Here is a small tutorial in order to shoot raw files on an alcatel 5035D phone and how to use those files. At the moment I've only tested it on a Mac.
Here is the difference between a standard jpeg file and the one coming from a the raw file shot with engineer mode.
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Here is the big problem I couldn't manage to solve.
As you can see the developed raw image has worse resolution (as I couldn't solve pixel-level demosaicing problem) but a much better dynamic range and color.
HOW TO SHOOT RAW FILES
To shoot RAW you need to use mediatek phones EngineerMode, this can be in 2 different ways:
1) opening "Phone" and writing this with the keypad: *#*#3646633#*#*
2) installing SvsEngRunner app (you can find it HERE)
Once you entered EngineerMode:
1) swipe right until you reach the "Hardware Testing" tab
2) press on "Camera"
3) press on "Set Raw Capture Mode" and select "Capture Mode" then press "OK"
4) press on "Raw Type" and select "Pure Raw"
5) if you want you can also turn off lights flickering effect selecting 50Hz flicker in Europe and 60Hz one in US
6) you can also select ISO or let the phone auto-select the right one.
7) now press on "Start Preview" frame your subject and press "Capture" to shoot
In /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/CameraEM you'll find a .raw file and a similarly named JPEG.
HOW TO EDIT THOSE RAW FILES
Once you've copied those raw files on your PC if you have Photoshop already installed you'll notice you'll be able to open those .raw files with it. Don't do it. Well, if you want to experiment with Ps raw import tool good luck, I couldn't manage to get anything usable with it.
Download and install GraphicConverter from Lemke Software (HERE is the trial download link).
Once you've downloaded and installed it comes the difficult part:
1) open the .raw file with GraphicConverter
2) "Photo RAW Import" appears with a blank square in it. Just press the "OK" button on bottom right
3) another window will tell you that the image you tried to open is broken, now press on the "Try RAW import..." button
4) now copy the values you need to enter from the following image and then press "OK":
5) save the image in TIFF format and open it with any image editor.
I suggest opening it in Photoshop and apply de-interlace both horizontally and vertically (you can remove vertical interlacing by rotating by 90° the image and applying again the de-interlace filter).
Now here is a small question: does anyone know how to open a CameraEM Alcatel Mediatek MTK Raw File in any other way? Can he/she share his method or a possible solution to the problem? I've been able to access the greyscale raw image but I couldn't demosaic it, can anyone use the MATLAB demosaic tool on it and check if the conversion is better? Is there anyone willing to write something like raw2dng for this particular RAW image file format? Thanks in advance and sorry for my very bad english :crying:.
Giova
Experiments
Same photo.
Left: JPEG, Right: edited RAW file
Comparison
Top left ->> jpeg shot together with the raw file from engineermode
top right ->> "developed" raw file
bottom left ->> jpeg from standard camera.
The comparison images are zipped and attached to this post
Giova
gio91ber, could you upload somewhere RAW from your 5035D? I'm not sure whether it is because of you, or because of someone else, I've found support for Alcatel 5035D in small RAW converter called "dcraw". I need the RAW to check whether it is really can be processed by dcraw, and if so, since I also was able to process it with GraphicConverter, there may be a chance that the author of dcraw could add support for my platform/camera as well (MT6589).
Oh, and thanks for the tip with GraphicConverter, although I must admit that it works only in some cases: sometimes it decodes pictures in a wrong way and won't show window saying that it failed, i.e. "Try RAW import..." button. Moreover there's no equivalent command in main menu...
When open the camera, showing a connection error, what is the reason?
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gio91ber, could you upload somewhere RAW from your 5035D? I'm not sure whether it is because of you, or because of someone else, I've found support for Alcatel 5035D in small RAW converter called "dcraw". I need the RAW to check whether it is really can be processed by dcraw, and if so, since I also was able to process it with GraphicConverter, there may be a chance that the author of dcraw could add support for my platform/camera as well (MT6589).
Oh, and thanks for the tip with GraphicConverter, although I must admit that it works only in some cases: sometimes it decodes pictures in a wrong way and won't show window saying that it failed, i.e. "Try RAW import..." button. Moreover there's no equivalent command in main menu...
