Just wondering if anybody out there might know of a camera app (or some other way to achieve this) that will display the image file name automatically for a period of time after taking a photo. I am using my android phone camera to record literally thousands of images of maintenance items and I have to write down the image file name on the inspection form each time. This is so that a link to the file can be built back up in excel and the correct image can be imported into the correct record back in the office. I can see the image name easily enough by selecting the image view soft button after taking a picture and then tapping the picture and the file name is displayed for a couple seconds at the top. The display usually disappears before I get the whole thing written down so have to hit it a couple times. This is just a pain and a time limiting factor when I have to do thousands. I'm trying to find a camera app (or other means) that will remove a step or two from the process. Any ideas?
The other thing that would help is being able to change the file naming protocol of captured images to sequential instead of the (often preferred) date/timestamp. I know this seems like a step backwards and most people try to change the protocol the other way but for my purpose, knowing I just have to add 1 to the previous file name is sooooooooo much quicker.
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Hello everybody, I have a slight problem. I had an image on my sd card, and I set it as a picture frame image on my homescreen, but then I accidently flashed my card and so now that picture is no longer mine, buuut the picture frame on the homescreen, still shows my picture. Is there anyway to go through astro and through the folders and being able to recover the image being used? Like I just need to know what directory its in, I've been trying for three days now and I've givven up. Please help, thanks.
How good are you at SQL?
The desktop is stored in the file /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db, in the "favorites" table. In that table, there is two possibilities imo: 1) it contains the path to the image, or more likely 2) it's a BLOB datatype that contains the image data (this will be harder to convert back into a normal image).
I was kind of hoping it would be a lot easier, but ill try it out. ThanKS!!!!!!
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I use my Samsung Galaxy S4 that is stock and rooted with stick mount, an on the go USB cable and a USB compact flash reader to read compact flash memory to retrieve pictures from my trail cameras.
I load the photos from the compact flash to the external SD card of my device my device using My files and view the pictures using My Files
After copying the files to my SD card I can view the pictures one at a time just fine after loading.
When I select a picture Android asks me what app I want to use I always choose the Gallery
(note:I have tried other apps with swipe view capability of photos but it doesn't change things)
If I use My Files long enough it will start working the way I want/expect.
What I want/expect is to have a swipe view (sometimes there can be hundreds of photos of the same deer standing in front of the camera eating for hours, it can be a squirrel or a rabbit or just the wind moving some bushes so I want to quickly find some more interesting shots ) i.e. to be able to touch outside the frame of the picture and get a swipe view.
When I have the swipe view, I can swipe the current photo and got to the next photo or at the bottom have a list of little pictures I can scroll through to quickly and select the photo that interest me.
I beat and curse and thrash around to try to get swipe view enabled but I have never been able to make it work by actually doing anything but a few hours later it magically it seems to work as one would expect i.e. I use My files to open a picture (it then calls Gallery) and by touching outside the frame enables swipe view i.e. by swiping a photo to go to the previous or the next photo in the directory or scroll a list of little pictures at the bottom of the screen.
Can someone please help me to make this work out of the gate and not have to wait on the "magic" to happen?
A little background
My resident smart guy/employee/IT guy says that it must be building an index to create the swipe view, now this makes sense but sometimes I only have three photos.
I can understand it might take a while to build and index for hundreds of photos but for three pictures???
So if this is the case the build index must be scheduled to run periodically.
If I knew what needed to happen I could write a program that would force the build of an index.
A little more more background
Android version 4.2.2 (I would update but I've heard that it would/could unroot my device and not allow me to re-root (I don't want to re-root either)
Today I discovered a picture in my dropbox camera upload that I did not take.
Viewing the file on my computer it is just a png file with a statusbar without clock.
Now on my S3 there has always been a clock, so it's not a screenshot I have taken.
On my S3 the image is quite different.
Immediately when opening (before app renders the image completely), I get a picture with a clear motive.
After rendering, the image is more distorted.
This is only viewable on the device, not on a computer.
Sorry about the motive in this image, there is some brat in a back seat of a car waving at the camera with his middle finger.
I would love to blur the image, but I take my chanses uploading it as an original. You have been warned.
I DO NOT know the people on this picture.
Please share your theory or ideas! I am also happy to answer any questions you might have.
All I want for this thread is to understand why these people are appearing on my phone.
Original file attached to this post.
Will upload the other images in next post
Screenshots from S3:
Pre render: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3850jwd6mfikyg/2014-09-17 18.38.08.png?dl=0
Rendered: https://www.dropbox.com/s/odofk5ud3d4x9ph/2014-09-17 18.32.56.png?dl=0
Ok so I have a theory. I bought the phone used. I formatted all storage before use, but this might be some resilient file that got caught by Dropbox and is now corrupted because it was supposed to be deleted. What I think is strange is that I never saw the picture on my phone or in my Dropbox before yesterday. Yet the date for the file is dated back in 2011. Both capture date and upload date. The meta data (AFAIK) in the original file says the image has been captured with the s3 as a photo, not a screenshot. Not sure if I want to settle with my own logic here...
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Whenever I transfer my photos to my pc from the device, it asks if i want to overwrite some i already have. This seems down to the phone creating file names in the same order at all times, rather than say - naming a photo by it's date.
How can I change the way file names are saved/created in the camera app, at present I'm having to give each photo a name so as not to loose any in the process of saving them to my desktop.
Renz
I would say some more input about what you do exactly would be helpful so I'm just guessing that by transfer you mean moving the photo files off the phone and new pictures start again with DSC_0001.JPG. To prevent this keep the last photo (with the highest number in the filename) on your phone to avoid that the next photo starts with 1 again.
I use "DSC Auto Rename" from the play store. Install it, activate it and you can set it to automatically name files by date and time. It runs in the background and works perfectly
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Hi,
I'm new to Android programming and I want to automate a process in an LG phone (Android 5.1.1) with the Automate app. I want it to take a picture at a set time of day and send it by email to a recipient. I have it running ok, just without image file attached because the app expects an absolute file name for the attachment. The problem is that the camera uses the date and time as the filename which of course changes with each image. Is there a way to use a wildcard like 'DCIM/Camera/IMG_*' (btw this doesn't work) to select the just created file which is deleted after the email is sent. So there is only ever the new file that should attach to the next email in this folder when the flow runs, but always with a new filename. I've tried various versions that I found online like GLOB'[IMG_]*' and 'IMG_#' but it always errors with 'NoSuchFile'...
Another way would be if I could give each new image file the same name, that would eliminate deleting the just sent file because it would overwrite the old one and I could set an absolute filename for the attachment in the email template. But i have not found a camera app that allows me to define the filename nor a way to automatically change the name of the saved file.
The other thing I'd like to do is insert the current date and time as the subject line. Here too I have tried various versions that I've found like =DateTime() which either just display the code in the email when I put them in " " (I guess as they should) or error already when I try to save them in the app.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Regards,
Jimmy