Does anyone know where they are stored?, when you take a picture of someone and use it as a contact picture, I know it doesn't use the original photo.
It must use a low res version and save it to a location on the phone/sd card somewhere?
kevinsmbuk said:
Does anyone know where they are stored?, when you take a picture of someone and use it as a contact picture, I know it doesn't use the original photo.
It must use a low res version and save it to a location on the phone/sd card somewhere?
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hi i think the pictures are just cached and not stored, and redownloaded every time you sync if they are stored they will prob be somewhere in /system/customise
Hi thanks for the reply, so If I were to format the phone back to factory settings and I backed up my contacts would the pictures be saved with the contact backup that you export to the sd card?
If not then how would I backup my contacts pictures?
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Hi thanks for the reply, so If I were to format the phone back to factory settings and I backed up my contacts would the pictures be saved with the contact backup that you export to the sd card?
If not then how would I backup my contacts pictures?
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if you save a contact as a sim contact i think you have to manually back up your pictures, but if its saved as a google contact, it automatically backed up to the google servers, hence the low quality, google resize it so there not too big
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I want to backup my contacts (with their photos) to sdcard and/or online, what is the best app for this?
I think you will have to sync the contacts with Gmail or take a .csv file backup from MS Outlook. Not sure about the exact method, but something like this is explained in detail at Motorola Site.
You could try the App Backup Contacts
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myphoneexplorer app will backup contacts and pics too. just incase you havnt found a solution yet.
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I want to backup my contacts (with their photos) to sdcard and/or online, what is the best app for this?
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Log in to the gmail account you used to get the market going and all the contacts with photos are there
is there any app that backup the contacts and all the link configuration between them?
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myphoneexplorer app will backup contacts and pics too. just incase you havnt found a solution yet.
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jepp, myphoneexplorer works great, with different android phones too
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I want to backup my contacts (with their photos) to sdcard and/or online, what is the best app for this?
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titanium backup is good
When I sync to Google and then back to my phone there's always some data missing. MyBackup gets my contacts back exactly as they were.
I revelled this when I saw similar amount photos in both internal/external SD cards when browsing the photos in the gallery. I checked the settings of the camera and it is set to external storage (I couldn’t recalled that I have made this change so maybe it is by default).
Checked the time stamp of the photos in both cards and they look being saved to these destination folders randomly. Did anyone encounter the same problem or any suggestion? Thanks.
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Quick question, are the photos listed in the camera folder and the dropbox folder?
Pete
The same happens to me, even pictures taken with seconds of difference are stored in different locations/folders. I am using stock camera app and still did not take the time to investigate the reason of this strange behaviour. Will check later.
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cabessius said:
The same happens to me, even pictures taken with seconds of difference are stored in different locations/folders. I am using stock camera app and still did not take the time to investigate the reason of this strange behaviour. Will check later.
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Are the pictures in two separte folders in the gallery ie camera & dropbox?, or are you looking at them via a folder explorer?
Pete
peter7769 said:
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Are the pictures in two separte folders in the gallery ie camera & dropbox?, or are you looking at them via a folder explorer?
Pete
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Hi, they are in two folders, one of them called "camera" and located in external Sd and another called "cámara" (camera in spanish) and located in internal Sd.
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Single shots are stored on the sd card assuming that's what you configured.
Burst shots are stored on internal memory.
So are you taking single or doing burst?
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Single shots are stored on the sd card assuming that's what you configured.
Burst shots are stored on internal memory.
So are you taking single or doing burst?
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That sounds the most plausible explanation
skibumza said:
Single shots are stored on the sd card assuming that's what you configured.
Burst shots are stored on internal memory.
So are you taking single or doing burst?
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Surely that´s the reason:good:
skibumza said:
Single shots are stored on the sd card assuming that's what you configured.
Burst shots are stored on internal memory.
So are you taking single or doing burst?
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Yep that sounds right. Thanks for the answer.
Anybody know how to make the contact pictures imported from facebook any better? Also, how do you get your own facebook picture to show up? When someone calls me the pictures look terrible compared to my old Inspire.
Use the contact-sync app.
I installed it.
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Use the contact-sync app.
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I installed it from the market. I selected the largest possible pictures 720. Still no change.
Google plus will pull in your profile picture. I don't know of a way to pull in your own Facebook picture.
That was actually considered undesirable in the Galaxy S II forum, the mod to remove yourself from the contacts was popular.
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first add your hi res pics into your phone album, then edit the contact picture by picking it from "Images".
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first add your hi res pics into your phone album, then edit the contact picture by picking it from "Images".
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Was going to say this. When your done, go into TBU and backup contact storage and do a nandroid. You will always have them.That is where it is stored. I delete the contact sync apk from a ROM before booting after a flash. It stops Google from screwing with the pics.
When I restore contacts, I extract from nandroid in tbu? Choose contact storage and only restore data. Do not restore app. Reboot and contacts are perfect.
