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[Q] Picasa?

Ok, as I've finally got a phone with at least a decent camera, I'd like to use Picasa. However, when I try to share from the gallery I find myself right back at the very beginning of using this phone; beeing asked to set up my Google account. Did that, got to the next screen ''Your phone has been set up'' and syncing, but no picasa upload. Tried again, same thing. So, is there a setting I'm missing, or is this a bug? I'm on 2.34.1.
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Possibly a bug. I dont have a defy in front of me, but i will check in an hour or so.
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You should add a Motoblur account for Picasa.
Settings -> Accounts -> add Accounts
Then you'll see the "Picasa" under the list of "Motoblur Accounts"
Good luck.

Ah, as I suspected...
See, I´m on the de-blurred ROM, 2.34.1, and there is no such option under Add accounts.
So, the option to share to Picasa from the gallery must be sort of a remnant of MotoBlur.
I solved it in another way though, installing two apps; Picasa Tool and Picasa Uploader from Market. Not as smooth, but it works.

Great! I'll try Picasa Tool and Picasa Uploader. Have you considered Flickr?

[Q] Stop Picasa albums showing in Gallery?

I've disabled the Google Photo sync option in accounts settings but i still see my google+ albums in the gallery app, is there a way to stop them showing? I thought unchecking that would do it.

You go into your settings for applications. Then you find the gallery app, and clear the data. Don't worry you won't lose your pictures. When that's done open your gallery app and it should redo everything
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This didn't work for me.
The irony is that I was a couple of days ago I was insulting Apple's Photostream for not being able to delete any images without resetting the whole Photostream.
So I've already turned of syncing Google photos on both of my accounts, and I cleared the data for the Gallery app ... and all my images from Picassa are still there. I turned off Google+ sync just to check (I don't do any instant upload or anything like that anyway) and the images of both my accounts are still present after clearing the data in the Gallery app.
Help. Please.

Have a read through this bud
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362232
Don't know if you want to go to that extent but it seems like clearing the data from google+ will get rid of it.

Your problem is that the picasa pictures are still in the sd card cache folder of the gallery. Delete everything in the cache folder, it's under "/sdcard/android/data/com.android.sec.gallery3d" in honeycomb, it may be somewhere else in ICS.
After that clear data of the gallery again and the picasa folder is gone.

A combination of dumb donkey and gokpog.
1. Went to "/sdcard/android/data/com.android.gallery3d" (no .sec in ICS) and deleted everything in the cache.
2. Deleted data in Gallery app.
3. Deleted data in Google+ app.
And then I accidentally hit "Refresh". D'oh!
You actually only need to do numbers 2 and 3 above to get rid off the images. Though I found out (with help) how to do get rid of the unwanted albums, for the average buyer who doesn't come to these forums, it's way too hard. It shouldn't be this way. It's almost as bad as Apple's Photostream!

Cleargrey said:
A combination of dumb donkey and gokpog.
1. Went to "/sdcard/android/data/com.android.gallery3d" (no .sec in ICS) and deleted everything in the cache.
2. Deleted data in Gallery app.
3. Deleted data in Google+ app.
And then I accidentally hit "Refresh". D'oh!
You actually only need to do numbers 2 and 3 above to get rid off the images. Though I found out (with help) how to do get rid of the unwanted albums, for the average buyer who doesn't come to these forums, it's way too hard. It shouldn't be this way. It's almost as bad as Apple's Photostream!
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i noticed even with photosync still off
opening google plus and having instant upload on, returns the albums to the gallery
gahh

Why not just remove your Google account and add it again? Immediately afterwards, click on Google Sync and uncheck Picasa or photos or whatever.. That's what i always do after adding a Google account.

Gah!
I've tried clearing both the Google+ app cache and Gallery cache, plus deleting the contents of the Google+ app folder in the relevant path on the SD card, and still the albums reappear in Gallery as soon as I run the G+ app again. AAAARGHHH.
Does that mean that deleting the offending albums from the Android Gallery will also delete the Google+ albums? Because that would be irritating, to say the least.

Clear your gallery, then use Droidwall to blacklist the gallery and any offending processes?
Unfortunately, you may also have to blacklist G+

I always hated that I just couldn't delete these albums..

It drove me nuts so I just deleted Picassa from my main gmail account and set it up on a secondary gmail account so now it's gone.

to me it's the same, how I can hide the google + gallery in the gallery? I tried a thousand things and I can`t. help me!

