I've been told that the Moto One can only store photos to Google photos/cloud. Is there an option to store photos taken to local storage ?
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Limeybastard said:
I've been told that the Moto One can only store photos to Google photos/cloud. Is there an option to store photos taken to local storage ?
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Thats not true. The're stored in either internal or external memory. Whatever suits you best. Although you can back up to google photos with unlimited storage at the price of it only being saved in "high quality" compared to "original" where you have to use your limited google drive space instead.
High quality:
Unlimited free storage
Photos are compressed to save space. If a photo is larger than 16 MP, it will be resized to 16 MP.
Videos higher than 1080p will be resized to high-definition 1080p. A video with 1080p or less will look close to the original.
Original quality:
Limited free storage (15GB)
All photos and videos are stored in the same resolution that you took them.
Recommended for photos that have more than 16MP and videos with more than 1080p.
tys0n said:
Thats not true. The're stored in either internal or external memory. Whatever suits you best. Although you can back up to google photos with unlimited storage at the price of it only being saved in "high quality" compared to "original" where you have to use your limited google drive space instead.
High quality:
Unlimited free storage
Photos are compressed to save space. If a photo is larger than 16 MP, it will be resized to 16 MP.
Videos higher than 1080p will be resized to high-definition 1080p. A video with 1080p or less will look close to the original.
Original quality:
Limited free storage (15GB)
All photos and videos are stored in the same resolution that you took them.
Recommended for photos that have more than 16MP and videos with more than 1080p.
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Thanks. I'm aware how Google photos works. But I don't see an option to save photos locally on the Moto One phone.
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Limeybastard said:
Thanks. I'm aware how Google photos works. But I don't see an option to save photos locally on the Moto One phone.
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it's in camera settings, but I cant find any setting to not save them locally. They're saved locally, and when they're backed up to photos you can free up space on device if you wish, through photos app. You can also see device folders containing pics in the photos app menu.
I have the same question as Limey, i recently purchased the Moto One phone and i couldn't find anything other than Google gallery. and google calendar. My issue being i want to save things locally on the phone or sd card . I have preiously been locked out of my google account despite having purchased apps from the play store using a credit card that was linked to my name and address., even though i provided this on Google forum they said they couldn't unlock my account as i could not prove the account belonged to me,
You also don't seem to be able to get rid of the Google search bar .or even change its position on the home screen. which you only get one of, I have had to install a launcher over the top
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I have the same question as Limey, i recently purchased the Moto One phone and i couldn't find anything other than Google gallery. and google calendar. My issue being i want to save things locally on the phone or sd card . I have preiously been locked out of my google account despite having purchased apps from the play store using a credit card that was linked to my name and address., even though i provided this on Google forum they said they couldn't unlock my account as i could not prove the account belonged to me,
You also don't seem to be able to get rid of the Google search bar .or even change its position on the home screen. which you only get one of, I have had to install a launcher over the top
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As I said, the files are being saved locally. You can check it either in files app, or photos app by chosing device folders in menu and there you'll find it. Or just install a gallery app if you prefer that.
Regarding calendar and launcher you'll have to remember that this is an Android One device which basicly means that it's running pure android with a few OEM implementationes from Moto that is approved by Google, and that Motorola and Google worked together both hardware wise and software wise to put this together, much like the old Nexus series.
How did you get locked out from your own account if I may ask?
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As I said, the files are being saved locally. You can check it either in files app, or photos app by chosing device folders in menu and there you'll find it. Or just install a gallery app if you prefer that.
Regarding calendar and launcher you'll have to remember that this is an Android One device which basicly means that it's running pure android with a few OEM implementationes from Moto that is approved by Google, and that Motorola and Google worked together both hardware wise and software wise to put this together, much like the old Nexus series.
How did you get locked out from your own account if I may ask?
