Play memories downloader app not working

Is basically the same old PlayMemories. Hopefully this helps. I gave the one rating because I was not able to use what it was for me. I noticed some others reviewers have the same issues. The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update. With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app. App Store Preview. Screenshots iPhone iPad. Apr 24, Version 5.

Changed some of the images used in the app. Ratings and Reviews. App Privacy. If it DOES load, it often crashes before it finishes importing. I shelled out bigtime for a Sony a9 and love the camera but am appalled at how poor the Android playmemories app is.

I truly expected a professional grade app for a professional grade camera — especially at that price point. Hi, thank you for helping. I click Import. The import is done. I disconnect. Now is the problem: I now receive the beach ball of death and cannot access my photos. Sometimes it works, sometimes not — even with the exact same settings and lenses attached. Batteries are not dying, the app just stops shooting.

The timelapse app is poorly designed in a number of ways but it needs to at least not randomly stop shooting. Thanks for collecting these reports! I am unable to add camera apps onto my Alpha a7 on the camera itself. My connection is fine but it keeps kicking me out. The app is not saving the settings consistantly, if I set a lens up it does not show the peripheral shading settings selected, it does show and retain the Chromatic settings, it does not show and retain the distortion settings.

I find it incredibly frustrating that you cannot use the actual viewfinder when using the smart remote. Coming from Canon and Camranger I could give my client my iPad and let them wirelessly review images in real time. Why does the app disable the camera viewfinder? Sorry if this is ranty, but it makes no sense why they would disable the camera viewfinder to use the app… Is there anyone at all complaining about this so I can expect them to address it?

Update: With the A9 you can use the viewfinder with playmemories. The fundamental problem with playmemories is that you have to boot the camera into a special mode with cut down features to operate it. The iPad becomes the brain and the camera the slave.

This is not the case with Camranger. Camranger is just a wireless controller for the camera and you have full control of all the internal camera features when using it. I would do anything short of moving back to Canon to use Camranger again. Playmemories Home Windows 10 PC crashes constantly.

Going into Settings causes it. Opening Playmemories Online in the app causes it. It would be nice if it just worked. I wanted to use the app for movies, and without picture profiles supported, the app is useless to me. The next best thing is to request that they add this feature. Thanks for having this page up, and for hopefully passing along the word!

Another thing that drives me crazy is that you cannot review the images in camera when tethered to Playmemories. I turn the brightness up on my iPad all the time to use other apps. I need to be able to review the images on the camera while I shoot to double check exposure and critical focus. Just purchased Smooth Reflection app yesterday. I used it to shoot with my A and it worked just fine. I was using my Sigma 50mm lens so figured maybe it was an incompatible lens. We must appeal to Sony to not abandoned Play Memories and the in-camera apps.

I am a huge fan of the smooth reflection app as are many photographers, especially those on the FredMiranda. Someone passed along this posting as a possible place to let Sony know that they should not kill apps like smooth reflection in new cameras like the A7rIII and A9. I simply fire up the app and choose the number of images I want to stack for the desired affect.

We need to save this app. Yes, I am also a big fan of the smooth reflections app. Wonderful to provide one raw file for shots. I want the A7rIII but will very much miss that app. I have the first A7r3 ordered via my local camera store… money is paid to hold it… But no playmemories apps and I may just have to cancel and stay with my A7r2. I am having issues out of nowhere sharing images from my cameras to my phone. I keep getting a connection error.

Are you trying to connect all three cameras at once? That could cause a problem. Is this another example of Sony being glacially slow to update it app? A with Mac os Play memories is ultra frustrating. PM works, slowly, with a direct connection but absolutely not via wifi. On wifi I get a message saying I do not have enough access privileges to download.

On my own Mac? When I am the administrator? So perhaps it is to do with the connection. How do I sort this out?

I have never ever seen the QR code referred to in the instructions and doing the whole thing by hand, apart from taking forever, just does not seem to work.

Surely Sony can do better than this. No change. WiFi is the perfect way to move an image or two while on location — but when you need to download a 64GB card nothing beats a memory card reader! Bought a Cybershot a few years ago. Great camera, but despite being touted as having WiFi capabilities for picture transfer, I have never been able to get it to connect.

I assume since you said Kindle you mean the Android version. You might get want to try again. I buy software from Sony, install it, and sometime later, time lapse disappeared. Now I have to fork over money to buy the software again. Wish I had a setup up like that, I could make a fortune! You can install camera apps on up to 10 cameras. If it disappears on one of them you can reinstall it. Sony QX camera connecting to Android 7. The speed between shots is abysmal. Its surprising to buy a camera with the advanced technology of the RC 10 MIV only to discover that some of its functions are not available because of the severe limitations of the Play Memories software.

This weakness should be mentioned in all reviews. The remote basics are fine — I can zoom in and out and take photos.

