Just got this phone. Would like to seek advice from experienced members here.
How do I set the gallery to show only photos from phone by default? By default the setting is all, which includes picassa and Dropbox, which makes opening gallery rather slow as it loads photos from there. Every time I have to set it to view photo from phone only.
Can it be done? Using stock stock rom but rooted.
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Try adding .nomedia file in the folders you don, t want to see in gallery
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sohebq said:
Try adding .nomedia file in the folders you don, t want to see in gallery
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the main reason i want to do this is because it takes a minute or so to load my photos due to the fact it is searching for photos on my picassa account.
however, i found a way to disable that.
settings->google (under "accounts")->[your email, under "accounts"]->untick "sync picasa web albums"
done! i also unticked sync chrome, currents, google+, instant upload, internet... i left contacts, gmail and calander as i use them.
thanks everyone for trying to help me. i really appreciate that
So, as you may have noticed(fellow N4 users), when browsing the Gallery you will see albums synced from Google+ and Blogger(I think?). How do you disable this? I've disabled Instant Upload, but I still see the album for it. I deleted my Blogger, but the gallery album is still there. There is an album from my Google+ post, and my profile pictures, and Scrapbook photos(my G+ cover photos) on Google+. Is there any way to get rid of them(without deleting my Google+ and it's contents of course).
xSeany said:
So, as you may have noticed(fellow N4 users), when browsing the Gallery you will see albums synced from Google+ and Blogger(I think?). How do you disable this? I've disabled Instant Upload, but I still see the album for it. I deleted my Blogger, but the gallery album is still there. There is an album from my Google+ post, and my profile pictures, and Scrapbook photos(my G+ cover photos) on Google+. Is there any way to get rid of them(without deleting my Google+ and it's contents of course).
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1/Disable Google Photos from your Google sync account
2/Go to sdcard/pictures/cache/
delete com.google.android.googlephotos
3/Go to Settings => Apps => Gallery
clear cache, clear data
The photos should be gone from your phone for good.
Edit: you don't have to reboot. the 3 steps above are enough
Thanks+ Worked flawlessly.
Hi! I have an annoying issue with google instant upload. If I go to my gallery and settings and I go to the synced accounts , it is selected in the google account , the google photos and instant upload are selected. Now , for whatever reason in the gallery I have the Camera folder and two instant upload folders.... one of them is the normal one with all the photos and one is empty. That one dissapears only when I go to picasa web albums and delete de empty album but that doesn;t work because everytime I take a new photo that empty album appears again and it has as name the date I took the picture. Can someone please help me to fix this and only appear a single instant upload folder?
PS I already tried this: I disable instant upload and only let google photos but then it won't upload the pics anymore; If i disable google photos and let only instant upload it happens exactly the same
It has been assumed that this is a bug on Google's side with the transition away from Picasa to G+. There is only one way I know to get rid of it and that is to delete both folders and then turn photo sharing off. Instant upload will still work, but the albums will no longer keep appearing in Gallery.
Hi,
in short, I want to hide all my Picasa/Google+ web albums from my Gallery app. Sounds easy, I know.
So, let me tell you what I did. Firstly, I disabled all sync services (Settings > Accounts > Google > (my gmail) ) that were related to photos, that is Google+, Google+ Photos, Drive and Google Photos (notice there was no option for Picasa Web Albums at all).
Then, I went to Settings > Apps > All > Gallery and cleared data+cache. Did the same for Google+ and Drive, just to be sure.
Unfortunately, after opening the Gallery app, Menu > Refresh, all the web albums were back! (firstly Gallery shows only albums from the storage, but then after some time, the web albums show up).
I went even further, and disabled ALL the sync services from Google (yes, all of them). Cleared data+cache for Gallery, G+ and Drive. Result? After refreshing the Gallery app, web albums are back!
I even removed my Google account (web albums were finally not in the Gallery), then added it again, turned off ALL the sync services and yeah, guess what, web albums were magically back.
Please help! I have no idea how to proceed now.
My specification: Nexus 10, Android 4.4.2.
Best,
mszynisz
mszynisz said:
Hi,
in short, I want to hide all my Picasa/Google+ web albums from my Gallery app. Sounds easy, I know.
So, let me tell you what I did. Firstly, I disabled all sync services (Settings > Accounts > Google > (my gmail) ) that were related to photos, that is Google+, Google+ Photos, Drive and Google Photos (notice there was no option for Picasa Web Albums at all).