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Thanks for the info, There are a few things that are annoying me after days with the phone perhaps you or Limey could advise/direct me to some solutions;
No Notification Led . According to the Moto forum, the led on the front of the phone will only work to tell the user that the battery is low
Battery percentage is so tiny that it is impossible to read. I have to pull down from the top to find out what my level is
Speed dial, press and hold a number on the keypad to call a designated contact. Its a function i must have been using since the late 90s
I went for the phone because of the promise of updates and patches for 24 months plus the fact that batteries are no longer user replaceable which irritates me no end. So i refuse to spend big money on a handset. The ecological impact of manufacturers who bring out a new phone every year is not sustainable for the planet. One way to help is to go back to being able to replace the battery when needed
I got locked out of my Google account due to over reliance on 2FA
I wake up one morning and my phone fails to respond, screen off .. After various forms of cpr i decide to put my simcard in an older phone which i kept as a backup, i have to use a sim adapter though which ends up jamming the sim slot in the backup phone.
Now i don't have a phone or simcard working. I go to shop buy a new phone and temporary sim. I cant get to my network providers shop so they say it will take 5-7 working days to post me a replacement sim
I want to download my contacts from my google account onto my new phone so i try and log in except it wants to send me a code to my registered number which i can no longer access . Option 2 google sends a email to my backup email address which i haven't used for some time. After 3 attempts i am then locked out my backup email account.
Eventually my replacement sim arrives and i try and log in to my account expecting it to send a code to my phone .. It doesn't and want me to go thru the account recovery process which i do only to to told by the screen that "Google will now send a password reset to your backup email address " .. Now im really stuck
Apparently after some research, Gmail forum moderators can possibly take your case up and help gain access to your inbox.
I do as requested .. Attempt to login via device that i have previously used Answer as many questions as i can, such as when the account was created ..verification code to the phone number associated with the account. I explain on the forum that i cant access the backup account but i do have a email which is from the playstore for an app i purchased using my credit card, which is linked to my home address and obviously my name.
Apparently is was not enough to unlock my account but i am told to try again in a week or so
During this time i am telling my friend all about this problem who lives in the US. He tries to help me but without doing his research.. just goes through the recovery process not knowing that its best to do this via a previously used device.
Some time passes and i try to recover my account again only to be told that multiple locations in the world have tried to log in to the account which makes it even less likely i will be able to recover the account .
Lost pictures and some contacts but most annoying of all is that i am no longer able to use twitter, and other apps where i used my Google login.... each time i try and setup a new account it says this phone number is already associated with another account why not try and recover the account info. When i raise a ticket all i get is automated response and get sent on a loop of steps which i have already tried.
That was partly why i wanted a phone with 2 sim slots
Google services are free but after something like this happens it makes you hesitant to go further into the google eco system. Hence i didn't want my pictures or calendar to be saved only on the cloud. When i can provide documentation that proves my id yet i am still locked out because "computer said no" it does make you think of 2001 the movie "I'm sorry Dave I cant do that"
As i said at the start,..over reliance on 2FA, prior to enabling it i never forgot my password
Uuh, that sounds like a really bad situation. I guess I'll never gonna enable 2 step verification lol.
I totally agree on the battery percentage. It's way too small and that makes it totally useless. And yes, the led is not used for notifications. I've changed it's behaviour to blinking while it's charging and solid when it's fully charged just to get it somehow usefull, but it requires root to do so.
For the speed dial you could assign contacts as favorites to have them shown when you open the dialer.
I kind of liked those times when you could actually change both battery and screen by yourself, but these days everyone wants a water'/dust proof phone which requires everything to be glued together, making it hard for end user to to do "diy" stuff without a lot of special tools.
Now you'll have to send it to service just to get the battery replaced.
Anyway, I really hope you get this google thing sorted out. Must be a pain to be locked out like that , losing data, and having troubles to log in/make new account on other services as well.
tys0n said:
Uuh, that sounds like a really bad situation. I guess I'll never gonna enable 2 step verification lol.
I totally agree on the battery percentage. It's way too small and that makes it totally useless. And yes, the led is not used for notifications. I've changed it's behaviour to blinking while it's charging and solid when it's fully charged just to get it somehow usefull, but it requires root to do so.
For the speed dial you could assign contacts as favorites to have them shown when you open the dialer.
I kind of liked those times when you could actually change both battery and screen by yourself, but these days everyone wants a water'/dust proof phone which requires everything to be glued together, making it hard for end user to to do "diy" stuff without a lot of special tools.
Now you'll have to send it to service just to get the battery replaced.
