Hey, this might be a linux question, but I hate it when I move all my photos from the internal storage to a microSD, they get the new current date and time stamp as the file creation date.
This is undesirable as some Gallery (picture review) apps will organize them thinking they were all taken at the same date.
Is there any solution or workaround to this?
I know there's an app (File Timestamp by PogSoft) that "touches" these date and time by looking at EXIF data from the photos but it requires root, and I can't root my phone because I need to use SamsungPay.
I have a Verizon Galaxy S7 Edge by the way, and I store all my photos to the internal storage.
QuickPic Gallery has Fix date feature but that doesn't work on every phone. On Sony it works and if I remember correctly it used to work with my old Samsung Galaxy S2. Don't know about S7.
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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.
Hello,
due to my own stupidity I completely wiped my S7 a few days ago.
To my surprise Samsung Cloud had backed up my whole gallery which I'm so happy for.
My problem now is, how do I download those pictures to my phone?
The only way I found is if I select every picture manually and then choose download from the menu but that would take way too long for 10Gb of pictures.
Is there a way to download the whole gallery in one take?
Thank You
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.
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Hi,
I just got a new S22 running android 12. I'm moving the photos from the microSD card in the S10e (of course they removed the SD card slot in the S22) to the S22. I did it first using SmartSwitch but it changed all the Modified dates to today. So then i tried zipping the files, moving the zip to the S22 and unzipping it using Files app from Google. Again it changed the dates to today even though inside the zip file the dates were all correct. Any ideas here how to maintain time/date stamps?
Thanks,
Albert
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How to Transfer Photos between Android Devices Without Losing Timestamps
If you like to keep your photos organized by the date they were taken, you may encounter an annoying issue regarding dates. Specifically, the timestamps
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Important: Instructions on how to force google photos to reindex your library and show all information properly can be found at the end.
Google photos is a notoriously broken app on android due to its oversimplification of various processes, such as no manual photo scan feature, no duplicates remover, and a lack of proper EXIF metadata enforcement. I don't know if it's the same on other brands of phones, so I'm posting this here, but hopefully this will find well the power users of google photos.
I have a large library of photos from my various travels over the past few years using smartphones. (I really only started taking pictures seriously in 2020) My library amounts to 3072 photos and videos, or 57GB. This isn't nearly as much as people who've been taking pictures for longer, and especially professional photographers, but it does pose a challenge for indexing. Google photos is not a program I perceive to be designed for the power user, which in this case I am. Because of this it's very easy to confuse it. Simply removing your microSD card, adding pictures to it, and reinserting it into the phone can cause google photos to scatter your photos and videos across different days, meaning that pictures from any given day will be scattered across multiple, this is first seen when pictures you've taken on the day of transferring show under the "Yesterday" heading, despite showing the proper date under the information tab. Included are some screenshots with a demonstration of this. (These screenshots were taken on March 13th, 2023)
I've spent around 3 hours last night (March 13th, 2023) and today (March 14th, 2023) attempting to solve the problem, and have come up with a temporary solution. If this issue happens to you, here are the steps to solve it (if your photos are on your internal storage, you'll have to copy them off your phone, delete the folder, and re add them instead of the SD card procedure.)
1. After removing your SD card from your phone to transfer files, either uninstall and reinstall google photos, or clear the app data.
2. Set up google photos as normal. Turn on backup.
3. Transfer the photos and videos you'd like to onto your SD card.
4. Insert the SD card into your phone and restart the phone (On the LG V60 this is required to recognize the SD card after it is ejected or removed. The SIM card is hot swappable, the MicroSD card is not. If you require hot swappable SD cards, consider purchasing a USB-C reader)
5. Wait for google photos to index the contents of the memory card. It may take up to 3 hours depending on the speed of your SD card and the number of photos and videos you have.
6. Check for duplicates. Sometimes google photos will misinterpret the data and re upload it, causing a duplicate to form. This may be more likely to happen if any of your photos are:
• Lacking EXIF metadata.
• Are stored in the HEIC format.
• Already have duplicates - it's more likely to form more.
• Have non-standard file names.
7. Your photo library should be indexed properly now. Scroll through your library and check if it's recognized all photos in google photos as also being stored on your device. If this isn't the case, you may want to let it process your photos for another hour or so.
If anyone has found a more reliable way to do this, feel free to share! I'm hoping this will help anybody struggling with Google photos formatting.