Hello!
When I choose a contact photo for anyone, it gets awefully compressed. It does not look close as crisp and clear as the placeholder which come with the pro/diamond...
Any suggestions how to change this.
Hi, i had the same. I removed the photo and re-added it and they were crrrrisp!
Same thing...use right hard key, select "change photo", select the same photo, and it will be crisp. That or when you add a favorite that has no photo, and you select one for the first time, it is nice and clear.
Good luck
th1nm1nt said:
Same thing...use right hard key, select "change photo", select the same photo, and it will be crisp. That or when you add a favorite that has no photo, and you select one for the first time, it is nice and clear.
Good luck
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Is there a way to sync the outlook contacts so that the photos that are within Outlook appear crisp on the Touch Pro? I noticed that this does not work very well. If you add a picture in Outlook and sync it, it is always compressed and ugly.
If you add the photo on the PPC within Pocketoutlook it is the same (or what is your experience?).
If you open a contact in the favorites and add a picture there, it becomes crisp... if you change it in the favorites by using the camera or the PocketOutlook interface it is ugly and compressed again...
Any solution for that?
Jorlin said:
Is there a way to sync the outlook contacts so that the photos that are within Outlook appear crisp on the Touch Pro? I noticed that this does not work very well. If you add a picture in Outlook and sync it, it is always compressed and ugly.
If you add the photo on the PPC within Pocketoutlook it is the same (or what is your experience?).
If you open a contact in the favorites and add a picture there, it becomes crisp... if you change it in the favorites by using the camera or the PocketOutlook interface it is ugly and compressed again...
Any solution for that?
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After I added the favorite, I then selected Change Picture to get the clear picture. Once sync'd with Outlook, both the PC and Phone are very clear.
where are the pictures on my phone?
th1nm1nt said:
After I added the favorite, I then selected Change Picture to get the clear picture. Once sync'd with Outlook, both the PC and Phone are very clear.
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I add my pictures in my PC outlook and then sync to the TP.
After sync, pictures on TP do not look same quality as on PC.
I can not re-add the picture on TP, as I can not find them on the device.
Any knows where contact pictures are stored on TP after sync?
With more than 100 contact photos, however, I had the hope the is another solution to have crisp photos on TP without any manual work.
aro said:
I add my pictures in my PC outlook and then sync to the TP.
After sync, pictures on TP do not look same quality as on PC.
I can not re-add the picture on TP, as I can not find them on the device.
Any knows where contact pictures are stored on TP after sync?
With more than 100 contact photos, however, I had the hope the is another solution to have crisp photos on TP without any manual work.
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Good point that I forgot to mention...I did have to add a folder on my SD called "Outlook Contacts" to do it the way I did. I have 245 contacts with photos, so it did take some time. However, I only have 15 favorites, so that is the only ones I did this process with. Didn't take too long, but does require that step to get the pretty pic on the TP. Worth the effort. Once you load them in your favorites, just delete the folder (unless you need a hard reset, or cooked ROM installed. I kept my folder for when it all disappears, and have to redo it.
Somebody knows a good solution for the picture problem?
doktor_ppc said:
Somebody knows a good solution for the picture problem?
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Read the above post...put the pictures on the device. After adding the favorite, go to "Menu", then select "Change Picture". Select the picture you moved to your device (or MicroSD), and it is as clear as the rest of the device.
yeah so far no faster way of doing this, but the good news is once u do this once, and sync, you're good to go
y2whisper said:
yeah so far no faster way of doing this, but the good news is once u do this once, and sync, you're good to go
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Yes there is a faster easier way!
This problem bugged me for a very long time. Until I used the free application called "Slide2View"
Found on:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=358187
If you view a photo in this app and select the 'Assign to Contact' option, the photo will be assigned and will not be affected when you sync with Outlook.
Don't ask me why this works (I am not technically minded) but I searched for a solution and after reading 100's of forum messages found this gem. It's also a very cool photo viewer!
After many re-syncs, my contact pictures are all unchanged!
This problem has been around for a long time and it seems like Outlook (and Outlook Mobile) tends to resize the pictures.
