Does anyone know how to limit the pictures that are showing up in the gallery? I apparently had, at some time, used Picasso and those pictures are showing. I do not have Picasso on my phone nor am I syncing it. But the darn thing still shows up. I've even went so far as to reset my phone. I've also gone through every folder on the phone I can think of that they would be stored. No luck...
I've attached a picture of what I'm talking about.
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You have google+ installed? I think that syncs picassa
After unchecking Picasso sync under your Google account, clear data for the gallery app. If that doesn't work maybe its download manager or something.
droidiac13 said:
Does anyone know how to limit the pictures that are showing up in the gallery? I apparently had, at some time, used Picasso and those pictures are showing. I do not have Picasso on my phone nor am I syncing it. But the darn thing still shows up. I've even went so far as to reset my phone. I've also gone through every folder on the phone I can think of that they would be stored. No luck...
I've attached a picture of what I'm talking about.
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Try clearing media storage as well.
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droidiac13 said:
Does anyone know how to limit the pictures that are showing up in the gallery? I apparently had, at some time, used Picasso and those pictures are showing. I do not have Picasso on my phone nor am I syncing it. But the darn thing still shows up. I've even went so far as to reset my phone. I've also gone through every folder on the phone I can think of that they would be stored. No luck...
I've attached a picture of what I'm talking about.
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I had this same problem. What you have to do, is go to system settings>accounts & sync, then to whatever account you have picassa synced on (if you have more than one google account on your phone), then uncheck the sync picassa web albums settings. But there's one more step because those pictures will still be there. Next you go to app settings>gallery>clear data....and wala magic!!! No more annoying picassa pics that u cant delete!! No need to restart or anything, at least I didnt need to. Hope that helps.
Thank you to everyone. The step I needed to do was clear the data in the gallery app.
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This didn't used to happen, but I noticed it about a month and a half ago. Early on with this phone picture messages would come in fine...I could click on them and they'd look normal when they open up in the gallery. Those messages from then still look fine and function normally. But any picture messages I've received in the last month or so don't work right...They download to my phone (when I have mobile data on, which makes sense), but there's a play button over the picture. When I click on it it it opens up the photo but it looks tiny and I can't zoom in or anything or open with the gallery, etc. If I longpress the message without opening it, it only lets me play as slideshow which is still reallllly small. If I "download attached to SD card" it saves in my file system and when I open it up later it looks normal. But I don't want to have to download every picture message I get to my SD card just to look at it...
What's the deal here? I use GoSMS but I got this problem sometime after I started using that. Either way, the problem occurs in my stock app as well. I can't remember if this coincides with when I flashed GingerBlur or not...
FYI, this happens when I get messages from any iPhone AS WELL as friends with android phones. Any thoughts?
EDIT: also, if anyone thinks it IS GoSMS though, let me know! I don't remember this happening when I first started using it, but I dunno I'm willing to try all possibilities. Maybe a rogue setting in GoSMS is screwing it up?
Not GOSMS. I get the problem with the GingerBlur messaging, as well as stock Atrix messenger.
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PixoNova said:
Not GOSMS. I get the problem with the GingerBlur messaging, as well as stock Atrix messenger.
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Interesting, so that should mean GoSMS, the GingerBlur flash or the stock GingerBread messaging app aren't causing it...hmmm...
This is an android issue. Had the same issue when using my nexus one, Dell streak 5 and now the Atrix. It sucks. Never found a way to fix it. Some messages used to come through fine but I haven't notice any work lately at all. They all come through like a small video file and are much smaller in size unless I copy to the sd card.
I'll try to grab some friends phones ( evo 4g, epic 4g, droid x) and see what it's like on their phones.
I also noticed that with animated gifs as well! They are showing up to people as pics only and are very small in size no matter how big they originally were! It's quite aggravating and I tried gosms, handscent, chompsms, and a crapload of others and none are working right!
This is not a problem... This happens when the MMS has several "slides", for example, a picture and some text.
If it only includes a picture, you see it directly.
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This is not a problem... This happens when the MMS has several "slides", for example, a picture and some text.
If it only includes a picture, you see it directly.
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I see. That's quite absurd, and even if it isn't a real Android problem, this should be changed...
