Upload old photos to Gallery app with original timestamp

fausto

Hi, i'm new with GrapheneOs, I have installed my pixel 4a and i'm trying to migrate my stuff from my old android phone.
I am in trouble moving my old photos to my new GrapheneOs phone with their original timestamps: I tried to copy them with mtp file transfer but I loose their timestamps. I also tried using adb push, files are copied with right date, but they are inaccessible from gallery app (no right permissions i suppose).

What is right way to do this?

Thanks

Toophei8

I did exactly this with Syncthing.

fausto

yes, i suppose that also synchronizing with nextcloud or others cloud softwares or also a ftp server on graphene works, there is no other way? there is no way to do this only with native graphene/android tools?

Toophei8

Syncthing synchronizes directly (via Local Network) from Device to Device, where "Device" may also be a PC.

Kontrollleuchte

I might be wrong about this, but not being able to set the timestamp is an issue in android, i.e. a limitation. And while Syncthing relies on timestamps (to some extent) and still works, it does so only because it keeps a separate db with the original timestamp data around.

So if the Gallery app relies on the filesystem timestamp (instead of the exif data embedded in the file, which is not affected), you'll be out of luck.

Using syncthing has the benefit of you being able to restore the original timestamps when you backup to your computer, as syncthing will then restore the original timestamp on supported filesystems.

nandohyphen1

Kontrollleuchte I had this exact problem when I switched to my 9a recently.

calpurtmun

A zip file may preserve the timestamps. If you zip some photos on your old phone, transfer the zip file to your new phone, and unzip them there, do the photos have your original timestamps? I think that's what I did when I had to move some photos from one user profile to another and it worked. The default GrapheneOS Files app can zip (compress and extract).