Gallery won't open images any more - Galaxy Tab 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

The tablet is Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (SM-T211). The gallery won't open pictures any more. It shows the thumbnails but if i tab on a picture thumbnail the tablet freezes and after while i get a message 'gallery stopped working'. The same happens with any other gallery apps i installed and tried to view the images.
I did a hard reset but this didn't fixed the problem.
I thought the problem might be with the sd card but the same thing happens if the pictures are saved on the internal memory.
I think to install custom recovery, root the tablet, and flash a custom rom, though i am not sure this will help.
Any ideas what might be causing this?

Peter770 said:
The tablet is Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (SM-T211). The gallery won't open pictures any more. It shows the thumbnails but if i tab on a picture thumbnail the tablet freezes and after while i get a message 'gallery stopped working'. The same happens with any other gallery apps i installed and tried to view the images.
I did a hard reset but this didn't fixed the problem.
I thought the problem might be with the sd card but the same thing happens if the pictures are saved on the internal memory.
I think to install custom recovery, root the tablet, and flash a custom rom, though i am not sure this will help.
Any ideas what might be causing this?
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How much free infernal memory you got? Have you cleaned your cache or is it maybe 1GB? I think its the storage..

The problem was the sd card. I removed it and the problem was gone.

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[Q] CM7 and gallery

I've installed the cyanogenmod beta rom on my defy. It works great, very fast and customizable... but since first boot I have randomly some problem with default gallery. Somethimes when I open the app, I get an error (sd not mounted) and it doesn't start if I don't reboot... Also if I try to use camera (after I try to open gallery) I get the same error. Rarelly default music player give me similar error. But with third part app I can access to both gallery and camera... for example with QuickPick I can view all the images on my sd and with CameraFX I can use camera without any problem...
Anyone gets this error? How I can solve? Wipe can help me? I try to format SD and to pass other images and songs but nothing changes...
sorry for my bad English and thanks to all answers
You could try to wipe the data of the gallery (not the actual pictures/videos). It's somewhere in Settings -> Apps -> Manage apps (something like this). There you can select gallery and then something like wipe data (I don't know the english translation that's used on CM7).
I uninstall gallery with a root app manager, install a 3D gallery from market... for now seems that works...
ok gallery and camera don't work, I try also to wipe only camera and gallery data, but I don't solve...
any other solution?
try to backup your SD card on computer then format your SD card
It could be an error on the SD Card - format using FAT32 system if it`s the original 2GB
I've already tried this solution but doesn't work, I use an AData Class 6 8 gb...
moreover another defy of my friends gives to him similar problem with this rom (this defy crash randomly during video recording and in gallery)
also beta6 doesn't help me
I have the exact same problem gotta reboot the phone everytime this happens anyone found a fix yet thanks
The sd card error lies with the 3d gallery. Use titanium backup to remove it and use quickpic - a far better app anyway.
Sent from my MB525 using XDA App

[Q] Manually added photos not being shown in gallery

Hello there. I'm having an issue with gallery. I manually moved over a picture to the virtual sd card, but gallery doesn't pick it up. It doesn't matter where I put it, the root, Pictures, even the folder where the nexus places photos taken from the camera. I can see it in a file explorer and can even open with gallery from there. But if I open the gallery app the picture is nowhere to be found.
I've tried deleting gallery's cache but to no avail. I'm on the Android Revolution HD 2.1.4 rom. Is anybody with the stock rom having this problem, or have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Nick.Unltd said:
Hello there. I'm having an issue with gallery. I manually moved over a picture to the virtual sd card, but gallery doesn't pick it up. It doesn't matter where I put it, the root, Pictures, even the folder where the nexus places photos taken from the camera. I can see it in a file explorer and can even open with gallery from there. But if I open the gallery app the picture is nowhere to be found.
I've tried deleting gallery's cache but to no avail. I'm on the Android Revolution HD 2.1.4 rom. Is anybody with the stock rom having this problem, or have any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Try rebooting, it worked for me before
I was on 4.0.2 and my drivers weren't allowing me today to transfer anything to SD card when using my USB on computer i went to gummy 4.0.3 reloaded the drivers restarted computer and working flawlessly
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
Thanks for the replies, I've tried rebooting, no luck. My problems aren't with moving things to the virtual sd card, but viewing the pictures in gallery after I've done so
This has happened to me with music files. Rebooting the phone after I have copied/moved the files in the designated folder fixes the visibility issue for me

