Somehow, my gallery is showing the same pictures twice. Not all, but many. If you long press, and click details, the picture name and location for the two are identical. I've verify that only one copy is on the SD card. I've tried clearing data for the gallery (via the app menu in settings); I also tried deleting /data/data/com.htc.album (which had some database files, oh, I should note I have root) as well as deleting all .thumbnail directories. I figure there must be somewhere that I'm not looking.
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2014-06-07_00-39-43 by oryan_dunn, on Flickr
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oryan_dunn said:
Somehow, my gallery is showing the same pictures twice
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How about first backup all your pictures to your PC so you're sure to have them, disconnect from PC, then try delete ALL of them through Gallery.
Maybe there's a backup on your ext_sd and that's why?
Here's something web-wise that might apply (google):
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/43311/im-seeing-duplicated-images-and-videos-on-gallery
pbergonzi said:
How about first backup all your pictures to your PC so you're sure to have them, disconnect from PC, then try delete ALL of them through Gallery.
Maybe there's a backup on your ext_sd and that's why?
Here's something web-wise that might apply (google):
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/43311/im-seeing-duplicated-images-and-videos-on-gallery
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I saw that, but I'm not on JB, and the path given in details for each image is identical. I do have a backup, I'll see what happens when I delete one of the two. As you can see, I've got several thousand pictures, so I'd rather not fix this one at a time, esp since I'm going to be flashing a new ROM soon. I just want to try to figure this out. There has to be a way to reset the gallery and get it to rescan my SD card fresh.
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I saw that, but I'm not on JB, and the path given in details for each image is identical. I do have a backup, I'll see what happens when I delete one of the two. As you can see, I've got several thousand pictures, so I'd rather not fix this one at a time, esp since I'm going to be flashing a new ROM soon. I just want to try to figure this out. There has to be a way to reset the gallery and get it to rescan my SD card fresh.
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In Gallery Album view then settings, I find option "Select Album" allowing me to tag each and every album to delete all at once.
However my gallery in ICS CM10 may be different than yours.
If your images are synced to the web is there a chance that they show up as the second images?
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In Gallery Album view then settings, I find option "Select Album" allowing me to tag each and every album to delete all at once.
However my gallery in ICS CM10 may be different than yours.
If your images are synced to the web is there a chance that they show up as the second images?
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Yeah, it's the stock HTC Gallery. The only option in settings are "Perfect Pics" options. There is no way to delete full albums through the gallery. They are not synced to the web. The details dialog for the images show the exact same details down to the path, filename, everything, for duplicate images.
I deleted one of the pictures, and just deleting one, made both disappear from the gallery. Copying back that single file, there is only one shown. So, looks like it is definitely a goof up in the gallery database. Now to just figure out where it is on the filesystem.
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Yeah, it's the stock HTC Gallery. The only option in settings are "Perfect Pics" options. There is no way to delete full albums through the gallery. They are not synced to the web. The details dialog for the images show the exact same details down to the path, filename, everything, for duplicate images.
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Up top on the left, see if you can switch that view to Album. Then check the settings about Selecting Albums.
Yours looks different from mine--mine has a text drop-down menu where you have an icon of an album.
And I was using the on-screen buttons--Home, Menu, Return, Search, when I said to use the Settings, it was the Menu button on the bottom of my phone.
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Up top on the left, see if you can switch that view to Album. Then check the settings about Selecting Albums.
Yours looks different from mine--mine has a text drop-down menu where you have an icon of an album.
And I was using the on-screen buttons--Home, Menu, Return, Search, when I said to use the Settings, it was the Menu button on the bottom of my phone.
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In the screen of my screenshot, menu key doesn't do anything. Up a level, at the album view, I get a settings menu, but the only options are for Perfect Pics.
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In the screen of my screenshot, menu key doesn't do anything. Up a level, at the album view, I get a settings menu, but the only options are for Perfect Pics.
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Can you do it through HTC Sync, or perhaps an after-market file utility--alas the File Manager that comes with CM10 allows me to wildcard search "*.jpg" and shows them all in a list, however at that point didn't allow me to select them all at once to delete all at once, just individually.
