Monday, February 18, 2013

Google Music Manager not uploading all files

I have found one solution that seemed to have worked for me.

Reset the location of the location that the Google Play Music Manager uploads music from.

1.Click the Google Play Music Manager icon in your system tray at the bottom right of your screen (Windows), menu bar in the upper right corner (Mac) or notifications area (Linux) to access the Google Play Music Manager.
2.Select the ’Advanced’
3.Click ’Change’ and select your preferred location

By doing this and restarting the application, it will upload everything it missed the first time around.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Nexus 7 - Accessing files from the network

I keep movies and TV shows on my Apple TimeCapsule.

To stream or download onto the tablet, I use ES File Explorer (free).
Change "Local" to "LAN" and you'll see all the local computer shares on your wi-fi

I've been finding that I can't stream higher quality shows and movies on to the tablet over my wi-fi. They tend to be jittery. When this happens, I simply copy the files onto the Nexus 7 and view it directly.

Easiest way to root Nexus 7: Nexus 7 Toolkit

Rooting the Nexus 7 using the toolkit makes it all dead simple.
Here are the steps after downloading the toolkit:

  1. Install the drivers.
    • The toolkit installs drivers, but that didn't work for me on Windows 8.
    • Download and install them from the ASUS site
  2. Enable debugging mode on tablet
    • Go to Settings > About
    • Tap multiple times on Build Number at bottom
    • This will unlock Developer Menu
    • Hit the back button and go to the Developer Menu
    • Enable USB Debugging
  3. Plug in the Nexus 7 to your PC via USB
  4. Run the toolkit and choose your Android version
    • If the toolkit can see your tablet, it will list the serial number at the top
    • If it cannot, it's most likely a driver issue (re-install drivers/restart PC)
  5. Select #8 "1-CLICK FOR ALL..."
    • Follow the prompts.
    • This will take care of everything for you.

Notes:
  1. I chose to go with TWRP instead of Clockwork
  2. Because I'm using the newer 4.2 Android, I went with supersu. (Superuser does not support 4.2 yet)