I can see that Google Talk (version 4.2.1) displays thumbnails of images when they're linked in the chat, but does it actually pre-download the full image before the user clicks through the link? I noticed the app used up almost 10MB of data in a matter of minutes when I turned on 3G on my commute home today. I had not sent or received any new messages to/from my contacts during that time. The only thing I can think of is the GIF image that I linked in the chat earlier in the day on a desktop machine, which got synced with my phone when I turned on data later. The GIF was about 8.8MB. If it's true that Google Talk prefetches images, then it's very concerning for users on limited data plans. 10MB is 10% of my monthly quota gone from just opening the app.
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I synced for the first time last night. It went well. The myphone interface on the web is pretty basic and the limitation of pulling up only 15 contacts at a time is a bit low but whatever.
I like it!
Backs up SMS too, sweet.
I tried it and I liked it too, but the space available (200MB) was way too little. At least 2GB would be sweet.
I haven't been invited to join MyPhone yet.
Bowdowntozoltan said:
I haven't been invited to join MyPhone yet.
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it should be open to everybody today, login to your myphone page and check.
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It's an open beta...http://sn1-p3.myphone.microsoft.com/mkweb/Start.po
I like it because now I can download a ROM in Iris to my storage card, flash it, then sync from Myphone without figuring out how to backup to storage card.
If you like it just depends on if you like online backup or media backup.
i Like it but i prefer Funambol, as one its free and to it synchronises my TP with two PCs and my Kaiser. The only thing funambol doesnt do is the files part and text messages, which im finding pretty cool, you should try funambol though, it rocks!
Right after I posted that I hadn't been invited I realized it was open. I checked 2 days prior and it wasnt. It's kinda cool I guess, though I usually delete my text messages so thats just a waste of space. it took all the basic "pictures" from what came with the ROM, so that was useless, took boring "video" from rom, i wish it had access to the storage card.
I would have to recommend http://www.vufone.com
$20 for a year but it does everything that has been mentioned here.
It will backup contacts, SMS, emails, photos, files, storage card etc etc
If you just want a PIM backup solution, then My Phone is ok, and it works as advertised. I find My Phone marginally useful for three reasons:
- Does not backup any data on storage card. I store lots of user documents and photos on the storage card to save device memory, and My Phone is useless for those files. If My Phone is going to back up user documents, it needs to support storage cards as well as device memory.
- Does not sync with desktop Outlook. Ok, so My Phone is not advertised as a contact/calendar syncing solution. But wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft provided its own over the air sync for us users that are not on an Exchange server? All Microsoft would have to do is set up the sync between desktop Outlook and the My Phone web data. Essentially, My Phone would be replacing the Exchange server for syncing PIM data.
- Not enough storage. The marginal cost of storage is approaching zero for large numbers of users, so cost recovery for storage (or limited storage) is a limiting business model. I would be glad to tolerate a few advertisements for more storage (as long as the first two restrictions are fixed).
I like it... I'm one of those people that logs everything, and MyPhone gives me the ability to archive my text messages to the web (I had about 1800), which fixed my problem here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=516569.
With that said, it only allows 15 messages per page, so it took at least 20-30 minutes to back up all my text messages... maybe if I do it weekly it wouldn't be such a problem. This has been a suggestion for a long time though, so who knows.
I like it though. With some more optimizations I say it'd be great. Now if they merge it with Live and make this a solution where you set this up at the very beginning when you buy your phone (i.e. you'd run MyPhone Live where it would synchronize and setup your MSN Messenger, your Hotmail, and the MyPhone service based on your Live account), it would definitely be a possible market-breaking product. Of course, Apple would start some similar system I'm sure.
I use www.dashwire.com, much better and it's free..more features..try it!
Wow... just checked that out... does look pretty cool. Will try out and see if it holds its salt for nub users like myself.
Edit: Tried it out for the day... the Picture/Video stuff is pretty spiffy, the text messaging via browser is a bit odd (it doesn't copy the sent message to your phone, for instance, which is weird when you look at a one sided conversation on your phone later), Using IE8... the website was a bit buggy, the voicemail thing from CallWave was a pain to setup (since the phone instructions for setting up your voicemail aren't posted, and I had to search on the web to find a comment on a blog posted by their product rep explaining it), but in the end the voicemail thing is pretty damn awesome. Contact thing is cool...
With all that said... it doesn't serve my purposes of -backing up- my text messages, as there isn't an archive option like M$ MyPhone. Definitely better implementation than MyPhone though.
Hello,
I just wanted to ask if there is any option to define how far the gmail sync should go. One morning I checked the data traffic on my phone and read 4 MB, which was in my opinion generated by receiving a huge mail containing graphics in its body. When I went to the gmail app to see that mail, after selecting it from the list, phone didn't indicate any data traffic going on. So I suppose all the mails are downloaded entirely right as they're received.
