When I text a screenshot it comes through very blurry. I am able to see it when I click on the screenshot image preview in the text messaging itself and the receiver gets the same blurry image. Both on Stock 38R and SaberMadhi2.9 this has been an issue. I assume it must be 100% software related as the screenshots appear fine via gallery. They only become blurry when sent. Any ideas?
Attached is a test image I sent a friend. Upon clicking the then sent image this is what I see
Edit: a friend says it probably has something to do with MMS compression. I can't seem to find a setting to change the sizing of compression. Never had this issue on my s4 and only in the past week have I made the switch to the OnePlus One so any help on this would be appreciated
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MMS have fixed maximum message sizes (around 300kb). so there is no way for images bigger than 300kb to be sent via MMS without compression. This is not a changable setting somewhere, as these limits are set by the network operators.
But you use a smartphone. Why MMS when you could simply use Email or instant messaging?
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Mike said:
When I text a screenshot it comes through very blurry. I am able to see it when I click on the screenshot image preview in the text messaging itself and the receiver gets the same blurry image. Both on Stock 38R and SaberMadhi2.9 this has been an issue. I assume it must be 100% software related as the screenshots appear fine via gallery. They only become blurry when sent. Any ideas?
Attached is a test image I sent a friend. Upon clicking the then sent image this is what I see
Edit: a friend says it probably has something to do with MMS compression. I can't seem to find a setting to change the sizing of compression. Never had this issue on my s4 and only in the past week have I made the switch to the OnePlus One so any help on this would be appreciated
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Sounds like downsampling on the phones end to me. Looks like it was downsampled to an acceptable resolution for mms transport. Consider yourself lucky though, i came from a nexus 5 and it wouldnt alter any of my mms' but my recipients would tell me they got carrier errors saying the image was too big to download. Try using hangouts for MMS as it doesn't resize your stuff, beware though your recipient will probably not get it due to SMS size constraints (YMMV not all carriers are created equally)
The only thing I'm really confused about is why I never had a problem such as this on my S4 and I have it now. Same ATT service..
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Aavion said:
MMS have fixed maximum message sizes (around 300kb). so there is no way for images bigger than 300kb to be sent via MMS without compression. This is not a changable setting somewhere, as these limits are set by the network operators.
But you use a smartphone. Why MMS when you could simply use Email or instant messaging?
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That isn't true, the maximum size can be set way higher than 300kb. The carriers do generally have a limit bit it isn't that low. ROMs like Viper on HTC allow you to increase the maximum size to 1mb.
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That isn't true, the maximum size can be set way higher than 300kb. The carriers do generally have a limit bit it isn't that low. ROMs like Viper on HTC allow you to increase the maximum size to 1mb.
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but a lot of carriers do (100kb was the standard in the early beginnings of sms, operators increased that to 300kb to allow small videos to be sent).. some carriers have yet to rise this limit, whereas other carriers set their limit to 1mb. i wouldn't sent mms for anything beyond 300kb, cause you never know if your opposite's carrier would allow this.
mms are outdated. mms over lte isn't even possible anymore with most carriers!
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This has been a very annoying issue for me as well. My pictures are generally 2-5MB, the stock messaging app compresses it down to 60-90KB. Pics from other phones that I receive (stock LG G3) are 400-500KB. I looked on my old HTC One XL and it was ~200KB (Paranoid Android). My friend with the same phone (OPO) has the same issue MMS <90KB. I'm not sure why the OPO MMS has such an aggressive compression ratio, but surely someone has come up with a fix besides switching messaging apps. Does anyone know where I can edit these limitations? I saw the old caulkin rom had a built in fix for the issue, so I know it's possible just not what I can do to change it. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
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This has been a very annoying issue for me as well. My pictures are generally 2-5MB, the stock messaging app compresses it down to 60-90KB. Pics from other phones that I receive (stock LG G3) are 400-500KB. I looked on my old HTC One XL and it was ~200KB (Paranoid Android). My friend with the same phone (OPO) has the same issue MMS <90KB. I'm not sure why the OPO MMS has such an aggressive compression ratio, but surely someone has come up with a fix besides switching messaging apps. Does anyone know where I can edit these limitations? I saw the old caulkin rom had a built in fix for the issue, so I know it's possible just not what I can do to change it. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
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You can decompile the messaging.apk and fix it. I forget the exact lines you have to edit, but it can be done.
