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I never used Google sync contacts on my primal EVO because it would make my contact pictures blurry. Figured i would try with the 3d and still after it syncs , the pictures become blurry again. To avoid this, I have just been saving contacts to SD card and not syncing Google contacts kind of defeating the purpose. Has anybody found an easy fix?
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i figured it was from google no longer doing business with facebook and ever since then when i sync contacts more then half of them don't have pics and the ones that do are very blurry.
Just what i was thinking this whole time
Joey_UFC said:
i figured it was from google no longer doing business with facebook and ever since then when i sync contacts more then half of them don't have pics and the ones that do are very blurry.
Just what i was thinking this whole time
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What does facebook have to do with regular phone contacts?
starkillers said:
I never used Google sync contacts on my primal EVO because it would make my contact pictures blurry. Figured i would try with the 3d and still after it syncs , the pictures become blurry again. To avoid this, I have just been saving contacts to SD card and not syncing Google contacts kind of defeating the purpose. Has anybody found an easy fix?
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Same here they look like crap, from the nexus to the og evo too, they don't look like crap on my iPhone but the picture display is smaller icon
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
Mine looked blurry too, until I actually signed on thru Facebook for HTC sense. The one integrated into sense. Then I noticed the pictures were crisp and clear. Maybe that l'll work for you guys too.
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Uchennadi said:
Mine looked blurry too, until I actually signed on thru Facebook for HTC sense. The one integrated into sense. Then I noticed the pictures were crisp and clear. Maybe that l'll work for you guys too.
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Do you have to sync Facebook contacts?
That sucks if so.
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Only facebook contacts are clear, google contacts not linked through facebook will still be blurry, least how it is for me.
EricSS619 said:
Only facebook contacts are clear, google contacts not linked through facebook will still be blurry, least how it is for me.
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Same here
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
blurry caller id htc evo 3d
@ UCHENNADI (Mine looked blurry too, until I actually signed on thru Facebook for HTC sense. The one integrated into sense. Then I noticed the pictures were crisp and clear. Maybe that l'll work for you guys too. )
Thank you soooooo much! That was great help! It has been driving me crazy and I kept for getting to research info! This helped make my phone whole again! Great find & very easy fix, I hope this helps others as it has me!
So I'm having a problem with my contacts and FB not showing pictures.
For most it auto links and shows their pictures.
However for the ones I need to link manually, I can find their name under "FB for HTC" but it doesn't show a picture.
Full stock.
Anyone got a fix for me?
I had that issue where the names did not match where I manually linked the two, I got it to work eventually, but don't remember how. I might have been something simple like a reboot.
So you linked them but the pictures aren't showing? Usually this happens during the initial fb sync when there isn't a consistent connection. So go to your fb setting and for contact sync.remove it and then sync it again. it should load up all the pictures after like 30 minutes.
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Teo032 said:
So you linked them but the pictures aren't showing? Usually this happens during the initial fb sync when there isn't a consistent connection. So go to your fb setting and for contact sync.remove it and then sync it again. it should load up all the pictures after like 30 minutes.
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Will give it a try.
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Will give it a try.
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I had the same issue, ended up logging out of FB for HTC Sense, log back in re-sync and all worked well.
Good luck!
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How do you log out of FB for HTC Sense? I have contact photos just fine, but under View Contact, the Events and Updates aren't updating (the photos are there in the photo gallery). So I thought I would "disconnect" FB for HTC Sense and then retry it and re-sync it, but don't know how.
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How do you log out of FB for HTC Sense? I have contact photos just fine, but under View Contact, the Events and Updates aren't updating (the photos are there in the photo gallery). So I thought I would "disconnect" FB for HTC Sense and then retry it and re-sync it, but don't know how.
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Settings>accounts and sync>Facebook for HTC Sense>remove account
On my wife's amaze, the contact photos keep disappearing in the message and phone apps. They always show correctly on the contact card. If you go to the contact card and create a message, the photo will relink, but then eventually it will break again.
I suspect the Facebook app is to blame since I have the same phone but don't use Facebook and don't have the problem.
How to fix?
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riprowan said:
On my wife's amaze, the contact photos keep disappearing in the message and phone apps. They always show correctly on the contact card. If you go to the contact card and create a message, the photo will relink, but then eventually it will break again.
I suspect the Facebook app is to blame since I have the same phone but don't use Facebook and don't have the problem.
How to fix?
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Have her go in to settings>account and sync>Facebook for HTC sense
and then remove that account. Restart phone.
Then log back in to FB again and let it sync.
