when i zoom in on website pics, pics and text are blurry as hell. it looks terrible . need help, how do i fix this??????
Disable "Turbo Mode"...
on opera 9????
how do you turn turbo off???
This was why I changed to Opera 10.. Wouldnt go back to 9 now. I never use pinch to zoom anyway.
It is blurry because of the dot pitch. You're actually stretching that image to 800 pixels wide.
(Edit: A better resize algorithm could help too)
Maybe you are with Tmobile, they use terrible image compression to save on bandwidth. well in the UK atleast.
I can't believe I am the only one having this problem, as I am now onto my second S4, and this new one also has the same problem, and my friend's S4, on a different Network, also does exactly the same...
The issue is, if I shoot a photo on my new Galaxy S4 in full 13Mp resolution, this produces an actual image on my device, that is 4128 x 3096 in resolution, with a File size of around 4.7MB As soon as I share it to Facebook however, either by clicking the Android Share link on the image and choosing "Facebook" as the destination, OR by using the Facebook App direct then choosing an image to upload, then I end up with a problem...
The image that actually arrives on Facebook, is heavily compressed with noise, and is resized down to just 1032 x 774 resolution, and a tiny file size of 178 KB (instead of the 4.7 MB masterpiece it actually was).
It does this with EVERY image I shoot - 100% of the time. And worse, is I mix things up a little, if I first REDUCE the resolution of my camera BEFORE taking a shot, if I drop it down to 8MP and take a photo, then despite the image now being a SMALLER photo, the image that arrives at Facebook is then BIGGER than those shot at 13MP, arriving at 1632 x 1224 instead.
Go figure...
But I suspect it's a bug in Facebook. However, given that my guess is that it affects 100% of S4 users, 100% of the time, I can't believe there are not thousands of discussions and debates about this issue... I can't find ANY discussion, for an issue that is there for ALL users, ALL of the time...
Please note also - whilst I am aware that there were high quality image upload issues on the S4 with Instagram too, this has been fixed in part, through an Instagram update. In my case, the photos that are resized down when uploaded to Facebook, are nevertheless perfectly correct and of the true size and quality when uploaded to any other Android Share location, or Social Networking Site, such as Google+ etc. It is only when sent to Facebook that the images are instead massively compressed, degraded, and down-sized.
So can anyone tell me - is this a known issue, for which the cause has been identified..? Or were none of you aware of this yourselves? If so, can you test it, as it's repeatable 100% here, on various S4's on various networks...
Take a photo on the phone in FULL RESOLUTION. Uploaded it to Facebook using the android sharing function on the S4. Then go to Facebook on a desktop PC and locate the photo you just added. Choose the option to download it to your PC, and save it. Examine the downloaded image, and identify if it is a true 13Mp image, or if for you too, the image has been uploaded at just 1032 x 774
And if that is the case, I'm amazed much more has not been made of this issue. I got the S4 because it has such an amazing camera, and I love uploading photos. Alas, as it stands, the device is useless, as it uploads my images to Facebook at a resolution and quality, lower than that of my first ever 1.2MP standalone Digital Camera of 1998...
Comments or ideas anyone?
Shadamehr said:
I can't believe I am the only one having this problem, as I am now onto my second S4, and this new one also has the same problem, and my friend's S4, on a different Network, also does exactly the same...
The issue is, if I shoot a photo on my new Galaxy S4 in full 13Mp resolution, this produces an actual image on my device, that is 4128 x 3096 in resolution, with a File size of around 4.7MB As soon as I share it to Facebook however, either by clicking the Android Share link on the image and choosing "Facebook" as the destination, OR by using the Facebook App direct then choosing an image to upload, then I end up with a problem...
The image that actually arrives on Facebook, is heavily compressed with noise, and is resized down to just 1032 x 774 resolution, and a tiny file size of 178 KB (instead of the 4.7 MB masterpiece it actually was).
It does this with EVERY image I shoot - 100% of the time. And worse, is I mix things up a little, if I first REDUCE the resolution of my camera BEFORE taking a shot, if I drop it down to 8MP and take a photo, then despite the image now being a SMALLER photo, the image that arrives at Facebook is then BIGGER than those shot at 13MP, arriving at 1632 x 1224 instead.
Go figure...
But I suspect it's a bug in Facebook. However, given that my guess is that it affects 100% of S4 users, 100% of the time, I can't believe there are not thousands of discussions and debates about this issue... I can't find ANY discussion, for an issue that is there for ALL users, ALL of the time...
