Comments on: Android photo gallery sharing with Facebook – rotate issues

By: Connie

Connie — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:16:25 +0000

2012…new phone…same problem! Thank you so much for posting!

By: dan

dan — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:46:33 +0000

You can add to discussion of this issue at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15072 if you want to get it fixed

By: hawk

hawk — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:50:10 +0000

rockin work around. first hit on google. ahhhh. thank you!

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:07:35 +0000

Great hack. Thanks for posting.

By: Paul Slocum

Paul Slocum — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:41:15 +0000

Facebook may be ignoring EXIF for other reasons. Since this is apparently known, why doesn’t Android just rotate the image before uploading it to FB? Be proactive! This is Google for God’s sake.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:35:01 +0000

I was bummed about this as well with my Droid Pro with Android 2.2. However, I found that if I use the e-mail address I’m assigned by Facebook’s mobile service, they upload fine. If I use the Photo Sharing to facebook from my phone, they upload incorrectly. So if you haven’t gotten that e-mail address from facebook for uploading mobile photos, try that. It seems to work fine for me.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:00:43 +0000

This is a good tip.

It’s Facebook’s app that fails to read the exif information, not the camera. The facebook app fails at this on my wife’s iphone app as well. Most of the image editing software I use on my Android reads the exif correctly. When the file is saved again, the app that saved the image is saving a new image. Facebook’s apps needed an update last year.

By: Ryan Waddell

Ryan Waddell — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:47:52 +0000

Thanks for letting us know about this hack. Sounds like the camera isn’t saving the exif rotation information correctly, yet Gallery’s editing tool *will* save it correctly (or, more likely, it’s able to read the exif rotation information correctly, then stripping it when saving the new image).

By: luckyhaskins

luckyhaskins — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:38:17 +0000

Stumbled onto this after a google search. Just wanted to post something I found. I have the same problem. If I take a photo with my phone vertically it will share horizontally (Buzz, Facebook, MMS, etc…). HOWEVER, if I upload the photo to Dropbox via the Dropbox app it will be rotated correctly. This really surprised me.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:49:07 +0000

I hope they fix this in the future as its a right pain