Why do you think Google removed SD card slot in Nexus devices?
I have seen some articles which quoted several Google's explanations (might be merely a rumor) which were basically "we did it for security", "we have been tired of OEMs who rely on the SD card slot and sell their devices with small internal storage." (this one makes no sense...) "we did it for stabilization and performance issue" "we think integrating all contents in one storage is more intuitive since many users cannot determine which files should go where"
I believe they are just a series of lame excuses. I personally think Google mainly did for profit since they are charging $40 for Nexus 7 and $100 for Nexus 10 for storage upgrade which I estimate to cost less than $15 for the company. (this is my estimation based on the fat that 8GB -> 16GB only costs $8.50)
What is your opinion?
Because they want you to use the cloud. Google Music, Google Drive, Gmail, etc. They don't feel they need more space when you have crazy space out in cyberspace.
YEP. The more accounts they can migrate to the web the more they see... the more they see the more data they can sell to advertisers.
Graze the cash cow, baby.
Dusty Rhodes said:
YEP. The more accounts they can migrate to the web the more they see... the more they see the more data they can sell to advertisers.
Graze the cash cow, baby.
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yep. if that is (data) not enough they will collect it like this not to forget, nothing is actually deleted from their storage (gmail accounts) even when you had deleted it .
Check this out!You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.
You Must watch this documentary concerning your privacy Terms & Conditions we had agreed to, by using a PC or Smartphone
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I Think Its For Speed. As Sd card is Slower then internal.
Anyway,Planning to Buy A Nexus 4.
Should I Get It??
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Because they want you to use the cloud. Google Music, Google Drive, Gmail, etc. They don't feel they need more space when you have crazy space out in cyberspace.
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Yes! Agreed
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I think clouding is a stupid idea personally. Not everyone has internet connections everywhere they go. Even though they do, most people do not have enough mobile data to waste on constantly downloading and uploading to the cloud. I have used Google drive several times in my GS3 and it was a horrible experience. The downloading freezed frequently for no reason and I had to download the stuff over again. Also downloading uploading are super slow, slowr than reading stuff off sd cards of course.
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Store, protect, and share amazing things.
My dropbox is almost full, cause with that 5GB you can't really store many files. I heard about copy.com, and I think it's a bit more secure (the creators are security experts) and you get 15 GB free space + 5GB with each referral. So I thought maybe you guys want to try it...
If you click on the link below, you can sign up and we will both receive 5GB extra storage. Very nice, isn't it?
(You get your 5GB bonus only if you install one of the clients/apps. APP)
TRY IT!
I got 108 gigabyte for free on my dropbox, so i don't really need another service.
How many referrals have you got so far from xda?
Yeah, but that's only for one year/two years isn't it? Got one so far.
I started using that service and I got so far around 35gb (three referrals through my signature, thanks guys!). I'm a little suspicious when it comes to clouding private data in new services, I mean, did anyone use it? How do you know it is trustworthy ?
Other then that, I really need to read the T&Cs and stuff! If it's limited it's not really that cool.
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I started using that service and I got so far around 35gb (three referrals through my signature, thanks guys!). I'm a little suspicious when it comes to clouding private data in new services, I mean, did anyone use it? How do you know it is trustworthy ?
Other then that, I really need to read the T&Cs and stuff! If it's limited it's not really that cool.
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Yeah that's always the case. You never know it's fully secure, but from what I heard, I find it more trustworthy "looking" than other services. But indeed, you never know.
Can we just create VM (to install app) and then self-invite for unlimited space?
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Can we just create VM (to install app) and then self-invite for unlimited space?
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Yeah, but you're gonna need much time for creating all those accounts. And it's better if other people can enjoy free space too.
EDIT: I thought I read they created some sort of protection, so that people were not going to create fake accounts etc.
Post your main use for your Android / iPhone /WinPhone
I think alot of people are really very curious..
