I want to do something really simple with google drive.
I want to setup a permanent sync so my phone camera pics are synced with the google drive. So whenever i take a pic it just appears in the drive without having to do anything.
I am damned if i can figure out how to do it!
Can it be done?
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This can't be done (yet). But Google is pushing Google+ hard so I think they might keep that feature separate to get more users there as what you want can be done via the Google+ app
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I am not using G+.
Maybe folder sync may appear in the future on GD
I can still manually select images to upload for the time being.
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Drop box does it
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If you want photos to go to google drive i dont wee what you wouldn't just use google+. It saves unlimited amount of photos to Picasso/google+ and you dont have to use it as a social network. No one is going to talk to you if you dont talk to them. You want get any alerts about anything. Also you can edit photos right from the web. But if your concern is to not be in the cloud but on a local computer, like mentioned above...Dropbox is the best for that.
Camera photo sync
Dropbox is the best way to go.
Just use google+ on your phone. Then it will autokatically upload your photo, everytime you yake a photo it will ulpoad it. Your uploaded photo won't be published unless you do so. Hope this helped you.
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I'm trying to do the same thing so my photos on the iphone are automatically sent to google drive. I have google drive synced with my work and home computers. I am envisioning all my iphone photos immediately available on all my computers google drive sync folders. I think I will try the photosync app. It looks like it will be the bridge I'm looking for until the google drive app for iOS is released.
Update: Tried photosync by touchbyte. Works well with google drive but lacks automatic syncing. Autosync has been suggested by many on the touchbyte support bulletin board.
Note: I have jailbroken iOS 4.8. Don't want to move to iOS 5
+1 for Google +, it works great! I have it set to upload when on WiFi and charging. It has never failed me yet.
If you don't want to use G+, then you could use a folder sync app and sync your DCIM folder with Google Drive...
I use this app for the same reason, and other uses:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full
the problem with G+ is that it scales your photo's, which is probably why they are trying to use google drive.
I wanna do the same thing. any new word on this now that google released the sdk? I would assume something exactly like dropbox will turn up soon i hope!
Yes, there are 2 issues with G+ instant upload:
1. Photos are downscaled to 5 Mpix, not sent as original files.
2. No sync to desktop like Goole Drive or Dropbox.
It can be done!
Another thing you can do is use Google Drive and Dropbox together. This works really well! Just install Dropbox on your phone and computer, but on your computer make Dropbox point to a subfolder somewhere within Google Drive. Then set the option on your phone to always sync your photos into your Dropbox. Have both sync clients running on your PC simultaneously, and the following will take place:
1) You take picture with your phone.
2) Dropbox app uploads your photos to Dropbox automatically.
3) Dropbox client on your PC downloads photos locally, saving them within the Dropbox subfolder of Google Drive
4) Google sync client on your PC spots new local files, uploads files to matching location on Drive.
5) Viola!
It's not perfectly clean but it gets the job done well!
There's a simpler way
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It's not perfectly clean but it gets the job done well!
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Or you could just use this app:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gallery.drive.sync.pro
There is also a free version.
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I am using EVO Deck 1.3 stable. I'm tired of having to connect to my computer via USB to get photos/videos off my phone, and since I'm an avid Dropbox user this just seems like an obvious usage of the sync feature.
After roaming through all of my ROM's settings and Dropbox settings I can't find anything to this effect. In fact Dropbox won't even let me upload more than 1 file at a time - is that right??
Please help me cut the USB umbilical and use Dropbox to its full potential!
When I want to upload multiple photos from my phone, I go to gallery and click on the album I want open. Then click the share icon, then dropbox. Then it opens the album with check boxes so you can mark as many as you want. It should upload them in the background then.
I have only found this manual way to do it. But this is better than one at a time, right?
Dropsync
Check the market for an app called Dropsync. I use it to sync my photos and Titanium backups to my Dropbox on my phone and tab. All of my photos are synced between my tab and phone nicely. It works very well with minimal battery drain. Like it so much that I sprung for the Pro version (which I rarely do) just to help out the developer.
Also Google+ will allow you to auto-upload your photos.
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Check the market for an app called Dropsync. I use it to sync my photos and Titanium backups to my Dropbox on my phone and tab. All of my photos are synced between my tab and phone nicely. It works very well with minimal battery drain. Like it so much that I sprung for the Pro version (which I rarely do) just to help out the developer.
