Hi there,
I am new to this forum and this is my first time posting! I have the ATT samsung galaxy S5 and I am rooted but running the stock ROM. I am relatively new to android and this is my first one after three years of having iphones. Anyway, I just got a 32gb microSD card but I am having some problems making it work with the camera. Before I put the SD card in, I had several folders in my camera, such as videos, camera, screenshots, snapchat, transferred from my iphone, etc... When I transferred from my iphone, a lot of the pictures were out of order but I learned to deal with it. When I put my SD card in, all of the folders mushed together with all my videos on the top and everything out of order. Now I just have one folder called externalSDcard and one called "camera" where new pictures are stored and one called picassa. Im not even sure if they are folders or albums! How do I restore everything to how it was before but keep it all on the SD card?
HELP!
Nothing? Really?
Really the only thing you can do I believe is put the pics on your computer and then format your SD card then put them back on in their appropriate folder. Pics go in the pictures folder and mpegs go in movies folder. Hope you figure it out.
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Android will scan your phone for media files and will show all in the gallery. Now in the gallery you can create albums then drag and drop pictuers or videos into them. Also the camera folder must reside in the DCIM folder.
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Android will scan your phone for media files and will show all in the gallery. Now in the gallery you can create albums then drag and drop pictuers or videos into them. Also the camera folder must reside in the DCIM folder.
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Exactly, the file structure on your SD card hasn't changed, but gallery app is organizing them the way it wants. What's even better is if you are storing camera pictures on SD card after having stored some on internal memory, now you have two "Camera" items shown in your gallery.
Picasa, by the way, is any pictures you've stored in picasaweb (which may be "none").
You might find a different picture viewing app more to your liking. I've always liked quickpic and now it supports viewing picasa pics as well, which was one of the only reasons to use the stock Gallery. And it's free.
The only remaining reason I have to use the stock Gallery is for those "shot & more" pictures I still want to edit (but that comes with a big bug of its own).
Thanks
Thanks so much for your help! I think I am getting things sorted out. For some reason though when I move the picture around or make any kind of changes, it changes the date from the day it was taken to when I last changed the location. I think that is why all the videos are on the top. Is there anyway to change that back? Also Im not a big fan of the gallery app so I think I'll try quickpick! Ill let you know how it goes!
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is there a way to have specific folders not show up in 3d gallery
it shows every single picture on my memory card every icon or instance of one
my gallery has like 20 folders
and is lagging my 3d gallery app and deleting them messes with the app or
permanantly deletes the picture
any thoughts??
put at . in front of the folder name.
.icons
Or search your SD card and see if you can find a file called .nomedia and copy that into the directory you don't want shown
wow thank you so much 3dgallery is smokin now
there was so many stupid soundboard icons and extracted pics from bootanimations it was finding and it was taking foreverrrrrr
-removed- ;\
3D Gallery doesn't find my pictures
seanzscreams said:
is there a way to have specific folders not show up in 3d gallery
it shows every single picture on my memory card every icon or instance of one
my gallery has like 20 folders
and is lagging my 3d gallery app and deleting them messes with the app or
permanantly deletes the picture
any thoughts??
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WOW, that's strange , cause my Aria CM6 3D Gallery doesn't find any of my .jpg and I have all my pictures in the DCIM file of my microSD.
Any insight anyone? Thanks
my 3d gallery picks up pictures that are not stored on my card or phone... i am confused cause the pics that are showing i deleted last year when i had my evo shift
felixlecky said:
my 3d gallery picks up pictures that are not stored on my card or phone... i am confused cause the pics that are showing i deleted last year when i had my evo shift
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Find the folder where the photos are saved and delete the pictures you don't want.
If you want to keep them but have them hidden put a . in front of the folder name. so it shows up as .foldername. This makes it a hidden folder and most apps will not see it or its contents.
felixlecky said:
my 3d gallery picks up pictures that are not stored on my card or phone... i am confused cause the pics that are showing i deleted last year when i had my evo shift
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The images may be synced from your Google Picasa account. Go to http://picasaweb.google.com/ to see if they are there.