And don't edit the contacts in outlook or you have to reassign the pictures for the same HQ pictures again.
So the new ICS brung an improvement to google contacts... but... 256x256?
Yesterday I've got a mail from google about solving this issue at last that lingered from Cupcake time...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4147
And what now? Instead of 96x96... we have now 256x256 pics? Still Gmail hasn't adopted and that higher res picture seems to be as an extension in the csv file. And after new custom OS flash - the old ugly pictures pour in etc etc... (I hate backups as I have various devices and could cause an nonobjective of the OS causing other bugs)
New HD resolutions are coming in and calculate the percentage of these pics mates... Why I have to use a 3rd parity sync service?
Maybe someone could explain, why google is so stubborn with this basic need? At least 2MP pictures anyone??
The only ones that solved this problem seems to be Sony Ericsson(Funny Eh?), as their custom framework and contacts app works like it should in high res, and fetches up high res images from various social networks and links those accounts up, and their contact app is the most astonishing no MIUI, SENSE, 3rd parity contact app and etc are even close at their functionality and style...
Or Maybe I am the only one with this aesthetic need?
The only anwser I have for this is that people at google are soo ugly that they prefer to see their pic pixelated. It makes no sense not to have hd pics on contacts...
I know there is an existing 'bug' in Android that prevents high-resolution contact photos from getting synced, and there appear to be some apps that seek to work around this issue (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621031) - but I still can't find anything that would actually support the resolution of the One X, and frankly I'm kind of surprised HTC hasn't already considered this.
Does anyone know of a way to get 720x720 pixel contact photos on our phones?
There is a workaround, but it requires you making a duplicate phone contact and then linking it with the google contact. Once linked, edit the contact and click on the contact photo. Select the phone contact picture and save. It's a pain, but at least it can be done.
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There is a workaround, but it requires you making a duplicate phone contact and then linking it with the google contact. Once linked, edit the contact and click on the contact photo. Select the phone contact picture and save. It's a pain, but at least it can be done.
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Hmm - that helps a little, but it still seems to be restricted to the ICS limit of 256x256 pixels (better than Gmail's 96x96, for sure, but still...).
Is there a setting somewhere that can increase the limit further? (When you view the contact details on the phone, the image is stretched to the full width of the phone, which means we need to be able to do 720x720 to get full res.)
After we have been waiting for this for so long 4.1 finally brings it
Higher-resolution contact photos
With Android 4.1, you can store contact photos that are as large as 720 x 720, making contacts even richer and more personal. Apps can store and retrieve contact photos at that size or use any other size needed. The maximum photo size supported on specific devices may vary, so apps should query the built-in contacts provider at run time to obtain the max size for the current device.
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i wonder if it will also work for 4.0 since the problem was the google sync (pics look sharp before syncing)
i found this here:
http://developer.android.com/about/versions/jelly-bean.html
there are many features that were not presented like USB audio YAY
Finally! Guess I will redo contact pictures one last time soon...I wonder if it stores them higher res in contacts already...not really a way to test it that is coming to mind.
it won't auto update your images to HD, since the google server used to store them in the low resolution.
the images used to be crisp untill you synced your contacts. that always made them blurry again
I couldn't find the answer to this question on xda or with a general web search so I hope it hasn't been addressed already.
From what I read Android now supports contact pictures up to 720X720 so I initially believed that if I uploaded a picture larger than that Google would size it accordingly, but that is not the case and when I wiped the phone and did a fresh ROM install they synced as grainy low res pictures. I then resized a few contact pictures to 720X720 and assigned them to the appropriate contacts using the Google mail website and then synced the phone but they sync as grainy low res pictures. So then I transferred the resized pictures to my phone, assigned the pictures to the contacts and tested the whole procedure again and the result is the same, a grainy low res picture.
So is there a setting or something I am missing or does Google still resize every contact picture to 96X96? This obviously isn't a huge deal but when a big ROM update comes I sometimes like to do a clean install rather than dirty flashing the new version but redoing all of my contact pictures makes it a huge pain.