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My Kaiser is freaking me out

Ok. This is weird. I've been using my phone to tether these past 2 days. Racked in about 800mb of usage.
Heres the weird part:
I was going to show my friend a picture and I opened up my photos. I only had about 10 pictures in there to begin with but when I opened it I had over 100 pictures. They were pictures of parts of sites I had visited while tethering. I had a picture of Chumley EX's Avatar the one with the little kitten in the bag, had pictures of banners from websites, pictures of random people from myspace, they all appear to be little GIF images. I manually deleted them but when I go to view pictures I have empty spaces with a Circle with a slash through it. Like a stop smoking sign. What's wrong?

By the way when I click on the blank spot where a picture is supposed to be (the stop smoking circle looking icon) it says "Unable to open this type of "JPEG" file. On some others I get " Cannot delete '0' The file is in use"

Update***
I fixed it. How did I do it you may ask? By default pictures are stored in memory at in the DCIM-100MEDIA folder. I copied allt he pictures in the 100MEDIA folder. (those weird pictures were no where to be found in there by the way). I copied them in the my documents folder on device memory. After verifying my pictures copied successfully I deleted the DCIM folder on sD card and created a new DCIM folder with a folder called 100MEDIA in it. I copied all my pictures back in the sD and voila problem solved. Kind of freaky how it saved pictures from sites I visited while tethering. Asa precautuion I'm going to move all info from sD card and reformat it.

Opening office files from internal memory

i created a folder inside "My documents" in the "Internal Storage" of my diamond to store take advantage of the whole 4 Gb. Inside this folder i created some other folders to classify my documents (personal, work, etc)
When i use mobile office file explorer to open a document, even though i browse trought all folders, i don't see any of the folders i created. How can i open the files from here.
Right now what i do is use the file explorer, go to the location and click the file.
Anyone knows how to see the files from mobile office file explorer?
Thanks in advance

By default, Pocket Word read only 1 subfolder depth... that's why it reads only in \Internal Storage\My Documents, but not in your created subfolders.
As I can remember (and if it's always like this with WM6.1), you can force Pocket Word (and others Office apps) to read only in \Internal Storage\My Documents (and not in whole \Internal Storage), so that it'll be able to read your subfolders in \Internal Storage\My Documents... you just need a little file in the root of Internal Storage.
But... there's a "but"... I don't remember which file it is (and/or where/how you can find/create it)... sorry... I give you only the first step... hope someone will give you the 2nd one ^_^

ahahahaaaaaa... I finally find : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319516/en-us/
This little file (just an empty one) is called Ignore_my_docs... but it won't help you... you need a "Use_my_docs" file ^_^.

Now i know the reason why, anyway, i think i will stick to file explorer to look for my documents.
Thanks!

Way to keep files added to phone in Camera Roll and Saved Pictures folder

Is there anyway to just add pictures to the Camera Roll folder and Saved Pictures folder that is created by the phone automatically? Say I have a bunch of pictures and want them to end up in the Camera Roll folder on my phone. Well, when I add them to the folder on my PC, they show up fine in my collection. The problem is, the folder created by Zune to back up those pics taken with my phone are in From KWILL HTC HD7. So, when I copy those pics from my PC to the device, the phone creates a From KWILL HTC HD7 folder and then puts them in the Camera Roll folder. I don't want a whole new folder just because I want to add some pics to the Saved Pictures or Camera Roll folder. Hope that makes sense and thanks for any input.

I had this when I reflashed my phone the other day, it's easy, just go to your My Pics Folder then into the KWILL folder and the Camera Roll within that, select them all, cut, then go to the new folder for your phone and paste them into the Camera Roll folder in that, once you have everything out of the KWILL Folder structure, just delete it, Zune will pick up the changes straight away and sync everything the way you have changed it.

ThePhoenix2007 said:
I had this when I reflashed my phone the other day, it's easy, just go to your My Pics Folder then into the KWILL folder and the Camera Roll within that, select them all, cut, then go to the new folder for your phone and paste them into the Camera Roll folder in that, once you have everything out of the KWILL Folder structure, just delete it, Zune will pick up the changes straight away and sync everything the way you have changed it.
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Ok, tried that. And I think I tried that already as one of the many attempts at a workaround But, the stuff on my actual phone never syncs the stuff in the Camera Folder or Saved Pictures folder on my PC. Now my collection on the PC picks up the stuff I added, it just never makes it to the actual phone unless I add drag it all back to the phone. In which case, it then creates the stupid From KWILL HTC HD7 folder. I mean, you would think that MSFT would know that no one wants that actual folder name copied to their device and the most logical thing would be that people are just trying to put stuff into the two respective (and already created by them) folders.

Ok, nevermind. Think I got it now. This time I went to the folder that was in my collection such as Camera Roll and then right clicked and hit sync with....and now it seems to be getting it right. Fingers crossed and thanks.