Then, I went to Settings > Apps > All > Gallery and cleared data+cache. Did the same for Google+ and Drive, just to be sure.
Unfortunately, after opening the Gallery app, Menu > Refresh, all the web albums were back! (firstly Gallery shows only albums from the storage, but then after some time, the web albums show up).
I went even further, and disabled ALL the sync services from Google (yes, all of them). Cleared data+cache for Gallery, G+ and Drive. Result? After refreshing the Gallery app, web albums are back!
I even removed my Google account (web albums were finally not in the Gallery), then added it again, turned off ALL the sync services and yeah, guess what, web albums were magically back.
Please help! I have no idea how to proceed now.
My specification: Nexus 10, Android 4.4.2.
Best,
mszynisz
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Weird, I just disabled Google Photos sync and my Picasa albums stopped showing up in Gallery, I also deleted Gallery data and rebooted. I don't think you can stop Google+ from showing your Picasa albums, since it's just displaying a "web view" of the data, not a local cache copy.
I have 5+ Gb of Picasa pictures, and I don't see Google+ taking up much data. Gallery would store 1+ Gb of data in cache from my Picasa albums.
Maybe just try disabling Google Photo sync, clearing all data for Gallery, then rebooting to see if that fixes Gallery.
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Weird, I just disabled Google Photos sync and my Picasa albums stopped showing up in Gallery, I also deleted Gallery data and rebooted. I don't think you can stop Google+ from showing your Picasa albums, since it's just displaying a "web view" of the data, not a local cache copy.
I have 5+ Gb of Picasa pictures, and I don't see Google+ taking up much data. Gallery would store 1+ Gb of data in cache from my Picasa albums.
Maybe just try disabling Google Photo sync, clearing all data for Gallery, then rebooting to see if that fixes Gallery.
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Yes, that should work, since I found that solution almost everywhere. Strangely it doesn't work on my Nexus 10 for some reason.
I still don't understand why the method above (disable sync, clear data) seem to work for everyone but not for me. Could that be a KitKat issue?
Oh and I tried what you said, with rebooting. Didn't work. Photos don't show up in the Gallery app only if I completely remove my Google account (which of course is not what I want to do).
My N10 is rooted, would that change anything? (I don't think so, but at this point I'm completely confused about what's going on here.)
Best,
mszynisz
hi there.
two days ago i got my new s5. i like it and all but all the image storing and online storage is a little much at first. but since my previous phone was stolen and i lost a couple of hundred of fond memories (pictures) i was determined to store them online this time. i set up a dropbox account that seems to come with the phone and i used picasa or whatever google drive calls my online gallery (never used this before).
it's neat and i figured out how to hide online pictures so it serves as a backup.
NOW TO MY PROBLEM:
since everything is new to me here (had sgs2 before) i played around in the gallery that is now largely different. i seem to have set something to the wrong setting because now it doesn't show ANY PICTURES anymore. not from any folder/album. from one second to the other everything was gone (from the gallery). the pictures are all there, though. i can access them with any other app (es file explorer, google pictures, camera, etc.) but i want my gallery back. it says "no items - after you take, record or upload pictures or videos to dropbox, items will be shown in gallery"
this leads me to suspect that i might have switched my gallery to displaying the contents of my EMPTY dropbox account. i don't want this but i am unable to change it back. besides i have an app for dropbox stuffs so why is this feature even integrated?
settings shows me the following:
accounts:
[g] my gmail account
SNS DATA CONTROL:
sync via wifi only [v]
CLOUD SYNC
dropbox sync
tap to sync content
FILTER
filter by
TAGS
tag buddy
off
face tag [_]
above i can only access "Add Account" which brings me to a menu displaying all my accounts (or some): samsung, google, dropbox, facebook
PLEASE HELP ME!
i did not find any help searching because there seems to be a similar problem with people's media storage malfunctioning. i don't believe that is my problem but i tried resetting the media storage anyways. i am sure it is something that i did to hide my pictures. how do i get them back? i don't plan on using a different gallery app but maybe it is the only solution?
regards
L2
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i actually just installed quickpic and it shows all my pictures which proves to me even further that nothing is wrong with the pictures but just that my gallery is screwed up. how do i unscrew it?
Clear data for gallery app under settings/applications.