I have a few questions I hope somebody can shed some light on regarding images and videos...
Problem 1 - Dropbox Image Resolution
Firstly, it seems that Dropbox auto-uploads scales down the photos? Is there a way to stop this?
I noticed because my images are always sideways because of how I hold my phone taking pics, but then in my dropbox folder they were all portrait, so I checked image resolution and they are indeed smaller?
Problem 2 - Photo distortion/corruption from Windows File Transfers
Also, when copying photos from the phone to computer via USB (MTP), many of the pictures become corrupted. By corrupted I mean really strange lines across the photos and colour distortions. The actual pictures taken are fine because on the phone display in the Gallery they show perfectly. It is just when copying to PC they seem to corrupt. The photos are a mixture of some on the memory card and some on the internal storage and the problem happens with both..
This has happened to me on random photos (I transferred 150 and probably 30 were corrupt). I have tried this on two computers, one that has Kies installed and the Samsung Galaxy S3 Toolkit installed, and another computer that has no drivers installed apart from the ones Windows installs.
The file transfers were using Windows Explorer. I also tried with Kies and had the same problem.
Importantly: When trying a second or third time to copy the corrupt files, they copy fine and the problem disappears.
I noticed the Dropbox problem because I thought, well the photos are already uploaded so I can just copy from there without any photo problems, but they were all smaller resolution?
Problem 3 - HD Video Stutters
And my final problem. I copied a video taken on the phone to the PC (taken at 1080 full HD) it is a couple of minutes long in broad daylight. When viewing on the phone, quality is perfect. However when playing on the laptop (Core i5, 4GB RAM, Sony Vaio) the video has some stutters and distortion/corrupt bits.. it seems to play fine for a few seconds and then the video goes all distorted, then fine, then more distortion?
The problem appears on videos saved both on the phone internal storage, and on videos saved to memory card (class 6 SanDisk microSD)..
I have plenty of space and RAM available on the phone, it is only a week old, I have setCPU set to use Lazy CPU governor, using SIO scheduler, and I have dynamic hotplug disabled and all 4 cores running. Phone is rooted, with CWM touch..
Has anyone faced a similar problem or have any suggestions? What is the optimum way to transfer my photos to computer? Should I store photos and videos on internal storage or on the memory card?
Thanks
mine is like this, it should be 2mb and its only 333kb
http // imgur com/r6OyL
only i did cut and paste and now left with nothing. is there way to recover it ?
That is a perfect example of what happens to my photos...
As for recovering, not too sure. NEVER CUT things you don't want to lose. COPY then delete after.
danieljamie said:
That is a perfect example of what happens to my photos...
As for recovering, not too sure. NEVER CUT things you don't want to lose. COPY then delete after.
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so based on that could i get a new phone ?
danieljamie said:
I have a few questions I hope somebody can shed some light on regarding images and videos...
Problem 2 - Photo distortion/corruption from Windows File Transfers
Also, when copying photos from the phone to computer via USB (MTP), many of the pictures become corrupted. By corrupted I mean really strange lines across the photos and colour distortions. The actual pictures taken are fine because on the phone display in the Gallery they show perfectly. It is just when copying to PC they seem to corrupt. The photos are a mixture of some on the memory card and some on the internal storage and the problem happens with both..
This has happened to me on random photos (I transferred 150 and probably 30 were corrupt). I have tried this on two computers, one that has Kies installed and the Samsung Galaxy S3 Toolkit installed, and another computer that has no drivers installed apart from the ones Windows installs.
The file transfers were using Windows Explorer. I also tried with Kies and had the same problem.
Never had any corruption at all ever .
You may have something else working in the background during copy ????
jje
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Do you mean working in the background on the phone or the laptop?
I was transferring some background pics to my phone last night and the connection kept dropping and files became corrupt, many many files became corrupt and unusable..
This happens in both MTP mode and the "Camera mode"..
I don't understand what is going wrong.. My phone is pretty much stock apart from my NEAK kernel.. I don't have any apps using the USB..
Don't know why the files get corrupted the first couple of times you transfer the, but for automatic transfer to Dropbox, Google, and my web domain I use FolderSync. Seems to do the job without compressing any pics/videos.
slonn said:
Don't know why the files get corrupted the first couple of times you transfer the, but for automatic transfer to Dropbox, Google, and my web domain I use FolderSync. Seems to do the job without compressing any pics/videos.
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Thanks I will use that app for dropbox sync, looks awesome!