The stock gallery on my atrix is FC without error message anytime I click the" folders" button... the camera and all photos and videos all work just not the folders selection...
Tryed clearing data and reseting phone didn't work...
Any ideas?
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The stock gallery on my atrix is FC without error message anytime I click the" folders" button... the camera and all photos and videos all work just not the folders selection...
Tryed clearing data and reseting phone didn't work...
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The stock gallery app sucks on this phone and every phone ive tried. pictures barely ever load, fc, etc. id download quickpic i think it is from market, or use the motorola one, which is good.
My gallery is not functional as well. Trying Quick Pix now.
I can concur. The factory MotoBlur Gallery app as well as the factory MotoBlur Social Media widget and factory MotoBlur Music app are each in their own right flaming piles of dog **** disguised in brown paper bags at your doorstep. I'm always having to End Task the Social Media widget so it will refresh proper facebook updates, it rarely grabs LinkedIN like it should as well as other networks. It randomly locks up on any given FB status update from a friend and requires to be End Tasked. The Gallery app with GingerBread is horrid. It wants to sync everything to the "cloud" or internet somewhere like Facebook. Then you try to delete a image off your phone and it makes you think it's going to be deleted from all over the world wherever you may have uploaded it to. Makes you a little nervous I'll say. On top of that it also fails to refresh thumbnails or grab full res images quite frequently. It also does not properly recognize my personal directory structure on my SD-ext card. FroYo saw my dir's fine, but GB just throws everything in very generic "titles". I'm going to get the gallery app that is suggested here as well. I got winamp and am happy with the music playing experience again on my Atrix. Funny. . . Winamp on the droid does music better than Droid/Moto can do themselves. Go figure.
Quick Pix works fine. I like it!
Hi guys,
No matter what I do, the pictures of my contacts remain not only small, but also pixelated beyond recognition. I know there are replacement apps, such as UCS and BIG!, but isn't there anything I can do in order to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app?
Thanks!
zkvvoob said:
Hi guys,
No matter what I do, the pictures of my contacts remain not only small, but also pixelated beyond recognition. I know there are replacement apps, such as UCS and BIG!, but isn't there anything I can do in order to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app?
Thanks!
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nope.
zkvvoob said:
Hi guys,
No matter what I do, the pictures of my contacts remain not only small, but also pixelated beyond recognition. I know there are replacement apps, such as UCS and BIG!, but isn't there anything I can do in order to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app?
Thanks!
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Yes, it is. Get contapps in G Play. It will sync ur contacts pics.
Cheers
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pedrotorresfilho said:
Yes, it is. Get contapps in G Play. It will sync ur contacts pics.
Cheers
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thats not what he asked. he asked if theres any way to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app
gunness1991 said:
thats not what he asked. he asked if theres any way to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app
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Yes, exactly. I wonder, am I the only one's whose pictures are not as they should be? Perahps I've done something incorrectly, though I cannot imagine what....
Use friend caster pro. My caller id pics are crystal clear. App makes it look crispy
If you getting the pics from facebook then friendcaster is the way to go. Nice, clear pics
zkvvoob said:
Yes, exactly. I wonder, am I the only one's whose pictures are not as they should be? Perahps I've done something incorrectly, though I cannot imagine what....
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Its not you at all. I have had the same issue with several Android devices. Some had painful work arounds. I have seen this talked about numerous times for the RAZR and it is always the same. Use a different app or you will have crappy pics.
Its the same problem anyone with an android phone runs into.
When u sync your contacts with your Gmail/Google account the pics are reduced for the icon it uses online, and then resynced over your phones pics.
Absolutely the stupidest problem which should have been taken care of a long time ago.
either way u need to turn off the syncing. And then manually fix your pics. Or go the Facebook approach as mentioned.
Either way u need to turn off the sync or it will happen again
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gunness1991 said:
thats not what he asked. he asked if theres any way to get decent caller photos in the stock Phone app
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And I said how to have nice pics in default app. After syncing with contapps all pictures will be there. This will not, of course, fix his buged contact app, but will make possible what he asked for.
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Easy fix. Take a pic of every person in your contact list and then assign them to the contacts. There is the answer as well as many others. This is not new to android. HTC seems to be able to produce a better image for some reason when synced w Google but still an overall android issue. Been like that since the DROID Eris.
