[Q] Different camera folders in gallery - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

Anyone else get pics taken from their camera going to 2 different folders? Does it have anything to do with the orientation of the phone when you take the picture? That's the only thing I can think of. I usually auto upload my pics to google+ about once a week so I wonder if I adjust the stock camera settings in any way at all, that they go to a different folder? I don't really ever adjust them much as far as I can remember, I don't really use instagram that much but I would remember the pics I took with that. I should probably look and see if they are using different formats from the file names and narrow it down some more. Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this?

Most probable reason is that some were saved on the internal SD and some were saved on the external SD. Thats the only one I can think of off the top of my head.
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As stated, it's when the pics are saved to memory card or internal memory.
Burst shot, best shot as example, gets saved to faster internal memory.
So short answer is its the camera shooting mode.
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Araltd said:
As stated, it's when the pics are saved to memory card or internal memory.
Burst shot, best shot as example, gets saved to faster internal memory.
So short answer is its the camera shooting mode.
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I never use burst shot. Which is why I wonder if it's caused by ANY change in the camera settings, shooting mode, scene mode, white balance. It's actually kind of annoying. I have 2 download gallery folders also.

tony yayo said:
I never use burst shot. Which is why I wonder if it's caused by ANY change in the camera settings, shooting mode, scene mode, white balance. It's actually kind of annoying. I have 2 download gallery folders also.
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The only time I've heard of that happening is if you used your phone without any SD card. Then it would automatically save to the imternal, hence the double folders.
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Caller is picture resolution

When someone calls me or even when I place a call....why is it that the pix resolution looks crappy. How can I get to look better. I'm using pictures I take from my phone and its 8 megapixel. Is there a solution for this. Thanks in advance.
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jessegio34 said:
When someone calls me or even when I place a call....why is it that the pix resolution looks crappy. How can I get to look better. I'm using pictures I take from my phone and its 8 megapixel. Is there a solution for this. Thanks in advance.
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I would like to know this too!
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It has to do with having your contacts synced through Google. Once you set the picture and it syncs for some reason it lowers the picture resolution. If you turn contact sync off and reset the picture to the contact it will stay in good quality. Why it lowers the resolution I have no idea.
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Because it uploads the picture to Google, which converts it to a very small size, so if you get a new phone, Rom, whatever and you sun your contacts it won't take forever to download all the pics, so if sync is on your using googles pic that was uploaded to the server. Another way around this without turning sync off is to go into the people app, then pic the contact, then change it from google, to phone, of course, if your phone breaks any contacts you have set to phone that have never been set to Google will not be there when you get your new phone, but, there is a way around that also, you can export your contact to a file on your SD card, so as long as your SD card is ok, you can then import them from that to your new phone. To be extra safe, you can copy that backup file from your SD card to your computer so if a tractor runs over your phone and even destroys your card, you'll still have a backup, hide you've enjoyed readin this lengthy answer as much as I have writing it, I'm REALLY bored...
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Every phot taken creates new hidden folder

So this is driving me insane.
Since I switched from an s2 to an s3 I've had this problem:
Every single photo I take creates its own hidden folder. I have my camera set to store to the sd not the phone bc that's what I prefer. I understand the phone creating albums for apps that take pics like instagram and such, but this is nuts.
Every single freaking picture has a hidden folder. Not just the photo is hidden, it's a folder too. Sometimes igs a thumbnail and sometimes it's the full image. I have one hidden folder I've created on purpose but to find it is impossible since all 500 of my photos have their own frigging album.
I'm using the stock camera app and this happened stock and unrooted as well as on the wicked rom and a sonic rom.
I also have drop box backing up my photos.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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jasonren29 said:
Try clear the cache and data of the gallery app and camera from app manager . Helped me.
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nope.
Thanks for trying though.
didnt do a darn thing.
switch it back to save internally, then wipe the cache and see if it makes folders there. if not then try again on sd card

Burst camera

Best camera app I have used this far. So ridiculously fast it should be included in all roms. I bought the pay version after using free for 5 min. Especially useful on AOSP.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spritefish.fastburstcamera
I am just an old fashioned country doctor Jim.
Not the best all around camera, but I definitely keep a copy on my phone for catching action at sporting events etc. Definitely a must have for me.
Samsung already put burst shot capability in this phone though didn't they? How fast are the burst shots on the stock camera app? Anyone know?
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does it allow you to save burst shots to your SD card, or do you have to go internal like stock?
raptor15sc said:
does it allow you to save burst shots to your SD card, or do you have to go internal like stock?
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That's done for a very good reason: The internal memory is much faster than an external card. Since you are shooting in burst, you need to be able to dump content from RAM to storage quickly, hence you are forced to the internal storage.

