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Chrome to phone - rocks!

Just thought I'd give everyone a heads up - I can't believe I have lived without this for so long. Just fantastic.

Agree, fantastic tool.
Im using mozilla as there is an add-on for that too.

So, except for google maps and youtube videos what other uses for ChromeToPhone are there?

Well, you can push any link to your phone and not depend on QR codes. I think thats cool. Just an example, you come across a nice picture you want to use as a wallpaper. Just push a button, beats fiddling with bluetooth/usb after DLing or even using a QR code generator.

Totally agree!
This's just amazing!
I love it and I'm sure I'll use it often!
Domsdey said:
So, except for google maps and youtube videos what other uses for ChromeToPhone are there?
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You're able to dial a phone numbers. You just have to select the phone number in the browser then click on the button. It'll directly send it to your phone and open the dialer application.
Also you're able to select a text and after you click the button in the browser it will be copied in your Android clipboard

Totally! I've used it a couple of times today already.
The fact that it sends maps straight to Google Maps on the phone is gonna be super handy for trips.

I was looking for this. Awesome tool!

It is cool, but it needs to be able to go the other way too.
How many times have you clicked on a page that's slow or cumbersome on your phone, one that's just better suited to your laptop browser? Would be so handy to be able to send from phone to chrome.
It was raised on the code.google site but they said they're not working on it

i found firefox/chrome plugin but i also want IE8 plugin, any one found this yet?

yep, tried it yesterday on mozilla firefox and it works great

Will it drain my batterry? How it works? Is it checking requests from chrome every sec.?

vukis said:
Will it drain my batterry? How it works? Is it checking requests from chrome every sec.?
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No it doesnt check every second... Google cloud simply pushes it to your devices...

vukis said:
Will it drain my batterry? How it works? Is it checking requests from chrome every sec.?
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It is a puch service so your phone doesn't actively check for the links sent to the phone but it is pushed to the phone and then the phone downloads it.
Just how the push email works.
Clever stuff!

Can you use it for file transfer, eg put the file into dropbox, copy the shared link, Chrome2Phone and download from the phone's browser?
EDIT: Just realised, there's a Dropbox app, er, for that.

check this video from 2:30 to learn about chrome to phone:

djoni1980 said:
check this video from 2:30 to learn about chrome to phone
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It is too silence on my desire. Media volume at max. What about others desires on this video?

s4vva said:
Just thought I'd give everyone a heads up - I can't believe I have lived without this for so long. Just fantastic.
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works flawlessly

So what is this? An extension to Chrome? I don't find it in Chrome extensions. Searching Google I found an .apk with it suggesting it is an Android app. How does that enable anything in your Chrome browser? Sorry maybe I'm dense

madsere said:
So what is this? An extension to Chrome? I don't find it in Chrome extensions. Searching Google I found an .apk with it suggesting it is an Android app. How does that enable anything in your Chrome browser? Sorry maybe I'm dense
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Hi
Go to http://code.google.com/p/chrometophone/ to read about it
Download the crx file and it will install pc side
Then download apk file on phone
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or
http://chrometophone.googlecode.com/files/chrometophone-android-v1.6.apk
Log in on both with your google account
Have fun!

Is there any way to disable the notification sound for this app. I know i can disable notification sounds, but i would like to disable it only for this...
And maybe I should ask this on the Maps brut thread, but when sending a link from google maps it opens in stock Maps app instead of Maps brut (which I chose for default), if I uninstall stock Maps app it just won't load the link.
Does anyone knows a way to launch maps links with Maps brut?
thanks!

Gallery - picasa web album

Any body can make the picasa web album to load? I got the error message "the user has no album to display".
Also on the sync the internet sync is error, don't know why it happen. Anybody please explain.
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I take it you mean in the stock gallery app? All my albums show up ok.
What do you mean by internet sync error? Can you take a screen shot of the error?
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Yes the stock gallery didn't show my picasa account
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Here you go
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Any body can help me with this issue?
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Not really but i use Picfolio for a couple of cents from the Play Store.
It has the really great advantage that the pictures are permanently downloaded to your phone. On the stock gallery they download every time you use it.

harris.milist said:
Any body can make the picasa web album to load? I got the error message "the user has no album to display".
Also on the sync the internet sync is error, don't know why it happen. Anybody please explain.
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Picasa Album loads up fine on my phone through the Gallery App.

