Annoying Instant Upload Pics! How do I erase them? - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

The GS4 is beautiful and I'm loving it, however, these instant upload pics are annoying. I've tried looking for way to erase them but I cant. Any help?

where do they upload to?

sameer1807 said:
where do they upload to?
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It's in my GS4 gallery. I'm guessing its coming from Google+, but once it goes on my phone I cant erase them. I've even erased them on Google+ and no luck

Settings -> Google account -> Tap your Google email address. Scroll down and uncheck Instant Upload.
I think you can do it through the Google+ app too.

And you can clear app data for Gallery to remove things that were synced up. This is how I removed the Picasa pics on my S3

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Removing blur "account", not UI

Anyway to remove the blur "account" page. I see that if I change sims it forces me to login to the existing blur account. What if I want to completely de-blur the phone? Is that possible? Or not because motorola says so?
Not possible. No way to replace with stock accounts.
I am having many problems with these built in accounts. I was having problems with YouTube until I realized that I needed to login with the actual YouTube credentials and not the gmail ones.
I am now having similar problems with picasa, but as I am new to picasa, I don't know what my other logins would be other than my gmail ones. Basically every time I try to upload multiple photos from the gallery folder on the phone, it returns a message that says "failed to receive login information".
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seh6183 said:
I am having many problems with these built in accounts. I was having problems with YouTube until I realized that I needed to login with the actual YouTube credentials and not the gmail ones.
I am now having similar problems with picasa, but as I am new to picasa, I don't know what my other logins would be other than my gmail ones. Basically every time I try to upload multiple photos from the gallery folder on the phone, it returns a message that says "failed to receive login information".
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youtube now ONLY uses gmail login info, you NEED to link them before you can access your youtube account
Ronaldo_9 said:
youtube now ONLY uses gmail login info, you NEED to link them before you can access your youtube account
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I was able to get YouTube working. Have any advice on picasa?
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Ok more info on picasa. When I "quick upload" a single photo from the gallery they will go to picasa. Its only when I multi select photots and try to upload that it won't take. It still says "unable to retrieve user info" or something. Another note is that when the upload to picasa screen comes up, its not pulling my albums down from the picasa site, so I can tell right away that something isn't communicating the info.
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seh6183 said:
Ok more info on picasa. When I "quick upload" a single photo from the gallery they will go to picasa. Its only when I multi select photots and try to upload that it won't take. It still says "unable to retrieve user info" or something. Another note is that when the upload to picasa screen comes up, its not pulling my albums down from the picasa site, so I can tell right away that something isn't communicating the info.
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Try installing Gallery 3D from the market. It's the stock gallery app. Much better.
Figured it all out. I HOPE many people end up finding this thread. I went through a lot to figure this out. The following fix will work for both Picasa and YouTube problems where the error pops up saying that login info could not be retrieved. The problem is that you can not use the same email address for motoblur as you do the rest of the logins. You MUST set your motoblur to another email address when setting the phone up, preferably a non-gmail address. Unfortuantely for those of us who already setup the phone, the only way to change the motoblur email address is to wipe the phone and set everything up again.
I can confirm that this is 100% working. Now... If you don't want to setup the phone from scratch I can show you work arounds.
For YouTube, if you go into the YouTube app, hit menu, go to "my channel" (make sure the phone is not in landscape when you do this) then look at the top right and click logout. Then log back in, instead of putting your gmail address you can enter your YouTube user name and password. This will allow you to upload videos directly from the UI and gallery to YouTube.
A work around for Picasa is to set Picasa as the option in the "quick upload" menu in Gallery. If you go to gallery and click menu, then settings, you can set Picasa as quick upload there. Then whenever you are looking at a photo you can click menu and select quick upload, it will then upload straight to Picasa. The only problem is that you can not select multiple pictures and upload at once to Picasa. You have to do the real fix mentioned above to send multiple pictures to Picasa at once.
I reccommend you all do the real fix while the phone is still new and not that hard to wipe and start over.
Apparently it is possible, NO IDEA how i did it though D:
now when i take sim cards out it doesn't ask for motoblur account. Some reason I also lost all my contacts, don't know if it was because I lost my motoblur account or if it was a coincidence?
Supish said:
Apparently it is possible, NO IDEA how i did it though D:
now when i take sim cards out it doesn't ask for motoblur account. Some reason I also lost all my contacts, don't know if it was because I lost my motoblur account or if it was a coincidence?
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Hmm I'm not sure that this is a good thing lol. Try your best to re add the motoblur account, preferably under a different email address. If it works, this will be the best fix.
seh6183 said:
Hmm I'm not sure that this is a good thing lol. Try your best to re add the motoblur account, preferably under a different email address. If it works, this will be the best fix.
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I cant find a way to re add a motoblur account
I think you're ******
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seh6183 said:
I think you're ******
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LOL... dont mean to insult you intelligence or anything but in the accounts screen did you hit the menu button to add a new account? I know I myself over look the simple answers all the time if that doesnt work attempt a factory reset since youve lost everything anyways lol and if all else fails you can always flash SBF to start over.
drock212 said:
LOL... dont mean to insult you intelligence or anything but in the accounts screen did you hit the menu button to add a new account? I know I myself over look the simple answers all the time if that doesnt work attempt a factory reset since youve lost everything anyways lol and if all else fails you can always flash SBF to start over.
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clicking "add account" just gives me the option to link fb, myspace, twitter, etc. with motoblur, no option to add a motoblur account. And i didnt really lose EVERYTHING, just my contacts, I can just put them back in manually, its coo.
Supish said:
clicking "add account" just gives me the option to link fb, myspace, twitter, etc. with motoblur, no option to add a motoblur account. And i didnt really lose EVERYTHING, just my contacts, I can just put them back in manually, its coo.
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Wipe it and start from scratch using my method posted earlier, just make sure to NOT use a gmail address for the motoblur email.
Let us know how it goes. Good luck.
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seh6183 said:
Wipe it and start from scratch using my method posted earlier, just make sure to NOT use a gmail address for the motoblur email.
Let us know how it goes. Good luck.
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well I dont really NEED a motoblur account do I?
Supish said:
Apparently it is possible, NO IDEA how i did it though D:
now when i take sim cards out it doesn't ask for motoblur account. Some reason I also lost all my contacts, don't know if it was because I lost my motoblur account or if it was a coincidence?
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If you freeze items through TiBU this happens. You can remove the need for MotoBlur that way. But to go non-root there is no way to remove MotoBlur.
Also, I have no issues and I have MotoBlur on same email as everything else.
snlu178 said:
If you freeze items through TiBU this happens. You can remove the need for MotoBlur that way. But to go non-root there is no way to remove MotoBlur.
Also, I have no issues and I have MotoBlur on same email as everything else.
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Bet you can't select multiple photos from the stock gallery app and upload directly to picasa.
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seh6183 said:
Bet you can't select multiple photos from the stock gallery app and upload directly to picasa.
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As I said before. I use Gallery 3D. It is the stock froyo gallery.
snlu178 said:
As I said before. I use Gallery 3D. It is the stock froyo gallery.
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Boy im glad I read this post. I went and got gallery 3D. Now THAT is a stock app. It makes the moto one look horrible. The zooming is actually smooth.
Are there any other stock apps I should check out that would be better than what I have on the phone right now? Thanks
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[Q] Turn off Picasa integration in Gallery

