When i connect x3 via USB to my win10 laptop, open DCIM>camera
all i see is ICONS
but when i transfer those pics to my desktop, yes of course they are all thumbnails.
Its only in the USB mode that all i see is icons.
Ive reset the folder option to view thumbnails (no luck)
In gallery/file manager on the x3 if I open as in using the phne, I see all the pics, videos etc in thumbnails.
Ive used Win photo viewer, Ifran, and now XN view.
The latter prog, DID start to show thumbnails and I thought ive cracked it, but later when i reconnect USB...nope all back to ICONS.
I have a lotta pics on my phone, yes Ive transferred them to my PC but i also want them to remain to show on my X3
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Apparently I'm cursed with Android phone. My last SGS suddenly erased half of itself and I ended up having to take it back to where I bought it from, and it turned out to be faulty.
Now I'm using a HTC Inspire 4G (Desire HD) with the stock 8Gb micro sd card.
I just wanted to see one of my videos in my gallery and the gallery was empty.
All I saw was were two folders: One was "All photos", with 3 photos and one had a blank name with 3 photos.
When I go into "All Photos", I see the 3 photos which are just placeholders. It looks like an icon for a photo - sort of like monochrome hills with a circle for the sun or something, with a little exclamation mark down the bottom right. That's all I see for the 3 photos. If I tap them, nothing happens. If I tap and hold, I can see its size, date, resolution is 0x0, but it can't seem to find the path of the image.
If I open up my DCIM folder in ES File Explorer, then I can browse to DCIM and some (not all) of my images (and none of my videos) are there. I can open the images in ES.
I have images/videos in other folders on my SD card, and some (not all) of the photos from those locations are present, and again no videos are there.
If I take a photo or make a video, that one photo/video will appear in the gallery and in the DCIM folder until the SD card mounts/unmounts (for example if I do it manually, or if I connect it to my PC as a mass storage device). Then, I can still see the photo in ES but not in gallery.
Additionally, my google latitude widget and google places widget on my far right home screen had error placeholders. I can't remember the exactly message but something like "this widget cannot be displayed". I deleted the widgets and re-added them and they seem to be ok now.
I'm running my HTC Inspire 4G (Desire HD) with Revolution 3.3 ROM. I have SetCPU and Llama profiles running persistently in the background.
Any idea why this happened? Is my media lost? Any program I can try to recover them? I had some things there which I would really have preferred to keep.
Thanks.
Okay, so in answer to my own question...
This issue has nothing to do with Revolution 4G ROM, nor with HTC.
Apparently the issue is that Google are douchebags who have known about this issue for almost two years and have done nothing about it.
To reproduce the problem:
First back up you SD card, just in case.
Create a new folder on you SD card... call it "test" or something, and dump some jpegs and videos there. Go into Gallery and let it index the folder. You can see there that there are a number of jpegs and videos.
Go into ES or Astro or whatever and create a new file called .nomedia in the folder.
Force a rescan somehow. I did it by unmounting/remounting the SD card.
Go into Gallery – see the folder is not there. This is the expected result.
Go into ES or Astro to your test folder. Notice that the video files have been DELETED.
I thought I was deleting only one photo but deleted a whole album which was kind of frustrating. I was in album mode in the gallery and selected the album which only shows the first picture. That, and the fact that the confirmation dialog for both deleting an album and a single photo says "are you sure you want to delete this item?" make it confusing.
They should make it clearer that you are deleting a whole album by saying in the dialog "are you sure you want to delete this album of n pictures?" and making the album thumbnail look different than an individual picture.
I am not sure if this is an Alcatel thing or an Android thing but two small changes to the ui could prevent loss of important photos. They could also offer a recycle bin feature that you could turn on or off which would be nice.
Otherwise I love this phone. Truly an amazing device for $250.
Try another photo manager app. Made the same mistake myself. Luckily at the time I did it, I had the photos already copied to a PC and there wasn't many photos involved, maybe a dozen in the album. I no longer use the stock gallery. I now use Google Photos. There were a couple others I tried to use, but they wouldn't offer the capability to delete off the SD card, couldn't get privilege to delete.
If its that much of an annoyance. I always use 'quickpic', its the best gallery app for android IMO.
If you have a windows PC and the folder was on an external card, get the card connected somehow to the PC (not in the phone, but in an adapter so it can get a drive letter). Install the free version of Recuva and do a scan on the card. It should be able to recover most if not all files if nothing was written on top of them.
I have used microsoft autoplay for years transferring photos and videos to my PC from my camera and my phone. The phone is working fine with one exception.
1) I'm able using autoplay on my PC to set a destination directory on the PC i.e. C:\Users\Mike\Pictures\2015
2) I can also tag them with event details or simply let them the folder be auto named to the date of transfer.
3) Deleting the source is also optional, saying no, simply lets them remain on the phone.
What I have noted since I got my S6, is the S6 will not simply transfer the videos and photos in the /DCIM/Camera folder, but it will transfer TTS files from the navigation software Waze under the Android/Wave folder and other files from assorted game apps also under the android folder.
So I have two questions:
1) Is there anyway to tell the phone to only share the folders under "DCIM" during sync / transfer?
2) Is there any other way to hide folders on the phone other than "private mode", this does not work as the navigation software does not see it's TTS files and simply transfers them again?
This seems to be a pretty simple issue, yet its stumped me and Samsung was no help either, they suggested their smart switch software, which is more for backup than transferring periodically.
Thanks
Mike
I am running Windows 7 Pro and have a new Samsung S7 phone. when I connect the phone to my usb port I see a new "drive" within windows explorer. So far so good. I open it up and see my SD card, open that up and note my DCIM folder and underneath that a sub-folder with a bunch of pictures I put on the SD card. Still good. But the right context menu is not what I expect. And when I click on a JPG file, instead of opening in my default picture program, it opens up in Window's viewer instead. And none of the normal right click menu items are there.
If I try to delete a file from within the phone (not from the pc) it won't let me without giving permissions to the photo app I use (Quickpic). but it has permission to the sd card already. So it looks like if I want to mess around with photos on the sd card, I have to first pull the card from the phone.
Any thoughts on this? Is it "normal"?
Hello everybody. When I connect my Galaxy Note 4 to the computer as a USB device
and open the sub-folders of whatsApp or Viber that contain images,
I succeed to open the first image in the sub-folder but when I press the arrow keys on keyboard
(right, left, up and down) to view images sequentially, I don't get the next images present in the sub-folder,
rather, I get other images that seem to be icons or system images.
For example if the thumbnails of images present in the sub-folder show different images
of flowers, when I open the first image it is opened as a flower, but when I use arrow keys I see the image of
the Facebook like (thumb up), then empty image, then Google logo and so on.
When I use softwares like Apowersoft phone manager I can view images as a gallery in the correct sequence
but just when I open the mobile as USB device I get such issue. How can I fix this issue please?
And are there free softwares that can view mobile contents like Apowersfot do?
The trouble with Apowersoft is that I can view images but I can't export them to computer unless I pay
to register the software, so I wonder if there are totally free softwares that enable me to view and export images or videos
from mobile to computer. Thanks in advance