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Gallery Issue

im getting annoyed with the gallery, basically theres a folder on it called instant uploads and i want it gone but cant find it anywhere using a file manager so im assuming its a virtual "cloud" folder and on google plus
how do i delete all the phots from it? and stop it appearing?
i deleted all the photos from my google + account and still theyre there
any ideas?

rosswaa said:
im getting annoyed with the gallery, basically theres a folder on it called instant uploads and i want it gone but cant find it anywhere using a file manager so im assuming its a virtual "cloud" folder and on google plus
how do i delete all the phots from it? and stop it appearing?
i deleted all the photos from my google + account and still theyre there
any ideas?
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At some point in time you must've enabled the Instant Upload feature (and have obviously subsequently disabled it). The folder is in Picasa Web Albums, and it is non-removable from what I can see.

maybe this is different in 2.4, but you should have an option under syncing to not sync Picasa and instant upload.
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i dont have picasa on my phone, iv re enabled syncing the google photos and google plus and instant upload trying to wipe the folder but its still there
it has a picasa picture on the folder but i dont have picasa installed and i cant find any settings for it

Google syncing brings Picasa to you in gallery by default. Turn off google photo's sync or edit the picasa web album
When you have the album open in Picasa Web Albums, choose Action, Delete Album - YOU WILL lose all photo's but it should then not show up.
To prevent it again in Google + turn off instant uploads

rosswaa said:
i dont have picasa on my phone, iv re enabled syncing the google photos and google plus and instant upload trying to wipe the folder but its still there
it has a picasa picture on the folder but i dont have picasa installed and i cant find any settings for it
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You don't need to have picasa installed on the phone for this to happen, Picasa Web Albums is online. It is where your pictures are saved when you enable Instant Upload in Google+, something which you must have enabled at some point since you have the folder.
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NPS_CA said:
When you have the album open in Picasa Web Albums, choose Action, Delete Album - YOU WILL lose all photo's but it should then not show up.
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I have been unable to get the Instant Upload album to delete, from Picasa Web Albums. It just stays there.

do you install picasa?
i got rid of it by removing my google account then adding it again and disabled goole photos from syncing then when i signed into google plus i disabled instant upload

I have different issue.
If I click on GALLERY it comes up with message "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped.
REPORT - OK
Any ideas?

Speaking of the Gallery, is there any way to order the folders/albums alphabetically? It seems like they're ordered completely randomly, which is really annoying if you have a lot of albums.

rbs_uk said:
I have different issue.
If I click on GALLERY it comes up with message "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped.
REPORT - OK
Any ideas?
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Have you disabled any apps? I disabled a pile of crap I don't use (Google+, Books, Talk, News & Weather) and I got the same. Then I re-enabled them and it worked again. Didn't get into trying them one at a time yet.

On de SGS the Gallery-app gave al lot of problems. One of them was that it used al lot of juice. Another was that it not always showed all pictures. For those reasons I installed Quickpic. It is a free app and very reliable. But let's hope that the Gallery-app is improved on ICS.

Sweerts said:
On de SGS the Gallery-app gave al lot of problems. One of them was that it used al lot of juice. Another was that it not always showed all pictures. For those reasons I installed Quickpic. It is a free app and very reliable. But let's hope that the Gallery-app is improved on ICS.
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I also love Quickpic, however the auto-rotate is extremely slow half the time on the Galaxy Nexus. The phone seems to be slow w/ auto-rotate everywhere, but it's even worse in Quickpic.

jabok said:
Have you disabled any apps? I disabled a pile of crap I don't use (Google+, Books, Talk, News & Weather) and I got the same. Then I re-enabled them and it worked again. Didn't get into trying them one at a time yet.
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It's google+.
Stupid to require google+ to be linked to the gallery.

waylo said:
It's google+.
Stupid to require google+ to be linked to the gallery.
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Have you tried clearing the gallery cache/date from app manager after you disabled google+? I bet they become linked upon initial start of gallery.

Yeah, that was the first thing I looked at.
Actually, now that I think about it, I did a settings wipe through titanium backup, but not a cache wipe through app manager.
Hmm. Let me try that.
Edit: Nope, looks like google+ physically has to be present. Silly.

Stupid picasa
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Another weird thing with the gallery. When looking at the details of some images (transferred over from PC/Mac) I get a time of Jan 1, 1970. Normaly taken pictures, screenshots and those send from another phone through bluetooth have the proper time shown.

a problem I have sometimes is I get grey boxes instead of pictures

Just poke and hold on the gallery folder then hit the delete button. Problem solved?

Any app to download friend's facebook pictures and apply hi-res photos to contacts?

