Hey guys,
I want to perform a complete DFG fix on my S3 (running SlimBean), so I want to free up as much memory as I possibly can. I have 3.7GB worth of photos and videos - is there a proper way to perform a backup and restore while keeping the date organization?
As a test I transferred my S3's DCIM folder to my Nexus 7's. The result was that the gallery was disorganized, where some of the videos where clumped together in the front, and images taken last year appearing before recent pictures.
So is there a way to restore the gallery while keeping the date organization of the photos and videos?
Thanks for the help!
You should have backed up with Dropbox... but any ways... you can still just copy paste to your computer. it will just change the modify date in your picture cata. Created date will stay untouched...
I have a backup on my PC + Google+. That's not the problem. I am worried that when I restore the images, I will loose the picture's data organization as it is now, sort of by when I took the pictures.
I guess there is no proper way.
mufaa said:
I have a backup on my PC + Google+. That's not the problem. I am worried that when I restore the images, I will loose the picture's data organization as it is now, sort of by when I took the pictures.
I guess there is no proper way.
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Shouldn't this information be stored in the picture itself, talking about date when taken etc.?
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Just copy and paste all the data you need to back up on your computer and copy them back afterwards.
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Shouldn't this information be stored in the picture itself, talking about date when taken etc.?
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I would assume so, but as I said in my original post, when I had transferred all the images on my Nexus 7, as a test, the gallery wasn't organized correctly, where some of the videos where clumped together in the front, along with some old pictures, followed then by the new pictures.
I am assuming I will face the same issue when I restore my pictures on the S3, and that's something I want to avoid.
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When I go to a website that has pictures, the images automatically save on my phone? Anyone know why.
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That is why I had those pictures of security signs and stuff..what site were you on because mine mainly saved pictures from newegg?
jajuan said:
When I go to a website that has pictures, the images automatically save on my phone? Anyone know why.
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They are automatically saved? Do you select them first or is it upon entering the site?
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That is why I had those pictures of security signs and stuff..what site were you on because mine mainly saved pictures from newegg?
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jajuan said:
When I go to a website that has pictures, the images automatically save on my phone? Anyone know why.
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where are you seeing those pictures automatically saved?
the first thing that comes to my mind .. as i know i've pulled all image files off my phone and came up with a lot of cached images from the browser.
the android browser, like most web browser keeps a cache on the /data partition (and maybe also /sdcard?) in its respective application directory. inside this cache will be images and web sites viewed, just like the cache kept on a desktop/laptop/netbook computer when using chrome/firefox/internet explorer browsers.
hopefully that makes sense. there are apps and scripts out there which can clean out these cache directories to free up space, if needed. i haven't used any of them as i generally end up wiping my /data partition a bit too frequently from developing and testing android stuff!
if you are seeing these images appear in your gallery app, the easiest fix i'm aware of is adding a simple, empty file named .nomedia in the directory. make sure to put the period in the front of that name as its a linux convention to hide the file and the gallery app is hard coded to ignore all images in directories with a .nomedia file.
hope that helps!
Hi,
I have Galaxy nexus, and I just bought a S3, i want to switch my whole data to S3, Pictures, Music, Videos and App data.
Any easy way?
Root both devices, install Titanium Backup on both. Backup all apps on your old phone, move TitaniumBackup folder to your new phone, restore all apps. That will give you all the installed apps + data.
While you're at it, you can also copy all data on your old phone's memory to the new one. That should transfer the remaining data (photos, videos, etc). Phone settings like probably won't get transfered though (ringtone settings, wallpapers, etc) as they depend on the rom and are hard to transfer.
member68 said:
Root both devices
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If you haven't already unlocked bootloader, you'll need to use a method that doesn't wipe data.
This is one recent possibility.
I wouldn't put data from a Gnex tothe s3. And ur apps will DL as soon as u log in gmail or market.
Thanks Everyone
I managed to transfer apps by the method you mentioned, now i need to move pictures, music and videos
I dont want to root my S3
Can't you just use a computer?
Deusdies said:
Can't you just use a computer?
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I did that as my last resolution, I was looking for something like the option RIM got in it's application
its always best to manually transfer Pictures, music and videos . "Cut & Move"
bala_gamer said:
its always best to manually transfer Pictures, music and videos . "Cut & Move"
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Agree, just to elaborate this folder is DCIM usually. I'd recommend not copying over your data from titanium and do a clean start.
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Hi! Could anyone suggest what should I do if my older photos disappeard from my gallery? I made a Fix permissions and an FXP133 reinstall (without any wipe, because I was an idiot and I wanted to replace the Contacts app but I failed and I couldn't restore the original Contacts app so I thought maybe if I reinstall only the ROM, it will working again). Before and after the reinstall I made a permissions fix in ROM manager. Now the Contacts app working, but I found that all of my older photos disappeard from the Gallery. It shows only those photos which have been made since the reinstall/perm. fix and my Picasa web albums. I checked in the file manager and all the photos are still there, but I can't make the gallery to show those photos... Should I reinstall the whole ROM again with wipe or there is an easier solution with less work? Thanks
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Hi! Could anyone suggest what should I do if my older photos disappeard from my gallery? I made a Fix permissions and an FXP133 reinstall (without any wipe, because I was an idiot and I wanted to replace the Contacts app but I failed and I couldn't restore the original Contacts app so I thought maybe if I reinstall only the ROM, it will working again). Before and after the reinstall I made a permissions fix in ROM manager. Now the Contacts app working, but I found that all of my older photos disappeard from the Gallery. It shows only those photos which have been made since the reinstall/perm. fix and my Picasa web albums. I checked in the file manager and all the photos are still there, but I can't make the gallery to show those photos... Should I reinstall the whole ROM again with wipe or there is an easier solution with less work? Thanks
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I sometimes get something similar on my stock ICS where the camera, gallery or any other similar apps show the photos, videos or music that's on my sdcard.