Failed to retrieve account on both my wife and mine one x. When uploading.
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I do have the same problem with the stock HTC Gallery. I even had the same issue already with my Sensation XE when I had that phone. I tried to install AOSP Gallery from gapps for Galaxy Nexus but it won't install. We need an ICS AOSP Gallery which will install on the One X.

mine works great, just tap the upper left button and choose picase it works like a charm

I have aan Google Apps account and a gmail account. I have tried to upload a foto to my gmail account and that works well. So there is something with the Gallery app and Picasa plugin that only works with a "gmail.com" account. By the way uploading pictures just work fine. Only HTC phones have that issue. On all other Tablets or phones it also syncs my Google App accounts fine.

Yeah i know my galaxy nexus can see the uploaded image, but my one x can not.
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I have put the GoogleGallery.apk from my Nexus into the /system/app directory and after reboot I have the AOSP Gallery back and it displays the Picasa webalbums just fine. I did the same with the Browser b.t.w. and the buttom bar is gone for good.

mine works fine, including facebook etc albums...
perhaps try linking with another google account and see if there's issues there?

You might be having the same issue I am having on my Sensation.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/mobile/android-devices/kW1D7jt-DMw

Slightly OT but not worthy of a new thread...
Has anyone else noticed that when viewing picasa albums, the thumbnails are pin-sharp when first loading, but after a second or two, they start becoming blurred (I guess as it caches the full images). Why doesn't it keep the nice sharp previews? They look amazing, and then get ruined!

Its happening on my One S too, can't see my Picasa web albums. And I have a Google apps account as well. and I get the same sync error "sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly."

got a way out but paid, install picasa tool, help me a lot.
also got offline sync, so we can view our image offline.
but still a feature that buggy is still annoying, especially on a flag ship phone.

I've had this with all the Sense based ROMs I've flashed. But it works fine on CM9 for me.

With stock HTC Gallery, I can see all my picasa photos but all videos are missing. Any idea?

[Q] Sharing pics from gallery via Gmail

Hi all,
I wonder if anyone can suggest an solution to an issue I am having with my Galaxy note 2 when I try and share a picture directly from the Gallery.....when you are viewing a picture and hit the share button I am given 6 options only (bluetooth, ChatON, G Drive, Dropbox, Email and Facebook)....but no option for sharing via Gmail.....is this normal for a Samsung phone?? I'm more used to Google Nexus handsets, and they certainly have a Gmail option available in the share list.......I'm surprised I cant find this on a Samsung, as the OS is Google's own OS...albeit with the Samsung TouchWiz interface on top.
Any thoughts/ideas??
Thanks!

No problem here.
Gmail is one of the many options.
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Scroll down, you will see other applications. Including Gmail
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johnpsr said:
Hi all,
I wonder if anyone can suggest an solution to an issue I am having with my Galaxy note 2 when I try and share a picture directly from the Gallery.....when you are viewing a picture and hit the share button I am given 6 options only (bluetooth, ChatON, G Drive, Dropbox, Email and Facebook)....but no option for sharing via Gmail.....is this normal for a Samsung phone?? I'm more used to Google Nexus handsets, and they certainly have a Gmail option available in the share list.......I'm surprised I cant find this on a Samsung, as the OS is Google's own OS...albeit with the Samsung TouchWiz interface on top.
Any thoughts/ideas??
Thanks!
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I too have this problem AND IT SUCKS...it clearly shows hotmail but i want to use gmail...it doesn't give me the option for "other applications"...

johnpsr said:
Hi all,
... when I try and share a picture directly from the Gallery.....when you are viewing a picture and hit the share button I am given 6 options only (bluetooth, ChatON, G Drive, Dropbox, Email and Facebook)....but no option for sharing via Gmail.....
Any thoughts/ideas??
Thanks!
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Probably a silly question, but you do have gmail set up as an account on the phone, right?
I found when i first started using the phone that my options for sharing were limited but as i've added more accounts and more apps they've all been added to the sharing list. built in mail app, gmail app, whatsapp, wordpress, instagram, dropbox. None of them were in the list at first until the accounts were set up.

wisewood said:
Probably a silly question, but you do have gmail set up as an account on the phone, right?
I found when i first started using the phone that my options for sharing were limited but as i've added more accounts and more apps they've all been added to the sharing list. built in mail app, gmail app, whatsapp, wordpress, instagram, dropbox. None of them were in the list at first until the accounts were set up.
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yes, it's installed...i actually received the alert that you replied to this thread via gmail...the odd thing is, i had the hotmail app installed but not setup and it gave me the option to send via hotmail. when i selected hotmail it walked me through the setup and then sent the pic.
i tried to uninstall gmail and reinstall but it wouldn't allow it...
I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT...!!!
for some reason, the photos i have sync'd with picasa doesn't have the option to send via gmail (i had it on my nexus tho), however the pics NOT sync'd with picasa shows gmail as a sharing option...this is weird...

