I know most of the files on the SD card are pretty clear as to what they contain....but I am wanting to clean my card up to regain space and dont know exactly which folder contains my contacts. I can pretty much figure out the media files and downloads...but what folders have to remain to keep you from losing contacts? I bricked my phone one time before when I was updating to a new ROM. I ended up having to go back and install back to totally stock then had to do the rooting again, s-off, etc.
The problem I am having is that when I go to make a back up my phone screws up again and I have to take the battery out to get it to shut off and then have to reboot. I am guessing that there are still some files on my SD from the original screwup I did. Any help would be appreciated. And yes, I am a totally lost noobie trying to read and learn as I go. So please be gentle.
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I know most of the files on the SD card are pretty clear as to what they contain....but I am wanting to clean my card up to regain space and dont know exactly which folder contains my contacts. I can pretty much figure out the media files and downloads...but what folders have to remain to keep you from losing contacts? I bricked my phone one time before when I was updating to a new ROM. I ended up having to go back and install back to totally stock then had to do the rooting again, s-off, etc.
The problem I am having is that when I go to make a back up my phone screws up again and I have to take the battery out to get it to shut off and then have to reboot. I am guessing that there are still some files on my SD from the original screwup I did. Any help would be appreciated. And yes, I am a totally lost noobie trying to read and learn as I go. So please be gentle.
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I was not aware that contacts are stored on the SD card, unless this is something you intentionally did. Mine are all synced to google, so it doesn't matter what I do to my SD card. As far as keeping everything neat, and folders that I make myself, I use all capital letters for fast navigation.
Copy your entire SD card to your computer. then format the SD. put it back in the phone and reboot. (Leaving the SD card completely blank during this process) ...Once done, check your contacts 10 minutes later, NOT immediately. Let me know the results
Note: I know that my reply is not a full answer. It was done that way on purpose. We are doing this a few things at a time, instead of flooding you all at once with everything. I know when I was new to this, a flood of info completely overwhelmed me.
Contact Profile Pictures
I have realized over time & time again with wiping & new ROMs and what not that Google DOES NOT backup profile pictures from your phone to your Google account.
That being said, the phone DOES import any profile pictures FROM Google onto your phone when you sync. That means that if you want profile pictures on your phone, you must set them up on Google FIRST.
This of course sucks, as i never use Gmail, and always add phone contacts on my, well, PHONE.
In addition, if you 'link' your phone contacts to your Google contacts, the Google profile picture takes precedence.
Little_Ant said:
I have realized over time & time again with wiping & new ROMs and what not that Google DOES NOT backup profile pictures from your phone to your Google account.
That being said, the phone DOES import any profile pictures FROM Google onto your phone when you sync. That means that if you want profile pictures on your phone, you must set them up on Google FIRST.
This of course sucks, as i never use Gmail, and always add phone contacts on my, well, PHONE.
In addition, if you 'link' your phone contacts to your Google contacts, the Google profile picture takes precedence.
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Not sure why your phone is doing this... I can add pics on my phone, and they update on Google just fine. Just now did it to verify. There has to be a setting somewhere that you are missing. Either on Google, or your phone.
I have a samsung galaxy s4 which I just installed a micro sd card in to free up space on the device to upgrade to android lollipop. I moved all my photos to the sd card and now when I take a picture, the photo is automatically saved to the sd card (which is good). However, I use the picasa app which was pre-installed on the phone for organising my pictures, instead of the gallery app, as I want all the pictures to back up to google plus. The problem I'm now having is that deleting a picture in the picasa photo app does not delete the picture from the sd card! It deletes from the picasa gallery, from the stock gallery app and also from the auto backup album on google plus (which is what I want), the only thing is doesn't do is actually delete the picture from the sd card for some reason? When the photos were saved on the device it deleted the pictures from there but it doesn't seem to want to do the same thing with the sd card. This is annoying as I have to 1st delete the picture in the picasa photo app to get rid of it from the online back up album, and then go into files-all files-DCIM-camera, and then select the photo and delete it from there! Is it possible to have this sync properly again so I don't have to do this?!
