When I try to download send to me on chatsite it is stored as a .bin file wich I can't open with any app on my Nexus 7. This happens with stoch browser and also with Boat browser.
Now my question is if it is possible to select an other format to store the photo or is there an app with wich I can open the bin file?
As far as I'm aware, bin files are very weird files.
Do you have a .cue file that came with the .bin?
If so, burn the .cue file to a disc, using Nero(or other burning software)
Then open it from the CD.
Please be more specific.
When I try to download a phote sent to me from a chatsite within the browser by longpress on the photo the photo will be stored as a.bin file but there is no cue file to accompany it. It is impossible to view the photo again after download, in the fiemanager there are just.bin files nothing else
Is the file from a trusted source?
It is just a photo sent to me inside a chatsite, nothing special
Pictures are usually not in .bin format.
.Bin files can be executable files.
Therefore they can contain viruses.
You could if you are SURE it is a picture file, open it with a viewer such as picasa on a PC and click "save as" and then save it as a jpeg file.
Transfer it back to your Nexus and view it on there.
Just to be clear it is a picture, right? As in a photograph of a landscape or a portrait of someone.
Because a .bin image file is usually a dump of a disc.
Yes it is a picture ans I will try with Picassa en let you know if it worked
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i downloaded jpg files from my emails. and when i goto gallery to view the jpg in my downloaded folder, it doesnt open up.
are you guys experiencing the same issue?
what can i do?
You just need to find the way to put a dot before the name of folder.
In XP this would be easy but in Vista or Seven this might be harder.
When you put a dot for exemple on the folder .TEMP the system will say that you need to name the file.
Use an ftp client and connect to your pc and you will be fine renaming the folder.
To disable pics and movies to show up in the interface. you just need to put a file named .nomedia in the folder that contain those pics or movies.
In windows you can create a folder with a . by using CMD and the command "MKDIR" eg.
F:\>mkdir .private
Or simply use a file manager on your phone to create the folder.
Just use Astro file manager on the market.
Long press the file you want to hide/edit/rename/insert dot before filename.
Android then hides any pics you have from the gallery app.
Assign any video apps to scan the file without the dot, they will also be hidden under dot mode, but a rescan may be required.
Suggest app protector pro to put a security pattern on Astro.
I personally don't have any pr0n on my phone... No, really.
useful for thumb in album mostly...
don't need to hide porn if it's your phone
I have created a folder on my external sd card named Movies.
I use Moboplayer, and have pre-set it to only view that folder when opened. But, after viewing any of the files in the sd card folder, the folder and files are displayed in Gallery. How can I prevent that from happening?
Or, put another way, I want to store some video files on my external sd card
and want to be the only one who is able to view them?
create a file in that directory called .nomedia that will prevent it being scanned by Gallery
Thanks, I'll try that later today and report back.
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create a file in that directory called .nomedia that will prevent it being scanned by Gallery
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As a beginner with Android, I'm not sure I know how to do what you said to do.
Can you please tell me the easiest way to create that file? Thanks again.
Sure. Open an adb shell. Change to the directory you want the file in. Type "touch .nomedia "
Press enter
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As an Android beginner, I have no idea what or how to use and adb shell.
Does it require that the Tab be Rooted?
Can I use a file manager like Astro?
Can I open the folder on my win xp desktop and create the file om the sd card with windows explorer?
Sorry to be so dense here, but, I am trying to learn what to do.
jostarr said:
As an Android beginner, I have no idea what or how to use and adb shell.
Does it require that the Tab be Rooted?
Can I use a file manager like Astro?
Can I open the folder on my win xp desktop and create the file om the sd card with windows explorer?
Sorry to be so dense here, but, I am trying to learn what to do.
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Get the free ES File Explorer from the store. You can do all the MS Windows-esque file management with that.
What is going to prevent someone else from launching Mobo and seeing the same files that you do?
I do have ES File Explorer installed, and didn't find a way to create a new file in that folder. Can you please suggest what to do when I get to the folder in question? Thanks.
