sometimes after i open my gallery my epic freezes and I have to pull the batt. Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it?
I'm not a big fan of the Gallery program due to a similar issue. However, mine always seems to pull out of it after a few minutes...
Haven't looked to hard for an alternative yet.
If I run across anything, i'll let you know
edit: for what it's worth, I think it takes longer in my case because it loads ever little pic out there, even stupid phone icons. Maybe your just running in to a laggy startup due to it scanning everything on the phone...
there was a lengthy discussion about the gallery app in the Bonsai thread the other day. some people were thinking the gallery was responsible for bad battery drain in that app..... people chimed in that they really liked the app QuickPic from the market, as an alternative to the stock gallery.
here is roundaout where the discussion took place:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=869295&page=414
update: wow, just downloaded QuickPic... you guys should try it, seems way faster than the stock gallery.
Nice find! Just tried out Quickpic and I'll never use the gallery again! This app is great! It even lets me exclude the folders that had a ton of crappy little icons that were causing loading/scanning to take forever.
Thanks!
Now I wonder if I can kill the gallery app and delete it...at the very least I'm sure I could have it killed at startup
drakkahn said:
Nice find! Just tried out Quickpic and I'll never use the gallery again! This app is great! It even lets me exclude the folders that had a ton of crappy little icons that were causing loading/scanning to take forever.
Thanks!
Now I wonder if I can kill the gallery app and delete it...at the very least I'm sure I could have it killed at startup
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yeah no prob., it's pretty awesome! i have the gallery frozen with Titanium Backup for now.... will probably just uninstall if all goes well,
Put a file named .nomedia in folders you want media scanner to exclude. I put it in my clockwork backup directory, and a few other ones to speed media scaner.
It might help keep the gallery from freezing if there isn't so much stuff in it
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I'm getting poor battery life with Syndicate Frozen because of the Gallery battery bug. I did a lot of searching and read a lot about it, but I can't seem to find any fixes. Is there any way to work around this except rebooting every time you use the gallery? If I forget to do it my battery gets drained super fast.
Why not just delete the gallery app and use quickpic or another one from the android market. That's what I do. I love quickpic.
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I do the same and agree. Haven't looked back since.
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musclehead84 said:
Why not just delete the gallery app and use quickpic or another one from the android market. That's what I do. I love quickpic.
So to delete the stock gallery, I can just go into Titanium Backup, select gallery and delete?
If I ever have to flash back to stock, will the gallery still be deleted?
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If I ever have to flash back to stock, will the gallery still be deleted?
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If you flash with Odin, it will be there. Either use Titanium or Root Explorer to delete it. I use Gallery++.
What gallery battery bug? I even googled to no avail.
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What gallery battery bug? I even googled to no avail.
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There was a bug in DK28 and EB13 (or could have been the Gallery app itself) that caused the G-sensors to go runaway even after closing the gallery process. This would drain the battery. I have not experienced this bug in EC05, but it might have to do with the fact that Mammon uses a modified Gallery App in Bonsai.
The Gallery uses the G-sensors for the tilt effect, but should not continue to do so after the app is closed. You can use Spare Parts to test for it's presence.
1.- Hook your phone up to the charger briefly to clear the battery stats/history.
2.- After you unplug your phone, open the Gallery briefly then close it.
3.- Plug your charger into your phone again to clear the battery history, then unplug it.
4.- Open Spare Parts and click on "Battery history". Then click on the tab at the top that says "Other usage", then select "Sensor usage".
If you see the Gallery listed as one of the processes, then you have the bug.
As I stated earlier, I have not seen it in EC05 (at least not in Bonsai), but it can't hurt to check.
Edit: I just checked my Stock Epic and it does have this bug. My other Epic running Bonsai 4.0.1 does not.
Confirmed, the version of the Gallery used in Bonsai 4.0.0 and greater has been fixed.
So far, all other Gallery apk's I've tested have replicated this issue. Be careful installing themes that include the Gallery, as they probably have not been fixed yet.
That must be the explanation for my battery drain as well. I've uninstalled it and switched to quickpic. No regrets so far.
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That must be the explanation for my battery drain as well. I've uninstalled it and switched to quickpic. No regrets so far.
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I prefer Quickpic myself, but if anyone not running Bonsai wanted to use the 3dGallery, they could just install Mammons version.
