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Camera Pics Location on 2i

I've looked on the registry and tried fiddling but resulted in a) a crash that required a soft reset and b) message saying couldn't save the file when i changed the picture location to \my documents\my pictures.
Whenever I save a picture on the 2i it saves it into a folder in MD with the date as the folder name, with the picture stored in it. Any way to change this?
Ant

Did you manage to get a solution to this - I'm looking for exactly the same answer. There is a possible reg key, but changing that caused problems.

Also for me.
I've a Qtek 2020i from few days and I would like to know store all the photos in one folder.
At the moment I set the path of saved photos (SD card) but I want to have all the photos in one foolder instead of multiple photos in multiple folders. :?
Bye !

Still no work around for this ?

No news for me

I never did get an answer no, and I've given up looking for one myself.
Ant

I was thinking of creating a small apllication that you could run to move the pictures/movies from the numeric folders to a default folder such as My Pictures, im reading up on how it could be achieved at the moment.

On my xda 2, I made a directory on storage card, and they are all in that folder. What happens with yours? You can prefix it with anything you like, I call mine pic and it increments pic_001 etc. The settings are under camera, then click the spanner/screwdriver, then click tools, then click options. I changed the prefix to string and defined the string in the next box down under prefix string, the folder is changed under folder by clicking change.

For some reason the "Folder" option is missing on the XDA 2i so even though you can select the location (Main memory or storage card) it still saves it in \My Documents\xxxxxxxxxx <--- the x's refer to the date ie
05071800001 , 05(year)07(Month)18(Day) the rest is the folder number i think ? 00001 ?
Why they never used the same configuration as the other phones is beyond me but nevermind !

Danny-B- said:
I was thinking of creating a small apllication that you could run to move the pictures/movies from the numeric folders to a default folder such as My Pictures, im reading up on how it could be achieved at the moment.
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If you be able to do this you're the BEST !!!! :wink:

Trouble changing the path to the SD
Hi there,
I'm using i-Mate JAMin, win mobile 5 and the only available options here are Main Memory and Network. In other words I cannot change to save the photos and videos to the SD card. Please, help!
P.S.: I also tried setting a new path within the registry settings, changed the path to '\Storage Card\My Photos\' with no luck - it creates the directories under the 'My Documents' in the main memory. It's a big pain in the ass b/c I don't have enough space to make lots of photos or clips.

How do I?

Hello all,
Took receipt of my HD today and for the most part i'm loving it...there is however a few things bothering me, and i'm hoping someone can help?
1> How do i create new folders for images, music, ringtones etc?
2> How do i then move things to the relevant folders?
3> How do i get album info for music if i dont already have it?
4> How do i resize an image and save it as wallpaper so it fits?
Thanks for any help you can give....

wallpapers - look under the themes / apps sections section
move folders - use 3rd party file explorer (deafult explorer won't let you expore windows folder ... ) or through active sync / explore - most of the programs can be found in /windows /start menu or programs - just drag and drop .... make new folders etc etc.....
sms tones should be copied directly to windows folder on the phone ..... ringtones, they seem to be stored in my documents / my ringtones on the phone
images - default seems to be in storage card DCIM blah blah blah
as for 3 & 4 ...not sure... but A search on the forums will help you through the other problems you stated
hope this helps....

garytheanimal said:
Hello all,
Took receipt of my HD today and for the most part i'm loving it...there is however a few things bothering me, and i'm hoping someone can help?
1> How do i create new folders for images, music, ringtones etc?
2> How do i then move things to the relevant folders?
3> How do i get album info for music if i dont already have it?
4> How do i resize an image and save it as wallpaper so it fits?
Thanks for any help you can give....
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1. Use one of the file explorers used. Work on same process as file exporer on your pc.
If using File explorer to, to create a new folder press File > New Folder or hold down stylus/finger > new folder
If using Total Commander, press file icon with + on it
All ringtones should be saved to either /windows/Rings or Storage Card/My Documents/My Ringtones. Obviously less space taken up on computer is stored on storage card
2. To move things, select and hold down them by either using finger or stylus. Window should pop and select send to
4. Try reading a few of these threads
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=447785&highlight=wallpaper
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=463939&highlight=wallpaper
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=490090&highlight=wallpaper
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=456361&highlight=wallpaper
There are plenty more out there if you search for 'Wallpaper' in the forum

3:
Make sure the MP3 tags + album pics are in order on your PC before transfering it to your HD. Use any ID3Tag editor to do this. Once the info is correctly set up in the MP3 files, it should show up in the musicplayer.