Hey all,
Anyone knows a way to disable Picasa integration in the stock gallery? Dont really want it to even cache all my thumbnails as I have 25,000 + photos in my albums...
Ideally I'd like to be able to enable or disable at will, or only show chosen albums; but disabling it completely works too.
Thanks!
Just for the info to anyone who might face a similar problem:
Actually, nevermind, I've switched to JustPictures instead of the stock gallery - it might be not as fancy, but gets the job done, doesnt try to cache 50 albums when you open it and is actually slightly faster when zooming.
I removed Gallery completely from my system. Piece of junk. Using JustPictures now.
GwynBleidd said:
Hey all,
Anyone knows a way to disable Picasa integration in the stock gallery? Dont really want it to even cache all my thumbnails as I have 25,000 + photos in my albums...
Ideally I'd like to be able to enable or disable at will, or only show chosen albums; but disabling it completely works too.
Thanks!
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Go into Account & Sync and unticked the "Sync Picassa" box.
If for some reason it's still there in your Gallery, go into Applications, manage applications and clear data for "Gallery".
baseballfanz said:
Go into Account & Sync and unticked the "Sync Picassa" box.
If for some reason it's still there in your Gallery, go into Applications, manage applications and clear data for "Gallery".
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Wow man, first I was gonna say something like 'wtf, do you think I haven't tried that?' but then I realized that my auto-sync has always been OFF.
So, with autosync OFF, Gallery app STILL pulls all your Picasa albums.
Once I've turned it ON, but unticked Picasa checkbox, cleared Gallery data and deleted /sdcard/Android/data/com.android.gallery3d/cache - the Gallery actually stopped trying to cache Picasa albums.
Hope this helps someone, thanks for your reply.
the original gallare has got a "by tag" feature, which works for some photos. I tried to tag few photos in windows or picasa and upload them to Tf and i cant get "by tag" work my test album.
is there any gallery app which handle tags properly? even i can tag or rate photos in it?
GwynBleidd said:
Wow man, first I was gonna say something like 'wtf, do you think I haven't tried that?' but then I realized that my auto-sync has always been OFF.
So, with autosync OFF, Gallery app STILL pulls all your Picasa albums.
Once I've turned it ON, but unticked Picasa checkbox, cleared Gallery data and deleted /sdcard/Android/data/com.android.gallery3d/cache - the Gallery actually stopped trying to cache Picasa albums.
Hope this helps someone, thanks for your reply.
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Disabling the picture sync doesn't achieve what we think it should. I disabled picture sync, cleared gallery data but the albums were still there in the gallery. I noticed that the Google+ had 13MB of data eventhough I didn't once open it. I deleted the data for google+ which actually removed the albums from the gallery. I wish it was simple and there was a way to sync selected albums. Hope this helps.

