Syncing iPhone contact pictures properly

This might seem like a trivial problem but its really bugging me!
I have an iPhone 5 capable of taking great photos with it's 8 megapixel camera and they look amazing on the 326ppi 4 inch screen. When I assign these photos to a contact they look good, fill the whole screen high res.... All is good and I'm happy!
The problem is that when I sync them with my Mac it 'kindly' resizes them to low res and crops them to fit a square box and then do not fit the screen on my iPhone often cropping the top of peoples heads off!
I've wiped all contacts off adress book on Mac and synced, then re saved all the pictures on the iPhone and synced again thinking this would force address book to save the high res files - it didn't work! Next time I synced it saved the square low res versions!
It's really bugging me and any help to sort this would be great...

The pic display with incoming calls is determined by the source of the pic in the contact entry. If the pic was assigned on the iPhone (either from the photo library or the camera roll), it shows full screen. If the pic is synced from an external address book, the pic shows as a thumbnail at the top.
It sounds like you assigned pics on the iPhone at some point, do not have pics in your Address Book, but do have pics in Google Contacts. Thus, when you sync from Google Contacts, it's an externally-assigned pic and shows as a thumbnail, but when you turn that off there's no pic assigned externally, so it defaults back to the pic assigned on the iPhone.
But, I've never tried to sync with Google Contacts, so the above is a guess.
Perhaps you can clarify where you have contact pics stored (Google, Address Book, or assigned on the iPhone).

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