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Gallery is glitchy

My gallery is not detecting my pictures in my sd card. Why?
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convolution said:
My gallery is not detecting my pictures in my sd card. Why?
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I have this odd problem where I have to close the gallery them open it back up sometimes to get it to display images. Friend with a Vibrant said the same thing.
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I have a similar issue on mine, sometimes it takes a while for some images to appear in the gallery from the SD card.

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This happens on a lot of phones.
What you need to do in order to fix this is, after you put new media into your sdcard (whether it's music, video, images, etc), go into the Dev Tools app and click on Media Scanner.
This will scan the sdcard for new media and add it in to the Gallery and Music apps for immediate use. Otherwise it usually takes a reboot or something.
Cheers,
Proxin

Hi - what is this dev tools app... ?

I find if I copy something from one picture folder to another they both show up; annoying though. I also had a problem with 'missing' pictures, but changing my SD card fixed that.

The Dev Tools app is available on CM ROMs only I think. You can also use different apps on the market to do the same thing (Rescan Media, SDrescan, ScanMedia, Tasker, etc.).
I've found that switching to a different gallery app has helped as well (had the same picture showing up multiple times problem that was mentioned). I've been using QuickPic for a while and have been happy with it so far, but there are a few out there you can try.

Yes, the Dev Tools app is available in CM ROMS, my bad - I assumed it was in all.
However, seeing as it's included in there, you can open up the CM update.zip and find the apk inside there.
But, there are also other media scanners out on the Market. They do the same job.

Cool. I tried clicking media scan for dev tools, but it doesn't even scan. I'm running the CM7 RC1 btw. I click media scan, and it says finished scanning /mnt/sdcard 1 second later... and my gallery is still glitchy as hell...
EDIT: I had 4 pictures in the gallery from the Zedge folder, and after I scanned it, my gallery became empty. Is this a known bug for CM7 RC1? Because if it is, and they still call it RC, it's terrible.
EDIT 2: I tried 4 media scanners and they both don't work. Do you have a particular media scanner in mind to recommend? They ALL finish scanning in less than a second. I tried rescan media, rescan media root, SDrescan...

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convolution said:
Cool. I tried clicking media scan for dev tools, but it doesn't even scan. I'm running the CM7 RC1 btw. I click media scan, and it says finished scanning /mnt/sdcard 1 second later... and my gallery is still glitchy as hell...
EDIT: I had 4 pictures in the gallery from the Zedge folder, and after I scanned it, my gallery became empty. Is this a known bug for CM7 RC1? Because if it is, and they still call it RC, it's terrible.
EDIT 2: I tried 4 media scanners and they both don't work. Do you have a particular media scanner in mind to recommend? They ALL finish scanning in less than a second. I tried rescan media, rescan media root, SDrescan...
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It must be the RC then. I haven't experienced that on the stable 6.1.1 version...

Gallery pictures disappering or corrupt HELP!

Hello All,
I been having problems with my Gallery photos. It seems like they disappear or does not want to show as if it is corrupted. Photos that are saved on computer and moved to my SD card most of the show up and the ones that will not show up is there when i select it in the gallery (but not show up as an icon).
But recent photos taken with nexus camera will show up but then a day or so it will disappear (icon will not show up in gallery) and when i click on the blank icon it will not show up at all (as if it is corrupted). As soon as I take a picture with the nexus camera I can go to the gallery and select it and click on it to enlarge the picture but its after a day or so it disappears.
So I drag the missing pictures to my desktop on my laptop and it says picture can not be shown. What happen to my recent photos taken with my camera phone? Please help.
I have tried killing the gallery app and still no luck and also restarting the phone.
thanks

Change your sdcard
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siddharthsai said:
Change your sdcard
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Not sure if this is against the rules to bring up an old thread but.. atleast i used the search function!
Im having this problem on my Galaxy S2.. and... is it sure that theres a problem in the internal sdcard?
Can it not be fixed by some different kind of reformat or something?
Or do i just need to go somewhere and have the sdcard replaced.

Try replacing your SD card? that at least eliminates one possibility.

Photos not showing up in the gallery

Whenever i take a few photos with the camera they show up in the gallery for a minute or two then when you go back into gallery they dont show up but astro can see them fine, ive tried clearing data and the cache for gallery. Is there any fix to this?
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Get quickpic. Been using it ever since. I hate gallery lol. Quick pic is 10 times quicker
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I've had this happen on occasion, usually they show up again if I manually rescan media using Spare Parts.

Thanks guys I'll try both of those things. Another little annoying problem I've been having is with my ringtone, I go into the htc music app and find a good song and trim it etc etc, ringtone works fine for a while, then whenever someone calls me later on, it goes back to the default quietly brilliant app!, I even made my own custom sound set etc. I'm not sure what to do with this one and it's really annoying.