Thanks to you all for the replies, i've managed to do most of the stuff i needed to...just one more thing though, i got a HD because of its size hoping my big sausage fingers would be able to use the keyboard, and although i still can it could be easier, is there a way of turning the keyboard to landscape rather than portrait as default?

garytheanimal said:
Thanks to you all for the replies, i've managed to do most of the stuff i needed to...just one more thing though, i got a HD because of its size hoping my big sausage fingers would be able to use the keyboard, and although i still can it could be easier, is there a way of turning the keyboard to landscape rather than portrait as default?
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Latest manila versions and roms you can rotate 90 degrees to landscape so you have option of both portarit and landscape.
Also, for example Duttys latest roms he has an application called FlipIt (do a search) where you can select rotation angles for apps, so you could actually set certain apps to only work in landscape.

Camera Default storage Location...?

Can anyone Plz tell me how to change default storage location of pictures taken by camera from DCIM to Storagecard/MyDocuments/My Pictures . I know in previous devices i used advance configration tool but what about HD2 its not working for me in HD2 . I am using HTC new 1.66....wwe rom plz help

Shouldn't you be able to select this in the Camera app itself?

donalgodon said:
Shouldn't you be able to select this in the Camera app itself?
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I can Chose storage location either to save pictures on Phone memory or storage card . But even when i chose storage card the camera application makes a DCIM folder in storage card and save pictures and videos there .What i need is a cab or a registry tweak to save picture in storage card/My Documents/My pictures and videos in Storage card /My Documents/My Videos directory . as in our old Kaiser days a program named Advance configration tools3.3 can change these settings but this program cant change it in HD2 .It shows the path is changed but the camera still save it to the Storagecard/DCIM directory .

Plz help. Nobody knows how to do it .....?

PLZ Help anypme...?

Im intrested in this too if possible?

I triple that. I want to know as well.
I don't like having contact pictures that I take show up and saved in the same folder as the pictures I take with my camera.

cmon guys, use the search functions. heres a thread from.....yesterday with an answer
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=627746

Actually your help yesterday let me adjust the settings back to the original default options (so my pictures again at least showed up in the Sense pictures tab).
What I was originally trying to do by playing around with all of the registry settings was what all these people are asking.
I was trying to set the default folder for pictures taken with the camera as anything other than \Storage Card\DCIM.
There appears to be no way to overwrite this setting.

madstyle69 said:
Actually your help yesterday let me adjust the settings back to the original default options (so my pictures again at least showed up in the Sense pictures tab).
What I was originally trying to do by playing around with all of the registry settings was what all these people are asking.
I was trying to set the default folder for pictures taken with the camera as anything other than \Storage Card\DCIM.
There appears to be no way to overwrite this setting.
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So it seems there is no way of doing iy. Thats pretty sad i wish someone could find a way to change the default settings . But anyways Thanks alot .

No, there was no answer ...
samsamuel said:
cmon guys, use the search functions. heres a thread from.....yesterday with an answer
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=627746
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It never ceases to amaze me how rude people can be when some of us ask simple questions.
I'm sure HE DID search for an answer, but found none, and your reply was wrong. There was NOT an answer on THAT thread.
I read THAT thread and the question is still "up in the air."
As far as I can see, making any changes in the registry is futile with regard to camera image storage location. I've tried them all, including the ones referenced in THAT thread noted above (WRONG!). None work! The pictures STILL get stored in a DCIM folder on the storage card.
So, even I am still waiting for a solution. Oh well.
Peter

PeterHTC said:
As far as I can see, making any changes in the registry is futile with regard to camera image storage location. I've tried them all, including the ones referenced in THAT thread noted above (WRONG!). None work! The pictures STILL get stored in a DCIM folder on the storage card.
So, even I am still waiting for a solution. Oh well.
Peter
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Is there anyone out there that still has this problem, or even knows how to fix it?
I've changed enableDCIM to 0
Changed HKLM\system\pictures\camera\OEM\picturelocation
to "\my documents\my pictures"
A registry search for DCIM turns up one result, the enable DCIM setting....
All locations that I've checked refer to the "My Pictures" folder.
I've created the folder in my documents, and in the storage card top level, deleted the DCIM folder, restarted the phone and STILL, when taking a picture it goes to DCIM.... Does anyone know if theres a file somewhere where this is stored?? I'm going insane with having to move my pictures from one folder to another all the time...
Ta in advance

