Hello.
I've been wondering, why some of the photos which I place in quick contacts (in the touchFLO thing) looks good or bad?
All of those photos which I place there are big and I have no idea why some of them are shown very badly.
Do you know to fix that?
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Hi there.
I also had this problem. What I found out is, that reloading the picture directly using the TouchFlo Interface (should be: Menu->Change Picture...) helps to improve the quality.
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yes, just go to the camera album, and add them to a contact via the option there, then they are perfect, I had the same problem before...
I might be wrong but this is most likely to do with Outlook
I sync my contacts with Outlook and all my pictures but the recent ones had pictures assigned via outlook.
Those few that were assigned by the phone (in contacts) come out very clear and excellent quality
Those assigned in outlook are grainy at best
Outlook compresses (heavily) the pictures so unless there is a way around this, you are better assigning the pictures on your phone
as they said, you have to asigne your pictures threw the htc album, then will then keep all the good quality
nickytheshaft said:
as they said, you have to asigne your pictures threw the htc album, then will then keep all the good quality
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If this is the case I reckon it is a crap solution. Wonder if there is a way to tell Outlook not to compress the images so much. Also I notice if you change the photo on the phone side the new photo does not migrate across to Outlook. So if you ever reflash your phone all these changes will be lost.
check out the thread below for solutions on how to add contact pics at better resolutions...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=412202
This is proving to be a real pain. At first when my phone synced with Outlook all the pictures where bad quality, so I placed a new folder in My Pictures called contacts and placed 15 contact pictures of good quality in there to use. I asigned each picture to the contacts and all looked great.
Next day I sync my phone and all the pics are imported from outlook again and look ****. Sooooo, I change them all back again with my contact pictures and change the sync settings to "replace items on desktop". Trouble is now, those 15 contacts will not sync at all and I get an error.
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Hello,
I created this post because I didn't find (even in Google) any answer to the following question : what is the best size of picture attached to contacts ? Because I was using WM5 on my ETEN M600 that displayed a very small picture, so I attached small photograph to all of my Exchange contacts, but on my Diamond these pictures looks horrible. So I will have to make new pictures of my contacts, but which size ?
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Hakkai94
not sure about the exact size, but i had made pics of about 200x200 pixels for using as caller ID...they look pretty nice on the screen.
i guess since the screen width is 480 pixels, and the pics occupy about half the width, u would be safe with using a res of 240x240 on ur pics
u have to add them separately thru the touchflo 3d interface, coz the images get resized if u add them thru the contacts app
it's quite simple adding them too...
1. resize the pics on ur pc and copy them to ur phone
2. go to the people tab in touchflo
3. select a favorite who pic u wanna change
4. the right softkey will have an option to change picture
5. navigate to the right folder, select a pic, and the highres pic gets added
if ur flash ur rom or hard reset, u would have to do it again...else u would get pixelated pics from the standard wm contacts app
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+ the above procedure
Synchronize contacts
On my phone I'm using the 200x200 size, but you could go upwards without any problems. The trick is to make the photo association on WM's Outlook and then let the Active Sync do his job. This way you have the large photo and the "backup" assured.
Thanks !
For the procedure, I prefer to modify contact informations directly on Outlook on my PC, then synchronize my Diamond to my Exchange Server using Activesync and Wifi.
If you add the pics through touchflo they get stored aswell in the wm contact app(hi res).
If you sync them with outlook they will be updatrd hi res on your pc aswell.
the method above works also.
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Something to remember if you make your photo associations in Outlook on the PC is that only low resolution pictures will be generated and it will look bad on the phone. The best method is to do it through TouchFlo like described earlier.
I had the same issue with trying to get clear pictures and all I ended up doing was actually taking a photo with the phone of a photo of the person on the computer monitor, very easy and quick way. You can even warp the photo's if you twist the phone upwards when taking the picture.
the problem is with the resolution outlook saves the pictures in...i had added hi-res pics thru outlook n synced them with my htc touch (elfin)...but outlook by default saves them in some thumbnail format (32x32 i suppose), and comes up pixelated when seen at a higher res
that's why i found adding pics directly thru touch flo gives u the proper resolution/clarity
If you take the picture with the Diamond, it will store it with a 240x320 resolution, so I think this is the best resolution to use.
I took my pictures with the phone and Outlook seems to manage them properly (I get the picture of the contact also when I receive an e-mail on my desktop). No loss of quality.
Hi,
Sorry for my english
I made 256x256 photos in order to associate with my favorite contacts.
I save my photos where I found ~-Avatar-x.png files (My Documents\My pictures)
It works well, except that now I have my contacts photos in the photo album ! And I don't want to see it here.
I don't understand why the ~-Avatar-x.png files are not visibles in my album, and my photos files are visible
Can you help me ?
Thanks
best way of adding contact photo's is with outlook.
just synchronize your diamond with outlook.
add pictures to all your contacts
synchronize again.
were the pictures are stored, i do not know, but i works great.
That is not what I can read on few posts here.
Everybody say in order to have a best quality you have to do this on the HTC not in Outlook....
And It don't explain to me, why ~Avatar-x.png files are not showed in photo album.
ease of use vs best quality.
personally i want to use my storage space for other stuff than contact photo's
how i did it:
1. put the pics in diamond.
2. use the favorites contacts (important!) to add the pics to contacts.
3. sync with yr outlook.
