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High quality contact pics?

I'm not going to go into great detail about this, (I can if you need me to), because I'm sure most people know what I mean, but is there a way to keep high quality contact pictures with Google contact sync left ON?
I was hoping with a combination of Froyo, and the new contacts system in gmail, the problem would be gone. No such luck.
Thanks guys.
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sub'd for a hopeful solution as this bugs the **** out of me as well...especially because I keep a few contact widgets on my home screen

I was wondering the same thing. Thoughts?

same. bump!

It's not much of a fix really, but if you get the full screen contact app, you do have to manually select hi res images for it to work, but that hiquality image does because the contact pic as well (as a side effect I guess) I didn't want to go through my contacts and do all of that so i ended up removing it, but maybe that will get you what you want.

SyncMyPix has an option to pull high quality pics from your friend's facebook account. I think it is better quality than the normal facebook contacts sync.

On top of that, with the new Google search widget if you want it to recognize your contacts when you say them, for example "send text to Amy" you have to have contact sync turned on. So I want the functionality of the search, or the low res contact images that are just not ugly, but embarrassing. Why won't Google fix this?
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[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

Cyanogen = no contact sync

Hello! I put the cyanogen rom a few days ago. I really don't like the contacts management....the list is ok, but the sync of the photos just doesn't work. Only some contacts are being sync-ed with facebook showing the right photos.
And the problem is that if I use a contact widget (for example photo contact widget or animated contact widget), the contacts won't have the facebook photo....but if I go in the contact list, those contacts correctly display the facebook photo, although of course if I go into the contact description, the contact itself has no photo, but it has only the '[email protected]' of facebook, synced to it.
Is there a way to make a proper sync? I don't want to use a photo for every contact...it would be just so easy to have everything working again like it was with HTC sense (everything automatic and synced).
Is that because the HTC facebook for sense is missing with cyanogen?
And also, do you have another ROM to advice? I am not sure i really prefer this cyanogen to the stock htc sense one....

i have the same problem with Cyanogen roms... is there a solution for this?

i have no idea...the way cyanogen manages the contacts looks really not that good...htc sense was way better.
anyway, the really weird thing is that now, among my contacts, everyone has the facebook photo but 3. 3 contacts seem they cannot sync the photo from facebook...i did it 3 times, i also reset the sync with facebook and then synced again....those 3 contacts just don't sync. i checked the names: 100% correct.
it is a bit annoying...sure not so important, but it is anyway annoying.

rogermorse said:
i have no idea...the way cyanogen manages the contacts looks really not that good...htc sense was way better.
anyway, the really weird thing is that now, among my contacts, everyone has the facebook photo but 3. 3 contacts seem they cannot sync the photo from facebook...i did it 3 times, i also reset the sync with facebook and then synced again....those 3 contacts just don't sync. i checked the names: 100% correct.
it is a bit annoying...sure not so important, but it is anyway annoying.
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If the picture doesn't sync, try going to the facebook app and going to the person's facebook page. When the picture loads there, I noticed it also loads in my contact list.

As far as know, Facebook for HTC sense lets you sync contact photos, and remembers the link (in the comments). Facebook app only sync contacts that have their number shared in their profile, and you cannot manually create a link.
Cyanogen and Htc sense don't go together, so unfortunately you wouldn't be able to sync it the way you did with htc sense.
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It will sync automatic as long as the name is the same. Thats why some are done and some are not.
Also if you edit a contact and then press menu then join if the name is similar it will show there facebook profile and you can join them.

rogermorse said:
i have no idea...the way cyanogen manages the contacts looks really not that good...htc sense was way better.
anyway, the really weird thing is that now, among my contacts, everyone has the facebook photo but 3. 3 contacts seem they cannot sync the photo from facebook...i did it 3 times, i also reset the sync with facebook and then synced again....those 3 contacts just don't sync. i checked the names: 100% correct.
it is a bit annoying...sure not so important, but it is anyway annoying.
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I had a similar issue, and it seemed the problem was certain contacts who I'd previously (before I had the phone) assigned contact photos in Google Contacts. They were correctly linked to their Facebook accounts, but still showed the other photo. Solved it for each one by selecting 'edit contact' then scrolling right down to the end where it shows their facebook details, tap the photo there and select 'use this photo.' If the photo doesn't even show up in the 'edit' dialogue then I don't know.
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have to restart and delete cache

@rogermorse
Would you mind amending your original thread subject to reflect the fact this is about Facebook please? Many thanks in advance.
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Contacts image issue NOT fixed in 2.3.4 update :-(

UPDATE: I got excited too early thinking the problem is fixed. It's just the google sync took too long. So, we still have to use magnifying glasses to view the tiny useless image for caller id picture.
One of my favorite feature on SE android phones is how uniquely it displays contact image while dialing or incoming call. That got messed up in previous update.
Now, it looks fine and the google image is not over writing the image selected on phone.

I've still got the problem in 2.3.4, in case the phone book is sync with Google contacts.
How to fix the problem??
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The problem is still present in this update.
Tried using high res pics for my contacts.
Auto sync to Google contacts is enabled.
Viewed my contacts after the sync and picture size returned to low resolution.
Now I removed the check mark on "Sync Contacts" for a temporary solution and backed up the contacts on my desktop.
Sigh.

