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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?
I thought this problem would be fixed in ICS, but I guess it has not yet been fixed. I installed SyncMyPix and that hasn't worked. I turned off auto sync contacts and tried SMP again and still I got huge blurry pics. Is there anything I can do about this problem?
Put the high res files on your phone and assign them to contacts there. It's annoying, but it's the only way ivy gotten it to wprk.
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That's way too much work for all my contacts. Also, I would like to have their latest photos from Facebook and what not.
I think we'll be waiting for FB to update their app to properly support the People API... sigh.
i find that, if your people has links to google+ (with the same name that it has tag it automatically), you will still need to go into people app for it to cache a High Resolution photo first, before it will work on the dialler.
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I think we'll be waiting for FB to update their app to properly support the People API... sigh.
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Considering that they didn't want to use the Android API for contact sync before I wouldn't be surprised if they don't enable that feature for a long time. They never used the normal API which is why it was blocked.
for fb , i use friendcaster.. it has high res sync capability
I've still found that Friendcaster's syncing doesn't give pictures of a truly decent resolution, they're just a little less blurry than usual.
Keep in mind the high-res contacts =256x256 on a 1280x720 screen so I don't thinks they're ever going to look crystal clear.
I read this a while back. Make a phone only contact with a picture of the party. Now link that contact with the synced contact. Now choose to use the phone only contact picture. Not sure if that works.
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Yea Facebook reduces the contact icons. So you'll never get a REAL HD image from Facebook unless you actually grab some of their uploaded pictures from their photo album... but it will require more work to get it right.
Facebook Sync, IMO, is good and bad. I LOVE the feature as it quickly populates my contacts with images. I HATE it because sometimes I look for the images through a list, and if it changes often, can make it harder. Sorta like theming your App Drawer.
Typically what I do is Sync with my social media to get the majority of contacts synced up. But I usually manually add photos of my most popular contacts with ones I've taken with my phone's camera.
Manual contact photos sync with Google along with your contacts... so you really only have to do it once.
Anyone know to who or where we can request an update of Google Contacts? Asking to increase the resolution to 256x256. Same resolution as supported by ICS.
Or an option to not sync photo. That's also ok.
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I tried searching this forum as well as Google and cannot find the answer to this question.
How do I sync my Facebook contacts pictures with my contacts? I'm coming from an HTC EVO which was very simple to do. I can't figure it out on the S2 though. Any insight would be appreciated, thank you!
App syncmypix. Free in the market.
From Facebook app go to settings scroll all the way down and sync contacts. Or set up your fb thru social hub and check off the option to sync contacts.
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I had the same problem. HTC adds notes to each contact. Once your in your contacts list, hold each contact till the edit shows. Once in edit, see if their Facebook account shows. If it does, just delete your original pic and save. Facebook pix well take over. Hope this helps.
BTW, don't use social hub!
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Tried syncing contacts with Facebook already. Doesn't bring the pictures. Sucks that we would need an external app for this...
For syncmypix, do I have to keep updating it whenever my contacts change their pictures?
GReddySetGO said:
Tried syncing contacts with Facebook already. Doesn't bring the pictures. Sucks that we would need an external app for this...
For syncmypix, do I have to keep updating it whenever my contacts change their pictures?
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That's weird because mine are synced no problem thru the FB app.
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SRT300 said:
I had the same problem. HTC adds notes to each contact. Once your in your contacts list, hold each contact till the edit shows. Once in edit, see if their Facebook account shows. If it does, just delete your original pic and save. Facebook pix well take over. Hope this helps.
BTW, don't use social hub!
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What's wrong with social hub? Social hub does a better job at displaying the pictures. The FB app shows the pictures like if they were zoomed in. I like the way social hub displays them better than the FB app.
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Facebook app used to update the contact pics in my phone too. After an update, it stopped syncing them. I had read in a post somewhere that it was blocked for some reason?
Imaginos said:
Facebook app used to update the contact pics in my phone too. After an update, it stopped syncing them. I had read in a post somewhere that it was blocked for some reason?
