So, was cleaning up my current phone to move to a new one, was going through my recorded phone calls files, and i noticed several huge files. as big as 650MB and 49 hours long!!
I use the ACR Unchained (Another Call Recorder) and my phone is not rooted (N975F), and to have it record anything i had to give the app so many permissions! Also cloud backup was on so I can't say for sure from the wifi/mobile data usage were the files synced to my cloud and/or to the developer..
This is creepy AF!
What are my options now? or rather what would you do in this situation?
I emailed the dev and awaiting the reply. I don't want to jump to conclusions just yet, it might be a simple bug, but there are also so many privacy infringing apps out there.
Pic shows the files in windows explorer, (i covered the dialed phone numbers in the file name in red)
Not sure why you load that kind of app to begin with. I'd uninstall it immediately.
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It occurred to me the other day that when on a windscreen mount the camera in the hd2 could be useful for in car video footage.
Seems to work fairly well but what would REALLY be great would be if you could set it to record a continuous loop so it only uses a fixed amount of card space unless you tell it save the file and start a new file.
Any idea if there are any apps that could do that?
Anyone?
Would be super useful to have. I nearly witnessed a nasty crash today and wished I had video to report the moron that nearly caused it, but can't just leave it recording at about 500-600mb per 15 minutes or so!!
+1 - Good idea, soon we're all going to have in car recording
Well I want to be able to show that if I'm ever involved in an accident exactly what happened and so on.
But kinda mainly because I just want to be able to do it to see if we can.
I suppose it needs to record to a set file size, then once that is done, to use an extra buffer amount of storage briefly while it deletes the file it just finished and begins recording again over the same space. Or something.
If you want it to keep anything you stop it and save it, then it starts from scratch.
Might be better if it actually keeps the current and previous file before deleting anything, then that way it's less likely to immediately/accidentally delete anything useful before you tell it to save. For instance you could maybe have a video screen overlay with a couple of large basic controls for save current recording and a couple of other bits.
Basically the important bit is the automated control over only using a specified file space then re-using it once it's used it up.
search forum... already discussed topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=597003
Yep. Shame those options don't seem to work that well....
No other options for this then?
Okay. Allow me to elaborate on what exactly it is I am asking. And before anyone says, "make it yourself", let me just say "been there, read that".
Now, I've had conversations with many Android users who have large music collections and have purchased devices that have dropped SD Card support. Yes, I do have a Meenova, but I also have a Nexus 5 and the battery life goes pretty quickly when I'm listening to music in the car. Data packages aren't cheap. Even if you have a Straight Talk Unlimited Plan (like myself), you aren't actually receiving unlimited data.
I am simply asking that someone create a tool to alter the bitrate of the tracks on my Android Device. I'd pay for an app like that. There are a couple of apps on the Play Store that perform this task, but they are lacking in features. There is no batch editing tool and conversions stop after closing out the apps that I have tried. I could use the program on my computer, but then I have to leave my device at the computer in order to copy converted tracks back over to my device.
Anyway, I'd appreciate it if someone took the time to read this post.
Duckie1217 said:
Okay. Allow me to elaborate on what exactly it is I am asking. And before anyone says, "make it yourself", let me just say "been there, read that".
Now, I've had conversations with many Android users who have large music collections and have purchased devices that have dropped SD Card support. Yes, I do have a Meenova, but I also have a Nexus 5 and the battery life goes pretty quickly when I'm listening to music in the car. Data packages aren't cheap. Even if you have a Straight Talk Unlimited Plan (like myself), you aren't actually receiving unlimited data.
I am simply asking that someone create a tool to alter the bitrate of the tracks on my Android Device. I'd pay for an app like that. There are a couple of apps on the Play Store that perform this task, but they are lacking in features. There is no batch editing tool and conversions stop after closing out the apps that I have tried. I could use the program on my computer, but then I have to leave my device at the computer in order to copy converted tracks back over to my device.
Anyway, I'd appreciate it if someone took the time to read this post.
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use any audio convertor desktop application . The app will allow to change the bitrate and also other stuffs.
OK nerdscape, I'm only gonna spit this once so disconnect your oculus rift headsets take off those nintendo powergloves and listen good. I don't "get" you. I find your technical jargon and whip-smart banter strange and confusing. Despite my sub-normal cognitive faculties and deficient social intelligence, I've managed to coast through life on a conventional blend of white male privilege--which I REALLY don't like to confront--and physical intimidation. The open exchange of ideas in this culture infuriates me, probably because I'm terrified that all of you are smarter than I am, but I don't have the emotional maturity to explore any of that, so instead I'm gunna vent by verbally abusing my goldfish with homophobic epithets.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I need help figuring out a backup strategy that works for me. I recently upgraded to the Nexus 6P, but the santecmonious dweebs at Best Buy only had the 32 GB model in stock--no matter how much I yelled at them and broke everything, they just didn't have any 128 GB or 64 GB to sell. So I'm looking for the smartest way to do this right, without eating up a lot of space.
