I'm coming from a S6. All I had to do was connect the S6 to my MacBook, and AFT had the videos ready for me to drag onto my computer. They were mixed in with the photos.
With the S9, I only see photos in the DCIM Camera folder. The Video Editor folder has a couple videos that I "shared" from the photo gallery.
Please tell me I don't have to click "share" on every video before I can transfer it to my computer...
Also, I've noticed that the super slo mo videos look correct after I download them from Google Photos, but the regular slow motion videos do not play back correctly. Kind of disappointing.
Edit: Nevermind, I'm not used to looking at the SD Card tab....
Copy them in Google Drive and sort them there based on their file type (videos and pics)
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I'm looking for an app that would let me display photos from my phone to my PC.
Specifically, I'm on my phone, I select photo and show it on a desktop.
Samsung AllShare does exactly this, but the interface is so crappy it's not usable. I mean who browses photos by filename??? Give me something like the android Gallery and I'd be good to go.
There are countless ways of browsing the files and photos FROM a PC and I even tried remote controlling the pc while it fetches the files remotely but the controller freezes too much while downloading the files. Surely someone has already created such an app... I just can't find it.
Have you tried imediashare? Its for free in market and shows you thumbnails of your photos on your devic. It have also some other nice futures.
Everyone, this may sound dumb but I just shot some video with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus and now I want to transfer it over to my desktop. but when I connect my phone I cannot find where the movies are stored.
Well I finally figured out where they are stored and although I am embarrassed, I am somewhat flummoxed as to why they decided that movies taken by your camera go to the folder:
Computer\Galaxy Nexus\Internal Storage\DCIM\Camera
It took me about 15 min to find that sucker.
iirc thats how where all movies on stored on most point and shoot cameras. at least thats where it is on my canon, can't speak for other brands. the movies folder in /sdcard is where i think people are supposed to put their own movies that they've transferred over from their computer.
If you're new to digital cameras, I could see how that doesn't make sense.
I've known that the DCIM folder contains the pictures and videos I've taken, but your question got me thinking: What does DCIM stand for.
So I learned this from wikipedia: Digital Camera IMages.
Now I'm embarrassed...
I am not new to digital cameras.i know what that folder is, i am just not used to it being 2 levels down. It usually resides right on top when i plug in my point and shoot cameras.
hrmm..it shouldn't be 2 levels down. if you plug in your nexus it should mount /sdcard automatically and you should see a folder that says DCIM. open that up and there are your photos/videos.
using MTP your nexus shouldn't be mounting as /
Not specifically a note 2 question, but maybe someone can help me out. I've been trying to share pictures taken between my wife and I on our phones. I have note 2 now and she has galaxy s3. I've been using google drive with an uploader program and shared a folder on each drive so when I take a picture, it uploads to my drive and that folder is shared with my wife and vice versa. that works but its clunky as the drive app kind of sucks for displaying photos and drive videos play like crap on the phone.
I've done the same thing with dropbox and thats better as at least the app has a photo section but that apparently only works with photos taken on my phone, so photos from the folder that my wife shared with me don't show in the photo section.
google + uploads photos but of course those get resized which i'm not crazy about, but at least those will display in the gallery. What I finally did last night is to add my wifes email to my phone and sync to picassa. Now I can see the photos she takes in the gallery, but that is a rediculously unsecure way to share photos. I guess not bad if its your wife, but still giving anyone access to your email isn't great.
Plus while it works on the gallery now, the gallery interface leaves a lot to be desired, I now have like 20 albums sitting there with no way to say Gallery, just show me the few I want to see.
And I still have to use dropbox or drive to upload fullsize photos as I don't want all my photos resized.
Okay so I cant get my S4 to playback the videos I've recorded.
It won't pick them up when I go to gallery or videos
The only way I can play them back is if I use a file manager or go into files and find them manually
The videos save by default in DCIM/etc... on my phones memory
The only change I did was delete the .thumbnail folder located in DCIM folder
After that the videos or pictures would not be picked up by the device
To add to this. I copied the videos and pictures in question to my external sd card
Still my s4 was unable to pick them up.
So I transferred the external sd to an old Galaxy s2 from T-Mobile that I have and to my surprise they played fine and where able to berecognized by this phone.
Again the only way I can play back the videos is if i look for them manually using FILE or another file manager.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Because aswell any video that I download and add to the phone wont playback unless I do the work around mentioned abovei
re: video files
jledezma said:
Okay so I cant get my S4 to playback the videos I've recorded.
It won't pick them up when I go to gallery or videos
The only way I can play them back is if I use a file manager or go into files and find them manually
The videos save by default in DCIM/etc... on my phones memory
The only change I did was delete the .thumbnail folder located in DCIM folder
After that the videos or pictures would not be picked up by the device
To add to this. I copied the videos and pictures in question to my external sd card
Still my s4 was unable to pick them up.
So I transferred the external sd to an old Galaxy s2 from T-Mobile that I have and to my surprise they played fine and where able to berecognized by this phone.
Again the only way I can play back the videos is if i look for them manually using FILE or another file manager.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Because aswell any video that I download and add to the phone wont playback unless I do the work around mentioned abovei
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Re-create the ".thumbnail" folder located in the DCIM folder" even if it's empty.
Then create a short video.
Then with a file manager like root explorer click on the video file you just created and
it should ask you what you want to open it with, click on the video app you want to use
as "default" for video files and be sure to click "Always".
Good luck!
hi , I have a similar issue, any videos ive recorder or saved from snapchat etc, whenever I try and view them , a black screen comes up and it says cannot play video. to view them I have to upload them onto my laptop, other than that I have no idea on what to do. thanks
I took a bunch of photos this morning for work.
Here is a screencap of the DCIM->Camera directory on my Pixel 2 XL. The thumbnails folder in this location is empty, and the .inflight folder (which I've never seen on an android device before) has a .nomedia placeholder file in it.
https://imgur.com/a/0ImKZ
Some of these are normal "IMG" shot, and some of these are obviously "MVIMG" shots which I believe are supposed to be the motion type. As you'll notice, the size of some of these images are ridiculous (upwards of 9 megs in some cases).
Also strange, I have three different video files (.mp4) that are reporting 0 byte sizes. Since I did not record any video this morning, I assume these have to be related to the motion photo feature of the phone but I'm not clear on how any of this works. If I was to pull these off my phone for a storage, how I do I tell which part is "motion" and which part is just images? Will the motion part be kept if I move the mp4s too, or do I lose that feature if I don't back up the empty mp4 files? I honestly don't like the idea of backing up 9 megabyte photos so I may just turn this functionality off in the future.
tl;dr: How does this work and how can I pull it off the phone and keep the functionality?
Does anyone know how to keep the functionality of these files and view the motion on a windows 10 PC stored locally.
I can see them if I upload to google photos and view in chrome. But I want to just store locally on NAS and not use internet.