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Motorola Phone Tools transfers pictures way too small
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Posted by: 2talll

My girlfriend tried using my Motorola Phone Tools to transfer pictures to her Razr V3 the other day, but when she looked at them they were all blurry and pixelated. I compared the picture deatils to the details of the pictures I transferred to my V3i and hers are way smaller. My pictures transferred at between 45-65 kbs each, but hers are only 4-6 kbs each.

Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks in advance.

Posted by: what_up

Her V3 has a VGA camera and your V3i has 1.3 megapixel camera. That is a big difference right there. Also, you have to take a look at yours and hers camera settings. Motorola phones have different pixels/size setting for the camera. Motorola phone tools will transfer your pictures without doing any resizing. So, it's not a phone tools issues. It's the camera and settings issues.
P.S. V3 pictures would not be even close to the quality of V3i.

Posted by: 2talll

How do we check the settings to see if we can make it any better?

There must be something we can do, because the pictures she takes with her camera phone look better than the ones we transfer to the phone from the computer- and those are from a 7megapixel camera.

Posted by: zephxiii

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Motorola does a terrible job at resizing and compression of images destined for the phone. For optimal quality and compression, it is recomended to use a separate program to resize the images for the phone, then upload via file browser/transfer. I believe the optimal size for images is 176x220

Posted by: zephxiii

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Woops just want to note that the optimal size recommended is primarily for wall paper. But its a good idea to shrink an image close to the size as described earlier due to the storage limitations of the V3. Etc.