As for your question about others using Mobo, is there a way to password protect a give app?
jostarr said:
I do have ES File Explorer installed, and didn't find a way to create a new file in that folder. Can you please suggest what to do when I get to the folder in question? Thanks.
As for your question about others using Mobo, is there a way to password protect a give app?
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Ok, es 101: the key to finding everything is the menu button that spears on the dock in es. From there you can select new> folder.
android/linux 101: any file or folder named starting with a period is deemed "hidden". An example would be a folder called .media. Because the name behind with a period, it is now hidden. To show hidden file, go into es file explorer settings, and check "show hidden files"
...and if you don't want to play with renaming folders every time, try Hide It Pro from the market. You set a password that is required to open the app. It disguise itself as a fake audio manager. You just need to browse to the file you need to hide and select "share with audio manager". There's a really good guide inside the app when you install it but its rather simple Works great on Iconia.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smartanuj.hideitpro&feature=search_result
It also displays adds but its free and your hidden content is just a "click" away You can hide any file type compared to Photo Vault and Video Vault (they support only several file formats and they are paid apps)
Use a file manager such as astro, and change the format of the video to a format that doesn't exist by renaming it, for example: video.avi ----> video.uitpo, then the video won't be shown in gallery or anywhere else, and whenever you wanna view the video just change the format back to what it was.
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I have created a file in my directory named .nomedia
But, when the Acer is powered off and started up again, all the files in this directory show up in the Gallery again. That approach doesn't seem to work for me.
I think HTC footprint could be very useful software.
I could export the footprints to kmz file and use in google earth. However, when I tried to import kmz file from google earth, I only get the name and location - image is missing.
Anyone has ever tried the same? Did you success importing kmz file?
Just tried it with a KMZ exported from a HD2, which worked... Both importing as a KMZ and by extracting the files from within the KMZ manually (a KMZ is simply a ZIP archive). You can check the contents of the KMZ on your computer, to confirm images are being exported by your phone, by changing the ".kmz" extension to ".zip" and taking a peek inside the archive.
Also, which version of Google Earth are you using? Mine is 6.0.1.2032
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Just tried it with a KMZ exported from a HD2, which worked... Both importing as a KMZ and by extracting the files from within the KMZ manually (a KMZ is simply a ZIP archive). You can check the contents of the KMZ on your computer, to confirm images are being exported by your phone, by changing the ".kmz" extension to ".zip" and taking a peek inside the archive.
Also, which version of Google Earth are you using? Mine is 6.0.1.2032
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My google earth is 6.0.3.2197
I find something very strange to the KMZ file.
Please refer to the attachment (since I cannot upload KMZ files directly, I changed the extension to ZIP)
- "Footprints_from HTC" was exported from my HTC mini. It can be imported into google earth but we cannot see what is inside by Winzip
- "My footprints_from google" was exported from my google earth. It can be seen what is inside by Winzip but once i import to my HTC mini, the picture is gone.
Can you help to download my files to check it out?
Could it possibly be my HTC footprint version issue? Anywhere I can download the update?
my ROM is 1.36.707.3 (94538) WWE
I don't think its a problem with your phones Footprints app. I've just download your Footprints_From_HTC.zip, extracted the files manually and it successfully imported it into Google Earth. I also changed the .zip extension back to .kmz and that also successfully imported into Google Earth. The pictures are definitely in there and the .kml file is not corrupted.
If you are using a Windows PC have you tried examining the contents of the .zip with Windows Explorer, rather than WinZip? From XP onwards Windows has built-in support for .zip archives. I'm wondering if something else is causing your computer to not handle .zip (or .zip based) archives correctly (maybe even WinZip?). If your computer automatically opens WinZip when you double-click on a .zip archive, try right clicking on the archive instead and selecting "Explore" from the pop-up menu.
Let me know how you get on.
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I don't think its a problem with your phones Footprints app. I've just download your Footprints_From_HTC.zip, extracted the files manually and it successfully imported it into Google Earth. I also changed the .zip extension back to .kmz and that also successfully imported into Google Earth. The pictures are definitely in there and the .kml file is not corrupted.
