[Q] Gallery No Longer Recognizing New Files - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey all, having a bit of trouble with my Gallery lately.
It seems that since I flashed Syndicate 1.1.0 my Gallery has stopped recognizing any additional images I put on the SD card, regardless of location. This is making it near impossible to set new wallpapers and replace my Launcher Pro dock and the like.
Apps such as HD Wallpapers save the image, but it doesn't show up in the gallery afterwards. I can confirm the file is there though in a file explorer. Even if pictures are added to the Gallery in the same folder as images it already recognizes, the Gallery does not show them.
I can't seem to figure out what is causing this problem despite searching and tinkering. My Gallery is completely unmodified. Any help would be extremely appreciated!
Thanks!

Try a separate gallery app
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Go to my file app then find image then click that might work
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I can't seem to find a decent gallery app in the market. Any recommendations? Gallery 3D wouldn't install because it isn't signed properly...
Like I said in my original post, I can find and view the photos in Adao File Explorer (My Files is removed by default on the Syndicated Rom), and clicking it does open it temporarily. It however does not add it to the gallery, which eliminates my ability to use images as Wallpapers or for LauncherPro.

Use sdx all remover to remove gallery then try gallery 3d
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Quickpic is almost identical to Gallery. Try that.

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How do I make photos show up in Photos and Gallery?

HTC's Photos app doesn't show the photos on my SD card and neither does Gallery (the cooliris Nexus One app ported to Incredible). How do I get photos to show up? Arr, it's driving me nuts!
Edit: SOLVED, see below.
FIXED
ThugEsquire said:
HTC's Photos app doesn't show the photos on my SD card and neither does Gallery (the cooliris Nexus One app ported to Incredible). How do I get photos to show up? Arr, it's driving me nuts!
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I fixed this using the free "Gallery Enabler" app from the Market. I definitely recommend it!
ThugEsquire said:
I fixed this using the free "Gallery Enabler" app from the Market. I definitely recommend it!
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I tried that app and thought it was great too, until I couldn't find any of my music playlists.
I think it hides folders from other applications besides Photos.
If you have problems, open gallery enabler and check all folders before you un-install it.
Then the right way to fix it is to open the Photos app on the phone, clck on the menu button and select "Settings" and then "Default Albums" then select the options you want from there.
If you're wondering how this application works, it probably just deletes/adds the hidden .nomedia files from folders. Those files restrict applications from having access to the media by signaling the android media scanner to ignore them. For instance, if you put one in the root of your sd card, the system would ignore any media on your entire card.
In theory, it's a great idea.
The problem is that all of my music is organized in folders and each folder contains the album art for the album.
So blocking the folder with the album art so that it does not show up in the gallery also blocks the music file from different media applications.
gadget! said:
I tried that app and thought it was great too, until I couldn't find any of my music playlists.
I think it hides folders from other applications besides Photos.
If you have problems, open gallery enabler and check all folders before you un-install it.
Then the right way to fix it is to open the Photos app on the phone, clck on the menu button and select "Settings" and then "Default Albums" then select the options you want from there.
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Ah, you're definitely right. All my music stopped showing up. However, once I went back and enabled all the folders and applied settings in Gallery Enabler all my music showed up again and the photos were still fixed. I suppose you could use Gallery Enabler once to "force" Gallery and Photos to see all the folders.
Changing default albums in HTC's Photos app did nothing to make media show up again. Thanks for the suggestion though!
ThugEsquire said:
Ah, you're definitely right. All my music stopped showing up. However, once I went back and enabled all the folders and applied settings in Gallery Enabler all my music showed up again and the photos were still fixed. I suppose you could use Gallery Enabler once to "force" Gallery and Photos to see all the folders.
Changing default albums in HTC's Photos app did nothing to make media show up again. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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Un-installing gallery enabler brought my music back but not the playlists, I had to manually re-build all of my playlists again.

How do I get the HTC Sense gallery back?

I downloaded the Vanilla lockscreen and some other vanilla apps. One of them must have set the gallery to "vanilla." Now I get this floaty groups of pictures that tilt when I tilt the phone.
How do I get the stock gallery back?
Juat uninstall the other app..
*This was posted from my Evo 4G using Tapatalkpro! Great app, if you want to browse and post through many dfferent forums*
Thanks for the post, but there is no other app to install. The vanilla gallery is the only app (besides Astro file explorer) that will open pictures by default.
If I download another picture viewer from the market, it does not display in the list of potential apps when clicking on a picture file. For example, if I'm in Astro and I click on a jpg, a little window pops up asking me what program to open it with (since I cleared all my defaults). The only options are Astro and Gallery, regardless of what other apps I have installed.
I do not like the "floaty" Vanilla gallery. It looks messy to me.
Does my question make sense?

[Q] ICS Gallery

Several ics revs back I could open the gallery app and it would only show folders with picture files in them. I also had the option to hide folders. Now when I open gallery, it goes and if a folder has any apk's in them it will display the icon picture as well. Well I have a folder with my apk's backed up so it is showing a bunch of icons in addition to my own picture folder. I cannot hide them either. Does this happen to anybody else? I do have the option to delete them. If I delete them, will it just remove them from the album and not delete the actual file?
Do u have an app backup apk downloaded?
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You can put a "." In front of the folder name , no "'s to hide that folder, I know thats not the answer you wanted, but hope it helps.
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KitKat Gallery on G3

I have been trying to run stock KitKat gallery on G3. It runs fine however my main reason was to use the photo editor that comes with the gallery app. But every time I try to click on the edit icon (Pencil icon), gallery crashes. Starting from KitKat google split the camera apk and gallery apk so I don't think we need to add certain Lib files for gallery to work.
Since I have also frozen Google+ apk, its gallery app i.e. photos is not available to be used as editor
Could anybody please verify or help get this working? Thanks.

Camera/Gallery

I uninstalled the default gallery app and use Simple Gallery. Is there a way to tie the OOS camera to it? When I take a picture the small thumbnail shows up in the circle at lower right, but touching it does nothing, "no photo" pop-up. I have my gallery app set as default on settings.
Not sure if it will help but try installing another gallery app and see what pops up (if anything) when you touch the thumbnail from the camera app.
I have installed a QuickPic gallery (the best gallery app in my opinion) as well as the Open Camera app (used it before on my Samsung Note3 running Resurrection Remix so it kind of installed itself when I connected my google account).
Anyways, not I have a stock camera app opening stock gallery app (when touching the thumbnail) and I have Open Camera app opening the QuickPic, even though the stock gallery is set as default.
I'm thinking the issue may be you uninstalled the stock gallery before changing the defaults and now your camera is still looking for that stock app? It seems some apps can override the system defaults (as is in my case 2 different camera apps opening different gallery apps), and installing another gallery app may bring up the menu where you could choose your default gellery to open from camera app.
Bravo! I dirty flashed the ROM and it works again. Switched default to Simple Gallery, works. Froze OOS gallery, still works! Just need to change it before getting rid of it.
There is a default app in the settings somewhere.
raptor2003 said:
There is a default app in the settings somewhere.
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Yeah, settings/apps/default. Just saying you need to set you default app, before uninstalling the system one or it won't switch.

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