So, is there some option to sync the conversation list only, and let me choose which mails I want to download and read?
thanks
After setting up my email accounts through the stock email application, I've noticed all of my emails with embed photos, either within the email or attached....they are all automatically downloaded to the phone. I can view them in the gallery even. I didn't know the phone was doing this until I went into the gallery to see a couple images I took with the phones camera.
My question is, can you stop the email application from automatically downloading all the images/files? I get about 3,000 emails a month (corporate) and this is going to be quite annoying considering the promotions and email signatures including small gif/jpg files.
Any help would be great. Cheers.
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After setting up my email accounts through the stock email application, I've noticed all of my emails with embed photos, either within the email or attached....they are all automatically downloaded to the phone. I can view them in the gallery even. I didn't know the phone was doing this until I went into the gallery to see a couple images I took with the phones camera.
My question is, can you stop the email application from automatically downloading all the images/files? I get about 3,000 emails a month (corporate) and this is going to be quite annoying considering the promotions and email signatures including small gif/jpg files.
Any help would be great. Cheers.
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Have you tired to limit the size of the email received?
I haven't. I'm sure that would obviously help for the larger images, but these little gifs that are embeded within an email signature for example, are sometimes 1kb, so very very small. No other Android phone I've owned ever did this without me clicking on the image and downloading it first, myself. It's just fetching the files automatically and downloading them.
Funny thing is, 95% of the emails I DO NOT OPEN!!!!
I don't get work email on my phone but, I do use the pop feature. Maybe its a exchange server issue. I don't have that problem with pop.
It probably is automatically downloading them as an "attachment". Turn that feature off.
I need a software which can provide the following services:
1. Store backup data of at least past 1 year of whatsapp.
2. Formatting of entire whatapp in a couple of minutes on my phone Samsung Galaxy Note 4
3. Better usage of sending messages without any freezing issue.
If any 1 can provide me these 3 options in a software I would be really grateful and I am even ready to make the payment if some 1 has already made any software as such and I can purchase it after seeing. Note: I don't want to root my phone. I want to use this software without rooting my phone. So suggest me only if it doesn't need rooting
WhatsApp users on Android will soon be able to backup their messages, images and videos on Google Drive. This feature was in testing for months and was only available on certain WhatsApp versions. Just yesterday, Google announced the integration of WhatsApp with its cloud storage service on Google Drive Blog.
I had a moment of doubt whether I'm on the wrong page of the forum when reading OP and the above reply. Not sure if it differs from country to country, but Google Drive backup for Whatsapp has been available for over a year, and as far as I've noticed, it does not occupy your default Google Drive storage capacities and does not have a said limit for media files. For messages, Whatsapp backups always contain the entirety of your message history, no matter since how many years ago. They exist both on your local backup (/sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases) and Google Drive backup, if enabled.
As suggested by @damponting44, there was a Google Drive Blog post about it, but instead of yesterday, it was posted on October 7 2015.
To "format" Whatsapp, I assume you mean clearing of data completely. You can already accomplish this on Android and an app is unnecessary.
To reset the app's data, go to the Settings app of your phone -> Apps menu -> Find Whatsapp -> Press Clear Data and confirm.
To clear other data such as voice, media and local backups, use a File Manager and delete the entire /Whatsapp/ folder.
Lag or freezing issues rely on the app itself and the capabilities of your phone. Using one app over another usually only results in increased resource usage and would not solve the mentioned problem. That usage scenario is often only selected for feature / customisation enhancements, such as bots or themes. It's best to check if you have issues in your system, if there are too many background apps occupying RAM, etc. to make your foreground app, i.e. Whatsapp run smoother.
An app is unnecessary for all 3 requests you brought up, and it is unlikely one would be developed for those purposes.
I own a Pixel 2 XL and I'm slightly confused by Google photos. When I'm in an area that I'm not connected to the internet, my pictures won't load. I can see like a low quality version of it, but the full resolution picture won't load unless I have an internet connection. Is there another gallery app I can download to view and edit my pictures in full resolution? I love everything about Google photos except for that one thing. Any tips are greatly appreciated, sorry for the noob question.
I'm fairly sure that's expected behavior. When your Photos are stored on the cloud only, you'll only see low-res versions that may be cached. Adding a gallery won't do much if the photos aren't stored locally.
If you really want a local gallery (I use one for local folders that never sync) I like QuickPic.
Are you using the "free up space" option? That deletes your photos from your phone; after that they can only be accessed via the internet. I don't use that feature (unless or until I'm desperate for more storage). To check, I just switched my Pixel 2 to airplane mode and was still able to access photos I've taken since I got this phone at full resolution.