Facebook Photo Upload Problems

Question

I have a Motorola Droid, rooted, running Cyanogen Mod 6.1.2. Been having some issues with uploading photos to Facebook. The upload takes forever and, if I let it go all the way through, it will normally get to 100% but will never say that the photo was uploaded successfully. Sometimes the photo will actually make it, but I can't clear the upload status notification. Ideas?

Answer 1

There's nothing wrong with your phone, the photo upload feature for Facebook just doesn't work well. I also have a Moto DROID v1 running the stock 2.2.2 version of Android. Over the air uploads are terribly unreliable. The app often crashes, hangs at 0%, hangs at 100%, and very rarely, completes the upload. On a WiFi connection the uploads are slightly more reliable, but still prone to error.

I suspect that the app is expecting to be able to do a complete upload at once over a single connection. When working over the air, your phone might drop out long enough to drop the network session. The app isn't handling that well.