basic Gallery questions....
I moved nearly 400 pictures from my PC to an SD card and uploaded them the Picture folder on the Prime. I then used Gallery to browse them - pretty nice but.
- the order that Gallery browses in from newest to oldest - I want to browse from oldest to newest. The picture properties were preserved. The file names from the camera is still preserved. How can I sort by date taken or filename? It is not obvious to me.
- some of the pictures required some editing. I lightened some up and hit "save" - popup said it was "saved to edited album". I then hit back (lower left back - not edit back) to return to the browse mode and the picture appeared as if it were not edited. Where does Gallery save the new picture? I would have thought it would have saved it in the album hat is being browsed.
I know these are basic questions - but it is the easy stuff not being obvious that is most annoying. Thank for any pointers or links to Gallery how-tos
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Ok im having this issue with my phone. The problem is that i have 1095 pictures on my album because all the pictures from facebook, games and all types of other files are on my album and its taking up space like crazy, can any of you guys help me out with this i would apreciate it.
Thanks.
josias16 said:
Ok im having this issue with my phone. The problem is that i have 1095 pictures on my album because all the pictures from facebook, games and all types of other files are on my album and its taking up space like crazy, can any of you guys help me out with this i would apreciate it.
Thanks.
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I guess you have taken too many photos on your storage card. Just get a bigger card or transfer some of them to your PC. As far as I know the fb and other pics r only saved as thumbnail and 1095 thumbnails don't eat that much space.
nah u not getting it, my problem is that everyones profile pictures and everything else and all my game files and all my icons are on my album as if i took a picture of them........they got there on their own somehow, i have no idea how and i dont want to delete them and then all my stuff stops working.
isnt there a way to just make things go back to normal how they was before?
Tell us more about your album settings, what ROM are you using and is your Album on storage card or main memory?
look at the hints and tips sticky (very first one), in there are the registry settings you need to alter to ignore certain folders and keep your album uncluttered.......
Its here........... and its tip #66
it has nuthing to do with the rom cause i had the rom since i got my hd2 nd i had my fone for a while now....and yes its on sd card
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conantroutman said:
look at the hints and tips sticky (very first one), in there are the registry settings you need to alter to ignore certain folders and keep your album uncluttered.......
Its here........... and its tip #66
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u mean #64
I guess so....
If the problem is number of pictures presented in album, not the space occupied, then maybe try setting one chosen folder as your favorite album:
"To set a favorite album
The Photos & Videos tab on the Home screen displays photos and video files from the current favorite album. By default, the Camera Shots album which stores the photos and videos you captured using the Camera is set as the favorite album. You can change to another favorite album, if preferred.
1. On the Albums main screen, tap Albums.
2. On the Albums tab ( ), tap the album you want to set as your favorite.
3. Tap Menu > Set Album as Favorite, and then tap OK."(as stated in the RTFM, p.248)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=704239
Hi all, wondering if anybody could help me!!
Google has turned up nothing so far so im gonna ask away!!
I am currently using nobodyatall's cm7 2.0 on my x10mini and am wondering where and how I can save pictures that I want as wallpapers.
Basically I don't want wallpapers to show up in my regular picture gallery, I want them only to show in the wallpaper gallery when i go to change wallpapers.
Is there a folder on the SD card or the internal memory, or is there a way I can open an APK in winrar or whatever and drop the pictures in there?
Regards
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There are two ways that I can think of for you to do this. First, just create a folder in your SD card labeled wallpapers (or whatever you want). Then place all your wallpapers there.
Easy way: Use QuickPics. It has an option to hide a folder from the gallery. Just long press on the folder and you'll find the option.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
Still easy (just not automated):create an empty file in your wallpaper folder with filename ".nomedia" without the quotes. This will prevent the gallery from scanning that folder. This also works to prevent music files from showing in the player.
To change your wallpaper, if using QuickPic, just press your menu button > show hidden > enter the folder and click the picture > use as wallpaper. If you don't want to use QuickPic, use a file manager to go the wallpaper folder then select your picture from there.
Great sugestions, especially the hideden folder option, however what I'm looking for (I wasn't quite sure how to explain this properly before!!) is to be able to add images directly to the menu of wallpapers like when you long press the screen and it gives you options to change the wallpaper I get a list of options, cyanogen wallpapers, gallery, live wallpapers, wallpaper gallery and wallpapers.
I would like to be able to add wallpapers directly to one of these menus, so I'm looking for the folder in which they are all kept in. I found one in one of the internal apk's, but i'm not sure if I can just inject them into the apk and also whether i need to include thumbnail size png's as the ones included with cyanogen seem to have these to.
Thanks for a great comprehensive reply. If all fails, I'll be looking at the hidden folder option!!
Cheers!
