I wanted to back up my photos to the laptop and "cut" the DCIM folder from my phone.
When the copying was done I had to find out that only around 10% of all photos made it over to the laptop but the DCIM folder was removed anyways.
I assume only the photos that have been "discovered" (scrolling through the open folder past all photos in it) by windows will be copied.
If there any way to recover the photos?
Currently I don't have root, willing to root, if that doesn't include overwriting the memory.
LG V20 H990ds, Win 10, Android 7.0, Security patch level january 1, 2018
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I'm new at rooting devices.
I used the Google Nexus 7 Toolkit v2.0.0 to root my Nexus 7 16gig. Before rooting I made a backup file of my data, the program created a 8.2gig .bak file. After all that rooting I went to restore my device files. Turned out good as I have all my apps and theme setting back to the way it was before rooting. What was not include into this data restore are my music, pictures, and video files.
My media files plus apps takes a big chunk of space, I'm left with around 3-4 gigs left on the device. My apps only takes about 1.2gigs of space and the majority of it is my media files and various downloads. After rooting and restoring I checked my data info via settings and I got about 11gig left. if you do the math it don't seem right.
Are my media files actually included in this bak file, if so how do I restore my media files back?
Anyone else ever see tmp files in the download folder (Zune Software) for the camera roll under pictures? If so, anyone know what causes them and can the be deleted without harming anything or are they required for something?
I've been pondering this but didn't care much until so many were created over time...(image is attached)
Phone: HTC Surround, Windows 7.5
Never mind...I renamed them to jpg from tmp and they seem to be copies of some of my pictures....in some case 8 copies of the same image and 80% of the image doesn't open...so I'm guessing it's a corruption issue of some sort...
I recently had a replacement of my Nexus4 and I'm trying to copy files/settings/etc from one device to the other.
I backed up Apex Launcher Settings. When I plugged in the original Nexus 4 to my laptop, it will not display the folder Apex saved the backup file. (Android/data/apexlauncher/ - the apexlauncher folder does not appear in Windows Explorer) So I have no way to copy the backups to my computer to later transfer to the replacement phone.
It seems with MTP you are limited to the type of file you can transfer to and from the phone.
Is there a way to bypass this limitation, and enable a mass storage setting?
I rather not use any wifi/ftp apps, as I don't like downloading a bunch of apps... (I maintain a pretty stock/google only device)
Okay, before I delve in, I will say I did try to find an answer to my noob question, and did see some posts about similar stuff, but really didn't find an answer and much of it was too technical for me. So . . .
I've been downloading photos to my Nexus 7 using my OTG cable, and placing them in folders like:
(sdcard) /storage/emulated/0/pictures/my images/
I noticed when viewing in my file manager app, that these folders (with files) seem to get copied/emulated in a 'root' folder:
(Root) /storage/emulated/Legacy/pictures/my images/ (It looks like the same string, but '0' is replaced by 'legacy' and of course its in the 'root' directory, not 'sdcard'.)
Three questions about this:
I wonder, are these files and folders being copied, so they're taking up more storage on my device, or are these 'legacy' folders virtual, and only look like they've been duplicated?
When I go to view my images in the Gallery app supplied with my N7, it sometimes shows both 'versions' (including the 'legacy version in the 'root' directory) of the folder(s)/files, and sometimes it only shows one version--the one I created. I can't tell, why is it doing these two different things?
And, to remove this duplicate folder from the Gallery view, I have to temporarily copy over the files to another folder, delete the folders they were in and recreate a folder to copy the images back to. So, is there a way to not have this happen in the first place?
Thanks David.
Hey guys. Ever since I returned to my Moto X Style and updated it to Nougat, I've wanted to go back to using the Google Camera. But it keeps giving me the error "Can't connect to camera" when I try to take a video with it. Stock Moto Camera works just fine for video recording, though.
The second issue is that I can't access the contents of DCIM on my PC. Only my Samsung SD card storage shows up, and when I navigate to the DCIM folder, all I see is this:
https://imgur.com/a/7mMl0
Some kind of weird encrypted(?) file? I don't have encryption enabled.
I can access the contents of DCIM just fine on my phone. The only way for me to transfer DCIM's contents to my PC is if I move them to another folder like Downloads and access them there.
I guess this is some weird permissions issue that Motorola forgot to resolve. Now, I've tried the following fix from this Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/451h0k/dcim_folder_shows_no_photos_on_computer/):
On your phone, using a file explorer (I used ES File Explorer, but any will do), create a new folder, e.g. DCIM2
Navigate to the DCIM folder, select all files and folders
Move everything to DCIM2
Delete the DCIM folder (or simply rename it to DCIM-old if you're paranoid, but no real need for this)
Rename DCIM2 to DCIM
Connect phone to PC via USB, enable MTP mode. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the DCIM folder.
Bam! All photos and videos and folders are there! ...and appears to be a permanent fix!
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And it doesn't work. I still see the same weird "Camera" file even after creating and renaming a new DCIM folder. So I have no clue what's going on.
Now, as for the Google Camera crashing on the video recording screen. I've tried everything. Tried moving it from external to internal storage. Tried resetting the app, tried wiping the cache partition, tried removing all Camera permissions save for the Google Camera app, etc. The Camera app versions I tried were the May 2016 arm and September 2016 arm64 ones (4.4+ and 7.0+), as well as earlier versions. Dunno what's going on.
If it's a hardware issue, then why is the Moto camera the only app able to record video flawlessly? Did Motorola do something to the phone with the most recent update? Because I was able to record video just fine using Google Camera.
Any input?
Thanks. I'm non-rooted, bootloader-locked on stock Moto 7.0.
Maybe I'm missing some packages/core apps that are causing Google Camera to malfunction? I don't know which ones, though.
EDIT: Tried Open Camera and it works just fine. I can take videos with it and everything saves to the SD card, and I can access Open Camera's recordings and pictures from my PC. Everything Open Camera takes is saved to the DCIM folder in the Open Camera folder. But I still can't access the photos and recordings I took with the Moto Camera app.