Thought I would warn a few fellow wp7 users about this one I just tripped over:
It’s to do with renaming your phone and Losing ALL your photos synced on your PC
Steps
1) Set up your phone for the first time with name test1 on Zune
2) take some pics
3) sync with zune
4) check you now have c:\users\(username)\pictures\From test1\camera roll\
5) Reset phone
6) Set up your phone on Zune and name it test2
7) take some pics
8) sync with zune
9) check you now have c:\users\(username)\pictures\From test2\camera roll\
10) now rename your phone to Test1
all your photos you had stored in folder Test2 are deleted without notice.
My entire collection was deleted yesterday when I renamed my phone to an older name that already existed in my pictures folder. Fortunately I use Home server to back up so I had everything on back up.
nice bug though and will make a few ppl cry when they lose every picture they ever took,
I'm not sure if this happends in previous versions of zune.
Boysie
Werent the pictures still on your phone and transferred to the new folder?
Sounds like it recognises that youve wiped your phone and thus wipes what it has.
But either way, it should prompt you that its about to delete photos
efjay said:
Werent the pictures still on your phone and transferred to the new folder?
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And if they are not?
If you're like me you phone has been reset a few times and then lots of pictures and a few diffrent names used.
then one day you relise you can rename your phone and doing so deletes the pictures with out prompting on your PC irelevent if the phone has any or none!
Not a good situation to find your self in.
Obviously the only story is backups from there on and not every one does this, in my case I was lucky
Thoses less computer savy wont even know whats happened to their pics as they simply disapear!!
This one just bit me
In a perfect storm of circumstance, I just lost every picture I had taken on my HTC Titan I got in November, mostly pics of my now 9 month old son.
I was able to recover some files using Recuva software but none of the pics will open (aparently corrupted) even though recovery prognosis was listed as "excellent".
I am not happy...
beggehorn said:
In a perfect storm of circumstance, I just lost every picture I had taken on my HTC Titan I got in November, mostly pics of my now 9 month old son.
I was able to recover some files using Recuva software but none of the pics will open (aparently corrupted) even though recovery prognosis was listed as "excellent".
I am not happy...
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Did you not allow them to sync to your computer or with SkyDrive?
Volume Shadow Copies, people. Best resore/undelete-type feature available for Windows that I know of, yet so few people seem to use it.
Right-click the folder that should have the files, and select the Previous Versions option. Works on NT 5.2 up (Server 2003, Vista/Server 2008, Win7/Server 2008 R2, and I think also on Win8). Requires that VSC (which are created at part of the System Restore feature) be set to create for personal files (not jsut system files), and the Windows Service for them not be disabled.
Saved my butt multiple times.
This questions may apply to all Android devices now, not just Sony: When I take a picture on a Z3, what file name will the phone give it? Is it possible to change the format? I returned my Z3 due to dissatisfaction with the camera so that's why I'm asking you guys.
When I moved photos from my Z3 to my computer, they appeared in the format "DSC_nnnn.jpg" For example, DSC_0024.jpg, which I presume was the 24th photo I took with the phone. Suppose I saved this photo onto my computer and deleted it from my phone. Will the next photo I take end in 0024 or 0025? Because if I try to move this new image into my computer, it may overwrite the previous image if the number is updated.
The reason why I'm asking this question is that on my first smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Infuse, the photos were time stamped like a traditional camera so I didn't have to worry about overwriting images.
Thanks
Hello,
since Android 6 on my SGS7 i have a strange problem: Dropbox uploades some ot the images/videos again und again.
I installed a md5sum-app and something on the smartphone makes changes to the images from time to time. Sometimes there are changes on metadata, sometimes the content of the file changes too.
Then i have 2 picture on my computer in the dropbox camera-upload-older. For example: "xxx.jpg" and "xxx-1.jpg" up to "xxx-7.jpg" for older images.
This happens after viewing pictures or after turning the phone on (its turned off (shutdown) while i am working), also when i didnt view photos on the phone.
i use google photo viewer and samsung stock gallery app.
A reset and complete new start with the phone didnt help. I didnt notice this on SGS4 to SGS6.
Has someone an idea, how i can prevent changes on my images on the phone?
Best regards, A.
Hi Friends,
I went on an expedition recently and took a lot of photos & videos from my Google Pixel Build Number 7.1.1
I received (OTA) a security patch update of 97.4 MB on my return.
It seems after the update the photos from 8th Feb till 9th Feb got lost (videos are there).
I've spent 3 hours with google support without luck. It seems to me they are just hidden somwhere and not deleted as the BIN/TRASH is clean too.
Appreciate all you support as the photos are precious memories.
Cheers.
Have you have already checked online for copies? I think it asks which settings to use on setup, and the default may be to backup photos to the cloud and make space by removing items. I have the removal shut off on my phone, yet I left photo backup on, and it tends to ask if the photos haven't been backed up online. Your post doesn't say anything about shutting off the typical online photo backup, so that's where I would start.
