i took some pictures and video today. everything was working fine they appeared on the albums app and on the picture and video tabs. i had to restart the phone and now none of the videos or pictures are showing. when i use the file explorer app i can see the files.
im new to windows it may be easy to fix but i have no windows knowledge.
Hey all, first post.
I picked up an used A7 for my daughter's birthday. Managed to follow all the instructions here to get Dexter's Elocitymod installed and installed some of the recommended apps listed in the forum. It works like a dream, thanks all involved!
I have a question regarding Gallery. I ripped three of her favourite DVDs and put them on a microSD card. Gallery recognizes the card and displays the rips as screenshots without names / titles. The menu smart key will bring up the option to see the name of the file, but is there any way to have the title display with the screenshot in Gallery? Or is there a different / replacement app for Gallery that would do this?
Thx in advance.
Give Moboplayer a try, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1064795
Does Moboplayer actually organize and display pics, music and videos with their names? Or is it just a player?
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Does Moboplayer actually organize and display pics, music and videos with their names? Or is it just a player?
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Moboplayer is a video player only. Rockplayer and the default musicplayer 3.0 is all one need.
The stock player (or whatever is in Elocitymod) works fine and I may look into upgrading to one with more features later, but what I want to know is:
Are there settings that can be modified in Gallery so that when videos (or music or whatever) are expanded into the individual thumbnails/screenshots, the file names or assigned names can be shown with the thumbnails/screenshots or, if not, is there another app that does the same thing as Gallery but displays the file names or lets you assign names to associate with each thumbnail/screenshot.
For the life of me I can't get the gallery to refresh after I add pictures to my pictures folder. Am I missing something or is this yet another bug?
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Took me 2 days to get some imported cam pics to show up.
Try killing the gallery in the task manager. Also try rebooting.
Android gallery has always been crap if not for picasa integration it would be totally useless. Try quick pic. Ugly but very functional.
Thanks..... I tried killing with task manager but no go.
Maybe I should just use Picasso... good lord.
I tried 3d gallery and it wont display correctly at all. Ill check out that apple you mentioned.
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Quick pick will work great for me. Thanks again.
Is there any app to view JUST Picasso pics that you know of?
*edit* Picasso tool works, but osmotic made for tab.. either way better than the pic delay of the stock gallery.
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Did you copy it from pc to tablet or form different location on your tablet to gallery folder?
If the second option don't use any file managers from the market. Instead use file manager that is included in touchwiz.
Don't know why but all other file managers don't move cache when moving photos.
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I did not use the stock file explorer, I used file explorer HD and in this case copied from SD card to the pictures folder.
Ya know, I like the idea of using qucik pic and picassa tool. I can upload to picassa from quick pic and when viewing I can use picassa tool, gallery, web , etc...
With quick pic I can easily hide or remove folders so I don't have this cluster of unwanted pics
I just demo ed the gallery from my media folder all together.
Kind of lame but it is what it is. ...
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Use stock explorer and you will notice that there is no problem with photos. Don't know why but I didn't have this problem on transformer.. Weird
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Android uses an internal database to remember multi-media files (pics, music and video) so that built-in apps like Gallery, Music and Video players can show them regardless which folder they are located. If you copied any such type of files to the tab using 3rd party tools that does not trigger media scanning, those files will never show up in these apps until next time media scanning runs.
On my Samsung Galaxy S phone, such media scanning is done everytime you power up the phone or disconnect the USB connection in mass storage mode. It is a slow and painful process on the phone.
On my GT 10.1, this process has been some what improved mainly because there is no USB mass storage mode. The default MTP mode will automatically update the database when file transfer occurs. The built-in File Explore can also properly update the database. But if you use 3rd party tool, chances are they will never trigger a media scanning process.
It doesn't matter which folder you copied your pictures into.
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Android uses an internal database to remember multi-media files (pics, music and video) so that built-in apps like Gallery, Music and Video players can show them regardless which folder they are located. If you copied any such type of files to the tab using 3rd party tools that does not trigger media sync ( file scanning), those files will never show up in these apps until next time file scanning runs.
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Don't want to sound like I'm shooting the messenger here... But... that sucks.
Really, I already have too many options to "open with". The last thing I want to do is remember to use the original file explorer to deal with pictures.
I'm really started to be reminded of a certain apple product... you need an app for that.
If someone just streamlined all the apps to work as one they'd have my money.
In any event thanks for your reply....
Media scanning is part of Android OS design. This is poorly designed and poorly implemented, IMO. On my phone, everytime I power up the phone, it renders my phone unresponsive for a minute or two (depending on how many files and whether or not I have an external SD card). The scanning process needs to scan the entire file system to make sure every media file is indexed in the database.
FWIW I worked around this issue with one of the random market apps for SD updating. There's a number that work, basically it just initiates a refresh manually. Alternately you can plug it into your PC with USB and then unplug it.
Got the name of any of those apps?
I realized you can't change the lock screen from anything but the stock gallery.....
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SDRescan, one of the oldest, still usefull apps in the market.
Rescan Media, pretty much the same app with a nicer icon and an auto quit option.
I just copied over my Camera directory from my Galaxy Nexus to my new N4, but when I view the Gallery on the N4, the thumbnails are grouped with all videos first, then images after. Newly taken images show up before the videos in the first slots as normal. I also tried to empty the Gallery cache and rebooted, but they are still grouped this way.
Is this just how the N4 Gallery works now? Kind of annoying to have to scroll through all of my videos to see my older pictures. Everything should just be chronological like it was on the Galaxy Nexus. My view is set to the default grid view if that matters.
Anyone else seeing this issue?
ok, I think I figured it out. For some reason I am unable to connect my GNex to my Mac using the Android File Transfer app, so I used Airdroid instead to zip the /Camera directory and download it to my Mac instead. I think Airdroid changed the timestamp on the files in doing so, and since the videos took longer to compress/download, they got stamped with the most recent timestamp.
I think the custom ROM (Liquid 412 rc7) is preventing me from connecting to my Mac normally. Looks like I have some digging to do!
Hmm, I connected to my Windows laptop and was able to copy the /Camera from the GNex fine, then back to my N4 /Camera, rebuilt the cache and still have the videos all displayed first!
Anyone else have this problem? Or know of a way to get the Gallery to list the thumbnails of images and videos based on creation date?
TIA.
I have recently rooted my Google Nexus 7 (2012) and flashed it with Lineage OS / Android Nougat.
All is fine except the thumbnails of my video files have a green, mauve (or both) tint.
This applies to 99% of .mp4 files, whilst .wmv, .flv and one odd .mp4 files have no thumbnails-
just the standard camera icon.
This is happening irrespective of what file viewer I use. (eg the stock "Files" app or Astro)
Thumbnails of jpeg pictures are ok and unaffected.
I have tried the usual emptying of caches, and deleting thumbnail folders to no avail.
Internet trawl hasn't helped.
Can anyone here please.