I have been using Google Photos for years, but this is my first Pixel device. My main concern is that since Google Photos is the primary photo/video viewer, how can I ensure that when I playback recorded videos that they are loading from my internal storage and NOT from the cloud?
Basically, I don't want to wait for videos to buffer, but I can't seem to tell when I'm accessing cloud storage vs internal storage when viewing pics/vids. Any tips?
PuffDaddy_d said:
I have been using Google Photos for years, but this is my first Pixel device. My main concern is that since Google Photos is the primary photo/video viewer, how can I ensure that when I playback recorded videos that they are loading from my internal storage and NOT from the cloud?
Basically, I don't want to wait for videos to buffer, but I can't seem to tell when I'm accessing cloud storage vs internal storage when viewing pics/vids. Any tips?
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I don't think there is a way to know for sure. If you took a video and didn't tell photos to delete the backed up photos and videos I would assume it will play the local file.
hatdrc said:
I don't think there is a way to know for sure. If you took a video and didn't tell photos to delete the backed up photos and videos I would assume it will play the local file.
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That hasn't been the case so far. I played a video that I recorded a few days ago (backed up but not deleted) and it took a few seconds to buffer before playing. I would think Google Photos would play the local file by default instead of wasting data.
Edit:
On second thought, you might be right. I don't recall turning on the auto delete feature but scrolling back through the images from inside the camera app shows the video is not there. But that still doesn't tell us a good way to know when Google Photos is accessing internal storage or cloud storage in general.
Turn on airplane mode. If you can access your media, it's local. If not, it's in the cloud.
btonetbone said:
Turn on airplane mode. If you can access your media, it's local. If not, it's in the cloud.
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Good call, that worked perfectly!
To make sure you're looking at local files hit the Menu button and go to 'Device Folders'
thenags said:
To make sure you're looking at local files hit the Menu button and go to 'Device Folders'
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That's even easier! I knew there had to be a simple way. thank you
PuffDaddy_d said:
That's even easier! I knew there had to be a simple way. thank you
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Now if only it'd keep the folder structure in the backups. That's my one huge complaint aboit Photos.
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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.
So my Galaxy Nexus is coming in the mail either today (May 9) or tomorrow (May 10).
I have a Nexus S and A LOT of stuff on it; apps, pictures, music, saved data, email crap, etc.
Is there anyway to transfer all of it to my new Galaxy Nexus??? Like is there some sort of Google service that can do that?
C'mon guys! Someone HAS to know an answer......
I transferred the data (pics, music, etc) from my old phone to a folder on my comp and then transferred it back to the Nexus. Is that an option for you?
WiredPirate said:
I transferred the data (pics, music, etc) from my old phone to a folder on my comp and then transferred it back to the Nexus. Is that an option for you?
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Yeah I was going to do that, but on google.com/nexus it says that you can use some sort of Google thing to transfer all of your stuff.... I was just wondering if that would work and how to do it, but if not; Ill just do it the way you said.
Chubby_Skunk said:
Yeah I was going to do that, but on google.com/nexus it says that you can use some sort of Google thing to transfer all of your stuff.... I was just wondering if that would work and how to do it, but if not; Ill just do it the way you said.
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? .. what google stuff?
just copy paste it over.
Chubby_Skunk said:
Yeah I was going to do that, but on google.com/nexus it says that you can use some sort of Google thing to transfer all of your stuff.... I was just wondering if that would work and how to do it, but if not; Ill just do it the way you said.
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are you talking about beam?
that works on apps not stuff
Chubby_Skunk said:
Yeah I was going to do that, but on google.com/nexus it says that you can use some sort of Google thing to transfer all of your stuff.... I was just wondering if that would work and how to do it, but if not; Ill just do it the way you said.
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The half a paragraph that google means, if you have all your pictures synced with google plus, and have all your music on the google music server, then you would be able to get that back with just signing in, hopefully you sync your contacts with google that also will come back. The apps part well I always found their app restore alittle problematic, it does keep a record of your apps installed, and they will reinstall if you opt into that, but you may get a ton of apps tthat you deleted that may get thrown in there too.
I have not used app brain in a long while but they did have a feature that scans your installed apps and lets save that to your profile, that will be your best choice if that is still a feature. But app data does not get restored, for that you will have too copy over some folders, they should mostly be in android/data but YMMV with that and may be hit or miss if the data gets restored. On a side note if/when you try that install the apps first then copy the android/data folders back over and then restart your phone.
These are your options if your not rooted I may be wrong, but I have restored some games data for a friend by copying that android/data to their new phone
I really hope with google giving out personnel cloud storage that they include a opt in to have your app data stored in their. For normal consumers they do not know xda they do not know root. Having a means to include seemless app backup would be great as for normal people digging through folders to backup app data in case their phone breaks is not something they think about
Ok..
Go to google.com/nexus
Click on the "Beyond Smart" link/shortcut thingy
then read what it says....
Am i missing something?
Chubby_Skunk said:
Ok..
Go to google.com/nexus
Click on the "Beyond Smart" link/shortcut thingy
then read what it says....
