[Q] batch exif geotag remover? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is there an app like that? I'd like to:
Browse all my photos (thumbnails)
Select some (or all) that do have geotag info (so those thumbnails need to be clearly marked as such)
Remove geotag info from all selected in one swoop - remove from ORIGINALS, leaving the rest of EXIF data and the file timestamp untouched. Simply, make it as if the photos were taken with the geotagging turned off.
I found the app "geoLLERY", which does 1 and 2 ok (having to navigate to the gallery folder every time is annoying though), but doesn't do batch and actually doesn't remove the geotag but lets you fake it.
Another question, if I may: Does anyone know a reason why the camera app would turn the geotagging option back ON, without me going to the camera options and setting it explicitly? I'd post it in ViperXL thread, since that's what I have on my HTC One XL, but I'm not allowed to.

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[Q] Gallery

Hi. Well it has taken me forever to figure out where I should copy my pictures and music so that they show up on my device when I access via music and gallery. The on e thing I do not like is how my pictures have been catalogued...when I access my gallery pictures are sequenced as '1 (24)', '1 (8), '10 (2)', etc. I much preferred how the HTC DHD displayed theirs and wonder if there is an app that would allow me to alter how pictures are displayed? Scott

[app]Vault-Hide SMS ,Pics & Videos

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With Vault, you can:
1. NEW in 2.0! Monitor who’s trying to see what’s on your phone and photograph them in the act. This feature requires an Android 2.3 (or higher) device with a front-facing camera.
2. NEW in 2.0! Hide your photos and videos so only you can see them. They’ll be encrypted and only viewable in Vault when you enter the correct password.
3. Import your sensitive SMS text messages to Vault. Strong encryption and password protection ensures they’ll be hidden from everyone but you.
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what's this theme on the screenshots?
This app lost all of my contacts that I stored in it and since it deletes them from your android contacts I can't get them back. Photo/video seems to work but definitely would not recommend this app for anything you wouldn't want lost.
despotisminc said:
This app lost all of my contacts that I stored in it and since it deletes them from your android contacts I can't get them back. Photo/video seems to work but definitely would not recommend this app for anything you wouldn't want lost.
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you must return to your settings before uninstall the app... i did the same mistake first time but my luck was that i chose to hide only the videos... so before uninstalling turn back to show contacts, videos, and other things that you selected to hide
I think you have a folder on your sdcard (the app folder) and there must be the things that you chose to hide.. cheek it
i have format my hp without backup my file on vault 1st...then after format i install vault back...my old file cannot open...please help me to recover back my file...
Does anyone know of an app that can actually hide other apps?
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Needs a file explorer. I have videos that I need hidden, but the app can't find them.
Help
I accidently cleared the Data of this app… I've reinstalled it, but it doesn't show the previous ones :'(
What should I do ?
I've searched that long time
Thanks a lot

[Q] Geotagging and no coordinates in EXIF

Hi,
I own a Samsung Galaxy S4 with CyanogenMod 12 (12-20150420-NIGHTLY-jfltexx). I've been using the standard Camera app (reports itself as com.android.camera2, v2.0.002) for the last few days with geotagging enabled. When I open a photo in Gallery app and choose "Show on map", it does indeed open Google Maps and show the photo's position correctly. But when I download the photos to my computer and try to use them anywhere else, like in "photos" on Google, it cannot recognize the geotag. I checked with some EXIF viewer if it has some GPS data written in the EXIF header: no latitude and longitude data, only two fields: GpsImgDirRef and GpsImgDir which are meant to store the direction where the camera was looking.
My questions are:
Where is the geotag stored? Is it somewhere in the file (which sounds obvious) or maybe anywhere else? I've just browsed through the source code of Gallery app and it seems to use Cursor and some queries, which seems like some database/SQLite stuff? I didn't dig deep enough to find out exactly.
How can I retrieve the GPS data for all the photos at once or - which would be best - save my photos with a proper, standard EXIF fields for GPS data?
I'm attaching one of such photos. When I choose "Show on map" in the Gallery app, it shows Google Maps with these coordinates: (60.908626,7.212069).
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!
I almost have the SAME problem with my Galaxy S4. The phone itself stores EXIF GeoTag location in decimal with maximum precision, whereas the image transfered to PC shows coordinates in degree/min/sec format WITHOUT fraction of seconds, which misleads exact position to be set.
See here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/geotag-decimal-coordinate-precision-t3663080
Any help is appreciated.

Recommendation for Photos app

So like most people, I take lots of photos on my phone.
I'd like the following:
1. Local backup of original photos
2. Photos in albums online
3. Ability to securely share (ie. not public link)
4. Mirror of photos on phone so I can view without internet (lower quality cached version is fine)
This is my current process.
1. Sort through and delete crappy photos
2. Adjust photo RGB curves for dynamic range (A Better Camera would do this automatically, but my new phone doesnt support it)
3. Copy photos to computer.
4. Sometimes I filter them through Noise Ninja, if I do, then I copy the new ones back to my phone.
5. Sort them into folders/albums
6. Upload via Picasa
Now I can view photos on the web or phone sorted into albums.
Problems:
1. Picasa wont upload at the new higher quality
2. Process is tedious
3. Google Photos doesnt seem to keep a cached copy so what's left on my phone is the original camera roll which isnt sorted into albums. I could do that ofcourse, but then I'm doing everything twice.
4. No "auto-back" so if I ever lose my phone, I lose whatever I have processed yet.
Google Photos seems pretty good if I use their auto-backup. I could then copy all the photos to my computer as well so I have a backup of the originals. However, then I still have to sort into albums twice.
I'd appreciate any suggestions that would allow me to do what I'm looking for.

Recover

Hello Everyone!
Due to finding no Ringtones to allot to my new email, and only a lot of files in that location, I stupidly removed the files to see if the ringtones would then appear. They didn’t”! I now seem to have deleted most of my photos in my Samsung Galaxy S4 Active mobile Gallery along with all the recorded data on my S Memo pages. And, probably, many other items that I have not yet discovered as missing!
I have downloaded an App called DiskDigger for photos. It has pulled up over 1,000 photos, some of which are duplicates or more. On wading through them and choosing an awful lot to restore, I am given the following choices where to restore them to - Bluetooth, Email, 3 named emails, Save as, Save to Drive, WhatsApp, WiFi Direct. However, once again I found a problem as I cannot move the number of my selected photos to the apps as there are too many chosen photos. I therefore took the second option and selected a named file.
That done, I found that they had ‘miraculously’ appeared in my Gallery! A further search and selection will, hopefully, repeat that.
I then downloaded an app that supposedly recovers documents named, strangely enough, 'Document Recovery'! It has recovered some documents which are proving a little difficult to open successfully to read. They go to a blank page after the indication that they are - 'Loading' - 'Opening' - then nothing!
I would also seek advice about a way to recover the details previously recorded on the S.Memory pages, if possible, (an app that works like a notebook where text etc can be written and saved.) and how to successfully open the documents recovered by Document Recovery and placed in an automatically named “All Recovered Documents” file.
Many thanks in advance for any advice!
Regards,
Colin.

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