4.4.2 Internal Storage photo recovery? - Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Long story short some drunk chick deleted like half of my photos by accident, so I'm trying to get at least some back.
I realize that our phone's internal storage is emulated and most photo/file recovery programs won't work because it won't detect a physical disk.
Is there anything out there that will work on our phone or a generic Android 4.4.2 device without root?

Check that pesky photos app in your app drawer. Part of Google+ and auto backups photos by default.
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1ManWolfePack said:
Check that pesky photos app in your app drawer. Part of Google+ and auto backups photos by default.
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I typically disable Google+ and auto backup photos because I don't use G+ and auto backup uses too much of my battery throughout a normal day.
So I stick to twice monthly manual backups.

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Where can I find my deleted home movies?

During the holidays, I made films of my kids, using my Nexus 7. I have watched them several times since, but now they've all disappeared. I must have deleted them by mistake. Is it like in Windows where one can restore binned items? Any chance of retrieving them somehow? Thanks for any help!
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StrangerWeather said:
During the holidays, I made films of my kids, using my Nexus 7. I have watched them several times since, but now they've all disappeared. I must have deleted them by mistake. Is it like in Windows where one can restore binned items? Any chance of retrieving them somehow? Thanks for any help!
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You can try a program called recuva. Google search for it and install it on your pc. Then connect your N7 to the PC and scan it with recuva. If it is able to find them, you can restore them to the PC.
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Thanks but it doesn't give me the option of scanning the N7...
Any more ideas?
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I've now tried various pieces of similar software, but they don't seem to recognise the Nexus 7 even though my PC does. Is there another solution?
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I don't think that any PC-based recovery programs will work because the Nexus 7 gets mounted as a media device, not as a mass storage device. You can try Undelete for Root Users in the Play Store (I've never tried it myself) but you need to be rooted to use it. If you're not rooted, then you're in a catch 22 because you need to wipe the device in order to root it, which might eliminate your chances for recovery. You should also make sure that you're not using the Nexus 7 for anything other than recovery during this time because you might be overwriting your videos as you use it.
In short I can't recover the movies because I am not already rooted? Or is there hope if I root my device as early as tomorrow?
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StrangerWeather said:
In short I can't recover the movies because I am not already rooted? Or is there hope if I root my device as early as tomorrow?
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The process of Rooting is not your problem. Unlocking the bootloader is. THAT wipes your device. You cannot root without an unlocked bootloader.
There is a way to do a full backup without having root, but it most likely would not provide you with any relief since it only backs up valid objects. A deleted file is not a valid object.
Having a backup of your data would have been your rescue... learning the hard way...
Yes, I should have been more clear that it's unlocking the bootloader that will wipe your device, which is a prerequisite for rooting. Unfortunately, unless you've already unlocked your bootloader, it seems that you have no options for file recovery outside of the forensic route (paying an expert to take your device apart and do a low level recovery, which is quite costly). If these videos are truly something that you can't live without, then I think that this is your last resort. If you don't plan to go the forensic route, then I suppose you have nothing to lose by trying to root now, but don't forget that unlocking the bootloader will wipe the entire device, meaning not only will you lose the existing data on the device, but it might overwrite your deleted videos, so if you're considering going the forensic route at all, DO NOT UNLOCK THE BOOTLOADER (caps added for dramatic effect).
