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Ram Dump Files?

Whenever I connect my TF to my computer and browse the internal storage I see many many log files starting with ramdumpXXX.log. Any ideas as to what these are? Are they indicative of a problem?
Thanks!
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Same issue here, except I noticed it with the built-in file browser.

Yes they appear when your transformer does a random reboot when idle, like all of them seem to do, you just may not have seen it happen

tackyjan said:
Whenever I connect my TF to my computer and browse the internal storage I see many many log files starting with ramdumpXXX.log. Any ideas as to what these are? Are they indicative of a problem?
Thanks!
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I have the same issue, but I only have 2 of the ram dump files

Got the same issue. TF just restarts at random. When I open these logs, there is some verbose output, then some numbers (memory data?) and an error, mine says "kernel panic". Did not have this issue in the very beginning, but recenly it became quite annoying.

19 of them here. At 128KB each, that's at least 2MB wasted... can they safely be deleted?
Interestingly, the number per day varies wildly. Quite a few days don't have any, but others have loads:
06-13: 2 logs
06-14: 5 logs
06-15: Nothing
06-17: 1 log
06-18: 2 logs
06-19 to 06-22: Nothing
06-23: 7 logs
06-24: 1 log
06-25: 1 log
06-26 to 06-29: Nothing

What firmware are you using ? I use 1.5 PRIME and don't have a single log file.

aligatro2010 said:
What firmware are you using ? I use 1.5 PRIME and don't have a single log file.
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Stock 3.1.

aligatro2010 said:
What firmware are you using ? I use 1.5 PRIME and don't have a single log file.
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Same here.

knoxploration said:
19 of them here. At 128KB each, that's at least 2MB wasted... can they safely be deleted?
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They are just logs. Open them with a text editor and see. Problem is not with logs, but in that they are caused by spontaneous reboots, at least in my case. Today the pad kept rebooting every 15 minutes, at which point I simply restored factory settings. So far so good, but the stability of this outcome remains to be seen.

You can safely delete the logs.

Any solution for spontaneous reboots
Thanksss!!!!!

ebedav said:
Any solution for spontaneous reboots
Thanksss!!!!!
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Mine would do it multiple times a day, then I found if I took out my SD card from the dock it would quit, so I sent that back for refund and got a microSD for the tab and it hasn't done it since.

The random reboots, for the most part, are caused by the SD card in the keyboard dock. Remove that and it'll go away.

I'm rooted and I've noticed them also. Log files are useful and take up little space, but I absolutely hate it when tons of them are created, why can't they just append the info to the same log file?

brando56894 said:
I'm rooted and I've noticed them also. Log files are useful and take up little space, but I absolutely hate it when tons of them are created, why can't they just append the info to the same log file?
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Haven't had a new ram dump since July 6th. I have a feeling they fixed it in the 84411 OTA update.
Also regularly leave an SD card in my dock, and have never seen a random reboot. Most I've been getting lately is occasional browser crashes with no error / FC dialog.

I'm getting one every night, usually when the TF has been sleeping for a few hours.
I've had varying degrees of success with different ROMs, and sometimes the problems go away for over a week+, and then come back for unknown reason, could be a new app install?
I'm currently on the latest prime rom.
Does anyone know why they do this (I never leave it docked but I do have a microsd card in the tablet), I've heard that it could be a faulty RAM issue, but it seems to be happening on a lot of tablets, including my partners b70 she just bought!
Seems that no one really knows why, and I'd hate to rma only to find that it still happens when I get it back.
Anyone?

Google photos help !