Gallery question, thumbnails

When I go to gallery and see the selections for all photos, camera shots, then the various picture folders on my vivid, what is the factor that chooses which picture is the cover thumbnail for that folder? I know for camera shots it's the most recent one, but I can't determine what it is for the others. I'd like to manipulate a dummy photo so that it's always the cover thumbnail in a few of my "other" folders!

I can't find an option to change the top picture. You may have to get another album from the play store.
Sent from my HTC PH39100 using XDA

Another album meaning replacement app for "gallery"?
There must be a method to the way the top picture is chosen, whether it be size, date taken, name? Ideally is like to be able to sequester certain folders from showing up at all in the gallery, accessible only by file explore r!

grafik2 said:
Ideally is like to be able to sequester certain folders from showing up at all in the gallery, accessible only by file explore r!
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Have you tried creating a blank '.nomedia' file in that dir? Just a thought...

I've changed the name of some pictures before however it doesn't affect which one is selected for thumbnail view. in root explore, the folder is listed alphabetically but in gallery view it seems to be by date created?..
Is there a way I can edit a jpg file so that it says it was created in say 2005 for example? Hopefully this will allow me to choose which file is the thumbnail

grafik2 said:
I've changed the name of some pictures before however it doesn't affect which one is selected for thumbnail view. in root explore, the folder is listed alphabetically but in gallery view it seems to be by date created?..
Is there a way I can edit a jpg file so that it says it was created in say 2005 for example? Hopefully this will allow me to choose which file is the thumbnail
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Can you go to the My Pictures/Pictures folder on your PC and find an old picture - one older than the ones in your album(s)? I know I have photos 8-9 years old on my PC.

Using Windows you can edit the "date taken" by right-clicking, properties, Details tab, edit Date Taken field. Apply. OK. See if that works

Every time I take an older picture and copy it into this folder, it changed the date modified field to todays date, which makes it no longer an older picture! I even created a new folder and copied all the pictures over, with the one I wanted as the cover first, but it reverted to the same order it was in before!
On my work laptop with windows seven I'm not able to edit the date fields, I can change some other info on the file but right clicking or double clicking the date doesn't do anything.
So this is not possible to change the picture that shows up as the cover of the folder album!

grafik2 said:
Every time I take an older picture and copy it into this folder, it changed the date modified field to todays date, which makes it no longer an older picture! I even created a new folder and copied all the pictures over, with the one I wanted as the cover first, but it reverted to the same order it was in before!
On my work laptop with windows seven I'm not able to edit the date fields, I can change some other info on the file but right clicking or double clicking the date doesn't do anything.
So this is not possible to change the picture that shows up as the cover of the folder album!
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Try the QuickPic app. It's free I believe. I got it because the HTC Gallery app was displaying my shots in random order, not in the order I took them. See if QuickPic works better.

Looks better! Thanks for the tip. Any way to set it to default over "gallery?"
Like when the camera is open and I click the pictures that have been taken it opens gallery

grafik2 said:
Looks better! Thanks for the tip. Any way to set it to default over "gallery?"
Like when the camera is open and I click the pictures that have been taken it opens gallery
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I don't see a way to change the association between the camera app and the gallery app, both from HTC. You can associate QuickPic with photos. Using a file explorer app (I use Astro), go to a folder containing photos. Long press on one file name. You will be prompted to select from Gallery or Quickpic. Check the default checkbox and then select Quickpic. This may, or may not, help some.
As for date changes on the files when you transfer them, try Dropbox or a similar app. I use it for moving files between my PC and phone. The file dates don't change.
I really miss my Resco Photo Manager from my old Windows Mobile phone. It is much better than any Android apps I have used.

Thanks, I have drop box I'll try that!

any way to enlarge the photos IN Gallery? before the ICS update the gallery was easier to see all the pictures.. but now its smaller and hard to make them out before opening it

Photo Gallery Question - any help or suggestions on replacement app?

Hi... I've recently gone through most of the pictures I had on my SD card and placed them in folders that are appropriately named. I have a question with nested folders. As an example set up, I have created a folder called Animals. Inside the Dogs folder, there are several sub-folders named for the animals they represent - i.e. "Dogs", "Cats", "Birds", etc. In the file manager program they are arranged neatly with no problems. I open the stock gallery app that comes with the ROM I have on my Galaxy Note 4 and I have the option for FOLDER and TIME. When I choose FOLDER, it shows me all the folders I have created - all at one time. Is there a way to simply show the Animals folder, and then when I tap on that, I can then see the sub folders?? I placed pictures in sub folders for this reason so that I would not see a boat-load of folders on the initial screen, but I could narrow things down by folder, then sub-folder (and even, perhaps another layer of sub-folder?)? Am I missing a setting, or did I arrange things wrong, or is there another app that might show things this way, or is it just S.O.L. for what I'd like?
Thank you in advance for your answers and suggestions
Wingmann