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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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This is in the general android xda apps forum, but just in case you're not a frequent peruser of that forum, there's currently an easy way to exploit a free 50gb Box account for root users. Only thing that sucks is that you can't upload files bigger than 100mb at a time, which I know is a dealbreaker for many, especially ROM devs, but its still good to have and is a lot of space, especially for the inviting price of NOTHING. check it out here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383808.
followed the directions, worked like a charm. just remember to replace your backed up build.prop after you do it. and i also found that once you exploit it, you can open up as many accounts as you want from the Box app if you just keep logging out and registering with a different email, which is nice. I made 4 accounts. call me greedy.
Cool, should come in very handy!
Thanks!
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It worked. It took about 2 minutes from downloading the prop editor to restoring my original prop, start to finish. Easy as pie. Thanks for sharing.
Would definitely use this instead of Dropbox if it'd let me upload more at a time, no way around it tho huh?
I use FolderSync for all my cloud storage services. It replaces all other cloud apps (including FTP), and it's as invaluable to me as Titanium Backup. Check it out.
CX.com 10gb Free Online Storage w/ App
the upload size limits with Box.com ruined it for me also when i realized how many files i need to backup that are too large. It's still really good for backing up mp3's though.
BUT, I came across CX.com, which gives you 10gb of free storage and has ZERO size limits. Also has an Android App. Same functionality as dropbox, but 5x the free space. can't beat it.
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the upload size limits with Box.com ruined it for me also when i realized how many files i need to backup that are too large. It's still really good for backing up mp3's though.
BUT, I came across CX.com, which gives you 10gb of free storage and has ZERO size limits. Also has an Android App CX. Same functionality as dropbox, but 5x the free space. can't beat it.
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Also check out the app Minus and Minus.com. Also free 10gb!! haven't tried it out yet though, but just made an account and it sounds pretty promising.
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.
i remember seeing that the UK version came with free dropbox space...any idea if the sprint version does as well?
Yes it does, 50GB for 2 years I believe it told me
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As the 50 gigs on Dropbox is nice, I use and love Google Drive. Is there a way to set photos to auto sync to Google Drive like you can with DropBox?
What does the two year thing mean? So... if I have a full of pics, in two years I have to start paying for that space? Sounds weird to me
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it means it reverts back to the 2gb after 2 years. you can get friends to sign up to get more space, and do a couple other things to get more space.
It comes with 48GB of temporary dropbox space, good for 2 years. I had 6GB to start with and am now up to 54GB...
how do i get that space. i have an account and its synced but i see nothing about it
edit: nevermind. i went to dropbox online and hit the "get free space" link and voila it tells me i have 48 more gigs
haha! i have 86gb
So in two years does it auto-delete everything over a certain amount?
No. Your drive is just full and it will refuse to sync or allow additional data to be uploaded or modified. You will also get frequent mail bugging you to pay for the upgrade or remove the storage. I have no idea what happens if you ignore those for a long time though.
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As the 50 gigs on Dropbox is nice, I use and love Google Drive. Is there a way to set photos to auto sync to Google Drive like you can with DropBox?
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no idea with drive, but Google plus does it
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As was just mentioned Google plus will do that for you. The gplus albums go to picasa though which uses Google drive space if the image exceeds a certain resolution. I haven't seen any way to get the raw image files into the Google drive listing short of manually storing your album sync directories on Google drive using picasa desktop. I'm using that method with certain albums that I frequently share images from (renders and screenshots) via file transfer.
It dawns on.me that you can also circumvent the manual component of the method i suggested by using the dropbox photo sync. Then set up the desktop client and point your dropbox folder to your Google drive. In that way your pictures will sync to dropbox and then right into the Google drive. You can set up the selective sync option to prevent everything but pictures from syncing that way.
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So not sure why i didn't think of this earlier, but seeing as we are all probably using an android phone aside from out nexus 7 I thought i'd bring this to light! TURNS OUT... if you have a good account going with bike race, ya know... some good bikes won according to your efforts. But with android there is no way to carry it forth. SOOO you:
1. take your phone with good account, do a titanium backup of the bike race app.
