Changing storeage to SD card for photos and videos

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I’m not seeing the option to have the camera store photos and videos on the SD card in the settings…can someone help me out?

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I haven’t been able to locate an SD card or slot for one on my brax3. Is there one?

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Left upper side. Shared with the sim card on the same tray

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So i dont think there is a feature to tell camera to store on the SDcard. But you can use Files to move that data over, and then Gallery and whatnot will find it.

Now, in several apps i use, i can tell them where to store data. So i feel its mire of an app thing than an OS thing. Maybe someone else has better insight.

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And its a bear to wrestle out. Lol

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Yes, it is a camera app issue

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That would be good, but you can always just transfer them to SD card later. Ideally, into specific folders you’ve created.

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Install Open Camera or G-Camera. Goto more more camera controls and turn on camera framework.

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@davidstoll Open Camera principally allows to store to the SD card, according to their FAQ:

From Android 6, some devices support “Adoptable Storage” allowing you to select to use an SD card as internal storage. Note that not all devices support this, even if running Android 6 or later. If your device doesn’t support this, or you want to instead use an SD card as “portable storage”, you’ll have to use the Storage Access Framework method as with Android 5.

Someone here at this forum also said that picture quality with Open Camera is better than the included app.

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In the F-droid App on the brax3 phone there is an Open Camera app ideOS version 1.52-iode.12 from 6/29/2024. (Over a year old) Do a search for “camera” in F-droid. I havent tried it yet. But if it works, then try the Updater in the App, and see if it gives you everthing you want.

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Don’t use that one that says “Open Camera especially for iodéOS” or similar, that is a fork that hasn’t been updated as you say for over a year or so… So very old. And I don’t think it has anything super special in it. Just use the one called “Open Camera” which is the primary app and was updated very recently…

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Not SD card… but if you run a local server or nas at home you can install immich in a docker. Its a pretty good private copy of Google photos. Phone images saved to it mobile app and backed up to your own server.

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