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My FB app wasn't syncing either after I started restoring with titanium backup. It would always have the old pics while my media hub showed the updated pics. Then I just logged out of the app recently and logged back in. It syncs after that. So try logging out and see if that helps..
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RayTrue04 said:
My FB app wasn't syncing either after I started restoring with titanium backup. It would always have the old pics while my media hub showed the updated pics. Then I just logged out of the app recently and logged back in. It syncs after that. So try logging out and see if that helps..
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Mornin' Ray,
Gave it a shot and nope - photos still don't sync like they used to. One of the free apps on market did sync them, so I was assured it is still possible. Removed the app and it reverted to the placeholder images.
Seconded for Syncmypix. It is quick easy and you can schedule it.
To set the FB profile pic as the contact pic I had to go into each contact, hit menu and then mark as default. The first option is for what to use for the caller ID. Chose FB and saved. A lot more complex than my Evo 3D that just did it on it's own, but whatever this method worked. Before I did that it was showing each contact with the default pic saved in my Gmail contacts.
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Mornin' Ray,
Gave it a shot and nope - photos still don't sync like they used to. One of the free apps on market did sync them, so I was assured it is still possible. Removed the app and it reverted to the placeholder images.
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Hmm that's weird. I just checked mine and saw that one of my friends who recently updated her pic it still shows the old pic thru the FB app sync but its updated on the social hub sync. I guess that's why I'm not really having an issue this phone chooses the pics on social hub by default. I would say try a third party app if you don't feel like setting up social hub..
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OK, so I tried manually syncing contacts, I tried logging out and logging back in, all with no results. I even tried uninstalling the app, then downloading it again. This did not fix any of the pictures, however now when I edit my contacts I can see that they are linked with them on facebook, this wasn't there before. There is also a phone and facebook tab on top when I edit them, so this must be some kind of progress. Under the facebook tab, there is an error that reads: "Unable to edit SNS contact on phone" what does this mean?
Lastly, I tried using syncmypix, but it only works for some contacts. For the others it says "contact is read only"
Anyone with any ideas?
Go to your setting from phone home screen...look for accounts and sync. From there look for facebook. tap on facebook and sync all contacts. That should work.
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Go to your setting from phone home screen...look for accounts and sync. From there look for facebook. tap on facebook and sync all contacts. That should work.
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+1 THIS IS D EXACT METHOD FOR ALL SAMSUNG PHONES
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Tried the above mentioned method before, and again today... still no added contact pictures.
Like I said, I have pictures for some, but most do not. When I go to that contact, it is in fact linked with that persons Facebook account, but does not show the picture... For all of those people whos picture does not show, when I click on edit contact and then go to the Facebook tab, there is an error that reads, "Unable to edit SNS contact on phone" Does anyone know what this error means, and how I can go about correcting it?
This works for adding pics but how do you make Facebook the default pic...
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uriel1971 said:
This works for adding pics but how do you make Facebook the default pic...
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Once contacts are joined click on the contact hit menu and select mark as default. There should be a list right at the top with a circle to select for whatever account you want as default. Like i've been saying media hub by default when accounts are linked it makes your FB pics the default unless you have one saved under the contacts main contact profile. The FB app syncs the contacts but it won't make the pics default unless you manually choose it...
To be perfectly honest the FB app's syncing sucks really bad. Once it syncs for the first time it will never update again. And when some people put full body shots their heads are cut off. This is why I rely on media hub for my FB syncing needs..
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Can anyone please share the APK?
All latest baked, oops cooked releases include the annoying version with online (Picasa) sync....
The only way I know of getting it is from Pauls Modaco ROM but you'll need to buy premium to get access to the kitchen to build a ROM with it in.
I'm not prepared to break his rules and post it either, sorry.
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would the APK from an "old" 4.0.1/2 release do?
Did you try turning off the Google Pictures synchronization in settings? I dont know if it removes picasa sync, i am just guessing.
mistm said:
Did you try turning off the Google Pictures synchronization in settings? I dont know if it removes picasa sync, i am just guessing.
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yea i did, but then removed some google components and stupid thing sync-ed again by default...now i have to remove it completely or reinstall the APK and be fast enough to disable sync again...
pain in the a$$ though
I would love to know this as well....I hate that it always shows pictures other than what's from the camera
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1.Clear data for both the Galery app and Google+app.
