Hi, i have a xperia ray with rom Iced Bean 3,4. My phone is rooted and has bootloader unlocked.
Yesterday it occurs a weird thing, i did more or less 20 pictures and i can look it normally in the gallery...but for 4 of these 20 it's impossible to do everything (copy, modify, set as desktop image and so on...)!
I connected the phone with the pc (to save them) but they are not present in DCIM, the folder where whole other pictures are stored!
How can this is possible? How can i recover these pictures?
Thanks a lot :good:
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Good day Everyone,
I bought my own sony ericsson XPERIA X8 smart phone just a couple of weeks ago. I find it really easy to use and very user friendly. However, there are just some problems I am experiencing at the moment.
First - Camera and Pictures (and Picture Rotation)
I found out that when you take PORTRAIT pictures, it is saved as LANDSCAPE and vice versa... is there any way to change it? like if you take Portrait Pictures, you no longer have to flip your phone in a landscape view and vice versa?
Another thing is that is there a way to rotate pictures with this phone? I still have to download adobe photoshop in android market in order to do that...
Second - Wallpaper
This is another issue I want to open up. I tried using my pictures in my album as wallpaper. Usually XPERIA X8 would ask you to crop the picture or choose which area of the picture you want to make as wallpaper. The problem is you cannot choose the whole picture itself. I also tried using pictures that are taken from the camera and still the same...
Third - Storage
I just would like to ask where does XPERIA X8 store APPS downloaded from Android Market? is it in its phone storage or in its SD Card? I downloaded quite a few APPS and I've been notified for having low storage capacity... I have a 2GB SD Card... And how can I change it so that it will save the APPS in SD Card?
Fourth - DOWNLOADS
I also would like to ask where can I download useful APPS, Games, etc for this phone? of course aside from going to Android Market...
Fifth - REMOVING APPS
I bought this phone in Taiwan and I notice that there are default APPS that are in Taiwan's language which is not useful to me... I wan't to delete them but I can't because unlike APPS that I downloaded, it will only have a button CLEAR CACHE... not like the downloaded APPS that has UNINSTALL button. Is there a way to delete these APPS in my phone?
Your help will be deeply appreciated... tnx much!!!
Welcome there
First: there are quiet many other camera app beside built in app..like Vignette,360 camera (if not mistaken)..
Second: 3.2 mp camera have 2000x2000 picture size (if not mistaken also)..its more big then our X8 [email protected] y even u snape from phone,your pic will have a size of 2000x2000 and that y u still have to crop
Third: there is app that can move ur app from internal to SD card..BUT..it required u to root ur device..app like app2sd and link2sd.
Fourth: I'm very sure you know how to used Google.com just type "app for android" there you go
Fifth: There also app that can remove built in app..BUT..this app also required a rooted device..which is TitaniumBackup.
I hope already answer all ur question
Ok my phone was having issues so i wanted to do a hard reset. All my photos were saved to internal memory, so i copied all the photos from the camera folder and saved them to my computer.
I then formatted the entire phone and hard reset. Now i didnt notice, but when i go to look at the photos on my comp, about half of them say "no image available" when you click on them. Its weird b/c its not from the beggining or end of the dates, but more like in the middle that the images wont work.
They still say .jpg on all of them, and look like they should work ei file size and file name. No matter what prog i use i cant open then, even if i transfer back to the phone. Normally i wouldnt care, but they are my babys pics from the day she was born, so please help!!
Hey bud,
Check out Recuva. It should do the trick [Link Below].
Instructions:
1. Install the software and drivers for your phone if you haven't already.
2. Connect your device to your computer and mount your SD card.
3. Run the recovery wizard and select "deep scan."
4. Wait 10-20 minutes for the scan (depending on card size).
5. Watch all your deleted files come back like magic.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Good luck!
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Will this work even tho they were saved to my internal phone storage? I just dont see why some of my camera photos saved just fine to my comp and some didnt. I mean they look just like the other pics, just wont show an image when opened?
Im trying you program now....
No that program did not work. It found all my photos except the ones i need.
Just so weird that i copied the whole "camera" folder and all but some pics from the middle of the selection worked. Just the baby pics i want dont work. This really sucks.
Nope, it doesn't work for phone storage only SD cards/hard drives.
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?
