I have never used cloud storage before, however I assumed with my 40mb/s download and 8mb/s upload that it was be quick and easy.
However when I went to upload a 1.5gb movie onto Google Drive, it took around 2-3 hours to complete. It finally completed and I thought great, I can now watch it. I loaded up the Google Drive app on my phone located the file, clicked it to open and play, and it now says it has to load the file which is taking at least 10-15 minutes to complete.
Is this really what cloud storage is like? I could have copied the file onto my device in about 15 minutes, instead with google drive (which I thought would have been faster) is taking about 3 hours 15 minutes I'm more concerned as I just ordered the Nexus 7 tablet, and will be relying on cloud storage for accessing media on it!
This is my problem with droid too. It seems cloud storage is just that, storage. I came from wp7 and was used to uploading movies from pc to skydive and then streaming them on the phone player.
I've looked for an app on play for ages but nothing gives this functionality. Is jellybean any better? I know ios can stream from cloud, so it isn't a linux shortcoming, there must be an app, please someone tell us how
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Tried searching but didnt come up with much.
ANyone ever use dropbox?
I was thinking of trying it just to make things easier when want to put music, movie or book onto my gtab or phone.
Just wondering if it works with gtablet and how well it does. Like will it take an hour to get a 100mb file onto gtab etc..
Thanks for any info you can offer
jacobbones said:
Tried searching but didnt come up with much.
ANyone ever use dropbox?
I was thinking of trying it just to make things easier when want to put music, movie or book onto my gtab or phone.
Just wondering if it works with gtablet and how well it does. Like will it take an hour to get a 100mb file onto gtab etc..
Thanks for any info you can offer
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How long a file takes to transfer usually (almost always) depends on your internet connection speed. Since the GTAB is WIFI only, you would think that it would be on a decent ISP. I have beed using Dropbox for months now on both my EVO and my GTAB and it works spectacular.
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Dropbox is free, why not just try it? Only takes minutes to install and try.
It works like any android phone.
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+1 Works awesome! I load anything I need in my DropBox and is available anytime I need it on my Laptop, GTab or HTC Inspire 4G. You can also share to anyone, anywhere. Great app!
jacobbones said:
Like will it take an hour to get a 100mb file onto gtab etc..
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It's no slower on the gtab.
Remember with dropbox that everything goes "thru the cloud" - so if you want to copy a file from computer to gtab, and the two are 1' apart, sending the file to dropbox (limited by your broadband upload speed) and then copying it down from dropbox to your gtab (limited by your broadband download speed) is going to be a lot slower than using local networking, or direct USB mounting, or a USB memory stick.
Dropbox is often slower than my 45mbit connection at work, and even slower than my 12mbit connection at home. It seems to download for me at about 250-400kb/sec, or about 6-7 minutes to transfer a 100MB file.
Dropbox is great, but if your looking for automatic file sync then SugarSync is far superior. You can selectively sync files between a computer and android device, so the downloads happen automatically. Also if your looking to play video files on the Gtab, google docs now streams uploaded video files in a youtube style player, which works very well on the Gtab
schettj said:
It's no slower on the gtab.
Remember with dropbox that everything goes "thru the cloud" - so if you want to copy a file from computer to gtab, and the two are 1' apart, sending the file to dropbox (limited by your broadband upload speed) and then copying it down from dropbox to your gtab (limited by your broadband download speed) is going to be a lot slower than using local networking, or direct USB mounting, or a USB memory stick.
Dropbox is often slower than my 45mbit connection at work, and even slower than my 12mbit connection at home. It seems to download for me at about 250-400kb/sec, or about 6-7 minutes to transfer a 100MB file.
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That is mostly correct. Dropbox uses md5 checksums when you upload a file to see if it already has it in its database. If it does, it automatically shows it as in your dropbox and it is ready to download instantly. They do this so they save space.
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yes its very nice to use. You can sideload any apk's on your laptop then just grab the ones that you need tablet side
I was checking my battery status in settings and noticed Media Server has taken 56% of my battery, and has caused my phone to stay awake for over 18 hours and has almost 5 hours of CPU time. I have been getting over a days worth of battery with 4-5 hours of screen on time, I am currently at 22 hours with only 1.5 hours of screen on time. I don't see a way to stop it from running in Application Manager.
Is there a way to stop this process from keeping my phone awake? Is this connected with any particular application, or called something else in Application Manager?
I'm having the same issue as well.
I've seen it take a decent chunk more than once. Only like 15% at max so I'm not doing nearly as bad though. I'm curious about what it is exactly as well.
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I've seen it take a decent chunk more than once. Only like 15% at max so I'm not doing nearly as bad though. I'm curious about what it is exactly as well.
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Yeah I have always noticed it on my list, but it was never a huge drain on the battery. Like you said in the 15% range, all of the sudden though it just jumped up to over 50%. I can't think of an application I have used to make it use such a huge chunk of my battery.
So I went back into Application Manager and noticed under the Running tab that there was a "Show cached processes" option in the top right corner. Under that there was a Media application listed that uses the "android.process.media" process. Any chance that this could be related to the Media Server, or am I heading in the wrong direction?
I have recharged and restarted my phone, and Media Server is back down to 6% after discharging for 5 hours. I would just like to know what I possibly did to make my battery drain so quickly. I haven't watched any movies or videos and Pandora is the only time I listen to music on my phone.