However, my images are stored in DCIM/Camera/ and I have those folders on both my int and ext sd.
Your camera settings may give you the option of where to store photos--possibly there's a "both" option, idunno.
The free app Quick Pic that I use gives me the option to select all my photos or albums at once and to delete them at once.
Maybe that is the easiest solution.
I really appreciate you trying to help, but I'm almost sure the issue is the database the gallery creates. I've been using ES File Explorer to try to find this database and delete it, to force the gallery to re-parse the entire filesystem. I'm positive that the database has duplicate entries for the same file. Deleting and restoring pictures external to the gallery app has no effect. Deleting the pic from the gallery causes the gallery to remove both entries in it's database, and when I add the picture back, I get only one, as I should (which effectively cleans the db for that one particular file). This database has to exist somewhere, it's just a matter of finding and deleting it.
I submitted a question to HTC support. We'll see what they say.
Maybe it's not your device.
Maybe it's just syncing to a cloud storage.
I know that my brother's girlfriend's Motorola Xoom was sending pictures directly to her Google+ account and she didn't like that. It took me a while to figure out that's what it was because we'd delete all the pictures and still they'd show up.
Maybe that's what's happening to you.
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Up top on the left, see if you can switch that view to Album. Then check the settings about Selecting Albums.
Yours looks different from mine--mine has a text drop-down menu where you have an icon of an album.
And I was using the on-screen buttons--Home, Menu, Return, Search, when I said to use the Settings, it was the Menu button on the bottom of my phone.
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rdar_93 said:
Maybe it's not your device.
Maybe it's just syncing to a cloud storage.
I know that my brother's girlfriend's Motorola Xoom was sending pictures directly to her Google+ account and she didn't like that. It took me a while to figure out that's what it was because we'd delete all the pictures and still they'd show up.
Maybe that's what's happening to you.
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The stock gallery isn't that smart. On the main screen, you can select to show pictures from local storage, Picassa, Flickr, etc. But these show the same path for each duplicate "/mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/DCIM/100MEDIA".
Why not just try "Quickpic"? Better than stock IMO.
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SuperAfnan said:
Why not just try "Quickpic"? Better than stock IMO.
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I could use a different gallery, but just as an exercise, want to figure this out, since it has to be solvable. I'm going to flash a new ROM soon, so it really doesn't matter, I just want to solve this, since it seems like an easy problem (figure out where the gallery db is and delete it).
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oryan_dunn said:
I could use a different gallery, but just as an exercise, want to figure this out, since it has to be solvable. I'm going to flash a new ROM soon, so it really doesn't matter, I just want to solve this, since it seems like an easy problem (figure out where the gallery db is and delete it).
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Possible it doesn't keep a database, just scans each time, and is listing the same photo under two headings even though same path?
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Possible it doesn't keep a database, just scans each time, and is listing the same photo under two headings even though same path?
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It may not be a database proper, like a SQLite database, but there is definitely some sort of cache that it builds. If I add a huge directory of pictures, open the gallery, it takes a while to parse through it all. Subsequent times opening the gallery, the pictures/thumbnails are available instantly.
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oryan_dunn said:
It may not be a database proper, like a SQLite database, but there is definitely some sort of cache that it builds. If I add a huge directory of pictures, open the gallery, it takes a while to parse through it all. Subsequent times opening the gallery, the pictures/thumbnails are available instantly.
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Good test.
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oryan_dunn said:
It may not be a database proper, like a SQLite database, but there is definitely some sort of cache that it builds. If I add a huge directory of pictures, open the gallery, it takes a while to parse through it all. Subsequent times opening the gallery, the pictures/thumbnails are available instantly.
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Thumbs are built and kept in a folder under DICM. there is most likely a process that scans the folders for pics and then makes a thumb if it doesn't already have one.
Thus there are actually two copies of pictures on your phone. One is full sized and the other is a thumb size.
You can copy all the pics off your phone to one folder on your computer, then delete all the photos from your phone and then copy them back from your computer.
If you have thousands of pics, I'd back them up anyway. dont want to lose some great pics...
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Thumbs are built and kept in a folder under DICM. there is most likely a process that scans the folders for pics and then makes a thumb if it doesn't already have one.