da9th_one said:
I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT...!!!
for some reason, the photos i have sync'd with picasa doesn't have the option to send via gmail (i had it on my nexus tho), however the pics NOT sync'd with picasa shows gmail as a sharing option...this is weird...
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This was going to be my next question. It seems it will only allow you to share a picture if it is stored locally, except with very limited options. Picassa photos on mine will only share via;
bluetooth
chatON
google+
instagram
messaging
picassa (why, its already on there?!)
S Note
whatsapp
wordpress

wisewood said:
This was going to be my next question. It seems it will only allow you to share a picture if it is stored locally, except with very limited options. Picassa photos on mine will only share via;
bluetooth
chatON
google+
instagram
messaging
picassa (why, its already on there?!)
S Note
whatsapp
wordpress
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this defeats the purpose of storing photos in picasa...i'm assuming this is a touchwiz issue b/c it also doesn't play nice with google music...

da9th_one said:
this defeats the purpose of storing photos in picasa...i'm assuming this is a touchwiz issue b/c it also doesn't play nice with google music...
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It is quite frustrating. Although from within dropbox app you can share via whatever means ... and you can setup cloud backup from the settings menu to use dropbox and sync photos. So this is one option. But even then you cant share a dropbox photo directly from the gallery.
Seems odd to me that there is no official google picasa app too

Scroll your choice and there is gmail when u select
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delsuppr said:
Scroll your choice and there is gmail when u select
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Getting the ol' post count up, eh ol buddy...

delsuppr said:
Scroll your choice and there is gmail when u select
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Crikey... I was getting really annoyed at not being able to share via gmail...
I didnt even think to scroll down on the list of apps presented! There are no scroll bars or any indication that there is anything to scroll down to!
Oh well! Cheers for making me love my Note2 a little more, even if I do feel like an idiot!

photos disappeared

i was looking at my photos this morning and noticed some were not loading properly or were just blurring looking, and then when i went to send some via text nothing was loading. I then restarted the phone and all the photos were gone. I dont have backup and synced enabled, i went to look in the DCIM folder and there are no files in the camera folder. I am on pie, and am not rooted. I also tried another gallery app and that did nothing. Is there anyway to get the pictures back?
any help is appreciated.

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i was looking at my photos this morning and noticed some were not loading properly or were just blurring looking, and then when i went to send some via text nothing was loading. I then restarted the phone and all the photos were gone. I dont have backup and synced enabled, i went to look in the DCIM folder and there are no files in the camera folder. I am on pie, and am not rooted. I also tried another gallery app and that did nothing. Is there anyway to get the pictures back?
any help is appreciated.
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That's super strange. What's your storage usage say? Is it showing something like only 16 GB used as if it's been all deleted?
This is why I do use Google Photos backup. It's unlimited full quality AND free. Sorry but I had to say it.
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EeZeEpEe said:
That's super strange. What's your storage usage say? Is it showing something like only 16 GB used as if it's been all deleted?
This is why I do use Google Photos backup. It's unlimited full quality AND free. Sorry but I had to say it.
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photo storage shows only .41gb but thats prolly wrong i had taken a lot of family pictures this weekend. Never had this happen before

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photo storage shows only .41gb but thats prolly wrong i had taken a lot of family pictures this weekend. Never had this happen before
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So you're saying in the part I circled in my screenshot it's only 0.41 GB? Sure sounds like everything got deleted.
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EeZeEpEe said:
So you're saying in the part I circled in my screenshot it's only 0.41 GB? Sure sounds like everything got deleted. View attachment 4583323
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yup, thats what it shows, and the same thing happened this morning. When i go to look at a picture it will load then i get the circle like its doing something and then all the photos i took yesterday got deleted again. No idea what is going on, i guess gonna have to reset the phone

And you're just trying to view the photos with Google Photos?
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yup, thats what it shows, and the same thing happened this morning. When i go to look at a picture it will load then i get the circle like its doing something and then all the photos i took yesterday got deleted again. No idea what is going on, i guess gonna have to reset the phone
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Check January 1, 2009 in your album
Did you ever find a solution to this? I just got this phone and was really upset to lose photos of our vacation in the middle of nowhere. I could find the thumbnails, but not the high quality images. I could tell they were somewhere because the photos app was making stylized images with them. One of them was titled New Year's Day 2009. My phone thinks it's Jan 1 if I turn it on where I don't have service. A lightbulb went off in my husband's head, he told me to check my photos by date and go back to 1/1/09. They were there!! An annoying problem I hope Google fixes, but I'm so happy to have my photos!

