[Q] Hangouts syncing photos - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Ok, i have this small problem/question.
The new Hangouts app automatically saves photos sent in private conversations in private folders, and i am fine with that.
So i went to my Google+ account, erased these photos but i still see an emtpy folder (the conversation folder which contained the photos) in my Nexus 4 Gallery. However, no such folder is anymore present in my Google+ account when checking it from my pc.
Am i missing something obvious here? I mean after a couple of different conversations, even if i erase the photos i will have a gallery full of empty folders. Any ideas?

Hi Panooos,
Try the following.
Login to picasa web albums and delete the empty albums and then select Refresh.
This worked for me.

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Under Android sync, what's the difference between Google Photos and Picasa Web Albums

I upload photo's from my computer to Picasa Web using Picasa, where they are stored in my Google Plus space.
Under my account sync settings in Android, along with Gmail and Contacts and all that, I've got "Sync Google Photos" and "Sync Picasa Web Albums".
What's the difference between these two choices?
I was wondering the same thing too.
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I believe this quote/link should help half of your question.
Android 4.0 devices have a system setting that allows you to Sync Google Photos.
This setting enables syncing of your Google Photos from your web albums to your device's Gallery app. As a result, if you have a large number of photos in your web albums that have been uploaded through Picasa Web Albums or Google+, you may notice a high amount of battery or data usage during this sync.
This setting also enables or disables sync for Instant Uploads to Google+. However, to enable Instant Upload, you must enable Sync Google Photos as well as enable Instant Upload within the Google+ app.
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http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2395276
In Picasa you can upload photos at the original size, with Google+ it will resize & compress it whether you want it or not. Not what I want

Deleting instant upload photos, without deleting from albums

Hello,
I've had my instant upload on in my HTC incredible S since long time. In the beginning I was going to Picasa web and moving instant upload photos to relevant albums.
Later I realized that if I do this, this photos don't show up in picasa instant upload anymore, but they still show up in google+ -> Photos -> Instant upload.
After this, lets say at the date X, I started doing the arrangements in google+. Since then I simply add photos to albums from google+, then delete them from the instant upload folder in picasa. Like this they don't show up in google+ instant upload, but they stay in the albums.
However, the photos from before the date X are both in my google+ instant upload and in the albums. I can't delete them from google+, otherwise they are deleted from albums, I can't delete them from picasaweb, because they don't show in picasaweb.
I know that I'm just being obsessive in keeping my instant upload clean, but is there a way to remove them from instant upload, but not from albums?

[Q] Managing contacts

I have all of my contacts stored in gmail contacts online.
In the course of trying to tidy up contacts on my phone, deleting duplicate/unnecessary info and 'joining' multiple accounts (mostly gmail, facebook and whatsapp) I had a bit of a Homer Simpson moment managed to delete all of my contacts (D'Oh!!).
Fortunately, as I said above I have them in gmail contacts online and had also exported them to my SD card as a vcard and so have managed to get them back (albeit having to tidy them up again).
Here's the thing though, when I go to the Contacts menu item 'Contacts to display' the contacts show when All Contacts or Gmail account are selected, but when I select Phone contacts in 'Contacts to display' the list is empty.
How do I move/copy my gmail contacts so that they are held in the actual phone memory and displayed if I opt to display Phone contacts only (i.e. no longer link to my gmail contacts)?
Cheers in advance,
Rich
I think what you need to is to sync your contact again. Contact to display is only show if your phone have a contact that is available in your gmail contact only.
copy contacts to phone only
hollow1 said:
I think what you need to is to sync your contact again. Contact to display is only show if your phone have a contact that is available in your gmail contact only.
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I think you've misunderstood my original question. I have got the contacts visible when I view all contacts or view gmail contacts, but there is an option in the contacts menu to view contacts on phone only (i.e. not those stored in gmail contacts). When I use that option I don't see any of my contacts. Therefore, what I need to be able to do is copy the contacts across from gmail contacts so they are visible in the phone contacts only view, but I can't figure out how to copy them across to the phone.
Never had to do it on either my s2 or s3 before. I did do it on my old HTC via a menu option along the lines of 'Copy contacts to phone' but there isn't a menu option like that on the s3 unless I'm missing something obvious.
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers.

[Q] Facebook keeps changing contact photos over manually set photos

Well...I have contacts linked to their Facebook accounts...
This is fine with the most of the contacts, but for some I use photos I have manually set.
Every few days or every few times I open Facebook app on the phone, somehow photos of contacts change to their fb-photos.
I have option "do not sync" enabled...
I linked every contact manually to Facebook, and after that they get fb-photo...
Then...for some I have manually selected photo from sdcard...
And they had their photo...
Then my problem arrived...and then I manually edited the contact and changed which photo I wanted... Google Facebook or phone...
I selected phone...
But after few days it changes back to fb-photo...
And this continues every few days...
How to stop facebook from changing contact photo when they change it or after few days, if you want to keep your phone photo?