Thus there are actually two copies of pictures on your phone. One is full sized and the other is a thumb size.
You can copy all the pics off your phone to one folder on your computer, then delete all the photos from your phone and then copy them back from your computer.
If you have thousands of pics, I'd back them up anyway. dont want to lose some great pics...
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Yeah, I've tried deleting the .thumbnail folder to try to get the gallery to rescan. Say I have 1000 pics, and I add a folder of pictures with a 1000 more, the first time I open the gallery, it shows 1000, with a spinning wheel. Eventually, it'll populate with 2000 pictures. And you can tell it's creating thumbnails. If I just delete the thumbnail folder, when I open the gallery, it immediately shows 2000 pictures, but it'll slowly recreate thumbnails. That's why I think there has to be some other cache somewhere, and in my case it has duplicates in it.
As for backup, I have a Synology NAS (with 1TB RAID1 mirror) that all of my pictures are backed up to, and I use the Synology DS Photo+ app to instantly backup pictures as I take them to my NAS. Once a month, my NAS is mirrored to a 1TB USB drive.
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oryan_dunn said:
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Yeah, some of those thumbs did look pretty good.
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I have a problem.... i loaded Android and it is good, a couple of cons but all great but on return to windows mobile i found that my pictures on the pic tab had 99 photos... All i could see was android pictures etc. these pictures were not photos that i tould but the thumbnails from android. On my sd card i have a DCIM folder and in there i have my windows mobile pictures that i have taken. Also in the there is a folder called .thumbnails
I new this must come from android beacuse in the root of the sd card is a . files...
Anyway, i moved this thumbnail folder to the root of sd and started android. everything was as it is... i turn off then on, loading windows.... and check photos tab... still there...look in file explorer... it created it self a new one.
The problem i have is that it clogs it up and slows it down while i am scrolling through for a picture.
IS there any way to fix it?
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Android 2.2 (if needed)
Cookies home tab editor (again if needed)
IF THERE IS ANY THING ELSE TELL ME....
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i just want to know of there is a gallery 3D for Windows mobile
If is it would be great. If not... there's an idea
hi, i encountered the same issue, still figuring how to fix it too...
now all in the picture tab on hd2 wm sense, are the thumbnail pics from the android.
initially, i thought the sdcard was corrupt, but i found the .thumbnail folder in the dcim folder on the sdcard... and all the photos are still intact.
anyone can help?
Using HTC Album, browse to the folder you wish to see as your default and then from the Menu within HTC Album, set it to be default view in Sense(not sure of exact wording or menu order but I know this is possible as I've done it.
thanks for the reply, base on your reply, i managed to search for another solution,
http://www.jayceooi.com/2010/02/08/how-to-hide-folders-with-pictures-from-htc-album/
the above link shows how to hide folders within the dcim folder from htc ablum
both which i had not try, will try both later when i'm back in winmo.
hope either one solves the issue.
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Using HTC Album, browse to the folder you wish to see as your default and then from the Menu within HTC Album, set it to be default view in Sense(not sure of exact wording or menu order but I know this is possible as I've done it.
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tried the Ignore folder, doesn't work for me although there is an Ignore already in the registry...
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Using HTC Album, browse to the folder you wish to see as your default and then from the Menu within HTC Album, set it to be default view in Sense(not sure of exact wording or menu order but I know this is possible as I've done it.
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well using what you have told me i have found the steps you are talking about...
you go to htc sense picture tab and press album. from there you press albums on the left.
it then comes up with a list of pictures folders etc, choose the folder you want (if you had it like me it would be 100media . then click on it.... choose menu a click use this album as favourite...etc.
there you go no android pics clotting up your htc
if you go through the "leo tips and tweaks" thread it will give you the reg entrys to ignore certain folders from the htc album......
i usually just delete that folder once a week to stop it building up and up...
I really wanted to browse my pics stored on Picasa and I'm pretty fond of the Google Gallery app (I know there are others out there).
So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzw4zzdezoz
After installation, go to your GMAIL application and select Settings > Accounts. Add a new google account, then select your current gmail account (re-add it) or select from the google account associated with Picasa.
