Best RSS Reader and what to have. - Nexus 5 Themes and Apps

So I am pretty much new to android, first android was the N1 then i Switched to Windows Phone and now back on android. What is the best RSS Reader and what sites should I have linked to the reader?
I like reading world news, economics, finance, anything involving science/astronomy and technology.
Thanks.

Feedly. Circa. Umano.
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caribouxda said:
Feedly. Circa. Umano.
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Neither Circa nor Umano are RSS readers

KidTech said:
So I am pretty much new to android, first android was the N1 then i Switched to Windows Phone and now back on android. What is the best RSS Reader and what sites should I have linked to the reader?
I like reading world news, economics, finance, anything involving science/astronomy and technology.
Thanks.
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Feedly. Press. Flyne.
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Dragooon123 said:
Neither Circa nor Umano are RSS readers
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And you are who? The moderator of the thread?
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caribouxda said:
And you are who? The moderator of the thread?
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Ehh..no, I was looking for RSS readers myself and turns out those two aren't so it kinda wasted my time
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Another vote for Feedly! It's an awesome app.
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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+1 to feedly

KidTech said:
So I am pretty much new to android, first android was the N1 then i Switched to Windows Phone and now back on android. What is the best RSS Reader and what sites should I have linked to the reader?
I like reading world news, economics, finance, anything involving science/astronomy and technology.
Thanks.
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I use Press For Android, I find myself reading more articles on Press.

Would it be overboard if I also voted for Feedly?
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Dragooon123 said:
Ehh..no, I was looking for RSS readers myself and turns out those two aren't so it kinda wasted my time
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Well if you are that smart you should know there only is one rss reader in android and its name is feedly. Peace.
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caribouxda said:
Well if you are that smart you should know there only is one rss reader in android and its name is feedly. Peace.
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What are you so burned about? And there's also Press, gReader, Digg's RSS Reader (I think, no idea what happened to it) and a whole bunch of others....

Press here. Feedly is good but I personally find it too busy.

Feedly to handle my subscriptions and Press to read them. Flyne looks interesting though.
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I keep coming back to Taptu. It's not the slickest or fastest, but I love the interface once set up.
Flyne is very polished, but lacking in some customisation options at the moment.
gReader and Reader+ are worth a look (the latter I use on my tab) and both have tons of options and are similar to Press. Paperboy is also worth a look.
I use Feedly on my desktop and I think you can sign into all of the above (bar Taptu) with your Feedly account.

I vote for Press.
One of the best designed apps. Its the app I actually miss the most when I use iOS devices.

IMHO the best combo for replicating Google Reader on Android these days is gReader Pro which has an awesome Google Reader style scrolling widget (which can also display pictures), fed by Feedly.
I have my install setup so that when I tap on an article in the widget it brings me to the 2nd/3rd attached screenshot, some feeds will show an article summary, others will show the full article, at this point I can tap the article title, web button or link button to read the article in the built in browser or double tap to load the article into an external browser, the configuration options are endless.
Edit: Added a few more screenshots which show app and feed/web views. I rarely open the app directly, generally I just interact with the widget, after you load an article in feed or web view you can then swipe between the articles from there. Themes include light, dark, black and sepia.

News 24 is also pretty cool.

I'm still p*ssed at Google for canning what was a perfectly functional RSS reader. Their iPhone interface was clean, fast, and the interface I used on my iPhone, iPad, and my desktop, then on my Nexus 4. I was lured to gReader and even registered it... Two days before Google announced they were canning Google Reader.
I didn't know that gReader would connect to Feedly... Does that work just like it used to when it connected to Google Reader? ie. Read articles are synced back to the cloud? I read news on my desktop, iPad, and Nexus 5, and don't want to have to re-read things if I switch platforms.

