Galaxy s4 gallery keeps crashing?!? - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

what can I do? I go into gallery, then it's usable for 4 seconds, then closes. I've went into app info and cleared data and cache. I've wiped cache partition. nothing seems to work. it was usable yesterday. rooting has gotten me so many issues. my gallery thumbnails are over 9 gb gallery issues... please help. thanks
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Did it start to happen after rooting? What root method did you use and what rom are you on?
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no, I've been rooted since may. it started this morning. and i think i used twrp method to root. I'm not using a rom. Idk how to.
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ahura999 said:
no, I've been rooted since may. it started this morning. and i think i used twrp method to root. I'm not using a rom. Idk how to.
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Ok, you're running stock firmware. Are you storing pictures on the external sdcard? I'm thinking you have a corrupted file. Are the pics backed up any where? Corrupted file would explain the large thumb nail size.
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really? well uh my laptop died too.... (I'm in a MAJOR technological crisis... and to top it off, I just underwent a surgery on my foot which makes living with these issues 100X more frustrating) I'll backup all pics onto my new computer and delete my SD card and restore pics.... but the thing is, one time I'd unmounted and completely removed the SD card and it still showed a 9 gb thumbnail. how can the file get corrupted? I've never done anything to it. but the major issue I'm having right now is the gallery app crashing on me... i am able to view pics and videos through other app galleries like quick pic... but I really want to use stock gallery cause it has weather tags as well... i just like the extra details.... -_- haha. Thx and look forward to your reply.
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ahura999 said:
really? well uh my laptop died too.... (I'm in a MAJOR technological crisis... and to top it off, I just underwent a surgery on my foot which makes living with these issues 100X more frustrating) I'll backup all pics onto my new computer and delete my SD card and restore pics.... but the thing is, one time I'd unmounted and completely removed the SD card and it still showed a 9 gb thumbnail. how can the file get corrupted? I've never done anything to it. but the major issue I'm having right now is the gallery app crashing on me... i am able to view pics and videos through other app galleries like quick pic... but I really want to use stock gallery cause it has weather tags as well... i just like the extra details.... -_- haha. Thx and look forward to your reply.
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Before you do all that, have u tried to clear gallery cashe in app manager under settings. If not it's worth a try...

thanks for trying to help, I mentioned that I already did that in the first post . I'm actually thinking of unrooting later. but idk... I mean iPhone was so much easier to use and even I thought it was an overrated phone. perhaps I should just use galaxy s4 uprooted so everything will just be bearable to use...
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ahura999 said:
thanks for trying to help, I mentioned that I already did that in the first post . I'm actually thinking of unrooting later. but idk... I mean iPhone was so much easier to use and even I thought it was an overrated phone. perhaps I should just use galaxy s4 uprooted so everything will just be bearable to use...
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Rooting has nothing to do with your problem.
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jd1639 said:
Rooting has nothing to do with your problem.
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well is there any other solution
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ahura999 said:
well is there any other solution
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Take your sdcard out and see if out still crashes. What size and brand of card do you have. 64 gb SanDisk have caused some problems.
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I have a 64 gb class 10 San disk..... oh no lol. what do I do -_-
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A lot of people have been having problems with them. I haven't paid that much attention to what the fix is other than Samsung cards seem to work. Google "64 gb SanDisk xda" and you should find threads that discuss the problem. Sorry I can't help more but I think that's your problem.
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44016102
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jd1639 said:
A lot of people have been having problems with them. I haven't paid that much attention to what the fix is other than Samsung cards seem to work. Google "64 gb SanDisk xda" and you should find threads that discuss the problem. Sorry I can't help more but I think that's your problem.
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44016102
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thanks
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jd1639 said:
A lot of people have been having problems with them. I haven't paid that much attention to what the fix is other than Samsung cards seem to work. Google "64 gb SanDisk xda" and you should find threads that discuss the problem. Sorry I can't help more but I think that's your problem.
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44016102
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now my camera keeps crashing-_-... i think I'm going to unroot... would backing up and restoring via titanium backup affect this?
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ahura999 said:
now my camera keeps crashing-_-... i think I'm going to unroot... would backing up and restoring via titanium backup affect this?
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I'm not sure I understand the question. But if you restored system apps with tibu, yes it could cause problems. You should rarely if ever restore system apps. If you do a batch restore with tibu only restore missing apps and not any system data and apps.
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jd1639 said:
I'm not sure I understand the question. But if you restored system apps with tibu, yes it could cause problems. You should rarely if ever restore system apps. If you do a batch restore with tibu only restore missing apps and not any system data and apps.
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well, i rebooted my phone and it let my camera app run again... i haven't opened my stock gallery app for a while now... I've been using quick pic... and when I opened the galley app it ran perfectly for about 15 seconds(very very slight lag from not opening it in a long time) and then crashed... i really want this problem to be resolved..
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any more ideas? this is frustrating -_-
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I'm encountering the same issues. If I clear Gallery data and restart the phone, sometimes the Gallery will stop crashing. But it will always crash again soon....

