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?
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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.
I received my Sensation yesterday and imported my SMS' from my old HD2 running Android using the SMS Backup & Restore App.
When looking at the list of SMS conversation threads, not all of them use the contact pictures for the contact.
Some are blank, some have the standard HTC silhouette person for contacts with no pictures and some have pictures.
Once I go into the thread, the picture appears correctly at the top left.
Does anyone have this problem? Or know of any solution to get them back?
When running android on your HD2 were you using a Desire HD rom with htcsense.com functionality? Are any of your contacts linked (check)? I noticed htc sense syncs your contacts but not the pics and messed up my contacts.
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It was a Desire HD rom and I did sign up for htcsense.com, but when I log into htcsense.com, there is no details about contacts or SMS'.
My contacts come from my Exchange account and are linked through Facebook for HTC Sense, Facebook, Twitter, Twitter for HTC Sense, LinkedIn and LinkedIn for HTC Sense (alot, I know!).
yeah that's a big flaw to me when it comes to htcsense.com. it used to have way more functionality when if first came out & now it's kinda gimped. If they're gonna backup all that data there needs to be some way to manage it.
My suggestion is to sign in to htcsense, wait for it to sync, then clear data for Contacts Storage & hopefully htc sense will sync that, then log out of it & sync with your Exchange account.
Thanks, but I don't think it's anything to do with HTC Sense.
My icons are linked to the contacts, they display in "People", appear when they phone and are there when I enter a threaded conversation - just not when on the main SMS screen that shows all conversations.
Anyone able to offer any more advice?
Is there a way to force it to rebuild the smaller versions of the pictures? Is there a cache I can clean out (Without wiping my contacts)?
Thanks
Anyone know how to fix the blurry pictures for the htc people widget its horrible looking even when it uses the Facebook pictures it looks messed up.
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On my EVO 3D the Facebook contact pics are fixed when you link it to sense Facebook....not the regular fb
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The problem is Google. Google uses a pathetic resolution for the contacts (96x96?) and therefore, when you have Gmail sync enabled, all the photos are replaced with lousy low-res versions, even if you uploaded a hi-res picture in the first place.
This has been discussed on several threads in Gmail support for a few years now, *WITHOUT* a solution. Google needs to get with the times and fix this once and for all.
Sync contacts with facebook for htc sense and stop syncing for google and facebook for android...though facebook for htc sense is also not that perfect...but a lot better then the others...
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thanks for the tips guys. i had this issue with my desire but never bothered to change it.. now with the bigger screen it was really needed !
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
So, as you all know, FB can't sync its contacts with your phone from ICS to JB, and there's been lots of hacks/apps to allow this. Back when ICS was barely released, HaxSync was one of the only working apps, and also produced high quality pics.
Fast forward to today, I can't use HaxSync to sync FB contacts, only to sync my Calender. Is this because HTC Sense already implements FB sync? Or is there another reason why it doesn't work? Will provide screenshots if it helps.
Also, reason I want HaxSync instead of the Sense FB sync is because HS produces very high reso pics, Sense produces some very pixelated images, which are made worse by the 720p display.
Any help is appreciated and thanked!
Nvm, fixed it. Had to freeze "Facebook for HTC Sense". Seems this part of Sense kept interfering with allowing HaxSync download/sync my contacts.
Used Titanium Backup Pro in case anyone was wondering.
Does this allow you to have high res contact pictures when receiving phone calls?
Also, does HS sync your fb profile pics everywhere in the phone? Ie, messaging app, contacts, etc.
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funkswing said:
Does this allow you to have high res contact pictures when receiving phone calls?
Also, does HS sync your fb profile pics everywhere in the phone? Ie, messaging app, contacts, etc.
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No high res yet, there's a compatibility issue with sense.
But yes, they show up everywhere, including apps that aren't Sense based, like Go SMS or Ex Dialer. This is the main reason I use HS, because if you sync the contacts directly through Facebook, they only show up in Sense apps.
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