I believe someone in a previous thread mentioned Google photos as an excellent (and crossplatform) backup solution. What do u have against Google photos?
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It was me. I use it across all my devices. I use high quality storage as I have 200gb with Google, but I've set it up on other users phones and computers as a very cheap (free for most) way of backing up your photos and having access from anywhere you can log into it. Web/Phone/Tablet etc. Compared to Apple photos backup it's vastly superior all round.
Using Nova and it's smooth as butter! No scrolling lag in the app drawer.
thanks for the share. Stock android still has full screen album art for the lock screen, see my attached current screenshot of my Nexus 6. I prefer the full screen version but knew Samsung didn't do that (at least in my past experience). I like the AOD implementation but it would be nice it if had a "next track" button there.
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I mentioned it as well. I'm on mostly Apple hardware and I still use Google Photos since it's cross platform. Recommend it to anyone as first option for a good photo cloud/backup solution.
For those wondering about lag, not really seeing any other than occasionally scrolling while it's loading.
Q. Your capacitive recent and back button stay lit. Where is that option in settings ? Mine only light up on my S7 when I use them or first wake the device. I know there must be an option somewhere but can't find it.
Edit. Seems to be dependent on your rom. I downloaded galaxy button lights 2 from the app store and can change it from default 1.5 seconds to longer or always on now
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Glad you found a solution.Q. Your capacitive recent and back button stay lit. Where is that option in settings ? Mine only light up on my S7 when I use them or first wake the device. I know there must be an option somewhere but can't find it.
Edit. Seems to be dependent on your rom. I downloaded galaxy button lights 2 from the app store and can change it from default 1.5 seconds to longer or always on now
For mine it's under the display options in settings, I always find it weird how certain roms get certain features and others don't. My T-Mobile version didn't have that option either.
Glad you found a solution.
For mine it's under the display options in settings, I always find it weird how certain roms get certain features and others don't. My T-Mobile version didn't have that option either.
Weird, my Verizon one doesn't have the option for keeping the cap buttons on, I miss that as I hate when they turn off.
yeah, I had to download that app from the Play Store to mess with my cap button lights with my VZW Galaxy S6... shame...
Q. Your capacitive recent and back button stay lit. Where is that option in settings ? Mine only light up on my S7 when I use them or first wake the device. I know there must be an option somewhere but can't find it.
Edit. Seems to be dependent on your rom. I downloaded galaxy button lights 2 from the app store and can change it from default 1.5 seconds to longer or always on now
That app works like a charm, thanks!
I had a bad experience with them. I had some personal pictures on my phone, no not pr0n. I didn't realize somewhere along the line I had enabled google photo backup. I never use Google+ or any google social service, so a couple of years later I log on and realize all my uploaded pictures defaulted to public view. Not good at all. Google just seems all too willing to take things unless you specifically opt out, like facebook.
Thankfully Google+ being officially separated from Google Photos now will mean that kind of thing will never happen again.
at least hopefully.
Thankfully Google+ being officially separated from Google Photos now will mean that kind of thing will never happen again.
Well my "years later" was today, lol. So somehow google photos and google+ are still connected. I deleted all the pics as they were a couple of years old and I have them backed up to OneDrive anyway.
Really ? Jeepers. That's mad. Thankfully I got rid of my Google+
Thank you for the pictures. Yea it looks a heck of a lot better.A little different, but mostly the same. Keep in mind, this is with the free material design theme installed.
It's just a small card, but I dont think stock android has used the full screen album art since jelly bean.
Samsung S7 user here, from what ive read it seems the Note 7 is a fair bit laggier then the S7. My S7 is relatively lag free, are there any users that have upgraded from a S7 to the N7 that can comment?
I have both and they're about the same, don't really notice a difference. The note does seem a Hair faster to me, but it might just be new phone placebo.
Fair enough, the fact they run the exact same processor leads me to believe the Note 7 with its larger screen would have to run a little slower but i guess TW optimisations could make up for that.I have both and they're about the same, don't really notice a difference. The note does seem a Hair faster to me, but it might just be new phone placebo.
Resolutions are the same though, so size of display won't effect performance at all.
screen size wouldn't make any difference. They are both 1440p QHD screens so are pushing the same pixels.
For those with lag try my solution. I had terrible lag and I was really worried. I had installed all my apps and rebooted multiple times. Finally I went into Recovery Mode by holding Power Up and Home when powering on the device. Hold tight while the green android goes through its gyrations. When you finally get to recovery mode, clear cache. Reboot. I am running Nova so I am not sure how well this helps with Touchwiz but my phone has been 10 times better after clearing the cache.
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