Google+ instant upload - Every frame of Zoe!

[nicodemus3d]

Has anyone else noticed that if you enable Google+s Instant Upload feature with the HTC One, it will upload every frame of a Zoe (as well as the movie file) to your designated album. This makes it so messy! I wonder if anyone will come up with a work around for this?

-Mike

 

[jonas2295]

AW: Google+ instant upload - Every frame of Zoe!

Dropbox does that as well .
It's necessary to save every frame as it should be a 1:1 backup of your taken pictures.


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[trickyhenry]

Yeah this is really annoying. Just synced 1000 photo's to my PC. I have now learned to save an event as a mp4 then delete the Zoe photos. Maybe a software update can save us?



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[jonas2295]

AW: Google+ instant upload - Every frame of Zoe!

Yeah this is really annoying. Just synced 1000 photo's to my PC. I have now learned to save an event as a mp4 then delete the Zoe photos. Maybe a software update can save us?



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I will get in contact with HTC . Will keep you updated .

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[vinistois]

I will get in contact with HTC . Will keep you updated .

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I agree that this is a shift from what we are used to with our previous phones. However, each zoe contains a couple of great frames that I actually want to keep as single-frame photos. So how is the phone supposed to know which of the frames are worth keeping? If you just keep the Zoe, then the individual frames are somewhat lost.

I am used to sorting through hundreds of photos, adding the 'good' ones to albums, and deleting the rest from instant upload. Going from hundreds to thousands is definitely going to take an adjustment. I am not sure how HTC will approach this issue, or if they will even approach it. Since google makes it quite easy to select a whole album and hit 'delete', I don't think it will be that difficult to deal with from a user perspective. select the photos you want to keep, select the actual 'zoe' file if you want to keep it, add them to an album of your choice. Then select the rest of the event and delete it all.

I was wondering why my battery just wasn't lasting, but it must have been all the constant uploading all day long. I will set it to upload only when charging, that should help.

 

[davedigerati]

I agree that this is a shift from what we are used to with our previous phones. However, each zoe contains a couple of great frames that I actually want to keep as single-frame photos. So how is the phone supposed to know which of the frames are worth keeping? If you just keep the Zoe, then the individual frames are somewhat lost.

I'm gonna say easy: new menu item next to the current 'save frame' that says keep all frames. Save all these otherwise 'temp' images in a subdirectory with .nomedia and delete once the zoe is deleted to keep from selling, and place it outside the camera directory so theyre not auto-uploaded and further suck my borderline battery any further down.

I can't believe the average consumer is expecting and wanting 30 more "bonus" photos for every movie... I know I frakkin don't.

I have severely curtailed my use of zoe until this is fixed.


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[nicodemus3d]

I was wondering why my battery just wasn't lasting, but it must have been all the constant uploading all day long. I will set it to upload only when charging, that should help.

I just experienced the same. Phone eating through the battery as it quietly uploaded about 400 zoe frames.

And there lies the problem. I've got in the habit of editing my albums right down and deleting does/frames where needed, but I don't always have time to do this directly after taking the photos.
Google+ doesn't know to only start uploading once I've been through and edited.
So either I accept that I'll have to go through and re-edit my google+ albums, or I turn off auto-upload and lose the lovely backup functionality of the service.


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[compact_bijou]

Don't be a member of Google+. Don't allow the phone to upload images.

 

[bleary]

Don't be a member of Google+. Don't allow the phone to upload images.

What a completely useless response!

 

[compact_bijou]

What a completely useless response!

It works 100%

It's the most effective way of not uploading photos.

How is it useless?

 

[bleary]

It works 100%

It's the most effective way of not uploading photos.

How is it useless?

Because people are looking for a solution, such as something HTC will roll out or dev's will sort.

For most (me included) turning off instant upload is not the answer, as the whole point of instant upload is to keep a real-time backup of your images.

It is just the bad design of saving ZOE images that is causing the problems.

 

[nicodemus3d]

Because people are looking for a solution, such as something HTC will roll out or dev's will sort.

For most (me included) turning off instant upload is not the answer, as the whole point of instant upload is to keep a real-time backup of your images.

