Photos disappearing from Gallery - Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Posted this problem in LeeDroid's thread yesterday(bored to write it again from scratch,so I just did a quick copy-and-paste ).
Guys I have a strange issue.
This afternoon,without having noticed,my battery died.So I tried to turn the screen on and it booted up,telling me about low battery.Then,I plugged it in as soon as I found the charger and it turned off the moment I plugged it in.Then,I turned it on after about half an hour and all seemed ok.At some point I went to the Gallery app(HTC's one),clicked on Camera Shots(or whatever it calls the photos I have taken)and saw that there were no thumbnails,it won't display some pictures even when I select them and a photo was corrupted!I huried and copied the photos to my pc and rechecked.No thumbnails except for one photo and any new I may take with the camera.Tried deleting gallery's cache and data and it didn't help.Any ideas?Don't wanna reflash for such a thing.
Also,can it be related to the problem with 1.72 roms corrupting cards?It's like the third or fourth time data gets corrupted in my card!And it's a ****in' expensive one!
Thanks guys!
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
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Hope you guys can make something out of it!
Some more people had this problem but they posted it the dev section and I think that thread got deleted.If anyone knows something...Well,ideas are welcome!

tolis626 said:
Posted this problem in LeeDroid's thread yesterday(bored to write it again from scratch,so I just did a quick copy-and-paste ).
Hope you guys can make something out of it!
Some more people had this problem but they posted it the dev section and I think that thread got deleted.If anyone knows something...Well,ideas are welcome!
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I remember a while back when i was a Hero user running HTC stock ROM my 8 GB card crashed just like that. So, it is not a problem with custom ROMs...do not know what it could be but would be nice knowing it!

sphuyal said:
I remember a while back when i was a Hero user running HTC stock ROM my 8 GB card crashed just like that. So, it is not a problem with custom ROMs...do not know what it could be but would be nice knowing it!
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Yeah,it isn't a rom issue.Different people were using different roms when it happened.Unless it's HTC related!
Well,maybe a low level format is needed as someone(whose name is unfortunately escaping me right now)suggested in LeeDroid's thread.But copying 15Gb of data can be a pain!

Well,strange thing is that Gallery(both HTC and stock android one)can't show some pictures(it displays black instead of the image,even for some that there are thumbnails)while the same file,when I open it on my pc,is all ok!Strange...

have the same issue. usually goes away after a reboot.

mjehan said:
have the same issue. usually goes away after a reboot.
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Mine doesn't!

HTC Desire Z Pictures keep dissapering from Gallery
Hai,
Having the same problem with my HTC Desire Z. New pictures seem to disappear in the Galley. Good news, they aren't deleted, they're still on the SD. Connect to your computer and you can see/back up them.
I've installed a file explorer (ASTRO in my case). That made the pictures turn up in the gallery again. I guess the file explorer indexes the SD again?
For now... the pictures are back in my Gallery. It seams to be a bug in Gallery.
Hope they come with a fix soon.
Good luck,
Dee

photo problems
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!

primerow said:
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!
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Thanks, my friend, i had the same problem and your answer is the best, Now I can see all my photos in my SE WT19i.
Thanks again

I've never had this happen to me, but I have had an sd card fail on me ( an expensive patriot one). I would immediately backup your card and keep it backed up as if it's a warning sign that the card is on its way out you don't want to lose all your data.
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primerow said:
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!
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i have kind of similar issue, when i switch off my cell and then switch it on my cell generates a big thumb data of all remaining memory of my sd card and makes my sd card memory zero as well as generates lots of thumbnails. When i delete them some of my clicked pics are not showing in gallary and displayes no thumbnail. so i lost some pics permenantely. plzz help me
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primerow said:
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!
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Exactly where can i find these 2 things on my sd card? show me path exactly folder by folderr

sulaymashru said:
i have kind of similar issue, when i switch off my cell and then switch it on my cell generates a big thumb data of all remaining memory of my sd card and makes my sd card memory zero as well as generates lots of thumbnails. When i delete them some of my clicked pics are not showing in gallary and displayes no thumbnail. so i lost some pics permenantely. plzz help me
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Exactly where can i find these 2 things on my sd card? show me path exactly folder by folderr
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I had this same issue a while ago, and re-flashing the rom I was using seemed to fix the problem (of course, this could be because I formatted my dalvik, as another user mentioned above!)
Have you tried to transfer the photos to your computer from your sd card to make sure that they're still good files?
As for the dalvik, boot into recovery and you'll be able to wipe it from there.

