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When someone calls me or even when I place a call....why is it that the pix resolution looks crappy. How can I get to look better. I'm using pictures I take from my phone and its 8 megapixel. Is there a solution for this. Thanks in advance.
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jessegio34 said:
When someone calls me or even when I place a call....why is it that the pix resolution looks crappy. How can I get to look better. I'm using pictures I take from my phone and its 8 megapixel. Is there a solution for this. Thanks in advance.
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I would like to know this too!
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It has to do with having your contacts synced through Google. Once you set the picture and it syncs for some reason it lowers the picture resolution. If you turn contact sync off and reset the picture to the contact it will stay in good quality. Why it lowers the resolution I have no idea.
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Because it uploads the picture to Google, which converts it to a very small size, so if you get a new phone, Rom, whatever and you sun your contacts it won't take forever to download all the pics, so if sync is on your using googles pic that was uploaded to the server. Another way around this without turning sync off is to go into the people app, then pic the contact, then change it from google, to phone, of course, if your phone breaks any contacts you have set to phone that have never been set to Google will not be there when you get your new phone, but, there is a way around that also, you can export your contact to a file on your SD card, so as long as your SD card is ok, you can then import them from that to your new phone. To be extra safe, you can copy that backup file from your SD card to your computer so if a tractor runs over your phone and even destroys your card, you'll still have a backup, hide you've enjoyed readin this lengthy answer as much as I have writing it, I'm REALLY bored...
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I was reading some comments over at Rootwiz and discovered an app from the Android market called HaxSync.
It sync's your facebook contacts with the Contact list on your phone. It also provides pictures next to your contacts along with status updates like what Google+ does.
Its friggin awesome I can finally sync facebook to the phone properly.
Please dont flame me if this is common knowledge, just thought I would share it with people that didnt know. And of course, some custom Roms include FB sync but this does not require root.
Yep. can only confirm that. I do not want to use a custom rom and this app syncs my facbook contacts pretty well.
I worked great for me too but the battery usage made it impossible to keep, was using 20% of my battery a day!
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I worked great for me too but the battery usage made it impossible to keep, was using 20% of my battery a day!
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They fixed that problem with an update. It now only does that the first time you sync and only periodically checks for updates. Mine doesn't even register anymore.
it also uses higher quality photos. I synced it then turned auto sync off. Just manually sync it now every now and again.
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Does it come with an option that allows you set how often it checks for updates?
Paid version only, boo. I pay for plenty of things, but not facebook contact sync.
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Does it come with an option that allows you set how often it checks for updates?
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Yeah it does. I chose to sync every 7 days.
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I've been using SyncMyPix to sync my FB contact photos...the photos downloaded with SyncMyPix are high res.
Has anyone compared the quality of the photos from HaxSync with SyncMyPix? I would be interested to know...
bekyndnunwind said:
I've been using SyncMyPix to sync my FB contact photos...the photos downloaded with SyncMyPix are high res.
Has anyone compared the quality of the photos from HaxSync with SyncMyPix? I would be interested to know...
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256x256px vs. 96x96px
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256x256px vs. 96x96px
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Is it any higher res than the facebook sync in the new ROMs though ?
Ive paid for the HaxSync app but havent used it since moving to a ROM with FB sync built in.....
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Is it any higher res than the facebook sync in the new ROMs though ?
Ive paid for the HaxSync app but havent used it since moving to a ROM with FB sync built in.....
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I don't know about whatever rom you are on, but AOKP syncs fairly low resolution Facebook pictures. HaxSync synced nice, high-res pictures but as with another person here, the battery draw was undesirable so I just stuck with the rom's sync. I might start using it again if it has really gotten better about eating a battery up though.
1 euro well spent. Excellent. A little contact joining where the names are widely different in Facebook, Twitter and Google Contacts and all is done, now with great pictures!
Solidly recommended.
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It also allows you to sync only over WIFI, if data is a problem for you.
I'm not sure how well mine is working, because some contacts are sync'd to facebook, others are sync'd to HaxSync. Some contacts have high res images, others are extremely blurry.
HaxSync is supposed to have facial recognition to center the pic around the face.....but I don't find that that works for me.
Does it for anybody else? Overall, I really like it
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HaxSync is supposed to have facial recognition to center the pic around the face.....but I don't find that that works for me.
Does it for anybody else? Overall, I really like it
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Its appears to be working for me. One of my contacts has a headshot as her profile pic. The Facebook thumbnail is the one she chooses, which is centered properly. The Haxsync one is centered on her eyes, which cuts off the rest of her face.
