What is everybody doing as a workaround for the blurry contact pictures problem that results from syncing your contacts with gmail?
Sense does a pretty good job of masking the problem in some versions, but it's terrible in AOSP ICS.
Are you all just putting up with it or have you disabled contact syncing with gmail or employed another workaround? I'm curious how everybody is solving this problem for themselves.
GoodbyeSky said:
What is everybody doing as a workaround for the blurry contact pictures problem that results from syncing your contacts with gmail?
Sense does a pretty good job of masking the problem in some versions, but it's terrible in AOSP ICS.
Are you all just putting up with it or have you disabled contact syncing with gmail or employed another workaround? I'm curious how everybody is solving this problem for themselves.
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I personally use Haxsync to sync all my contact pictures from FB, works great
aznprodgy said:
I personally use Haxsync to sync all my contact pictures from FB, works great
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When you sync your contacts with gmail tho, doesn't it compress them and make them pixelated? Or does Haxsync bypass this somehow?
I just put up with it. I used to sync with syncmypix then disable the Google sync, but then I decided that having my contacts backed up was more important than having nice pics.
Curious to see if anyone has a good solution to this.
Been using haxsync now for the last 24 hours or so. It seems to work around the gmail sync problem. My pictures are significantly higher quality now, though they could still be clearer.
HTC broke the contact photos in ICS. I use Haxsync too.
rawrfische said:
I just put up with it. I used to sync with syncmypix then disable the Google sync, but then I decided that having my contacts backed up was more important than having nice pics.
Curious to see if anyone has a good solution to this.
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It's a server side thing, the only possible 'fix' is if the Gmail team bumps up the contact resolution. The resolution was bumped up in Jellybean but it only works offline, so once you sync then you're back to low res crap.
I just deal with it though, can't be bothered to do something that should have been done in by Google in the first place.
GazaIan said:
It's a server side thing, the only possible 'fix' is if the Gmail team bumps up the contact resolution. The resolution was bumped up in Jellybean but it only works offline, so once you sync then you're back to low res crap.
I just deal with it though, can't be bothered to do something that should have been done in by Google in the first place.
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Well that's a bummer. Oh well.
I remember reading somewhere that if you upload your contact pics directly to your Google account via web browser on a PC, the contact pictures come out clear on your phone.
But honestly who could be bothered to do that? Obviously not me since I can't confirm that this workaround actually works.
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Well that's a bummer. Oh well.
I remember reading somewhere that if you upload your contact pics directly to your Google account via web browser on a PC, the contact pictures come out clear on your phone.
But honestly who could be bothered to do that? Obviously not me since I can't confirm that this workaround actually works.
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I tried that once and it doesn't make a difference, they will still blur as soon as you sync
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I always use an app called HD Contact Photos, and donated a buck for the extras, it lets you use higher quality photos,up to i believe 512x512 ie Stock Photos for stock ICS and if you are using HTC, you can download Facebook and/or Twitter pics and those will be higher quality, as HTC did somehow break HQ FB pics in ICS
i keep high quality contacts on my SD Card and manually link them. They stay clear and perfect even with Google Syncing.. Though new ROM = lose them and have to do it again...
looking for a way to back them up.
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So i have been battling with low resolution photos from facebook being applied to contacts, almost making even having a contact photo useless because you can't tell who it is anyways because it is so pixelated. I came to the conclusion that the facebook app syncs the thumbnails which are a massive 50x50px instead of the actual display picture...
Solution:
Download and install SyncMyPix from the market it's free and does a fabulous job, in the settings tell it to use the highest quality photo, you can link your contacts and tell it to update daily. Also it lets you crop the picture..Nice little app.
Give it a try guys instead of crying to the ROM developers it has nothing to do with them, or Google Contacts app, it's the facebook app, it syncs the thumbnails because it thinks its easier to sync an already pre-cropped photo.
What a joke.
This should be in Themes and Apps...usually I'm a lot more forgiving but that's almost obvious should've been your first choice.
But yea...app is nice...don't know wtf they were thinking with the Green though...the UI could be much nicer without the hideous green.
Yes and no, my intention was to point out that it's not the rom/devs that are to blame. It's the facebook application itself.
Radmeister said:
Yes and no, my intention was to point out that it's not the rom/devs that are to blame. It's the facebook application itself.
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fair enough...
I also wish gmail contacts itself would allow for higher res images and larger images when you call them.
