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MMS always shows as slide show even with one picture

With the default messaging application when i receive a mms it comes in as a slide show even though it is only one picture. If i open picture up and hit menu ,pause, the picture still goes away after a little while.
Why am i receiving a slide show when one picture is sent to me. I know i can use chomp or handcent but i would rather jut get this fixed.
Is it possible to stop slide shows or just the way things are on the phone?

I would like to know if there is a fix for this too.
Thank you

djfred500 said:
I would like to know if there is a fix for this too.
Thank you
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The fix is to replace the htc messing app with the standard android app. It's been a while since I did it but a google search will yield the instructions and the apk.
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So far i seen that happen in the beginning Also.. the reason it goes to slide show is cause there is a caption to the pic. Have the person or persons not write something and just send the pic.. it will come not as a slide show
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JSmurfy said:
So far i seen that happen in the beginning Also.. the reason it goes to slide show is cause there is a caption to the pic. Have the person or persons not write something and just send the pic.. it will come not as a slide show
sent from evo ....
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Actually that is not totally true... I have recieved plenty of messages with captions... I have seemed to narrow it down to
1. Iphones like to create slideshows for us. (Randomly at that)
2. The file format of the picture..

masterfuel said:
Actually that is not totally true... I have recieved plenty of messages with captions... I have seemed to narrow it down to
1. Iphones like to create slideshows for us. (Randomly at that)
2. The file format of the picture..
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Hmmmm that's when it does it for me in messages to my peeps.. good to know tho..
sent from evo ....

baknblack said:
The fix is to replace the htc messing app with the standard android app. It's been a while since I did it but a google search will yield the instructions and the apk.
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Thank you doing a search i found the Mms.apk file removed old one and installed new one and it worked out just great.
@masterfuel:
I get what your saying, that might be true in some cases, but i have tested this method with only Androids sending me the pictures.
Its been from DroidX, Evo, both bring up a slide show, but after doing what "baknblack" suggested actually turned out to be a better solution.
If anyone needs the fix here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846231

Thanks for all the feedback on this. I have been getting a slide show for pretty much everything. From android, blackberry and iPhone. Maybe it has something to do with the captions people are adding like someone mentioned. But it is annoying that u can't stop the slide show. If u click on picture there is a pause button but it starts again by itself. I will try that basic Android fix and see how that works out. I am guessing u push file to system/app and delete the old one.... whatever that is called. I have to see if there are instructions in the other thread linked here.
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awesome .. i put on the new MMS application and the MMS pictures are right in the chat .. no more slide show .. u guys are the best !!

@djfred500 glad it worked for you.
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Is it just me?
I can't send MMS messages. It force closes!

iTouch24 said:
Is it just me?
I can't send MMS messages. It force closes!
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That's what mine was doing. Installing the vanilla app fixed it. It was then I noticed the side effect of the sideshow being gone.
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baknblack said:
That's what mine was doing. Installing the vanilla app fixed it. It was then I noticed the side effect of the sideshow being gone.
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the sense mms application was working fine ... i installed the vanilla mms app to get rid of the slide show ... but now with the vanilla mms application ... i cannot send MMS messages...
if i try to compose a mms from the picture gallery the message shows up blank with no picture attached .. if i add the picture manually and then try and send the app force closes ...

I used to have this issue also, I remember searching for a fix and then found that it was just the messaging app, downloaded handcent and have never looked back, just remember to disable the notifications on the stock app and then you have a fully functional, kick ass, text messaging app.

bossjeeves said:
I used to have this issue also, I remember searching for a fix and then found that it was just the messaging app, downloaded handcent and have never looked back, just remember to disable the notifications on the stock app and then you have a fully functional, kick ass, text messaging app.
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i was just testing out gosms as well ... doesnt seem as polished as handcent though

iTouch24 said:
i was just testing out gosms as well ... doesnt seem as polished as handcent though
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Something got borked on mine on new years eve I was sending some pics and it hung. I know the network was jammed that night and i think the thing got itself into some state it couldn't recover from. Like having a file that didn't close properly or something.

This happens to me as well...with handcent....HATE IT!

[Q] Anyone else's gallery crashing/FC when sliding to view pictures?

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?

Petrovski80 said:
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.

[Q] Default Gallery app

Has anyone had any problems with the Samsung Gallery app freezing or being unresponsive? On mine, (no root, all stock) whether you go straight to the app or view a picture through it, it just freezes. I'm not able to select pictures, zoom or anything except for scrolling.... I can scroll up and down, left and right to view more pictures but that is it.
I know downloading another gallery app is a kind of fix, I just want something that will run vanilla with the camera app.
Thanks in advance!

