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is it possible to stop syncing with photos on the picasa web ?

Before using android phone, I have a tons of photo on picasa web.
Now, use my gmail account in android phone, the photo on the picasa web will download to my phone， this is not my desire.
Is it possible to stop synchronize with picasa web ?

Sure thing.
Settings > Accounts and sync > in Manage accounts choose yours one > uncheck "Sync Picasa Web Albums"

Go to settings > Accounts and Sync then select your Google Account under 'Manage Accounts' and untick 'Sync Picasa Web Albums'

I disabled this option.
However , I cannot delete those downloaded photos in the gallery.
android doesn't provide the delete option for me.

Once you disable, the synced photos from Picasa should be gone automatically. Just did that with Captivate.

adrianmak said:
I disabled this option.
However , I cannot delete those downloaded photos in the gallery.
android doesn't provide the delete option for me.
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If you clear Gallery application cache, the picassa web album will gone

in the worse case scenario you can also login to your google picasa account to manually do it from there

not there!
sorry i feel like a bother, im running 2.2 on Samsung Captivate... and i go to the settings and accounts and syncs but theres no option to untick! :/

TRY THIS!!!
Settings>Accounts and Sync
Tap Activate auto-sync
Tap your Google Account
then uncheck Sync Picasa Web Albums
back Tap Activate auto-sync for uncheck.
DONE
NOTE : After you do this method, Never tap Sync Picasa Web Albums forever
with this method you never lose your photos on picasa web.

Hey guys, sorry for necroing, but I don't wanna start a new thread. Thing is, my problem is the opposite. Picasa.is syncing photos from my phone to my account, therefore all photos I take OR download will show up in Picasa. I've already disabled sync.with picasa on my phone all along. What can I do?

Maybe you activated "Instant-Upload" in Google+ App, or something like that?

Yes in account turn off auto synch instant upload
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Problems with Google Calendars?

Tonight my Google calendar events in every calendar bar the default calendar stopped appearing in the phone. I can still see them in Google calendar via the web browser but they no longer appear in the calendar app. I've checked all the settings within calendar and the various Google calendars still appear there and are ticked to sync and show in the app but events from other calendars do not. Any ideas?

I had the same problem before. I fixed it by following the instructions from the quote below. This is from the google mobile help forum posted by BSteck. You should backup your default (on the phone) calendar before doing this.
Don't know if this is the best way to solve the problem, but this has worked for me.
On my HTC Phone (running Android 2.2), I went to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Running > Calendar Storage. I then pushed "Clear Data" and then "Force Stop" (because I wanted it to reload).
The phone paused for a brief moment when returning to Home and then the calendar was syncing to my gmail calendars. I figure that as long as all your information is backed up at gcal, you should be fine. Good luck!
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Thanks. That worked.

No problem =]
Dunno why this happens but at least this fixes the issue. Annoying when you don't have calendars showing up.

Facebook account in system settings.

So, not sure what I did, but my Facebook account has disappeared from my list of accounts on my phone. When I go to add a new account, the Motorola Facebook icon is already checked. If I select it, it says I can only have one Facebook account. So, it both does and doesn't think i have a Facebook account. The icon in the list from the Facebook app does nothing, which i think is normal behavior. I do not get profile pics from Facebook in my contacts, so it is not syncing.
Truth be told, this is only an annoyance. I do not want to reset to factory (I have way too many apps to reinstall, which would be more annoying than this problem). But, if anyone can think of how I could manually convince the system to let me re-add the account, any suggestions would be appreciated.
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hi, I have exactly the same problem, so I will aslo grateful for help in this matter

I had the same problem, and I did a trick with SQlite Editor
Install it then,
In SQLite Editor you select: Accounts Storage -> serviceaccounts.db -> accounts -> then you delete the line which have "Facebook" in the column "account_pretty_name"
After a reboot I was able to re-enter a Facebook account in the blur app.
And now it works perfectly

Mathieu2k4 said:
I had the same problem, and I did a trick with SQlite Editor
Install it then,
In SQLite Editor you select: Accounts Storage -> serviceaccounts.db -> accounts -> then you delete the line which have "Facebook" in the column "account_pretty_name"
After a reboot I was able to re-enter a Facebook account in the blur app.
And now it works perfectly
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That did it. Much appreciated.
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Mathieu2k4 said:
I had the same problem, and I did a trick with SQlite Editor
Install it then,
In SQLite Editor you select: Accounts Storage -> serviceaccounts.db -> accounts -> then you delete the line which have "Facebook" in the column "account_pretty_name"
After a reboot I was able to re-enter a Facebook account in the blur app.
And now it works perfectly
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This is an older thread, but I'm having the same problem on my new RAZR MAXX (Verizon, unrooted, stock 2.3.6). I have 2 facebook icons under "My Accounts", one that allows me to put my log in info in and nothing else, the second that does nothing when I click it. I am not able to get my calendar or my contacts to sync with facebook and I'm at a loss.
What I've tried so far:
Rebooting
Deleting the FB account info and re-entering it within the My Accounts settings.
Uninstalling FB app (the unresponsive FB icon goes away in My Accounts), reinstalling and rebooting.
When that didn't work I ended up calling the new Google help and the person I talked too ran me through the steps I had already taken and suggested I contact FB as it appears that the issue is with the app. I am pulling the app straight from Google Play, but it would make sense as that is the culprit since it's not syncing with Calender or Contacts.

