Birthdays

[KriszG]

MyPhoneExplorer creates 96x96 jpeg images. Please save a image from a contact (where MPE did set the contact), upload it to the memorystick and try to view the picture on your phone with the gallery. Does this work ?

How can I do that? I mean, when I select the contact photo, I couldn't save it to anywhere. There's no option for that. Any advise?

I also tried one thing. If I set a contact photo on the phone (select an uploaded photo from gallery and set it for the contact) then sync it with MPE, it does not even gets back to MPE. Rather that a black rectangle appears as a contact photo in MPE.

[FJ]

Rather that a black rectangle appears as a contact photo in MPE.

Really strange. You can export a contact picture if you doubleclick a contact in MPE. There is a button to save the image

[KriszG]

Rather that a black rectangle appears as a contact photo in MPE.

Really strange. You can export a contact picture if you doubleclick a contact in MPE. There is a button to save the image

I tried it. I set a photo for a test contact that never has a contact picture before. Then I synced with MPE and saved the picture from MPE. It saved a 96x96 pixels PNG image. It is a black background. I mean, the whole image is black.

It is also strange that if I try to open the PNG file with GIMP, is says that the file is corrupted. Windows can open is and that is where I see the black rectangle.

Do you think it is an issue with my phone? It has Android v2.1 (oroginal, no MODs, no root).

[KriszG]

Rather that a black rectangle appears as a contact photo in MPE.

Really strange. You can export a contact picture if you doubleclick a contact in MPE. There is a button to save the image

I tried it. I set a photo for a test contact that never has a contact picture before. Then I synced with MPE and saved the picture from MPE. It saved a 96x96 pixels PNG image. It is a black background. I mean, the whole image is black.

It is also strange that if I try to open the PNG file with GIMP, is says that the file is corrupted. Windows can open is and that is where I see the black rectangle.

Do you think it is an issue with my phone? It has Android v2.1 (oroginal, no MODs, no root).

FJ,
Do you have any idea why is this working in this way?

Thanks.

[KriszG]

Rather that a black rectangle appears as a contact photo in MPE.

Really strange. You can export a contact picture if you doubleclick a contact in MPE. There is a button to save the image

Do you have any idea why it is working this way?

[FJ]

You should be more patient. I cannot reply all new posts every day.

MyPhoneExplorer saves the images on phone as JPG and not as PNG. Does it work if you set your photos on the phone itself (also the transfer to MPE) ?

[KriszG]

You should be more patient. I cannot reply all new posts every day.

MyPhoneExplorer saves the images on phone as JPG and not as PNG. Does it work if you set your photos on the phone itself (also the transfer to MPE) ?

If I set the photo on the phone itself any sync it with MPE a black colored rectangle appears as the contact photo.
If I try to save it from MPE, it saves a PNG file. If I change the extension from .png to .jpg it will still remain a 96x96 black rectangle when I open it.

Do you think Windows7 has anything to do with it?

[FJ]

No, its not related to Win7. Can other third-party apps display the contact images ?

[KriszG]

No, its not related to Win7. Can other third-party apps display the contact images ?

To tell the truth, I don't use any other third party apps for that, because they messed up my contacts. MPE is the only one that is working properly.

Really. I tried other apps, but didn't like them.

If you advise any third party app to try, I'd do that, but I can't tell anything about them now.

[marcilevine]

I really like this program for most things and have found answers to most of my problems on the forum so far. The one anomoly I have is how the birthdays show up in my contacts on my Motorola Photon (Android 2.3.4). They are correct in MPE on my computer, but in the phone they show up as one month earlier.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Marci

[FJ]

@Kris: No, do not install other apps you don't like just for testing

@marci: Interesting, which version of the client you are using ? Are the birthdays you enter in the phone also diffrent in MPE after sync ?

[marcilevine]

The Client Version I got from the Android Market for the phone is 1.0.10. The version on my computer is 1.8.1.

The birthdays stay correct in the computer after synching, but wrong in the phone. It does not allow me to edit or enter birthdays directly into the phone.

[TC]

Lot´s of topics regarding birthdays and sync....

I suddenly have a problem with mpe not syncing birthday reminder to my phone/gcal. After syncing there is no reminder in phone...and the next time I sync the reminder in mpe goes as well.
I´ve tried to completely erase the calendar in phone and transfer a fresh one från mpe without any luck.

[FJ]

Take a look at the start date of the birthday. Android does not calculate ruled appointments older than 50 years. This is a general Android issue

[TC]

That´s no difference, all contacts lose the reminder when transfered to phone.

[FJ]

But the reminder is still shown in MyPhoneExplorer ? What about alternative calendar apps - do they show the reminder (f.e. BusinessCalendar) ?