I'd call them lost, and use a "real" camera on the next holiday. Can't image the quality of an N7 movie.
tcat007 said:
I'd call them lost, and use a "real" camera on the next holiday. Can't image the quality of an N7 movie.
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LOL, not bad at all actually!
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Ok, I rooted my device. No sign of the clips when using a recovery app. But I wanted to root it anyway, so never mind!
Now that you are rooted, setup a backup process so that in the future you don't have to go through this. I personally do a full nandroid backups at a minimum of once a week (use Sundays as backup date). But I also backup my media stuff as well since the Nandroid only backs up system, apps and app data, not really the SDcard memory.
Anytime I make a big change, I do a backup as well. The whole process takes less than 10 minutes, but if I lose/destroy my device, I can take a brand new one, restore and be right back to where I was.
cloud storage
krelvinaz said:
Now that you are rooted, setup a backup process so that in the future you don't have to go through this. I personally do a full nandroid backups at a minimum of once a week (use Sundays as backup date). But I also backup my media stuff as well since the Nandroid only backs up system, apps and app data, not really the SDcard memory.
Anytime I make a big change, I do a backup as well. The whole process takes less than 10 minutes, but if I lose/destroy my device, I can take a brand new one, restore and be right back to where I was.
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I think people miss the intended use of cloud storage on mobile devices . I use google docs Box . And my ftp site my ftp mostly.. Set up some type cloud sync storage for the folders your store your data on the device. data/media is a good but will be quite large to sync.. make it a habbit to save to cloud and this will not happen.. Once you start using cloud base storage you will find it less intrusive and the extra steps will be worth it..
if your say at a friends house and want to see a image or open a created document and do not have your nexus just got o the storage url and there is your stuff... NIce and fairly safe.. i backup to to ftp.. and sync the ftp with desktop storage drive. So if either of the 3 devices or two of the 3 loose my stuff Its in the cloud..
PLEASE READ THE POLICY Of the cloud storage you choose.. Personal web ftp base storage is best if you want your stuff to be TOTALLY CONFIDENTIAL...
JUST LIKE YOUR PC . BACKUP IS A MUST ON ANDROID DEVICES...
Cloud storage is nice and all, but time consuming, especially for video files and many times not a good backup solution. You end up with pieces and parts all over the place and no easy quick restore of all of your data from a single source.
I use the following guide to confirm backup and know I can restore every time 100% of the time, Cant ensure that with cloud storage.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20868527
That plus it is on MY equipment, not someones elses I have no control over and my workstation has triple redundant backups itself ensuring I don't lose stuff.
If backups are hard, time consuming or take too long, people simply won't do them.
I'm not sure if this works on the Nexus7 too but Google+ app has a tool in the settings to auto upload pictures /videos. You can set it to auto upload when it's on WiFi and charging or when there's new pictures (and WiFi of course lol)
I have my 3VO automatically backup images and vids since those are usually unreplaceble unlike apps and downloads
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LOL, not bad at all actually!
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Are you sure they are gone? have you used a file manager to look in the various directories? Maybe an app created a nomedia file in the dir and you cant see them. Quickpic has an option of showing hidden folders (nomedia hides the folders from media apps)
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Are you sure they are gone? have you used a file manager to look in the various directories? Maybe an app created a nomedia file in the dir and you cant see them. Quickpic has an option of showing hidden folders (nomedia hides the folders from media apps)
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Well, if they weren't gone before, they're gone now because the OP unlocked the bootloader to root the device, which wiped everything.

