Is there a way to change the filename format of the pictures that the stock camera saves?
It uses a filename of MMDDYYxxx (MONTH DAY YEAR then 4 digit number)
I would prefer to have it be YYYMMDDxxx (YEAR MONTH DAY then any identifier). Preferable with the year being a 4 digit number.
I'm also interested in this. I hate the way it names pictures. It makes things difficult when you sort by filename in a directory listing.
I've changed the date format under Settings > Date & time > Select date format > to MMMM/DD/YY but it has zero effect on the way the camera names files.
So frustrating. Samsungs camera does filenames about perfectly. example: 20140827_135746
They even add down to the second on the name. LG just adds a letter if it's a picture taken within the same minute.
edit: Dang. Even looking clear back to my original Droid1 they had this correct. Filenames were "2010-01-29 21.26.14.jpg". How could LG mess this up so bad?
I just ditched the stock camera for Google Camera. The weird date format and always asking if I want to delete the photo after swiping got on my nerves. I still have the LG camera opening by holding volume down when screen is locked though.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.GoogleCamera
JMooney5115 said:
I just ditched the stock camera for Google Camera. The weird date format and always asking if I want to delete the photo after swiping got on my nerves. I still have the LG camera opening by holding volume down when screen is locked though.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.GoogleCamera
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Does the google camera make use of the Laser Focus and OIS?
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Does the google camera make use of the Laser Focus and OIS?
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I'm not sure about the laser focus. The OIS is built into the lense and is still functional as it is built into the lens, and by the looks of me recording it works.
However, I haven't played with it enough to tell a difference in quality of picture taking
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I'm not sure about the laser focus. The OIS is built into the lense and is still functional as it is built into the lens, and by the looks of me recording it works.
However, I haven't played with it enough to tell a difference in quality of picture taking
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Meh. I think, if I keep the phone, I'll look for a script that converts the filenames into a more normal format before I save them to my desktop or switch phones. Not much I can do about Google+ but I hope it's smart enough not to duplicate.
I am pretty sure it is not.
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Just an FYI: I went into Settings > Date & Time > Select date format > and choose YYYY/MM/DD and it had no effect on the stock cameras file naming scheme.
I would love to use a 3rd party camera but I doubt it would make use of the LG's laser focus.
LaTropa64 said:
I'm also interested in this. I hate the way it names pictures. It makes things difficult when you sort by filename in a directory listing.
I've changed the date format under Settings > Date & time > Select date format > to MMMM/DD/YY but it has zero effect on the way the camera names files.
So frustrating. Samsungs camera does filenames about perfectly. example: 20140827_135746
They even add down to the second on the name. LG just adds a letter if it's a picture taken within the same minute.
edit: Dang. Even looking clear back to my original Droid1 they had this correct. Filenames were "2010-01-29 21.26.14.jpg". How could LG mess this up so bad?
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Man, I have the LG G4 and this is a serious issue. Now I have 2 major deal breakers for me that are probably a 1 hour fix for LG:
1) Camera file naming (terrible thing, we had a hail the other day and my wife and I took pictures with our G4s. now I am organizing the photos, the names are messed up, I have not manually rename until I get it right, and even then the date stamp on the photo is messed up so it shows up in the wrong order. Add all this to Google being cheap and not wanting the normal SMB format in the phones, when I copy using the cable the date stamp on the pictures also changes)
2) Auto Brightness. Which is beyond a serious deal.
I cant believe LG just ignores major issues like this.
The magic happens in LGCameraApp/smali/com/lge/camera/file/FileNamer.smali
Id love to fart around with this but in two days im off to Nexus heaven. Good luck to anyone that embarks on this challenge.
I know this is an old posting, but I just stumbled across it now because I am dealing with this image file naming convention myself, but with a G4. There are certainly a bunch of solutions for automating the renaming process, but instead of reinventing the wheel, a very simple CLI tool that can do this is called jhead (http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/). To rename images to something more easily understandable like YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS format, here's the syntax:
jhead -n%Y%m%d_%H%M%S *.JPG
If you still want to preserve the original file name, you can always just tack it on as a suffix with the following syntax:
jhead -n%Y%m%d_%H%M%S--%f *.JPG
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I found this on a French site, by changing the registry you get an extra camera mode that adds current position in the EXIF part of the file!
