Anyone tried this out?
Seems like a nice app, and it's free...
http://sn1-p3.myphone.microsoft.com/mkweb/Start.po?mkt=en-US
Yep i signed up about two months ago.
The backup was easy enough.
I like having the insurance of not losing all my contacts in case both my phone and Pc go down.
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loks good giving it a go, same here nice to know you have a backup you can access over the web from any computer.
a bit slow, if you have lots of music and photos. but that is the first time
synchronizing your phone, after that it should faster as only adding any thing that has changed.
It will backup
contacts, calender, tasks, text messages, photos, video, music, documents.
you get 200meg to store your stuff
yep its slow slow dont backup music and video and music you will have a long wait, you could do it over night.
you can use your phone when it is uploading
I stopped my backup and you get a list of what has been backed up and told on next sync it will carry on.
ok you do have an option to pick what you want to back up
on first use it looks ok.
Rozenthal Senior Member thanks for the info on this
after playing, updating photo 48 of them was not so bad i stopped started a few times and the upload did get faster.
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I have had my HTC Desire (stock 2.1-update1 ROM) for a couple of months now and I'm enjoying all it's features. Especially the integrated Picasa tool. Take a photo, select share, then select Picasa and off you go. Great. Until recently.
Cannot find anyone else with this problem, so hoping someone has some ideas.
When I select the Picasa option for sharing, it brings up the usual Picasa upload options page that I am used to only very briefly (talking 0.5 seconds here) then quickly jumps to a screen asking me to create a google account!!! This is despite my phone sync'd perfectly with my Google account. E-mails pushing though, videos upload to youtube just fine. No sync errors at all.
OK I thought, I'll just sign back in with my existing Google account. Except when I do this, it spends a couple of minutes "signing in" only to then fail telling me that I do not have a network connection! This is despite trying my phone connected to wi-fi both at home, in my office, and whilst using 3G in strong signal area.
I think this all started after I accepted an OTA update taking my software number to 1.21.405.2. but I can't be certain as it was a week or so after updating before I noticed the problem.
I have Picasa Tool app installed, but personally I think its an ugly, badly laid out mess even though it does seem to work. I would rather fix what has happened to stop my phone uploading to Picasa directly.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.
Sorry, can't help you with this but very interested as I have exactly the same issue. Also, as a google engined phone, why on earth have they made flikr & fb instantly available but not picasa You're right about the picasa tool pro too, functional but aesthetically it leaves a lot to be desired...see what I did there...
I have never used Picasa. But like 2 hours ago, I said why not and wanted to use it. To be greeted with the same problem. The account is active (gmail syncs without problem), everything goes ok... but it doesn't work.
Factory reset fixed it. OK, but not sure what I did to break it in the first place! Oh well.
It didn't work for me either. Yesterday I went from MCR r18 to stock Sense > r17 > r19 > r17 > r18. Suddenly, it got fixed.
You should make sure you actually have a picasa web account, and that you've uploaded at least one photo to it.
I'm coming from a Nokia 5800. Although the software was buggy as hell, Ovi Suite was still a great piece of software to sync all of my phone's data to a local copy of my PC (as opposed to Google's nosy cloud storage).
Ideally looking for something that could archive my contacts--as well as abilities to create/change/delete on my PC which would then sync with the phone. Also download all SMS's, photos/videos taken, and manage music.
If what I've read is true, google music should take care of this, its supposedly an itunes-like software
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Check out Double Twist. There is PC software and an app. Not sure if it would cover all your needs (ive never used it), but it appears to be a decent itunes clone for not just Android but other devices.
theres an app callled mybackup in the market. it will back everything up to the sdcard, then u can copy backup to pc if this helps.
Since people aren't too familiar with Ovi Suite: I need something like Palm Desktop for Android, and I don't want to pay $40 for CompanionLink.
Dude, you need to learn to love the cloud.
From GMail/GMaps/GVoice/GDocks/GCal/Picassa, I have every email, sms, voicememo, picture, video, call history, transcribed voicemail, task, appointment, map location, contact, document, etc. All from any webbrowser in any location, all damn-near instantly synced with my phone.
...but to answer you question, search for HTC Sync. I think it only works with Sense tho, so you will have to wait and flash the Z firmware once the hackers make the g2 flashable.
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Dude, I love the cloud.
But I also love having a local copy on my computers (which I back up regularly and save to my Dropbox). Being able to edit contacts and calendar entries without having to bring up a webpage is huge to me.
Different strokes for different folks I guess.
I live and work on the cloud. I never run any backups. I store nothing locally other than 4TB of pirated moves/tv. Being able to access everything from anywhere even if my house has no electricity is huge to me.
What's so bad about opening up a webpage? Opening outlook or whatever doesn't seem any different to me. Unless I am using my computer as a TV, all I ever need from it is a webbrowser, which is nice since every computer and smartphone in the world has one.
I do program ASP.NET/Win32/other and need that dev environment, but that too is all running on a VirtualPC in the cloud.
