My Gallery takes around 15 seconds to open, sticks on a black screen for ages. I think this is because it is checking my (hundreds) of Picasa albums. Which bit in accounts should be unticked, as I have unticked 'Sync Picasa Web Albums' and 'Sync Google Photos' already, but no difference.
If I go to 'Menu' and select 'media on the device' it seems to open immediately. Is there a way I can make this the default?
AndyCr15 said:
My Gallery takes around 15 seconds to open, sticks on a black screen for ages. I think this is because it is checking my (hundreds) of Picasa albums. Which bit in accounts should be unticked, as I have unticked 'Sync Picasa Web Albums' and 'Sync Google Photos' already, but no difference.
If I go to 'Menu' and select 'media on the device' it seems to open immediately. Is there a way I can make this the default?
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I've asked this a few times myself on here. It's like it doesn't remember the settings. I don't even HAVE a Picasa album but I still get a Picasa symbol on one folder with 2 pictures in it. I really wish it wasn't there.
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I've never used PICASA before and am wanting to use it today...
so i tried it.
I went to my gallery, chose a picture...
menu
share
then chose picasa
Then it goes to this screen where it shows uploading to Picasa and wants me to put in captions and etc. then it VERY FAST goes to a screen where you know you get when your adding a google account. I asks me to make/sign in on a account.
I chose sign in and it says "this email is already associated with this phone..."
What does this mean?
Hmmm. Have you checked out picasaweb on the desktop/laptop? Maybe fiddle around and check it out (same account as your phone) and then try again. Which app? picasatool? Docspics? Well.....picasa is how I roll.... its great. Takes getting used to but its effective.
I wonder, since you added the Picasa piece after you logged on your phone if your current phone login dataset just isn't seeing the Picasa part.
Try powering off entirely. Make sure you have access to your Picasa stuff from a pc or mac or whatever (standard browser) then logout from there. Power up, go into "Accounts & Sync" in Settings , go into your login email adress and see if Picasa shows up there as a sync.option with gmail, contacts, calendar, and anything you've added. It should, but if it doesn't, there's a place to add stuff; I think. Check the box to sync. Then when you try to upload you shouldn't get the login prompt.
If.you're still having trouble, you may want to see if there's anything in the Picasa Google forums, too.
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Guys its working now just randomly, thanks for all the instructions!
Really appreciate it!
I have a couple of questions regarding the Gallery on ICS and Honeycomb syncing to Picasa/Google+
1) On my Tab 10.1 (Honeycomb) I get hundreds of 'albums' which are dates, I assume they're instant uploads from Google+. How can I stop these showing in the Gallery app?
2) On my Galaxy Nexus (ICS) things are a lot neater, but I still have 'Instant Upload' and 'Posts - username' along with seperate folders for any pictures I posted in Google + Messenger (Huddles), which I apparently can't delete.
It isn't an option to turn of Picasa sync, as that's how I organise my photo's.
Any ideas?
Settings > Applications and Sync > [your Google Account] > Sync Picasa Web Albums. Uncheck the box.
AndyCr15 said:
It isn't an option to turn off Picasa sync, as that's how I organise my photo's.
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GazaIan said:
Settings > Applications and Sync > [your Google Account] > Sync Picasa Web Albums. Uncheck the box.
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Sorry; Read that exact same sentence wrong. Thats to get them to stop showing in the Gallery app on your Tab. Kinda unsure on what you're asking for the rest.
So there are albums I create 'Christmas 2011' for example, I want to see (from Picasa). There are albums Google+ creates (instant uploads, pictures from huddles etc) that I don't want to see...
Anyone else having trouble getting their desktop chrome bookmarks to sync automatically with their sgs3???
I haven't been able to get my bookmarks to sync since I got this phone and its driving me nuts. I've checked most if not all settings on my phone and the desktop browser and can't figure it out
Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated
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so you have signed in on your desktop browser, aka you see a section called other devices when you open a new tab? Is this the first device that you have tried to sync with?
Assuming you're signed in to chrome, in your desktop chrome app under the settings menu click on "Signed in as......"
Then under "Sign In" click on "Advanced sync settings..."
Under "Chose what to sync" make sure "Bookmarks" and "Open Tabs" are selected.
That should do it. In Chrome on your phone under "Bookmarks" there should be folders for the bookmarks on your desktop.
Nope, mine synced up fine
via Galaxy S III
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so you have signed in on your desktop browser, aka you see a section called other devices when you open a new tab? Is this the first device that you have tried to sync with?
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This is not my first time syncing chrome bookmarks with my android device. I've owned quite a few android devices and always had bookmarks automatically synced. That's part of the reason why I'm so confused about why it's not working now. I haven't changed any settings. :crying:
I do see "other devices" when I open a new tab and I verified those settings
Restola said:
Assuming you're signed in to chrome, in your desktop chrome app under the settings menu click on "Signed in as......"
Then under "Sign In" click on "Advanced sync settings..."
Under "Chose what to sync" make sure "Bookmarks" and "Open Tabs" are selected.
That should do it. In Chrome on your phone under "Bookmarks" there should be folders for the bookmarks on your desktop.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I almost forgot where to find the settings for this because it's been so long since I've made any changes to them. I verified they are correct.
