Hello,
I just discoverd that my Nexus S is sorting the pictures in the Android gallery in a very strange way.
I have pictures without geo-tag and some with geo-tag. All the pictures with geo-tag are somehow sorted under a wrong date. That means they are on the wrong place in the gallery. But when I check the details of the picture there is the right date in the file information.
This problem seem to apply only to geo-tagged pictures.
It's a little bit hard to describe. Here an example.
I took a picture on the 24th APRIL WITH a geo-tag. When I scroll now through the gallery the picture appears among the pictures I took on the 24th MARCH. When I check the details of the picture it still says "taken on 24th April".
Did anybody experience the same behaviour or do you have any idea what causes it and how it can be fixed?
Thanks!
Same thing here, I think it's a known bug though along with some pictures disappearing from the gallery and the gallery not displaying photos at full resolution. Try quickpic if you want an alternative. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
I'd love it if someone would just fix the stock gallery though and repost it to the market - it's a pretty photo viewer!
i would just like to add that i'm experiencing similar issues as well
the stock gallery app doesn't sort my pictures correctly after a while (it may seem ok at first.. but take some shots and videos everyday, you'll see the order beginning to mess up..)
this is pathetic considering the maturity of android (this never happen on my iphone 3gs)
Same here since two days
Related
Just curious if anyone else found a lot of their photos missing after the 2.3.3 update? I can't be certain that it happened immediately afterward because the Gallery App has been buggy from the start, but going into the directory with both Astro and through my PC, it seems that they are gone.
Luckily the best ones were already uploaded to my fb, but it is kinda scary not being able to trust that my photos will be stored after I take them.
I had a issue on .2 try rebooting then gallery
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App
beancookie said:
Just curious if anyone else found a lot of their photos missing after the 2.3.3 update? I can't be certain that it happened immediately afterward because the Gallery App has been buggy from the start, but going into the directory with both Astro and through my PC, it seems that they are gone.
Luckily the best ones were already uploaded to my fb, but it is kinda scary not being able to trust that my photos will be stored after I take them.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I didn´t have or force the update but just yesterday I noticed that some (actually a lot of pics and all my videos ) pics and vids are missing from my gallery, remaining only the the images thumbnails and its full pics.
I think that other software update did that. I updated some in the last days but I´m feeling that Gun Bros did it ´cause it was a major update (100mb)...
Very anoying bug, I had videos and pics from my family, specially from my nephew that live overseas and saw him for the first time...
A frustrating glitch shared by many others, including myself. Please star the report here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13419
I can't seem to find where I can turn on the date and time for my picture taken on the sensation. Did htc take the feature out of this phone?
Nobody has any idea?
I just want the date and time when I take picture with the phone.
there was a small discussion when the phone first came out. I guess on Android it's not possible, at least not the stock camera app.
I found the date on photo thing really pointless as digital photography came to be, right now we have the date taken in the EXIF data.
xnifex said:
there was a small discussion when the phone first came out. I guess on Android it's not possible, at least not the stock camera app.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sure is possible, the Desire Cam from my Sister has it.
But in the last Models it was gone
The value is there but the format saved by the Camera application is wrong.
Instead of using colon ) as separators for the date, they're using backslash (/) instead.
Should be like this
Date created: 2011:07:22 14:10:00
But Sensation's camera save as
Date created: 2011/07/22 14:10:00
Edit: Oops, misunderstood the question. Thought you were saying about date in the EXIF from the Camera application. Problem is still there though...
So today was my little girl's first Christmas. After taking about 15 minutes of video and frame grab snap shots on my Pixel (unlocked, but not yet rooted) we moved on to other things only to find that neither the video or the pictures were saved.
I have to assume that these are sitting in temp files somewhere. Anyone have any suggestions?
There is a small thread going on the Pixel support forums on the topic but not much in the way of support traction.
Pixel: video recorded but not saved
My wife is near devastated.
Thanks to all.
harrybauls said:
So today was my little girl's first Christmas. After taking about 15 minutes of video and frame grab snap shots on my Pixel (unlocked, but not yet rooted) we moved on to other things only to find that neither the video or the pictures were saved.
I have to assume that these are sitting in temp files somewhere. Anyone have any suggestions?
There is a small thread going on the Pixel support forums on the topic but not much in the way of support traction.
Pixel: video recorded but not saved
My wife is near devastated.
Thanks to all.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Really hate to hear that. Hope you find them.
If there was no error message, then you may be OK. Did you touch the Albums icon at lower right in the Photos app (as opposed to Photos)? Depending on how you configured cloud backup for the Photos app, pics and videos may not show up under the Photos icon.
quangtran1 said:
Really hate to hear that. Hope you find them.
