All,
Happy rooted Nook user here! However two critical function don't seem to work and I have not found the solution in another thread.
Anybody knows:
- how to sync or get google contacts into gmail / k9 mail? Settings => Social => Manage contacts crashes
- how to get the picture gallery to work? On the road I would love to take pictures with my canon camera (SD card) and post them via the Nook and the facebook app. However I haven't managed to get any pictures in the gallery yet!
Thanks for the support!
Hello
Is it possible to read photos inside a particular photo album Auto Backup (formally know as Instant Upload) after user sings into his Google+ account?
I am new to android so have no idea if this is possible.
Thanks
(wasn't sure if this should be in the apps section, or Q&A...sorry if this is the wrong forum)
I recently purchased a Nexus 7 with the hopes of turning it into a photoframe for my grandmother and aunts. They don't have facebook, or G+...etc. So my hope is to create a generic account for them on several services (G+, dropbox, skydrive, flickr, etc.) and then setup the Nexus 7 to auto-download photos from these services and add them to the local gallery (maybe once per hour or day). Then use the gallery, daydream or another app to create a slideshow.
I'm hoping to allow other family members (who are located around the country) to upload photos to these services.
Much of this is flexible, but the end goal would be to allow lots of family members to be able to share photos with my grandmother (and at 102, she's not really in a position to get a social network account and really know how to use it). So ideally, I'd like this to be as "automated" as possible for them.
Are there any apps that may help? If not...other suggestions (on how to get close to my desired outcome) are welcome!
If it's helpful:
This is a Nexus 7 16GB wifi only
They DO have wifi and an "always on" connection
Thanks!
Set up a Google account expressly designed for this, and give everyone who wants to post photos the account login. Then post their pics to an album on G+. Use this account solely for this purpose. Anyone who adds it to their device will have access to the photos via gallery so long as photo sync is turned on for that account.
Thanks Solutions Etcetera! (follow up question at the bottom)
I ended up creating an account dedicated for the device, and while I liked your idea about giving out the login info ...I went another way with it. (mostly to simplify it all for family
I logged into the device account via a browser and then to picasaweb.google.com (if it takes you to Google+ photos, you should get a box that asks if you want to go to the "old albums" or something...do that! I found a setting in there that allows uploads via email.
(you may know the rest of this, but I'm putting it here in case anyone else comes looking.
So I enabled it (via checkbox) which provides an email address of a <long random bunch of numbers>@picasaweb.com.
You can also add a "passphrase" which turns the email address into <long random bunch of numbers>.<passphrase>@picasaweb.com.
Now, any family member can simply send an email to that address with an attached photo (or multiple photos) and they get added to a folder called "Dropbox" (that's google's name...not mine, and not related to the "Dropbox" service).
Then, as long as I have photo sync'ing turned on, on the N7....it seems to work.
My Question:
Anyone know how long the sync interval is?
I can send the account an email...it shows up online, and shows up in the "Gallery" almost instantly, but Daydream seems to ignore changes. I found by restarting the device it sees the new images, but I was hoping for something a bit more "automatic." Stopping just daydream and letting it start again on it's own didn't seem to update with new photos either.
Does anyone have any ideas how to nudge it along? so it more actively finds new photos once they're in the web album?
Thanks!
Without restarting the device, I think you're at the mercy of the media server. Don't really know why it varies so much in updating the media library index, but it is probably designed to minimize impact on battery.
Thanks for all the quick replies, ideas and solutions....er....Solutions.
I had the same issue with the sync interval on daydream. It is not clear to me if you have the photos stored locally. My problem was that there was a .nomedia file in the local photo folders I wanted displayed as part of daydream.
I found this thread while trying to do the same thing. I solved it a little differently. I used dropbox (the actual service, not the folder) to store photos and used dropsync (free) to synchronize the files to local folders. I used daydream to display the synced folders. This also puts all photos locally so my mom can take the tablet with her and have a photo album to share with friends.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 from Verizon (model SM-G900V), when I take photos, panoramas, or photosphere's and attempt to share them by clicking the 'share via' button (in the photo gallery) there is no option to share via google maps. On the google maps views website this is the described procedure for uploading photospheres. I am told by samsung help department that "The option is not provided on Samsung android OS. You only have the option to share it to Google+ directly."
I am able to take a photosphere using the google camera app and using the samsung surround shot camera mode. I can upload photospheres to google+ and add them to google maps views using a web browser manually. Photospheres that are automatically uploaded to google+ are not viewable using google+ app on my mobile device (but they are viewable using a browser) until I manually submit them to google map views for approval.
Whats the deal here? why so much incompatibility? is there any way I can hack my way through this problem?
On my Nexus 6p 7.1.1 if I try to Google Photos see all my photos.
But if I search on my device in the DCIM folder I only see very few photos and several empty folders. Where are photos stored? In which path and folder?
I thought it might be in Google Drive. But why I see them on Google Photos also without internet connection (wifi or 4g)?
All of the many empty folders (IMG_2016 .....) I can delete them without any problems? or their cancellation makes me lose the pictures (stored somewhere)?
Thanks.
Giozer said:
On my Nexus 6p 7.1.1 if I try to Google Photos see all my photos.
But if I search on my device in the DCIM folder I only see very few photos and several empty folders. Where are photos stored? In which path and folder?
I thought it might be in Google Drive. But why I see them on Google Photos also without internet connection (wifi or 4g)?
All of the many empty folders (IMG_2016 .....) I can delete them without any problems? or their cancellation makes me lose the pictures (stored somewhere)?
Thanks.
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Two things...
1) You can check picture location by going into Google Photos, click a picture, click the " i " (info) button on bottom. It will give you exact storage location. If there's no location and it just has the IMG, then it's on Google Photos website.
2) Google Drive may not show your photos unless you specifically tell it to. You must go to http://photos.google.com instead. Your drive and photos are most likely seperated