I cleaned flashed Pure Nexus on my pixel xl after having a few problems which so far have been fixed. However I have noticed now that when trying to upload a picture through the Facebook app or pages manager you cannot choose which file from your folders. I'm stuck with the default "gallery" folder which is is not sorted by most recent unless I take a new photo and then it shows at the top only and don't have any option to choose which folder to choose the media from.
Any ideas appreciated
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I know, and it's super super weird and annoying. I randomly fixed it myself and not sure how I did it.
Try going to your display settings and changing the display size down two click (you can move the font size up to compensate). Now close FB, and reopen it. You should now be able to select albums instead of only having that stupid gallery view
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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?
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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...
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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...
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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...
I've flashed CM10 to my SGS3, and when I first began organizing my home screen, I was able to rename folders with no issue by creating a folder and opening it - an editable label with a default name of "Unnamed Folder" or something similar to that would appear once the folder was opened. Suddenly, however, any folder that I create doesn't have a space to edit a name. Now some of my folders have names, and some do not, which looks really stupid. Any advice?
I couldn't get mine to replicate the problem.
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I've flashed CM10 to my SGS3, and when I first began organizing my home screen, I was able to rename folders with no issue by creating a folder and opening it - an editable label with a default name of "Unnamed Folder" or something similar to that would appear once the folder was opened. Suddenly, however, any folder that I create doesn't have a space to edit a name. Now some of my folders have names, and some do not, which looks really stupid. Any advice?
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Had the same thing. Go to settings --> Launcher --> Homescreen --> Hide icon labels <uncheck>
As long as that option is checked, you cannot label/relabel the folders. After changing the labels you can check it again and you will still be able to see the label, but individual app labels will not show.
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??
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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?
I might have missed how to set this up.
I want a photo slideshow from my picture library folder, one that randomly picks the pics.
How can i set this up?
There are many apps for the same on playstore.
Ok, if there are none by default, any recommendations?
superdon said:
I might have missed how to set this up.
I want a photo slideshow from my picture library folder, one that randomly picks the pics.
How can i set this up?
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Moderator, is this a right place to post?, this should be in G3 Q & A, Help & ............., this is the right place for G3 themes and apps only.
Try the Muzei live wallpaper from the store... instead of random art you can have it use your own photos and can even choose to fade and/or blur them if you like. Nice app.
Thanks. Have tried Muzei and it is a nice app. Cant find out how to change the image quickly though, seems the shortest time is one hour.
If do a search and find a picture I want, then long-press it, and click "Download image", it downloads successfully but I can't find it anywhere with Solid Explorer or Google Photo. That said, if I go to the "Files" application it is right there when I open the application and the info bar at the top of the screen says "Downloads" and there is also a "docs" folder and all the other pictures I have done this with in the past.
I often do this to share them to Facebook or in a chat, but in order to use them I have to search and download, open Files, and use that to move it to Pictures or some other folder I know where it is, and then go back to the application and use it to upload the file by it opening Photo (the Gallery app).
Where are these downloads going that Solid Explorer or Photo can't find them?
BTW, I am not rooted.
Go into Google Photos, select the hamburger menu on the upper left, and choose device folders. You should be able to see from there where your pictures were dropped. If you open the folder, there's a toggle switch to sync it with Google Photos.
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hilker09 said:
Go into Google Photos, select the hamburger menu on the upper left, and choose device folders. You should be able to see from there where your pictures were dropped. If you open the folder, there's a toggle switch to sync it with Google Photos.
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Yeah, I understand completely... But the folder isn't there.
I've had this exact same issue. I've resorted to taking a screen shot and cropping it.
KiNG OMaR said:
I've had this exact same issue. I've resorted to taking a screen shot and cropping it.
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Glad I'm not crazy... I think I'm pretty good with Android and just tech in general, and it just stumps me on this one.
acejavelin said:
Glad I'm not crazy... I think I'm pretty good with Android and just tech in general, and it just stumps me on this one.
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I looked for fun and when I clicked the download notification and opened it in Google Photos it says it's in the folder /documents which doesn't exist ?
Anyway to save the photo I just clicked the share button in Google Photos and shared it to Solid Explorer and chose a location to save it.
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I looked for fun and when I clicked the download notification and opened it in Google Photos it says it's in the folder /documents which doesn't exist ?
Anyway to save the photo I just clicked the share button in Google Photos and shared it to Solid Explorer and chose a location to save it.
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That will work! Thanks!