I recently got my EVO 4G LTE, and have been playing with it quite extensively, as well as searching around here to find answers to what I haven't been able to figure out.
There are a few things with the camera and how it handles images that have me wondering:
1) I have shot quite a few photos in 'burst' mode. Now, on my SD card, I have a '100BURST' and a '100MEDIA' folder, with a folder in the burst directory for every set I have ever taken, even if I have deleted all the images in the collection. Is it safe to delete these folders, and what is the point on them?
2) I want to import all my old photos and videos (from my OG EVO) onto the phone, but placing them in the 100MEDIA folder will override many of the new images I have taken as they are using the same name. Is there somewhere to set the naming convention used? I see that several of my old images are using 'IMG_20120519_010400.jpg' method (from when I had MIUI ICS installed). Is there a way to switch to this naming, as it is basically 'IMG_' then the year, month, date, '_', and time? This would help keep the images in chronological order.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give me...
You can move your photos over with no problem. I just transferred my old SD Card from my Evo 3D to my EVOLTE. Obviously I got rid of all the files that no longer pertain to the EVOLTE.
Additionaly, if you erase the burst folder, it will automatically create another one as soon as you take burst photos.
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sornman said:
I recently got my EVO 4G LTE, and have been playing with it quite extensively, as well as searching around here to find answers to what I haven't been able to figure out.
There are a few things with the camera and how it handles images that have me wondering:
1) I have shot quite a few photos in 'burst' mode. Now, on my SD card, I have a '100BURST' and a '100MEDIA' folder, with a folder in the burst directory for every set I have ever taken, even if I have deleted all the images in the collection. Is it safe to delete these folders, and what is the point on them?
2) I want to import all my old photos and videos (from my OG EVO) onto the phone, but placing them in the 100MEDIA folder will override many of the new images I have taken as they are using the same name. Is there somewhere to set the naming convention used? I see that several of my old images are using 'IMG_20120519_010400.jpg' method (from when I had MIUI ICS installed). Is there a way to switch to this naming, as it is basically 'IMG_' then the year, month, date, '_', and time? This would help keep the images in chronological order.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can give me...
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Well as far as your first question, if there are no images in the folders they should be ok to delete. The camera app will probably just recreate them if it has too.
Second question. You are better off placing the images on your computer and using an application to rename your images to whatever you want. You could easily do this with adobe Lightroom. You can download the free trial which should be more than enough time (30 days) to what you need especially if you ha e lots of images to rename. I'm sure there are other alternatives like maybe Google's picasa. But I use Lightroom and it will do exactly what you want.
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Ok, I got my Thunderbolt late on Monday night and activated it Tuesday morning. This is my first Sense phone, so this is my first time dealing with HTC's custom stuff. Some of them, I like, like the People/Contacts app. But, I must be missing something with the Gallery app.
I copied my pictures from my Moto Droid over, in a folder called DCIM, to the root of the SDcard on the TB. The Sense Gallery app sees the pictures, but it doesn't show any folders. Under that DCIM folder, I had all my pictures sorted into various folders for organization. On the stock Froyo/Gingerbread gallery apps on the Droid, these folders showed up. On the HTC Gallery, it just lumps everything into one massive 500 picture 'Album'. Why? Anyway to resolve this?
Second, I think LTE may be broken. Each time I've attempted to use LTE, its failed. The Notification Bar will say 4G and have multiple bars of signal strength, but I'll have no data connectivity. My twitter feed stalls with a connection error, Flow won't update, no web browsing, etc. Speedtest app just hands at Waiting for Servers. Using the LTE On/Off app, if I switch to CDMA Auto(PRL), everything seems to work fine on 3G only. Since I've only had it two days, counting today, I haven't done full testing in multiple locations yet. 4G is supposed to be live in my city though. Any thoughts on this?
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Ok, I got my Thunderbolt late on Monday night and activated it Tuesday morning. This is my first Sense phone, so this is my first time dealing with HTC's custom stuff. Some of them, I like, like the People/Contacts app. But, I must be missing something with the Gallery app.
