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[Q] dropbox after 2 years

I have question about the dropbox in the One series.
They offer 25GB storage space in dropbox for 2 years. What happens after 2 years?
How much does dropbox will charge you to keep the 25gb space? Any info about this?

Stiflerlv said:
I have question about the dropbox in the One series.
They offer 25GB storage space in dropbox for 2 years. What happens after 2 years?
How much does dropbox will charge you to keep the 25gb space? Any info about this?
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For the actual prices you can check the Dropbox website.
The files will stay, but in order for you to use the Dropbox service you need to delete the files below 2GB, then you can use Dropbox free again!

it sucks but it is the truth

Stiflerlv said:
I have question about the dropbox in the One series.
They offer 25GB storage space in dropbox for 2 years. What happens after 2 years?
How much does dropbox will charge you to keep the 25gb space? Any info about this?
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Why not check out my guide for getting 20+GB for free (without a time limit on)?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24393368&postcount=28
Dropbox have in the past said there's a time-limit on their promotions, and then changed their minds afterwards.
Fingers crossed they'll forget; in 2 years the cloud storage world will have changed significantly.

With all the competition going on in the cloud storage world, two years from now, the free version of Dropbox will probably be 25gb for everyone anyways. One X users are just the first to get the upgrade.
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dropbox
is the dropbox account for 2 years or more?

box.com has 50 GB free..

fi3ry_icy said:
box.com has 50 GB free..
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No it doesn't..you have to pay 19.99 per month

fi3ry_icy said:
box.com has 50 GB free..
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yes but box, frankly, sucks. No desktop syncing - it's all web based.
Dropbox is way more powerfull.
And to answer the question earlier, you will keep the files up to your old limit but cant add new files unless you delete files down to you "new" limit. two years is quite good, worth $100.

They double up on DropBox.
Now 500Mb for each referring

qpop said:
Why not check out my guide for getting 20+GB for free (without a time limit on)?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24393368&postcount=28
Dropbox have in the past said there's a time-limit on their promotions, and then changed their minds afterwards.
Fingers crossed they'll forget; in 2 years the cloud storage world will have changed significantly.
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Thanks! Great guide!

Anyone's dropbox showing the increase?

I have setup my device using dropbox but it still only shows 3gb allowance, anyone been successful in getting their allocation increase and if so, how?
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I got an email from dropbox about 12 hours after completing setup (email was to the one i used for dropbox - not my gmail). Followed the link in this and then i had an extra 23Gb
Just sit tight, it did take a while for it to come through...
M.

Yes, got it no problem. Entered my existing dropbox account details during the initial phone setup, about ten minutes later got an email telling me that my capacity had been increased by 23GB. Didn't have to do anything.
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I got mine as well

2 days later and still showing 2.5GB.....

Used my account on setup got email after 2 hours and got another 25gb for referals theyv upped referal rate so get referring

Waiting
Just give it a little time, it took mine about 30 mins to update after I logged on to the phone..
Bloke

Been 5 days and nothing. I wrote to dropbox and nothing too

Make sure you have 5 steps of the "Getting Started" tasks completed too.

IMPORTANT: Just finish the entire "Getting Started"! Or at least 5 of them (that also worked for me)

Not yet, had the phone since yesterday morning. Dropbox app told me to complete some tasks in Getting Started section on the web, but I've already completed 6 out of the 7 tasks before hand, the only one been invite someone else.
I'm going to wait for a week before sending an email to Dropbox.

Well I have emailed them as well. I had already completed the getting started guide so dunno what else to do. Should I be starting a new account? Don't see the point when I already have one I'm using.
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got mine almost immediately... but only 23 gigs :\ brings my total to 30.7gigs. where's my 2 gigs, dropbox?? where?!?!

nikhilv.13 said:
got mine almost immediately... but only 23 gigs :\ brings my total to 30.7gigs. where's my 2 gigs, dropbox?? where?!?!
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The 2GB is the standard free dropbox allowance that everyone gets; HTC customers get an additional 23GB, so they get 25GB in total (hence if you've already got an account you'll just get 23GB added onto your existing total. If you were a new dropbox user you'd have 25GB altogether).

nikhilv.13 said:
got mine almost immediately... but only 23 gigs :\ brings my total to 30.7gigs. where's my 2 gigs, dropbox?? where?!?!
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2GB free when you sign up for a new account and extra 23GB with activation of One X.