Thanks
Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. Lets start by properly identifying your device, which variant of the S4 do you have please?
No response in two days, thread closed.
I'm trying to figure out a way to encrypt my photos automatically (or at least, sync to encrypt automatically). I have Veracrypt on my PC, Dropbox on my PC and Android, and EDS app on my Android.
I've figured out how to move files around on EDS and have them sync to my Dropbox, but I want to make it so that EVERYTHING on my SD card is encrypted. If that doesn't work, then whenever I take pictures and videos, I'd like them to be automatically (via the EDS app or any other app) to be AUTOMATICALLY encrypted to my local container on my SD card (which is then synced to Dropbox!)
I hope this all makes sense. The whole point is ease-of-use. I could do it manually everytime I take a picture or video but that would take forever!
Thank you!
Are you able to change the storage from the camera app from Google photos, instead saving them to the phone? I'm getting frustrated.
On the camera app, clicking on the setting icon brings up the "storage" option, which for me is SD card or internal memory. So my pics are always saved to the phone.
My picture files are also synced to Google photos, so it is also saved to the cloud also. <I am sure you can disable that somewhere, prob under Google account, but I have not tried.>
Now, the default way to view photos on the phone is Google photos. So maybe that's why you think that photos are only saved to Google. If you use the "File" app, (or other file manipulation app, or pull the SD card and put it in a computer, if that is where you saved the photos) you will see that there are copies of all the photos on the phone.
When I check the google photos app under photo settings/ back up & sync/ /back up device folders I don't see all the albums in my S22 gallery. Is anyone else having this problem?
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When I check the google photos app under photo settings/ back up & sync/ /back up device folders I don't see all the albums in my S22 gallery. Is anyone else having this problem?
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That's known problem that users have with Google photos. I've looked into this on other forums. Google is not looking into fixing this any time soon.
I've tried multiple things but they really don't apply to what we are trying to do. For example i have a DJI (DRONE) folder that i want to back up but it's not even an option to select.
The only fix was to create a new folder in your "pictures" folder using a file explorer, and then transfer the pictures you want back up into that folder. Google photos will read the folders that are inside your "pictures" folder. You should now be able to backup that newly created folder. Hope that helps
I also wish there was a way to remove screenshots to be automatically backed up, unfortunately with Google photos there is no option to deselect the screenshot folder. Google photos is awesome in so many ways but these quirks are very annoying
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I also wish there was a way to remove screenshots to be automatically backed up, unfortunately with Google photos there is no option to deselect the screenshot folder. Google photos is awesome in so many ways but these quirks are very annoying
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Not sure what you mean, but Photos does detect images in the screenshots folder.
maybe the 100GB one drive offer is better than. anyone know if it syncs perfectly??
The problem is with Samsung phones. On previous phone Huawei, I didn't had this issue. Because in DCIM folder were only photos that I took. Everything else were in Pictures folder.
This is really annoying!
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maybe the 100GB one drive offer is better than. anyone know if it syncs perfectly??
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I use OneDrive and it works for me. It can be a bit confusing though so this explanation of how it works for me unfortunately must be a bit long. I do backup all except one or two folders on my computer to OneDrive. I don't remember the settings I might have initially put on OneDrive but here is what happens with my photos.
When I take a photo on my phone or do a screen capture on the phone, OD immediately uploads those to the cloud and then downloads them into a folder I have on my computer called "Camera Roll". So, within a few seconds to a minute of taking a photo or screenshot on my phone, those are available on my computer in the Camera Roll folder. Oddly when I then look at my pictures in OD, the photo will be saved there, but the screenshot will not. So even though OD syncs screenshots from my phone up to the cloud and then down to my Camera Roll folder on my computer, OD does not seem to save the screenshots in the cloud storage. But I end up with screenshots both on my phone and on my computer, so this is OK for me.
When someone sends me a photo in a message or email, those seem to get backed up by OD also. If I click the OD option to show photos from all folders, I do see those photos that were sent to me. I do get messages and emails both on my phone and on my computer, so I am not sure if it matters to OD if I first look at a photo received in a message on my computer or on my phone.