So, my gallery app is so slow that it is almost unusable. If I open it, I get a bunch of blank boxes that take forever to populate. I think it has something to do with me checking 'sync picasa', 'sync facebook', etc. options when I setup the phone. Can somebody tell me how to unsync these galleries? I went to the Facebook account settings and unchecked sync pictures, but I still have a bunch of albums and it's crazy slow.
Any ideas?
the picasa sync option is in your google account section of the menu.
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the picasa sync option is in your google account section of the menu.
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Yeah, I already ended up unchecking the sync pictures boxes for Facebook and for Picasa. But the albums are still there in gallery. Maybe I should clear data for gallery or something?
the blank boxes... do they every populate?
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the blank boxes... do they every populate?
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After waiting a while, and they have the picasa and facebook icons. So it's still pulling my galleries off the web, even though it is no longer synced. I also wiped the gallery app data, and they are still there. I think that is why the app is so freaking slow for me.
you could try uninstalling facebook and try running a 3rd party facebook app. I personally can't stand the stock facebook app for crap like this and the way its always running.
as far as picasa, if you use it, i'm not sure what else could be done. if you dont't use it, you can remove a lot of its functions via the pc. and that would clear that up.
I have a tip for you OP.
Turn off Wifi then try using your Gallery.
Not really a solution for the stock gallery but I've used Quickpic for as long as I can remember and it's always fast, reliable, and no sync issues to deal with. Currently I use that for normal picture management and use the stock gallery in the rare instance I need Picasa or Facebook photos synced.
Yeah I have found I have this issue if I am connected to wifi at my house.. I know the reason too. Looks like the phone is trying to connect to my networks dlna server (plex) which for whatever reason it is unable to do.. I just removed allshare and the problem is gone.. you can either rename the three or so files in your app dir (if you have root) or you can install a ROM as most of them give you an option to not install allshare.
kejar31 said:
Yeah I have found I have this issue if I am connected to wifi at my house.. I know the reason too. Looks like the phone is trying to connect to my networks dlna server (plex) which for whatever reason it is unable to do.. I just removed allshare and the problem is gone.. you can either rename the three or so files in your app dir (if you have root) or you can install a ROM as most of them give you an option to not install allshare.
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I'm sure you've heard this plenty, but great to see you on here kejar31! I've used your roms on at least 4 or 5 phones over the last couple years. Glad you are enjoying some downtime these days .
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I'm sure you've heard this plenty, but great to see you on here kejar31! I've used your roms on at least 4 or 5 phones over the last couple years. Glad you are enjoying some downtime these days .
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Thanks! While I am not making any ROM's anymore I figure I can at least help people out here and there
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Thanks! While I am not making any ROM's anymore I figure I can at least help people out here and there
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Will be great to have your help around for sure! As classy a Dev as Android has seen. Now you have more time to sample the ever growing craft beer revolution lol . If I recall, that was another interest we shared. See ya around!
kejar31 said:
Yeah I have found I have this issue if I am connected to wifi at my house.. I know the reason too. Looks like the phone is trying to connect to my networks dlna server (plex) which for whatever reason it is unable to do.. I just removed allshare and the problem is gone.. you can either rename the three or so files in your app dir (if you have root) or you can install a ROM as most of them give you an option to not install allshare.
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Yep I was just under the assumption that the OP is on stock firmware.
My Facebook won't show any pictures at all. It updates fine and I can see the posts, but the pictures are just grey boxes. Even clicking on the picture doesn't produce results.
I have tried deleting cache, data and I reinstalled the app twice.
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GatorsUF said:
My Facebook won't show any pictures at all. It updates fine and I can see the posts, but the pictures are just grey boxes. Even clicking on the picture doesn't produce results.
I have tried deleting cache, data and I reinstalled the app twice.
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Hello It is most likely that it is not the phone's problem, and you need to report your bug to Facebook. To report the bug, open the android Facebook app, then swipe right, and scroll down until you see the "Report a Problem" option. then, select "Photos and Videos" and just describe the problem to them. Just wait for a new update and it might be fixed . While waiting, I'm afraid you would have to use Facebook with your Web Browser for now.
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