Not much I can do about that, I guess. People should have better facebook pictures.
Agree. It's awesome.
Nice. I'll check this out.
Awesome. None of the ROMs with Facebook sync would sync the photos for me. This is working flawlessly.
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Haxsync is nice, I just wonder how we could backup the manual contact link when moving to a new rom though.
All has been working fine on my EVO4G running MIKG 3.1 until tonight... I looked at the phone and it said it found some contact links. they looked like ones I had already linked but I linked them again. Now, some of the contacts (ones that need to be relinked), show a blank facebook contact photo. Just the generic silhouette of the face. I unlinked and re-linked and re-sync'd the contacts.. nothing.. some are fine and show the contact photo with the facebook symbol. I checked on my PC to see if maybe the person removed their photo, but it is there.
Any ideas????
Anyone? I just tried syncing using Facebook app. Same issue. some contracts pulled photos and others not. Ideas?
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Hey,
in order to get your contact photos to sync you need to use htc sense the app wont do anything man, and if that doesnt work it might be a glitch so try wiping your cache dalvik and flashing the rom again. let me know if it works, but that just might be a bug between your evo and the rom bro,
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Hey,
in order to get your contact photos to sync you need to use htc sense the app wont do anything man, and if that doesnt work it might be a glitch so try wiping your cache dalvik and flashing the rom again. let me know if it works, but that just might be a bug between your evo and the rom bro,
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The app does sync. It adds to my accounts and sync. The app filled in some missing photos which Facebook for sense left blank. I read elsewhere that others have this issue too...
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You can try using the app SyncMyPix (I think it's all one word like that, could be wrong). I used it in the past when I had issues on CM7 with Facebook contacts.
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You can try using the app SyncMyPix (I think it's all one word like that, could be wrong). I used it in the past when I had issues on CM7 with Facebook contacts.
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Tried that. That works but it added photos to my Google contracts not exchange contacts
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I recently updated to the latest firmware, but I flashed the ROM posted in the development section. I had set pictures for a couple of my contacts, and after updating my phone and letting Google sync my contacts back onto my phone I noticed that the pictures will not stretch to fix the area for pics when making a call.
I should say that some pics are stretched. But some aren't. None of the photos that are used to set the contact pic is stored on the phone.
Google doesn't save it in hd when you sync.
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So how can I get the phone to display the pic in HD?
If it's only a couple of contacts then you can do what I do and make a folder on your SD card with the pictures of the contacts you want and then set them again every time you go to a new ROM. Get the pictures however you got them in the first place, or maybe go on their facebook or something. Depending on how many you want to set, it should only take a few minutes.
If you use fb you can get hax sync and it will use hd pics and you can back it up to your Google contacts
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Everytime you flash a new rom this will happen. I used to just go one by one reassigning pics, until I found this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jgarrison.hdcontacts
Just assign pics using the app and after you assign all the pics go into the settings and do a backup. After that when ever you flash a rom juat restore the pics using the app.
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The Android Gallery app data (Settings/Device Storage/Applications/Gallery/Data) in our GN8 keeps growing. It gets about 50Mb larger each time the tab is turned on or restarted. It doesn't grow while the tablet or Gallery application is in use and overall data usage doesn't increase either.
Here's what I've found...so far:
* Wi-Fi data consumption does not increase. This would be important if this were happening on a smartphone...3G or 4G data cap considerations.
* Sync is turned OFF...everywhere. All syncs are turned off for Google and Samsung accounts, email, internet, etc.
* Google+ and Picassa apps have been turned OFF. Accounts were never created for either one.
* The only Gallery settings (Wi-Fi OFF) are for Tag Buddy and Face Tag. Both have been turned OFF.
* Clearing the Gallery data starts the process all over again. Each subsequent cold boot or restart of the tab results in about a 50Mb increase of the Gallery data...NOT Wi-Fi data consumption. Clearing the Gallery data also resets Tab Buddy and Face Tag settings to default.
I'm starting to think this is some sort of Google-related Gallery pix auto-backup feature. But considering those apps that may be affected by syncing or backing-up of photos are turned OFF, why is this happening at all???
If this behavior is not normal (as designed), how can it be stopped/prevented?
Any advice or recommendations are greatly appreciated.
What exactly do you mean?
As in you clear data then restart the tablet and 50 MB appears? Every time you restart, so just to understand 0 data .... restart 50MB.... restart then 50 + 50 =100 and adding 50MB every restart?
