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Picasa Gallery Pics for offline viewing?

Hey folks, is there a way to get the gallery app to actually download the pics to the phone so they can be viewed offline.
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Did you try to select sync picassa in settings-account and syn-gmail-picassa web albums?
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warfanax said:
Did you try to select sync picassa in settings-account and syn-gmail-picassa web albums?
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Yep, that's what makes them show in the gallery but they aren't really downloaded to the phone. Some stay in the cache but when you cycle through a album with more than say 5 pics they want to download to view.

While you're seeing the pictures, the phone cache the pic and you can view it offline, but you need to do this manual (looking at all the pictures while online).

I would also like to know if this is possible.
Is there a way to download pictures from picasa? Even if it is through the PC?
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Yes you can do it through pc.
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guimialfaro said:
While you're seeing the pictures, the phone cache the pic and you can view it offline, but you need to do this manual (looking at all the pictures while online).
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That does not work for very long. I have looked at all my pics many times over and they still need to download.

A little camera problem

Ok this is going to sound really stupid but hear me out I'm POSITIVE I didn't delete the videos off my phone.
So yesterday I was out with some friends just chilling and I took some pretty funny videos of some of my friends. To share them with my friends I decided I was gonna upload them to youtube, but I couldnt do it directly from my phone for some reason. So I decided to email both video files via gmail to myself then upload them later on the computer. I check a couple hours later and the message is still sending, because of the amount of memory both videos were I assume, so I decided to give up and just find them on the sd card then move them to my pc. So I delete the message that was sending with the attached files since I wasnt going to go about it that way anymore, but then I go back and look through my phone and notice I cant find the videos. By attaching them to my gmail did I move them off the SD card?

I don't know about your main problem but in order to send pics/videos your carriers mobile data must be on, it will not work if only WiFi is enabled.
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Moh_Jay said:
I don't know about your main problem but in order to send pics/videos your carriers mobile data must be on, it will not work if only WiFi is enabled.
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Sorry I knew it was too confusing. The uploading wasn't the main problem, my main question is if by me attaching those video files to my email then deleting them while they were still in the sending process, did I basically just delete those files off my sd card too??

It shouldn't have deleted the videos, not sure how that could have happened.
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I don't know about your main problem but in order to send pics/videos your carriers mobile data must be on, it will not work if only WiFi is enabled.
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Not if you're sending them in Gmail like he was.

911jason said:
It shouldn't have deleted the videos, not sure how that could have happened.
Not if you're sending them in Gmail like he was.
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Yeah that's why I'm confused, idk they're no where to be found I guess I did something stupid, im still sure I didnt delete them myself though.. /:

What usually happens with me is the gallery app doesn't read new vids or pics when its running I kill the app & they pop up
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I have a problem with the gallery app too!! Looking closely one of the random camera videos, it has a screenshot from a different video I did delete. How is this possible.. I may have deleted the two videos by accident because of this. Is there any sort of trashcan?
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vicmora5 said:
I have a problem with the gallery app too!! Looking closely one of the random camera videos, it has a screenshot from a different video I did delete. How is this possible.. I may have deleted the two videos by accident because of this. Is there any sort of trashcan?
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Its the cache it happens to me when I "hide" videos I think under sdcard/android/data/com.cooliris... there is a file for video cache delete it & it should fix the thumbnails I usually delete the cache & I get less crashes & its faster loading pics
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drowningchild said:
Its the cache it happens to me when I "hide" videos I think under sdcard/android/data/com.cooliris... there is a file for video cache delete it & it should fix the thumbnails I usually delete the cache & I get less crashes & its faster loading pics
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So I cant just delete everything in that cache folder? or Just delete the video cache?

I delete the whole file as it will rebuild the cache
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Have you tried using a program to locate the deleted files and "undelete" them?
http://download.cnet.com/Pandora-Recovery/3000-2094_4-10694796.html?tag=mncol;7

911jason said:
Have you tried using a program to locate the deleted files and "undelete" them?
http://download.cnet.com/Pandora-Recovery/3000-2094_4-10694796.html?tag=mncol;7
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The files were never on my computer though /:

vicmora5 said:
The files were never on my computer though /:
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You can "undelete" from SDCARD with 3rd party applications, I have done long time ago. But I am not sure you can do it since android writes/modifies sdcard too much.

barisahmet said:
You can "undelete" from SDCARD with 3rd party applications, I have done long time ago. But I am not sure you can do it since android writes/modifies sdcard too much.
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OK ill give it a go hopefully it works.
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Uploading multiple photos to FB on GS2

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to upload multiple photos to Facebook from the SGS2, directly from the gallery if possible? I have downloaded an app called Speedy Uploader, but was wondering if there is any way t o do it straight from the gallery.

