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You can also sign in to your Google account on PC. Click on Data Tools Then click on View Account Data in Dashboard Section of that menu. Scroll down to Google Photos to show Synced photos to your account. Or Sign into or check your Photos app that will usually sync pictures if previously set up for that. Hope one of these helps you. Try either one if not tried already tried. Both give the same result. Just a matter of whichever one is more convenient for you.

I think you should let people know what device you're on to get a better understanding for your problem. This might be a device related issue that someone has already experienced and found a fix for. But if you don't post what device you're on, no one can really help you. I, like many of us on here, try to help others when it's possible. I'm just trying to help get your question answered.

I also noticed on mine, my kids and friends S4's, that the location settings were turned on high accuracy after the update. You can check your setting in menu>more>location. If it's on high accuracy, you can switch to power save mode and gps will not be constantly running. The gps on constantly will add to draining a battery too.

I agree that they would want you upgrade to new device rather than update firmware of previous one. But, I disagree that just because the S4 is a year old that it's "old and busted". The S4 is a still a great device. And as far as the Kitkat update, I received mine on 4/25/2014. So far so good! The only major problem I see is the SD card issue with apps. I had used Roboform as a password manager and after update I tried a sync process and couldn't anymore. I had to uninstall app and reinstall it to the device storage. Unless there's a fix to roll out or you gain full or near full access to your device, your stuck with certain restrictions with saving data to SD.

K, if you were in the More section of the settings menu, you would just scroll down to the bottom. Developer Options is above About Phone. Once in there, you can scroll down to the transitions settings to adjust them to your liking. Hope this helps.

My status bar is black with white lettering and icons. That's how Kitkat is. There are a few more apps installed during the update I also noticed. None are affecting my battery life though. You can check your location services and make sure it's not on High Accuracy. You can put iton Power Save mode to gain more battery life. The lag youare having may be fixed or adjusted in Developer Options in the More section of settings menu. You can set length of window, animation duration and transitions. They come set at 1.5 I beleive. You can decrease the time or turn them off completely if you want. If this doesn't help you, you may want to do a factory reset to correct any problems that might have happened during update. It can be found in the Accounts section of settings menu.

Yes, I downloaded it earlier today. It was running a little snappier than on JB. So it seemed anyway to me. I'm giving it a good recharge now, powered down, to check battery life/drain later or tomorrow. All in all, it's good to get the update finally. And it's a week ahead of what they had said. So it's even better not having to wait any longer, since it's been a nice long wait already.

So far so good on new NC5 update to 4.4.2. It ran good for the first couple of hours so far. I powered down to a full clean recharge to test later or tomorrow on battery life/drain. It does seem to be a little snappier on screen transistions and application loading. I did notice the signal seems to drop more than on JB. I had same issues with the signal on my Moto Razr Maxx XT912 on some 4.4.2 ROMs.