PS Ive tried numerous gimes to post photos from my Samsung tablet but gave up afternearly throwing the blasted thing in the Danube ! Thoughts ?
I'm so sorry you're having trouble posting photos to the Forum, Derek. I've written a little tutorial here that might help:
http://thorncyclesforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=4313.0The question of how to upload photos to the Forum comes up periodically. The problem is almost never due to the Forum software (though various options, buttons and labels are easily overlooked on the Forum screens, they're there) but instead the user's device interface and options, all of which can vary in many ways depending on operating system, vendor, and user-installed options and applications. This can make some individual problems difficult to resolve because there is no universal solution that works.
Derek, your Samsung tablet runs on some flavor of Android, essentially the same as on my Samsung Galaxy S4 and Note 4 Android phones, but most likely varying in features, labels, and even location from mine.
If all goes well, the process needed for you to post a photo to the Forum should be roughly similar to this:
TAKE PHOTO1) Take photo, it will be stored in your Android Gallery.
GO ONLINE TO THE THORN FORUM TO COMPOSE AN ENTRY2) Use your tablet's Samsung/Android Internet Browser (you can install others from Google's PlayStore) to bring up the Thorn Forum and once there, click on either New Topic or Reply to get in "Compose" mode.
3) Click on "Attachments and other options" below the compose box. The expanded view will come up and there will be a section labeled "Attach" and a button labeled "Choose File". Click it. Now you will be navigating through your own device to find where the photo is stored.
NAVIGATE TO WHERE THE PHOTO IS STORED ON YOUR DEVICE, SELECT IT, AND POST TO THE FORUM4) Your device (Android tablet) will bring up a window, probably titled, "Choose an action". Click on the icon labeled "My Files". You'll likely see two choices, either internal (Device) storage or external (SD card) storage. In either case, you'll click on one and look for the entry labeled "DCIM" -- that's where your photos will be stored, most likely in a sub-folder (sub-directory) called "Camera". Navigate to the file you want, click on it, and it will be uploaded as an attachment to your Forum post when you hit the "Post" box on the Forum.
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You're not done yet. The above tells how to get to actually post your photo, but there is an important step you need to do first...
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RESIZE YOUR PHOTO FIRST (BEFORE UPLOADING) FOR CONVENIENT VIEWING5) Do beware that completing Step 4 above will upload a photo at
full resolution -- likely too big to fit in the display box without scrolling when viewed in your post on the Forum.
To get a photo suitable for posting, you will need to *first* resize it using the Edit tools in your Android Gallery. These tools vary depending on what version of Android you're using, but the general procedure is to...
a) Call up your gallery and navigate to the photo you want to resize and upload. Call up the edit menu and select an option to "Resize". Resize to about 30-50% and save as a copy. Then, upload that copy to the Forum using steps 1-4 above.
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I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but each Android device varies according to which version of the operating system is installed, what apps you are using for camera and gallery/storage, and by the amount of vendor/brand-specific software that lays between you and the native Android OS. Samsung has a lot of bloatware in their TouchWiz interface that overlays Android, so is not as straightforward as a native Android environment. My hacked phones are easy, my unhacked phones have TouchWiz, so the procedure I listed above should help get you on your way to posting photos to the Forum.
All beat wishes on this effort and on your tour. You've gone/are going through many areas very familiar to me, so your descriptions call up many pleasant memories. I hope yours will be the same.
Dan.