Hi all
I have an issue with google photos that is doing my head in. Basically when i take a batch of photos i then, when home switch on auto backup and they upload to google photos (great thats what i want !) i can then move them on google photos into albums and view these on all of my nexus devices through the gallery app.
Again all is great apart from one thing, when i go into the gallery app on say my nexus 5, all my photos are there in the albums etc, however i have one album thats called "auto backup" it has about 46 photos all of which appear in other albums but i cant no matter what i do get rid of this one album.
I have signed into google plus on pc and this album does not exist on there for me to delete. I have googled the problem and all the answers tell me to go into google settings and un sync google photos completely. I don't want this i just want this one album to vanish.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Chris

Edit:
Ok i saw that the auto-backup folder holds all the pictures that were backuped from any mobile device from the same account. You cannot delete that folder, as its not really a folder in the original sense. I think its just a "link" to a collection of all automatically backuped pictures. But since these pictures are all in different folders, if you would delete that "folder" the pics would also be deleted in your real folders/albums.
I hope this makes sense for you
So the folder you want to delete is no folder, only a shortcut to see all backuped pics that now are in various other albums.

Saenchai said:
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Ok i saw that the auto-backup folder holds all the pictures that were backuped from any mobile device from the same account. You cannot delete that folder, as its not really a folder in the original sense. I think its just a "link" to a collection of all automatically backuped pictures. But since these pictures are all in different folders, if you would delete that "folder" the pics would also be deleted in your real folders/albums.
I hope this makes sense for you
So the folder you want to delete is no folder, only a shortcut to see all backuped pics that now are in various other albums.
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Thanks that does make perfect sense however I autobacked up 20 pictures today and they did not go into the auto backup folder.?

chrisnewton said:
Thanks that does make perfect sense however I autobacked up 20 pictures today and they did not go into the auto backup folder.?
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Yeah, i nearly was afraid of this
Its so difficult for me to tell...i just have too many pics. But before i answered with my last post i double checked on my 2 Nexus devices (5 & 7) and i really looked that way. But with 3000 and more pics its not easy to tell if its exactly that pics.
But ill also recheck this because i also want to know how exactly this photobackup works...
What i also wonder about is why there are all the various backup-options there, i also asked it here a while ago but no answer yet. What i mean is this:
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Another backup option (Google+ Photo backup) follows if you scroll down on that screen on phone.

Saenchai said:
Yeah, i nearly was afraid of this
Its so difficult for me to tell...i just have too many pics. But before i answered with my last post i double checked on my 2 Nexus devices (5 & 7) and i really looked that way. But with 3000 and more pics its not easy to tell if its exactly that pics.
But ill also recheck this because i also want to know how exactly this photobackup works...
What i also wonder about is why there are all the various backup-options there, i also asked it here a while ago but no answer yet. What i mean is this:
Another backup option (Google+ Photo backup) follows if you scroll down on that screen on phone.
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I'm sorry I can not see the pic you posted?

Not sure why, i can see it even in your quote. Anyway, heres the link to it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6v6eUDtF-P9QkZyMWwzazF3VHM/edit?usp=sharing

Saenchai said:
Not sure why, i can see it even in your quote. Anyway, heres the link to it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6v6eUDtF-P9QkZyMWwzazF3VHM/edit?usp=sharing
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Thanks if I untick them boxes will it get rid of all my albums?

Not all albums/folders showing in Google Photos app?

Hello,
My Google Photos app is only showing the photos taken with the pixel camera in its gallery. If I swipe right, I can choose "Device Folders" and this lets me see photos I've posted from Instagram and any screenshots I've taken. The photos I've downloaded from Chrome or from Facebook are nowhere to be found in the Photos app. Any help? I want to stay away from thrid party photo/gallery apps. Anyone know how to add device folders to the Photos app? I have root btw.

MrBaltazar said:
Hello,
My Google Photos app is only showing the photos taken with the pixel camera in its gallery. If I swipe right, I can choose "Device Folders" and this lets me see photos I've posted from Instagram and any screenshots I've taken. The photos I've downloaded from Chrome or from Facebook are nowhere to be found in the Photos app. Any help? I want to stay away from thrid party photo/gallery apps. Anyone know how to add device folders to the Photos app? I have root btw.
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Photos shows images that are synced or waiting to be synced to the cloud. You'll need to enable cloud backup for those folders.
Here are instructions from Photos help screen.
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quangtran1 said:
Photos shows images that are synced or waiting to be synced to the cloud. You'll need to enable cloud backup for those folders.
Here are instructions from Photos help screen.
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The folders I want aren't showing up in the list of device folders, so I can't click a cloud icon. That's my issue

MrBaltazar said:
The folders I want aren't showing up in the list of device folders, so I can't click a cloud icon. That's my issue
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They would have to be. My saved Twitter images go to the Twitter folder. The screenshots go to Screenshots. Chrome downloads go to the Download folder. Facebook downloads go to Camera.