That should fix the problem. Takes a little time.
Does anyone else have issues with low image quality when they open a contact's info? I have my contacts synced in google, and the images looked really low quality when I open up the contact. I have synced some contacts with twitter, and the image quality is still poor. I tried searching for this but nothing came up
Haxsync will pull down high quality profile pictures from your contacts Facebook...unfortunately it seems that, unlike the E4GT, you have to go in there and manually set that picture for each contact after syncing.
Sent while hanging with that really hoopy frood Ford Prefect.
Is there a way to get better quality photos not using Facebook synced photos? Even the photos from google (gtalk) are bad quality
I just sync contacts once turn off auto sync than manually added pictures to my contacts. I don't use twitter or Facebook though so don't know if it will work for those apps.
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This has been a continued thing with HTC. You'd think they would've fixed it, or allowed you to choose how the picture is displayed.
I've been trying haxsync and it downloads the higher res photos fine, and I can manually set them as the preferred photo for a contact, but after a while it reverts back to the low res version. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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I've been trying haxsync and it downloads the higher res photos fine, and I can manually set them as the preferred photo for a contact, but after a while it reverts back to the low res version. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Hasn't happened to me yet, that I've noticed...but I'll keep an eye out.
It's an ICS thing, the pics are synced with Google and stored there so they downres them. IIRC you can just replace them with higher res images and it should stick.
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It's an ICS thing, the pics are synced with Google and stored there so they downres them. IIRC you can just replace them with higher res images and it should stick.
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Actually, it's been happening for much longer. And when you manually set up the picture in your Google contacts list, it still comes out low resolution. You could use a 1080p image, and it will still come out like @$$.
I've got an email into HTC. Maybe they have something to say about it. I'll post what I get back... in 30 days.
Google stores contact pictures in a more compressed, low resolution form. I assume that they do this to keep the necessary storage space down. If they took full quality pictures for everyone and stored all of them, imagine the space that would take. Hopefully there's a better way to do it in the future.
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SoraX64 said:
Google stores contact pictures in a more compressed, low resolution form. I assume that they do this to keep the necessary storage space down. If they took full quality pictures for everyone and stored all of them, imagine the space that would take. Hopefully there's a better way to do it in the future.
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Well, even storing the picture on the phone locally, it still does the same thing. I think it's not just Google. Sense does the same thing.
I have the same issue. On my OG Evo and Evo 3D, I created duplicate contacts with nice high res pics of the people I talk to most and set them to Phone. I then exported the Phone contacts to SD card. Once I linked them to my google contacts the pics would remain in hi-res.
This does not work with the LTEvo. I even went through and manually created new Phone contacts with hi-re pics for several of my contacts, linked them to my Google contacts and they are still blurry.
I may delete my contacts, re-sync with google and start all over and see if that helps. There has to be a better way to do this.
What's the point of a 720P 4.7" display if the contact pics look like crap?
It's a known google problem like a few people have said, not sense. I've used programs like HD contacts or HD contact photos in order to sync and save contact photos. Once you're photo syncs with google, you'll get your low res photos.
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Google issue my epic touch does it too for a few months now
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I just updated my HTC One to 4.3 today, things seem to work fine except that when I get a new text message, the contact picture for that user or sometimes all users of current texts disappears for a while than magically comes back. If I go into contacts, the person's picture is always there. Also, it is not consistent, sometimes it happens and sometimes not. Anyone else experience this after the update/any solutions? I did notice that during the update it said updatinig contact database.
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I just updated my HTC One to 4.3 today, things seem to work fine except that when I get a new text message, the contact picture for that user or sometimes all users of current texts disappears for a while than magically comes back. If I go into contacts, the person's picture is always there. Also, it is not consistent, sometimes it happens and sometimes not. Anyone else experience this after the update/any solutions? I did notice that during the update it said updatinig contact database.
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Same is happening to me. It's not really a problem for me, I just close the app from the recent apps list and open it again and it's back to normal. Annoying but I can deal.
I'm having this same issue and it seems it's affecting all HTC One's running 4.3, not just T-Mobile. Any thoughts as to possible causes of this problem? I hope HTC becomes aware of it so they can fix it.
This is weird. It's happening to my friend too. I don't have this problem though. I told my friend to clear data on s few apps like contacts, people, dialer, phone and messages. She said it was good for a day but today is back to the same problem. I wonder why some people have this problem and some don't.
Are you guys having problems with all contacts or just some? Maybe it's happening to the contacts that aren't backed up with google?
