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Contacts with higher res pics?

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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Thanks! */10chars

xPatriicK said:
Thanks! */10chars
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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.

[Q] [REQ]Whatsapp Photo Sync

Can anyone make a simple apk that sets the photos from whatsapp to contacts on phone ie if a contact calls up his whatsapp photo shows up
whatsapp profile photos can be found named along with the phone number of the respective contact in the following folder :
Whatsapp\Profile Pictures\
-sorry for my poor explanation skills

Krusade said:
Can anyone make a simple apk that sets the photos from whatsapp to contacts on phone ie if a contact calls up his whatsapp photo shows up
whatsapp profile photos can be found named along with the phone number of the respective contact in the following folder :
Whatsapp\Profile Pictures\
-sorry for my poor explanation skills
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Plus one on this..
Anyone..??
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+1 same question

+1 i would love that too

+1 that would be awesome

timberman4444 said:
+1 that would be awesome
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It shouldnt be too difficult to solve this.
The Profile Pictures are the actual phone numbers of the contacts.
You need a app which accesses the phonebook and check if phone number is equal with filename.
If yes, set Picture.
You could do it a little bit more usable when you make a listview with checkboxes for the people where you can select the people since some profile pictures are very crappy and show something else than the person itself.
The only problem with that is that you have to click manually on every contact and then on the profile picture since whatsapp only downloads the picture when you want to see it in a bigger format. the thumbnails are serialized as i can see with root explorer.
The most effective way would be when you could force whatsapp to download everyones profiles picture in your list but this is over my knowledge and i bet you need root access for that. Also it would nice to access the wa.db in the databases folder of whatsapp (/data/data/com.whatsapp/databases/wa.db/). There is a list of ALL your phone contacts and a boolean variable called "is_whatsapp_user" where you could filter the ones with a whatsapp account. all whatsapp users have a additional set integer variable for the profilepicture which be can "-1" "0" or a specific number.
that would mean:
if ((is_whatsapp_user) && (profilepicture != 0) && (profilepicture != -1)) //Pseudo Code
{
code
}
but i dont know if you can access the .db from a external app, even if you know the full path. also this must be realizied with SQLite, which means more efford.

There is an app for that.. now
Hi guys,
I've made an app for that case.
"WhatsApp Contact Photo Sync" available on Google Play Store
You can choose for each contact if you want to update the contact picture profile from whatsapp.

xdaShagan said:
Hi guys,
I've made an app for that case.
"WhatsApp Contact Photo Sync" available on Google Play Store
You can choose for each contact if you want to update the contact picture profile from whatsapp.
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thanks man will try and let u know in a day or two...

Any news on this? I guess is impossible to get all photos in "Profile pictures" folder if we don't manually open them all :-/

MarceFX said:
Any news on this? I guess is impossible to get all photos in "Profile pictures" folder if we don't manually open them all :-/
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here's the link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5ybS5hbmRyb2lkLndjcHMiXQ..

I prefere syncme , he synchronise all your contact with facebook directly in your google account ! ( google.com/contacts ) and its more simple ! ( we hav all more user in facebook than whatsapp )

AbOoM said:
I prefere syncme , he synchronise all your contact with facebook directly in your google account ! ( google.com/contacts ) and its more simple ! ( we hav all more user in facebook than whatsapp )
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but this isnt about fb sync, there are many other apps for fb sync..

contact photo sync existing app is cool but it's not automatized that would be cool.

I also thought of making such an app, but an automatic sync is almost impossible, because whatsapp does not sync all pictures, once they manually opened, they'll be stored to sdcard.
To make it work, you would need to write a whatsapp client, or somehow force whatsapp to download the pics (but how??? )
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xdaShagan said:
Hi guys,
I've made an app for that case.
"WhatsApp Contact Photo Sync" available on Google Play Store
You can choose for each contact if you want to update the contact picture profile from whatsapp.
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Thanks for the app .. it works fine for me
Only issue :
I have a tendency of viewing profile pic on whatsapp (by enlarging) .. as u already know they r stored in whatsapp profile pic folder.. not i have around 100+ pics in that folder..
Wondering if you app cud provide ability to scan whatsapp profile pic folder and automatically update my address book without my intervention

surajkala said:
Thanks for the app .. it works fine for me
Only issue :
I have a tendency of viewing profile pic on whatsapp (by enlarging) .. as u already know they r stored in whatsapp profile pic folder.. not i have around 100+ pics in that folder..
Wondering if you app cud provide ability to scan whatsapp profile pic folder and automatically update my address book without my intervention
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the problem here is that whatsapp doesnt automatically download the images to phone, thats why this app cannot automatically sync to address book