According to my research, the media service covers scanning your internal and external sdcards for media files, including music, pictures and videos. If one file is corrupted in some way, it can cause the service to hang. That said, mine was doing the same thing. There's an app on the play store called Media Rescan Root that blocks the service at boot. The stock media player, player pro, and probably others use the media service to find new songs added to the sdcard. I switched over to PowerAmp which does its own search which doesn't hang like that. That's what I reccomend.
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Do you have Drive installed?
I had the same issue with media server eating up about 60% battery. I have Google Drive installed and have around 1gb data in it. In accounts my sync settings were set to always sync Drive. I unchecked this and the media server issue seemed to have been resolved.See if this helps you.
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I had the same issue with media server eating up about 60% battery. I have Google Drive installed and have around 1gb data in it. In accounts my sync settings were set to always sync Drive. I unchecked this and the media server issue seemed to have been resolved.See if this helps you.
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I unchecked media sync, and put back in my SD card, which has about 12 gb of music on it. Within 10 minutes, the media scanner jumped from .02% to 12%, so this didn't seem to make a difference for me.
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According to my research, the media service covers scanning your internal and external sdcards for media files, including music, pictures and videos. If one file is corrupted in some way, it can cause the service to hang. That said, mine was doing the same thing. There's an app on the play store called Media Rescan Root that blocks the service at boot. The stock media player, player pro, and probably others use the media service to find new songs added to the sdcard. I switched over to PowerAmp which does its own search which doesn't hang like that. That's what I reccomend.
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Same thing happened to me. Mine turned out to be m4a files that were causing. I removed them and no longer see mediaserver power drain.
I read a forum a few days ago that talked about wifi causing the media service drain. They said to set a static IP address instead of dynamic and that would solve the problem. I spend most of my time on wifi so this makes a little bit of sense to me. I have set a static address and so far today my media service has remained at 3%. I don't have the link to the forum right now but I'll try to find it again and link to it later.
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Edit: Apparently that did not last long. My Media Server stayed down at 2% for several hours but then for no aparent reason it spiked up to its current usage of 31% (2hr CPU time and 7hr of Stay Awake). I would really like to know what is causing this.
There's lot's of apps that do this sort of thing, but none of them do exactly what I want (from what I've found so far).
I have tried DoubleTwist, but it tries to automatically sync my ENTIRE music collection to my phone. That's ridiculous and unnecessary. I don't need my entire 100+ GB collection with me at all times.
What I'm looking for is something like this: I want to set a specific folder that automatically syncs all of its content with my phone and/or tablet. Kind of like how Dropbox works. I copy something into the Dropbox folder, and eventually that something is on the cloud, accessible by me wherever I am.
Alternatively, I wouldn't mind simply Right Clicking in Windows, and then "Sending To" one of my mobile devices, as long as they're on the same WiFi network as my laptop.
Does something like this exist?
Ps. I'm on a Samsung Galaxy 3 & Note 8.
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There's lot's of apps that do this sort of thing, but none of them do exactly what I want (from what I've found so far).
I have tried DoubleTwist, but it tries to automatically sync my ENTIRE music collection to my phone. That's ridiculous and unnecessary. I don't need my entire 100+ GB collection with me at all times.
What I'm looking for is something like this: I want to set a specific folder that automatically syncs all of its content with my phone and/or tablet. Kind of like how Dropbox works. I copy something into the Dropbox folder, and eventually that something is on the cloud, accessible by me wherever I am.
Alternatively, I wouldn't mind simply Right Clicking in Windows, and then "Sending To" one of my mobile devices, as long as they're on the same WiFi network as my laptop.
Does something like this exist?
Ps. I'm on a Samsung Galaxy 3 & Note 8.
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did you try Google Drive ?
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did you try Google Drive ?
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I actually stopped using GDrive in favour of Drop Box because it wouldn't automatically upload files from my laptop to the cloud storage.
Are you saying that if I copy a music file into Google Drive it will be on my phone? Even when it's offline? (That's the key)
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I actually stopped using GDrive in favour of Drop Box because it wouldn't automatically upload files from my laptop to the cloud storage.
Are you saying that if I copy a music file into Google Drive it will be on my phone? Even when it's offline? (That's the key)
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Of course not if you are offline, there is no software can do it without internet connection
you should look for software that sync over WIFI if you are in same network. I suggest you to google "sync over WIFI"
I am a heavy google drive user and often upload a lot of videos pictures.
Last night I uploaded 1.5gb of media.
This morning I have a notification telling me my storage space is running out. And sure enough its down to 75mb!! Yes, Megabytes!
It seems that when I upload media it is stored locally on the device.
From what I see in /data/data/com.google.android.apps.drive
So effectively I have 2 of each file?
Is this correct?
Am I safe to delete these in the data folder?
Is there a way to change where Google Drive saves files when they are downloaded (on Android devices NOT Windows PCS)? If so how? I all of a sudden noticed I was low on internal storage space on my phone and after spending all night trying to figure out what was taking up all the space I discovered it was a 1GB Video file made by my phones camera that Google Drive for some reason uploaded to my phones internal memory (or did The Google Drive App automatically download it wen it saw a new file in my Online Google Drive?) after I uploaded it to my Google Drive from my phone even though it was already on my External Memory card, why did Google Drive download it to my phones internal memory? That's redundant and unnecessary. How do I set Google Drive to Not download Videos unless I prompt it to?
Thanks