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That's probably because of my, as I sent Dave Coffin a raw files a few months ago. It actually works with my version of dcraw. Anyway there's also another possible way to open 5035d raw files with Irfanview using these parameters.
you then have to save the image in pgm format and use this demosaicer http://www.fastcompression.com/solutions/demosaicing/demosaicing.htm to convert it from not demosaiced image to a demosaiced ppm format color image.
Anyway, I attach to this post a raw file coming from my phone. I won't be able to send any new one since I sold the phone but anyway here it is.
gio91ber said:
That's probably because of my, as I sent Dave Coffin a raw files a few months ago. It actually works with my version of dcraw. Anyway there's also another possible way to open 5035d raw files with Irfanview using these parameters.
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Thank you! It seems I finally made it to work. BTW! There's a cool and free software for working with raw pictures called RawTherapee. If you'll have another camera/smartphone with ability to take raw pictures definitely check it out.
If someone wonders how to set up conversion of raw pictures from Lenovo A820, here's details:
DL IrfanView;
DL its "formats.dll";
drag&drop your raw into IrfanView;
in opened window set these:
width 3200;
height 2400;
BPP 10, Not normalized;
Vertical flip;
Bayer pattern used BG.
Related
I was testing the quality of the camera after the QTek 106 ROM upgrade and noticed using the BMP format at XL size gave edges in images really bad jaggies.
Scaling by 50% gave a good image and looking closely at the image I suspected an interlacing fault. Turns out the odd and even scanlines have been swapped. A stupid mistake and one that HTC can very easily fix.
In the meantime I've made and attached a Photoshop action that will fix these jaggy images. JPG images don't have this problem, only BMP ones.
Original image:
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Fixed image:
(in this case both images were rotated 90 degrees from landscape to portrait after fixing)
I hope this fix will work for others, let me know if it does.
BTW: The upgrade makes the video recording of the camera work absolutely great, no more split images.
I'm not sure attachments are working, here's a download link: click
can somebody please extract the cam soft from 1.06 rom?
thanks in advance
dutty said:
can somebody please extract the cam soft from 1.06 rom?
thanks in advance
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i need it,too .Thanks
Hm... :? do not understand how to upgrade with downloaded file from this post? :?:
The attached file is not an update for your phone, it's an action for photoshop. You copy it to your Photoshop directory in "\presets\photoshop actions\".
Then in Photoshop select the menu item Window->actions (or alt-F9) and in the actions list you should see the "fix MDA Compact BMP" item.
After loading a BMP image from the camera you can select that action item, then press the 'play' button at the bottom of the actions window to activate the action.
This will fix the BMP image for you, after which you can save it.
There's no fix for this bug on the phone itself, that's why I made this Photoshop action to fix BMP images until such a firmware update is released.
thnx for the fix!
but why would you want to save as bmp anyways? does it yield better quality or retain more details? i think most ppl just save as jpg; they're probably pictures not worth quality anyways if they decided to take it on this phone
Thank you very much for your comments It really works!
Hey, do you now why .BMP photo doubles .JPG weight? Which one to prefer for best pic quality?
BMP is an uncompressed format, JPG has lossy compression, which means you lose image quality. Some noise and unsharpness is added.
Try taking the same picture in JPG and BMP format and compare them, the BMP image has noticable better quality.
Also, if you plan on editing an image, BMP is better. Otherwise you use JPG, edit and save in JPG again and get twice the quality loss.
With the bad quality of the camera any improvement in sharpness and noise is welcome
Yeah!:idea:
I`ve made some pics with my cam in JPG and BMP and now I can see difference between this two formats
Speaking the truth, I never had an intention to use BMP before...
You right - BMP is much more better.
Good to hear that you like the results.
When I have enough space on my memory card and want the best image quality I always use the BMP format. Drawback is that it's a bit slower to process on the phone.
hi I tried your photoshop fix but I got the ff errors.
warning no pixels selected
the command move is not currently available
warning no pixels selected
Could not fill because no pattern has been defined.
I think mine got stuck in the middle of your set of actions...
