Really strange bug....follow me on this:
take pictures, pictures are automatically stored on phone in directory /mnt/sdcard/dcim/100andro....
move pictures to hidden directory called /mnt/ext-card/.specialuse
pictures move just fine, and are readily availible in hidden directory....until I restart the phone, at which point, only the pictures from this phone (not other files or videos) are deleted from the .specialuse folder, no warnings, no pop up...just GONE.
The strangest thing is, it only deletes the files I have added to that directory recently....not the older video files already present.
I have created a .specialuse folder on the phones memory at /mnt/sdcard/.specialuse and it does the same thing....
When I remove the . in the folder name (making it visible) and copy the picture and reset the phone...nothing happens (meaning it keeps the pictures like it should).
WHY does having a .directoryname cause the phone to automatically clear pictures from said directories? My X10 did not do this, only my ION does this.
Anyone have any ideas? Has anyone else had this happen? Thanks.
lmbea4 said:
Really strange bug....follow me on this:
take pictures, pictures are automatically stored on phone in directory /mnt/sdcard/dcim/100andro....
move pictures to hidden directory called /mnt/ext-card/.specialuse
pictures move just fine, and are readily availible in hidden directory....until I restart the phone, at which point, only the pictures from this phone (not other files or videos) are deleted from the .specialuse folder, no warnings, no pop up...just GONE.
The strangest thing is, it only deletes the files I have added to that directory recently....not the older video files already present.
I have created a .specialuse folder on the phones memory at /mnt/sdcard/.specialuse and it does the same thing....
When I remove the . in the folder name (making it visible) and copy the picture and reset the phone...nothing happens (meaning it keeps the pictures like it should).
WHY does having a .directoryname cause the phone to automatically clear pictures from said directories? My X10 did not do this, only my ION does this.
Anyone have any ideas? Has anyone else had this happen? Thanks.
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It's because of the "dot" at the beginning of the folder name. Android uses this method by default for it's own purposes. It's a possibility that this phone is seeing that and it "confuses" it so to speak. Try this...
Make your folder and name it whatever you like, with NO punctuation in the name..
Now... Inside that folder, add a ".nomedia" file, but without the quotes
The photos should remain hidden in the gallery, but only visible in a file manager of sorts.
Quickpic in the market is an alternative gallery, that has the ability to hide folders, using the nomedia method. Works great.
...And now I'm gonna go check if all of mine are still there....
yeah but BUG
I agree, and that's what I had been doing after I noticed the deletions....but my x10 didn't behave that way, and my tablet (running 4.0.3) doesn't behave that way.....so, yes, this is a bug.
lmbea4 said:
I agree, and that's what I had been doing after I noticed the deletions....but my x10 didn't behave that way, and my tablet (running 4.0.3) doesn't behave that way.....so, yes, this is a bug.
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Well, not necessarily... Depending on how the overlay of Android is set up...The overlay from Sony I mean... It "could" be written to behave this way. Bear with me for a few days... I'm going to run some tests on my own phone with some pictures to see if I can reproduce the issue, and if so, try and find a solution.
If you like, I can use the same pictures you were, with the same folder names. That is completely up to you, as only you know what these are... But if you like, PM me, and I'll give you my email address, so we can resolve this.
CONFIRMED!!! At least on my phone... There is no pattern to it, that I can determine... I used several folders in my experiment. Some with, and some without a .nomedia file. And some with and without a dot before the folder name. At random, 5 different folders, still have their folder names, but have no pictures. All 4 possible scenarios were effected, and the fifth actually goes to a standard folder name with a .nomedia file in it.
So basically, my experiment proves nothing more than this is still unsolved, and not specific to one person.
(Just for sh**s and giggles, I am attempting to recover the lost files using some software I have... Just to see if its do-able, should this effect someone else... I'll report back later tomorrow)
Quick question, which file manager are you guys using to move these files? There was some update to Astro a while back that made my files get deleted when I moved them, anywhere regardless of the folder name on my Aria. Same thing still occurred on my Ion when I got it. Ever since I switched to ES File Explorer, I have not encountered this issue of deletion. Astro deleted not only pictures when I moved them, but ring tones, pdf, etc.