I use a cool app called 'Speedy Uploader'.
Hope that helps.

Cralis said:
I use a cool app called 'Speedy Uploader'.
Hope that helps.
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Did you even read the post?
OP, there isn't a native way but something like the Speedy Uploader app you're using should allow you to select all the images you like and then use the 'Share' button. That'll stop you having to open a second app.

Gallery

Anyone have any idea how to keep Album and Ebook Covers from showing up in the gallery. Want it to be just my photos etc from cam and downloads but they all show up there in all different folders?

Find where those pictures are stored. Go in that folder and make a new folder call .nomedia

Thanks
baseballfanz said:
Find where those pictures are stored. Go in that folder and make a new folder call .nomedia
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Worked really well also for Music folder with all album covers etc, Ebooks etc

norm883 said:
Anyone have any idea how to keep Album and Ebook Covers from showing up in the gallery. Want it to be just my photos etc from cam and downloads but they all show up there in all different folders?
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Just touch and hold the "offending" file and an option menu will pop up where you can select "Exclude" - done.

ziffos said:
Just touch and hold the "offending" file and an option menu will pop up where you can select "Exclude" - done.
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in what program?
i tried in Gallery but not getting that option..
I went in to file explorer too and no option there..
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I use a great little free app called quickpic which allows you to chose which folders are listed and it loads up large galleries nice and quick.
Jason.
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personally i find the default Gallery app pretty rubbish, it only refreshes content on a reboot for example.
i try and avoid using it as much as possible.

Jisonga said:
I use a great little free app called quickpic which allows you to chose which folders are listed and it loads up large galleries nice and quick.
Jason.
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Yes, thats a nice little one.. I just loaded it and it has the exclude in it..
also allows you to backup to the root directry that the offending files are hanging out under..
i.e Books\nonfiction\files.. thus no need to do it individually..
it also works in well with the Picture framer I am using as a widget on one of my home screens..
where I have setup client files for previews.. now I think I just about got the perfect setup for it as a portable
casestudy showcase..so to recap on that..
ESfile explorer - to setup directory links as folders on a home screen
Picture framer to allow 4 large pictures on any one home screen - thus a quick tap takes you in to that themed directry
Quickpic - to run as the main viewer and slideshow engine..

dgcruzing said:
in what program?
i tried in Gallery but not getting that option..
I went in to file explorer too and no option there..
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Very sorry but forgot to tell you that I was using Quickpic rather than Gallery.
Quickpic is excellent.

Gallery problems

OK i have looked everywhere and tried every "solution" i have seen. hopefully XDA can help...whenever i open up my gallery and go to All tab for my pictures, there are my regular pictures there but also a whole bunch of grey boxes. when i select them i dont have the option to delete them and its driving me crazy. went to the picasa web app and deleted all my empty albums, cleared the cache from my gallery app and even tried doing it from the desktop application and they are still there. any help would be greatly appreciated. oh any btw phone is completely stock, unrooted.

This is not an ideal solution, but it's what I've done. For me, the gallery was freezing, or at least lagging for 5 or 10 seconds when I'd try to select an album.
My fix, if you can call it that, was to stop using gallery, and use something called QuickPic instead. It's basically the same thing. It also makes it very easy to exclude or include folders.

Yea I was using quickpic on my last phone and just havent installed it yet on this one. Still would like the gallery to function properly though.
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My gallery shows a bunch of "broken pics", and quick pic shows a bunch of grey boxes. Anyone know of a solution?
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Could these be pics that were deleted that gallery thinks are still there?
Have you tried a reboot? Clearing data and cache for gallery app?
What mods have you done?

Not sure what gallery thinks they are. Ive deleted everything thats unwanted in picasa but there is still a little picasa icon next to the empty albums. No mods done at all
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Did you clear cache and data from gallery app?
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How about some screenshots so we can see what is going on? I find that the newest ROMs based on the newest International firmware, fixes all of the gallery stutter and lag as well.