Anyway, I really hope you get this google thing sorted out. Must be a pain to be locked out like that , losing data, and having troubles to log in/make new account on other services as well.
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Hey guys I know I may sound completely noobish but I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to use the fingerprint reader for more than security. What I had in mind specifically was maybe as a scroll wheel of sorts? I'm no programmer but wondering if anyone's working on something like that.
Thanks
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Most aftermarket browsers will allow you to set the volume buttons to scroll, but using the fingerprint reader would be impractical since you would have to leave it running all the time. It would put a pretty hefty drain on the battery. Good idea though, and as always, I could be wrong about this in every way.
I was thinking more like profiles so unknown fingerprints would open a blank phone. Or certain apps like email, sms, etc could be locked individually.
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ChongoDroid said:
I was thinking more like profiles so unknown fingerprints would open a blank phone. Or certain apps like email, sms, etc could be locked individually.
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Great ideas...only problem with this one would be a bad swipe by the actual owner and we would have to lock and unlock..I like the idea of utilizing the swipe for other functions though. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this.
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I would lovvvee to see a locater app that takes a finger print if the phone was stolen, along with taking front and rear facing images and satellite location. Zip it all up and submit to police, done.
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I would lovvvee to see a locater app that takes a finger print if the phone was stolen, along with taking front and rear facing images and satellite location. Zip it all up and submit to police, done.
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That's a damn good idea.....
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That is a good idea, though I wonder how we'd tell the phone that it had been stolen, versus the owner simply making bad swipes on the reader.
Anyway, as an alternative to that, in case you guys don't already know this, if you're signed up for MyMotoblur (Motorola's owner's website), Motorola has a free service where you can locate your Atrix on a Google Map. It's pretty cool. It also allows you to transfer contacts to your phone OTA, and remotely wipe your data.
The way you could tell it was stolen would be a web interface that would allow you to "report phone as stolen" and it would then take pictures/location/swipe data and email it to your registered email address.
ChongoDroid said:
I was thinking more like profiles so unknown fingerprints would open a blank phone. Or certain apps like email, sms, etc could be locked individually.
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Great idea.
Another thing , is there a way to save passwords on the Atrix and later on have the browser auto fill them once you use the fingerprints reader?
For example , my bank web site requires password. It would be great if I could enter the username+password once and later on use my finger and have the browser auto-complete them.
Is it doable ?
All great ideas, we just need the boot loader unlocked!
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gzrecoil said:
I would lovvvee to see a locater app that takes a finger print if the phone was stolen, along with taking front and rear facing images and satellite location. Zip it all up and submit to police, done.
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Having been robbed at gunpoint for a phone before, I think this is a wonderful idea.
The only other thing I found out about the fingerprint reader was that you can also use it to hang up when you press it when youre in the middle of calling someone. I dont remember quite how I got to the setting for that though...
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I was thinking more like profiles so unknown fingerprints would open a blank phone. Or certain apps like email, sms, etc could be locked individually.
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GREAT Idea with the profiles.
Would be awesome to create a 'guest' profile where only certain apps appear, no e-mail, text, call logs, contacts, etc.... pretty much only allow access to certain apps and features that you choose(like games, music, web browser, etc.) so that when I let someone use my phone i don't have to worry about them seeing sensitive data.... GREAT idea!!!!
This doesn't seem like it would be the hardest thing to create, but I'm guessing it would have to be rooted and coded into the ROM?? Any insight?
My wife has a stock AT&T 2.1 Aria, which she says she's repeatedly lost phone numbers. Sometimes when rebooting or the phone reboots (not often), the other day she says she had JUST put in someones phone number that day and we rebooted the phone and it was gone.
I don't get it, don't the numbers sync up to Google? Or is Sense doing something silly and storing it locally? She's really frustrated with this, and I've never heard of any such thing.
Maybe she needs to show me how she's putting in phone numbers, or there's some setting somewhere. I asked her to make sure she's not looking at data from Facebook as I know this can vary as it's dynamic from the app (as I understand it anyway) but she says this happens on numbers she puts in on the phone manually herself.
Any suggestions (besides upgrade the ROM, unless it's a KNOWN fix for this issue) would be appreciated.
