After moving all my pictures from my One X to the Nexus 4 they wont order correctly when sorting by date. This is a problem in the stock gallery as well as in Quick Pic. I've always ordered my photos by date in descend order but the phone doesnt seem to be reading the dates on the photos correctly. Even tried the "Fix Date" option in quickpic but it makes no difference. Anyone else experiencing this or know of any way to fix it so it ready the EXIF data correctly? Its annoying having to hunt through my pictures for one that was taken days ago. :/
I think when you copied them onto the new device it refreshed the dates.
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I suspected the same except when I view the details of the pictures in quick pic the correct dates are there
Apparently the problem is that neither Gallery nor QuickPic sorts the pictures by EXIF date but by "file modified date". According to the author of QuickPic the "fix date" feature does not work on Nexus 4 because of the EXT4 file system.
If you still have your old phone then the easiest way to fix this problem is the following:
1. Copy all your new pictures made by the Nexus 4 to your PC.
2. Delete all the pictures on your Nexus 4
3. Copy the pictures from your old phone one by one in the desired order to your Nexus 4
4. Copy your new pictures from your PC in the desired order too
That should make them appear correctly in the Gallery.
Thanks for the info. I ended up downloading an app that lets you edit the date modified and have been slowly changing the dates. Its a big job though with hundreds of pictures. Honestly I've just learned to live with it, all new photos are in order anyway.
Which app is it? I'm interested too
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Photo Editor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor
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Photo Editor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor
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Or you could edit the dates on a computer and then adb push them back to your phone.
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Had the same issue
How can you change the date modified with Photo Editor? The only way I found in it was too totally change all the attributes including the file name to NOW but not to some time in the past.
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You can type in the DateTime field and manually input the date you want. No need to edit any other field.
Hmm... I'm probably missing something here, maybe you can point me in the right direction?
Here is what I'm doing:
1. I open photo editor
2. I click on file browser or on gallery (tried both of them) and select the picture to modify
3. I click the save button (the floppy disk icon in the top right corner)
4. I chose MODIFY
5. The EXIF editor opens showing me 3 DateTime fields which all contain already the correct date and time the picture has been taken
6. I click OK and Overwrite
The result is that this picture jumps to the top of my list in gallery or QuickPic as it is the newest file modified. Checking the folder with a file manager the date of the picture is actually NOW and not the taken date from the past.
As you need root access to modify the "date modified" and this app does not request root access, this does not even come as a surprise to me.
I'm just really wondering how you manage to accomplish our goal.
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i feel your pain man..
i feel your pain. really.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840238
anyway, there's a lot easy way to fix it than renaming hundreds of photos one by one.
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I copied all my photos to my Nexus 4, but in Gallery they all show up in the wrong order. It is seeing the picture taken date as today's, as in, when I copied the photos. Some of these are from 2010/2011 so obviously this is incorrect and now I can't see a chronological view of my pictures.
Is there a way to fix this error? I have tried copying over MTP, PTP and now also via Samba, but it is impossible it seems to preserve the timestamps.
I haven't had this problem moving between phones before.
Nope.
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That's a shame.
Is there an app that can look at the EXIF data and re-touch the files to give them new last modified dates that match up with that EXIF data? Thereby fixing the problem? I've done some reading and it seems to be an issue with the FUSE to fat32 symlinks or something something (I am not a smart man).
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That's a shame.
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Yeah... it is. MediaServer should be smart enough to use EXIF data if it exists, instead of just going by the file's date (falling back to that if EXIF data doesn't exist). Another little glitch in Android that needs fixing.
What about using some software to modify the timestamp on the phone when connected in mass storage mode?
I'm not yet allow to post links, so google "modify file timestamp" and the link to trickyways looks good!
HTH
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When I set the photo frame widget on my home screen, it shuffles images from the whole device. So it even shows icon images, screen shots, clipboard images, and any images that are part of the android or Samsung system in the photo frame.
Is there any way of just selecting ffrom the SD card? I've gone into the photo frame settings and there are just 3 options. I can choose either one photo to display, a specific image folder, or shuffle all images. Absolutely useless...I only want my photos to show up....not system or clipboard images.
I resent having to pay for another app to replace something already on my device, but with such a simple and obvious oversight as this.
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Just put a .nomedia file in folders you want media scanner to ignore.