Android backup

Hey,
I just recently switched from iphone to android. On iphone if you format the phone you can restore all your apps/texts/ and data. Well i thought android would have this built in by now but when i went back to stock(from rooted and twrp), it deleted all this information but then offered to recover from backup. So i did that and it downloaded all my apps again but it didnt have the data for the apps. It was as if i just installed them. Also texts werent saved. Is this normal? Am i required to use an external app?
Yes, this is normal since Android doesn't have a good built-in backup system in place yet. Apparently, this is supposed to improve in Android N.
For the time being in Lollipop, some app settings are backed up to your Google Drive. You can check to see which ones support this by opening up the Drive app, go to settings, and then click on Manage backups. However, this too is inconsistent because the author of the app decides what kind of settings the app will back up.
For the time being, it can be best to use third party apps. Titanium Backup is a popular one but it requires root for certain functions. SMS backup & Restore is a good app for texts.
Thank you for the clarification
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You can use Titanium

All Pictures disappeared from gallery?

Like the title says, my wife is pretty upset. I got us both new unlocked s8+'s from best buy just prior to our cross country trip with our kids.
No SD card installed.
She took 200+ pictures and today they are gone. Only videos remain in the gallery, in my files, or even using a file explorer.
I called Samsung, waste of my time.
Google drive is the only cloud app being used (for documents), pics aren't there.
Any advice or thoughts? I've seen older posts on forums of this happening on android phones and not of the fixes have worked. (Clear cache, search for and remove .nomedia files)
Thanks,
Dave
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Samsung has a junk file cleaner so you can get rid of unnecessary files. Your wife might have accidentally included her photos while getting rid of unnecessary files. You can ask her about this but besides that I don't know why the photos are lost (probably due to hardware error).
Kirbocolypse said:
Samsung has a junk file cleaner so you can get rid of unnecessary files. Your wife might have accidentally included her photos while getting rid of unnecessary files. You can ask her about this but besides that I don't know why the photos are lost (probably due to hardware error).
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I'll ask her but I don't think k she did, it still says it can recover 1.5+gigs of space.
I used one of them file digger apps, I was able to retrieve all the smaller 200kb cached pictures from thumbnails and what not, but from what I've read you need root to recover the full size images...
There are a lot of stories of this happening to people when I search it and all different devices. So I hope it's not hardware. SD card going in and Google photo backup being turned on, just like the data thieves wanted us to do in the first place.....
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If internal then she must have done something, if pics dissapear from sdcard its most like corrupt, best is to have that when u take pics it automatically syncs to a cloud service for backup.
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I'll ask her but I don't think k she did, it still says it can recover 1.5+gigs of space.
I used one of them file digger apps, I was able to retrieve all the smaller 200kb cached pictures from thumbnails and what not, but from what I've read you need root to recover the full size images...
There are a lot of stories of this happening to people when I search it and all different devices. So I hope it's not hardware. SD card going in and Google photo backup being turned on, just like the data thieves wanted us to do in the first place.....
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Are you going to root? Afaik you can only do that on the exynos version (not usa)
Correct. No root available yet/ever, was just saying root seems like the only way people are getting back full res lost photos.
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What gallery app are you using? Did she hide or exclude any folders by accident?
Thirdly, try running a recovery programme. You can get for free on the net. So long as she has taken no further photos or put anything else on hard drive should be able to recover.
Finally check all folders on phone and also check camera app settings to ensure the folder they are saving too is correct.
This issue is not exclusive to the S8 and looking around the internet this is an existing yet unsolved issue on certain Samsung devices. I'll post here to add a bit of extra information.
My mom's Note 4 also had the same exact issue where the pictures just flat out disappeared. (Pictures, videos, screenshots). No traces of it in any folders even with a different file browser. Issue happens again and again with no pattern or known cause. I told her to buy an SD card for it this time so if it did happen again, I have full access to the storage medium. I then set the camera to save to the SD card and let her use it as usual. Guess what, the problem happened again today.
This time I took the SD card, popped it into my PC and ran Recuva recovery. I was able to recover a few intact pictures and videos from it.
Note 4 SM-N910C (Exynos 5 Octa)
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No root available for S8 yet so none of the recovery tools work, your photos are really gone, that's so sad.
Suggest keep your Google photos sync on and regular backup of your entire phone with Samsung Smart Switch PC version.
See if this help to recover photos from Samsung Galaxy S8+.
Why do you need root to access recovery programme?
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This issue is not exclusive to the S8 and looking around the internet this is an existing yet unsolved issue on certain Samsung devices. I'll post here to add a bit of extra information.
My mom's Note 4 also had the same exact issue where the pictures just flat out disappeared. (Pictures, videos, screenshots). No traces of it in any folders even with a different file browser. Issue happens again and again with no pattern or known cause. I told her to buy an SD card for it this time so if it did happen again, I have full access to the storage medium. I then set the camera to save to the SD card and let her use it as usual. Guess what, the problem happened again today.