New to the forum, THX for the welcome......New owner of a Captivate, and so far everything is going smoothly except for one little problem. When I transferred pics and videos to my phone storage the thumbnails for the pics worked, but some of the thumbnails for the videos, didn't show up. Out of 75 videos only 6 shows a thumbnail, all of the clips are mp4. I recently retired a 4 month old Backflip when I saw the Captivate, and this problem was not present on it, it was also running the update to 2.1 Eclair. I have tried to d/l new vids to see if it was a transfer from pc issue, and put in an SD card and transferred the pics and vids to it, and I get the same thing....in the gallery under rn-downloads there is 6 thumbs and the rest are black. I have Realplayer installed, but have uninstalled it, and used the stock video player to see if that was the issue.....same thing. The phone is not rooted YET. Is this a Samsung issue being that I was haven't this problem on the Motorola Backflip. Hopefully someone out there knows an easy fix.
Please help!!!!
Thx in advance
I have the same problem. I tried everything removing my SD card reinstalled it, ran the media scanner countless times. Copyed all files onto the phone from the SD card. I downloaded an apparently called "just pictures" it does the same thing as the gallery also allows u to Have photobucket and fb pic accounts on it. Really streamlines Everything. Is a quick fix for this stupid gallery issuse.
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My bad I just noticed Your only having that problem With videos is it just that or pictures as well? Unfortunately that app I mentioned only handles pictures but I'm sure there are other That handle vidoes or just use the video player to browse cause the gallery cannot serve that purpose.
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Yea just noticed an *.avi movie (horrid stuff Universal Soldier Ressurected) isn't showing up in the Gallery. Dunno when it stopped working.
But I have been using My Files or ES File Explorer whenever I wanted to watch something on my phone.... so haven't been paying attention.
I will do the same thing I Just wanted / needed something to be able to watch picture slide shows on. So that was taken care of. Good Thing is there is a lot of options to replace the gallery in the first place.
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So I loaded Serendipity today. Master cleared and everything. So I was really surprised to find old pictures on my phone when I opened the gallery app. And strangely it wouldn't let me delete them. Hmm. So I looked in the sd folders, dcim etc. Cannot find these pics anywhere! The gallery app did tell me the file names So I loaded up root explorer and ran a search... NOTHING!
These pics show in my gallery but I can't find the files anywhere. Where are they hiding?
Carl
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Went into the stetting, manage applications, to the gallery app and hit clear data, and these strange photos vanished! Still don't know where they were. but they are gone now. Would loveto hear where they were stored if anyone knows...
Spoke too soon! So after a reboot, the folder of pics comes back! If I clear the gallery app's data, it vanishes again, but returns after every reboot. Can anyone help with this?
Is it a stack of thumbnails (separate folder path) or viewable image files? If you have external SD maybe browse it on a PC.
It still there with no external SD, and I can't find it from the PC or root explorer.
You, know, I have a blog, and these all seem to be photos on my blog. And blogger seems to be hooked to Picasa Web albums. So I'm thinking Gallery pulls pulls the contents of my Picasa Web album down to the phone... could this be? Can it be stopped?
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It still there with no external SD, and I can't find it from the PC or root explorer.
You, know, I have a blog, and these all seem to be photos on my blog. And blogger seems to be hooked to Picasa Web albums. So I'm thinking Gallery pulls pulls the contents of my Picasa Web album down to the phone... could this be? Can it be stopped?
