Fixed high res contact images

benjo · 11 Oct 2012 at 00:32

Seems Google Contacts has finally been updated to support high res images.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...c-updates-web-contact-sync-with-brand-new-ui/

This means I can ditch Haxsync!

kona786 · 11 Oct 2012 at 01:13

EXCELLENT! - but not sure how it works. Do we just sync high res pics again to overwrite the low res ones?

benjo · 11 Oct 2012 at 01:20

kona786 said:
EXCELLENT! - but not sure how it works. Do we just sync high res pics again to overwrite the low res ones?

Yep, I guess you'll have to re-add all your contact images in full resolution again. I plan to get rid of haxsync and just use syncmypix to pull facebook images.

kona786 · 11 Oct 2012 at 01:28

benjo said:
Yep, I guess you'll have to re-add all your contact images in full resolution again.

As in via your phone right? Not Gmail or whatever that link showed?

benjo · 11 Oct 2012 at 01:30

kona786 said:
As in via your phone right? Not Gmail or whatever that link showed?

Either. As long as you replace the low res images on your phone or web then they should sync to each other.

kona786 · 11 Oct 2012 at 01:31

Cheers mate. Have you started testing/syncing?

edit - I've redone 2 contact and see how they go...and last

edit2: Is there a day that you don't flash a ROM?

benjo · 11 Oct 2012 at 01:33

Not yet, just Flashing CM10 and I'll give it a try

Foyman · 11 Oct 2012 at 05:46

For me, this has been fixed for ages. I've had hi-res contact images synced to my device with every Jelly Bean ROM install.

EDIT - Re-read and it's probably down to you using facebook photos whereas I manually added mine for the contacts with the first JB update and it's been fine since, clean installs and all.

doodah · 11 Oct 2012 at 09:27

I have ICS running on my Xperia S using low res pictures with my contacts. What exactly do I have to do so I can get the hi-res pictures? Manually add them all again, do it through Gmail or use a third party app?

benjo · 11 Oct 2012 at 12:41

Foyman said:
For me, this has been fixed for ages. I've had hi-res contact images synced to my device with every Jelly Bean ROM install.

EDIT - Re-read and it's probably down to you using facebook photos whereas I manually added mine for the contacts with the first JB update and it's been fine since, clean installs and all.

Then you probably didn't have your contacts syncing to Google contacts. It was only until yesterday that they increased the photo res on the web side of things. The version of android didn't matter.

kona786 · 11 Oct 2012 at 14:13

xibinim said:
I have ICS running on my Xperia S using low res pictures with my contacts. What exactly do I have to do so I can get the hi-res pictures? Manually add them all again, do it through Gmail or use a third party app?

phonebook - edit contact - add high res pic

Richie · 11 Oct 2012 at 14:40

Just updated mine on the Google website. Looked at my phone and it had already synched.... Nice high-res pics on my phone now

Well, most of them anyway. I need to take pics of people with the new phone as some of the contact images are from older phones (W800i) and in poor conditions

kona786 · 11 Oct 2012 at 15:15

Richie said:
Just updated mine on the Google website. Looked at my phone and it had already synched.... Nice high-res pics on my phone now

I tried some contacts yesterday - I pressed sync contacts today and they are now LOW RES!! again. How lame!

which google website Richie?

mrk · 11 Oct 2012 at 15:26

Gmail, go to contacts > Click the avatar pic and upload a fresh high res pic!

I have portraits of most people I know so just upload that way, everyone else is on Facebook anyway so just nick their profile pics

kona786 · 11 Oct 2012 at 15:28

mrk said:
Gmail, go to contacts > Click the avatar pic and upload a fresh high res pic!

I did it from my phonebook and locally stored pics - that didn't work.

Will try from Gmail next...........EDIT - works via Gmail. Strange it doesn't work via phonebook?!

benjo · 11 Oct 2012 at 15:31

mrk said:
everyone else is on Facebook anyway so just nick their profile pics

I'm still trying to find a decent app or chrome extension that would do this automatically. Syncmypix just wont grab high res pictures, even though I've told it to.

Cant be arsed with doing it manually all the time

Foyman · 11 Oct 2012 at 20:24

benjo said:
Then you probably didn't have your contacts syncing to Google contacts. It was only until yesterday that they increased the photo res on the web side of things. The version of android didn't matter.

I definitely have my contacts synced with Google. Every time I install a new ROM my contacts are all there with hi-res pics. I updated all of my contacts photos via the phone rather than through the web Gmail though which may be the difference and this has worked from day one of JB.

Sumanji · 11 Oct 2012 at 21:08

kona786 said:
EXCELLENT!

This - only took them circa five bloody years

benjo · 11 Oct 2012 at 21:09

Foyman said:
I definitely have my contacts synced with Google. Every time I install a new ROM my contacts are all there with hi-res pics. I updated all of my contacts photos via the phone rather than through the web Gmail though which may be the difference and this has worked from day one of JB.

Then you were the only one that didn't have this problem

It didn't matter how you applied the photo, once it synced with the web version it crippled the resolution and then synced that lower res pic back to the phone. The only way around it until recently was if your contact had a G+ account linked to them or you used something like HaxSync.