Krusade said:
the problem here is that whatsapp doesnt automatically download the images to phone, thats why this app cannot automatically sync to address book
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I mean to say .. what about auto sync of pics already stored in whatsapp profile pic folder

surajkala said:
I mean to say .. what about auto sync of pics already stored in whatsapp profile pic folder
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Yeah that would work, the pics are stored with the phone nr
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MetinKale38 said:
Yeah that would work, the pics are stored with the phone nr
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In next version plz do add CONFIRMATION on exit .. while pressing BACK BACK BACK users tend to leave the app accidentally ..happens with me a lot

hey, whataspp doesn't download the pics but it does download a preview available when you want to see the contact list.

best app for contact pic sync?

something wich manages high resolution photos?
i used syncmypix on old phones, wich seems stopped to be supported on october 2012, and i don't know wich resolution syncs..
i have read of haxsync, but seems it has to be always active... isn't there something wich syncs with gmail, then you can delete it?
i couldn't see, but doesn't xperia z dialer support big picture ? do i need to use full screen caller or hd caller (whatever the name is, i bought it some time ago)

The starred in Android contacts on my Gmail account syncs in HD all the others in SD.... WEIRD!!!! They have to fix it ASAP!

CaFFeiNe666 said:
something wich manages high resolution photos?
i used syncmypix on old phones, wich seems stopped to be supported on october 2012, and i don't know wich resolution syncs..
i have read of haxsync, but seems it has to be always active... isn't there something wich syncs with gmail, then you can delete it?
i couldn't see, but doesn't xperia z dialer support big picture ? do i need to use full screen caller or hd caller (whatever the name is, i bought it some time ago)
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i am using haxsync and get hd picture synced. always the best choice for me

kevinlow said:
i am using haxsync and get hd picture synced. always the best choice for me
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doesn't it sync "on the fly"? meaning, the sync remains if i delete haxsync? i've read it drains quite a bit of battery... and do pics appear large in dialer?

use this app called UberSync Facebook contact sync
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
It allows you to sync the recent profile picture from your friend's profile and you can change the size of the picture to small, medium,large. My Arc S shows full screen when I get a call from my friends :thumbup: just set the photo size to large. Also the app can be set to auto sync or you can manually sync. No worries about battery drain!
Press thanks if I helped
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I am using the Sync.ME application from Google Play Store. It's kinda awesome. It is able to find some pictures from social networks like fb even to a contacts that haven't shared friends details with me

alfiabraham said:
use this app called UberSync Facebook contact sync
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
It allows you to sync the recent profile picture from your friend's profile and you can change the size of the picture to small, medium,large. My Arc S shows full screen when I get a call from my friends :thumbup: just set the photo size to large. Also the app can be set to auto sync or you can manually sync. No worries about battery drain!
Press thanks if I helped
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i'm trying this for know, do you know if there will be a notification at the end? cause i started sync, but didn't show me any status bar o countdown or percentage, it just said "sync started", how can i now if it will finish?
@alfiabaram, i'm going to try that too thanks

Oops! I forgot to mention this - you need to rename the contact to their Facebook name (be very specific about the first & last name) then it will fetch their assign their picture to the contact. Use ' run manual scan' option. There's no notification after the scan is finished >.<
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alfiabraham said:
Oops! I forgot to mention this - you need to rename the contact to their Facebook name (be very specific about the first & last name) then it will fetch their assign their picture to the contact. Use ' run manual scan' option. There's no notification after the scan is finished >.<
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ok i've tried with it, but it isn't so "ergonomic", no notifies, no info,and i couldn't make manual links to facebook profile.... and when i tried to delete it, i've lost all my pix
would like to try sync.me but yesterday developers put it out of the market cause it has to be rewritten (or similar)
now i've tried facebook contact picture sync by sbla games
it has anything i need seems, it has manual link (you can save and load links) for people with different names
it syncs then you can delete the app, it takes big photos,and is quite fast (you can "assist the process) so i think for anyone who doesn't need repeated syncs (don't know if it handles it, didn't search)
btw thanks for your help
it seems quite good