As far as Google+ account goes I believe this is done automatically.
Check out these sites.
http://www.iwebsoftsolution.com/thr...ur-android-gallery-app-is-using-so-much-data/
http://lifehacker.com/disable-google-photo-sync-to-clean-up-your-gallery-app-1148620893
http://android.appstorm.net/how-to/internet/how-to-remove-picasa-albums-from-your-gallery/
Hoping this helps
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The Android Gallery app data (Settings/Device Storage/Applications/Gallery/Data) in our GN8 keeps growing. It gets about 50Mb larger each time the tab is turned on or restarted. It doesn't grow while the tablet or Gallery application is in use and overall data usage doesn't increase either.
Here's what I've found...so far:
* Wi-Fi data consumption does not increase. This would be important if this were happening on a smartphone...3G or 4G data cap considerations.
* Sync is turned OFF...everywhere. All syncs are turned off for Google and Samsung accounts, email, internet, etc.
* Google+ and Picassa apps have been turned OFF. Accounts were never created for either one.
* The only Gallery settings (Wi-Fi OFF) are for Tag Buddy and Face Tag. Both have been turned OFF.
* Clearing the Gallery data starts the process all over again. Each subsequent cold boot or restart of the tab results in about a 50Mb increase of the Gallery data...NOT Wi-Fi data consumption. Clearing the Gallery data also resets Tab Buddy and Face Tag settings to default.
I'm starting to think this is some sort of Google-related Gallery pix auto-backup feature. But considering those apps that may be affected by syncing or backing-up of photos are turned OFF, why is this happening at all???
If this behavior is not normal (as designed), how can it be stopped/prevented?
Any advice or recommendations are greatly appreciated.
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I replied to your earlier thread... My fix works well and cleared up the index cache with images.
Harjan112 said in a previous post:
What exactly do you mean? As in you clear data then restart the tablet and 50 MB appears? Every time you restart, so just to understand 0 data .... restart 50MB.... restart then 50 + 50 =100 and adding 50MB every restart?
Yup...that's exactly what's happening. At one time, the data size increased by about 50Mb each time the tab was started, restarted, rebooted. The "50Mb" number changes with the size of the Gallery. That is, if the Gallery has a ton of pictures in it, that 50Mb might be considerably larger. If the Gallery is reduced in number of images, the "add on" data level might be proportionally smaller. Yes, if the data is cleared and starts at 0 (zero), each successive start or restart increases the size of that data that is reported. I have never let the data increase go for any length of time to see if it eventually stops at the byte size of all images in the gallery. From what I can see, it can keep growing indefinitely. Driving me nuts.
I haven't taken the time to review the sites you included but I'll do that right now.
I might add at this time that the tablet IS NOT ROOTED. Consequently, other recommended "fixes" or installed apps could not be considered.
One other thing: we do not have a Google+ account. As a result, Google+ is not used and has been turned off.
Once again, thank you very much for following through with this.
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One other thing: we do not have a Google+ account. As a result, Google+ is not used and has been turned off.
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This quite frankly all depends off when you made the Google account, because Google started cramming Google+ down the throats of people that made new account and were not aware of this happening, same goes for me I never signed up for Google+ but when I looked to figure out the problem you are having I came to the conclusion that I had to my surprise Google+
I would go thru every setting/option in your Google account just to make sure.
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This quite frankly all depends off when you made the Google account, because Google started cramming Google+ down the throats of people that made new account and were not aware of this happening, same goes for me I never signed up for Google+ but when I looked to figure out the problem you are having I came to the conclusion that I had to my surprise Google+
I would go thru every setting/option in your Google account just to make sure.
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You might be on to something. We bought the tab in July (2013) equipped with Android 4.1.2 and setup the Google account upon initial startup. A few months later, the 4.2.2 upgrade was crammed down my throat then I started noticing the strange/weird stuff. If my memory is correct, stuff relative to Google+ and Picasa started showing up. Picasa, in particular came up as one of the choices when selecting wallpaper along with the Gallery choices. About that time, I turned off Google+ and Picasa having never setup accounts for either one of them.
Being an Android novice, I started thinking that even though I dropped both Google+ and Picasa they might have retained their default settings that may to this day be affecting how the Gallery works. That being said, keep in mind that I have never seen any spike in Wi-Fi data usage which would have (IMO) indicated the Gallery might be trying to upload pictures to online accounts (Google+ and/or Picasa). The only thing that keeps getting bigger is: Settings > Applications manager > All > Gallery > Data. I believe that some sort of unnecessary caching is going on and I have no idea where the files that are being created are being stored (not rooted).
