If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol

Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by y4mi on Sunday November 05, 2017 @01:01AM (#15628360)

> If Android had USB sync, I'd consider converting. But swapping one cloud ecosystem for another just doesn't work for me, I want to keep my data offline.

Uuuh,it does last time I checked. You can even create backups with debug enabled. Nobody uses it though because plugging the phone to the PC is annoying.

You are also not required to use the Google drive services for file syncing. Setting up an owncloud server gives you pretty much the same benefits and interactions that gdrive provides

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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by mjevans on Sunday November 05, 2017 @03:08AM (#15628644)

Andorid phones (the modern ones anyway) do support the MTP protocol... but it's horrid if you're trying to do something like transfer large files for storage of any type; it's like it was written with the old 4GB file limits in mind.

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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by josteink on Sunday November 05, 2017 @03:58AM (#15628749)

Iirc «adb backup» is a command these days and it doesn’t rely on MTP.

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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by tortasaur on Sunday November 05, 2017 @10:25AM (#15629796)

Google has an adb-sync script that works really well.

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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by bane on Sunday November 05, 2017 @09:23AM (#15629506)

If you really need to transfer files to-from your phone just install an ftp server or something on it and remote into it. I do it all the time and it's great.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapp...

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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by interfixus on Sunday November 05, 2017 @06:55AM (#15629045)

https://syncthing.net/

I never think about it. If it's on my phone, it's on my PC.

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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by peterburkimsher on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:39AM (#15630151)

What do you use to manage your music library? I don't just need a backup option, I need apps that can manage my music/contacts/calendar databases.

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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by tgragnato on Sunday November 05, 2017 @01:11PM (#15630698)

OwnCloud / NextCloud includes native support for CalDAV and CardDAV (using SabreDAV internally). You can synchronize your music library too.

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