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[Q] Automatic Picture Backup

I've just got rid of my Omnia 7 out of frustration of its infancy and moved back to android, but one thing I miss is the automatic picture uploading to skydrive after you take a picture.
Annoyingly it compresses the image which peeved me to no end, but at least It had the option.
I know Google has Picasa but I get a measly 1GB of capacity compared to skydrive's 25GB.
Are there any decent (Private) apps or services that I can use to automatically upload my phones images to?
- What I mean by private is that nobody else can see them (or an option to set them to private).
N.B I take a lot of photos and I also don't want my new 8MP sensor to go to waste

You can try Dropbox, you only get 5GB though. Its not automatic but I'm sure you can make a profile with Tasker to do it for you..

Well I've just downloaded Titanium media sync which auto-syncs folders with Dropbox, but I only get 2GB (N) Oh well, it's better than nothing for now.
Edit: Sorami lets me access (somewhat) my skydrive account, but isn't automatic.

How to get 50 G dropbox with Note II?

I read somewhere that with Note II you get 50 G Dropbox. I have a Dropbox account previously with 2.75 G. When I signed in with Note II it doesn't seem to automatically increase to 50 G. I wonder how to get the increase?

Does not work with att and verizon
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I had the same problem but I just got an email stating that my dropbox account has been upgraded to 50GB. Only thing I did differently is open the dropbox app directly and boom I got the email.

eagleis said:
I had the same problem but I just got an email stating that my dropbox account has been upgraded to 50GB.
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can you share more specifics? thanks...

x2h said:
can you share more specifics? thanks...
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Sorry, im not totally sure what I did. I got the email when I opened the dropbox app directly. I did not get the email during the intial setup of the phone.

I don't remember exactly how I did it but I have 50gb. There is a separate Dropbox app that it uses to know it's a 50gb
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x2h said:
can you share more specifics? thanks...
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I just singed in to my account from the email i received. I already had 25gb +2 gb bonus. Once I signed in i now have 77+ gb of space. Didn't do anything special. Just logged in. Though the extra 50gb is only for 2 years. Not sure what will happen to my files if I manage to fill that space up.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987023
Download that rom & either install it or pull the dropbox app from it. Login into your account & a few mins later, you should receive an email from Dropbox saying that your account has been updated for 50GB or something like that. Took about 5-10 min or less upon signing in.

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I just singed in to my account from the email i received. I already had 25gb +2 gb bonus. Once I signed in i now have 77+ gb of space. Didn't do anything special. Just logged in. Though the extra 50gb is only for 2 years. Not sure what will happen to my files if I manage to fill that space up.
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That didn't happen to me...
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dementedjohn said:
I just singed in to my account from the email i received. I already had 25gb +2 gb bonus. Once I signed in i now have 77+ gb of space. Didn't do anything special. Just logged in. Though the extra 50gb is only for 2 years. Not sure what will happen to my files if I manage to fill that space up.
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Ok so what email... who what when where did the email come from??

If your phone did not come with dropbox preinstalled, you wont get the space. ie att did not agree with dropbox therefore no app was preinstalled.
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The only way to get this to work is to install the T-Mobile ported rom and log into dropbox. After you login and sync with device, you will receive
a email.
ATT did not contract with dropbox so no other way around this, only like stated from above post, you go into the rom and just pull that file.

would this work if u already did it with sgs3?

For everyone trying to get the free 50gb Root and install the multipane window thing, It will take less than 10 minutes to do everything. Highly worth it

Oh that kinda sucks
Thanks for all the inputs!
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I got it to work. I registered when I first got the phone with stock everything on it. Then you have to log into their website and do something like 5/9 tasks they have given you to unlock 50GB.

so im on ATT and didnt get this wonderful storage, so i did ask suggested and grabbed that rom and pulled out the dropbox apk. sideloaded it onto the phone and logged in, nothing happen no email, or notification of this extra storage wonder what i might have done wrong

I wish people would read. Verizon and AT&T opted out of this promotion. You cannot get the Dropbox space from a phone (unmodified) from either of these carriers.
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oh i read mr high and mighty...also read that people said to EITHER A) load that rom or B) pull the apk out of the rom and load it to the phone. I realize and understand that AT&T opted out of this deal but people keep saying it worked for them and not a single person has said they got it from being on a different carrier or from just using the rom or even just the apk from said rom. so maybe you should just calm the **** down and not respond if you have nothing to add that helps anyone, you seem to just troll this so you can ***** and complain instead of help

Create an account and login dropbox on your phone. Then you get an email with a link on how to get 50 gig. I think its dropbox.com/gs. There are 7 steps they lay for you to get 50 gigs. You only need to do 5 of the 7.
Example.
Create a shared folder in drop box and share it with someone.
Install drop box on your main PC
Install drop box on another PC
Email your friends asking them to join.
Login to dropbox on your mobile phone and upload a picture.
They show you each and update the page once you accomplish each one. It takes about 20 minutes.
The bummer I found out later. It's not a lifetime storage like when box.com ran their promotion. It's only good for 24 months.