I am left with four hidden layers (in this order)
pattern (filled black)
odd
even
background (with lock)
I am using Windows XP SP2 and Adobe Photoshop 7
That is strange. I'm using Photoshop 8 and Windows XP SP2.
Sounds like the creation of the pattern went wrong, if it turned out all black.
I'll have a look at the script to see where the problem could be.
My well-known Theme Bible is, now, three years old and, therefore, a bit outdated when it comes to comparing the third-party theme creator tools. Therefore, I found it necessary to quickly review all the new tools, particularly Benoît Thonnart’s free(!) and (still) excellent ThemeGenCE, which, incidentally, has become the winner in last year’s Best Software Awards in the Utilities / Theme Creation/Management category. Note that, while it’s certainly outdated, you will still want to read my old Theme Bible. Note that the first half of it is pretty technical but is pretty much needed if you want to understand the official documentation coming with ThemeGenCE. (Benoît Thonnart’s manual even links to my Theme Bible just at the beginning.)
As, unlike the other apps, this theme creator, while it’s really-really powerful, isn’t very intuitive and the docs are pretty technical (again, they depend on my old Theme Bible, which itself is pretty technical), I found it necessary to write an easy-to-follow tutorials for newcomers. This application is really worth checking out if you’re into making themes: it’s WAY better, more powerful and up-to-date than any other free solutions out there and even kicks the back of some of the commercial, expensive ones.
1. download ThemeGenCEEnglish.zip from the homepage; decompress in somewhere. Run ThemeGenCE.exe.
2. by default, ThemeGenCE will default to VGA (640*480) output. If you have a QVGA (320*240) or a square-screen (both 240*240 and 480*480; 320*320 – see for example the Samsung i780 – is promised for the near future, so is W(Q)VGA) one, click Options to the right of Theme Format:
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Upon the first start of ThemeGenCE, the mouse cursor will automatically be placed there so all you need to do is just left-clicking twice (first, to close the initial dialog box asking you to set image parameters and, second, to click Options).
In the new dialog, just click the output format you need. For example, if you want to create a QVGA theme, click QVGA as shown in the following shot:
Then, click Validate at the bottom. Now, the (changed) output format, QVGA, will be shown in the main GUI too:
(Compare this section to that of the first screenshot above!)
3. click the Mona Lisa button,
, (the fifth button on the top) to enter the image handler dialog. It’s here that you’ll need to import the image you’d like to place in the output file and do the necessary transforms on it before saving.
4. select the image in the next dialog coming up:
It’ll be shown in the forthcoming editor window. Don’t be afraid of it: it’s much simpler than one might at first think.
First, if you absolutely don’t want to change any parameters but export the image and create a TSK file, you can click the Save Today Image,
, icon (the fourth at the top) right away. Then, you’ll still need to click the “Start” radio button in the Image Build group in the right:
and click the Save Today Image icon again. Now, you can close the dialog window by using the cross or the “Back to main form”,
, icon.
5. Now, the Create the theme on PC icon (the fourth icon on the toolbar),
, becomes active; just click it to save your stuff. Note that you may want to give it a new name (instead of the default “Theme”) and a new internal name (default: nothing) before doing so in the lower left area of the dialog:
The saving directory will be the same as ThemeGenCE.exe by default; as you can see, you can change it too. Now, just copy your TSK file to \Windows, \My Documents or the root of a storage card on your PDA and off you go: it becomes selectable.
Also note that you can change the interface colors before saving the image. To do this, go to the third tab of the large dialog on the left and click the colors you’d like to change.
To change the WM5+ basehue (see THIS for more info), you’ll need to change to the WM5 tab (to the right of the Colors tab); in here, you can change the base hue of the entire system:
Click the WM5 button (the cursor hovers above it in the previous shot) and just select the color you want. Again, click Validate at the bottom to make the changes.
