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Picasa Folio

Google is starting to p*** me off more and more lately.
I use or should I say used to use an app called #Picasafolio to manage my #Picasa photos. It's a paid app but the best at what it does and is reasonably priced.
The dev has always been really responsive and usually has a resolution to any issues the same day. I was having some problems relating to the 4.4 update and downloading folders. Emailed the dev who chased down the issue and pushed an update to the play store. Updated last night but didn't try it till this morning. Had an issue where I couldn't login so contacted the dev who responded promptly with the following email:
'This is because Google has terminated the app for apparent violations of copyright. I've appealed but this looks like the end of my business.
Thanks,
Brian'
Checked the play store and sure enough a search reveals nothing. No explanation as to why the app is no longer there, nothing.
I feel angry on behalf of Brian who is a dedicated developer for the android market, no notice, no attempt to resolve the situation, just the app removed from the play store and an email.
I'm one of the lucky ones who are aware of what's happened but what about everyone else who purchased the app? This app has been in the store for a long time so the decision to pull it now seems ridiculous.
Surely as Google Play being a middleman then they have some responsibility to the buyer. After all if I purchased something on Amazon which later didn't work etc I could contact Amazon for a resolution.
There are still plenty of apps on the Play Store which perform similar functions so why remove this one.
I've purchased plenty of apps via the playstore but from now on unless I can get them through Amazon I will have to look for alternatives. I'm not spending money on something just for Google to decide they no longer like it or it no longer fits in the terms and conditions.
Still bloody annoyed with Goggle!!!!!
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Wow, this sucks on so many levels. Probably my most used app.....sigh....

X1088LoD said:
Wow, this sucks on so many levels. Probably my most used app.....sigh....
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Yep. I have multiple devices with PIC backup so having something like this is essential to manage the auto backup folder. Since Google has blocked the OAuth the app is now useless.

Well suck me sideways..
This explains why I can't find it in Play store from my tablet..
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swaipa said:
Well suck me sideways..
This explains why I can't find it in Play store from my tablet..
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X1088LoD said:
Wow, this sucks on so many levels. Probably my most used app.....sigh....
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http://snapwoodapps.com/picfolio.html
Anybody know how to raise a complaint with Google about this?
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Some good news! ?
I have republished the app on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snapwood.pfolio, addressing the most likely reason for the ban (app name). I have no assurance that Google won't ban this app as well, but as the rest of the app had been stable for at least a year, the app name was the likely reason.
I was able update the app on Amazon, so users there will be receiving an app update to fix the login issue once Amazon approves it.
For Google Play users that want to continue to receive updates or want to avoid the login workaround, please purchase the new app and send me the email address used to purchase the original app. I'll refund that prior order so everything comes out even in the end. I apologize for this mess.
Thanks,
Brian
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Great news, so anyone get refund of the old app after purchased the new app?

gemenilim said:
Great news, so anyone get refund of the old app after purchased the new app?
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I never asked for a refund but if you email Brian he will sort it out for you.
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free 6$ google play credit for Chromecast+Android TV cast devices

Add google cast extension to chrome
Go to this link: https://cast.google.com/chromecast/offers/
Click your offer then select your google cast device (it's better to be signed in already) then reedeem 6$/per device.
Enjoy!

In Canada the only offer available seems to be the Google play music subscription offer for a few months. It's also only available to new subscribers. If anyone else in Canada is able to get the $6 please share. Thanks.
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no offer for me, USA

I was able to redeem it on my Chromecast, but not for the Nexus Player. So only $6. I also only had the Chromecast connected when I redeemed it. I assumed it would show back up for a new device.
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Says I can no longer redeem these types of offers

guys it expired couple hours earlier so many people claimed but those of you who got it. Enjoy.
hartleyshc said:
I was able to redeem it on my Chromecast, but not for the Nexus Player. So only $6. I also only had the Chromecast connected when I redeemed it. I assumed it would show back up for a new device.
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That explains why only chromecast. If nexus wasn't showing as cast device.

patt2k said:
guys it expired couple hours earlier so many people claimed but those of you who got it. Enjoy.
That explains why only chromecast. If nexus wasn't showing as cast device.
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Thank you. No wonder why I could not redeem any credits for the two Chromecasts. I wish these stupid tech bloggers would have said that.

tonyram57 said:
Thank you. No wonder why I could not redeem any credits for the two Chromecasts. I wish these stupid tech bloggers would have said that.
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Nexus should show up as a cast device no matter what. My forge does.

Google Play Music 6 mos trial for preorders?

