The summary is my videos were not backing up at 4K when my google drive was showing full (15GB used of 15GB). I deleted some gmail e-mail which counts against the 15GB G-drive limit and now videos backup at 4K. Just a fluke? Will this happen again after I get to 15GB again? Details are below.
About a week before I got the Pixel, I received a notification that my Google storage was almost full (didn't remember the exact wording..... google drive? Google Photos?). No problem as I was getting my Pixel shortly and I would have unlimited picture and video backup from the phone. I got my phone on Thursday the 20th and four days later I got a notification that my google storage was full. I went to Google Photos on a computer web browser and saw all my pictures and videos from the day before were backed up. While in google photos (on the PC), I checked out the resolution of my pictures (click on the little "i" for info button). They were full resolution (4048 × 3036). Then I checked on a video that uploaded. It was only 1080P. I checked the original video on the camera and it was 3840x2160 (4K). I went to the google drive web page and clicked on "upgrage storage" which got me a breakdown of how that 15GB was reached. 10GB for gmail, 5GB for photos, and basically nothing for google drive. Last night after some serious searching on how to bulk delete e-mails from gmail, I knocked gmail down to 5GB which puts me at 10GB used of 15GB for free. I took a video to see what resolution it got backed up as. This morning I see it was stored at full resolution (4K). It makes me wonder if every time my storage gets to 15GB (total between gmail, photos and G-drive) if my videos are going to stop backing up at 4K?
I assume you didn't take those pictures in the 4 days you have had the phone, which is where you're problem lies. The unlimited backups are only for picture and video content taken from your pixel, not necessarily uploaded from your pixel.
I think the new video uploaded to 4k because you shot it on your pixel, while the other ones were from a previous phone?
Samzebian said:
I assume you didn't take those pictures in the 4 days you have had the phone, which is where you're problem lies. The unlimited backups are only for picture and video content taken from your pixel, not necessarily uploaded from your pixel. I think the new video uploaded to 4k because you shot it on your pixel, while the other ones were from a previous phone?
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Of the 5GB of pictures/videos I have stored on the Google Drive / Photo backup, most of that was already there from previous phones. So lets say I had 4.9GB of previous pictures/videos already on Google drive. It was the pictures and videos that I took on my Pixel that took me over 5GB (which when combined with 10GB from Gmail put me over 15GB). The video that I spoke of that was stored in Google Photos at 1080P was taken by my Pixel and uploaded by my pixel. So the new video was down scaled, but the new pictures off my Pixel were not. Then I cleaned 5GB out of gmail bringing my total storage used down to 10GB and made another video on the Pixel. When I checked that 2nd video, it was on Google drive at full resolution. I might just have to wait until I hit 15GBs again and see if my videos start uploading to Google drive at 1080P again.
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As it seems that the Us is going to have the nexus this Thursday, what are the exact steps for transferring SD card storage to the Cloud and the actual phone? What is best to store where?
I have music, documents, photos, various roms, apps, and corresponding data to the apps. Currently I have 8g included with my Droid X and a 32g SD card.
I still have space left, but I would rather have everything ready for the transition.
What are the steps that you recommend? Also which cloud for backups and how do you go about it? Is it a google cloud, carrier, or Samsung? How much space do we get? Are they charging for space? Does it back up the same kind of data as an SD card?
The only thing I know is that you don't have access in the subway, plane, or anywhere without a data/wifi connection. Has this been a problem for anyone?
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Quoto, i recive my Galaxy Nexus tomorrow, and i want to prepare all my files/data to the cloud, to use the minor space possible of the 16GB.
What are the best services in each camp??
For music, Google Music (I've uploaded my song library yet), but for others?
Google Docs and Picasa work quite well I find. You could store your more frequently used info on device, and the rest is cloud'ed.
Im not yet sure what is best for music and videos.
Photos: I use both picasa and photobucket
music: google music, best hands down
anything else: dropbox and box.net, I use both.
spencer88 said:
Photos: I use both picasa and photobucket
music: google music, best hands down
anything else: dropbox and box.net, I use both.
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almost same as above
except i only use picasa
and for documents i use Google Office (google docs)
i also have Minus, CX, and tons of other free web storage accounts with 10+ GB on each...
the only problem is.... 3G/4G speed sucks, and it's a PITA to sync anything
your best bet is a good WiFi hotspot, or be near a non congested 3G tower
...in other words, the cloud thing is not as sweet dream as they paint it to be
Yes, 3G/3.5G networks in Italy are horribles :-(
I also use Plex for movies and TV. Best app ever... has an audio/video studder with ICS right now, but it will be fixed in a couple days...
