Hi All,
the GN 10.1 offers the possibility to add a Photo Note to your pictures. You can essentially "virtually flip" the photo and write on the reverse side. I really like this feature to be able to keep notes together with the photos.
Is is it possible to back up these "flip sides" and keep them in sync if you need to do a reformat of the data and then restore the photos (together with the notes). Where are these located and is it possible to back them up to dropbox.
I have looked around and cold not find them and I could not find any back-up or sync option.
Many Thanks
I'm not sure what app or feature you are referring to, but anyway one should be able to find where the app store its data and then sync that folder using foldersync or some similar application. Try write on a picture, save and go to the folder handler. If sorted by date, the folder that the app is saving in should be on the very top of the folder structure.
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The app is the standard gallery app on the stock rom. If you are looking at a photo you can go to the menu and there is the function "add photo note". It flips the photo and you can write on the back (just like you could do on the old paper photos). I looked but I just can't find the files. Maybe it is some type of propriety file format instead of a picture format.
I would just like to be able to back up these notes so you don't lose them.
Any ideas anyone.
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maccra said:
The app is the standard gallery app on the stock rom. If you are looking at a photo you can go to the menu and there is the function "add photo note". It flips the photo and you can write on the back (just like you could do on the old paper photos). I looked but I just can't find the files. Maybe it is some type of propriety file format instead of a picture format.
I would just like to be able to back up these notes so you don't lose them.
Any ideas anyone.
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I checked too and there's just an empty folder saying "image notes". However, when I'm checking the DCIM folder where the images are I can see that the image seemed to be edited the time I did the note, so maybe it's embedding it in the picture somehow. But when I uploaded it to Dropbox and opened it in the galley from there the note where lost so apparently not.. The only thing I can imagine is that the note is a hidden file in the folder and therefore doesn't show, have you tried using the computer or another file browser?
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Yes the same thing happened to me when I tried to restore the photo. Shame really, I really like just writing on the back of the photos but if I can't backup them up or even export them I just fear they will go lost and therfore the function has only short time limited use. I don't have access to a laptop for a few weeks so I can't check it from the laptop.
Thanks for looking and trying. Really appreciate it.
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This sounds cool. Has anyone asked Samsung about how to back these up?
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Hello!
I have tried multiple app without success. Someone know a Good App to Encrypt those **Private** (cough...porn) pictures that sometimes we take with our excellent Infuse Camera???
well the simple solution is to use the built in file browser and move the pictures to any other folder, then put a file in there with the name .nomedia
Doing this will stop the media scanner from scanning the folder and showing up in the gallery or player apps. Of course this doesn't encrypt them, but it still lets you open them from your file browser of choice. The caveat is that if anyone else gets in there or plugs your phone in to a computer, there may be a chance at finding them.
Nice...
Photo vault works. It's a couple bucks but if you uninstall it or reset you're phone, you have to make them public first or you will lose them
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vaulty it moves then into a folder & adds .txt to the end(so secure )
you wont lose on new flash just reinstall vaulty
just reminded me to get it
Dropbox. Problem solved
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jthornton71707 said:
Dropbox. Problem solved
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HAHA i do that, except i put them in box.net
I use hidden media for all my private stuff. Just adds a nomedia file to any folders so they don't show up in the gallery
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I use an app called HideNSeek. It's a down low file app disguised as a flashlight.. lol works wonderfully...
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Hello!
I have tried multiple app without success. Someone know a Good App to Encrypt those **Private** (cough...porn) pictures that sometimes we take with our excellent Infuse Camera???
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Sent from an Infused ROM. Woot.
The app ZDbox lets you lock certain apps (along with various other features). Just put a lock code on your gallery and maybe even your camera and you're good to go.
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I have tried multiple app without success. Someone know a Good App to Encrypt those **Private** (cough...porn) pictures that sometimes we take with our excellent Infuse Camera???
