Techie question - apple to android issues
DLM2000-GW
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Hope someone can explain the why of this and maybe a solution if there is one - in non-techie language.
Son and DIL both have Apple products - phones, tablet and laptop. DH and I both have Android phones and Window's laptops.
When they send us a video whether by text or by email, not only is the quality pathetic but it's also very small - a fraction of the size of my phone screen (and an even smaller fraction of my laptop screen) and cannot be expanded. Why does this happen? When they send to someone with an apple product it's not an issue. When we send them a video it's not reduced in size.
Here's a screen shot of a video from my phone and you can see the size compared to the size of my phone screen.
Is there anything we/they can do? We've tried sharing to a common Google photo album but that doesn't work either plus it's another step for them when they just want to quickly share something of our DGd.
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Comments (19)mtvhike, Google Maps has real-time traffic info and offers routing alternatives accordingly. The updates seem like they come every minute or two, because you can see the little info bubbles on alternate routes shown on the map changing from maybe first "8 minutes longer", then maybe "10 minutes longer", etc. Same happens when on a delayed segment and the traffic flow changes. In my two year old VW, the USB connected Android phone becomes integral with the infotainment system. Navigation by voice command entry is possible and works well, same with searches (the Google equivalent of Siri) for points of interest to choose from or navigate to or to call. I've had the same experiences using my phone in rental cars that were Hyundais, Hondas, and once a VW of a different model than I own. To try, I just put the Google Map app on Wifi only, downloaded a map of my area, put the phone on airplane mode with Wifi off (no signal of any kind), and put in a destination I knew to be a hike off the road. It found my present location and came up immediately with directions and a route. Whether or not the last bit would have been on a marked trail, I don't know, but the phone would have given me step by step maneuvers and tracked my location. To a trail-head, no problem. I know from prior experiences you can always enter destinations by longitude and latitude, for destinations outside of built up areas. Works fine. So yes, these are my experiences. If you're both using iPhones with CarPlay, then that's the difference. Or Waze instead of Google Maps. Or, it's something else. I regularly take long drives so I bought what I consider to be a burner phone - a cheap Tracfone Samsung that was $60 - to use in the VW to avoid having my good phone on such extended charges and too many on and off cycles. It works flawlessly. The suggestion came from the salesman who sold me the car - he talked me out of buying the model with built in GPS that was only available on an upgraded feature line and was about $4K more. He said "buy a cheap phone and a cheap plan and spend the remaining money on something else." And so I happily did. Having a phone with a cord plugged in is a bit less tidy than having a built in unit (as I have in two other cars and in the other cars I've owned for the last 15 years) but it functions well....See MoreAre others still having issues with GW using an iPhone?
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