If you’ve been having problems using Facebook with PicPush it’s probably because of this…
The whole idea behind PicPush is to have an app on your phone that automatically uploads your media as it is captured, without any special intervention. Facebook doesn’t like this idea so they keep deauthorizing PicPush for use on Facebook.
Therefore PicPush 3.4.5 has a new preference under the “uploads” section. The setting is labelled “Ask before upload” and it is enabled by default on new installs and upgrades. With this setting on you will have to manually approve each item before PicPush will upload it. You can approve a single item by touching the preview image in the upload Queue and hitting “Send” or you can approve all by clicking “Menu” -> “Send All”. If you want to go back to the old behavior and automatically upload all items without approval simply turn the setting off.
#1 by Linda at May 17th, 2011
I never knew about Pic Push in Facebook .Thanks for this tidbit of informations
#2 by Beth McGrath at July 18th, 2011
Trial version seems to work great on my HTC Thunderbolt. $4.99 seems a little expensive though.
#3 by Matt Hoyt at August 2nd, 2011
still getting errors. says
“will not retry. strange error – java.la ”
that’s all i can read of the error. i did what you said about “ask before upload” for facebook too. any help would be great
#4 by Jeannie at August 21st, 2011
I did not know about PicPush, so thanks for that. Hope I don’t get errors like the one commenter, as I am not too technical.
#5 by Eric at August 22nd, 2011
Does this also function on iPhone? Thanks.
Eric
#6 by declanshanaghy at August 23rd, 2011
Sorry,
PicPush cannot work on the iPhone because there is no way for it to integrate with the camera directly and upload the photos as you take them.
It’s a limitation of the walled garden
#7 by declanshanaghy at August 23rd, 2011
Jeannie,
If you do get any errors, im just an email away.
#8 by Mikolaj Habryn at September 1st, 2011
Hey there, curious why PicPush asks for SMS and MMS access permissions? Does it do something clever in response to incoming messages?
#9 by declanshanaghy at September 2nd, 2011
This is so that you can share media you have received via MMS from your messaging app to PicPush.
PicPush doesn’t auto scan MMS messages or anything like that though.
#10 by Mikolaj Habryn at September 8th, 2011
Ah, good to know, thanks. I’m a little surprised that you need the permission, though – shouldn’t yet be able to read the image out of the sharing intent that arrives?
(I’m assuming you’re the author, apologies if that’s incorrect!)
I wrote Fe-Fi, which receives images from Eye-Fi cards onto Android devices, and I’m wondering what the best way would be to signal PicPush that new images have arrived. I want to stash them in separate dated folders on the phone, having been burnt by sqlite corruption in over-large folders, but I don’t particularly need the folder structure to be replicated in picasaweb (although doing something clever when hitting the 1000-image folder limit on picasaweb would be useful).
Is there anything clever I could do on the Fe-Fi side to help PicPush out? Or is just dumping the images into the media store the best thing to do?
#11 by declanshanaghy at September 8th, 2011
Yes I’m the author.
The URI for the image arrives in the sharing intent but it cannot be read from the content provider without the permissions.
PicPush doesn’t have any specific signaling features implemented. What it does is track the MediaStore content provider for changes (using a ContentObserver) When the media store changes PicPush will scan its contents looking for new media since the last scan.
So yes, if you insert something into the media store which has its date added field (MediaStore.MediaColumns.DATE_ADDED) set to “now” PicPush should pick it up.
Feel free to email me directly at declan at 350nice dot com
if you want to discuss further.
#12 by declanshanaghy at September 8th, 2011
No sign of Fe-Fi on the android market, is it available for the Nexus one in USA?
I have an Eye-Fi, im curious to see it.
#13 by Mikolaj Habryn at September 8th, 2011
Should be! I wrote it on the N1, though I’m now using a Nexus S. Are you on Gingerbread or Froyo?
https://market.android.com/details?id=to.rcpt.fefi
#14 by declanshanaghy at September 8th, 2011
Bah, i thought it wasn’t found because the market only showed me 2 apps and 2 books. Then I clicked on the “> 1291″ results
and it showed the complete list of app results.
Nice job.
So…what type of server is Fe-Fi anyway?
#15 by Mikolaj Habryn at September 11th, 2011
The protocol’s SOAP over HTTP, so it’s just a basic web server. The trick is to be listening at the right time
Direct mode makes it work beautifully – the current version of the software hooks into the notification of having registered on a new wifi network and listens for incoming requests for a couple of minutes.
Out of curiosity, do you use the mediastore columns for metadata or just push the image up and rely on the EXIF? I want to start grabbing GPS location when images start transferring, and also correct photo timestamps to local time, but rewriting EXIF data will make things either slow or complicated. If I just stick it in the mediastore metadata instead, will PicPush push it up?
#16 by mike uyttebroek at October 15th, 2011
Hi,
I’m not able to send pictures to Flickr.
I do the authorization, then I can only chose to upload to Photostream but it hangs. Uploading to facebook works just fine.
Thx for the help !
Mike
#17 by Layla at August 22nd, 2012
PicPush is being promoted now by Android phone manufacturers. Some users though are tagging it as user-unfriendly app. Haven’t tried it yet actually.
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#19 by agen ace maxs at November 6th, 2012
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