Solutions I've found
1) Hangouts (not preferred)
2) Download Danvdh's inverted aosp messenger from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2566342. Titanium delete your current mms.apk and place the new one in system/priv-app. Fix permissions to rw-r-r, reboot and enjoy. Most custom ROMs have this fixed, so can probably find a non-inverted apk easily
3) Download and install the Lollipop messenger from the XDA apps and games section.
All 3 of these options are successful. Hope this helped, solved my own question to a degree here with the help of @Notorious
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I often do not have my glasses and cannot read the screen without them. On WinMo there was a setting to change the default text size. Does such a setting exist in Android?
anyone? 10chars
There is a new app today in the market for *rooted* phones only, called Font Size.
It is still in beta and you'll need to have a good backup first in case of problems. I am running a rooted Nexus one and although it rebooted twice in a row after installation, it now works perfectly.
If you are running a rom with spares parts you can change it with that.
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If you are running a rom with spares parts you can change it with that.
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Or... You can download spare parts from the market. LOL.
Or you can just pinch and zoom ...
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There is a new app today in the market for *rooted* phones only, called Font Size.
It is still in beta and you'll need to have a good backup first in case of problems. I am running a rooted Nexus one and although it rebooted twice in a row after installation, it now works perfectly.
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I was searching for something like rhis and worked fine.
Cheers.
sms text size works pretty good, its free and in the market
Or if your rooted and feel comfortable changing things. You can go into the build file ( which is a text file you can view through ES File Explorer and give the App super user abilities ( which you HAVE to change in the settings of the app as when the app boots it's already given those permissions. You need to give it permission to overwrite files ) Go to the System Folder which is located on the phone not the SD Card. Once viewing the build file.. in the middle of the text file you'll see 160 DPI is the default value, just under that are two values ( both stock at 160 ) and you change those. If you go to 180 everything on the phone becomes bigger or 140 and things become smaller ( Apps, text, everything ) then follows the instructions after which is to reboot the phone...all settings will take place.
Just do NOT change anything else in the build file.
font size
How do i get to the build file? is it in an app or in my 4G.
font size
Hi,
Found the build file and changed from 160 DPI to 180 DPI but when I reboot it does not overwrite the change. How do I get the change to stick.
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Hi,
Found the build file and changed from 160 DPI to 180 DPI but when I reboot it does not overwrite the change. How do I get the change to stick.
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Attach your build.prop here and I'll take a look at it.
You might need to rename it to .txt or put it in a .zip
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Found the build file and changed from 160 DPI to 180 DPI but when I reboot it does not overwrite the change. How do I get the change to stick.
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How are you editing build.prop?
Also your rom must support DPI changes, not all of them do, which rom is this?
Once you change that number it should NOT get overwritten.
Spare parts will change menu font size, but won't stick after your screen rotates. If you have rotation off you should be fine. Otherwise the CM community is trying to get that option in spare parts to work, but it's not cooperating. Editing build.prop is probably the best bet.
ROM??? this is way out of my league. I tried spare parts but was unclear how to increase fonts. it seemed to only increase font in one menu screen.
not sure how to attach build prop.
DPI changes not just the font, but everything, like if your font gets bigger, so do your icons, menus, etc. That does work if you want that result. If you want to change ONLY your system font size and nothing else, you can go read this info, and change it this way:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=990853
I need to change the size of the font in my contacts for EVO 4G
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I need to change the size of the font in my contacts for EVO 4G
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If you're running CM7 there should be an option for changing contact text size. I've never used it, but I know it's there.
You should also be asking this in their forum btw
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Doesn't anybody else think it's pretty bad this option isn't available by default on Android? Not everybody wants to root their phones. Not everybody knows a 3rd party app for this exists (and it doesn't even seem to work globally for all text to begin with).
Definite downside, in my opinion.
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Doesn't anybody else think it's pretty bad this option isn't available by default on Android? Not everybody wants to root their phones. Not everybody knows a 3rd party app for this exists (and it doesn't even seem to work globally for all text to begin with).
Definite downside, in my opinion.
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Talk to or email google about it. Actually, I believe there's a request for it somewhere on the aosp features page (something like that) you can star the issue and try to get more people to join it. Maybe google will look into it...
At least that's a better option than wishing constantly and not taking action
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Use Spare Parts named app from market. It can directly make bigger your all fonts + no root.