This time I took the SD card, popped it into my PC and ran Recuva recovery. I was able to recover a few intact pictures and videos from it.
Note 4 SM-N910C (Exynos 5 Octa)
Android 6.0.1, Unrooted
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Exactly. I've tried multiple gallery apps, file explorers and android file recovery programs (which all end up requiring root).
I don't know why root is required to access the non-root folders for a deep scan, but they do.
I was hoping there was a way with ADB that I could make a copy on the computer to then scan, but I think it's probably a waste of time now.
And yes, it was internal storage like everyone days.
I'm hesitant to use any of the cloud backup programs because of some the vulnerabilities I don't agree with. We don't even put pictures of our kids on Facebook. Which is the most secure and least likely that I'm "agreeing to allow them to use the pictures for anything", because most programs say that in the TOS.
FOR NOW, we put an sd card in. If this seems to be a software issue, should we reset her phone or reflash the unlocked firmware with odin? I wonder if a specific app could be related to it.
I convinced her to not return the pho e, but now I'm not sure it's worth keeping if it's possible to happen again.
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Arcolog2 said:
Exactly. I've tried multiple gallery apps, file explorers and android file recovery programs (which all end up requiring root).
I don't know why root is required to access the non-root folders for a deep scan, but they do.
I was hoping there was a way with ADB that I could make a copy on the computer to then scan, but I think it's probably a waste of time now.
And yes, it was internal storage like everyone days.
I'm hesitant to use any of the cloud backup programs because of some the vulnerabilities I don't agree with. We don't even put pictures of our kids on Facebook. Which is the most secure and least likely that I'm "agreeing to allow them to use the pictures for anything", because most programs say that in the TOS.
FOR NOW, we put an sd card in. If this seems to be a software issue, should we reset her phone or reflash the unlocked firmware with odin? I wonder if a specific app could be related to it.
I convinced her to not return the pho e, but now I'm not sure it's worth keeping if it's possible to happen again.
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You guys can try a factory reset. I am actually going to observe this phenomenon happen. Also my mom doesn't like loosing her game saves. I told her to copy her pictures and videos frequently to her laptop in case it happens again (and it will happen again).
Arcolog2 said:
I'm hesitant to use any of the cloud backup programs because of some the vulnerabilities I don't agree with. We don't even put pictures of our kids on Facebook. Which is the most secure and least likely that I'm "agreeing to allow them to use the pictures for anything", because most programs say that in the TOS.
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Try the below app from play store. This can help you setup an easy and automated backup to a local computer or a NAS.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sweesoft.sweethome
The app can be set to auto backup on connection to the home wifi or when connected to the charger and your home wifi at the same time.
mbashat said:
Try the below app from play store. This can help you setup an easy and automated backup to a local computer or a NAS.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sweesoft.sweethome
The app can be set to auto backup on connection to the home wifi or when connected to the charger and your home wifi at the same time.
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Thank you, I will look it up in the morning.
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Root is now out on the S8 (snapdragon) variant so you may still be able to recover them if you haven't found a fix :good:
Galaxy S8 photos vanished
Many thanks for this post. I suffered from exactly same problem yesterday. This is the first time ever I had this problem with Samsung. I have been user of Samsung S2, S5 and now S8.
I am extremely disappointed that one of the most expensive mobiles has caused this problem. I am going to contact samsung about it because many important picture files lost.
The only precipitant was that my battery completely drained out yesterday and when I turned it on there was loss of photos last from three days.
This is completely unacceptable service from such an expensive mobile. I am very upset. My camera photos gets saved in SD card and are backed up by samsung cloud as well as in google drive.
Please help me with suggestions to recover the lost data.
Samsung s8 plus issues lossing pictures
Thought samsung is the best of the best in phones software and the rest all in one phone but clearly I was wrong I lost loads of pictures on my samsung s8 I sold yesterday and my samsung s8 plus now doing the same thing to lost 100plus pics to I'm going sell this one it's my contract phone but I don't care I just carry on paying it off but I get better phone then this that I can trust....best ones are Vodafone platinum 7 and Vodafone v8 so far are the best phones money can buy reliable to and trustworthy..... samsung makers are in software they need to do better much more improvements to
Please help me.
My problem was: suddenly my pictures disappeared from the Samsung Gallery App, but they do exist on several folders for ex. DCIM/Camera. Why arent they appearing inside Samsung Gallery? I did nothing different than what I usually do... I am so mad about this! I even did factory reset and I still cant see my pictures on Samsung Gallery
Same issue here. Just moved over from iPhone.
I've noticed that so far the pics affected have been in their own albums. One was hidden and one wasn't. 1 photo remains from the one that wasn't hidden. I think it only remains because I had texted the pic to someone.
Internal storage.
Developer Mode On.
Auto Update Off.
Have connected phone to a PC via USB prior to issue.
Images don't show in the file folders when I browse them from the My Files app, either. They're gone.
The other odd thing is this may have only started after changing this device name in About Phone.
Anyone else have a changed device name?
You guys should sync with Google Photos!