You need to edit the key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\P9 change from 0 to 1 (P9 is the Geocoding profile).
No need to soft reset, just go into the camera and set to Geocode mode (see capture)
The files get stored in My Documents/POI (maybe so they appear in Tom Tom?).
Anybody know of cool ways to use this feature? Flickr? Googlemaps?
Sorry if this has been covered already!
Oh hell yes.....
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Oh hell yes.....
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You mean it HAS been covered? could not find anything thru search....
I could never get it to work, it says the GPS is searching, but when I look at the photos I cant find any GPS coordinate data.
Anyone else actually try it?
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I think Madhadder meant "oh hell yes I can't believe its so easy to add this feature you just made my week".
I'd like to say:
Oh hell yes!
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I could never get it to work, it says the GPS is searching, but when I look at the photos I cant find any GPS coordinate data.
Anyone else actually try it?
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I think the data is included in the file itself in a special zone that holds info on model of camera etc.
There are some applications that "place" the pictures on maps, I do not know much about this but want to find out! The ideal would be to place them on googlemaps...
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I think Madhadder meant "oh hell yes I can't believe its so easy to add this feature you just made my week".
I'd like to say:
Oh hell yes!
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Good but as much as I would love to take credit for this find, it is in fact from this site : http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=85924&whichpage=3#641517
8th post down.
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I found this on a French site, by changing the registry you get an extra camera mode that adds current position in the EXIF part of the file!
You need to edit the key : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\Camera\P9 change from 0 to 1 (P9 is the Geocoding profile).
No need to soft reset, just go into the camera and set to Geocode mode (see capture)
The files get stored in My Documents/POI (maybe so they appear in Tom Tom?).
Anybody know of cool ways to use this feature? Flickr? Googlemaps?
Sorry if this has been covered already!
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there are so many line items under that folder. Could you be more specific?
thanks..
I assume that the GPS must be turned on to give the correct position prior to taking the picture, am I right?
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there are so many line items under that folder. Could you be more specific?
thanks..
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P1-P9 are profiles for different camera modes. You'll notice that the "Enable" key is 0 in Profile 9. Change it to 1 and you should be good.
Also found this info on GPS passion, and was going to share, but never found the time....
I did the hack on my Ameo last weekend, and played around with it a little. It is ofcourse quite an amazing feature, and it does impress people that sees it, but given the quality of the camera in the Ameo, I'm not sure how usefull it will turn out to be, I would be a little embarassed to upload any Ameopics to Google at least.
Here is what I've found out sofar, if someone finds that useful.
When you start Camera, you get a new option when you choose your Photomode, called GPS. - This starts up the GPS automatically, and once it gets a fix you are ready to shoot.
The pics you then take are stored in /my documents/my Poi - which is created.
These pics will then have the GPS position included in the Exif data.
Haven't yet found a PPC software that is capable of reading these data, but if you read them with your ordinary pc, you can input them into google Maps (on PPC for instance) and it will take you there.
Picassa will read the data, and you can input them manually into your mapsoftware (the format is: xx yy' zz'' aa bb' cc'') but I would recommend "Panorado Flyer 1.2" which is a great free and small application. It gives you some new options in the context menu, so you just right-click your Gpspicture and choose "show location in Google Maps" - and it opens up Google Earth and takes you there.
There was some discussion on the precission of the GPS Data, actually on this very site I'm pretty sure, maybe the kaiser section(?) , someone noticed the last 2 decimals recorded for latitude and longitude allways were the same, so the precision was less than 100 meters, but the good news is this is not the case with our Athenas, they are very accurate!
I don't think I'm allowed to distribute Panorado Flyer here, but here is the link for you to download it yourself.
Hopefully someone will make a similar app. for PPC, which would make this feature so much more useful.
Here is a link to the free version: http://www.photo-freeware.net/panorado-flyer.php
And here is the commercial and probably more functional version (did not try it, but there is a demo): http://www.panorado.com/en/index.htm
I went to a birthdayparty this week and took a GPSpic inside an apartment on the 7. floor to demonstrate to all how brilliant the Ameo is, got a fix and shot a pic. The pic stinks, but if you want to try Pandora, you should be able to rightclick it and fly over here, even if I downscaled it....