I'm not sure what causes it, but I think it's an issue with the sdcard indexing. It's generally fixed by either deleting a picture (make a copy of one and delete it) or by adding a new one. That normally forces the phone to reindex the sdcard and everything turns up again. Sometimes I need to reboot first, but the issue doesn't last for too long anyway since I'm always taking pictures or downloading stuff.
It's a good excuse to make sure your sdcard is backed up though.
Thanks, but that way is not working for me, because since this problem cam up, I already made at least 15 photos, deleted some and not just the rest did not come back, but the new ones also getting disappear constantly... :S and meanwhile I already re-flashed the kernel and re-installed the whole fresh ROM (CM9 FXP133) with full wipe (fact. reset, cache p., dalvik) and the gallery still doesn't show the older/newer photos... So yes, now I think that the problem will be somewhere in my SD card too... I think I will backup my stuff and make a full format, that's my last hope... :/
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Okay, it worked. I formatted my miniSD card and restored the most important stuff. Now the gallery shows the photos again. Hurray
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Okay, it worked. I formatted my miniSD card and restored the most important stuff. Now the gallery shows the photos again. Hurray
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That's good to know. Must have been a bad memory card. A lesson to us all..back up your phone!
Yes, sadly something definitely wrong with my SD card... And this is not the 1st case. Earlier, after a simple data transport from notebook to SD card (which I have already done a million times), my phone (and later also my notebook) couldn't recognize the card anymore... I had to format the card from windows' disk manager manually to make it work again. I hoped that it was just an accident, but after this problem which also caused by the card, I think I have to buy a new card shortly... (After 11 months using...)
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the same happened when I flashed new sony firmware latest ICS
My friend is kinda desperate. She accidentally deleted around 1000 photos on Dropbox. Her SII contains all these photos but thing is, the.screen is broken. That means she can't type in her PIN and recover her photos in the ordinary way. Is there a software to access the phone and go around some way? Ofc she really hates that these photos disappeared.
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My friend is kinda desperate. She accidentally deleted around 1000 photos on Dropbox. Her SII contains all these photos but thing is, the.screen is broken. That means she can't type in her PIN and recover her photos in the ordinary way. Is there a software to access the phone and go around some way? Ofc she really hates that these photos disappeared.
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Are the photos in sdcard/ext sd card
If yes you can use adb to recover your photos
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To my misfortune today, I found that all the photos I've taken on my phone with the exception of today's are wiped. Is there a way for me to recover the data? This is a very serious problem as I am in Paris on a trip... thank you all in advance for all your help, and before someone says whether or not I wiped the photos, no, I didn't do any sort of accidental user input to wipe anything...
That's odd. I'm not sure. Do you use Google photos or other service as a backup?
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Thanks for the response, I used to on my old phone, but I haven't had a chance to set it up yet at the time. After this impromptu data loss happened, I just set it up again, but it's too late for those lost photos. I don't think it's a hardware corruption on the SD card because my music and gameboy ROMs are intact. I think something in the software just wiped all the photos up to a certain point, that point being the last day of my trip. Anything before it is gone.
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Thanks for the response, I used to on my old phone, but I haven't had a chance to set it up yet at the time. After this impromptu data loss happened, I just set it up again, but it's too late for those lost photos. I don't think it's a hardware corruption on the SD card because my music and gameboy ROMs are intact. I think something in the software just wiped all the photos up to a certain point, that point being the last day of my trip. Anything before it is gone.
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I'm not saying it's impossible that they're deleted, but it's not a very common thing to happen... Did you check that they're not locked in the stock gallery or haven't been renamed to a different file type?
As far as I'm aware, you can't restore deleted files without root.
I just got my photos back using Dr. Fone, root is required to pull the photos straight off but I just took out the SD card and the program can attempt to pull the photos off directly. Out if my 700+ photos only about 20 were permanently corrupted. I totally didn't expect this to happen and I am now curious whether this was Android's fault or LG's. I did have to pay 50 dollars for Dr. Fone.
It is also possible, since you're stating that you were using an SD card, that the card got corrupted. In that case it's not a fault of the phone, most likely
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It is also possible, since you're stating that you were using an SD card, that the card got corrupted. In that case it's not a fault of the phone, most likely
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Good point, but I'd expect corruption to wipe more than just my photos. I say this because I am storing my music on the phone too, and all that as well as my PSP and Gameboy ROMs are still completely intact. It's like the phone just decided to wipe all my photos up to a certain point.
So I guess a fair warning to all, use some kind of background backup service like Google Photos.
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Good point, but I'd expect corruption to wipe more than just my photos. I say this because I am storing my music on the phone too, and all that as well as my PSP and Gameboy ROMs are still completely intact. It's like the phone just decided to wipe all my photos up to a certain point.
So I guess a fair warning to all, use some kind of background backup service like Google Photos.
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Corruption can happen in various forms. It is completely possible that your file table sectors got corrupted, essentially "deleting" your Photos folder.
There's loads of programs you can use to recover deleted files from drives. This is a good place to start but there are tons. Just be careful where you download them from.
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/best-free-data-recovery-tools-1321723
Yes the problem is the delete icon when you open up the gallery, you can miss one delete of a pic and mistakenly hit select all and boom all pics gone, happened to me on a trip with my g3 i didn't notice it in the spur of the moment taking pictures and when i tried to show of my awesome shots i noticed i deleted alllll of my pics and they were a looooot and i tried to recover them but most got corrupted and the only saved ones were the thumbnail cache for the real pics rendering them useless since they were small