JDogg1329 said:
Thanks guys I'll try both of those things. Another little annoying problem I've been having is with my ringtone, I go into the htc music app and find a good song and trim it etc etc, ringtone works fine for a while, then whenever someone calls me later on, it goes back to the default quietly brilliant app!, I even made my own custom sound set etc. I'm not sure what to do with this one and it's really annoying.
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Not trying to sound like a smartass but you don't have it plugged in and set to mass storage mode when this happens, correct? Had a friend almost throw her phone out the window because it did what you're describing and well... see the previous sentence.

I did a factory reset and that solved my issue. No more disappearing photos. It gets pretty annoying though!

JDogg1329, see this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19162024#post19162024

https://market.android.com/details?...t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5iZXJvLnNkcmVzY2FuIl0.

Highly recommend QuickPic, as the previous user suggested. It's totally reliable and the dev is great with support.
Stock gallery is prone to issues... I haven't had it installed for months.
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Ditamae said:
Highly recommend QuickPic, as the previous user suggested. It's totally reliable and the dev is great with support.
Stock gallery is prone to issues... I haven't had it installed for months.
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One more thing to add. The only thing I don't like about quickpic is that it doesn't show my picasa albums like gallery does. I seriously doubt most people use picasa as much as I do though
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if you want to use gallery, run first rescanSD. then you pics will become available again... it will not last for long. as soon as you exit and go in again, it will not be visible again...

rescanSD for some reason has never worked for me, i've been frustratingly going through astro shortcuts to my photos until recently.

Gallary/Video don't find any pics/videos on my phone.

So just now gallary and videos app stopped finding files on my sd card but when I use a file explorer everything is there? I tried uninstalling and installing the gallary app again but that didn't help. Has anyone ever had this issue? I'm trying to dogde reflashing my rom... it seems the problem is media scanner doesn't run because when I rebooted my phone it didn't show up at first like it always does.
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Try using an app like QuickPic and see if they show up. If they don't, make sure the folders containing you media aren't hidden (have a "." at the beginning of the folder name). Also check to make sure somehow there wasn't a .nomedia file placed in there somewhere.
If none of those work, time to reflash.
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thomasskull666 said:
Try using an app like QuickPic and see if they show up. If they don't, make sure the folders containing you media aren't hidden (have a "." at the beginning of the folder name). Also check to make sure somehow there wasn't a .nomedia file placed in there somewhere.
If none of those work, time to reflash.
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I haven't tried it but believe that QuickPic would work because the stock video app doesn't find any files but mobo player still works normally. I'm just having problems with media scanner not running. Any app which I could refresh or rescan from within the app finds all my stuff but any app that depends on media scanner doesn't find anything. Idk why media scanner won't run though. Its not that big of a problem but I may have to reflash.
Thanks though =).
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Is there a system app that has to do with media scanner? Because I believe I may have uninstalled it or replaced it with an older version that isn't working anymore. I was working on a port of the Epic Dark Horse theme and I didn't pay that much attention to what are the app files already in it. It may have had an older media scanner app that doesn't work on my phone now when I flashed it. That's like the only thing I can possibly think of that messed up media scanner. Is there such an app?
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Gallery problems

OK i have looked everywhere and tried every "solution" i have seen. hopefully XDA can help...whenever i open up my gallery and go to All tab for my pictures, there are my regular pictures there but also a whole bunch of grey boxes. when i select them i dont have the option to delete them and its driving me crazy. went to the picasa web app and deleted all my empty albums, cleared the cache from my gallery app and even tried doing it from the desktop application and they are still there. any help would be greatly appreciated. oh any btw phone is completely stock, unrooted.

This is not an ideal solution, but it's what I've done. For me, the gallery was freezing, or at least lagging for 5 or 10 seconds when I'd try to select an album.
My fix, if you can call it that, was to stop using gallery, and use something called QuickPic instead. It's basically the same thing. It also makes it very easy to exclude or include folders.

Yea I was using quickpic on my last phone and just havent installed it yet on this one. Still would like the gallery to function properly though.
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My gallery shows a bunch of "broken pics", and quick pic shows a bunch of grey boxes. Anyone know of a solution?
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Could these be pics that were deleted that gallery thinks are still there?
Have you tried a reboot? Clearing data and cache for gallery app?
What mods have you done?

Not sure what gallery thinks they are. Ive deleted everything thats unwanted in picasa but there is still a little picasa icon next to the empty albums. No mods done at all
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Did you clear cache and data from gallery app?
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How about some screenshots so we can see what is going on? I find that the newest ROMs based on the newest International firmware, fixes all of the gallery stutter and lag as well.