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smart applock... it allows you to protect apps with password, pattern, etc... nice response time, custom background. you can lock the camera & gallery apps
message from Sams inFuse running REFUSE from the great h8
I think your box.net answer is the only good one. As for those pics there is soooooo many ways to access files on your phone, file browser, root explorer, astro file, etc. etc... If someone wanted to find them they could. So if its important to encrypt them or make sure no one sees them the only answer is to "get them off your phone"!! I personally use dropbox for the not so good for the family to view pics and I don't have my password saved so I must enter it everytime I login, they are safe, secure, follow me to any device, and I'm happy. Not to sound at all like an iphone fanboy but apple wins in this category, I miss my photo vault app, touche little piece of fruit... lol
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I think your box.net answer is the only good one. As for those pics there is soooooo many ways to access files on your phone, file browser, root explorer, astro file, etc. etc... If someone wanted to find them they could. So if its important to encrypt them or make sure no one sees them the only answer is to "get them off your phone"!! I personally use dropbox for the not so good for the family to view pics and I don't have my password saved so I must enter it everytime I login, they are safe, secure, follow me to any device, and I'm happy. Not to sound at all like an iphone fanboy but apple wins in this category, I miss my photo vault app, touche little piece of fruit... lol
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Agree!! The only piece I miss from IP4 is PhotoVault.
Rename the Folder
You can also rename the folder with the "confidential" pictures adding a . at the beginning... In my case my folder's called ".databases" (yeah the less interesting name the better)...
Whenever it's showtime just remove the . and the images/movies will be found by the Media Scanner on the phone...
When you add the . they'll dissappear... Since this complies with linux's way of hidding folders, if you mount the phone into a linux/osx pc you retain the hidden property ;-) Windows is an entirely different matter though
I realize there are a few apps out there that let you make a panorama by taking photos with your tablet but I was wondering if there are any apps that you can take pictures from your gallery (copied from an SD card or elsewhere) and stitch them together to make a panorama. Have searched around but haven't found much, does an app like this exist yet?
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Microsoft ICE works very well!
-bZj
You can use my app, Photaf 3D Panorama to do this.
However, it will require to copy and name some files, but it can be achieved.
If you want to stitch from the Desktop computer, Microsoft ICE is the way to go.
It is free and does an excellent job at stitching.
Obg1 said:
You can use my app, Photaf 3D Panorama to do this.
However, it will require to copy and name some files, but it can be achieved.
If you want to stitch from the Desktop computer, Microsoft ICE is the way to go.
It is free and does an excellent job at stitching.
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Yeah I didn't clarify well that I was looking to do it right on tablet. I can try it with photaf. What sort of renaming needs to be done?
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Hi,
The naming should be something like this:
sdcard:\Photaf\MyName\PhotafPic0.jpg
sdcard:\Photaf\MyName\PhotafPic1.jpg
sdcard:\Photaf\MyName\PhotafPic2.jpg
sdcard:\Photaf\MyName\PhotafPic3.jpg
....
Files should be ordered from left to right.
MyName can be whatever folder name you want.
You will also need to create a file called PhotafPanoramaConfig.cfg, containing:
{"m_PanoramaCoverage":360,"m_IsStitched":true,"m_Angle":0}
After placing the files, load it. press the menu button and select "restitch".
It should stitch it.
Let me know if that works
Is there an app for stylus drawing on a4 paper with zoom features because clearly would be difficulty to write and see the whole page?
I really need this feature rather than making small notes...i suppose blank page pdf in qpdf might sufficr but atm the free.draw icon only lets you draw for a few seconds? n e 1?
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one thing i have noticed is that when you print the s memos you can select a4 and they look ok (ish) when printed out...
hmm well i guess its worth a try, but i cant be scanning them all to my main computer again. Im going to be testing soon what file format s memos are saved in and then see if its possible to convert to pdf. reason is, i need the 'memos' on my main computer.
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hmm well i guess its worth a try, but i cant be scanning them all to my main computer again. Im going to be testing soon what file format s memos are saved in and then see if its possible to convert to pdf. reason is, i need the 'memos' on my main computer.
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*.jpg format. Why convert to pdf?
hmm. jpeg is ok then it can go straight to word. the point is though s memo isn't good at all for zooming in and out and then writing with the pen as if it were a real a4 page so i was looking for a different app. ill have to test jpeg convertion of them to word tomorrow as i cant shuitdown my pc to re-install and get kies running today. long story
but ill try the zoom in s memo again
There's an app called handwrite though I've not tried printing. Bit hard in beginning because of features
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Bengaz said:
*.jpg format. Why convert to pdf?
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JPG looks like crap on vector/text (since the compression is hard). Use PNG.
holgalee said:
There's an app called handwrite though I've not tried printing. Bit hard in beginning because of features
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Gave the wrong app name, it should be Freenote.