Also Google+ will allow you to auto-upload your photos.
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Huge +1 for this. Well worth the money. I have mine syncing photos ONLY when USB is plugged in and ONLY on WiFi. Just be careful, its a 2 way sync. If u delete a photo from your sd card the next time it syncs it will delete it from dropbox.
I have a tendency to accidentally lose photos (eg: SD card crashes, etc.), and wanted to know the best program that automatically uploads photos to the cloud, whether it be Picasa or whatever.
I know joining Google+ allows you to do this, but the big problem is it resizes the photos prior to uploading them, and I wanted to keep the native size.
I've tried Picasa Mobile, but it doesn't organize photos well at all and doesn't let the native camera app automatically upload photos. Any other suggestions?
Have you tried dropbox? They upgrade your 2 GB with an additional 500MB when you elect to upload automatically.
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Have you tried dropbox? They upgrade your 2 GB with an additional 500MB when you elect to upload automatically.
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I love using Dropbox for picture upload. Up to 6 GB now and the nice thing is, I just bought a new laptop, downloaded the Dropbox app on the computer and it downloaded all my pictures back to my computer.
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I love using Dropbox for picture upload. Up to 6 GB now and the nice thing is, I just bought a new laptop, downloaded the Dropbox app on the computer and it downloaded all my pictures back to my computer.
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Exactly why I like dropbox.
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agree with Dropbox. Photobuck mobile app also allows to do this.
You can use "Folder Sync" android free app. Free user can add one folder to sync with your favorite cloud. If you can buy premium version you can sync unlimited folders with different cloud services.
As well as you can use "DropPin " but it only support dropbox.
FolderSync:- https://play.google.com/store/apps/...d.foldersync.lite&feature=more_from_developer
Dropin:- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ondraz.dropin
setup guides:-
Folder Sync:- http://www.thespicygadgematics.com/2011/12/how-to-save-android-camera-pictures.html
Dropin:- http://www.thespicygadgematics.com/2012/03/automatic-upload-android-camera-image.html
Hope these information will be useful!
New to android, why don't apps like Facebook and twitter have direct save for pictures the way iOS does?
Because Google plus uploads video and pictures once taken.
I think he means why cant we save images from Facebook to the device.
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You can't save directly to the device however if you open the picture in facebook app there are these three little dots for options (I think you know what I mean). Then go to Share and then you can share the picture with picasa, g+ or google drive. Depending on your setup / sync routine saving to picasa / google drive should be almost the same as saving to to your device directly. Only difference is that the picture is saved in your drive folder instead of Pictures or downloads or whereever you intended to store the downloaded files. Hope this helps!
Will try that on Fb. Anyway to do on Twitter? I know about screenshots but just seems iOS made doing this easier
I dont use twitter myself but if there is a possibilty to display images fullscreen it should work the exact same way
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I think he means why cant we save images from Facebook to the device.
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Oh my bad Lol. Yea on the Facebook app their is no save to device but what you can do and I do this is share the photo via text and then save it. Hit the three little dots> share> messages. Then send it to yourself and your good to go.
install any 4star and above rated download manager and then share to it.
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install any 4star and above rated download manager and then share to it.
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Is that a specific app?
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I'm looking to load a cloud storage app onto my n7, does anybody have any suggestions for which one is a decent one, as never used one and there seems hundreds of them. Can they do the following, if i have a file on the n7 that i place a copy in the cloud storage and then i load a newer copy to the n7 from my main computer, will it then automatically up date the copy in the cloud. Not really bothered accessing the cloud from other devices (yet) its mainly to keep a copy of documents that are on my n7 in case something happens whilst i'm away with device. Thanks
Dropbox, Google Drive or Sky Drive. I use all three.
If you have them on your PC as well, then open the doc in the pc folder and update it. The update will be available on all devices.
Google drive. It's awesome.
Been using DB for a couple years, just started playing with GD and seems as good with more free storage. Although I read somewhere you get 25GB, only 15GB is showing up on mine. Sharing a link seems a bit more reliable on GD. Every time I use DB it gives a shortened link that doesn't seem to work in some forums, I have to actually use the app through my browser to get the whole link (or I just don't know how to copy the full link in the app). GD seems to work without issue. And everything else I use is "G" so why not switch to Drive.