Go to Gmail Contacts and put HD pictures to your contacts, then put the contacts you use the most to the favourites (starred in Android) let it sync with Google and finally clear the cache and data from your "contacts" app, then sync again with google your contacts again and the starred contacts will sync in HD!

reptile64 said:
Go to Gmail Contacts[/URL] and put HD pictures to your contacts, then put the contacts you use the most to the favourites (starred in Android) let it sync with Google and finally clear the cache and data from your "contacts" app, then sync again with google your contacts again and the starred contacts will sync in HD!
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still not perfect, but thanks for the hint...

It's better to keep this thread in Q/A, since the OP has asked a question.
To the OP: Post questions in Q/A thread please not in the Theme/App Section.

reptile64 said:
Go to Gmail Contacts and put HD pictures to your contacts, then put the contacts you use the most to the favourites (starred in Android) let it sync with Google and finally clear the cache and data from your "contacts" app, then sync again with google your contacts again and the starred contacts will sync in HD!
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Just did this and everything worked out Thanks ... though there should be a fix from Google ... silly Google.

Guys, in 4.2.2 update they fixed it, now all the contacts are synced in HD, you have to open each contact once though to force it to download the full picture.

Sync.me
Is anyone else having issues with Sync.me sending out spam to contacts when syncing?

Ubersync for FB doesn't work anymore, anyone know of another app to sync FB contact pics?

[Q] Google Contacts Pictures with dot filter

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.

Caller ID photo

I just setup my z3c yesterday. All my contacts are synced with their photos, in the contacts app. However when I receive a call, I get a blank photo. Others seeing same behaviour or???

Nope seeing photos of all when receiving calls
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My experience is that the caller ID photo is not displayed when it's from Facebook or Twitter. It only displays a photo when manually selected. I

That probably explains it. Most of the pictures are FB or LinkedIn. What a fail. It works properly on my Moto X.
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My pictures are synced from Facebook.
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Solution found, with a bonus. I deleted the "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in, and turned off contact sync inside FB. I then downloaded two apps from the Play Store I've used before - Uber Sync and Facebook Calendar Sync. These both work perfectly. Uber Sync has the added bonus of high-res FB contact pictures (the built in FB contact sync is low res). Caller ID now pics up the high res photos when I receive a call.

Thank you!
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mickliq said:
Solution found, with a bonus. I deleted the "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in, and turned off contact sync inside FB. I then downloaded two apps from the Play Store I've used before - Uber Sync and Facebook Calendar Sync. These both work perfectly. Uber Sync has the added bonus of high-res FB contact pictures (the built in FB contact sync is low res). Caller ID now pics up the high res photos when I receive a call.
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Thanks, I was searching for a solution about these low-res profil pictures :good:
Where do you delete "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in though?

ip3fix said:
Thanks, I was searching for a solution about these low-res profil pictures :good:
Where do you delete "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in though?
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It's in the Accounts section in Settings, *if* you already set it up.

mickliq said:
Solution found, with a bonus. I deleted the "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in, and turned off contact sync inside FB. I then downloaded two apps from the Play Store I've used before - Uber Sync and Facebook Calendar Sync. These both work perfectly. Uber Sync has the added bonus of high-res FB contact pictures (the built in FB contact sync is low res). Caller ID now pics up the high res photos when I receive a call.
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perfect, thank you :good:

For those, who still looking for solution - after phone update to 23.0.1.A.5.77 facebook photos shown as caller id picture by default, without any tricks or 3rd party apps

Sorry for waking up the old thread, but this issue came back (at least to me) again, after the upgrade to 23.1.A.0.726. Anybody else facing this issue? Ideas?

I recommend Sync.Me app for Facebook / Linkedin contact photo sync :good:

Thanks, but i prefer the original solution, without 3rd party programs...