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NFSFAN Sprint 1.01 Rom camera problem

I cannot record video if I select storage card, no problem if I put the video in main memory.
It keep telling me unable to create video file.
But I have no problem to capture still image on storage card.
Anyone know what the problem is?
Where did his thread even go let me guess shut down do to flaming I mean really!!!
hooover said:
Where did his thread even go let me guess shut down do to flaming I mean really!!!
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Looks like it got deleted!!!
kpeng2 said:
I cannot record video if I select storage card, no problem if I put the video in main memory.
It keep telling me unable to create video file.
But I have no problem to capture still image on storage card.
Anyone know what the problem is?
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i just read a post over at ppcgeeks about somthing like this or i might have been at the kitchen not sure but it said somthing like take out the memory card and do a soft reset and then re insert the card it said somthing else but you might want to go and do a search over there for somthing like cant save video to memory card but i find it kind of har cause you have to use a 4 letter minimum when searching hope this helps a little
I've been using Sprint 1.01 for about 4 days now, and really like it. I saw on ppchaven someone mention 1.20 Bell, so does anyone know if he's updated the other roms to 1.20?
why did the thread get deleted? I thoughts the mods had put it back on track
kpeng2 said:
I cannot record video if I select storage card, no problem if I put the video in main memory.
It keep telling me unable to create video file.
But I have no problem to capture still image on storage card.
Anyone know what the problem is?
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take ur sd card out soft reset put it back in your phone soft reset and it should work just fine
bobzero said:
why did the thread get deleted? I thoughts the mods had put it back on track
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before the thread disappeared, the mods noted on it that it was under investigation due to reports of pirated software. having said that, the all mighty powers of deduction say...
Camera Fix
Chq, the Velvito's 2.4.5 includes a Camera fix filex, extract the camera files and place it on the windows directory, also replace the exe file, soft reset, and will work, also, if you're using Touch Flo 2D and you use the Landscape mode the camera wont work, soft reset, and your camera will work!:
Where can I find this file?
kpeng2 said:
I cannot record video if I select storage card, no problem if I put the video in main memory.
It keep telling me unable to create video file.
But I have no problem to capture still image on storage card.
Anyone know what the problem is?
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I'm using the rom right now. I like it. So far there is no error. I can record video to the storage card fine.

camera dont save

I have a typical problem, from last week.
Whenever i take picture from camera the photos are not saved there.
Rarely the photos are saved but that too remain there till next reboot.
Also the second thing i noticed is of the old pics i have, if i delete some pics then they re appear after reboot.
I donno but.. MAY b a VIRUS??
djvithin said:
I donno but.. MAY b a VIRUS??
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is not a virus sd card is broken format it
btw wrong section
cosminx13 said:
is not a virus sd card is broken format it
btw wrong section
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now actually the problem is severe not only with the camera but the other apps
I cant download anything on mobile and bluetooth transfer also fails
even i cant copy anything within the mobile itself
After that i did unmount and mount sd card and it worked for 10-15 min and same prob again
so are the problems same??? What to do.
P.S. :- where to ask such queries if this is wrong section. I am new to this forums.
djvithin said:
I donno but.. MAY b a VIRUS??
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People who think phones can get viruses still exist?
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sherlockh221b said:
now actually the problem is severe not only with the camera but the other apps
I cant download anything on mobile and bluetooth transfer also fails
even i cant copy anything within the mobile itself
After that i did unmount and mount sd card and it worked for 10-15 min and same prob again
so are the problems same??? What to do.
P.S. :- where to ask such queries if this is wrong section. I am new to this forums.
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i had this problem before with an old sdcard and this is what i done....
i inserted it on my pc with an sdcard adaptor and low level format it with this tool then i inserted it into my phone and tried to download something from internet and it worked again
hope it helps

[Q] No images/videos in gallery

Hello people!
I am having problem with my HTC One V. My phone was working fine but all of a sudden it's gallery is showing "No photos or Videos found" and the Music player is also not scanning any music files. But the fiiles are shown in the ES file explorer.
My phone is not rooted, and neither did I install any app recently. Ya but connected my phone to my laptop.
This problem has occured quite a few times earlier also, but used to rectify on its own in a day. But now it is pissing me off, it's been a week.
Tried restarting, removing the storage card etc. But won't help.
Please help!
Go to Settings - Apps - All - Gallery - Clear data
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Go to Settings - Apps - All - Gallery - Clear data
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Yea clear data and unmount sd card and remount it
Sent from my One V
JUST UNMOUNT/MOUNT SDCARD even then no photos/videos,reboot.....
ckpv5 said:
Go to Settings - Apps - All - Gallery - Clear data
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cybervibin said:
Yea clear data and unmount sd card and remount it
Sent from my One V
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Won't this delete all my photos and videos?
And will this solve the problem of music player also? It is also not showing any of my songs.
PS: Sorry, its a Noob question, I am new to android
mihirengg19 said:
JUST UNMOUNT/MOUNT SDCARD even then no photos/videos,reboot.....
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Didn't work, tried much earlier
parthjain27 said:
Won't this delete all my photos and videos?
And will this solve the problem of music player also? It is also not showing any of my songs.
PS: Sorry, its a Noob question, I am new to android
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No, it won't delete your files... it just cleared your data/thumbnails and rebuild them. I think this will help your music player too. You can do the same for Music player - settings - apps - all - music - clear data
ckpv5 said:
No, it won't delete your files... it just cleared your data/thumbnails and rebuild them. I think this will help your music player too. You can do the same for Music player - settings - apps - all - music - clear data
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Nothing worked
which ROM?
At you sure that the photos are still on the sd card ??
cybervibin said:
which ROM?
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ICS. It's stock.
donhashem.dh said:
At you sure that the photos are still on the sd card ??
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Yep, everything is on the ad card. I can access it from the file explorer.
I am wondering if I should backup my data and then format my phone.
It is showing up one more problem, I cannot download a single app from the play store. It shows downloading, and downloading and nothing moves on.
EDIT: If I format my phone, I can download all my paid apps again because they are linked to ny google account,right ?
I once had the exact problem ..but Im not able to remember because I'm becoming old ......
This may work
Move all your stuff on your sd card to your pc
Format your sd card and put em back again .....
Maybe the problem is with the sd card
Just WAIT FOR A OTA UPDATE it will fix the bug ,I had that problem too
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donhashem.dh said:
I once had the exact problem ..but Im not able to remember because I'm becoming old ......
This may work
Move all your stuff on your sd card to your pc
Format your sd card and put em back again .....
Maybe the problem is with the sd card
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I was thinking to do the same, but worried if it could affect my installed apps ??
I'll also try shifting some of my pics to the phone storage, lets see if it is showing the pics in there.. if it works then I'll format the sd card, if not will format the phone!
U can install them again! whats the problem ????
cybervibin said:
Just WAIT FOR A OTA UPDATE it will fix the bug ,I had that problem too
Sent from my One V
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That will be too long I think, not sure when the update will come!
gulsher said:
U can install them again! whats the problem ????
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And what about the data in apps, such as in Notes Lite I have a number of important notes, and it wont even perform a backup
Then don't do a reset just wait until it gets solved by itself ...but if that didn't work ....reset
If u don't have patience do this...move all the data to the pc as in images and all....reboot phone browse gallery
So that the cache is built
Then.move the images back ,reboot browse and try...
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parthjain27 said:
It is showing up one more problem, I cannot download a single app from the play store. It shows downloading, and downloading and nothing moves on.
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this happened with me....i installed another rom and kernel and then apps could be downloaded......
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if after u have tried everything on earth and nothing works, transfer stuff your PC and use a new SDCard and transfer stuff back to new one....
Problem solved. Backed up my data, did a factory reset and now everything is working fine.
But now I have to install all my apps again :banghead:
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[Q] Storage Full of "Other"

So I've noticed my storage is full of "other" - as per in the attached screenshot.
How do I find what that is, and do you reckon I can delete it?
It can't be cache stuff, can it?
I reckon it might be a Titanium Back up or a nandroid, but would like to know where to look. I'm back on stock and unrooted, and if this is something I can take off the phone and put on a spare hard drive, that would be great.
Thanks for your help...!
Looks like several people are having this problem?
treb1971 said:
So I've noticed my storage is full of "other" - as per in the attached screenshot.
How do I find what that is, and do you reckon I can delete it?
It can't be cache stuff, can it?
I reckon it might be a Titanium Back up or a nandroid, but would like to know where to look. I'm back on stock and unrooted, and if this is something I can take off the phone and put on a spare hard drive, that would be great.
Thanks for your help...!
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It could be the pre-installed apps.
When you first bought your HOX, you check your settings and storage, only 2.11GB available on internal storage (apps memory), and more than 25GB available on virtual SD card or phone memory.
Some of the custom roms on rooted HOX has this functionality that we can be able to view the full details of what is consuming our memory.
i use ES file explorer for this it can run an analysis of the sd card and tell what the folders are that take up the most space
u can also analyze a folder instead of sd card to see what map or file takes the most space
u will see if its junk or maybe some old games you dont have installed anymore
and can simply delete them after
Its everything you downloaded, music , folders , pictures etc
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XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
Its everything you downloaded, music , folders , pictures etc
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No it's not music, folders, pictures. I have same problem and ask HTC for help.
Man you should try to factory reset and clear storage, if that doesnt work and your phone come with used 4gb (like mine), you should send it to service. Already not found any better way to fix it. Sorry if i'm wrong.
hightrancer said:
No it's not music, folders, pictures. I have same problem and ask HTC for help.
Man you should try to factory reset and clear storage, if that doesnt work and your phone come with used 4gb (like mine), you should send it to service. Already not found any better way to fix it. Sorry if i'm wrong.
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I got a reply from HTC this morning that this is what system takes which is a total BS as system is only 1.05 Gb in my case it is /sys folder which is showing to contain nearly a MILLION folders and 500000 (yes five hundred thousand) files.
They really dont know what they are telling.
Odp: [Q] Storage Full of "Other"
I'm now at hospital so cant send it to HTC. But i try send it next week. I tell you what's result. From HTC this is only way to fix it. I'm not expert just saying HTC's solution. Wait, may some one know other solution, i will tell you how it's going next week when get phone from service.
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I've got the same problem! Looking inside the phone with a root explorer the amount of all the folders is around 350 mb with a custom rom, all the folder except one ( /sys ). The folder /sys has something wrong cause the explorer just keep saying calculating...
Is there anything we can do to have back all these GB?? Thanks
Have anyone try to factory reset?
I have got this problem too.
I have tried "make more space" by delete apps.
But "Other" is nothing change.:silly:
If you have a backup or migration tool installed check if you have any backups stored and also check the temp files of that backup app.
The othet section is the pre installed apps and the system itself.
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I had 9.45GB of storage in "other"
I tried finding what it was taking that much space and discovered nothing in particular.
Some time before, I realized my HTC One Mini 2 was full. I was replacing data to my Ext. SD Card. Then I realized that, no matter what I replaced, the 9.45 GB remained the same/Increased.
I think there is some kind of TEMP file for stuff you deleted/replaced. So you could get it back if you deleted something by accident, because after restarting my phone, only 5.5GB of "other" storage was left.
However, this is still alot of storage, and I can't find what the 5.5GB contains in any file explorer. Does anyone have a clue about how big the OS and Sense layer are? Thanks in advance

