Gmail users: Make Google fix the contact picture quality issue

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Hello folks,

since all other threads concerning this topic are either outdated or are about trying to fix this problem by themselves I've decided to open a new one.

The problem mentioned above should be well known to almost any android user who uses Gmail to manage and sync their contacts.

Because Google ignored earlier requests I'm trying to spread this one single request as far as possible. If enough Gmail users read and star this thread Google has to react in any way.

Link to Google-Discussion

Link to direct suggestion of features for Gmail<-- German, but don't hesitate to like the feature suggestion there too!

If you are registered in another major forum please share the link so we reach as many frustrated users as possible.

Regards,
rabbit

Voted.

In fact i've added my support to many threads like this on the Google Forums over the last year, as have hundreds of other users. I find it utterly baffling how after all this time, Google still haven't addressed this issue.

If Google were to increase the contact picture size even by merely 10 pixels, they would need massive amount of additional server space.
I'm not saying it's not doable, just not as simple as we'd like to think.

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Actually I thought of that point too, but I made a quick calculation.

I am able to get a decent picture quality (JPEG,256x256px,8bit,quality 65) at under 15kb per picture.
Now imagine you are having 1000 contacts, it would be around 15MB of data just for the pictures. And now take into consideration that any Gmail user already has over 7,6GB(!) of free storage. Would anybody miss 15 or even 50MB?

But all this has already been written in the request thread

thanksd xzss

Come on people, just 22 people within 1.5 days starred this issue. We need more than that!

New link in OP! Please follow it and click the like button on the page it redirects you to!

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Really annoying google
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We need to put some pressure on Google to fix the Low resolution contact images that are synced with using GMail.

Please +1 the following post: https://plus.google.com/109941711245...ts/PwRx3SHNbjR and try to get #AndroidLowResContactPics trending.

(and for reference: http://productforums.google.com/foru...il/MIt6-tdZZPk)

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