Not all of us always have constant data access, nor want to depend on it.
Plus, the difference between a webpage and outlook is MASSIVE.
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I know this is a pointless argument, but I am curious if you have ever given gmail with gtalk-desktop in your tray a real chance?
I used outlook at a job for work and personal for 6 years, then used outlook for work another 5 while using gmail for personal, and for the last 2 I have been gmail only. I always had the newest version on the newest os, but not in the last 2 years.
In outlook I was always sorting and running a search all was always dog slow. I can find anything in gmail as easily as finding any webpage with google. Gmail integrates with google calendar just as well as outlook and they can sync to eachother. Just sayin.
...anyway, did you look in to HTC Sync? Also, you could always run an exchange server at home and sync over the air.
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I'd probably choose services that keep the home PC synced with the cloud, keeping a local copy of what GMail etc use. Enough people do that that there are tools for that, and of course your phone syncs easily with the cloud. I think enough Android users drink the Google kool aid that there's not as much interest in syncing directly phone to PC without using the cloud as an intermediary. After years of wired syncing, I'm thrilled to have it work without any work on my part, personally.
But a search did turn up both The Missing Sync for Android and Handset Manager - both look to still be a bit buggy, but maybe they'll do the job or be worth watching.
We need HTC to make HTC Sync for non-Sense phones. Period.
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Different strokes for different folks I guess.
I live and work on the cloud. I never run any backups. I store nothing locally other than 4TB of pirated moves/tv. Being able to access everything from anywhere even if my house has no electricity is huge to me.
What's so bad about opening up a webpage? Opening outlook or whatever doesn't seem any different to me. Unless I am using my computer as a TV, all I ever need from it is a webbrowser, which is nice since every computer and smartphone in the world has one.
I do program ASP.NET/Win32/other and need that dev environment, but that too is all running on a VirtualPC in the cloud.
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Totally agree, That's the only way to go, really. When I moved up from my Moto Cliq to the G2 it took all of 5 minutes to get my phone the way I wanted. The hardest part was customizing my icon on the home screen. The data all synced from Google. My list of installed apps was backed up via "App List Backup" and I just re-installed them. Done.
(LG Quantum, stock Mango)
This is odd, and a little concerning.
This morning, I created a new OneNote, and pinned it to the start screen. I have a 'notes' section, where I had about 6 of them.
Just now I opened it up to add to it, and when I pressed the back button, it came up with a message. I clicked 'ok' quick without thinking (for some reason I thought it was saying something like "it has been saved"). When I went back to the start screen, I realized that the message was a little off, so I clicked on the OneNote... to have it say "does not exist".
I then clicked on all of them, and got the same message.
Going to the Office hub, the list of OneNotes is cleared. I power cycled the phone, no change. I now give a very confused w-t-f?
Luckily, anything of importance, I save on Word documents synced to my SkyDrive, but it's just annoying to lose them all. Most of which was a very long list of songs to download. I'm very much into music and it bothers me a great deal that I'll never know what those songs were.
Anyone hear of this happening??
I have a Samsung Focus and one of my coworkers does as well. She asked me today about this exact issue. Almost same sequence of events. She hit the back, saw a message appear and hit the back button again. Next time she went into her notes they were all gone.
That is odd. Any chance they're still on your skydrive?
Could this have something to do with the skydrive update. There are reports of having to go into settings and reset office in order to get them back. Aren't all onenote notebooks synced to skydrive?
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Go to settings > swipe over to applications > office. Reset office.
Its due to the changes in skydrive the other day. The stuff in skydrive is still there and just needs to be resyncd due to url changes ect.
Yeah I've been reading up on the skydrive issues.
I'm hesitant to reset Office, as I don't want it deleting even more (it comes up with a warning saying it will delete everything and reset it to factory).
Opening my SkyDrive in a browser, no there are no OneNotes at all!
sure haven't said:
Opening my SkyDrive in a browser, no there are no OneNotes at all!
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Mine are in Documents -> Personal (Web), try that.
Backup to evernote....or just use it and don't worry.
Bravo MS lol.
There has been info on that bug with quite simple solution on WMpoweruser,
just saw it yesterday.
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Mine are in Documents -> Personal (Web), try that.
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And that's where they all are.
THANK YOU very much.
what have you found to be the most painless method for synching photos, movies, music, files, etc with your android phone and computer? Mostly a Mac based computer but I would like to hear about PC usage as well since there are many programs that are available for both.
I just signed up for dropbox but can kind of suck if you have a bunch of pics on your computer, transfer them to your phone and then the phone syncs them back to your computer and dropbox cloud. I realize I can unlink my computer but there are some other things I am reading about dropbox where if you deselect on the phone the pictures in the cloud go bye bye...still researching this.
It was nice to get 48 gb on my USA samsung note 2 today for free...for two years. Must be the rom I flashed.