Do anybody know of a better mms app other than the stock and handcent. I'm running DC.3.2.3 Rom the problem is that the stock mms compress the picture way to small. Handcent takes too long to send out the pictures as if it donot want to send. Gmail works perfect just cannot sent to a phone number.
Any suggesting
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You can always try ChompSMS it's quite popular and very similar to Handcent.
This is the issue that really bugged me, I hated that the stock app couldn't send a file bigger than 14k and didn't like using chomp or handcent. If you are still looking for a more elegant solution, I might have a possible solution. I replaced the mms.apk file in the ROM I was about to flash with the vanilla one (attached) and after booting up it worked perfectly. I like the black background and when I attach a picture it doesn't compress it to crap. I just opened the zip file of the ROM with winrar and deleted the old mms.apk in the sys app folder and dropped the new one in its place. I realize this solution is less than ideal, and there is probably a better way with adb, but I figure soon enough you'll flash an updated ROM anyways.
Try pure messenger, almost like the sense one, almost.
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Thank you! That was the exact thing I was searching for awhile ago, but people were pointing me towards handcent and chomp (which were overkill for what I wanted). I was looking for white on black background mms app. I don't like the stock because just about everything else in the evo is a dark theme. The mms was obnoxious black on white and was blinding if the lights were out where I was. I hope your app is kosher and will behave itself (if you know what I mean)....
I understand what you mean. If you have any doubt, there is am excellent post in the Android development forum that has all of the vanilla apks. Just search for vanilla topics and you should be golden.
Thanks for the tip
I was always under the impression that the apps compress in order to comply with file size limits per different carriers. Am I mistaken?
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I just opened the zip file of the ROM with winrar and deleted the old mms.apk in the sys app folder and dropped the new one in its place.
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I got this
E: Wrong digest:
system/app/Mms.apk
E:Verification failed
Installation aborted
what did i do wrong? I'm running fresh 1.0.1 with amon recovery.
@supwidachew
It worked for me. I went where the original was and renamed it to mms.apk.old. Then I went to the other mms.apk and installed it. No copying. It had some message about replacing something and I just said ok. In the settings of the app, white text on black was checked but not working. I unchecked it then got out of menu and killed the app with a task manager. Started app again and went into settings and checked the box then backed out again. I think I might have done this maybe three or four times before it finally took. I haven't tried sending anything yet so I don't know what's different with that yet.
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.
I have same rom as you but clockworkmod recovery. I didn't flash it, I installed it like any other apk downloaded (not from market )
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.
So this is indeed better than the HTC Messaging app? It doesn't compress pictures horribly? and it still works? Does the sense widget with numbered notifications still work? Does the lock screen message preview still work? Does the status bar message preview still work? Thanks.
ahhh, ok. Let me install it and see how that works.
Allow me to elaborate on my process. I replaced the apk in the ROM file using winrar before I flashed the ROM (see picture to see where I replaced the file) using clockwork recovery, so I haven't tried to install it like a normal apk or through any other method. Since it is the vanilla apk it does not do the lock screen notification where sense shows it, although it does show in the notification bar while locked. Additionally, it does not compress the pictures horribly and I have tested sending and receiving, both which worked. I have only tested my method on Baked Snack 9.7, so I apologize if it does not work on your preferred ROM. Perhaps someone more experienced can offer a better method like using adb?
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Allow me to elaborate on my process. I replaced the apk in the ROM file using winrar before I flashed the ROM (see picture to see where I replaced the file) using clockwork recovery, so I haven't tried to install it like a normal apk or through any other method. Since it is the vanilla apk it does not do the lock screen notification where sense shows it, although it does show in the notification bar while locked. Additionally, it does not compress the pictures horribly and I have tested sending and receiving, both which worked. I have only tested my method on Baked Snack 9.7, so I apologize if it does not work on your preferred ROM. Perhaps someone more experienced can offer a better method like using adb?
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Thank you. Does the message icon on the home screen still show the amount of unread messages with this?
freeza said:
Thank you. Does the message icon on the home screen still show the amount of unread messages with this?
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I'll try tomorrow and let you know. Nandroid is my friend.
If the icon you have on the home screen is the one that was dragged from the app drawer, the answer is no. At least in my setup it wasn't and not an option in settings either. There wasn't a mms widget either
Wrong word choice and misspelling courtesy of swype.
