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Firmware 2.2, Saving attached photos from mail app turns blurry

Just chiming in. It does the same thing on my iPod touch too. Very disappointing. I can't imagine anyone that DOESNT have this problem.
 
Danarc said:
I think apple have solved it thanks Goodness. Thanks for the update
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um how does this make any sense at all. somehow apple just came to your house and 'solved' your iphone/ipod touch without you knowing?
 
vrflyer said:
I got an e-mail last night with an attached (large) pic, I saved it to camera roll and didn't noticed any blurriness nor quality depreciation. :apple:
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Wow, I wonder if it's LARGE pictures that DO NOT have this problem and SMALL pictures that DO have this problem. I noticed that I've only been saving small images.

Small=320x480
Large=800x600?
 
kameko said:
um how does this make any sense at all. somehow apple just came to your house and 'solved' your iphone/ipod touch without you knowing?
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mine is working.....I sent a few emails yesterday but mine is solved dont know how though

edit:::::I Think its certain sizes because i just tried a different picture and to my surprise it was blurred.
 
Danarc said:
mine is working.....I sent a few emails yesterday but mine is solved dont know how though
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We're not talking about sending, but SAVING the images from Mail from the iPhone Mail.

EDIT: You know what I noticed as well? Scroll through some of your good pictures really fast in Photos.app and you'll notice that the iPhone has to catch up and while it's catching up it will show a very low res version of the photo first, and then the actual photo will load nice and sharp. This low res preview looks IDENTICAL to the ones that mail is saving... It's definitely a bug because the actual photo does not pop-up into place. Try it out.. it looks EXACTLY the same!
 
TheSpaz said:
We're not talking about sending, but SAVING the images from Mail from the iPhone Mail.
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I was refering to the iphone mail just to let u know. i tried a small picture and it came out fine but tried a picture i took with the iphone and it was blurred when saved. Anyway i hope apple fix this issue


EDIT: U right TheSpaz. Apple really gotta fix this
 
Danarc said:
I was refering to the iphone mail just to let u know. i tried a small picture and it came out fine but tried a picture i took with the iphone and it was blurred when saved. Anyway i hope apple fix this issue
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Maybe it's only happening to photos that were sent from an iPhone! Those are the only kind of photos I've been trying.
 
hmmm the plot thickens

although you guys may think this is a trivial point, i like getting down to the bottom of these sorts of issues


I guess we should have different sized pictures sent from different devices and see what happens

small pic 480x320
medium pic 640 x 480
Large pic 1600 x1200
 
I noticed this too. I found a pic that I wanted to use as a lock screen wallpaper and I emailed it to myself. I opened my email and saved it to my phone. When I went to the camera roll the pic was blurry and when i set as wallpaper it was still blurry (was hoping it would "pop" like some else stated earlier).

The pic i sent was like 900 x 1000. I sent this photo from email on Macbook and then had a friend take one with her iphone and email it to me and for me it still didn't make a diff....

Hope they fix it, it really sucks :(
 
I have similar findings. Pictures that someone took with an iphone and emailed me are blurry while a high resolution picture I emailed to myself doesn't appear to look any different than it did before the update. I checked with my friend who was emailed the same picture and he is still on 2.1 and the picture wasn't blurry for him while it was for me.
 
TheSpaz said:
Maybe it's only happening to photos that were sent from an iPhone! Those are the only kind of photos I've been trying.
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I noticed this also. And I think you are right, its pics sent from an iPhone. I emailed myself a full size pic I had on my MBP and it looks great. I emailed a pic I took with my wife's phone to my phone and it is awful.
This is no goodah!
 
iMerlin said:
I noticed this also. And I think you are right, its pics sent from an iPhone. I emailed myself a full size pic I had on my MBP and it looks great. I emailed a pic I took with my wife's phone to my phone and it is awful.
This is no goodah!
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Just for kicks... take an iPhone photo and save it on your computer. Then delete the resource fork (delete the icon) then email it to yourself and save it.

Edit: I just tried and they BOTH came out fine... sent from a computer.
 