Snowflake6 said:
I'm still p*ssed at Google for canning what was a perfectly functional RSS reader. Their iPhone interface was clean, fast, and the interface I used on my iPhone, iPad, and my desktop, then on my Nexus 4. I was lured to gReader and even registered it... Two days before Google announced they were canning Google Reader.
I didn't know that gReader would connect to Feedly... Does that work just like it used to when it connected to Google Reader? ie. Read articles are synced back to the cloud? I read news on my desktop, iPad, and Nexus 5, and don't want to have to re-read things if I switch platforms.
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I've tried pretty much all the readers out there and gReader is the only one I've found that comes close to and has surpassed Google Reader, not as fancy as some but way more functional for reading.
I think the setting you're looking for is: Settings/Synchronization/2-WAY SYNC (BETA) Server Reads: Sync read articles from server to app
Edit: gReader is in steady development these days, beta apk are located here: https://github.com/noinnion/greader/tree/master/beta

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New music, camera, gallery, desktop apps released-beta

A sneak peek at the next version of Android Market and Music app
Posted Apr 5th 2011 6:00AM by Sebastian Anthony
In what is probably a bit of a big-G whoopsie, the folks at Tech From 10 woke up to find a new, test version of Android Market installed on their Galaxy S.
Visually, the new version is almost identical. The carousel of featured apps has been updated slightly, and apps now have a 'Content rating,' but that's it (image after the break). The interesting bit, however, is the inclusion of alpha and beta apps -- most notably, there's a new version of the Music app, which looks like a scaled-down version of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb Music app (see right).
Also available from the test Android Market is 'Google Gallery 3D New 10.2', 'Google - Camera v12' and 'Google Desk Clock 10' -- but, curiously, all of the apps refused to launch on Tech From 10's Galaxy S (Vibrant) smartphone. Are they Honeycomb apps? Or, more likely, are they destined for the next Android smartphone OS, Ice Cream?
If you want to try out the new Honeycombish Music app, Tech From 10 has made the APK available for download. You can also download the three Google apps, if you want to have a poke around.
Link here: http://i.downloadsquad.switched.com...next-version-of-android-market-and-music-app/
The link seems to be down, but I posted the music app.
Maybe the devs can tweak and add these in...
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Why does this have access to my accounts..... I'm not installing till that permission is removed somehow
Am I wrong? It says it has access to my accounts credentials so that's a no go for me
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superchilpil said:
Why does thus have access to my accounts..... I'm not installing till that permission is removed somehow
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It is setup for google music cloud, so that you can stream. the cloud is not setup as of yet.
Are you able to upload music to the Google cloud and stream it? If so, can you tell if it uses up your gmail/picasa available space? I paid for extra storage for picasa and I assume the music service would share from the same space.
Thanks.
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Why does thus have access to my accounts..... I'm not installing till that permission is removed somehow
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If it's a Google cloud music service, it would need access to your account for syncing, etc.
If its for the gallery it has to do with permissions dealing with your Picasa albums.
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How are you guys getting this to open it keeps force closing when I open them on my thunderbolt.
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Uses sdk version "11" so if I'm not mistaken that's ice cream right?
I've forgotten since I don't use the sdk's much
Anyway I just peeked in the manifest to check things out
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I believe you are correct. Ice cream is 2.4.
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I wonder what is different in the camera. Anyone get it to work? i am at work now, so can't try...
I have only installed the music app. Since then I have had some weird things happen on my phone. The YouTube login started to fail several times even though I didn't open YouTube. The phone locked up and needed a battery pull. 2 pictures I took never saved. Up until now i haven't had a single issue with this phone and that is the only thing I have installed recently. Might just be a strange coincidence...
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Anyone get the Clock app working? looks like it might be like the Honeycomb clock from the way the Icon looks after its installed. It just fc's on me each time i try to run it.
Music works fine though
I remember that with enabling live wallpapers on 2.0.1, someone changed the sdk number to the one of 2.0.1. Anyone care to try?
htcimagio said:
I remember that with enabling live wallpapers on 2.0.1, someone changed the sdk number to the one of 2.0.1. Anyone care to try?
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I was going to but I noticed that the music app has the same sdk numbers as the others so if that was the problem then music should fc as well
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I removed the music app and my phone is running like normal again... Anyone else getting performance issues after it was installed?
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youneek said:
I removed the music app and my phone is running like normal again... Anyone else getting performance issues after it was installed?
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No problems with the music app. all the others are f/cing
How to install the music player? I have Android 2.1 (Moto Defy) and each time I try to install the .apk file i get > Parse Error: There is a problem parsing the package.
abhi.eternal said:
How to install the music player? I have Android 2.1 (Moto Defy) and each time I try to install the .apk file i get > Parse Error: There is a problem parsing the package.
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hate to state the obvious, but you're in the wrong forum
Music app no google sync?
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just wanted to point out a new Flipboard version!!!