MattOG said:
Is there anyone out there that still has this problem, or even knows how to fix it?
I've changed enableDCIM to 0
Changed HKLM\system\pictures\camera\OEM\picturelocation
to "\my documents\my pictures"
A registry search for DCIM turns up one result, the enable DCIM setting....
All locations that I've checked refer to the "My Pictures" folder.
I've created the folder in my documents, and in the storage card top level, deleted the DCIM folder, restarted the phone and STILL, when taking a picture it goes to DCIM.... Does anyone know if theres a file somewhere where this is stored?? I'm going insane with having to move my pictures from one folder to another all the time...
Ta in advance
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I had the TP2 before and I was able to just use advanced config to put my pics in to my pictures, and, easily view them from the sense tab, further more, I was able to have the pics named with the date and time, so I would not be over writing any pics after a flash.
I to have fought with this for a couple of weeks and finally just gave up and am currently using the DCIM folder to store my pics.
With my TP2, it worked great, it has to do with the actual camera app, on HD2, you can select your store location from there, TP2 camera app has no option of where to store, it is all handled with registry/advanced config.
Good luck, but I don't think there is a solution to this currently.
Jeff

Yeah it's odd that there's all these registry entries, but they seem to do nada...

Hi, firstly, sorry for my abruptness earlier in the thread.
I hadn't looked in to the problem, and i was assuming that what was true for other devices was true for us.
So, i had a look at it this evening, (tho im no tech, im kinda flying blind with hex editing) an as expected the save path is hard coded.
Get Camera.exe
Not sure whether you can extract it from the phones windows folder, I got mine from within a
kitchen.
Disable read only file attribute
Open it up in a hex editor and find
line 596,350 (hex 0009197e) or there abouts, and change DCIM to Pics
see two images, (ignore the fact the line number changed in pic2, )
Save Camera.exe, and copy it to your phone, overwrite the Camera.exe in your phones
/Windows/
folder. You might need to use something more than the default file manager, I used resco.
Or you could use a cab to install it.
Next time you take a pic it will save it to Pics/100Media
Notice that Pics is 4 letters like DCIM so the file size stays the same.
When i tried to insert data to call the folder SamsPics, camera.exe failed to load.
I also changed the two registry entries
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Pictures\Camera\OEM\PictureLocation changed from \DCIM\ to \Pics\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\General EnableDCIM to 0
however i didnt do tests between each change, so not sure if they do anything.
(update, i forgot to check at the time and i just flashed back to default so can't check, but i think one of teh flashes I had it working with the Pics path without changing those two reg entries, just the hex editing, so try it without first,.)
To fix manila photo tab showing no images found,
take a pic to make sure folder has been created
then from pics tab
albums - albums - select album probably called 100media
then
menu - set album as favourite
For the prefix IMAG I couldn't find how to change it, other than it pics up from the last IMAGxxx name in the target folder.
There is a section in the camera.exe where the code contains the string \DCIM\100Media around code line 675,954 but changing that seemed to have no effect.
So all in all, not too usefull, can only change to 4 letter folders, cant change prefix, cant get rid of 100media folder, but a step in the right direction., unless someone knows how to replace camera.exe in my kitchen with one of a different file size (or maybe how to trim space from elsewhere to leave the same filesize? I'm new to hex editing, but would love to learn more about hacking files like this, if anyone has any pointers)

samsamuel said:
Hi, firstly, sorry for my abruptness earlier in the thread.
I hadn't looked in to the problem, and i was assuming that what was true for other devices was true for us.
So, i had a look at it this evening, (tho im no tech, im kinda flying blind with hex editing) an as expected the save path is hard coded.
Get Camera.exe
Not sure whether you can extract it from the phones windows folder, I got mine from within a
kitchen.
Disable read only file attribute
Open it up in a hex editor and find
line 596,350 (hex 0009197e) or there abouts, and change DCIM to Pics
see two images, (ignore the fact the line number changed in pic2, )
Save Camera.exe, and copy it to your phone, overwrite the Camera.exe in your phones
/Windows/
folder. You might need to use something more than the default file manager, I used resco.
Or you could use a cab to install it.
Next time you take a pic it will save it to Pics/100Media
Notice that Pics is 4 letters like DCIM so the file size stays the same.
When i tried to insert data to call the folder SamsPics, camera.exe failed to load.
I also changed the two registry entries
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Pictures\Camera\OEM\PictureLocation changed from \DCIM\ to \Pics\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\General EnableDCIM to 0
however i didnt do tests between each change, so not sure if they do anything.
(update, i forgot to check at the time and i just flashed back to default so can't check, but i think one of teh flashes I had it working with the Pics path without changing those two reg entries, just the hex editing, so try it without first,.)
To fix manila photo tab showing no images found,
take a pic to make sure folder has been created
then from pics tab
albums - albums - select album probably called 100media
then
menu - set album as favourite
For the prefix IMAG I couldn't find how to change it, other than it pics up from the last IMAGxxx name in the target folder.
There is a section in the camera.exe where the code contains the string \DCIM\100Media around code line 675,954 but changing that seemed to have no effect.
So all in all, not too usefull, can only change to 4 letter folders, cant change prefix, cant get rid of 100media folder, but a step in the right direction., unless someone knows how to replace camera.exe in my kitchen with one of a different file size (or maybe how to trim space from elsewhere to leave the same filesize? I'm new to hex editing, but would love to learn more about hacking files like this, if anyone has any pointers)
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I was able to change it to save to the Pictures folder without any problem. I did it on my first try, so I don't know that I even have the error... But what I did was over write the DCIM and 100Media with Pictures; then I 00'd what was left of the 100Media. Same file size, works like a charm. It got rid of the 100Media folder too. My hex structure was weird tho; D C I M (in hex; there was a 00 inbetween each letter). I just followed that format;
\ D C I M \ 1 0 0 M e d i a
overwritten
\ P i c t u r e s M e d i a
then replace each hex value corresponding to the letters in media with 00 (note that the space button in hex is 20, not 00)
\P i c t u r e s

