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Hey I'm wondering if anyone out there can help me out with my gallery app. It doesn't seem to pick up any pics I have on my sd card. I can take a pic and save it but will disappear from my gallery. I have to open the pic thru root explorer to view it. Does anybody know how to fix this problem? I've deleted my thumbnails and am guessing I deleted something I shouldn't have. I reflashed the stock rom and still have the same issue..Someone plz help
that used to happen to me too it fixes itself but it keeps doing it randomly no problem after i switched rom
Well nice to know my phone isnt the only one doing this..But I need a fix as i can't send any SMS messages since it wont read my pics
I have this issue as well. I can usually make it find new pics if I power-cycle the phone.
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By power cycle do u mean reboot??
Yep. Turn off and back on. Then open the gallery, wait, and wait, and wait. They should eventually appear.
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Nothing ever happens..Im thinking of deleting the .apk and installing the one from the market cause I've already tried everything
Why doesn't the gallery organize photos by date? They all seem to be put randomly in the camera album
innisdb said:
Why doesn't the gallery organize photos by date? They all seem to be put randomly in the camera album
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Happened on the Nexus One. Try a reboot. Should fix
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Happened on the Nexus One. Try a reboot. Should fix
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Unfortunately a reboot did not fix it for me. It's pretty weird, as the order is not random, it just doesn't make any sense.
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Like the thumbnails are different, and then when you go into the picture it changes to what it is... Right? It could be something as simple as the thumbnails made for that specific picture were misplaced by the system on accident. I don't know, I thought a reboot fixed it, but I have the same issue and I thought that fixed it for me, but it still remains.
If thumbnails are the problem you could try clearing the cache on the Gallery app in Settings/Applications/Manage apps.
Also, you could delete all the thumbnail files in the /sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails folder. They should regenerate next time you reboot the phone, or remount the sdcard to the phone (after usb disconnect).
If thumbnails are the problem you could try clearing the cache on the Gallery app in Settings/Applications/Manage apps.
Also, you could delete all the thumbnail files in the /sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails folder. They should regenerate next time you reboot the phone, or remount the sdcard to the phone (after usb disconnect).
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This worked. I did both and then rebooted. Awesome. Gotta love android.
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I have that same sorting issue and restarting helps. But I've been losing pictures. Once i get to 100 pictures i start losing the newest ones. Has anybody had this so far?
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Memnoch30 said:
I have that same sorting issue and restarting helps. But I've been losing pictures. Once i get to 100 pictures i start losing the newest ones. Has anybody had this so far?
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Yes, new pictures disappear for me as well.
There are a slew of bugs with Gingerbread (ringtone changing randomly is another one that constantly reoccurs).
BUMP.
I"ve reported the problem to Google. Please visit link and star. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13419
If anyone else is experiencing disappearing photographs in their Gallery, please visit link and star the issue so attention is brought to it: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13419
Anybody notice if you use two fingers in the Gallery album section, you create a mini slide show? Neat feature.
Yesterday I got a call from my network offering an upgrade to the S5 (from my current s3/i9300) which I accepted only to find out afterwards about the new SD card policy in kitkat.
Is there any news somewhere about if this change is being reversed anytime soon? Otherwise I'm considering returning the phone before I even get it.
Yes I have tried Google but I don't know if there's somewhere it's being mentioned somewhere that I missed e.g. Facebook or Google+.
I know there are root based fixes but I wouldn't want to root it (not yet anyway).
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Yesterday I got a call from my network offering an upgrade to the S5 (from my current s3/i9300) which I accepted only to find out afterwards about the new SD card policy in kitkat.
Is there any news somewhere about if this change is being reversed anytime soon? Otherwise I'm considering returning the phone before I even get it.
Yes I have tried Google but I don't know if there's somewhere it's being mentioned somewhere that I missed e.g. Facebook or Google+.
I know there are root based fixes but I wouldn't want to root it (not yet anyway).
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No, there are a few work-arounds (like Samsung still supporting app2sd, root,...). But Google isn't changing its policy on SD cards.
You can still use the stock app My Files on the S5 to read/write to the SD card...but yes Google is closing loopholes with each update. Just ask the folks that use FolderSync, worked at first with KitKat, then 4.4.2 came along and made it to where the app couldn't sync with the SD card anymore.
