when using my camera I can't use the gallery icon in the bottom corner of the screen, when I click it it just says "no items".
I suspect this is due to me running different firmwares such as CM7, between the different firmwares the camera gives the pictures different file names but keeps them in the same DCIM location.
Is there any software I could use to batch rename the files maybe to keep them in the same format? I'd want the dates of the photos staying intact if possible?
Please help. Thanks.
Hi...
maybe when you change your firmware you took backup all your gallery into your ext sd.
make sure that your dcim location is in your internal sd.
the gallery icon in the camera app shows only the files that are stored into your internal SD (internal storage) not at your external SD.
Try and tell me if i helped.
dcim has always been on internal sd, ive never moved it
im sure its to do with the fomat of the files, i recall having a similar issue with the camera not working on cm7. i fixed this by moving the files from dcim to a new folder and it worked straight away but i dont want to do this again...
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I understand that photos and videos taken by HTC phone are stored on sd card in DCIM folder and 100MEDIA subfolder by suitable name IMAGxxxx.jpg
By the time we have groving content in this folder.
Any idea how to split it into few folders and keep continuous photos numeration?
Once I did managed to make folders 101MEDIA, 102MEDIA etc and newly taken photos were kept in last folder but with right continuous numeration. After ICS upgrade it is not working.
Any idea how to make it work?
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Hello everyone, I was very excited to update my i9300 to 4.3 so I connected the usb to backup folder by folder all my data (downloads, some folders with photos, etc) and suddenly, everything dissappeared! Including the most important folders I haven't made a backup yet: DCIM, Music, and Whatsapp folder (Media/images I had like 1000+ photos).
I tried restarting the phone, but it only shows these folders:
Android
Application
clockworkmod
DCIM (EMPTY)
Pictures (EMPTY)
Playlists (EMPTY, as always)
WhatsApp (EMPTY)
I'm using stock sammy rom EMG 4.1.2 with siyah kernel.
Any kind of help would be really appreciated! :crying::crying::crying:
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Hey guys
Can you tell me where the photos taken by the camera are stored, if there is no SD-card is inserted?
Background: My little sister's S2 got damaged by water and the touchscreen is not working anymore.
I installed Clockworkmod, inserted a sd-card and did a backup of the phone. Afterwards I extracted the archive
on my computer BUT i couldn't find any photos form the camera.
She pretends that there have been a lot of photos in the gallery before this little accident ...
Greetings
They should be located at /sdcard/DCIM resp. /storage/sdcard/DCIM (which is the same location), but how did you do the backup? A nandroid backup? Did you look at the correct partition?
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The photos are stored on the internal USB storage in the DCIM folder
Screenshots taken on POCO F1 are getting stored under "DCIM\Screenshots".
Google Photos is automatically backing up all the folders under DCIM thinking it's the camera roll.
So all the screenshots are getting automatically uploaded to Google Photos.
Is there any workaround for this? Is anyone else facing this issue?
I do not known if this can be called "a workaround", but after installing SD card you can instruct camera to save photos on SD card, by doing this you separate actual photos (on SD card) from screenshots (still saved in internal memory) and then it should be possible to switch off back-up of internal DCIM folder.
In Google Photos Settings > Back up & Sync > Back up device folders > choose the ones you want to backup
Oh, i got what you meant.... Yep, got the same problem, haven't found any workaround except maybe using third party apps to take screenshots.
katoda_ltd said:
I do not known if this can be called "a workaround", but after installing SD card you can instruct camera to save photos on SD card, by doing this you separate actual photos (on SD card) from screenshots (still saved in internal memory) and then it should be possible to switch off back-up of internal DCIM folder.
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"switch off back-up of internal DCIM folder" - is not an option in google photos
I was hoping that after change of default camera folder, internal DCIM folder will be treated as any other folder, where you can switch of-on Google Photos backup. I was able finally to do some tests on Sunday and unfortunately, I was wrong. Even with default camera folder on SD card, internal DCIM folder is still treated as camera folder, without possibility to no backup.
Have you tried creating ".nomedia" named file inside the said directory? Do try that, it should work.
Whenever I get new phone, I create these files in all directories from where I wouldn't want my whatsapp photos, music, ringtones to show up in gallery, photos and music apps.
You can use ES manager to create that. Just go to the required folder, create new > select text and rename it to ".nomedia" without quotes. As the name starts with a period, it becomes a hidden file and won't show up.
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Edit: I tried it myself and it doesn't work. Maybe nomedia file should exit under DCIM but then it will probably stop new photos showing up in photos app.
.nomedia doesnt work.
. nomedia file works for the phone gallery but not for Google photos. Either Google allows lets it's users to unselect DCIM subfolders or Xiaomi moves its screenshot folder out of DCIM.
I really wonder why the developers are not doing anything about it.
This is so damn true. God knows when Xiaomi gonna fix this matter. Why more people are not raising voice for this issue I've no idea.
If it is causing such anguish and trouble, why don't all of you raise it in mi forums where Xiaomi developers are sure to see it?