TheSpaz said:
Just for kicks... take an iPhone photo and save it on your computer. Then delete the resource fork (delete the icon) then email it to yourself and save it.
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Ill have to try this when I get home tonight. Its a good test for sure.
 
wow this sucks! just did some testing... and I believe someone else might have come up with this conclusion but for me it's only pictures e-mailed from my phone to my e-mail.. then back to my phone... I tested safari and do not have a problem saving pictures from websites...
 
Found another bug.

Using Tiger and the latest iPhoto '08 ... When you copy a photo to iPhoto, it says "Do you want to delete the Original photo?" and I said "Keep Original" and it deletes it anyway. I don't believe it was doing this on my Leopard machine, but it happened on Tiger.
 
Dr. Cabrera said:
hmmm the plot thickens

although you guys may think this is a trivial point, i like getting down to the bottom of these sorts of issues


I guess we should have different sized pictures sent from different devices and see what happens

small pic 480x320
medium pic 640 x 480
Large pic 1600 x1200
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Just to point out my friend does suck at resizing pics, so yeah more than likely the pic was set to default 1600x1200.
 
After researching the conditions under which this issue is caused.. I have figured them out..

its not related to e-mail, its not related to camera apps or anything like that..


it is related to the resolution of the photo...


if the resolution of the photo is 800pixels x anything or the opposite anything x 800pixels it is somehow getting stuck in thumbnail size and never fully loading, which is why it looks blurry when you view the full res file..


I have tried this numerous times with various different sized photos.. and the only constant chriteria that has been consistently causing the issue.. is that one side of the photo is 800 pixels wide.. or tall.


here's an example

I found a random photo on google image search with a resolution of 800x533 of a lambo.. I saved it to my phone, and here's a screencap of the photo saved to my phone.
screenshot5.jpg



I then saved that photo to my computer, opened up photoshop and changed the resolution from 800x533 to 798x532 (constraining porportions) and then hosted the photo on my website.. Then I visted the hosted photo's URL on my iphone with safari and saved this image (798x532).. Here is a screencap.. you can see the difference clearly..
screenshot6.jpg
 
thelumpya2 said:
After researching the conditions under which this issue is caused.. I have figured them out..

its not related to e-mail, its not related to camera apps or anything like that..


it is related to the resolution of the photo...


if the resolution of the photo is 800pixels x anything or the opposite anything x 800pixels it is somehow getting stuck in thumbnail size and never fully loading, which is why it looks blurry when you view the full res file..


I have tried this numerous times with various different sized photos.. and the only constant chriteria that has been consistently causing the issue.. is that one side of the photo is 800 pixels wide.. or tall.


here's an example

I found a random photo on google image search with a resolution of 800x533 of a lambo.. I saved it to my phone, and here's a screencap of the photo saved to my phone.
screenshot5.jpg



I then saved that photo to my computer, opened up photoshop and changed the resolution from 800x533 to 798x532 (constraining porportions) and then hosted the photo on my website.. Then I visted the hosted photo's URL on my iphone with safari and saved this image (798x532).. Here is a screencap.. you can see the difference clearly..
screenshot6.jpg
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I appreciate your findings, but why are my 320x480 jpegs coming out bad? I downloaded an iPhone wallpaper, saved it to my photo library, emailed it to myself and saved it again and it's blurry like your first photo. Maybe it happens with 480 images too?
 
TheSpaz said:
I appreciate your findings, but why are my 320x480 jpegs coming out bad? I downloaded an iPhone wallpaper, saved it to my photo library, emailed it to myself and saved it again and it's blurry like your first photo. Maybe it happens with 480 images too?
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thats quite possible... I guess I hadn't really gotten that far.. although it does make sense.. becuase its the same aspect ratio..

but It definetly occurs over and over again with any photo that has 800 pixels..

I'll try it with a 480 photo as well and see what happens.


EDIT: reduced that same lambo photo to 480x320 and then hosted it on the web. I then saved it to my phone and it's crystal clear.

are you sure the .jpg resolution is 320x480? or is it possible that its a 533x800 .jpg? becuase its the same aspect ratio...

can you post the link to these background images you found on the web?
 
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