Sync Google photos V sync Google photos backup - Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Can someone please explain the difference (photo attached) I no longer use Google plus. I want all my photos backed up from both my pc and note 4. I have the new Google photos app (on both) which has seems pretty good. Am I duplicating? (Not to mention Picasso on my pc not sure if I need that anymore but that's another day.)
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I have exactly the same question. What is the difference, is one from Google+ app and the other from the new Google Photos app?
Lol you even have the Picasa sync.

I have the same thing as well. In fact, under Account Settings, I have "Sync Google Photos" (listed twice), "Sync Google Photos Backup", and "Sync Google+ Photos". Has anyone figured out the difference between "Sync Google Photos" and "Sync Google Photos Backup" ?

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Low quality contact photo's?

When I check my gmail it syncs my contacts updates but then makes contacts pics on my phone low quality. Why? Anybody else with this problem?
Will it still do it if I upload pics from my computer to gmail then let it sync to my phone?
I keep my fav contacts pinned so when i scroll down it just looks like pics from a vga camera lol
unfortunately, this is the problem with contact pictures at gmail... for some reason when your phone syncronizes with your gmail account the contact photos are reduced in quality by google (I don't know, maybe google is saving on their server space? i really have no idea why) the only way to keep good quality contact images on your phone is to enter them into your phone each individually and store them under 'phone contact', not 'gmail contact'...
I have way to many #'s to do that lol I will just disable google syncing contacts until a fix comes or if I have to.

[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.

Picasa albums syncing issues

Hey guy's
I'm just wondering if anyone is experiencing any issues with syncing picasa albums from google accounts
I have 2 google accounts and I've unticked the option on both to not sync pictures to my gallery but yet they still do!
For the 2nd google account i have to remove it from the device completely to get rid of the pictures. If i re-add them and untick the option for pictures it will still appear. The only way for the picasa albums to not sync is to not add that 2nd google account
For my first primary account i was able to get them unsynced when removing the account and re-adding it.
This issue doesnt occur for calendar/contacts/bookmarks
I'm running build Acer_A500_1.139.04_COM_GEN1 and thought i'd run it past xda before i speak to Acer/Factory Wipe device (which i really dont want to do if i can avoid it!)

Google+/Picasa Sync with Android Gallery

All my photos in Google+ and Picasa are synced automatically with my android gallery.Is there any way to remove google+ photos from my android gallery without disabling google+ sync from accounts and settings?....also in account and settings there is a sync option with picssa without having any photos in web picassa
I am also looking for an answer to this.....
My solution....Quic Pic
It is so much better then the 3D Gallery anyway, I can't believe how much faster it is!
In the Google + settings on Android phones there is an OPTION for INSTANT UPLOAD try unchecking that and see if it works

Contact Sync

This is annoying me a little, wondering if anyone can help.
My Facebook contacts are linked to my google contacts, and when first done the pictures automatically updated my google contact images.
However, now when somebody updates their facebook photo, the new photo is synced to the phone (can see it if you go and try to edit a contact, in the facebook tab) but it doesn't overwrite the google contact photo (The old facebook photo), which is still shown in phonebook/messaging as default.
Any way to stop this happening, and always show the latest facebook photo?

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