And I just tried myself, and the GPS data did not survive the upload so it does not work, sorry.
Here is a shot of what Panorado rteads for that pic:
works well here
Actually you can use this format directly into Google earth, which is simpler I think:
55,685278 12,584445
Ok Midget, on my setup the GPS data was lost when I d'loaded my own pic from the post.
Also had to try it out on my old uni with an external GPS, but it doesn't have the P9 option, could that be because of the old HTC Camera version (3,00 build 21424) or must it have an internal GPS?
Anyone got the newer Camera version (like the one from the Ameo WM6 - 4.01 build 27598)?
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P1-P9 are profiles for different camera modes. You'll notice that the "Enable" key is 0 in Profile 9. Change it to 1 and you should be good.
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oh!..ok..i'll try it right away..
thanks
The new mode came right up when I made the registry change. Can someone confirm where the data is stored? Seems there are 2 places mentioned here.
That's freakin awesome! Possibly rates as my top feature of the moment! Good Hack!
And @ techntrek - it goes into my \microdrive\my documents\my poi\
Ace!
I have using panorado software but the error for several pictures on same place (1 square meter) is very large, some hundreds of meters...
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I have using panorado software but the error for several pictures on same place (1 square meter) is very large, some hundreds of meters...
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That is what you will also get when you use googlemap. It can be hundreds of meters off.
I read recently that US goverment wants to decrease the accuracy of GPS. I wonder if it is the result of this project that I noticed that the inaccuracy has been magnified lately.
Hi all
I want to start numbering pictures from a high number (100001) to have all them alphabetically ordered (now 51 goes first than 432 for instance) but I can't
Any idea?
Thank you!
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I am not sure I understand what you mean, but it sounds like you could use a "serial do-pictures-whatever" like XnView (more functions with the PC than with the PPC version, of course, but both allow apply transformations to various selected pictures at the same time)
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I am not sure I understand what you mean, but it sounds like you could use a "serial do-pictures-whatever" like XnView (more functions with the PC than with the PPC version, of course, but both allow apply transformations to various selected pictures at the same time)
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Thank you for your reply. I mean: If you hard reset, and you take some pictures, they are numbered as:
PH_1, PH_2, PH_3...and so on.
Instead I'd like to number them as
PH_10000001, PH_10000002, PH_10000003......
Is it possible??
Well I did not check with so many zeros, only 10001, and it worked.
With XnView, even the PPC version, you can select your pictures (using keyboard Alt like on pc, after adjusting windows to see both keyboard and pictures), then, Util > renommer par lots > there you can chose name, extension, first number, and increment.
The PC version is more complex... and offers more serial changes (like effects), not only size, contrast, rotation...
Maybe you can google for an XnView pocket in your own language, or at least english.
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Well I did not check with so many zeros, only 10001, and it worked.
With XnView, even the PPC version, you can select your pictures (using keyboard Alt like on pc, after adjusting windows to see both keyboard and pictures), then, Util > renommer par lots > there you can chose name, extension, first number, and increment.
The PC version is more complex... and offers more serial changes (like effects), not only size, contrast, rotation...
Maybe you can google for an XnView pocket in your own language, or at least english.
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Yes, bro, I have XnViev. But what do you say is to rename pictures AFTER take them.
I'm asking to number pictures WHEN you take the photo.(not re-number)
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Then, it would be in registry? near where you go to change camera sound? (I think there was something about this in the forum) Could be found exploring camera registry looking for "PH"? Or is there nothing to be found there?
I would not dare advising anything come to that...
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Then, it would be in registry? near where you go to change camera sound? (I think there was something about this in the forum) Could be found exploring camera registry looking for "PH"? Or is there nothing to be found there?
I would not dare advising anything come to that...
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Yes you're right, Perhaps this is the way. I have not found the stirng "PH_"
Many thanks!
Assuming the PH in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Pictures\Camera\GeneralSettings\PhotoCounter\ : Prefix PH
is the one, maybe the zero there near stands for default first number?
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Assuming the PH in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Pictures\Camera\GeneralSettings\PhotoCounter\ : Prefix PH
is the one, maybe the zero there near stands for default first number?
