I've noticed that wallpapers applied via the Gallery app come out blurry and poorly scaled but the same image, applied by other means, work fine. For example, I can apply an image by opening the gallery (either by hand or by long press on the desktop) and the result will be blurry and scaled poorly. If I open the same file in another image viewer or a browser and apply it from there it works fine. Is this a bug in the gallery app on the Galaxy Tab? Has any one else noticed? How are others applying wallpapers?
Example:
Applied via Dolphin HD (clear)
i.imgur.com/5tb52.png
Applied via Gallery (blurry):
i.imgur.com/fi8ZP.png
The Gallery app doesn't appear to use the full res versions of the photos, and the updated one that uses better photos has some FC errors. I use an app called Crop Wallpaper, which sets itself up so you can use the sharing from your gallery or any other photo app to send it over, crop the area you want, apply it, and you're all set.
Free on the market and is the best solution I've found so far.
Yes, that's also what I found out. I'm using Multi Picture Live Wallpaper now, you can define different picture for each page in the homepage. It's free from the market.
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PrinceOD said:
The Gallery app doesn't appear to use the full res versions of the photos, and the updated one that uses better photos has some FC errors. I use an app called Crop Wallpaper, which sets itself up so you can use the sharing from your gallery or any other photo app to send it over, crop the area you want, apply it, and you're all set.
Free on the market and is the best solution I've found so far.
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Thanks for Crop wallpaper, the UI needs some work but gets the job done perfectly
PrinceOD said:
The Gallery app doesn't appear to use the full res versions of the photos, and the updated one that uses better photos has some FC errors. I use an app called Crop Wallpaper, which sets itself up so you can use the sharing from your gallery or any other photo app to send it over, crop the area you want, apply it, and you're all set.
Free on the market and is the best solution I've found so far.
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Just downloaded Crop Wallpaper and it works amazingly well. Thanks for the recommendation.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to upload multiple photos to Facebook from the SGS2, directly from the gallery if possible? I have downloaded an app called Speedy Uploader, but was wondering if there is any way t o do it straight from the gallery.
I use a cool app called 'Speedy Uploader'.
Hope that helps.
Cralis said:
I use a cool app called 'Speedy Uploader'.
Hope that helps.
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Did you even read the post?
OP, there isn't a native way but something like the Speedy Uploader app you're using should allow you to select all the images you like and then use the 'Share' button. That'll stop you having to open a second app.
Anyone have any idea how to keep Album and Ebook Covers from showing up in the gallery. Want it to be just my photos etc from cam and downloads but they all show up there in all different folders?
Find where those pictures are stored. Go in that folder and make a new folder call .nomedia
Thanks
baseballfanz said:
Find where those pictures are stored. Go in that folder and make a new folder call .nomedia
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Worked really well also for Music folder with all album covers etc, Ebooks etc
norm883 said:
Anyone have any idea how to keep Album and Ebook Covers from showing up in the gallery. Want it to be just my photos etc from cam and downloads but they all show up there in all different folders?
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Just touch and hold the "offending" file and an option menu will pop up where you can select "Exclude" - done.
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Just touch and hold the "offending" file and an option menu will pop up where you can select "Exclude" - done.
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in what program?
i tried in Gallery but not getting that option..
I went in to file explorer too and no option there..
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I use a great little free app called quickpic which allows you to chose which folders are listed and it loads up large galleries nice and quick.
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personally i find the default Gallery app pretty rubbish, it only refreshes content on a reboot for example.
i try and avoid using it as much as possible.
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I use a great little free app called quickpic which allows you to chose which folders are listed and it loads up large galleries nice and quick.
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Yes, thats a nice little one.. I just loaded it and it has the exclude in it..
also allows you to backup to the root directry that the offending files are hanging out under..
i.e Books\nonfiction\files.. thus no need to do it individually..
it also works in well with the Picture framer I am using as a widget on one of my home screens..
where I have setup client files for previews.. now I think I just about got the perfect setup for it as a portable
casestudy showcase..so to recap on that..
ESfile explorer - to setup directory links as folders on a home screen
Picture framer to allow 4 large pictures on any one home screen - thus a quick tap takes you in to that themed directry
Quickpic - to run as the main viewer and slideshow engine..
dgcruzing said:
in what program?
i tried in Gallery but not getting that option..
I went in to file explorer too and no option there..
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Very sorry but forgot to tell you that I was using Quickpic rather than Gallery.
Quickpic is excellent.
