I currently have the stock gallery and quickpic gallery installed on my phone. I noticed, in quickpic, that there is a folder called "alternate" in my camera folder on my sd card.
Looking at the photos in that folder it appears that these were photos that I took but they never made it to my camera folder or were deleted. They don't show up in the stock gallery.
Any ideas on why this folder exists and why they wouldn't make it to the camera folder?
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I'm curious about that as well
HDR in Moto Camera
It seems if you enable HDR in the Moto Camera it creates a second version of the picture and stores it in "Alternate". It does not always create a second file, probably only it the two files differ significantly.
Jep
It does take an extra shot if auto HDR is enabled. The alternate photo is actually taken before you actually shoot. It's supposed to be a better picture.
Thanks
Anyway to disable this?
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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.
Markhypnosis said:
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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?
Mikest1978 said:
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.
smrsxn said:
Clear app cache for media server as well.
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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.
I just noticed this, but I can't see some of my photos in the gallery app. There's no .nomedia file. Also, it's strange because it shows some of the images of a folder up after a certain date and the pictures before that date do not show (btw, they're from the camera folder). Any ideas?
Chowlz said:
(btw, they're from the camera folder)
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I currently have this same problem, on a G900T.
I noticed that the thumbnail in the Camera app on my Galaxy S7 Edge is showing the latest photos on my phone. It could be the latest screenshot, the photo I downloaded from Internet or the photo that’s transferred from my friend. Can I set the thumbnail to show only the latest photo taken by the camera?
Same problem here...
It also shows offline content downloaded from my RSS reader. Annoying
put a .nomedia file in the folder that you don't want to have shown.
Pet1981 said:
put a .nomedia file in the folder that you don't want to have shown.
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thats a good way of doing it manually, but is it not the manufacturer's mistake?
i didnt see all the photos under the camera thumbnail on an S6 or the OnePlus One or OnePlus 3T or any other phone i have used in recent past.
i have been asking/checking forums from the time since i got my S7E..
Pet1981 said:
put a .nomedia file in the folder that you don't want to have shown.
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That's a workaround but not for the common user.... a friend got the S8 and is facing the same issue.
Many of us have been using the .nomedia method for a long time but is there a system wide option to turn all images off or not? I have at least 20 albums that i would like to mute....
.nomedia doesn't seem to be a valid solution
Just checked. The .nomedia method does not work!
Hi all,
I'm having an issue with my Galaxy S8. After taking a burst shot, a popup saying "Can't save burst shot to SD card. Saving to internal storage instead...". Following that, taking any photo will not be readable by the gallery. Taking the photo, then clicking the circle to view the photo will show the photo for a while, then goes back to the camera. Clicking on the circle now gives a toast saying "No items in Gallery." Opening up the gallery, there's nothing. However, using a file explorer, I can see all my pictures, even the burst shots.
I've tried clearing data and cache of my camera and gallery, rebooting my phone, deleting .nomedia files and rescanning media. None of those work.
What can I do to get the stock gallery and camera app working again? Don't want to use 3rd party apps because Samsung's in-built camera has lots of nice features. Any help appreciated, thanks.
ryanchua0202 said:
Hi all,
I'm having an issue with my Galaxy S8. After taking a burst shot, a popup saying "Can't save burst shot to SD card. Saving to internal storage instead...". Following that, taking any photo will not be readable by the gallery. Taking the photo, then clicking the circle to view the photo will show the photo for a while, then goes back to the camera. Clicking on the circle now gives a toast saying "No items in Gallery." Opening up the gallery, there's nothing. However, using a file explorer, I can see all my pictures, even the burst shots.
I've tried clearing data and cache of my camera and gallery, rebooting my phone, deleting .nomedia files and rescanning media. None of those work.
What can I do to get the stock gallery and camera app working again? Don't want to use 3rd party apps because Samsung's in-built camera has lots of nice features. Any help appreciated, thanks.
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Tried using Google Photos to see if it works? Least least would be good to test and see what the issue is. Due to the internal storage or possibly having an SD Card(bad card?) in the phone causes problem?