First thing I'd look at is where she saved them sim or Google it'll go to either. then look and see what she has her phone set to show, either or both.when I first got mine I thought I'd lost numbers but I'd saved them to my sim and had the phone set to show Google contacts.now I only save to Google contacts much easier.
Actually I think stock also has a "phone" destination too.
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mtnlion said:
First thing I'd look at is where she saved them sim or Google it'll go to either. then look and see what she has her phone set to show, either or both.when I first got mine I thought I'd lost numbers but I'd saved them to my sim and had the phone set to show Google contacts.now I only save to Google contacts much easier.
Actually I think stock also has a "phone" destination too.
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That's what I was afraid of, multiple places to store phone numbers instead of just Google. I'll look around and see if there's a sim vs Google setting somewhere, and have her input a sample number and see what she picks or is default.
My girlfriend loves the sims games, but she didn't have android on her touchpad yet (CM wasn't stable enough till about 3.5 where i'd install it for her as her OS). I added her gmail account to my phone and we bought SIMS 3 on it to her account, and low and behold, EA doesn't let you install it on the touchpad.
I removed her account from my phone and now the game won't play on my phone, which is understandable. I backed it up via titanium and shipped it over to her touchpad, but it won't download any of the additional files.
It says it's going to download, then says NaN 0MB of 0MB and calls it quits.
Anyone know how to get around this? She bought the game, and the licence check will pass, but it's BS that it doesn't work.
I think the Nan download issue is global reading the comments on the review.. maybe they will fix that soon
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I copied the data download from my phone to my tablet for sims and sim city to get them going. Neither supports the HP's resolution. On Sim City it just cuts off the edges, but it is still totally playable. On sims, the choice boxes for actions aren't there and graphical components like house numbers appear in random places. I haven't found any file to edit for the resolution settings yet...anyone else?
I do not have the additional data since I recently wiped my phone. =/
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I copied the data download from my phone to my tablet for sims and sim city to get them going. Neither supports the HP's resolution. On Sim City it just cuts off the edges, but it is still totally playable. On sims, the choice boxes for actions aren't there and graphical components like house numbers appear in random places. I haven't found any file to edit for the resolution settings yet...anyone else?
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Any chance you could help me out with the names & locations of the file(s) you copied? I would greatly appreciate it.
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Any chance you could help me out with the names & locations of the file(s) you copied? I would greatly appreciate it.
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\sdcard\android\data\ea.simcitydeluxe_na
\sdcard\android\data\eamobile.sims3_na_qwf
I copied the entire folder indicated above from my phone to my tablet in the same location. I installed the apps like usual first, but couldn't download the data the conventional way.
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\sdcard\android\data\ea.simcitydeluxe_na
\sdcard\android\data\eamobile.sims3_na_qwf
I copied the entire folder indicated above from my phone to my tablet in the same location. I installed the apps like usual first, but couldn't download the data the conventional way.
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Thanks!! that worked.....
I also got it to run by copying the data from my phone but like Danknee said above there's a resolution issue so it's not really playable. Menu options are missing or off screen.
An update on this, I found a way to get the game to work using the method that is described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393701
It basically forces a 16:9 aspect ratio which the game apparently needs. The down side is you lose some of your screen space and if you want it back when you are done with the game you have to restore the files you replaced and reboot so it is a bit tedious just to play one game.
hi:
i got black screen that didnt go away, so i rebooted..
then got error:: process com.ea.simcitydeluxe_na has stopped.. force close..
google is no help..
thanx
Anyone ever figure out a way to get the game to work on the touchpad? Without changing a bunch of files?
I was reading that someone managed to get the palm pre version worked on webos.... Perhaps that might be a better and easier way to get this working.
Failing that is there a one (or two maybe?) Solution to replacing some files and rebooting? Forgive my Android noob knowledge but something akin to a batch file could do this perhaps?
That way the method motoki suggested wouldnt be so bad at all.
Op here, still have not found a workable solution.
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Hello people,
I have been playing with some crazy idea for a while. I know that exist a lot of anti-theft apps where you can send a message to your stolen and it performs a certain task like taking a picture or start an alarm or something like that.