I love android but for all the bragging Google makes about "real " multitasking I find it really lacking, let's say you get an email and you have an attachment you download and open the picture but then someone calls you and you finish the call you press the multitasking button and want to open the picture again but the gallery is not "open" ist not in the recent apps /multitasking list and if you try to open the gallery by yourself with the launcher or a shortcut the picture you were watching a couple of minutes is not there because "gmail open the picture with the gallery but the gallery is not being used " , then you try to go to gmail then to see your picture there but surprise ! The picture is closed and your back on your mail , you have to reopen/ redownload your picture
What do you guys think ? Am I being to picky ?
Also the thumbs from the task switcher , sometimes the pictures showing there could be from a state your app was 30 minutes ago , they don't update in real time :banghead:
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Don't know about you, but I never had those problems ever
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Works for me.
Are you sure you havn't played with the number of allowed background apps setting in developer options?
Nexus4 has 2GB of RAM, plenty to support the apps you mention.... Android will only start closing background when when memory is low, and form oldest first.
I don't know how exactly android works, but this is my guess on why things happen as you've mentioned.
Each screen in android is called an Activity. When gmail opens picture, it is not opening the entire gallery app.
It's just opening an activity within gallery app to display a picture.Which is why the gallery app is not in multi-tasking list.
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I don't know how exactly android works, but this is my guess on why things happen as you've mentioned.
Each screen in android is called an Activity. When gmail opens picture, it is not opening the entire gallery app.
It's just opening an activity within gallery app to display a picture.Which is why the gallery app is not in multi-tasking list.
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+1 to that, but if you press the gmail icon in the recent apps, the picture would appear in front of you again
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+1 to that, but if you press the gmail icon in the recent apps, the picture would appear in front of you again
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But it shouldn't be that way , its very annoying ,try to open a document in dropbox and start reading it then go to the music player using the task switcher , then try to switch back to your document (using drop box ) tell me what happens ? Your document is nowhere to be found you're again on the main screen of the dropbox app
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Coming from a one S the multitasking on this is a million times better yea it could still use some work but it does most scenarios awesomely
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Chad_Petree said:
I love android but for all the bragging Google makes about "real " multitasking I find it really lacking, let's say you get an email and you have an attachment you download and open the picture but then someone calls you and you finish the call you press the multitasking button and want to open the picture again but the gallery is not "open" ist not in the recent apps /multitasking list and if you try to open the gallery by yourself with the launcher or a shortcut the picture you were watching a couple of minutes is not there because "gmail open the picture with the gallery but the gallery is not being used " , then you try to go to gmail then to see your picture there but surprise ! The picture is closed and your back on your mail , you have to reopen/ redownload your picture
What do you guys think ? Am I being to picky ?
Also the thumbs from the task switcher , sometimes the pictures showing there could be from a state your app was 30 minutes ago , they don't update in real time :banghead:
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If you were to press back you'd go back to the image and such and as a matter a fact i prefer it this way. I don't want every image I view from email to be in my gallery as I didn't save it. The view attachments is a preview of said image. If a call comes in then and it looses focus it I wouldn't expect to go back to the Gallery and find it there since that's not where it was in the first place (even though the Gallery App was the one that opened it. That's like watching videos online then later in the day going back to gallery to expect to find that same video).
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But it shouldn't be that way , its very annoying ,try to open a document in dropbox and start reading it the go the music player using the task switcher , then try to switch back to your document (using drop box ) tell me what happens ? Your document is nowhere to be found you're again on the main screen of the dropbox app
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If this is happening then it is very likely a problem with the application. Android has a great structure in place for multitasking, but developers also have to do their part to make sure their app works as expected.
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+1 to that, but if you press the gmail icon in the recent apps, the picture would appear in front of you again
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If you exit gmail application with the gallery activity still open, of course the picture would appear again when you return. That is live multitasking.
Yeah so true.. its way better on iOS where you get a jiggly icon
*pffttttt* ahh hahahahahaha
Sorry I couldn't keep it together..
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I just wished youtube app plays in the background.
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There is an app called PVStar+ (or similar) which allows you to play Youtube in the background. I use it to listen to concerts...
Anytime you get interrupted with a phone call, complete your call, press back, and your gallery image would appear.
The real answer, I just opened gmail, went to an email with image attached, opened in gallery, then press home. Hit multitask key, and the gallery image appears with the gmail icon and name. So the multitask works correctly like it should. Not sure why this thread states otherwise.