Whats the main reason you NEED your Phone?
and then I should probably also mention that antiquated and frivolous use, practically all but forgotten these days.... "Making Phone Calls"
Some of you younger folks may not know what that is.. but I do believe several manufacturers actually still do support this function.
and then theres "SMS".. several phones are still carrying the torch on this one as well.. probably for sentimental reasons
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Probably myself I m using it for getting variety of apps to work with simply as a PC......
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Probably myself I m using it for getting variety of apps to work with simply as a PC......
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any luck with that?
I'd like to do the same thing.. but I have an android *sigh*, and it just doesnt seem built for it..
have you made any special modifications?
any suggestions on how to get my phone more PC-like?
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Almost everything I do on my laptop, I can do on my Nexus4 android! (Mostly internet. Least phone.)
another use I might have included on the list is "as a GPS for my Car"
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Almost everything I do on my laptop, I can do on my Nexus4 android! (Mostly internet. Least phone.)
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The Google Nexus 4
Google tells us exactly what its made for:
"Play with Your favorite Google Apps"
"Use an 'amazing' Photo Sphere camera"
"Access your favorite entertainment on Google Play"
"Puts the best of Google in the palm of your hand"
"ZIP around the web" (yes, this has nothing to do with your carrier, eh?.. your hardware will make the internet faster... ya.. ok..)
"Experience 3D graphics and gameplay"
"Switch between multiple apps"
So... to summarize, these phones are made, specifically, for:
Putting Google Products in your hand
Use Google Apps
Entertain yourself with Google Play
Making you a Googlephile
Make you Googly with Google
Turning you into a Googlebot
woohoo...
cool
Sounds like the little green Android Robot is Google's graphical representation of its end user
I'm sure there's an internal Google memo to that effect somewhere..
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This guy totally looks like the average Android user
Come on, admit it.. you kind of feel like this guy too
I use it for sms, phone calls, some whats app if i wanna share pics, reading news
Oh, and fooling around with ROMs (no dev from my side, just reports and trying)
But i dont have any twitter or fb or g+ on here^^
Greets Vauvenal7
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Especially for testing....
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Hello
Information:
Just 2 hours ago I have been hacked and I think that was in my phone. I was making a paypal payment to a friend using the paypal app when sudently, seconds after sending the payment I received a mail of paypal with that transaction and another one of 2.500€ that obviously I never did.
The payment was never make because I don't have so many funds, but they tried 5 times with different quantities and all of my cards. Well, after seeing this I changed my password and all of that **** and right now I want to know before I make a clean rom install if I could investigate where the hack came from.
I am using a Galaxy note 3, it is rooted but limited apps have access to root and I also use xprivacy.
The apps with access to root and the xposed modules are this ones
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and my rooted apps
Hacker paypal data
The data of the money receptor is:
Sent to: Enrique Gallardo Boto (The recipient of this payment is Non-US – Verified)
Email: [email protected]
What I want
I want to investigate if is possible a little bit more of this. I was thinking on restoring a Titanium of all my apps to yesterday, open logcat or any app that can help me to know where the leak came and what app was the malware and try to make another legit transaction to see if happens anything from my phone.
The problem is that I don't really know how should I proceed and I want to solve this for me and more people.
Any idea?
Is the network you used secure out of curiosity? What kind of apps do you have as far as security just curious?
You could try taking a look at some of the applications' play store reviews as well as the modules' forum threads to see if anything had been reported. I'm always very cautious with root permissions, hard to always know what an app will use it for. Personally I stick to my PC for transactions and stay as far away from Google wallet as I can
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There's a VirusTotal app you could try, maybe one of your apps is malicious. But if you'd know how to, I'd also just copy all the apps to your PC and then upload them to VirusTotal that way, it'd be a lot easier.
There's also some pc malware out that can infect your phone even. I'd run a decent anti virus on both your phone and your pc as well. (I like Kaspersky, Malwarebytes and ESET personally).
The other thing too is maybe your passwords are just really weak. I'd recommend a password generator like Keepass.
