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[Quez]

I am using my cracked Note4 to control my Bluetooth soundbar.   Sometimes it is a pita to sync up, so it's nice to always have it ready.  It also allows me to hit a Snapchat or video on my device, without it blasting through the speakers and stopping the music.

I have 2-3 old devices available.  I was thinking of setting up some kind of temporary home surveillance system.  Like for when out of town, or when having contractors at the house, etc. Can anyone think of an easy way to do this?  Live YouTube streams?  I thought of Hangouts, but I would need some way to initiate an invite or something I think.  I would need them to always be streaming, and be able to log in when I want.  Preferably private.  Maybe I can do it with Periscope?

 

[Quez]

Installed 7.1.2 last night.

Not bad so far. Miss Pure Nexus ROM tho... Will likely update to the ROM when it's released for this verion

Just popped up as available for Pixel.  I will do tonight.  

 

[Quez]

Google Maps recently added a "share location" feature.  I have been using an app named Glympse, that does the same thing.  You can set a time limit on how long your location is shared, it's great for "I'm on the way".

 

[Jaysus]

I am using my cracked Note4 to control my Bluetooth soundbar.   Sometimes it is a pita to sync up, so it's nice to always have it ready.  It also allows me to hit a Snapchat or video on my device, without it blasting through the speakers and stopping the music.

I have 2-3 old devices available.  I was thinking of setting up some kind of temporary home surveillance system.  Like for when out of town, or when having contractors at the house, etc. Can anyone think of an easy way to do this?  Live YouTube streams?  I thought of Hangouts, but I would need some way to initiate an invite or something I think.  I would need them to always be streaming, and be able to log in when I want.  Preferably private.  Maybe I can do it with Periscope?

I am pretty sure there some specific apps to do that... at least some baby monitoring apps that would do the trick

 

[Slapdash]

So whats the best wireless charger for the Galaxy s7?

I have a Seneo wireless charging stand.  Works well even with a thick case and was only $20 on Amazon

 

[Quez]

I read on a LiveLeak comment that said there are some good apps for turning your device into a dash cam.  There are actually more features available than some of the specific dash cams available for sale.  Seems like a good idea for an older device.

 

[Emerson Biggens]

Got my AT&T S8 Plus today at 1pm from ups 2 days early. Pretty awesome

 

[Emerson Biggens]

I read on a LiveLeak comment that said there are some good apps for turning your device into a dash cam.  There are actually more features available than some of the specific dash cams available for sale.  Seems like a good idea for an older device.

As someone who drives a lot and has a front and back web cam this is a cool idea

 

[psychobillies]

Got my AT&T S8 Plus today at 1pm from ups 2 days early. Pretty awesome

Same here.  This is a really nice phone.  Love the size and display and it's super fast.  I'm just kind of shocked that they couldn't get Bixby to work properly for the launch.  

 

[simsarge]

For the new S8 types, is this true ?  S8 screen cropping

 

[psychobillies]

For the new S8 types, is this true ?  S8 screen cropping

Yes.  

 

[Emerson Biggens]

2 days in with my S8 plus and I'm getting right at 7 1/2 hours screen on time with the battery. I've had many phones over the last two years - S7 edge, S7, Oneplus 3, iPhone 6s plus, a couple others - none got more than 4 hours screen on time with my usage. 

The thing is all the comparisons with the S7 edge have it being basically the same battery life. Not for me so far, very impressed. 

 

[Wingnut]

Anyone looking for a great case for the S7 that doesn't add a lot of bulk, I bought a Pelican Voyager case And love it. You'll need a good screen protector  (I use Tech Armor Ballistic. The one that comes with the case isn't that great), but the case is rock solid. I sent my Spigen Tough Armor case back once I got this one..it just didn't feel like adequate protection. This one feels like I could drop my phone and not worry.

 

[RUSF18]

So last night I updated my S7 to 7.0. 

It appears that in doing so my SD card got corrupted. I learned of this after realizing that I now have only 21 pictures in my "camera" folder. Went into storage settings to make sure it wasn't unmounted or whatever and that is where it is showing as Corrupted. Get a message that it needs to be setup which I take to mean re-formatted, and at that point I know all is lost.

Are all my pictures gone or is there something I can possibly do here? Because let me tell you something, if I lost all those pictures of my now three month old I will absolutely, unequivocally MURDER someone at Google and I'm going to need to delete this post to at least make someone go through a modicum of effort to discover my motive. 

 

[Quez]

As someone who drives a lot and has a front and back web cam this is a cool idea

I started doing this with one of the free apps.  I recently started driving quite a bit for work, so I started using it whenever I'm out.  Maybe one day I will catch a wreck or something.