I don't have this problem, but had other problems before. I've tried so many things to fix my problem but to no avail, so I just went ahead and reset the phone, my problem was fixed. I've been using the quickpic app for some time now and never looked back to the stock Samsung.
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Yeah i sometimes get this problem
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I haven't used my stock gallery in any of my phones for the last 3 years. Quickpic is always much faster.
Sent from Flip's Galaxy S4

Downloading a new app is definitely a fix, although it's still very annoying to me when switching in between the camera and the gallery app. I still haven't found a solution even from doing a factory reset. I found a video that shows exactly what it's doing (can't post link yet, but if you search "s4 unresponsive gallery" into Youtube, it's the first video)
Is there a way to get the gallery/camera apk to resinstall it? Any other suggestions?
Thanks!

Sony Gallery App sucks

At least for me. I loved being able to snap a pic with my big camera, have the EyeFi upload it and sync it to Picasa, and have the picture in my JB stock gallery on the Nexus 4 automatically. The Sony Gallery will pull the Picasa images, but I have to manually tell it to refresh and it takes a LONG time.
Once the image is downloaded I can't share it from there, I have to download it and then go look for it and share it. It also downloads a small version of the image.
I was able to install the stock JB Gallery app but I was missing the components to sync Picasa. Still need to work on fixing that. Anyone use something that would make things better?

I don't know if this will help because it probably is quite obvious to you already, but have you tried using quickpic?

havanahjoe said:
At least for me. I loved being able to snap a pic with my big camera, have the EyeFi upload it and sync it to Picasa, and have the picture in my JB stock gallery on the Nexus 4 automatically. The Sony Gallery will pull the Picasa images, but I have to manually tell it to refresh and it takes a LONG time.
Once the image is downloaded I can't share it from there, I have to download it and then go look for it and share it. It also downloads a small version of the image.
I was able to install the stock JB Gallery app but I was missing the components to sync Picasa. Still need to work on fixing that. Anyone use something that would make things better?
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Use auto sync..It really work well..

JRBT24 said:
I don't know if this will help because it probably is quite obvious to you already, but have you tried using quickpic?
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Quickpic sucks on XZ/ZL, pictures not fullscreen and also with black bars

coolrevi said:
Use auto sync..It really work well..
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Auto sync meaning sync Google Photos under settings? That's enabled and I still have to manually refresh.
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DoubleYouPee said:
Quickpic sucks on XZ/ZL, pictures not fullscreen and also with black bars
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Oh that's not the way it's supposed to look? Haha. I had never used Quick Pic. It looks pretty good, but it doesn't have Picasa integration, so it doesn't add much value here.
I did find that I can pull the Picasa pictures more easily with Google +, but I still have to download them and then share them. It only shares to Google +. At least the resolution of the downloaded images is much better than what the Sony app gets and the pics are already synced when I open the app.
It looks like the Sony gallery does not use the Android sync service and pulls its own version of the images.
Sent from my C6506

hmmmmmm is there a way to arrange folders on the default gallery app? i mean by creating folders, organize the pictures taken on the folders, delet folders etc? ....

danieldp1990 said:
hmmmmmm is there a way to arrange folders on the default gallery app? i mean by creating folders, organize the pictures taken on the folders, delet folders etc? ....
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I don't think so

havanahjoe said:
I don't think so
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AHhhhh... i hate downloading 3rd party apps for things like that.... what i hate is that it shows all the pictures at once............ they are not separated by folders bahhhhhhhhhh..

danieldp1990 said:
AHhhhh... i hate downloading 3rd party apps for things like that.... what i hate is that it shows all the pictures at once............ they are not separated by folders bahhhhhhhhhh..
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Exactly my point, it is really annoying that it is showing all the images at once, including whatsapp images it is 1 big mess of images...

Someone over at Android Central pushed out the stock Nexus Gallery/Camera app from the new Samsung/HTC Nexus-ified devices. I just installed it and it works perfectly on my C6506, and Google+ Photos/Picasa is working like a charm. Gotta say I love the stock Nexus Gallery.
Give it a go.
http://www.androidcentral.com/get-photosphere-non-nexus-devices-google-edition-camera-app

spielnicht said:
Someone over at Android Central pushed out the stock Nexus Gallery/Camera app from the new Samsung/HTC Nexus-ified devices. I just installed it and it works perfectly on my C6506, and Google+ Photos/Picasa is working like a charm. Gotta say I love the stock Nexus Gallery.
Give it a go.
http://www.androidcentral.com/get-photosphere-non-nexus-devices-google-edition-camera-app
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That is AWESOME! Downloading now. Thanks for posting the link!
Edit: Installed and it works great. Now to change the default app for the camera button and disable the shutter sound (I'm also not a big fan of the Sony camera app)