So I found this new version and wanted to share it with you guys.....Aparently it is compatible with a tablet.....because after instalation the small icon in the lower right corner that let's you change the "full screen" dissapered!!!
Have fun!!!
Awesome!!!!!! Been waiting for this.
I like Flipboard but I can't seem to get it to set up folders for me or see my Google reader feeds.
Any help?
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Flipboard for SGN10.1 arrived to Gplay today
Very nice app indeed. You can tell they put some effort into optimizing it for tablets.
Is it better than pulse? It's been hard for me to switch from that.
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need to be connected to a social network to share an article, no thank you...

[Q] Help!!!! gallery showing hundreds of random pictures

one day I went into the gallery app to review a picture and there were hundreds of folders with random pictures in the gallery and the app is incredibly slow to load pics. I downloaded quick pic and I could hide these albums but I would like to work this out if it's possible, I would like to post a picture to show you but gallery is completely unresponsive. some of the album names are active user, assets,. com. samsung
You could try to plug it into your computer and delete the pictures through the directories.
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im thinking the os needs some of the pictures , some are promotional pictures for samsung some are pieces of a animation
Bladerunner1825us said:
You could try to plug it into your computer and delete the pictures through the directories.
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akatheproducer said:
im thinking the os needs some of the pictures , some are promotional pictures for samsung some are pieces of a animation
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Find the folders involved, and put a file named ".nomedia" in them. Then download "Rescan Media" (or other app) from the play store, or clear data for the gallery and let it rescan.
Should clean it up.
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im thinking the os needs some of the pictures , some are promotional pictures for samsung some are pieces of a animation
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I used to get that on my s3 and i deleted them with no ill effect
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did you delete from the phone or from computer and would they come back ???
Bladerunner1825us said:
I used to get that on my s3 and i deleted them with no ill effect
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They seem to be connected to one of your accounts. I'm not sure why they did this but lets say if you sign in to facebook, or dropbox, all your pictures from those accounts will show up in your gallery. Its stupid and it does make the phone lag when opening the gallery app
polish_pat said:
They seem to be connected to one of your accounts. I'm not sure why they did this but lets say if you sign in to facebook, or dropbox, all your pictures from those accounts will show up in your gallery. Its stupid and it does make the phone lag when opening the gallery app
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Drop box shows in gallery? How did you get this to happen, it's not even an option that I can see.
teetndtheir
I don't know how it happened but I just deleted 1406 folders and gallery was still slow so I also went into app management and cleared cache and 69 gb of data which is weird because I only have a 16 internal 32gb mem card, but that seems to have done the trick
rkennison said:
Drop box shows in gallery? How did you get this to happen, it's not even an option that I can see.
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Yup. Dropbox, Facebook, instagram , Picasa...and a bunch of other apps that host pictures. They all show up in my gallery, I've never done this on purpose and it does seem to make gallery load a little slower
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"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Edit: I just saw it's an option. If you press menu button while in gallery app you have the option to display different content
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rkennison said:
Drop box shows in gallery? How did you get this to happen, it's not even an option that I can see.
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Yup. Dropbox, Facebook, instagram , Picasa...and a bunch of other apps that host pictures. They all show up in my gallery, I've never done this on purpose and it does seem to make gallery load a little slower
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polish_pat said:
Yup. Dropbox, Facebook, instagram , Picasa...and a bunch of other apps that host pictures. They all show up in my gallery, I've never done this on purpose and it does seem to make gallery load a little slower
Edit: I just saw it's an option. If you press menu button while in gallery app you have the option to display different content
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Yup. Dropbox, Facebook, instagram , Picasa...and a bunch of other apps that host pictures. They all show up in my gallery, I've never done this on purpose and it does seem to make gallery load a little slower
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when u add any account in settings to the add account page then u get the option of seeing those pictures in the gallery..Viz i have a 100gb drop box account so it even shows all my HD movies in the video section
great now the same has happen with Google play music and this time I can't delete or hide it
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start all over. Factory reset using recovery
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I feel dizzy
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I opened Samsung player and in there I see I could delete the files but can anyone confirm if the system needs these sound files?
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guess I'll delete them too since nothing went wrong with deleting the pictures
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App not working with 4.4

