I'm sure everyone here uses and loves the multi users feature. It gives a true independent workspace for each user, however it's not always fascinating.
While the apps need to be downloaded in each profile, the main issue is about locally stored data.
For instance, I want to share some pictures that I have in my gallery with my wife on the same device but can't figure out how to do it.
Would appreciate if anyone can share a solution to be able to share local files with another user profile
junooni said:
I'm sure everyone here uses and loves the multi users feature. It gives a true independent workspace for each user, however it's not always fascinating.
While the apps need to be downloaded in each profile, the main issue is about locally stored data.
For instance, I want to share some pictures that I have in my gallery with my wife on the same device but can't figure out how to do it.
Would appreciate if anyone can share a solution to be able to share local files with another user profile
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Well the apps actually are NOT downloaded for each user. Only one copy is used by both.
Have to think about intentionally sharing pictures. I am sure Google Drive would work - but that is overkill, and you might wind up with two copies...
sharing of local files is the main issue
junooni said:
I'm sure everyone here uses and loves the multi users feature. It gives a true independent workspace for each user, however it's not always fascinating.
While the apps need to be downloaded in each profile, the main issue is about locally stored data.
For instance, I want to share some pictures that I have in my gallery with my wife on the same device but can't figure out how to do it.
Would appreciate if anyone can share a solution to be able to share local files with another user profile
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Nope, I have no use for multi-user on the N7 or any tab. To me, a tablet is a personal device, just like a phone. I have no need for multi-user on a Nexus 4 either, it's pointless.
Because storage is limited on the Google Nexus devices (discounting usb) both my wife and I have our own. Each is setup for our personal preferences and taste. If we want to share data, it's easily copied, or shared with Google drive, dropbox whatever.
We are both remaining on JB 4.1.2 and have no immediate plans to update.
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Hey, just wanted to use this as an opportunity to get myself some extra storage space and introduce people this great service to some new users who might not know about it.
Dropbox offers real-time syncing and backup between multiple devices for free. It's one of the few free services that offers version tracking. For example, if you accidentally saved over an important file, you can go on dropbox to restore the older version.
On android, dropbox is especially useful because it allows you to access and edit your most important files in the cloud. While google's cloud takes care of email, calendar, tasks, and pictures, they don't really have a great service for storing other instantaneous syncing of other files... this is where dropbox comes in.
Anyways, here's the self promotion: if you sign up for a new account, please use this following link:
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I've found dropbox so useful that I'm quickly running out of space and can definitely use some more (you get 250megs for every friend you refer).
Thanks and hope you guys found this useful!.
Yay a referral thread!
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTQzMTQyMjg5
muncheroo said:
Hey, just wanted to use this as an opportunity to get myself some extra storage space and introduce people this great service to some new users who might not know about it.
Dropbox offers real-time syncing and backup between multiple devices for free. It's one of the few free services that offers version tracking. For example, if you accidentally saved over an important file, you can go on dropbox to restore the older version.
On android, dropbox is especially useful because it allows you to access and edit your most important files in the cloud. While google's cloud takes care of email, calendar, tasks, and pictures, they don't really have a great service for storing other instantaneous syncing of other files... this is where dropbox comes in.
Anyways, here's the self promotion: if you sign up for a new account, please use this following link:
dropbox . com/referrals/NTIyNDAyOQ
I've found dropbox so useful that I'm quickly running out of space and can definitely use some more (you get 250megs for every friend you refer).
Thanks and hope you guys found this useful!.
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sugersync has an android client as well, i prefer it over dropbox
Ok since you started.....
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Yet another referral and PM if you have any questions about dropbox, been using it for a long time now, highly recommend it.
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dropbox OWNS ! love it
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i have a main 50GB dropbox account, then a separate account for work and will create a desperate 2GB account for the android. then i will share a folder with the android account and the main account to put mp3s on the phone.
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Nice... Here's mine!
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I prefer the Droidbox app for managing Dropbox.
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cool ****, referral thread
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ihatejessica is an AWESOME android app, love it.
Homepipe from Homepipe.net is way better...
No storage limit because it just provides a link from your home computer and your phone.
caseyweed said:
Homepipe from Homepipe.net is way better...
No storage limit because it just provides a link from your home computer and your phone.
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1) You assume people leave their computers on. As a Facilities employee, I would stab you if you tried to do that in my building (Most people don't realize just how much power computers use, even when just idling).