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Apparently, somewhere along the line, my photos are gone from my gallery. I still have pictures that I took for contacts, so I assume the pics are somewhere on the phone. Can I use Titanium Backup to restore the photos or use a photo recovery program?
Thank you.
If the pics are still on your SD card, try clearing data and cache for the gallery and reboot.
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The pictures for your contacts are actually sync'd with your google account. So the pictures don't even need to be on your phone, unless you don't have all your contacts sync'd to your google account.
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Gil1957 said:
Apparently, somewhere along the line, my photos are gone from my gallery. I still have pictures that I took for contacts, so I assume the pics are somewhere on the phone. Can I use Titanium Backup to restore the photos or use a photo recovery program?
Thank you.
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I could use help with this too. Photos gone, but I have 1 or 2 recent complete Titanium backups in the cloud. I tried dragging all contents of one of the backups to the Titanium Backup folder of the phone's SD card, and restoring the Gallery app, but no photos. Thoughts?
Thanks.
Hey guys. I need a little help. I lost a picture on my phone as it got corupt. I did use the picture as a background on the messages app and it still shows when I text. Does anybody know where this picture is stored so as I can get it and save it. I would love to get it for my new S5 before I do a restore on my S3. Is there any program that would scan my S3 for pictures.
Thanks .
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Anybody got any ideas? Please.
Satstalker said:
Anybody got any ideas? Please.
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If it isn't showing up in the gallery, you'll need to know the name of it to find it. I would start with going to the My Files app and manually looking through the camera and downloads folders. The location will depend on how you put the picture on the phone originally. Did you take the picture with the camera on the phone? Did you download it from a website? Did it come from an app? Need to know that first.
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If it isn't showing up in the gallery, you'll need to know the name of it to find it. I would start with going to the My Files app and manually looking through the camera and downloads folders. The location will depend on how you put the picture on the phone originally. Did you take the picture with the camera on the phone? Did you download it from a website? Did it come from an app? Need to know that first.
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Hey Thanks for the reply jack man.
I don't know the name of the picture. When you add the picture as a background in messages you have to crop it and then it saves it and it shows up in the picture selection for back grounds in messages. Its that location that i am looking for.
On a good note i did use titanium backup and did a restore data for messages and got the picture back as a back ground option. So i can use it again. But i would still like to know where that picture is stored on the phone.
Thanks for your help.
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Hey Thanks for the reply jack man.
I don't know the name of the picture. When you add the picture as a background in messages you have to crop it and then it saves it and it shows up in the picture selection for back grounds in messages. Its that location that i am looking for.
On a good note i did use titanium backup and did a restore data for messages and got the picture back as a back ground option. So i can use it again. But i would still like to know where that picture is stored on the phone.
Thanks for your help.
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That still doesn't say how the picture got on the phone in the first place. When you go to the setting to change the background in messaging, it either let's you take a picture or view the gallery to select a picture. Is this one you downloaded? or took with you camera? If it gave you the option to crop it, it was probably in your gallery.
Try opening the My Files app. then click All Files. Then Device Storage. It may be in one of these folders - DCIM (if you took the picture with your camera), Download (if you downloaded it from the web or email), or Pictures (if you moved it directly to your phone from a computer).
It could also be on your external SD card if you have one installed. To check it, just back up to where you chose Device storage, then just choose SD memory card and look in the files there. If it's not in any of these locations, I have no idea. Good luck!
Also, if you downloaded the picture from an app (like Zedge), it may be in another folder that the app itself created for storage.
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That still doesn't say how the picture got on the phone in the first place. When you go to the setting to change the background in messaging, it either let's you take a picture or view the gallery to select a picture. Is this one you downloaded? or took with you camera? If it gave you the option to crop it, it was probably in your gallery.
Try opening the My Files app. then click All Files. Then Device Storage. It may be in one of these folders - DCIM (if you took the picture with your camera), Download (if you downloaded it from the web or email), or Pictures (if you moved it directly to your phone from a computer).
It could also be on your external SD card if you have one installed. To check it, just back up to where you chose Device storage, then just choose SD memory card and look in the files there. If it's not in any of these locations, I have no idea. Good luck!
Also, if you downloaded the picture from an app (like Zedge), it may be in another folder that the app itself created for storage.
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Yes it used to be in my gallery but it got corrupt and i cant view it any more. It shows up as a blank JPEG now and yes It was taken with the phone. However the picture can still be seen in messages. I would like to recover that picture in messages as it is the only picture remaining.
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Yes it used to be in my gallery but it got corrupt and i cant view it any more. It shows up as a blank JPEG now and yes It was taken with the phone. However the picture can still be seen in messages. I would like to recover that picture in messages as it is the only picture remaining.
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I've had that happen before. I think I fixed it by connecting to a computer and copy in it over then renaming it. Not sure if that was how... it's been a while. But it was something with renaming the file.
Hope it helps.
Open dcim and check the .thumbnail folder. Might still be in there.