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You are the MAN! Thank you my friend, you have found the solution:
Changing the register Key Counter exactly where you said, from the present number to the desired one, it does exactly what I was looking for!!
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Pictures\Camera\GeneralSettings\PhotoCounter\ Counter
I've changed the Counter to 100001
After that, I've taken some pictures:
PH_100001, PH_100002, PH_100003, PH_100004....and so on
Many Thanks!! I mark this Thread as SOLVED
(By the way, as you said, you can replace the original "PH_" for "Image ", "Picture_", etc.)
Or you can do what I do and use a program called "IMAGToDate" which scans your photo dir and renames the files according to the date stamp! Works very well for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=555607
n0cturn said:
Or you can do what I do and use a program called "IMAGToDate" which scans your photo dir and renames the files according to the date stamp! Works very well for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=555607
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Thank you for the information. Very interesting. But it would be perfect if this was a software working "in the shadow", I mean, when you are taking the photo, not in batch after that.
Anyway, as they say:
You’ll probably hate the way Camera application saves the image file, which was “IMAG####.jpg”. This kind of naming will cause a problem when backing up the image files in your PC/MAC specially when the file already exists in your backup drive but different picture, the only thing you could do is to rename the file in your mobile device. For example, you have “IMAG0050.jpg” in your mobile phone and you want to move that in your PC/MAC but a file “IMAG0050.jpg” already exists but has different picture? Probably the first thing you’ll do is to rename “IMAG0050.jpg” in your mobile device into something different.
This used to be my problem, but numbering as 1000001, is enought for me (I think that never will achieve a million pictures with my TG01)
All the photos I take get captioned with "SAMSUNG". This is lame and I'd like to shut it off but I have no idea where the setting is. Anyone know?
I don't know the answer, but I echo the desire.
Iictinike said:
All the photos I take get captioned with "SAMSUNG". This is lame and I'd like to shut it off but I have no idea where the setting is. Anyone know?
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Not sure exactly what "caption" you're referring to. There's no "Samsung" watermark or anything appearing on my photos.
Now, having said this, if you are referring to EXIF data and the fact that by default Windows Vista, 7, and MacOS 10.5.x will display EXIF data fields when browsing a folder filled with images this is normal.
This is a feature, and it's not a new one. Every digital camera on earth made in at least the last 10 years inputs quite a bit of data into the EXIF header of images captured by it. Date, time, f-stop, focal length, even geotag data is stored in the EXIF header. All sorts of info is stored in an image EXIF header. So this is entirely normal. If this is the first time you've ever seen this, then you either have a newer PC for the first time, or this is your first decent camera.
You can disable the display of (or even add tons more) of these specialized folder data fields by right clicking on their header and adding or disabling fields as you desire.
You can also strip EXIF information from images with 3rd party software and/or batch image processing tools.
If merely seeing the word Samsung disturbs you, disable that field in the folder your browsing images in.
Here's an example image showing an example of the selectable nature of fields on my Win7 laptop...
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/t5o2i_tTk1bGzn3Lpv0U5Z1iAXCqSw7wiOmYyza8_dQ
^ I think the point is to be able to eidt this field to show something other than SAMSUNG. I would prefer it to show as "Samsung Vibrant" for instance.
Iictinike said:
All the photos I take get captioned with "SAMSUNG". This is lame and I'd like to shut it off but I have no idea where the setting is. Anyone know?
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Can you please explain what you mean by "caption". Are you referring to EXIF data as masterotaku described?
I think I stumbled on frames on my Vibrant camera app, but I don't recall how or where. I think one was just "SAMSUNG" on the bottom. I can't find it with my Captivate camera app, so that's all the help I can give.
Saiboogu said:
I think I stumbled on frames on my Vibrant camera app, but I don't recall how or where. I think one was just "SAMSUNG" on the bottom. I can't find it with my Captivate camera app, so that's all the help I can give.
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"stumbled on frames" what does that mean??
I clicked something in the mess of a TW dialer/contacts app that brought me to the camera with a frame enabled. MySpace type photo junk.. Flashy graphics around the edges of the shot, and swiping left and right changed the image. I'm pretty sure one of them was just the Samsung logo in the corner.