2) You also assume people have fast upload speeds. Believe it or not, most people do not. I for one have about 30kBps upstream bandwidth on my home DSL, which is usually being taken up with torrents and CrashPlan.
TheBiles said:
I prefer the Droidbox app for managing Dropbox.
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Whats different between the Droidbox app vs the regular Dropbox app?
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1) You assume people leave their computers on. As a Facilities employee, I would stab you if you tried to do that in my building (Most people don't realize just how much power computers use, even when just idling).
2) You also assume people have fast upload speeds. Believe it or not, most people do not. I for one have about 30kBps upstream bandwidth on my home DSL, which is usually being taken up with torrents and CrashPlan.
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Wait a minute. i thought drop-box was a cloud-based storage solution? I.E. you upload TO their servers and pull down FROM their servers to your phone. why would someone need to leave a computer on??
Use mine! Use mine!
http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTM0MjUwMDc5
SilverStone641 said:
Wait a minute. i thought drop-box was a cloud-based storage solution? I.E. you upload TO their servers and pull down FROM their servers to your phone. why would someone need to leave a computer on??
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It is, he was responding to my comment about Homepipe.
Dropbox is incredibly helpful. I don't need to mess with cables if I just want to send something to my phone or want easy access to certain things across devices.
If I've ever helped you out or you want to try it out, use my referral to get us both some extra free storage space!
http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTI1ODA1MTE5
Hi,
is it possible to have more than one google account on one Nexus7 device?
(this thread should be at Nexus7 Q&A)
Moved to Nexus 7 Q&A.
EDIT: Never mind, I was wrong, you get the option of choosing which account to use as the person below me has said.
I have a second Google account on my Desire Hd.
Its not much of an issue, when you are using google apps eg. YouTube, G+, Gmail you get a choice of which account you want to use and you can logout and choose the other whenever you want.
Syncing is not a problem either, whichever account you pick when you make changes they will be saved to only that account.
My YouTube widget changes depending on which account i am using when i exit the YouTube app.
Hope this helps
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I use multiple Google accts on my phone (ICS/CM9). Sync'ing, etc works just fine. Whenever it gets to a point where you have to choose the account you want something under, it prompts you. The issue/solution for me for Facebook (for my wife & I) will likely be Friendcaster (which allows multiple accts).
I was thinking more about choosing an user after waking-up the tablet. Just like windows has. One for me, other for my wife.
The perfect solution would be face to unlock, but I don't think it would be avaliable soon.
Tablets feel like windows 98 all over again. I guess this is because of their phone roots (the thought being one user owns a phone). But with tablets, many want to share.
As your example of you and your wife. Or even security. I'm at my bro's and my nephew wants to play with my tablet, and he's pretty responsible, but he could actually start reading/deleting my email, uninstall apps, buy apps via google market. Btw, I expressly choose never to save anything to google wallet, I've only made a few purchases and have been careful of this, but last thing I bought, my credit card info was all ready to go. Sigh.
But yes not only would I like multi-users I would like to make others have limited functionality, as in they can't install/uninstall apps etc. Even a simple thing like letting my nephew play a game I was in the middle of playing, well he cleared all the stages so I have to remember which stage I was on each time I launch it, or clear them all and start over.
But I suspect it'll be this way for a long time.
gieja said:
I was thinking more about choosing an user after waking-up the tablet. Just like windows has. One for me, other for my wife.
The perfect solution would be face to unlock, but I don't think it would be avaliable soon.
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SwitchMe sounds like what you may be looking for?
N.B. I haven't used it.
Thanks Salty Wagyu for the link. I'm gonna try it as soon as i get me N7. It might be what I'm looking for.
Salty Wagyu said:
SwitchMe sounds like what you may be looking for?.
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Wow... I wasn't aware of that app, either. This is from one of the reviews, though:
Log out does not really work like Windows where you log out and then select another user but rather you have to go into the App and say SWITCH user. Once you do SWITCH user, you actually have to wait for the device to reboot into the other user so it is not running multiple instances
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I'd think that if the dev on this app could get help from or work with the devs on the popular launchers, better integration would ensue... Like the review said, though... great start...
I've actually installed this app and ran it. You do have to reboot whenever you "switch" which for me isn't a big deal. I haven't had a chance to mess with it too much yet but it looks like the closest option to running multiple accts. From what I can tell you can add a pic for each profile and u can choose which acct to load which is nice, but the lite version only allows 2 profiles, you have to buy a key for more.
