in Touchwiz, it shows a tiny square photo of the person. In Sense, it shows a widescreen photo, which can be expanded into full size once clicked on (please see attached image).
Is there anyway I can get Touchwiz to do the same? Any mods, apps, etc?
Any help would be really appreciated.
You can't do that in the stock contacts app, but you can find an alternate contacts/dialer app in the store. Can't say much more though.
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dany83 said:
Hello,
I just got an S4, previously had HTC One X. Now, there is a small issue which is bothering me and I couldn't find any posts about it. When you open up a contact in Touchwiz, it shows a tiny square photo of the person. In Sense, it shows a widescreen photo, which can be expanded into full size once clicked on (please see attached image).
Is there anyway I can get Touchwiz to do the same? Any mods, apps, etc?
Any help would be really appreciated.
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I have been using Rocketdialer from the play store for years now,
it has full screen incoming and outgoing caller id built in with all
kinds of themes and layouts.
Much better than any stock dialer. It even has a call blocker built in too.
It's an all in one contacts/dialer/caller id/call blocker.
It's really excellent
I got it from the playstore.
Give it a try,
Misterjunky said:
I have been using Rocketdialer from the play store for years now,
it has full screen incoming and outgoing caller id built in with all
kinds of themes and layouts.
Much better than any stock dialer. It even has a call blocker built in too.
It's an all in one contacts/dialer/caller id/call blocker.
It's really excellent
I got it from the playstore.
Give it a try,
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Thank you! Will give it a try
dany83 said:
Hello,
I just got an S4, previously had HTC One X. Now, there is a small issue which is bothering me and I couldn't find any posts about it. When you open up a contact in Touchwiz, it shows a tiny square photo of the person. In Sense, it shows a widescreen photo, which can be expanded into full size once clicked on (please see attached image).
Is there anyway I can get Touchwiz to do the same? Any mods, apps, etc?
Any help would be really appreciated.
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Actually one problem is in Google contacts. The dialer app is able to display big photos when you make a call or you have one incoming. When this photos are saved in Google Contacts, are down scaled. So, when you reset the phone or get a new one, the photos are small.
Do you know caller picture's size in S4? Is it 1080*1080 or 720*720?
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Actually one problem is in Google contacts. The dialer app is able to display big photos when you make a call or you have one incoming. When this photos are saved in Google Contacts, are down scaled. So, when you reset the phone or get a new one, the photos are small.
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There's a workaround for this.
Create the contact of the person in 'Phone' and mark the contact of the phone as default (Open contact->menu->mark as default). The hassle though is you re-create it for every contact you have.
I only do this though for frequent callers, and for callers that I have a high resolution pic.
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There's a workaround for this.
Create the contact of the person in 'Phone' and mark the contact of the phone as default (Open contact->menu->mark as default). The hassle though is you re-create it for every contact you have.
I only do this though for frequent callers, and for callers that I have a high resolution pic.
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Yesterday I noticed that this problem it's fixed by itself ... I didn't do anything and now I have big contact photos again.
Just tried taking a photo and adding it to a contact but I get an error "Unable to save photo edits". Is anyone else seeing this?
My main aim was to get some full HD images saved as contact pictures because this screen makes all mine look tiny. Anyone have a good way to achieve this?
Diskb0x said:
Just tried taking a photo and adding it to a contact but I get an error "Unable to save photo edits". Is anyone else seeing this?
My main aim was to get some full HD images saved as contact pictures because this screen makes all mine look tiny. Anyone have a good way to achieve this?
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Check this post out.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/nexus/nP1m_BpSObU/jdb39vY6384J
Geordie Boyo said:
Check this post out.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/nexus/nP1m_BpSObU/jdb39vY6384J
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Cheers for the link. I had just managed to get this working. Re-saving the HD photos as contacts in gmail works. End result is the same so I'm happy.
Hi I deleted the stock android photo gallery app because it was annoying me with repeated sign in attempts to picassa.
However now i can't attach photos to a text message or review a photo i just took when in camera.
How can I reinstall the factory photo gallery for the Samsung s5?
Thanks!!
crashhevs said:
Hi I deleted the stock android photo gallery app because it was annoying me with repeated sign in attempts to picassa.
However now i can't attach photos to a text message or review a photo i just took when in camera.
How can I reinstall the factory photo gallery for the Samsung s5?
Thanks!!
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crashhevs said:
Hi I deleted the stock android photo gallery app because it was annoying me with repeated sign in attempts to picassa.
However now i can't attach photos to a text message or review a photo i just took when in camera.
How can I reinstall the factory photo gallery for the Samsung s5?
Thanks!!
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are you talking about Touchwiz camera or AOSP camera? The picasa sign in notifications are from Google+ app, remove/freeze that.
It was the stock photo gallery app with the Samsung S5 SM G900 FD.
It's just called photo gallery. I erased it and replaced it with a different photo app. Now i lost some functions like attaching photos from a text. I need to know how to reinstall it?
Any ideas?
crashhevs said:
It was the stock photo gallery app with the Samsung S5 SM G900 FD.
It's just called photo gallery. I erased it and replaced it with a different photo app. Now i lost some functions like attaching photos from a text. I need to know how to reinstall it?
Any ideas?
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Correct me if I'm wrong but what you're saying is that you have not flashed any custom roms, haven't rooted and yet managed to delete the stock gallery app?
If that is correct go to settings>apps>app manager find your new photo app and click reset/delete defaults
I did root the phone which is why i was able to delete the stock photo app
crashhevs said:
I did root the phone which is why i was able to delete the stock photo app
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Ok. Download stock rom, extract camera app from there. If you have CWM/TWRP backups extract camera app from them with winrar or your favourite archiver. It should also work if you download any touchwiz based rom and extract the camera app from there.:good:
Thank you! ! You wouldn't happen to have a link to the stock rom would you?
I didn't back it up with cwm because i was so annoyed by the constant sign in attempts that i thought there's no way i would ever want it back lol! I'm pretty new to this whole thing of tampering with system files and definitely not a guy who knows much about computers so as much info as possible is very much appreciated! !
Thanks! !
crashhevs said:
Thank you! ! You wouldn't happen to have a link to the stock rom would you?
I didn't back it up with cwm because i was so annoyed by the constant sign in attempts that i thought there's no way i would ever want it back lol! I'm pretty new to this whole thing of tampering with system files and definitely not a guy who knows much about computers so as much info as possible is very much appreciated! !
Thanks! !
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That sign in prompt is Google+ afaik not camera app. Anyway here's a link to a touchwiz rom for your phone, download it and extract the camera/gallery/photo app from there. Next time remember to always make a backup in recovery, you never know when you might need it :silly: :good:
Great thanks a lot! !?
Strange thing i extracted the system rom from that link you gave me. I can't find the photo gallery app anywhere in it. Can find everything else but that, any ideas where it might be hiding?
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OK I found it, it worked, everything back to normal! I used the search tool and it came right up. Thanks again for the help, it sure is interesting to play around with these gadgets! Amazing to see the sheer volume of information that goes into programming one of these things when you actually get to physically see the programming. A world few people will ever get to see.
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OK I found it, it worked, everything back to normal! I used the search tool and it came right up. Thanks again for the help, it sure is interesting to play around with these gadgets! Amazing to see the sheer volume of information that goes into programming one of these things when you actually get to physically see the programming. A world few people will ever get to see.
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I'm glad it worked out. Good luck :victory: