replaced the stock TouchWiz Gallery app today with QuickPic and love it! The stock app's album page is annoying as hell to navigate thru.
What are the other good gallery apps out there?
I've been using Quickpic for awhile too...I like that you can exclude folders so that it doesn't pick up all the graphics embedded in my emails like the stock gallery.
Just read this today - haven't yet installed http://www.androidcentral.com/android-central-quick-app-review-lightbox
I'm using JustPictures!, multiple accounts (facebook, picasa etc.), very good app :] ..
Quickpic user here too.. I love that it's basic enough to just jump into and browse without the 3d annoyance of the normal gallery.
I had an issue with it when I migrated from my Galaxy S to my Galaxy SII (not actioning screen taps even though they were registering) but that seems to have been fixed..
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I'm using JustPictures!, multiple accounts (facebook, picasa etc.), very good app :] ..
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is justpictures fast with loading fb/picasa thumbnails?
Gunna give both Quickpic and Justpictures a try. Fingers crossed that Justpictures lets me save images to Flickr from within camera-using apps... maybe wishful thinking... but I'd love it if Lightbox, for example, or Snapbucket, saved to Flickr.
Didn't really like QuickPick or JustPictures. Both were way too slow at loading the thumbnails. The stock Gallery3D loads all the thumbnails in a blink of an eye but in those two apps it took quite a lot longer.
Btw does anyone know how to get rid of that "snap" action in the Gallery3D? Is it some Samsung addition because I don't remember seeing that kind of feature in the previous versions. It's annoying as hell. Could I just roll to the Gallery3D from market or would it be slower than this Samsung version?
Remember, the first time you open the app it'll cache the thumbnails. Gallery takes a fair while to process all your images the first time it's launched.
I've been using QuickPic for a while instead of Gallery, image quality is better and it's more functional. I like it.
JustPictures! is a good little app too, seems surprisingly quick.
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that doesn't have to load every single thumbnail every single time you open the app? I've tried some market ones, same problem. 3D/Nexus/CM one looks great but again, it has to reload every thumbnail every time. Sense gallery is the same way.
I really hate this, and had this problem on everything from Blackberries to Symbian devices. On a side note, if I'm playing music, I'd better not open the gallery, cause if I do, it causes my music to become unstable. Trying to load thumbnails seems to disrupt the audio to the point where volume changes, audio goes out and comes back, songs restart, and sometimes any music app I use will actually jump to different playlists.
This is on multiple roms, multiple kernels, multiple types of roms (MIUI, Sense, AOSP, etc.)
If anyone could help me out, that'd be great.
Can try QuickPic. It seems to load and work way faster than any other gallery I've used.
Its in the market.
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that doesn't have to load every single thumbnail every single time you open the app? I've tried some market ones, same problem. 3D/Nexus/CM one looks great but again, it has to reload every thumbnail every time. Sense gallery is the same way.
I really hate this, and had this problem on everything from Blackberries to Symbian devices. On a side note, if I'm playing music, I'd better not open the gallery, cause if I do, it causes my music to become unstable. Trying to load thumbnails seems to disrupt the audio to the point where volume changes, audio goes out and comes back, songs restart, and sometimes any music app I use will actually jump to different playlists.
This is on multiple roms, multiple kernels, multiple types of roms (MIUI, Sense, AOSP, etc.)
If anyone could help me out, that'd be great.
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If you mean how it loads thumbnails from every folder with images on it and not just your actual cameras photos, just stick a .nomedia file in each of the folders that are getting scanned and they won't show up in Gallery
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A. Use a file manager
B. Use quickpic. Takes hardly any time for the thumbnails to load after the initial startup.
I flashed Viscous JB Rom to my Verizon GNEX, and everything went relatively well. The only issue was the gallery wasn't working. I could only see local storage, not my picasa/google+ web albums. I did some searching and found gapps "JRO03C GApps Package 08/11/12". It claimed to fix the gallery and it sort of did. Now I can see my picasa/google+ web albums, but for whatever reason, I can't do anything with the photos beyond viewing them. If I try to edit them using aviary for example, it says, "Cannot download photo at this time". If I try upload them to facebook or instagram, the app just does nothing upon selecting the photo. It appears to be a problem with the URI used to fetch the photo, but I'm not even sure of that. Our nexus 7 tablet is running the exact same version of gallery as i flashed, and it can do any of those functions flawlessly, so I don't think its the gallery version (1.1.40000). Is there a separate photo picker in android that I can flash somehow? Any suggestions? Upload works fine. This is a big problem for me because I have thousands of photos in my picasa web albums and use them pretty regularly.
