Find SONY's picture naming so silly -not existing?- can someone confirm the same behavior on yours?
Plug in Z phone to PC via USB and looking into its SD card in windows explorer.
Under DCIM / 100ANDRO files are named
DSC_001.jpg ... DSC_002.jpg
Ok, some others device do
but when you purge the SDCARD it should continues counting.
Here if I backup my files for ex; and delete or cut/paste all the pictures from DCIM / 100ANDRO
When i take new shots it forgets where it was and new pictures naming and goes back to DSC_001.jpg...
Really a Pain to backup...
maybe you have a smart trick...
movies naming look strange too: from MOV_0080.mp4 it jumps next to MOV_0094.mp4 while I just took Burst shots in between.
C'mon SONY you can do it ...
your BURST mode folders do it. Samsung, Sharp do it
for ex 20120412_143754.jpg 20120501_134422.mp4
YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.ext FFS PLS THX
p***** me off
trick - when you purge DCIM folder, just leave the last picture or video taken in it, and the stoop pic naming will go on from there;
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me.
I have just backed up my phone and reset it back to factory (A seperate unrelated reason I wont go into).
Since doing so, I copied my DCIM folder back to my phone and restored all my usual apps and settings.
In going into my gallery and events, I expected to see all of my Zoe 3 second videos there as usual, with the ability to click on it and play around with the 20 photos it has in the editor.
However, the phone seems to have detected the images and the video as completly seperate with no recognition for them all being part of the same "zoe"?
Is there another file i need to restore? I took a copy of everything i could see via a usb connection to my PC (including all hidden files and folders)
It seems a little odd that i cant seem to copy the 20 images and 1 mp4 file off the phone then restore them at a later date if i wish to create a 30second edited zoe.
Has anyone got any ideas?
Cheers,
Picked up an HTC One DE to upgrade from a Galaxy Nexus. I've had a few days to play with it, so now there are a lot of pictures on the One... the trouble is that my GN uses a logical naming scheme (eg,: IMG_20130503_215914"), while the HTC One saves them with just sequential numbering (eg.: "IMAG0004"). I have a ton of pictures using the GN's naming scheme and would prefer to have the One spit out pictures using the logical naming with dates in it like the GN.
Can't find any settings to change this in any app. Help?
Also a small gripe/side effect of zoes: it takes 20 pictures, and on the phone gallery I believe it picks the "best" one to display. I wish this was labelled somehow when browsing the dcim folder on a computer, because sorting through even a weekend's worth of zoes is turning into a several hour long ordeal, never mind my usual "hook it up to a pc once a month to sync/dump photos".
there isnt any way to change how pictures are named. zoes have rendered any 3rd party gallery like quickpic useless. ive had the phone for 3 weeks and i have 3000+ pictures on it due to the zoes. its also a pain looking at them on the computer since MTP takes forever.
cachookaman said:
there isnt any way to change how pictures are named. zoes have rendered any 3rd party gallery like quickpic useless. ive had the phone for 3 weeks and i have 3000+ pictures on it due to the zoes. its also a pain looking at them on the computer since MTP takes forever.
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What about some sort of post-picture naming script? I am no coder, but could a script be written to look at the EXIF info and rename the file with the date/time stamp? Anyone care to take a stab?
Hi
I recently came home from a long trip, carrying home 3000+ pictures from several cameras. Unfortunately I have experienced that my phone Z3 Compact misreads the time the picture was taken (EXIF - "Date taken").
The error is on all pictures captured with my mobile and my pocket camera. There are no problems reading the times stamp with the pictures taken with another camera. Windows 7 reads all pictures, from all cameras, correct. (See attached pictures.) The error is present on both my Z3 Compact and my Z3 Tablet Compact, and on both Kitkat - Android 4.4.4 and Lollipop - Android 5.0.2.
How to I remove/bypass the error, such I can get my phone and tablet to read the time stamp and sort the pictures in correct order??
Any comments, solutions etc. are welcomed!
I'm having the same issue! Exif date of photos from other smartphones are not read correctly. Instead the timestamp of the file is taken as date.
Update:
Tested on Z3, Z3C and Z3TC. Also with 4.4.4 and new 5.0.2!
No one knows a solution or have an idea to a workaround?
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Hi,
in your last screenshot I don't see Date. You might have scroll it down. Could you please take sreenshot with Date. Please also share Album version which you can find in Settings->Apps->All->Album.