I like the 2d gallery better. 3d is just nonsense, IMHO.
It's getting more and more common. I'll be in my gallery and I'll look at my thumbnails. I'll click on a random picture of whatever... and that picture doesn't open, a completely random picture will open. Half the time it's something I deleted weeks earlier.
I have never had that problem, but I would recommend downloading QuickPic and using it for your gallery.
I've been having the issue since 6.X. It's just recently getting worse. I've done numerous FULL wipes with no restores since then too. I think it comes from a new image having the same filename as an old one that's been deleted. Renaming usually solves the problem.
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I have never had that problem, but I would recommend downloading QuickPic and using it for your gallery.
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I second quickPic. Its not as pretty looking, but its way more functional (much easier to limit directories as well as have "Private" directories), and fast.
third on the quickpic. greatest gallery ever
+1 for quickpick. It's a godsend!
Using QuickPic now and it's working great.
Thanks.
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Hi. Im wondering if there is a modified gallery apk floating around. I really hate picasa, with a passion. Even if it isnt the 3D gallery, I dont care. When I remove the gallery and use a third party viewer app, we cant set lock screen wallpapers. Thanks!
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Under Accounts and Sync|Google, uncheck the Sync Picasa Web Albums box and they wont show up in the Gallery.
My fav picture viewing app that I bring with me to every rom I run is QuickPic. Its super small and fast and does everything I want it to, including setting homescreen and lockscreen pics.
Check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hbGVuc3cuUGljRm9sZGVyIl0.
If you're referring to the fact that your email auto checks for new mail every 30 min. you can go into your email settings and set the frequency of checking email to "Never".
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Under Accounts and Sync|Google, uncheck the Sync Picasa Web Albums box and they wont show up in the Gallery.
My fav picture viewing app that I bring with me to every rom I run is QuickPic. Its super small and fast and does everything I want it to, including setting homescreen and lockscreen pics.
Check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hbGVuc3cuUGljRm9sZGVyIl0.
If you're referring to the fact that your email auto checks for new mail every 30 min. you can go into your email settings and set the frequency of checking email to "Never".
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Remove the stock gallery and you can not set lock screen wallpapers, even with quikpic. Which Ive used on all of my devices. Looking to remove the picasa sync option altogether which you cant do unless you remove the 3d gallery, but then you cant set lock screen wallpapers. Hence the search for a modified stock gallery.
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I've never seen my email app use any inordinate amount of battery life as a result of it running in the background nor have I ever read a post of how someones stock email client is draining batt life. Is that whats happening to you?
And to avoid the issue of setting wallpapers with other apps, just don't remove the stock gallery app and the 3rd party apps you use should set wallpapers just fine. If you don't like the stock app, don't use it. But to remove it altogether sounds like its leading to problems.
Not sure what you mean by remove Picasa sync option altogether. Just uncheck the box and its done, no more syncing, or are you referring to removing the menu enrty/option altogether under Accounts and Sync|Google.
If so I guess I'll go now. It sounds like you want dev help from someone willing to work on code for you. Thats waaay outta my league.
Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for your phone blowing up, freezing, bootlooping, your partner leaving you or your cat dying. Make a nand.
I modified the stock Gallery apk so that I wouldnt have the "Sync Picasa" option under the accounts in "Accounts & Sync".
I really do not like having that option in there, so I solved my problem.
I have attached the Gallery apk to share if anyone else is as picky as I am.
I simply moved it to /system/app, overwriting or deleting the original, then fixed the permissions. I kept the original odex file. Rebooted and all is well.
Extract the zip/rar file and use the apk inside.
I hope some of you find this useful.
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Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for your phone blowing up, freezing, bootlooping, your partner leaving you or your cat dying. Make a nand.
I modified the stock Gallery apk so that I wouldnt have the "Sync Picasa" option under the accounts in "Accounts & Sync".
I really do not like having that option in there, so I solved my problem.
I have attached the Gallery apk to share if anyone else is as picky as I am.
I simply moved it to /system/app, overwriting or deleting the original, then fixed the permissions. I kept the original odex file. Rebooted and all is well.
Extract the zip/rar file and use the apk inside.
I hope some of you find this useful.
