Android Smart Phone Blues...

[DD716TED]

I recently upgraded to an HTC One Android phone and had numerous pictures taken and stored in the "Gallery" under Camera Shots... I showed the photos to some friends today and tonight when someone asked to see them again, they we all gone... UGH! I have no idea what I might have done.. Is there anyway to restore these photos like you could with the Windows Trashcan on my laptop or is this just considered a learning experience?

[wcjeep]

DD716TED wrote:
The phone is and HTC One (Not 8)... I installed dropbox and will proceed on from there...I searched everywhere and they are gone... I probably pushed the wrong button somewhere along the line as things usually don't vanish on their own..

2014 model, HTC One M8

2013 model, HTC One M7

[wa8yxm]

Normal path is the card (either internal by default or external if modified) DCIM, CAMERA

Optional

PIctures DCIM Camera

However, these are default paths
Just double checked,, On my 'droid (Samsung S-III)

SDcard (internal) DCIM Camera is the default path to photos.. But I've told it to save to the external (Same path but External Card instead of SD card)

Since I have those options.

Plus important photos are drop-boxed and backed up on one or more other devices as well.

[DesertFiver]

Use a file manager app and use the search function to search for .jpg, this is the format for the pics taken.

[Bill_Satellite]

Be careful when setting up your phone to automatically sync photos and other data to the cloud (Dropbox et al). At a couple of MB per picture you can eat up your entire data plan pretty quickly.

[larry_barnhart]

rainy029 wrote:
Try turning off the phone and taking out the battery..this fixes alot of problems sometimes...

Removing the battery was the fix for my earlier HTC incredible 3 g.


chevman

[bwanshoom]

SkiingSixPack wrote:

bwanshoom wrote:
Can't remove the battery from an HTC One.

Correct, but you can turn off the power.... not just the screen, but power the phone down and then back on.

I'm aware. I was replying to the comment that the OP should remove the battery. All phones can be rebooted, embedded battery or not.

[DD716TED]

The phone is and HTC One (Not 8)... I installed dropbox and will proceed on from there...I searched everywhere and they are gone... I probably pushed the wrong button somewhere along the line as things usually don't vanish on their own..

[SkiingSixPack]

DD716TED wrote:
I recently upgraded to an HTC One Android phone and had numerous pictures taken and stored in the "Gallery" under Camera Shots... I showed the photos to some friends today and tonight when someone asked to see them again, they we all gone... UGH! I have no idea what I might have done.. Is there anyway to restore these photos like you could with the Windows Trashcan on my laptop or is this just considered a learning experience?

Photos will not just disappear. Everytime I have dealt with this it turns out to be either something fixed by simply re-booting the phone or user error in some way.

Maybe take out the micro SD card and put it back in. Maybe you need to understand how to use the gallery better... If it is the HTC One M8, there is both a photos app and a gallery app. Try going in to both to see if you can locate your pictures.

The HTC M8 is the phone I have, so if you have that phone (vs. the HTC One M7) feel free to Private Message me and maybe we can get to the bottom of this.

[SkiingSixPack]

bwanshoom wrote:
Can't remove the battery from an HTC One.

Correct, but you can turn off the power.... not just the screen, but power the phone down and then back on.

[bwanshoom]

Can't remove the battery from an HTC One.

[rainy029]

Try turning off the phone and taking out the battery..this fixes alot of problems sometimes...

[sch911]

Add a free file manager app such as Astro. It will allow you to explore all directories on the phone, to search for the pic files.

[wcjeep]

Doesn't the "One M8" have an external Micro SD? Have you taken the card out of the phone and directly to the computer? If the pictures were stored locally on the phone, try connecting the phone directly to a Windows computer. You might need to enable USB debugging. Some phones vary on this point. Use your computer to look through all of the folders.

Dropbox is very handy for many things. Picture backup is one of them. If you create a shared folder on your home computer, all data backed upto Dropbox is immediately available on the home computer.

[mlts22]

That is odd, as I've never heard of photos getting zapped off a phone before. I assume this is a HTC One M8?

I personally use Dropbox myself. That way, I can swap between my iPhone 5S and my HTC One M8, and have access to the pictures. I also back up the Dropbox directory to a local drive because I've had sync errors toast my entire cloud drive before.