If there was no error message, then you may be OK. Did you touch the Albums icon at lower right in the Photos app (as opposed to Photos)? Depending on how you configured cloud backup for the Photos app, pics and videos may not show up under the Photos icon.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks. No error messages. No sign of the video or photos in either the Photos app (albums or main photos area) or the camera's built in gallery browser. This is the first time this has ever happened in the 2 months I have owned this phone or in the years of android phones I have had.
harrybauls said:
Thanks. No error messages. No sign of the video or photos in either the Photos app (albums or main photos area) or the camera's built in gallery browser. This is the first time this has ever happened in the 2 months I have owned this phone or in the years of android phones I have had.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Really sucks to hear that this happened.
Maybe someone should test for bug that happens with long length videos.
That's the only thing I can think of as to why it happened.
deadgiveaway said:
Really sucks to hear that this happened.
Maybe someone should test for bug that happens with long length videos.
That's the only thing I can think of as to why it happened.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks.
It was a longer length (15-20 minutes) with multiple pauses and frame grab photos along the way. Both the video and frame grabs were lost. I'm not entirely sure if I even exited the app as I took a number of photos after I took this video and they were fine.
It doesn't seem to be a common issue but sadly I'm not the one who has posted this to Google's support form and had this happen on their kid's first Christmas.
I'm experiencing an unusual problem on my Google Pixel; pictures that are over 3 months old are disappearing from the phone of their own volition.
Google photos still has them,I'm not asking how to get them back,I want to find out if anyone else has the issue and ask for ideas on how to figure out what's going on.
It's not just photos taken on the camera either,there's other folders I now know have missing pictures that were downloaded from the internet. It only seems to affect pictures,I'm not missing other document types that are over 3 months old AFAIK.
It's taken a while to confirm it's not anything I'm doing by accident, this looks to be happening on its own. I'm currently testing to see if it's an exact number of days this happens after.
Has anyone else seen this?
I think there's an option somewhere that removes photos from your phone once they're synced to the Google photos. By any chance do you have this enabled?
phil.spence said:
I think there's an option somewhere that removes photos from your phone once they're synced to the Google photos. By any chance do you have this enabled?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is correct.
Yep, I believe by default Google Photos removes things that are backed up when you're running low on space. I don't know if there's a setting anywhere to remove them after a particular amount of time - I just looked in Google Photos and the Pixel's Settings, and I didn't see a place where it specified an amount of time.
So, I just noticed something REALLY weird today and I don't know what to make of it...
I installed a new app on my phone (Lyft) and it asked me to setup a profile photo. Okay, no problem. I click the option to select photos from my existing collection and it takes me to the gallery to select a photo. I'm scrolling down, looking for a good photo when I suddenly come across photos that I did not take. There's about 30 of them and they look like they were taken at a Energy Conference in Beddington, UK on November 26th. I live in Washington State, USA and have not been anywhere near the UK and my phone has not gone missing or been out of my sight for the last few weeks. This is strange and creepy. How are someone else's photos on my phone?
I start doing a bit of investigation. I close the Lyft app and open my gallery app on my S9+. I scroll through all my photos, but these stranger's photos are not showing up no matter how I sort the display settings. I open up another app (Uber) and go to change my profile photo. I opt to choose from my gallery and there's the stranger's photos again. I notice that the file name, file size and date of the photo is provided in this view, so I connected my phone to the PC and ran a search for some of those file names and came up with nothing. I searched my phone using my file manager app and also found nothing.
Someone on Reddit recommended I try using my email app to send myself the image so I can investigate the details. This worked, but only deepens the mystery! It seems like the photos were taken with an Olympus Digital Camera (not even a smartphone!) and the date taken was from way back in 2006!?
At this point I'm out of ideas. I have no clue why these mystery photos are on my phone and can't find out how to find/delete them or how they got on my phone in the first place.
It's so freakin' weird! I'm sharing a few screenshots here in case it helps anyone else identify my issue. If anyone has thoughts, please share them.
P.S. My phone was purchased new over a year ago. If anyone cares, I posted this on Reddit before coming here seeking additional help. You can see the Reddit thread here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS9/comments/e5okh4/really_weird_gallery_issue_with_a_strangers/
wonder if they're embedded in the apps?
One possible reason is that it's just downloaded by some other app, e.g. Facebook downloading photos from a post that you came across. If you don't remember anything related, did you ever have anyone else using your phone?
The Samsung gallery is written by Samsung while the system file picker (called DocumentsUI) is mainly written by Google, so they might be having different strategies on what photos to hide, e.g. Samsung thinks Facebook photo download directory shouldn't be shown, while DocumentsUI doesn't, so it's entirely possible that you can only find the photo via picker.