How to change the name of saved photos/videos

modlar · Dec 19, 2010

Hi,
my HD saves the photos and videos in this way: IMAG0001 IMAG0002 etc.
Is it possible to change to: date of taken photo/video?

For example: Nokia makes folders for each day, month... but HTC puts new photos/videos in same folder as previus only with new higher number for example: IMAG0010 IMAG0011....
Any solution?

Thank You in advance.

WeBlah · Dec 19, 2010

I was after the same info too. Any help appreciated.

littlemiss · Dec 19, 2010

If you open the picture, tap menu then details a box will appear with a thumbnail of the pic and a box beside that with imag00whatever, click that box and it will give you the option to type whatever name you want to call it, under that box shows the date and time the pic was taken

I presume thats what youre after

WeBlah · Dec 19, 2010

Thank you for the reply, littlemiss. I think both myself and the OP were after an automated method for doing so. i.e. the pictures are not stored as IMAGxxxxx at all. Instead, the phone automatically assigns it a name of date_timestamp (or something similar), <edit> at time of the photo being taken </edit>

littlemiss · Dec 19, 2010

Ah I see, sorry I misunderstod. Im sure someone more experienced will have an answer for you, Im learning myself

modlar · Dec 26, 2010

Ok, it is not possible.
Null problemo.
Anyway, now I use Camera 360 which has ALL I need!
Excellent program!
Bye.

RussWWFC · Dec 30, 2010

I may give that Camera 360 ago.

DHD has the very annoying habit of using the first available filename. So if you take a load of pics and delete a couple in the middle, next time your first 2 pictures will be in the middle of your old ones

S3nd41 · Jan 16, 2011

Is there some app I can download that enables me to choose the way I want the photos' filenames automated?

She Anarchy · Apr 29, 2016

Yea, I think this is a very simple feature and many many of us seem to want it. I'd love to have all my photos in order by the date and time they were taken, I'm quite possibly going to do the step littlemiss suggested on over 1000 photos manually one by one. Android should try a bit more to fufill these simple requests of customers as much as possible, my next phone will probably be an apple device that has these kind of preset features, not all of us are programmers. Anyway it's a shame.

rradzsfc · Nov 27, 2016

Unfortunately I don't have a fix for changing a series after its been taken already, however, hopefully this could be helpful for future projects. This is a way you can identify a series in your own way or name a photo before you take it. If you download the Open Source Camera for Android you have the option in the settings to specify how you want to name a certain photo or set of photos with prefix . This can include many more characters than just the standard 3 for vid or img. Just go to "more camera controls" in your settings and go to "save photo prefix" or "save video prefix". In addition, this is probably the best free camera you can download for android.

rradzsfc · Nov 27, 2016

S3nd41 said:
Is there some app I can download that enables me to choose the way I want the photos' filenames automated?

Unfortunately I don't have a fix for changing a series after its been taken already, however, hopefully this could be helpful for future projects. This is a way you can identify a series in your own way or name a photo before you take it. If you download the Open Source Camera for Android you have the option in the settings to specify how you want to name a certain photo or set of photos with prefix . This can include many more characters than just the standard 3 for vid or img. Just go to "more camera controls" in your settings and go to "save photo prefix" or "save video prefix". In addition, this is probably the best free camera you can download for android.

michalbukacek · Mar 21, 2020

Hello,
try our new app Rename Photos. It is an app that quickly and easily rename photo and video titles in the DCIM directory, where the Camera App stores it to the selected format.
There are two renaming formats to choose from: Standard and Expert

Standard:
• photos: img_DATE_TIME.jpg, dsc_SERIAL_NO.jpg
(e.g. IMG_20190615_124530.jpg, DSC_1234.jpg)
• videos: vid_DATE_TIME.mp4, mov_1234.mp4
(e.g. IMG_20190615_124530.mp4, MOV_1234.mp4)

Expert:
• photos: DATE_TIME.jpg, SERIAL_NO.jpg
(e.g. 2019-06-15_12-45-30.jpg, 001234.jpg)
• videos: DATE_TIME.mp4, SERIAL_NO.mp4
(e.g. 2019-06-15_12-45-30.mp4, 001234.mp4)
• this expert format allows better sorting, because videos will also be placed between
photos alphabetically, not separately at the end of the directory.

Download link on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.bukacek.renamephotos

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