So the new google photos is up and it offers an amazing unlimited storage space for "High quality" photos, but not "Original size" photos. With Google photos claims to be able to store high quality photos which is of maximum 16 megapixels, this should means that the photos captured using S6 will be stored at its original resolution and size. However, this is not the case as I noticed that the photos backed up on Google photos are somehow compressed to half of its original size. The same goes to photos captured using the front camera. So, this probably means that the photos stored in Google photos somehow lose its original clearness right (as least not as crispy as it should looks)? If that's so there's no point using Google photos instead of Onedrive which offers 100GB free for two years IMO. I've checked the photos stored in Onedrive and its 100% original size. What do you guys think?
I just pay $2 usd a month for 100GB from Google Drive and store everything there.
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I am using it but facing problems. If photos make me a new video I cannot export it. The app just crashes 100% of the time. Don't have this problem with my other devices.
Anybody else have this issue?
E. Export or share
I am using one drive and I love it. With office 365 subscription I now have 1tb of storage. All that for $30 /year thanks to many eBay sellers.
From the last update, yes, I use it, previous to this update I hate it since the app did things that I did ask!!, now it is not embedded with Google+ and the interface is much better.
I'm wanting to use it for the free storage but no matter how many times I set the backup quality to "high" it will revert back to "original" and consume space.
Anyone have any ideas?
I am also using One Drive but was hoping to use Google Photos because of the Google+ integration.
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I really wanted to browse my pics stored on Picasa and I'm pretty fond of the Google Gallery app (I know there are others out there).
So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzw4zzdezoz
After installation, go to your GMAIL application and select Settings > Accounts. Add a new google account, then select your current gmail account (re-add it) or select from the google account associated with Picasa.
Great Tip dascud!
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I really wanted to browse my pics stored on Picasa and I'm pretty fond of the Google Gallery app (I know there are others out there).
So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzw4zzdezoz
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Worked for me too - thanks for the tip!
Worked for me too. However, I could not get my picasa albums to sync initially.
I had to go to my GMAIL app and add my (same) account again which gave me the option to sync my picasa albums and everything works fine now.
I'm lost on the Nook Color and photo viewing, not to mention videos.
I have tried just about every app I can think, researched until I'm blue in the face, but no matter what I do, if I drop 80 photos taken by your typical-everyday camera into a directory, and copy this directory to the mounted micro-SD card, this device nearly has a stroke just creating thumbnails.
At this point, the Gallery app mentioned in this thread shows the grid of photos, and about 10 of 80 actually have a thumbnail that was created, the other 70 thumbnails on the grid turned from gray to black while the application struggled to create the thumbnails.
With 32 GB of storage space, there's no way I could manage hundreds (or thousands) of photos. I must be doing something wrong here, so much storage space, no way to use it.
Cool.. with it could also see my uPnP server
works great on my NC, thanks a lot!
KryptoNyte39 said:
I'm lost on the Nook Color and photo viewing, not to mention videos.
I have tried just about every app I can think, researched until I'm blue in the face, but no matter what I do, if I drop 80 photos taken by your typical-everyday camera into a directory, and copy this directory to the mounted micro-SD card, this device nearly has a stroke just creating thumbnails.
At this point, the Gallery app mentioned in this thread shows the grid of photos, and about 10 of 80 actually have a thumbnail that was created, the other 70 thumbnails on the grid turned from gray to black while the application struggled to create the thumbnails.
With 32 GB of storage space, there's no way I could manage hundreds (or thousands) of photos. I must be doing something wrong here, so much storage space, no way to use it.
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I've been having problems with unresized images. The resized ones display fine. I'll do a batch resize to see if that works for my photos.
Any help or new information would be much appreciated. There are a couple of apps out there that can take care of the video, but I just can't locate anything else that can deal with photos.
This is frustrating, as I purchased this device specifically over other devices that don't allow for removable storage, but what good is 32 GB of data if you can't sort it and find stuff properly?
See this thread for a really fantastic photo app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866827
Time to get more pics on my NC.
Check out Picasa Tool Pro. It's really nice and free
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OMG that fixed my calendar too. I could hug you right now.
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So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!
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What did you change to allow this? I rooted with Auto Nooter and everytime I try to install an app from Astro I get the following message: "Install Blocked"
I also tried with Root Explorer and still nothing. I am sure I am missing something very easy. Thanks in advance
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I wish I could download ALL of my Picasa images to my Nook.. But I have yet to find anything that'll do it. A few apps will let me download individual pictures, but I can't suck down the whole thing.