[How to] set gallery to show photo only from phone

Just got this phone. Would like to seek advice from experienced members here.
How do I set the gallery to show only photos from phone by default? By default the setting is all, which includes picassa and Dropbox, which makes opening gallery rather slow as it loads photos from there. Every time I have to set it to view photo from phone only.
Can it be done? Using stock stock rom but rooted.
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Try adding .nomedia file in the folders you don, t want to see in gallery
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sohebq said:
Try adding .nomedia file in the folders you don, t want to see in gallery
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the main reason i want to do this is because it takes a minute or so to load my photos due to the fact it is searching for photos on my picassa account.
however, i found a way to disable that.
settings->google (under "accounts")->[your email, under "accounts"]->untick "sync picasa web albums"
done! i also unticked sync chrome, currents, google+, instant upload, internet... i left contacts, gmail and calander as i use them.
thanks everyone for trying to help me. i really appreciate that

How do I get rid of unwanted photos??

Seems as if my Hangouts pictures that I send to friends are appearing in my gallery... How do I take em off? It won't let me delete them and there's a bunch of different folders but I don't know how to get rid of em. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Sure. Uncheck photo upload in the google account sync section. Then clear the data from the gallery app.
When you reopen the gallery app, your pictures should be gone.
oohaylima said:
Sure. Uncheck photo upload in the google account sync section. Then clear the data from the gallery app.
When you reopen the gallery app, your pictures should be gone.
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I already had the photo upload unchecked which is what was confusing me... didn't know all I had to do was clear data from the gallery app. Thanks man, it worked flawlessly!!
Any time brother. Us XDA members gotta stick together! :thumbup::beer:

How the heck do you stop google from instantly syncing your photos?

Every time I take a picture with my phone. It's instantly synced with all my android devices. I disabled picture syncing and it still uploads it to a folder. It shows under a folder called "auto backup" with the picasa logo. Also I can't figure out how to delete the pictures from that folder. This is soooo annoying.
Are you talking about Google+'s instant upload? I know there are options to sync photos under your Google account settings. I can't remember if instant upload is there as well. Try opening G+ and look in settings.
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Go to your accounts on settings. And then hit whichever email account it is. Then uncheck sync picassa.
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