Hiya XDA,
Only a small issue but it's annoying nonetheless so I was hoping one of you great folks might be able to help me out. Whilst snapping a couple of HDR pictures on holiday, my Nexus 4 (running stock 4.3) crashed and rebooted. Since the crash, the order of photos has been lost in the camera folder in the stock gallery. Rather than having the most recent photos at the front and moving back chronologically, photospheres have now been moved to the front in chronological order, and after that are all my standard, non-photosphere pictures.
The reason this is annoying is because whenever I take a new picture, I can no longer swipe to get to the picture I just took. Instead swiping on the camera brings up the first picture in the gallery, which is a photosphere I took a few days ago. To get to the picture I just took, I have to scroll way back through all the photospheres in my gallery before arriving at the most recent picture. Photospheres taken after the crash are also appearing way back along with all the ordinary photos.
I've checked the EXIF data for all my photos and the "date taken" information has not been lost or anything, so I cannot understand why the gallery is ordering my photos so randomly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot :victory:
EDIT: I forgot to mention, I've tried clearing the data and cache of the gallery application, but that didn't fix the issue
Firstly using HDR is a really bad idea since it will spam your data partition with useless temporary files which you can delete if you are rooted:
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Secondly try deleting the thumbnails in that folder, and wipe the gallery data.
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andyabc said:
Firstly using HDR is a really bad idea since it will spam your data partition with useless temporary files which you can delete if you are rooted:
Secondly try deleting the thumbnails in that folder, and wipe the gallery data.
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Thanks for the reply! I generally try not to use HDR too much, only in situations where there's a high contrast between the items I want in the photo. Otherwise I tend to stick with normal mode. I suspect the use of HDR may be what triggered the crash though...?
I tried deleting the thumbnails cache and wiping gallery data again, but sadly it didn't make any difference
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Hi, I was having a play with one earlier - and it appeared that when you take a picture there is no way within the app to see the picture you just took? You have to exit out and go into gallery?
Is there a way around this? Ta
There is an list of latest taken photos on right side... You can even expand it & then it shows all files in image-folder...
Take a look:
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Thanks, I thought it strange there was no way to do this. Buy the model I was playing with (three uk branded) definatly didn't have it - must be different rom versions?
Thanks anyway
Remember that you can flash a normal non-messed up rom from the dev section,
like my orange uk version, is now a on the global rom minus the orange bloatware
Scottland said:
Thanks, I thought it strange there was no way to do this. Buy the model I was playing with (three uk branded) definatly didn't have it - must be different rom versions?
Thanks anyway
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If you swipe the thumbnails to the right, they will disappear... if you swipe from the very right edge of the screen toward the centre.. they will come back!... same with the menus on the other side (but in reverse!)
Is it possible to remove compression from our phone? Try to take a picture and the size only around 700kb when i use 8mp setting.
you can use vignette off the market - but in the tests I've done it doesn't really improve the image quality very much at all.. and actually in some shots I preferred the stock camera's results.
yeah, i like the result of the stock camera apps. But when i transfer the file to my PC and zoom it, the quality still not too good because of the compression. that is why i'm trying to remove the compression.
Wait for my MOD once we get root
I will add photo preview too
Is there any way to have multi shots option???
To press camera button and take 3-5 pictures in a row...
I miss that capability....
vegetaleb said:
Wait for my MOD once we get root
I will add photo preview too
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will wait for that! thx!
Yeah but pray that we get root before the SGS2 get it, I will not keep a phone without root undefinitly
If you shoot a good photo in a special moment, there is maybe a very small part on top of the picture which you would like to crop out, to make the photo perfect! But: If you do that, you will have the following issues:
It reduces the size of your photo - means you loose quality
It will remove the location from your photo - you can't remember where the exact point of shooting was
the photo will not stay in the right sequence in your gallery
maybe you loose exif information
I tried to edit my photos with:
Built in crop
QuickPick
Photo Studio
Photos
No one of them did a good job. Any suggestions from you what the perfect App would be?