So I have started to think about the possibility of a more radical idea like being able to send a sms to your stolen phone that would cause some kind of irreversible damage. Something that could fry your phone internal components like a killer overclocking.
I dunno, I just thought that it would be a cool sweet revenge.
99% of the time if some steals your phone the first thing they do is throw away your sim card.
And what about sending a message through your Google Account? I think I once tried an apk that was able to send message using your gmail account.
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And what about sending a message through your Google Account? I think I once tried an apk that was able to send message using your gmail account.
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Full wipe, and all is Ok
Better idea would be to throw a false reset option in the settings that reformats the phone to make the phone appear to have been reset but GPS, and various owner enabled services would still be on and accessible via computer manipulation.....or predefined actions.
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Well there is a good anti theft app called cerberus
Just take insurance,u get brand new phone
There are already several apps available that do exactly what you suggest.
It should be easy to hard brick the phone. A little "dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/... bs=512 count=1" to all partitions on the phone should do the trick
An App with a hardcoded config in /system/app would survive a Factory Reset
I much rather would like to catch the thief who stole my phone instead of frying the phone.
My phone got stolen last month and even though I had some kind of find phone feature, I couldn't look it up. They should made something based on the IMEI# of the phone to track it instead of the sim card and account, which could easily be replaced.
Full wipe
I've had an idea for improving anti theft.
The one flaw in hardcore solutions like avast mobile and Cerberus is that they are rendered useless when a new ROM is flashed or the system partition is wiped. I know avast is supposed to have an option to be added to the backup list on CyanogenMod based ROMs, but for some reason it never works for me. Maybe because it could have been designed for CM7 and not CM9.
Anyway, the solution to the issue would be adding the anti theft program to another protected partition other than the android system. OEMs use additional partitions for the HBOOT or ODIN. An encrypted partition would make it secure. I know Ubuntu has some sort LVM encryption.
Or, restricting access to the custom recovery menu by locking it with a pass code. The issue with that might be where to store that pass code. Of course you could just reflash a stock recovery to prevent writing to the system partition, but who wants to do that?
So there's a basic description of the flaw now it just needs to be fixed somehow. I'm not good with actual coding so I'd leave that to the developers.
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Buckylastard said:
I much rather would like to catch the thief who stole my phone instead of frying the phone.
My phone got stolen last month and even though I had some kind of find phone feature, I couldn't look it up. They should made something based on the IMEI# of the phone to track it instead of the sim card and account, which could easily be replaced.
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I would rather blow up my phone along with the hand of the thief.
U add an app to system/app and this app popup every 12h and want a code like "xdgfr" and u have 10 seconds after first touch of code, if u dont write in ur phone vibrates 20 seconds and than u must insert again code if not ---> hard brick
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Install a ssh server such as dropbear, starting from init.rc
Install an IPv6 6in4 tunnel.
Now you got access to your phone via ssh and a unique IPv6 address, reachable wherever the phone is, behind NATs, firewalls, on cellular nets etc.
If it gets stolen, just access it and decide the best action ...
Just :
A new encrypted partition that can only be deleted by the user entering a password, this partition will store a pre-configured program that will detect the state of the rom, stolen-alarm, will store credentials (for accessing the main security account, data and networks) and will take actions depending on that configuration or direct access from the user(Via ssh or a custom UI).
What about that?
It doesn't need to be a large partition, just large enough to save that data.
I wouldnt want that app to get in the wrong hands.
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I was all set to get the HTC One when it comes to Verizon. But now I am having second thoughts since I read somewhere at some tech site , about HTC One automatically syncs all the pictures From your contact list in Facebook. It puts all these pictures into an album in your picture gallery.
I don't want my so-called friends pictures. This would fill up all my storage space. I have all kinds of institutions , police departments , florist shops etc etc on friends list plus all those people who I don't even know. I surely don't want all this put on my phone taking up my valuable storage space. Loading up my phone with this crap. What in the world was HTC thinking ? I don't want to have to install any thing to prevent this. I assume that as soon as you get your phone turned on , that it begins this automatic sync. So I do not want this to even begin. I guess I will need to wait until something else turns up.
Perhaps some one with an HTC One could please tell me about this ?
It doesn't store anything on your device....
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