I thought it would be a good thing to follow app that didn't work well with kitkat so far...
- ebay - Force close
-break - freeze randomly
-bitstrip - Force close
Feel free to continue the tread with you own app list..
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GSam battery...wakelock detector... they wont work either... bitstrips works for me tho
I use ebay.
Bitstrip is fixed.... I confirm...
Is you xda force close often? Is this a kitkat issue?
After reinstall. EBay works great too!
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As for ebay... Fixed!
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Xda has been cr*p since before KitKat. Some issues currently known. But they is a special thread for it. I might be server related though.
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Capital One app crashes
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iHeart radio..... No sound.
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XDA force closes on me more than any other app!!
Facebook freezes all the time.
GSam Battery. Can't use this at all.
Everything else has been perfect so far (including bitstrip)
sith78 said:
I thought it would be a good thing to follow app that didn't work well with kitkat so far...
- ebay - Force close
-break - freeze randomly
-bitstrip - Force close
Feel free to continue the tread with you own app list..
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Dvalik or ART?
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Is UCCW working? I've tried several widgets and none of seem to work. In particular I'm trying to add the Flat Sense widget and it doesn't display properly. This is what is should look like
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
This is what I get
Media Utilities (also by MyColorScreen) doesn't work either. I don't get any album artwork
Art of course!
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Facebook will freeze randomly. Media Utilities doesn't work.
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Spotify - doesn't display album art
HBOGo doesn't work. It force closes. It's probably listed as not compatible but I restored from TiBu to try. They took forever to update for 4.3 too.
Viber closes when I try to send a photo..
Also XDA app doesnt work perfect. When I want reply to some post, it chooses one post above to (quote).
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Anything which tries to call media scanner. E.g music player or Media Scanner ROOT.
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Wakelock Detector is now working on the Nexus 5. I love that app and was disappointed it wasn't working before.
Enjoy it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48149239&postcount=338
Coast 2 coast am
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EBay works perfectly for me.
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Google Drive taking too much storage

