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I've got a rooted SGS4G. I still have the stock ROM since I run the phone as a PDA.
I got rid of the social and entertainment apps, and rooting was the only way.
Now Google maps is driving me crazy. I just want the coordinates, I live in this town so I know what's around and will not use an entertainment guide, want no part of Latitude. The stupid app just updates everything and I can't move it to the card or get rid of the extras. If I freeze it, Weatherbug Elite isn't happy. It updated yesterday, I undid the update with Titanium, and it updated itself again today.
I just might want a map sometime, so I don't want to delete it.
Anything suggestions about getting control over this stuff?
you realize that places, navigation, latitude are all a part of google maps. if you dont use it, dont put it on your homescreen and you should be good. let maps update because its helpful. use launcher pro or an app that hides apps and hide the app from your app drawer and you're fine.
dont try to mess with it because it is an integral part of the phone...
im not sure if that helps; im not 100% sure what youre trying to do
It doesn't. I don't need the maps - just the coordinates for astronomy and weather.
If I want a map, I'll download from mapquest on the computer and turn it into a pdf. Or use the printed page. I prefer print maps, I don't need a map to navigate.
If I can tell MS to get lost even though they say they own the latest OSs, then I should be able to tell Google the same. I dislike assumption.
I need a hosts file on the phone.
You could be nicer about it so good luck with what you're trying to do. I don't think it can be done to be honest. whiskey or acid may help you out
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Backup with titanium, delete with titanium, restore when needed with titanium.
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I've been doing that. I have a question about TI backup. I told it to delete the Kindle App, and using manage apps on the phone, Kindle is still listed. Did TI actually remove it?
I can't use Kindle as a reader since it's only linked to Amazon's bookstore. I like Manybooks and Gutenberg project and you can't read them on either the Kindle or Nook apps. It's funny that I could read any file on the Nook Wifi I had.
The phone is rooted and unlocked. I use it mostly as a PDA.
I liked the Palm platform and now enjoying Linux. Ubuntu doesn't assume anything. Mine came with Open Office, but if I'd rather use Libre Office, I can delete Open and install Libre.
The carriers, Samsung, and Google are assuming too much in some cases. There's quite a few that would love plain vanilla Android.
I think you see kindle app after uninstalling because you didn't get rid of correspondent .odex files. Until you do, you're going to see a link to kindle on your app drawer.
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Thanks for that info. I am not familiar with Android extensions.
There's a couple of apps that will allow you to move stuff to the card. I have App2SD and am not impressed. I can understand some of the built in programs not being moved, but I have a financial app that I bought that won't let me move it.
Do any of the other move to sd card apps work any better?
Since I'm rooted, can I use a firewall to stop the updates? I was looking at Droidwall, but I'm not sure about IP tables.
I read in another section about low memory, I've done most of that, and there's still high usage from something.
I have some .pdf, and .epub e-books on my computer that i want to put on my phone and read via google books. And I kno that G-Books reads both .pdf and .epub, but I am not sure what folder I am supposed to drop the files into. I was looking through the files on my phone using Root Explorer and I cant find anything for google books. And I also opened google books and was hoping to find some type of option that lets me select files from Internal Storage and/or External SD-Card, but the only option i could find was where to store the books, which I have set to SD-Card, but I still cannot find any folder pertaining to G-Books. So Can someone help me out and tell me how i can get these books i put on my phone (I put them in my Internal Storage) to show up in G-Books.
Bump!
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It looks like you can only use Google Books for content obtained via the Google store. Look in the market for a separate reader for your files.
yah google book need to buy from google services
Updated to ics on my tf101 and my Google books app won't connect to server? Any know what's up here"
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Thanks for post. It’s really informative stuff.
I really like to read.Hope to learn a lot and have a nice experience here! my best regards guys!
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Updated to ics on my tf101 and my Google books app won't connect to server? Any know what's up here"
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Don't hijack threads. Make your own.
Yea ! Don't hijack my thread, like he said, go make your own. If you can't play nice then go home hahaha. Seriously tho. I hate it when people do that. Good looking out Cajun
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Try GoBook. It's in the market. I use all of GO products.. Good stuff.
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Google has started limiting Music device deauthorizations to four per year. This is a major issue as you will show up as a new device if you flash a new ROM or even just wipe data and reload, even on the same device. Those of us who flash frequently and use Google Music will be running into this limit very soon. More info is in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1656038
A petition is available as well. I signed the petition and rather than asking for a removal of the limit, I merely asked them to fix their device detection, as this seems to be a valid middle ground that is more likely to yield positive results.
http://www.change.org/petitions/google-remove-google-play-music-deauthorization-limit
Signed!!!
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signed. i dont care about google music, i use poweramp. but i could see this being a huge and very annoying problem for many Android users so whatever i can do to help i guess.
as a work around, I downloaded all of the music I got from Google Music via their PC desktop app, and then use Winamp to create my playlists....
