Hi.
When i send a picture with Facebook messenger, quality is very low...
If i take picture with camera apk it's ok.
I tried to reinstall facebook messenger but same problem.
2 pictures below to check quality difference.
How can i solve this?
(Sry for bad english)
Andrew974 said:
Hi.
When i send a picture with Facebook messenger, quality is very low...
If i take picture with camera apk it's ok.
I tried to reinstall facebook messenger but same problem.
2 pictures below to check quality difference.
How can i solve this?
(Sry for bad english)
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That is a FB messenger thing, in various phones I had seen that, so just go and take the picture whit the camera app
YES! happens with me too, I think it's a mess-anger app bug. I think it reconises our frount camera (0.2mp) and uses it on the main camera as well creating a crappy image. This did not happen a year back or so when i first got my phone and firmware flashbacks are not doing anything so it must be a messenger problem. Unless fb compression is just that "good" :/
Solution:
-Use main camera and then send it
-steal some apks from apkmania or something and keep rolling back until you can use it fine.
Thanks; It's better with an old APK
Andrew974 said:
Hi.
When i send a picture with Facebook messenger, quality is very low...
If i take picture with camera apk it's ok.
I tried to reinstall facebook messenger but same problem.
2 pictures below to check quality difference.
How can i solve this?
(Sry for bad english)
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Hi,
noticed this was an old post. but i had the same problem.
i fixed it by going into installed apps on my android, find messenger; and set all app access to none. so the app doesn't have access to the camera, microphone +++.
then start app again. and try to send a photo.
The app will ask you for camera permission - accept. Now the app have the correct camera access and will send pictures in higher quality
This works for me on a Chinese device (ulefone). Thanks!
The above fix didn't work for me, but I found that if instead of sharing directly from gallery/storage, if you try to share via camera, and then from within the camera open up the gallery, it shares the picture at higher quality.
Messanger app lower the image quality because of storage used on facebook servers. Because messanger saves all media on servers. Try using whatsapp, it uses the phone memory so quality is high. Hope I cleared some questions.
TheElfLord said:
Messanger app lower the image quality because of storage used on facebook servers. Because messanger saves all media on servers. Try using whatsapp, it uses the phone memory so quality is high. Hope I cleared some questions.
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That's actually not the case - there may be some image quality limit (and whatsapp has a limit as well) - but the bug that this thread refers to causes images to be uploaded at MUCH lower resolution than that limit. Sending images from the web app or through the camera will send higher quality images.
I just switched from iPhone to Pixel and started having the same problem. I thought at first it was because the new Pixel photos are 3 times the size of the old iPhone photos and thus required more compression than previously, but it seems to affect photos sent from my phone much more than those sent from the computer. The photo is crystal clear on my phone, but when I sent it via Messenger it became a blurry mess. Then I downloaded the same photo from my phone to my computer, verified the high quality remained intact on my computer, and sent it again via Messenger through my computer. The second image is not as compressed and blurry, at least not nearly to the extent and visual detriment that the first image is. The original photo size downloaded to my computer was 4.7 MB. The version uploaded from my computer did turn out to be compressed in Messenger as well, to 174 KB, but the image quality seemed reasonably similar to the original when viewed at facebook size on both my phone and computer screens (I would obviously not want to download it from here and enlarge it to the full original size). The version uploaded directly from my phone, however, was compressed all the way down to 30 KB, and it is extremely blurry when compared to the version of the same photo uploaded from my computer. I did a second test, of a photo similarly sized originally at 4.6 MB. This time, the version uploaded from my computer was only compressed to 552 KB, and the version uploaded from my phone to 190 KB. The image clarity difference was noticeable, but not nearly as significant as it was for the first image. It seems that an image of around 200 KB should be sufficient for facebook viewing quality.
So two questions - why does it compress the exact same image more when uploaded from my phone than when uploaded from my computer? And how can I prevent it from compressing it down below 100 KB? The quality of the second 190 KB compression would not have thrown up an alarm bell the way the first 30 KB compression did....
Oh - and I have not yet activated my Pixel. My phone service is still using the iPhone while I get set up and comfortable using the new phone. So the phone is using the exact same wi-fi that the computer is using, and cellular network should not play any role in this issue...
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I have been searching endlessly on XDA for a fix and couldn't find anything, so I wanted to ask.
On my HD2, I had Gingerbread and found an MMS.apk that would allow me to send my photos through MMS without any noticeable loss in quality. I have Ultimate on my G2x, and notice really bad degradation in photo quality when I send one by MMS. Does anyone have a modified MMS.apk to fix this? If not, someone should make one! I was messing with the xml but I can't figure it out. I modified the maxfilesize and resolution with a free binary editor using an easy guide I found online, but my messenger would force close upon launch so I restored the original apk. It's rather annoying that in this day and age (it's 2011, 4G data is a norm) we are sitting with these crappy reduced quality MMS photos.
Desperate bump? I'm sick of reduced quality photos through MMS...
Hey guys!
I`m using the latest ICS RC1 Sense 4.0 Rom.
I wonder if there is any possibility to increase the quality of the contact pictures from the contact detail screen?
The pictures are getting imported from Facebook, but i think they should have a higher resolution as they appear in the contact details
any solution for this yet ?
Greets Kristian
I'm suffering from the same problem dude. Any solution by chance?!
+1
Are those people from HTC retarted? How they can put something so awful in the current generation of HTC phones?
any news on this ?
It's just how it is. I doubt anyone's gonna fix this.
Try Haxsync?
But on Sense 4 I think it's an issue with Sense itself -
https://redmine.limun.org/issues/71
The pictures from Haxsync are as bad as the facebook pictures.