I just checked and there is no compression of my Dropbox Camera Upload syncs at all. Maybe it's your ISP? Are you using 3G to do this? Orange compress and alter the quality of images downloaded on webpages over 3G. I know because I've only just switched to Three and Orange used to do this all the time to all 3G connections.
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I just checked and there is no compression of my Dropbox Camera Upload syncs at all. Maybe it's your ISP? Are you using 3G to do this? Orange compress and alter the quality of images downloaded on webpages over 3G. I know because I've only just switched to Three and Orange used to do this all the time to all 3G connections.
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You are 100% sure that your photos taken at 8MP remain at 8MP after using Dropbox Camera-Upload option?
Standard dropbox upload should remain at 8MP, but the camera-upload function that automatically uploads photos as you take them, that compresses them I think?
Do you experience any of the USB problems I ask about?
Hi all!
I've a big question:
I've wiped external memory of my Nexus One.
Now when I import all my pics and videos from via usb I get a lot of chaos. All my vids are at the beginning of the gallery, no sort cryteria.
How can I walkaround this issue?
At this moment I'm importing my backup via AirDroid...dunno if it could works.
Thanks
Ok, Airdroid doesn't solve anything.
Hi, I cannot find a thread on this for our 2012 Xperias.
I bought an app while my Sola had Gingerbread, and it synced pretty well. Since the ICS update I've had many problems. I contacted the dev of the app and they said that UMS which was used with 2.3 and earlier was much better able to do the job, and that they find many problems with MTP which is used in ICS and later.
I've just tried using only UMS, having changed connectivity settings in my phone and now other problems are appearing (drivers, not recognising the device, not syncing again etc.). I may go back to 2.3 for this - I bought a good SD for over 30GB of data that I like to sync.
Has anyone else found this problem, or found a tip or solution?
Have tried the SONY software for sync.
You can backup all your data on your phone an sd card on your hard disk..
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I've been having better luck with the mass storage mode, this time, no issues cropped up like previously. Syncing is definitely faster. MTP by comparisson is useless for significant syncing in my experience.
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I've been having better luck with the mass storage mode, this time, no issues cropped up like previously. Syncing is definitely faster. MTP by comparisson is useless for significant syncing in my experience.
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Seconded. UMS are faster and better, sometimes drive is unreadable in MTP mode without having unlocking the screen.
As an update to all the testing...
I recommend giving up MTP mode if you sync much music/data. I've been testing exclusively with MSC mode and while it's not perfect, it's a lot less trouble than MTP.
I'm almost finished with my 32GB SD and looking for a 64GB Class 10, with this much data transfer, I just need things to work. :good:
Im getting fed up of zune syncing every single photo ive ever taken on my phone every time I want to get a couple of photos across.
I use my phone for work and take photos when visiting customers, I would like to copy them to my laptop and then delete them from my device. But I dont really want all my personal photos on this laptop. However when i plug the phone in it starts syncing absolutely everything. This is despiet selecting 'items i choose' under Picture syncing options. I will then delete pictures from the phone to then find that it resyncs them again anyway.
Now, when i plugged my phone in before it used to flash up on screen with a couple of options, one being mass storage device. I never tried it but i wanted to press this to see if i can just copy across (and then delete from my phone memory) the pictures i need rather than syncing. But i cannot get it to appear when i plug in the cable anymore.
Does anyone have any ideas about where it is?
I am trading an old iPhone 4s for an Evo LTE tonight and I just wanted to make sure I will be able to access both the Internal storage and SD card via MTP on my Mac. I used a GS3 for a short time and the only way to access any of the storage on that thing was using AirDroid and some crappy card reader I bought at Fry's. It worked okay, but I really miss MSM Kies and AFT all failed to connect to my Mac. And yes, I use a Mac before anyone starts talking smack LOL! I love Apple, Android, and Windows, I am I fanboy of technology!! All my music and movies or on my Mac BTW.
If anyone has a quick sure fire way to plug and play with my Mac I would appreciate it. I don't want to be up all night adding movies and music in pure disgust
Thanks.
I am a Mac user, and not familiar at all with the programs you mentioned. I'll look them up after I answer your question.
Assuming you are going to root the phone and install a custom recovery (TWRP is my recovery of choice), you will have access to both internal (sd0) and external (sd1) storage when mounted via usb in recovery.
Otherwise, just mounting the phone through usb, I only hace access to the internal storage. THere may be another way to get to external storage that I am not aware of, but this method is working fine for me.
Good luck.
ETA: If all you are looking to do is sync your new phone to itunes, there are apps in the playstore that can handle that. Too lazy to look them up for you; just wanted to point you in the right direction.