Photo Saving Issues

Hi all, Ive searched through the forums and cant find the answer that im after so I thought I would ask it the question myself
The Problem
When using any of my cameras, once a picture is taken and I go to view it in the gallery I either get:-
1. The picture is saved properly and I can view it fine:victory:
2. The thumbnail for the image shows up fine but when I go to view the picture by touching the thumbnail, the image loads and then in front of my eyes, it corrupts by either turning completely grey or turning into blocks of different colours and then going grey.
3. When I open the gallery, the image is already corrupted and just shows a grey square with a lighting bolt through it.
When this all started, I was saving the pics to my 64gb sd card (exfat) using the ext2internal memory mod which caused my sd card to be viewed as internal memory while using Foxhound ROM. I then tried A different ROM so I went on to Chaos ROM (which I may add, is awesome) but to no avail. I then removed the ext2internal mod so it was seen as my external sd card again but this didn't fix anything either. Next, I decided to remove the sd card completely and save the photos on the internal sd card but that caused me another problem. I now take a photo but when I go to view it in the gallery, its not therre at all, its like I havent evn taken the picture. Ive used ES file explorer to search for the photos but I cant find them anywhere. Ive tried all the usual fixes but nothing seems to work, I am completely stumped.
Im getting really annoyed with this now as its been happening for a little while and ive lost some really awesome photos to this issue. I hope someone can help with this as I really dont know what to do next with it, I have almost given up taking pictures with it. I wouldnt even mind having to save to the phones internal sd card but i cant find where the pics are going once I have taken the photo.:crying:
PLEASE HELP
Can you view the photos if you connect to the PC ? Did you make sure to remove the file you used for the Mod ? Did you Format your SD Card properly before starting to use it ? Are you sure you checked all the Folders where the pictures might be ? DCIM, Pictures, and Media. Did you check in both Internal, and External Storage ?
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Can you view the photos if you connect to the PC ? Did you make sure to remove the file you used for the Mod ? Did you Format your SD Card properly before starting to use it ? Are you sure you checked all the Folders where the pictures might be ? DCIM, Pictures, and Media. Did you check in both Internal, and External Storage ?
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Answers I'm the order that the questions were asked.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
And finally Yes.
I formatted the sd card again and have put it back in the phone and I still can't find or save photos. I then re installed the ext2internal mod again and can now save and view pictures but I'm now back into the position I started in.
Any Ideas?
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Your signature in the last post suggest i9300 S3? While many suggestions here may help, it is better if you asked in the Q&A forum for your device? Or in the Rom thread maybe someone else has experienced this and has a solution. This forum is the Sprint SPH-L710, while an S3 many things are different.
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Hmmm. that Sig was not in his first post. I would tend to agree with ed. If you are not on a Sprint Device, you would be better off asking in the correct forum.
edfunkycold said:
Your signature in the last post suggest i9300 S3? While many suggestions here may help, it is better if you asked in the Q&A forum for your device? Or in the Rom thread maybe someone else has experienced this and has a solution. This forum is the Sprint SPH-L710, while an S3 many things are different.
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Sorry, thought I already was in the I9300 section. My bad. Thanks though.
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[Q] Slow Camera Gallery

Anyone else seeing a really long lag when trying to load the gallery from the stock camera app? Checking a shot takes way too long; easily 5-6 seconds. It's driving me a bit nuts. And yes, I could use a different camera app, but the stock on is the camera it loads from the lockscreen, which I actually do a lot. Anyone else experiencing this, or possibly know how to fix it?
chrisliphart said:
Anyone else seeing a really long lag when trying to load the gallery from the stock camera app? Checking a shot takes way too long; easily 5-6 seconds. It's driving me a bit nuts. And yes, I could use a different camera app, but the stock on is the camera it loads from the lockscreen, which I actually do a lot. Anyone else experiencing this, or possibly know how to fix it?
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I experience the same.. and I don't have a resolution.
I just figured it was software properly releasing the hardware to something.. drivers letting go of whatever they hardware they were holding on to.
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Yeah, same issue for me as well. Big bummer.
The resolution is this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
WizeGuyDezignz said:
The resolution is this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
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This is a great app, but is there a way to make this the default gallery? Can't figure how to, the normal gallery still loads from the camera app (painfully slow) and i haven't seen an option to change, thanks.
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NYYFan02 said:
This is a great app, but is there a way to make this the default gallery? Can't figure how to, the normal gallery still loads from the camera app (painfully slow) and i haven't seen an option to change, thanks.
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You are correct. I don't think you can make it the default gallery for the camera app sadly.
Love QuickPic- been using it since Note 2. I'm not seeing any lag though. I've got the pics going to the external sd card and it's a fast card- maybe card read/write speed matters here.
Another thought is maybe there's a file that's corrupted in the folder where the pics are.
I have found that if you have the option set to view picture or video after each shot it's almost instant, and the gallery loads very quick for me this way.
hanfordrob said:
I have found that if you have the option set to view picture or video after each shot it's almost instant, and the gallery loads very quick for me this way.
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That kind of works, but I don't want to have to review each picture and then go back to the camera each time. I have to believe that Samsung is working on this, as this is a huge consumer-facing issue, though I haven't heard much talk about it.
Have you tried QuickPic out? I know it doesn't load from the lockscreen but at least that will tell you if it's an issue with that app specifically. I was also thinking it might be card-related-- is your micro sd card a fast one?
Turning off online photo locations and using .nomedia files to stop the gallery from scanning unwanted folders helps too.
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I have found when changing the storage location to internal, rather than external, then snap a picture so that it will be the most recent, it loads up quicker
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illa215 said:
I have found when changing the storage location to internal, rather than external, then snap a picture so that it will be the most recent, it loads up quicker
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Well yes...because it doesn't have to scan your external SD card. Obviously anything saved to the internal will load faster.

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