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I clicked something in the mess of a TW dialer/contacts app that brought me to the camera with a frame enabled. MySpace type photo junk.. Flashy graphics around the edges of the shot, and swiping left and right changed the image. I'm pretty sure one of them was just the Samsung logo in the corner.
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Are you referring to the "Audio Postcard" app?
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^ I think the point is to be able to eidt this field to show something other than SAMSUNG. I would prefer it to show as "Samsung Vibrant" for instance.
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It technically does say it but Vibrant is replaced with SGH-T959
E.G.
File Size: 998 kb - 1913 x 1435
Camera Make: SAMSUNG
Camera Model: SGH-T959
Date/Time: 2010:08:20 15:40:12
Resolution: 1913 x 1435
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 3.8mm
Exposure Time: 0.0050 s (1/200)
Aperture: f/2.6
ISO Equiv.: 50
Whitebalance: Auto
Metering Mode: center weight
Exposure: program (auto)
GPS Latitude: S 0d 0m 0.00s
GPS Longitude: W 0d 0m 0.00s
Location: 0° 0′ 0.00″ S 0° 0′ 0.00″ W
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Are you referring to the "Audio Postcard" app?
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That must be it - it was before I removed bloat, and I haven't seen it since. I guess that isn't what the OP was talking about, then. Not that he's come around to tell us.
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Not sure exactly what "caption" you're referring to. There's no "Samsung" watermark or anything appearing on my photos.
Now, having said this, if you are referring to EXIF data and the fact that by default Windows Vista, 7, and MacOS 10.5.x will display EXIF data fields when browsing a folder filled with images this is normal.
This is a feature, and it's not a new one. Every digital camera on earth made in at least the last 10 years inputs quite a bit of data into the EXIF header of images captured by it. Date, time, f-stop, focal length, even geotag data is stored in the EXIF header. All sorts of info is stored in an image EXIF header. So this is entirely normal. If this is the first time you've ever seen this, then you either have a newer PC for the first time, or this is your first decent camera.
You can disable the display of (or even add tons more) of these specialized folder data fields by right clicking on their header and adding or disabling fields as you desire.
You can also strip EXIF information from images with 3rd party software and/or batch image processing tools.
If merely seeing the word Samsung disturbs you, disable that field in the folder your browsing images in.
Here's an example image showing an example of the selectable nature of fields on my Win7 laptop...
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Yes. The EXIF data caption field. I didn't think anyone would mistake what I said for anything else.
It's not a feature. That's a field for user comments attached to the image, not for some asshole programmer to stick a plug for the camera model in there when there's already a standard field for the maker and model of camera.
Yes, I know I can edit it, yes I know where it's stored. Yes I know I can batch strip it and no, this isn't my first digital camera. (You like to talk down to people eh?). I've been using "newer PC's" and digital camera's since you were wetting your bed.
My question was simple. Is there a setting buried somewhere or a file I can edit to disable this phone from tagging "SAMSUNG" in the caption field? If not, then I'll batch script stripping the thing out of there. PITA and I shouldn't have to because some puke stuck it in there.
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Yes. The EXIF data caption field. I didn't think anyone would mistake what I said for anything else.
It's not a feature. That's a field for user comments attached to the image, not for some asshole programmer to stick a plug for the camera model in there when there's already a standard field for the maker and model of camera.
Yes, I know I can edit it, yes I know where it's stored. Yes I know I can batch strip it and no, this isn't my first digital camera. (You like to talk down to people eh?). I've been using "newer PC's" and digital camera's since you were wetting your bed.
My question was simple. Is there a setting buried somewhere or a file I can edit to disable this phone from tagging "SAMSUNG" in the caption field? If not, then I'll batch script stripping the thing out of there. PITA and I shouldn't have to because some puke stuck it in there.
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Firstly you're question was extremely vague to start with, so I was feeling out what appeared to be a "newbie" post. If you felt like I was speaking down to you, I apologize, but making vague posts leads people to assume that the poster is incapable of providing specifics. You did not provide any, and now you're ranting like a 5 year old. Will this follow with "your mom" comments??
(Just to be clear I am now DELIBERATELY speaking down to you, not unintentionally as before...your insults were unnecessary.)