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They would have to be. My saved Twitter images go to the Twitter folder. The screenshots go to Screenshots. Chrome downloads go to the Download folder. Facebook downloads go to Camera.
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I only have "Camera" "Instagram" and "Screenshots". No other folders are showing

Please understand because I have this same problem. When I download a picture from Facebook it is no in Google photos. NO folder for Facebook is listed. It is NOT in the camera folder.

Usually, if you have images from Facebook or Screenshots they are stored in their respective folders inside of the pictures directory. As mentioned above, in Photos, if you tap on the 3 lines on the upper left of the screen and choose "Device folders" it will show you all images stored locally on your phone. If you suspect Photos is not behaving correctly, you can use the Downloads app to also see images stored on your phone.
Simply launch the app called Downloads. Tap the 3 lines in the upper left (if the menu doesn't open automatically) and choose Images. That will also show all the folders with images on your phone.

This happened to me too. I tried downloading some high resolution images sent to me via email, and although they showed up in my Downloads folder, nothing I did would make them show up in my actual Photos app (under Device Folders or otherwise). If you go to Downloads folder multi-select the photos you want, and click the 3 dots in upper-right, it lets you choose "Upload to Photos" as an option. Though it makes you choose an "Account" (where my gmail address shows). You'd think this would work (since the Photos app logo is alleged where you're 'uploading' these photos to), but this didn't work for me either! Anyone else have any luck? I don't want to take 'screenshots' of these high-res photos as I feel it will reduce the photo quality. Please help!

AZTX said:
Usually, if you have images from Facebook or Screenshots they are stored in their respective folders inside of the pictures directory. As mentioned above, in Photos, if you tap on the 3 lines on the upper left of the screen and choose "Device folders" it will show you all images stored locally on your phone. If you suspect Photos is not behaving correctly, you can use the Downloads app to also see images stored on your phone.
Simply launch the app called Downloads. Tap the 3 lines in the upper left (if the menu doesn't open automatically) and choose Images. That will also show all the folders with images on your phone.
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Same problem on a OnePlus One running Slim7. When I open the Downloads app and select images or video, I get a message that says "Can't load content at the moment."
Any ideas?
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sconebranch said:
Same problem on a OnePlus One running Slim7. When I open the Downloads app and select images or video, I get a message that says "Can't load content at the moment."
Any ideas?
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Never mind. Cleared data in Download Manager and Media Storage and everything's back to normal.

MrBaltazar said:
The folders I want aren't showing up in the list of device folders, so I can't click a cloud icon. That's my issue
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it has to be in assistent: backing up folders of your choice

Pictures Date Order Issue

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

Can't copy my backup folder to PC

I have been racking my brain and can't for the life of me come up with a solution to my problem. I have the unlocked OP8 completely stock. All I want to do is copy my images from the phone to my Widows 10 PC. Something I have done with other phones in the past, shouldn't be a big deal, right? First I tried to simply plug my phone in, enable usb file transfer, and copy the files, and it seems to go like it's copying correctly until it is unable to copy files in "MyCollections" from when I tried to do some sorting of pictures that were from specific holidays or events. It will copy the DCIM folder fine.
My initial thought was that perhaps there was some kind of permissions complication since the collections were made with the oneplus gallery. So I used the OnePlus Switch app. I figured that since the app is made to make backups, it should be able to make a backup and then I simply copy that to my computer. Apparently that too is wrong and it fails to copy once it gets into the "MyCollections" folder.
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Please disregard the "New Folder" naming when I was initially copying the files over folder by folder. That folder was the date and I was trying to see if the files would copy before typing it all out. For the purpose of drag n drop it would be irrelevant.
In a last ditch Google search of ideas to try, I tried to use ADB in an administrator command prompt to copy the files with the command "adb pull /sdcard/opbackup" on my PC. Only to have that too fail
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pull: /sdcard/opbackup/MobileBackup/Data/2020-06-22-230448/Video/Pictures/MyCollections/Balloon Fest 2019 /VID_20190810_211137.mp4 -> ./MobileBackup/Data/2020-06-22-230448/Video/Pictures/MyCollections/Balloon Fest 2019 /VID_20190810_211137.mp4
cannot create '.\MobileBackup\Data\2020-06-22-230448\Video\Pictures\MyCollections\Balloon Fest 2019 \VID_20190810_211137.mp4': Not a directory
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I browsed to the video it was complaining about, opened it in VLC media player on my pc without a problem. I'm having this phone replaced, and for most of these pictures/videos I have no other places they are stored.
I really thought just copying the backup to my pc would solve my problem, but seems I can't actually determine what the real problem -is-. If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it. I have less than 24 hours before I have to either get the pictures copied, or lose them.

