Hi,
Blurry, low resolution Album Art/Contact Photos because thumbnails are being used instead of the full-res source image. The only work round I have seen on the web is to make a phone only contact linked to the good image and then link it to the google one. I have done the work around for my most important contacts but is there anything you can do on a rooted phone to fix this?
Seems like you could force it to use the image on your phone over the one on the Google site.
Thanks,
ThorsGal
I've also been dealing with this problem, I've turned off all the options to sync with my gmail /google account, Facebook, and HTC, but it still continues to leave my favorites contact images like.crap.
I too have had this problem. I finally get it to work by cropping a very high res photo (well, with the built in 8MP camera they are all high res) then setting it. Then if it is blurry, go to People > [desired contact] > Menu > Edit > then touch the picture thumbnail by the contact name at the top and select and crop the new image from that screen. The high res part seemed common sense, but for some reason it did not always work for me. The last part through edit seemed to fix the remaining issues.
Hope that helps.
willwalk93 said:
I too have had this problem. I finally get it to work by cropping a very high res photo (well, with the built in 8MP camera they are all high res) then setting it. Then if it is blurry, go to People > [desired contact] > Menu > Edit > then touch the picture thumbnail by the contact name at the top and select and crop the new image from that screen. The high res part seemed common sense, but for some reason it did not always work for me. The last part through edit seemed to fix the remaining issues.
Hope that helps.
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That's what I do but it continues to change back. It's especially annoying because I have a favorites widget on my 2nd most used homescreen.
One workaround for this issue (which is an Android/Gmail contacts issue) is to use Facebook for HTC and sync your contacts that way. It will display your contact's facebook profile image.
I found all my friends Facebook images were blurry as caller id as well. I was syncing contacts with Facebook for android. I unsynced, and synced contacts with Facebook for HTC sense. Crystal clear.
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Bump old thread sorry, but i am getting this also and it is very very very anoying. Anyone find a fix yet?!
Dustxking said:
Bump old thread sorry, but i am getting this also and it is very very very anoying. Anyone find a fix yet?!
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if you use Facebook for HTC Sense that problem goes away. for some reason when you use the regular facebook app things get screwed up and honestly, In my opinion, Facebook for HTC sense is WAY better even though it doesnt have as many options
Zesty01 said:
if you use Facebook for HTC Sense that problem goes away. for some reason when you use the regular facebook app things get screwed up and honestly, In my opinion, Facebook for HTC sense is WAY better even though it doesnt have as many options
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My experience is the opposite.
I've been using "Facebook for HTC Sense" for quite some time, and had a very annoying issue: every once in a while it decides to do a "clean" sync of all my contacts. This means REMOVING all its contacts, and then re-add them from the beginning.
This is not my understanding of "syncing" In my opinion, if nothing is changed then you should change nothing. if one contact is added, so you should add only this one contact, etc'.
This was very annoying because the phone kept 'suggesting' me to link contacts - that I have already linked/ignored before! Over and over again.
I found out about the fact that it actually removes all of its contacts by looking at the HTC's 'people' app -> menu -> View -> then look at the number of "facebook for htc sense" contacts.
One day I see 1200 contacts. The NEXT day - 450 contacts...
a few minutes later - 520 contacts... and so on.
Sometimes is doesn't even make it till the end before it starts from 0 all over again, god knows why.
I was using original HTC Desire S, original ROM, S-ON, unrooted.
Then, I decided to remove Facebook for HTC Sense.
I started using the standard 'Facebook for Android' app to sync contacts.
Then - everything worked great. syncing was very fast, and once all the contacts were synced - they stayed synced.
Only problem was, as this thread describes, that stupid google blurred my images.
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Is there a way to get the contact photos not to blurry? Every time I call someone or receive a call the photo is really blurry or grainy.
I have tried the method where you go into your people, and change the photo of your contacts to an actual picture of them that you have on your phone. But it never works. The photos always change back to the photo they have on Facebook and it looks horrible.
Crap!!! work area of the forums can you please move this to General.. I thought I was in that area when I posted the reply.
If you have a HTC Sense account on your phone you should sync your FB contacts through it. It will make the pictures much more clear. For some reason they look terrible when synced through the FB app.
This post really helped me however when I tried to sign up for Sense I couldn't get past the part that says I have logged in on my device. Any advice?
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milleirish said:
Is there a way to get the contact photos not to blurry? Every time I call someone or receive a call the photo is really blurry or grainy.