Am i missing something?
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u need to use google's cloud service to do that.
it's like google version of dropbox.
Chubby_Skunk said:
Ok..
Go to google.com/nexus
Click on the "Beyond Smart" link/shortcut thingy
then read what it says....
Am i missing something?
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It's referring to Google Backup; if you have an option on your Nexus S to b/u your apps/settings to Google servers, then it will automatically restore your apps, and some settings (wifi passwords, etc...) to your phone. It won't restore any data associated with these apps however, i.e. you made to to the 99th level on some game, etc... It's not a special cloud service you have to sign up for, but you do have to check a box or two. It's handy, but not as potentially awesome as they make it sound. Look in the settings menu on your current phone, option will be under Backup and Restore or alike, and you'll be prompted for these options the first time you fire up your new phone.
IF you're backed up currently, it will auto download your apps (including the free ones) to your phone when you sign into your Google acct.
No idea if it works in going from Nexus S to Galaxy Nexus however.
Edit: pic in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23420998&postcount=2141
oooh I understand now. Thanks for the help guys!
[Q] Note 4 Gallery Failure to update
So, how often does the gallery ap, or whatever cache it uses updating for new files?
I download a picture, and it refuses to show up until after I restart the phone.
Ideas?
So. Anyone? Repro:
Download image from external source. Web or Dropbox.
go to gallery app. Notice download gallery is not updated.
have to restart to get it to show up.
Can anyone even repro this? Hello?
SD card speeds?
Hello,
I would start by formatting your SD card and putting your pics back on the SD card. If you dont have a class 10 SD card then the gallery can be a pain.
I use a Samsung 64gb Pro MicroSD and it simply flies. After the first boot up.. never noticed a single refresh. Must have cached all my hundreds of pics as I can
now freely flow though my entire library at full speed with zero redraws. Hope this helps.
PS. Best Buy has the nice 64gb Samsung EVO microSD card on sale for $30 right now. That should be perfect.
That has nothing to do with this. "Havent noticed a refresh". What?
Anyway, the issue is that the gallery is NOT refreshing when new things are written to the card outside of camera photos. So downloaded photos do not show up. It has nothing to do with the SD card.
Thanks.
Good Luck then. Seems you are alone on this. Warranty replace maybe? Factory reset?
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Do you have dropbox or picasa Web albums? I know on my phones , the gallery can become unusable because it wants to sync the 9000 pictures I have on drop box, another 6000 or so on picasa and a few thousand from favebook. I have my pictures set to auto upload, so they build up.
Anyway, the gallery automatically I'd set to sync those thumbnails, and the result is that my phone slows to a hault.
Turning off picasa and dropbox to sync in the gallery fixes it every time.
Nope he is not aloe. I have the same issue. And I bet you also have it.
Download a picture from dropbox to SD or externalSD, and try to find it in the gallery. You won't be able to find it because the gallery refresh is slow (or buggy). If you receive files over BT, or snap some pics, they will be instantly available in the gallery. But not downloaded or PC uploaded images.
My solution was to open the image in file exporer. Navigate to where you downloaded it, and open it 1x-2x, then it will show up in the gallery as well. Or another workaround is Quickpic.. It's quite a very awesome app that lets you show/hide different folders (which the default gallery LACKS), even password protect some. The only reason I use the built in gallery is because my display is set to auto adapt and it changes the display to AMODEL picture (but I might change the display to permanent AMOLED picture)..
Hy,
anyone saw that the new gallery update brings "Browse your photos and videos in the cloud" functionality?
Now I sure dont see any option for this but at night I got a notification from Coud that "duplicates has been deleted"...
I dont know where I can find this features, but I sure dont want any photos/videos uploaded to cloud without my permission... So if anyone have any info on this, I would really appreciate it.
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I have an htc one m7 that I just updated to the latest version, after a reboot it shows the same message "gallery cloud" duplicate... etc
It didnt ask for my permission, I have the htc sync disabled, cant seem to find the option to disable this POS. Not happy.
I just noticed this morning the same behavior. I am trying to find out where this service is coming from, why it is running without my permissions and why it is putting my personal information in the cloud somewhere and I don't know where or how to get it, shut it off, or change it. It has really pissed me off to no end. I am hoping someone has an idea.
Just came here looking for the same answer.
A bit of a **** move if HTC is uploading peoples pics without asking first!!
I've emailed HTC via the play store app and asked how do we turn this feature off. I'll post if I get an answer...
Chiming in. just saw this, not pleased. I'm thinking of disabling the app till a solution is found.
I might bin it too, don't want this feature using up my data allowance...I've got about 4000 pictures on my phone...
yea wtf
Same issue. my phone keeps giving me a Cloud Gallery notification every 10 minutes or so saying it deleted duplicate photos. What in the world HTC was thinking, we may never know. But they need to let us turn this off because I show it using my data. Not cool HTC.
To add to it, I open my gallery and its cycling through all of my photos. Constantly. I click a folder, then the 'highlights' starts fast-cycling through every single photo in the folder. Not like a preview as it used to (which was annoying). This needs to stop. As someone else mentioned, I also have thousands of photos on my phone and this is driving me nuts.
