topic Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo in Z Series

Xperia Z1 contact photo

dogabri — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 08:14:08 GMT

Hi,

I have an issue with my phone Z1. When i try to attach a photo to an existing contact, the photo is rotate to the right. Even if i try to rotate the original photo to contrate this issue, the ptoho to chunk is ALWAYS rotate to the right!!!!!!!

The same thing when I try to make a new photo for contact.

Thank you for your help.

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

Alexander1 — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:34:02 GMT

Hi,

Make sure that you have selected album to crop your picture. If you have selected any other photo app you have to go to settings > apps > all > press the app you have selected > clear defaults. If you don't know which one you have selected, you can clear defaults for all apps. Go to settings > apps > all > menu button > clear defaults.

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

dogabri — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 23:43:58 GMT

Thank you for your answer. The solution you proposed it worked.

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

migsbgonzalez — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 14:36:32 GMT

Hi I tried the same solution you asked him to do but it didn't work for me. What shall i do?

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

alex00752 — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 15:59:52 GMT

The picture has on exif tag that contains information regarding the orientation of witch the photo is displayed in applications.

So even if a portrait taken picture is saved landscape in memory the tags stored in the pictures tels the photo viewer app that the picture should be displayed in portrait. So when you try to ad a picture to a contact and that picture is taken in portrait mode and when you chose the picture it is in correct orientation, actually the picture is saved in landscape orientation and when you select it and the crop screen appears, the picture is displayed based on the psychical orientation in witch has been saved to memory and not the exif tag orientation..

You can open the picture that was taken in portrait orientation in album, tap on the edit button and open with Photo editor, tap on the crop icon and there you have rotate. You rotate the picture 90 degrease and save it, after you do that in albums the photo appears landscape. You repeat the procedure and rotate photo back in portrait mode and this time the psychical orientation of the file correspond whit the correct rotation.

Sorry for the long explication..

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

RobinDu — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:21:19 GMT

Thanks Alex, that was really useful information and I really appreciate you taking the time to post it particularly since Sony makes you jump through many hoops just to leave a comment!

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

Edguy555 — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 06:28:32 GMT

It didn't work for me too!

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

metalplate — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:32:32 GMT

It use to be so straight forward doing this "adding contact photo" when we were having the past update,, but after this 4.4.4 kitkat.... SONY wanted us to do extra step on it..lol
Bro try this..
1. If Portrait position taken photo.
2. Use photo editor.
3. Crop slight smaller (abit will do..)
4. Saved
5. Now... you can use the saved portrait photo for your contact. (this is one of the way i practice myself to use..haha)
Hope it help..
Hmmm till now i still don't know why SONY wanted to make us do extra step.....:-P

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

Girish_Tamhane — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:00:01 GMT

still its not working, also i rebooted the mobile.

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

sheens — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:10:56 GMT

I am having the same issue! Even with trying to edit the photo and follow all suggestions noted below.

Any other suggestions?!

Thank you.

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

sheens — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:39:17 GMT

Hey there,

I actually just 'edit' it in a different photo app (pixlromatic for example). Even if I don't add any effects, I can save it as a specific photo app. From there, I am able to add it as a contact without it going sideways!

Nice and simple, lol.

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

Londongirl1 — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:48:18 GMT

Thanks for the tip. That worked and it's easy....

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

alex00752 — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:19:36 GMT

If you have a portrait taken picture the file is actually saved in landscape in memory but the exif info attached to the file by the camera tels applications to display the photo in portrait mode even if the file is actually saved in landscape (if you copy photos taken in portrait to your PC [Windows] you can see the photos in landscape and you have to rotate them to portrait to have the correct orientation, because windows doesen't read the exif info for the orientation state of the photo and displays them in landscape)

Wen you want to assign a photo to a contact the editor that crops the photo is reading the actual orientation of the file not the exif one

on the mobile, your portrait taken photos are actually saved in landscape and the idea is to change the physical orientation of the photo to match exif orientation.

If the editor reads the exif orientation of the photo as portrait then you have to rotate the photo once in any direction and save it (so exif becomes Landscape like the actual orientation of the photo) then rotate it back to portrait and save it (Physical and exif orientation are both changed and saved to portrait) so the physical orientation of the file becomes the same with the exif orientation. and the editor wen cropping will see the portrait orientation.

Portrait picture (|) with actual orientation in landscape ( __ ) . So ( | __ ) photos must to become both exif and physical in portrait ( | | ) ...this is the logic

The only thing that could not work is if you use a editor that does not change the actual orientation of the files but changes the exif orientation so the actual orientation could remain landscape.

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

ine — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:14:19 GMT

Try to screenshot the pic that you want to attach on the contact. And Voila it is now in the right position. It worked for me.

Re: Xperia Z1 contact photo

Don_Quixote — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:35:03 GMT

Did you already try to first take a screenshot of the pic and afterward use the screenshot as contactlist?