Copy/paste images from phone to desktop, files are corrupted and huge (2gb+) I linked my Android phone (v6.0) to my Windows laptop, located the phone's DCIM folder in File Manager and copy/pasted images from my phone onto my laptop's hard drive.
Some of the images are corrupted, can't be recognised as a bitmap, and are 2GB+ whereas on the phone they would have been 2-5MB. It seems to be a date thing, as it is all images past a certain date. It also affected some videos and again it is all videos past a certain date, although a different date to the images.
Is this a common problem, and what causes it? I'm assuming the images are lost as I deleted them from the phone once I saw they had successfully been pasted, without checking that the files were still readable.
Not an answer to reading the corrupted files (think they're long gone) but a few other people's experience indicate that it occurs when there is very little free memory left on the phone and memory earnings have been ignored. So take files off your phone regularly and you shouldn't have this problem.