Great! The only downside is that we won't be able to make use of the Bravia Engine, but oh well.

spielnicht said:
Great! The only downside is that we won't be able to make use of the Bravia Engine, but oh well.
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Eh, I have it turned off. Then I unlocked my bootloader and even though I backed up my TA partition, I haven't bothered to replace it.

spielnicht said:
Someone over at Android Central pushed out the stock Nexus Gallery/Camera app from the new Samsung/HTC Nexus-ified devices. I just installed it and it works perfectly on my C6506, and Google+ Photos/Picasa is working like a charm. Gotta say I love the stock Nexus Gallery.
Give it a go.
http://www.androidcentral.com/get-photosphere-non-nexus-devices-google-edition-camera-app
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This app also shows my whatsapp images folder even though it has .nomedia.
Also I can't choose which folders to show... why is it so hard to add these simpel features

DoubleYouPee said:
This app also shows my whatsapp images folder even though it has .nomedia.
Also I can't choose which folders to show... why is it so hard to add these simpel features
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They want all of your Photos not only the ones you choose, I mean in case you want to use the sync option, which is (would be) a nice feature.
Would be very easy, I think, to add options like "Folders to sync"...."Folders to show"....and something like that, that makes the User the Owner of the Stuff
But these are Questions like, why we don't get an option to fully Access our Phones "Root" by Clickin......is all about the Money they make by Advertising "non Know Users" and so on....FTI.
We are all buying industrial Money making Machines for a lot of Bucks....because we love Tech!

Great, just installed and totally in love with my new gallery
Thank you!

MrCrazy said:
Great, just installed and totally in love with my new gallery
Thank you!
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+1.
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[Q] Slow Camera Gallery

Anyone else seeing a really long lag when trying to load the gallery from the stock camera app? Checking a shot takes way too long; easily 5-6 seconds. It's driving me a bit nuts. And yes, I could use a different camera app, but the stock on is the camera it loads from the lockscreen, which I actually do a lot. Anyone else experiencing this, or possibly know how to fix it?

chrisliphart said:
Anyone else seeing a really long lag when trying to load the gallery from the stock camera app? Checking a shot takes way too long; easily 5-6 seconds. It's driving me a bit nuts. And yes, I could use a different camera app, but the stock on is the camera it loads from the lockscreen, which I actually do a lot. Anyone else experiencing this, or possibly know how to fix it?
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I experience the same.. and I don't have a resolution.
I just figured it was software properly releasing the hardware to something.. drivers letting go of whatever they hardware they were holding on to.
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Yeah, same issue for me as well. Big bummer.

The resolution is this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder

WizeGuyDezignz said:
The resolution is this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
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This is a great app, but is there a way to make this the default gallery? Can't figure how to, the normal gallery still loads from the camera app (painfully slow) and i haven't seen an option to change, thanks.
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NYYFan02 said:
This is a great app, but is there a way to make this the default gallery? Can't figure how to, the normal gallery still loads from the camera app (painfully slow) and i haven't seen an option to change, thanks.
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You are correct. I don't think you can make it the default gallery for the camera app sadly.

Love QuickPic- been using it since Note 2. I'm not seeing any lag though. I've got the pics going to the external sd card and it's a fast card- maybe card read/write speed matters here.
Another thought is maybe there's a file that's corrupted in the folder where the pics are.

I have found that if you have the option set to view picture or video after each shot it's almost instant, and the gallery loads very quick for me this way.

hanfordrob said:
I have found that if you have the option set to view picture or video after each shot it's almost instant, and the gallery loads very quick for me this way.
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That kind of works, but I don't want to have to review each picture and then go back to the camera each time. I have to believe that Samsung is working on this, as this is a huge consumer-facing issue, though I haven't heard much talk about it.

Have you tried QuickPic out? I know it doesn't load from the lockscreen but at least that will tell you if it's an issue with that app specifically. I was also thinking it might be card-related-- is your micro sd card a fast one?

Turning off online photo locations and using .nomedia files to stop the gallery from scanning unwanted folders helps too.
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I have found when changing the storage location to internal, rather than external, then snap a picture so that it will be the most recent, it loads up quicker
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illa215 said:
I have found when changing the storage location to internal, rather than external, then snap a picture so that it will be the most recent, it loads up quicker
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Well yes...because it doesn't have to scan your external SD card. Obviously anything saved to the internal will load faster.