Hi
I have an issue not specific with the 6p, I see the same issue with my Nexus5
I use Google Drive on Android to upload photos and videos and other files.
After many months of usage, the Google Drive app size is taking a few gigs and I don't understand why??
I don't use offline files on Drive, and If I clear the cache in the app setting, it doesn't help.
So the only solution I got is to clear all the app data after a few months . Do you understand why?
Is it that Drive is keeping a local backup in the app of every files I upload from the phone?
Thanks
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It shouldn't be. Drive only shows 63mb data on mine.
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dratsablive said:
It shouldn't be. Drive only shows 63mb data on mine.
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After about one month :
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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After about one month :
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It takes 46.26 MB on my 6P.
You can just clear the Google Drive app data from Settings > Apps, and re-login. See if this works.
DJBhardwaj said:
It takes 46.26 MB on my 6P.
You can just clear the Google Drive app data from Settings > Apps, and re-login. See if this works.
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Yes it works and I know it (see the op)
But why do I have to clear app data after a few months all the time?
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Matrix_19 said:
Yes it works and I know it (see the op)
But why do I have to clear app data after a few months all the time?
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This has happened before?
And the last time you used the same method to solve this?
Keeping the app info aside, does the storage menu in Settings show the same?
DJBhardwaj said:
This has happened before?
And the last time you used the same method to solve this?
Keeping the app info aside, does the storage menu in Settings show the same?
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Yes it's the same
Like I said in my first post, I have to clear app data everytime after a few months of usage
On my girlfriend Nexus 5 last week, she had no storage left and I had to clear Drive app data to get back 3 gigs.
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Matrix_19 said:
Yes it's the same
Like I said in my first post, I have to clear app data everytime after a few months of usage
On my girlfriend Nexus 5 last week, she had no storage left and I had to clear Drive app data to get back 3 gigs.
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Probably because, you use the 'Available Offline' option for any of the files, in your Google Drive?
DJBhardwaj said:
Probably because, you use the 'Available Offline' option for any of the files, in your Google Drive?
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Nope
:-S
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Nope
:-S
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Try that for one of your files (a bigger file probably, >50 MB) in the Drive, and check if the storage spaces consumes more data. It will confirm the situation.
DJBhardwaj said:
Try that for one of your files (a bigger file probably, >50 MB) in the Drive, and check if the storage spaces consumes more data. It will confirm the situation.
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I uploaded a big video 500mo and yep... The Drive storage is taking more space, about the same as the file I uploaded.
Now it's 1.5g instead of 1gig
Why is it doing this?
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Matrix_19 said:
I uploaded a big video 500mo and yep... The Drive storage is taking more space, about the same as the file I uploaded.
Now it's 1.5g instead of 1gig
Why is it doing this?
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Now when you look into Google Drive, and open the menu of a file. You will see two different options there, Download or Make available offline.
The difference between the two is - 'Download' option allows you save the file to your storage, and you can browse/open/modify it from other third-party apps too, besides just Google Drive itself. On the contrary - 'Make available offline' option, does the same thing, but it saves the file under the app itself, and it could only be accessed within Google Drive.
So, for the latter the file is saved under the Google Drive app, which in turn shows the increase in storage space. If you use the Download option, the app storage wouldn't be affected at all.
DJBhardwaj said:
Now when you look into Google Drive, and open the menu of a file. You will see two different options there, Download or Make available offline.
The difference between the two is - 'Download' option allows you save the file to your storage, and you can browse/open/modify it from other third-party apps too, besides just Google Drive itself. On the contrary - 'Make available offline' option, does the same thing, but it saves the file under the app itself, and it could only be accessed within Google Drive.
So, for the latter the file is saved under the Google Drive app, which in turn shows the increase in storage space. If you use the Download option, the app storage wouldn't be affected at all.
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But I don't download them and I don't use offline. I just upload a video from the phone to Google Drive, nothing more.
If I look at the file I uploaded, it's not available offline. And even if I delete it from the app Drive I don't get back the storage in the app (not talking about the storage in the cloud)
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Matrix_19 said:
But I don't download them and I don't use offline. I just upload a video from the phone to Google Drive, nothing more.
If I look at the file I uploaded, it's not available offline. And even if I delete it from the app Drive I don't get back the storage in the app (not talking about the storage in the cloud)
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It is weird then. I only get an increase in the app storage if I use the 'Make available offline' option, otherwise everything just remains the same.
I hope someone else has a solution for your problem.
DJBhardwaj said:
It is weird then. I only get an increase in the app storage if I use the 'Make available offline' option, otherwise everything just remains the same.
I hope someone else has a solution for your problem.
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Thanks anyway
I wish someone could solve this mystery.
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I have the same issue using zte blade a110 lollipop

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