Great Tip dascud!
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I really wanted to browse my pics stored on Picasa and I'm pretty fond of the Google Gallery app (I know there are others out there).
So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!
http://www.mediafire.com/?gzw4zzdezoz
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Worked for me too - thanks for the tip!
Worked for me too. However, I could not get my picasa albums to sync initially.
I had to go to my GMAIL app and add my (same) account again which gave me the option to sync my picasa albums and everything works fine now.
I'm lost on the Nook Color and photo viewing, not to mention videos.
I have tried just about every app I can think, researched until I'm blue in the face, but no matter what I do, if I drop 80 photos taken by your typical-everyday camera into a directory, and copy this directory to the mounted micro-SD card, this device nearly has a stroke just creating thumbnails.
At this point, the Gallery app mentioned in this thread shows the grid of photos, and about 10 of 80 actually have a thumbnail that was created, the other 70 thumbnails on the grid turned from gray to black while the application struggled to create the thumbnails.
With 32 GB of storage space, there's no way I could manage hundreds (or thousands) of photos. I must be doing something wrong here, so much storage space, no way to use it.
Cool.. with it could also see my uPnP server
works great on my NC, thanks a lot!
KryptoNyte39 said:
I'm lost on the Nook Color and photo viewing, not to mention videos.
I have tried just about every app I can think, researched until I'm blue in the face, but no matter what I do, if I drop 80 photos taken by your typical-everyday camera into a directory, and copy this directory to the mounted micro-SD card, this device nearly has a stroke just creating thumbnails.
At this point, the Gallery app mentioned in this thread shows the grid of photos, and about 10 of 80 actually have a thumbnail that was created, the other 70 thumbnails on the grid turned from gray to black while the application struggled to create the thumbnails.
With 32 GB of storage space, there's no way I could manage hundreds (or thousands) of photos. I must be doing something wrong here, so much storage space, no way to use it.
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I've been having problems with unresized images. The resized ones display fine. I'll do a batch resize to see if that works for my photos.
Any help or new information would be much appreciated. There are a couple of apps out there that can take care of the video, but I just can't locate anything else that can deal with photos.
This is frustrating, as I purchased this device specifically over other devices that don't allow for removable storage, but what good is 32 GB of data if you can't sort it and find stuff properly?
See this thread for a really fantastic photo app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866827
Time to get more pics on my NC.
Check out Picasa Tool Pro. It's really nice and free
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OMG that fixed my calendar too. I could hug you right now.
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So I installed this from Astro and lo and behold it worked on the Nook Color! Enjoy!
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What did you change to allow this? I rooted with Auto Nooter and everytime I try to install an app from Astro I get the following message: "Install Blocked"
I also tried with Root Explorer and still nothing. I am sure I am missing something very easy. Thanks in advance
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I wish I could download ALL of my Picasa images to my Nook.. But I have yet to find anything that'll do it. A few apps will let me download individual pictures, but I can't suck down the whole thing.
Picasa Tool Pro, as mentioned, is a nice tool, but as far as I can tell it has a batch uploader but not downloader. Although I'm going to check it out for the upload facility, pictures I take on my Nexus One I'd like to make to Picasa.
Honestly I still haven't figured out a halfway sane method of keeping my N1 and NC in sync.
When I go to a website that has pictures, the images automatically save on my phone? Anyone know why.
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That is why I had those pictures of security signs and stuff..what site were you on because mine mainly saved pictures from newegg?
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When I go to a website that has pictures, the images automatically save on my phone? Anyone know why.
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They are automatically saved? Do you select them first or is it upon entering the site?
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That is why I had those pictures of security signs and stuff..what site were you on because mine mainly saved pictures from newegg?
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When I go to a website that has pictures, the images automatically save on my phone? Anyone know why.
