Hi,
Do you know what really happens when you activate the "Sync Photos" option for your Google account on your Android Phone? I have this option activated and all my Google+ albums appear on my phone. Nonetheless, it is only taking about 100MB of space, which is much less than what my G+ photos really take.
So, is Android only keeping a low quality version of each picture? If so, when does it download the full version of a picture?
By the way, after setting up my Nexus 4, I noticed that the old Sync Picasa Web Albums option is gone. Why is that so and what is the actual difference between the "old" "Sync Picaca Web Albums" and the newer "Sync Photos"?
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High there, got my SGS2 yesterday, rooted and all is well. I had a HTC HD2 before, and I have to say with recent android builds it was quite cool, but no comparison to the speed and beauty of the Galaxy S2.
One thing totally trips me off though and that is Samsungs Social Hub. I.e. when checking for Software updates you need to create an account... no go. But I digress.
What I want is for the contacts app to basically work like the one in HTC Sense,
which pulls in Facebook info of your contacts to the address book.
It will update the contacts picture (most importantly) and also updates/displays recent status updates.
I have tried apps like SyncMyPics (seems to have problems properly identifying contacts and complains about write protection on them) and Facebook sync (which finds 0 friends to match, even though there are several named identical between FB and the Phone book).
Please dont suggest just making an account at Samsung. I will NOT have all my address book uploaded and snooped through. It has to be ON the Phone. (Not using Google to handle my contacts either, no use of GMail).
JOINING the contact sets does not really work well at all, you don't get to pick which picture is to be used etc etc.
I'd like a priority-based link between my phonebook entry and the corresponding facebook profile, where the facebook profile info takes priority of the two.
Any suggestions? It worked beautifully in HTC Sense Desire HD ROM on HD2.
Have you tried installing Facebooks own app? Not used any of the Samsung stuff and I appear to have my friends photo, phone numbers and email addresses added, plus birthdays are appearing in my local calendar.
Sure have. In Facebook for Android the Sync Contacts option is checked at "sync all contacts", so is it in the Systems Accounts & Sync settings etc. Still, it doesnt seem to work. Maybe I'll give it another "delete all contacts" run and check my sequence again.
When i synced my Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, profile pictures were added.... great! but they are shockingly pixelated! When someone phones me and the picture pops up it look embarrassing, anyone else had this issue?
SyncMyPix works ok here. You can still manually "join" not founded to correct ones.
Just redid all my contacts, re-synced with syncmypics, this time it found 72 matches, but it didn't update the contacts. Also, when linking manually in smp, it loads the existing pic for cropping.
No other positive results either...
As I said, not using Google for contacts either. Must be a problem with the Samsung Contacts app? All Contacts were imported from a Sense-exported vcf file and have <HTCData><Facebook>id:XXXXXXX etc etc in the NOTE field. Might that be a cause of the problem?
I deleted it on a contact but it didn't seem to make a difference.
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stBlueJay said:
When i synced my Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, profile pictures were added.... great! but they are shockingly pixelated! When someone phones me and the picture pops up it look embarrassing, anyone else had this issue?
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Yes, they don't look good! Also in my buddy widgets they are f*cking ugly. With my incredible s they were nice and normal, good looking. I would like to see it getting better too...
Ok... So I just found two things:
1. If I manually join contacts and the phonebook has a picture, that pic will be used over the Facebook one. Once that pic is deleted, the Facebook pic is used. (No hint as to whether or not it's a FB pic though, as the small blue F in HTC Sense)
2. When editing the contact and switching to the facebook tab on the contact, it says "Unable to edit SNS contact on the phone" - I guess this means that you can't edit your buddies FB pic on your phone, which makes perfect sense. Just wondering if "SNS" refers to a general social networking services or some particular Samsung service?
I must still say that HTC Sense did a better job integrating this type of info.
Ciddy said:
1. If I manually join contacts and the phonebook has a picture, that pic will be used over the Facebook one. Once that pic is deleted, the Facebook pic is used. (No hint as to whether or not it's a FB pic though, as the small blue F in HTC Sense)
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When you're looking at a contact card, you can choose which contact picture to use by pressing Menu > Mark as default.
The main difference from HTC is that the Samsung will only use the Facebook picture by default if there is not a picture already associated with the contact. You'll also find that the contact pictures taken from Facebook are sometimes stretched when you're in your contacts list to fit the available space (e.g. if the Facebook pic is rectangular rather than square).
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2. When editing the contact and switching to the facebook tab on the contact, it says "Unable to edit SNS contact on the phone" - I guess this means that you can't edit your buddies FB pic on your phone, which makes perfect sense. Just wondering if "SNS" refers to a general social networking services or some particular Samsung service?
I must still say that HTC Sense did a better job integrating this type of info.