If it's not a problem please attach one of your pics. In your screenshots I also see that year is "0002" but month is November. Is month ok or are both incorrect?
Btw, you can also try this:
1. Go to Settings -> Apps -> All -> Media Storage
2. Click "Clear Data" button
3. Restart the phone
PuentoMarro said:
Hi,
in your last screenshot I don't see Date. You might have scroll it down. Could you please take sreenshot with Date. Please also share Album version which you can find in Settings->Apps->All->Album.
If it's not a problem please attach one of your pics. In your screenshots I also see that year is "0002" but month is November. Is month ok or are both incorrect?
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Thanks for helping. The date is not present for the pictures that are misread with respect to time, that's why it's not on the screenshot.
I'm using Album 7.1.A.0.22. The correct month is February. I think November year 2 is just the earliest time the app can use, and that's why this time is picked when it cannot read the time/date.
I had a long conversation with Sony support. We found out that the problem is a bug in the Album app because QuickPic can read the time just fine. Sony have now recorded the bug, and I hope it with be fixed in a resent update - but my hopes are not high.
I tried to clear the data in medie storage, but it did not fix the problem. I can upload a picture, I just need to resize it first. How do I easily resize it on Android while keeping the Date taken?
QuickPic can read exif directly from file while Album app reads it from database, but if you say that after clearing Media Storage it's still reproducible then it's most probably Album.
Anyway resizing image shouldn't change Date Taken exif, so you can resize on Windows (I think there is no resize option in Album). Or maybe don't resize and upload it to sendspace or somewhere.
Please also write how you have moved those pictures? Was it using Sony PC Companion or in some other way? And what happens if you take picture with Camera app? Will it also appear under "November 0002" ?
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QuickPic can read exif directly from file while Album app reads it from database, but if you say that after clearing Media Storage it's still reproducible then it's most probably Album.
Anyway resizing image shouldn't change Date Taken exif, so you can resize on Windows (I think there is no resize option in Album). Or maybe don't resize and upload it to sendspace or somewhere.
Please also write how you have moved those pictures? Was it using Sony PC Companion or in some other way? And what happens if you take picture with Camera app? Will it also appear under "November 0002" ?
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I have shared a picture here: http://1drv.ms/1bTtBp7
What database is Album using, and why don't it read exif directly??
I have not used Sony PC Companion.
I have uploaded half of the pictures that have problems to Onedrive via Windows as backup. I have then downloaded the pictures to Windows and copied them to a SD-card. I have also tried to download directly from the Onedrive app. -No change.
The second half of the pictures are from an old Z3 Compact (died in water). These pictures where stored directly on the SD-card. They have been moved to a Windows computer and backed up on SD-cards.
New pictures (from the new phone) seems to have no problem. However the old photos did not have problems on the old Z3c.
Hi again,
unfortunately the problem is with your camera, not with Sony phone. You can use online exif checker like:
www[dot]regex[dot]info/exif[dot]cgi
(sorry for stupid link but xda doesn't allow me to paste links ...)
and find "GPS Date Stamp". In case of your image it's set to "0000:00:00" while according to documentation (www[dot]exiv2[dot]org/Exif2-2[dot]PDF) it should be set to "none" if it's not used. Since your camera sets it to "0000:00:00" (which btw is valid time stamp) your Z3 tries to use it and that's why you get weird date. It works the same on Nexus 5 (Android 5.1) in Google Photos app.
The reason why you see correct time on Windows is that Windows probably prefers different time info (modification date or something).
Since getting my S10+ I've been having an odd problem with Google Photos.
On my S9+ if I edited a photo and hit save it would just save it. If I wanted to save a copy I'd hit the 3 dot menu button and hit the Save a Copy option.
On my S10+ by default there is only save a copy, and no option to just do a straightforward save. And once I have saved it I get a pop up saying my photo has been saved in the PhotosEditor folder with the options to view it later or go to that folder now.
This happens every single time.
Why is this different and how can I get it back to how it behaved on my S9?
Thanks
I'm having the same issue and can't figure out a fix.
yep I agree that the editing/saving on this new device is extremetly clunky. You end up with multiple folders on the internal and sd card which makes managing photos a pain. Not sure why but hope they fix it up soon.
For me, I set SD card as default camera save location but when doing burst photos it forces save to internal storage, again, you end up with photos all over the place.. hmm