How do you guys organize the photos

I have taken several hundred photos with the hd2 but they are all clump under camera shots. How do you guys organize them. Is there a way that they all get sorted by date/album.at least there is some semblance of sorting and then I can renamed the folder

If youi create your own folders,
(for example
storage/DCIM/100media/test1
and
storage/DCIM/100media/test2
then when you go to photos, yes they still all just show up together, BUT if you click albums - albums you will then see each folder listed as a seperate album.
Also, this tip from teh hints and tips thread might be usefull
64. Disable Unwanted Folders From Showing in HTC Album
Don't you find it annoying that HTC Album Shows lots of images you don't need to see when you select Albums like GPS poi icons? Now you can tell HTC Album to ignore certain folders.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/HTC/HTCAlbum/Ignored and add a NEW STRING VALUE
Eg if there is iGO8 in the root of the Storage Card you would create a NEW STRING VALUE with Value name iGO8 and Value Data \Storage Card\iGO8
This will include all subfolders inside the iGO8 folder. Save and reset.

Now if only it would display nested folders as such...
I have heaps of pics (my whole gallery) on the storage card, nicely categorised in folders by subject and dates, but HTC album only displays a useless "flattened" list of all the 100+ folders...
Found no way other than using separate software (Resco photo viewer) to browse conveniently.

Deleted, with the ultra slow servers at the moment the posts tend to end posted twice...

Album finds all pics. Disable this.

I know one can disable certain folders from appearing in the albums, but can one specify only the particular folders one wants to appear in the album? How does one enable only the wanted folders?
For example, I only want only the pictures in MY Pictures and DCIM, on the card, to show up. Can this be done with a registry tweak?
Thanks.
NOT THIS:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583638
64. Disable Unwanted Folders From Showing in HTC Album
Don't you find it annoying that HTC Album Shows lots of images you don't need to see when you select Albums like GPS poi icons? Now you can tell HTC Album to ignore certain folders.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/HTC/HTCAlbum/Ignored and add a NEW STRING VALUE
Eg if there is iGO8 in the root of the Storage Card you would create a NEW STRING VALUE with Value name iGO8 and Value Data \Storage Card\iGO8
This will include all subfolders inside the iGO8 folder. Save and reset.

Nope....can't be done.

Yes it can be indeed done! Just add the folders you want to be invisible in the registry to the HTCAlbum-Ignore-List by creating a new string value. Name doesnt matter but the value must be the specified folder you want to exclude (just search for "ignore" in a reg-editor, should be the second or third result).
Greets

elburna:
Sorry, but I want to only include a specific folder, not have to disable folders--I would have to disable a few dozen folders, since almost all have some sort of image in them. I want the Albums to only find one or two folders.
Thanks.

LeonSinger said:
elburna:
Sorry, but I want to only include a specific folder, not have to disable folders--I would have to disable a few dozen folders, since almost all have some sort of image in them. I want the Albums to only find one or two folders.
Thanks.
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That cant be done, cause u are lazy to create a string value for every folders, lol.
Just take ur time to do that all for once, and export the reg value, so the next time u flash a new rom, u dont have to do this again. And I also suggest, create a string for a big folders, e.g: \Storage Card\Program Files, so every images in Program Files sub-folders will not be scan.

Thanks everyone. Yes, I figured that folders could only be excluded. I will take your advice and do it as described above.
Thanks again.