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.
otooles said:
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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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
Well, I flashed latest Cyanogen mod, but then I found some problems with the phone. I'm not sure if it's really Cyanogen or something else, that's why I'm asking here.
Now, I always liked the default camera that comes with the phone, but this time, I can't find the timer on it. I have checked every single option and - nothing.
I figured that I might try some other camera apps, so far: Camera360, Camera Advance, Camera ZOOM FX and Vignette, they all work fine, but when it comes to saving pictures, nothing happens. I'm using some 3D gallery app, which comes with Cyanogen, I'm not sure what it's called, but it's fairly popular.
Any solution to this?
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Well, I flashed latest Cyanogen mod, but then I found some problems with the phone. I'm not sure if it's really Cyanogen or something else, that's why I'm asking here. Now, I always liked the default camera that comes with the phone, but this time, I can't find the timer on it. I have checked every single option and - nothing.
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Appreciate your reasoning but please don't cross post (same question in multiple forums / threads).
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I figured that I might try some other camera apps, so far: Camera360, Camera Advance, Camera ZOOM FX and Vignette, they all work fine, but when it comes to saving pictures, nothing happens.
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You mean the picture is taken ok but are not being saved? Have you used a file manager or pc to check the DCIM folder on the SD Card? This is a very unique issue and not specific to the camera apps or the ROM. Let me know re above.
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I'm using some 3D gallery app, which comes with Cyanogen, I'm not sure what it's called, but it's fairly popular.
Any solution to this?
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The Gallery 3D app is native to Android. It won't be responsible for the issues.
Sorry for late reply. Yes, the images are shown in gallery, it just reports location as unknown and when I check SD card (I have checked every folder) there are no pictures (even the newly created folders after I change save path) are not shown.
However, after you mentioned that I should check with file manager, I did so and I can see the pictures. But still, nothing on SD card, so I can't access them. I even tried sharing them on Facebook and sending g to my email then downloading, they show up in the gallery but not on SD card when I access it via PC.
What is causing this? PC issue?
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Hello all,
I'm been a very happy Nexus user since I bought my phone in January. I've never experience any problems with the hardware or software until now. I noticed today that when I am in the stock camera app and slide over to view my pictures the app crashes/FC. I'm not sure when it started happening, again noticed today, but it did used to work fine before. I don't use my camera all that often so it's not a huge deal but since I am 100% stock + root I expect the stock apps to work fine.
Has anyone else's phone doing this? I tried restarting to no avail. YouTube video coming up! I apologize if this has been discussed elsewhere. If so can someone kindly redirect me to the thread?
Other info:
GSM Galaxy Nexus
100% stock JellyBean JRO03C takju
Installed Apps:
AdAway
Astro FM
Battery Widget Reborn Pro
Colornote
Dictionary.com
Glympse
GrooveIP
Image Shrink Lite
Market Enabler
Obenkyo
Palmary Weather
QuickPic
RealCalc
Search Light
Simple Calendar
Sound Hound Infinity
superuser
Tapatalk
Google Translate
Viber
Google Voice
Wapedia
+ stock GAPPS (of course)
Never happened to me. Did you try clearing the Gallery's cache/data?
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Hmm... while waiting for the video to upload to YouTube I did more testing and I think I have it figured out. I took a picture last week and rotated it counter-clock wise using QuickPic. When opening this particular picture in QuickPic everything works as expected but when I open the same picture using the stock gallery app the app crashes. So I guess the way QuickPic saved the picture (corrupted?) is making the stock gallery app bug out. Anyone else care to try to see if you can recreate the crash?
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Never happened to me. Did you try clearing the Gallery's cache/data?
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I did just now for both QP and Gallery. Didn't help.
YouTube video.
Sorry for the quality...
Andie00 said:
Hmm... while waiting for the video to upload to YouTube I did more testing and I think I have it figured out. I took a picture last week and rotated it counter-clock wise using QuickPic. When opening this particular picture in QuickPic everything works as expected but when I open the same picture using the stock gallery app the app crashes. So I guess the way QuickPic saved the picture (corrupted?) is making the stock gallery app bug out. Anyone else care to try to see if you can recreate the crash?
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I can rotate with Quickpic and view rotated pictures in stock gallery just fine.
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Petrovski80 said:
I can rotate with Quickpic and view rotated pictures in stock gallery just fine.
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Thanks for the replies. I dunno maybe this picture just got corrupted somehow. I deleted it and all is well.
Andie00 said:
I did just now for both QP and Gallery. Didn't help.
YouTube video.
Sorry for the quality...
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Can't see your image (broken link?)
This is a longshot, but you could try deleting the folder /sdcard/android/data/com.google.android.gallery3d
This will remove the Gallery's cache file so it will recreate it from scratch. I'm not sure if the clear cache command actually wipes the file or simply empties it.
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I've had this probelm. I encountered it when I was trying to change the picture size. For some reason it wasn't too happy when I was making my pics smaller. What I did to fix it was ckear the data in the gallery app.
-Settings
-Apps
-Gallery (under "ALL"
-Clear data
Then I rebooted and I didn't have any problems. Hope this helps you out.
Petrovski80 said:
Can't see your image (broken link?)
This is a longshot, but you could try deleting the folder /sdcard/android/data/com.google.android.gallery3d
This will remove the Gallery's cache file so it will recreate it from scratch. I'm not sure if the clear cache command actually wipes the file or simply empties it.
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It's actually a YouTube link not an image. Doesn't show for me correctly using tapatalk also. But in the browser it displays properly.
x Taz x said:
I've had this probelm. I encountered it when I was trying to change the picture size. For some reason it wasn't too happy when I was making my pics smaller. What I did to fix it was ckear the data in the gallery app.
-Settings
-Apps
-Gallery (under "ALL"
-Clear data
Then I rebooted and I didn't have any problems. Hope this helps you out.
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Yes, thanks for that. I also think something went awry when editing the picture. It doesn't seem to like it like you said. Since the picture wasn't that important I decided to just delete it.
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.
Jerry D said:
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??
Thanks
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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.
CeloKO said:
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
shahidhussain said:
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
John
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
gabster21 said:
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...