1. I have installed TWRP, TI backup and Franco Kernel. Each offers backup options--does it make sense to use more than one? How do I decide?
2. I'd like to automate backups that will quickly and easily restore my phone from nothing--call logs, text message history, app settings, system settings and user data (e.g. photographs, videos, recordings, downloads files saved by third-party apps). Basically, if I were to format all the data on my device and install android N tomorrow, I want to be able to pull something simple off the cloud that restores everything. It seems like google has the apps and contacts piece dialed, so I don't need to back any of that up.
3. I'd also like to schedule local backups, but without all the big user data files--For that much I can just count on the cloud.
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Hi Friends,
I went on an expedition recently and took a lot of photos & videos from my Google Pixel Build Number 7.1.1
I received (OTA) a security patch update of 97.4 MB on my return.
It seems after the update the photos from 8th Feb till 9th Feb got lost (videos are there).
I've spent 3 hours with google support without luck. It seems to me they are just hidden somwhere and not deleted as the BIN/TRASH is clean too.
Appreciate all you support as the photos are precious memories.
Cheers.
Have you have already checked online for copies? I think it asks which settings to use on setup, and the default may be to backup photos to the cloud and make space by removing items. I have the removal shut off on my phone, yet I left photo backup on, and it tends to ask if the photos haven't been backed up online. Your post doesn't say anything about shutting off the typical online photo backup, so that's where I would start.
If you don't have an online backup and the photos have been deleted, then I would figure some sort of data recovery would be another option. I've never used it, but DiskDigger Photo Recovery is one app that shows up in searches and doesn't seem to require root. Any sort of writing files to the phone, like installing an app, can potentially overwrite deleted files. Since support should know about the typical online backup of photos, I figure using some sort of data recovery software would be the next thing to try if you don't have a backup.
Yup noticed some videos missing
Hi all,
Sorry for the long post but I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who sent this email to ACR or NLL APPS but have not heard back from them so wonder if anybody out there can take the time to read this and possible sound off what the issue can be?
It states:
I am a long time ACR fan and have been using the app for years.
I have a question which I pray that you can assist with or point me in the right direction to where or how I may be able to find calls that have gone missing.
Here is the brief example of what has happened.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S7 with 32GB
ACR: running ACR from years ago and google play always updating to ACR32.8 or 4
I had left all my calls in the ACRCalls folder and throughout all the updates, when starting ACR I could see the Wheel which was doing a Tally count as there were 5,480 something calls and the wheel indexing would take approx 30+ seconds to fully index or put the tally of calls there.
It would take quite some time to scroll down to earlier calls as the scroll bar was really small.
I could play any file after scrolling to it which confirmed to me the files where all there.
As know Google done their policy and I had a huge amount of Unknown Caller in my list.
A friend told me if I upgraded to ACR 33.1 samsung-unChained which was downloaded from the Samsung Galaxy Store.
But first on a friend who has the same phone tried uninstalling his Google play store ACR and then installed the ACR 33.1 unChained and the same folder of Calls remained and were detected and all played, although he only has a few hundred calls unlike my 5,480 calls.
Now to the Point or ISSUE that I have.
So before Uninstalling the play store version I go to my Phones storage and I look the directory and it only shows 1870 files inside, but this seems Odd because I open ACR and it indexes the 5,480 which I could access all of them.
That seems most odd so I uninstalled the PlayStore version and installed the Galaxy Store version of ACR 33.1-samsung-unChained version.
This now works for reading and logging Address book contacts or numbers.
Yet the issue is now the Index Wheel when opening only shows the 1,870 files and the scroll bar is much bigger, so its like there are a few Thousand calls missings.
As my S7 phone storage was nearly all full, I moved near 3GB of Video and Photos from the DCIM directory and this took the storage of that drive down to 28GB used/ of 32GB
My 3 questions of urgency are:
1) Why would the S7 earlier show indexed 5,480 files earlier compared to upgrading?
2.)As moving other data off the drive, the phone shows data that these files might still be on the Phones drive but just not in the ACRCalls folder. Would these files be located in a different directory or older directory or cache somewhere on the S7's phone drive? If so Where?
3.) Is there a way to recover these files? and what program would be the best app or pc program to possible do this?
Can someone out there Please assist me or point me in the right direction as this is very Urgent for me as I am extremely confused to how the indexing can originally show 5,480 calls and then after upgrading only show the 1,870 calls both by indexing and by viewing the folder content outside showing the calls which is all very odd.
Any ideas, answers or solutions would be highly appreciated from my mate.
Cheers!