I remember that during preorder phase there was 6 months free of Google Play Music offer advertised on the HTC side.
Now it looks like this
http://www.htc.com/us/googleplay-htc-one-a9/
with terms here
http://www.htc.com/us/go/googleplay-htc-one-a9-terms/
Buy the HTC One® A9 between 11/2/15 and 1/7/2016.*
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I've made preorder in October. However I never got any confirmation about this offer. Has anybody who preordered managed to claim the offer?

postmortem. said:
I remember that during preorder phase there was 6 months free of Google Play Music offer advertised on the HTC side.
Now it looks like this
http://www.htc.com/us/googleplay-htc-one-a9/
with terms here
http://www.htc.com/us/go/googleplay-htc-one-a9-terms/
I've made preorder in October. However I never got any confirmation about this offer. Has anybody who preordered managed to claim the offer?
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No and I was wondering about this yesterday.

I have contacted HTC over support chat and twitter. The chat support said that they will escalate the case. Let's see what happens. My initial guess is that they missed sending it out to people who ordered the phone before Nov 2nd(the day that offer page was put up). However on twitter htcusa tweeted out saying that those who pre-ordered in October will receive it too.

postmortem. said:
I remember that during preorder phase there was 6 months free of Google Play Music offer advertised on the HTC side.
Now it looks like this
http://www.htc.com/us/googleplay-htc-one-a9/
with terms here
http://www.htc.com/us/go/googleplay-htc-one-a9-terms/
I've made preorder in October. However I never got any confirmation about this offer. Has anybody who preordered managed to claim the offer?
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Did you notice that if you clicked on it, the title page on that first link actually says "$100 Google Play credit for the HTC One A9 | HTC United States". Probably a title from an old page that they forgot to edit, but I'd rather have $100 credit than 6-months Play Music

I just received my code for 6 months Play Music.

Newcron said:
I just received my code for 6 months Play Music.
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Me too, got two codes actually

I ordered last week when they had $100 off. Ordered 3 and got 3 emails today for the promo 6 months
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Were you all able to redeem it without any issues?

Needs to be a new subscriber. real lame and useless for me.

Really? Both valid?

$9.99/month starting May 18, 2016. You can cancel your trial at any time.
Google Play Music is an auto-recurring subscription. You authorize us to charge you the subscription cost (currently $9.99/month) monthly. You can cancel at any time. Learn more.
By clicking "Subscribe", you agree to the Google Play Terms of Service.
Worked for me and I had been a subscriber in the past

jokies said:
Really? Both valid?
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I can't activate both, so it is kind of pointless : "must not be active subscriber". It is not like I can wait 6 months and then activate second one - it needs to be activated within 2 months.
The side benefit of this is you get 6 months free of Youtube Red too.

daweeze02 said:
$9.99/month starting May 18, 2016. You can cancel your trial at any time.
Google Play Music is an auto-recurring subscription. You authorize us to charge you the subscription cost (currently $9.99/month) monthly. You can cancel at any time. Learn more.
By clicking "Subscribe", you agree to the Google Play Terms of Service.
Worked for me and I had been a subscriber in the past
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will it automatically renew the subscription afterwards?

jokies said:
will it automatically renew the subscription afterwards?
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yes but I can cancel it now so it won'r auto renew but keep the 6 months going

Hey guys. How did you activate the play music subscription. On my primary account I have already consumed 1 month free trial and my other account was never used for subscription, but for a new subscription play music is asking for $9.99 per month. I contacted HTC, they asked me to contact google :"
In regards your concern, the account can be marked as not eligible if it participated in the 30 Day Trial in the past 12 months as it was mentioned.
The next step could be to reach Google Play support to request a code for another account if you still want to. Then you'll need to go to:
https://support.google.com/ ".
Confused on how to activate or contact google from here. In the link they sent google music is not listed too

Cashreedhar said:
Hey guys. How did you activate the play music subscription. On my primary account I have already consumed 1 month free trial and my other account was never used for subscription, but for a new subscription play music is asking for $9.99 per month. I contacted HTC, they asked me to contact google :"
In regards your concern, the account can be marked as not eligible if it participated in the 30 Day Trial in the past 12 months as it was mentioned.
The next step could be to reach Google Play support to request a code for another account if you still want to. Then you'll need to go to:
https://support.google.com/ ".
Confused on how to activate or contact google from here. In the link they sent google music is not listed too
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What I did to activate was simply login to Google Play Store on a computer, and then redeem the code. Make sure you're logged in to the correct account you want (and logged out of any other accounts you may have).
I'm not sure why it wouldn't work on your second account, maybe you took other type of free offers in the past 12 months? If the account took part in any kind of trial or free offering in the past 12 months, then it wouldn't be eligible. My primary account took a 3-month free last year around this time of year, and isn't eligible. I checked my other account and it turns out it had its own somewhat out of nowhere free 6-month offer from Google, so I took that. I ended up giving the code to my wife and she redeemed it without any problem.