Google photos backup sync broken after flashing G955U1

I've come across an issue concerning Google photos backup not functioning properly after i converted my Canadian G955W to G955U1, XAA. Another member on XDA forum has also confirmed the following issue though on a US Metro PCS S8+. Please test and post your results. Here are the steps to test.
Have a SD card in the phone
Make sure the Google photos app has backup/sync enabled but DOES NOT HAVE SD CARD FOLDERS SET TO BE BACKED UP
Make sure your camera is set to save to DEVICE by default and not SD card.
Copy about 1-2GB, or more, worth of video files e.g mp4 from your PC or anywhere and put them on your SD card.
Go in google photos app and browse to device folders from within the google photo app and confirm you can see the videos you copied. If so, then proceed to next steps below.
Take a picture with the phone camera and go to the google photos app(make sure wifi is ON). Check if the picture you just took gets backed up to google or does the app get stuck at showing "1 photo left to backup!
Please test this and report. This could possibly be a some bug somewhere in the G95XU1 firmware, Google photos or something in the flash process causes this behavior. I have done multiple re-flashes and factory resets and still have this issue.
I wonder if it's possible that Google Photo backup is failing because it doesn't recognize your device since you Flashed the US version?
Early morning guessing ?
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shaggyskunk said:
I wonder if it's possible that Google Photo backup is failing because it doesn't recognize your device since you Flashed the US version?
Early morning guessing [emoji210]
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I find that hard to believe because I flashed from a Xfinity US carrier phone to a metro pcs US phone and I still have that same problem. If I try to save the photos to the internal memory in the phone it has problems syncing it to the Google Cloud. If I save the photos to an SD card it has no problem to the Google Cloud. I haven't had the chance to check everything out but that is what I am seeing.
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I find that hard to believe because I flashed from a Xfinity US carrier phone to a metro pcs US phone and I still have that same problem. If I try to save the photos to the internal memory in the phone it has problems syncing it to the Google Cloud. If I save the photos to an SD card it has no problem. I haven't had the chance to check everything out but that is what I am seeing.
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Hi there, well what you list is the opposite of my issue.
Infact having the camera store on the internal memory of the SD card is irrelevant for me.
As long as I have some video files on the SD card e.g I copy over a movie from my computer to the SD card, Google photos stops backing up any new pictures I take from the camera.
Im also seeing an odd behavior where the photos app doesn't refresh the list of files and folders on the SD card until I umount and remount the SD card on the phone.
To add further to the confusion, as long as the photos app doesn't realize that I've copied over some videos into the SD card, the backup sync keeps working fine. The moment it sees the new files that sync breaks.
Do keep in mind, all throughout this process, I have NOT selected any SD card folders to be backed up in the Google photos app.
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Alirz,
By chance, did you try uninstalling and reinstalling the Google photos app?
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alirz said:
Hi there, well what you list is the opposite of my issue.
Infact having the camera store on the internal memory of the SD card is irrelevant for me.
As long as I have some video files on the SD card e.g I copy over a movie from my computer to the SD card, Google photos stops backing up any new pictures I take from the camera.
Im also seeing an odd behavior where the photos app doesn't refresh the list of files and folders on the SD card until I umount and remount the SD card on the phone.
To add further to the confusion, as long as the photos app doesn't realize that I've copied over some videos into the SD card, the backup sync keeps working fine. The moment it sees the new files that sync breaks.
Do keep in mind, all throughout this process, I have NOT selected any SD card folders to be backed up in the Google photos app.
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My phone is not rooted but using a regular file explorer I can see that all the folders on the SD card have permissions of rwxr-xr-x
Whereas internal memory folders have a permission of rwxrwx--is this normal?
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Alirz,
By chance, did you try uninstalling and reinstalling the Google photos app?
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Done that many times, even tried several older versions of Google photos, different SD cards, different video files, multiple factory resets.
I'm really contemplating flashing back to my original firmware to see if that reoslves the issue just for my sanity sake. I'm going nuts trying to figure this issue out. It doesn't make any sense.i had no problems before flashing the g955u1 firmware.
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I know this is not directly related to this thread but my problems only started after the G955U1 flash, hence im posting here an an FYI for others and also possibly get some help from other who might be seeing the same problems as me.
im also noticing that the Galaxy apps application is not realizing that there are updates available for the various installed samsung apps.
if I check under galaxy apps > my apps > updates. it shows nothing
however if go under Galaxy apps> All> it shows me that various apps need updating.
UPDATE: Well ****. Hesitantly i decided to flash back to my original firmware and guess what. I can still reproduce the problem. Im clueless now and dont know why for the past 3 months that i've had this phone, i did not run into this problem before! I copy video files to my sd card in the past many times and never had this problem before. Just to note that when i flashed back to my original firmware, i did not restore any backup or anything. Created a new Google account to test with etc to make sure everything was setup from scratch. So either all 3 of test SD cards are bad or the 30 different video files i have tested with, something is wrong with them
My phone originally is G955W with a CSC code of VTR here in Canada. My carrier supports "Smart call", "places" feature with my stock firmware and CSC.
However when i convert the phone to G955U1 , CSC of XAA. I lose those two features. Others using the G955U1 firmware have told me on reddit that as long as their carrier doesnt specifically block that feature then it shows up on their phone. however for me, those features dont even show up under settings when im on G955U1