If you don't have an online backup and the photos have been deleted, then I would figure some sort of data recovery would be another option. I've never used it, but DiskDigger Photo Recovery is one app that shows up in searches and doesn't seem to require root. Any sort of writing files to the phone, like installing an app, can potentially overwrite deleted files. Since support should know about the typical online backup of photos, I figure using some sort of data recovery software would be the next thing to try if you don't have a backup.
Yup noticed some videos missing
Got these questions if anyone can answer or even facing themselves please
Slow in loading the gallery - scrolling through the list and the pictures load pixellated and take some time to load and sometimes the thumbnails wont even come up
Edited a video of 39 secs (90mb) to 14 secs (108mb) - WTF?? I took a video with P7P which was 39 seconds and the size was 90MB. Then I edited the video cut it to 14 seconds and now the size of the video shows up as 108MB
Sometimes the double tap to wake doesn’t work
Video - zoom switching is laggy [This is known issue across the OEM]
Call quality is weird and screwed up for half of the calls I am making
Battery is not that great (How to check SOT?)
Inability to organise apps into folders in the Apps screen. OR to sort them etc: I miss this on Samsung devices etc, cant even sort them.....WHYYY?
Sometimes when I press TALK button on my Subaru and ask “Call a person” it doesn’t work - Android auto is really finicky
Gallery/Photos app: So I organise photos into folders. And I moved my photos from one device to P7P and I put all the folders into the DCIM folder. Now when I open the Photos app all these photos are shown under Camera
And maybe my issue...?
Issue with Material You color setting?
There is someting weird with my color settings. As we know, in Android 13, the system will pick color-sets automatically when you changed background image. I find that if i pick color-sets by myself, not the system selected color-set, when the...
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Would you please confirm that? Thank you
phsetaknev said:
Got these questions if anyone can answer or even facing themselves please
Slow in loading the gallery - scrolling through the list and the pictures load pixellated and take some time to load and sometimes the thumbnails wont even come up
Edited a video of 39 secs (90mb) to 14 secs (108mb) - WTF?? I took a video with P7P which was 39 seconds and the size was 90MB. Then I edited the video cut it to 14 seconds and now the size of the video shows up as 108MB
Sometimes the double tap to wake doesn’t work
Video - zoom switching is laggy [This is known issue across the OEM]
Call quality is weird and screwed up for half of the calls I am making
Battery is not that great (How to check SOT?)
Inability to organise apps into folders in the Apps screen. OR to sort them etc: I miss this on Samsung devices etc, cant even sort them.....WHYYY?
Sometimes when I press TALK button on my Subaru and ask “Call a person” it doesn’t work - Android auto is really finicky
Gallery/Photos app: So I organise photos into folders. And I moved my photos from one device to P7P and I put all the folders into the DCIM folder. Now when I open the Photos app all these photos are shown under Camera
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Are you running the stable Android 13 or the QPR beta ? The latter solved many of the mentionned bugs.
dexlemaffo said:
Are you running the stable Android 13 or the QPR beta ? The latter solved many of the mentionned bugs.
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Oww, Im running the stable 13. Got the device a week ago! Just enrolled into the beta program. Will try and see. Thanks
You need to create a folder outside of DCIM for them to show as individual folders in the gallery.
Paz9 said:
You need to create a folder outside of DCIM for them to show as individual folders in the gallery.
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Oh yeah thought of that too! But I got like 20 folders lol, I know I wont often look at the "Files" but yeah something to try. Also there is a folder called PICTURES and my folders were there before and I moved them to DCIM because when I am trying to share something to Instagram I cant see those folders on the IG app. That was the main reason behind the idea to move these folders into DCIM.
But I will try and move these folders outside of DCIM (but wont put them inside Pictures folder). Thanks mate!
Paz9 said:
You need to create a folder outside of DCIM for them to show as individual folders in the gallery.
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Aah its still the same! Anyway I just moved everything back to Pictures folder anyway. Also I am on the latest Beta build and still got these errors related to editing a video (rotating and saving a video errors out) and Gallery loading etc. Sometimes the thumbnails wont even show up
Got these questions if anyone can answer or even facing themselves please
Slow in loading the gallery - scrolling through the list and the pictures load pixellated and take some time to load and sometimes the thumbnails wont even come up
It's not present in my case - (QPR 3.1 November). My it's the issue with mixed pictures from your own reposity and Google Photos / taken pictures by 7Pro?
Edited a video of 39 secs (90mb) to 14 secs (108mb) - WTF?? I took a video with P7P which was 39 seconds and the size was 90MB. Then I edited the video cut it to 14 seconds and now the size of the video shows up as 108MB
No idea - maybe it's trying to save in better quality that it already is?
Sometimes the double tap to wake doesn’t work
Got similar problem - especially when Face Unlock with option to skip lockscreen is enabled.
Video - zoom switching is laggy [This is known issue across the OEM]
Still present in 3.1 in my case
Call quality is weird and screwed up for half of the calls I am making
Can't complain. Mine are loud and clear - even with loud speaker.