Cheers
Samu0815 said:
If you shoot a good photo in a special moment, there is maybe a very small part on top of the picture which you would like to crop out, to make the photo perfect! But: If you do that, you will have the following issues:
It reduces the size of your photo - means you loose quality
It will remove the location from your photo - you can't remember where the exact point of shooting was
the photo will not stay in the right sequence in your gallery
maybe you loose exif information
I tried to edit my photos with:
Built in crop
QuickPick
Photo Studio
Photos
No one of them did a good job. Any suggestions from you what the perfect App would be?
Cheers
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try this
Pic Say Pro
Smoothie Photo Editor
Snapseed is my favorite by far of the bunch. Very easy to work with with its swiping setup. The photos will be placed in the correct order you only have to move them to the original camera directory with a file explorer after editing them.
@defcomg. With that app you can't crop!
dannejanne said:
Snapseed is my favorite by far of the bunch. Very easy to work with with its swiping setup. The photos will be placed in the correct order you only have to move them to the original camera directory with a file explorer after editing them.
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Snapseed is realy very good. It does the job! No, it does the job great! Thank you
Glad I could help!
Sent from my G2
Small background on the issue here, i tried the stock android camera but the video recording was stuck in low resolution and didn't work correctly so i removed it (and the built in gallery), i went back to using the Samsung camera (which i'm not happy with anyway) but when i use the gallery, the thing is laggy as hell, zooming and browsing pictures is jumpy at best, and if i stay in the app, it pretty much freezes the phone up.
So i had a look in the task manager and any time the Gallery is running in the background it constantly uses around 16% of the CPU and the RAM usage goes up and up, at a rate of 50mb+ per minute, keeping the phone hot and draining the battery. The phone will eventually need resetting if left in this state.
Since i wasn't in the mood for troubleshooting, i guessed that the android camera/gallery had messed something up with the samsung one and i just did a full wipe/factory reset, the problem still persists. Do i need to flash the firmware again to fix this? It seems like something is corrupted but i'm not sure why the factory reset hasn't fixed it.
Here's a few screenshots i took over a 4 minute period.
The firmware is I9505XXUEMJ7 4.3
http://i.imgur.com/e46Cve0.png
I think u need update ur firmware. Conect it to Kies 3 and make us a screenshot pls
Joku1981 said:
I think u need update ur firmware. Conect it to Kies 3 and make us a screenshot pls
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I had just done this before your reply and it did need an update, it's now on the latest:
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The problem still remained however i think i've managed to fix it in the last few minutes, I did the following:
Tried Camera JB+ from the Play Store
Disabled the Samsung Gallery app
Didn't like the JB+ camera so removed it
Enabled Samsung Gallery again and now it's not causing problems
I'm not sure if it was the disabling/enabling of the gallery which has fixed it or if it was the install/removal of another camera/gallery, but for now it seems to be fixed, i have been trying everything over the last few days, factory reset, clearing caches and even updating to the newer firmware. Glad it seems to be working (for now at least) but annoying that i don't know why it was happening. Also worried it will happen in the future which could drain the battery in a very short time if i don't notice it quickly.
- Only u have to go Apps - Settings - More - Aplication manager- (last tab) All
- Tap "Gallery" app
- Clean cache
Took a couple of pictures at work this morning and it's doing it again! Not sure what else i can try.
edit: i've just switched g+ picture backup on and it's told me it's updating 139 pictures (there are only about 20 pics on the phone). After checking my account online, i can see it's uploading a bunch of photos that were deleted a long time ago on the phone.
Hello everyone,
I've started to notice that when viewing some images in the stock Gallery app a symbol appears over the image (and also in folder view). This seems to be related to images with a specific ratio between width and height, but I wanted to ask if anyone has a more detailed explanation of it.
TL;DR: Help, my Gallery app is playing tricks on me.
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vap_66 said:
Hello everyone,
I've started to notice that when viewing some images in the stock Gallery app a symbol appears over the image (and also in folder view). This seems to be related to images with a specific ratio between width and height, but I wanted to ask if anyone has a more detailed explanation of it.
TL;DR: Help, my Gallery app is playing tricks on me.
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Click on it?
It looks like panorama.....or maybe the movie view thing in Apple products.
