Wow! Stock album app - Xperia Z General

Am I the only one who thinks the stock album app rocks?
The SenseMe slideshow, maps and the globe with your photos plotted upon. Very cool, Sony.
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Yup it is awesome
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to be honest, i like the albumfromthe note 2 more
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You're not the only one. Sony's apps ( Album, Movies, Walkman, PSM ) have always been Xperia's strong features. I don't care too much about Movies app, but Album and Walkman ? Best I've ever used. Good design, great performance, sufficient features, unified user experience.

Its amazing cool i show it the other day to my friends and they were like "waattt" so impressed :thumbup:
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lordjan1986 said:
to be honest, i like the albumfromthe note 2 more
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You like just because you not yet familiar with Xperia Album, use longer and you cant take note 2 album anymore . .

Nope, you are not the only one. I like Sony Album too. If can they add in sort features, it will be perfect.

I love all the stock Sony apps, they have great designs. :good:

Not keen on the Album app.
Cenobite_ said:
Am I the only one who thinks the stock album app rocks?
The SenseMe slideshow, maps and the globe with your photos plotted upon. Very cool, Sony.
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I unfortunately do not like it and have been a long time user of QuickPic. My main reason for disliking the app is that there doesn't appear to be a setting which allows me to sort my pictures and thus they are all jumbled. There does not appear to be the option to disable the app either. Any suggestions?

I only use quickpic for moving and hiding pics and folders. It's basic, baggy and awful generally.
As for the stock album app, it's amazing. You can view your pics in folders or in the default view, zooming in and out shows more and less thumbnails to view which looks absolutely brilliant and it's super fast to view online albums like Facebook too.
The album app does not need to stop its perfectly fine being in the background just like all android apps are. Gone are the day's of needing to kill apps. Live in the future man, and open app is a fast app!

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I unfortunately do not like it and have been a long time user of QuickPic. My main reason for disliking the app is that there doesn't appear to be a setting which allows me to sort my pictures and thus they are all jumbled. There does not appear to be the option to disable the app either. Any suggestions?
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I remember reading there is a setting for the folders.
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I love this bigger and smaller pull with 2 fingers :good:
The album app is really very nice!

Cenobite_ said:
Am I the only one who thinks the stock album app rocks?
The SenseMe slideshow, maps and the globe with your photos plotted upon. Very cool, Sony.
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Yes and no, would be much better if you could select folders to include or exclude. Because then it would have saved me 2.3 hours moving my music off the card, and back on with Sony media sync. That Sony USB interface to micro sd in the phone is damn slow.
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scott2121210 said:
I unfortunately do not like it and have been a long time user of QuickPic. My main reason for disliking the app is that there doesn't appear to be a setting which allows me to sort my pictures and thus they are all jumbled. There does not appear to be the option to disable the app either. Any suggestions?
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Agree with you here, quite frustrating. Would be much nicer if you could see them by folders or create folders to group them

danw_oz said:
Yes and no, would be much better if you could select folders to include or exclude. Because then it would have saved me 2.3 hours moving my music off the card, and back on with Sony media sync. That Sony USB interface to micro sd in the phone is damn slow.
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USB with my micro sd is quite fast do you have a good sdcard?
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Where can I find the setting for showing my pics sorted by folders?

danw_oz said:
Yes and no, would be much better if you could select folders to include or exclude. Because then it would have saved me 2.3 hours moving my music off the card, and back on with Sony media sync. That Sony USB interface to micro sd in the phone is damn slow.
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Agree with you here, quite frustrating. Would be much nicer if you could see them by folders or create folders to group them
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I wholly agree with you too. I use WhatsApp extensively to send picures and i end up with hundreds of duplicates in the album app which is rather frustrating. I agree that having folder ability would be much easier to handle the pictures.
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daniel689 said:
I love this bigger and smaller pull with 2 fingers :good:
The album app is really very nice!
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You can get the same effect by swiping horizontaly. Then you get level by level zoom, just to let you know

I already loved the album app but had never tried senseme until now and damn thats really awesome, wp sony!!

I know it is a workaround in a sense but doesn't the .nomedia file work to prevent unwanted folders being scanned?

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USB with my micro sd is quite fast do you have a good sdcard?
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Yep one of the best, Sandisk extreme pro (95MB/s), only get about 10MB/s transfer, even slow to the internal phone memory (same speed) usb 3 UDMA however 60-80Mb/s, than is obviously my prefered option to transfer 16+GB of data

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Gallery - Be careful.