Dropbox is definitely the best, but you start off with only 2 GB. Google drive gives you 15 GB for free, but I've had terrible luck with it. The syncing is just awful and I frequently end up with duplicate files or even worse deleted files. In the over 2 years I've used dropbox I've never had a file duplicated or deleted. It just works. I really tried to like Google drive since I am a huge fan of Google services (especially Android) but Google Drive has serious issues with syncing.
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I too am interested in cloud storage to use just as backup. But I worry about privacy. Idiopathic there a practical way to have automatical backups *that are encrypted on my device with a key known only to me*?
I have 75GB with Dropbox
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I'am using Dropbox, Google Drive, Sky Drive, Box and Mega, in total 217 GB.
I'am using this mainly for foto's :good:
You all may be interested in this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523691
I have been using it for some time now, and can load all of my cloud ID's in it. Keeps everything nice and neat.
Another good one is Sandisk Memory Zone, found on the Play Store for free.
how about asus webstorage? they give you 5gb, ++more if you activate with your asus product..
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Hi
Can anyone help me set the phone to automatically upload photos to google drive? If this isn't possible perhaps dropbox seems the phone seems more dropbox friendly.
I can't see any options for google drive.
I can add a dropbox account and tick to use it with gallery but all this seems to do is give me the option to manually upload photos.
I found in the LG Cloud app that you can set it to automatically upload and it does work but it doesn't notify you at all that the photos are uploading and well I would much prefer google.
Also what is LG Home Cloud?
Thanks!
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Can anyone help me set the phone to automatically upload photos to google drive? If this isn't possible perhaps dropbox seems the phone seems more dropbox friendly.
I can't see any options for google drive.
I can add a dropbox account and tick to use it with gallery but all this seems to do is give me the option to manually upload photos.
I found in the LG Cloud app that you can set it to automatically upload and it does work but it doesn't notify you at all that the photos are uploading and well I would much prefer google.
Also what is LG Home Cloud?
Thanks!
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Not got the phone yet but if you get Google + it should upload to Google + it will give you the option when you sign in
daveaus said:
Hi
Can anyone help me set the phone to automatically upload photos to google drive? If this isn't possible perhaps dropbox seems the phone seems more dropbox friendly.
I can't see any options for google drive.
I can add a dropbox account and tick to use it with gallery but all this seems to do is give me the option to manually upload photos.
I found in the LG Cloud app that you can set it to automatically upload and it does work but it doesn't notify you at all that the photos are uploading and well I would much prefer google.
Also what is LG Home Cloud?
Thanks!
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On all my phones, I use DropSync from the play store, which has an instant upload features which works really well. Compared to the Dropbox app itself, you can choose which folder you sync, you have a lot more settings to control the sync, etc. Really nice app. Works only for Dropbox though.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.dropsync&hl=en
(PS: I don't have the G3 yet, but I can't see why it wouldn't work with it)
For dropbox you can use the official app to automatically instant upload any photos you take to dropbox. There's a setting in the app somewhere to do that.
As for Google drive, you can't do it by default. You can use the official apps to upload any pictures you take to Google+, but annoying you can't use it to upload them to Drive. I use an app called CloudVault to automatically upload my photos to a specified folder on my Drive. It works just as well as the Dropbox app does, so far at least.
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For dropbox you can use the official app to automatically instant upload any photos you take to dropbox. There's a setting in the app somewhere to do that.
As for Google drive, you can't do it by default. You can use the official apps to upload any pictures you take to Google+, but annoying you can't use it to upload them to Drive. I use an app called CloudVault to automatically upload my photos to a specified folder on my Drive. It works just as well as the Dropbox app does, so far at least.
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that CloudVault is the nuts thanks
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that CloudVault is the nuts thanks
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No problem
I tired a few different apps to get photos uploaded, and this seems the best of the lot. To be honest I actually had to go through my app list to find it so that I could tell you the name. It works so well that I had installed it, set it up and then forgotten about it!
Dan1909 said:
For dropbox you can use the official app to automatically instant upload any photos you take to dropbox. There's a setting in the app somewhere to do that.
As for Google drive, you can't do it by default. You can use the official apps to upload any pictures you take to Google+, but annoying you can't use it to upload them to Drive. I use an app called CloudVault to automatically upload my photos to a specified folder on my Drive. It works just as well as the Dropbox app does, so far at least.
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Thanks, its annoying that LG doesn't include these by default.
CloudVault looks great, I will use that.