HI guys,
I´ve just moved to CM10.1 JB 4.2.2 in my S2
I´ve noticed that contact list pics now have been improved, but not all.
in order to get a better quality (of some) i need to go and see the G+ profile and open the profile pic, otherwise I still see them all blury when I access the contact photo or when I receive a call.
Is there a way to force sync with hi-res pics? I´ve tried deleting the account and adding it again.. but nothing.
I can´t believe we are still facing this dumb issue, it should be piece of cake for google
ideas? thanks!
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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 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!
Hi All!
My name is Matt. I've bought my S3 GT-i9300 for a few week and just a few days ago I noticed that the contact picture thumbnails no longer exists (not even the default icons). To see what I mean, please the attached image screenshot.
I've synced the facebook pictures to the contacts and has worked perfectly; I can still see the display picture that I've synced if I click onto a specific contact. But because I don't have that thumbnail, I cannot access the quick contact pop up.
The most peculiar thing is that this only occurs in the "Contacts" tab but not my "Favourites" tab. I also do not have this issue in my message app.
I cannot recall messing with any settings or installing anything besides installing facebook messenger and skype; both of which I've uninstalled with no solution to my problem. Other attempts include:
- removing my facebook account sync on my phone and deleting the remaining account details
- changed the "contacts viewed" from all to phone only to sim only, etc. but with no effect
- deleted all my sim contacts
- restarted the device
I guess the only thing I haven't tried is factory reset... but I would like to use it only as a last resort option...
My Android version is 4.1.2. I bought my phone outright.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks in advance
Matt
hi everyone,
like in the title, does anybody knows how to keep high resolution contacts images from google account after flashing a new room?
I flashed a new room recently and after syncing my contacts with my google account all the images appeared to be very poor quality.
I looked for the solution but didn't find the right answer (I don't want to synchronize with/throw Facebook).
I know that I can go to every contact separately and after a few second it will download bigger picture, but I have 800 contact and it will last very long.
Even though I do it the images are not as good as they were before
thanks in advanced