You get better pictures with 'HQ Contact Pics', but you have to manually choose them..
finally, it looks like they made 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've been using HaxSync ever since the ICS update and its great!
So today was my little girl's first Christmas. After taking about 15 minutes of video and frame grab snap shots on my Pixel (unlocked, but not yet rooted) we moved on to other things only to find that neither the video or the pictures were saved.
I have to assume that these are sitting in temp files somewhere. Anyone have any suggestions?
There is a small thread going on the Pixel support forums on the topic but not much in the way of support traction.
Pixel: video recorded but not saved
My wife is near devastated.
Thanks to all.
harrybauls said:
So today was my little girl's first Christmas. After taking about 15 minutes of video and frame grab snap shots on my Pixel (unlocked, but not yet rooted) we moved on to other things only to find that neither the video or the pictures were saved.
I have to assume that these are sitting in temp files somewhere. Anyone have any suggestions?
There is a small thread going on the Pixel support forums on the topic but not much in the way of support traction.
Pixel: video recorded but not saved
My wife is near devastated.
Thanks to all.
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Really hate to hear that. Hope you find them.
If there was no error message, then you may be OK. Did you touch the Albums icon at lower right in the Photos app (as opposed to Photos)? Depending on how you configured cloud backup for the Photos app, pics and videos may not show up under the Photos icon.
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Really hate to hear that. Hope you find them.
If there was no error message, then you may be OK. Did you touch the Albums icon at lower right in the Photos app (as opposed to Photos)? Depending on how you configured cloud backup for the Photos app, pics and videos may not show up under the Photos icon.
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Thanks. No error messages. No sign of the video or photos in either the Photos app (albums or main photos area) or the camera's built in gallery browser. This is the first time this has ever happened in the 2 months I have owned this phone or in the years of android phones I have had.
harrybauls said:
Thanks. No error messages. No sign of the video or photos in either the Photos app (albums or main photos area) or the camera's built in gallery browser. This is the first time this has ever happened in the 2 months I have owned this phone or in the years of android phones I have had.
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Really sucks to hear that this happened.
Maybe someone should test for bug that happens with long length videos.
That's the only thing I can think of as to why it happened.
deadgiveaway said:
Really sucks to hear that this happened.
Maybe someone should test for bug that happens with long length videos.
That's the only thing I can think of as to why it happened.
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Thanks.
It was a longer length (15-20 minutes) with multiple pauses and frame grab photos along the way. Both the video and frame grabs were lost. I'm not entirely sure if I even exited the app as I took a number of photos after I took this video and they were fine.
It doesn't seem to be a common issue but sadly I'm not the one who has posted this to Google's support form and had this happen on their kid's first Christmas.
I'm having a super grainy camera in WhatsApp. Might be other 3rd party programs as well but haven't tries yet. Pic attached.
And yes, I'm sitting on the toilet whilst typing this.
Don't use WhatsApp but if it's anything like telegram I wouldn't use the built in camera app if you want a good shot.
Take a photo and then send it with WhatsApp. Don't take it from within.
What @ItzMar said is correct. WhatsApp isn't concerned about picture quality. Their camera mode has not changed since....ever. No one cares because that's not why they use WhatsApp.
I am also facing the same issue in my op7. Please let me know if your issue resolves/
All apps in Android that have a camera built in are just screen shotting the viewfinder and not actually taking pictures. Take pictures with the OEM Camera/Gcam and then share the pics/videos on the apps you're using.
So, I just noticed something REALLY weird today and I don't know what to make of it...
I installed a new app on my phone (Lyft) and it asked me to setup a profile photo. Okay, no problem. I click the option to select photos from my existing collection and it takes me to the gallery to select a photo. I'm scrolling down, looking for a good photo when I suddenly come across photos that I did not take. There's about 30 of them and they look like they were taken at a Energy Conference in Beddington, UK on November 26th. I live in Washington State, USA and have not been anywhere near the UK and my phone has not gone missing or been out of my sight for the last few weeks. This is strange and creepy. How are someone else's photos on my phone?
I start doing a bit of investigation. I close the Lyft app and open my gallery app on my S9+. I scroll through all my photos, but these stranger's photos are not showing up no matter how I sort the display settings. I open up another app (Uber) and go to change my profile photo. I opt to choose from my gallery and there's the stranger's photos again. I notice that the file name, file size and date of the photo is provided in this view, so I connected my phone to the PC and ran a search for some of those file names and came up with nothing. I searched my phone using my file manager app and also found nothing.
Someone on Reddit recommended I try using my email app to send myself the image so I can investigate the details. This worked, but only deepens the mystery! It seems like the photos were taken with an Olympus Digital Camera (not even a smartphone!) and the date taken was from way back in 2006!?
At this point I'm out of ideas. I have no clue why these mystery photos are on my phone and can't find out how to find/delete them or how they got on my phone in the first place.
It's so freakin' weird! I'm sharing a few screenshots here in case it helps anyone else identify my issue. If anyone has thoughts, please share them.
P.S. My phone was purchased new over a year ago. If anyone cares, I posted this on Reddit before coming here seeking additional help. You can see the Reddit thread here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS9/comments/e5okh4/really_weird_gallery_issue_with_a_strangers/
wonder if they're embedded in the apps?
One possible reason is that it's just downloaded by some other app, e.g. Facebook downloading photos from a post that you came across. If you don't remember anything related, did you ever have anyone else using your phone?
The Samsung gallery is written by Samsung while the system file picker (called DocumentsUI) is mainly written by Google, so they might be having different strategies on what photos to hide, e.g. Samsung thinks Facebook photo download directory shouldn't be shown, while DocumentsUI doesn't, so it's entirely possible that you can only find the photo via picker.