2.Disable picture sync in accounts and sync.
3.Once in Google+ hit disable instant upload.
Done
Simer03 said:
I would love to know this as well....I hate that it always shows pictures other than what's from the camera
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I got rid of the "Scrapbook Photos" and "Profile Photos" albums by getting on my computer and logging into G+ and then I just deleted the picasa folder and the picasa feature/service/app altogether. I never used picasa anyway so that got rid of the empty "Scrapbook Photos" album in my gallery. Then I deleted my profile picture in G+ to get rid of the "Profile Photos" album. It took me a loooong time to finally get rid of those annoying albums in my gallery. I tried all kinds of stuff before I realized I could do it that way. After all was said and done, I just deleted my entire G+ account bc I never used it anyway...I barely use FB as it is. I'm very picky about having only what I want in my gallery...as well as on my phone
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I got rid of the "Scrapbook Photos" and "Profile Photos" albums by getting on my computer and logging into G+ and then I just deleted the picasa folder and the picasa feature/service/app altogether. I never used picasa anyway so that got rid of the empty "Scrapbook Photos" album in my gallery. Then I deleted my profile picture in G+ to get rid of the "Profile Photos" album. It took me a loooong time to finally get rid of those annoying albums in my gallery. I tried all kinds of stuff before I realized I could do it that way. After all was said and done, I just deleted my entire G+ account bc I never used it anyway...I barely use FB as it is. I'm very picky about having only what I want in my gallery...as well as on my phone
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Am I the only person that uses Picasa for my wallpapers? I hate clutter on the phone itself, so I just pick a wallpaper from one of my Picasa folders and I don't have to worry about all 1k+ taking up space on the device.
Do you know the muffin man?
Mi|enko said:
Am I the only person that uses Picasa for my wallpapers? I hate clutter on the phone itself, so I just pick a wallpaper from one of my Picasa folders and I don't have to worry about all 1k+ taking up space on the device.
Do you know the muffin man?
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lol...???...not familiar with muffin man....why do u ask?
Hi there,
for anyone using Go SMS pro on their HOX, are you contacts pictures showing up at all?
For some reason, none of my contacts pictures show up in my contact list on go sms, even though they show up on the stock app. I've turned it on in the settings and even ticked in the facebook settings that I want the pictures displayed but nothing at all. Its not just fb pics that arent showing, nothing at all. Any help would be appreciated.
You have to either use photos from your phone or download an app like HAXSYNC and upload the photos from there... For whatever reason Facebook for Sense photos don't show in GoSMS or other 3rd party apps...
U have to go thru your contacts one by one and modify the photos either choosing a photo in your gallery of the facebook photo from HAXSYNC account...
Giant pain in the ass but it works...
So I take it this is a Sense 4 issue then? Cause I never had that problem with other versions of sense
The pics all show up fine on my go sms. Didnt have to install any other apps
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I have a similar problem with sony ericssons life contacts widget.
It worked flawlessly on my GN, showing me pretty pictures of my most popular contacts. But on the one X, no... even though I'm using nova launcher.
tcjaym said:
The pics all show up fine on my go sms. Didnt have to install any other apps
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Is this google and/or facebook contacts? What are your settings regarding pictures and facebook?
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You have to either use photos from your phone or download an app like HAXSYNC and upload the photos from there... For whatever reason Facebook for Sense photos don't show in GoSMS or other 3rd party apps...
U have to go thru your contacts one by one and modify the photos either choosing a photo in your gallery of the facebook photo from HAXSYNC account...
Giant pain in the ass but it works...
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did HaxSync work properly with your FB account?
I have about 300+ contacts on fb, and HaxSync only syncs about 120 of them. The official fb app syncs all of the contacts which have FB (ca. 280)...
I had all my contact pics in GoSMS fine until the 1.82 update on my att hox. They won't sync now. It's annoying. I'd rather not install a 3rd party app especially since it was working on the phone once.
Edit- so, I cleared fb Data, removed it with es file explorer. Reinstalled from market and no go.