I tried sending a 44kb sound file with the vanilla mms app. It refused to push it out. I tried installing handcent and chomp and try each of them and they both failed. I found where the mms app installed itself and deleted it. Then I renamed the old "mms.apk.old" to mms.apk,rebooted, then the file sent okay. Damn, I was kinda liking the other app too. Hmm, I wonder if I can have both the vanilla and the htc messaging apps installed.... I'm gonna try it now.
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Nope, they want to over write each other. I gotta choose...
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freeza said:
So this is indeed better than the HTC Messaging app? It doesn't compress pictures horribly? and it still works? Does the sense widget with numbered notifications still work? Does the lock screen message preview still work? Does the status bar message preview still work? Thanks.
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This does not have numbered notifications on the widget like sense. It has a notification icon in the task bar, it does not do task bar preview like sense. As far as lock screen I dont know.
Is anyone else seeing that sometimes for no reason I can discern, the font size will change on the SMS bubbles from Small to Medium?
Driving me a bit bonkers.
Yep. also I switch my sms display list to 1 line instead of the default 2 or 3 and it will randomly switch back. very annoying
Yeah I'm having this issue too.
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Yup, I'm seeing that too. In addition, it seems to ignore me when I try to manually make a font size switch.
are you guys accidentally pinching or pulling while on your text messages?
that changes the sizes
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are you guys accidentally pinching or pulling while on your text messages?
that changes the sizes
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Good suggestion. Didn't know that. But that's not the problem in my case. My font size changes between medium and a size that I can't get to by pinching.
wow
Haha same problem! Goes from small to medium too!
It works like pinch and zoom on browser. Play with it till you are comfortable with it.
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Having the same issue gotta be a software quirk.
is it possible to use a 3rd party SMS on ICS?
Any reason not to use one until the problem is resolved?
Same problem here.
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i can confirm i've also been seeing this problem. i'm def not causing it myself. i will get a text and open it and the font size is already changed back to medium. i hate this quite a lot.
the other day mine was so small i could hardly even read the text...pinched and zoomed it back to normal (fairly small but readable) and haven't been able to get it to go back that low again. We will see what happens.
It seems like there are a few small software glitches that could probably be fixed by our lovely dev's if we just had some ROOT!!
also having text issue with email app
+1 for malfunctioning font sizes in messages app.
Also, i have noticed that in teh email app, my mail's smallest font size is HUGE. no matter if i change the font size to 'small' or pinch to zoom out, the smallest size is huge and causes many of my messages - especially ones containing images or charts - to be nearly impossible to read without lots of panning around. this was never an issue on my artix 4G with GB. the zoom out feature would allow for enough zoom to make the text way smaller than necessary. Anyway, this is killing my productivity on the go. i use the email app specifically for my corporate email via exchange, just as i did on my atrix.
imo there shouldn't be selectable sizes for the font size via the menu. there should just be pinch to zoom in and out. not sure why both are here.
also to note, if you set it to medium and pinch zoom out, that size of the text there can get even smaller by selecting text size small and pinching some more. very weird how they implemented this.
I am definitely having this issue too. The best thing to do is call HTC Tech Support so they can log the issue. Eventually as enough people report the issue they will recognize it and get it fix.
Even though it is a pain, it is the best thing to do in the long run so HTC gets it fixed.
Here is the url for the tech support contact info
http://www.htc.com/us/support/phone-support
This is a known issue. I've received following update from HTC
Nicholas from HTC Support, UK
" I have asked a collegue and this issue is currently under investigation, an update will be pushed out shortly to resolve this"
Count me in as well.
I do like the smaller font size in the messaging app though. But it never stays that way. Always goes back and forth.
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Ha! Same issue here. While it hasn't annoyed me, just confused me, it's nice to see that they're looking into it.
It boggles my mind how HTC can push this phone to market with such an obvious and seemingly easy-to-fix bug. I want my sms inbox to display 1 LINE...not the default 2 or 3. Yet every time the sms app is killed or the phone reboots, it goes right back to 2 lines even though in the settings its still listed as 1. So annoying.
I have an HTC One X on AT&T. Does anyone know how to get the HTC Mail app to auto-fit HTML emails to the screen width, both in portrait and landscape mode? I'd also like to automatically show images, as opposed to having to press "Display Images" every time -- Is that possible as well?
Thanks.
I'm curious about this as well. I've dug through all the settings but I must be missing something.
