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Viewing Geotagged Photos

Is there a way to view geotagged photos send though sms (from my htc to someone else's phone) with a map or link to a map at all? If this is only on certain phones using a certain application then I'd be fine with that. I just want some more info on this since I've unlocked the geotag option on my HTC Touch Pro. Thanks

pablomentabo said:
Is there a way to view geotagged photos send though sms (from my htc to someone else's phone) with a map or link to a map at all? If this is only on certain phones using a certain application then I'd be fine with that. I just want some more info on this since I've unlocked the geotag option on my HTC Touch Pro. Thanks
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I would bet that sending a picture via SMS/MMS strips out any EXIF as it resizes it etc.
This is a bit roundabout, but perhaps you can upload the pictures to Flickr and they can view it from there? If you have it turned on Flickr, it'll automagically geocode the images if they have GPS tags in them.
TrackMe can also upload photos and the user can see them from the website.
Perhaps someone will have other ideas.

Yea I saw those options but I went with web picasa for the web portion (since it's tied directly to google for gmaps and all). Too bad there doesn't seem to be an app. that can just sms/mms to someone where they can open the pic and have a link directly to the spot on mobile google maps.
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ICS High Res Contact Photos Fix

I figured out how to get high res contact photos.
First you need ICS
Have a google plus account and google plus on your phone
Create a folder on your computer called contact photos
Load all your contact pictures into this folder
Put this entire folder onto google+ picasa web albums
Have google+ picasa web albums synced to your phone with the google+ app
You should see in gallery an album called contact photos
Manually link all of your contacts to these photos
Now all of your contacts have high res photos! Its kind of time consuming but its finally a work around the stupid google blurry pictures. I have spent countless time googling a work around. I hope this helps everyone out!

They are working on it as we speak. Thanks for the feedback and suggestion, but personally I think I'll wait until I can manager higher resolution photos directly from GMail Contacts. Saves any future hassles

i hope they fix this!!! i hate low res contact pics.

It's not exactly a fix... but I've gotten many of my contact pictures in high res through Facebook and HaxSync. As long as you have them as a Facebook friend, you can at least see their face clearly with this

The only problem is, if you have to blast your contacts storage or switch phones for any reason, the pictures that get synced back down from Google are the low res versions, then you have to manually re-do the photos all over again. It's disappointing that Google has taken so long to fix what seems like a relatively simple issue.
The other suggestion from Google was to sync your G+ contacts to your phone, but most of the people I contact via text or phone aren't actually on G+, and most of the people I have as contacts in G+ I don't communicate with outside of professional social networks.
robertvarley said:
I figured out how to get high res contact photos.
First you need ICS
Have a google plus account and google plus on your phone
Create a folder on your computer called contact photos
Load all your contact pictures into this folder
Put this entire folder onto google+ picasa web albums
Have google+ picasa web albums synced to your phone with the google+ app
You should see in gallery an album called contact photos
Manually link all of your contacts to these photos
Now all of your contacts have high res photos! Its kind of time consuming but its finally a work around the stupid google blurry pictures. I have spent countless time googling a work around. I hope this helps everyone out!
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Any word when they gonna fix this? It's superridiculous, I have no words for it...

First rule of xda and google
don't ask for ETA
androidsjonnie said:
Any word when they gonna fix this? It's superridiculous, I have no words for it...
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There's now a fix!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.contactphotosupdater
Also downloads from Facebook & Twitter if you donate
Saved me from manually linking everytime I flash a ROM

avidmovies said:
There's now a fix!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.contactphotosupdater
Also downloads from Facebook & Twitter if you donate
Saved me from manually linking everytime I flash a ROM
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Manually choosing pictures for each contact is not a fix!

I have put together a tiny app that syncs the photos on the phone to picasa web thus preserving its quality. Of course you need to have choosen a high resolution photo on your phone.
This being probably my first post, I can't include a link so have a search of it on Google Play and if you found it useful, post the link yourself.
Search for "Contact Photo Sync" on Google Play (remember to include the double quote marks in your search).
I've also released the code under GPLv3. To get the code, search "contactphotosync" in github.
Hope this helps some of you

