Recent content by Barry Adler

Solved using hard buttons and repeating above steps multiple time. Perhaps I performed Step 3 slightly faster the time it worked.

Motorola Droid Maxx (not Razr) shuts off on its own from time to time and Apps, including Google Maps and Settings frequently "Unfortunately" stop working. Have tried to Factory reset, but when I try Backup & Reset in Settings menu, Settings itself stops working. When I try to Reset using the...

Thanks for all your help. After some fiddling, I have a workaround that works fine for me. Still need to have the backup folder in Pictures parent folder, but that's not a problem. Even then, I can't generate an option to have Google Photo auto-backup a folder until the folder has a JPEG image...

Thanks. If I can get dragged files to backup I'll try this too.

Strange. I got the same notification and thought I had the problem solved, but when I dragged a photo in it did not get backed up (even though the conditions for backup were met and worked for new photos taken by the camera). I wonder if my problem was that I dragged an image from an internal...

So, it seems as if this should work, and I thought it would, but it doesn't, at least not best I can tell. Here's why: When choosing folders to back up the only options are folders in the Pictures folder, for example, "Photoshop Express." Using a file manager, it is possible to add a folder to...

I'll give this a try. Thanks.

Thanks, I have Google Photo App (native on the phone, I think) but as I understand that app it automatically uploads photos taken by the phone, which is not what I need. My issue is how to upload photos transferred to the phone.

For an upcoming trip, I plan to use my Droid Maxx for photo backup by using a USB OTG adapter to transfer JPEG images from my camera's SD card to a folder on the phone's SD card. In testing the workflow, this has worked well. The issue I'm having is with my attempt to do an additional, cloud...

Without my doing anything, save turn both devices on, my Sony Blu-ray player, which also has a DLNA function, recognizes (or once recognized) my Droid Maxx. But (at least now) the icon for the phone on the Blu-ray player is not lit, which is a signal (based on my other devices that are DLNA...

That is the very first thing I tried and was surprised to see no files there. For whatever reason, accessing SkyDrive files is not considered a Download by Android, and the only way to find the files, I have since discovered, is to manually drill down through the SD Card to a buried SkyDrive...

That would not work for me at least because I did not open the file with Quick Office. I did finally find the files, though, in a Sky Drive folder buried on the SD card. Poor transparency on Android's part.

A frequent task for me is to view SkyDrive files on my Droid Maxx. When I select a file from SkyDrive, I'm told that the file is downloading and it displays properly. But I cannot find the file on the phone, not in the program I opened it with, not in the Download folder, not anywhere that ES...

In a prior post, I asked whether different camera apps have different image qualities on the same phone, in this case, a Droid Maxx. Having now spent most of the last day experimenting, I'm posting here to offer some information rather than ask for information. After dozens of comparison shots...

That's not a function of the cropping options, not primarily, but of the multi-mega-pixel images the camera natively produces. The texting function on the phone, or some email apps, Gmail, e.g., by default reduce the size of the images before sharing.