I made sure that the Google account has EVERYTHING sync-associated (all check boxes) UNCHECKED...from day one. I've seen in more than one forum that there should have been a box to check/uncheck within the Google account settings for syncing pictures. Those suggestions might be for certain Samsung/Android cellphones. On our Note 8.0 there is no such box.
I'm sure I've left out some details but you've been really good at prying information out of me so I'm hoping you have more questions.
So...what do you think? Could the Google+ and/or Picasa accounts been setup without my knowledge? If so, should I go into them and turn everything off or has turning them off already done all that for me?
I'm starting to confuse myself.
EnzoS
EnzoS. said:
I believe that some sort of unnecessary caching is going on and I have no idea where the files that are being created are being stored (not rooted).
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Gallery caches & thumbnails can be found here "../mnt/sdcard/Android/data/com.sec.android.gallery3d" in My files.
Some folders like will be hidden.
So, change settings in your file manager or in system to display hidden files & folders.
As you suggested, I would indeed just try to log into Google+ and make sure everything is off/disabled, once you are sure disable Google+, and for picassa do the same procedure.
Also take a look at this site http://marcwillmore.com/2013/04/24/...d-albums-from-your-android-jellybean-gallery/ especially the part about "Cloud agent"
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@ EnzoS if everything else fails, go to your settings... gallery ... clear data and cache, then turn it off.
After you've done that go to the play store and get Quickpic that is IMO about the best gallery replacement that's out there and best off all it's FREE and AD FREE.
Here's a direct link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
Hoping it helps
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Harjan112 said:
@ EnzoS if everything else fails, go to your settings... gallery ... clear data and cache, then turn it off.
After you've done that go to the play store and get Quickpic that is IMO about the best gallery replacement that's out there and best off all it's FREE and AD FREE.
Here's a direct link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
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Harjan112: Thank you again for your suggestion. My next step will be exactly as you described. I've heard nothing negative about QuickPic and I can't wait to try it out. I do have one concern, however. I read somewhere, and I think it was in a not-so-recent post that warned about some form of conflict with the tab's camera. I think it said that if the stock Gallery was not available to view a recently-taken picture by tapping the little thumbnail in the lower-right corner of the camera UI, there was no way to quickly view a snapshot because this function might be tied exclusively to the stock Gallery. Have you heard anything in this regard or has the current version of QuickPic overcome this issue?
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I think it said that if the stock Gallery was not available to view a recently-taken picture by tapping the little thumbnail in the lower-right corner of the camera UI, there was no way to quickly view a snapshot because this function might be tied exclusively to the stock Gallery.
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This is correct, I guess that would be the only downfall.
Check out this camera app that could replace the stock camera, it does have the preview window and you can choose what app you want to use for previewing the pictures.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.almalence.opencam
Hoping this helps
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EnzoS. said:
Harjan112: Thank you again for your suggestion. My next step will be exactly as you described. I've heard nothing negative about QuickPic and I can't wait to try it out. I do have one concern, however. I read somewhere, and I think it was in a not-so-recent post that warned about some form of conflict with the tab's camera. I think it said that if the stock Gallery was not available to view a recently-taken picture by tapping the little thumbnail in the lower-right corner of the camera UI, there was no way to quickly view a snapshot because this function might be tied exclusively to the stock Gallery. Have you heard anything in this regard or has the current version of QuickPic overcome this issue?
EnzoS
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Well, I gave quickpic a try, still like the Gallery app the best on a tablet. The only way your going to be happy is to root and setup exposed with wanam module at the very minimum. I know, you do not want to void warranty, but you can root without flashing, and completely remove it as well.
Also, quickpic does create some sort of cache, though you can adjust what cache you want to some degree.
I did a side by side comparison with quickness and use, in some ways quickpic seems easier at finding what you want quickly, but the way I organized my media on SD and setup paths to point to them properly, makes both near equals. Though Gallery is faster at bringing up images when quickly scrolling, while both have caching disabled.
Not that I am pro Gallery, just I feel I am going backwards with non-tablet apps over stock.
If I were constantly battling over 500MB of cached images, which can be easily done if left stock, I would lean towards rooting over dealing with app shortcomings.
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Well, I gave quickpic a try, still like the Gallery app the best on a tablet. The only way your going to be happy is to root and setup exposed with wanam module at the very minimum. I know, you do not want to void warranty, but you can root without flashing, and completely remove it as well.