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You can still use the stock app My Files on the S5 to read/write to the SD card...but yes Google is closing loopholes with each update. Just ask the folks that use FolderSync, worked at first with KitKat, then 4.4.2 came along and made it to where the app couldn't sync with the SD card anymore.
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I'm one of the folder sync crowd and I'm not happy that apps I've paid for have been crippled in this way Foldersync's not the only app either. I know I could root the phone and get round it that way but at the moment that's not something I'm prepared to do. This all smacks of Google forcing us to use cloud services namely theirs! as a result if I have to go the cloud root it'll be anything but Google Drive.
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I'm one of the folder sync crowd and I'm not happy that apps I've paid for have been crippled in this way Foldersync's not the only app either. I know I could root the phone and get round it that way but at the moment that's not something I'm prepared to do. This all smacks of Google forcing us to use cloud services namely theirs! as a result if I have to go the cloud root it'll be anything but Google Drive.
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You nailed it...
i would also like it reversed
as far as i understand it was designed to clean up orphaned files on the SD card which is all very nice but...
what about all the orphaned files that cannot be touched now if you upgraded your existing phone from 4.3 and the apps no longer have permission???
very poorly thought out move for a zillion dollar company
After trying it out I've decided I'm going to return it, at least until this situation is fixed officially since within 5 minutes I was finding problems which never existed before.
If google are that concerned over SD card management they should at least give the option for the old system like supersu does for root..
It feels like Android is starting to turn into a half-a***ed ios.
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After trying it out I've decided I'm going to return it, at least until this situation is fixed officially since within 5 minutes I was finding problems which never existed before.
If google are that concerned over SD card management they should at least give the option for the old system like supersu does for root..
It feels like Android is starting to turn into a half-a***ed ios.
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FYI- If you root, you can fix the "sd card issue".
Didn't even know there was an sd card issue lol
Rooted before I used anything within 10 mins of receiving phone! Why wouldn't you want to root?
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FYI- If you root, you can fix the "sd card issue".
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How to fix it I have root
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Tripledrop said:
Didn't even know there was an sd card issue lol
Rooted before I used anything within 10 mins of receiving phone! Why wouldn't you want to root?
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did rooting prevent you from using Private mode? can you check?
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How to fix it I have root
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Search for the fix yourself, c'mon there's dozens of threads addressing this. Google is your BFF.
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did rooting prevent you from using Private mode? can you check?
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Just tried, and yes it doesn't enable. .. However there are plenty of apps that do similar aren't there?
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FYI- If you root, you can fix the "sd card issue".
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I know, see my OP.
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Didn't even know there was an sd card issue lol
Rooted before I used anything within 10 mins of receiving phone! Why wouldn't you want to root?
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Mainly the warranty among a few other things.
If the thing supported the SD card as it was OOTB chances are I'd be fine on a stock, un-rooted ROM and there are few other reasons I'd root it otherwise (at least for now).
An app called File expert has sorted this issue out with out root. Available from play Store
any link to which file expert? there seems to be mutliple "file experts". I am another user that is not happy about the sd card situation, nice fat card, unable to move. As far as why not to root, I gotta give it back in a year.
Am I correct in my interpretation that to someone like myself, who only stores photos and music on external card, this has no effect?
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Am I correct in my interpretation that to someone like myself, who only stores photos and music on external card, this has no effect?
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From what I understand, yes and no.
The change is that most apps no longer have write access to anywhere on the SD card, the only exceptions I believe are system apps and MTP.
So if you only use the stock camera, file manager and MTP you should be fine AFAIK.
If however you use other apps e.g. isyncr, that will only be able to save files in it's own dedicated folder (e.g. exsdcard>Android>com.isyncr>music) and if you uninstall the app it will remove the data it's saved there so you need to backup anything first.
However, apps can READ anywhere so for example, you could have your music in a folder you can still use any compatible media player.
There however have been work arounds from what I've read, for example, using the Android media scanner it's been possible to delete compatible songs instead of directly deleting it.
Thomasba said:
I'm one of the folder sync crowd and I'm not happy that apps I've paid for have been crippled in this way Foldersync's not the only app either. I know I could root the phone and get round it that way but at the moment that's not something I'm prepared to do. This all smacks of Google forcing us to use cloud services namely theirs! as a result if I have to go the cloud root it'll be anything but Google Drive.