[Q] Stock Gallery, no thumbnails

Anyone had a problem where you're unable to view pictures on the stock gallery app? The thumbnails are blank, and when clicking on them a message saying "no thumbnails" is displayed, and the picture does not show. I can view pictures using a file manager, and Cool 3D gallery app.
This is on AOKP M5. I been using AOKP M5 and switching back and forth from the nightlies and M5. The only difference I've done this time is I deleted all the data on the SD card before flashing M5. The reason for me deleting is I noticed some app data was still left behind.
Anyone know how to fix this?
I haven't seen this problem on my Nexus but on my old phone if I deleted the .thumbnails folder in DCIM & restarted the phone the thumbnails were rebuilt.
3rdstring said:
I haven't seen this problem on my Nexus but on my old phone if I deleted the .thumbnails folder in DCIM & restarted the phone the thumbnails were rebuilt.
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Forgot to mention, I've already tried that. I also tried wiping cache and dalvik. I also transfered my Wallpaper folder from my computer to my phone, and the stock gallery does not display those pictures either.
i am having this same problem so i thought i'd just post here instead of making a new thread. i just posted this reply in another thread but i'm going to bump this one too since there are people having this problem and i don't think any of us have found a solution yet.
i was on AOKP M5 since it was released and the day CM9 RC1 came out i wiped data and flashed it. this is when i saw the problem. everything worked fine in AOKP M5.
i wasn't reallse happy with CM9 so i wiped data again and flashed liquidsmooth 1.5 and while i am enjoying it i am having this similar problem with the gallery. i have searched and searched and have found no solution for this bug.
when i go to gallery all the thumbnails are gray. when i click on a folder the thumbnails are still gray and when i click on a picture it says "no thumbnail." i wiped gallery in titanium backup and no dice. i also uninstalled and reinstalled the app through titanium backup. no dice once again so i just wiped data and did another fresh install of liquid and i am still having the problem.
i am able to take pictures and view them in quickpic but not in the gallery. i downloaded the es file explorer showed hidden files and deleted the .thumbnail folder (it was already empty) in the DCIM folder. the gallery repopulated but the thumbnails were still gray. for now i am using the quickpic app for my gallery since it is able to show thumbnails.
i just installed this liquid 1.5 on my friend's GN and the first thing i did was take some pics so i could view them in his gallery and he doesn't seem to have the bug. everything works as it should. is this bug just random or was it because his phone just had his bootloader unlocked and was "fresh" for the new rom being installed? in CWM i wiped data/factory reset so i didn't dirty flash. whatever the case i hope this is fixed in the JB version of roms. i really don't want to flash a factory image and start all over.
if anyone has a solution or an idea on how i might try and fix it PLEASE post it. thank you so much.
No Picasa Images are displayed under Gallery
Hi,
I am on stock ICS 4.0.4(reverted from JB by applying stock images from google).
I have synced all my google data with my device. But whenever I open the stock Gallery app, I can see a thumbnail preview of all my Camera photos properly. The gallery even lists all of my Picasa albums correctly but no thumbnail preview is shown. If I enter into any of these album no preview is displayed.
Some resolutions i tried:
1. I have cleared cache, cleared data and force stopped gallery and then again started as that was advised in some threads
2. I even removed ".Thumbnail" directory and restarted but no luck.
3. I have downloaded "Just Pictures" app and it properly displays my Picasa albums along with the thumbnail preview.
But I love my stock gallery.(Please do not suggest Quickpic alternative).
Attached is the screenshot of my gallery app.
Any advice?
I'll suggest to reflash the firmware - clean install + I hope u have a good internet connection too !!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
sharingspider said:
I'll suggest to reflash the firmware - clean install + I hope u have a good internet connection too !!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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Instead of re flashing the entire FW can I uninstall and install the only the gallery app? If so could you please let me know where can I get that apk?
At present not in a position to re install ROM and fiddle with the set up I have in my GNex!

[help] how to recover damaged pictures

hi, i'm Galaxy Note 2 user.
i have a lot of pictures taken from my phone in HDR mode, and that is verry important picture.
but there are one time, my ExtSDcard storage was full, so i move all my picture to Phone SDcard storage for a moment.
when i'm moving the Pictures, my Phone SDcard also full, and my phone was Lagging in couples minutes.
and after that, i saw in my Gallery the moved picture in my phone SDcard was not displayed, and there are error message "Load Failed". i cannot open the picture files in any File Explorer apps, and in my PC as well.
there are 16 pictures damaged in this case, and untill now i dont know how to recover it.
i have search alot information, but no one help me.
please anyone, if you know how to fix this problem, tell me..
i need your help, please,,,
is there anyone have same problem with me?
is there any solution?
please....
If the pictures were originally on your external SD card then you can run a data recovery app against it and if you haven't added any new files to the card since you did the deletion there's a pretty high chance they're still sitting there. Data is never deleted directly it's just marked as deleted (essentially) and then later files added to the card will overwrite any older data over time. I've never had to do this myself but Googling for free image recovery turns up quite a few results.

[Q] Insufficient storage (but not true) (solved)

Hi,
I have a strange but annoying problem in Tab S running lollipop and rooted since last week.
I can't save app with Titanium backup, it stops after one saying insufficient storage. Also, I can't preview or export any files from the Drobpox application. Photos are not appearing as thumbnails. It says "Storage saturated or unavailable".
But what is strange is there still 6.8Go space on my internal storage and more than 10Go on my external SD card.
Do rooting could have change something? But I can't understand why internal storage is affected. Other apps seems to work fine, at least I didn't find other complaining about storage.
Does someone have an idea of what I should do?
Thanks
Mel
PS I already clear caches and also did a wipe partition
Post a screen shot of your storage in settings.
Hi,
Awkward link but I can't post it since I don't have posted more than 10 messages :
dropbox DOT com/s/ko6rg0v18mvt1mf/Screenshot_2015-06-27-12-34-23.png?dl=0
Since yesterday, I got 2 others apps behaving abnormally. A twitter client unable to display image thumbnails and a newspaper app unable to download the daily edition.
It sounds like a writing access for (some) 3rd party apps (since I could take screenshot and picture, on internal storage). Is it possible? Does un-rooting will amplify or solve my problem?
Thanks
Mel
Link posted.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ko6rg0v18mvt1mf/Screenshot_2015-06-27-12-34-23.png?dl=0
It looks like you need to apply the sd card fix. Search play for sdfix.
Also you need a kernel that allows permissive mode for titanium backup to work.
Thanks! It solved my problem! All the problematic apps now working fine.
Mel :good::good:
ashyx said:
It looks like you need to apply the sd card fix. Search play for sdfix.
Also you need a kernel that allows permissive mode for titanium backup to work.
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