I went to do a nandroid backup and it failed, "no space on my SD card".
Thats weird, as usually have at least 4 gig on my Nexus S 4g.
Poking around, it was the cache from Google plus, com.google.android.apps.plus (Android\data). That, coupled with my titanium backup of same ate my SDCARD. easy to fix Titanium from backup it up, but the cache is still several gigs large. 40,000 + files with [number].screen extensions.
I have like 2 friends on google+, 3 posts, and can not for the life of me figure out what in the world all that data is.
I'm going to remove the data , freeze the app, but just wanted to know if anyone else noticed a disproportionate amount of data in the Google+ app compared to the amount of activity/usage I have on google+.
Same problem here
... I'm running out of room on my Nexus, Google+ storage is over 5GB (!)
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... I'm running out of room on my Nexus, Google+ storage is over 5GB (!)
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Old thread I know, but it probably is Google Plus photos sync. What I'm wondering is if auto backup could be done without also having to sync G+ albums to the phone.
Hi..In the data usage screen, 25.3 mb of data used by android operating system in 2 days..can anyone please advise what is this...? Can we control it...?. I was using nexus s before and it was using a very less data for this....
Please help
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If you click further on "Android System", it will tell you how much data was foreground data and how much it was background data. If you recently added your Google account, it's normal to have a lot of data transferred for the first sync.
Well it could be as the person above stated. However, maybe you've set it up so it syncs every hour? or weather syncs every 30 mins? There could be a whole variety of things that could increase your data usage.
I'm new to the S3, I used the Facebook app for few minutes and surf two pages of web pages, my data usage went to 9MB, I only get 100MB data a month, is there a way to compress internet data to use less?
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I'm new to the S3, I used the Facebook app for few minutes and surf two pages of web pages, my data usage went to 9MB, I only get 100MB data a month, is there a way to compress internet data to use less?
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The facebook app or any app for that matter would download HQ images to fit the screen. Any compression that you'd want to use will be affect the image clarity. At the end of the day its upto you how you make this tradeoff between quality and quantity.
To save on data usage you could try using the opera mini browser or similar..
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Could not post it on Oppo forums. Seems like 1 Gb of personal data and 2 GB of Andriod data is in use out of 22 GB. Looking at the application manager it seems Photos (not google photos app but the default photos app) app is consuming 8 GB of data (only 300 Mb of photos in storage and shouldn't be part of the photos app so I guess its some kind of cache). I tried to clear data but it just tries to clean but nothing happens. Couldn't stop the photos app either. Have tried restarting the phone too.
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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.