Yes, but only for 2 years and then it reverts...incidentally, I had my increase within 5 minutes. Had to refresh the Dropbox app first before I could see it in there however.

Nothing here, after about six hours. Dropbox works fine on the phone, but no space increase on my account, and no email received. (I've tried restarting the PC app.)
Are folks who've received the extra space setting up new accounts, or using preexisting ones?

H-Cim said:
IMPORTANT: Just finish the entire "Getting Started"! Or at least 5 of them (that also worked for me)
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wtf?!

Completing the 5 in getting started sorted things for me, thanks
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Worked for aswell, i got 29,25 GB now, wierd number tho.

Did you guys get the 50 gig dropbox?

I am getting the Note 2 on Tuesday, I was wondering if Tmobile or Samsung offered the 50 gig dropbox space for 2 years with the purchase of Note 2.
Thanks
Eccoo

I didn't know we were going to get the 50GB of storage until yesterday. Yes I got mine.

Tidbits said:
I didn't know we were going to get the 50GB of storage until yesterday. Yes I got mine.
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How did you get yours?
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jghidalgo307 said:
How did you get yours?
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log in to Dropbox on the phone. you'll get an email asking you to confirm you want the 50GB's a few minutes later. complete that process and you are good to go.
keep in mind, the offer doesn't stack. so if you did it once with the SGS3 you can't do it again.

crazy talk said:
log in to Dropbox on the phone. you'll get an email asking you to confirm you want the 50GB's a few minutes later. complete that process and you are good to go.
keep in mind, the offer doesn't stack. so if you did it once with the SGS3 you can't do it again.
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Ohhh that explains it loll I logged in with an email I dont use to avoid unwanted mail lolll thanks
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Confirmed. Just got it
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Got my 50 GB's when I set up drop box on my phone
Wonder what happens to all your data after a year and you lose the 50GB and go back to your old quota?

blazinazn said:
Got my 50 GB's when I set up drop box on my phone
Wonder what happens to all your data after a year and you lose the 50GB and go back to your old quota?
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the 50G is for two years. I think dropbox sends you a warning before, they won't delete your data without notifying you.

blazinazn said:
Got my 50 GB's when I set up drop box on my phone
Wonder what happens to all your data after a year and you lose the 50GB and go back to your old quota?
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what i've read the account goes read only. I don't think it will flat out delete all the data. I'm not aware how long it will let you stay in that limbo however.
(IE, using the 'read only' account to stream movies over and over again). i would imagine at some point it will start deleting after you've accessed it enough.)

blazinazn said:
Got my 50 GB's when I set up drop box on my phone
Wonder what happens to all your data after a year and you lose the 50GB and go back to your old quota?
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From https://www.dropbox.com/help/333/en
If your paid account expires or is downgraded, or the space granted to your account by a promotion expires, all of the files in your Dropbox folder will still be available to you on your computers, phones, and via the Dropbox website. However, Dropbox will only sync the amount of space allotted to your Dropbox account. This means that new files added to your Dropbox will not sync to other computers or be available online until the amount of disk space used in your Dropbox drops below the amount of Dropbox space allotted to your account.