That's a bit harder. Sounds like it shouldn't be but it actually is since you'll be modding an apk. Here are a couple of links to get you started if you're really interested in doing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646424
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2915198&postcount=4
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f4/wallpaper-directory-11685/
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That's a bit harder. Sounds like it shouldn't be but it actually is since you'll be modding an apk. Here are a couple of links to get you started if you're really interested in doing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646424
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2915198&postcount=4
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f4/wallpaper-directory-11685/
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Thanks man, some great info, the first post really hits the nail on the head, I didn't think of checking the other forums (duh me, it's all android!!)!!
So it looks like I will have to take out the launcher.apk and recompile it after editing the xml file that contains the details of the names of the wallpapers. I'm guessing this is some sort of framework xml for the purposes of creating the horizontal table that you can swipe across to view the previews of the pictures.
This makes sense I guess, loading a table reather than using up memory to load a gallery style viewer that indexes the pictures seems much more streamlined seeing that is only for the use of wallpapers, however I do like the wallpaper gallery style that the xml framewrok brings.
I guess I'm going take the newer(and some older) wallpapers from other cm roms and rename them over some of the exisitng files. This way I shouldn't have to delve too deeply!!!
Thanks again for the help and info leftAlone, you are a star!!!
We all had these moments when we just had the opportunity to take the perfect picture, but the camera app slowed us down and we missed it.
Thats why i came up with an idea which will allow you to take photos from your homescreen / anywhere with help of one of the hardware buttons without opening the camera app first.
This is where you guys come in. How do i go on from here and is this something you can achieve with the app tasker?
Would appreciate if you could give your thoughts or put me in the right direction if anything like this already exist!
Im using the galaxy s2 if that would make any difference
Managed to do something almost as good as i want it, its a tasker widget which open the camera and takes a picture.
Its a bit glitchy since it wont take a pic 2 of 5 times and it back out to fast if i add an option to either go home or kill the camera app.
I can post the tasker profile if anyone would like to take a look at it and help me out.
Take pics without opening the camera with tasker + instant upload & auto delete pics
I know this threads pretty old but it doesnt seem to have been fully answered and i wanted this function so... After lookin around i found this post but it didnt do what i wanted, tasker has been updated a lot since this was originally posted so...
A little more googling was done and a while later i came across a way of taking photos without waiting for the camera app to load up...
Create a widget to take a photo instantly without opening the camera by long pressing your home screen for the add dialog, selecting widgets and add a tasker, task widget.
Create a new task and name it
Add a new action - media, take photo
Set parameters - choose camera to use, specify filename, set naming sequence to series/chronological, check discreet for no sounds
*(uncheck 'show in gallery' if using the method described lower down to upload and delete photos with dropsync)
OK this and choose an icon. Then add the widget.
Click widget to take a photo.
A folder named tasker will have been created in /DCIM with the photo in.
I added this as well to save me from filling my phone with photos.
I'm assuming that you have Dropbox already for this...
Download and install DROPSYNC from the play store.
During the setup you will be prompted to link folders -
Link your /DCIM/CAMERA folder on the phone to the Camera Uploads folder of Dropbox
You will be asked what kind of sync you want - set this to upload and delete.
Turn on instant upload and set parameters as desired.
Now your phone will auto upload your camera's pictures straight to Dropbox and then delete the original on the device immediately. Make sure dropsync is not checked in any task killer you have as instant upload may not work.
You can change the dropsync linked folder (or add another if you have pro) to /DCIM/tasker to have your instant snaps instantly uploaded and deleted from handset.
NOTE:
I dont think this requires root access
I'm not usually one to start threads but this has gotten to be quite the nuisance. I'm coming from a Galaxy S3 running AOKP 4.2.2 (I was kinda spoiled by the near Vanilla Android♥), and have never used HTC sense.
On AOKP stock android galley I could share it after selecting "View Image" in aviary.
Problem. I can't find my photos that I've edited with Aviary and saved.
What I do, how to reproduce.
1. Take a picture
2. Find it in your albums(which are a cluster**ck if you synced all your photos from your old device)
3. Share it with Aviary(may work with other photo editors)
4. Edit it somehow, then save it.
Here's where sh*t gets stupid.
5. A popup comes up saying where the photo was saved, with the options "View Image" or "Close"
6. Select view Image. YAY I found my photo that I just edited.
7. Look for the share button but only find "i" for details.......
8. Go back to the gallery and hopelessly search for the edited photo.
Thanks in advance!
Hi all,
On my S21 ultra a new photo picker is installed which has very limited access.
Then are 2 buttons: Photos and Albums.
Photo's shows recent photo sorted on date/time
Albums shows only the albums: Download, Screenshots and Camera
On the old photo picker most of the time I choose Browse and then search the files with Total commander.
As Total commander can scroll through all folders on the phone. Even the hidden ones.
Have this new photo picker and am very annoyed by it.
Could not even upload a meme that I got via Whatsapp.
First had to move it to one of the 3 folders before being able to upload.
Does anyone know a workaround or how to revert?
I had to manually revert to an older version of the app using the photo picker... Didn't find anything regarding this topic yet