Secondly, I'm 43, so I doubt you were doing anything other than wetting your own bed or not even existing when I was doing the same to mine. Grow up ok? TYVM.
Thirdly, Yes EXIF *IS* a feature, and NOT a user only area for applying comments. Ever since the standard was formally created twelve years ago almost ALL digital cameras have been using this header to deposit camera setting and date/time stamp information (and even Manufacturer names). Some (very very few) cameras have allowed this feature to be disabled, but this is rare. Exceedingly rare. Most professional photographers who need to create custom user "comments" in images use the IPTC IIM metadata standard to put user comments in things like images, because that's precisely what it is designed for. EXIF on the other hand is not. That's not to say you cannot modify EXIF data, it's merely that EXIF is not conducive to your concept of a "user comment". It wasn't designed for that. In other words, you're confusing the two and their purposes.
Fourth, some "puke" didn't stick it in there. A programmer who writes digital camera firmware followed a common convention followed by every other camera manufacturer in the world. Most people consider EXIF header information a feature, though there are some who wish to not have EXIF info in their publicly available pictures for privacy reasons. Some people don't want their public photographs with date/time stamps and geolocation info. That sort of thing...
That is easily stripped in those circumstances with common free image processing software. Irfanview just to name one off the top of my head. All photo upload services (that I have used) strip this info in public galleries as well, owing to the obvious potential for liability.
Being annoyed that Samsung wants to put it's name in the EXIF header of images taken on a camera they designed....that's just friggin bizarre, but to each his own.
Finally, It's not going to be some simple little "toggle" or setting as it's a function of the camera software itself. Samsung has released most of their source code true, but not for their proprietary apps. Camera driver source exists, but not the camera software itself. You'll likely have to just put up with ....
1). Being an obnoxious twit
2). Waiting for CM6.1
3). Adjusting your tinfoil hat
p.s. If you think the word "SAMSUNG" in the "ImageDescription" field is some evil Samsung conspiracy (especially considering in most situations you have to go out of your way to see it in the first place), well I have bad news for you. They are apparently in cahoots with Olympus, Panasonic, Sony, Nikon, and Kodak from what I see in a cursory examination of my photo library. You could also try to reverse engineer Samsung's camera software of course. Good luck with that after you finish your tantrum.
ZING!!!!!! i hate to say it but homie you were just informed... lol
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ZING!!!!!! i hate to say it but homie you were just informed... lol
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Just not seeing it. It's a wordy, smell your own farts kind of thing with very little fact. Impressive to people used to 4chan or Digg, but really not a decent burn.
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Just not seeing it. It's a wordy, smell your own farts kind of thing with very little fact. Impressive to people used to 4chan or Digg, but really not a decent burn.
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At least no more juvenile bed wetting comments this time. I try to be wordy to be clear, though I admit I was a bit ticked at the pointless insults. I sincerely meant it when I apologized if I had come across in the initial reply as speaking down to you, though I still don't see what I might have said.
Still, EXIF headers being what they actually are, along with what IPTC headers are, and what practically all digital cameras made in the last decade do are considerable facts you seem capable of ignoring. Sigh...
Seriously though, it's a function of the camera software, which is closed source. It's not too terribly hard to attempt to hex and diff your way around the contents of the camera and camera-firmware apk's, and I actually did just this. The real brick wall here is not having the source, because it isn't available.
I'd say wait for CM6.1, which will likely use (or at least allow the use of) the aosp version of the camera software. From there you can likely eliminate the creation of EXIF data in the image headers.
Just seems like a colossal waste of time to care....Good luck.
I agree with masterotaku, your OP was very vague. Plus, its not called a "caption", its metadata. I took a look at the metadata/EXIF data on my images and the only reference to SAMSUNG i see is
Equipment Make: SAMSUNG
Camera Model: SGH-T959
There are many other fields you can use to add your comments or tags. You are the minority, most people, including me, would hate if they left this data out.
So why exactly do you want this data stripped?
I just emailed HTC about it. I even had to send a photo I took with my Hero with time stamping enabled to show them what I meant. The only thing they can tell me is that it just isn't an option on the Evo 3D. They also told me to look on the market for an app that'll let me add that functionality. Is there such a thing?
