Blurry thumbnails in the gallery - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Just upgraded to 4.1.2 and noticed that the thumbs in the gallery are very blurry. Anyone else?

Care to share a screen shot?
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Is that your 1st time viewing the gallery since you upgraded?

The stock gallery is utter crap. I stopped using it from the moment they introduced it in the first Note2 android update.
Use Sony's Album or Gallery JB+ from the market.

Maybe yes ihave the same feeling . Have you also updated with odin without wipe?

Found out what's the problem : the thumbnails are sized to be seen in landscape mode. In landscape mode the folder's column is on the left and the pics thumbs are lined up in 4 columns. In portrait mode the same thumbs are used, but this time in a single column. The small image are enlarged to fit the wider size of the column, thus they look blurry. If you look at the thumbs in landscape mode they are perfect, when you look at them in portrait mode they are blurry. Samsung should have made the thumbs the size of the one column view and use the same one smallered in landscape view .
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So sick and tired of wallpaper cropping!!!!!

There has got to be a way to set a damn picture as a wallpaper without having to crop it.. I just want a regular pic as the wallpaper. Period. Like I could do 5 years ago with my damn A900 for christs sake!!
Has anybody figured out a root way or adb way or any OTHER way other than downloading aweful apps that crash every other day???????
BTW, I'm running CM6..
Are you pulling the edges of the frame on the picture?
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? I don't know what that means so I would say no...
Swyped from my 2.2 CM6F EVO
The frame in the pic...expand it?
Usually put the phone in landscape and use the left and right edges to expand. Should work. If that's not what you were saying I apologize.
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_Cooze_ said:
There has got to be a way to set a damn picture as a wallpaper without having to crop it.. I just want a regular pic as the wallpaper. Period. Like I could do 5 years ago with my damn A900 for christs sake!!
Has anybody figured out a root way or adb way or any OTHER way other than downloading aweful apps that crash every other day???????
BTW, I'm running CM6..
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Pictures has to be cropped, but you can massively expand the crop box.
I was so frustrated with my low-res crop until I discovered that you can expand the crop box to 800 x 480 resolutions.
conqu1stador said:
The frame in the pic...expand it?
Usually put the phone in landscape and use the left and right edges to expand. Should work. If that's not what you were saying I apologize.
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jerryparid said:
Pictures has to be cropped, but you can massively expand the crop box.
I was so frustrated with my low-res crop until I discovered that you can expand the crop box to 800 x 480 resolutions.
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Yeah no I don't know.. When I choose the pic from the gallery, it comes up, with a crop box, but landscape or portait I can only drag the crop box so big (which is only half the photo) So say I take a pic of my truck.. I cant have the whole picture just like it looks in the gallery.. I can only have some of the picture.. then once cropped and you click "set" it expands it even more... so damn frustrating....
Hmm...never tried it with an actual photo. >.<
Are you taking the pic in landscape mode so you have a wider pic to work with? (<-- silly question, I know >.< x2)
I noticed on my friends phone he had taken a cool pic with in portrait mode, so when he went to set it he could only do so much with it.
Have never had any issues using another pic/wp and using it all.
Could always go with illogic's reasoning as well, below
If your picture was of the correct aspect ratio, you wouldn't have to crop it. The default wallpaper in sense ROMs is 960 x 800. Photoshop the image you want to 6:5 and it'll work.
conqu1stador said:
Hmm...never tried it with an actual photo. >.<
Are you taking the pic in landscape mode so you have a wider pic to work with? (<-- silly question, I know >.< x2)
I noticed on my friends phone he had taken a cool pic with in portrait mode, so when he went to set it he could only do so much with it.
Have never had any issues using another pic/wp and using it all.
Could always go with illogic's reasoning as well, below
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illogic6 said:
If your picture was of the correct aspect ratio, you wouldn't have to crop it. The default wallpaper in sense ROMs is 960 x 800. Photoshop the image you want to 5:6 and it'll work.
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I've tried downloaded .jpg's and camera pics.. I can't get either to work right.. I tried resizing the pic to 960x800 in photoshop.. save it.. put it back on the sd card, open gallery, choose the pic, crop box still comes up and still can't choose the whole pic within the crop box.. I'm not on a sense rom.. running cm6 final...
This was happening with my mom's Droid X. It was very frusterating. I know what you're talking about. Even though you crop a certain portion (albeit not all of the pic you want but you finally get to apoint where you'll settle) it blows the picture up even more and crops off more of the picture.
I don't know what the problem is yet, but I suggested to my mom to put on a higher resolution photo (she initially copied it from FB) and see what happens.
use wallpaper set and save from the market, it lets you keep the native res on the wallpaper
I just use 3d gallery. No crop
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_Cooze_ said:
I've tried downloaded .jpg's and camera pics.. I can't get either to work right.. I tried resizing the pic to 960x800 in photoshop.. save it.. put it back on the sd card, open gallery, choose the pic, crop box still comes up and still can't choose the whole pic within the crop box.. I'm not on a sense rom.. running cm6 final...
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If you used photoshop and created a 960x800 jpg, you should not have any cropping. Again, you are doing it wrong if you still get cropping. With a 960x800 picture, load it into wallpaper and you are given the crop box. long press on any of the sides, then expand to fill the whole picture. I have never had a problem with that.
If you are using pictures taken with the camera on the phone, there will be a small amount of cropping, because those pictures are not the same resolution that the wallpaper is. Especially if you take a landscape picture, you will have to crop a lot out.

