Photos date are off - Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Tried to copy photos from my Note 5 to Nexus 6P however, the date on the photos are off and sometimes unknown. I tried to transfer it wirelessly and through OTG cable but no luck.
What is the correct way to transfer photos without losing its date?
Thanks

Can you reproduce this by copying pictures to other devices or your computer to make sure it's a problem with your Nexus?

dannydoowop said:
Can you reproduce this by copying pictures to other devices or your computer to make sure it's a problem with your Nexus?
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Hello Danny,
I tried to copy the photos to my computer then transfer it via cable to Nexus 6P\Internal storage\DCIM\Camera
however, once the pictures/videos are transferred they lose their created date.
do you have another way for me to try ?

Not sure.
As mentioned, are the time records correct when the pics are on your computer? Have you tried to transfer pics to another handset? What about a different folder for the pics because \DCIM\Camera is as you know the original folder for pics taken by the device's camera.
Trial and error might a solution.

dannydoowop said:
Not sure.
As mentioned, are the time records correct when the pics are on your computer? Have you tried to transfer pics to another handset? What about a different folder for the pics because \DCIM\Camera is as you know the original folder for pics taken by the device's camera.
Trial and error might a solution.
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Tried to transfer it to my Tab S2 and i got the same result but the dates on my pc are correct. glad to know its not my nexus only.
Would love to know a fix for this

dannydoowop said:
Not sure.
As mentioned, are the time records correct when the pics are on your computer? Have you tried to transfer pics to another handset? What about a different folder for the pics because \DCIM\Camera is as you know the original folder for pics taken by the device's camera.
Trial and error might a solution.
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Looks like the issue from the photos it self. It got corrupted somehow when i backed it up

Good to hear that you find at least half of the solution.
Maybe you just start messing around with the Google Photos app. Automatic backups are a fine thing to have.
And...please just use inline answer, quoting me everytime just blows the thread up.

Yathani said:
Looks like the issue from the photos it self. It got corrupted somehow when i backed it up
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why not just use picasa, and eliminate all the hassle of moving.

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Transferring Pictures to storage loses date taken, scrambled pics in gallery

When I transfer my pictures from my old phone to the internal storage of the Nexus 4 all of the "Date Taken" info is erased resulting in scrambled pictures in my gallery. When I scroll through them with the bar on the right it shows that the pictures were all taken at the same day.
A little more info, I am going from a sensation with an SD card that has all of my pictures on them. When I simply transfer the DCIM folder to the root of the nexus storage the dates are lost.
Is there a work around for this?
all mine are in tact... I transferred my pics to my computer from my One X and then transferred from the computer to my Nexus 4. I can even sort by date in the gallery and all that info is correct... not sure what is going on to be honest or how to fix... but I just wanted to report that all looks normal on my end.
EDIT: here's screenshot FWIW.
co.ag.2005 said:
all mine are in tact... I transferred my pics to my computer from my One X and then transferred from the computer to my Nexus 4. I can even sort by date in the gallery and all that info is correct... not sure what is going on to be honest or how to fix... but I just wanted to report that all looks normal on my end.
EDIT: here's screenshot FWIW.
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THanks for the response. A little more info to clear up the specific problem.
A little more info, I am going from a sensation with an SD card that has all of my pictures on them. When I simply transfer the DCIM folder to the root of the nexus storage the dates are lost.
The attached file shows dates ranging from april 2010 to nov 2012. Makes no sense.
ArmandHammer said:
THanks for the response. A little more info to clear up the specific problem.
A little more info, I am going from a sensation with an SD card that has all of my pictures on them. When I simply transfer the DCIM folder to the root of the nexus storage the dates are lost.
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hmmm. interesting. I wonder if they got lost going to the SD card or maybe the phone just behaved differently than my One X. FWIW, I put my pics in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera
Good luck, not sure how to help out!

[Q] How do you preserve the time/date stamp when copying pictures?

