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[SOLVED] Modify photo sequence numbering after ROM upgrade

Hi
I have used the inbuilt gallery app functionality to organize my photos into albums. Albums are stored at \Pictures and removed from DCIM. So most of the time my DCIM folder are completely empty.
I flashed a new ROM with full wipe, and the camera app then starts to name images as image0001.jpg. When I try to organize my new shots into existing albums the gallery app asks if I would like to overwrite existing photos. This is logical because image0001.jpg already exists in an album.
I would like the camera app to continue to name my photos by adding to the highest value in the camera counter before I did the flash.
Is it
a) possible to modify the camera counter to a higher value?
b) backup the camera counter before flashing in the future?

SOLVED: Modify photo sequence numbering
paalkr said:
Hi
I have used the inbuilt gallery app functionality to organize my photos into albums. Albums are stored at \Pictures and removed from DCIM. So most of the time my DCIM folder are completely empty.
I flashed a new ROM with full wipe, and the camera app then starts to name images as image0001.jpg. When I try to organize my new shots into existing albums the gallery app asks if I would like to overwrite existing photos. This is logical because image0001.jpg already exists in an album.
I would like the camera app to continue to name my photos by adding to the highest value in the camera counter before I did the flash.
Is it
a) possible to modify the camera counter to a higher value?
b) backup the camera counter before flashing in the future?
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Answering my own question Yes, it possible to change the camera image number sequence by altering \data\data\com.android.camera\shared.prefs\com.android.camera_preferences.xml
Procedure:
FC the camera app
Alter the line in the above mentioned config file
<int name="counter_imagefolder" value="#" />
where # is the desired start number-1 without leading 0's for the new sequence. So entering 10 will make the next photo name image0011.jpg
Hope this can be of any help to others

Wow you made it alot complicated lol! You could have just downloaded SQLite editor, edit the database of the camera app and adjust the counter there that way you don't have to decompile->recompile anything everytime you want to change the sequence number.

[Q] Location of camera thumbnails

Somehow I messed up setting up my wife's new Moto X. In the past I had some tasker tasks to transfer all the photos off our phones and onto our NAS every night. In setting up the task on her new phone I deleted a slew of pictures. I know the original photos are gone and I'll face the music on that one. However, if I go to camera and swipe to the left I can scroll through all the photos. I can't email or share any because the file is gone, but if I can see the photos there must be a low res image someplace on the phone still. Anyone know how to access these and possibly get me out of the doghouse? They're not in the DCIM folder at all. I poked around in the Android/Data folder a bit, but did not find them.
On the same note, is there a way to clean these out over time? Seems to me if I have a thumbnail of every photo ever taken it would eventually fill up the storage.
Thanks

Get an app like astro file manager, or root Explorer and go to storage then DCIM and your thumbnail pics should be there.
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clskier said:
Somehow I messed up setting up my wife's new Moto X. In the past I had some tasker tasks to transfer all the photos off our phones and onto our NAS every night. In setting up the task on her new phone I deleted a slew of pictures. I know the original photos are gone and I'll face the music on that one. However, if I go to camera and swipe to the left I can scroll through all the photos. I can't email or share any because the file is gone, but if I can see the photos there must be a low res image someplace on the phone still. Anyone know how to access these and possibly get me out of the doghouse? They're not in the DCIM folder at all. I poked around in the Android/Data folder a bit, but did not find them.
On the same note, is there a way to clean these out over time? Seems to me if I have a thumbnail of every photo ever taken it would eventually fill up the storage.
Thanks
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Those are probably all cached. As for recovering them, I'm sure you can find them in the cache -- I don't know where they'd be saved (I believe there is a /cache partition but then there's also the possibility that the gallery caches those previews somewhere in /data/). It may be easier to to screen shot the ones you want.
EDIT: see above post - that's probably what you want
As for the cache growing, I'd imaging that the gallery app has some sort of maintenance. But there is always the option of using apps (I have SD Maid, personally) and/or periodically clearing the cache partition via a custom recovery

Thanks all. This was good info also. I ended up finding the files on my NAS which leads me to a whole other question which I will post seperately from this as it only related by symptoms.