Newcron said:
What I did to activate was simply login to Google Play Store on a computer, and then redeem the code. Make sure you're logged in to the correct account you want (and logged out of any other accounts you may have).
I'm not sure why it wouldn't work on your second account, maybe you took other type of free offers in the past 12 months? If the account took part in any kind of trial or free offering in the past 12 months, then it wouldn't be eligible. My primary account took a 3-month free last year around this time of year, and isn't eligible. I checked my other account and it turns out it had its own somewhat out of nowhere free 6-month offer from Google, so I took that. I ended up giving the code to my wife and she redeemed it without any problem.
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How did you get the code to redeem? I have been asking HTC and they are telling google need to provide that

Cashreedhar said:
How did you get the code to redeem? I have been asking HTC and they are telling google need to provide that
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I just told you how, in the message that you replied to. In fact it's the very first sentence. There is a 'redeem' link on the side bar.

Cashreedhar said:
How did you get the code to redeem? I have been asking HTC and they are telling google need to provide that
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HTC should have sent you the 6 month trial code to the email address you provided while ordering the phone. If not contact the customer service and tell them explicitly that you haven't received any code yet, they will then verify and send the email again to you.

Newcron said:
I just told you how, in the message that you replied to. In fact it's the very first sentence. There is a 'redeem' link on the side bar.
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Yeah my bad, realized it. I contacted HTC and they still think they sent me the code, and they are going to check after the escalation.
rlvl said:
HTC should have sent you the 6 month trial code to the email address you provided while ordering the phone. If not contact the customer service and tell them explicitly that you haven't received any code yet, they will then verify and send the email again to you.
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Yes, that is what missing.. contacted them, its really difficult to make them understand I have not received the code..

Which packages to remove on Oreo?

Hi everybody!
I'm having issues with battery life, I noticed that much of the battery is consumed by the android system process, and therefore of all the many samsung packages.
I would like to know if anyone has a list of packages that can be safely removed from oreo, after I will remove them with adb commands. I would like to use an app as a package disabler, but now these apps appear and disappear too often from the store and the feedback leave me a little confused.
Can anyone help me?

All the info is already on the forums (read a few threads )
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...e-problems-t3789531/post76529330#post76529330
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpremium

*Detection* said:
All the info is already on the forums (read a few threads )
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...e-problems-t3789531/post76529330#post76529330
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpremium
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Thanks bro! The only bad thing is that I had already bought the app some time ago, I dont know if it was from this developer or a similar one from another developer, unfortunately I only remember that I used it together with an additional plugin... now I dont find it in my shopping list...

joker950 said:
Thanks bro! The only bad thing is that I had already bought the app some time ago, I dont know if it was from this developer or a similar one from another developer, unfortunately I only remember that I used it together with an additional plugin... now I dont find it in my shopping list...
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If it has a price over the install button saying Buy, you did not buy it with this Google account, either find the account you purchased it through and log into Google Play with that, or buy it again

*Detection* said:
If it has a price over the install button saying Buy, you did not buy it with this Google account, either find the account you purchased it through and log into Google Play with that, or buy it again
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I believe you didnt understand mate...
I bought these apps twice, with the same account, my only one. And both apps I bought have disappeared from the store, like their developers. In my Gmail I still have the purchase invoices, opening the links of the developers dont appear to me anything, they disappeared and, probably, reappear with other names.
Reading on the forum it seems I'm not the only one to have noticed that these developers appear and reappear, so users have to repurchase the app every time
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joker950 said:
I believe you didnt understand mate...
I bought these apps twice, with the same account, my only one. And both apps I bought have disappeared from the store, like their developers. In my Gmail I still have the purchase invoices, opening the links of the developers dont appear to me anything, they disappeared and, probably, reappear with other names.
Reading on the forum it seems I'm not the only one to have noticed that these developers appear and reappear, so users have to repurchase the app every time
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Well yea, if the original app is removed, then a new one appears in it's place, then it is a different app, even if it does the same thing / seems identical, maybe the dev sold it to someone else who has re-upped it under a different name, either way you'd need to buy it again

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Well yea, if the original app is removed, then a new one appears in it's place, then it is a different app, even if it does the same thing / seems identical, maybe the dev sold it to someone else who has re-upped it under a different name, either way you'd need to buy it again
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I don't think so... In the mail invoice that google send when you make a purchase there is always a contact email from the developer near his name.
The contact email that I see in my old invoice is identical to the contact email that is here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpremium
So I would say that the developer is always the same, He simply likes to reappear always with different names so as to take more money from those who are forced to buy back the app every time, it's simply a dishonest trick
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joker950 said:
I don't think so... In the mail invoice that google send when you make a purchase there is always a contact email from the developer near his name.
The contact email that I see in my old invoice is identical to the contact email that is here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpremium
So I would say that the developer is always the same, He simply likes to reappear always with different names so as to take more money from those who are forced to buy back the app every time, it's simply a dishonest trick
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Then email him? lol