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Thanks. Just tried that and it hasn't worked. I put touch.nomedia in one of the folders but it still appears in the gallery.
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Try text file .nomedia inside that folder .
jje
Clear app cache for media server as well.
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When I set the photo frame widget on my home screen, it shuffles images from the whole device. So it even shows icon images, screen shots, clipboard images, and any images that are part of the android or Samsung system in the photo frame.
Is there any way of just selecting ffrom the SD card? I've gone into the photo frame settings and there are just 3 options. I can choose either one photo to display, a specific image folder, or shuffle all images. Absolutely useless...I only want my photos to show up....not system or clipboard images.
I resent having to pay for another app to replace something already on my device, but with such a simple and obvious oversight as this.
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wouldn't it be easy to make a new folder just for the widget and copy the photos you want to appear on the widget into that folder?
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wouldn't it be easy to make a new folder just for the widget and copy the photos you want to appear on the widget into that folder?
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Not really no. I have over 20 folders of sorted photos.....roughly 6gb altogether, it would take ages to copy the photos from each folder into a single folder. Plus I don't want to double the amount of memory taken up just so I can have the photo frame without all the other system and app images showing up. It really is utterly ridiculous that Google missed this basic need.....I have over 3000 images added to the widget, but I only have 500 photos, come on Google, you can do better than this!!!
Sometimes its easier to create the .nomedia file on a pc and trasfer across.
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I've found that i have to delete the media storage every time i add new photos or icons etc. The media scanner doesn't seem to recognise new content.
Hi there, I really need your help!
Whilst setting up an owncloud server and messing with the app on my phone it had somehow created a duplicate camera folder. Now instead of looking in that folder to check photos (they both said they had the same number in) I just took another picture, checked what folder went up in value and deleted the other, STUPIDLY!
So as you can guess, 90% of my photos and vids were in the folder I deleted. I've tried all ways to get the nexus 4 mounted as a drive but to no avail. I used a piece of software called Dr.Fone and it did actually see all the missing photos but upon restoring them most were screwed when you actually wanted to open them (thumbnails were fine) or the resolution/file size was not the same as the original.
Now, if I browse my phone and go to my camera folder I can see EVERY file in there, 10GB worth and all the right file sizes etc. My phone says I have 12gb free space so something is obviously up. I can't seem to copy these over or view them either. Again if I got in to the photos app I can see 95% of the thumbnails fine but they just won't open.
Does anyone have any ideas if or how I can get these photos back as there are lots of my young daughter on there including her 1st birthday party
Quite ironic really that it was the setting up of the backup solution for ours phone that led to this!!!!!!
TIA
Do not take anymore pictures or add anymore files to the disk or you will further corrupt it and overwrite the old ones.
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I'm used to just having everything on a memory card which is not option here obviously
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There was an option in Quickpic called fix date which I guess reads the photo date and transfers it to the file date but I haven't used that app in a while.
If you copy the files, the date in the EXIF data (which is the most important one) will be preserved. And unless you modify them, the modified date in the file properties will also stay the same.
Thanks guys. NBH - I'll check that
Airmark - you're right. The only issue is that the gallery apps that I tried is using the modified date instead of the metadata date
I've tried this many times. Only way I found that reliably works is to adb push the files to the phone in recovery then fix permissions. Unfortunately that means unlocking bootloader, flashing TWRP and formatting data to remove the encryption.
Doesn't Google Photos keep all the metadata?
just thought it's worth sharing - Google mentioned they are finally fixing this
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18624
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Doesn't Google Photos keep all the metadata?
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That's exactly what I was going to say. Each photo you take stores the metadata, so it shouldn't be an issue. Even if you plug your phone into your computer, not only are they named by date and time, but the metadata will always be present in the photo.
I have this issue where my pictures (camera pics and otherwise) doesn't show up in the photos app.
Using a file explorer app, I see that all my images are there in the DCIM folder, so they are definitely still on the phone.
Using the likes of WhatsApp and similar, I used to be able to select and send pictures, and it would categorize them into the folders I've downloaded them into.
For instance, while camera pictures are in /DCIM/Camera - images downloaded from apps and websites are in either /Download or /Pictures/{app_name}
Additionally, the file explorer tends to categorize your files into subcategories like "pictures", "apps" etc., but it doesn't do that for older files - only for new ones. So if I take a picture with the camera, it'll pop into Google Photos as well as being categorized a "picture" by the file explorer. Physically, it still has the same location as all the other camera pictures, which is /DCIM/Camera
My question is, how do I get the phone/Google Photos/file categorizer/whatever to "map" my pictures as being pictures again?
