- Mar 7, 2015
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Hello. Looking for ways to save battery life I noticed my Google account has multiple syncs taking a long time to complete consuming power.
Thought I had a decent understanding of what a sync does. Make a change in local data at one location and that change is reflected at another locations local data. Like your laptop and your phone
Trying to understand how different Google Apps sync on my phone, I don't see local data repositories or folders. Just an app performing as a user interface to a server in the cloud. For example Google Drive. I uploaded hundreds of photos, and after doing so that sync is taking forever. There is nothing local on the phone. Everything's in the cloud. Why is there a sync? I turned it off and it makes no difference. I can still see the photos and anything I pinned for offline viewing.
Things like this leave me scratching my head about syncs and what purpose they serve without any local repository of data. Can get somebody give me a brief explanation of what a sync is for on an Android phone? I know that may be hard to answer because each app works differently but maybe my example of Google Drive. How is the sync working there? Why do I need it at all?
I tried searching for answers prior to sending this message. but just like everything with Google it's so complicated and vague they assume you know. thank you in advance.
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Thought I had a decent understanding of what a sync does. Make a change in local data at one location and that change is reflected at another locations local data. Like your laptop and your phone
Trying to understand how different Google Apps sync on my phone, I don't see local data repositories or folders. Just an app performing as a user interface to a server in the cloud. For example Google Drive. I uploaded hundreds of photos, and after doing so that sync is taking forever. There is nothing local on the phone. Everything's in the cloud. Why is there a sync? I turned it off and it makes no difference. I can still see the photos and anything I pinned for offline viewing.
Things like this leave me scratching my head about syncs and what purpose they serve without any local repository of data. Can get somebody give me a brief explanation of what a sync is for on an Android phone? I know that may be hard to answer because each app works differently but maybe my example of Google Drive. How is the sync working there? Why do I need it at all?
I tried searching for answers prior to sending this message. but just like everything with Google it's so complicated and vague they assume you know. thank you in advance.
Posted via the Android Central App