If you are using a Windows PC have you tried examining the contents of the .zip with Windows Explorer, rather than WinZip? From XP onwards Windows has built-in support for .zip archives. I'm wondering if something else is causing your computer to not handle .zip (or .zip based) archives correctly (maybe even WinZip?). If your computer automatically opens WinZip when you double-click on a .zip archive, try right clicking on the archive instead and selecting "Explore" from the pop-up menu.
Let me know how you get on.
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Hi DJShadesUK,
You're right... Once I use WinXP to handle the kmz file, it can be open.
However, my main problem is still --- Once I import kmz file (from google earth) into my HTC footprint, the pictures were lost.
Could you help to download "My footprints_from google.zip" and try on your htc? I really want to know if the problem is from google earth, my HTC footprint or else.
PS: I found structure of the files are a little different because the kmz file from google earth will store picture in "files" folder. I tried to bring them to root folder but the problem is still
Thanks in advance.
I think I've solved your problem! It would seem that Google have changed the internal structure of KMZ files since HTC made the Footprints app. At a guess I would say the Footprints app doesn't know how to deal with "folders" inside a zip archive (which a KMZ essentially is), so we need to move the images out of the "files" folder and edit the doc.kml file. Follow the below guide and you should be okay:
Change the extension of the KMZ exported from Google Earth to ".zip"
Extract all the files from the Zip archive (right click on the file and select "Extract all" from the pop-up menu)
Open the newly created folder (the extraction wizard may automatically do this for you)
Move all of the images from the "files" folder to the "root" folder of the KMZ structure.
Open doc.kml with a good ASCII text editor. I recommend the free NotePad2 (click for direct download), Windows own Notepad app will not work!
Now do a Search and Replace (or just "Edit > Replace" in NotePad2). The string you want to search for is "files/" but leave the Replace With box EMPTY. Choose Replace All. Now save the file and close the text editor.
Right click on an empty space in the Explorer window and select "New > Compressed (Zipped) Folder" from the pop-up menu, and call it something like "Google Earth Export (fixed).zip"
Drag and drop "doc.kml" and all the images onto/into the new Zip archive.
Change the extension of the zip archive to ".kmz"
Copy the KMZ to your phone, import with Footprints and...
Unfortunately it appears you will have to do this every time you export from Google Earth and want to import to HTC Footprints. I've already checked if HTC have released a fix and it appears they haven't. Sadly I don't think they probably will either now.
Let me know how you get on
Shades
I am using Windows 10. I have installed the latest Google USB drivers - downloaded and installed from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html .
When I plug in, my device is detected, which proves that the drivers are installed.
1) When I touch the Photo Transfer option (PTP), I only get the DCIM and Pictures folder. If I open the DCIM folder, I see thumbnails of all my images. Some thumbnails show the actual image as well. However, when I open them, I get the following error: http://postimg.org/image/y2c805lgd/
Why?
2) When I touch the File Transfer option (MTP), I can open the DCIM folder, and I can see all the thumbnails, but I get the same error as above. ( http://postimg.org/image/y2c805lgd/ )
In short, I am unable to open any JPEG files created by my Nexus 6P camera on my laptop. I copied the JPEGs to my Desktop, and I tried to open the files, and surprise - I am STILL getting the SAME error!
The error is "Windows cannot find "". Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again."
I am able to open TEXT files, and other audio files from my device. It's only the images I have this error with.
Please help.
What happens if you right click on an image and select "open with..." and manually choose an application?
There is no "Open With". There is Open, Set as Desktop Background, Edit, Print, Cut, Copy, Delete, Rename, and Properties. Copying and pasting works, but opening the transferred file from my Desktop also throws the same error.
This could be something to do with encryption.
Seems like it was an issue with Microsoft Photos (the default photo viewer app in Windows 10). I replaced it with another third party app from the store, and the photos open fine.
This is bad Microsoft. I don't know why this is happening.
I use Infranview with no problems, I also installed ccleaner to uninstall all useless preinstalled apps in Windows 10 (Alarms, Calculator, Weather) and also uninstalled Photos and just use infranview. fast and works with everything I throw at it. good luck!