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Gallery is using way too much data

I have my account sync off even photo sync is off but my gallery is still using all lot of data
What can I do?
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Disable the app!!!???
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Tito2007 said:
Disable the app!!!???
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What? I need it to view my pics
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Are you sure Google+ and Picasa Auto photo sync is off?!
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Are you sure Google+ and Picasa Auto photo sync is off?!
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Where do I turn that off from?
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Google+ is from within the Google+ app, Picasa should be in Accounts and Sync.
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Google+ is from within the Google+ app, Picasa should be in Accounts and Sync.
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K I signed in g plus and did do not sync though I'm sure I had it off before too
And accounts and sync, picasa does not show up.
All I see is my Gmail, twitter, and whatsapp
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Well you can always go in to Data Usage, click on gallery, and restrict background data
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If you're not going to use the sync feature and stock gallery is giving you problems, might as well try alternative like Quickpic which is really good...lightweight, fast, always update with thumbs, no sync, freq updates,
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subxero123 said:
K I signed in g plus and did do not sync though I'm sure I had it off before too
And accounts and sync, picasa does not show up.
All I see is my Gmail, twitter, and whatsapp
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Yeah you have to click thru into each account. Account&sync>gmail>picasa.
Thats crazy high usage for gallery. You take pics often i assume?

RogerPodacter said:
Yeah you have to click thru into each account. Account&sync>gmail>picasa.
Thats crazy high usage for gallery. You take pics often i assume?
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There is no picasa option when I open Gmail, only sync photos, Calender, Gmail etc.
And I have about 200 pics in the gallery
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Google+ -> settings -> Turn on Instant Upload -> tick off.
Even with automatic upload on that amount of data is weirdly high if a normal picture is about 1.5MB. The service also auto uploads all videos too btw.

Unless I'm confused, the Picasa sync is rolled under the "Sync Photos" option of your Google Account.

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Unless I'm confused, the Picasa sync is rolled under the "Sync Photos" option of your Google Account.
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My GN doesent upload anything automatically if I have "Sync Google Photos" ticked on from google account settings and "Turn on Instant Upload" off from Google+. Both were on by default tho.
But it seems disabling either one disables the auto upload.

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What? I need it to view my pics
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Try QuickPic, it's free and faster loading than the gallery.

Curious to figure this one out as well. My gallery uses about 2GB per month and Google+ upload is turned off and photo sync is also turned off. Not sure why the hell it keeps using data and/or for what.

badassirocz said:
Curious to figure this one out as well. My gallery uses about 2GB per month and Google+ upload is turned off and photo sync is also turned off. Not sure why the hell it keeps using data and/or for what.
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guys i figured it out
when i stream videos that play from the stock video app (gallery player) it shows bandwidth here (and no its not what you're thinking lol)
it has nothing to do with syncing photos

subxero123 said:
guys i figured it out
when i stream videos that play from the stock video app (gallery player) it shows bandwidth here (and no its not what you're thinking lol)
it has nothing to do with syncing photos
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Thanks! I know this is an old thread but I was searching for a resolution to this issue for days!
I tested this with a network monitor and streamed a video on Facebook.

this threat forced me to check my gallerys usage out! lol...luckily it wasnt that high
glad you figured it out too.

Google Drive gone?

I'm not sure if anyone else has notices this or if it's just me. I have the deodexed OTA for 4.2. Just last night I noticed I can't find the Google drive app icon anywhere. It's not in the app drawer and it is ladle labeled as installed and I can access it by the way of the widget but that's it. I tried reinstalling it but no go. Anyone else having this issue?
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Strange. Is the apk in/data/apps or in /system/apps?
OTA = over the air. I was unaware that Google OTA'd a deodexed update. Kewl.
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Quite obvious it's the custom ROM based on the OTA, but I do enjoy the many ways sarcasm can be misused and from time to time I forget them. It is people like you who do a great service to the people of the internet.
But back to the topic, yes it shows up in the settings as a downloaded app but it does not show up in the system/app directory. But Google Play shows it's installed, I have the widget, and the app loads.
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Dacian said:
Quite obvious it's the custom ROM based on the OTA, but I do enjoy the many ways sarcasm can be misused and from time to time I forget them. It is people like you who do a great service to the people of the internet.
But back to the topic, yes it shows up in the settings as a downloaded app but it does not show up in the system/app directory. But Google Play shows it's installed, I have the widget, and the app loads.
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Clear cache and data. Who knows it might help.
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Well I gave it a shot. I cleared cache and data, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it refuses to make an icon.
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This might not have anything to do with this but Google might be diddling around with Drive itself. Just tonight I tried accessing (on my stock 4.2 GN) a shared company Drive spreadsheet that I just updated on Sunday and Drive was making it difficult for me (I.e., not recognizing the Google account and some other things). When I finally cleared it up (by logging off/signing in a few times), I was able to access and view the spreadsheet but not edit it (which what I need to do).
If it's any consolation, I wasn't able to edit it on the company iPad that's there for that purpose.
Again, it may be unrelated (and I'm still learning here) but in case that helps...

