is there any way to change the format of the time stamp that the camera uses?
Thanks.
This isn't a solution, but perhaps this thread will be useful. It'll let you have the date&time of your photos in the filename rather than as a time stamp while still letting you save to storage card.
Afterall, time stamping is so 1900s.
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there was a post made a long time ago, about automatically downloading pictures in the email boxes (whether in imap or pop3), so you dont have to click the "download internet pictures link" every time
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3627632
it looks like that has never been answered, if anyone does have an answer great...
but i'm actually looking for a 2nd thing, is there anyway to download all the internet pictures when you click the link, but then actually have those images somehow stored as cache, or saved in the phone until its deleted. the reason i ask is this, sometimes i have emails that are filled w/ lots of pictures, but they also have a ton of text as well. so i'll read what i can of the email, and if i can't finish it i'll close it. but then when i go back to it, i have to click to download the images again. basically i'm looking for some type or regedit or something that would possibly work, that would allow the pictures to be instantaneously displayed every time i go back to the particular email after closing messages.
Possible bug in SMS Sent/Received Timings
Similar to this thread but it has problems with timezones, but mine happens with same timezones.
But i found few details by exploring this issue, very annoying issue, screws up not only your order or sent/received times, but backups are also messed up with the same problem.
I may have a solution for this atleast when we take backups.
First please read this thread of SMSBackup.
Once you familiar with CommsBackup.xml, then read further.
Notice each Message Block as an property as:
0xe060040
And
0x550040
After finding on internet, they are called as tags, and i could only find reference for 0xe060040 which means PR_MESSAGE_DELIVERY_TIME, not sure about 0x550040
Now mostly this both tags hold same value in HEX format which once converted will become DateTime but sometimes can also hold different values of datetime with slight difference between them, and thats where the problem is.
Now if it is storing as per timezones in 2 different properties/tags, and then converting to phones local timezone, it must be creating that difference and reason for the problem.
So for e.g. 0xe060040 stores the datetime of the message when received and 0x550040 store datetime after converting 0xe060040's value to local timezone of phone, and might be recording it with some delays causing the datetime to go off.
Solution for me atleast was that if all my messages are from same timezone, then in my backup tool, all i need to do is check between those dates and pick the one which is higher/newer. That way we wont take the old date which sometime is older then the date of message sent by us to which it was reply back.
For people who frequently gets messages from different timezones, we can have an option to pick from list and then convert.
Hopefully, if shinichi_wtn can look in to the same for his thoughts, we may have some solution or may be an checkbox in his tool, to tackle this problem if it happens for anyone.
Currently his tool works great, but because of this issue, i cant use his exported backups as they are off in time.
Luckily i have access to the CommsBackup.xml, i can write my own tool to export it to correct way by checking those dates and safely rely on the backup.
Hope i make a point here and may be helpful.
PS. I have HD2/WP7.5
Ciao!!
My SMSBackup app use 0x550040 as the message send/receive time. I have look into it when developing the app. I never encounter the time problem as you said. Everything works fine in my phone.
According to MSDN, 0x0E060040 represents PR_MESSAGE_DELIVERY_TIME property just as you said.
PR_MESSAGE_DELIVERY_TIME property describes the time the message was stored at the server, rather than the download time when the transport provider copied the message from the server to the local store.
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In my CommsBackup.xml, all messages I send have the same value in 0x0E060040 & 0x550040. but most of my messages I receive have different values in the two properties.
After some tests, I find that 0x550040 is the actual receive time in my CommsBackup.xml. 0x0E060040 may smaller or larger than 0x550040, sometimes 0x0E060040 is more than 1hour earlier or later than 0x550040. But the time I really receive the message is 0x550040. So I guess 0x0E060040 is just a time that the operator stores(as MSDN writes).
Thanks for reply, i think lot of people have such issues.
And fix for that is to manually set our timezone in datetime settings.
Check this links, they all same problem.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ncorrect/1414aa38-878d-4bc8-b811-deadd8eb0143
http://forums.techarena.in/portable-devices/1432640.htm
And lot more:
https://www.google.co.in/#sclient=p....,cf.osb&fp=1785ddfd4331b4bb&biw=1440&bih=759
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After some tests, I find that 0x550040 is the actual receive time in my CommsBackup.xml. 0x0E060040 may smaller or larger than 0x550040, sometimes 0x0E060040 is more than 1hour earlier or later than 0x550040. But the time I really receive the message is 0x550040. So I guess 0x0E060040 is just a time that the operator stores(as MSDN writes).
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Right, but in my case because of that problem, my backups are having wrong datetime. I can send you xml if required.
So using backups created with your app, will export with wrong timestamps.
Though like i mentioned to keep a condition checkbox in your apps settings areas, can help people having this problem.
This is what happens:
1. I send sms at 10.01 am
2. I receive reply at 10.00 am to the same message instead of 10.02 am
3. I again send sms at 10.04 am
4. I receive reply at 10.03 am instead of 10.05 am
Now backups will export that way, so pratically if i am reading the coversation, its all upside down.
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Right, but in my case because of that problem, my backups are having wrong datetime. I can send you xml if required.
So using backups created with your app, will export with wrong timestamps.
Though like i mentioned to keep a condition checkbox in your apps settings areas, can help people having this problem.
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Yes, adding a checkbox is easy, but what strategy to handle the problem? What the checkbox stands for? If user checks then use 0xe060040, otherwise use 0x550040, is that your idea?