My camera was not in auto mode. As another user mentioned, it feels like booting into another OS. I love Sony cameras so much, but that feeling of fighting their camera software to make it do what you want is ever present. Well the solution will come soon. Brian, do you have any inside info as to why apps have the terrible architecture they do? There must have been something that forced them to make drastic compromises. I refuse to believe this was the best design they could come with with.

You actually guessed the problem. So basically they have worked in a vacuum and in my opinion they made several crucial mistakes like including separate settings within the app rather than relying upon camera settings. Hi there! My new year is starting miserably, I have to say… I was just about to install an app on my newly purchased A The first big issue was to create an account to be able to log in the Playmemoriesapps-Site in German, as I live in Germany.

After many, many tries with different browsers on my Mac, I could finally install the pmcadownloader. I had to allow for third-party software in the safety settings — had I only not done this! The Sony support guy on the phone was not really helpful — he told me to fix my computer before he could help me installing the app… Thank you, Sony, for ruining my day! This comes on the heels of getting my new A and right out of the box having malfunction with the lens….

This is so irritating — got the impression some hobby students made an app during summer holidays — and then never touched it again. I have to do a hard reset on my computer, which I hate doing. They are replaced by a white box with a grey x in the middle. I have Windows 10 and a Sony RX camera. I live in Canada What do you suggest? Thank you. I can find no confirmation in forum and web searches but it appears that PlayMemories will not show hi-res images.

Two pictures taken moments apart from the same camera appear in the PlayMemories calendar view thumbnails OK for the 2. I have the sony a7ii, using smart remote on an android phone GS7.

It used to show me options to change the shutter speed, the ISO, and the aperture, after updating my firmware to 4. Please help. Yea, that likely means you need to update the Smart Remote Control Camera App as well to get the added functions back. Unfortunately no one ever had anything positive to say about Camera Apps until they were gone. Thanks for the reply Brian. I dont think the blame should be with us — sony could have got it sorted — they just chose not to.

If theyve pulled it to start again then thats great and would be welcomed across the board. We have become accustomed to apps that work, sony has enough money so what is going on? In short, those who liked camera apps were silent while those who hated them were VERY vocal.

Sony listened to customers — but positive feedback was missing from the discussion. Which renders it totally useless. So many fails it drives me up the wall. I bought sony apps for a sony a and one nice day I turned on my camera and the apps were not there.

Hmmm…never had that happen even with software updates, but no need to re-purchase the apps, you can just reinstall them. If there was a way to use the PlayMemories app while recording video on a custom PP setting, I would be overjoyed.

Being able to use an iPad as a field monitor while creating content would be a dream. Why cant they just make a few simple adjustments! The version of PMM is 6. Anyone else having this issue?

Sony Alpha II. I always transfer pictures to my Samsung S8 via the app. I transferred several the other day with wifi as usual then I tried to transfer more less than an hour later. It would not connect, and it still will not connect. I have removed and reinstalled the app several times.

I do not see where there was an app update in the last few days. Which Android OS are you on? Aha, THAT may be the issue. New Full Versions of any OS are almost always incompatible. The Google Play store information says it is 8. I had just used it an hour before with no issues.

The new part is says can control devices via access point. I think this issue is caused by that change. Finding it quite unpleasant. They really should find another way to make this available to all sony camera owners.

I was spending the last 9 months in Cancer treatment and never had time to touch either camera……but in that time there were dozens of updates that I downloaded but never opened. Then this week I finally got to shoot a soccer game with both cameras. So when I began to edit the videos everything had shot that day were in the same folder…. But even after deleting them ALL…it kept showing the same warning and every video clip I did edit started to jump all over the place like a time lapse and every time you replayed it the skips were different.

I have yet to find a single site that offers a phone number to actually talk to a live tech……Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated…????? Do it manually. I have A7s2. Tried it 3 times. Any ideas on how to deal with this? You need to be more specific.

Then when I opened the play memories app it asked me to turn the camera on and I did but it did nothing.. My Play memories software always crashes. I get the message Browser has stopped working. I have tired all of Sonny Suggestions. I restart the computer, reinstalled software many times. I run the initialization tool, Noting works. Is there any suggestion to get this thing to work.

I love my camera but this software is worthless and enough to make me switch to a camera that always you to upload photos with out hassle. Brad , sorry I guess not. I am talking about Play Memories Home. I would like to know the location of my photos and I am not sure if Play Memories mobile will be useful given some of the comments I have read.

If so, are there any GPS apps that could be recommended? Any advice is really appreciated! RX10 Mk4. Though I cannot purchase timelapse sony app! The playmemories app gives me two options: credit card or paypal.

I simply want to use my wallet funds. Camera and phone see each other, QR code is transferred, phone trying to connect, and then disconnects. Once in a while and intermittently they have connected and worked fine. Next time, no. They have never connected successfully using the QR code, only via the password option. Android 8. Locaiton U.

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Essentially I go to the app page, click "proceed and purchase", then fall into an infinite loop of licking "install" and clicking "ok" when prompted to refresh the www.