Hi there.
Initially I noticed that uploading to google+ reduces the resolution of the photospheres but that's not that bothersome. What is, though (if true) is that the stitching seems to be a lot worse when uploaded compared to what I see on my screen. How is that possible? Anyone else experienced something similar?
Take a look at this: here's the photosphere uploaded in g+: http://goo.gl/iOQCM
and compare it to the screenshot I've attached.
Well, the Google+ viewer distorts!
If I look at the front 'pyramid' and have it in the center of the screen, it looks fine. If I rotate the view so it is in the lower right corner, they are not round any more - which looks a bit like stitching errors.
With the pyramid just behind it to the right it is even easier to spot. Put it in the middle: perfect. Move it to the right edge, or bottom right corner: ugly.
Mind you that another kind of distortion is normal: if something is in the corner or at the edge at a wide angle view, it will look stretched. The car for example looks longer when at the edge - that is supposed to happen. But it also gets wavy, and that is not supposed to happen.
On the photo (viewed in a normal picture viewer) non of this waviness is present. The fountains (or pyramids if you wish ) have almost perfect curves, as seen on the screen shot. And as far as I know and have read around, there isn't more to the photosphere other than the picture. It doesn't contain any information of the pictures it has stitched together, so all the stitching work should've been done on the device. It seems very strange the google+ viewer would show it like this.
I just wanted to ask is this normal behaviour for google+, does anyone have similar observations?
The few I have uploaded on google+ seem fine. Don't really notice a difference except that you don't have to pan up and down as much to see the ceiling/sky or floor/ground.
Anyone notice that the photo uploads to facebook are quite small in size?... as compared to my previous HTC/ Sony phones.
Photo quality is great... it's just that the my previous phones uploaded 'higher-res'/larger photos
aikwawa said:
Anyone notice that the photo uploads to facebook are quite small in size?... as compared to my previous HTC/ Sony phones.
Photo quality is great... it's just that the my previous phones uploaded 'higher-res'/larger photos
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Here's an illustration all scaled to the same size.
Funny thing is.. after i transfer my photos onto my comp, and upload them using my comp onto facebook... the photos become much larger.. it seems like uploading thru a mobile device somehow shrinks it? esp for the s4?
Anyone?
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It seems like somehow the GS4 uploads photos to Facebook using settings that are not optimal...
I don't seem to have this problem on the HTC One... the photos uploaded from HTC One appears quite large when viewed via the facebook photo viewer
Trya a different facebook app, see if the problem still exists ... or use the webbrowser interface facebook to upload
gremlininthesystem said:
Trya a different facebook app, see if the problem still exists ... or use the webbrowser interface facebook to upload
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I tried uploading via the web browser and it turned out larger than if I uploaded it via the facebook app..
This is so strange. So i went to uninstall facebook and re-installed it again... and reuploaded the photo.. it turned out to be smaller again.
I think there is something about the way the facebook app uploads photo that somehow prevents it from achieving the optimal upload size at max resolution.. this is so weird.
I wonder if anyone here experiences the same problem.
Me too, hence my thread I started here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2271139
...As when I searched on "Facebook Image Upload Issue" before starting my thread, according the the site, nothing came back specifically for S4 devices, though plenty of older ones, so sorry about the duplicate post. Mine has a poll though, so that should be interesting to see how it pans out...
Look like it is indeed a Facebook issue... POS...
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It seems like somehow the GS4 uploads photos to Facebook using settings that are not optimal...
I don't seem to have this problem on the HTC One... the photos uploaded from HTC One appears quite large when viewed via the facebook photo viewer
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- That's because with it's "UltraPixels", the HTC One actually takes photos in a very low resolution.
But I don't just think it's a size issue - it's an S4 issue itself, because if you first shoot the image in a lower resolution, say just 8MP on the S4, then the photos are STILL downsized, but weirdly, not by the same amount - so the end result is that either 13MP or 8MP will still cause a down-size problem, but images shot in a lower original resolution, will actually be uploaded slightly larger - 13MP images get shrunk smaller than an 8MP one does, but BOTH get messed up though.
GAAAAHHH - Facebook are STILL suffering this issue... Anyone know of any easy workaround. The resizer one is handy, but not so good for lots of party photos that need uploading there and then...
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I am really baffled myself. You get the phone with one of the top 3 cameras in the market and uploads it to facebook with a quality worse than iphone's 5mp bad impression of a camera. The amazing thing is that the whole internet is not buzzing with this. Numerous google searches coming out with none to 0 results. Please, if anyone finds a fix or at least a reason for why this is happening let the rest of us know
I can't believe I am the only one having this problem, as I am now onto my second S4, and this new one also has the same problem, and my friend's S4, on a different Network, also does exactly the same...
