need help with pictures taken off smart phone

12 years ago

I have a Samsung Galaxy S II which I send pictures from my gallery via my wireless router to my HP PC. I have done this before and had the same problem with the pictures and actually stumbled onto the solution but can't remember what the solution was! lol My pictures appear on my PC in a zip file and all the pictures need to be rotated but the form that they are in are un-editable. As I remember it was as very simple and easy solution. Any help would be appreciated!

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azinoh
12 years ago
You need to extract the individual pics from the .zip file? Izarc or 7zip will do that...if your version of Windows won't (you didn't say which version you're using hint...hint...hint). As for rotating the images, Irfanview will do that and much more.

Here is a link that might be useful: Irfanview
acraftylady
12 years ago
Do you have a memory card in the phone and are the photos on that? If so do they do the same when you put the memory card directly into the computer or card reader? My photos open with the windows photo viewer in windows 7 and I can just rotate without extra software. Mary
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casi
Original Author
12 years ago
Azinoh, sorry, I knew I'd forget something! Windows 7. Thanks for the reply, but I did it before without any extra software.
Mary, I tried to get the photos using a memory card but couldn't figure out how to get them onto the memory card....I'm definitely in the remedial level of smart phone! I did just move some songs to the memory card so I thought I could do that to, but never found that option. I also have damaged my usb charge port so I have to do it either via the wireless or figure out how to do the memory card thing. I know that I have done it before...just need to figure it out again!
acraftylady
12 years ago
Don't have that phone but on my android phone I have mine set so every time I take photos or photos are sent to me or I save stuff it goes right to the memory card. See if this video helps to move them to the memory card. Mary

Here is a link that might be useful: How to move photos

This post was edited by acraftylady on Fri, Jun 6, 14 at 14:30
casi
Original Author
12 years ago
Ok, Mary, I'll check it out. Back to my original method problem....thought I'd figured it out. See if this means anything to anybody. I can't edit the photos because they are "read only".....so I went into properties and unchecked "read only" and it allowed me to change them BUT....they still show up as icons until I click on each one.
Elmer J Fudd
12 years ago
Another way that I think is faster (but all the alternatives do work).

Connect your phone with a USB cord to the PC. The phone should appear to the PC as an external drive. You're now at exactly the same spot as when you plug in the SD card to the PC, but you've avoided the file copying preliminary work on the phone and also avoided having to remove the SD card from the phone.

Copy or move files as you wish using Windows Explorer (just as you do to get them from the SD card). This method also works if your PC doesn't have a card reader (as is the case with a new one I just bought).

To me, using Windows Explorer on a PC is a much easier way to move files around than using my finger on the explorer equivalent for an Android phone, especially since the whole folder tree is more easily visible. But suit yourself, there are many ways to get to the same answer
casi
Original Author
12 years ago
Snidely you missed the part above where I said I damaged my USB port, so I have to do it these 2 other ways.
Elmer J Fudd
12 years ago
OK, sorry.

Try to put all relevant info into a first post so that suggestors know everything you do from the start. Additional facts shouldn't peter out as suggestions get made.

All the same, I didn't go through the later comments in enough detail and should have.

Your PC doesn't have a single functioning USB socket?

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