Note that this was just a quick intro to this app. It’s capable of VERY-VERY cool image transformations available in the Effect Options group (just under the already-introduced “Image to Build” group where you needed to click “Start”) in the image editor (the one coming up with the Mona Lisa icon): in addition to basic image adjusting, cropping, flipping, mirroring, rotating, etc. operations, advanced patterns, hatching, radial blur, radial zoom operations are also possible. Just click the six tabs in there to see these advanced features. Also note that you’ll need to enable them by checking the checkboxes as is shown in for example the next shot:
Also, you can import existing TSK files and modify the colors, the images etc. in them – and, then, export them again. Finally, if your phone is connected to your desktop computer, you can easily, directly deploy (and directly import) the TSK files to / from there, making it unnecessary for you to manually copy TSK files between the desktop and the PDA.
There’re some other tutorials HERE and HERE. Now that you know the basics of using the app, you’ll surely understand them too.
I've decided to stick my latest Bibles & tutorials in the General forum for some days in a round-robin fashion. That is, I stick some 2-3 articles at a time and, after some days, I stick another set. This way hopefully everyone will notice them without even searching and they get the exposure they deserve.
All in all, don't be afraid: it's only some days that a given article remains sticky - after that, I stick another one.
I wanted to share this information. I recently was able to change the loading screen and add backgrounds to iGo8(I know I'm not the first one). Thought I would share what I did in case anyone else is interested. Also, have attached a screenshot of the startup screen I used(there is also a matching background to tie it all in). Also attatched is my "branding.zip" file and zip with 240x320 background.bmp/loading.bmp. If you like what I did you can just use mine. This is for 240x320 and 320x240 qvga sizes only(I deleted all other files). Follow link for "data.zip".
Here is what I did:
1.) I did a google image search and found a picture that I liked. Downloaded and saved as a bitmap file
2.) Resized the picture to 240x320. This would depend on your screen size.
3.) Made a copy and named it "loading.bmp"
a.)Optionally, I used photo software to add the iGo logo ( I used pocket artist)
4.) Copied "data.zip" and "branding.zip" to my computer (Keep a backup copy)
5.) Using winRAR, I opened "branding.zip" and found \ui_igo8\240x320 and added "loading.bmp" to the archive overwriting the original "loading.bmp"
6.) Using winRAR again, opened "data.zip" and found \ui_igo8\240x320\background
a.)added my resized bitmap image to this folder(named mine "blueflames.bmp")
b.)while I was at it, I got rid of everything I didn't need such as backgrounds and other files for screen sizes I did not need. Went from 12mb to 5mb(saving all the room I can)
c.)have read that this can be done alternately by adding folders "ui_igo8\240x320\background" to the "igo8" folder on sd card. This did not work for me.
7.) Copied "data.zip" and "branding.zip" back to sd card overwriting the originals(make sure to keep copies just in case, something I forgot to do)
8.) Abracadabra when you start iGo8 you get a fresh new loading screen and background
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I searched for a place to post this but did not find what I was looking for. If I'm in the wrong place let me know, move it, remove it, or just shoot me.
As I said before, I know I'm not the first to figure this out. And I'm in no means a genius or programmer. I was so happy the first time I started iGo8 up and saw my own screens that I had to share with somebody. Let me know if I can help with anything(to the best of my ability). Let me know if I missed something.
NOW WITH LANDSCAPE:Slight change on landscape as could not resize without distortion. Turned original background and splash.
data.zip http://www.4shared.com/file/68709169/ea33cfb2/data.html
More iGo info
Just something else I have found. My iGo was taking forever to load, so I removed some of the custom poi's that I had as well as everything else I did not need(other states, poi's from other states) and stored them on my computer. When I need them, I can put them back.
Since doing this, it now loads just as fast as TomTom7(if not faster). Just in case anyone is interested.
Matching Splash for Opera Mobile
Here's a matching splash screen for opera mobile for anyone that likes the blue flames and wants everything to look alike. Unzip "opera_splash.zip" into \program files\opera9 overwriting the existing files. Make a copy of existing files first in case you want to revert back to original without reinstalling.
Loading.bmp fails to load, Igo8 aborts
Hi,
Using the information in this thread, I tried to replace the bitmap used during loading and as background. My bitmap works very well as background, but during loading I get an load error message.
Looking at the original loading bitmap, I found that the file is 2 bytes longer than it normally should be. 320 * 240 * 3 + 54 ( bitmapfileheader and bitmap informationheader) = 230454, whereas the actual file size = 230456.