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foldersync? dropsync is way better!
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tech3475 said:
Yesterday I got a call from my network offering an upgrade to the S5 (from my current s3/i9300) which I accepted only to find out afterwards about the new SD card policy in kitkat.
Is there any news somewhere about if this change is being reversed anytime soon? Otherwise I'm considering returning the phone before I even get it.
Yes I have tried Google but I don't know if there's somewhere it's being mentioned somewhere that I missed e.g. Facebook or Google+.
I know there are root based fixes but I wouldn't want to root it (not yet anyway).
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this is also not a samsung issue...its an android KitKat issue....so no matter what phone u get..it wil happen
anyways..yes this is an issue if you are unrooted...but being rooted and running the app fixes the issue
Samsung could do something about it. It is their own Touchwiz ROM after all.
Of course unless Google throws a fit for going against design directions.
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I have the newest firmware update and I just started having issues with messaging. When I use the stock messaging app If I try to attach a photo I get a force close message. When I receive one It will not download. I have used the google messenger and I cannot receive or send it just says it cant send and cant download. Then in hangouts is I use sms I can send and receive in a group message which I have mms turned on for so group mms works fine if I send a photo is goes through but says "Cannot be store" but I also am unable to download incoming photos. I did a factory restore and that actually made my led star working it used to only work for calls. But im still having the same problem Ive been through the prl and profile update I'm at a loss here and dont know what to do. If anyone has any info it would be greatly appreciated,
Try wiping out your external sdcard. My wife had an issue where her images were being duplicated by the thousands and was killing space. The lack of space resulted in force closes and the entire phone becoming unstable. What made it even more strange was that these "duplicated" images were nowhere to be found on either her internal or external after viewing all the folders with ES File Explorer and most of the duplicates showed up in the gallery as blank images. Her external sdcard had stuff on it from her other phones and I believe it caused conflicts on the Sharp device. I pulled everything from her sdcard onto my laptop then placed her sdcard into my HTC One SV and used aparted (root required) to wipe and reformat the entire sdcard to fat32. She hasn't had an issue since. I told her to not put the stuff back onto her sdcard except for small stuff like pictures, and music. Anything else was to be left alone since we couldn't narrow down the exact culprit.
I'm having the same problem! No SD card for me.
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Try wiping out your external sdcard. My wife had an issue where her images were being duplicated by the thousands and was killing space. The lack of space resulted in force closes and the entire phone becoming unstable. What made it even more strange was that these "duplicated" images were nowhere to be found on either her internal or external after viewing all the folders with ES File Explorer and most of the duplicates showed up in the gallery as blank images. Her external sdcard had stuff on it from her other phones and I believe it caused conflicts on the Sharp device. I pulled everything from her sdcard onto my laptop then placed her sdcard into my HTC One SV and used aparted (root required) to wipe and reformat the entire sdcard to fat32. She hasn't had an issue since. I told her to not put the stuff back onto her sdcard except for small stuff like pictures, and music. Anything else was to be left alone since we couldn't narrow down the exact culprit.
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I will try this tonight that sounds logical my phone is doing the same by duplicating pictures in my music app sometimes it shows doubles as well. Thank you I'll post later if it helps or not. What if I used the SD card slot on my pc and formatted it using command prompt do you think it would work the same?
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I will try this tonight that sounds logical my phone is doing the same by duplicating pictures in my music app sometimes it shows doubles as well. Thank you I'll post later if it helps or not. What if I used the SD card slot on my pc and formatted it using command prompt do you think it would work the same?
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I do not see why it wouldn't. Aparted is an app you can get from the playstore. Though, some people will be confused when they try to use it given it's gui layout. If you can do it via command-line then kudos for you. Aparted just makes it possible to do it on the phone with root and attempt to make it easier and more friendly. Which it is once you familiarize yourself with it lol. Good luck
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I do not see why it wouldn't. Aparted is an app you can get from the playstore. Though, some people will be confused when they try to use it given it's gui layout. If you can do it via command-line then kudos for you. Aparted just makes it possible to do it on the phone with root and attempt to make it easier and more friendly. Which it is once you familiarize yourself with it lol. Good luck
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It didn't fix it. Still having the same issues.