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where are you seeing those pictures automatically saved?
the first thing that comes to my mind .. as i know i've pulled all image files off my phone and came up with a lot of cached images from the browser.
the android browser, like most web browser keeps a cache on the /data partition (and maybe also /sdcard?) in its respective application directory. inside this cache will be images and web sites viewed, just like the cache kept on a desktop/laptop/netbook computer when using chrome/firefox/internet explorer browsers.
hopefully that makes sense. there are apps and scripts out there which can clean out these cache directories to free up space, if needed. i haven't used any of them as i generally end up wiping my /data partition a bit too frequently from developing and testing android stuff!
if you are seeing these images appear in your gallery app, the easiest fix i'm aware of is adding a simple, empty file named .nomedia in the directory. make sure to put the period in the front of that name as its a linux convention to hide the file and the gallery app is hard coded to ignore all images in directories with a .nomedia file.
hope that helps!
I put several 1080P wallpapers into the camera directory, but none of them show up in the HTC stock gallery app.
But when I changed the files' names to the sequence which the camera app uses, and the pictures showed up.
I never used Sense nor any HTC products before, so I do not know if that is just how the app was designed or not. But it certainly is inconvenient.
So I would rather want to use the 4.2 gallery or the stock Android gallery...Is it safe to push that app through adb?
How did you get the pics on the phone? I had a similar issue, pics a download in the browser would show up in the gallery but the pics that I unzipped from my drop box would not show up. I cleared data for gallery, wiped caches and they still wouldn't show up. I had to do a factory reset for the unzipped pics to show up in the gallery. This was after unlocking/rooting. Don't know if I would've had the same issues stock but didn't try it before unlocking.
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In the camera folder it probably only looks for the names that the camera uses, which would make sense. Put them in a different folder.
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In the camera folder it probably only looks for the names that the camera uses, which would make sense. Put them in a different folder.
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Already tried it before i found the solution stated above, but no other directories than the camera folder is recognized by the gallery app.
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I put several 1080P wallpapers into the camera directory, but none of them show up in the HTC stock gallery app.
But when I changed the files' names to the sequence which the camera app uses, and the pictures showed up.
I never used Sense nor any HTC products before, so I do not know if that is just how the app was designed or not. But it certainly is inconvenient.
So I would rather want to use the 4.2 gallery or the stock Android gallery...Is it safe to push that app through adb?
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can you us es file explorer? It has a gallery and should give you the option of where to look.
Just for wallpapers at least.
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can you us es file explorer? It has a gallery and should give you the option of where to look.
Just for wallpapers at least.
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I have Root Explorer which does the same, but it does not show up on the selections for choosing a wallpaper. However, Root Explorer and other third party media apps do show up on my Galaxy S3...I guess Sense limits the use of the third party alternatives.
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I have Root Explorer which does the same, but it does not show up on the selections for choosing a wallpaper. However, Root Explorer and other third party media apps do show up on my Galaxy S3...I guess Sense limits the use of the third party alternatives.
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must be new with sense 4+. No problems on my rezound choosing a different or default gallery. Maybe under settings, app associations?
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Already tried it before i found the solution stated above, but no other directories than the camera folder is recognized by the gallery app.
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That's weird. I can see them with my Incredible. Why would they take that feature out?
Edit: are you sure you aren't in the camera section of the gallery already? You can't use back to see folders or find a way to bring up a menu? If you have facebook set up, you should be able to access facebook photos from the gallery as well (unless they also took this away). If you can't see anything but camera shots, there's probably a menu you aren't finding...
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That's weird. I can see them with my Incredible. Why would they take that feature out?
Edit: are you sure you aren't in the camera section of the gallery already? You can't use back to see folders or find a way to bring up a menu? If you have facebook set up, you should be able to access facebook photos from the gallery as well (unless they also took this away). If you can't see anything but camera shots, there's probably a menu you aren't finding...
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I guess HTC wanted people to use their stock apps exclusively.
There is only one album named 'My Phone', which contains the pictures taken by the camera and screenshot, but not imported pictures anywhere in the SD storage
Yep, my phone picks and chooses which photos in the download folder it will show. If I import from Box, it won't show but if I import from Dropbox, it will... Annoying and weird.