[Q] Hig-res contact pictures

I noticed that the picture on my contacts are very low resolution and appear pixelated. Is there any way too fix it?
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Are you using Google to sync contacts? If so try a picture from the phones memory and see if that helps.. Btw I sync with Google but no problems. Are you using full screen caller pics?
djgodlike said:
Are you using Google to sync contacts? If so try a picture from the phones memory and see if that helps.. Btw I sync with Google but no problems. Are you using full screen caller pics?
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I have this same issue, only with me it happens with 4 contacts (2 pairs of folks with the same names) and their photos appear small and pixelated whilst others are larger, crisper and sharp.
I cant seem to figure out why this happens - cant be an issue with the matching names conflicting in the contacts database??
fmgc13 said:
I noticed that the picture on my contacts are very low resolution and appear pixelated. Is there any way too fix it?
Thanks
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@gc1984
Are you using Facebook to sync your contacts photos? If so:
-go into the app>app settings>scroll near the bottom and un-check sync contact photos.
-exit the app
-go to settings and scroll down to the accounts section, add a new account
-Choose xperia with Facebook (by default this should sync hi-res contact photos and calendar (you can turn either or both on/off)
Using the facebook app account to sync contact photos will provide low-res. Using xperia with facebook will provide hi-res.
blyndfyre said:
@gc1984
Are you using Facebook to sync your contacts photos? If so:
-go into the app>app settings>scroll near the bottom and un-check sync contact photos.
-exit the app
-go to settings and scroll down to the accounts section, add a new account
-Choose xperia with Facebook (by default this should sync hi-res contact photos and calendar (you can turn either or both on/off)
Using the facebook app account to sync contact photos will provide low-res. Using xperia with facebook will provide hi-res.
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I can't find "sync contact photos" on facebook
fmgc13 said:
I can't find "sync contact photos" on facebook
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try the App "ubersync"
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blyndfyre said:
@gc1984
Are you using Facebook to sync your contacts photos? If so:
-go into the app>app settings>scroll near the bottom and un-check sync contact photos.
-exit the app
-go to settings and scroll down to the accounts section, add a new account
-Choose xperia with Facebook (by default this should sync hi-res contact photos and calendar (you can turn either or both on/off)
Using the facebook app account to sync contact photos will provide low-res. Using xperia with facebook will provide hi-res.
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I currently have both accounts for this set up. For the majority of my contacts, the images are ok but i cannot shake the feeling these 4 instances are due to my contacts having the same name. But cant figure that out.
I have stopped my Facebook App Sync now so will try and refresh and see what happens with the Xperia Facebook account still active and see how i get on.
gc1984 said:
I currently have both accounts for this set up. For the majority of my contacts, the images are ok but i cannot shake the feeling these 4 instances are due to my contacts having the same name. But cant figure that out.
I have stopped my Facebook App Sync now so will try and refresh and see what happens with the Xperia Facebook account still active and see how i get on.
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When I had both accounts syncing contacts (Facebook and Xperia with Facebook) some contacts would show the hi-res and some the low-res. When I edited the contact photo I could see both the hi-res and low-res available.
Once I disabled the Facebook account contact sync and kept the Xperia with Facebook contacts syncing, and waited a few minutes, only the Hi-Res photos were showing.
blyndfyre said:
When I had both accounts syncing contacts (Facebook and Xperia with Facebook) some contacts would show the hi-res and some the low-res. When I edited the contact photo I could see both the hi-res and low-res available.
Once I disabled the Facebook account contact sync and kept the Xperia with Facebook contacts syncing, and waited a few minutes, only the Hi-Res photos were showing.
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I have done as you suggest and will wait and see. Getting poor reception at my desk so will check later when i am on WiFi at home.
Thanks
I've stopped the facebook syncing and synced with xperia with facebook but it the photos still appear with low resolution.. Do I have to do anything else like deleted the contacts and resync or something?
fmgc13 said:
I've stopped the facebook syncing and synced with xperia with facebook but it the photos still appear with low resolution.. Do I have to do anything else like deleted the contacts and resync or something?
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No you shouldn't have to, but give it some time to refresh, especially if you have a lot of contacts. I noticed with mine that while it was downloading images, if I went to a contact that still had a low-res photo and went into the contacts details, a few seconds later the image would update to high-res.
blyndfyre said:
No you shouldn't have to, but give it some time to refresh, especially if you have a lot of contacts. I noticed with mine that while it was downloading images, if I went to a contact that still had a low-res photo and went into the contacts details, a few seconds later the image would update to high-res.
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Managed to get to WiFi last night after stopping the Facebook App Sync and the issue still remained. I even sync'ed the Xperia Facebook once again and the issue remained.
I then decided to remove my Facebook account from my phone and recommence the process of adding Xperia Facebook account. However this did not allow all my contacts to be sync'ed from Facebook, so I had to resort to using both the Xperia Facebook and Facebook app running.
I then went through all my contacts and what you described above occurred - the blurred images became sharper when viewing the contacts. it was just a case of going through my list and allowing them to become Hi-res and the problem was solved.
A bit long winded but I am happy this worked for me. Still no real idea why it occurred in the first place and also why it only happened to contacts with the same names....very strange indeed!
Thanks for the help!!
gc1984 said:
Managed to get to WiFi last night after stopping the Facebook App Sync and the issue still remained. I even sync'ed the Xperia Facebook once again and the issue remained.
I then decided to remove my Facebook account from my phone and recommence the process of adding Xperia Facebook account. However this did not allow all my contacts to be sync'ed from Facebook, so I had to resort to using both the Xperia Facebook and Facebook app running.
I then went through all my contacts and what you described above occurred - the blurred images became sharper when viewing the contacts. it was just a case of going through my list and allowing them to become Hi-res and the problem was solved.
A bit long winded but I am happy this worked for me. Still no real idea why it occurred in the first place and also why it only happened to contacts with the same names....very strange indeed!
Thanks for the help!!
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You are quite welcome, and I'm glad it worked out, though the process was sluggish. In the end it's worth it because the hi-res contact photos look a world better.
Thanks for reporting back for others.
Worked for me too! Thanks
Hello, I had problems with this too, and I finally used HaxSync, but after I removed facebook app

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