1 caution though, it may mess things up a bit with the play store. I tried buying a key after switching back to my profile, and I got an error saying my order could not be processed try again. I'm going to give it some time & try again in a few hours & see what happens.
Using it now too. Seems pretty cool. Seeing as EVERYONE loves wanting to see your phone. LoL!! There is an experimental switch feature that swtiches without rebooting, but I'm not too sure that's working just yet. LoL!!
I'll give this a try too. It may seem worth it.
And a question for the OP. Is that your comment I seen in the store? About the wife and kids? LoL!! =.P
I noticed that switching to a different profile doesn't retain apps between users. Say for instance on the admin profile (mine), I have Plex purchased and installed. On the newly created profile with a different account, it doesn't show up in the apps page (which makes sense because it's a different account). This could become a problem for those with the 8gb model (like myself) where you might have duplicate apps installed based on the user(s) which would take up more space. I think for the sake of saving space, it may be wise for me to install only maintenance/tool type apps on the admin profile for tablet management, then, anything else (games, productivity etc) can be tied to the newly created profile so that I'm not duplicating installed apps.
Can anyone that has done this estimate how much space an extra profile consumes? My 8 GB nexus 7 stock out of the box has ~5.75 GB available. Will adding a second profile consume another ~2 GB plus any additional apps, data, etc? I'm hoping that some of that 2 GB is due to medium format, and other reserved space...
I'm not entirely sure exactly how google envisioned us using this multiuser feature. On the one hand, it seems perfect for sharing tablets among family members, otoh, the lack of a "shared storage" seems odd. Simple use case is something like: both people using the tablet listen to the same music. It would certainly be odd to download the same music or video files twice. THis would solve a lot of issues including the need for a mount point for OTG, as well as double downloading of game data (non user specific data like game files).
My question is: what is a possible way to solve this? IS there any hope at all? THe way storage is implemented with multi-user is confusing to me, i have no way of accessing user#2s stuff even as root when logged into user#1.
Really? ANOTHER thread about this? Are the 4896 already existing not enough?
Anyways, I just posted an idea for shared storage here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34744017&postcount=9
I wasn't aware of this app until it was pre-installed on a custom flash game in place of the default gallery.
I don't know how long they'll be around for, for such a massive photo storage cloud but the app has support for various other clouds and samba support as well. I initially wasn't that interested since I use Foldersync but I would like to try it out as my gallery for now, and that said it seemed I may as well get the bazillion Gig storage option. Doing it here keeps me from spamming my friends.
From the looks of it, you only need to get one referral, so if someone takes mine, please say so and repost a code assuming one is available, if not then I suppose its simply a good place for people to post who want space; referees get it as well therefore I'm unclear how it works in this regard.
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PantsDownJedi said:
I wasn't aware of this app until it was pre-installed on a custom flash game in place of the default gallery.
So that's how you found quick pic? Party's over thanks to Cheetah Mobile. RIP quick pic, the once best and only gallery app.
EDIT: DON'T BOTHER WITH THE STORAGE, JUST UNINSTALL THE APP.
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Thanks for the heads up. I hadn't read the store comments because indeed it is how I found it. The interface and functionality are still good. Hopefully I can neuter any services and permissions I don't like after moving it out of /system (and it irritates me that ROM cookers put things there at all).
It's been quite some time since I had a gallery app with a folder view that was complete and was also able to delete photos when I told it to. Hopefully I can either find something else or get this one to do all of the above after removing it from /system and installing normally.
I only briefly, just now, by the way, and I didn't find all the file sharing support it advertises, including Samba but assuming the cloud space is in fact upgradable, another layer of redundancy would be desirable.
We shall see how things turn out...
EDIT: Permissions were fine. New code since I used the one I posted
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So this is an idea I have that I'm certain must be popular by now in this day and age:
We're trying to plan out our wedding on the beach. Presumably there'll be no Internet. I want to set up a portable WiFi network for the guests to be able to log on to and upload their cell phone pictures of the wedding throughout the day.
Obviously this has to be super easy for everyone to do, because most of the guests are not very tech savvy. I imagine the device needed would have to be pretty powerful if there could be 2 dozen people uploading at once.
I really don't know where to start on this. It could include everyone needing to download an app (Android and iOS compatible), along with maybe me creating personal folders for each guest to upload to on the storage device, if that's also necessary.
If there's a local WiFi gizmo that's already integrated with a storage unit (128 Gb class 10 SD comes to mind...) with easy to navigate file sharing software built in, please tell me what that thing would be called so I can go search for it.
Thanks lots!