A program like Windows Viewer displays the original file correctly, as it does with my own files.
Also the blueflames bitmap fails to load.
I use IGO8 8.0.035389.
Does somebody have an idea what is going wrong?
Harry
May need update
I am using an updated version 8.0.0.49545 which may explain the difference. Do you have access to the content manager which allows you to get updates? There was a bug fix in the september release that could help. Also, what device are you using? If you dont have access for updates, PMme and I can direct you to an updated version. Make sure your image is the correct size, make sure you convert to bitmap and not just change name. I think I just used MSPaint to open my jpeg and saved it as a bmp. I'll try to do what I can to help. Ijust assumed since it worked great on my device it would be universal. You didnt change anything else in branding.zip?
Loading bitmap problem
Hi,
My PDA is a MIO P350. My bitmap is really a Windows bitmap. Note, that also blueflames didn't load. No other changes were made to Branding.zip. Please send me the update.
Harry
in sys.txt you can add
[loading]
show_statustext=1
show_progressbar=1
progressbar_x=85
progressbar_y=120
loading_bmp="loading.jpg"
make sure a loading.jpg that fits your screen size is placed in
data.zip\ui_igo8\320_240 further since show_progressbar is enabled ( =1)
a loading_progress_bar.bmp is needed in data.zip\ui_igo8\320_240
This worked with igo 8.3xx
"Failed to open file"?
Dear mates,
When I switched to iGO 8.3.4, copying the Data, BRANDING and SYS files to my SD card, I got the error message on start: "Failed to open file: igo\800_480\loading.bmp. Exiting application."
Still when I am using the new files except the data.zip(using my old data.zip - from iGO 8.3.2 I had) the program is OK. But when I try to use the new data.zip - the program crashes with the error above ?
Please help !
Best Regards
Hi jmckeejr, hi mates,
I tried to change the loading picture too with a car logo but it did not succeed. I downloaded your branding file and it works flawlessly, however, I already use iGO 8.3.4.117940.
Then I tried to do this: opened the branding.zip, changed the loading.bmp to mine and compressed it again, copied it back to the device, but it doesn't recognize the file, loads with a grey road-like image. Could somebody help me to get a car logo to work? I made these steps with the original branding file and with yours too.
Thx
as
start screen for Igo 8.3.4
For Igo 8.3.4 it doesn't work that way, changing the splash screen for 240x320 portrait resolution actually goes like this:
1. leave data.zip and branding.zip as they are and just create a new folder in the igo root folder and name it "ui_igo8" (usually it doesn't exist)
2. create a new subfolder in the new created folder "ui_igo8" and name it "240_320"
3. Create a loading.jpg file with 240x320 resolution - any photo editor is good, and put it in the SD/Igo/ui_igo8/240_320
4. create a loadingprogressbar.jpg that looks like a ribbon with a resolution of 120x10 (or search one on google)
5. write in your sys.txt file found on the Igo root folder the following lines:
[loading]
show_statustext=0
show_progressbar=1
progressbar_x= 130
progressbar_y=230
loading_bmp="loading.jpg"
loading_progressbar="loadingprogressbar.jpg"
6. turn on IGO and after splash screen is shown you will figure out what the loading bar position is, if needed just adjust its location changing the progressbar_x and progressbar_y values in sys.txt
Here is an archive http: // tinyurl.com / 3ejnedt with needed folders and files, just copy it on your Igo root folder and extract everything there.
Hope it helps!
I didn't figure out how changing the exit splash screen (which is the same with the original start splash screen) works, if somebody knows lets hear it!
Greetings all, this is my first app, and first post on this forum (though I've been reading it for some time before i registered). I've written a simple camera app that lets you view and explore all the parameters for your camera. This app was meant to read, modify and display the results of various camera parameters, as returned by the flatten() method. It is not designed to enhance your images, but to let you learn more about the cameras attached to your device and their features.
All parameters that are modified are set using set(String key, String value). This seems to work even for parameters that take an int value, such as jpeg quality.
I would like some feedback, especially on the UI. The values to change are entirely text based, which takes up a fair amount of screen real estate. I'm open to suggestions or other ideas.