Picasa Tool Pro, as mentioned, is a nice tool, but as far as I can tell it has a batch uploader but not downloader. Although I'm going to check it out for the upload facility, pictures I take on my Nexus One I'd like to make to Picasa.
Honestly I still haven't figured out a halfway sane method of keeping my N1 and NC in sync.
Login to the box app from an android device any you'll automatically get upgraded to 50 GB of free storage!
This has been available for the iDevices as well.
One caveat to keep in mind, the app to do automatic syncing between desktop and Box, Box Sync, is only available to Box Business and Enterprise customers. Is not available for free accounts, even the 50G ones
Means you either have to use the web interface to access files on Box, or find a third party app that will do the desktop integration. I have used an app called Transmit on the mac to sync to do that.
I prefer dropbox I have to admit and have a paid account there. Having an extra 50GB is a nice place for dumping stuff I don't need cluttering up other places tho
Andym
don't forget you can't upload files bigger than 200mb I believe it's pretty much 50 useless gb. can only stream music so I guess if you use it for that. or to waste their bandwidth to host your <200mb files. I think you get 10gb a month
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I got the account just because, hey, 50gb storage. Gonna backup my music collection there, just so I don't lose it again (lost/corrupted huge amounts of music in recent months). Easier than carrying around an extra hdd.
The upload limit is 100mbs not 200mbs which just isnt high enough plus the no desktop synching app makes this useless for me so yeah I will be sticking with dropbox even tho I only have 2gbs but the 2gb is all I really need since I just use it for apps for my nook tablet for sideloading apps that do not appear in the market.
do you mean dropbox? i still have 2G after login on nt?
Different program.
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how much available storage left on lg g2?
Thanks
Well on my 32gb version 8.57 gb is being used by the system. With my 65 apps installed and no pictures yet I have 22gb of space so I assume with 16gb less storage you would be around 8gb free space
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I'm used to not having SD cards anymore, I have several clouds but I just use Dropbox and Google Drive. I have 100 gigs with Dropbox all free, my photos all go straight to their as well as Picasa and Google Plus. Theres no need to fill your phone up with photos when you can access them thru the gallery in the cloud. I don't store music on my phone either, I use a paid subscription to Rhapsody and before that I streamed my music using Google. Honestly the only things that should fill up space on the device these days is applications and once you debloat the phone having between 25 and 30 gigs for apps is more than enough for anyone.
im not sure if is it enough for regular user (like me).
Hi, Im sure not the only one with this problem
Im a student and between 5000 pictures of me and my friends theres at least 1000 pictures of school related crap like pictures of notebooks, books, etc.
Is there maybe an app like those duplicate image finders that can select those and just delete them?
Going through all those pictures and selecting gets really annoying after 15 minutes
DiggydogLF said:
Hi, Im sure not the only one with this problem
Im a student and between 5000 pictures of me and my friends theres at least 1000 pictures of school related crap like pictures of notebooks, books, etc.
Is there maybe an app like those duplicate image finders that can select those and just delete them?
Going through all those pictures and selecting gets really annoying after 15 minutes
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You can get rid of all junk accumulated on your device in the form of identical files. Several such related apps are available off Google Play Store.
I have a questions i saw few mods for other phones these mods give free storage on Google photos Pixel 6 is my new phone before im using oneplus 7 with PixelExperiance on these rom i have free space
Just send a text to Google and ask for your free stuff.
Use code: "free stuff now"
Pixel phones have free Google Photos storage. There's no need for a custom ROM or any mod.
Migush said:
Pixel phones have free Google Photos storage. There's no need for a custom ROM or any mod.
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No they don't not any more. This is not the case for Pixel 6 and 6 pro.
Google Pixel owners will still get these Google Photos storage perks going forward
Google has long offered perks to Pixel phone owners on Google Photos, some of which still apply under the company's new storage terms.
9to5google.com
Migush said:
Pixel phones have free Google Photos storage. There's no need for a custom ROM or any mod.
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But i have Pixel and i dont have free storage
Bartx96 said:
But i have Pixel and i dont have free storage
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Read my post just above yours!
The pixel 1 I think still has it
mac796 said:
The pixel 1 I think still has it
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On my oneplus 7 with Pixel experiance have free space i thinking sometimes copy photos to op and from oneplus send to google photos
Just subscribe to Google Drive. At £1.50 for 100GB a month it's hardly expensive.