Also, quickpic does create some sort of cache, though you can adjust what cache you want to some degree.
I did a side by side comparison with quickness and use, in some ways quickpic seems easier at finding what you want quickly, but the way I organized my media on SD and setup paths to point to them properly, makes both near equals. Though Gallery is faster at bringing up images when quickly scrolling, while both have caching disabled.
Not that I am pro Gallery, just I feel I am going backwards with non-tablet apps over stock.
If I were constantly battling over 500MB of cached images, which can be easily done if left stock, I would lean towards rooting over dealing with app shortcomings.
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It's good to hear that you actually have experience with the app in question. So many forum responders have never even used a particular app or have encountered various issues but have opinions and recommendations anyway.
WRT my acceptance of the tab's performance, that's what I was initially looking to find out. Is this phenomenon of the Gallery's data "bloat" what is expected to be happening or do we have a problem that should be fixed? I believe you are saying that this is normal behavior. If so, I'm good with that and will periodically take steps to clean it up...as I have been doing for many months now. If this is not normal, that is, the size of the "data" should reach a plateau and stop growing, I want to do something about it. Otherwise, I'd be perfectly happy to accept it as SOP and move on. No need to go nuts over a non-issue (ha).
Like you, I'd prefer to use the apps that came with the device rather than be constantly looking for something that might be superior to or offer a couple more insignificant features. Although we don't like what they did with the appearance of the Gallery app when the 4.2.2 upgrade was forced down our throats, we're perfectly happy with the way it performs. We don't need anything capable of graphic manipulations on an 8" tablet that the wife uses primarily to play off-line games and to periodically check the weather radar and email. We're in our 60s and don't need another play toy (ha). When we need to perform any high intensity graphics or audio editing, we use the PC with a 22" HD monitor.
One last thing: please check out the screen dump I attached. So there's no more confusion, I have pointed to the reading on the Application Manager screen for the Gallery app that grows every time the tab is started or restarted. I trust we're on the same page with all this.
Very best...
EnzoS
I am actually using both apps I suggested here and not just put it on here without thinking that it might help you.
I hope you figure out what's wrong.
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I got it that you're using both the apps. Actually, that's probably the only way to see if it's gonna make a difference. I would never suggest that you're making a recommendation without actually thinking (knowing) that it would help the issue.
So...can I assume that you believe there is actually something wrong here or am I just complaining about something that is working properly but not necessarily up to my expectations? If this is the way it's supposed to work, I'm good with it. I'll leave it alone and go on to something new.
Were you able to view the image I attached?
What say you...oh wise one?
EnzoS
Where are the pictures located (internal or external SD card) and how many pictures are we talking?
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Everything is on internal SD. As an experiment, I took the number of pictures down to under 10. Right now, I loaded it up to 239 in 5 separate directories...EVERYTHING in the "Pictures" directory.
I just did a little experiment myself and transferred my pictures from my Note2 to my Note8, 600 some pics on external 64GB SD card, then turned my gallery back on to see what would happen here are some screenshots
Then did a restart
As you can see gallery data goes up but on quickpic it stays the same.
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Hi
I have the same problem but with a huge space 51 GB !!!!
And Google photos sync is off.
But also with this I still can install or uninstall apps without any problems.
I am using x note rom v5
am2010r said:
I have the same problem but with a huge space 51 GB !!!!
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Something doesn't look right at all.
The Note8 comes only in 2 "flavors" 16 or 32 GB internal memory!!!
Something is reporting the size wrong.
You could always give quickpic a try and see what happens.
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Harjan112 said:
I just did a little experiment myself and transferred my pictures from my Note2 to my Note8, 600 some pics on external 64GB SD card, then turned my gallery back on to see what would happen here are some screenshots
Then did a restart
As you can see gallery data goes up but on quickpic it stays the same.
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It looks as though our conversation has attracted (finally) others who might be having the same problem. Thank you for your 2 cents am2010r.
Harjan112: Is it correct that you loaded your Note 8.0 with a bunch more pictures, checked the "data" reading, it was 14.73, then you rebooted and it was 38.50??? If that's the case, it appears that yours is doing what mine is doing: the "data" reading increases (at whatever increment the system wants to) upon each boot/reboot.
If that's the case then I have to assume the system wants to do that and I'll accept it and move on.
Of course, I thank you very much for taking all your time to help me unravel this.
EnzoS