 

[Quez]

Google photo & Google my maps have some pretty cool integration features.  You can always click on the info button on a photo and zoom to the location in Google maps.  If you want to map multiple photos, there is an "add photos" option in Google My Maps (different than the regular Google maps).

You can drag a box over all the photos you want, and it puts them basic in a Google map environment with a photo sphere.

 

[bcdjr1]

So last night I updated my S7 to 7.0. 

It appears that in doing so my SD card got corrupted. I learned of this after realizing that I now have only 21 pictures in my "camera" folder. Went into storage settings to make sure it wasn't unmounted or whatever and that is where it is showing as Corrupted. Get a message that it needs to be setup which I take to mean re-formatted, and at that point I know all is lost.

Are all my pictures gone or is there something I can possibly do here? Because let me tell you something, if I lost all those pictures of my now three month old I will absolutely, unequivocally MURDER someone at Google and I'm going to need to delete this post to at least make someone go through a modicum of effort to discover my motive. 

Were you backing up your phone? Or even just your pictures? This is why they offer those services.

 

[Quez]

So last night I updated my S7 to 7.0. 

It appears that in doing so my SD card got corrupted. I learned of this after realizing that I now have only 21 pictures in my "camera" folder. Went into storage settings to make sure it wasn't unmounted or whatever and that is where it is showing as Corrupted. Get a message that it needs to be setup which I take to mean re-formatted, and at that point I know all is lost.

Are all my pictures gone or is there something I can possibly do here? Because let me tell you something, if I lost all those pictures of my now three month old I will absolutely, unequivocally MURDER someone at Google and I'm going to need to delete this post to at least make someone go through a modicum of effort to discover my motive. 

Google photo may have been backing them up for you in the cloud.  I'm not sure if you have to turn the setting on or not though.  If you kept all of your photos on your phone without a backup, then that's on you.  Certainly the phone could have been lost, stolen, broken, etc.  

Maybe you can recover them off of the card?  They could also be on the phones internal storage.

BTW, Google backs up photos for free at a high res.

 

[Jaysus]

I am sure they can be recovered fro the SD card as long as you have not reformatted it.  Don't do that, and use another one until you figure it out.  Do some googling on SD Card recovery. 

P.S. Start backing your stuff up going forward.

 

[Emerson Biggens]

I started doing this with one of the free apps.  I recently started driving quite a bit for work, so I started using it whenever I'm out.  Maybe one day I will catch a wreck or something.

I have caught one wreck that happened in front of me,  and captured myself hitting a deer at 77mph

 

[strykerpks]

So last night I updated my S7 to 7.0. 

It appears that in doing so my SD card got corrupted. I learned of this after realizing that I now have only 21 pictures in my "camera" folder. Went into storage settings to make sure it wasn't unmounted or whatever and that is where it is showing as Corrupted. Get a message that it needs to be setup which I take to mean re-formatted, and at that point I know all is lost.

Are all my pictures gone or is there something I can possibly do here? Because let me tell you something, if I lost all those pictures of my now three month old I will absolutely, unequivocally MURDER someone at Google and I'm going to need to delete this post to at least make someone go through a modicum of effort to discover my motive. 

@AhrnCityPahnder does some data recovery as a side gig though I'm not sure if he does anything with SD cards. He may have some advice?

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

@RUSF18 -- with an active session logged into google, check here:   https://photos.google.com/?pageId=none

Viola?  or  Murp muuuurp?

I have read up on what people do with data recovery on SD cards but I have not done it myself.    I've made a quasi-effort to just steer clear of phones in general -- the combination of needing to get a reader to get a binary dump of an SD card (expensive) , assuming it even has an SD card (looking at you and your soldered-on flash memory here, Apple <_< ).  combined with the fact that half of phones nowadays encrypt data mean that even if I could recover it, I may not be able to do anything useful with it.    

 

[RUSF18]

Thanks for the link. It looks like Google was backing up my photos from all my folders except for my actual Camera folder, save for a bunch of pictures I took on Tuesday, a full 28 hours or so before I updated. That doesn't make any sense but whatever. 

I had been backing up my phone through Verizon. Looks like it last ran sometime in late March (until I ran out of space) so thankfully all is not lost.

BTW from browsing Google forums it looks like I'm not the only one to have their SD card corrupted from the Nougat update, so heads up for others who haven't done it yet. 

 

[Jaysus]

The nougat update on my phone went quite well recently....  this was more likely a samsung issue than an android one

 

[EYLive]

I'm a cloud noob, but I find it annoying that photos.google.com removes photos automatically when you delete them off our phone.
Do I need to create/save albums if I want to permanently keep photos online that I want to delete from the phone?

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

I'm a cloud noob, but I find it annoying that photos.google.com removes photos automatically when you delete them off our phone.
Do I need to create/save albums if I want to permanently keep photos online that I want to delete from the phone?