I copied my pictures from my Moto Droid over, in a folder called DCIM, to the root of the SDcard on the TB. The Sense Gallery app sees the pictures, but it doesn't show any folders. Under that DCIM folder, I had all my pictures sorted into various folders for organization. On the stock Froyo/Gingerbread gallery apps on the Droid, these folders showed up. On the HTC Gallery, it just lumps everything into one massive 500 picture 'Album'. Why? Anyway to resolve this?
Second, I think LTE may be broken. Each time I've attempted to use LTE, its failed. The Notification Bar will say 4G and have multiple bars of signal strength, but I'll have no data connectivity. My twitter feed stalls with a connection error, Flow won't update, no web browsing, etc. Speedtest app just hands at Waiting for Servers. Using the LTE On/Off app, if I switch to CDMA Auto(PRL), everything seems to work fine on 3G only. Since I've only had it two days, counting today, I haven't done full testing in multiple locations yet. 4G is supposed to be live in my city though. Any thoughts on this?
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Using the LTE on off app I would switch it to evdo/lte auto. That should fix it.
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For your pictures. Put each folder on the sd card seprately not in the dcim folder. All pics taken with the phone will default to dcim/100media folder but if you just put each folder right on the memory card, and label it, you will see them in the gallery like that.
also you may want to look into the app QuickPic, it will organize alow copy/paste and pic/video movement from one folder to another right in the app. no need to access your memory card. also create & rename/ delete folders from app as well.
As for the 4g issue. as posted above, go to market & download LTE OnOff and use that to switch it to CDMA + LTE/EvDO auto. You should be good
Bateluer said:
Ok, I got my Thunderbolt late on Monday night and activated it Tuesday morning.
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This is what I am confused about...
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This is what I am confused about...
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I work into the late evening. Fedex dropped the phone off after I'd left for work, I got it when I got home around midnight. I didn't feel like messing with it at half past midnight, so I did the needful tuesday morning.
Thanks for the replies, guys. I do have the LTE switch app from AndIRC, but was using the LTE Only toggle to get 4G.
On the Gallery, so I have to have a few dozen folders of pictures on my SDcard for them to show up? Seems cumbersome . . .Will test when I get home, no USB on work computers.
Edit- I can browse on 4G with the CDMA+LTE/EVDO Auto, but the Speedtest app still doesn't load. I know it gives poor results, I just wanted to run it. :/
With the quickpic app, you can try putting all your labled folders under dcim folder and then long press on folders you dont want to see and select excude from the menu options so you dont see that particular folder
You can put all the folders under dcim with quickpic. I just tested it..
For the gallery, you have to put all the different pic folders on the memory card not the dcim folder...
How do I find the cached images for recieved pics in yahoo messenger?
I checked everything on my SD card, but when I use root explorer to pull for .jpg on the phone, i get hundreds if not thousands of hits with no way to preview other than one at a time. I hope there is an easier way.
I downloaded several pics, but didnt think to change the names...they each came through at different times and were all called "image" so i guess they were over written, but isnt there a cached image of every picture viewed whether I saved them or not?
Thanks for your help.
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So i have been using the auto upload of images since the start of the year. I decided i would just double check that all my images got uploaded just in case..
I take a look at my drop box and at my phone and all the images are named differently
For example
Phone:IMG_20120207_154821.jpg
Dropbox:2012-02-07 21.48.20.jpg
That is the same picture but named way differently.....
Not sure how to clean this mess or get rid of dupes without deleting some singles etc.....
All 2,000 pictures and videos are named differently like that.
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after some better google searches i see others having an issue with this...
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=56857
etc
I started off with the original Droid, and I remember when you would go into the gallery, the videos and photos YOU took separated themselves into different folders. Since then I haven't had a single android device that did that. Now It's just one big folder of your videos and photos in a big mess and I can't find them. Is there anything i can do to have it separate everything automatically like it use to? An app, an option? I feel like it's a huge step back and annoyance and right now i'm doing it manually every time i take a video. Thanks.
