wierd problem with pictures sooo fustrated

[Dirty Crow]

So i took 200 pictures and a couple of videos on Saturday. I notice towards the end of day when I am trying to view the pictures at about half way thru the "camera roll" the gallery will lock up and I will have to reboot the entire X. Did this a bunch of times, I really think nothing of it. looking back now this started all right after I used the panoramic mode.

I get home and i usb connect my X to my PC. I move the pictures and video to a newly created folder on my desktop. I quickly scan thru the pictures they all appear to work. I notice one of my panoramic mode shots has a corrupted frame. and a couple of other pictures where accidentally snapped off in panoramic mode and one of the frames also looks supported - white snow or static grains.

Next day I want to upload my pictures to picasa, facebook, etc etc and when I go into the folder the thumbnails will not build. I'm on windows 7. it takes forever and then locks for the green bar at the top of the window the cross the active window. I can not copy, move, zip, the folder with the items. I can not view thumbnails.

I tried to open a couple of pictures in photoshop and got an error that the images where truncated and then photoshop locks. I was able to open one of the images and when I tried to save it somewhere else photoshop locks.

I went into safe mode to see if I could move, copy , etc etc the images, same thing.

this is really heart breaking cause I spent all day taking pictures and the only ones i have to show for it are the 3 i uploaded on the spot to twitpic.

please help and office ideas / suggestions / etc.

 

[Arelunde]

If you have 200 pix plus videos, you have a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE amount of data. My guess is the loading process is stalling your operations, both on the DX and the computer. Even thumbnails take a while to load when there are so many. Pix with 8 mps are very large files each and when you get videos with that level of quality or HD size, you are talking enormous.

You might try breaking up your pix into manageable size folders by creating a number of folders and drag/drop files into them. Then, when Win 7 or Photoshop tries to open the folder, there is something manageable in there. Experiment with maybe three to five photo files in a folder. If that works better, up the number until you can have a load time that's fairly reasonable.

I do a lot of photography and have encountered similar problems, based on the number and size of files involved. Hope this helps.

PS - the corrupt files may have resulted from taking pix before the previous one was stored on the sd card, particularly with a video.

 

[Arelunde]

Also, you have to remember the X isn't a camera. It just has camera features - high quality ones at that. So, you have to give it some latitude and not expect it to function quite as efficiently as a "real" camera would.

 

[Dirty Crow]

Arelunde, i hear ya on the large amount of data part, however I have entire drives filled with nothing but images and video and i've never come across this before.

I'm now getting disk i/o errors and chkdsk keeps on freezing on a certain sector on my PC.

so i'm forced wondering if this was just my pc's HDs time to start getting errors and it was all a weird coincidence or if the fact that the droid started to lock up while tried to view the pictures from Saturday was the cause. Could the X have corrupted a bunch of files, started to choke on it, when i transferred them to my PC started to cause issues on it? I'm leaning towards yes.

and while I also here ya on the "its not a camera" i kind of disagree with you. Yes, its not a camera but if it has a 16 gig card and 16g on board, an 8 MP cam and a HD camcorder on it, it should choke to death on 200 pictures about about 4 - 6 one minute videos and then corrupt files so badly it kills my PC's HD.

I'm really pissed off and afraid that i'm going to end up ripping out my HD, slapping it in a enclosure and get as many files as i can off of it on my laptop and then i'm going to take the X back to verizon (since i've had it less then 1 week) and ask for a DInc.

 

[dwaynewilliams#WN]

I had an iPhone that had hundreds of pictures on it and didn't experience any hiccups. Same thing with my EVO. I'm not sure the number of photos he has on the device is a valid excuse for performance issues.

 

[tdrus1]

I don't believe the number of images is a valid excuse. I think this can be lumped into the myriad gallery issues that are reported in 2.1 in the X.

 

[Mastaking]

I have the same problem with scrolling through my camera roll. Its weird because if i put the phone in landscape veiw i can scroll through them all. I did not take any panorama veiw pictures at all so i don't think that is the issue. I have a lot of pictures but that is not what could cause this because that's nonsense. My lg env 3 had a million pix on it. Keep in mind this is the camera roll and not the video section so videos aren't causing anything either.

It is extremely frustrating to me as well. I haven't tried uploading the pics or anything yet to my computer. The only thing i've done differently lately is start turning the gps off so maybe its an issue with geotagging but i doubt that.

I use launcher pro plus btw, if someone knows what the issue is or how to fix it please advise. Thanks in advance.

Also my brother has the x as well with more pics than me and doesn't experience this issue.

 

[wabyrd]

I've got about 300 pics plus about 40 HD videos on my phone now and I can scroll the gallery without problems. I'm not sure I'd be blaming it on the number of pics.

 

[Dirty Crow]

well, for those that are having this problem don't copy these pictures to your PC or laptop cause it will funk it up bad. I really think it all has to do with a corrupted image or two taken in panoramic view. I've very disappointed that i spent all day taking pictures and video for them to be lost and soo mad that i'm now having PC issues.

I'm going to take my X to verizon in a couple of hours, I want to see if they can recover my images and then i'm going to ask for an DInc. I've only had this phone for about a week and this is just one screw up too big for me.

 

[wabyrd]

I've got some panoramics in my group of pics too. I'm not really impressed with the pano feature, but it hasn't caused any problems.

 

[Dirty Crow]

I've got some panoramics in my group of pics too. I'm not really impressed with the pano feature, but it hasn't caused any problems.

sad thing was that I was really impressed. I was really looking forward to checked em out on the PC all i got to do was see em once before everything in the folder poo'ed the bed and I started to get "truncated" errors on all my images from that day in the folder.