Stock Camera or Gallery - How do I disable the "alternate" folder?

I take pictures a lot, and when I navigate my folders to copy pictures off the phone, I've noticed that there is a folder: \sdcard\DCIM\Camera\Alternate, where other versions of pictures I've taken have been dumped into.
I understand what it's trying to do.... it's using some algorithm to determine that I took a bunch of similar photos, and it's choosing the best of them and hiding the rest. I much prefer to manually select which photos to keep, and I want to turn that feature off.
Is it a camera feature? If so, where is the setting for to turn this off?
If it is camera feature, and it can't be disabled... I know there are other camera apps... is it possible to map a different camera app to the camera-open shake? Because I use that a lot.
Thanks in advance.

Change the screenshots folder because google photos

Hey all.
Does anybody knows how to change the Screenshots folder to InternalStorage/pictures/screenshots (like all the other android devices) instead of InternalStorage/DCIM/Screenshots?
In the galaxy s10 it saves automatically in the DCIM folders and Google Photos detects it like has been taken with the Camera so it automatically backups all the screenshots like normal photos. This is very frustrating.
Does anybody knows a solution for this?
I am currently using an app named "PinSync" that automatically moves the screenshots for the storage i want but it has a Cons which is that it invalid the Smart screenshot menu, it doesn allow me to edit or share directly. It's only a mending when i want a true solution.
Thanks

Try putting a .nomedia file in the folder. Only drawback is that your gallery won't show them either.

I hate this. I used Pinsync and it was cool but I need Smart Scroll too much
so I just routinely purge Google Photos backup
sigh
I may try the .nomedia file for now since I usually just share screenshots immediately and purge later

vonDubenshire said:
I hate this. I used Pinsync and it was cool but I need Smart Scroll too much
so I just routinely purge Google Photos backup
sigh
I may try the .nomedia file for now since I usually just share screenshots immediately and purge later
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I was using PinSync also, but now I dont even take screenshots anymore. I use the Smart Select edge panel and select whatever part of the screen to share (or the whole screen), and once I share it to an app and send it, I back out and the image is not saved.
Still, taking a screenshot and immediately pressing Share takes a lot less effort. I wish Samsung would just move their screenshots folder as it being in DCIM violates DCIM standards.

ryan770 said:
I was using PinSync also, but now I dont even take screenshots anymore. I use the Smart Select edge panel and select whatever part of the screen to share (or the whole screen), and once I share it to an app and send it, I back out and the image is not saved.
Still, taking a screenshot and immediately pressing Share takes a lot less effort. I wish Samsung would just move their screenshots folder as it being in DCMI violated DCMI standards.
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You gave me an idea.
Can I use BXactions or something to trigger smart select? Then I don't need a screen shot. Might negate the time factor and eliminates the Google photos back up issue.

I literally just searched this forum to find out if there was an acceptable solution for this, but I realize that there is not. I will have to do some deep research on how to change the path where the screenshots are saved directly in the system.

It's stunning how a company like Samsung can manage the complexity of producing an amazing smartphone but yet is not competent enough properly configure a storage path for screen shots.

Question Random picture files thumbnails found in Files

So I've noticed using files by Google in all images, there are loads of random Korean pictures and emojis etc that I don't remember viewing at all. They are all thumbnails which are being shown but all added up to 445mb at 2051 files. How do I prevent Google files showing these thumbnails as I'm sure Android cleans those regularly doesn't it?
Ive been browsing ali express and using chrome alot lately so maybe the thumbnails are from there.

You are right. These (cached) files are indeed from the browser and other apps.

I've found in settings I had "show hidden files" show files that are used to run Android and apps ticked. Will keep an eye out and see if these cache files are shown anymore or not.

Koysii said:
I've found in settings I had "show hidden files" show files that are used to run Android and apps ticked. Will keep an eye out and see if these cache files are shown anymore or not.
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You can delete them, but it would be pointless because the apps will regenerate them everytime you use the app.