The issue is, if I shoot a photo on my new Galaxy S4 in full 13Mp resolution, this produces an actual image on my device, that is 4128 x 3096 in resolution, with a File size of around 4.7MB As soon as I share it to Facebook however, either by clicking the Android Share link on the image and choosing "Facebook" as the destination, OR by using the Facebook App direct then choosing an image to upload, then I end up with a problem...
The image that actually arrives on Facebook, is heavily compressed with noise, and is resized down to just 1032 x 774 resolution, and a tiny file size of 178 KB (instead of the 4.7 MB masterpiece it actually was).
It does this with EVERY image I shoot - 100% of the time. And worse, is I mix things up a little, if I first REDUCE the resolution of my camera BEFORE taking a shot, if I drop it down to 8MP and take a photo, then despite the image now being a SMALLER photo, the image that arrives at Facebook is then BIGGER than those shot at 13MP, arriving at 1632 x 1224 instead.
Go figure...
But I suspect it's a bug in Facebook. However, given that my guess is that it affects 100% of S4 users, 100% of the time, I can't believe there are not thousands of discussions and debates about this issue... I can't find ANY discussion, for an issue that is there for ALL users, ALL of the time...
Please note also - whilst I am aware that there were high quality image upload issues on the S4 with Instagram too, this has been fixed in part, through an Instagram update. In my case, the photos that are resized down when uploaded to Facebook, are nevertheless perfectly correct and of the true size and quality when uploaded to any other Android Share location, or Social Networking Site, such as Google+ etc. It is only when sent to Facebook that the images are instead massively compressed, degraded, and down-sized.
So can anyone tell me - is this a known issue, for which the cause has been identified..? Or were none of you aware of this yourselves? If so, can you test it, as it's repeatable 100% here, on various S4's on various networks...
Take a photo on the phone in FULL RESOLUTION. Uploaded it to Facebook using the android sharing function on the S4. Then go to Facebook on a desktop PC and locate the photo you just added. Choose the option to download it to your PC, and save it. Examine the downloaded image, and identify if it is a true 13Mp image, or if for you too, the image has been uploaded at just 1032 x 774
And if that is the case, I'm amazed much more has not been made of this issue. I got the S4 because it has such an amazing camera, and I love uploading photos. Alas, as it stands, the device is useless, as it uploads my images to Facebook at a resolution and quality, lower than that of my first ever 1.2MP standalone Digital Camera of 1998...
Comments or ideas anyone?
Shadamehr said:
I can't believe I am the only one having this problem, as I am now onto my second S4, and this new one also has the same problem, and my friend's S4, on a different Network, also does exactly the same...
The issue is, if I shoot a photo on my new Galaxy S4 in full 13Mp resolution, this produces an actual image on my device, that is 4128 x 3096 in resolution, with a File size of around 4.7MB As soon as I share it to Facebook however, either by clicking the Android Share link on the image and choosing "Facebook" as the destination, OR by using the Facebook App direct then choosing an image to upload, then I end up with a problem...
The image that actually arrives on Facebook, is heavily compressed with noise, and is resized down to just 1032 x 774 resolution, and a tiny file size of 178 KB (instead of the 4.7 MB masterpiece it actually was).
It does this with EVERY image I shoot - 100% of the time. And worse, is I mix things up a little, if I first REDUCE the resolution of my camera BEFORE taking a shot, if I drop it down to 8MP and take a photo, then despite the image now being a SMALLER photo, the image that arrives at Facebook is then BIGGER than those shot at 13MP, arriving at 1632 x 1224 instead.
Go figure...
But I suspect it's a bug in Facebook. However, given that my guess is that it affects 100% of S4 users, 100% of the time, I can't believe there are not thousands of discussions and debates about this issue... I can't find ANY discussion, for an issue that is there for ALL users, ALL of the time...
Please note also - whilst I am aware that there were high quality image upload issues on the S4 with Instagram too, this has been fixed in part, through an Instagram update. In my case, the photos that are resized down when uploaded to Facebook, are nevertheless perfectly correct and of the true size and quality when uploaded to any other Android Share location, or Social Networking Site, such as Google+ etc. It is only when sent to Facebook that the images are instead massively compressed, degraded, and down-sized.
