Contact Picture Problem

[poleman25]

I searched and couldn't find any threads with this same problem. I go into people, I select the contact I want to put a picture to. I hit menu, edit, then menu again and select attach photo. I choose the photo that I want and crop it to what I want, and mind you, these are hi-res photos. After I save it, the pic looks crystal clear if I call the person or they call me. The problem is after a little while, the next time they call, the picture is blurry and looks not very clear. Anyone know a fix for this?

 

[rem_kujawa]

I would also like to know the fix for this.

 

[KSmithInNY]

I believe this problem also plagued the hero on Sprint. Might wanna search there.

 

[Caitlyn McKenzie]

I think its a google contacts issue. Its syncing that picture up, then back in the low resolution google stores them at. This even happened on my pre. Sorry, not much you can do.

 

[yoe]

Vincent is right, until Google decides contact pictures deserve a higher resolution, we're stuck

 

[organix]

Is there a way to just attach a photo without it having to sync to google so this won't happen?

 

[organix]

Is there a way to just attach a photo without it having to sync to google so this won't happen?

I think I've found a solution. Create new contacts for everyone that you deem necessary. Set this new contact to "phone" instead of "google". Just put in the contact name and picture on this new one. Once you have done that, save it and link it to your existing one with the google info. I think this is working for me.

 

[MannyZ28]

I think I've found a solution. Create new contacts for everyone that you deem necessary. Set this new contact to "phone" instead of "google". Just put in the contact name and picture on this new one. Once you have done that, save it and link it to your existing one with the google info. I think this is working for me.

It's oversights like this that neccessiate rather tedious work arounds that makes me wonder if noone at Google is paying attention. I mean really? We have to do this all by hand? Why have a convenient camera icon in the edit menu of a contact if the end results is a blurry picture?

 

[Sh3ngLong]

Thanks for the work around, organix. Tedious to do, but it works.

One other thing I don't understand with the Picture ID is the size of the picture. When you don't have a picture assigned to a contact, you get a nice big image of the green Android character. But when you assign a picture, the Picture ID is just a tiny square. Why can't we take advantage of the Evo's big beautiful screen? Even my smaller Palm Pre displayed bigger Picture IDs.

 

[maduhbee#AC]

This seems to be an issue with HTC, as it was the same for me with the Touch Diamond...

 

[mhespenh]

I use an exchange account and have the same problem. It is an issue with the way your contacts server stores the images, for gmail I believe they store contacts @ 96x96px. My exchange server stores in a similarly small size. So no matter what size you use when you set it up, gmail will format it down when it syncs. I had the same issue on my Pre, so its not an HTC issue.

Unfortunately the only workaround I know of is to save the contact to your phone.

Or, use the facebook images like I do.

Sorry

 

[Ripcode]

Glad I found this thread! Now I know, it's not just me.

Glad to see there is a work-around though it is a PITA.

 

[scoobdude]

has anyone tried saving the pics in gmail on their pc? My evo should be here today and on my pre the FB pics worked fine.

 

[mhespenh]

has anyone tried saving the pics in gmail on their pc? My evo should be here today and on my pre the FB pics worked fine.

Facebook pics will look fine.

Gmail will resize your uploaded pictures (regardless of where you upload them from, phone, pc, supercomputer) to ~96x96px for storage on their servers

 

[m970006]

I think I've found a solution. Create new contacts for everyone that you deem necessary. Set this new contact to "phone" instead of "google". Just put in the contact name and picture on this new one. Once you have done that, save it and link it to your existing one with the google info. I think this is working for me.

I did this also. I have about 200 contacts on google but mostly my family calls so I deleted their contact from google and created a new contact saved to the phone. I figured there's no need to sync those anyway since their numbers don't change. This cleared up the blurry contact photos.