4. delete pics from diamond.
not sure that 256X256 is the best size. use 480x640 (diamond resolution) or even bigger and the diamond will take care to fit them. i am using the old pics from trinity (240X320) and i get some black margins...
first do it with 2-3 pics and check out if it's ok. complete for all yr contacts you wish to add.
KukurikU said:
how i did it:
1. put the pics in diamond.
2. use the favorites contacts (important!) to add the pics to contacts.
3. sync with yr outlook.
4. delete pics from diamond.
not sure that 256X256 is the best size. use 480x640 (diamond resolution) or even bigger and the diamond will take care to fit them. i am using the old pics from trinity (240X320) and i get some black margins...
first do it with 2-3 pics and check out if it's ok. complete for all yr contacts you wish to add.
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These are also the steps I followed and I have very crisp pictures in TF3D- I previously thought the ones in the Diamond ads were fabricated but if you follow the above steps you get the best quality. Also important to note that once you synchronise all your pics will be on Outlook/Exchange (whichever you use) so you'll not have to do them after each flash/hard reset
is it possible?
I would like to know this too, currently they are shocking.
(from what I found on the web) Apparently the facebook app saves small thumbnails, and they look bad when blown up on hi-res phones.
As a workaround you can try to set a google contact photo manually instead http://www.google.com/contacts.
update: this does not work either so its not just a facebook app issue.
One of my contact pictures is set through the phone via a photo i took with the camera, it still looks ****e. I can't think of any workaround.
britoso said:
As a workaround you can set a google contact photo manually instead http://www.google.com/contacts.
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yup, contact images set via google contacts show up blurry too
facebook for HTC is using hi res facebook profile picture when synching to contacts..
i switched to sense UI the other day and i found out contact synching with facebook using facebook for HTC not the normal android facebook app.
One of the developers had tried in the past to make the dialer show the contact photo filling the entire screen. Unfortunately Google resizes the images to 96px (if my memory is still working.<EDIT: Memory is working! yay!>) This is a setting we don't have any control over, its something google has set, above and beyond our control.
EDIT: This is the thread where pics are reported to revert back to 96px after they sync with google.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=576310
Then again, I'm not sure if anyone has tried to just call the images locally off the sdcard or something along the lines. (The problem would be, once you lose your phone, all the contact photos would be gone.) No sure if anyone has tried this before, if not, I might take a whack at it.
Man...didn't notice 'til I read this thread...LoL.
Hello all,
I have the program Touchdown from Nitrodesk installed on my DHD.
Although I have used the copy function in TouchDown to copy all contacts to my phone I notice that most of my contacts with pictures are not actually copied with pictures. They are available in the "persons" stored on the phone, but I am missing the picture.
The result is that all HTC applications are not showing the pictures. This is highly inconvenient :
-incoming call show only the name, not the picture
-HTC widgets show only the name, not the picture
I am quite sure this is not a foreseen situation, but I do not understand what I am doing wrong, any hint would be appreciated !
regards,
Ruud
Hi All,
Setup my device last night, and a while ago, I started creating all my phone contacts as google ones, so that on restore, or setting up a new device, syncing my google account would bring all my numbers down.
However I noticed something a little bit strange. Some of my contacts appear to have their pictures there, and look fine in the small thumbnail in the people app, but when opening up the picture, it has a strange dot filter applied to it.
I use HaxSync to add facebook pictures as my google contact pictures, and when viewing them from a web browser they are fine. Doesnt seem to happen to all, just a few.
Anyone encountered this too? Any ideas about how to get around it? Seems very odd
Regards
Jonny
Update, well there was definitely something strange going on, and I haven't figured it out, but as a work around, in gmail (on a PC) I exported all my contacts to a google file. This neglects to export images that are on the contacts.
I then deleted all my contacts and synced my phone up, basically removing all contacts, and removed HaxSync. I then imported my saved contacts and instead of using a third party app to get high resolution photos for contacts, I did a contacts sync from the facebook app direct.
The images pulled still seem to be of decent clarity so maybe its something to do with the way the phone (or contacts app) parses images that are embedded into your google contacts.
I actually remember reading in a review about this filter too - trying to find it, but not that important now really.
Anyway. If anyone figures out why it does it then that would be good, and probably helpful to others at some point
JP
From my understading HTC have been quite clever
Google contacts as a general rule of thumb (pardon the pun) use small thumbnails. Only recently have they started using higher quality thumbnails for contacts. Anyway, if the image is of low quality instead of it being pixelated and looking like sh*t, they basically add the dot matrix filter to make it look a bit more professional. To be fair, hats off to HTC it works and they are the first people i've seen attempt such a thing.
The secret is to get gmail contacts all high res, the problem is i am still struggling on just how to do that, seemed to work fine on my nexus but it varies from one device to another, pain in the arse in all honesty.
Ah that seems to make sense. That would explain why it would happen on only a few specific pictures.
The Facebook contact sync still seems to be working well, and there are only a few that have the filter now. I might go and double check to if those that are filtered have low resolution pictures on their Facebook account.
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i had that and i cured it by editing the picture in the contact .
Hope it helps
topbanana4 said:
i had that and i cured it by editing the picture in the contact .
Hope it helps
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That is OK and definitely solve the problem. But to do it contact by contact having 1400 people in register and approx half of them are pictured, then it may be be time consuming process Interestingly I have not had this problem with my recently purchased xperia Z. Would be fine to solve it with an updated patch.