Verizon Note 4 Camera(s) not saving images to the internal storage

[AZgl1500]

Title just about says it all.

The stock Samsung camera was not saving the images to \DCIM
so, I decided that just maybe it was the app...

so, I installed FV-5 camera and that did not help at all.
I like FV-5 better because it allows you to define where it will store the images.
So, I changed it from the Fv-5 sub-folder to \DCIM

that didn't help either... it appears this Note 4 just does not want to save an image to storage period, don't matter what location.

Is this a "one off" thing, or is this something that can be fixed by a menu somewhere?

I have not been able to find any menu setting that would turn off the ability to save the images.


EDIT: I went back to the FV-5 camera and turned off/on some settings in it, and it is now saving images.

Tried the Samsung camera and it is still not working.
going to power the phone off/on and see what happens.

 

[AZgl1500]

That didn't help, the Samsung camera app is broke for some reason.

I have tried everything I can, but even the "Storage Location" icon is greyed out.


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[AZgl1500]

Success, but not quite the way I had planned for it.

I pulled the SIM and SDcard out of my Galaxy S5 and put them into the Note 4.

When I powered it back up, it went thru a few gyrations and then when it settled down, I looked at Camera again.

This time, "location" was lit up and I clicked on it and it asked me to choose:

• Internal Storage
• extSDcard

I chose SDcard and now, all is well.

 

[philayl]

Hi, you can change the storage settings at will, open the camera app, in the top left corner you will see the settings icon, this opens a bar across the screen, on the right of the bar there are three dots, open this and a host of icons appear, one of them is the storage settings. Phil

 

[AZgl1500]

Hi, you can change the storage settings at will, open the camera app, in the top left corner you will see the settings icon, this opens a bar across the screen, on the right of the bar there are three dots, open this and a host of icons appear, one of them is the storage settings. Phil

Very true Phil,

but, if you read the above again, the Storage Location icon was greyed out and I was unable to define where it should store the images....
Then, after inserting the 64 gB SD card, it started working as it should, and I changed the default to the extSDcard.

Now, I inserted the SD card, and the SIM at the same time.....
In retrospect, I can't see how the SIM card being missing had anything to do with the camera function. It never did on my S5...

 

[philayl]

Yes, I did miss that, I will just put it down to old age! Have to agree with you about the SIM, shouldn't make a difference. Phil

 

[touringhaggis]

Well, the problem is solved and that is the most important thing, but... Did you check that the SD card was mounted while you were having the above issues? It could be that inserting the card again would have helped. I would also have tried to format the card in the phone to see if that solved the issue. If the card was not mounted, or the file system not recognized, then you will not get the option to store anything on it.

Regards,
Eric.

 

[AZgl1500]

Well, the problem is solved and that is the most important thing, but... Did you check that the SD card was mounted while you were having the above issues? It could be that inserting the card again would have helped. I would also have tried to format the card in the phone to see if that solved the issue. If the card was not mounted, or the file system not recognized, then you will not get the option to store anything on it.

Regards,
Eric.

Go back and read the 1st post again.
This problem was existing before the SD card, or the SIM were in the Note 4. I used it only on WiFi for a couple of weeks until I was happy with the way it worked.

At no time prior to me inserting the SD card, did the camera ever allow me to define a location.
Nor, would it save an image to the internal storage as it should have done regardless of a SD card being available.

Had the camera been able to store an image on the phone, I would not have even wondered about the location being greyed out, simply because there would "only be one possible location available", that would be ....internal/storage/DCIM

but, Gallery never saw any images, File Managers of any ilk were never able to find any images.

Then just like as if I had flipped a toggle switch and said "camera go to work", everything was just fine as soon as I inserted the SD card.

Not all users install a SD card, and the camera should work w/o one.

 

[touringhaggis]

Go back and read the 1st post again.

Not all users install a SD card, and the camera should work w/o one.

Sorry, brain fart on my part. I read SD card and made an assumption. It is true that the camera app should work without an SD card. That said, I too have a strange problem with my camera. After booting the phone, I need to turn on the LED flash one time to get the camera app to start (without crashing). So it seems that there are a number of odd toggle switches in the phone.

Just as well us Android users like to experiment

Regards,
Eric.

 

[AZgl1500]

I have found a new habit with cellphone cameras....
I turn the Flashlight app ON and leave it on until I am through taking pictures.

I find it easier to avoid unwanted reflections in the image... it allows you to preview how it is going to look before you waste the time taking a shot.

Before I started doing that, I was discarding at least 75% of my "flash shots" because of glare...
then I had the brain "duh" fart and said, "hey guy, won't don't you just turn the flash on and leave it on?"

after that, I have reduced my bad snapshots immensely. I like to bracket my shots, taking 3 to 5 of a scene and then review them on the big 24 inch PC monitor. When you do that, you can sure see the ones that need to be culled out.

I have come home from way too many vacations with only 1 snapshot of a particular scene, only to discover that the camera was not steady, or held at a bad angle, or the subjects stuck their tongue out, and the list is endless...

Bracketing your shots really helps. Whether you do it with the Auto Bracket or just manually take a lot of different views as I do.

I have noticed that the Flash LED on the Note 4 is a lot stronger than the one on my S5...
I first became aware of that when I only had the S5 and a friend was taking flash shots in a church basement willy nilly with the subjects 15 to 20 feet away from him.... I thought to myself, "those won't be any good"....

Turns out though, the Note 4 has a lot stronger flash than my previous cellphones do/did.