Please note also - whilst I am aware that there were high quality image upload issues on the S4 with Instagram too, this has been fixed in part, through an Instagram update. In my case, the photos that are resized down when uploaded to Facebook, are nevertheless perfectly correct and of the true size and quality when uploaded to any other Android Share location, or Social Networking Site, such as Google+ etc. It is only when sent to Facebook that the images are instead massively compressed, degraded, and down-sized.
So can anyone tell me - is this a known issue, for which the cause has been identified..? Or were none of you aware of this yourselves? If so, can you test it, as it's repeatable 100% here, on various S4's on various networks...
Take a photo on the phone in FULL RESOLUTION. Uploaded it to Facebook using the android sharing function on the S4. Then go to Facebook on a desktop PC and locate the photo you just added. Choose the option to download it to your PC, and save it. Examine the downloaded image, and identify if it is a true 13Mp image, or if for you too, the image has been uploaded at just 1032 x 774
And if that is the case, I'm amazed much more has not been made of this issue. I got the S4 because it has such an amazing camera, and I love uploading photos. Alas, as it stands, the device is useless, as it uploads my images to Facebook at a resolution and quality, lower than that of my first ever 1.2MP standalone Digital Camera of 1998...
Comments or ideas anyone?
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I asked the same question in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256054
Haven't really gotten an answer yet. For now, i use an image resizer app, resize it to the dimensions of 3789 x 2131 .. and then upload to facebook... that ensures the maximum size gets uploaded to facebook. There doesnt seem to be a workaround for this until facebook updates the way its app uploads photos.
I noticed the exact same thing when going from an HTC One S to the S4 and I posted on another thread asking the same question. It's driving me crazy. Pretty sure it's the FB app and not the S4.
I was searching for a different matter regarding the fact that the Facebook app forces you to upload the pictures using a square shape instead of the original photo shape. I recently switched from iOS to Android and found myself with this annoying feature. iOS-version of FB app allows you to upload pictures without having to crop them into a square. Weird. --> Don't ask me how, but this is fixed now. No more square-shaped pictures.
Then again, I tried to by-pass this issue by uploading the picture through the mobile-version of the site/web app and found myself with this pop-up from Chrome.
"Unable to complete previous operation due low memory". Found this thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2101893 ) but the solution given is not exactly what I'm looking for. I wish to know why is this message popping up and what am I supposed to do.
Going back to the subject... I experienced the same thing when I uploaded a picture to my timeline (no cropping issue there). Resize is done in a way that messes up the whole picture with the compression.
I'm assuming they've built an algorithm that resizes the pictures to prevent people from uploading +4MB files, data usage... I don't know.
Is there any solution to any of my issues? thank you!
If it matters --> Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) - No SD card.
Also my problem with my octa s4.
I wonder why my friend's samsung duos mobile uploads are fullsized, while my s4's uploads are pixelated and so low quality.
For now I'm using Nokia 808 Pureview for my mobile upload but android do have vast application choices for editing photos before upload so I'm really annoyed by this.
Sorry to resurrect this but I'm having the same problem and couldn't find a fix
fransarj said:
Sorry to resurrect this but I'm having the same problem and couldn't find a fix
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Maybe it's just Facebook doing the automatic downsizing.
dratsablive said:
Maybe it's just Facebook doing the automatic downsizing.
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You're not having this problem?
If I use the mobile browser to upload, or a 3rd party app, it uploads in high resolution.
fransarj said:
You're not having this problem?
If I use the mobile browser to upload, or a 3rd party app, it uploads in high resolution.
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I don't know, my pictures seem fine when using the Facebook app.
Oh man I never noticed this till today!
I'm using a Note 3 and it downsides the pictures to 1000*xxx... what? That's like a 4x downsize... why???
Is there any fix (except uploading pix from the PC?)
its 2015 and the problem still exists! i think i'm movin to g+
Hi there.
I came from a previous HTC Inspire 4G phone. After a lot of custom rooms I ended up with one that had a lot of camera resolutions available for "hacking" the camera.
I'm wondering if there's a hack, code or something that can be changed on the S4 in order to get more camera resolutions.
What I'm trying to do is actually getting lower resolutions, like 640x480 or 1024x768 so I can take "snapshots" and avoid post-editing of the pictures.
