Portal photos are now blurry in latest scanner build.
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So, I just upgraded Scanner to latest version, clicked on nearest portal and watched as the image for the portal downgraded in resolution to a blurred image.
Is this some cost saving measure/intentional?
Why not communicated.
Why are we asked to submit good quality photos when you are going to just render text on plaques etc unreadable?
Does this have potential ramifications for Missions?
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Thanks for the heads up. It's a bug and we'll investigate further, thanks.
Brian, I noticed the badges in the profile are also showing up a bit pixelated when selecting them.
Flip side, can we have a no images setting please?
Field texture is also pixelated on iOS devices, seems to be working normally on Android though.
While you’re at it, can you finally fix the proportions for zooming portal images? This is something that worked in Redacted and is still not working in Prime. I have posted a couple of bug reports about this during the past three years but no acknowledgement from NIA.
Noticed also that the badges were blurry in Android, but version 2.110.1 seems to have fixed this.
got an update 2.110.2 this morning, photos and medals are blurry/low quality again.
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2.110.2
Yes, blurry again (iOS).
Confirming it is also happening for me on 2.110.2 (iOS). Cached photos are loading high quality then are being replaced with lower resolution versions. Text is often unreadable in the photos and looks very poor quality. Is this bug still being investigated @NianticBrian ?
Came to leave not just a comment, but also an observation.
1. So photos start out lower quality than they used to be on the key carousel.
2. Tap on the carousel photo for a portal and you get a slightly better version for the image on the portal status page.
3. Tap on the photo and you see the remote view.
4. Tap on the portal (or any portal in the view) and you're on the portal view that lets you interact with and view individual parts.
5. Tap on the photo thumbnail at the upper right.
6. Tap on the photo at the top and you'll be shown an uncropped version of the lower quality photo. This is particularly bad with landscape format images as it zooms-in to fill the full vertical space and actually crops off the left and right edges.
Alternately
Follow steps 1 & 2 with a portal with multiple photos.
3. Tap on a thumbnail that isn't the currently displayed image to have the application load and display a lower quality version of the image. You can even tap back on the originally displayed image's thumbnail after that to switch to a lower quality version of the image.
Noticed this bug again, or a related bug.
When clicking on a portal which you haven't already loaded the picture of, the images are loading in normal quality for a millisecond (while the thumb is greyed out), but once the votes and photo owner load and display in the bottom left, the image quality degrades.
To obtain these images, I screen recorded and then reviewed frame by frame. Below is one example. The forum software compresses the images so I also included a zoomed in version.
Other examples:
Below are the lossless png images. I am unable to attach video recordings to this forum.
The image which is loaded afterwards appears to by the max 512 pixel version that is the default image on IITC. However, if a higher quality image was originally used then why is this higher quality image not kept??
iOS, v2.119.1-53d8bbac.
Links to the portals used:
You could technically edit the hosts.ini file (I forgot the name of its equivalent on Android) to add the domain to not load any images. Someone did have a guide as a post on reddit years ago that was specific to the domains that portal photos uses within Google's servers.