Notes:
Only landscape mode is supported
Pictures are saved to DCIM\Camera
Gallery is not refreshed immediately
Supported Camera parameters are dumped to a text file in DCIM\Camera when the app launches
Parameters that are named "<whatever>-values" are not added to the dropdown, as they are presumably just a list of what values are possible for a given parameter.
Hardware tested on:
Samsung Galaxy Ring
Kyocera Rise
Acer Iconia A100
Any feedback is appreciated.
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Hello, @Jat82.
When I open the application the value for param stays as "none", is this normal or it should show other value?
Maybe it's a bug from my ROM/device because third camera apps doesn't show the image in screen. I don't have other device to test it, sorry.
I think the UI of your app can be upgraded, maybe you can rearrange all box and buttons to one side of screen.
eduds said:
Hello, @Jat82.
When I open the application the value for param stays as "none", is this normal or it should show other value?
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It's just the default text, it should change to whatever text you enter when you tap it.
Maybe it's a bug from my ROM/device because third camera apps doesn't show the image in screen. I don't have other device to test it, sorry.
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Sorry, i don't understand what you mean by "third camera apps", can you explain it a bit more? You have a third camera on your device that appears in the cameras dropdown, but doesn't display a preview?
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It's just the default text, it should change to whatever text you enter when you tap it.
Sorry, i don't understand what you mean by "third camera apps", can you explain it a bit more? You have a third camera on your device that appears in the cameras dropdown, but doesn't display a preview?
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I attached two screenshots of your app, you can see the param is always "none".
You can also see the black screen.
Yes, the preview is not displayed but I can take pictures normally.
On Moto Razr I, FC when i put the front camera ON.
Enviado desde el Moto Razr I. México Df.
I have an issue with this. My photos aren't saving to anywhere I can find them.My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Rush.
/storage/sdcard0/DCIM is the pathway my photos normally save to. Is there a way to fix this?
Thank you all for the feedback, I'm back from the holidays, and have resumed work on this project. There are some minor updates:
-"C!" (Capture) button removed and minor UI adjustments
-Selecting a parameter should now populate the edit text with the current value for that parameter
-Long press on the preview image to capture an image, or..
-Press the hardware camera button if your device has one*
-All images captured are now stored in <your device>/CameraParams. This folder will be created if it does not exist
-Camera parameters are dumped into the above directory, one "raw" unformatted file, and another one with human-readable formatting
*Press it rather quickly, holding the hardware camera button may launch a camera intent, where your system will load your default camera app, which makes things go ...bad.
Todo:
-Proper enumeration and selection of available camera devices
-User-definable storage paths, so you can save to phone, sd card, usb device, whatever is attached..
-Continued UI refinement
-Refresh Gallery/Media db after saving images
-??? What else is needed or wanted from a camera utility?
Hello I am a beta tester form http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927116
I have a ace plus, 2.3, rooted phone.
I downloaded the app an found that it crashes when I try to open it.
I even downloaded the app twice or thrice and still same result so please correct it
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So I used Samsung Smart Switch to change from my s7 edge to the s8+ which I absolutely love. However there is one annoyance, in Instagram and snapchat when importing from gallery it shows all my pictures in random order instead of chronological order, it's almost like it's reversed in snapchat and completely random in Instagram. Anyone else have this issue?
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Yep everytime i switch phones this happens. New photo taken with the phone should be on top tho but any old photos will be randomly thrown together.
Did this to me as well but all my images are stored on my SD card and I just simply transferred between phones. Maybe it has something to do with the order in which it read the files in memory to create the cache that causes the change in order.
Outbreak444 said:
Did this to me as well but all my images are stored on my SD card and I just simply transferred between phones. Maybe it has something to do with the order in which it read the files in memory to create the cache that causes the change in order.
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Anyway to fix?
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No way to fix it. Atlest with all the phones ive had i havent found a way.
However new photos will be on too from this point on.
Found this solution in a Samsung Forum:
"Theory behind photos date"
If you did not change the file name it should be written in a way which indicates the year, day and month as well as the precise hour and minute when it was take. This applies to all kind of photos (from every single camera, not only phone ones) and to screenshots, but does not apply to whatsapp photos since only the year, day and month is indicated in the name followed by 000xx where xx indicates in which order you received the photos sent on the same day.