Hey there,
Please follow this:
1. setting
2. about phone -- tap build several times until "you are now a developer" comes up.
3. tap back arrow and go into systems.
4. tap developer options and scroll down an enable usb debugging and tap OK.
5. plug your phone and usb cable into your PC.
6. Pull down notiffication menu and tap on android system -- tap again and select file transfer.
7. Provided that all of your usb drivers are installed in your system, dialog box will come up and select your op8 -- open files.
I hope this helps provided that I understood your situation.

sameog said:
Hey there,
Please follow this:
1. setting
2. about phone -- tap build several times until "you are now a developer" comes up.
3. tap back arrow and go into systems.
4. tap developer options and scroll down an enable usb debugging and tap OK.
5. plug your phone and usb cable into your PC.
6. Pull down notiffication menu and tap on android system -- tap again and select file transfer.
7. Provided that all of your usb drivers are installed in your system, dialog box will come up and select your op8 -- open files.
I hope this helps provided that I understood your situation.
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Unfortunately the fact that I issued ADB commands to the phone would mean I had usb debugging enabled and it had the drivers installed correctly. The problem is not starting the copying of the pictures/videos, the problem is that it fails both using copy and paste like you described and even trying to use ADB to pull the whole backup folder from the phone that way. There seems to be some kind of complication that I used the gallery to create the groups of pictures "My Collections". It will copy the unsorted pictures and videos from the DCIM folder just fine. But there's close to 800 pictures I have sorted in the My Collections that for whatever reason, it won't let me copy no matter how I try.

SebringTech said:
Unfortunately the fact that I issued ADB commands to the phone would mean I had usb debugging enabled and it had the drivers installed correctly. The problem is not starting the copying of the pictures/videos, the problem is that it fails both using copy and paste like you described and even trying to use ADB to pull the whole backup folder from the phone that way. There seems to be some kind of complication that I used the gallery to create the groups of pictures "My Collections". It will copy the unsorted pictures and videos from the DCIM folder just fine. But there's close to 800 pictures I have sorted in the My Collections that for whatever reason, it won't let me copy no matter how I try.
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Aw hell.....
I don't suppose you could upload your collection to google drive or some cloud service first and do what you need to before you lose your data? Thoughts?

sameog said:
Aw hell.....
I don't suppose you could upload your collection to google drive or some cloud service first and do what you need to before you lose your data? Thoughts?
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Since I am about out of time I opted to copy what I can, and subscribe to a year of Google Plus to get plenty of cloud storage to back everything up. So most of my pics are copied. And what it wouldn't let me copy from the "My Collections" will be mixed in with all the other pics in the cloud. Figured the $20 /year wasn't a bad price to pay. Still would have preferred to keep them backed up locally - but I'll make do with what I can.

Hey, if you still having this issue I managed to fix it because same thing happened to me.
The issue is that some folders have space at the end of their names for some reason, if you look at your error - Balloon Fest 2019 . There is a space after 2019 - "Balloon Fest 2019 ". Just remove the space in the folder name and it should fix it. Do the same thing for any further errors.