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New user Android question, regarding pictures for contacts

Hey all, new HTC Legend owner here and am absolutely loving the phone, but jsut had a quick question. I went into gmail and assigned some contacts (since I sync from gmail for contacts list) some pictures so our SMS chats would look pretty. And they do look pretty, but I can't figure out how to assign an avatar to MYSELF.
What I mean is, take a look at this chat message I'm having with a friend
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She has a pretty rose for her picture but why do I look like a seuxal predator?? How do I change that!!
Thanks in advance all!!

Mine was like this for a while then it suddenly just started showing my avatar try resting your avatar in Google then force a re sync. Mine only started showing once I changed my fb image so give it a go
Sent from my HTC Legend using XDA App

I don't use stock messaging app (I don't even have it installed), but I can tell you that handcent has option to add your picture.

picture quality

why is the picture quality reduces on cm7, i am on nightly 150..
original picture
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picture on my phone
is it the phone?..if not can it be fixed?

If the phone's screen was bad, then the screenshot wouldn't look as bad. That's because the screenshot app doesn't take a pic of what's on it screen. It's taken from the rendering coming out of the GPU.
So don't worry, there's nothing wrong with your screen. Its probably the ROM.... or maybe someone somehow screwed up your GPU .

qzan7 said:
why is the picture quality reduces on cm7, i am on nightly 150..
is it the phone?..if not can it be fixed?
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Seems to be a problem with the gallery app. I have/had the same problem. I wanted to have a specific picture as my wallpaper and the endquality looked horrible like in your screenshot. I read somewhere while googling, that the gallery app downscales the pictures in some way (correct me if im wrong).
If you want to make that picture as a wallpaper and want to keep the quality i can recommend the app "Crop Wallpaper". It lets you crop your pictures while keeping it's original quality and sets it as your wallpaper.

MMS attachments - VCF and images dont work or look like crap

So I've had a few folks with iPhones send me VCFs, and they appear as a tiny unclickable image in the messaging list, but can't seem to be able to do anything with it. Getting photos from iPhones seems to come across as a slide show video where it shows the text for 10 sec, and then the image for 10 seconds.
Is there a way to change / fix this so I could imports the VCFs or view the image without slideshow?

integramodder said:
So I've had a few folks with iPhones send me VCFs, and they appear as a tiny unclickable image in the messaging list, but can't seem to be able to do anything with it. Getting photos from iPhones seems to come across as a slide show video where it shows the text for 10 sec, and then the image for 10 seconds.
Is there a way to change / fix this so I could imports the VCFs or view the image without slideshow?
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Here's an example of a VCF that I received that I couldn't open / save. Ultimately had to call the person back and have them read me the #.
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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
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ttt

[Q] Google Camera and storage

Recently I checked my devices storage and found something more annoying than interesting. Its about the Google Camera and my storage. I took about 250 pics with the Google Camera and it takes about 1,34 GB space (pictures below). But the Google Camera also take this amount of space away. So technically spoken there are double space taken away.
Why?
Can anyone tell me? Thanks?
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

CCody said:
Recently I checked my devices storage and found something more annoying than interesting. Its about the Google Camera and my storage. I took about 250 pics with the Google Camera and it takes about 1,34 GB space (pictures below). But the Google Camera also take this amount of space away. So technically spoken there are double space taken away.
Why?
Can anyone tell me? Thanks?
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Backup your photos somewhere, then try clearing Google Camera's data. What happens?

I also considered that, but nothing happens when I cleared it. And although I move all pictures to my computer, the camera still occupied so much storage. Thats strange...

camera not working properly

hi guys, my camera has stopped working properly recently. when i take pictures the and press the camera button the white frame usually appears to indicate the picture has been taken, however sometimes i have to press it multiple times before the white frame appears and after i take pictures they seem to look "split" and "cracked". could this be due to me deleted a few samsung bloatware apps with titanium backup? but i have not deleted any samsung camera apps, just unneccessary apps such as s health etc. also after recording a video i have to press the stop button a few times before it actually stops and when i try to play the video it says "video cannot be played". any help?
i am using the stock samsung camera app. this problem doesnt occur all the time but when it does its very annoying.
i will attach a sample below
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It's probably the sd card, happened to me before, try to use your device as your camera storage first and then check the image, you can also move the photo to your sd card from your internal storage and see what happens.