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I love android but for all the bragging Google makes about "real " multitasking I find it really lacking, let's say you get an email and you have an attachment you download and open the picture but then someone calls you and you finish the call you press the multitasking button and want to open the picture again but the gallery is not "open" ist not in the recent apps /multitasking list and if you try to open the gallery by yourself with the launcher or a shortcut the picture you were watching a couple of minutes is not there because "gmail open the picture with the gallery but the gallery is not being used " , then you try to go to gmail then to see your picture there but surprise ! The picture is closed and your back on your mail , you have to reopen/ redownload your picture
What do you guys think ? Am I being to picky ?
Also the thumbs from the task switcher , sometimes the pictures showing there could be from a state your app was 30 minutes ago , they don't update in real time :banghead:
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#firstworldproblems
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Android relies heavily on the back button to navigate through the os. Learn to use it and your life will be a lot better.
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shotta35 said:
If you were to press back you'd go back to the image and such and as a matter a fact i prefer it this way. I don't want every image I view from email to be in my gallery as I didn't save it. The view attachments is a preview of said image. If a call comes in then and it looses focus it I wouldn't expect to go back to the Gallery and find it there since that's not where it was in the first place (even though the Gallery App was the one that opened it. That's like watching videos online then later in the day going back to gallery to expect to find that same video).
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No, no you're getting me wrong , what i mean is that it would be better if when you open the gallery the image should be there until you close the gallery when you close it then the picture should be gone which brings me to my other complain, the multitasking button should really kill the apps , not just delete them from the list, well not really kill them since android has to keep the apps "open in the background" just reset them to their "stock state" just so that the background syncing/notifications still work
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I just wished youtube app plays in the background.
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This is absurd really, if im watching a video and then i get a message in whatsapp and i reply it , puff my video is gone, i dont use youtube mobile only for that reason
RogerPodacter said:
Anytime you get interrupted with a phone call, complete your call, press back, and your gallery image would appear.
The real answer, I just opened gmail, went to an email with image attached, opened in gallery, then press home. Hit multitask key, and the gallery image appears with the gmail icon and name. So the multitask works correctly like it should. Not sure why this thread states otherwise.
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Well maybe gmail was a bad example, but you have to admit that the way multitasking works in android is very patchy and not only on third developer apps
AW: Multitasking needs some serious improvements :'(
Apps do not multitask at all on Android, only services do. When an app goes to the background, the OS asks it to pause and save its state. When it comes back to foreground, the OS asks the app to resume and load its state. This creates the illusion of multitasking, because the app continues where you left, but only works if the app developer follows the guidelines.
I am trying to add a photo to a post in Facebook but it only gives me the gallery with 1.000's of photos to sort through. I can't look by folder. and at that even in the gallery app it won't show my folders i have synced to my phone with Cheetah Sync. So the photos i am looking for for Facebook won't be found from the gallery app so therefore i can't add it to Facebook. I'm pissed. I even changed my defaults to Quikpic and no difference. what do I do?
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I am trying to add a photo to a post in Facebook but it only gives me the gallery with 1.000's of photos to sort through. I can't look by folder. and at that even in the gallery app it won't show my folders i have synced to my phone with Cheetah Sync. So the photos i am looking for for Facebook won't be found from the gallery app so therefore i can't add it to Facebook. I'm pissed. I even changed my defaults to Quikpic and no difference. what do I do?
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Stop using Facebook?
I kid (kinda).
Is there no menu to swipe out from the left? Usually it gives you options to choose there.
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facebook never developed this option on android. it's an ios facebook app feature only
masri1987 said:
facebook never developed this option on android. it's an ios facebook app feature only
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So it's a Facebook issue? I don't remember having this problem with the GS7. I'll have to look at it and compare. I was thinking I had this problem with my iPhone 6+ i had. It's just ridiculous to have to go through thousands of photos at random to find something when I know exactly what folder it's in.
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So it's a Facebook issue? I don't remember having this problem with the GS7. I'll have to look at it and compare. I was thinking I had this problem with my iPhone 6+ i had. It's just ridiculous to have to go through thousands of photos at random to find something when I know exactly what folder it's in.
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maybe you were using a samsung pre-installed version of facebook, i never do anyway, nor have i ever seen a option with folders.
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Stop using Facebook?
I kid (kinda).
Is there no menu to swipe out from the left? Usually it gives you options to choose there.
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uninstall ..phones run so better without that pig
I use Facebook in the web browser. Uploaded a photo via "folder" that way. Can't justify having an app for Facebook when the web site functions better.
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masri1987 said:
maybe you were using a samsung pre-installed version of facebook, i never do anyway, nor have i ever seen a option with folders.
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Does Samsung have a different version installed? I can't remember.
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