So can anyone tell me - is this a known issue, for which the cause has been identified..? Or were none of you aware of this yourselves? If so, can you test it, as it's repeatable 100% here, on various S4's on various networks...
Take a photo on the phone in FULL RESOLUTION. Uploaded it to Facebook using the android sharing function on the S4. Then go to Facebook on a desktop PC and locate the photo you just added. Choose the option to download it to your PC, and save it. Examine the downloaded image, and identify if it is a true 13Mp image, or if for you too, the image has been uploaded at just 1032 x 774
And if that is the case, I'm amazed much more has not been made of this issue. I got the S4 because it has such an amazing camera, and I love uploading photos. Alas, as it stands, the device is useless, as it uploads my images to Facebook at a resolution and quality, lower than that of my first ever 1.2MP standalone Digital Camera of 1998...
Comments or ideas anyone?
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I asked the same question in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256054
Haven't really gotten an answer yet. For now, i use an image resizer app, resize it to the dimensions of 3789 x 2131 .. and then upload to facebook... that ensures the maximum size gets uploaded to facebook. There doesnt seem to be a workaround for this until facebook updates the way its app uploads photos.
I noticed the exact same thing when going from an HTC One S to the S4 and I posted on another thread asking the same question. It's driving me crazy. Pretty sure it's the FB app and not the S4.
I was searching for a different matter regarding the fact that the Facebook app forces you to upload the pictures using a square shape instead of the original photo shape. I recently switched from iOS to Android and found myself with this annoying feature. iOS-version of FB app allows you to upload pictures without having to crop them into a square. Weird. --> Don't ask me how, but this is fixed now. No more square-shaped pictures.
Then again, I tried to by-pass this issue by uploading the picture through the mobile-version of the site/web app and found myself with this pop-up from Chrome.
"Unable to complete previous operation due low memory". Found this thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2101893 ) but the solution given is not exactly what I'm looking for. I wish to know why is this message popping up and what am I supposed to do.
Going back to the subject... I experienced the same thing when I uploaded a picture to my timeline (no cropping issue there). Resize is done in a way that messes up the whole picture with the compression.
I'm assuming they've built an algorithm that resizes the pictures to prevent people from uploading +4MB files, data usage... I don't know.
Is there any solution to any of my issues? thank you!
If it matters --> Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) - No SD card.
Also my problem with my octa s4.
I wonder why my friend's samsung duos mobile uploads are fullsized, while my s4's uploads are pixelated and so low quality.
For now I'm using Nokia 808 Pureview for my mobile upload but android do have vast application choices for editing photos before upload so I'm really annoyed by this.
Sorry to resurrect this but I'm having the same problem and couldn't find a fix
fransarj said:
Sorry to resurrect this but I'm having the same problem and couldn't find a fix
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Maybe it's just Facebook doing the automatic downsizing.
dratsablive said:
Maybe it's just Facebook doing the automatic downsizing.
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You're not having this problem?
If I use the mobile browser to upload, or a 3rd party app, it uploads in high resolution.
fransarj said:
You're not having this problem?
If I use the mobile browser to upload, or a 3rd party app, it uploads in high resolution.
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I don't know, my pictures seem fine when using the Facebook app.
Oh man I never noticed this till today!
I'm using a Note 3 and it downsides the pictures to 1000*xxx... what? That's like a 4x downsize... why???
Is there any fix (except uploading pix from the PC?)
its 2015 and the problem still exists! i think i'm movin to g+
Album: https://plus.google.com/photos/1169...ms/5880641652799930881?authkey=CL7nl4ur95H_Zw
Google+ will still upload every frame of the Zoe, but automatically makes the gif.
Tip: Search "motion" in your pictures to just show the auto-awesomed gifs
Hopefully Google will auto-stack pictures that they know are burst shots; that would definitely clean up the instant upload page.
Wow!
Amazing! I try later...
This is very funny haha: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bok4vbDzHhbmLLQOA5A1_S9-NWCfOcp7obIX1y5FqGEN=w340-h192-p-no
ranova said:
Album: https://plus.google.com/photos/1169...ms/5880641652799930881?authkey=CL7nl4ur95H_Zw
Google+ will still upload every frame of the Zoe, but automatically makes the gif.
Tip: Search "motion" in your pictures to just show the auto-awesomed gifs
Hopefully Google will auto-stack pictures that they know are burst shots; that would definitely clean up the instant upload page.
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Nice! I made one of my dining table a few days ago, to show off how it opens:
http://silellak.com/gifs/DiningTableOpens.gif
That's awesome.