I'm gonna give this a try. if it works, thanks!
i gave the app a try.. not bad except that it doesn't most of contact.
i understand i can manually link the fb photo to my contact but i keep hitting the error of unable to manually link photo.
anyone with the same experience?
I was unable to get sync my pix to work, it couldn't log into facebook. HOWEVER, I downloaded Asurion's Facebook Mix-in which is INTENDED to work with their POS application Addressbook, which you should NOT download. Luckily, the 'Mix-in' works on its own, with its only purpose being to sync pics in high res! Yay! Although, without the the main application Addressbook, it won't find your 'matches' so you have to select each match.; At least it works!!
Ok so I know it's been talked about before but I still haven't found an answer. I'm trying to sync my Facebook photos with my google contacts on my Inspire and I can't seem to get good quality let alone high quality. I read somewhere that syncing with google causes this problem but that's the whole idea is so that my contacts are backed up. I mean if there is a way to not sync their photos with google just the phone I'm down for that but I HAVE to have my contacts instantly backed up with google.
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Tommy
Bump please
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noticed the same thing....wish we had an answer
i believe google down sizes the photos to a poor quality. so the work around is to allow the Sense UI facebook to pull your facebook images and replace those on your contacts. but i do not believe google will take those new better photos and store them.
its an HTC Sense thing.
RogerPodacter said:
i believe google down sizes the photos to a poor quality. so the work around is to allow the Sense UI facebook to pull your facebook images and replace those on your contacts. but i do not believe google will take those new better photos and store them.
its an HTC Sense thing.
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Can you just NOT sync the pics with google?
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.
synnyster said:
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.
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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
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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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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NS4G Running ICS kwiboo (sp?) Version 2, Franco kernel
I have about 300 contacts, and probably 150 are friends on Facebook. I don't ever want to sync Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, BUT, would like to selectively sync decent Res photos from Facebook to some Google contacts.
I've seen a couple of apps that might do this,but looking for recomendations. ..especially since ICS really pimps up the contact photos. And low Res photos look awful.
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fsync
Just started using fsync. It seems pretty good so far. Can sync photos etc...
are you running ICS?
Haven't tried it on ICS but on gingerbread this app works great:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nloko.android.syncmypix
Just tweak the settings to your liking.
Syncmypix is a gr8 application to do it.
It attaches HighRes pics to phone contacts ...
Well try that on it works on ICS
syncmypix is the best i could find for this use.
does the high res bit work, i ticked the box, but still look crap when you go to the people bit
Another vote for syncmypix. Works pretty well.
They all do nothing on ICS, they still look like sh** on ICS.
Only way to have hires picture is to take picture and use on contact, or transfer from PC to Nexus then one by one.
I dont see another less paintfull solution, maybe on official ICS will be better.
Ya, that's basically what I'm doing now.. have a dropbox folder called contactPhotos. Save there then attach. Worst method ever
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I've tried syncmypix and it didn't seem like there was any way to manually sync contacts whose names didn't match up perfectly. So my current solution is this:
I sync my Mac address book with facebook via AddressBookSync, and then I sync my address book with my google account (I've got lion so syncing is built in)
I think this might just be what you guys need
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I think this might just be what you guys need
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Is that link correct?
Lol. The suspense is killing me.
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Can you fix that broken link?
Devs have figured out re enabling it. So why can't no one tell us how to enable it or make an update package for us
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HaxSync is the best solution that I've tried! Sync the pictures and all the fb status! It has improved a lot with the last update few weeks ago!
Hows the picture quality..
and damn, I really don't care about anyone's status
decalex said:
Hows the picture quality..
and damn, I really don't care about anyone's status
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It's hi-res photo Of course, then it sync to gmail at the standard 96*96... But that's a gmail-contacts "problem"!
Does it have controls to only sync fb contact photos that ate existing Google contacts?
Im just making sure cuz its a disaster when it syncs everything based on assumptions. Last time, my gf's info got synched with another girl's photo ..as well as 30 others .. last thing I need lol.
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decalex said:
Does it have controls to only sync fb contact photos that ate existing Google contacts?
Im just making sure cuz its a disaster when it syncs everything based on assumptions. Last time, my gf's info got synched with another girl's photo ..as well as 30 others .. last thing I need lol.
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Yes, it can sync only contacts that it's sure that are in your "people". The one that it didn't sync, you can anyway force him to download selectively some contacts (is a new feauture of the latest version) and so then associate with you google account contacts!