Folks,
I have been using a few of the Jellybean ROMs and ever since I have had trouble downloading pictures from the Phone to the camera. With the ICS roms my PC would assign them driver letters. But with each Jellybean rom I tried they dont show up as drive letters. They show up and I can browser to them. However my camer's DCIM is empty (Computer\SAMSUNG-SGH-I717\Internal storage\DCIM\Camera)
Even thought I have about 150 pictures in it. When i double check using the built in gallery app on my phone they are all there. But for the life of me I can not figure out why I can no longer see them in Window Explorer. I thought about importing them... But I have an SD card with about 1000s hi res backgrounds and i do NOT want to re import them.
Clearing the media cache and rebooting seemed to fix this (all pictures are now visible).
Today I got my new GS4, and was going to make sure all my stuff was backed up from my GS2 before I turned on my new phone. I went into "accounts" from contacts and checked the box for "auto-sync app data" (this is the only thing I did, period, since I was viewing my photos only about an hour earlier) and then connected my phone to the PC so I could back up all my photos. When I did, all the photos "loaded" but I could not actually view them, merely their file name. So I unmounted from the PC and went into gallery on my phone, only to find every single photo, both internal and on sd was replaced with a grey box and I cant view them. I have since reconnected to my PC, and now all those folders are completely empty. If I go into gallery on my phone, it still shows my folder names with all these grey photos, but when I use a file explorer to try and view them, nothing, 0 files just like on the PC. I have NO IDEA how this could have happen, and the only link I have to something going wrong was the auto-sync box I checked. I had about 6 months of photos I didn't back up, and some VERY important and irreplaceable pics I can't get back. I was hoping someone my have an idea as to what happen/how to recover my pics. I have gone through multiple folders, and literally every single .jpg file is gone! This includes all pics taken using the camera, any screenshots I had, all photos saved from texts and websites! EVERYTHING!!!! PLEASE HELP ME GET MY MEMORIES BACK!!!!!
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Today I got my new GS4, and was going to make sure all my stuff was backed up from my GS2 before I turned on my new phone. I went into "accounts" from contacts and checked the box for "auto-sync app data" (this is the only thing I did, period, since I was viewing my photos only about an hour earlier) and then connected my phone to the PC so I could back up all my photos. When I did, all the photos "loaded" but I could not actually view them, merely their file name. So I unmounted from the PC and went into gallery on my phone, only to find every single photo, both internal and on sd was replaced with a grey box and I cant view them. I have since reconnected to my PC, and now all those folders are completely empty. If I go into gallery on my phone, it still shows my folder names with all these grey photos, but when I use a file explorer to try and view them, nothing, 0 files just like on the PC. I have NO IDEA how this could have happen, and the only link I have to something going wrong was the auto-sync box I checked. I had about 6 months of photos I didn't back up, and some VERY important and irreplaceable pics I can't get back. I was hoping someone my have an idea as to what happen/how to recover my pics. I have gone through multiple folders, and literally every single .jpg file is gone! This includes all pics taken using the camera, any screenshots I had, all photos saved from texts and websites! EVERYTHING!!!! PLEASE HELP ME GET MY MEMORIES BACK!!!!!
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Define "loaded". The sdcard mounts like a hard drive, then you copy them off. Not sure how you screw that up.
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Define "loaded". The sdcard mounts like a hard drive, then you copy them off. Not sure how you screw that up.
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When I say loaded, I mean all the file names showed up in the folder, but I could not open the picture to view it. So it looked like they were there, but the file extension didn't show as .jpg and when trying to view them it said something about how microsoft viewer was unable to display image. I never actually attempted to do the copy from phone to pc, so there was not an issue with a transfer, but something that happen prior to even connecting to the pc as far as I can tell. After disconnecting and reconnecting, however, the files don't even show as there, just says 0 files in folder when I open it. Also, its not just sd card, but literally every single file that had a .jpg extension is completely gone....this includes internal and sd, and everything from wallpapers, camera shots, pics from texts and web, everything!
You could try Disk Digger to recover the photos.
Thx for the disk digger recommendation! It was super tedious going thru over 9,000 pics of thumbnails n all kinds of bs, but I was able to get back most of my pics from the internal memory! Now just need to do it with the sd card.
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Remove your external SD card and try to access the images through a card reader. Some Sammy devices have had issues playing nice with SD cards, and the resulting behavior can be similar to what you have experienced. Technical details can be found around d the web.