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SNS refers to the Samsung connectors for the various social networks the phone supports (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.). Equivalent of the likes of "Facebook for HTC Sense" that get used by FriendStream on HTC phones.
Thanks a LOT.
I'd never have guessed the "mark default" meant "select defaults" number etc...
So I logged into the social hub app and was a bit surprised it seems all traffic goes through Samsung servers? I remember Sense not asking me to agree to service terms, although I honestly tl;dr!-ed on the SNS agreement. Anywhere I could read up on that on a desktop screen tomorrow?
Weird thing is with Facebook for Android and SNS both running now, FBfA is labeled an "unknown" info source (displaying pictures in correct aspect ratio), while FB/SNS is labeled with the blue F but distorts the pics as mentioned...
So, so far the only upside to SNS is three ability to also sync the FB calendars...
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cheers Wazzamatazz - this has been bugging me and I'm very grateful for your solution - thanks added!!
When opening the Gallery receive the information "Failed to Download list of Albums".
The error occurred after the last update. Factory reset didn't help. Anyone have this problem?
Don't worry, I get it also. Seems to not really mean anything as the albums still load up with no problem. Also if you press refresh it'll say the same thing. Just a s/w bug.
Seems to happen to more people running 4.0.3. (search the forum)
And my albums are not loading
It has also been reported as an issue to the android code project on google.
Issue #24588
Hope this will be fixed soon
RobinHarmsen said:
Seems to happen to more people running 4.0.3. (search the forum)
And my albums are not loading
It has also been reported as an issue to the android code project on google.
Issue #24588
Hope this will be fixed soon
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If your albums won't load, just use Quick Pic album from marketplace. It's a free app. Its good and will work for you till this bug is fixed. Seems like a problem across all devices with latest ICS version.
You probably have Picasa web album sync disabled in your settings. Enable it and you will not get that message but you will then download any photo you have in your Picasa web album, including your Google+ profile picture... The setting is located settings>accounts and sync>your Gmail account
Evo_Shift said:
You probably have Picasa web album sync disabled in your settings. Enable it and you will not get that message but you will then download any photo you have in your Picasa web album, including your Google+ profile picture... The setting is located settings>accounts and sync>your Gmail account
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Actually I do have sync enabled, as I want to have my albums synced from the web. Perhaps disabling will help.
Hi,
I have HTC Sensation running AOKP M5 right now but this problem was present on other roms using AOSP contact app. Talking about ICS of course.
I can't force my android to save the information which sync photo a contact should use. I have merged many Google/Google+/Facebook/HaxSync and for most of them I've changed the default photo (especially high quality HaxSync over Facebook or G+ photo when FB photo does not present a person) but my system keeps loosing my choice and gets back to his bad choices (generally when it comes to Facebook LQ photos...).
What is wrong with it? Anyone has tips how to make it work?
Seriously noone experiences this problem?
Why don't you disable the Facebook contact sync? Log out of Facebook app and when you log in again goose 'Don't sync'. HaxSync will sync all your Facebook contacts too if you choose so you're not losing anything there. I have Gmail, Google+ and HaxSync synchronized with my contacts and I haven't experienced this problem. Always displays the HaxSync high res contact pics unless I specifically choose otherwise for any contact. The Facebook sync is pointless if you have HaxSync.
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Yea but some people have some decent photos on G+ accounts instead of stupid "not-my-face" photos so they need having G+ photo instead of haxsync.
If there is "Use this photo" option why it just does not work. I had this problem on Gingerbread as well and it is still not fixed in android (in my experience)..
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....
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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....
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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.
Since upgrading to ICS, I noticed that my AT&T Note battery has been suffering. Using BetterBatteryStats, I noticed that there is a process that caused "Partial Wakelock" for hours: com.coliris.picasa.contentprovider.
Based on my research (there's not much infor BTW), it has to do with Picasa syncing with the Gallery app. This was documented in Google Bug list (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24145) but that's it.
I wonder if anyone have any experiences on this and how to fix this issue. I DO want Picasa sync on my phone, but not at the expense of the battery life.
I'm not familiar with the Picasa app, but is there anything in Settings that allows you to set the sync interval, to perhaps Daily?
Picasa is the web-based photo sharing application, part of the Google products like GMail, etc.
The "Gallery" application in AT&T Note ICS have a built-in feature to sync pictures in the phone to your Picasa account and vice versa. Under Settings --> Accounts and Sync you will see "Sync to Picasa", among others like "Sync Gmail", etc.
So no, I cannot reduce the number of syncing. For now I am disabling this completely just to see what would happen, but wondering if anyone came across this..or even use Picasa.
I just about choked.....I thought the title said something else!!!!! still LMFAO!!!!!