Hello all,
Not sure if this happens to you but, when I open my gallery only a few thumbnails are shown, the rest are blank. When I scroll down and up it then starts to display them one by one. So I have to keep scrolling until they all have refreshed.
This is really frustrating does anyone have a fix besides a third party app?
Thanks
rethan2 said:
Hello all,
Not sure if this happens to you but, when I open my gallery only a few thumbnails are shown, the rest are blank. When I scroll down and up it then starts to display them one by one. So I have to keep scrolling until they all have refreshed.
This is really frustrating does anyone have a fix besides a third party app?
Thanks
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Have you restarted recently? I notice the gallery app tends to check and then build/fix the thumbnail database after a restart.
The condition you describe only happens to me if I copy/move images using a 3rd party file utility like root explorer. The Samsung gallery app isn't smart enough to immediately recognize the change. A restart fixes this. So now I only move images using the gallery app, which works fine and avoids the situation.
This doesn't happen on my LG Optimus G.
jaytee23 said:
Have you restarted recently? I notice the gallery app tends to check and then build/fix the thumbnail database after a restart.
The condition you describe only happens to me if I copy/move images using a 3rd party file utility like root explorer. The Samsung gallery app isn't smart enough to immediately recognize the change. A restart fixes this. So now I only move images using the gallery app, which works fine and avoids the situation.
This doesn't happen on my LG Optimus G.
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I see thanks for your reply, restart helped but still an annoying issue.
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Hi - I tried out the 3d gallery but found it rather sluggish, so i'm sticking with the normal htc gallery - problem is that this is quite slow too!
e.g. in grid mode when you scroll you get a load of grey boxes which take a while to fill in with respective thumbnails. even if you scroll down then back up it loses the thumbnails at the top and does this...
anyone else seeing this? the iphone doesn't have this issue in grid mode.
Surely a 1ghz processor should be able to display a thumbnail grid with ease?
i'm using leedroid 1.6 with original sd card (maybe too slow?)
This happens if I take a bunch of new pictures then go to the gallery. It takes a second to render the thumbnails of the new pictures. Once they are though, they usually load pretty fast. It just takes a little bit of time to read the information from the SD card. That's all.
Still shouldnt happen at all - why cant it cache thumbnails on the phone itself?
When you scroll the app drawer for example you dont have to wait for icons to load - it should be the same.
Also if you use the people widget & have a picture for every contact it doesnt struggle when you scroll through them....
I just tried floating image - it doesnt have this issue either - there must be a gridview gallery that works properly?
inamak said:
Still shouldnt happen at all - why cant it cache thumbnails on the phone itself?
When you scroll the app drawer for example you dont have to wait for icons to load - it should be the same.
Also if you use the people widget & have a picture for every contact it doesnt struggle when you scroll through them....
I just tried floating image - it doesnt have this issue either - there must be a gridview gallery that works properly?
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Well that's the thing, imagine your phone, already with limited space mind, now having to have a cached thumbnail of every picture and video on your SD card. If the space on the phone was limited before it will be even more so.
Aitese said:
Well that's the thing, imagine your phone, already with limited space mind, now having to have a cached thumbnail of every picture and video on your SD card. If the space on the phone was limited before it will be even more so.
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So how does the people's widget do it? Or the app drawer?
Even the resource intensive floating image app doesn't lag when showing thumbnails.
Surely the sdcard isnt that slow is it? Even if you did do phone based caching - you could probably get 1000 per 10mb...
inamak said:
So how does the people's widget do it? Or the app drawer?
Even the resource intensive floating image app doesn't lag when showing thumbnails.
Surely the sdcard isnt that slow is it? Even if you did do phone based caching - you could probably get 1000 per 10mb...
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Surely you don't expect relatively static elements like widgets and the app drawer to behave the same as something that's constantly changing like the pictures on your SD card? What happens when you swap out your card? Should the cached photos remain or be deleted? Then when you put said card back? Re-create all the images again on the fly?
You have to be a little more sensible and think these things through. Simplistic "I wish X happened" is just naive.
You'd be able to check for changes on load - I'm not saying it has to be loading instantly but when it does it should be smooth like any other app. The people app also uses the SD card - if you remove it the images disappear - if that can show smooth image grid then so should the gallery. I don't think that it naive at all. I think even the 3d gallery does this when it eventually loads.
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I am dealing with a slow gallery too, after it created ALL thumbnails gallery was still slow to me, so I connected Desire to usb, copied ALL thumbnails to my HDD, optimized all those pics with FastStone and the result?
Gallery deleted all those thumbnails(even though they were exactly same name and content except they were smaller) and cached all over again
Glad to see it isn't just me! Not sure why it is recreating the thumbnails - maybe a reason for it being slow - at any rate it once it has loaded it shouldnt revert back to grey boxes when you scroll up/down...
