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Gallery Doesn't seem to work correctly.

So I rooted my phone using visionary/gfree last night, used a rom for awhile n went back to my used to be (without the rom) and my gallery is all weird. The pictures are mixed in folders I didn't put them in and when I try messaging a picture to someone they are in the correct folders. And some won't even show when I go to gallery but will when I try messaging.

Anyone?
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This may sound a bit like overkill, but use AstroZip or some other file manager to move most -- if not all --of your pics into .zip files. Open the gallery and it should be empty. Then extract the .zips one folder at a time. I think you'll find that things go screwy after extracting a certaim set of files. This was one of the odd things I was dealing with when I found that mediaserver was killing my battery.
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Gallery and music help.

Hello everyone, this morning I went to check my phone and all my pictures and music is gone... I checked my sdcard and there all still there but they won't show up in gallery nor music player....help!...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm using build #41 cm7 if that makes any difference.....thx.

Try reflash of rom or use a stable one
dont send me pm's crying about how i hurt your feelings in a thread

Is there any .nomedia files or a . infront of the folder name? if there is, remove them and they should work again. Or you can try the media scanner in the development app.

Also if your like me and never turn your phone off. A simple step is to reboot the phone. Just something i often forget to do. Or try opening one up with a file explorer app then choose gallery or music app to open it with.
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If you've rooted, and have Dev Tools, use the "Media Scanner" option in that app. It'll re-read all your media on your SD card.

any success?

[MOD][EDIT][SOLVED][APK]Modified stock Gallery apk without picasa sync.

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Hi. Im wondering if there is a modified gallery apk floating around. I really hate picasa, with a passion. Even if it isnt the 3D gallery, I dont care. When I remove the gallery and use a third party viewer app, we cant set lock screen wallpapers. Thanks!
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Under Accounts and Sync|Google, uncheck the Sync Picasa Web Albums box and they wont show up in the Gallery.
My fav picture viewing app that I bring with me to every rom I run is QuickPic. Its super small and fast and does everything I want it to, including setting homescreen and lockscreen pics.
Check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hbGVuc3cuUGljRm9sZGVyIl0.
If you're referring to the fact that your email auto checks for new mail every 30 min. you can go into your email settings and set the frequency of checking email to "Never".

Imadroider said:
Under Accounts and Sync|Google, uncheck the Sync Picasa Web Albums box and they wont show up in the Gallery.
My fav picture viewing app that I bring with me to every rom I run is QuickPic. Its super small and fast and does everything I want it to, including setting homescreen and lockscreen pics.
Check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hbGVuc3cuUGljRm9sZGVyIl0.
If you're referring to the fact that your email auto checks for new mail every 30 min. you can go into your email settings and set the frequency of checking email to "Never".
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Remove the stock gallery and you can not set lock screen wallpapers, even with quikpic. Which Ive used on all of my devices. Looking to remove the picasa sync option altogether which you cant do unless you remove the 3d gallery, but then you cant set lock screen wallpapers. Hence the search for a modified stock gallery.
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I've never seen my email app use any inordinate amount of battery life as a result of it running in the background nor have I ever read a post of how someones stock email client is draining batt life. Is that whats happening to you?
And to avoid the issue of setting wallpapers with other apps, just don't remove the stock gallery app and the 3rd party apps you use should set wallpapers just fine. If you don't like the stock app, don't use it. But to remove it altogether sounds like its leading to problems.
Not sure what you mean by remove Picasa sync option altogether. Just uncheck the box and its done, no more syncing, or are you referring to removing the menu enrty/option altogether under Accounts and Sync|Google.
If so I guess I'll go now. It sounds like you want dev help from someone willing to work on code for you. Thats waaay outta my league.

Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for your phone blowing up, freezing, bootlooping, your partner leaving you or your cat dying. Make a nand.
I modified the stock Gallery apk so that I wouldnt have the "Sync Picasa" option under the accounts in "Accounts & Sync".
I really do not like having that option in there, so I solved my problem.
I have attached the Gallery apk to share if anyone else is as picky as I am.
I simply moved it to /system/app, overwriting or deleting the original, then fixed the permissions. I kept the original odex file. Rebooted and all is well.
Extract the zip/rar file and use the apk inside.
I hope some of you find this useful.

tailsthecat3 said:
Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for your phone blowing up, freezing, bootlooping, your partner leaving you or your cat dying. Make a nand.
I modified the stock Gallery apk so that I wouldnt have the "Sync Picasa" option under the accounts in "Accounts & Sync".
I really do not like having that option in there, so I solved my problem.
I have attached the Gallery apk to share if anyone else is as picky as I am.
I simply moved it to /system/app, overwriting or deleting the original, then fixed the permissions. I kept the original odex file. Rebooted and all is well.
Extract the zip/rar file and use the apk inside.
I hope some of you find this useful.
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did this...and now i dont have a gallery at all. i always use ES file explorer for system files and never have any issues

Make sure it's named correctly and fix the permissions. I'm on the latest ota, rooted. I use root explorer.
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tailsthecat3 said:
Make sure it's named correctly and fix the permissions. I'm on the latest ota, rooted. I use root explorer.
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permissions also set correctly, still no gallery tho

Success100 said:
permissions also set correctly, still no gallery tho
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You got me. I'm not a dev just a tinkerer. Be certain that it's named correctly, no spaces, perhaps at the beginning of the file name etc.. When you copy it to /system/app it should ask you if you want to overwrite the existing file. That'll tell you it's named correctly. Unless there is something else that you're missing, it should work, as it worked for me. I wish I could do it for you, man. I simply copied the apk from my sd external and pasted it into /system/app, fixed the permissions and rebooted. After the reboot, I confirmed the gallery worked then I cleared cache and dalvik just for the heck of it. Really sorry it's not working for you as easily as it did for me.
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tailsthecat3 said:
You got me. I'm not a dev just a tinkerer. Be certain that it's named correctly, no spaces, perhaps at the beginning of the file name etc.. When you copy it to /system/app it should ask you if you want to overwrite the existing file. That'll tell you it's named correctly. Unless there is something else that you're missing, it should work, as it worked for me. I wish I could do it for you, man. I simply copied the apk from my sd external and pasted it into /system/app, fixed the permissions and rebooted. After the reboot, I confirmed the gallery worked then I cleared cache and dalvik just for the heck of it. Really sorry it's not working for you as easily as it did for me.
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its cool bro..nature of the beast. just gotta figure out how to get my gallery back!

Success100 said:
its cool bro..nature of the beast. just gotta figure out how to get my gallery back!
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Lemme get some tea and bacon and then I'll upload the originals for you. You should try copying the original apk and odex to /system/app to get your gallery back. After that try copying the modified again. Apk only.
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Success100 said:
its cool bro..nature of the beast. just gotta figure out how to get my gallery back!
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Here are the originals. Sorry it took so long.

tailsthecat3 said:
Here are the originals. Sorry it took so long.
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thanks alot bro!!!

Success100 said:
thanks alot bro!!!
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Welcome!
Did you figure it out, get your gallery back?
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Yeah just re flashed ROM. Thanks bro
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Every phot taken creates new hidden folder

So this is driving me insane.
Since I switched from an s2 to an s3 I've had this problem:
Every single photo I take creates its own hidden folder. I have my camera set to store to the sd not the phone bc that's what I prefer. I understand the phone creating albums for apps that take pics like instagram and such, but this is nuts.
Every single freaking picture has a hidden folder. Not just the photo is hidden, it's a folder too. Sometimes igs a thumbnail and sometimes it's the full image. I have one hidden folder I've created on purpose but to find it is impossible since all 500 of my photos have their own frigging album.
I'm using the stock camera app and this happened stock and unrooted as well as on the wicked rom and a sonic rom.
I also have drop box backing up my photos.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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jasonren29 said:
Try clear the cache and data of the gallery app and camera from app manager . Helped me.
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nope.
Thanks for trying though.
didnt do a darn thing.

switch it back to save internally, then wipe the cache and see if it makes folders there. if not then try again on sd card

how to hide albums in stock gallery?

i have tonnes of music albums and the album art is showing all over in my gallery app. In the g3, there is a function to hide them but not available in g4.
any workarounds here?

QuickPic

Have you tried holding the pic down to lock it that will hide it you can also do that for a whole folder.
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No option to lock any folders on mine. I had to do .nomedia in Explorer to get them to go away. Temp fix.

hunter3160 said:
Have you tried holding the pic down to lock it that will hide it you can also do that for a whole folder.
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yes i did and it doesnt work like the g3 anymore.

