Help Reading the camera's cache

[somedave]

Hi folks,

I have a t-mo S4 (SGH-M919), running a fresh stock ROM (4.4.2) that I flashed with Odin.

I took a bunch of photos recently, but the image files appear to be corrupt. When I copy them to my PC (over USB in MTP mode), my various photo editor programs all say that the files are corrupt. Even when I download the Photoshop Express app and try opening the images in that, it says that the files are junk. But, if I fire up Samsung's stock camera app, it can still display the images just fine.

I presume that it is working off of a cache file or something, but I can't seem to find that file on the phone. I read a lot about .tec and .arc files, but when I search the phone, I can't find either of those file types.

Anyway, I would love to get my hands on those photos, by hook or by crook. Any help would be most appreciated here.

 

[dynomot]

I'm presuming you mean "Gallery" displays them fine. If so does it display the one you pick from it, full screen OK or is it just the thumb nails your looking at ?

The .jpg files your phone stores the photos as can be found using the inbuilt stock file manager by going to My Files>All>(now pick either device storage or SD Memor... for the external SD card)>DCIM>Camera.

If they are corrupted (I suspect they are given your symptoms), but you can still see their thumbnails from the gallery app and you want to save those you'd need to be rooted and use a file manager like "Root Explorer". They can be found from this file path: storage/emulated/0/DCIM/.thumbnnails.

 

[MYKEL61]

Not sure if this is a solution, but, if you can see them in your gallery couldn't you just send them via email attachment to yourself and then save then that way on your computer?

 

[somedave]

I mean the actual camera app, not the gallery. The gallery displays them as corrupt as well, so the camera must have a cache separate from the camera. I'll try rooting and see if I can find the files. Thanks.