I have tried the method where you go into your people, and change the photo of your contacts to an actual picture of them that you have on your phone. But it never works. The photos always change back to the photo they have on Facebook and it looks horrible.
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I know that if you sync your phone contacts with Google, then Google automatically resizes the photos, thus making them blurry. What I do is make sure all my contacts reside on my phone. No Facebook, no Google, just phone, and my contact photos are crystal clear.
So maybe I shouldn't sync with fb. However I love having bdays and events on by calendar.
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This is an Android/Gmail bug. For some reason Google refuses to fix this even though there are several bug reports submitted on their support forums. Whenever syncing contacts using the Gmail service, your contact photos are resized to what is used by gtalk. I was never able to find a work around for this. I not syncing with Gmail contacts defeats the whole purpose. I've basically learned to live with it. It's pretty ridiculous how such an easy thing could be fixed though.
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This is an Android/Gmail bug. For some reason Google refuses to fix this even though there are several bug reports submitted on their support forums. Whenever syncing contacts using the Gmail service, your contact photos are resized to what is used by gtalk. I was never able to find a work around for this. I not syncing with Gmail contacts defeats the whole purpose. I've basically learned to live with it. It's pretty ridiculous how such an easy thing could be fixed though.
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I agree. If Google is smart, they would keep the actual size of the photo selected and allow each program to resize it as needed. Not on the contacts page. Especially since all of the newer phones now are HD devices.
i've had sense on some other phones, and i'm experiencing some sort of bug that i can't seem to fix. i have facbook for htc sense sync contacts instead of the facebook app because it syncs a higher resolution image than facebook itself. some of my contacts, which seem to be contacts that aren't linked to anything else, the facebook only ones are syncing at low resolution. i can solve this by linking the contact to someone else, clicking their picture and then the picture selection options resyncs the hi res image and i can unlink the contact again.
i can't figure out why this is happening, but after i fix it, and go back into contacts they're all low res again, it's almost like it's zooming in the picture, i mean the pictures are right, it just seems to be blowing them up or zooming in causing them to look terrible, this is only happening with contacts that aren't linked to another contact. it's really really annoying, anyone else experiencing this?
you link people together ?? why ?? my mom and my dad have seperate numbers why linking them ? is this even possible ??
ok... anyways ...
for me the picturequality stayd the same as i turned off google contact sync ... maybe this helps you too
i link people together because i have a ton of contacts under different services, google, facebook, twitter, last.fm, and the ability to link them under one contact card is, for me, the best feature sense offers. turning off google contact sync would not be the fix for this issue, i'd lose 400 contacts doing that.
no... you will keep them ... it just stopping syncing the new contacts youre adding !!!! ... when you have new contacts you can turn it on again ... but try it .... nothing will get lost .... and my pictures stayed in same quality ....
for me it was the same .... new contact picture and after some minutes picture was blurry .... and when i turned on they stayd in same quality ...
google saves the contactpicture in low quality
i'll try it, but this issue isn't with google contacts, the contacts it's happening with are actually contacts that don't have a google link.
mmhhh.... its worth a try ... maybe its a random google android thing .... lets see
it has been my experience that the native fb program attached to sense supply's the pics in your fb contacts in sense as well as launcher pro. i don't have a resolution issue. My problem is that in the sms log the contact pics sometimes disappear and only the number is there. that is annoying... I need that to be fixed since i don't know phone numbers by heart anymore. DANG you technology!!!!
Hi guys, im new to the HTC line and i'm having a hard time fixing this widget called "People." The pictures of my contacts is really blurry, it is sync with my facebook. So i thought, must be the facebook, but then when i try uploading pictures that i took, it still look blurry. Anyone knows how to fix this? or is this a defect or problem with my Htc sensation? Thanks guys
When the image is linked to a contact it is saved at a lower resolution. I don't think anyone has gotten around that yet, even with root.
what I did was removed Facebook sync contacts and added synch Facebook for HTC sense.
for contacts w/o Facebook links I created phone contacts, linked them to the Google contact, then selected the phone contact as the default contact, then applied a pic from gallery. this method seems to keep the higher Res pics for me even after Google syncs contacts.
its tedious but so far the only thing that's worked for me.
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Same problem here...
I have the HTC Desire-S with all latest software updates (android v2.3.5 and htc sense 3.0) and I'm having the same problem you have, plus:
-The widget people and the contacts from time to time loses the images and linked contacts...
-Corping pictures for the widget and for the picture galery also loses too much quality compared with HTC Desire (non S).