I have a similar problem, I also want to hide some folders in the stock gallery.
You cannot lock an folder, just single files, but that's not what I want, because then I cannot access those files with my filemanager, too.
I don't want to lock them, I want to hide them. As far as I see it, there's no method to do this.
And using the .nomedia or similar workarounds won't work too, since the files are on my external SD card.
I do not want to use third party apps, there must be way...

AllTernative said:
I have a similar problem, I also want to hide some folders in the stock gallery.
You cannot lock an folder, just single files, but that's not what I want, because then I cannot access those files with my filemanager, too.
I don't want to lock them, I want to hide them. As far as I see it, there's no method to do this.
And using the .nomedia or similar workarounds won't work too, since the files are on my external SD card.
I do not want to use third party apps, there must be way...
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Any reason why you refuse to use third party apps? Quickpic works so well that I hadn't considered the stock app even slightly when I got the G4. Ability to sync photos with drive and Dropbox along with added functionality like hiding albums is the reasonwhy the stock app is considered inferior, at least IMO.
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AllTernative said:
I have a similar problem, I also want to hide some folders in the stock gallery.
You cannot lock an folder, just single files, but that's not what I want, because then I cannot access those files with my filemanager, too.
I don't want to lock them, I want to hide them. As far as I see it, there's no method to do this.
And using the .nomedia or similar workarounds won't work too, since the files are on my external SD card.
I do not want to use third party apps, there must be way...
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I'm with you on that. The only way I was able to satisfy this need was to put a .nomedia file in the folders I wanted to hide.

AhsanU said:
Any reason why you refuse to use third party apps? Quickpic works so well that I hadn't considered the stock app even slightly when I got the G4. Ability to sync photos with drive and Dropbox along with added functionality like hiding albums is the reasonwhy the stock app is considered inferior, at least IMO.
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Well, I don't want to download and use apps that I wouldn't need.
But I just gave QuickPic a try, and I gotta say, this is pretty good. I'm gonna use it instead of the stock gallery now. It's faster and has the ability to hide albums.:good:

You can.lock files with a passcode or pattern. Hit the 3 dot menu under gallery. You might have to go to settings security to enable it first.

Naughty naughty pictures probably. Put a file with a file name of ".nomedia" in that folder, any text editor can create a new file but make sure you save it with the .nomedia filename.

Very naughty. Don't want my nieces to see when they play games but want them stored for... I actually don't even know why. I don't even look at them.

Guys, putting a .nomedia is also hiding the mp3s from Music app.
Any way to hide the album arts from Gallery without hiding the mp3s from the Music app???
Please help!!!
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rasel800 said:
Guys, putting a .nomedia is also hiding the mp3s from Music app.
Any way to hide the album arts from Gallery without hiding the mp3s from the Music app???
Please help!!!
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Anyone??? Please help...

rasel800 said:
Anyone??? Please help...
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Separate folders. I don't have problems with music covers with PowerAmp

ok, let me clarify myself.
I want to use the stock Gallery and stock Music app. Now how can i hide the album arts from stock Gallery without hiding the mp3s from stock Music app.
placing a .nomedia, hides everything from Gallery and Music. Please help!!!

Settings > Content Lock > Choose pattern or password. Once enabled head over to your gallery/folder and press the 3 dotted thing located on the top right hand corner and press 'Lock'.

rasel800 said:
ok, let me clarify myself.
I want to use the stock Gallery and stock Music app. Now how can i hide the album arts from stock Gallery without hiding the mp3s from stock Music app.
placing a .nomedia, hides everything from Gallery and Music. Please help!!!
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I don't think you can do this. When hiding ("locking") in the stock Gallery, you literally lock the file: it gets encrypted. So you cannot open the file with a regular file manager anymore. Thus I believe the stock Music App cannot read the files either. When you lock each album art seperately the mp3s will still be there in the music app, the album art won't however. I can only advise you to choose a different app for your gallery. I've been using QuickPic for a while now and it's really good (and can hide your album art).

Try to rename the cover pic in albumart.jpg , I use the stock gallery and I do not see the cover pics
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Eldwist66 said:
Try to rename the cover pic in albumart.jpg , I use the stock gallery and I do not see the cover pics
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This works...Big thanks bro...