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did this...and now i dont have a gallery at all. i always use ES file explorer for system files and never have any issues
Make sure it's named correctly and fix the permissions. I'm on the latest ota, rooted. I use root explorer.
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Make sure it's named correctly and fix the permissions. I'm on the latest ota, rooted. I use root explorer.
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permissions also set correctly, still no gallery tho
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permissions also set correctly, still no gallery tho
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You got me. I'm not a dev just a tinkerer. Be certain that it's named correctly, no spaces, perhaps at the beginning of the file name etc.. When you copy it to /system/app it should ask you if you want to overwrite the existing file. That'll tell you it's named correctly. Unless there is something else that you're missing, it should work, as it worked for me. I wish I could do it for you, man. I simply copied the apk from my sd external and pasted it into /system/app, fixed the permissions and rebooted. After the reboot, I confirmed the gallery worked then I cleared cache and dalvik just for the heck of it. Really sorry it's not working for you as easily as it did for me.
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You got me. I'm not a dev just a tinkerer. Be certain that it's named correctly, no spaces, perhaps at the beginning of the file name etc.. When you copy it to /system/app it should ask you if you want to overwrite the existing file. That'll tell you it's named correctly. Unless there is something else that you're missing, it should work, as it worked for me. I wish I could do it for you, man. I simply copied the apk from my sd external and pasted it into /system/app, fixed the permissions and rebooted. After the reboot, I confirmed the gallery worked then I cleared cache and dalvik just for the heck of it. Really sorry it's not working for you as easily as it did for me.
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its cool bro..nature of the beast. just gotta figure out how to get my gallery back!
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its cool bro..nature of the beast. just gotta figure out how to get my gallery back!
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Lemme get some tea and bacon and then I'll upload the originals for you. You should try copying the original apk and odex to /system/app to get your gallery back. After that try copying the modified again. Apk only.
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its cool bro..nature of the beast. just gotta figure out how to get my gallery back!
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Here are the originals. Sorry it took so long.
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Here are the originals. Sorry it took so long.
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thanks alot bro!!!
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thanks alot bro!!!
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Welcome!
Did you figure it out, get your gallery back?
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Yeah just re flashed ROM. Thanks bro
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Is anyone else having issues with the gallery and looking thru pics? Mine is REALLY slow and unresponsive. Often FC's bc of unresponsiveness. If I clear cache it works fine the next launch, but after that its the same thing. Other than that everything is super smooth and fast.
Anyone else with this issue??
Thanks
No issue with my gallery. Everything is working fine.
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No issue with my gallery. Everything is working fine.
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Oh ok. Thanks for the reply. Might have to take it back and exchange it.
Same here, I thought it was cause the fb and drop box sync too
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teshxx said:
Is anyone else having issues with the gallery and looking thru pics? Mine is REALLY slow and unresponsive. Often FC's bc of unresponsiveness. If I clear cache it works fine the next launch, but after that its the same thing. Other than that everything is super smooth and fast.
Anyone else with this issue??
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I had this issue after I rooted the phone and deleted some bloatwares. Gallery was working fine until I deleted something. Don't remember what bloatwares I deleted though. So I installed custom rom and gallery working perfect again. Must be some kind of bloatwares I deleted that messed up the gallery.
I had the same issue even from stock everything when i first put in my sdcard. There was a few corrupted pictures which was making the gallery not load anything right.
Gallery issue
I discovered the issue: in Gallery menu, choose View by, and choose Content in device. The gallery works normally after that.
The problem is that when you close the gallery and reopens you have to do the same. The Gallery doesn't keep the setting...
Does anybody know how to do keep the setting permanently?
Sorry for bad english.
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I discovered the issue: in Gallery menu, choose View by, and choose Content in device. The gallery works normally after that.
The problem is that when you close the gallery and reopens you have to do the same. The Gallery doesn't keep the setting...
Does anybody know how to do keep the setting permanently?
Sorry for bad english.
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Yea. I am aware of that. I couldn't find a resolution, so downloaded "Quickpic" from play store. It's an alternate gallery and is free. Works like a charm.
I can't believe Samsung/Tmobile doesn't check these things.
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The only issues I have is that it won't sync my Google+ photo albums, even though it's setup to do so.