In the old htc desire (non S) this was never an issue and the image quality in widget and in a call was HD.
This problem is very stupid...
Is there any solution?
Hi folks,
As I knew that, from Sense 3.5 there would be no "Facebook for HTC Sense". However I do like it much because it syncs automatically my Facebook friend's informations such as email, birthday. Thus I do not need to add manually.
I did search but had no luck to have this app Can anyone help me on this issue?
Thanks in advance,
T.
ximocko said:
Hi folks,
As I knew that, from Sense 3.5 there would be no "Facebook for HTC Sense". However I do like it much because it syncs automatically my Facebook friend's informations such as email, birthday. Thus I do not need to add manually.
I did search but had no luck to have this app Can anyone help me on this issue?
Thanks in advance,
T.
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If you log on the the Facebook app (get it from market if you don't have it) it will ask you if you want to authorise it for HTC Sense and then it works as Facebook for HTC Sense did on 3.0
Exactly. You will have the same functions of the Facebook for HTC Sense just using the normal facebook app.
When you add the account it will ask you to authorize HTC Sense on you're facebook account and voilà, you're done. Same results with only 1 account setted up instead of two. A big big improvement, more efficient, more elegant and more battery friendly (1 sync instead of two )
But I have a problem with the Facebook for HTC Sense in Sense 3.5. Facebook photos of my friends can be shown in all HTC apps (People, Message) but in Whatsapp, they're all empty. Previously in Sense 3.0 ROM, photos are shown correctly in Whatsapp. So there's an incompatibility between Sense 3.5 and Whatsapp?
One more issue i'm facing is that I don't get the status update of the person on my screen as was with the FB for HTC sense app.
ANyone else facing the same issue as me?
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But I have a problem with the Facebook for HTC Sense in Sense 3.5. Facebook photos of my friends can be shown in all HTC apps (People, Message) but in Whatsapp, they're all empty. Previously in Sense 3.0 ROM, photos are shown correctly in Whatsapp. So there's an incompatibility between Sense 3.5 and Whatsapp?
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I have exactly the same issue with GOSMS - it appears to be using an old Facebook picture - does anyone know where Facebook for HTC Sense stored the pictures?
I'm pretty sure missing contact pictures can be fixed by booting into recovery and and selecting 'Fix Permissions'
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I'm pretty sure missing contact pictures can be fixed by booting into recovery and and selecting 'Fix Permissions'
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Just tried that in recovery and makes no difference.
But I installed Line yesterday and found its contact list has photo shown correctly. So it maybe up to Whatsapp now to fix it.
i had similar problem.. I just booted recovery, wiped everything, reflashed rom, and voila.. I got all pictures set, with good quality..
Hope that helps
Laynee1 said:
i had similar problem.. I just booted recovery, wiped everything, reflashed rom, and voila.. I got all pictures set, with good quality..
Hope that helps
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today I did a little bit more test. I removed facebook sync account completely. to my surprise, whatapps is able to show contact photo again. these photos are from my gmail contacts, not from facebook.
I then add facebook account again and whatapps contact photo disappears.
so now its quite conclusive that whatapps is having problem with Facebook for HTC Sense in Sense 3.5.
Maybe, in some way, its bugged because you have several photos on one contact ( FB, Gmail and others)..
Try deleting all photos but 1 for each contact..
Hope this helps..
Cheers
Laynee1 said:
Maybe, in some way, its bugged because you have several photos on one contact ( FB, Gmail and others)..
Try deleting all photos but 1 for each contact..
Hope this helps..
Cheers
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried removing all other photos, leaving just Facebook photo. But no, it still doesn't show in Whatsapp.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried removing all other photos, leaving just Facebook photo. But no, it still doesn't show in Whatsapp.
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It might actually be related to the photo itself. I have a friend who has a different photo in Gmail and Facebook. And these accounts are linked. If I change the default photo in People to Gmail photo, Whatsapp is able to show it. If I change it to Facebook photo, Whatsapp cannot.
So the problem is not the linkage but rather some attribute of the photo. And I'd say the resolution of the photo might be the culprit here since Facebook uses higher resolution while that of Gmail is very low. Perhaps Whatsapp is unable to handle that kind of resolution.
Of course, that's my theory only. Can others in this thread try to do something to see if I'm right or wrong?
I am facing the Same thing.
in Sense 3.0,Whatsapp pics of facebook work properly.
In Sense 3.5, same thing happens as yours.