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Tried using Google Photos to see if it works? Least least would be good to test and see what the issue is. Due to the internal storage or possibly having an SD Card(bad card?) in the phone causes problem?
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Yep, Google Photos displays my pictures correctly. Don't think it's a bad card because I can still see my stuff from a file explorer or 3rd party gallery apps.
ryanchua0202 said:
Yep, Google Photos displays my pictures correctly. Don't think it's a bad card because I can still see my stuff from a file explorer or 3rd party gallery apps.
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Have you tried removing SD card and testing without it?
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Have you tried removing SD card and testing without it?
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Yep, that didn't work.
ryanchua0202 said:
Yep, that didn't work.
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Any app was activated recently, such as secure folder or possibly some of the app permissions are off or denied?
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Any app was activated recently, such as secure folder or possibly some of the app permissions are off or denied?
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All permissions are granted for both gallery and camera. I don't use Secure Folder, but when I was trying to get the camera working, the secure folder's camera works.
Realised something. I tried enabling apps that I disabled since day 1 (with Adhell), enabling CMHProvider makes the gallery amd camera work. Disabling it kills the gallery and camera. Thing is, this only happened yesterday, but I've disabled CMHProvider since I found Adhell.
I rooted my moto G5 plus by traditional method, ie unlocking bootloader, then installing twrp recovery and then flashing magisk files
I had no problems with rooting and stuff, and I am still on stock ROM, Oreo 8.1.0. I haven't installed any custom roms.
Then I enabled camera2API using buid.prop app
I installed manual camera, open camera and few other cameras to try to shoot RAW images.
They are able to take raw .dng files but I am unable to open them either in photoshop or in few other image viewer.
It says: "The Original file appears to be unsupported or damaged."
So, I need help taking raw images which I can open and edit.
Google camera raw opens up. But GC won't work on 32 bit rom.
There is a 32-bit google camera port.
When shooting with hdr+ it will also save a .dng file that can be opened normally. It's not perfectly polished but works well. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78322212&postcount=116
bazinga137 said:
There is a 32-bit google camera port.
When shooting with hdr+ it will also save a .dng file that can be opened normally. It's not perfectly polished but works well. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78322212&postcount=116
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Thank you. Google camera is so much better than stock camera app.
I did try HDR+ and RAW. It works pretty awesome.
I did notice that .dng file is only 0.3MP and resolution is much small, while I am shooting at full resolution... is this normal?
The size of dng file is 25MB and above (almost all the time)
It it normal with this Google camera?
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I copied the dng files in PC and tried to open them in Photoshop.
I am unable to edit them. I get error that file is not supported.
I do feel there is something wrong with the raw format.
Strange_Quark said:
Thank you. Google camera is so much better than stock camera app.
I did try HDR+ and RAW. It works pretty awesome.
I did notice that .dng file is only 0.3MP and resolution is much small, while I am shooting at full resolution... is this normal?
The size of dng file is 25MB and above (almost all the time)
It it normal with this Google camera?
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I copied the dng files in PC and tried to open them in Photoshop.
I am unable to edit them. I get error that file is not supported.
I do feel there is something wrong with the raw format.
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That's odd, the gcam .dng files work perfectly fine for me in photoshop. The size is right, it should be about 25mb, and I think the resolution isn't reported accurately - when import them to photoshop they are 12MP as they should be.
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That's odd, the gcam .dng files work perfectly fine for me in photoshop. The size is right, it should be about 25mb, and I think the resolution isn't reported accurately - when import them to photoshop they are 12MP as they should be.
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I see.
I don't know whats wrong with the dng files.
I hope someone on forum can guide me to get this working properly.
Strange_Quark said:
I see.
I don't know whats wrong with the dng files.
I hope someone on forum can guide me to get this working properly.
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You could try this tutorial. Maybe you'll get lucky.
esolmaan said:
You could try this tutorial. Maybe you'll get lucky.
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Editing the exif file does the job.
Removed camera 1 and camera 2 calibrations and now I can open the raw dng files...
PS: Raw files will look completely washed out... It's your job to edit them using Photoshop or Lightroom, whichever you prefer.