Is there any app that downloads a high resolution Facebook contact picture and assigns it to your contact on the phone?
Theres a plethora of apps that sync "high res" pics (Syncmypix), but attaches it to your gmail account, which then downgrades the quality to all hell, because its like 48x48 res.
You can obviously manually download pictures and assign it to each contact, but that will take forever!
The only other solution is to contact everyone to sign up for Google + and upload a high res picture as their profile picture

friendcaster

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friendcaster
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Thanks. I've been wondering as well.

If I remember correctly, the low-res limitation is due to Google Contacts sync. I believe when google grabs the picture from the contact (which is in high-res first time) it uploads it to Contacts and converts to 64x64px (?) and then it use that low-res picture for all things.
I dont know if it still works like this but as other people said, there is a bunch of threads about this "problem".

beejizzle said:
If I remember correctly, the low-res limitation is due to Google Contacts sync. I believe when google grabs the picture from the contact (which is in high-res first time) it uploads it to Contacts and converts to 64x64px (?) and then it use that low-res picture for all things.
I dont know if it still works like this but as other people said, there is a bunch of threads about this "problem".
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exactly, the current syncing apps sync it with gmail, therefore downsizes it to 64x64 pixels, which looks awful on a 720p screen.
I did do a search, and could not find a straight answer.

andy2na said:
exactly, the current syncing apps sync it with gmail, therefore downsizes it to 64x64 pixels, which looks awful on a 720p screen.
I did do a search, and could not find a straight answer.
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I assume that Friendcaster also uses this method? I have "high res" checked but the pictures come out as anything but =/

Google Contact Sync (sorry cant post links yet)
Anyone tried it?
If you google it you just get the google version. there is another which if you search on facebook you will get. Wish I could post a link.. grrrr
heartofangel,com/google-contact-sync/

dalumberjack said:
Google Contact Sync (sorry cant post links yet)
Anyone tried it?
If you google it you just get the google version. there is another which if you search on facebook you will get. Wish I could post a link.. grrrr
heartofangel,com/google-contact-sync/
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Tried it.. still gets 64x64 pics.

This is a limitation with Google contacts online and not the phone. When you it syncs it resizes them.
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Br0wNb0y said:
Tried it.. still gets 64x64 pics.
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It was worth a shot. Thanks for trying

Why would google release this OS with this new half screen picture UI on contacts and then not allow facebook to use high res photos, it looks like ****!
I can't understand how they looked at that feature and said yeah that looks awesome..

Have you tried Syncmypix ?

from what ive been reading about this phone, the only way to get hi res photos would be if the other users are using google+, all other apps the pic gets downgraded in quality

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Wow people, some of the comments in here were completely uncalled for... If you see a thread that's a repost, than by all means respond like a normal human being and politely link them to the other thread. Then either report it or PM a mod so it can be merged.
But this BS about flaming each other for petty **** is going to stop.

godsfshrmn said:
No application is going to do this unless you stop syncing contacts. When syncmypics, friendcaster, whatever else app links a photo to a contact, it is sync'd with google contacts, which downsizes them automatically. If you want to complain, go complain about google contacts.
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So if this is the case, could I just sync with friendcaster, then go to accounts & sync and turn contact sync off and the pics would stay high-res?

joshnichols189 said:
So if this is the case, could I just sync with friendcaster, then go to accounts & sync and turn contact sync off and the pics would stay high-res?
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Tried this, unfortunately it still does not work.

facebook vs google
From what Ihave heard, google is not agreeing with some policy of facebook and therefore facebook is not letting them sync. However i think its odd that its only with ics. Maybe it has something to do with the use of the large image?

Read more at http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/ about the Google vs. Facebook spat.

mg3point said:
From what Ihave heard, google is not agreeing with some policy of facebook and therefore facebook is not letting them sync. However i think its odd that its only with ics. Maybe it has something to do with the use of the large image?
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Its not only ics, its all nexus devices.
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2 gallery related questions

Hi
So I have an s3 and my girlfriend just got hers today... 2 questions.
1) on mine I'm pretty sure since as soon as I set it up. The gallery had had all my Facebook albums in it. Hers doesn't. How did I make them appear in there? I can't seem to find an option for that...
2) on her gallery, any pics in albums marked as instant upload (which have pics from her old android phone that were obviously synced with instant upload) come up with errors if she tries to edit them with either photo editor or instagram or any other photo app. The apps have no problem with new pics taken with the phone. It kind of makes sense that these apps wouldn't be able to edit pics not technically on the phone, but mine does it with no problem.
She just got he phone like 2 hours ago... any ideas?
Thanks
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Settings in Facebook and if your sync is turned on or not.
Not sure what you mean about the second part
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I went to Facebook and there is no option about syncing photo albums... It just did it automatically on my phone. I'm thinking MAYBE it was a feature of Friendcaster though? Which automatically reinstalled from my play account when i bought my phone even though I had no intention of using it (I had it on an old phone)... But yea I see no option in the regular Facebook app about syncing photo albums, just contacts...
Also my other question, there are like 5 "Instant Upload" albums with the picasa logo next to them of old pictures taken on her old phone. They're all viewable but you can't edit the pictures in them using any of the photo editor apps. It's like they're not really there other than for viewing.