 

[wabyrd]

My problem with the panoramics is that you can see where the individual photos come together. Sometimes, you can see duplications of stuff in the pic almost like a double exposure. It could just be my technique, but I'm really unimpressed.

 

[Dirty Crow]

Oh well, i ran out on dumped my X and got an DInc. I'm just going to have to live with a days worth of lost pictures and video and now i have to fix my hard drive and all the errors cropping up on it.

I will, safe to say, never buy an other motorola product again. Sorry if i seem very down on the X, but this is just my experinces after about 1 week with it.

 

[tdrus1]

Oh well, i ran out on dumped my X and got an DInc. I'm just going to have to live with a days worth of lost pictures and video and now i have to fix my hard drive and all the errors cropping up on it.

I will, safe to say, never buy an other motorola product again. Sorry if i seem very down on the X, but this is just my experinces after about 1 week with it.

Your experience had nothing to do with Motorola, and nothing to do with the Droid X, at large. YOUR DX, perhaps, but not the phone in general. You obviously have a failing hard drive. A couple corrupt pictures from the phone will not decimate a file system like that. It's not like a virus (which you may very well have). OP, do you use LP+?

also, to wabyrd, the panorama feature is fantastic. However, it is not idiot proof. You need a steady hand, and you can't expect to just pan the camera and the image to come out as intended. Move slowly, and pause at each frame. (watch the frame guide in the corner.) I've created many seamless panoramas in this manner.

What baffles me is how quickly some people jump ship on a phone. If i read correctly, the OP never investigated his hdd issues before deciding it was magically related to the phone, and then extrapolated his less-then-ideal experience to ALL DX's, without getting the phone replaced. I hope you spent a good deal of time in the Dinc forum before doing the swap. It's issues are far more critical in my opinion, which is the very reason i chose the DX.

 

[wabyrd]

Your experience had nothing to do with Motorola, and nothing to do with the Droid X, at large. YOUR DX, perhaps, but not the phone in general. You obviously have a failing hard drive. A couple corrupt pictures from the phone will not decimate a file system like that. It's not like a virus (which you may very well have). OP, do you use LP+?

also, to wabyrd, the panorama feature is fantastic. However, it is not idiot proof. You need a steady hand, and you can't expect to just pan the camera and the image to come out as intended. Move slowly, and pause at each frame. (watch the frame guide in the corner.) I've created many seamless panoramas in this manner.

What baffles me is how quickly some people jump ship on a phone. If i read correctly, the OP never investigated his hdd issues before deciding it was magically related to the phone, and then extrapolated his less-then-ideal experience to ALL DX's, without getting the phone replaced. I hope you spent a good deal of time in the Dinc forum before doing the swap. It's issues are far more critical in my opinion, which is the very reason i chose the DX.

I'll try the panorama feature again sometime as I'm sure it is my technique. I just don't have time to play with it now. It's not a selling point for me, just a neat feature. The camera has never been that big of a deal on any phone for me (although with the X I do seem to use it more than any of the other phone cameras I've had). Also, I agree with you that it wasn't likely the phone that caused the PC problems unless OP is carrying around a virus on it perhaps from using as Mass Storage device.

 

[Dirty Crow]

hyperlite,

LP+?

hmmm... yes, i did not run any in depth tests to verify the phone is not to blame and that my HD was failing anyway but i'll run with these facts...

less than a year old HD. Never had any problems with it. DX started to crash when viewing pictures at the half way mark of the film roll. moved the photos to the HD. PC started to get errors galore when trying to access that one folder with the recently moved over photos. I have no other issues opening up any other file or program execpt those from the DX. CHKDSK freezes. and now I am getting I/O errors when DLing. once again ... perfectly working PC with 0.0 errors until the files that where crashing the DX were moved to the PC.

perhaps my attempted fixes made the situation worse ... perhaps not. about your thought i might have a virus, I do not. This was a perfectly running PC with no problems what-so-ever.

in either case I already owned a DInc so i know about em pretty well.

 

[Dirty Crow]

Also, I agree with you that it wasn't likely the phone that caused the PC problems unless OP is carrying around a virus on it perhaps from using as Mass Storage device.

trust me, flawless PC install. never an issue before. and now, not using it as a mass storage device, had the phone for about a week.

 

[wabyrd]

hyperlite,

less than a year old HD. Never had any problems with it.

Unfortunately, I've had more than one drive fail with only a couple of weeks use. Reliable drives including Seagate, WD, and Maxtor. Time isn't really a good predictor of drive failure. I've also got 2 150GB Seagate drives that run 24/7 in a server that are over 6 years old and still going strong. I WISH they would fail so I could have an excuse to replace them with some 2TB drives!

 

[Dirty Crow]

Unfortunately, I've had more than one drive fail with only a couple of weeks use. Reliable drives including Seagate, WD, and Maxtor. Time isn't really a good predictor of drive failure. I've also got 2 150GB Seagate drives that run 24/7 in a server that are over 6 years old and still going strong. I WISH they would fail so I could have an excuse to replace them with some 2TB drives!

I hear ya.

 

[tdrus1]

Unfortunately, I've had more than one drive fail with only a couple of weeks use. Reliable drives including Seagate, WD, and Maxtor. Time isn't really a good predictor of drive failure. I've also got 2 150GB Seagate drives that run 24/7 in a server that are over 6 years old and still going strong. I WISH they would fail so I could have an excuse to replace them with some 2TB drives!

Its funny you say that. I totally agree about the hdd failure time, i've had them go out in weeks, or....i have two 80GB WD caviars circa 2004 that are still humming along nicely

OP, i didn't mean to imply you were ignorant. I know phantasmal computer issues are a royal PITA.