Pixel Dialer - Tiny Contact Photos
Does anyone know if there's another dialer I could install so I could get the larger size contact photos to show up on the screen when making or receiving a call?
There's a ton of wasted real estate on the new pixel dialer.
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I recently changed from CM9 to Fallout 2.0. I like having the Sense UI back
What annoys me is that the contact pictures in this Sense-ROM look really crappy. Using CM9 I had hi-res pictures everywhere. It looked especially great when accessing a contact or getting a call.
But now on Sense 4 it looks very pixelated.
FYI: The pictures are synced from my google contacts.
Is there a possibility to improve the quality of the contact pictures?
i find that stock cam(endymion) has a much better quality than cm7 which i had previously.
Did you try to reassign your photos again to the contacts? I did that and it works when I change roms instead of using Google's back up assistance contact photos because I had that same issue.
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Look at the application from the maker ultimate call screen hd
(ucs) which is written by our very own lowveld
Swyped from my DesireS
Or ultimate contact sync HD by lowveld...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lowveld.ultimatecontacts
Tapatalked from a Desire S waiting for Kernel 3 sources. WAKE UP HTC!!!!!!
Reassigning the picture on the phone did help. But I already assigned the hi-res pictures via gmail. This gets tedious if I have to reset each picture on the phone. Unfortunately this seems to be the only option.
Well, installing applications for additional functions is not what I was looking for.
I really was hoping for a setting I did not see. Because the contacts look great as they are without any tweaks on the phone when using CM9.
I'll try Ultimate HD Contacts and give a feedback
[Update]
Ultimate Contacts HD crashes when I tap a contact...
I spent a lot of time on AOKP of my former phone and as a result I fully redid all of my contact photos because of the high-res support built into ICS and JB. Incoming calls looked awesome with photo ID taking up the whole screen and being crystal clear.
Now I am using all these different TouchWiz roms for my new GS3 and the contacts and dialer are HIDEOUS. All my contacts are tiny images AND they look awful! I'm not even sure how that is possible.
Is there any way on earth to completely remove all the touchwiz pieces of software that pertain to contacts and phone in these TW releases? I've happily ditched the email app and replaced it with AOSP email, the AOSP calendar is on the Play Store. The AOSP lockscreen is available on most custom roms....but the dialer/phone piece is one of the last hideous things bugging me about this sweet phone.
Since no one seems to have done it I feel I should assume it's not possible, but figured I'd ask.
The other hideous thing that I'd love to fix is the size of the fonts in the notification curtain. Samsung designed their layout for 80 year olds apparently....everything is so enourmous
I'm not a big fan of the TouchWiz contact or dialer apps either, but the contact photos can be easily fixed.
What are you using to sync your contact photos? HaxSync (available on the market) works great if you are synching photos from Facebook. The quality depends on whether you are on ICS or JellyBean, as JellyBean is capable of storing higher resolution than ICS.
When I was on AOSP jelly bean I set up high res photos for almost all of my contacts in Gmail. I don't use Facebook. Recently Google upgraded the contacts applet within Gmail to allow for higher resolution photos.
So it was beautiful. On any clean install of CM or AOKP I had full screen high res caller id just by syncing my Gmail contacts.
Now crappy touchwiz takes my gmail contact photos and mutilates them to look low res and half-screened. It's shameful really.
I know exactly what you're talking about. I had a Gnex and my pics were little. tiny blurry cubes upon switching to my s3. You'll have to manually switch them all from the phone or use haxsync to overwrite some of them. It sucks though. I know where you are. Lol.
And I don't think you can get rid of the dialer/contacts. Pretty sure a dev buddy of mine said it's too deeply intertwined with the rest of the TW framework and wreaks havoc when removed. I could be wrong, but I think I'm right
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I believe you...I figured it must be a major pain or impossible to remove or someone would have done it already.
I'd be willing to pay a developer if he could create a mod that fully removes TW-based contacts/phone and replaces them with the corresponding JB pieces.
So after spending a week on a flashing binge I've come up with two apparently impossible scenarios to make the perfect rom for this phone.
1) an AOSP rom that somehow is able to implement the TW-based Galaxy S3 Camera
or
2) a TW-based rom that somehow is able to remove everything TW-related (contacts/phone) EXCEPT for the camera
Good luck, my man. Lol. Let me know what happens. Both scenarios are nice.
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spearoid said:
I believe you...I figured it must be a major pain or impossible to remove or someone would have done it already.
I'd be willing to pay a developer if he could create a mod that fully removes TW-based contacts/phone and replaces them with the corresponding JB pieces.
So after spending a week on a flashing binge I've come up with two apparently impossible scenarios to make the perfect rom for this phone.
1) an AOSP rom that somehow is able to implement the TW-based Galaxy S3 Camera
or
2) a TW-based rom that somehow is able to remove everything TW-related (contacts/phone) EXCEPT for the camera
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I just want a replacement for the dialer and contacts apps! Samsung did such a great job with this phone, and TouchWiz overall is actually kind of nice. I just wish they had put more effort into the dialer and contacts apps. It would be perfect if there was a viable way to replace those, but I agree it's probably damn near impossible.
What are the differences between the Gallery app on the Verizon version vs a plain HTC edition?
The VZW Gallery app has the Verizon cloud icon right on the main screen and I have no desire to use it. Is there any way to remove it?
I find the automatic effects at the top of each section extremely annoying and can't find a way to turn it off. What is worse is that I want to use the special editing abilities that come with the Duo Camera so I think I am stuck with this gallery as no 3rd party gallery apps have those features.
duckworth said:
What are the differences between the Gallery app on the Verizon version vs a plain HTC edition?
The VZW Gallery app has the Verizon cloud icon right on the main screen and I have no desire to use it. Is there any way to remove it?
I find the automatic effects at the top of each section extremely annoying and can't find a way to turn it off. What is worse is that I want to use the special editing abilities that come with the Duo Camera so I think I am stuck with this gallery as no 3rd party gallery apps have those features.
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Disable Verizon cloud in apps. I disabled it and I don't have the Verizon cloud icon in my gallery.
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So on my Nexus 5 the Google Messenger app doesn't show my conversation threads! Does anyone know a fix or an alternative SMS app that's similar to it? I really love the different material design colors it has for separate conversations
Can you post a screen shot to see what you are talking about?(and black out any sensitive information)
I'm using Textra
Remember everyone, the stock messenger is in the play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzcTJHzsBL3KZzhrUzVTSF9rbWM/edit?usp=docslist_api
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Messengers consistency to display messages gets better when battery saver is switched on. For some reason the animations cause it to glitch and not display the conversation thread. I'm happy with it for now but I hope it gets fixed soon.
Are you on a ROM? Make sure you don't have privacy guard enabled on it.
I'm using Google phone on my OG pixel. But the contact photo is too small in call UI. Is there any other phone app with BIG contact photo when in call?
Disable the current phone app and install Google Phone 4.2.136732862 which is the last version of the Google Dialer app with big picture UI.
You can get it here https://www.apkmirror.com/uploads/page/3/?q=google-phone
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Disable the current phone app and install Google Phone 4.2.136732862 which is the last version of the Google Dialer app with big picture UI.
You can get it here https://www.apkmirror.com/uploads/page/3/?q=google-phone
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Thanks ! This helps , but was there any tweaked version from latest apk including the fullscreen photo in dialer