Hi,
I have a strange problem. When I try to change the wallpaper of the default lockscreen on SGSIII, nothing happens. I get to set the crop size in gallery and then it returns to the settings....without the logscreen wallpaper being changed.
Anyone else experiencing this and know how to fix it?
Are you using the stock gallery to crop the wallpaper or using another app? I also had that trouble but was using a 3rd party app to crop like quickpic and it wouldnt save. I then tried the stock gallery and it worked fine.
isiyou125 said:
Are you using the stock gallery to crop the wallpaper or using another app? I also had that trouble but was using a 3rd party app to crop like quickpic and it wouldnt save. I then tried the stock gallery and it worked fine.
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I have the choice between "gallery" and "wallpaper" and I have tried both of them without any luck.
kimusan said:
I have the choice between "gallery" and "wallpaper" and I have tried both of them without any luck.
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What im really trying to say is that after you click gallery and find the picture you want to use as a wallpaper for the lock screen. did it ask you to complete the action using another program to crop it? like did you install another gallery app? if you did install another gallery app, did you set that as default action? because if you set another program as default, or using another program to "crop" it and not using the stock gallery app, it may not work. if you did set another program as default to crop it, you may need to go into that app and clear defaults in settings => application manager, then use the stock gallery app to crop the picture
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What im really trying to say is that after you click gallery and find the picture you want to use as a wallpaper for the lock screen. did it ask you to complete the action using another program to crop it? like did you install another gallery app? if you did install another gallery app, did you set that as default action? because if you set another program as default, or using another program to "crop" it and not using the stock gallery app, it may not work. if you did set another program as default to crop it, you may need to go into that app and clear defaults in settings => application manager, then use the stock gallery app to crop the picture
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You were absolutely right. Another gallery app had taken over the crop part so even though I used the samsung gallery app for selection of the wall paper, the cropping was still done by the other app.
Clearing defaults helped solving that.
Thanks a mill.
kim
I had this same issue as well when I first got my phone, good tip Thanks!
I also noticed that if you uninstall the stock Gallery app, the wallpaper chooser force closes when you try to change the lockscreen wallpaper. Not your issue here, but maybe someone else will stumble across this who is having the same issue I just spent 30 minutes fighting with.
the latest version of gallery app is marking random images as highlighted and it does this automatically, then creating a "highlight" folder and showing it with other folders. i know i can hide that folder in options, but is there a way to stop the gallery from auto-highlighting my images??
thanx
I quite like the high light idea, but am getting the randomly highlighted pics issue (is it an issue or feature?!) too.. Would like to know how to disable it too?
Hey guys. So I'm having a weird problem with my camera/gallery. Whenever I take a picture or video, I'm unable to view it via gallery right away. What I mean is I would take a picture, but I would be unable to view the gallery through the camera app (the bottom right button when using camera). It's just the grey default picture icon for the button and when I press it nothing happens. Also if I were to try to find the picture by manually going to the gallery app, it would still not be there. The picture does save however. I find it by going through DCIM in a file explorer (ES File Explorer). Once I open the picture through ES and choose gallery to open it, I am then able to access the picture through the gallery app. Sorry if this sounds a bit confusing, it's just a weird problem. Any help would be much appreciated on how to fix this.
What I'm currently running right now is:
ARHD 11.1
ElementalX 1.04
S-Off
SuperCid
Current firmware
Also I'm not sure when this problem started happening because I've never really used camera until recently. So I wouldn't know if it's something I flashed recently or what.
I've installed Google Photos but every time I go to edit I get limited options. I'm assuming this is an LG thing. The editor that opens from my Google Photos app in my GPe device. And the options and editing is much nicer.
Anyone notice this or have issue with the default edit options?
I have tried and tried but the only editing functions that work are the crop, rotate. Everything else is there but is non responsive!
If I go into the photo gallery and look at a picture and click the little pencil to "edit" it will bring me to the edit screen but it won't let me do anything within the editor without crashing .
frankwhite8536 said:
I've installed Google Photos but every time I go to edit I get limited options. I'm assuming this is an LG thing. The editor that opens from my Google Photos app in my GPe device. And the options and editing is much nicer.
Anyone notice this or have issue with the default edit options?
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There is an update. It works great.
Yes! I'm not happy about it either. How do you go back? I actually called lg and the guy I spoke with said it maybe the Android software that's caused this. I don't know becaus I deleted Google pbotos, I lost editing options under my galery. When I reinstalled Google photos the editing options came back but still limited. Any idea how to go back to the old way?
If you want to apply more edit to the photos, install Snapseed. The LG stock gallery will open up Snapseed for editing/stuffs.
Not bad I must say.
Find in Google Play:
Photo Gallery & Editor