Is your gallery set on "Albums"at the top? There's too many different arrangement settings lol Also check out "quick pic" from the play store seems more responsive than stock gallery IMO.
edit: NM I see what your saying. Don't see anyway to push videos into separate folders taken from phone besides manually moving them.
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Ok so I guess this isn't specifically for the M8.. but I need some help. I've had my m8 for a while now but never properly copied over everything from my old phone. All of my old pictures in particular are still on my old phone. Well, most of them copied over.. but not the way I want. Basically, what I want is to get all of my pictures, and all of the different albums to just transfer from internal to SD so that I can just load it in my M8.
I don't remember what I did exactly, but most of my old pictures transferred over to my M8 all grouped into one album. I also don't want to use dropbox or do this over the internet. I thought Quickpic would've been easy to just select all and copy over.. but not that I could figure out. I suppose I could create new folders on my SD card and then use quickpic to copy them individually... but not ideal. Is there an easier way??
Also, unfortunately, my old phone will not connect to my computer, or else I'd use that.
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Ok so I guess this isn't specifically for the M8.. but I need some help. I've had my m8 for a while now but never properly copied over everything from my old phone. All of my old pictures in particular are still on my old phone. Well, most of them copied over.. but not the way I want. Basically, what I want is to get all of my pictures, and all of the different albums to just transfer from internal to SD so that I can just load it in my M8.
I don't remember what I did exactly, but most of my old pictures transferred over to my M8 all grouped into one album. I also don't want to use dropbox or do this over the internet. I thought Quickpic would've been easy to just select all and copy over.. but not that I could figure out. I suppose I could create new folders on my SD card and then use quickpic to copy them individually... but not ideal. Is there an easier way??
Also, unfortunately, my old phone will not connect to my computer, or else I'd use that.
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I don't know if you tried this or not but, if you are on a stock Rom, choose the "get content from another phone" in settings. The catch is you will need to get the HTC transfer tool from the play store on the old phone. Once you do that follow the instructions. This method will transfer a lot more than just photos. You get to choose what to transfer. It works really well.
You should just be able to use any Android file manager to copy, move, create the albums/folders however you like. And then the M8 should just pick up the new albums. I'm a little confused on what the issue is?
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I don't know if you tried this or not but, if you are on a stock Rom, choose the "get content from another phone" in settings. The catch is you will need to get the HTC transfer tool from the play store on the old phone. Once you do that follow the instructions. This method will transfer a lot more than just photos. You get to choose what to transfer. It works really well.
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Thanks so much. I thought I used that already, but clearly not. This worked perfectly and was no hassle.
redpoint73 said:
You should just be able to use any Android file manager to copy, move, create the albums/folders however you like. And then the M8 should just pick up the new albums. I'm a little confused on what the issue is?
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I was hoping to find a way where I didn't have to manually go in and find all of my folders, then create new ones on the sd card, then copy over each folder individually... huge hassle.
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I was hoping to find a way where I didn't have to manually go in and find all of my folders, then create new ones on the sd card, then copy over each folder individually... huge hassle.
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I don't see that as a huge hassle, unless you have a lot of folders in different places. And if so, why? I suppose you are free to organize your files however works best for you. But just having them in a couple master folders like DCIM and/or Pictures seems the most logical IMO. And if that is the case, just migrating them even manually is just going to be a few taps and take a few minutes.
In any case, glad you found a solution that worked for you. But it looks like the HTC Transfer Tool is cloud/internet based which I thought you were trying to avoid?
The HTC tool was Wi-Fi direct using the m8s connection which I was much more comfortable using instead of hosting everything in a company's site.
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The HTC tool was Wi-Fi direct using the m8s connection which I was much more comfortable using instead of hosting everything in a company's site.
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Gotcha. WiFi based, not internet based. My mistake. Thanks for clarifying!