Fyi only
Jus saw this https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2014/03/06/dendroid/ dendroid malware can takeover ur cam and audio and sneak into your googe play.. features:
Ability to intercept and block SMS received by the target device
Download Pictures from the target device
Spy on the user by taking pictures or making audio and video recordings
Download the user’s web browser history and any saved bookmarks
Download any other accounts (email, social media, VPN) stored on the device
Send texts as the device owner
Record any ongoing calls
Open a dialogue box to ask for passwords or send messages to the victim
I've tried searching for a thread concerning my question but couldn't find one. I'm really surprised nobody brought this up. Or my searching skills are really messed up... in which case, I excuse myself.
What I want to do is to make some room in my sdcard by automatically uploading pictures, videos and files (if possible) to my Google Drive (or any other Cloud Storage Service) and delete them locally. Basically, making my cloud drive a truly virtual drive.
Has anyone tried/achieved such a thing?
Thanks.
Is this what you are looking for?
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The default photos app does that
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DropBox does this. Check it out. www.dropbox.com
It allows you to view your files from any device you choose.
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Is this what you are looking for? View attachment 2661782
The default photos app does that
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No, that way pics get backupped but won't be deleted locally (to free up space).
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No, that way pics get backupped but won't be deleted locally (to free up space).
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You're asking for functionality that is very hard to be implemented, even tho it sounds simple.
Basically there are no real viable ways to verify if a given file is not corrupted when uploaded to the cloud. At least not in a way that won't be creating singe huge overhead.
Anyway, if you find something that works, let us know, I'm also interested in such app/script/whatever.
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You're asking for functionality that is very hard to be implemented, even tho it sounds simple.
Basically there are no real viable ways to verify if a given file is not corrupted when uploaded to the cloud. At least not in a way that won't be creating singe huge overhead.
Anyway, if you find something that works, let us know, I'm also interested in such app/script/whatever.
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I think I've partially achieved the goal by using DropBox. Unlike Google Drive, files aren't deleted from the cloud when they are deleted locally. But I have to manually delete files from the phone, since I haven't found a way to delete on upload. And, thought, this just works for pictures and videos, not for other files, that would have to be uploaded manually too.
I know that even when sounding simple it's not that easy to accomplish... but I believe Google made the Moto G with such a small storage capacity (to reduce costs too, I understand) to be complete with cloud storage, so...
i want my pictures to upload to a cloud service. whats the best and easiest way to do that with good storage space thats free? i know onebox is like 100gb but it wont work after 2 years.
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i want my pictures to upload to a cloud service. whats the best and easiest way to do that with good storage space thats free? i know onebox is like 100gb but it wont work after 2 years.
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Dropbox. If the 3.25 free gigs of space isn't enough, just set up multiple DB accounts. Upload pics to one, phone backups to another, docs/etc. to a different one for example. Anyway, that's what I've been doing for years now and it's worked out fine besides the signing in and out under different accounts.
•any site offering 5gb or more for free is usually a scam, phishing technique, or some other cyber STD, hack.
Stick to Google Drive, Dropbox, Box.
You're better off using Google Photos which connects to your Google account when you start up the app. You get unlimited storage when you upload your photos in a specific resolution or lower. I forgot the exact resolution. It does everything in the background or when you tell it to and it's completely free.
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I guess you never specified if you want your photos made public or private?! Default Google settings have your uploaded photos readily available/visible to prying public eyes. Just a forwarning.
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I guess you never specified if you want your photos made public or private?! Default Google settings have your uploaded photos readily available/visible to prying public eyes. Just a forwarning.
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Not true at all. They're private until you decide to share them. And if you're lucky enough to be a Google Fiber customer you get 1TB of storage.
I use Flickr, works seemlessly for me so far. Default values are private... Creates an Auto Upload album (or something similar). You get 1TB i think for free.
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I use Flickr, works seemlessly for me so far. Default values are private... Creates an Auto Upload album (or something similar). You get 1TB i think for free.
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Looks pretty attractive with free 1TB. Is there a file size or resolution limit? I don't want my photos to be altered after uploading.
Google photos works fine for me.
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Dropbox works great for me
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Looks pretty attractive with free 1TB. Is there a file size or resolution limit? I don't want my photos to be altered after uploading.
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Not that I have encountered. There are multiple sizes, including Original
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