Is there anyway to configure the Evo to show a large contact photo when you receive a call?
Oh yes, you do. Its quite easy, but you don't do anything on the phone. That's the beauty of it. Completely hands off the phone.
Its done entirely on your PC or Mac browser. No phone USB sync, no use of PC sync software, no cables. Hands off, completely wireless. You have to discard the old crappy way of doing things with a mobile phone that's been falsely educated to you by traditional companies.
All you have to do is login to your GMail account via PC/Mac desktop browser. Once you are logged in, you will see Contacts on the left side. You then edit these contacts by copy and pasting pictures from your PC hard drive into each of these contacts into their empty picture frame.
Done, that's it.
These pictures will automatically sync into your phone contacts through the 3G or wifi connection.
You can edit those pictures anytime on the PC.
Please note these pictures will also be uploaded to any phone, iPhone, Nokia Symbian, Blackberry, whatsoever that has Google Sync working in them. Like the case of our first poster who wants to move his contacts to his EVO. If he changed a portrait of his GMail/phone contact on the desktop browser, the picture will be uploaded to both his EVO and iPhone.
The second option is doing it with their Facebook or Twitter pics. To do this, you must have Facebook for Android installed. You must have Twitter for Android installed. Your Twitter and Facebook accounts must be actively synced. Sometimes, the sync is already built in like Samsung Touchwiz, Motoblur and HTC Sense. You have to activate them, like Facebook for HTC Sense. Activation is done by entering your Facebook login to the respective app, then configure the sync settings.
You can sync all your Facebook contacts into your phone contact book. Which I don't really recommend but you can do it. Note there is a filter that can display only Facebook contacts that has phone numbers in their info.
Or you can do this.
You go to your phone contacts, then associate that phone contact to their Facebook link. The same process applies to their Twitter account, Plurk account or MySpace account.
Once that is done, their social networking avatars are synced into their phone contact portraits.
Note, if they decided to change their avatars with a new one, their phone picture would automatically update itself to the new avatar.