[Q] "Contacts" is not registering "GOOGLE Accounts"

Hello, hope all is good
I just flashed "Ultimate N7000 LT4 JB 4.1.2 v6" on my n7000, everything seems fine except my contacts are not showing!
While trying to fix the issue, I noticed that the "Contacts app" is not registering the "GOOGLE Accounts" - Any help??
What i tried:
01. [Settings>Accounts>Google>[email protected]>] Checked if my contacts are set to sync, they were. (unchecked, synced, then checked again...)
02. [Settings>Accounts>Google>[email protected]>] Remove my Google account then adding it again. Even tried adding a different account.
03. Removing my Google account, then adding it through [Contacts>Accounts>Add Account] and here is when i noticed, accounts are NOT getting registered in the Contacts app.
04. Tried another contacts manager (Contacts+), same issue. I went back to [Contacts>Accounts>Add Account] and here i noticed ONLY GOOGLE accounts are not registering in contacts - the Contacts+, Facebook, whatsapp accounts got registered and their contacts show!
05. I even tried reflashing the ROM with another GAPPS verion, it didn't solve the problem.
06. I flashed the Older ROM "Ultimate_N7000_LSZ_JB_4.1.2_v5.2" it has the same probelm
07. Flashed the even older ROM "Ultimate_N7000_LSZ_JB_4.1.2_v5.1" it doesn't have that problem!
Any ideas?
Thanks

Mate such problems are common with ROMs under development, PM the ROM developer about this issue and he will iron out the flaw in the update...this is very common with ROMs in their development phase. Hit thanks if i helped

if you are not running a firewall app then try deleting cache and dalvik from recovery on safe kernel.
or via setting>apps, last tab clear data/cache from contacts, Google framework etc.
or update gmail app and see if it is fixed.
just guessing here.
you didnt reinstall any backups btw?
another thing you can check is logcat, clear logs, try sync and then check log for errors.

Google account not showing in Contacts
Did this ever get solved? I have the same problem on a new Cubot GT72. They appear to have succeeded in cramming 4.2.2 into the small memory of this phone, everything works fine, except that in contacts, my google account is simply not showing. When I go to Accounts in the stock Contacts app, all I get is a Sync menu -- I cannot select the account, like I can on my other Android devices.
Likewise under Settings / Accounts / <my google account> / Sync, I cannot select Touch to sync Contacts (there is only App Dataz (which does not sync the contacts, I tested), Gmail (I installed it hoping it would help) and People Details (which are not contacts either).

Can't get New Contacts to sync from Phone to Google

I've tried clearing cache, wiping, reinstalling a new Rom, new Gapps. No matter I try I can't seem to get new contacts which I create on my device to then get synced to my Google account.
*Yes, I'm saving my new contact to my Google account (not to my phone's SIM card)
*Yes I've made sure that Contacts is syncing, and have tried forcing a manual sync numerous times. It says that has synced, and will even download new contacts I create on my Google account (on a computer)
Any ideas?
Running CrDroid 7.1.2
Nexus 6

Which contacts app are you using? Not familiar with that ROM so I don't know if it might come with an AOSP contacts app?
In the google app, in the edit contact screen, right at the top (under the picture) is where it'll tell you where it is saving the contact. Just to double check that account is correct on the contacts that aren't syncing?
In settings -> apps -> contacts app, are the permissions all enabled? Is there more than one contacts app listed? If so, disable the one you're not using.
I think you said you checked this, but in settings -> apps -> accounts -> Google is contacts enabled? And settings -> apps -> accounts -> the 3-dot menu is auto-sync checked?
There's always the age-old; turn sync on/off multiple times thing ☺
The last thing I would try is to remove the account from my phone then add it back. There was a day when that process felt like part of the ROM flashing procedure. ?

jon.s.nelson said:
... I create on my Google account (on a computer)
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First try https://mail.google.com to check if you logged in with the same account on your phone.

NLBeev said:
First try https://mail.google.com to check if you logged in with the same account on your phone.
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I am. Is that a problem?
*edit: I signed out from the browser, and still have the issue.

jon.s.nelson said:
...I signed out from the browser, and still have the issue.
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That was only to check the internet connection and access to your Gmail account.
The post of @ktmom doesn't solve the sync issue. In that case you could try to install the Google contacts app from the play store.

@NLBeev
@jon.s.nelson
I assumed that there was internet available since in the OP it was stated that contacts which had been updated online via a PC were being downloaded to the phone.
The choke point seems to be getting the contacts created on the phone to sync up to google. That's why I focused on app related issues, with the end point being a hiccup in the actual account on the phone.

ktmom said:
... I focused on app related issues, with the end point being a hiccup in the actual account on the phone.
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Yes. The security update of September contains a new Google contacts app.

Good to know. I'm using PN and we don't have an update yet.