I'm adding the same example photo I sent to HTC in this post, so everyone will know what I mean by time/date stamping.
I really don't get why it isn't a standard option.
I was going to add a poll to see how many of you out there think this should be an option added to the camera app, but I can't seem to figure out how to add a poll. lol
Isn't the timestamp simply part of the metadata tags built into the image file?
saltorio said:
Isn't the timestamp simply part of the metadata tags built into the image file?
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...what he said. Unless you actually want an old school red/orange timestamp on top of your photo? Might find an app for that on the Market, who knows?
dumasauce said:
Unless you actually want an old school red/orange timestamp on top of your photo? Might find an app for that on the Market, who knows?
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the sample photo he posted above contains a text colored timestamp on the bottom right hand corner.
i do think it is very odd the camera app does not provide an option for a timestamp and i too have used this feature in the past and think its a good idea.
odd they didn't add that feature. i hadn't noticed until i read this post and checked my camera app .. def no option to put a timestamp on the lower right corner of the photo.
joeykrim said:
the sample photo he posted above contains a text colored timestamp on the bottom right hand corner.
i do think it is very odd the camera app does not provide an option for a timestamp and i too have used this feature in the past and think its a good idea.
odd they didn't add that feature. i hadn't noticed until i read this post and checked my camera app .. def no option to put a timestamp on the lower right corner of the photo.
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But again, how is a time stamp on the actual photo a benefit over including the time stamp in the image file metadata?
Back when photos were on film, burning the time stamp into the photo itself was the only way to know when it was taken. But these things are digital. Metadata is a much more elegant way to track all sorts of information (like geo tags) associated with a photo, and it's how all the information is stored in the photos the EVO 3D (and pretty much every other digital camera device) takes. Most photo organization software (like most MP3 software) makes extensive use of meta tags for sorting and searching your files. And it doesn't muddy up your images to boot.
saltorio said:
But again, how is a time stamp on the actual photo a benefit over including the time stamp in the image file metadata?
Back when photos were on film, burning the time stamp into the photo itself was the only way to know when it was taken. But these things are digital. Metadata is a much more elegant way to track all sorts of information (like geo tags) associated with a photo, and it's how all the information is stored in the photos the EVO 3D (and pretty much every other digital camera device) takes. Most photo organization software (like most MP3 software) makes extensive use of meta tags for sorting and searching your files. And it doesn't muddy up your images to boot.
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to illustrate the otherside of the viewpoint you've expressed and address your question.
i guarantee not every android user understands metadata, nor knows how to use/where to find it. i find it comical imaging my parents trying to locate the metadata of a picture they took on their phone.
for those people who still print out their images and want to scrapbook/put in photo albums, they might prefer having the time/date stamped on the front of the image itself.
some people prefer timestamps printed on their photos and some people do not. having or not having timestamps on photos is a matter of personal preference and is a legit request as an option, especially given i've had the option of printing timestamps on the images i've taken with previous android phones.
joeykrim said:
to illustrate the otherside of the viewpoint you've expressed and address your question.
i guarantee not every android user understands metadata, nor knows how to use/where to find it. i find it comical imaging my parents trying to locate the metadata of a picture they took on their phone.
for those people who still print out their images and want to scrapbook/put in photo albums, they might prefer having the time/date stamped on the front of the image itself.
some people prefer timestamps printed on their photos and some people do not. having or not having timestamps on photos is a matter of personal preference and is a legit request as an option, especially given i've had the option of printing timestamps on the images i've taken with previous android phones.
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Well then go to the official HTC Community forums and make the request.
My X10 didn't have the ability to print time stamps on the photos, neither does my wife's text messaging phone. I'm not even sure if either of our digital cameras (a Digital Rebel, and a Canon point-and shoot) have that capability. All I'm saying is people have to move with the march of technology.
And on a related note: can you imagine your parents even having an EVO 3D?
Here's something. Wouldn't it be possible to just take the setting from the most recent Sense before Sense 3 and add it to the settings in our present camera app?
I'm no programmer, (or I'd just attempt it myself, lol). Just putting it out there so maybe someone will consider it.
