Better quality contact pictures?
 

I haven't been able to find this info elsewhere. When selecting contact pictures for the N900, it looks like it converts them to a format with significantly lower quality/size (jpeg by the looks of it). What is the "native" size of N900 contact pictures (so that I can convert the pictures with Photoshop beforehand and make sure they look better), and is there any way to influence the conversion parameters (quality)?

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don't know

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then why feel the need to post then?

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lol ,

If anyone knows a how to , please respond to the thread , I would like a better quality contact pictures too .

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probably not. i quess the size is standardized and the standard is pretty lo-res

(something like 100x100 pix)

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you have more options to assign photos to contacts
1. when viewing photos, you have the option "set as avatar", which as I remember will not allow you to crop the image (bad)
2. when editing individual contact, you can choose the avatar from image and after that you can crop the image (good)
3. If your contact has some IM account assigned, avatar is transferred from the IM network, resized and with very low compression (bad)

You actually cannot have larger images.

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It's a bit obvious but editing individual contacts is better than assigning form images. I have also found stock .jpgs taken with the N900 are much better than imported .jpgs dragged and dropped into it's mass memory or memory card from elsewhere. Even an N95's pictures dragged and dropped via a PC to my N900 seem grainy when assigned to a contact. I suppose there is a work around using photo shop or similar but my advice would be take a piccy with the N900 of what ever you want to use as a contact picture.

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Not gonna happen, I suppose people understand this. :p

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Well, here's another question, implying a possible solution: Where on the phone are the converted contact pictures saved? I haven't been able to find them.

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somewhere in root i guess when making a backup its where i found it after unzipping the backup file

i got a different problem with avatars not being imported from the IM accounts or actually it is imported but it is not placing them onto contacts (or didnt) it does only if the contact changing his avatar and i am online on my N900 to see it

anyone got an idea how to fix it?maybe some refreshing? anyways i made another post about it but no one is able to help me..

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Standard format is PNG: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...195#post516195

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still does not explain why my IM contacts wont import automatically to all contacts but only to those who change it while i am online on my device.

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i use 256x256 jpegs and it looks great....

but i still dont know why is makes the contact picture "tile" in coversations.... can somone explain that?

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I synched my contacts with my previous phone wich resluted in low res. pictures/avatars.
Copy the original high res. pictures to your N900, and add them to the contacts again. That worked for me.
tp: I created a folder on my memorycard to save my contact-pictures and backups, just in case sh*t happens.

conversation parameters???...uhm...might be a network/provider issue i guess. I'm only getting complaints when im using the speaker during a phonecall

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The issue I have as well is not with the contact pictures but with the ones I can set for the IM accounts (e.g. for the Skype account). The the N900 downsamples the image to a very bad quality and all my Skype contact see this image when they view my Profile in their Skype.

So I am very interested please to know which is the folder where these IM account pictures are stored in. Does any one know the path?

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I have now applied a workaround described here because when you tell the application to use a JPEG picture it will be cropped and downsampled. When you tell the application to use a PNG picture it will not be put to a lower quality. This is since the standard picture file format for this is PNG (see above).

So I took the original JPEG picture, opened it in Gimp, stored it as PNG picture, uploaded it to the device and told the N900 Skype account mask to use this as Skype profile picture.

Nevertheless I think that the correct solution would be 1) a notification to use PNG if downsampling is not wanted and 2) a checkbox that the profile picture will not be uploaded to the server in the web.

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would be cool to get animated contacts!