That should be an account setting somewhere.  I have a ton of stuff on cloud I don't have on local device.  

 

[Quez]

The concept behind Google photos / pixel is to "clear up space when necessary".  In Google photo it deletes the pics off the device and leaves them I the cloud.  This is an area where being 100% in the Google environment is wonderful.  

 

[RUSF18]

Update with good news...I took the corrupted SD card out of my S7 and popped it into my old S4, and all my pictures are still there thankfully.

Swapped it back into my S7 and they're gone again.

I'll use a card reader to move them to PC. Will probably try and move them back to my current phone after. Anyone have a clue why this is happening? 

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Update with good news...I took the corrupted SD card out of my S7 and popped it into my old S4, and all my pictures are still there thankfully.

Swapped it back into my S7 and they're gone again.

I'll use a card reader to move them to PC. Will probably try and move them back to my current phone after. Anyone have a clue why this is happening? 

It was the universe teaching you a lesson about not taking the 5 seconds to set up one of the various free solutions that will automatically back up your pictures to the cloud as you take them without actually deleting your photos and ruining your life.  Just a good scare.

Seriously though, maybe it's the card reader on the phone that is corrupted and not the card itself?

Seriously x2 though, I don't understand how someone can have something that is priceless to them, that they would practically murder someone over losing, sitting on a piece of hardware that is known to fail and/or get lost and decide "Nah, I'm not going to take the 5 seconds to make sure I don't lose this.  I'm good".

 

[EYLive]

That should be an account setting somewhere.  I have a ton of stuff on cloud I don't have on local device.  

The concept behind Google photos / pixel is to "clear up space when necessary".  In Google photo it deletes the pics off the device and leaves them I the cloud.  This is an area where being 100% in the Google environment is wonderful.  

 I found a photo app setting that allows me to remove files that are backed up on the Google photos library. It found 1760 items.
Now I just need to filter my phone library... that's gonna take a while.

 

[EYLive]

Turns out the function I was looking for was "Delete device copy" of a photo. Hooray me.

 

[RUSF18]

It was the universe teaching you a lesson about not taking the 5 seconds to set up one of the various free solutions that will automatically back up your pictures to the cloud as you take them without actually deleting your photos and ruining your life.  Just a good scare.

Seriously though, maybe it's the card reader on the phone that is corrupted and not the card itself?

Seriously x2 though, I don't understand how someone can have something that is priceless to them, that they would practically murder someone over losing, sitting on a piece of hardware that is known to fail and/or get lost and decide "Nah, I'm not going to take the 5 seconds to make sure I don't lose this.  I'm good".

Seriously, maybe next time you should read better. I said I have Google backup turned on. Despite it literally saying in the app "Your camera folder is automatically backed up. Choose other folders to backup and view in the library" it has backed up only those folders I previously selected and not what was in my camera folder, save for one random day just before my latest Android update.

 

[flgator]

Seriously, maybe next time you should read better. I said I have Google backup turned on. Despite it literally saying in the app "Your camera folder is automatically backed up. Choose other folders to backup and view in the library" it has backed up only those folders I previously selected and not what was in my camera folder, save for one random day just before my latest Android update.




 

I can't tell if you have Google Photos installed or are only using the Google backup option in the settings menu.  If you do not have Google Photos installed, I recommend that you install and use it.  It will back up all of your photos at a large setting to make sure that you always have a copy of your photos in the Google cloud.  If you have Amazon Prime, download/use Prime Photos and it will backup all of your photos at their full resolution.  I use both to make sure my photos are on my PC, on google, and on amazon.

 

[Quez]

I can't tell if you have Google Photos installed or are only using the Google backup option in the settings menu.  If you do not have Google Photos installed, I recommend that you install and use it.  It will back up all of your photos at a large setting to make sure that you always have a copy of your photos in the Google cloud.  If you have Amazon Prime, download/use Prime Photos and it will backup all of your photos at their full resolution.  I use both to make sure my photos are on my PC, on google, and on amazon.

Do you ever print photos from Amazon?  I wish Google photo had an easy way to do this.

 

[RUSF18]

I can't tell if you have Google Photos installed or are only using the Google backup option in the settings menu.  If you do not have Google Photos installed, I recommend that you install and use it.  It will back up all of your photos at a large setting to make sure that you always have a copy of your photos in the Google cloud.  If you have Amazon Prime, download/use Prime Photos and it will backup all of your photos at their full resolution.  I use both to make sure my photos are on my PC, on google, and on amazon.

I do. The message I quoted above (that doesn't seem to apply to me for some reason) is from within the settings menu of the app.

 

[flgator]

Do you ever print photos from Amazon?  I wish Google photo had an easy way to do this.