It is just the bad design of saving ZOE images that is causing the problems.

Absolutely agree. We shouldn't have to lose functionality. Fingers crossed someone smarter than I can come up with a workaround

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[compact_bijou]

turning off instant upload is not the answer

To uploading all of the images? Of course it is.

as the whole point of instant upload is to keep a real-time backup of your images

QED as pointed out in post 2 of this thread.

If you want to save certain images on the go, do so by selecting the image you want to save and uploading that.

Leave sorting out the rest of the images until it's more convenient to you. Seems obvious.

 

[ImWarped]

Because people are looking for a solution, such as something HTC will roll out or dev's will sort.

For most (me included) turning off instant upload is not the answer, as the whole point of instant upload is to keep a real-time backup of your images.

It is just the bad design of saving ZOE images that is causing the problems.

Your "answer" is laughable...
I'm not here to troll, and neither was the other guy, but listen to what you are asking for....

I want all of my photos backed up instantly, except for the photos I don't like, because I haven't reviewed them yet.
So, you DONT want all your photos instantly backed up
Soluntion
Turn off auto-upload, and only upload once you've gone through your photos.

It's a solution, you want your phone to figure out what the best picture you took in a series is before it's saved. That's a ridiculous request if you stop and think about it. No one on the planet would hire a professional photographer again if this software existed.

 

[compact_bijou]

Workflow ... he's never heard of it and wants someone to write an app for that

 

[nicodemus3d]

Your "answer" is laughable...
I'm not here to troll, and neither was the other guy, but listen to what you are asking for....

I want all of my photos backed up instantly, except for the photos I don't like, because I haven't reviewed them yet.
So, you DONT want all your photos instantly backed up
Soluntion
Turn off auto-upload, and only upload once you've gone through your photos.

It's a solution, you want your phone to figure out what the best picture you took in a series is before it's saved. That's a ridiculous request if you stop and think about it. No one on the planet would hire a professional photographer again if this software existed.

Not true. There could definitely be options. If you click on a zoe there is a bar in the timeline that shows where the picture taken when you pressed the shutter is. There could be an option to only make that 1 photo available for upload.
Or there could be an option to only make the zoe.mp4 available for upload.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not posting here DEMANDING a solution. I just noted it here as a possible issue with using zoes.

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[nicodemus3d]

Workflow ... he's never heard of it and wants someone to write an app for that

Wow, you must end up 'rolling your eyes' at a lot of stuff on XDA then. These are called smartphones for a reason.
Yet people still look at them, use them, and think they could be improved somehow. That's why we install custom roms and customisation apps.

Carrying around a diary, and a notebook and an address book used to be a 'workflow'
Then someone came up with something better.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with noting the inefficiencies in your workflow to try and improve/speed thing along.
You've made your point that you don't think this is an issue. Now please leave this thread alone.

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[compact_bijou]

Wow, you must end up 'rolling your eyes' at a lot of stuff on XDA then

I do. Have been doing so for the last six and a half years, when it was all fields round here.

90% of the posts on xda are from people who wilfully refuse to RTFM or STFW, and don't possess any form of critical analysis.

Too many people expect everything to be done for them by others, instantly.

They can't be bothered to read, search, read, read, read and then search some more, like the rest of xda residents.

Most can't even be bothered to check their spelling, their sentence construction, how to phrase a question or be polite enough even to come back to a thread to say thanks.

Then there are the people who demand that other people, get out of threads

 

[nicodemus3d]

I do. Have been doing so for the last six and a half years, when it was all fields round here.

90% of the posts on xda are from people who wilfully refuse to RTFM or STFW, and don't possess any form of critical analysis.

Too many people expect everything to be done for them by others, instantly.

They can't be bothered to read, search, read, read, read and then search some more, like the rest of xda residents.

Most can't even be bothered to check their spelling, their sentence construction, how to phrase a question or be polite enough even to come back to a thread to say thanks.

Then there are the people who demand that other people, get out of threads

*sigh*


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[compact_bijou]

*sigh*

Yawn /ignore list gains another annoying n00b