This is a great promotion for people. Id almost rather have the big dropbox account than an sd card slot. All my stuff lives on there, and unlike the iPhone it becomes a whole other usable drive with your PC. The options are near endless especially if you get dropsync going, automatically transferring your media and such. Best cloud service there is.

guthrien said:
This is a great promotion for people. Id almost rather have the big dropbox account than an sd card slot. All my stuff lives on there, and unlike the iPhone it becomes a whole other usable drive with your PC. The options are near endless especially if you get dropsync going, automatically transferring your media and such. Best cloud service there is.
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Only downside is if you don't have a signal or data, then you don't have access to your files. What I don't understand is everyone asking about the 32GB variant of this phone. Why not just buy a 16GB version and buy a 32GB or 64GB microSD card for under 50 bucks and call it a day. It's the beauty of having an SD slot on the phone, unlike the Iphone or the LG Nexus.
Or am I missing something? Which is quite possible.

blazinazn said:
Or am I missing something? Which is quite possible.
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I think they just might want to maximize on board memory

Haven't received mine, Checked my email and there's nothing from Dropbox!

blazinazn said:
Only downside is if you don't have a signal or data, then you don't have access to your files. What I don't understand is everyone asking about the 32GB variant of this phone. Why not just buy a 16GB version and buy a 32GB or 64GB microSD card for under 50 bucks and call it a day. It's the beauty of having an SD slot on the phone, unlike the Iphone or the LG Nexus.
Or am I missing something? Which is quite possible.
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Because people need more than 16GB + 64GB.
As for Dropbox's expiration date of two years, I'm sure most of us will upgrade to another phone by then that will probably offer 50 to 100GB of free dropbox space.

Im still waiting on mine from the s3 ... well i got it then they took it back . Anyway i received the email today opened it . Still waiting

I have the note 2 but how do I claim my 50 gigs
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Never mind I logged in and got an instant email to claim
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Quick Office Free (Thanks 2 Google)

FREE UNTIL 9/26/2013
From now through Sept. 26, you have the opportunity to score an extra 10GB of Google Drive space, no extra charge.
The requirement: Install the new Quickoffice app for Android or iOS--which, incidentally, is also now free. Then sign into your Google account via that app. Presto! You get another 10GB of gratis storage.
Google recently purchased Quickoffice, and the fruits of their labor have finally bloomed. The app is now being offered for free for both Android and iOS, so you can do your document creation and editing without paying a cent.
Best of all, if you download the app, you can get 10 extra gigabytes of Google Drive storage for free! Sign in with your Google account in the app by September 26 and you’ll receive that 10GB for two years. Don’t expect to see it immediately; Google says it’ll be added to your account in the next few weeks.
Link HERE:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quickoffice.android
Enjoy....
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Well, it is not free UNTIL 26.9.13, it is free without restriction, only that extra 10GB you can claim until 26.9.13. Also "recently" is very inaccurate, Google bought it more than 1 year ago.

VinceCZ said:
Well, it is not free UNTIL 26.9.13, it is free without restriction, only that extra 10GB you can claim until 26.9.13. Also "recently" is very inaccurate, Google bought it more than 1 year ago.
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Huh? You lost me buddy!
It's free to download in the play STORE!! FYI
And to your "recently" quote! They may have bought it a year ago. But it's now being announced that's it's available for free until the 26 of Sept. But the Sept 26 date is for the extra 10 gigs of space you GET.
Statement:
Best of all, if you download the app, you can get 10 extra gigabytes of Google Drive storage for free! Sign in with your Google account in the app by September 26 and you’ll receive that 10GB for two years. Don’t expect to see it immediately; Google says it’ll be added to your account in the next few weeks.
But you can look HERE for info:
http://www.talkandroid.com/175830-google-makes-quickoffice-free-for-everyone/
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No, I did not lost you, buddy. Let see:
"FREE UNTIL 9/26/2013" ... definitely not true, it will be free without restriction, that means also AFTER that date.
"Google recently purchased Quickoffice,..." ... also not true, at least I think "recently" should be maybe couple of months max, not more than a year in this case. In this case is June 2012.
from your last post "But it's now being announced that's it's available for free until the 26 of Sept." ... also not true, it will be free without restriction (as I already told).
You are only right about that until 26.9 you should get free space.
Also, I see what did you probably mean with "FREE UNTIL 9/26/2013" now, you were talking about that free space. But from the context of subject of this topic it was not clear.
But nevermind, Happy QuickOfficing for everybody.