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I flashed Viscous JB Rom to my Verizon GNEX, and everything went relatively well. The only issue was the gallery wasn't working. I could only see local storage, not my picasa/google+ web albums. I did some searching and found gapps "JRO03C GApps Package 08/11/12". It claimed to fix the gallery and it sort of did. Now I can see my picasa/google+ web albums, but for whatever reason, I can't do anything with the photos beyond viewing them. If I try to edit them using aviary for example, it says, "Cannot download photo at this time". If I try upload them to facebook or instagram, the app just does nothing upon selecting the photo. It appears to be a problem with the URI used to fetch the photo, but I'm not even sure of that. Our nexus 7 tablet is running the exact same version of gallery as i flashed, and it can do any of those functions flawlessly, so I don't think its the gallery version (1.1.40000). Is there a separate photo picker in android that I can flash somehow? Any suggestions? Upload works fine. This is a big problem for me because I have thousands of photos in my picasa web albums and use them pretty regularly.
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I have the exact same problem, have you found a solution?
Ohh man. Is it just me or does your gallary get slow as hell when you have facebook pictures synced to it?
Why is that? is downloading the images from facebook or are these pictures on the phone after the initial sync? If they are on the phone, shouldn't the gallery be fluid and fast?
Think every time you open gallery it syncs with Facebook. So it will slow down each time you open.
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I get that too. It's either picasa, or fb. Seems to show down considerably when using s sketch. Loading those pictures seems painful. When using gallery, it's a few seconds delay
Hello guys! Greetings from a newcomer to these forums!
I would like to know if any of you know how to get rid of the facebook albums that appeared in my gallery on my S3. i've tried conventional tactics like trying to delete, unsync, etc...but to no avail.
Also, is there any way to set where a certain file ends up such as where a picture goes when you take a picture with the camera app? I've moved the folder where the picture gets sent too via the "My Files" icon and moved that folder to my SD card but when i take a picture it still ends up in a new folder on my phone memory.
One more question. I have a Picasas album which I cannot delete as well in my gallery, any advice?
Apologize in advance about all the questions and I appreciate your responses!
You even get your picasa web albums... even if you tell it not to sync albums in sync settings. So I froze the default gallery, and use QuickPic as my daily driver.
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You even get your picasa web albums... even if you tell it not to sync albums in sync settings. So I froze the default gallery, and use QuickPic as my daily driver.
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Exactly what I did. I fooled around for 25 minutes trying to remove that extra junky: Samsung failed hard here. QuickPic is great: fast and you can pick which folders to show!
Hi all,
I've been using my Galaxy Note 10+ 5G model shooting 4K HDR10+ videos and using the Gallery app to share them (or use the Instagram button to upload) and it converts it (though it says it is "compressing video") to standard SDR (so that people won't see a washed our HDR video on their non-HDR screens). So far, it's been good and works fine.
However, today I hit upon a problem where I was waiting for a video to convert/compress and it got stuck, so I cancelled it and tried it again and now the video won't share to Instagram properly, it says the file is not supported. I tried sharing the same file onto my cloud and downloading it onto my PC from there and the video is corrupted, so from what I can see is the SDR converted video file outputted by the gallery/video player app got corrupted during conversion and is useless as a converted video, but the original HDR10+ video in gallery is still fine and I can watch it in the Gallery app, but I can't RE-convert it as the gallery/video player app thinks it is already converted and if I try to share it, it just shares it fine without trying to convert it (again, as it thinks it has already converted it).
I double checked the original video file by downloading it onto my PC and since my monitor is not a HDR monitor, the video plays all washed out, showing that the video is still indeed a HDR10+ file.
I think my main question then is: where are these converted SDR videos actually stored on the phone? If the gallery/video app is converting these video files to SDR to be shared, are they stored somewhere? Or is it some kind of look-up table applied to the video file by the Gallery/Video player app and then shared out (but the original is still untouched as a file)?
I even tried clearing my cache in all the apps to see if it will re-convert the video but nope, as far the app is concerned, the video has already been converted.
Try converting another vid. May be just that one is mistagged. Clear data too if clearing cache doesn't get it done and my favorite cure; try clearing the system cache.
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Try converting another vid. May be just that one is mistagged. Clear data too if clearing cache doesn't get it done and my favorite cure; try clearing the system cache.
