I am running a beta build of ICS on my Samsung Galaxy S, and flash it every few weeks as and when better builds come out. Like most of you might know, ICS supports high resolution contact photos but Google contacts (online) doesn’t. Therefore every time I flash, I lose all my locally stored high res contact photos.
Is there an app that allows me to sync contact photos from my hard disk or a folder on the phone ? I know there are few apps that allow facebook photo synching, but I’m not big fan of facebook , and I have many contacts who do not have facebook accounts or not in my friend circles. EDIT: same goes for Google+ and whatever popular social media networks out there. So I prefer to do it from a local storage. Any one know of something like that ?
maybe with sugarsync
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Hey guys,I am thinking of taking a leap of faith and I'm going to flash CM7 on my phone,but I have a minor issue here.
I use to connect my contacts to Facebook to get their photos when I call them etc.On TouchWiz roms I use the SNS Facebook account to do it and,on my previous HTC devices,I used to use Facebook for HTC Sense.Both do the job well and the photos that appear on my phone's contacts are ok resolution-wise.However,when I try to do the same thing with the Facebook app,resulting photos are low res and terribly pixelated.I assume that I don't have any alternatives for CM,so I'm asking you,can I do anything about it?Not that my decision is going to be based on this that much,but it would be nice to have everything the way I want it.
Hello!
I know this issue has been here already but thought I'd bring it up once more.
I am in love with my andorid phone so much that I put ICS on it and it's awesome!
The thing that ruins the great experience [ as for many others ] are the low-res contact pictures from Google sync.
The thing that I want is this: Sync all my contacts with HQ pics with Google [ don't we all ].
The alternatives of whom I know is syncing facebook pictures with existing Google contacts. Well.. For some reason this doesn't work for me as I don't need ALL facebook contacts in my phone. I need only the Google contacts. And the pics synced to the phone from FB are still in low-res [ is this how it's supposed to be? ].
So, what I want is my google contacts with high quality pictures.
I tried merging facebook contacts with google contacts using Google Contact Sync application [ http://heartofangel.com/google-contact-sync/ ] and it did the work great. Only again, the low-res, pixelated pictures jump out.
I spent the last two and a half hours searching for a fix, I did not find any that would be automated. Manually setting pictures is not an option as I frequently flash ROM's.
If not Google, is there any alternative syncing service that could provide my contacts with High Quality pictures? I'm even willing to merge to another service.
Or any idea why Google doesn't just do the HQ pics?
Help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Just noticed that some 5 contacts have a descent quality picture. Checked many contacts and there is no difference in quality of their profile pics. What the hell?
Well you could individually take a photo with your phone and make it the contact pic or download a pic off Facebook and link it to the contact on the phone individually.
I understand this may take time, but I am not aware of any alternatives.
Edit: HTC links contact pics to Facebook automatically at a high quality
I have a HTC Sensation with Virtuous Inquisition 3.1.0b3 ROM.
Well, yes. It saves the HQ pictures but then I have ALL of the Facebook contacts and frankly I don't need all of them in my phone app..
Manually setting pictures would be a real pain because everytime I flash a different ROM or reflash this one, I would have to do all of that again.
Maybe any app or piece of software for Windows that could do this autmatically?
Like, for an example, sync android contacts to the computer, in that programm I just set all the data, including pictures, and sync those with the phone after every flash?
U could use a Sense ROM that links it... In Facebook sync options just click "Sync with Existing" and it only does the ones already in Ur contacts
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium. Please thanks!
i also have been searching for this solution for a long time but yet no result... why is not Google aware of it????
Hey guys, i've been researching this problem as well, and came along this google plus post
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
Here you can see that they are actually addressing this situation right now, so hopefuly, it won't be for much longer!
Post of interest
'Punit Soni - This is work in progress guys. We are fixing it '
Hi,
I have HTC Sensation running AOKP M5 right now but this problem was present on other roms using AOSP contact app. Talking about ICS of course.
I can't force my android to save the information which sync photo a contact should use. I have merged many Google/Google+/Facebook/HaxSync and for most of them I've changed the default photo (especially high quality HaxSync over Facebook or G+ photo when FB photo does not present a person) but my system keeps loosing my choice and gets back to his bad choices (generally when it comes to Facebook LQ photos...).
What is wrong with it? Anyone has tips how to make it work?
Seriously noone experiences this problem?