I had issues like this before on the GS2 and a few times when I first got my GN2. The GN2 was right out of the box and it loaded up gallery really slow and lagging, until the point where the gallery give my a GALLERY NOT RESPONDING message. I found out that the photos that lag, take forever to load or doesnt load at all are the ones on my external SD card. I tried to add more photos to the External SD to see what happen and most of the time not all the photos copy over and errors with the card. I did a SD card format using the phone and put all the photos back on, it works just fine now. No more lag, no more errors and photos are loading fast. If youre also using external SD to store your photos like me, then maybe this is the same problem you're having, but if you're on an internal memory storage then I dont know. =) Just a memory card issue and require quick format for me.
Did anyone have the slow gallery problem on Galaxy Note II? Specially when changing wallpapers using the settings. Is there any solution to it?
My gallery has suddenly gotten extremely slow too. Started yesterday. Tried clearing the gallery cache but that didn't help. I did some searching and haven't found a solution yet. If I do I'll let you know.
Very slow gallery
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Did anyone have the slow gallery problem on Galaxy Note II? Specially when changing wallpapers using the settings. Is there any solution to it?
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Mines been like it for ages, slow to the point of unusable, searched and searched but no solution at all, its really annoying now, tried differant Kernels and rom's but no luck.
Through Settings/Application Manager/All/Gallery I cleared the cache. I then used a file manager (Total Commander) to manually delete the .thumbmails directory. I also turned Facebook Gallery syncing through Settings/Accounts/Facebook.
My phone automatically rebuilt the thumbnails and after maybe half a day Gallery sped up to it' usual speed.
haven't noticed any problems on my end, seems to be as fast as day 1
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Mine is slow as ****e as well. I assumed it was something to do with the Facebook galleries.
I use Quickpic though instead.
ETA: lbloo's solution worked for me although I had to clear data rather than just cache on mine.
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Through Settings/Application Manager/All/Gallery I cleared the cache. I then used a file manager (Total Commander) to manually delete the .thumbmails directory. I also turned Facebook Gallery syncing through Settings/Accounts/Facebook.
My phone automatically rebuilt the thumbnails and after maybe half a day Gallery sped up to it' usual speed.
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I did it. Cleared cache. Cleared all files related to Gallery. But still it is very slow. Specially while changing wallpaper and picking picture from gallery. Thanks anyway
Now it appears that after doing above steps and I cannot select a picture for setting wallpapers. (Long pressing on screen and selecting wallpapers from gallery does not show any pictures, only place holders for the pictures. )
I have like 6400 photos on my SGN2 and i can't feel the slow init
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Today I factory reaet the phone and gallery seems to work perfectly.
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OMG this is a major problem for me too... im having a headache trying to find a fix for it. i did restore it to factory settings... still no good. gallery app for me is unusable! i cant even select a photo to view. i even make a thread asking for help too...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34910365#post34910365
I found it really slows down when using a custom rom. Redpill kernel made a difference though and speeds things up again.
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I found it really slows down when using a custom rom. Redpill kernel made a difference though and speeds things up again.
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but i just flash it with the official stock firmware and restore it to defaut factory settings. what am i doing wrong
After factory reset gallery speed improved. But still selecting a wallpaper from gallery by long pressing the homescreen is toooo slow.
I was also having a horrendous experience with the Gallery, the page would always jump up to the top and be extremely slow to load.
Solution: I used Titanium Backup to freeze the "AllShare Service", now it's all smooth!
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but i just flash it with the official stock firmware and restore it to defaut factory settings. what am i doing wrong
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Dont know. I found a clear difference though
Between photos on internal sd and external sd.
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Working smooth for me
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I was also having a horrendous experience with the Gallery, the page would always jump up to the top and be extremely slow to load.
Solution: I used Titanium Backup to freeze the "AllShare Service", now it's all smooth!
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This did the trick, AllShare is apparently trying to look at the photos to do something with with the "Change player" option, disable Allshare (which is useless anyway IMO as it's far too slow) and it sorts it out, gallery is MUCH faster and the multi-second hangs are totally gone.
AllshareCast keeps working which I actually _do_ use.
Hopefully Samsung will fix this in the future to make it useful, but for now, disabling AllShare with TB does the job.
I don't have this issue with my phone but I don't either keep more than 300 pics or video in my gallery. But I use to clear gallery data through sdmaid app
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All times work good for me... I am always on Perseus Kernel...