VinceCZ said:
No, I did not lost you, buddy. Let see:
"FREE UNTIL 9/26/2013" ... definitely not true, it will be free without restriction, that means also AFTER that date.
"Google recently purchased Quickoffice,..." ... also not true, at least I think "recently" should be maybe couple of months max, not more than a year in this case. In this case is June 2012.
from your last post "But it's now being announced that's it's available for free until the 26 of Sept." ... also not true, it will be free without restriction (as I already told).
You are only right about that until 26.9 you should get free space.
Also, I see what did you probably mean with "FREE UNTIL 9/26/2013" now, you were talking about that free space. But from the context of subject of this topic it was not clear.
But nevermind, Happy QuickOfficing for everybody.
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Ooooooooh I know what you were saying now. You taught I ess saying that the app was freer until then. That is true, and can see how that could be mistaken. I'll fix the OP. Thanx
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It is OK :good: . What I am wondering is if I will get more space if I will login in Nexus and iPhone. Probably not. But hopefully I will get free space under Google Apps (I only use it for email under my domain).

VinceCZ said:
It is OK :good: . What I am wondering is if I will get more space if I will login in Nexus and iPhone. Probably not. But hopefully I will get free space under Google Apps (I only use it for email under my domain).
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LOL, yeah I know what you mean. But I already have like 600+ gigs of online storage on COPY APP! So I'm good add online storage goes...
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Good job :good: . I have COPY app too, but I like idrivesync more from alternative cloud storages, because it looks and works better (iPhone experience only) and also big plus is PIN LOCK.
Alternative i say only because I use DropBox, I love it.
BTW, on Copy I have only 22 gigs. You have that free space only from referrals?

VinceCZ said:
Good job :good: . I have COPY app too, but I like idrivesync more from alternative cloud storages, because it looks and works better (iPhone experience only) and also big plus is PIN LOCK.
Alternative i say only because I use DropBox, I love it.
BTW, on Copy I have only 22 gigs. You have that free space only from referrals?
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Yeah I here you on the pin lock!!
Also have dropbox, BOX, etc.
But yeah got all of that copy gigs thru referrals:thumbup:!! Lol
EDIT:
Have never ever been a Crapple user. Hate hate hate IT!!! So wouldn't know anything about it.
Actually take that back tried a ipone for about 3 days, cuz I broke my other phone. Damn I was going too go crazy with that Damn one button crap! And everything about it:thumbdown:. Not for ME in anyway share or form!!
Now look at em (ios7), looking more like android IMHO..
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[Q] Is the Dropbox promotion still going on?

I remember that Samsung gave 50GB extra Dropbox storage with the S4 and Note II. Has anyone installed Dropbox yet on their Note 3 and seen if this is again the case?

Techngro said:
I remember that Samsung gave 50GB extra Dropbox storage with the S4 and Note II. Has anyone installed Dropbox yet on their Note 3 and seen if this is again the case?
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I got an extra 50 out of it

Just tried and got 48GB

Ok. Thanks. Not sure why you got 48GB, but it's close enough to 50 that I won't complain either way.

I also got 48GB. Technically, when combined with the 2-some-oddGB that dropbox gave me from the start, it ends up being like 50.7GB total, so maybe that's why they say "Get 50GB of Dropbox free!" I mean, after all, 50GB is such a nicer number than 48.

shredder47 said:
I got an extra 50 out of it
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Just tried and got 48GB
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how did you guys get it? I already have 50gb before i have Note 3. So, do i get another 50gb from purchasing the Note 3?