Today, I opened gallery after a long time. It was full of all sorts of pictures! If you watch any kind of movie, gallery saves few pictures from that! I don't know how this happens, because there are no settings to avoid this.
So did you watch a p0rn clip and it shows up in Gallery? LoL
busted!
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Add a blank file named .nomedia to any directory you don't want Gallery to index.
This can also speed the start-up process.
Geletis said:
Add a blank file named .nomedia to any directory you don't want Gallery to index.
This can also speed the start-up process.
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Ok It worked once I restarted my device,but is there a way to block audio form games like Gangstar and asphalt from being shown in your music app?
Is there a .noaudio file or something?
Just be glad you found it first, not your wife/girlfriend
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GANJDROID said:
Just be glad you found it first, not your wife/girlfriend
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Lol
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This is priceless... and a warning to all as well
synplex said:
Ok It worked once I restarted my device,but is there a way to block audio form games like Gangstar and asphalt from being shown in your music app?
Is there a .noaudio file or something?
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.nomedia should work for the music
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".noaudio" is a good idea, and we're looking forwarded for something ".nocontact" ".nosms" LOL
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Remember this! The moment our devices started spying on us!
The End Is Near!
lmao!. if the wife/girlfriend *****es, tell her who cares
Could be worse - i started having screenshots of asphalt 5 as my camera prieview rather than the image. It still took pictures of whatever the camera was pointing at though
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Add a blank file named .nomedia to any directory you don't want Gallery to index.
This can also speed the start-up process.
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Phew! Thanks bud. You must be Einstein reincarnated!
b0ricuaguerrero said:
lmao!. if the wife/girlfriend *****es, tell her who cares
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If she was complaining that I had porn on my Tab, she better be plannin' to put out more.
seanblader said:
if she was complaining that i had porn on my tab, she better be plannin' to put out more.
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i like that!!!
brilldoctor said:
Could be worse - i started having screenshots of asphalt 5 as my camera prieview rather than the image. It still took pictures of whatever the camera was pointing at though
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I believe that has something to do with exiting out of the game with home, or LCD Density changer, its one of them, used to happen to me as well,

Camera and gallery

Anyone having problems taking pictures and then they dint show up in gallery or the show up as a broken image icon? Happening more and more regularly on my arc.
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Anyone having problems taking pictures and then they dint show up in gallery or the show up as a broken image icon? Happening more and more regularly on my arc.
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Not for me. But noticed once that an photo I took took like a minute to show in gallery.
redesignni said:
Anyone having problems taking pictures and then they dint show up in gallery or the show up as a broken image icon? Happening more and more regularly on my arc.
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Nope. Works fine without a glitch.
I don't have any problems simmilar to yours even if sometimes it takes some seconds before its refreshing the new pics in gallery
Hmmm, I did a factory reset so hopefully that will help. Ill post back with the results
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Is any1 using SD card increase makes your card read and write faster I think u should take a look at the app I have it on and no problems with mine it's on the market if needed
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.sdincrease.it
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Yeah I face it all the time, I tried factory reset but didn't help.
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Mesho have u tried this SD thing I said
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Is any1 using SD card increase makes your card read and write faster I think u should take a look at the app I have it on and no problems with mine it's on the market if needed
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.sdincrease.it
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I have tried this one. Not that helpful for Arc (maybe we need more options in the slide bar?)
IIRC, the write/read speed was 5/15 MB/s before I use SD speed increase. And after trying 1k,2k,3k, and 4k buffer, the read speed is about the same (4.8~5.7) and probably have a slight boost at the first second of writing. The read speed increased a bit to 17~20 MB/s.
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Mesho have u tried this SD thing I said
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sorry I din't see it, It requires a root, my phone is not.
Mesho Arc said:
sorry I din't see it, It requires a root, my phone is not.
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All u need is gingerbreak to root its simple and doesn't do anything bad to ya phone really and then u could use it I think the app is really good my speeds are loads better
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redesignni said:
Anyone having problems taking pictures and then they dint show up in gallery or the show up as a broken image icon? Happening more and more regularly on my arc.
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For me sometimes after putting new photos or videos on my arc, it doesnt refresh gallery and all pictures are empty. I need to hit taskkiller and reopen gallery to fix that one, maybe we've got same prob.
Maybe the gallery thumbnails are bugged, causing a strange behaviour(albums appearing and dissapearing). You can erase them this way:
Go to SD(with Astro or similar) - Android - Data - com.sonyericsson.gallery - delete "cache" folder.
Then restart the gallery and let it load everything.
I hope it helps.
The stock android gallery is pretty slow and dreadful, it used to cause my htc hero to grind to a halt, and it's still not exactly snappy on the arc.
If you want a fast gallery app, try quickpic from the market.
Still got the problem... cant take screenshots on phone either so cant show how it looks. Ive put a 32gb card into the phone would that make a difference?? just took about 10 pics tonite and cant view any of them.... broken image thumbnail pic.
finally i found my solution!
my scans found no media, nothing in the gallery, nothing in the music player and i was going crazy, but then i found this:
If there is a (possibly empty) file named ".nomedia" (without quotations, and make sure you put the dot as the first character) in a folder of your card, then this folder WILL NOT BE SCANNED (if there is a .nomedia in the root of the SD card, then the SD card will NOT be scanned).
So make sure you delete any unwanted of those and then try
"Rescan Media" by Aditya Talpade (android market)
Disable Facebook inside Xperia, if you dont want to suffer from gallery load times, the gallery tries to sync a new folder called "new from friends" each time.
I didn't have a problem with the gallery till I got the 2.3.4 update. Like most, I have the same problem, it takes time to open a snap. Sometimes it's displayed as a broken image.
What would be the best alternative to the stock gallery app?
I've got one other problem. I had formatted my phone a month back. Before that, I backed up my photos. When I transferred them back, the order got messed up in the gallery and so are the dates. Anyway to rectify that?