Signed, but when I looked at my authorized devices there weren't any... and I use play music so idk what's wrong there...
Signed as well, I actually use sensor music player not google, but want to help those xda members who do use google music
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Signed, but when I looked at my authorized devices there weren't any... and I use play music so idk what's wrong there...
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It only authorizes the first time you play something from the cloud. If everything is local, it won't authorize the device.
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Although I don't use Google Music, I can see how this could be a serious problem. Signing.
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Signed.
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looks like Google heard everyone and has suspended the limit till they can fix the problem. but keep signing it helps
http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/16/3025274/google-music-device-deauthorization-limit-suspended
Just saw that too. I'm sure they'll implement something like what they have with the Market, where it uses some time of fingerprint to recognize the device, even across wipes and reloads. I'm fine with the deauthorization limit if they do something like that.
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Just saw that too. I'm sure they'll implement something like what they have with the Market, where it uses some time of fingerprint to recognize the device, even across wipes and reloads. I'm fine with the deauthorization limit if they do something like that.
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I would agree with that also
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II'd like to be able to share my tablet between two people with two completely separate accounts. I thought I heard something about an app that can reboot the tablet into a separate account (separate Gmail, etc) so you can share the tablet with other people. I can't find this app and I'm not even sure it's real. Does anyone know about this? Any info would be helpful.
Thanks for your help!
the app is called "SwitchMe", i'm using the pro version and it works very well, although i rather keep my tablet and not share it so lately i don't use the app much
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1807524
Thanks! That's really helpful! One other question... Do you get access to all your apps on both sides or do you have to repurchase duplicates?
PaulQ602 said:
Thanks! That's really helpful! One other question... Do you get access to all your apps on both sides or do you have to repurchase duplicates?
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I believe the apps are tied to the google account used to access Google Play Store. So, unless each user is using the same Google account the apps won't be available on both sides.
In this thread, I just want to discuss what online cloud storage you use and your setup. It would be awesome if you could rate, or just describe your experience using it.Recently I've been thinking of paying for one of these services. The future seems more and more integrated with the cloud. Thinking of buying extra Google Drive storage to go with full-res upload on Google+. Also does anyone use a NAS server on their Wi-Fi Network? If so also let us know about it, really interested in that too.
So...
I currently use my HTC One X with Dropbox, Instant Upload enabled. In addition I store my iPhoto library on Dropbox. Everything is synced seamlessly, however takes forever for me to download them.:silly:
SkyDrive
Personaly i use SkyDrive since i am one of the older users i got the free 25GB of storage and no other service has been able to top this yet.
I use both the desktop software and the network drive mapping trick if i am on a computer without admin permissions.
I mainly store files here handy to other people or files that i want to be able to access easily on a range of diffrent computers.
In addition i got a 1GB network share hosted by DD-WRT for easy file transfers over the network.
I'm the dev of Send It - which integrates a bunch of cloud storage solutions (not trying to plug just giving my experience of using them all).
In my testing I've found Google Drive or SkyDrive to be the best implementations from a technical standpoint. Dropbox I found to be very slow both uploading and downloading compared to those. Box is also a nice solution and if you have an LG device you get 50GB free, but I found the online UI pretty clunky.
If you're looking to use it from a Phone then I would suggest Google Drive just because if you already use Google services its so much easier. Or if not SkyDrive. My 2 cents
Google Drive, because it is most reliable and fast, plus it is integrated with google services that i use, and Google provides simple desktop and mobile app for sync (i know that almoust every storage service have it, but i like simplicity of Google one)
I'm sticking with dropbox, simply because of how fast and simple it is!
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Just getting into dropbox and mediafire however I find that wetransfer is a great alternative to storing data in your gmail. Also teamviewer allows remote connections very simply and easily to store data via xfer to remote computer tablet or smartphone
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I'm using the cloud storage of One.Com, because my website is hosted there, too. you get 5 GB at first, the first year is free. pretty fast and can be integrated into windows as an "network" drive, there is an app for Ios and android, too.
Some advice please?
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I'm the dev of Send It - which integrates a bunch of cloud storage solutions (not trying to plug just giving my experience of using them all).
In my testing I've found Google Drive or SkyDrive to be the best implementations from a technical standpoint. Dropbox I found to be very slow both uploading and downloading compared to those. Box is also a nice solution and if you have an LG device you get 50GB free, but I found the online UI pretty clunky.
If you're looking to use it from a Phone then I would suggest Google Drive just because if you already use Google services its so much easier. Or if not SkyDrive. My 2 cents
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Well, thanks for letting me know bout Send It. Its Really Neat, great job. Its probably making lots of people think, why didn't I think of that, it is so simple yet it works flawlessly.
