How do you change the camera storage location on 4.2.2??

E30Nova

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I just lost 140-ish pictures while switching ROMs because apparently the camera in 4.2.2 saves to internal memory instead of to the SD card. Is there a way to change the storage location so this crap doesn't happen again?
 

dougstoner

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I just lost 140-ish pictures while switching ROMs because apparently the camera in 4.2.2 saves to internal memory instead of to the SD card. Is there a way to change the storage location so this crap doesn't happen again?
When you have the camera app open, there will be a little icon in the top left showing a picture of the sd card to let you know you have it selected. To select to save to the sd card click the options (looks like audio sliders), and scroll down to bottom and you will see storage. Select memory card. :good:

Sucks you lost your pics though. I've done this before too. On the plus side, you will only make this mistake once.
 

E30Nova

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When you have the camera app open, there will be a little icon in the top left showing a picture of the sd card to let you know you have it selected. To select to save to the sd card click the options (looks like audio sliders), and scroll down to bottom and you will see storage. Select memory card. :good:

Sucks you lost your pics though. I've done this before too. On the plus side, you will only make this mistake once.
Yeah, I took my son to an aquarium and took pictures of him and all kinds of animals, including videos. The day before switching roms, I thought "maybe I should back up these pictures" but I didn't. :(

But I don't see what you're talking about. If I press and hold anywhere on the screen, a few options come up, and one of them is the settings/audio sliders thing, but selecting that has no storage option. I can't even scroll. There's just "scene mode, store location, and picture size."

:confused::confused::confused:
 

shangrila500

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Yeah, I took my son to an aquarium and took pictures of him and all kinds of animals, including videos. The day before switching roms, I thought "maybe I should back up these pictures" but I didn't. :(

But I don't see what you're talking about. If I press and hold anywhere on the screen, a few options come up, and one of them is the settings/audio sliders thing, but selecting that has no storage option. I can't even scroll. There's just "scene mode, store location, and picture size."

:confused::confused::confused:
Maybe Store Location is it? I havent messed with AOSP or the camera in quite a while but the Store Location sounds like it might be it.

How did you lose the pictures?

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jbrown30

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It really depends on what camera the ROM you are on has incorporated into it. I'm on liquid ROM and if you click the little circle in the bottom right while holding it in portrait and click the settings button it will bring up the camera settings. It may have a storage location option and it may not. I have noticed that paranoid doesn't have that option. It's very unfortunate that you lost all your pictures tho :/ I tend to move my pictures to my SD every time I switch roms when if I'm not wiping data. Hopefully you can find that option otherwise you may want to try another camera app that will allow you to change save location. Good luck!

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shangrila500

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It really depends on what camera the ROM you are on has incorporated into it. I'm on liquid ROM and if you click the little circle in the bottom right while holding it in portrait and click the settings button it will bring up the camera settings. It may have a storage location option and it may not. I have noticed that paranoid doesn't have that option. It's very unfortunate that you lost all your pictures tho :/ I tend to move my pictures to my SD every time I switch roms when if I'm not wiping data. Hopefully you can find that option otherwise you may want to try another camera app that will allow you to change save location. Good luck!

Sent from my little R2D2

Something I just thought of that the OP could try is one of the 4.2 camera mods that is floating around in the Themes and Apps section. One of those may be modded to allow a different storage location.

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s10sdeville

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Its store location man...a while back when i was switchen roms most aosp could only be on device..liquid and pac what im on now store locarion had device and card...one of the reasons i havnt flashed in a while lol my wallet has been worken good and i can store to memory card my pics
 

ThePwnageKing

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while in the camera app, if you press the menu button, a pop up menu should appear and if you scroll to the very bottom, there is a storage location. gives you the options for phone or sd card if you have one. by default they should be saved to the sd card. however, if you eject the sd card and then take a picture while the sd card is not in the phone, the camera will switch it to store it on the phone. it will also do this if the sd card is full.

a way to tell if the photos are stored on the phone or the sd card is to look at the folders of photos. if the folder has an sd card symbol in the bottom left corner, it is on the sd card (a simpler way is to eject the sd card and see if the photos are still in the gallery :p)

if you find that a folder is not on the sd card, you can simply move it to the sd card. The stock gallery app will allow you to move it but its not extremely obvious at first. if you tap on the folder that is not stored on the sd card and allow the pictures to load to the right, load press on any photo in that folder. you can now select them all by tapping the "1 selected" drop down menu on the top left and tap on "Select all". Next you will press the menu button which will show the option "Move". Choose the folder you would like it to go to on the sd card and you r done.

hope this helped.
 

john86gr

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what if there is no storage button in the camera app

Ok , for those that were searching the internet for another option because there is NO button in the camera app , you can just go to Settings -> Storage -> and select Default Write Disk w/e u want :)