(apologies in advance for spelling mistakes, i’m a bit sleep deprived)
I need help with advice about/help finding specific items and neither the Staright Dope nor the salespeople at Best Buy were able to help me, and google is so stupid i want to dropkick it. or maybe i’m just so tired i’m feeling genrally homocidal towards everything but i still think Google is being stupid. I can’t even look for electronics-related message boards because *&^%$ing google thinks i’m talking about electronic devices called message baords.
That is so broad as to be useless. Do you need help with an Android phone, or a home sound system, or an electric boat motor? What is it you are looking for?
Okay, I’ll bite. I am in serious need of help with an android phone. I have taken a number of photos that I want to get onto my computer and cannot see how to do it. Where do I go for help for that and many other things on the phone. For example, the last time I tried to take a photo, it showed only my face for a selfie.
What’s the model of your cellphone?
Every phone I’ve owned in the last decade has come with a charger cord where the plug part is removable and reveals a USB plug. Stick it in your computer’s USB slot and your phone will appear as an external device. Drill down to where your photos are stored and copy or move them to your computer.
Most phones have a frontfacing camera and a backfacing camera. You were on the front camera. There should be an icon that looks vaguely like a camera with arrows rotating around it. Press that to switch your camera view.
Search you tube for these kinds of basic questions. I find them to be very helpful because you can see the icons and instead of resorting to clumsy verbal descriptions “vaguely like a camera with arrows rotating around it.” Plus they tend to go through all the steps that get glossed over on message boards.
Except that the icon will look different on different phones, different OS versions, and different camera apps. What the vague description is doing is indicating a commonality among diverse choices.
I mean, I also linked to a google image search of said icon. I’m not sure other than knowing specifically which model phone Hari has one can indicate more clearly what the icon looks like.
It wasn’t meant as a criticism of you. It is pointing out the limitations of a text based message board.
Message boards where you can’t post images make for poor places to get instructions. You tube is great for this because it shows all the steps. I would say that for basic how to questions it is the community that the OP wants.
Here is what the camera switch icon looks like in 4 camera apps I have installed right now. The third one is the built-in Android phone–for my particular release of Android.
Note that the phone probably has to not be locked when connecting like this. It’s usually as simple as getting past the lock screen. Then, there’s probably a folder called Camera. Double click it. The media file are probably inside another folder called DCIM.
I tried 1. The computer recognized a new device called moto e5 play (it is a Motorola, so that sounds right), but when I brought up the file manager and clicked on moto e5 play, it said, “This folder is empty”. Now what?
I tried emailing them to my wife. She received a link, but it was a dead link.
How do I do that? And how do I get them back from the cloud.
As far as I can tell, it has no micro SD card.
I will look for the switching icon the next time it comes up. And how do I get a list of icons and what they mean?
Reddit is such a vast ecosystem that you need a guide to find what you want there.
For the OP, you might want to try /r/helpmefindhttps://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/. This is probably the best place to start, and it’s a large community, so they may be able to point to a different reddit for even better info.