I'm having issues with quickpic and was wondering if anyone else had the problem or have a solution. The other day I spent a ton of time "excluding" all the files and folders oF my dropbox and other random files. I open up quickpic and bam! They are all showing again. I haven't flashed a new rom or done anything of the sorts. I just don't understand why it keeps doing it to me and its getting annoying :/ help anyone?
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Did you try to uninstall and install Quickpic back? I think that should help, however I`ve never had that problem.
Well it stayed the same after I deleted it so lets see in a few days if they stay excluded :/
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Just put a password on it so no one can accidentally see all you porn.
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The other day I spent a ton of time "excluding" all the files and folders oF my dropbox and other random files. I open up quickpic and bam! They are all showing
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In stead of excluding folders (sounds very time consuming), just set it to scan certain folders only. It'll be faster, and you do not run by this risk of something showing up by accident. If excluding and you just change a folder name or if a mount point changes, they will show again.
Mine's just watching camera folder, pics, downloads, and movies. Simple, fast, and I'm in control.
An other advice:
In those few "watched" folders, add folders with a .nomedia file inside. Then stick all the sensitive stuff in there. It'll be hidden in your gallery every time you open quickpic, but you can get them to show up with a few buttons press (settings, show hidden)
They will be hidden automatically next time you open quickpic.
Nice if you got sensitive shots of your missus that you wanna keep for your eyes only, or if you got lots of system png's for customising gui, but you don't want them to clutter your gallery..
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Yeah I use hidden folders for a lot of my icons and such my phone card is unorganized and stuff so my folders are just confusing xD
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Somethings gone wrong on my quickpic and the way it handles dropbox photos.
I used to just have one dropbox folder showing, camera uploads, than last week or started showing loads of other folders from dropbox which I didn't want.
I deleted the cache on both apps and now it won't display anything at all from my dropbox account.
Does anyone know how to get quickpic to show dropbox files again?
My .thumbnail file in .DCIM keeps expanding to fill all available space, preventing me from taking pictures and causing the system to become unstable. Today, ".thumbdata3--1967290299" was up to 3.5 gb. I delete it every time, but it grows back after the next reboot. Whether I delete the folder, the files itself, doesn't matter. I do have a lot of large pictures on the external SD card (not taken with the camera on the phone), which is perhaps the reason thumbnail is growing so large.
I used titanium backup pro to freeze gallery, but then I can't take pictures with the camera.
Judging from google search and a search across all XDA forums, this is not specific to the skyrocket, or the rom I'm running (cyanogenmod 10). I'm not coming across any specific solutions though other than delete them. There was one suggestion to setup a program to automatically delete the file, however that seems... inelegant.
I've also switched to using quickpic instead of the stock gallery option, but again that does nothing.
I tried naming a notepad document to .thumbnails to prevent android from making a .thumbnails file, but windows wouldn't let me.
Mediascanner seems to go nuts every time I turn on my phone after deleting the old file, the phone is warm to the touch, and BetterBatteryStats indicates it's running the cpu at 1.51 GHz for 15 to 20 minutes after boot. I'm going to try disabling media scanner to see if that prevents thumbnail from being built up, but I was wondering if anyone had any other fixes or suggestions. Like if there was any way to set a maximum file size on the thumbnail file, or if there was a way to disable the stock gallery without compromising camera functionality.
The solution I suggest will help with your media scanner issues but your photos will no longer be visible in the gallery.
Go to the folder you keep your photos in and use a file explorer app like root explorer to create an empty file named .nomedia
This tells the android media scanner to skip that folder. If you have folders inside folders, place a .nomedia file in each folder.
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rushi.1986 said:
The solution I suggest will help with your media scanner issues but your photos will no longer be visible in the gallery.
Go to the folder you keep your photos in and use a file explorer app like root explorer to create an empty file named .nomedia
This tells the android media scanner to skip that folder. If you have folders inside folders, place a .nomedia file in each folder.
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If media scanner has already detected said files, will it still show up in either Gallery or Quickpik? And will new pictures I take be added to either without media scanner?
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If media scanner has already detected said files, will it still show up in either Gallery or Quickpik? And will new pictures I take be added to either without media scanner?
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I am pretty sure already scanned pics will be gone. As for new pics, I don't know. You just have to try it yourself.
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Update: rescan media root, preventing media scanner from going every time the phone reboots, seems to have fixed it. Camera function is not compromised, nor are pictures hidden from quickpik.
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I was just going to recommend that. It seems to have helped me keep boot times down and help with battery life.