How the heck do you just view pictures on the actual phone (as opposed to cloud)

I tried to look for a permanant setting for the Gallery to just show pics on the phone itself but it keeps reverting to "ALL" view where it shows my picassa / dropbox. Thank you!

boodies said:
I tried to look for a permanant setting for the Gallery to just show pics on the phone itself but it keeps reverting to "ALL" view where it shows my picassa / dropbox. Thank you!
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From within the gallery
Menu>View by>Content in device
this is on the T889 Note II. ALJ1
EDIT: oh but look at that. it doesn't stick. how stupid.

crazy talk said:
From within the gallery
Menu>View by>Content in device
this is on the T889 Note II. ALJ1
EDIT: oh but look at that. it doesn't stick. how stupid.
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I know that, but it doesn't stick lol... wtf right?

I found the answer myself lol. You need to go in to Cloud in settings and then disable Dropbox sync to gallery.
Now i just have to figure out how to NOT SHOW picassa images

boodies said:
I found the answer myself lol. You need to go in to Cloud in settings and then disable Dropbox sync to gallery.
Now i just have to figure out how to NOT SHOW picassa images
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Settings>Google>'Your E-mail here'>Picasa
I don't know if it actually works since i don't use Picasa. but it's worth a shot.

My Sync Internet doesn't seem to sync
desont seem to work ;(

I managed to do it with an app called QuickPic and some adjustments in the settings!
After downloading Quickpic, you go to Settings>S Cloud. There, as the first screenshot shows you disable pics and video sync. (I belive you did that already.)
Then, you go to Settings >Google then you select your mail address and you'll have the options as you can see on the second screenshot. Untick picassa and google photos.
Now it is possible you still see some of your cloud pics on your device. I'm pretty sure you can't delete some of them with the stock galery app. So use Quickpic to delete them.
Hope it helped
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Thanks to Greige from android central
Make sure the synching for the Picasa albums is still off, then go into Settings > Application manager. Select the All tab, find Gallery and hit the Clear data button. Next time you open the Gallery, it will take a moment to rebuild it but the Picasa albums should finally be gone.
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Thanks for this thread all. This was really annoying me, now fixed

Any way to stop Facebook photos showing in the gallery?

How can I delete this ?

Hey guys I was looking around the internet and couldn't find answer
Anyways picture below is of my gallery
What is that little icon the arrow is pointing at ?
And
How can I delete them from my gallery ?
Yes I've tried selecting and deleting them.. its annoying because these pictures are doubles and I already have them in another album
Any help would be great thanks
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That's the symbol for your Picasa Web album. It's most likely synced under accounts>google. All of those pics are saved in your Google Picasa account.

metalfan78 said:
That's the symbol for your Picasa Web album. It's most likely synced under accounts>google. All of those pics are saved in your Google Picasa account.
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Funny thing is I don't even have a picsa account..lol...
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If you have a Google account then you automatically have a Picasa account. They are linked together. Are you using Google +?

metalfan78 said:
If you have a Google account then you automatically have a Picasa account. They are linked together. Are you using Google +?
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Actually I do have a google+ ...is that what's causing the issues ...
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Yea, most likely you have instant upload turned on. I have the same setup. If you don't want to see them in your gallery you can open the gallery, hit menu, and then choose 'view by'

metalfan78 said:
Yea, most likely you have instant upload turned on. I have the same setup. If you don't want to see them in your gallery you can open the gallery, hit menu, and then choose 'view by'
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Yeah i have it set to view albums yet still shows the picsa pictures ... would rather just delete them and cancel google plus lol
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I believe you clear data for Gallery and make sure that Picasa sync is unchecked in your Google Account settings and that gets rid of it. I've done it myself, it doesn't delete pictures only that Picasa album
Edit: You can disable Gallery first too if you want, it might be better. I don't think I did

sevenpioverthree said:
I believe you clear data for Gallery and make sure that Picasa sync is unchecked in your Google Account settings and that gets rid of it. I've done it myself, it doesn't delete pictures only that Picasa album
Edit: You can disable Gallery first too if you want, it might be better. I don't think I did
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Yup that's what it was..lol
Just in case anyone else has this issues here's a youtube link
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=djB3XcjtMTo
Sent From My Samsung Galaxy S3

otterboxfan4l said:
Hey guys I was looking around the internet and couldn't find answer
Anyways picture below is of my gallery
What is that little icon the arrow is pointing at ?
And
How can I delete them from my gallery ?
Yes I've tried selecting and deleting them.. its annoying because these pictures are doubles and I already have them in another album
Any help would be great thanks
Sent From My Samsung Galaxy S3
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Go into gallery and settings, view albums in device only...that will HIDE it, and then I go into google account in phone and uncheck the scan of picaso