So it's a sense 3.5 issue
bteljuice said:
I am facing the Same thing.
in Sense 3.0,Whatsapp pics of facebook work properly.
In Sense 3.5, same thing happens as yours.
So it's a sense 3.5 issue
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The latest Whatsapp version seems to have fixed this problem. Now contact pictures are shown properly.
2.7.431?
im still having the same problem
Problem still persists for me, though I used a workaround which is SyncMyPix app from Market. Pics are fixed, but that's just a workaround.
I'm having the exact same problem.
Same here
Hi
As the title saids, how can I made pictures in people app better?
They look nice when you see all contact thumbnail, but when I open single contact
or making a call they look terrible, I can see every pixel.
Is there any easy way to fix this, other than uploading hires photo of every single contact one-by-one?
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
Large photos
Android now supports high resolution photos for contacts. Now, when you push a photo into a contact record, the system processes it into both a 96x96 thumbnail (as it has previously) and a 256x256 "display photo" that's stored in a new file-based photo store (the exact dimensions that the system chooses may vary in the future). You can add a large photo to a contact by putting a large photo in the usual PHOTO column of a data row, which the system will then process into the appropriate thumbnail and display photo records.
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FINALLY
a great app that fix resolution of contacts, haxsync, great, brilliant little app, uses facebook pictures
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
You would have to change as the ones Gmail saves on the server are low resolution.
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I've tryed to change one contact picture on Gmail, I've put hires photo, but after sync, again its very low quality and ugly.
Same here!
Any solution to this?
My Galaxy S i9000 isnt on ICS yet, but i know this will bug me!
So as I understand:
To have a Hi-def contact image in the People app, we need to assign a new photo via our phones.
If we assign a photo via Gmail Contacts, we will end up with a low resolution image.
Thus this is not an Android issue, rather Google need to sort out the Contacts image function in Gmail
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Any solution to this?
My Galaxy S i9000 isnt on ICS yet, but i know this will bug me!
So as I understand:
To have a Hi-def contact image in the People app, we need to assign a new photo via our phones.
If we assign a photo via Gmail Contacts, we will end up with a low resolution image.
Thus this is not an Android issue, rather Google need to sort out the Contacts image function in Gmail
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+1. i think google has to sort this out. maybe an option to choose HD image or low image.
Anyone find a solution to this? Only had my phone for one day and its already bugging me.
Same here.... Looking for a fix. I uploaded my own pic, but I DO NOT want to do this for each contact.
CSI enhance! But, other than that, there's no automatic way.
The contact images from Google+ are hi-res, however.
When I put manually hires pictures, after google sync, and installing other rom (also ics) and then restore contacts,again over google - they go back to low quality..
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kvaju said:
When I put manually hires pictures, after sync, and installing other rom (also ics) and then restore contacts, they go back to low quality..
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Yup. Notice that after ROM installs, the pictures get pixelated.
You know what i dont get? How does this not get noticed during testing? It seems everyone has this problem...no idea why its happening though
If that's how it was made, its not really a problem to them lol I use Ringo pro for my contacts and it uses higher quality pictures
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You know what i dont get? How does this not get noticed during testing? It seems everyone has this problem...no idea why its happening though
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NexusoftheUniverse said:
You know what i dont get? How does this not get noticed during testing? It seems everyone has this problem...no idea why its happening though
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I think they did notice it during testing. But the Android team is (probably) not the same as the Gmail team. This requires changes in Gmail, but they can't just go over there and say "fix this".
I do hope Google is working on this. I noticed it during the ICS introduction from Google as well: when they demonstrated the People app you could see a pictures of a seahorse that was low-res...
Meh, this doesn't look good: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=6b0562c425cc1f5d&hl=en . It's a post from a Google Empleyee who says they'll look into the problem. That was posted in november 2009
ICS is officially out, but still they are fuzzy :S
I experienced this issue from the very first day of my smartphone life. And google has not fixed it yet.
There are several other minor bugs that were not fixed since Eclair don't know why but how could google not know about those obvious issue and not fixing it...
try installing g+ app and then your contacts should receive better hi res pictures. Of course only the ones that have g plus as well.
I still can not belive how can they do something like this.
Every time someone is calling I see those pixels all over the screen :S
FINALY
a great app that fix resolution of contacts, haxsync, great, brilliant little app, uses facebook pictures!
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But haxsync is not able to do custom links with your contacts. So if a contact in your Facebook does not have the exactly same name in your address book it does not work. My contacts do look a bit messy because of that app now...
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