[Q] cannot attatch 17mb pdf through Gmail on note2?

Hello guys, just wanted to ask in case anyone else has experienced this. I attach a pdf to an email on Gmail, it shows as attached, but once I send it, the attachment is no longer there. I tried it on my macbook and it went through fine. I have uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, and it still would not go through.

The biggest I have been able to send (not google drive) is about 5MB. Anything bigger than that is either server deleted or if it is an office product it gets put on google drive. 17MB seems pretty large a portable app to send.

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The biggest I have been able to send (not google drive) is about 5MB. Anything bigger than that is either server deleted or if it is an office product it gets put on google drive. 17MB seems pretty large a portable app to send.
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I have sent 20mb before, when I had my gs3. Idk if maybe google is limiting that from our phones now.... Just curious, since I know the limit is 25mb

What sync method do you use for media

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

Dropbox Question

So I have a 2 part Dropbox question that basically amounts to me not fully understanding how it all works even though I use it on a daily basis... maybe someone here could help me out...
So I have Dropbox, on my phone (Galaxy Note 3) and 2 PCs, Home and Office.
Question 1 - You know how Dropbox on Android automatically when you're on Wifi uploads every single picture from your phone to a "Camera Uploads" folder on your Dropbox? Well since they're all uploaded already, and I have something like 3000 photos, which is starting to make my Gallery load slowly... Wouldn't the best way to clean them out be to just completely wipe all the photos from my phone... Then go through the Dropbox folder on one of my desktop computers and delete any crappy pictures I don't need to keep, leave the rest in there for backup purposes, and then if I wanted to keep some on my phone, copy those ones back onto my phone?
Question 2 - If I go through that "Camera Uploads" folder (Or any other folder in my Dropbox really) deleting and renaming and reorganizing files on one of my desktop computers... Will all those changes instantly happen on the others? Even if I'm deleting and/or renaming and/or moving around hundreds of files? What's to stop the other computer from syncing back to the one I'm currently going through and undoing all the changes I just made? Like if I have a folder called "X1" and another called "X2" and I delete a bunch of stuff out of each and then combine them into one and then name the new folder "X" ... The other computer at work isn't gonna go and sync my "X2" folder back to the computer I'm currently working on, right?
Obviously these are both a simple but clear misunderstanding of how all this cloud syncing works. I get it in principle, and use it constantly, but there are certain ideas of it that I think I'm just overthinking probably.
Any help would be appreciated.
Also I know that Q&A goes in the Q&A forum but I thought since this is a software thing and not really a phone thing it would be more appropriate in here...

From how I know it works (at least for me) as long as all accounts are logged in with the same info (name/password), and are auto-syncing, the folder that is modified first will be copied to the others when you open Dropbox on the others. In your example you have three (two PCs, and your phone). If you change something from your phone, it will replicate to your two PCs. If you change something on one of your PCs, it will replicate to your other PC, and your phone. It also works with the online site the same way. I just changed something in my phone, logged on to the website through my PC browser, and it replicated right away to match what I did on my phone.
EDIT - And I know you are talking about pics and gallery, and for that I would move/delete from the app on your phone, and not through the gallery. I think if you do something in the gallery it will just change back because you're not actually modifying Dropbox. I'm not really sure since I do all my stuff through Dropbox itself. You can try with one pic to see if it deletes from your other places if you delete it from the gallery.

Thanks for the reply. So yea if it's basically doing it instantly, then I think I'd be safe doing my plan the way I'm planning on it. My plan is to delete everything off the phone, which I know from experience doens't sync deletions to the dropbox... Just new pics get synced to dropbox... So if I delete pic11111.jpg it will still be in my dropbox folder... So with ALL my pics deleted from my phone's gallery, I can then go to my computer and spend a couple hours deleting specific garbage pictures, and those will then sync between the 2 pcs. Then I can move them out of that "Camera Uploads" folder and into a more permanent "Pics" folder. Or move first is probably even better...
Thanks again.

I use Dropbox all the time, I've got 4 accounts (Need that extra space) and then I've got it installed on my Note 3, Nexus 7, and a Galaxy S3. As for computers it's on my Mac, two laptops and a PC desktop. I installed them on all of those for the referral bonus space but now they all have the exact same account. So in answer to your question, you could go on your phone go into settings and turn off camera uploads, but then you would need to go into your gallery and manually upload the pictures you want to keep (which isn't a huge hassle to me at least.) Since you are using cloud storage technically all the photos that get uploaded wouldn't get eating up your space unless you have google+ enabled as well, then they will appear on your phone. Not all of them, but a good majority. I don't know what kind of a computer you use, but when I have dropbox on my MAC sync all of my folders that i have, I swear I get pictures that are quadrupled all the time....so frustrating. In answer to your second question, you can modify any picture, document, etc, that has been uploaded from dropbox to a computer and make any changes you want to it without it making changes to another linked computer. Only way it it would is if you put that changed photo for example, back into your dropbox folder. Hopefully that made sense