Xperia Z1 contact photo

[dogabri]

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. 

[sheens]

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.

[Londongirl1]

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

[alex00752]

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.

[ine]

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.

[Don_Quixote]

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