The State of Android File Transfers

Recently my wife's Google Pixel stopped working. After getting a replacement Pixel, we found ourselves in a predicament where we could not transfer data from her old Pixel phone since it was stuck in a boot screen. We had photos backed up on Google Photos and some files in Google Drive but not everything was backed up to the cloud. The only option left was to transfer from a recent computer backup...
Nabil Jamaleddine | 2019-10-03 #DCIM #android #android-file-transfer #pixel

Missing files or Empty DCIM folder on Android

I was recently backing up my android phone to transfer files over to a new phone when I noticed that the DCIM folder was only showing the latest 100 or so photos when connected to my laptop, when I knew I must have had at least 1000 on the device. Oddly enough they also weren't showing up while using a file manager either...
Nabil Jamaleddine | 2016-12-11 #android #fail #DCIM #bugs