In fact you can earn that much a month using Google Rewards then use the credit to pay for it
So... pay gooble so that you can feed them your private data? Wouldn't it be better to store your data on your own equipment?
I have 2 google accounts on my devices, when the 1st account got full, I just swapped my 2nd accound and voilá. =D
Any phones up to Pixel 5 still get unlimited Storage Saver in Google Photo, you can simply grab an old Pixel, setup a 2-way sync with FolderSync/SyncThings between the 6's DCIM folder and voila, free photo storage.
I am not sure about you, if there is such hack, I think Google can simply terminate your account and you lose everything, does this worth it to you?
killer23d said:
Any phones up to Pixel 5 still get unlimited Storage Saver in Google Photo, you can simply grab an old Pixel, setup a 2-way sync with FolderSync/SyncThings between the 6's DCIM folder and voila, free photo storage.
I am not sure about you, if there is such hack, I think Google can simply terminate your account and you lose everything, does this worth it to you?
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I have an OG pixel and this is what I do. I use Resilio Sync. Pretty easy to set up. I used to leave the OG Pixel plugged in with a max charge set at 50%. Not taking many photos lately so just turn it on to sync occasionally.
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Just send a text to Google and ask for your free stuff.
Use code: "free stuff now"
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Google just sweetened the deal today.
They have included links to free cloud services. Dropbox, Box, Amazon cloud are just a few.
Pixel Experience, Evo X can offer unlimited back up (no original quality though).
But depends on the ROM & the device & if the dev is going to bake that into the ROM or not.
Root method barely works anymore if you update apps to often :<
With 128 gb of storage, I don't necessarily need to back up to Google photos anymore. After they changed terms last, I stopped, but, the previous backups don't count against my 15 gb storage on Drive. Actually I have 17 gb, due to a promotion way back when, I took the security settings tour. So, now a days, I'm a Amazon prime member, which gives me unlimited photos storage, which is nice, that my wife's Amazon tablet gets the copies automatically when ever I fire up the hotspot to download movies to it. Plus, I can clear storage on my old devices if I really wanted to, and transfer copies there too. For now, I'm using a few of Simple Mobile apps, one calander, and now their gallery app. Amazon photos does the automatic uploads when I'm plugged in. My biggest storage issue, is clearing out most of the 8 gb of Gmail I have neglected. Google Photos, Gmail, and Drive are all on that 17 gb free storage limit.
I was using google photos not to backup pictures from my phone (i do that on my pc) but to upload pictures taken with my camera from different trips and create albums which i share with my friends and colleagues. Now i found the perfect free alternative to google photos - yandex disk. Currently they offer unlimited free storage for photos with original quality. I don't know for how long this will continue but it works great for now.
Yandex
Finds everything
disk.yandex.com
Is there any custom rom for the P6 that has the unlimited gphotos hack?
I think there is no custom ROM with hack for the " unlimited gphotos hack".. hacking is illegal and there is no custom ROM with that sort of hacks.
For 1.99 euro you have 100 gb of storage.
sakerhetz said:
I think there is no custom ROM with hack for the " unlimited gphotos hack".. hacking is illegal and there is no custom ROM with that sort of hacks.
For 1.99 euro you have 100 gb of storage.
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Umm, I think you're wrong. Not about the lack of custom ROMs with an "unlimited Google Photos" hack, but hacking itself.
It's legal to modify Android. It's a little less cut and dry whether it's legal to modify Google apps, such as the BSG Camera app mods found on XDA, but the issue of legality is moot anyway.
Both Google Camera and Photos can detect which device they are installed on and will adjust their feature sets accordingly. The only way I know of to enable unlimited storage is to change the device fingerprint to a Pixel 1 / XL, and I'm not even sure THAT will work. If you were to succeed the apps would think you had a Pixel 1 / XL and would configure themselves appropriately. That would mean no Magic Eraser, no astrophotography mode, and none of the other features that Google has put into its phones over the last several years.
Trading all the added features available for the Pixel 6 camera and the Photos app simply to gain the ability to store unlimited numbers of photos is simply not worth the hassle. As you point out, Google 1's offer of 1.99/month for 100GB of storage is totally reasonable if people are that concerned. Or they can take the time and manually do it themselves using their chosen cloud storage solution.