2. Connect phone to computer, search for titanium backup folder on phone drive, copy all "bike race" apps to desktop (i had 3 total)
3. Connect nexus to desktop, and copy files to nexus in same foler
4. Reboot nexus, restore bike race with titanium backup (but only data) ANNNDD VOILA!
enjoy
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Been doing this forever with all my games to retain app data across multiple devices. Don't know if a post was needed, as most have been doing this for a very long time. Far from a new thing. Not trying to be mean. Just sayin
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Yeah, this works fine, but it's a bit cumbersome.
What would be nice is some sort of automated system using google drive / dropbox / whatever. I play World of goo (or any other game) on my phone, and the next time I open it on my tablet, it's already at the latest save point from my phone.
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Yeah, this works fine, but it's a bit cumbersome.
What would be nice is some sort of automated system using google drive / dropbox / whatever. I play World of goo (or any other game) on my phone, and the next time I open it on my tablet, it's already at the latest save point from my phone.
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There are several apps that do this. One that I use is DataSync. There is a free and a paid version.
You basically setup a Box.net or DropBox account in the app. It then allows you to push backups of specific apps to your online storage. The cool thing is that it can automatically detect other DataSync apps on the network and automatically sync up and push settings to other devices.
Sync times can be varied by daily or on app change. There are also sync options such as only on WiFi or while Charging.
You can also manually push/pull updates.
Pretty cool.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quintstoffers.DataSync&hl=en
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Been doing this forever with all my games to retain app data across multiple devices. Don't know if a post was needed, as most have been doing this for a very long time. Far from a new thing. Not trying to be mean. Just sayin
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I'll let you in on my golden rule, if i can't find it in google searching or forum searching, then i post it because either it doesn't exist or its too hard to find. And I felt it pertinent seeing as most gaming apps these days have some form of online sync that backs up your progress and reverts it when you sync the app with an account, bike race being the hit it is has such a feature for the iphone, but not for android.
This thread was not craving your approval, it was purely informational . Over 500 people viewed it in less than a day, and none of them felt the need to be a the fun little raincloud of a first reply.
please go vent your pesimism on a political opinion forum.
For everyone else i was able to help, enjoy!
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There are several apps that do this. One that I use is DataSync. There is a free and a paid version.
You basically setup a Box.net or DropBox account in the app. It then allows you to push backups of specific apps to your online storage. The cool thing is that it can automatically detect other DataSync apps on the network and automatically sync up and push settings to other devices.
Sync times can be varied by daily or on app change. There are also sync options such as only on WiFi or while Charging.
You can also manually push/pull updates.
Pretty cool.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quintstoffers.DataSync&hl=en
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Great! Now I'm $2.59 poorer DataSync works very well. Thank You.
I have searched for the answer to this question and cannot find it, so excuse me if it has been answered somewhere else before. I have my 2013 Nexus 7 16gb and I have alot of word documents and pdfs stored on a flash drive. I also have Officesuite App installed on my tablet. However it is only reading the internal storage of the Nexus, is there anyway that I can direct it to read the flashdrive or any other app that I can download to accomplish this? I really do not want to transfer the files to my tablet as some of them are quite large and I dont want to use up the internal memory
You can use a cloud service like onedrive or Google drive so you can view it on any device.
Assuming the Office App advertises itself to open those type of files, you should be able to open them from any file manager (I use Total Commander) and you should be prompted with a list of programs capable of opening that type of file, then choose your office program....
Chainfire's Stickmount from the play store
Nexus media importer
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You should search topic "OTG Usb"
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I have searched for the answer to this question and cannot find it, so excuse me if it has been answered somewhere else before. I have my 2013 Nexus 7 16gb and I have alot of word documents and pdfs stored on a flash drive. I also have Officesuite App installed on my tablet. However it is only reading the internal storage of the Nexus, is there anyway that I can direct it to read the flashdrive or any other app that I can download to accomplish this? I really do not want to transfer the files to my tablet as some of them are quite large and I dont want to use up the internal memory
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I personally use OneDrive/Sky drive, Google Drive, and Dropbox... Not because I need all three but because I create a huge amount of documentation and I am unorganized. You never have to actually transfer stuff this way because you just save it in a replicated folder and it shows up everywhere.
IMO, the least practical is probably OneDrive, since it is generally confusing when/if you ever access it through the web.
Mike