I've forgot to mention: tried tapping, holding, frowning at it, but to no avail. Doesn't seem related to any motion feature/eye control, etc.
vap_66 said:
I've forgot to mention: tried tapping, holding, frowning at it, but to no avail. Doesn't seem related to any motion feature/eye control, etc.
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it simply says that the pic is a panoramic picture
That's what I was thinking, since it needs a specific ratio between width and height, but it applies to any image with that ratio (not only panoramic photos taken with the camera). Problem is, it stays there all the time, and sometimes I have to zoom in and out and move the image around in order to read the text in it.
Can it be disabled? Or what's the purpose of it, really? I can tell by myself that it's a panoramic shot, no need for it.
Thanks.
vap_66 said:
That's what I was thinking, since it needs a specific ratio between width and height, but it applies to any image with that ratio (not only panoramic photos taken with the camera). Problem is, it stays there all the time, and sometimes I have to zoom in and out and move the image around in order to read the text in it.
Can it be disabled? Or what's the purpose of it, really? I can tell by myself that it's a panoramic shot, no need for it.
Thanks.
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You're on panorama mode. Click on mode and select a different mode.
Sent from my fingers to your face using my Samsung Galaxy Note 3!
No, I was talking about the stock Gallery app, not the Camera. Still, it's not in Panorama, but Auto.
That symbol appears in the above mentioned conditions only in the Gallery, regardless of the Camera settings.
But thanks anyway.
Hi,
Just updated to Lollipop (UK unbranded) and after copying all of my pictures back onto the device, Instagram & Whatsapp etc, the stock gallery is sorting odd pictures out of order. If I look at the folders via a file explorer they're all in the correct order but for some reason they aren't in the gallery. I can't see any options any where to sort the gallery other than by time or album so what am I missing? I've been doing the same process of backing up pictures and copying them back on for years and never had this problem.
I've also downloaded QuickPic and if I sort via name they're all in the correct order, as they should be since the filename includes the date for everything, so why is the native Gallery doing this? I've tried recopying the folders that are doing it, clearing the gallery cache and data but it's still the same.
What is happening?!
Anyone?!
No ideas anyone?
SteveyJack said:
Hi,
Just updated to Lollipop (UK unbranded) and after copying all of my pictures back onto the device, Instagram & Whatsapp etc, the stock gallery is sorting odd pictures out of order. If I look at the folders via a file explorer they're all in the correct order but for some reason they aren't in the gallery. I can't see any options any where to sort the gallery other than by time or album so what am I missing? I've been doing the same process of backing up pictures and copying them back on for years and never had this problem.
I've also downloaded QuickPic and if I sort via name they're all in the correct order, as they should be since the filename includes the date for everything, so why is the native Gallery doing this? I've tried recopying the folders that are doing it, clearing the gallery cache and data but it's still the same.
What is happening?!
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Hey there!
I think your problem is the Gallery app sorts pictures by Album and by time and many other categories you should swipe the menu and set it to album like this picture.
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That's normal because after installing a new ROM and factory reset your Note the Gallery app will set on stock settings.
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It's already set to sort by album and it's mostly correct but in some albums, not all, a number of pictures aren't sorted where they should be but I can't see why. For instance the oldest picture in the Whatsapp images folder isn't the last image in the folder, it's like the 54th or something. If I look in file explorer it is the last picture.
SteveyJack said:
It's already set to sort by album and it's mostly correct but in some albums, not all, a number of pictures aren't sorted where they should be but I can't see why. For instance the oldest picture in the Whatsapp images folder isn't the last image in the folder, it's like the 54th or something. If I look in file explorer it is the last picture.
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I'm facing this issue too and its crazy they can't get gallery to sort properly.
Our plain old 'sort by date' withing gallery folders is missing
maksharma231 said:
I'm facing this issue too and its crazy they can't get gallery to sort properly.
Our plain old 'sort by date' withing gallery folders is missing
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I'm glad it's not just me then. Hopefully they fix it in an update.
Sort albums
Press an album until check boxes appear, let go, check mark any other albums you want to move, press and hold one of the checked albums and drag to the desired spot, release
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Never mind checking more than one at a time, it only allowed me to drag one, but maybe I b did it wrong, either way, u canI've at least one at a time