Hi,
I have a HTC Touch Cruise 09 (default ROM) and it has been working fine for over 10 months now. But today I rebooted it, because it was responding very slowly to my input and after restarting, it showed me the inital configuration setup (align the screen for the stylus, setup for the provider, etc...)
It showed me the default theme, so it apparently has created a new windows profile for me. I looked at the folder structure using the file explorer (all my installed programs weren't available anymore) and saw the problem. The system folders like "Documents and Settings" were called "D0cpmen4q and Sdptans" or something like that.
Using ActiveSync it was possible to access these folders from my Windows PC, but the folders seem to be empty. Luckily I have most of my personal files stored on the storage card and I still see these files, but cannot copy them. On the PC the folder names include these block characters which are shown, when the original characters aren't available in that font. Something messed up the names of the folders.
Is there a possibility to change the names back to the original ones, so they can replace the newly created folders? I don't want to reconfigure the phone, which took me months. Or can I at least access the files on the storage card?
Apparently, this is not a very common error.
Can anyone tell me, how I can access the files on the device from my PC without ActiveSync (through Windows Explorer)? Is there an app, with which I can change the folder names?
I'm on a verizon Galaxy S3.
How can I access through USB images I have edited and saved with snapseed? I can find them in the snapseed folder under gallery on the phone, but when I plug my phone in via USB and select MTP or PTP, there is no snapseed folder, and I can't find the photos when searching by their file name. I have no way of downloading these edited images to my pc. I'd like to be able to make prints and backup my images, and don't want to individually email them to myself. Where are the images going?
Note: I can easily find images edited through instagram, and the original .jpgs, it's the snapseed images that are missing when connected through usb and browsing on my PC.
I am using a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 running Android 4.4.4 (Kitkat). I was used to synchronizing files and photos between my phone and PC using SyncMe Wireless from bvaisoft (available from Google Play store). SyncMe Wireless was able to only send new photos from my device to the PC and update any file modified after the last sync from my PC to my device over Wifi very quickly. Since Kitkat I was not able to use this app because of loss of write access to the SD card. Files could not be synchronized between PC and device. Developer has also given up – ‘Devices with Android 4.4.2 update do not have write permission for external sd card. Nothing I can do about it' .
I discovered a workaround for this which may not be perfect but gives back some of the lost features :victory:. I will not go into the basics of using the app or sharing Windows folders over the network. This is only to show that two way sync over Wifi to SD card running Kitkat without Root is still possible.
First move the app (SyncMe Wireless) to the SD card. Share the PC folder you would like to synchronize with your device using Windows sharing features. Open the app and add computer – it will search your Wifi network for available computers. After successfully accessing your computer tap on the computer name and select ‘add sync folder’. You need to define a folder on the PC and a folder on the device to start synchronizing. The app offers excellent options from copying only to device, copying only to PC or for two way synchronizing. All folders shared on the network on your PC should be available on the app. The tricky part is defining device folder. Select ‘device folder’ and browse to storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.bv.wifisync and select com.bv.wifisync as the device folder. This is the app folder now located on your external SD card for which the app still has write access to. You can create and select subfolders within the com.bv.wifisync to sort the files you want to synchronize between your PC (e.g., storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.bv.wifisync/myfiles). Now within minutes I can sync a folder on my PC with a defined specific folder on my SD card. True that you can’t write to anywhere on the SD card but this has given me a lot of freedom while running Kitkat :angel:.
Is it possible to get google photos to backup photos from a USB OTG folder without having to copy the pictures on the phone?
I did some searching and saw some suggestions for FolderSync. The problem with the app is that I can't browse to the USB OTG folder.
Thank you
If Pixel recognizes the USB OTG as a folder to upload photos. Pixel asks your permission to upload photos from when it sees a new folder with photos.
That's my issue.
The Pixel doesn't recognize the USB OTG as a folder to upload photos. I Tried putting photos in the USB drive's root and in subfolders, as well as telling android to use it for Transfering file or photos, but I never get the notification for automatic uploads, and google photos "Device folders" section doesn't show me the USB OTG.
Due to that, I am wondering if there is some way to get it to recognize that folder as a photos folder.
Have you found any answer or workaround?
sirakoz said:
That's my issue.
The Pixel doesn't recognize the USB OTG as a folder to upload photos. I Tried putting photos in the USB drive's root and in subfolders, as well as telling android to use it for Transfering file or photos, but I never get the notification for automatic uploads, and google photos "Device folders" section doesn't show me the USB OTG.
Due to that, I am wondering if there is some way to get it to recognize that folder as a photos folder.
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What kind of automatic uploads are you trying? Folder sync? Anything with Tasker?
I too am having this issue. I can open the photo on the USB drive in Google Photos and view it, but it won't allow me to backup the USB drive directly. It appears the only way to backup using Google Photos is to copy the photos to the internal storage and let Photos back them up. The issue I have with this is I am using an original Pixel and it doesn't have a let of internal storage, so I have to do it in many manual steps, copying, letting Photos backup the images, and then deleting backed up images from internal storage, then repeating for the next batch of photos that will fit in internal storage. It is kind of painful if you have a lot of photos to backup.
Greetings All,
I would like to find a way to more easily use my Original Pixel to back up my photos when they come in large batches. For example, I go on a trip and come back with 256 GB of photos that I would like to back up. I can copy them in 16 GB bunches, and then use the option in Google Photos to "Free up space", and do that over and over again, but it is a bit tedious. I would like to automate this a bit better. It would help if I could get Google Photos to automatically delete the photo after it uploaded it to the cloud. This feature is available in Android S (12) in Google Files, but not available in Android 10. I haven't been able to find an Android 12 ROM yet, and nothing after Android 10 is officially supported for the Pixel 1. This feature would allow me to automate this backup I think, but getting the automatic deletion still illudes me. Ideas would be appreciated.
Trying to do the same here and looking for a way to mount usb storage as internal. Anyone done this successfully?
I think this just recently started happening but why does my Note8 keep creating a folder called Android in both my internal and SD card? In that folder are a ton of other folders. Basically one for each app on the phone. Anything I download on Chrome, goes to the com.android.chrome folder. Camera pics go to the camera folder. Amazon Mp3s go to amazonmp3 folder and so on. I don't want these things in these folders. Any Chrome downloads or camera pics don't show up in my gallery when they go to the android folder. I have to move them from that folder into another before I can see them in gallery. I removed everything, and deleted the 2 folders but when I restart my phone, they reappear and everything starts downloading to those folders again!! How can I stop this?