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Originally posted this over at AC....but with 200 views and no responses, maybe it's better here at XDA.
Having a weird one with the Photos app. Photos that are deleted, keep re-populating after a couple of hours. It's over 200 images...
HTC One M8, rooted, SuperSU'd, and then flashed with TWRP to the standard Google Play Edition of KK 4.4.2 (that supposedly keeps OTA updates). I do have a 32gig SD card installed (technically I didn't format the SD card in the phone, just installed it and it was recognized and started working). The SD card does have a few apps and other data (music) on it.
Photos app on the M8 is NOT signed into my Google account (verified in the Photos app settings section). Looking at the Photos app on Google via my computer browser, these images do NOT show up (deleted, and emptied trash a couple days ago).
These images are not part of my Google Drive.
It almost seems like the Photos app thinks it is deleting the images, but a permissions issues keeps it from happening (even though the Photos app image view thinks it does).
Which kind of seems like what is going on, but I don't know how to solve if that's what it is. I had also installed Pixlr Express and Camera ZOOM a couple weeks ago. I've since deleted these two apps, but their subdirectory remnants remain...
Any ideas on this?
TIA.
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Originally posted this over at AC....but with 200 views and no responses, maybe it's better here at XDA.
Having a weird one with the Photos app. Photos that are deleted, keep re-populating after a couple of hours. It's over 200 images...
HTC One M8, rooted, SuperSU'd, and then flashed with TWRP to the standard Google Play Edition of KK 4.4.2 (that supposedly keeps OTA updates). I do have a 32gig SD card installed (technically I didn't format the SD card in the phone, just installed it and it was recognized and started working). The SD card does have a few apps and other data (music) on it.
Photos app on the M8 is NOT signed into my Google account (verified in the Photos app settings section). Looking at the Photos app on Google via my computer browser, these images do NOT show up (deleted, and emptied trash a couple days ago).
These images are not part of my Google Drive.
It almost seems like the Photos app thinks it is deleting the images, but a permissions issues keeps it from happening (even though the Photos app image view thinks it does).
Which kind of seems like what is going on, but I don't know how to solve if that's what it is. I had also installed Pixlr Express and Camera ZOOM a couple weeks ago. I've since deleted these two apps, but their subdirectory remnants remain...
Any ideas on this?
TIA.
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Hey There,
I read this somewhere, that the 4.4.2 Android has issues deleting stuff -obviously pictures in this case- from the SDcard..
They will correct it with 4.4.3. ... or you have the chance to install a custom rom..it is prolly fixed there
So the website has some description of what can be transferred.. Tbh all my photos and vids are in g photos, I use hangouts and fb messenger so my messages are backed up on a server, use Google contacts that sync when u log into the phone.
I was hoping the true advantage of the cable transfer was to bring app data across, not having to log into 30 different apps will be an advantage. Half my apps don't have an export button (I know I can transfer some via PC)
Does anyone have any more info on this? Literally half the reason I root is to use titanium backup to restore my data on a new ROM xD (I'm coming from a OnePlus two but if there's info about iOS for others that would be useful!)
I took some pictures with Geo Tagging enabled. I want to remove the location info from one of those pictures. I can't seem to do it at all on my phone.
Managed to delete the exif data from a Windows 10 box after downloading, but seems like I should be able to do it in Google photos.
Various Google search results say you can but, I don't have the option to on my pixel.
I have Verizon Pixel XL and with that I get unlimited free storage at original quality for photos and videos uploaded from my phone to Google Photos.
Is that storage still unlimited after I root my phone?
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I have Verizon Pixel XL and with that I get unlimited free storage at original quality for photos and videos uploaded from my phone to Google Photos.
Is that storage still unlimited after I root my phone?
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Yes. I have a Google Store Pixel XL on Verizon. It is unlocked and rooted and I still am able to upload photos/videos directly from my phone at full resolution without any impact to my available storage on Google Photos.
Yes definitely. However, if you run an AdBlocker, you may have trouble automatically uploading while on WiFi. I had to add Google Photos to the whitelist. Just a heads up!