azraik said:
I'm encountering the same issues. If I clear Gallery data and restart the phone, sometimes the Gallery will stop crashing. But it will always crash again soon....
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are you rooted as well?
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jd1639 said:
Ok, you're running stock firmware. Are you storing pictures on the external sdcard? I'm thinking you have a corrupted file. Are the pics backed up any where? Corrupted file would explain the large thumb nail size.
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how can I find the corrupt file? is there an app?
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Dropbox gallery intergration illusion of extra 50gb

Anyone know how we can do this.
Would like dropbox files to be in stock gallery without having to copy to sd card giving the illusion of having an extra 50 gb.
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Bump folks. I think this could solve a big issue
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This was built into the galaxy note 2 for the couple days that I had it. I have been looking for a way to do this ever since. This would be very much appreciated if someone could figure it out.
So note 2 gallery app supports this? Wonder if it works on the i9300 port
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Yeah I'm not sure if it was the gallery app itself or in guessing part of touch wiz. I have a titanium backup of every gn2 app. I'll install it on nexus and see what happens
I just tried the port of the note 2 gallery and camera for the sgs3 and it didnt have this feature
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shenery said:
I just tried the port of the note 2 gallery and camera for the sgs3 and it didnt have this feature
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Yah didn't work here either.

Help backing up to pc

I need some help backing up my apps and everything else that should be backed up on my PC.
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Are you rooted? Because if not, I can only help by backing up apk's of your apps to your computer.
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gravitysandwich said:
Are you rooted? Because if not, I can only help by backing up apk's of your apps to your computer.
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I'm not rooted.
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dinosaur1 said:
I'm not rooted.
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Try Carbon app. It allows you to back up apps and their settings without root.
Here's a link to the Play Store page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...gle&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=carbon+backup
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klvnhng said:
Try Carbon app. It allows you to back up apps and their settings without root.
Here's a link to the Play Store page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...gle&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=carbon+backup
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I didn't like the fact that you have to pay for the premium version. Storage is through USB on the N4 otherwise.
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dinosaur1 said:
I didn't like the fact that you have to pay for the premium version. Storage is through USB on the N4 otherwise.
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Backup using Carbon, then transfer the backup files to your PC. Then when you're ready, copy them back and restore.
Besides, what's so bad about having to pay a few bucks for such a great app? All devs work hard to make the apps/mods/ROMs/kernels, etc that they do!
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Android OS background data use?

My data use in the background by my os is using a lot of data. Is this abnormal for a week of use? Seems excessive to me
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My HTC one only uses about 2mb of data per day for comparison.
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That's why its so strange.
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My android os os has used 32mbs since I gotbit on april 27th...
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Should I complain to at&t?
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I just checked and I have the same issue.
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colts187 said:
Should I complain to at&t?
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Att has nothing to do with it...it has to be one of your apps...something is constantly syncing/and or jot stopping its data use...I suggest a factory reset through kies or odin if rebooting the phone doesnt resolve the issue
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mg2195 said:
Att has nothing to do with it...it has to be one of your apps...something is constantly syncing/and or jot stopping its data use...I suggest a factory reset through kies or odin if rebooting the phone doesnt resolve the issue
Thanks. I did a factory reset and that fixed it. Now to figure out the culprit.
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colts187 said:
My data use in the background by my os is using a lot of data. Is this abnormal for a week of use? Seems excessive to me
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I faced the same problem, issue was somewhat with auto backup of data, sync of app data & people details in google account,
BUT the main culprit in my case was uTorrent application.
Even though there was no torrent added to it, i didn't even opened it,
it was using 1GB data daily on WiFi and in data usage it was coming under Android OS usage. I uninstalled it, everything went back to normal.
So try to look for such apps which eat up your data in background, it may not be an error of android OS as such.
Hope this helps, Press THANKS if it did help you
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1 month slow down