That is supercool!
oxplot said:
I have put together a tiny app that syncs the photos on the phone to picasa web thus preserving its quality. Of course you need to have choosen a high resolution photo on your phone.
This being probably my first post, I can't include a link so have a search of it on Google Play and if you found it useful, post the link yourself.
Search for "Contact Photo Sync" on Google Play (remember to include the double quote marks in your search).
I've also released the code under GPLv3. To get the code, search "contactphotosync" in github.
Hope this helps some of you
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THANK YOU
oxplot said:
I have put together a tiny app that syncs the photos on the phone to picasa web thus preserving its quality. Of course you need to have choosen a high resolution photo on your phone.
This being probably my first post, I can't include a link so have a search of it on Google Play and if you found it useful, post the link yourself.
Search for "Contact Photo Sync" on Google Play (remember to include the double quote marks in your search).
I've also released the code under GPLv3. To get the code, search "contactphotosync" in github.
Hope this helps some of you
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxplot.contactphotosync
^ THIS
THAT APP did a good job for ICS AOSP user,
which google failed to provide.. :good:
i personaly dont like another app solution,
which syncing it with FB photo.. even though it's HD.
FB photo profile sync just sucks big time..
i simply don't want my friends picture on my contact phone is just like:
Cat, Guitar, Car or natural scenery,
or maybe his / her picture but way too far from camera..
which s/he set as profile picture on FB.
that app really good, suits my need, which i can't found for months..

oxplot said:
I have put together a tiny app that syncs the photos on the phone to picasa web thus preserving its quality. Of course you need to have choosen a high resolution photo on your phone.
This being probably my first post, I can't include a link so have a search of it on Google Play and if you found it useful, post the link yourself.
Search for "Contact Photo Sync" on Google Play (remember to include the double quote marks in your search).
I've also released the code under GPLv3. To get the code, search "contactphotosync" in github.
Hope this helps some of you
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Brilliant! solves my headache....U are my new hero

You can try also Facebook Contact Picture Sync (google play)

shados78 said:
You can try also Facebook Contact Picture Sync (google play)
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yeah.
because all of friends put a real profile picture of them on their profile.
not.
facebook contact picture sync is great but it's weird to get cat, guitar and etc at my friends contact profile.
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anyway im on Jelly Bean right now.
google already fix this thing.
contact profile already on HD size, and stays HD after sync from scratch.
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[Q] Hangouts/gallery/Photos linked up mess

I have searched around and found nothing on XDA or anywhere else about this. With that being said, I understand the existence of Gallery and Photos. Not complaining about that.
Is there any way to keep Hangout MMS pictures from populating their own albums in the Gallery app? Here's the issue, every picture I send, creates an album with prefix Hangouts then the name of the contact. Deleting the pictures from the Gallery app deletes it from my conversation in Hangouts too leaving a white picture and the three dots at the bottom which means that the pictures can't be found. This is not only for chats, but MMS as well. Yes I could go get another Gallery App etc... But wanted to try and see if anyone has it figured out first before going down that route.
There is no option to only view albums on the device itself. Disabling the sync, disables auto-backup.
Thoughts or solutions anyone?

+1 on this, I was randomly searching around google support for this the other day but never hit paydirt. Its annoying as hell.
Edit. You inspired me to go look again. Go into the gallery app select settings and turn off sync with google account. Go into main settings/apps/gallery and delete data and cache. Reboot. Worked for me.

krabman said:
+1 on this, I was randomly searching around google support for this the other day but never hit paydirt. Its annoying as hell.
Edit. You inspired me to go look again. Go into the gallery app select settings and turn off sync with google account. Go into main settings/apps/gallery and delete data and cache. Reboot. Worked for me.
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Thank you! While you solution does work and I have tried it, it isn't quite exactly what I am looking for. Reason being because I do sync my pictures to my google account considering I just blew through over 70GB in DropBox storage and can no longer automatically upload pictures I take. Basically, I am looking for a way to selectively pick what to display in my Gallery app(I don't want anything Picasa/Google+/Hangouts/Photos in there). Since the intro of the Photos app which is mostly tied in with G+, it shows everything online, and if they are going to keep the gallery app, then they should at least allow it to be used for offline images available on the device(Just like Play Music has, where it gives you the option to to use music on your online account or what you have on your device).
Unfortunately, the dependency of the camera app on the gallery app, makes it impossible to revert back to a previous version of the gallery.

Ah, sorry about that. Not sure how you can pull that one off, I sure didn't see mention of such when I was searching.

Try making a .nomedia file in the picassa folder where it downloads the pics. And same to every other folder you don't wanna see in your gallery. This will help you select what displays along with auto sync enabled.

sihag said:
Try making a .nomedia file in the picassa folder where it downloads the pics. And same to every other folder you don't wanna see in your gallery. This will help you select what displays along with auto sync enabled.
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It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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Neurotica said:
It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
Sent from my Nexus 5
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I've been using Quickpic for years, and it's very stable and easy to use.
Sent from my Nexus 7

Neurotica said:
It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
Sent from my Nexus 5
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No it's not like that. You would have to copy paste only one .nomedia in the main folder of the data file of hangouts and one in picassa.