Why don't you disable the Facebook contact sync? Log out of Facebook app and when you log in again goose 'Don't sync'. HaxSync will sync all your Facebook contacts too if you choose so you're not losing anything there. I have Gmail, Google+ and HaxSync synchronized with my contacts and I haven't experienced this problem. Always displays the HaxSync high res contact pics unless I specifically choose otherwise for any contact. The Facebook sync is pointless if you have HaxSync.
Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium
Yea but some people have some decent photos on G+ accounts instead of stupid "not-my-face" photos so they need having G+ photo instead of haxsync.
If there is "Use this photo" option why it just does not work. I had this problem on Gingerbread as well and it is still not fixed in android (in my experience)..
Hi everyone,
Got a little prob if you guys can help.Namely when i recieve or send calls the contact pic (either from Google or FB sync) are really pixelated ,because they're low resolution,how can i force them to be bigger?
P.s. i've alredy tried alternate dialer apps and am not satisfied with them,nor do i wish to use a 3rd party app.
Snt via Desire @ CM9
Im actually looking for the same thing... but do allow me to ask the question in my manner.
Currently, on ICS, each time we manually set the contact pics, the reso turns pretty good. It stays that way UNTIL i flashed/wiped everything and restore from google. Where the picture seems to be resized and presented in a horribly pixelated image.
Question is, is there any way that i can alter my google account so that it saves the high reso contact images? i know of some backup programs that does this, but its pretty annoying sometimes that google auto restores my contacts and the stock contact app on ICS has very limited feature in batch management of contacts. Also, i prefer stock phone because by far, its much more speedy than most 3rd party phone apps. Its a pretty annoying process to just install another manager and re-edit each time i flash.
Google wont provide u with high resolution pics... the reason is that there are some phones that have ~50-100mb free internel phone Memory by default...
If they Sync High resolution pics then those who have thousands of contacts will have no internal memory left as Contacts+pics would consume all of space...
Ah that explains it...
But is there a way to cache the images from the google acc in my phone?
P.s. i found a somewhat solution,an alternate FB app calles Friendcaster that has the option to sync High res.pics,i say somewhat,because it works for some pics and not for others :-/
Snt via Desire @ CM9
ive been using friendcaster for awhile, one of the best FB replacement app and does things way better than stock FB app. One of the worth-going-pro on my list.
Then again, not all of the contacts are in FB...
Picture resolution fixed!
Check this out - http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...c-updates-web-contact-sync-with-brand-new-ui/
It seemed to be fixed for JB. I haven't tried it though!
BTW I was using FB Contact Sync app from play store and it worked super well when I was on CM 9.1. But now I have moved to another ICS ROM and lost all the pics and the low-res pics got synced
Hello together,
I've got a smartphone running Jelly Bean. As I like the gmail contact photos very much, I was happy that one new feature of Jelly Bean is the fact that the contact photos are synced with Google servers in hi-res (720x720). I spent a good deal of time replacing the awful downsized pictures with new hi-res pictures. They sync in 720px, everything fine, so far.
Where my problem begins: Within the next days I expect the arrival of my new tablet. It's a low budget one (Arnova 10b G3) which runs Ice Cream Sandwich and which maybe won't ever get a Jelly Bean firmware.
I'm in a conflict now: On the one hand, I'd like to use the tablet with my Google account and not create a dummy account or something like that. This would spoil much of the usability of the account. On the other hand, I don't want to destroy my hi-res contact pics because one Google sync under ICS would downsize them forever and I guess they would again sync downsized to my Jelly Bean phone.
Do you have any ideas what would solve that?
Is there maybe a hack that prevents Google from syncing the contact pictures? In this case, I could use the Google account on the ICS tablet just without contact pics. The downsized pics are rubbish anyways if one's display has a proper resolution.
Or, can one prevent Google from syncing the contacts after setting up the account? I know that the contact sync can be unchecked in the settings but as far as I know, that doesn't prevent the initial sync.
I appreciate your suggestions!!
Well, no one answered.
Just for your interest, if someone has the same problem: Apparently I solved it by logging in on the ICS device with my Google account. I let the sync doing its job once and then, immediately when contact sync was done, I unchecked "sync contacts". So, this way, I have my Google account with the contacts on the ICS device. The only drawback is that when I wanna change a contact, I have to do this on the JB device or on the PC. But that's acceptable.
Afterwards, I carried out a forced contact sync on the JB device, just to check if the pics were still okay, and they were.
EDIT: One day later, I noticed that on the JB device, most contact pics were eventually downsized. Some were not - heaven knows why. All contacts are stored on the Gmail account, not G+, Facebook or any other stuff which could have explained the difference...
Shame on you, Google, for not having fixed the pic size issue for all OS versions!