In my current 2.3.3 fw, the contact pictures do not have this problem if you go into album, select a picture, click on options and set it as caller image. However, if you go into your contact list and change the caller image by editing contact info, this problem comes up. Either way it's still too much hassle setting caller image for every contact in the phonebook. I'll bear with the tiny photo sync-ed with Facebook for now.

jjbbb said:
I've still got the problem in 2.3.4, in case the phone book is sync with Google contacts.
How to fix the problem??
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I waited for more than a minute and the high res image stayed. Must be some slow sync at that time. You are right it doesn't work even if you set contact picture form gallery instead of setting from Contacts - Edit.
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jerrytea said:
In my current 2.3.3 fw, the contact pictures do not have this problem if you go into album, select a picture, click on options and set it as caller image. However, if you go into your contact list and change the caller image by editing contact info, this problem comes up. Either way it's still too much hassle setting caller image for every contact in the phonebook. I'll bear with the tiny photo sync-ed with Facebook for now.
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If that worked in 2.3.3, it doesn't any more in 2.3.4.

I have solved this by adding the contact person manually as internal contact and not google contact. If you give it the same name it will automatically be linked to the google contact, you do not have to add any phone numbers, just an empty contact with the same name. This contact will have priority over the google contact and added highres pictures to the internal contact will be used instead of the small google/facebook contact.
I can see some reason to this, if you have 1MB pictures on over 100 contacts and you sync them all, that will cost allot for those who do not have unlimited data. Many users are not technically enough to be aware of this when setting up their new phone with a google contact, this could lead to allot of unhappy customers/users with huge bills just by synchonizing their contacts.
The other issue would be the huge cost of internal memory having 100MB consumed just to store high res pictures for 100+ contacts and time it might take to synchronize.
It might take some time to do this manually but once done the pictures will stay for the contacts. I do not mind this workaround to have high res pictures, but can see it might be a big hassle for those few how often reset their phones and would have to set everything up again and again.
Do any of you know where the contact pictures are stored? I would think the internal memory but I am not sure, I am only using high res pictures on a few of my contacts.

Use Sony sync for contacts and your images will remain the same.
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Don't worry this firmware is just a middle version the "full" version will come in october till november so there is still a chance to fix :]

anyone else spotted anything else exept contacts?

This problem is back in the ICS(at least the Arconium 2.2 ICS) The callerID is ok if I use facebook contacs sync app from play store. But the main Sheet of contact info is different. It only has this cmall little useless picture on the top left. I want the faded almost full screen like picture back. Any ideas?

this isn't a bug with the sony firmware it is a google contacts sync problem there is a bug filed on it in the google code group but after 10 min of searching i couldn't find it
Pvy.

[TUT] How to KEEP high quality contact images in ICS...

I discovered haxsync, which to my dismay, worked only until google decided to resync the ****ty quality pictures. I would have crisp pictures, then soon after the pictures would return to the 96x96 blurfest.
So this is how I downloaded and managed to keep my high quality images. In essence we are clearing the image cache from google and restarting.
Before starting I would clear the data +FC both facebook and haxsync if they're installed.
*at your own risk, I'm not at fault if you lose all your ****.
1- log into your gmail account and into the contacts list
2- export the contacts list in whatever format it defaults to
3- double check that the contacts list was exported somewhere
4 - if you're cautious, you may want to make a fake gmail account to load up the exported contacts list just to make sure it's really all there
5 - select all your contacts in the gmail contacts page and delete them all.
6- turn on sync on your phone, and let your contacts sync (you should have none at this point)
7-go back to the contacts list from gmail and import the exported contact list from step 2
8 - Sync this again on your phone. You will now have contacts sans the pictures.
9- open up haxsync, set up the parameters to however you want, and get it to sync
10 - open up facebook and make sure it does not sync your contacts
11 - if you have any contacts without pictures, open up their profile, hit the menu key to bring up "join" and find any other instances of them, and join them.
The point of exporting the contacts list is that the exported data does not include the low quality pictures. When you import the list, you import them sans those low quality pictures.
I haven't tried signing into a different nexus S or galaxy nexus, but hopefully signing up to an ICS capable phone should automatically download the high quality pictures.

erikikaz said:
I discovered haxsync, which to my dismay, worked only until google decided to resync the ****ty quality pictures. I would have crisp pictures, then soon after the pictures would return to the 96x96 blurfest.
So this is how I downloaded and managed to keep my high quality images. In essence we are clearing the image cache from google and restarting.
Before starting I would clear the data +FC both facebook and haxsync if they're installed.
*at your own risk, I'm not at fault if you lose all your ****.
1- log into your gmail account and into the contacts list
2- export the contacts list in whatever format it defaults to
3- double check that the contacts list was exported somewhere
4 - if you're cautious, you may want to make a fake gmail account to load up the exported contacts list just to make sure it's really all there
5 - select all your contacts in the gmail contacts page and delete them all.
6- turn on sync on your phone, and let your contacts sync (you should have none at this point)
7-go back to the contacts list from gmail and import the exported contact list from step 2
8 - Sync this again on your phone. You will now have contacts sans the pictures.
9- open up haxsync, set up the parameters to however you want, and get it to sync
10 - open up facebook and make sure it does not sync your contacts
11 - if you have any contacts without pictures, open up their profile, hit the menu key to bring up "join" and find any other instances of them, and join them.
The point of exporting the contacts list is that the exported data does not include the low quality pictures. When you import the list, you import them sans those low quality pictures. I haven't tried it, but hopefully signing up to an ICS capable phone should automatically download the high quality pictures.
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Whoa! Going to have to try this, seems like it should work. Thanks OP!

ooh , nice
i will try it later dear
thank u <3

Looking forward to trying this out. My GF was freaked out when she realized all of her contact picture were all low-res and insisted I flash GB back...

it look nice..tq..

Thank you for good instructions

np.
Just repeated this process on my gf's Nexus S and it worked great. Worst part is having to look through your contacts to join profiles that didn't link.

Does this actually work? Once Google syncs the contacts again wouldn't it reduce the image quality again? Or am I missing something?
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Thanks, will surely try this.
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