Hey Guys,
My Dads moto g only has 8gb memory and storage is nearly full.
Most of the memory is from photos and video. It is running 4.4.4, the photos are backed up to google.
Is it possible somehow to keep the photos on google and delete it from the device to free up some space but still be able to access these photos in the gallery when connected to the internet?
I couldn't locate any option in gallery to see this. I can see the pictures in the photo app also.
I used to have a similar thing working on a old samsung galaxy s2.
I would have added a micro sd card but unfortunately that is not an option on the Moto G.
Many Thanks
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Hello World!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Sii and have been taking photos happily for some time. I'm currently low on space in the phone's storage but have plenty free on the SD card. The problem is that my recent photos taken no longer show up in the DCIM/Camera folder though they are viewable in the Gallery. However, since I want to download them to my PC, I need to find them somewhere.
The odd thing is that I do have .TEC files in my DCIM/Camera/cache folder which I believe are the actual image photos in some sort of proprietary format. I wonder if maybe they couldn't be converted to .JPG for some reason so they're just stuck in the cache still.
Has anyone else encountered this or is anyway aware of a solution?
Thanks!
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Hello World!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Sii and have been taking photos happily for some time. I'm currently low on space in the phone's storage but have plenty free on the SD card. The problem is that my recent photos taken no longer show up in the DCIM/Camera folder though they are viewable in the Gallery. However, since I want to download them to my PC, I need to find them somewhere.
The odd thing is that I do have .TEC files in my DCIM/Camera/cache folder which I believe are the actual image photos in some sort of proprietary format. I wonder if maybe they couldn't be converted to .JPG for some reason so they're just stuck in the cache still.
Has anyone else encountered this or is anyway aware of a solution?
Thanks!
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So I just came across this thread...Not sure if you ever go tthis resolved or not... but in the playstore is an app called TEC2JPG. This will do what you want it to. Typically, those TEC files are just the thumbnail cache. The free version gives you 3 conversions, and the paid version is unlimited. Test it with the free version first.
Hey guys,
I would like to buy 16GB version, but it's on long delay on Moto site and I need to ship this phone to my nieces in Ukraine by the end of August. So I bought 8GB version from Amazon to play with it and see how it works and really love the phone. The storage is the only sour point. 8 GB just does not cut it and Moto does not allow to use SD card storage for app installation. Moving apps to SD card works only for some apps and even then most of the storage being used is Internal, so 3-4 large games and this phone would be out of storage.
Is there is a way to force apps to install fully to SD card? Root + App2SD maybe? I do not have much experience with rooting and would like to avoid it, if possible due to desire to stay on OTA updates schedule.
Any advise?
To be honest rooting is your best bet for an optimal experience. I'm using CM and this phone can move more apps of you install the smaller version of google apps if it is really a big problem your only bet is to order the 16 and wait.
Transfer app to SD Card to free up space
Currently, there seems no tool can help you to move apps to SD card to free up space, but there indeed tools can be used to transfer photos, pictures, music,videos, contacts etc. to the SD card. If you are interest in it, you can read some tutorial for help
Transferring music and photos works wonderfully. And Google Play Music as well as Google Photos supports saving files on SD Card as default which makes it even easier to manage your storage. The apps though is a huge issue. I installed yesterday Walking Dead and it ate more then 1GB of storage of the puny 3GB available out of the box. Add here the app cache as well as storage required to do OTA updates and you really will struggle to install any large apps on the phone without running in 'out of memory' error messages.
The phone is wonderful otherwise - light, bright screen with excellent auto-dimming, good speaker and even better camera, responsive, waterproof (yes, I tested ), pure Lollipop Android experience , etc. etc.
Hi, I have been searching through Google extensively regarding a problem my SD card has but I none of them exactly describe my problem.
So I just recently bought a Strontium class 10 32GB card from an online web shop (like eBay) and I've been reading about stuff like SD scamming, but I don't think this is the problem I have since I have already used up 20GB of the alotted 29GB, and I can still access files and media with no problems. I also have issues viewing photos stored in my internal storage, so the problem I just described applies to my external and internal storages.
THE PROBLEM:
I downloaded high resolution photos from Unsplash and all photos appear fine on my laptop. I transferred them to my phone's memory (SD and Internal) and used QuickPic to browse them but I found out that only 50-something of the 99 photos can be viewed. The problematic photos take up space but they don't show the picture when clicked, only a broken thumbnail icon can be seen. I tried to identify the problem by doing: a reboot; ejecting and mounting the SD; formatting the SD; removing files like .nomedia (if this is even related); doing a factory reset; using a different card; and using ES file explorer but I still can't see some of my photos.
USEFUL DETAILS:
The photos that have issues all exceed 5000px in either width or height-- anything below that appears fine. I'm running Marshmallow 6.0, I tried using QuickPic, Google Photos and Sony's stock album app to open the pictures. I downloaded the pictures from the Unsplash website, MySplash (Android app) and Wally (Android app too). Everything from Wally can be viewed (even the mentioned corrupt photos from the Unsplash website) because the app only lets me download the smaller resolution (~778KP from an original of 12MP).
I have tried opening the unviewable photos on a Huawei P9, and I can see the problematic photos. I also tried inserting another SD card with the problematic photos to my phone, and I was still not able to view the photos.
My old no-brand phone had this problem too. It was running Jellybean and I used QuickPic there, too.
My current phone is a Sony Xperia XA Ultra, F3216, the dual-sim version. No custom ROMs, I'm using the stock Marshmallow.
Hi there and welcome to assist,
Unfortunately there is nothing about your question/device on XDA forum. Try a Google search first. Sorry for this late response.
You'll have to create an account to post in the main forums if you have any other questions.
Good luck
I transferred all my images from phone gallery to VSCO on my Moto G 4 plus. Since then I have been extremely troubled as VSCO has eaten up all my storage space. I extended my storage space by 32 GB thinking that I could transfer my 4000 photos to the external card. But it is not allowing that either. And my phone constantly shows No storage space, despite putting 32 GB external card. I have deleted everything including Whatsapp. This is so heart rendering. I love VSCO but the trauma it is putting me through for the past few days is seriously not funny. Can anyone please help.
Hi All,
All of a sudden google photos has stopped working and i can never get it work , i have searched around the net and tried almost all of the solutions, still no go, it wont fetch photos from photos.google.com nor it would back up photos, it gets stuck in "getting photos", sometime it gets past but does not download the photos from cloud.
I tried google photos in my old note 4 and it works great there, so i added google photos in my secure folder of s8 plus and to my surprise it works perfectly in secure folder but from secure folder it is not able to backup photos , i gave up and did a full reset of my phone and unfortunately even after a full reset , still its not working .. WTF!!!!!
i am not sure what is going on, can someone help please
If your pictures are in the sd card DCIM folder move them to internal DCIM folder and try un-mounting the sd card and see if this works. I have to un-mount sd-card everytime I want to backup, I've notified Google of this but they don't seem to care.
Thanks but my pics are only in Internal memory DCIM folder.
depakjan said:
Thanks but my pics are only in Internal memory DCIM folder.
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It doesn't matter, un-mount your sd card to see if Google Photos starts to find your photos. It will also backup if you have new photos. It happened to me and even after a reset it would get stuck on getting photos.
Wow this definitely worked , but what is the problem though, can i not have the SD card mounted for google photos to work?
Anyone have any workaround for the SD Card issue