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Pixelated contact photos

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?

[APP] Contact Photos resolution and sync

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!!

Contact photo blurry

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.

[Q] Gallery question

Hi guys
Love the transformer, much better than the advent vega i had ages ago! Just a question about fhe gallery app. For some reason i have 3 albums with 0 photos i cant remove : scrapbook photos, profile photos and profile photos (draft) no idea why those are there, assumed it may be google+ orientated but i dont have it and i wouldnt mind getting rid of them?!
Thanks!

Greenie-UK said:
Hi guys
Love the transformer, much better than the advent vega i had ages ago! Just a question about fhe gallery app. For some reason i have 3 albums with 0 photos i cant remove : scrapbook photos, profile photos and profile photos (draft) no idea why those are there, assumed it may be google+ orientated but i dont have it and i wouldnt mind getting rid of them?!
Thanks!
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That's weird. I have Google+ install but don't have any of those "folders".
Any other apps you install recently?
Check in Account & Sync, see if any of those accounts have any kind of "photo" sync.

Gallery syncs with your google account so ANY pictures you post or share while signed in on a computer or phone will be synced to one place.
You can clear these by going to settings-applications-manage-all items-gallery -clear data...
And to permanently stop the syncing go into settings-accounts and sync-click on your account and deselect picasa web albums.
That should fix it
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I have the same issue.
what i did was delete the pics of picasa and the albums which got rid of 2 of the albums.
but i still have 4 i cant seem to locate.
I have nothing other than my google account in accounts syncing.
they are empty and i cant delete them, i tried the above suggestions but that didnt clear the 4 remaining empty folders.
how can i locate them and remove them?
i dont get why there is not "hide albums" options either

Ignore this post

Dont ignore mine

I use Quickpic and you can excluded and include what folders you want to see and hide pics, great for showing friends things in default gallery without showing your valuables =D its free
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[Q] [ICS] Fuzzy contact pictures in people app how to make them hires?[SOLVED]

Hi
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.
EDIT:
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

mobydeek said:
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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