Syncthing Alternative for Photo Transfer to Pixel

mmd on 28/11/2024 - 01:59
Last edited 28/11/2024 - 10:28 by 1 other user

Hi all, I've always had a Pixel with unlimited photo backup but I just upgraded to a Pixel 9.

How do I transfer photos to the old Pixel?

I also have a Pixel 1 OG and was planning to use Syncthing exactly as described in this deal, but it looks like the app will be discontinued in December.

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  impoze on 28/11/2024 - 07:22

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  Use the syncthing-fork

  https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1149#…

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  bdl on 28/11/2024 - 13:16

  +1

  This can do device to device https://www.photosync-app.com/home

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  o53djz7qTPY4der on 28/11/2024 - 13:52

  +1

  Resilio Sync.

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  st1ng on 28/11/2024 - 19:17

  +1

  Syncthing will still work after next month. It's just the Android app that won't be updated. I'm happily running syncthing on my Android devices (both installed via f-droid).

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  ozbob on 01/12/2024 - 21:35

  My Pixel 1 is about to die as the battery started swelling so I was playing around with custom ROMs on some of my older phones and I noticed that the PixelExperience ROM installed on an old Xiaomi Mi A3 actually shows up as a Pixel 6 Pro and Google Photos reports that the phone can upload full quality photos for free. So I am using syncthing-fork to send my pics to that phone now for backup.

  The same did not work when I flashed PixelExperience on an old Samsung phone so not sure what that depends on but maybe this helps others who don't have a real working Pixel phone…

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    mmd on 01/12/2024 - 22:00

    What do you think is the cause of the battery swelling?

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      ozbob on 01/12/2024 - 22:06

      Most likely because I have to keep the charging cable plugged in 24/7 as the battery would not hold any charge anymore.

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        mmd on 01/12/2024 - 23:19

        ok - i better take my p1 off the cahrger
        i also heard of pixelify which makes any phone thinks it a pixel