Pixel 3 created automatically 300 folders with pictures

Hey, today my Pixel 3 XL arrived and i moved from iPhone to the Pixel.
I had like 1300 pictures from my iPhone on my computer, then I moved the pictures via FileManager to my Pixel.
And the Pixel automatically created like 300 or more folders with about 2 pictures each in it.
Is there any easy way I get all the pictures out of the folders? I don't need folders in my libary, I just want all pictures side by side and no folders.
I didn't know that Android creates for every App that edits pictures a new folder.
Hope someone can help, I don't wanna drag each pic out of it's folder
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The folder names are: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ...... and a,b,c,d,e,f,g and so on.
Thanks so muuch.

Yeah, over the past few years, the photo app has been really annoying in the way it structures saved photos. Honestly, the best way to do it is find a new photo album app and use that to look up photos. Even when I get a popup asking me if I want to create a new folder for a picture, I say no, and its still in there with new folder. Then every few weeks I go through deleting stupid folders with 1 picture I didnt want.

HyperM3 said:
Yeah, over the past few years, the photo app has been really annoying in the way it structures saved photos. Honestly, the best way to do it is find a new photo album app and use that to look up photos. Even when I get a popup asking me if I want to create a new folder for a picture, I say no, and its still in there with new folder. Then every few weeks I go through deleting stupid folders with 1 picture I didnt want.
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Yeah its really annoying.
But in my head its like, if I use everything from Google, it works the best and the userexperience is better then thirdparty apps.
It's all from one company.
But thats just me and my thinking. :laugh:
Can you recommend a thirdparty App?

re133 said:
Is there any easy way I get all the pictures out of the folders? I don't need folders in my libary, I just want all pictures side by side and no folders..
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First let me say welcome (or welcome back) to Android. I don't know how many GB your pics amount too, but I've had good luck zipping a huge amount of pics into a single zip file, transferring it to my phone and then using a quality file manager (solid explorer / root explorer) to extract. Dunno? maybe it will take splitting the 1300/2 or even 3 files but it can be done. When zipping on your Mac/PC just use "no compression", "wrapper", or "minimal". This results in a fast compression because the pics are already compressed. I'm not an apple guy at all but I can tell you zipping 100's of files is no big deal on a PC, nor extracting them into the DCIM folder on your shiny new Pixel. Unlock your bootloader NOW if you are able, because unlocking it later will wipe all your data including any photos not backed up to the cloud (Photos). I also thought there was a way to transfer from Apple cloud to Google Photos, but again I am not an Apple guy at all. (disclaimer: I just have to buy them for my wife and daughter)
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HyperM3 said:
Yeah, over the past few years, the photo app has been really annoying in the way it structures saved photos. Honestly, the best way to do it is find a new photo album app and use that to look up photos. Even when I get a popup asking me if I want to create a new folder for a picture, I say no, and its still in there with new folder. Then every few weeks I go through deleting stupid folders with 1 picture I didnt want.
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Wut? My Photos folder has no subfolders all my photos are in there, bro. And Google Photos rocks on many different levels. YMMV?

v12xke said:
Wut? My Photos folder has no subfolders all my photos are in there, bro. And Google Photos rocks on many different levels. YMMV?
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You know, I guess it depends on what app I am using when trying to look up a photo. You are correct, when just going directly to the photo album app, all my photos are just laid out. It's when I click the "albums" icon that its a complete mess. Also, pretty much every time I open the app, I get multiple notifications for "new folder found". Most of the time those are singular pictures my security system took. Annoyingly, they are all one photo in each "new" folder. So I have to go in and delete each folder individually.

re133 said:
Yeah its really annoying.
But in my head its like, if I use everything from Google, it works the best and the userexperience is better then thirdparty apps.
It's all from one company.
But thats just me and my thinking. :laugh:
Can you recommend a thirdparty App?
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Still having this issue? I can write a script that should be able to automatically move each file to a new single folder.
Probably only 10 lines of code.
I don't think you need root, just let me know and I can try and throw it together.

boostedduece said:
Still having this issue? I can write a script that should be able to automatically move each file to a new single folder.
Probably only 10 lines of code.
I don't think you need root, just let me know and I can try and throw it together.
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Thanks for you Help Mate.
But i fixed already