It's been a month and I have tons of apps and now the phones all of a sudden lagging. Anyone else notice this?
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Like everything lags or just particular apps/functions (sms, recent apps, etc)? Have you tried wiping cache in recovery?
R u rooted and do u have a recovery?
How about using the built in memory cleaner that frees up ram.add a swap along with your ram.I guess more info is needed to help u
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Use holo launcher hd as ur default launcher....im convinced touchwiz has leaks
I havr advanfed task killer installed and let it run idling. ...normally I never use it but on the rare super lag I kill everything in memory (I.e. no auto kill as normally android does better memory management on its own)
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Had mine for exactly one month today and nope, no lags at all.
Are you using Greenify (if rooted)?
bo8 said:
Had mine for exactly one month today and nope, no lags at all.
Are you using Greenify (if rooted)?
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Yep using greenify, which gives me an extra hour of screen on time
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jball said:
R u rooted and do u have a recovery?
How about using the built in memory cleaner that frees up ram.add a swap along with your ram.I guess more info is needed to help u
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Free ram is wasted ram
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Does anyone even realize that the OP answered their question in their own post?
You have tons of apps OP. That will slow you down.
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graydiggy said:
Does anyone even realize that the OP answered their question in their own post?
You have tons of apps OP. That will slow you down.
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It shouldn't though and most of my apps are grennified
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greentify is ****.
pham818 said:
greentify is ****.
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Why do you say this?
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Why do you say this?
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i mean yeah it works and all but it doesnt mean it stops the lag lol...
Have a ton of crap on your phone will slow it down, and I'm assuming you already knew this. I'm going to assume that you mean your phone took a massive lag attack all of a sudden.
I'm going to say it's something in your memory that keeps launching itself. What's the last app you installed? How many apps run in the background on your phone?
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Have a ton of crap on your phone will slow it down, and I'm assuming you already knew this. I'm going to assume that you mean your phone took a massive lag attack all of a sudden.
I'm going to say it's something in your memory that keeps launching itself. What's the last app you installed? How many apps run in the background on your phone?
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Yes, you are correct one day it just all of a sudden crapped out. I guess I should go through all my apps and see whats up
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Were you able to find out the cause of your phone doing crazy things?
ian1 said:
It's been a month and I have tons of apps and now the phones all of a sudden lagging. Anyone else notice this?
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What rom? wow, umm if you are straight stock, yes you may get lag, go to a custom rom, those issues have been fixed...
Good luck
Thanks
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greentify is ****.
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Greenify is the ****.

Unexpected error messages..

Omg! I seriously think there's something wrong with my phone. So far I have seen almost half of my apps getting an error message saying "unexpected, (the apps name) has stopped". Like wtf half of the times I'm not even using the apps, the message comes out of nowhere. Really annoying.
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I've been getting that too. I reset my phone completely. Still doing it off and on.
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I know Watchon has that problem until you do the initial setup. If they are other Samsung apps you might want to try just opening them up for a bit to see if it fixes.
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For the Samsung apps I've had watchOn, Samsung keyboard, Samsung flip board, text app, camera app and the music player. As for the none Samsung apps as follows, yahoo message, Skype, xda app, Google Chrome, and bsplayer.. I even did a factory reset. I think it's time to call up Verizon to get a replacement.
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Ok, this may sound weird, but have you tried taking your SD Card out... and testing it with that out...
BossJ said:
Ok, this may sound weird, but have you tried taking your SD Card out... and testing it with that out...
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No I have not. I don't think that has anything to do with my SD card since not a lot of people are having the same issue. I mean I can try that, doubt that would do anything. I always take advice anytime. Will try.
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Yea mine stopped after I formatted my SD card using the phone
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Yea mine stopped after I formatted my SD card using the phone
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^This... it's a odd thing to do, but most of the time fixes it... I've had to do it since the first android phones...
justinglock40 said:
Yea mine stopped after I formatted my SD card using the phone
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I will try this tomorrow afternoon when I get off from work at 7am. I will do a factory reset and once I go through the set up I will format the SD card and see if that works. I will report back here tomorrow afternoon. Thanks
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I did what told me to do. It's still a no go, I'm still getting the error pops..
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