Tag: android

Auto backup Google on my Android Keeps Failing

Google’s auto backup for photos is not working for me.  I’m not sure what to do about this.  I’ve found several suggestions no the internet and none have worked for me.

  • Clear the Google+ cache
  • reboot the phone
  • delete the picture(s) that are causing it to get stuck

I have deleted 3 photos “from everywhere” and it shows only one that hasn’t been uploaded now.  Yet, it still says “backing up..9 left”.

When I look into my account I don’t see anything uploaded.  I’m unsure of what to try next.

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10-1-14 Update Since I posted this I had not encountered anymore problems until this weekend.  While I have changed operating systems to cyanogenmod it was working with cyanogen just fine last week.  I’m back to it not backing up my photos.  This is one of things were I wish I wasn’t locked into google.

What is a good Pen PDF application?

thinkpad-stylusI haven’t found a good pen PDF application for android or Windows.  I don’t have an iPad so I don’t know about pen pdf apps on it.  What I mean by a pen PDF is being able to use a stylus to write directly on a PDF and have it save.  First, the adobe reader app for android does do this.  However, the stylus I use has a fat rubber head and I am not sure I will get the lines thin enough with a more pen-like stylus.  I need more accuracy to fill out entries on a pdf.

PDF apps on my Thinkpad 2 tablet are not very good either.  I have tried 3 of them thus far and they have all sucked.  Adobe reader doesn’t support stylus, foxit shows that it can do it but I couldn’t get my stylus or finger to draw anything and the other program I downloaded I can’t even remember it’s name now.

Lastly, Windows built in PDF Reader happens to work the best if I can even use that word.  First, there is no undo, Second, it is lagging and lastly, writing on the table while it is in vertical mode is a waste of time.  It is virtually useless.   You might think that all I would need to do is to turn it back to landscape then, well, at least this tablet has a very difficult time rotating.  For some reason it just won’t rotate if I am looking at a PDF.  Sometimes it doesn’t rotate even if I am in the desktop!

I work about once a week doing independent contractor work at different sites.  As you can expect I have lots of paperwork to fill out.  Instead of wasting the ink and paper to print and bring with I much prefer to have it all in my tablet.  Even if it was printed on paper I would be scanning and emailing the document once I was through with it.  From what I can tell there may be some excellent apps on the iPad that would do what I am looking for.  Unfortunately, I can’t justify the cost of an iPad for just one purpose. Believe me when I say just 1 purpose because I can’t stand how the iPad is locked down.

I am going to keep on searching but I hope I can figure out a solution to this.