Upload pics to G+ Album

This has been driving me crazy for the last couple hours. I transferred some files from my camera using the play memories app like i normally do with nfc. These pics normally get uploaded automatically to google plus with autobackup, but for some reason the app thinks the photos have already been backed up (btw i hate the new integrated all pics view I liked being able to tell where my pics were without having to got to a folderstab).
I have tried sharing the pics with the google plus app and the photos app but both want me to make a post that is shared. I don't want to share the photos, I just want to upload them to a private album I already have set up. I also tried uploading individually with the stock gallery app to "photos" it asks to confirm my account I click the upload button and nothing happens.
Please tell me I'm missing something and the geniuses at google who made an awesome photo sharing/manipulating/editing app didn't forget the part where some people like putting their folders into albums and sometimes you want to back up some of your pics and not all of them.
I really wish you could select a few pitcures and hit a backup button that put those pics into a backup queue that follows rules you have established ie, upload only on wifi, while plugged in, at this size.
Please help

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Transferring pictures to new phone question...

Going to be going from a 16GB to 32GB Nexus 5 shortly... I remember when I transferred my pictures from my old Galaxy Nexus to my N5 all of my pictures were jumbled up in no particular order. I recall doing a search fora solution after that but didn't come up with anything concrete. I don't want to go through adding them 1 by 1 again since I now have over 1500 pictures and 100+ videos. Any advice to make this easy?

The file names are in numerical order.

rootSU said:
The file names are in numerical order.
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Yes and no - I have a lot of pictures that my wife took from her iphone which has a different naming scheme, hence the dilemma.

NYYFan325 said:
Yes and no - I have a lot of pictures that my wife took from her iphone which has a different naming scheme, hence the dilemma.
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Well if they are from two different types of phones, obviously they will be jumbled up due to the different naming scheme. Maybe organize them into folders on a computer and then transfer them, keeping them in folders on your device.

Just upload them to google+. They will be organised by date, and you dont have to worry about filling your storage with pictures

Broncos15 said:
Just upload them to google+. They will be organised by date, and you dont have to worry about filling your storage with pictures
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I have them organized in folders currently (also uploaded to my google drive - not plus). Does uploading to plus keep the folder format intact?

NYYFan325 said:
I have them organized in folders currently (also uploaded to my google drive - not plus). Does uploading to plus keep the folder format intact?
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Yes, you can organize your photos into folders on Google+

they will stay in the same folders on your phone, nut the uploaded copies will be organised by date in the photos app that comes instead of the gallery with lollipop

Broncos15 said:
they will stay in the same folders on your phone, nut the uploaded copies will be organised by date in the photos app that comes instead of the gallery with lollipop
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Maybe if you auto upload. But if you have your files on a computer, you can create folders in Google+ and transfer them into whichever folder you want. Or if they are on your device, I use Picasa Tool to upload to specific folders. They show up in folders in the photo app.

I didn't know you could do that. Thanks for the tip

So if I was to use the G+ and upload them from my PC to G+ and then pull them back from G+ to my new phone I can have them stay in the same folders and be organized by the correct date?

I just had a look, and apparently you can set up google+ to show folders from your drive accout as albums. You just have to enable it in the photos settings page

NYYFan325 said:
So if I was to use the G+ and upload them from my PC to G+ and then pull them back from G+ to my new phone I can have them stay in the same folders and be organized by the correct date?
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Once you upload them and organize them in folders, you will be able to view them from your phone just how they are on G+. Just upload them and open up the Photos app. They will be in "Albums" in the photos app.
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Broncos15 said:
I just had a look, and apparently you can set up google+ to show folders from your drive accout as albums. You just have to enable it in the photos settings page
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Oh yeah. I had forgotten that it will show photos from Drive. If the OP has all his photos on drive, he can just enable that.

jsgraphicart said:
Once you upload them and organize them in folders, you will be able to view them from your phone just how they are on G+. Just upload them and open up the Photos app. They will be in "Albums" in the photos app.
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Does this only work on the photos app? I generally use quickpic but whatever works...

NYYFan325 said:
Does this only work on the photos app? I generally use quickpic but whatever works...
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QuickPic has the option too. Just slide from the left side of the screen and add it.

So I checked the show Google drive photos in quickpic and sure enough they are there in the folders just like I uploaded them... sadly though they are not in the correct order. Even listed by "date decend" they are kinda mixed and matched

NYYFan325 said:
So I checked the show Google drive photos in quickpic and sure enough they are there in the folders just like I uploaded them... sadly though they are not in the correct order. Even listed by "date decend" they are kinda mixed and matched
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Sometimes there is nothing you can do about it unless you edit every photos details manually. I have photos uploaded from three different phones that I have had over the past years and there are some out of order. Things that could cause this could be editing the photo. It might save the photo with the date you edited it. Using a different camera app that may not have saved all the info correctly. Basically, unless you are using the same camera, same app, and never modified an image, you will probably have some images out of order.

Be a good time to ditch the junk. Why not print the best on nice paper, frame and make your wife's dimples show!