JulieannaD

Hello

Just got the Note II a couple days ago. I absolutely love it !

One big problem though;

When I'm pulling in photos to any application (foursquare, photo editing apps, etc.) it takes 4 to 5 minutes because it's loading ALL my photos from Facebook and Picasa ! I'm a photographer, so I have a LOT of photos in those sites !

I have tried un syncing Facebook, didn't make a difference.

I went to the Verizon store, the rep couldn't help me. He recommended posting here. Hope someone here has some good advice ? If I can't get this resolved I will probably return this phone. Pictures are my life

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me

Also, is there a way to make a screen capture on this phone ?

JulieannaD

I uninstalled and reinstalled Facebook and fixed half the issue

But I can't uninstall Google/Picasa...

ceva321

Very Easy...the Picasa album is automatically created by Google...best way to get rid of it..is to :

1. go in YOUR PC to the Picasa Web album
2. select your Instant Upload album and under options delete album
3. VOILA all your intant uploads are gone from your phone!!!




Have a great day and enjoy your New Amazing Phone.....

JulieannaD

Thanks, but it isn't just loading the instant uploads album. I actually didn't enable that on this phone at all. It is loading all my albums in Picasa, including all the photos I've put on Google+. Which is in the hundreds...

ceva321

Google automatically uploads it Picasa.....CANCEL THE GOOGLE +ACCOUNT.......it will automatically upload regardless.....


also, is it a big deal to have this web album? its free and your photos as secure on a cloud???

Last edited by ceva321; February 14th, 2013 at 08:12 PM.

JulieannaD

Thank you for trying to help, but I don't know if you are understanding the issue here. My problem is not with photos going from my phone up to the internet. The problem is that my phone is pulling photos down from the internet onto my phone's gallery.

I'm not going to cancel my Google+ account, I use it daily. They have a wonderful community of photographers over there I host a monthly photo walk organized through Google+.

I disabled instant upload because I already back my photos up onto 2 separate external hard-drives. So I don't need to have them additionally saved on Google+/Picasa. Also, I take superfluous amounts of photos, and delete many before uploading onto my hard drives. Instant upload will upload them all and then I have to go through and delete the unwanted photos again. Instant upload is a great service for people who aren't already making back ups, it's just not relevant for me

ceva321

OK Gotcha...well I hope my suggestion helped you

arvindtechie

Hello JulieannaD,
I understand what you are talking about. I've cracked long hours on this too. But the fix is pretty simple.

Its a two step process:
1. Stop picasa / google photos from automatically syncing them to ur phone.
2. Clear data from gallery so the synced photos are removed from ur phone.

now let me explain with instructions on how this is done:
For Step 1:
Go to Settings, scroll down to the Accounts section and tap on Google.
Under Accounts, you'll have ur gmail address listed, tap on that and boom u r taken to a section where you can select what in your google account needs to be synced with ur phone. I recommend unchecking both Sync Google Photos and Sync Picasa Web albums.

(Now you have successfully stopped your google account syncing pictures with your phone)

for Step 2:
Go to Settings again, tap on Application manager.
Scroll right to the ALL section. Scroll down to Gallery and tap on it.
Click on Force Stop and say OK to the notification.
Scroll down a little and tap on both Clear Data and Clear Cache.

Exit these, go to your Gallery and Voila, your google pictures are now gone from your gallery
(Note: Your google pictures are still safe on google servers )

Hope I helped you and hopefully gonna help many others facing the same problem.

Cheers
Arvind

mrpnut

You also can use this app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=larry.zou.colorfullife

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ppfd

Big thanks for the info!

JulieannaD

Arvindtechie, Thank you, thank you, thank you ! That is exactly the help the I needed I really appreciate your help You rock

arvindtechie

You're welcome Julieanna, I am glad I could help

Last edited by arvindtechie; Yesterday at 02:16 PM. Reason: :)