Setup info:
Huawei Nexus 6P, 64 GB, no external SD card
Rooted, PureNexus (latest July release)
ElementalX kernel (latest release)
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UPDATE: So it appears, if there's a ".nomedia" file in any directory, it will not show files in this and recursively in media applications (photos, music, etc.) -- this could be what's causing this. But then I don't understand why NEW files shows up.
Is it recommended to delete the .nomedia file in root/sdcard ? I ask because I figure it's there for a reason.
having a .NOMEDIA file on a folder will cause it to be excluded
thats a feature
Also, if the folder name has a . in it at the beggining it will also do that... for example changing Camera to .Camera will exclude it
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having a .NOMEDIA file on a folder will cause it to be excluded
thats a feature
Also, if the folder name has a . in it at the beggining it will also do that... for example changing Camera to .Camera will exclude it
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Yeah thanks, but removing the file does nothing. Old pictures are still nowhere to be found in gallery apps like Google Photos.
Is there a way to "re-map/re-index" media files?
i just want to state the obvious.... but did you open PHOTOS, then click the top left hambuger button and click DEVICE FOLDERS ??? According to you nothing still shows after this??
If you install an aftermarket app like Quickpic, does it still not show them?
Stopped using google photos for same reason. I flash roms like atleast once a month, all the photos that i took after flashing rom will show up, all the ones that were taken before flash wont. It has nothing to do with .nomedia or stuff like that, it just wont show them. If i go through directories i can reach them, i can also see them using any other gallery app, this only happens in google photos. I had a theory it had something to do with cloud backup, as if photos arent backed up in cloud it wont show them.
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i just want to state the obvious.... but did you open PHOTOS, then click the top left hambuger button and click DEVICE FOLDERS ??? According to you nothing still shows after this??
If you install an aftermarket app like Quickpic, does it still not show them?
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Thanks chaco81, I have tried device folders - and nothing is in there.
Next up, installed Quickpic and now they are all there. They are all categorized exactly as they should be. Fantastic! Just really weird it doesn't work with Google Photos, which leads me to this comment by @feis ....
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Stopped using google photos for same reason. I flash roms like atleast once a month, all the photos that i took after flashing rom will show up, all the ones that were taken before flash wont. It has nothing to do with .nomedia or stuff like that, it just wont show them. If i go through directories i can reach them, i can also see them using any other gallery app, this only happens in google photos. I had a theory it had something to do with cloud backup, as if photos arent backed up in cloud it wont show them.
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Dude, thank you! That must be it, then. How weird is that? The cloud thing I theorized as well, as I don't want Google backing them up and therefore have it disabled. But like I said, I just installed Quickpic and now they're all there, neatly categorized into "screenshots", "camera", "Download" etc.
Next issue: This still persist with WhatsApp. When I go into "Gallery" (to send a picture or video), it'll only the new photos and videos -- none of the old ones. This, again, leads me to believe something is not as it should be. What causes this, and how do you fix it? Do you need to somehow "rescan" and "reindex" your media files?
Uninstalled google photos, started using app called "piktures" and all my problems were gone.
If you are going to use quickpic I would side load the last version before cheetah took over and ruined the app with all the cloud ***t Trying to think of what the last version was, maybe 4.5.2
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Sheetzie03 said:
If you are going to use quickpic I would side load the last version before cheetah took over and ruined the app with all the cloud ***t Trying to think of what the last version was, maybe 4.5.2
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I read about that. I just installed Quickpic, and I don't get what the big issue is. The only cloud-thing I saw was an icon that I could easily disable/remove.
@feis
How exactly did you remove Google Photos? I can't uninstall.
I too have this issue. Annoying and I really should just use a different pic app
Just a quick update on this: The issue has been _sort of_ fixed by just switching to another photos app. So I think the problem is just that Google Photos doesn't reindex, and there doesn't seem to be a way to force it.
However, other apps that has access to media such as WhatsApp -- in this I still don't have the option of viewing older photos. So apps like WhatsApp's gallery feature, doesn't reindex either. Pretty annoying actually.