I did not get another 50 which socks I was looking forward to 100 lol
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I got my 50 before i even left the store.

phantasybm said:
I did not get another 50 which socks I was looking forward to 100 lol
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I got my 50gigs a year ago when I purchased my Note 2. Now, after purchasing my Note 3, i thought i would be getting another 50gigs, but NOPE!
My original 50gigs will end on October 2014. I did NOT get another 50gigs after purchasing my Note 3, and signing into Dropbox.

mr_malina said:
Just tried and got 48GB
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You got 48gb b/c you where not fully set up on Dropbox. My wife just did it and the gave her 48gb for the s4 and the 2gb for downloading the app to the computer and filling out 4 other stuffs.
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Medic97 said:
You got 48gb b/c you where not fully set up on Dropbox. My wife just did it and the gave her 48gb for the s4 and the 2gb for downloading the app to the computer and filling out 4 other stuffs.
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" Hi *******,
Congrats on becoming a Dropbox Guru! We've awarded you 48 GB of bonus space for the next 24 months. You now have 55.25 GB on Dropbox. To get even more space, check out our upgrade options.
Thanks again for supercharging your Samsung device with Dropbox!
Enjoy,
- The Dropbox Team"

I'm glad this promo is still active, as the 50GB from my ATT SGS3 "hack", was due to expire in the summer of 2014, but this'll extend it to the end of 2015, by which time 50GB should be the new minimum free amount of cloud storage anyway.
edit: fwiw, I also used the "virtual machine MAC address hack" (google it) to get another 20GB free, so I've got a total of 70GB for free (which is the max you can get afaik).

lawalty said:
I got my 50gigs a year ago when I purchased my Note 2. Now, after purchasing my Note 3, i thought i would be getting another 50gigs, but NOPE!
My original 50gigs will end on October 2014. I did NOT get another 50gigs after purchasing my Note 3, and signing into Dropbox.
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Same here, FWIW.
The 50GB that I got from my SGS3 is expiring June 2014, and the 50GB that I was supposed to get from my Note3 (during setup) was neither added to my current 70GB quota nor did it reset my expiration date.
Perhaps the way it works is that since the promos don't stack, then when one Samsung dropbox promo expires, the next one -- still hidden -- begins? In any case, it would be nice to have the confusion cleared up, so that I don't have to reupload after reactivating on my Note3 next summer.

You store stuff in the cloud? Like, where the NSA can get it?

NSA is paying for dropbox so their is no legal issues
NOTE 3

digittante said:
You store stuff in the cloud? Like, where the NSA can get it?
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That's why you pre-encrypt stuff you want to keep secret. I use encfs locally, and periodically sync it to various places like my VPS and DropBox, but others use TrueCrypt, gpg, etc.
As far as photos, I don't care if Agent P can see 'em, so I Dropsync 'em after I've deleted the crappy/blurry ones. (I'd sync with the official DropBox app, but it's dumb, in that won't delete the crappy/blurry ones you've deleted off your phone, so you'd have to do it twice).

My friend purchased a Note 3, but does not plan to use Dropbox. Is the Dropbox credit transferable? I would like to get it from him.
I read the FAQ at Dropbox (reference: https://www.dropbox.com/help/297/en) and it is stated, "The first Dropbox account that signs in to the app on the device will get 48 GB of free space." I'm thinking I can just sign in with my account on his phone, get the 48GB of storage immediately, then sign out. If he wants to create his own account, that should be fine. Is my assumption correct? Thanks.
Thanks!
Vic

When I first set up my phone, ti did the "log into dropbox for the extra space". I did it all but never got it. I did however have 50 gigs from when I bought my S3 a year and a half ago. Would that have stopped it from applying or would it have applied anyways?

johnomaz said:
When I first set up my phone, ti did the "log into dropbox for the extra space". I did it all but never got it. I did however have 50 gigs from when I bought my S3 a year and a half ago. Would that have stopped it from applying or would it have applied anyways?
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I'm in the exact same boat as you, but no one knows. Guess we'll find out next summer when our S3's 50GB expires or auto renews from our Note3 setup promo
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zmore said:
I'm in the exact same boat as you, but no one knows. Guess we'll find out next summer when our S3's 50GB expires or auto renews from our Note3 setup promo
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Same here. Still have my 50 from my S3 and I got 25 from something else, I forget (maybe HTC). I wonder if we'll ever be able to use our Note 3 promo since it wasn't added to our DB acct??? I've heard there was a max of 100, not sure if thats true or not but makes sense.