I added Google Drive under Web Storage in X-plore and it shows up and all my stuff is there.
I am running MMuzzy's 4.2 Verizon build.
Where did you get the widget?
Steve

The widget was just Google's widget that is added when you install the app. I remembered I had "add widgets to desktop" unchecked through Google Play so I selected it and reinstalled the app and it put an icon on my home screen, so that fixes my problem temporarily, as the icon is still missing from the app drawer and does not show the app in my system menu.
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Don't you guys think that Drive should be a built-in app? It should be a natural part of the Android ecosystem. I don't think there are many people who don't use Drive, so it'd be more convenient to just make it a built-in app. This could bring in more support for it, too.

.thumbdata growing and growing until out of memory

Hi,
I experienced a problem on my phone running cm 10 b 7 by ARCO.
The thumbnail folder in phone memory is growing until the phone gets out of memory.
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Does anyone know how to avoid that? I'm tried to delete this file every day / reboot.
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Try this and see if it works: copy the name of that thumbdata3, delete it and create a folder and rename that folder with the name of the thumbdata3 file you have copied. I think that will avoid the creation of another thumbdata3 file.

try the method suggested by pepoluan in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37426857#post37426857
or you can also do:
--> delete .thumbnails folder
--> create a blank file name it .thumbnails
--> set permission to to 055

trocLas said:
Try this and see if it works: copy the name of that thumbdata3, delete it and create a folder and rename that folder with the name of the thumbdata3 file you have copied. I think that will avoid the creation of another thumbdata3 file.
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I did it. It's really works, this file didn't grow again, but then I had problems with thumbnails view in a gallery. Don't you?
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honzin2009 said:
I did it. It's really works, this file didn't grow again, but then I had problems with thumbnails view in a gallery. Don't you?
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I'm glad it worked!
What kind of problems? I think I don't have any problems with thumbnails view in gallery

trocLas said:
I'm glad it worked!
What kind of problems? I think I don't have any problems with thumbnails view in gallery
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I didn't see any thumbnails when I opened a gallery and loading of them was very slow. The same was about viewing pictures in gallery - there were no pictures at first and loading of each other photo was slow. But now it's really getting better. I think, it will be OK in a couple of days.
Thank you, H.
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Hello guys this is a problem on my friends galaxy ace too, her photos and musics are on her external sd, the phone is running latest stock rom (unrooted) and only the fb messenger app was installed and phone shows no storage and no message storage.....what should I do? it shows internal storage free space 4,5mb ...... can I wipe data? after it will boot up? (I already wiped cache but it only gives me 1mb free storage)
I ask here cuz I have SGW and I know you guys.
Thanks
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Any help please guys?
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honzin2009 said:
I didn't see any thumbnails when I opened a gallery and loading of them was very slow. The same was about viewing pictures in gallery - there were no pictures at first and loading of each other photo was slow. But now it's really getting better. I think, it will be OK in a couple of days.
Thank you, H.
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When you do the procedure that Pepoluan shared it deletes all of your existing thumbnails as well as the ever-increasing .thumbdata files. After you have followed his instructions and rebooted, your phone will have to recreate all of the thumbnails for all images on your phone (but not the huge thumbdata files) which is what causes the gallery to be a bit slow initially. Once it has done that your gallery should return to normal performance.

i also face the problem..

skrillex13 said:
Hello guys this is a problem on my friends galaxy ace too, her photos and musics are on her external sd, the phone is running latest stock rom (unrooted) and only the fb messenger app was installed and phone shows no storage and no message storage.....what should I do? it shows internal storage free space 4,5mb ...... can I wipe data? after it will boot up? (I already wiped cache but it only gives me 1mb free storage)
I ask here cuz I have SGW and I know you guys.
Thanks
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Please any solution? or not?
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Please any solution? or not?
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The only solution when my friend got this problem is, i root his phone, and use link2sd.
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geniusboy93 said:
The only solution when my friend got this problem is, i root his phone, and use link2sd.
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Thank you!
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Facebook app update fixes contact syncing... Well sort of

First updated the app on my nexus 7 in which I don't have haxsync installed and was surprised to see my people app being full of Facebook contacts with pictures. Thought I could finally be rid of haxsync and then I updated my phone and well nope, no contact syncing. After further inspection I found something odd. On my nexus 7 I have a category in Facebook settings called "other settings" and underneath I have sync contact options. The "other settings" menu doesn't even appear on my nexus 4. Check it out
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that's the nexus 4
Anyone else notice this? Am I doing something wrong?
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Nope, I don't have that menu on my N4... Last app update was 05.09.

I dont have that advanced settings
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I dont have it either. Can you get your facebook.apk from data folder and share it? Maybe its different app for Nexus 7.

Sure but where are user apps stored? I can locate the system apps but not use apps with es file explorer.
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Have you root on that Nexus?
If yes go to system files (if you cant access using ES use root explorer).Go to data folder then app and there are all user apps.

Facebook sucks. Lags all the time opposed to the iOS version.

Maybe you have big mess in your phone or just need to clean facebook cache? My facebook is working perfectlly.