[Q] Inverted FFC pictures?

I was testing out the FFC on my Telus Galaxy S II and when I take a picture with it, I see the animation and the picture go to the bottom left corner, and then the little preview of the picture becomes flipped. When I tap on the picture to view in the Gallery, the picture itself is mirrored.
Is anybody noticing this? Is there a setting to flip it back?
Thanks!
Lol. I noticed this also. It actually "corrects" the pick. I took a pic and the saved preview pick flipped. But I noticed I had writing in the background. It is fine in the flipped pic but in the main display it's backwards this the flip.
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Lol. I noticed this also. It actually "corrects" the pick. I took a pic and the saved preview pick flipped. But I noticed I had writing in the background. It is fine in the flipped pic but in the main display it's backwards this the flip.
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Not exactly sure how to fix this, if it's even possible to fix it. Haha.
I've noticed that every pic I take while holding the phone in portrait mode is sideways. I think Samsung intended for people to hold the phone sideways to take pics, which I find dumb.
That's really odd.. I wonder if there is some sort of photo software for the phone that can be used to flip them back?
You can rotate photos with the built in gallery app, if that's what you mean...
kabuk1 said:
You can rotate photos with the built in gallery app, if that's what you mean...
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I know you can rotate them in the stock Gallery app, but I wonder if you can flip them on a horizontal axis, if you know what I mean. That way, an "inverted" photo could be flipped right side up.
It works ok, when it flips it corrects it, when using the front camera its like looking in the mirror, like your right hand looks like its ur left hand, but once you take the pic it flips it and fixes it
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how to display filmstrip mode in photo gallery

Hi all:
By fluke of chance, there was only once that managed to somehow get my photos in gallery to arrange itself in a horizontal straight line, like a filmstrip. (I enter the photo gallery by going into camera, and then tapping on the photos to view my past taken photos.)
Does anyone know what I am talking about, and what is the finger gesture or method to get the app to display my camera photos in a filmstrip mode? thanks!!
When you're in the gallery and have the picture in landscape, swipe left or right several times quickly to scroll the pictures along like a "film strip". The picture that it stops on will automatically fill the screen. Oh, and you do not need to access the gallery via the camera, this will also work by entering the gallery directly.
ah, it works! thanks so much! I found that quickly swiping about 3 times will do the trick. and it also works in portrait mode too!

[Q] camera problems

When i open the camera, the screen turns sideways, but the image from the aplication stand upright. why is that?
tomicop said:
When i open the camera, the screen turns sideways, but the image from the aplication stand upright. why is that?
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If when in camera mode you rotate the screen and the icons twist?, it means they are just positioned that way, giving the impression that the app has actually changed from landscape to portrait or vice versa but its always taking pictures right side up.
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If when in camera mode you rotate the screen and the icons twist?, it means they are just positioned that way, giving the impression that the app has actually changed from landscape to portrait or vice versa but its always taking pictures right side up.
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and how could i get back to landscape or vice versa?
justlovejoy said:
If when in camera mode you rotate the screen and the icons twist?, it means they are just positioned that way, giving the impression that the app has actually changed from landscape to portrait or vice versa but its always taking pictures right side up.
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Look. I just took this print screen. In app, the image was right side up, after i took the print screen the image look like this. When i was in app, the image was right side up and the notifications bar was on the side
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justlovejoy said:
If when in camera mode you rotate the screen and the icons twist?, it means they are just positioned that way, giving the impression that the app has actually changed from landscape to portrait or vice versa but its always taking pictures right side up.
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I think there is a problem
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tomicop said:
Look. I just took this print screen. In app, the image was right side up, after i took the print screen the image look like this. When i was in app, the image was right side up and the notifications bar was on the side
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Correct but i think it may have to do with your screencap app. or just basic method to keep aspect ratio at its max regardless of device angle?
looking at the screen captured, although the notification bar is landscape, the writing is portrait(right side up according to ). if by some chance the camera app was made for landscape mode and having portrait as a rotation feature it still takes pictures right side up, even if taken from the 270 degree rotation of the screen. so my question is where is the camera problems? what besides your screencap of your camera app ready to take a picture showing a rotated notification bar. how about this? when you enter camera is phone rotated? and also what of this screencap app? who makes it?

Setting Wallpapers

Hi guys! So here's the deal. When I try to set a wallpaper from my gallery I have basically two choices.
1. It fits in landscape but gets chopped off top and bottom in portrait.
2. It fits in portrait but is very zoomed in in landscape.
I want it to be full picture in landscape without zooming but also completely fill in portrait. I know it's possible because the stock wallpaper behave exactly how I imagine it. Why not my own pictures? Is there an app for that?
Simple live wallpaper. Download it and problem solved. You should search for a solution first before posting a new topic. Good luck
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Or use square wallpapers. Preferably 2560x2560 wallpapers.
That way no black bars when using protrait

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