CrazyCypher said:
Hy,
anyone saw that the new gallery update brings "Browse your photos and videos in the cloud" functionality?
Now I sure dont see any option for this but at night I got a notification from Coud that "duplicates has been deleted"...
I dont know where I can find this features, but I sure dont want any photos/videos uploaded to cloud without my permission... So if anyone have any info on this, I would really appreciate it.
Best regards
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HTC Cloud Gallery does not upload any of your files to the cloud. It only indexes whatever you have on Dropbox, GDrive, FB, Flickr, only after you have agreed to link to those sites. If you see photos found by Cloud Gallery, those could be uploaded by Dropbox or GDrive automatically. You need to check their settings. Again, Cloud Gallery is a "read only" indexing service.
Started getting the same notification since the last few days -- and the worst part is that there doesn't seem to be a setting anywhere in the gallery app or in the system settings allowing to configure this "Cloud Sync" or turn it off all together.
And now I really don't know if my pictures got "synced" somewhere in someone's cloud Really annoying. Uninstalled the gallery app altogether with Titanium Backup root uninstall.
adri72 said:
Started getting the same notification since the last few days -- and the worst part is that there doesn't seem to be a setting anywhere in the gallery app or in the system settings allowing to configure this "Cloud Sync" or turn it off all together.
And now I really don't know if my pictures got "synced" somewhere in someone's cloud Really annoying. Uninstalled the gallery app altogether with Titanium Backup root uninstall.
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I have the same issue. Haven't found a solution yet but I wanted to let you know that freezing/uninstalling gallery will stop the cloud syncs but there are side affects.
I froze it and all seemed normal until I tried to set a contact image. Freezing gallery somehow disrupted the ability to link images to contacts. I tried it from within the contact app and through a third party gallery app and it wouldn't work either way. I had to defrost the HTC gallery in order to set the contact image.
There maybe other side affects but that was the only one that I ran into.
Since the Pixel and Pixel XL have unlimited full resolution gPhotos storage for pictures uploaded from the device itself, can I download all of my photos that were on there, delete the photos from gPgotos then reupload them from my Pixel to free up some gDrive space?
The photos would take a long time to download so before I try it, I was wondering if anyone has attempted this already? I haven't been able to find anything about this.
Yes
I downloaded all my old photos and videos from drive.
Gathered every other photo and video I wanted to keep.
I created a folder on my phone and dropped it in there 40-50gb at a time.
let it upload over night.
Performed the space saving task in google photos the next morning.
I did this repeatedly over 10 nights.
never saw an increase in storage consumption registered in my account.
just make sure you are on wifi.
Wait what? maybe im missing something here.
ive always used google photos, and when i purchased my pixel i was almost out of original quality photo space. After activating my pixel and signing into my account, the storage amount said unlimited for both original and hd quality.
i didnt have to download delete and upload or anything like that.
@noidea24
Its only unlimited for all new photos uploaded from the pixel. All photos from the past take up storage if stored in original quality.
irule311 said:
@noidea24
Its only unlimited for all new photos uploaded from the pixel. All photos from the past take up storage if stored in original quality.
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Im still not seeing what your saying. Like i said, i have ALL my old videos and photos backed, and continuously back up more everyday. The only difference is where google photos said "3gb left original storage" and "unlimited hd/hq storage" before, it now says Unlimited.
From the day i activated my pixel, this has changed to unlimited storage for both from my pixel and my pc.
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Im still not seeing what your saying. Like i said, i have ALL my old videos and photos backed, and continuously back up more everyday. The only difference is where google photos said "3gb left original storage" and "unlimited hd/hq storage" before, it now says Unlimited.
From the day i activated my pixel, this has changed to unlimited storage for both from my pixel and my pc.
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Go here and you should see what we are talking about.
https://www.google.com/settings/storage
noidea24 said:
Im still not seeing what your saying. Like i said, i have ALL my old videos and photos backed, and continuously back up more everyday. The only difference is where google photos said "3gb left original storage" and "unlimited hd/hq storage" before, it now says Unlimited.
From the day i activated my pixel, this has changed to unlimited storage for both from my pixel and my pc.
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To free up drive space so you can store other items (non-photo's/videos) you would want to convert all your OLD photo's/videos to the "free unlimited storage". This is why you have to download all the old items, delete them from Google Drive, move them to your phone, and then upload them again. You will then have all your Google Drive space back.
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Yes
I downloaded all my old photos and videos from drive.
Gathered every other photo and video I wanted to keep.
I created a folder on my phone and dropped it in there 40-50gb at a time.
let it upload over night.
Performed the space saving task in google photos the next morning.
I did this repeatedly over 10 nights.
never saw an increase in storage consumption registered in my account.
just make sure you are on wifi.
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Thanks! I'm going to give it a try.
Do all the "refreshed" photos maintain all the date info for timeline purposes? I'm thinking they would, but just wanted to make sure before I go through with it.