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Other videos are fine, it was just that one video! I tried clearing cache, didn't work, so I'll try to clear data on the Gallery and video player app. If that doesn't work then I'll try clearing the system cache.
So no one knows where these converted files are stored or whether it is just some kind of lookup table applied to the file to convert to SDR? Surely if I am converting hundreds of videos, it should be taking up space on the phone's storage?!
Ah! I cleared the Gallery app's data (because clearing cache didn't work) and it reset the Gallery app and now I can convert that video file again and it works now! So the metadata or converted data is stored by the Gallery app somehow...
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Ah! I cleared the Gallery app's data (because clearing cache didn't work) and it reset the Gallery app and now I can convert that video file again and it works now! So the metadata or converted data is stored by the Gallery app somehow...
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Yah. I was fearing it was the maybe video's metadata that was screwed up...
I really don't know how people who don't play with their Androids get by.
It's unnerving how easily Androids sometimes seem to pick up bad habits out of the blue. A lot of bugware out there.
Usually it's a simple fix if you play with it for a bit.
I loathe the "techies" who always fall back on the hard reset option in a blink of an eye rather than actually trying to find the issue.
I've had a lot of trouble with photo gallery apps since migrating to the Note 10+, you're not alone.
I don't use Samsung's... the native one worked so much better on my stupid S4+.
Progress? MS style maybe... I had to replace many of the Samsung apps that use to work fine on the S4+ with 3rd party ones to get the functionality I needed.
One of Samsung's subtle failings.
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Yah. I was fearing it was the maybe video's metadata that was screwed up...
I really don't know how people who don't play with their Androids get by.
It's unnerving how easily Androids sometimes seem to pick up bad habits out of the blue. A lot of bugware out there.
Usually it's a simple fix if you play with it for a bit.
I loathe the "techies" who always fall back on the hard reset option in a blink of an eye rather than actually trying to find the issue.
I've had a lot of trouble with photo gallery apps since migrating to the Note 10+, you're not alone.
I don't use Samsung's... the native one worked so much better on my stupid S4+.
Progress? MS style maybe... I had to replace many of the Samsung apps that use to work fine on the S4+ with 3rd party ones to get the functionality I needed.
One of Samsung's subtle failings.
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I know what you mean! I'm always fiddling around with my phone's settings. This feature of converting HDR to SDR videos bugged me for a while as I never knew how exactly it did it (coming from a PC video editing world, files obviously need to be stored somewhere and outputted somewhere if they are being converted) so it seems like the converted files are somehow stored inside the Gallery app, which is a bit strange but it would explain why once a video has been converted, it never needs converting again if you share it more than once (unless you clear the data like I just did now!). But I've had this phone since August 2019 and this is the first time the conversion messed up somehow...
I never liked the default Samsung gallery apps before, this is the first time I actually use it because I actually find the Gallery app on the Note 10+ to be half decent as it integrates with the video player, the conversion etc... and also the pics and videos actually look kind of decent in this app vs past apps, but in the past, on my S3 and Note 4, I've always used QuickPic as my gallery app (until they got bought out and went downhill from there). The only thing I miss on this default Gallery app is when you're scrolling through a lot of images and videos, on other apps if you hold the scrolling sidebar and scroll, it will bring up the date of the file so you know how far back you are scrolling (sometimes I need to go back to last year or even further back depending on the folder of pics I'm looking at) but the Samsung Gallery app doesn't highlight the date so you just have to find the file without help...
I use DV Gallery a lot. No ads.
Like the options it has for files it shows and more importantly ones it doesn't. Scanner images aren't what I want to see in my photo browser.
My biggest issue is with imported pic folders I loss the picture order. It's maddening. I have thousands of images with no easy way to restore them in date taken sequential order.
My PC based Canon apps can probably do it, maybe... stupid Android!!!
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I use DV Gallery a lot. No ads.
Like the options it has for files it shows and more importantly ones it doesn't. Scanner images aren't what I want to see in my photo browser.
My biggest issue is with imported pic folders I loss the picture order. It's maddening. I have thousands of images with no easy way to restore them in date taken sequential order.
My PC based Canon apps can probably do it, maybe... stupid Android!!!
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Ah yeah, frustrating! I know QuickPic used to be able to "fix" the date (although sometimes temporarily) and sort it in date taken sequential order. Doesn't the default Gallery app sort by date taken order? There's never one perfect app that covers all needs! I feel your pain.