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BUG!
Astro moves the files over just fine...and they are there..and accessible... until you reset the phone. Then...BAM, gone. It is disturbing to think that it may delete pictures in regular directories....BUG BUG BUG. hopefully the ICS update will address this.
That's exactly what I am talking about. They didn't disappear on the spot when I moved them. Everything seemed fine. Just give es a try and thrnreboot to see if it's the app or if it's the phone deleting your media.
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iJudgeMAN said:
Quick question, which file manager are you guys using to move these files? There was some update to Astro a while back that made my files get deleted when I moved them, anywhere regardless of the folder name on my Aria. Same thing still occurred on my Ion when I got it. Ever since I switched to ES File Explorer, I have not encountered this issue of deletion. Astro deleted not only pictures when I moved them, but ring tones, pdf, etc.
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My experiment with this was done via a PC. these files were moved from my PC, via the USB cable, on a freshly formatted medium. I'm not sure when the deletion of these files occured, but it was within the first hour or so. the phone was NOT restarted, nor did anything FC.
I will be running more tests on this issue over the weekend to see if I can find some sort of pattern to this madness. I will be using various Galleries and File Managers, as well as my PC to perform these tests. I'll also be checking this time around to see if videos are effected at all. I will report back my findings on Monday...
Sidenote: The files that the phone deleted are very easily recoverable. the program I used (which I legally own) is called Easy Recovery Professional. Took about an hour to recover the 300+ deleted pictures.
I've been working with hiding images with .nomedia files for years, but at this point, I feel I have tried everything and I can't find a solution to my problem.
I have a bunch of epubs that are displaying coverart showing up in the Samsung default gallery app. I've tried adding the .nomedia files to the offending folders and wiping data for both gallery and media storage, but they continue to return. I've found on some tablet forums that they had had significant trouble, and the only way it would work would to be to make a new folder, put the .nomedia file in first, and then put the items into that folder. This also had no result.
I know some apps will selectively choose to ignore the .nomedia files. Is this default gallery app one of them? This is my first time using a Samsung phone with Touchwiz. I'm not sure what to do at this point, but I installed Quickpic, and they aren't showing up there. Rather not have to pass on the default app.
Thoughts?
Hey,
I found several post about the gallery image order, but i think I've found a new problem...
I started after i deleted the app data for the gallery (because of another bug, where it doesn't show all of whatsapp videos), and my mistake was i didn't back it up with titanium backup first...
After the deletion, it appears that while most of the images are in the correct order, the panorama images are messed up, not completely, they are still close to their old location, but moved a couple of spots...
i tried debugging it, and i think that the cause is that the panorama files don't have the data taken exif tag... (same problem as with the video files)
I will try to add the tag myself and see if it works, but i was wondering if maybe it wasn't there for a reason? i know the files are not standard jpeg...
I would be happy for some input or some ideas from someone with more experience!
Any other ideas what to do...
It's a bit annoying
Yomach said:
Hey,
I found several post about the gallery image order, but i think I've found a new problem...
I started after i deleted the app data for the gallery (because of another bug, where it doesn't show all of whatsapp videos), and my mistake was i didn't back it up with titanium backup first...
After the deletion, it appears that while most of the images are in the correct order, the panorama images are messed up, not completely, they are still close to their old location, but moved a couple of spots...
i tried debugging it, and i think that the cause is that the panorama files don't have the data taken exif tag... (same problem as with the video files)
I will try to add the tag myself and see if it works, but i was wondering if maybe it wasn't there for a reason? i know the files are not standard jpeg...
I would be happy for some input or some ideas from someone with more experience!
Any other ideas what to do...
It's a bit annoying
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It seems that the time data tag is written...
I thought it didn't because windows 7 didn't manage to read it, which might indicate the real problem.