Methods to fix the photo date
Both methods i will show you embed metadata files into the photo, so it will never change the date if it is moved between devices or sd cards!
Method 1:
You can, if you have windows 10 photos program in your pc look at the name of the photo and click on the 3 vertical dots at the top right hand side of the pc screen and then click on file info. The date is now shown at the left of the picture and you can permanently modify that by hand. If you have many photos to modify use method 2. Method 1 is good if you have a few photos to edit or you have to edit a video date, for the other use case go to the notes at the end.
Method 2:
The program i personally use is EXIF date changer* you can dowload it from the developer website here , it should work on windows XP, vista, 7, 8.1, 10. As you can see they offer a free version and a paid version, the free version allow you to fix unlimited amount of photos without having more nieche features, so it is more than enough for what you need to do, so dowload the free version unless you want to support the developer or you need the pro features.
*i want to specify that i have no affiliation with the developer and that i am suggesting their app because i use it myself and it works perfectly. there are other programs which do the same thing if you like others more you can use them.
After you have dowloaded and installed EXIF date changer on your pc move all the photos from your sd card into a folder on you desktop (you can now delete all the photos from the sd card, but i highly recommend you not to delete the desktop copy till you have verified at the end of the procedure everything has gone well, that folder is your only backup!).
Step 1: choose with the button marked with 1 in the photo the folder which contains your pictures* the destination folder will automatically become a folder called adjusted which is created by the program and placed into sourced folder, you can leave it as it is or you can change it if you want, this is your personal preference.
Step 2: in the time difference page (2) select the voice set time/date from (3) and then date in filename (4).
*when choosing the folder there are different scenarios: if your folder hierarchy is like DCIM with inside camera and screenshot folders, the app will look for pics in the DCIM camera but not in the folders inside so it will process no photos, you must choose a folder which has photos directly in it, the photos in subfolders will not be processed and you will have to repeat the process manually afterwards!
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Step 3: click on options (5) and the only think marked should be "Set file date to taken date" this will ensure than the photo date will be embedded into metadata with the same date shown in the filename and will avoid strange conflicts with some gallery apps which read file date and not taken date. Also remember NOT to mark "use file created date to taken date". There is another option pre marked which you should unmark which is "rename files to"**
**rename files to date option is useful if you have a few photos which have a name modified by you like "photo of mark" but have metadata and so show the correct date of when it was taken. I sugget to tailor use that option singularly on those kind of photos so the date is written in the file name and in case the metadata gets lost you have a backup, however when using the program to bulk change date of incorrect photos i would not advise to do that because it will add that to the name of all pics (which already have the date written in it) and it could be annoying. So use that function only on pre selected groups of photos with the overmentioned issue.
Step 4: check that in the advanced, privacy, filters and upgrade to pro everything is turned off.
Step 5: Hit process photos and wait for it to finish.
Step 6: After it finishes click on open folder or manually navigate indicated in destination folder in Step 1. You can rename that folder as you like (for example if you want it to be the camera folder of the phone rename it DCIM) and transfer it to your phone/sd card.
Step 7: check if all the photos are ok and there are no strange things going on with the date, if something is wrong delete the destination folder (indicated in step 1) and do all the process again. Again DO NOT DELETE THE UNTOUCHED PHOTO FOLDER ON YOUR PC TILL YOU VERIFY EVERYTHING IS OK BECAUSE IT IS YOUR ONLY BACKUP.
At this point all your photos date has been fixed!
Notes:
From my personal experience the photos with no date in filename are not modified by the program so if they have metadata it is not modified (if you marked what is indicated in step 3) and they will be fine, again cosider doing it for those photos only indicated in step 3 **.
If a photo keeps having the same behaviour after this process it is because it has not metadata and no date indicated in filename, so nothing can be automated. The date cannot be recovered via the file, but if you remember when you shot it you can permanently change with method 1.
I hope to have helped everyone!
Source: Solved: Photos lost date - Samsung Community