Root Possible to Change the IMG Image number Sequence in Camera App??

scudder · May 29, 2011

Hi all...

I'm rooted (in case that info helps with my present situation) and had to wipe/reset my phone recently. In doing so, the my picture and video numbering was also reset...clicked the camera and I was back at "IMG0001.jpg."

Now the problem I'm having is that I was obviously at a different number...whatever it was IMG2475.jpg...IMG3473.jpg...and would, before my wipe/resent...routinely back up my pictures and videos. NOW, however, since the phone was reset, I do the same routine backup to my "EVO Picture Folder" on my computer but I'm hit with "over-write warnings" because some of the picture files, thought NEW and DIFFERENT, are the SAME NAME as older pictures I had downloaded from my phone previously.

Now, I know, I know I can rename one file or the other or download to another folder on my computer but, for various reasons, that's a bit tedious and not what I want to do right now.

Is there any way to "tell" the phone to start with IMG####.jpg" instead of starting over at IMG0001.jpg??

THANKS!!

scudder · Jun 11, 2011

scudder said:
Hi all...

I'm rooted (in case that info helps with my present situation) and had to wipe/reset my phone recently. In doing so, the my picture and video numbering was also reset...clicked the camera and I was back at "IMG0001.jpg."

Now the problem I'm having is that I was obviously at a different number...whatever it was IMG2475.jpg...IMG3473.jpg...and would, before my wipe/resent...routinely back up my pictures and videos. NOW, however, since the phone was reset, I do the same routine backup to my "EVO Picture Folder" on my computer but I'm hit with "over-write warnings" because some of the picture files, thought NEW and DIFFERENT, are the SAME NAME as older pictures I had downloaded from my phone previously.

Now, I know, I know I can rename one file or the other or download to another folder on my computer but, for various reasons, that's a bit tedious and not what I want to do right now.

Is there any way to "tell" the phone to start with IMG####.jpg" instead of starting over at IMG0001.jpg??

THANKS!!

Bumping up my own question...

Hey, Scott did you get an answer for this? No, Scott, I did not. Well, if you hear anything, Scott, be sure to tell me. Ok, Scott. See ya Scott.

(I'm burnt...)

ocnbrze · Jun 11, 2011

who is scott? and why is scott talking to himself? LMOA!

well not sure on this one as i do not really take a lot of pictures with my phone. what rom are you on? maybe try and use tb to save the camera app plus data. and when you wipe you can just restore the data from that app.

9to5cynic · Jun 11, 2011

Well scott, I have this same question, but I'd like to restart mine at IMGwhatever1.jpg....

scudder · Jun 12, 2011

ocnbrze said:
who is scott? and why is scott talking to himself? LMOA!

well not sure on this one as i do not really take a lot of pictures with my phone. what rom are you on? maybe try and use tb to save the camera app plus data. and when you wipe you can just restore the data from that app.

I did not think about that at all! However, do you think I should have any concern refreshing the current camera app data which is a (1) *system app* and doing so with data that is (2) from my froyo install before I flashed gingerbread. I've done many nandroid restores but I have not screwed around with a specific system app data re-install.

So, I just reinstall the data...any concerns?

scudder · Jun 12, 2011

9to5cynic said:
Well scott, I have this same question, but I'd like to restart mine at IMGwhatever1.jpg....

That too would be my preference but if the above option works, I'll be able to snap a bunch of junk picts to "catch up" to the photo number I need.

scudder · Jun 23, 2011

scudder said:
Bumping up my own question...

Hey, Scott did you get an answer for this? No, Scott, I did not. Well, if you hear anything, Scott, be sure to tell me. Ok, Scott. See ya Scott.

(I'm burnt...)

Bump, bump...(still burnt out by the way)...

thenestor · Dec 27, 2011

Reposting my solution here:

thenestor said:
I'm rooted, and this solution worked for me:

1. In Root Explorer (or any root file manager), browse to "/data/data/com.android.camera/shared_prefs".
2. Open "com.android.camera_preferences.xml" with a text editor.
3. Toward the end of the file, find this line (where "9" is the index number of the last picture taken):
<string name="counter_image">9</string>
4. Change the "9" (or whatever it is) to the number you want. (Personally, I changed it to "209", and later I manually renumbered the 9 images I had already taken as 0201, 0202, etc.)
5. Save changes and exit.
6. REBOOT THE PHONE.
7. Try taking a picture. It should start at the new number and go sequentially from there.

Swaq · Sep 18, 2012

For those of us which are un-rooted, mjpartyboy helped out with files for the "fill folder until desired number" solution:
http://androidforums.com/desire-support-troubleshooting/320626-image-numbering-after-camera-reset.html#post4649122

ocnbrze · Sep 18, 2012

Swaq said:
For those of us which are un-rooted, mjpartyboy helped out with files for the "fill folder until desired number" solution:
http://androidforums.com/desire-support-troubleshooting/320626-image-numbering-after-camera-reset.html#post4649122

NICE FIND!!!!! thanks for sharing this. great idea.

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