I have not. I usually print through Mpix 

 

[flgator]

I do. The message I quoted above (that doesn't seem to apply to me for some reason) is from within the settings menu of the app.

That is strange. Probably worth an uninstall /reinstall. When I click on settings on the app then backup device folders, it states that my "camera" folder is automatically backed up. 

 

[belljr]

The concept behind Google photos / pixel is to "clear up space when necessary".  In Google photo it deletes the pics off the device and leaves them I the cloud.  This is an area where being 100% in the Google environment is wonderful.  

Not for me

If I hit delete photo - it delete the photo on my phone and the cloud....  what setting is wrong?

 

[EYLive]

Not for me

If I hit delete photo - it delete the photo on my phone and the cloud....  what setting is wrong?

Turns out the function I was looking for was "Delete device copy" of a photo. Hooray me.

tap the little vertical ... on the photo you want to delete from your phone but keep on cloud. then select "Delete device copy"

 

[belljr]

Holy crap. Never noticed that option!!!

Thanks

 

[Jaysus]

Sadness. Dropped my Oneplus 3 today and busted the digitizer under the screen. Didn't crack the screen at all, no damage at all to the device. After a 1 1/2 hour ordeal dealing with Asurion and talking to 4 different people I'm getting sent a Samsung S7. Can't wait for the summer phones (OP5, Axon 8) to be announced so I can figure out what to get next.

Edit to add. Gonna go with Squaretrade for warranty on my next phone. Unless I go with the Axon 8 and they include breakage guarantee like the last phone.

I am going to try and wait for the Pixel 2, but the if One+ 5 ticks a couple boxes that the 3t did note, I have a feeling that I will jump on that train this summer.

 

[RUSF18]

Update with good news...I took the corrupted SD card out of my S7 and popped it into my old S4, and all my pictures are still there thankfully.

Swapped it back into my S7 and they're gone again.

I'll use a card reader to move them to PC. Will probably try and move them back to my current phone after. Anyone have a clue why this is happening? 

Since I have everything nicely backed up now, I pop the SD card back into my S7 which still shows it is corrupted but now I choose the "setup" option which re-formats it. I get a message saying "your SD card is ready to be used". Hit done and I see....SD card corrupted. 

 

[Jaysus]

@RUSF18 it sounds to me like you may need a new SD card.

 

[RUSF18]

@RUSF18 it sounds to me like you may need a new SD card.

I can write perfectly to it when it's back in my old S4, and was able to move files back and forth between it and my laptop when I had it in a reader the other day. I found a Youtube clip saying to use a computer to re-format it if the process within the phone doesn't work, so I'll give that a shot.

I have an old card somewhere that I'll try in my S7 also. I don't want to buy a new card only to find out its a problem with my phone/Nougat. 

 

[Jaysus]

I can write perfectly to it when it's back in my old S4, and was able to move files back and forth between it and my laptop when I had it in a reader the other day. I found a Youtube clip saying to use a computer to re-format it if the process within the phone doesn't work, so I'll give that a shot.

I have an old card somewhere that I'll try in my S7 also. I don't want to buy a new card only to find out its a problem with my phone/Nougat. 

My SD card works just fine with Nougat   It may be a Samsung thing, but it sounds like it works on their old UI. 

It seems like you store important photos on your card... why chance it?  Pick up a new (surely much faster, and higher capacity) SD card and don't worry about it. 

 

[culdeus]

I'm getting kicked off hangouts for SMS.  WHY????

Anyways what SMS apps for android don't suck and drop MMS items?

 

[Jaysus]

I'm getting kicked off hangouts for SMS.  WHY????

Anyways what SMS apps for android don't suck and drop MMS items?

Android Messages

If you are using a Google Voice number, you can continue to use Hangouts for SMS (for now at least).  ETA or if you are a Project Fi user. 

 

[RUSF18]

I'm getting kicked off hangouts for SMS.  WHY????

Anyways what SMS apps for android don't suck and drop MMS items?

I like Textra. Paid the couple bucks to upgrade it a while back but the free version was perfectly good. 

I have two requirements for texting apps...handle MMS okay since way too many people use iOS, and give me the ability to mute the text chains with my wife's side of the family. 

 

[Quez]

I'm getting kicked off hangouts for SMS.  WHY????

Anyways what SMS apps for android don't suck and drop MMS items?

I use GV and it appears I will still be able to sms with Hangouts for now.  What a mess though. 

 

[Jaysus]

I use GV and it appears I will still be able to sms with Hangouts for now.  What a mess though. 

 I expect that at some point in the future, we will have to use the actual GV app now that it appears to be back under development.  It actually looks pretty slick now... just missing some functionality at the moment.