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If you have them linked then yes that is where they are comming from and why they keep comming back. The only way to stop it would be to but a no media file in the target folder, back draw is that the file will hide it from all Android apps that look for media
Hello all, just recently got myself a new droid 3. And after putting my sd card in, and figuring out that it is now /sdcard-ext I am trying to clean up my gallery. It appears the 2.3.4 gallery app no longer cares if you use .nomedia or not? It just shoves everything in together... I know about quickpic, justpictures, and all the other gallery replacements. And those are fine and dandy, I do hate the new format for gallery, would love it be folder based again, but until it is, can anyone confirm if the .nomedia is no longer supported or not? Thanks
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Hello all, just recently got myself a new droid 3. And after putting my sd card in, and figuring out that it is now /sdcard-ext I am trying to clean up my gallery. It appears the 2.3.4 gallery app no longer cares if you use .nomedia or not? It just shoves everything in together... I know about quickpic, justpictures, and all the other gallery replacements. And those are fine and dandy, I do hate the new format for gallery, would love it be folder based again, but until it is, can anyone confirm if the .nomedia is no longer supported or not? Thanks
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its still supported. im using '.nomedia' on the root of my sdcard-ext. so none of the images/videos/music will not be shown in the 'standard' gallery.
The .nomedia file has to be the first file in a folder in order to ignore media there. If files are already indexed, just rename such folders forth and back (opening the Gallery in the middle) and there you go.
You can use the Nomedia application for creating easily the .nomedia
Question for all the vets here.....Im coming from an iPhone so Im obviously familiar with a different way of doing things.
Im trying to figure out how the file structure works within Android. Im mostly referring to media files and where/how they are stored and accessed. Im used to everything being stored inside my "camera roll" or whatever its called in a iphone. It would store all videos, photos, screen shots, downloaded images, everthing but music.
Now with Android it appears everything is kind of all over the place. Pictures are in Google Photos and are also accessible from the camera app. Screen shots and downloaded pictures are also stored in Google Photos yet aren't accessible from the camera app? Videos are all over the place. Vids I record are in Google Photos and accessible from the camera app. Videos I download are in the downloads folder.
Seems like everything is kind of spread out and a mess/not easily accessible. Am I doing something wrong?
Then that brings me to other files like documents. I've downloaded excel files from email and click save to drive and then they don't show up in my google drive. I access them in sheets. Then tried saving to device, no clue where those are saved to/accessible from.
Basically the whole file management system is a bit confusing to me. Hopefully someone can help clear things up for me. I know I can download a file management app and access everything from their respective folders which is fine. But Im more concerned with where everything is stored/accessed from an app standpoint.
Thanks for the help if you read that whole mess!!!
mpgolfpro said:
Question for all the vets here.....Im coming from an iPhone so Im obviously familiar with a different way of doing things.
Im trying to figure out how the file structure works within Android. Im mostly referring to media files and where/how they are stored and accessed. Im used to everything being stored inside my "camera roll" or whatever its called in a iphone. It would store all videos, photos, screen shots, downloaded images, everthing but music.
Now with Android it appears everything is kind of all over the place. Pictures are in Google Photos and are also accessible from the camera app. Screen shots and downloaded pictures are also stored in Google Photos yet aren't accessible from the camera app? Videos are all over the place. Vids I record are in Google Photos and accessible from the camera app. Videos I download are in the downloads folder.
Seems like everything is kind of spread out and a mess/not easily accessible. Am I doing something wrong?
Then that brings me to other files like documents. I've downloaded excel files from email and click save to drive and then they don't show up in my google drive. I access them in sheets. Then tried saving to device, no clue where those are saved to/accessible from.
Basically the whole file management system is a bit confusing to me. Hopefully someone can help clear things up for me. I know I can download a file management app and access everything from their respective folders which is fine. But Im more concerned with where everything is stored/accessed from an app standpoint.
Thanks for the help if you read that whole mess!!!
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Gallery, root explorer, and most pictures always end up in Pictures or DCIM/Camera.
the iPhone file structure isn't that much better when you jailbreak, either. on my iPad it works the same way and downloads from the net go into a weird temp folder.
Anyways, you need to get an external app to view stuff really well. Google stuff doesn't ever really work well for me, I would get office suite.