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Download Gallery Refresh from the App Store
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Download Gallery Refresh from the App Store
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I was having the same issue. except i keep all my wallpaper images in the zedge\wallpaper folder so that my wallpaper changer has one directory to pull from. when i transferred them from my old phone's SD card to the DNA they showed up but then when i went to add some more images they would not show up since the gallery doesn't automatically rescan to find new photos when it opens.
i did download the Gallery Refresh app as stated above and it worked perfectly in making the gallery rescan the storage for new images. Thanks CISGS. much appreciated
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another581 said:
I put several 1080P wallpapers into the camera directory, but none of them show up in the HTC stock gallery app.
But when I changed the files' names to the sequence which the camera app uses, and the pictures showed up.
I never used Sense nor any HTC products before, so I do not know if that is just how the app was designed or not. But it certainly is inconvenient.
So I would rather want to use the 4.2 gallery or the stock Android gallery...Is it safe to push that app through adb?
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Hi,
It didn't happened on my device, may I know which path you put 1080p wallpapers?
Is under \Internal storage\DCIM\100MEDIA\ ??
Thanks.
Very peculiar issue occurring: there are a fair amount of photos and videos that show up under google photos under library -> photos on device -> camera with SDCard Icon.
But the location for these files is "/external/video/media" or "/external/image/media" under ""On Device (size)." The other files taken in a similar way are correctly on "/storage/9C32-13OC/DCIM/Camera"
When clicking these files, they play normally, clicking share and More or Create Link says "Error, could not download media" and using Google Photos to Move / Copy says "Trouble Moving 1 item"
When ejecting the SDCard and physically removing it while keeping Google Photos open, all the files actually on /storage/<ID> disappear, and all these weird files remain and can be played. This is how I discovered it wasn't just today's videos, which were mysteriously not being uploaded to my nextcloud. No other app can see these videos/images, including the system's gallery app, and they are not in the internal emulated "SDcard"
These are on my SO's phone and I use the exact same model phone. I did discover that I do have some files like these but hey are all older than the oldest file on my SDCard, e.g. Google Photos has somehow decided to cache them. But on my SO's phone, these files are intermingled with the ones she's actually taken
Interestingly when I switch the google photos account to another google user logged on the phone, those files disappear. I did try moving files to the locked folder but it says "Trouble moving to Locked Folder. Try again later"— I did verify I could move files actually on the SDCard there, and they are then removed from all views except Locked Folder.
In this folder, on the top right when clicking the SDCard Icon, it does show the "SD Card folder" as "file:///storage/9C32-13OC/DCIM/Camera" as expected.
I searched for the filename in a file browser as well as in adb shell (using find / -name "filename" 2> /dev/null) and nothing comes up. As there are some lengthy videos in here, I used DiskUsage to see what might be using a lot of space, and the Google Photos app is using 7.55 GB of data, so it seems like they are being stored there. And it makes sense why they can't be found, as /data/data/com.google.android.apps.photos is only accessible by that app or the system, and I'm unrooted.
My SO said she took them the same way she normally takes photos and video, and of course when I take some they show up on the actual SDCard. I suppose in theory I could use adb backup and follow instructions on how to decrypt the data files, but really what the heck is going on?
We aren't on the latest phone or even the latest Google Photos app (could be a bug with this specific version, but then again google photos isn't taking the photos/videos, the system Camera app is). I could try upgrading her google photos but I also don't want to lose these videos of our kid. It does seem like it would back them up, but we don't have enough Google Storage to back them up online (hence why we use nextcloud), and they don't even show up under different google accounts as mentioned.
Phone: LG G7
Android 10
Google Photos: 6.21.0.504361003
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EDIT: whoops, can this be moved to https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/android-q-a-help-troubleshooting.1236/ ?
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Done!
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Oswald Boelcke
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I suppose in theory I could use adb backup and follow instructions on how to decrypt the data files, but really what the heck is going on?
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Well this didn't work, as google photos does not back up with adb, as some apps can specify this.
Some of these videos did get uploaded to google photos, but they are (now) compressed to under 1/8th their size (the original size is noted correctly in google photos), and from 4k to HD.
From what I had recalled, when they are first uploaded, they are available at their original size to be downloaded. So I tried deleting one to get it to re-upload, and now that video no longer shows up on my SDCard under "/external/video/media" so I basically lost the original HQ video of my kid, great.
Any ideas?