Once a photo is on my computer, if I edit it and save it to another folder on the computer, that copy will be backed up by OD also.
It gets interesting when deleting photos.
If I delete a photo from the Camera Roll folder on my computer, it is deleted from OD cloud storage also, but it is left in my gallery app on my phone. Of course, if I open OD on my phone and look, the photo is not there as it has been deleted from cloud storage.
If I delete a photo from my gallery app on my phone, as long as this photo has already been uploaded by OD, the only place it is deleted is on my phone. I like this because I can delete photos off my phone, but they stay in OD cloud storage and in my Camera Roll folder on my computer.
If I delete a photo in OD that has been previously uploaded from my phone’s camera and put into my computer’s Camera Roll folder, it is removed from OD and from the computer’s Camera Roll folder. It is left in my phone's gallery app though.
Hope this helps.
Will_T said:
I use OneDrive and it works for me. It can be a bit confusing though so this explanation of how it works for me unfortunately must be a bit long. I do backup all except one or two folders on my computer to OneDrive. I don't remember the settings I might have initially put on OneDrive but here is what happens with my photos.
When I take a photo on my phone or do a screen capture on the phone, OD immediately uploads those to the cloud and then downloads them into a folder I have on my computer called "Camera Roll". So, within a few seconds to a minute of taking a photo or screenshot on my phone, those are available on my computer in the Camera Roll folder. Oddly when I then look at my pictures in OD, the photo will be saved there, but the screenshot will not. So even though OD syncs screenshots from my phone up to the cloud and then down to my Camera Roll folder on my computer, OD does not seem to save the screenshots in the cloud storage. But I end up with screenshots both on my phone and on my computer, so this is OK for me.
When someone sends me a photo in a message or email, those seem to get backed up by OD also. If I click the OD option to show photos from all folders, I do see those photos that were sent to me. I do get messages and emails both on my phone and on my computer, so I am not sure if it matters to OD if I first look at a photo received in a message on my computer or on my phone.
Once a photo is on my computer, if I edit it and save it to another folder on the computer, that copy will be backed up by OD also.
It gets interesting when deleting photos.
If I delete a photo from the Camera Roll folder on my computer, it is deleted from OD cloud storage also, but it is left in my gallery app on my phone. Of course, if I open OD on my phone and look, the photo is not there as it has been deleted from cloud storage.
If I delete a photo from my gallery app on my phone, as long as this photo has already been uploaded by OD, the only place it is deleted is on my phone. I like this because I can delete photos off my phone, but they stay in OD cloud storage and in my Camera Roll folder on my computer.
If I delete a photo in OD that has been previously uploaded from my phone’s camera and put into my computer’s Camera Roll folder, it is removed from OD and from the computer’s Camera Roll folder. It is left on my phone though.
Hope this helps.
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this is what i was worried about. i am trying to find an auto backup strategy where it backs it up maybe weekly. i take a lot of photos and that means i also sift through and delete many so syncing cloud and pc would be a headache. i have my phone san-photos/video already auto backed up to my samsung cloud so i'm just looking for a media sync that works for my needs. thanks for sharing.
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this is what i was worried about. i am trying to find an auto backup strategy where it backs it up maybe weekly. i take a lot of photos and that means i also sift through and delete many so syncing cloud and pc would be a headache. i have my phone san-photos/video already auto backed up to my samsung cloud so i'm just looking for a media sync that works for my needs. thanks for sharing.
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Yes, because all photos taken get uploaded right away, and deleting a photo from the camera app does not delete it from OD, you end up with a lot of photos saved in OD that you don't really want. So yes, if you take hundreds of photos, this would be a pain. I am not sure of all the settings in OD though. Maybe you can have it backup only periodically or set it so a photo deleted on the phone also gets deleted from OD?
If I take a photo, it's not uploaded till I open photos: is this normal?
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If I take a photo, it's not uploaded till I open photos: is this normal?
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I am using OneDrive and immediately after I take a photo, that photo is uploaded to OD and downloaded to the Camera Roll folder on my Windows computer.
If I take photos on a hike in the woods and have no service, as soon as I get reconnected to cell service or wifi, the photos are uploaded.