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Remove picasa foto from ICS Gallery.

Hi at all!
All of us know that the new ics Gallery show picasa's album.
The problema is that i don't want to have them always in the gallery. I looked tor similar thread, but always says to deactivate google photo sync (done); but nothing changed.
Any idea?
Thx.

Jhyrachy said:
Hi at all!
All of us know that the new ics Gallery show picasa's album.
The problema is that i don't want to have them always in the gallery. I looked tor similar thread, but always says to deactivate google photo sync (done); but nothing changed.
Any idea?
Thx.
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If you disable the Google Photo sync to remove Picasa albums, you loose Google+ upload photos function.

I have the same problem. I tried deleting some of the pictures straight from Picasa and now , where I deleted the photos I get blank spots in my phone's gallery . Also, as you stated disabling the sync seem not to work.
If somebody has found a solution we're waiting for an answer.

madd0g said:
If you disable the Google Photo sync to remove Picasa albums, you loose Google+ upload photos function.
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I don't care about it, in fact, i don't sue g+.
I just want to remove that album!

Then open settings in Gallery app and disable photo sync.

Jhyrachy said:
but always says to deactivate google photo sync (done)
Thx.
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madd0g said:
Then open settings in Gallery app and disable photo sync.
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Already done it -.-

Go to manage apps, go down to gallery then clear cache
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

Fine, but nothing changed.
I also tried delete data

Same problem here. I still haven't found a solution.

Jhyrachy said:
Hi at all!
All of us know that the new ics Gallery show picasa's album.
The problema is that i don't want to have them always in the gallery. I looked tor similar thread, but always says to deactivate google photo sync (done); but nothing changed.
Any idea?
Thx.
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Use this one instead the original. First make backup of the original app, then push it with the ADB.

Can you please let us know what edits were made to this apk?

Jhyrachy said:
Hi at all!
All of us know that the new ics Gallery show picasa's album.
The problema is that i don't want to have them always in the gallery. I looked tor similar thread, but always says to deactivate google photo sync (done); but nothing changed.
Any idea?
Thx.
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As long as you stopped Google photo sync, try clear cache in Google+ in setting will have picasa albums cleared.

I had this problem as well, after a bit of googling here's what I did and it worked for me (I was offline during this process!):
1. stop google photo sync in accounts & sync settings
2. go into the app drawer and drag the google+ app to the top where it says view app info
3. force stop it and clear data
4. do the same for the gallery app
after that I restarted the google+ app and restored my settings (keeping photo sync off when it asks you on startup of course) and the picassa albums were gone!
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

I unselected the photosync from account and mounted as USB. Then when to android folder and then to Gallery 3D. Then I went to cache and deleted the files that had picasa in it and unmounted the phone. Then went to gallery from manage apps and deleted data and cache and voila ! =)

1. Make sure your "Google photos" option in "Accounts and Sync" is unchecked.
2. Go to Settings > apps > All Apps > Gallery. Now hit the "Clear data" button
3. Go to Settings > apps > All Apps > Google+. Now hit the "Clear data" button
4. Go to the Gallery app and hit the menu key and refresh.
5. Your albums won't go away immediately. Patience.

I got same problem, here my solution,
Remove that account (after sync all contents you want).
Disable Sync.
Add your account back.
Enable Sync and then fast disable Google-Photo sync in that account.

novagol said:
I had this problem as well, after a bit of googling here's what I did and it worked for me (I was offline during this process!):
1. stop google photo sync in accounts & sync settings
2. go into the app drawer and drag the google+ app to the top where it says view app info
3. force stop it and clear data
4. do the same for the gallery app
after that I restarted the google+ app and restored my settings (keeping photo sync off when it asks you on startup of course) and the picassa albums were gone!
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
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Cheers, worked a treat!

Or
simply observe Sync 'on', delete album from g+, re-sync, turn off sync.

Any solution which doesn't include turning off Google Photo synch?

For normal galleries, adding a .nomedia file in the directory would normaly do the trick.
Does someone know where the picasa pics are stored in the phone? (they're accessible offline too, right?)

