I finally received my 4XL and have been setting things up. I decided to take a few test shots with the camera and noticed a strange and concerning issue...
When I take a picture and tap the small viewfinder icon on the bottom right of the camera UI, there is a blurred version of the image and then it just goes black. I can still see the share and delete icons on the bottom but they do nothing when I tap on them.
After about 10 seconds, it will finally load, or I'll have to navigate out back to the camera viewfinder and then back again to the gallery to see the picture I took.
Selfies are even worse (particularly portrait mode). They just disappear after I take the picture and I have to redo the same troubleshooting steps described above. However, I have to wait a full 30 seconds or so before the portrait mode selfie shows up.
I've tried clearing data and cache of both the Camera and Photos app, uninstalled updates, rebooted into safe mode, tried with the stock kernel and Kirisakura, to no avail.
Anyone else having this issue? I'm trying to see if I can resolve this without resorting to a factory reset.
EDIT *RESOLVED*
It was my fault. I had Tasker set to move pictures from the default DCIM folder to a different folder of my choosing, once the Photos app opens.
I guess viewing a picture after taking it is technically part of Google Photos, hence why it was going black (picture no longer exists in that location or not enough time to process the image before it gets moved, thus corrupting the file).
This thread can be closed but I thought I'd share the solution in case the rare chance anyone else has a similar Tasker setup to mine.
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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.
Updated my firmware today and just noticed that the Album app no longer shows the camera photos I took before the update. Or, to be more precise, it shows all those photos in the mashup of all images from all apps on the main Album screen (which I've always found insanely annoying), but when I select the "Camera" folder from the menu, the "Photos" subfolder shows only the couple of pics I took since the firmware update but none of the dozens I took before the update.
Anyone else have this problem?
The camera has to reset the storage folder setting from internal to SD. (at least it had to be done with me)
Yes, I managed to fix it in the end by deleting data from the Media Storage process/app then refreshing the search index in File Commander. Everything is back to normal now (but thanks Sony for the SNAFU)
Running a stock Nexus 6 w 5.1 lmy47d on T-Mobile in case it matters. At some point over the last couple weeks it seems that Photos has been updated (or at least the gallery view part of it) so that photos I've edited replace the original photo instead of showing up as a new image. That's in Photos, where selecting the edited photo gives me the option to view the original by clicking a little button.
When I'm trying to post an image on fb or text it to someone, however, I can only see the original image with no way to find the edited version. Needless to say the various folders and navigation options for locating images were already confusing, but this really messes me up. Is there a way to turn this "helpful" feature off? Why can't photos just all be there? Why are edited images no longer stored under On Device? Where is everything.......?
Arggggh.
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Running a stock Nexus 6 w 5.1 lmy47d on T-Mobile in case it matters. At some point over the last couple weeks it seems that Photos has been updated (or at least the gallery view part of it) so that photos I've edited replace the original photo instead of showing up as a new image. That's in Photos, where selecting the edited photo gives me the option to view the original by clicking a little button.
When I'm trying to post an image on fb or text it to someone, however, I can only see the original image with no way to find the edited version. Needless to say the various folders and navigation options for locating images were already confusing, but this really messes me up. Is there a way to turn this "helpful" feature off? Why can't photos just all be there? Why are edited images no longer stored under On Device? Where is everything.......?
Arggggh.
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very simple solution.. use a different gallery app. photos i dont use, but i do use the aosp gallery app.
Hello,
I have 2 questions regarding camera modes and editing on my Note 8. First a little back story – I often take pictures for local car dealers and each car generally gets 100-120 pictures before I go to editing. I generally take all of my pictures with “Auto” filter or as the phone calls it “effect” on. However after taking my pictures, if I were to go and access “My Files” and see the sets of pictures under “camera” I can then modify them again by selecting various effects. When doing so and selecting “Auto” again, the image is saved and almost each time comes out brighter, and in my opinion overall better looking than the original picture (which was also taken with “Auto” effect on). I then end up having to choose the pictures I plan to use from my PC, having to manually re-apply “auto” effect on each picture, and re-upload them.
What is happening here? Is the phone not applying “auto” the first time around as I'm taking pictures? Or is there a double “auto” effect going on here, once at the time of the picture being taken, and once post picture? and if so is there a way to have the 2nd version of the image as the result from the first go at it?
Is there an image editing software / samsung tool that I can use on my PC so that I can instantly apply a certain filter/effect for a batch of files in one shot? Or if not, is there a way to edit a whole folder on the phone itself if I were to isolate the images I wanted edited? Or any other solution so I don't have to manually apply an effect on each image.
Thank You
Hey
I found a bit of a frustrating bug...
I took quite a few burst shots back in July and meanwhile had many other photos done, the problem I have is when I edit the bursts to select which frames to keep and which to ditch, after saving the selection the Gallery app freezes a bit and then it loads the most recent photo I've taken, which means that in order to move on and edit the rest of the bursts I need to rescroll back to them after each save and this makes the whole triage process exhausting to say the least.
Is anybody else experiencing this?
In other words, wouldn't a bursts classification be nice to have in the Discover section of the Gallery? ?
Cheers! ?