No, Checking the checkbox means, pick the latest (higher) date by comparing both values.
Because sometimes 0xe060040 has latest timestamp and sometimes 0x550040 has latest.
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No, Checking the checkbox means, pick the latest (higher) date by comparing both values.
Because sometimes 0xe060040 has latest timestamp and sometimes 0x550040 has latest.
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OK, I understand. I will implement it in the next version. But this is only for those have time problems.
Yes that is correct.
Checkbox can say something like "Select to fix incorrect times."
Thanks.
sms.xml file you create, seems like it has correct times.
But sms_export.xml does not have.
Not sure why they are created seperately, if you can put some light on it.
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I feel this is best suited in the general section​
When I first got G4 I put in SD card and set photos to store there which it did, last night I was taking photos and noticed the phone was storing them to phone memory and had been doing for a few days, I corrected it back to SD card and carried on taking photos.
This morning I moved the photos from phone memory to SD card but all these ones now a have modified date of 04/07/2015 by the side of them and sorting into date puts them in the wrong order.
Any ideas to get original date back? Cheers.
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When I first got G4 I put in SD card and set photos to store there which it did, last night I was taking photos and noticed the phone was storing them to phone memory and had been doing for a few days, I corrected it back to SD card and carried on taking photos.
This morning I moved the photos from phone memory to SD card but all these ones now a have modified date of 04/07/2015 by the side of them and sorting into date puts them in the wrong order.
Any ideas to get original date back? Cheers.
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This has been a problem for a decade from the looks of it.
Hi people.
I recently bought a 64gb MSD card from eBay, and I had set the photos to be storaged at the external storage. Besides that I'm running Android 6.01
The problem is, last night I attended a wedding where I shot some pictures, and during last night I could see in the gallery that when I started taking the pictures, the pictures in the gallery was in the beginning there, however, soon after the gallery would say the pictures format was unrecognizable (WTF?), and the pictures would go missing from the phone. I've tried using the storage handling, which is provided by android. And I'm not able to see the picture. I've tried downloading ASTRO, and get it to show the hidden files. No luck either. I've tried erasing the .nomedia file from the MSD, still nothing.
I've tried here, the morning after to take a new photo, and I can see it's supposed to be saved at storage/emulated/o/DCIM/100media, So I've gone there by the USB port on my desktop, and I still can't see the pictures. I've been through every bloody folder on the storage without any result (And yes, I've tried installing the HTC app for desktops )
If you people have any idea how to get a hold of the pictures (If they are still there?), it would greatly appreciated!
//Paaboel
Hi all!
Since 2015-01-04 I was given 1Tb on Google Drive as a bonus since I was a local guide at level 4+
Yesterday, my space ran out. (Does anyone know btw if there will be more bonus for local guides?)
So now I have two option. Pay for the drive or remove all my files.
My mail wont work again until I do one of the options.
Since mostly of my files (292,79 GB) are photos and film in originally quality. Should I remove all files and upload again? I have the originally files in my computer. Most films are in 4K, so films on Google Photo is converted to 1080p.
What should I do? Wich is the easiest way if not paying for more space?
My LAN is 1Gb down and 500mb down. It should take long to upload everyting again.
What's going to take the longest is uploading through the Pixel (as it has limited space). But you have less than 300GB so it won't take terribly long. I've uploaded probably 400GB which wasn't bad, and now my Google Photos reports taking up zero space.
I would go through the Pixel, as that would permanently free up 300 GB of space on your Google storage space (even though the unlimited original quality storage expires in 2020, per Google, whatever you upload before then through the Pixel will stay permanently free).
The only caveat is that hopefully your photos and videos have the correct EXIF photo dates, otherwise Google Photos may not sort them properly which is a giant pain. And along the same line, shortly after uploading a bunch of files, I noticed that they sometimes don't get sorted properly right away (I had like 1000 photos initially sorted as taken "today" for a several minutes after backing up.)
BTW, how do you get to level 4 in Google guides? Is that free TB still offered nowadays? Edit: nevermind, looks like they offer nothing for level 4...
The extra storage was a "thank you for working for us free" from Google two years ago. I took photos of every store I visited.
Can i attach a USB drive to my Pixel 2 XL and add as a folder for uploading images and videos?
What exif data is Google looking at? In my drive there was a folder containing photos with structure year -> month
Thats not the way to go?
Supposedly you can attach a flash drive to a USB type C male to USB type A female adapter, but I never tried it. Incidentally the Pixel comes with one of these adapters!
With regards to EXIF, I'm just referring to the metadata that's attached to each photo (contains date/time taken, location taken, camera used, etc), not the file name. Pretty much all digital cameras and modern smartphones have the correct dates embedded. But some devices don't do it properly, and if you saved a photo someone texted you, they often have no metadata.
If there is no metadata, Google photos may just use the date the file was created rather than the actual day it was taken, regardless of if the file name itself lists the correct date. This becomes a problem sometimes when copying files as the creation date sometimes gets changed to the date it was copied
beezar said:
If there is no metadata, Google photos may just use the date the file was created rather than the actual day it was taken, regardless of if the file name itself lists the correct date. This becomes a problem sometimes when copying files as the creation date sometimes gets changed to the date it was copied
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Yep. I had this problem.
I can confirm that the little adapter in the box works as USB2Go. Just plug an USB memory in and move files. But how to upload to Google Photos if its not charging? I dont have splitter for that USB C contact.
Is there a way to make a network folder as a "local" folder on Pixel 2 XL ? That would make the process a bit easier.