Hi, guys I've encountered this problem many times when getting a new Android phone and am facing the issue again with my new LG G2.
When I copy my old phone pics to my new phone, it copies the file over and time stamps "date created" as the day I copy it over instead of "date it was REALLY created/taken". So when I view the files on my phone the pictures are in alphabetical order instead of date taken.
Is there a workaround this?
I use teracopy on my pc. http://codesector.com/teracopy/ and it keeps the timestamps as they are. It'll even do it when I send stuff over to my NAS so it should work over a phone.
frogman74 said:
I use teracopy on my pc. http://codesector.com/teracopy/ and it keeps the timestamps as they are. It'll even do it when I send stuff over to my NAS so it should work over a phone.
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Cool, I'll give this a shot tonight.
Unfortunately teracopy doesn't seem to work for phones that only have built in storage. Tried it with my LG G2 and HTC One X and no dice. Teracopy doesn't recognize the phone storage.
Great tool though.
Anyone else have any suggestions?

Wireless Storage Problem?

So for a few days now I've been using the wireless storage function on my G2 to transfer pictures over to my computer. It's usually around 150-200 photos. I use I.E. to browse my wireless storage files, however, there is always one picture missing within the folder, but I can still see the picture on my phone. And I'm not talking about after I transfer my photos over to my computer, I'm talking about inside the network drive (\\192.168.0.XX). I'll attach a few pictures so you can better understand. I've tried to Google the problem, but I've had no success. . This is not a huge problem, it's just annoying when I need to have all of the pictures for sure and then I have to do a man hunt to find out which one is gone. Thanks, all help is much appreciated.
Is it really missing or just miscalculate?
Next time, try to transfer 10 images and see if one missing or not.
votinh said:
Is it really missing or just miscalculate?
Next time, try to transfer 10 images and see if one missing or not.
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Nothing is being transferred. Like I said, it's in the G2 network drive where the photo is missing. Look in the photo I uploaded that's showing the 265 photos being selected, nothing was transferred prior to that screen-grab
EDIT - Also notice the network map in the first photo (\\192.168.0.10\g2\sdcard0\DCIM\100LGDSC)

Google Photos not deleting files from device.

I'm noticing that I'm building up Image data even though I'm deleting every picture I take off of the device once it's uploaded to the cloud. However when I check the SD card storage the pictures are still there. Thumbnails as well. Hire can I fix this?
Bueller.... Bueller?
So far I've tried deleting data from Photos camera, and media storage to no avail.
I'm thinking it might have to do with the trash holding photos for 60 days before permanently deleting.
I'm thinking it might have to do with the trash holding photos for 60 days before permanently deleting.
AndrasLOHF said:
I'm noticing that I'm building up Image data even though I'm deleting every picture I take off of the device once it's uploaded to the cloud. However when I check the SD card storage the pictures are still there. Thumbnails as well. Hire can I fix this?
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Not sure if you've done this, but with newest version of photos, you can go into Settings and select Free Up Space and then it'll look for already uploaded photo to the cloud and remove it from your device. I do this about every 2 weeks to free up the device. I recommend cross reference the photos between app and photos.google.com to make sure. Also have NAS locally to back it up too.

Nexus 6p pictures not showing on device via USB cable

Hi guys.
I have just got a new nexus 6p and intend on passing my current one on to my wife.
I have inserted the official USB cable in and Hooke up to my pc like I have done many times before to pull off my camera folder which is around 14gb
However it is showing as around 1gb once downloaded and a real random selecteion of pictures.
I used airdriod and could see the full 14gb folder and all its contents. However due to the size it bombs out every time when I try the zip file download.
So first off anyone know why the device is showing 10% of my pics and video ?
And any other ways I can get these files off ?
It's all backed up on Google photos but I like having it offline on my device.
do you use airdroid premium? if not, they limit file transfers, so thats most likely the issue there.
try using android file transfer app, see if you get different results.
bobbysixkiller said:
Hi guys.
I have just got a new nexus 6p and intend on passing my current one on to my wife.
I have inserted the official USB cable in and Hooke up to my pc like I have done many times before to pull off my camera folder which is around 14gb
However it is showing as around 1gb once downloaded and a real random selecteion of pictures.
I used airdriod and could see the full 14gb folder and all its contents. However due to the size it bombs out every time when I try the zip file download.
So first off anyone know why the device is showing 10% of my pics and video ?
And any other ways I can get these files off ?
It's all backed up on Google photos but I like having it offline on my device.
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Don't know how to fix it, but you can just download everything from the Photos site to your computer.
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