Camera Phone Picture

[WizeOne]

Weird deal here! I received a .jpg picture that was picture texted to my cell phone. I then emailed it to my computer and then copied it to a directory.

By all indications it is a plain old 51kb JPEG picture. I tried to email that picture as an attachment and the email never reaches it's destination. You can watch it go to the 'outbox' then disappear. You can then go to 'sent' items and open up the email complete with displayed picture.

Eventually after numerous tries to different email addresses I uploaded the picture to photobucket and pasted the URL to the email. That did work but was the only way to send it.

This is baffling. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[mike64]

Re: Camera Phone Picture

I'm not sure if this applies to your issue, but I've heard some cell phone companies use a proprietary version of jpeg file that can't be viewed on a computer with ordinary picture viewing/editing programs. Here's a thread on that:

http://www.digicamsoft.com/6B/2A/6A1264704677079237ABD7AAE9BFDAEF86A91.html

That wouldn't explain why the email itself wouldn't forward, though.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Camera Phone Picture

Call the cell phone provider. You are paying for the service.

 

[WizeOne]

Re: Camera Phone Picture

Call the cell phone provider. You are paying for the service.

I s'pose Bob that I should do that but I spent over 3 hours on the phone yesterday to even get as far as I got.

First I had been texted the picture as a forward. It had been taken by one Cingular phone, sent to another Cingular phone then forwarded to my Verizon phone. Although I could view the picture on my phone I could not email it to my computer or save it to my phones picture gallery. I could, however, forward it on to another cell phone.

I called Verizon and they claimed it must be an issue with the phone itself. That took two hours of testing while I was on the line to them.

Then I called LG. Once it came out that this was a double forwarded picture they said that the image had transformed from a 'picture' to an 'image'. When I tried to save the picture, in the phone, it had said that it was saved successfully but I could never find where. It did not go the the picture gallery where it could then be sent to an email address.

It got saved in a different section where images used as screen savers were stored because that is what the phone thought it was after it had been double forwarded. When I tried to email that picture from the phone, the phone said that it had been successfully sent but the email never arrived.

The picture that I opened this post about was the same picture but I had it texted to me from the phone that actually took it. That one I was able to save to my picture gallery and email to my PC. It was only when I tried to email that .jpg, as an attachment that it would not work.

Maybe the Verizon might have some input on that but I do not look forward to spending another two hours on the phone with them.

 

[Coors]

Re: Camera Phone Picture

Yeah, that is why I tell people to send the pic to my computer.
I'm too old and crotchety to try to spend the time, dealing with the cell phone idiots.