Anyway, i've used ExifTool on 2 pictures taken one after the other, one of them is panorama and the other is a normal picture.
They both have correct exif tags and appear in the correct order, but what i did find out is that the tag "Exif Tag Order" is different, it is "little endian" for the panorama and "big endian" for the normal picture, other than that they are the same...
I'm clueless
I'm attaching links to my pictures, can someone try to help me debug it?
Picture a
Picture b (panorama)
Picture c
The pictures were taken in the above order, but picture c appears in the gallery between a & b (with more pictures).
EDIT - Forgot to mention, I've installed QuickPic to see what it does.
QuickPic, when told to sort by date, put all of the movies first (because they don't have exif, annoying problem itself), then all of the panorama pictures (in the correct relative order), then the normal pictures (again, in the correct relative order)
So there is some problem with the different tags!
err!
Hi,
Quick question: I had sorted all my Pictures on my ext_sdcard into folders, but sadly in the official Gallery app it just shows all of them under camera pictures. Only like 5 Folders which have no logical connection to me are shown, from the internal aswell as from the external storage. Now, I am able to create new Albums and sort them through the menu, but as far as I can see the only thing that changes are the databases and not the file system. I would hate to sort all my photos again
is there a way to use the folder structure or at least something to speed up the process??
I had hoped it would suffice to just change the mediacollection.db -> albums to include the folders but that didn't work
*EDIT*
to create groups one would need to compute the bucket_id hash for the corresponding file/folder. Any infos on which algorithm it uses, or how I can compute it myself?
**EDIT**
The Albums get sorted by Folder, so if you have Subfolders then those will just be in one album. splitting them up kind of resolves the problem. it's just not very nice to have all image folders scattered over the sdcard and completely defeats the purpose of one single image folder
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Moved the pictures from the DCIM Folder to the Pictures Folder and it worked perfectly. please mark as solved for reverence or delete.
The Moto Hasselblad Mod has a serious bug that when GPS tag is turned on, any photo taken by the Hasselblad Mod will be attached with a random GPSDateStamp & GPSTimeStamp, and no GPS coordinates at all (Maybe the one I have is faulty, I don't have another Hasselblad Mod to test with).
Google Photos(The default gallary for Moto Z phones) is using GPSDateStamp & GPSTimeStamp prior to other date time in EXIF which will resulting photos appears years early or in far far away future.
This bug has already been reported(see links below) a long time ago and never got fixed. So I downloaded Visual Studio and by a lot of Googling and made this program.
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z-Force/Hasselblad-True-Zoom-Time-Stamp/td-p/3814727
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Moto-Z...-Zoom-mod-bug-found-with-Z3-play/td-p/4169609
I tried to update date & time on mobile but after the date & time is updated Google Photos thinks this is a new photo and will upload a new copy of the photo at correct date & time, but still leave the old uploaded copy in library(so you got 2 same photos, at different time). So I guess I can only copy all photos to computer and make it right on the computer, and delete them on mobile, sadly(so at least there will not be any photos in 1980s or 2230s on my mobile)
This program will scan all jpg files by Hasselblad Mod, read the DateTimeOriginal from EXIF and use it to update GPSDateStamp & GPSTimeStamp.
I don't know how to use Visual Studio or C# or Windows Forms, this program is build with a lot Googling & readings on MSDN in 1 day, so it might have bugs that I don't know yet. !!!!!!!!!MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BACKED UP YOUR PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!
Download:
http://tmp.justmine.org/Moto_Hasselblad_Mod_Time_Fix.zip
Never made that correlation - it's been bugging me for over a year as to why I have pictures that never show up correctly, and mess up selection in applications because the picker shows recent.
What exactly is your application doing (since it got flagged by Chrome)?
It reads DateTimeOriginal from photo's EXIF and use it to update GPSDateStamp & GPSTimeStamp. Not sure why Chrome flags it, but you can always use www.virustotal.com to scan it