To illustrate exactly the problem, I use the camera phone to scan big documents into pdf. Now the higher resolution of the default camera makes imposible to handle +30 pages scans, and the workaround (taking the picture, open the picture with a photo editor, resize the picture and save, then import picture on pdf scanner app) is not good enough, as it would steal the valuable time that you are suppose to be saving with this phone.
On the HTC the lower resolutions made it possible to just take a lot of "low res" pictures and pdf them really fast directly within the application.
I'm guessing that if you could pre-define lower resolutions to be selectable already on the stock camera application, maybe adding another ones could be as easy as "typing them" on the respective configuration file for the camera.
Any ideas?
Perhaps just take normal sized pictures at the nearest resolution and then write a bash script to crop or resize as necessary, and import that into the scanner app?
I'm not familiar with any hacks available to go beyond the usual stuff.
You can use InfraView (freeware) to batch resize all images. I do it for scaling boot animations all the time.
Has anyone noticed that when viewing your pictures that you took with the moto x camera on your phone you can see the pixels filling in? I don't see this when viewing other pictures I have in my gallery taken with other devices.
Just noticed it only does it when using the stock "gallery" app. When I use the "pictures" app is does not happen.
I have noticed this on other phones running the stock Android gallery app as well. Pictures above a certain size load lazily.
On another note, QuickPic is the bomb. It will do this as well though.
gtg465x said:
I have noticed this on other phones running the stock Android gallery app as well. Pictures above a certain size load lazily.
On another note, QuickPic is the bomb. It will do this as well though.
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Yes it does, I just tried it. !!
Do you mean that the photo is slightly blurry and then becomes sharper after a second or two? This is just to make the gallery faster. It loads the thumbnail as you swipe through the gallery quickly for speed, and only loads the full image (much clearer and sharper) after you've stopped on a photo for a second or two. If it loaded every photo in full size it would be very slow and you wouldn't be able to swipe as
It is perfectly normal.
I set my default application to view pictures as the google photos app. Is there a way to change this to gallery?
stavebomb said:
I set my default application to view pictures as the google photos app. Is there a way to change this to gallery?
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Settings / apps / google photo's app... there should be a "Launch by Defaults" at the bottom you can Clear defaults. Clear it, then you can select the app you want next time you open a picture.
Thank you!
I've been taking some 3840x2160 screenshots on my PC and transferring them to my phone uncompressed. They look really good when i look at them on screen through the gallery: Nice detail, sharp lines etc.
The images are taken in portrait so that when I download them onto my phone, I can rotate them 90 degrees so they fit the screen properly.
The problem is when I go to set the image as a wallpaper, the image becomes compressed ever so slightly. The once smooth lines are now noticeably jagged, even though there seems to be no stretching or scaling of the image. I am able to zoom in to the image to the exact same scale in the gallery and everything seems fine.
To me, there must some kind of process that is converting the image to a lower resolution or compressing the image in some way. My question is how do I stop it so the wallpaper looks nice and sharp.
Anyone know what is going on here who can tell me how I can prevent this?
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You've answered this yourself.
Your image is 2160p
The screen is 1440p
Or 1080p if like me you've realised that's m that it's virtually impossible to tell the difference and it's a negligible visual benefit for a significant battery hit.
So resize the image based on the screen you want to use or the phone will do it for you.
Depending on the launcher you're using you it may actually have a size limit and resolution so there should be they to take into account too.
Start by finding out what resolution you're using then get an image for it off the same resolution
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You've answered this yourself.
Your image is 2160p
The screen is 1440p
Or 1080p if like me you've realised that's m that it's virtually impossible to tell the difference and it's a negligible visual benefit for a significant battery hit.
So resize the image based on the screen you want to use or the phone will do it for you.
Depending on the launcher you're using you it may actually have a size limit and resolution so there should be they to take into account too.
Start by finding out what resolution you're using then get an image for it off the same resolution
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I did some additional research into the issue.
The oneplus 8 pro is 3168x1440. It is perfectly capable of displaying a 3840x2160 image with no significant loss of quality. I was able to zoom the image in the photo gallery to cover the entire display (as a wallpaper would) and found the image still looked crisp as it should, yet setting it as a wallpaper caused quality loss despite scaling the same. Clearly the issue was to do with the wallpaper scaling process in android (what the exact issue is i am not sure).
Nevertheless, i downloaded an app from the playstore that was able to fix the issue. The app is called Image 2 Wallpaper on the playstore.