[digiKam-users] How do you Import from Android phone on Windows?

[Sebastian Beer]

I'm using PhotSync for that purpose. This is available for iOS and Android. 

Schönen Gruß,

Sebastian Beer

> Am 30.03.2022 um 15:05 schrieb Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The camera recognition under Windows is more problematic than under
> Linux/MacOS systems. Even if Gphoto2 library has been ported to
> Windows by a RedHAt developer, it does not use the official WIA
> interface but the libusb. This last one must be installed with admin
> rights to work in place of the standard interface. This is not a
> suitable solution. See the long story from this bug report :
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398166
> 
> The alternative is to write a WIA interface in digiKam, using native
> Windows API, as we do for Gphoto2 and USB Mass Storage camera under
> Linux. See this entry for details :
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412466
> 
> To be clear, this will not be a simple task. It's feasible but I would
> prefer to find a student or a volunteer to guide on this topic, as I
> have more tedious tasks in my pending list.
> 
> Gilles
> 
>> Le mer. 30 mars 2022 à 14:42, frederic chaume
>> <frederic.chaume at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi Peter
>> 
>> I tried the same and the only solution I found is to automatically
>> synchronize my pictures from Android to a cloud (Google drive for
>> example) , then use the menu "add pictures" in the import menu and
>> select the folder of the cloud in your PC.
>> Once done you can filter the "new added files" (menu in the bottom of
>> the screen) and proceed with the import. On my side I also set the flag
>> "marked as downloaded" for the ones I don't want to import (so it will
>> not appear again as a new one)
>> 
>> hope this can help
>> 
>> regards
>> Frederic
>> 
>> PS : name of menu may differ from what you can see as I have translated
>> the french menu I have
>> 
>>> Le 30/03/2022 à 14:29, Pete Lindgren a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Digikam 7.6.0
>>> Windows 10 Pro
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to import pictures from my Android phone into digiKam on
>>> Windows but can't find my phone within the Import section of digiKam.
>>> 
>>> When I plug in my Android phone it appears as a 'Device' under the
>>> 'Devices and drives' section of 'This PC' in File explorer. If I put
>>> the phone in PTP mode, the icon representing the phone is a camera,
>>> and if I put the phone in MTP mode, the icon representing the phone
>>> looks like a phone.
>>> 
>>> In neither case does the phone appear as a removable storage with a
>>> drive letter attached. Nor can I map a drive letter to it in the
>>> typical way.
>>> 
>>> In digiKam, I can't find any way to select the phone in the Import
>>> options. When I click 'Import > Cameras > Add Camera Manually', I'm
>>> presented with the Camera Settings pop up with the central camera list
>>> blank. When I click the 'Add...' button, the resulting pop up also
>>> shows a blank list. I can't specify the phone manually as a USB device
>>> because windows doesn't give it mount path as such. And I can't choose
>>> 'USB PTP Class Camera' as advised in the text of the pop up because
>>> the camera list is empty.
>>> 
>>> Any advice on how I can import from my Android phone on Windows
>>> gratefully received.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Peter
>>