Bug Fixed: HTC Album showing Duplicate Images in Camera Shots View

Many of us on HTC Windows Mobile Devices have noticed that when we open the HTC Album, and view the pictures in Camera Shots Mode, it shows the Image with its duplicates. As seen in the screenshot, this is a very annoying issue as Camera Shot mode is set to as default even in HTC Sense UI’s Weather Background folder. And if we delete one image of the two, the other one gets deleted automatically. This shows that its just a copy impression of the original image. I searched for a solution but found no result so the best solution was extensive tests just to check what was going wrong. What i noticed was that in my one of my registry tweaks was causing the problem:

Problem:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum]
"VideoSaveFolder_0409"="\\Storage Card\\DCIM\\100MEDIA"

Reason:

My Theory – As per my understanding, the Camera Shots mode has to show both Images and Videos, so it’ll show the default folder where Camera Images are saved and where Camera Videos are saved. Now by default it has been set that these two locations are same unless forcefully guided to some other folder location. Now my registry above made the HTC Sense, sense that the location of Saved Images and saved Videos is different. Do HTC Album now shows both the folders separated though they are actually same and thus showing the images and videos twice. This being a very logical and fruitful theory, i believe that somehow others aswel are making such mistake and getting this Bug/Error.

XDA – Some user Morenoshark @ XDA Developers have a different reason to it:

Well, the "double picture" problem happens when you change the Manila language. I change from English (0409) to Brazilian Portuguese (0416) and the problem began. I solve it changing 3 registry entries:
HKLM/Software/HTC/HTCAlbum/VideoSaveFolder_xxxx
HKLM/Software/Camera/Image/GpsSaveFolder_xxxx
HKLM/Software/Camera/Image/SaveFolder_xxxx
Change xxxx to your language code, soft reset, and voilá!

Solution:

• If your saved Images and saved camera Videos have a same location folder you need not add such registry or change to their location.
• Lawrence74 @ XDA Developers has a different solution to it:

1. Delete the "HKLM \ Software \ HTC \ HTCAlbum" under the "VideoSaveFolder_0409" String.
2. Create a new String "VideoSaveFolder_xxxx" as a value add to "My Pictures".
3. Soft-reset.