Automatically picking up photos from laptop

This thing is able to display photos from my laptop without setup. They just show up in photos.
Is this a feature of other phones before s3?
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Cool story bro
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Cool story bro
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I take it you've already discovered this?
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fatboypup said:
Cool story bro
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Lol that made my night.
Devices:
Motorola DroidX
Motorola Droid
Motorola Cliq
Asus Transformer
Lg Revolution
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HaXERxPaYLaY said:
Lol that made my night.
Devices:
Motorola DroidX
Motorola Droid
Motorola Cliq
Asus Transformer
Lg Revolution
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Ok then
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I think that it is a feature called wireless kies or something where you can easily transfer pictures through kies wirelessly.
My life for Aiur
wow people downing OP's already lol
So did you have the USB cable hooked up first. Or was this over wifi?
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Mine did too... and I havent even connected to my laptop, nor do I have kies I installed on my laptop... interesting
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Is this automatic through wi-fi?
If so, can I just go over to some random girl's house hoping for pics?
HAHA, geez people, give the OP a break. Need more info - you must have connected the GS3 to the computer in some way first right?
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p0rkguy said:
Is this automatic through wi-fi?
If so, can I just go over to some random girl's house hoping for pics?
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Creeper.
GALLERY
The new TouchWiz Gallery app builds on the stock ICS offering with a handful of new features. Firstly, if you’re using a Wifi network with any DLNA devices already connected, you’ll see them listed alongside your on-device albums (and any Picasa or Google+ photos, of course). Press the menu key and you’ll find the option to manually scan for nearby DLNA devices.
http://www.androidcentral.com/top-10-things-you-need-know-about-your-galaxy-s-iii
fatboypup said:
GALLERY
http://www.androidcentral.com/top-10-things-you-need-know-about-your-galaxy-s-iii
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Good link! I disabled the double tap to launch Sir... I mean S Voice on the home button. Took care of the home button lag.
archtech3d said:
Good link! I disabled the double tap to launch Sir... I mean S Voice on the home button. Took care of the home button lag.
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by the time my phone comes ill be a pro ............lol
ladle3000 said:
This thing is able to display photos from my laptop without setup. They just show up in photos.
Is this a feature of other phones before s3?
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Op where did you find your pics stored at? Ive been looking for them and couldnt find em
brownmc77 said:
Op where did you find your pics stored at? Ive been looking for them and couldnt find em
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In my gallery it lists an album with the name of my pc. Try enabling nfc. I was prompted enable it when setting up wallet and they showed up after that.
My computer is set to share files and pictures for homegroup on windows 7. So this might help too.
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fatboypup said:
GALLERY
The new TouchWiz Gallery app builds on the stock ICS offering with a handful of new features. Firstly, if you’re using a Wifi network with any DLNA devices already connected, you’ll see them listed alongside your on-device albums (and any Picasa or Google+ photos, of course). Press the menu key and you’ll find the option to manually scan for nearby DLNA devices.
http://www.androidcentral.com/top-10-things-you-need-know-about-your-galaxy-s-iii
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Wow. Nice 180 fatboypup
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yeah i noticed this feature also...
the other thing that happened on its own was being able to put pictures/videos on my TV without any setup... and its not even a samsung, just a TV connected to my network...
video streamed well, a .mkv video file too... which is playable through the stock video playing app, another nice surprise
ladle3000 said:
Wow. Nice 180 fatboypup
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forgive me? im a tad frustrated waiting for my unit to ship :angel:
fatboypup said:
forgive me? im a tad frustrated waiting for my unit to ship :angel:
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Understandable. I'm jealous of your future 32 gig
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how do i turn this feature off been trying to figure that out?
last thing i need is the wife going through my gallery only to see a bunch of Pron pics from the computer haha

Gallery app ?

