Need help with online storage solution (+rant)

[Light-Yagami]

Hello everyone, (sorry for my rant)

 

I have a Galaxy S8 with basic Samsung Cloud storage, which such balls (excuse my vulgarity), and I was wondering if there is any way to use something else as primary cloud storage solution for my phone.. I have a 1TB plan on OneDrive, because I own MS Office and it comes with it. I was wondering if there's any way to tell my telephone device that I'd like to use That instead of whatever garbage Samsung offers (honestly, that shit wouldn't properly sync once, always bothering me about how it couldn't update, how sth went wrong, how I Should have every sync option enabled, even if it meant clogging all 15gb of Cloud space with pictures and videos from my gallery.. I mean.. Jesus Christ..) anyways.. I WILL still use it for basic info syncing, contacts, the shite that doesn't take much storage.. but I need to tell it to send gallery stuff to OneDrive. Is that possible?

 

Cheers 

[Guest]

I generally use Google for that type of stuff, especially with Google Photos having the option to automatically sync the photos and Google Contacts which syncs to your google account. Just what I use anyway. I am not sure on Galaxy's however there should be an option to "Default choose" which cloud storage you can use in your phone's settings. (Surely).

[Ryujin2003]

Your vulgarity works better when you spell words right. I had to read "such balls" several times, and I couldn't understand at first. Now the effect is lost.

 

You can use OneDrive, Google One (Formerly Google Drive), Amazon, DropBox..... So I guess, what is the problem? It's super easy to set up, and your OS and the app can handle backing up and when/how to do so.

[Light-Yagami]

Just now, Ryujin2003 said:

Your vulgarity works better when you spell words right. I had to read "such balls" several times, and I couldn't understand at first. Now the effect is lost.

 

You can use OneDrive, Google One (Formerly Google Drive), Amazon, DropBox..... So I guess, what is the problem? It's super easy to set up, and your OS and the app can handle backing up and when/how to do so.

Please enlighten me. I've been on top of tech in every regard but online storage. I need to get my stuff into the cloud, this is ridiculous. I have more than 100GB I need to back up, and if you can help me do that in less time that it would take me to learn all this and do it from scratch, I'd be forever grateful. 

 

I'm sorry about the spelling issue. I didn't notice the mistake since it wasn't technically wrong spelling and red lines didn't warn me.. I'm sorry you couldn't enjoy my vulgarity.  

[Ryujin2003]

Just now, Light-Yagami said:

Please enlighten me. I've been on top of tech in every regard but online storage. I need to get my stuff into the cloud, this is ridiculous. I have more than 100GB I need to back up, and if you can help me do that in less time that it would take me to learn all this and do it from scratch, I'd be forever grateful. 

 

I'm sorry about the spelling issue. I didn't notice the mistake since it wasn't technically wrong spelling and red lines didn't warn me.. I'm sorry you couldn't enjoy my vulgarity.  

No worries on the spelling. I guess I wasn't obvious enough with the sarcasm.

 

You just need to download the apps and they will let you select what you want to back up.

 

Unless it's changed, Amazon used to give unlimited storage for photos if you're a prime member: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.clouddrive.photos&hl=en_US

 

Otherwise, I think Google has a 15GB limit on Google Drive, and you also have Google Photos (not sure if it's part of the drive family, but I don't think so)

Google Drive and Google Photos should already be standard preinstalled apps on your Galaxy.

 

**EDIT: Google Photos gives you free unlimited photo storage if you use "High" preset, where they do some compression. You have 8 or 10 GB of free storage for uncompressed photos. Amazon doesn't compress your photos though. So that's something to consider.

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos

The Google Drive link isn't working for some reason.

 

Here is OneDrive.  If you have Office 365 or even 365 Education provided from your educational institution, I think they give you either 500 GB or 1 TB of online storage. You'd have to double check as well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.skydrive

[Ryujin2003]

@Light-Yagamithe easiest thing to do is follow the link for Google Photos, download it, and then follow the initial setup. Then if you really have that much on your phone, plug it in and let it go. Make sure your phone doesn't turn off wifi when the screen shuts off. That way you can let it go all night (or day if you are on the other side of the planet).

[Light-Yagami]

1 minute ago, Ryujin2003 said:

@Light-Yagamithe easiest thing to do is follow the link for Google Photos, download it, and then follow the initial setup. Then if you really have that much on your phone, plug it in and let it go. Make sure your phone doesn't turn off wifi when the screen shuts off. That way you can let it go all night (or day if you are on the other side of the planet).

I want my phone to send data to OneDrive, which I already have. I have everything installed, but phone will only let me choose Google drive or Samsung Cloud as backup destinations for my photos. I can not choose Microsoft OneDrive. And that's where I have 1TB of storage. And that's what I was asking. Thanks for your effort though. I don't think it's possible to do.. which is a shame, because I think you should be able to choose your favourite cloud storage service as your backup destination. But only Google And Samsung have supported ones.

[Ryujin2003]

2 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

I want my phone to send data to OneDrive, which I already have. I have everything installed, but phone will only let me choose Google drive or Samsung Cloud as backup destinations for my photos. I can not choose Microsoft OneDrive. And that's where I have 1TB of storage. And that's what I was asking. Thanks for your effort though. I don't think it's possible to do.. which is a shame, because I think you should be able to choose your favourite cloud storage service as your backup destination. But only Google And Samsung have supported ones.

Oh, I'm pretty sure that's an Android thing to do that. I think you need to add a Microsoft Account before you can use the OneDrive app as a backup application. Otherwise, it defaults to the "Android" preferred applications.

[Light-Yagami]

7 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

@Light-Yagamithe easiest thing to do is follow the link for Google Photos, download it, and then follow the initial setup. Then if you really have that much on your phone, plug it in and let it go. Make sure your phone doesn't turn off wifi when the screen shuts off. That way you can let it go all night (or day if you are on the other side of the planet).

Never mind, I've figured it out. You can choose to upload photos in the OneDrive app on the phone. Which is great. I'm glad me talking to you gave me a broader view on the situation and caused this consequence. You've been very helpful. Thank you very much.