Pictures pile up on your smartphone. Don’t let your cherished memories languish in a forgotten corner of your phone. Bring them alive with million moments, a photo viewing and sharing application that lets you enjoy and share your favorite pictures in elegant, magazine-like layouts. Take, import, and browse pictures. It’s a beautiful and easy new way to explore your memories.

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How to use million moments

Easy to use. No editing required

Create albums without editing your images. Import the pictures from your smartphone or your Facebook albums, or take new pictures from within million moments to create an album automatically.
The app introduction tour, displayed the first time you start the application, guides you through importing your pictures. (To view the app introduction tour later, tap the album titled “Guide1 Product Tour” at the right edge of the bookshelf.)
The newly created album, named ALL, appears in the upper left of the bookshelf.

Sophisticated features make browsing a breeze

Imported pictures are automatically sorted by date, with one-to-five pictures displayed per page.
Each page displays the dates the pictures were taken and any comments added using the comment feature.
The layouts randomly change each time you open an album, ensuring each viewing is a unique experience.

Create new albums by attaching labels

Attaching new labels to images automatically creates new albums corresponding to the labels. For example, create a label for your child’s name and attach it to pictures of your child, and you’ll automatically have an album named for your child containing those pictures.

You create new labels on the settings screen. Tap the settings icon displayed on the upper part of the bookshelf screen to view the settings screen. You can create up to eight labels.

To attach a label, slide the album screen down to display your labels on the upper part of the screen. Tap the label you want to attach, and tap the picture you want to attach it to. To attach the label to additional pictures, just tap them. You can move from album page to album page while the labels are displayed.

To learn more about using labels, tap the album “Guide 2 Create a New Book” at the right edge of the bookshelf.

Optimize layouts with flexible controls and Sony face detection technology

Adjust the display area for each picture in an album by tapping and holding the picture you want to adjust.
million moments offers Sony face detection technology(*1), to automatically help you avoid faces being cropped. To analyze the position of faces in all pictures, select Picture analysis(*2) from the settings menu on the upper part of the bookshelf screen.

*1 Android version can use Sony face detection technology. The iOS5 or later version uses the standard iOS face detection technology.
*2 Android and iOS5 or later versions can use the Picture analysis feature. The iOS4.1 version cannot use Picture analysis.

Take pictures from inside million moments

Take pictures from within million moments with the in-app camera feature. Select the camera icon from the menu to start the camera. By taking pictures with the million moments’ camera feature, you can attach labels and comments immediately, and Picture analysis is run automatically.(*1)

*1 Android and iOS5 or later versions can use the Picture analysis feature. The iOS4.1 version cannot use Picture analysis.

Easy picture sharing is built in

million moments can post a page of an album to Facebook or tweet it to Twitter(*1). Retain the beautiful million moments page layouts as you share your images.

*1 iOS5 or later version can use the Twitter feature.

Transferring your data to new handset (million moments for Android)

million moments for Android is equipped with data backup and restore function to allow you to transfer your album data from one handset to another. This function can be used when you are changing your handset to a new one.

If you are using million moments for iOS, the transfer of data can be done using backup and restore function in iTunes or on iCloud service. The transfer of data on Android can be done through the steps described below.

Important notice: The backup function of million moments backs up your album and comment data, but not your photo data. The photo files within your handset need to be backed up by yourself, as described in Step 2 below.

-Step 1 Take backup data using million moments

On your handset which you wish to take out data (hereafter “old handset”), tap “Back up your data” under “Settings.”
* Take a note on the time and day you took the backup.

-Step 2 Copy data from old handset to PC or transfer the data physically by moving SD Card from the old handset to your new handset

Manually copy the data in your old handset under the following directory to your PC, or simply take out the SD Card from the old handset and insert it to the new handset.

Examples of the directory
mnt/sdcard
storage/sdcard
* The name of the directory may vary depending on the handset.
* The data needed to restore albums in million moments are the photo data you have imported to million moments and the backup data folder created by million moments named “MillionMomentsBackup.”
* Please be noted that there may be cases in which million moments data are not transferred correctly if you use third party backup and restore app.

-Step 3 Copy the data from PC to new handset

If you chose to move data using your PC, copy the data to the following directory of your new handset. If you chose to move the SD Card, this step is not necessary.

Examples of the directory
mnt/sdcard
storage/sdcard
* The name of the directory may vary depending on the handset.

-Step 4 Install million moments on new handset

Go to Android Play market, then download and install million moments app to your new handset.

-Step 5 Launch million moments on new handset

Launch million moments on new handset, and agree to the license agreement. If the data was transferred correctly, the app will automatically ask you if you wish to restore the data. Tap “Yes.”

-Step 6 Select which backup data to restore

The app will ask you which backup data to restore. Choose the data created on the time you’ve done Step 1. Tap “OK” and wait until the restoration is done, as the restoring process may time. The albums and comments will be restored when the process is completed. You may choose to cancel the restoration process, and choose to do it again later by executing restore function under Settings.

For additional questions relating to data transfer, please refer to our Frequently Asked Questions.

Get updates and usage tips from the million moments blog and Twitter feed

Visit the million moments blog to learn more about using the application and to view albums created with the application. To access the blog, tap the blog link icon on the lower left of the bookshelf.
[Link to the million moments blog]

Or follow the million moments official Twitter feed to keep up-to-date on the latest application news and features.
[Link to the million moments Twitter feed]

The Face Recognition Technology developed by Sony Corporation is incorporated in million moments.
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