However, what I want to ask is, is using a few cloud services to have this "safety-net" if any of these cloud storage services fails so that I don't lose my work a good idea? Or is it already safe enough? Its not about the lack of storage though. I just want to know that my files are safe and backed up so I don't have to worry about it. Is what I am thinking really not worth the cumbersome mess where Less is More applies? Any help is really appreciated
I am currently using Dropbox and Box. I use Dropbox the most because it is faster and allows for larger uploads. I currently have 25GB of space to use (thank you fiverr). I use my Box account for documents, some music, and smaller backup files since it is slower and has an upload files limit of 250MB. I was able to get it early when it just started and have a 50GB account with them.
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I do not use cloud storage except Google Music, it really help free up my phone storage. Though I still keep songs my phone, I have all my songs streamable which is nice.
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vanillapuff said:
In this thread, I just want to discuss what online cloud storage you use and your setup. It would be awesome if you could rate, or just describe your experience using it.Recently I've been thinking of paying for one of these services. The future seems more and more integrated with the cloud. Thinking of buying extra Google Drive storage to go with full-res upload on Google+. Also does anyone use a NAS server on their Wi-Fi Network? If so also let us know about it, really interested in that too.
So...
I currently use my HTC One X with Dropbox, Instant Upload enabled. In addition I store my iPhoto library on Dropbox. Everything is synced seamlessly, however takes forever for me to download them.:silly:
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i think skydrive is great for windows phone users as all office files, pictures etc get uploaded in a touch.also some apps allow skydrive backups
I have no problems using Dropbox. However when I am using it on mobile too I don't put large bulky files in it.
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Well, thanks for letting me know bout Send It. Its Really Neat, great job. Its probably making lots of people think, why didn't I think of that, it is so simple yet it works flawlessly.
However, what I want to ask is, is using a few cloud services to have this "safety-net" if any of these cloud storage services fails so that I don't lose my work a good idea? Or is it already safe enough? Its not about the lack of storage though. I just want to know that my files are safe and backed up so I don't have to worry about it. Is what I am thinking really not worth the cumbersome mess where Less is More applies? Any help is really appreciated
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I suppose it depends on how easily you can upload to multiple services at once. Cloud storage is great for portability for but offline backups are always the best as you control them. Most, if not all, of these services have versioning too which is some form of backup if you accidentally overwrite a file. That's a big reason of why DropBox became so popular was ease of use, you didn't have to do anything.
I find Dropbox best for my pc, on my phone I use SkyDrive via Send It to quickly sync specific files, all of them have something different to offer. Personally I would say try a few and see which best fits your needs and then stick with one
vanillapuff said:
In this thread, I just want to discuss what online cloud storage you use and your setup. It would be awesome if you could rate, or just describe your experience using it.Recently I've been thinking of paying for one of these services. The future seems more and more integrated with the cloud. Thinking of buying extra Google Drive storage to go with full-res upload on Google+. Also does anyone use a NAS server on their Wi-Fi Network? If so also let us know about it, really interested in that too.
So...
I currently use my HTC One X with Dropbox, Instant Upload enabled. In addition I store my iPhoto library on Dropbox. Everything is synced seamlessly, however takes forever for me to download them.:silly:
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Google drive and skydrive are best ever
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Also you should know the popularity of dropbox ...
I am glad I found this thread as I was getting ready to ask the same question as the OP.
I have been using Ubuntu One which will give you 5.5 GBs of space if you use this referral link (5 GBs if you go directly to their website without using the referral link):
http://bit.ly/VOm9O7
I like it a lot:
Simple to use Android and PC interface.
Good layout on webpage.
Automatically syncs from phone.
Decent amount of space if you have a referral link.
But there are two things I don't like. First, it will not let you pick what additional folders you want to have automatically sync'd. Second, it doesn't appear to allow uploading videos saved in the Android camera folders (it might if selecting each video manually but that ties into the first issue).
So that brings me to my question. Does anyone know of a service that allows users to pick and choose what folders they want to have automatically synced to the cloud? If I could just do pictures and videos; that would be awesome! Additionally, SMS and MMS messages and maybe contacts would be nice as well.
Skydrive since almost the day it came out. Awesome integration with Windows 8, Surface and WP8.
Box and google drive. Box is the best cloud service and astro file manager helps me managing my files. Though there is already a box app in the play store but astro file manager is much easy to manage the files.
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PogoPlug, because the oly cost is for the device, and the only limit to your storage space is the size of the HDD(s) you connect to it!
Well, thanks for all the advice, but what i really am interested in is a secure way to backup my photos. I believe that cloud storage is a lot safer somehow, but has no privacy, not that I care much. A downside might be cost, but don't have to worry about that for another year. 25GB of Dropbox from HTC . I think the more backups you have, the better? If I am just going to keep local copies, what are some good Photo Library apps for a Mac? Mac and Android Fan, no, not an alien. Or is there a way to set up a private wireless drive and upload straight from the phone.
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