I don't wish to hijack the thread, but seems like the best place to ask this question. Is there a way to reset the thumbnails in the Gallery and + app? I changed them online (some were inappropriate to have as thumbnails), but no matter what I seem to clear, the old thumbnails stick. I have cleared the data from both apps, and have even gone as far as even removing the Google account and readding it, and the old thumbnails still return.

blackdub370 said:
to me it's the same, how I can hide the google + gallery in the gallery? I tried a thousand things and I can`t. help me!
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Check this link out for solution that has worked for me on multiple devices -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23449660&postcount=4716
Plz thank me if I helped you, and you're welcome

Here is what you do...
1. Go to settings - apps - Google +
2. Click on clear data
3. Go to Google plus and activate it
4. Select no when it asks you if you want to upload pictures from camera
5. Got to Google + to make sure it is turned off
There you go now...
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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?

[REQ] Google gallery without online sync

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
sent from my Nexus Prime
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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

3colby3 said:
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?

HTC One M8 Gallery Issues

Hi, if anyone can help with my issue id really appreciate it.
ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
I believe this issue not to be specific to the HTC One but Ive never had it before.
The issue is that I keep getting random photo albums appearing in my gallery.
The photos look to be cached images, say from apps and that sort of things.
Everytime i go in and delete them and check back later, I have more.
Ive searched Google and cant find a solution.
HELP

bah77 said:
Hi, if anyone can help with my issue id really appreciate it.
ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
I believe this issue not to be specific to the HTC One but Ive never had it before.
The issue is that I keep getting random photo albums appearing in my gallery.
The photos look to be cached images, say from apps and that sort of things.
Everytime i go in and delete them and check back later, I have more.
Ive searched Google and cant find a solution.
HELP
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Check and see what Google syncs.. Sometimes Google + photos snyc to gallery, picaso photos or whatever their called.. So uncheck them and then clear data on gallery apk..
Same with other apps you have accounts with
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That would drive me nuts... My gallery just crashes all the time after rooting and applying one of the roms

I had this problem too. Only way I could solve it was to press menu button at the gallery home screen and select show/hide albums. Select the ones you want to display and return to gallery.
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There was an update today to the Gallery! I'd say update it and see if it fixes your issues.

Iv'e got the same problem. Deleted them all but two days later they all came back plus more !!!! and Iv'e updated google . Any other suggestions ?

pony59 said:
Iv'e got the same problem. Deleted them all but two days later they all came back plus more !!!! and Iv'e updated google . Any other suggestions ?
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Install quickpic from the play store and "hide" the folders with the offending images in.
They are usually from apps that have images in them.,
Once hidden in quickpic they will not appear in gallery

Just hide the album like duvall87 mentioned.
That's the only way.
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Same here
I have the same issue this Cache folder keeps coming back and most frustrating part is that all these photos are uploaded to G+.
I have another issue as well with SD card. I delete files from External SD card and it keeps coming back this happens only when I copy some files from my PC to SD Card.
Anyone has any solution to this?

HtcOneJon said:
Install quickpic from the play store and "hide" the folders with the offending images in.
They are usually from apps that have images in them.,
Once hidden in quickpic they will not appear in gallery
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OK. Will do. Thanks for the advice

Hi does anyone know how to get my Facebook Dropbox and Google drive pictures as albums in the gallery as tried everything and nothing works its just automatically on on the HTC one but not the m8
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possible sollution
had the same problem, I browse a lot on 9gag ( images and crap), look at gallery and found aprox, 1700 images and 500 mp4 (gif) i browsed acros.
I just delete them every time but maybe this helps
settings---account/synchronise---google---( click your gmail account)---
when in your google account it says in syncs data from
-agenda
-apps
-automatic back-up
-chrome
-contacts-
-drive
-gmail
-google...
-...
-....
experiment with unchecking some of these like uncheck the syncs app data of chrome

If fixed it with installing ES file explorer and added .nomedia file to android/data/
Rebooted device and everything seems to work like it should...
No cache files in gallery

hopefully a fix
bah77 said:
Hi, if anyone can help with my issue id really appreciate it.
ITS DRIVING ME NUTS
I believe this issue not to be specific to the HTC One but Ive never had it before.
The issue is that I keep getting random photo albums appearing in my gallery.
The photos look to be cached images, say from apps and that sort of things.
Everytime i go in and delete them and check back later, I have more.
Ive searched Google and cant find a solution.
HELP
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Download es file explorer from the play store, add a new file and name it (.nomedia) WITHOUT THE BRACKETS!