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coupetastic-droid said:
This is weird. It's happening to my friend too. I don't have this problem though. I told my friend to clear data on s few apps like contacts, people, dialer, phone and messages. She said it was good for a day but today is back to the same problem. I wonder why some people have this problem and some don't.
Are you guys having problems with all contacts or just some? Maybe it's happening to the contacts that aren't backed up with google?
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It's happening randomly on pretty much all contacts (and all my contacts are Google contacts). The only unique thing I have is that my contact photos are synced to my phone using HaxSync. For those of you also with this issue, do you use HaxSync?
I can't figure out what could be the cause of the issue. I contacted HTC and they just told me to clear the cache.
Others have been experiencing the problem here as well: http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/319268-sms-contact-picture-4-3-a.html
Some even performed a factory reset and the issue was still present so clearing the cache wouldn't be a fix.
For me, it does not matter if the picture is from my gallery (google pic) or sync'd to Facebook. It gives the same result. I have tried turning off Facebook sync but it does not make a difference. Given a little time, the picture always returns or I can go into open apps and "close messaging" and when I reopen all pictures are there.
After doing some research, I went into recovery mode and cleared system cache after a couple places suggested this after an update. Unfortunately, this made no difference. I was going to try a factory reset and let all my contacts resync, etc but don't want to do all that work if it is not a sure solution. This all worked just fine for me prior to the update. Hopefully, this will get the attention of HTC. Also, I have read in the last couple days that HTC is preparing another update that is hitting other countries first to move all HTC One's to Sense 5.5. It looks like as big a file as this past update so maybe a fix may be there?
I have it too. HTC screwed up here. They'll have to address this in a next update. Lets all email HTC and let them know
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thevuman said:
I have it too. HTC screwed up here. They'll have to address this in a next update. Lets all email HTC and let them know
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Hopefully they send us an update just as fast as they did with the HDR camera mode screw up, they latterly fixed it the next day.
Count me in, same here, even tried wiping everything starting from scratch and not restoring anything
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OK, so I've been Tweeting with @TmobileHelp and I advised that the contact pictures were from sync sources, they say that the pictures we have associated with the contact should be on the devices and this problem should go away. Though it makes sense, at the same time it doesn't make any sense to me.
If we have contact sync's and the phone lets you replicate that kind of data from whats stored on other servers, why should I have a local copy of the pics for it to work?... can anyone help me confirm the local pics thing?
Thanks!
megabiteg said:
OK, so I've been Tweeting with @TmobileHelp and I advised that the contact pictures were from sync sources, they say that the pictures we have associated with the contact should be on the devices and this problem should go away. Though it makes sense, at the same time it doesn't make any sense to me.
If we have contact sync's and the phone lets you replicate that kind of data from whats stored on other servers, why should I have a local copy of the pics for it to work?... can anyone help me confirm the local pics thing?
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What do you use to sync your pictures? I use HaxSync. Not sure if everyone having issues is also using that or not. But either way, syncing photos is much more convenient than having to store individual photos for everyone on the device and it worked fine prior to the update so we shouldn't have to lose that ability. What's odd is how the photos are sometimes there and sometimes not. Maybe it has something to do with the linked accounts on those contacts? All of my contacts with photos have a Google contact and a HaxSync account linked together.
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What do you use to sync your pictures? I use HaxSync. Not sure if everyone having issues is also using that or not. But either way, syncing photos is much more convenient than having to store individual photos for everyone on the device and it worked fine prior to the update so we shouldn't have to lose that ability. What's odd is how the photos are sometimes there and sometimes not. Maybe it has something to do with the linked accounts on those contacts? All of my contacts with photos have a Google contact and a HaxSync account linked together.
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Do you use the HaxSync Jelly Bean Workaround ??? I haven't tried that software, it says that its for 4.1, doesn't mention anything for 4.3.
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Do you use the HaxSync Jelly Bean Workaround ??? I haven't tried that software, it says that its for 4.1, doesn't mention anything for 4.3.
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That's only for 4.1. 4.2 and above don't need it. I just tweaked something and my contacts photos seem to working so far. Not sure if it'll last but some of you may want to try it out.
In my contacts app, click up top left in the "Phonebook" dropdown. Unselect HaxSync and just leave Google checked. All of my contacts that are already linked are still showing their photos, and the issue in the messaging apps seems to be fixed (at least for the past 25 minutes).
Let me know if this helps anyone else.
My hypothesis is that those of us having issues with the blank contact photos in the messaging app have multiple items checked in the Phonebook dropdown.
