Ever since the 4.3 update, trying to text a picture with the stock messaging app gives me an error to "Select a Different Media" and will not attach the picture. This happens only with downloaded images. Camera pictures and screen shots are fine. This never happened before as I to long press and download a picture from the browser and text it all the time. Downloading and sending gifs like this work too, for some reason. It's only regular images that won't attach.
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After I download a photo from an email message it takes really long for the photo to open in Gallery. The Gallery opens and says "loading new photos and folders" for a few seconds, then the screen goes blank for a few seconds, then finally the photo appears. Why is this? The photo is already downloaded and should appear in an instant like on other phones.
I have a stock AT&T S4 (rooted with some built in apps removed) and I am having trouble opening images attached to MMS messages. They show fine in the messaging app as a preview and I can long click to choose "view slideshow" but when I single tap on the image to open it full screen the image can't be loaded.
I cleared my app defaults so that when the image was clicked it would ask which viewer to use. I tried QuickPic and it just flashes and goes back to the messaging app. I tried ES explorer's built in image viewer and it goes to a blank screen with the error "could not load image"
It doesn't matter if I click a received message or if i click one of my previous sent messages.
Any ideas?
It seems that messaging depends on gallery (to view mms full screen), and gallery may depend on google+ so unless you replace you your messaging app do not remove gallery or Google+
Luckily I had a nandroid backup of the system without changes. I restored it and tried removing the gallery application and my MMS viewing broke again. It sucks that I can't use Quickpic to view the pictures.
Does anyone have a problem uploading a photo for a contact? Mine does not work - when I select a photo during contact edit, it does not upload. I then launch Gallery and select the photo to "Set as" a contact photo. The device screen goes black for a few seconds and then crashes with the message "Unfortunately, Contacts has stopped". Eventually, I had to use another device running Android 4.2 to load the photo for a contact.
I am using the default Message app on my at&t MotoX. Anytime I send an MMS message it gives me a blank white thumbnail box in the message thread.
If I click on View Slideshow from the MMS message menu it shows me the picture, but never the thumbnail in the thread. If I reboot the phone then the thumbnail appears in the thread.
I am sending these messages from the camera app. Anybody else notice this glitch? It does not do it on all messages at once. Seems to only do it on the most resent MMS that I sent.
The person gets the message fine by the way.
There are so many glitches to my phone after this recent update I cannot even begin to list them, but the current one bugging me is when I save a pic I get in an email, for instance. the "download manager" downloads it, and it shows up in my notification bar as being complete, but it is not in my gallery, like it used to be. It is nowhere. If I click on the pic in my notification bar it will open it, but there aren't any options. Pressing and holding, double-tapping, etc do nothing (except magnifying the pic).
My email program (Yahoo) doesn't have an option to choose where my phone downloads the pic. This was not a problem prior to this update, and pics I would save off the internet or from my email would go to a "downloads" folder in the gallery.
When I search on the phone for "download manager" to find a folder or something where all these pics reside, the phone tells me no such thing exists, lol
I appreciate any help!
Liz