contact picture quality,,,,,,,

[newsradio2261]

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[G8D]

It is no longer fuzzy on my phone.

 

[G8D]

Are you talking about the contact widget "people", my pics in this widget are so bad, and i know if i set these pics as photoframe widget,they are fine, so it does seem like its the people widget,,, any ideas???

I am referring to when I go to phone someone and their photo comes up.
It used to be fuzzy, and now its not.

 

[newsradio2261]

could you check the people widget on your phone,and let me know if its blurry,,, thanks

 

[garbageman]

I have a bigger problem.....
When i call someone or i am being called, no photo comes up although i have set the photo in people widget. Have i missed any setting or is there a problem? Any help would be apperciated, thanks!

 

[garbageman]

OK! Sorted out: If you choose to view phone contacts in people widget, there will be no photo showing up in case of calling. But if you choose to see the google contacts , everything is ok.

 

[Flex]

Bit of a noon question, didn't want to start a new thread. But how do you add photos of people on your phone. I've got tons of photos but when I press menu and try to add a contact image, no one's number is available to select.

I also can't add people's pictures on the small facebook feed, or control my email notifications.

Total noob, I'm rooted, but have to send my phone back to T-Mob. So I've flashed the stock rom and will re-root.

 

[MartinS]

Yeah I've noticed a change - some (most) of the Facebook pictures have gone. This phone does my nut at times it really does.

 

[HardCoil]

When was this supposed to change? I just got my Hero today and noticed the same thing... uploaded a hi-res picture in google contacts in my PC browser, and the contact image ended up being a horribly compressed, tiny little blur

 

[bunt83]

It's a known issue with HTC phones....

Basically, contact pictures are stored as a tiny thumbnail and then when needed (when you make/receive a phone call) it gets enlarged. Hence the crappy pixelated quality.

This has NOT been fixed with any of the ROM updates...

G8D, how did you fix this???

 

[HardCoil]

Weird. It was pretty easy to get around on the Diamond (by using 3rd party software).

 

[bunt83]

Weird. It was pretty easy to get around on the Diamond (by using 3rd party software).

What was the software called?

Maybe there's something similar around for the Hero!

 

[HardCoil]

You basically just had to assign the images from somewhere else, using the standard contacts app on the phone or something like Slide2Unlock. I did notice when I sync'ed these contacts on my Diamond with my google account, the contact images were mangled in exactly the same way every time I did that
I tried doing the same with the "people" app on the Hero, but it still seem to compress the image

 

[mjcritchie]

Pictures used to be low-res for me, but now seem fine.

 

[SDscorch]

i found something out - this is related, but not the same that you're talking about



i manage my contacts in gmail - and i add ppl's pictures there

you have a few options of where to assign pictures from - picasa, your PC, a URL


well, i have a picasa acct, i thought it would be cool to do it that way

but i notice some of my contacts were appearing, others weren't - why?


i figured it out... if you assign the picture through picasa, it doesn't appear in your phone (it may for a while - but not later, for some reason)

but if you right-click within picasa, get that picture's URL, and link to that pic in gmail's contacts, it appears in your cell phone within a few secs or a couple mins (depending how big the pic is)

 

[bunt83]

BUT are the pics still blurry!?

 

[HardCoil]

Pictures used to be low-res for me, but now seem fine.

What have you changed?

 

[mjcritchie]

What have you changed?

Nothing! Just seemed to happen on its own.

I'm on T-mobile and recently upgraded to the newest ROM, but I'm pretty sure the quality of the pictures improved before I upgraded.

 

[HardCoil]

That is really odd :-/