Xperia E4g photos numbers are a mess!

[Sardaukar]

XPERIA E4g E2053
Is there a way to set camera app so that photo automatic numbers follow the same counter no matter whether you capture them to internal memory or SD card?

Why? Because when you capture directly to internal memory, camera is relatively fast (1-2 secs between shots). BUT when you capture directly to SD card, although the first shoot is also fast, the post processing seems to never end (and you have to wait from about 10 secs to sometimes more than a minute between shots depending on light conditions). (32gb class 10 perfectly working SD card installed). If you attempt to take another shot before post prossesing of previous picture ends, camera app does no take the shot and camera app UI dissapears (and sometimes Phone gets non responsive until post procesding finally ends or you force stop camera app). It's the WORST CAMERA EXPERIENCE EVER!
If you capture photos directly to internal memory, automatic counter starts over from zero and when you move them to SD card is a total mess, specially if you want to backup photos to pc, because pc only allows to sort them by name, not by date and you don't know if you are copying duplicated photos or overwriting old photos with new ones with the same filenames.
That's why a unified counter would be great solution as an update to camera app.
Is anybody else having the same trouble when capturing directly to SD card? (note that I can capture 1080p video directly to SD card fine, the problem is in between shots where you have to wait A LOT)
(Even my old xperia U was much faster in between shots, and it also had an infinite focus option, which xperia E4g has not in manual mode)
PD: another very anoying feature of xperia E4g camera app is that if it doesn't get a focus, it doesn't take the picture at all. It would be far better to take a photo a bit out of focus than nothing at all. This happens a lot when focus mode is set to face detection. And who was the genious to set sports scene focus mode to face detection? It renders that scene mode completely useless!

[Uliwooly · Accepted solution]

@Sardaukar

what you described is an SD card issue, not a phone issue.

As for the numbers, it's obvious, that's how it's supposed to work, and it's the same with other cameras, this is how to avoid the issue

if you store pictures in the internal storage and you want to transfer them to the SD card, do so, but leave the last picture

lets say you have DSC_001 to DSC_099, leave DSC_099

[Sardaukar]

Thanks, uliwooly. After writing the post I tried exactly what you say and at least that way I can workaround the messy numbers problem. (I placed a picture in the internal memory camera folder and renamed it to DSC_0500, then I took a picture and it was automatically named DSC_0501). Now I can take pictures to internal memory which works fast, and later move to SD card without making a mess.

Is it a normal SD card issue, or should it work faster between shots? (I don't remember if I formated the card with the Phone or if I started using it right away after some testing).

[Uliwooly]

@Sardaukar

It seems odd that it takes so long to save the pictures to the SD card, perhaps you might have to back everything up with your computer and then reformat the SD card, it might work.