Did you try double-taping the screen to resize while reading the email? That's what I do.... Not perfect but it works for most HTML emails. Don't have a solution for automatically displaying images.
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cortez.i said:
Did you try double-taping the screen to resize while reading the email? That's what I do.... Not perfect but it works for most HTML emails. Don't have a solution for automatically displaying images.
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That's what I normally do (double tab to resize), but unfortunately it's two additional taps and not the ideal user experience. It would be great to be able to auto-fit and auto-display images -- I just took it for granted on my last phone (iPhone 4).
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I have an HTC One X on AT&T. Does anyone know how to get the HTC Mail app to auto-fit HTML emails to the screen width, both in portrait and landscape mode? I'd also like to automatically show images, as opposed to having to press "Display Images" every time -- Is that possible as well?
Thanks.
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I hav eno solution, but just chiming in that I'd like to knwo if someone figures out soemthing regarding the text sizing in HTC Email app. It's atrocious and often makes reading/reviewing messages nearly impossible.
Side note: have you noticed that when replying, the text shrinks to a more normal size? Doesnt change the fact that reading many emails is a massive chore. I've spoken with HTC support and they didnt think there was a glitch, but that it may be something they need to address in a future software update.
I would like to know this as well.
I actually stopped using the HTC mail app and i am currently using gmail due to no images just a wall of text
Anyone figure it out yet (4.0.4)?
So recently I just noticed that my VZW SGS3 is automatically shrinking images when attached to MMS. It doesn't matter how big the picture is originally, it shrinks it down to roughly 580X435 (252KP). It doesn't matter whether I start in he messaging app, then "attach" the file with stock Gallery, Quickpick, or a file manager. Nor does it matter if I start in any of those apps then "share" it to Messaging. I don't need it to attach the full 8MP image, just something bigger than a tiny 580X435.
My VZW G-Nex shares 1MP+ (1600X1200) pictures just fine with the stock messaging app.
Any ideas on how to prevent the shrinking / enable larger image files to be sent?
Both phones running latest CM10.1 and stock Messaging app.
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So recently I just noticed that my VZW SGS3 is automatically shrinking images when attached to MMS. It doesn't matter how big the picture is originally, it shrinks it down to roughly 580X435 (252KP). It doesn't matter whether I start in he messaging app, then "attach" the file with stock Gallery, Quickpick, or a file manager. Nor does it matter if I start in any of those apps then "share" it to Messaging. I don't need it to attach the full 8MP image, just something bigger than a tiny 580X435.
My VZW G-Nex shares 1MP+ (1600X1200) pictures just fine with the stock messaging app.
Any ideas on how to prevent the shrinking / enable larger image files to be sent?
Both phones running latest CM10.1 and stock Messaging app.
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Might be CM10.1 and build prop. Almost certain mine does not shrink down as I notice no loss of quality in pics sent/received.
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Might be CM10.1 and build prop. Almost certain mine does not shrink down as I notice no loss of quality in pics sent/received.
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Could be that, I was just asking people the same question and no one had an answer.
Only way I've gotten past it is to use GOsms.
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Could be that, I was just asking people the same question and no one had an answer.
Only way I've gotten past it is to use GOsms.
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My initial hunch was that it's a bug with CM10.1. It seemed to work fine while under CM10, then the shrinking began after upgrading to CM10.1. I'll give GOsms a try and see if that works.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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My initial hunch was that it's a bug with CM10.1. It seemed to work fine while under CM10, then the shrinking began after upgrading to CM10.1. I'll give GOsms a try and see if that works.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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My stock based rom does the same thing. I wish I knew why.
Same, stock rooted ICS. It should be noted if you save the image it is a larger file.
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Same, stock rooted ICS. It should be noted if you save the image it is a larger file.
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Not on mine.
Let me see if I can explain it better.
Image in gallery is 1600X1200.
Go to messaging and hit "attach" paperclip icon.
Use gallery / QuickPic / File explorer and select same image (or use "share" button if starting in this app instead of messaging).
Before even sending the image, it's already resized down to a ~580X435 (actual size varies on original ratio).
Recipient receives image in the 580X435 image, and it stays that way even after being saved.
However, when I send the same image, using the same procedure from my G-Nex, the SGS3 receives (and can save) the image in the original 1600X1200 size.
For some reason, as soon as it's attached to a message, the image is being horribly downsized.
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