Does anyone know of a good app for the photos? I really do not like the way the gallery is laid out. I have tried a few, but they do not upload directly from the camera.
If you found a good gallery replacement, please post a link.
Thanks in advance! :thumbup::beer:
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Quickpic?
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Iphony89 said:
Quickpic?
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+1 best photo app out IMO
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+1 best photo app out IMO
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Love Quickpic, but it has no support for Picasa.
I love QuickPic and use it regularly. I just wish I could find an app that showed gallery in a hirearchial structure. ie. I have pics in several folders by event under a folder 2011, however you don't see the parent folder structure organization, so they aren't as informative. Yes, I know I can embedded the dates in the exif data, but dates were just the easiest example, could also be done for wallpapers based on category, but I dropsync both tablet and phone images on the phone and have same folders under each parent directory.
Haven't found any other app that does this, unless it's a feature I missed in QuickPic or Scalado Album( which is also pretty decent ).
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Does anyone know of a good app for the photos? I really do not like the way the gallery is laid out. I have tried a few, but they do not upload directly from the camera.
If you found a good gallery replacement, please post a link.
Thanks in advance! :thumbup::beer:
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Dropbox?
If you don't have it yet that is a referral link and if you use that to sign up we both get 500mb of space for free. Also dropbox's app seems to work well and you get free space for uploading pictures, up to 3gigs from just uploading photos =D. You can give links out directly from your dropbox so it should work for what you want not sure what else there is for it. *Oh and there is a nice toggle for only uploading while you are in wifi if you want that so save data and it will do it automatically*
I don't think I would pay for a service like dropbox but it is awesome with it being free.
QuickPic is the best!
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QuickPic is the best!
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+1 totally out does all others
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Just downloaded it....thanks guys!:thumbup:
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Native Gallery App ...google photos is terrible

So i hate the google photos app, I use to to backup and store my photos but the native app is just aweful imo, anyone know if theres a native gallery app or a decent third party?
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So i hate the google photos app, I use to to backup and store my photos but the native app is just aweful imo, anyone know if theres a native gallery app or a decent third party?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.diune.pictures
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
I am sure there are more out there-these 2 I have used personally and they are pretty good
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.diune.pictures
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
I am sure there are more out there-these 2 I have used personally and they are pretty good
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thanks ill give these a try, i found out i can sort "albums" on google photos by going to picasa.google.com selecting hte album >organize adn then sort from newest to oldest i think its insane we have to do that lol
I agree...it is...I got used to it though...
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What's working wrong with it? I love it.
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What's working wrong with it? I love it.
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as personal preference im not a fan of "date view" I organize via folders so my OCD kicks in, I create albums(collections) and by default its oldest to newest (which can be fixed via picasa pc web interface after some cursing and google) I just am not fan of the overall interface. Ideally; for example, id have a folder on my device and google photos would keep that folder so if i have a reddit saved images folder lets call it "reddit" it would backup my images to that folder and keep the folder structure on the google photos side.
Theres nothing wrong with the photo's app per-say i just prefer the "gallery" method of sorting and organizing
QuickPic, probably THE BEST 3rd party gallery app
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QuickPic, probably THE BEST 3rd party gallery app
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yup, I've been using QuickPic for a while
Google Photos is terrible apart from being able to back up my photos for free
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934530310
That's what I use. Just install the apk from within the zip.
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QuickPic, probably THE BEST 3rd party gallery app
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Absolutely!! Quick pic is THE best Android gallery app BY FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR. Seriouisly it's hands down the best. I can't even begin to list the reasons why cuz I don't feel like making a wall of text to crit you for over 9000!
QuickPic
In my opinion Sony album is better than quick pics. You can find the apk on xda
I've been using kk gallery app since it's basically just the aosp one.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moblynx.galleryics
Another vote for QuickPic here. Best replacement I found when Google Photos took over as the primary app for Nexus devices.
Focus by Francisco Franco
If you get the beta of his g-plus you can use your fingerprint for a photo vault !
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