Google Photos not loading anything after update

Hi,
after system update 057 and recent update of Google Photos, the app seems unable to load photos, especially from SD card DCIM\Camera.
The app has Storage permissions. I cleared cache and data, but same problem.
It won't show anything (or apparently takes forever to scan the folders).
The Settings menu shows only About, because I did not select an account.
I do not want to use an account for Photos and make online backups.
If it won't work without an account, can you suggest me a replacement gallery app, please?
Thank you,
/_uke
Lulodroid said:
Hi,
after system update 057 and recent update of Google Photos, the app seems unable to load photos, especially from SD card DCIM\Camera.
The app has Storage permissions. I cleared cache and data, but same problem.
It won't show anything (or apparently takes forever to scan the folders).
The Settings menu shows only About, because I did not select an account.
I do not want to use an account for Photos and make online backups.
If it won't work without an account, can you suggest me a replacement gallery app, please?
Thank you,
/_uke
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Select an account then from settings disable backup, and simple gallery pro is good i use it along with photos.
Running Photos with account now, but the app is excruciatingly slow to rebuild all thumbnails.
I have about 3000 images and a bunch of videos on the phone, could it be that long to scan everything?
How can I set which folders I want to include and exclude? Does it search every folder in the phone and the card?
Thank you.
/_urka
Lulodroid said:
Running Photos with account now, but the app is excruciatingly slow to rebuild all thumbnails.
I have about 3000 images and a bunch of videos on the phone, could it be that long to scan everything?
How can I set which folders I want to include and exclude? Does it search every folder in the phone and the card?
Thank you.
/_urka
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It does and photos was made to work with backups so it can sort/label/categorize images to work faster. You should uninstall all updates and update the app once again and hope it removes its lag. I have more photos maybe like 6000+ and a lot of videos but my gphotos never lag.
z1_nile said:
It does and photos was made to work with backups so it can sort/label/categorize images to work faster. You should uninstall all updates and update the app once again and hope it removes its lag. I have more photos maybe like 6000+ and a lot of videos but my gphotos never lag.
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Tried it and same problem.
It seems to have issues with reading the SD card.
I don't want to sound like the trolls who comment "last update broke everything", but I'm fed up with Photos and I can't waste my time on this.
What is the second best choice for a gallery app?
I just need a simple app that:
-makes no backups
-works with SD card
-allows to choose exactly which folders to include
Thank you and best regards,
/_uke
Lulodroid said:
Tried it and same problem.
It seems to have issues with reading the SD card.
I don't want to sound like the trolls who comment "last update broke everything", but I'm fed up with Photos and I can't waste my time on this.
What is the second best choice for a gallery app?
I just need a simple app that:
-makes no backups
-works with SD card
-allows to choose exactly which folders to include
Thank you and best regards,
/_uke
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Simple gallery (I purchased pro).

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