I had a GSM Galaxy Nexus, and a HTC One X and sync worked just fine on those devices.
I did just noticed under "accounts and sync" that for some reason "Sync Internet" has a red exclamation saying that sync is having problems. I've been into "accounts and sync" settings many times before and today is the first time I've seen this since I got the phone on 6/25.
For anyone else that may be having this same issue with the native browser, I found a fix.
I went to settings, accounts and sync, selected my gmail account, and unchecked "sync internet". Then I went to "manage apps" in settings and selected "clear data" so my browser could start like a fresh install. After clearing data I went back to account and sync and checked "sync internet" again and all is well.
I'm not really sure what initially created this problem for me, but glad it's fixed
Is it only me or ...
With "Sync Google Photos" and Sync Picassa Web Albums" activated I still cant sync my camera pictures with google+....
And the only way to make it work is to install Google+ app but then you can see picture twice in Gallery ... (one under camera pictures and the other under Instant upload folder....)
Help would be really appreciated....
What I did so far :
reset phone settings,
wipe dalvik
tried to sync with another account
tried over wifi
Sync report ok.... I have no clue !!!!
Thats how mine is. I just delete the camera photos after they sync.
Google + just uses the instant upload to put them in your private web folder. Having the sync enabled allows the phone to download those photos from your web albums and allows you to manually upload when you want. I dont think its for auto uploading like google +
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Thats how mine is. I just delete the camera photos after they sync.
Google + just uses the instant upload to put them in your private web folder. Having the sync enabled allows the phone to download those photos from your web albums and allows you to manually upload when you want. I dont think its for auto uploading like google +
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So basically you mean that there is no way to sync camera photos without using Google+ app ?
I thought I could with my previous Galaxy Note... I dont understand what the "Sync Google photo" is for then....
mrdindon said:
So basically you mean that there is no way to sync camera photos without using Google+ app ?
I thought I could with my previous Galaxy Note... I dont understand what the "Sync Google photo" is for then....
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As far as I know, not automatically. You can always go to the gallery, hold the camera folder and sync the whole album manually to wherever you want.
the link is broken on the google support site, but it use to read this:
Android 4.0 devices have a system setting that allows you to Sync Google Photos.
This setting enables syncing of your Google Photos from your web albums to your device's Gallery app. As a result, if you have a large number of photos in your web albums that have been uploaded through Picasa Web Albums or Google+, you may notice a high amount of battery or data usage during this sync.
This setting also enables or disables sync for Instant Uploads to Google+. However, to enable Instant Upload, you must enable Sync Google Photos as well as enable Instant Upload within the Google+ app
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I am having trouble with background data usage from the 'Gallery' app. I think it is related to videos uploading when I'm off of wifi. In settings / accounts / gmail - I had instant upload on, and then in G+ I had to sync photos and videos only when on wifi and only when charging, but it's still using network data to background sync... and I have droidwall installed and 'gallery' is not one of the apps I white listed for network data.
Any ideas? for now I turned off background data since it didn't seem to affect any regular use of the phone and it does block the gallery app. Seems like there are quite a few options in the gmail accounts as far as photos go so not sure what they all do or what I should bother with. I do know that on my SGS, SGS2 this background usage wasn't happening and I had things setup then like I do now.
UPDATE: CONFIRMED. CLEARING DATA (Settings -> Apps -> All -> Picasa -> Clear Data) DOES NOT DELETE ANY OTHER PICTURES ON YOUR INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL SD. = SAFE. IT JUST GETS RID OF PICASA ALBUM.
*** Also make sure you un-sync Picasa albums or it'll obviously come back. ***
When you initially sync your gmail account (from the very very beginning when you first get the phone) there's no option to select what to sync and what not to sync...
So although I go to "Settings" -> "Accounts and Sync" to un-check the albums, it (Picasa) still shows up in my Gallery...
How do I get rid of Picasa albums from showing up in my gallery?
iunlock said:
When you initially sync your gmail account (from the very very beginning when you first get the phone) there's no option to select what to sync and what not to sync...
So although I go to "Settings" -> "Accounts and Sync" to un-check the albums, it (Picasa) still shows up in my Gallery...
How do I get rid of Picasa albums from showing up in my gallery?
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Go into the list of apps and clear data from Gallery.
If you have sync turned off, it won't come back into your Gallery.
I just tried it now. Warning though, I do not have Google+ set up on my phone, which may or may not do some funny things to your Gallery.
dunderball said:
Go into the list of apps and clear data from Gallery.
If you have sync turned off, it won't come back into your Gallery.
I just tried it now. Warning though, I do not have Google+ set up on my phone, which may or may not do some funny things to your Gallery.
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^This + reboot.
Thanks for the reply.
By clearing the data it'll rid all the pics including the non Picasa ones....
Do you know how to just delete the Picasa albums?
dunderball said:
Go into the list of apps and clear data from Gallery.
If you have sync turned off, it won't come back into your Gallery.
I just tried it now. Warning though, I do not have Google+ set up on my phone, which may or may not do some funny things to your Gallery.
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u have to remove google+
Clearing data from the Gallery does not clear all pics off your phone. I have my pics safely stored on the SD card.