Music is a big deal but pictures and movies are. I somehow lost all my pictures in the past week but did do a backup about a month ago. I still lost several baby pics of the kids that I am a little pissed at myself for not backing up previously. I dirty flashed the same rom and wiped some caches but I didn't think the pictures on my card should have been deleted.
Isyncr for itunes music its perfect my friend I use the paid version is well worth the money
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For simple transfer of files, I use SSHDroid on the phone and Filezilla in sftp mode on the PC (for local wireless network transfer). I use both Linux and Mac, so it's cross platform and has never failed me. Easy and painless.
Music just gets uploaded to Google Music. I use the above for Movies, TVShows, etc. for offline viewing.
If I have time I pick music in the mediamonkey... if I'm lazy I just log onto the smb server and copy paste.
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I will check into those. I guess I really do a lot of music so in a pinch I can restore off my mac with android file transfer. I am working with dropbox this weekend to check it out a bit. I like the fact that after I take a picture it is uploaded to dropbox and my computer however long after taking it.
It appears to delete the pictures as well as they are deleted from the phone, as it was designed. I still have to look into what happens if I accidentally delete my picture album or something. That sounds like it would trigger a complete synch and subsequent deletion of the photos that I was trying to backup in the first place. In this instance, it sounds like dropbox would pretty much suck and having backed up to dropbox would have been worthless. Maybe there is a setting somewhere that makes it have to go through some authentication before deleting photos
Hy,
anyone saw that the new gallery update brings "Browse your photos and videos in the cloud" functionality?
Now I sure dont see any option for this but at night I got a notification from Coud that "duplicates has been deleted"...
I dont know where I can find this features, but I sure dont want any photos/videos uploaded to cloud without my permission... So if anyone have any info on this, I would really appreciate it.
Best regards
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I have an htc one m7 that I just updated to the latest version, after a reboot it shows the same message "gallery cloud" duplicate... etc
It didnt ask for my permission, I have the htc sync disabled, cant seem to find the option to disable this POS. Not happy.
I just noticed this morning the same behavior. I am trying to find out where this service is coming from, why it is running without my permissions and why it is putting my personal information in the cloud somewhere and I don't know where or how to get it, shut it off, or change it. It has really pissed me off to no end. I am hoping someone has an idea.
Just came here looking for the same answer.
A bit of a **** move if HTC is uploading peoples pics without asking first!!
I've emailed HTC via the play store app and asked how do we turn this feature off. I'll post if I get an answer...
Chiming in. just saw this, not pleased. I'm thinking of disabling the app till a solution is found.
I might bin it too, don't want this feature using up my data allowance...I've got about 4000 pictures on my phone...
yea wtf
Same issue. my phone keeps giving me a Cloud Gallery notification every 10 minutes or so saying it deleted duplicate photos. What in the world HTC was thinking, we may never know. But they need to let us turn this off because I show it using my data. Not cool HTC.
To add to it, I open my gallery and its cycling through all of my photos. Constantly. I click a folder, then the 'highlights' starts fast-cycling through every single photo in the folder. Not like a preview as it used to (which was annoying). This needs to stop. As someone else mentioned, I also have thousands of photos on my phone and this is driving me nuts.
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Hy,
anyone saw that the new gallery update brings "Browse your photos and videos in the cloud" functionality?
Now I sure dont see any option for this but at night I got a notification from Coud that "duplicates has been deleted"...
I dont know where I can find this features, but I sure dont want any photos/videos uploaded to cloud without my permission... So if anyone have any info on this, I would really appreciate it.
Best regards
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HTC Cloud Gallery does not upload any of your files to the cloud. It only indexes whatever you have on Dropbox, GDrive, FB, Flickr, only after you have agreed to link to those sites. If you see photos found by Cloud Gallery, those could be uploaded by Dropbox or GDrive automatically. You need to check their settings. Again, Cloud Gallery is a "read only" indexing service.
Started getting the same notification since the last few days -- and the worst part is that there doesn't seem to be a setting anywhere in the gallery app or in the system settings allowing to configure this "Cloud Sync" or turn it off all together.
And now I really don't know if my pictures got "synced" somewhere in someone's cloud Really annoying. Uninstalled the gallery app altogether with Titanium Backup root uninstall.
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Started getting the same notification since the last few days -- and the worst part is that there doesn't seem to be a setting anywhere in the gallery app or in the system settings allowing to configure this "Cloud Sync" or turn it off all together.
And now I really don't know if my pictures got "synced" somewhere in someone's cloud Really annoying. Uninstalled the gallery app altogether with Titanium Backup root uninstall.
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I have the same issue. Haven't found a solution yet but I wanted to let you know that freezing/uninstalling gallery will stop the cloud syncs but there are side affects.
I froze it and all seemed normal until I tried to set a contact image. Freezing gallery somehow disrupted the ability to link images to contacts. I tried it from within the contact app and through a third party gallery app and it wouldn't work either way. I had to defrost the HTC gallery in order to set the contact image.
There maybe other side affects but that was the only one that I ran into.