New Google Photo App Woes, can't attach from App

Not quite sure what forum I should post this in but I'm getting really desperate in finding a solution to my problem here. I absolutely can not attach any pictures from the Photos app. Any time I enter Photos from the media picker I just get stuck with a constant loading screen. Here's what I've tired...
-Deleting all pictures from Photos (and emptying the trash)
-Uploading Photos only from web site
-Uploading Photos only from the app
-Clearing Data and Cache from the Photos app
-Factory resetting my phone (Nexus 6, Stock LMY47Z)
-Updating the Photos app before adding my account on the phone
-Refreshing the Photos app after reset via Wifi
-Refreshing the Photos app after reset via Cellular Data
-Only adding new photos just taken from the camera
I only have <100 some photos, there are zero reported sync issues in the Account, and I'm completely stuck and out of ideas. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Can't free space on Google Photos if photos are in SD card

Hello everybody,
I'm using Google Photos and I love the automatic backup and free-space feature. Lately (from the day I got a SD card into the phone, which could be meaningful) I see google photos is backing them up but NOT freing space automatically.
I try to free space from the menu, it says "24 photos to be deleted" (but I got thousands of photos) and then it says an error occurred while deleting those 24.
You can find the screenshots here: https://goo.gl/photos/BPpJFdmiVYWJfNnx6
A friend suggested that probably since I got the SD the phone is saving the photos in the external memory. From there, Google Photos can backup them but can't delete them (don't know why).
I went into settings -> memory -> default memory, changed to "External memory" and rebooted the phone. Still Google Photos can't delete them, I get the same "24 photos to be deleted"/"can't delete them" message.
Did this ever happen to you? How did you manage to solve the issue?
Thank you
Marco
P.S. You can find the pictures attached as well.

Uninstall Google photos, reboot the phone, then download again.

PuffDaddy_d said:
Uninstall Google photos, reboot the phone, then download again.
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Thank you for the suggestion.
I tried but - alas - nothing changed. I can't uninstall the app so I deleted internal data, de-activated it and rebooted the phone. After activating the app back again and logging in with my google account, a pretty long synchronization started. At the end of it everything was just the same as before -.-

Frankly, I don't use that feature of Google Photos, so I can't be of much help here. You can always delete the photos using the stock photo viewer. Press select all, then delete.

[BUG] Google Photo wrong backup , Amazon photos backup doesn't work

I want to advice this 2 problem, with my mi note 10, already rised into this threads:
https://c.mi.com/thread-2541316-1-0.html
https://c.mi.com/thread-2727222-1-0.html
https://c.mi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2727141&extra=page=1
Google photo recognize as 0.7megapixel (960x480) photo taken with main camera, and it will backup photos with such this low resolution.
Amazon photos isn't simply able to complete a backup.
Really bad situation here....
I've already triggered mi support, what we can do?

No problem with Google Photos from my Note 10.

Smae identical problem about Google photo

No problem for me, Google Photos backup 27MP and 108MP photos without any issues

Ciglabrick said:
No problem for me, Google Photos backup 27MP and 108MP photos without any issues
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Yeah, no problem here either. All photos backed up in full size.

Some of my photos are backed up but others are flagged as 0.7 Mpixels. It's not related to our phone because I found the issue on Mi9T/9T Pro forums. It seems that moving the photos from one folder and back again to the original fixes the issue.

Same problem
Some photos back up fine, but some show erroneously as 0.7Mpix and don’t back up to Google photos. Those ones also erroneously show no GPS location.

Same problem. To correct it I have to clear all the data of Google Photos app and delete low res duplicates. It is really annoying

There is a workaround it (better than clearing the google photos)
the methods are:
1. Open the built-in Photo App. Create an album(ex. G-Backup Album) inside the built-in photo App. This will create a folder with the same name as the album.
2. Select all you photos and click "Add to" button below. Then select the "G-Backup Album" album and click on "Move" option. After this, all photos will be moved to "G-Backup Album" Album.
3. Open Google Photo App, add "G-Backup Album" folder to the list of backup folders in the Setting. Then you will see that all photos are being uploaded normally and the size are shown correctly.
Makesure u dont open the Google Photo apps.. before you do this methods

Hi Wing_Zero85 in my case something similar happens to my "mi note 10".
Neither the amazon photos app nor google photos automatically upload the photos to the cloud.
I have activated all the permissions, I have tried many things and nothing, they do not automatically upload photos to the cloud.
With google photos it doesn't bother me too much, but with amazon photos it does bother me.
For amazon photos to upload photos to the cloud, I have to manually open the app, because it doesn't automatically.
For the other apps, there are no problems, whatsapp, telegram ... they work well in the background, notifications arrive well .....
But what happens with the amazon photos app is very annoying and frustrating.

Reset or Remove suggestions for contacts when sharing

On my Google Pixel 4a, I'd like to clear the contact suggestions on the Android Share screen. I haven't used this contact for 4 months and they still show up as first suggestion everytime I share something. I think this is a fairly important missing function, we should be able to long press to remove someone.
This attached screen sometimes comes up first (Google Podcasts, Google Files, photos from WhatsApp/Signal), if not when you click 'other' or 'more' (Google Photos, Spotify & Netflix).
I've tried clearing cache for WhatsApp, AndroidSharedLibrary, Google Photos. I've deleted the contact.
Does anyone know how to clear this?