[Q] My gallery app doesnt show the pictures moved in external sd card

Hey guys I have a very annoying issue. My gallery app doesnt show up my pictures in my sd card. I moved pictures by file explorer of its own, and they all are gone from gallery app. Although it doensnt show the pics that are moved , it shows the pictures freshly taken into external sd card . But it doesnt show the pics I moved into it. The other fact is that when I unmount the sd card and mount it again, even the freshly taken pictures dissappear.!! but after that I shoot some more and they show up but old pics never shows up. My sd card is new and I have no other issue apart from this ( its class 10 , 32 gb ,kingston micro sd card.! please helppp !! (
oziverson said:
Hey guys I have a very annoying issue. My gallery app doesnt show up my pictures in my sd card. I moved pictures by file explorer of its own, and they all are gone from gallery app. Although it doensnt show the pics that are moved , it shows the pictures freshly taken into external sd card . But it doesnt show the pics I moved into it. The other fact is that when I unmount the sd card and mount it again, even the freshly taken pictures dissappear.!! but after that I shoot some more and they show up but old pics never shows up. My sd card is new and I have no other issue apart from this ( its class 10 , 32 gb ,kingston micro sd card.! please helppp !! (
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Can you still find the pictures in the file explorer ? What folder did you move them to ?
Try downloading quikpic gallery and see if it finds them
They all exist in external sd cad and I can easily find em all just going through file explorer. I can find an open them there. They all in the folder that camera app creates. But gallery doesnt show them
oziverson said:
They all exist in external sd cad and I can easily find em all just going through file explorer. I can find an open them there. They all in the folder that camera app creates. But gallery doesnt show them
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What folder do you have them saved in ? If you have a DCIM folder on the ext card it will find them if they are put in there
They all in dcim buddy but yeah I tried what you told me and downloaded quickpic gallery and it showed my pics up as long as I put a tick on ''show hidden files'' . But I have no clue why would they be hidden. They all appears when im lookin around file explorer. Lets think about it
oziverson said:
They all in dcim buddy but yeah I tried what you told me and downloaded quickpic gallery and it showed my pics up as long as I put a tick on ''show hidden files'' . But I have no clue why would they be hidden. They all appears when im lookin around file explorer. Lets think about it
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Seems odd to me. For some reason it thinks they should be hidden. Normally the media scanner would pick them up. Are the formatted differently ?
I dont know which format it is but recently after having had this problem , i formatted it in storage menu of settings. And I put the files back on it but no sign of pictures in gaplery.but yeah thanks for quick pic app! At least it shows them all! But i need to find a way to get my gallery to work properly again
Have you cleared the data/cache for the gallery?
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Yes , i did ot at my first try .but the same . I think my gallery app is kinda broken down for some reason.it seems to be working very well but, it has problem with external card. Maybe i should replace it but donno where to find it. I found some but they all are modified , not the original ones
Got to be a card issue. Move pics to internal or hard drive and format the card and see if it helps.
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Already did it and its not car issue i think. Becuz ive tried the card in another smart phine and works well
oziverson said:
Already did it and its not car issue i think. Becuz ive tried the card in another smart phine and works well
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Phone could still have an issue veiwing them even though another will or your PC will
Hey guys Ive come up with news. I flashed succesfully synergy rom into my phone. And gallery had no problem showing pictures on my external sd card. After then I restore all the apps and datas through titanium backup that i used to backup all apps and datas from previous system . AND guess what ? Gallery has started not to show up the pictures in external again. I think an app is causing this but i dont know how to find out
oziverson said:
Hey guys Ive come up with news. I flashed succesfully synergy rom into my phone. And gallery had no problem showing pictures on my external sd card. After then I restore all the apps and datas through titanium backup that i used to backup all apps and datas from previous system . AND guess what ? Gallery has started not to show up the pictures in external again. I think an app is causing this but i dont know how to find out
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My general rule of thumb is only use titanium to restore apps sparingly. I just keep an ext SD card with apks of the apps I want to install that aren't on market and use the playstore for all other. Flash synergy again and then do an app and check gallery, rinse and repeat. Might be tedious but worth it.
I used to have 2.3.6 GB stock ROM and flashed THIS JB 4.3 ROM Everything works fine but my Gallery app doesn't want to show my old pics at all... When I shoot new photos they are fine.. But my phone recognizes my OLD photos as VIDEO FILES and when I try to open them it asks me what app to use to open them showing video apps. This thread looks like the closest one to my problem. I hope someone can find a solution to this other than using another gallery apk.
(I can see and open my old photos using file explorer)
Using Galaxy S - I9000
Thanks for any effort..
Try out fish bowl gallery app and unlock all pics . They ll show up in gallery after this
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