box.com 50gb of free storage for lg phones

[pbailey212]

I read about this on Android Central, so I tried it and its true. 50gb of cloud storage for free isn't too shabby

 

[Kahroo]

Just read about it like 2 mins ago and BAM Got myself 50GBs. Not bad at all.

 

[StevenOptimusV]

You guys mean 5gb don't you?

 

[MKornelis]

no, box.net is 50 gigs.

 

[StevenOptimusV]

Cool, all you need to do is install Box on your LG phone and you automatically get 50gb. I wonder how long this is going to last.

 

[mknollman123]

huh - is this space just a temporary thing for a few weeks or is this indefinitely?

 

[Raul720]

Wow thanks guys. This is nice.

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[Takenover83]

How good is the Box app for android? I already have sugarsync (I am up to 15GB just from referrals), which I moved on to from Dropbox.

Edit: File Size limit?
Edit #2: Yes. Even though you get the 50GB. You are still limited to 25MB file sizes for free,
I tried uploading a little ~200MB Movie and could not do it :/

 

[Kahroo]

Yeah and you need to have a paid account to use the Desktop client. That sucks. And yeah 25MB is kinda small. I may stick with Dropbox

 

[koopakid08]

Yeah I've got 100GB from them from the iOS deal but I never use it due to the file size limit...


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[Dannemand]

Thanks a lot for this tip. I just downloaded Box from market, signed up and got 50 GB.

Played a little with it on the phone and PC. It integrates with google docs for editing on the PC. Other app integrations are available from third parties. On the phone, it integrates beautifully with QuickOffice Pro, which Amazon recently had as free app. Use QuickOffice to browse and open Box files (works better than the other way around).

I'm considering getting an Asus TF, and I think this could be quite valuable there. So thanks again.

Sent from my LG Optimus V CM7/IHO

 

[csrow]

How good is the Box app for android? I already have sugarsync (I am up to 15GB just from referrals), which I moved on to from Dropbox.

Edit: File Size limit?
Edit #2: Yes. Even though you get the 50GB. You are still limited to 25MB file sizes for free,
I tried uploading a little ~200MB Movie and could not do it :/

Once the account is upgraded to 50GB, the maximum file size is changed to 1GB. I just uploaded some files 170MB to 200MB in size and it uploaded without any problems from my PC. I haven't tried uploading larger size files from OV yet.

*edit*
Larger size upload from OV works fine too. I just uploaded nandroid back up from my OV and had no problems.

 

[Hobo Clown]

You can mount this as a network drive I have tried it and it works.
Mount box.net account in Windows Explorer

 

[Takenover83]

Once the account is upgraded to 50GB, the maximum file size is changed to 1GB. I just uploaded some files 170MB to 200MB in size and it uploaded without any problems from my PC. I haven't tried uploading larger size files from OV yet.

*edit*
Larger size upload from OV works fine too. I just uploaded nandroid back up from my OV and had no problems.

You are half right, at-least in my experience. My file size limit seem's to be at 100MB. It does say I have 50GB on the website.

You can see these details here: https://www.box.com/settings/account

 

[Dannemand]

You can mount this as a network drive I have tried it and it works.
Mount box.net account in Windows Explorer

This is awesome. Doesn't even require installing any software, just hook it up as WebDAV in windows.

Now I can use SyncToy to backup to box - AND have access from my phone.

Once again thanks a lot :-D

Sent from my LG Optimus V CM7/IHO

 

[csrow]

You are half right, at-least in my experience. My file size limit seem's to be at 100MB. It does say I have 50GB on the website.

You can see these details here: https://www.box.com/settings/account
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I don't know why there is a difference but on my screen, it shows 1G and I have uploaded many files larger than 100MB so I am not sure what is going on.

 

[Takenover83]

I don't know why there is a difference but on my screen, it shows 1G and I have uploaded many files larger than 100MB so I am not sure what is going on.

Very strange. Can anyone else share what there file size limit is? I also notice your bandwidth says 0. It suggest you have no limit, where as mine is at 10GB (which I would likely never exceed on Virgin Mobile).

Edit: Maybe you are on a 14-day Free Trial to the Business upgrade, which cost $15/m?

 

[csrow]

Very strange. Can anyone else share what there file size limit is? I also notice your bandwidth says 0. It suggest you have no limit, where as mine is at 10GB (which I would likely never exceed on Virgin Mobile).

Edit: Maybe you are on a 14-day Free Trial to the Business upgrade, which cost $15/m?

Ok, I have figured out what is going on. The 100MB limit is correct. I was just lucky to get 1GB limit on my HP account before they changed it. I just created a new account with LG and that does have 100MB limit.

"On the 1GB vs. 100MB upload discrepancy, Levie said in a statement that "From the beginning, the promotion we agreed on with HP was 50GB of free cloud storage, along with a 100MB file size limit for uploads. Due to a misconfiguration on our end, some lucky users received a 1GB limit, and we'll of course continue to honor that for those accounts. We're sorry about any confusion that discrepancy has caused."

 

[Takenover83]

Ah I see. Do you mean LG and not HP? Either way, I think I can work around this 100MB limit. Should be good for music, photo's, apk's, etc.. If I have something larger, like a movie, I will just split it. I love mounting box.net via Windows, and not needing a separate app. Works rather well.

 

[StevenOptimusV]

No sync.