February 8th, 2012, 08:22 PM
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How does Android sort pictures?
I had an old phone of mine for about 2 years, and during that time I took around 240 pictures with it. I set the phone to save my pictures to a MicroSD card. Last year I got the Samsung Captivate for AT&T, so I just took that MicroSD card out and put it in the Captivate. All was fine for about 4 months when randomly one day my gallery started showing about 3 or 4 copies of each of those pictures. I wasnt sure what to do, so I just deleted each of the duplicates. Afterwards my phone crashed, so I rebooted it and when it came up, all my pictures were gone. I managed to download software onto my computer to recover the pictures which I did, but they ended up jumbled up.
So I spent several hours going through picture by picture renaming each picture 1-240 in the order they belonged in from oldest to newest (I remembered the order exactly). Well when I put the pictures back onto my phone, android sorted them strangely. Rather than being sorted 1-240, or even 240-1, they became completely jumbled up in a random order.
So my question is, does anyone know how exactly Android's native gallery sorts its pictures? Or maybe how I should rename the pictures to get them to sort the way I want?
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