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Then email him? lol
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Already contacted, they answered me with an automatic email, Practically they told me I have to buy it back lol
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joker950 said:
Already contacted, they answered me with an automatic email, Practically they told me I have to buy it back lol
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I guess if you want to disable packages, it's gonna cost £2~ every time you reset your phone if it gets blacklisted, I've only reset my phone once in 12 months, £2 odd every 12 months is fine
At least there is a non root option

In the end, after 2 days, the developer replied giving me a code to redeem the app for free from the store.
Now with Package disabler pro (with that xml list) and Greenify, the battery life goes a bit better. I do about 4h of screen on (compared to before I was about 2h30m).
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you've told that you having issue with app disabler? just do the adb trick to disable every app that you want

About that free 6 month youtube premium

I pre ordered pixel 3 a couple of days ago. I live in korea so i asked my friend to send it to me when he got delivered. Anyway, i saw the terms yesterday and the terms were weird. You can have the 6 month trial only when you are completely new to youtube premium. And also only for US residents.
So here's the questions
Is there really no way to get the youtube premium unless making new account? (Im currently using youtube premium)
Will the youtube premium 6 month trial won't work if i start the pixel in korea?
Im going to LA in January so if i wait until january, would it be possible to claim 6 month trial?
Sorry for the bad english though...

CJ-PLZDOR said:
I pre ordered pixel 3 a couple of days ago. I live in korea so i asked my friend to send it to me when he got delivered. Anyway, i saw the terms yesterday and the terms were weird. You can have the 6 month trial only when you are completely new to youtube premium. And also only for US residents.
So here's the questions
Is there really no way to get the youtube premium unless making new account? (Im currently using youtube premium)
Will the youtube premium 6 month trial won't work if i start the pixel in korea?
Im going to LA in January so if i wait until january, would it be possible to claim 6 month trial?
Sorry for the bad english though...
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It is my understanding that you will need a new account to activate your 6 month trial. As for your activation, you will probably need to activate it from the US since I will also guess that Google has a way to tell where the IP that activated it came from and I think that if it doesn't originate in the US, they may use that as an excuse to not honor it. I'm not sure if the activation has to happen from the same email account where it was purchased through the Google store. Also, in January it will be too late to activate the trial since, from what I've read, it has to be activated before December 31 at 11:59 PM. Hope this helps. Maybe your friend can activate it for you before sending it.

This is bogus if true. I had a free month trial of YouTube music before, so now I don't get the free 6-months? Google is getting so damn nitpicky about all of their offers. They need to relax a bit and reward long-time customers. I'm not creating a new Google account to get 6 months of their crappy music service. Maybe if they had a cleaner merge with Google Play Music I'd be willing to pay for it.

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It is my understanding that you will need a new account to activate your 6 month trial. As for your activation, you will probably need to activate it from the US since I will also guess that Google has a way to tell where the IP that activated it came from and I think that if it doesn't originate in the US, they may use that as an excuse to not honor it. I'm not sure if the activation has to happen from the same email account where it was purchased through the Google store. Also, in January it will be too late to activate the trial since, from what I've read, it has to be activated before December 31 at 11:59 PM. Hope this helps. Maybe your friend can activate it for you before sending it.
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Oh i got it! Thanks for sharing your advice

chrisjennings said:
This is bogus if true. I had a free month trial of YouTube music before, so now I don't get the free 6-months? Google is getting so damn nitpicky about all of their offers. They need to relax a bit and reward long-time customers. I'm not creating a new Google account to get 6 months of their crappy music service. Maybe if they had a cleaner merge with Google Play Music I'd be willing to pay for it.
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Terms and conditions
This YouTube Music Premium 6 month extended free trial offer is only open to US residents who activate a Pixel 3/3 XL before December 31, 2018. Offer only available to customers who are not current YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium or Google Play Music subscribers, have not been YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium, YouTube Red or Google Play Music subscribers nor participated in a YouTube Red or Google Play Music trial before. Offer must be redeemed by January 31, 2019. Valid form of payment required at sign-up, but you will not be charged until the trial period expires. At the end of the trial period, you will be automatically charged the standard subscription price, currently $9.99 per month. You can cancel your trial at no charge at any time before the trial is over. Offer requires a Google account. Full terms here: youtube.com/t/red_restrictions?gl=US. Promoter: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
I can't believe it.. I think almost all pixel buyers would likely tried youtube premium before... Why they have to be like this