The reason for time/date stamping ON the photo in addition to the metadata is the fact that most people, at least in my opinion, when attempting to retrieve the date of a certain photo on the internet, would rather just see it printed right on the photo than have to download the image and look for it in the image info.
Now I'm not sure if I'm just missing it when attempting this or not, but I went to a random site, right clicked on an image and went to View Image Info, and didn't see anything at all about a date or time the image was taken. Only when I actually download the image then go to Properties>Details do I see an actual date/time.
I didn't mean for this to be a debate or anything. Just feel it's wrong not to even give the option anymore. It's not like something like that takes up a lot or space or processing power, or even time processing the photo.
I think It's cool when you need to provide a day and time for a pic that you want to upload online.
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Here's something. Wouldn't it be possible to just take the setting from the most recent Sense before Sense 3 and add it to the settings in our present camera app?
I'm no programmer, (or I'd just attempt it myself, lol). Just putting it out there so maybe someone will consider it.
The reason for time/date stamping ON the photo in addition to the metadata is the fact that most people, at least in my opinion, when attempting to retrieve the date of a certain photo on the internet, would rather just see it printed right on the photo than have to download the image and look for it in the image info.
Now I'm not sure if I'm just missing it when attempting this or not, but I went to a random site, right clicked on an image and went to View Image Info, and didn't see anything at all about a date or time the image was taken. Only when I actually download the image then go to Properties>Details do I see an actual date/time.
I didn't mean for this to be a debate or anything. Just feel it's wrong not to even give the option anymore. It's not like something like that takes up a lot or space or processing power, or even time processing the photo.
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i didn't want a debate either so i stopped replying as it was clearly off topic.
copying the settings file from a previous sense version of camera which supports the time/stamp, *could* work, assuming the current camera.apk supports time/stamping and they just forget/intentionally didnt add it to the options menu inside the camera.apk.
i dont have a previous sense phone, like the EVO, handy to pull the camera settings file from /data/data ..
on the EVO3D the settings file is: /data/data/com.android.camera/shared_prefs/com.android.camera_preferences.xml
an example adb pull command to copy it to the local computer:
adb pull /data/data/com.android.camera/shared_prefs/com.android.camera_preferences.xml c:\com.android.camera_preferences.xml
i do wonder how adding time stamping to the picture would work in 3d mode ... i wonder if that presented an issue so they scrapped it ... just speculating!
joeykrim said:
i do wonder how adding time stamping to the picture would work in 3d mode ... i wonder if that presented an issue so they scrapped it ... just speculating!
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Ya know, I never thought of that as a potential reason for leaving it out. That's probably it too, not that we could get an official answer to it though, so speculation will have to do, but I do think you have it right.
I DID hear early on in the threads that it was possible that panorama and burst mode, among other things, weren't acting right for one reason or another, and those functions were pulled right before release. Makes sense that panorama or burst wouldn't work right either in 3D, so it stands to reason.
Still though, it would've been nice to have those options for 2D pictures. It's a shame they couldn't figure out how to disable those options when the 3D switch was flipped, if any of this is really the case even. lol
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I've noticed that cyanogen/aosp names the pictures with the date they were taken for example 20121303 for may 3 2012, however sense merely names the pictures by number which is very frustrating when you are flashing and taking new pictures, trying to back up pictures, getting duplicates etc. I was wondering if there is a way to have sense name the pictures with the date instead of of numerical order thanks.
I use Photoshop CS2 Bridge to rename all photos once offloaded. They may have a low cost tool (Lightbox?) that does it. You can rename files based on most any embedded EXIF data. I usually use YYYYMMDD-[HHHH|SER#]_text_text_size.[EXT]. So even in pics taken very close together, usually there are no duplicates (particularly because I'm not using multiple cameras at the same time).
So what the phone or iPod or device names them, is really just a temporary file name.
I know, not the answer you asked for, but a different perspective to image file naming conventions....
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I've noticed that cyanogen/aosp names the pictures with the date they were taken for example 20121303 for may 3 2012, however sense merely names the pictures by number which is very frustrating when you are flashing and taking new pictures, trying to back up pictures, getting duplicates etc. I was wondering if there is a way to have sense name the pictures with the date instead of of numerical order thanks.
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20121303? Lol
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