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[Q] Picasa Integration?

What happened to Picasa integration in the gallery? I've tried downloading Gallery 3d but i get errors when that tries to sync.
Picasa worked great on my Mytouch 3g with 2.2.
Whats gives? Am I missing something?

[Q] Understanding Sync Feature!!

In Settings > Accounts and Sync, two accounts are listed. One is Yahoo and Other is Google. Now, for Google, contacts, mail, calendar and picasa web albums are listed. I understood all but I did not get Picasa Web Albums here because there is no app for picasa web album in my phone. Can anyone please explain me the working of sync feature for Picasa Web Albums here?
Also, for Yahoo account, only contact option is listed. Now, I understand that if I add/remove any contact from my Yahoo account on web, that will be reflected in my phone contacts but from the phone contacts, there is no way to add/remove Yahoo contact. Can anyone explain this also?
Please let me know if I am not explaining it correctly and need to explain it in better way to get answered.

There are 101 views for this post...even then there is not a single response to this thread..is this such a difficult query?

Check Contact list -> Pick some contact which has at least 1 photo inside Picassa (and You have it synced) -> go to Media tab

Thanks Hawan for the reply. Do you mean to say: If I have contact X saved as Google contact and I have photo of that contact in my picasa account then this photo is shown on the media tab of contact X and can be synced between phone and web if Sync Picasa Web Album option is checked?

vijay.gupta said:
I understood all but I did not get Picasa Web Albums here because there is no app for picasa web album in my phone. Can anyone please explain me the working of sync feature for Picasa Web Albums here?
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My stock 2.1 ROM displayed my Picasa albums under "Gallery" when sync was enabled. Now i use Kyrillos's rom and miss many things (gtalk, Gallery, etc...)

Whenn you select the picasia album sync, allows you to view, download and upload photos to your picasia/google account, if you have pictures in picasia you can see them in the stock gallery app, go to galery and searh the album named picasia.
The prupose of sync mail accounts allows you to link your contacts with their mails and information but the only mail account that can edit contacts is google,
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Yes Giosiken. After enabling picasa album sync in my phone, I am able to view all the photos that are uploaded in my picasa account in my phone. But is there any way that I can upload the photos that are in my phone to picasa web album?

Well its pretty easy, go to the gallry and do a long touch over the pic or album you want to upload to select them, a menu appears, select the share option and select picasia
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Giosiken,
That option appears even when I have not selected picasa web album sync....i want to know only the features that are enabled by selecting picasa web album sync?
One that I know is: Gallery shows picasa web album photos after selecting that option.
I just want to know photos between which sync occurs after selecting this option?

I dont think that more options are "unlocked" by selecting sync picasia albums, the feature allows you to explore and edit your picasia web albums directly into your phone and having linked your account to.your.phone.you can manually.upload your pics to new almbus in picasia account, the feature does not upload every photo you have in the phone. By the way why you are so interested in this?
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just out of curiosity :)
As synce always happens between two instances of the same entity, I was wondering, between which two instances of photos the sync happens if that option for sync picasa photo album is checked?

I haven't used that sync option but from their postis it seems to me that it is completely obvious what is happening.

Syncing Facebook with contacts: some dont work??

im trying to sync FB contacts with my regular contacts list. now, on Froyo there was a menu item to sync with FB. but now, on Gingerbread, that option is gone. most of my contacts are synced but some people who have different FB names, FB wont sync them and i cant do it manually. any way to do this??

i figured it out, disregard. in edit contact you need to select "join" then loacate their FB page. slow and silly, but it worked.

Wait you got the pics to sync with the contacts?
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Facebook pics sync from FB to my contacts on my phone.
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Motoblur should sync them

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Wait you got the pics to sync with the contacts?
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yes. at first, FB synced like 95% of my contacts but left some not synced. i had to figure our how to manually sync them. you have to go into edit contacts, then "join" contacts to another contact (the FB one) then save it. more steps than it was on Froyo, but it worked.

I think this may solve the issue I'm having. Thanks.
I noticed I can't add any additional info to a facebook contact. I'm guessing the only way around this is to create a new contact and then join them?

Does this also update pictures as well? I see that fb has sync contact info but not pictures. Any insight is helpful.
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Google+ and Picasa

Hi Guys,
I have a bit of a strange question, but it's been bugging me for days.
I use Picasa and Google+ to organise my thousands of photos.
When I take photos on my camera, I'll upload them onto my laptop, organise them in Picasa and then sync to web so that the album appears as a Google+ album. If I then later add any photos from my phone to the album (auto-uploaded from my Nexus 4) they automatically get synced to my Picasa album on my laptop. Everything works perfectly.
However, should I create a Google+ album directly from my auto-uploaded photos from my Nexus 4 i.e. I don't have any photos on my camera so don't use Picasa to organise anything. How do I get the new album to sync to Picasa so I can view it on my laptop and see it with the rest of my photos offline?
Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks in advance!

I personally do not use the desktop application, but version 3.9 of Picasa is supposed to transition support over to Google+ in place of Picasa Web Albums. Is your installation of Picasa fully updated?

Yes it's up to date and doesn't use picasa web albums i.e. it sync with my google+ albums.
However the problem is if I add a new album in Google+ from my autobackup pictures, it doesn't sync with my desktop version of Picasa

bunt83 said:
Yes it's up to date and doesn't use picasa web albums i.e. it sync with my google+ albums.
However the problem is if I add a new album in Google+ from my autobackup pictures, it doesn't sync with my desktop version of Picasa
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Hmmm, I can see how this is annoying. As a potential workaround en route to a Google resolution, you might first try creating an album in Picasa on your desktop, setting up for Sync to Picasa Web/Google+ and then moving pictures from Google+ Autobackup to that newly created album. See if it syncs then. Just trying to determine if the issue is with sync or creating an album on Google+ first.

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Thanks for your help, but I FINALLY figured out a solution (with the help of another forum):
Launch the Picasa application on your computer. In the File menu, choose "Import from Web Albums..." Leave the "Import all albums not currently on this computer (Uncheck to choose manually)" check box checked and select "OK." If you have a large number of files stored in your Picasa Web albums account, be prepared to wait a little while as your entire account downloads. Note that Picasa will not download duplicate files onto your computer.
Hope this helps others

Calendar

Anyone have the stock calendar? For some strange reason it doesn't appear to be anywhere in my phone.

Stock calendar is google calendar download from playstore
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