I just uninstalled and reinstalled, same issue, my wife's phone, same thing. I tried about every idea I could possibly think of
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but did you cleared cache before uninstalling? Before you uninstall press clear data button in app info. Also after you uninstall if you have root go to /data/data and look for com.facebook.katana and delete it also if you were using FB messanger look for com.facebook.orca and also delete it.
Hope this will help you.

I just went through, wiped cache, wiped data, uninstalled, and reinstalled and same damn problem... Ugh
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Thats very weird.. Maybe I should first ask you but what exactly is the problem with it? When is it lagging etc?
try to install these facebook apps. The are black themed but will se does it help or not.
http://www41.zippyshare.com/v/17102125/file.html
http://www41.zippyshare.com/v/97842954/file.html

Lol nothing is wrong with it, contact sync just doesn't exist on my phone. The option to sync contacts is present on my tablet but not on my phone as seen in the first post which doesn't make sense since they are the same app
Edit : I just realized what happened. Someone came in and complained about the app lagging and somehow you and me got talking. Lol
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Same thing for me with Galaxy S+ not option for syncing contacts. The app is also otherwise really a piece of crap, very slow and consume really a lot of battery.

Just pulled the app from my Nexus 7, installed it, and still no sync option. I give up, this is something on their end. Just wish there was a way to talk to facebook support. They always ignore my emails
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did you try to activate facebook contact sync in settings-accounts first?

Yep, I've tried everything I can think of. Oh well, haxsync works good enough for now I guess. Just would be nice to not have 2 apps for Facebook purposes.
I keep thinking does the htc first have sync problems? I wonder what the GP who grabbed that phone thinks when they don't have any contact pictures in the dialer app.
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Huge Thumbnails Folder

Don't know what happened but yesterday I started getting the "Storage space is running out" error. Surprised because I just not long ago formatted my internal memory and started over. Anyways I check and my .thumbnails folder is almost 5 GB! Anybody have any ideas how it could've gotten that big so soon or even why it would be.
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If you download lots of apps?? I would just try and go through to delete unnecessary ones. A lot of apps download pictures into your thumbnail folder. Advertising stuff. Try getting an ad blocker app its helping me with that issue.

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If you download lots of apps?? I would just try and go through to delete unnecessary ones. A lot of apps download pictures into your thumbnail folder. Advertising stuff. Try getting an ad blocker app its helping me with that issue.
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Thanks. I just deleted everything in folder and rebooted. Not sure where it all came from. I've never been a person with a whole lot of apps. No more than 20-25 max depending on what ROM I'm running.
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klbjr said:
Thanks. I just deleted everything in folder and rebooted. Not sure where it all came from. I've never been a person with a whole lot of apps. No more than 20-25 max depending on what ROM I'm running.
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Did the thumnails folder grow back to size after the reboot or did it stay smaller?
thanks

Think it depends on if you keep the same files on your phone.

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Did the thumnails folder grow back to size after the reboot or did it stay smaller?
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Yep! Just checked and it was almost 3GB again. I just deleted it but this time I checked to see what was in there and it looked like it took a small video of every movie/video file that I have stored on my phone & SD card. I guess it is for the Video player previews. Anyway to stop it from doing this and am I the only one having this problem?

It's supposed to do that.

I just delete the whole thumbnails folder. Dont seem to bother the phone or me.
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Yep! Just checked and it was almost 3GB again. I just deleted it but this time I checked to see what was in there and it looked like it took a small video of every movie/video file that I have stored on my phone & SD card. I guess it is for the Video player previews. Anyway to stop it from doing this and am I the only one having this problem?
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Do you use Astro File Manager? Had the same problem, went away when I switched to Solid Explorer.
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Ok guys, it has nothing to do with any of this...
Its all related to Google.
Do this, go to settings, accounts, gmail.
Uncheck the sync Picasa albums.
Backout.
Then go to applications, all.
Scroll down to gallery an clear the cache.
With anyone using hangouts an sending pics, it caches every single one on your phone.
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Ok guys, it has nothing to do with any of this...
Its all related to Google.
Do this, go to settings, accounts, gmail.
Uncheck the sync Picasa albums.
Backout.
Then go to applications, all.
Scroll down to gallery an clear the cache.
With anyone using hangouts an sending pics, it caches every single one on your phone.
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Of course that only works if you use (and sync) Picasa and hangouts. So ymmv
My thumbnail issue was definitely file manager related, switching to a filemanager that allowed me to manage its thumbnail cache fixed it.
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Just delete the whole thing you wont loose nothing important. Save you time and space. Try "Root cleaner" I had 3.56gb of space. Bought the pro version and did a quick clean. Now I have 5Gb of space! What the app does it deletes all unnecessary files.
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Well I'm still having trouble figuring out why it does this. I don't use Astro File Explorer, Picassa or Hangouts. I can't see this as a normal process because if left unchecked you would never have any internal storage or at least half or more would be swallowed up by these useless video clips.
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Thumbnails I think aren't important
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Thumbnails I think aren't important
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Yeah I've been deleting it with no side effects it's just annoying that it keeps happening.