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gdourado

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Apr 22, 2010
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Hello,
I have an Issue I would like to solve.
I currently have an iPhone 5 with IOS 6.
I have been taking some pictures and videos with the phone and currently have around 750 photos on the camera roll.
The camera roll is the only album and all pictures are sorted by date taken.
This is all good.
Befora having the iPhone, I had a Galaxy Nexus, and before that a Galaxy Note.
I have the pictures and videos I took with those phones and I would like to add them to the iPhone camera roll and also have them sorted by date taken.
Because I had the Gnex before the iPhone, the Gnex photos should appear before the iphone ones and all them sorted by date taken.
The same with the Note I had before the Gnex.

Anyway, I have no idea how to do this in IOS.
If I use iTunes to sync the folders with the pictures of the other phones, it will just create new albums and a photo library. That is not what I want.

Can anyone please help me out.

Thank you!

Cheers!
 

artcows

macrumors newbie
Sep 28, 2012
16
0
I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure your problem doesn't really have a solution.

The Camera Roll is only for pictures you either take with that phone, screenshots, or pictures you save... all have to be made on that phone though.

The only way your other phones' pictures could be on your iPhone is through other albums.
 

Zmanbaseball2

macrumors 68040
Aug 24, 2012
3,542
11
New York, USA
Need help with camera roll

I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure your problem doesn't really have a solution.

The Camera Roll is only for pictures you either take with that phone, screenshots, or pictures you save... all have to be made on that phone though.

The only way your other phones' pictures could be on your iPhone is through other albums.

WRONG...
I am assuming you have a windows PC.
Follows these steps(spending $2-3 on the App Store.
First have your the photos you want on your iPhone on the PC
Next install this app for $3: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-transfer-app-easily/id365152940?mt=8

Next install the apps software on your computer at this link: http://www.phototransferapp.com/win/

On your iPhone:
Link to guide copied here: http://www.phototransferapp.com/help/iphone/transfer_from_your_pc_to_your_iphone_or_ipod_touch/
1 Open 'Photo Transfer' app and touch "RECEIVE" button.


2 Touch the "WINDOWS Computer" button.

On your computer:
Link to guide copied here: http://phototransferapp.com/help/win/windows-pc-to-idevice/
1 Make sure that your iPhone, iPad, iPad mini or iPod Touch and your Windows PC are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

2 Run 'Photo Transfer App' on your iPhone, iTouch, iPad, iPad mini.


3 Run 'Photo Transfer App' on your Windows PC and then touch the 'Discover Devices' button.


4 Click on the discovered device you want to Explore photos & videos from.
! IMPORTANT: Read this if your device is not discovered when you click on 'Discover Devices'.


5 Select an Existing album or create a new album to upload your photos & videos to.

6 Click the 'Upload to Album' button to start the transfer.

Done!
Source: http://phototransferapp.com/
Sorry I stopped reading at the part that you wanted add those photos to the camera roll but reread it and you wanted it in date taken order. iOS 7 will fix this.
 
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Gav2k

macrumors G3
Jul 24, 2009
9,216
1,608
Hello,
I have an Issue I would like to solve.
I currently have an iPhone 5 with IOS 6.
I have been taking some pictures and videos with the phone and currently have around 750 photos on the camera roll.
The camera roll is the only album and all pictures are sorted by date taken.
This is all good.
Befora having the iPhone, I had a Galaxy Nexus, and before that a Galaxy Note.
I have the pictures and videos I took with those phones and I would like to add them to the iPhone camera roll and also have them sorted by date taken.
Because I had the Gnex before the iPhone, the Gnex photos should appear before the iphone ones and all them sorted by date taken.
The same with the Note I had before the Gnex.

Anyway, I have no idea how to do this in IOS.
If I use iTunes to sync the folders with the pictures of the other phones, it will just create new albums and a photo library. That is not what I want.

Can anyone please help me out.

Thank you!

Cheers!

Wait for iOS 7 this issue is kind of resolved.
 
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