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It didn't fix it. Still having the same issues.
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Sorry to hear that. Wish I had another idea/solution for ya but I hardly use this device. Hope you get it fix. If you do let us know so that it may help another person down the road.
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SHM said:
Sorry to hear that. Wish I had another idea/solution for ya but I hardly use this device. Hope you get it fix. If you do let us know so that it may help another person down the road.
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When I first had this problem I reset the device twice and used the original sim card that came with the phone. I know it has to be some app not playing nice but I can't find out which one.
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When I first had this problem I reset the device twice and used the original sim card that came with the phone. I know it has to be some app not playing nice but I can't find out which one.
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well if it's a user app then start deleting them one at a time until the problem stops. If it's a system app then there isn't much you can do at this point since the device is still somewhat locked down.
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same issue..recent
Used to work fine..now cant recieve mms...
I was having the same problem also in figured out how to fix it. Go to your dial pad and press ##72786# then press ok. The phone will restart and then take a few minutes to provision your data services. This will not reset any data on your phone but just re-provision the data services on the phone. Somehow the APN settings must have got messed up on our phones when one of the messaging app updates happened. Good luck!
the workaround is to change the lockscreen to 'none' then power the phone off and back on, then put your lock screen back on, weird workaround but it works
I have been having the same issue and tried both methods discussed to no avail. After resetting the provisioning, now I get an error when sending MMS that states "Device not programmed, please wait." I updated both PRL and profile without error and I am now able to place and receive calls and texts and have 3G and 4G data but still cannot send MMS. I really don't want to call customer service. I also cannot roll back messaging app to previous version. I guess another factory reset is in my future.
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TechInMD said:
I have been having the same issue and tried both methods discussed to no avail. After resetting the provisioning, now I get an error when sending MMS that states "Device not programmed, please wait." I updated both PRL and profile without error and I am now able to place and receive calls and texts and have 3G and 4G data but still cannot send MMS. I really don't want to call customer service. I also cannot roll back messaging app to previous version. I guess another factory reset is in my future.
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When you get this error goto settings and click activate this device. This will did your problem..... Unfortunately the workaround I stayed earlier only seems to work until you restart. You then have to do the steps over again.
The only thing that fixes it, and temporarily I might add, is a reset via recovery. My fiancee and I both have had issues with this since we got the phone a little over a month ago. We also lose 4G LTE, continuously dropping to 3G, though we're in a massively covered tri-band 4G LTE area (or so says the networking team at Sprint, who, to get them on the phone, I had to throw out quite a few disparaging tweets and messages to on Twitter and the Sprint forums.) It's a bunch of crap, this phone. My advice: Reset the provisioning, then reset the entire device. It'll work, just try not to reboot the damn thing or you'll have to do it all over again.
I apologize for not posting the update on my findings. I discovered what my issue is, is that I had bluebox launching on startup which was causing the provisioning after reboot failing. So I uninstalled that app and rebooted, the provisioning completed without error and the issue was corrected. I did not have to perform a factory reset to correct it. Thank you all for your input and timely responses.
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I updated to Nougat on my verizon s7. I rooted me device as well. For some reason the default text messaging app is saving my messages to the sim card automatically. I looked everywhere and couldnt find a fix for this. Does anyone have any idea of how I can fix this. I really dont want to factory reset my phone. Even if i use a 3rd party app it still comes up. Any info would be helpful thank you in advance
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I updated to Nougat on my verizon s7. I rooted me device as well. For some reason the default text messaging app is saving my messages to the sim card automatically. I looked everywhere and couldnt find a fix for this. Does anyone have any idea of how I can fix this. I really dont want to factory reset my phone. Even if i use a 3rd party app it still comes up. Any info would be helpful thank you in advance
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"SIM card full"
"SIM memory full. Delete some items"
exopforce said:
"SIM card full"
"SIM memory full. Delete some items"
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Is your phone memory full? Reading about this problem seems to point to that. I know the SMS file itself with just simple sentences shouldn't take up much space but if your phone's memory is full then it may be trying to save it to the SIM card itself.
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Just found another possible solution, if the phone has been dropped or experienced some form of shock then it may have knocked the SIM card around. The solution is to power down the phone and remove the SIM. Give it a wipe down and reinsert.
Hopefully one of these solutions works.