Can anyone tell me how to get good looking caller ID pictures?
When I synced my contacts with facebook quality of the pictures were terrible, so I got some pics from my Nikon, crop and resize them to size about 1000x1000px and still they don't look really good when calling :/ Maybe I should use different resolution of these pics, or something...?
Since I don't have facebook, I can only tell you how my friend did it. He used FriendCaster from play store, and ticked option to synchronize HD pictures from FB. That gave him good looking photos in contacts Now he is using haxsync for sync, which also gives such option, and disabled sync in offical FB app
If you have any troubles with those apps, let me know
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Hi all, I need some help. I can take a photo with the camera and then select a contact photo from within it, and it turns out fine. However, when I manually push a photo taken from another device (my 8MP camera) and I select a contact photo from within IT, the photo becomes pixelated. Although my brain may be playing tricks on me when I say that, at first, the contact photo doesn't look pixelated, after a while it looks horrible. Does it have anything with my contacts being synced with Google? As they appear to be pixelated on my laptop as well when I access my contacts under my Gmail account. ??????
Google compresses the pictures on Google Contacts. Turn off that sync or use Facebook for contact photos
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I figured something like that was up. However i went under menu>more>accounts>my gmail account and deselected contacts, however all of my phone contacts are still linked with gmail. Argh! Ive rebooted with no success, it seems like the contacts are still syncing. Any suggestions?
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!!!!
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im on the 4.0.3...the clarity of the contact pics are really bad!!as in when i receive a call..ive assigned a pic for each person....the clarity is really bad....
how do i increase the clarity
As soon as you sync contacts with your Google account , they will be messed up ... It's a Gmail and Google limitation and nothing to do with your Nexus S ... Try putting a super high resolution pic for a contact and even when it'll shrink it would stil look good , but no definitive solution for that...
Get an app called haxsync. It syncs HD photos to your contacts from facebook. Read the instructions and you should be set. I found it awesome
How do you get the contact photos in Hi Res? I tried haxsync but it would never load. I even followed the steps on how to activate it. All of my contact photos look bad.
Thanks
Would like to know a better way too besides Google+. I don't want to create an account just to sync pictures...
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Would like to know a better way too besides Google+. I don't want to create an account just to sync pictures...
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Huh? Google+ accounts don't have hi-res pics either... Unless you know something I don't.
Plus, given that we all have contacts from various sources, this would be the furthest thing from a solution.
I had the Unlocked One X before I got the ATT version and it was exactly the same deal. I uploaded high res pics for my contacts and when you use Caller ID they look fuzzy, same when your editing them. I've taken pic's using the One X's camera and tried to use those pics as well, same result, fuzzy pictures.
On the other hand I'm using the Pictures Lock screen and I uploaded a bunch of high res pics, like I said and they look great bouncing around on the lock screen. Cool feature
The best way I have found is to download the Friendcaster app and tell it to sync high-rez pics from Facebook.
Here you go:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...J5b3NvZnR3YXJlLmNvbnRhY3RwaG90b3N1cGRhdGVyIl0.
How do you get the app to work, it says no data when I open app. It takes me to the app settings.
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