Battery is not that great (How to check SOT?)
It's been good for me - 8,5 hrs SOT with approx. 35-40 hrs of standby. Both on stable 13 and QPR (2, 3 and now on 3,1 looks similar)
Inability to organise apps into folders in the Apps screen. OR to sort them etc: I miss this on Samsung devices etc, cant even sort them.....WHYYY?
I don't use folders, but agree - pixel launcher is ****ty as f*ck. I use Nova Launcher most of the time - folders do work there.
Sometimes when I press TALK button on my Subaru and ask “Call a person” it doesn’t work - Android auto is really finicky
No opinion.
Gallery/Photos app: So I organise photos into folders. And I moved my photos from one device to P7P and I put all the folders into the DCIM folder. Now when I open the Photos app all these photos are shown under Camera
Why not backed up in Google Photos cloud? It works great for me - sync between devices, web etc.
after the last update (today 8november) i noticed something that could be a new bug (i hope): in the stock camera app i use the level to measure the tilt. it worked great but after the update that level is tilted about 3-4°: i.e. i was taking a photo of the horizon on the sea (leveled through the grid) and the level measure 3 or 4° of tilt
I probably have nowhere near the amount of photos as you, and based on what I read, I'm guessing they're local photos, but the gallery thing could be solved by just getting a new gallery app rather than Photos. QuickPic was the go-to back in the day before they sold to another company. When that happened, I found Piktures to be a fast and pretty alternative. There might've also been a modded QuickPic app on XDA. Not sure on that since I just use Photos.
Battery and call quality, I can't complain. Battery is all dependent on the user, so there's always that.
Sometimes the double tap to wake doesn’t work
Now this here works flawlessly with out a case, but I found it easier to double tap near the camera bar. It seems to activate more when it's up higher.
piotrkruczek said:
Got these questions if anyone can answer or even facing themselves please
Slow in loading the gallery - scrolling through the list and the pictures load pixellated and take some time to load and sometimes the thumbnails wont even come up
It's not present in my case - (QPR 3.1 November). My it's the issue with mixed pictures from your own reposity and Google Photos / taken pictures by 7Pro?
Edited a video of 39 secs (90mb) to 14 secs (108mb) - WTF?? I took a video with P7P which was 39 seconds and the size was 90MB. Then I edited the video cut it to 14 seconds and now the size of the video shows up as 108MB
No idea - maybe it's trying to save in better quality that it already is?
Sometimes the double tap to wake doesn’t work
Got similar problem - especially when Face Unlock with option to skip lockscreen is enabled.
Video - zoom switching is laggy [This is known issue across the OEM]
Still present in 3.1 in my case
Call quality is weird and screwed up for half of the calls I am making
Can't complain. Mine are loud and clear - even with loud speaker.
Battery is not that great (How to check SOT?)
It's been good for me - 8,5 hrs SOT with approx. 35-40 hrs of standby. Both on stable 13 and QPR (2, 3 and now on 3,1 looks similar)
Inability to organise apps into folders in the Apps screen. OR to sort them etc: I miss this on Samsung devices etc, cant even sort them.....WHYYY?
I don't use folders, but agree - pixel launcher is ****ty as f*ck. I use Nova Launcher most of the time - folders do work there.
Sometimes when I press TALK button on my Subaru and ask “Call a person” it doesn’t work - Android auto is really finicky
No opinion.
Gallery/Photos app: So I organise photos into folders. And I moved my photos from one device to P7P and I put all the folders into the DCIM folder. Now when I open the Photos app all these photos are shown under Camera
Why not backed up in Google Photos cloud? It works great for me - sync between devices, web etc.
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Thanks for the reply mate
Yeah My gallery consists of photos taken by Samsung, Apple and this phone too. Even in the beta its all pixellated.
Also I found another issue with IG app when I am trying to upload videos to my feed. Selecting multiple photos option and selecting pictures works fine, but videos wont get selected. These videos are taken through the phone too. Support team says to update the app but still the same. Cleared cache, re-installed and done everything, but still the same.
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I probably have nowhere near the amount of photos as you, and based on what I read, I'm guessing they're local photos, but the gallery thing could be solved by just getting a new gallery app rather than Photos. QuickPic was the go-to back in the day before they sold to another company. When that happened, I found Piktures to be a fast and pretty alternative. There might've also been a modded QuickPic app on XDA. Not sure on that since I just use Photos.
Battery and call quality, I can't complain. Battery is all dependent on the user, so there's always that.
Sometimes the double tap to wake doesn’t work
Now this here works flawlessly with out a case, but I found it easier to double tap near the camera bar. It seems to activate more when it's up higher.
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Yeah I am thinking to root the phone soon. But a little bit worried about all these cyber attacks happening in Australia now. But Ill try the 3rd party apps, obvio I prefer if the native app has that option but cant do anything now
The slide to type on Gboard is not working instantaneously when typing messages from notifications (such as whatsapp).