EDIT: Nevermind.... the issue is back. I can't figure it out. It's gotta be a bug that needs to be patched.
Megabiteg: I have a few contacts that do not use Facebook so their pictures I take from things in my photo gallery. I have replaced them multiple times and it makes no difference. I think that was just the quick and easy "answer" from Tmo support.
Jpzsports: I tried your idea and only have Google checked in contacts app and I still have the issue. I am anxious to hear if this continues to work for you!
I have even gone so far to look at other apps that have permission to look at/modify contact information and disabling them or have them not interface with contacts and it has no effect.
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Megabiteg: I have a few contacts that do not use Facebook so their pictures I take from things in my photo gallery. I have replaced them multiple times and it makes no difference. I think that was just the quick and easy "answer" from Tmo support.
Jpzsports: I tried your idea and only have Google checked in contacts app and I still have the issue. I am anxious to hear if this continues to work for you!
I have even gone so far to look at other apps that have permission to look at/modify contact information and disabling them or have them not interface with contacts and it has no effect.
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That's interesting to hear that the issue still occurs even with photos from the gallery. That removes the idea that it's purely a synced photos problem.
And sadly my idea failed to work so it looks like this is definitely a bug that needs to be patched.
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That's only for 4.1. 4.2 and above don't need it. I just tweaked something and my contacts photos seem to working so far. Not sure if it'll last but some of you may want to try it out.
In my contacts app, click up top left in the "Phonebook" dropdown. Unselect HaxSync and just leave Google checked. All of my contacts that are already linked are still showing their photos, and the issue in the messaging apps seems to be fixed (at least for the past 25 minutes).
Let me know if this helps anyone else.
My hypothesis is that those of us having issues with the blank contact photos in the messaging app have multiple items checked in the Phonebook dropdown.
EDIT: Nevermind.... the issue is back. I can't figure it out. It's gotta be a bug that needs to be patched.
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Megabiteg: I have a few contacts that do not use Facebook so their pictures I take from things in my photo gallery. I have replaced them multiple times and it makes no difference. I think that was just the quick and easy "answer" from Tmo support.
Jpzsports: I tried your idea and only have Google checked in contacts app and I still have the issue. I am anxious to hear if this continues to work for you!
I have even gone so far to look at other apps that have permission to look at/modify contact information and disabling them or have them not interface with contacts and it has no effect.
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That's interesting to hear that the issue still occurs even with photos from the gallery. That removes the idea that it's purely a synced photos problem.
And sadly my idea failed to work so it looks like this is definitely a bug that needs to be patched.
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Thanks a lot for the follow up. I agree, I know that Tmo-support was pulling a fast one, initially they actually suggested me to pull the battery of the phone out and replace... (lol)
I think that this issue is connected to a contacts database corruption, I've always notice the the contact phone sync (regardless of the source) its kind of flaky, it must of gotten worse while upgrading. Funny because I chose to delete all the txt msg I had prior to upgrading (because I read this thread before hand) hoping this would minimize my chance of getting the issue but no.... it didn't work.
I'm going to keep on trying to figure out what else can I do to make this better until Tmo and HTC decides to fix it.
I hope that these posts don't seem unnecessary but I want to post what I have tried so others don't feel the need. I was playing with the contacts app and suddenly under phonebooks available (upper left corner pulldown) the sim card showed up, where it had not prior and the three contacts listed where the 3 contacts Tmo uses for you to check minutes, balance, whatever ( I never use these) I know I did not put anything to the sim so I deleted these and unchecked sim....no difference. I now have gone back and added sim to phonebooks (tho empty) to see if any difference.
Megabiteg: I agree with you saying about a change in the contacts database and I specifically remember during the update a message saying something to the effect of "updating/reformating contacts database".
Just another text, no change, it appears it does not matter what phonebooks are/are not used; the problem still exists. I am reluctantly coming to the conclusion that this is something HTC will have to remedy.
Did I just post that I would try not to post as much? LOL My experience got me to wonder if maybe the system was going out and checking the sim phonebook first (I would guess most people do not use it) and not finding an image and then after some lag going to contacts? So: I shut the phone down, took out the sim, powered up and went into contacts app and sms app (everything there), powered down and replaced the sim and rebooted.
Well, absolutely no difference. I am all out of ideas other than waiting for a patch...damn.
Is it just me or does the missing photo seem to affect the most recent person you text? (top of the messaging app)
I have a theory that it is related to the Link Contact service. It doesnt seem to effect contacts who have photos on every linked account.