Download folder in gallery doesnt instantly show pictures from Chrome/Stock Lollipop - G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am facing one very annoying problem.
In Google chrome if you long press on one image it gives you the option to save image.
When you save it a white arrow appears in notification bar and the picture appear in Download folder in gallery.
Thats not the case entirely although in my case.
Whenever i download a picture the arrow appears but is grey and the gallery updates download folder after several minutes.
I Have tried everything regarding media storage app disable enable,clear cache ,flash twrp and wiped internal storage,factory reset, flashed 2 stock kdz ,flashed kitkat,etc.
The problem remains and i seriously need help from someone who faced this nightmare and fixed it. No temporary using media scanner app from market, but once and for all. This issue happens with Google Chrome. Ofcouse i reinstalled the app.
What i have seen is that if i factory reset the Google Chrome app and get the version 39 the problem dissapears and everything works.
Please someone who knows this Help.
I will appreciate it.

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[Q] snapchat won't receive or record videos

Since upgrading to 4.3, snapchat has not been able to load videos. it just keeps refreshing at "tap to load" i also noticed that when attempting to record video, the screen freezes until you lift your finger, then snapchat treats it like a picture.. so i cannot record or send videos either.
anyone else encounter this? fyi, i also installed the moto x camera and am using the banks gapps with photosphere add on. this problem is persistent in two different jss 4.3 aosp roms. i tried clearing app data, uninstalling, reinstall, no change.
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im going to bump this issue because i have some thoughts on what might be the issue..
titanium restore.. there was an incompatibility with 4.3 when 4.3 was released. of course i had flashed 4.3 prior to titanium app update and used it to restore snapchat. this is when the no video problem started.
my hypothesis is this.. snapchat needs to store your videos locally on the phone before viewing, then deletes it after viewing. do you think that when titanium restored the app, it restored it with incorrect internal storage mapping? if snapchat can't access internal storage, that would explain why it cant load or record videos.
now, ive uninstalled and reinstalled snapchat before with no luck.. might that be because snapchat leaves bits and pieces of itself in the phone therefore never really has a fresh install?
if this is the case, how can i go about hunting down every last bit of snapchat?
.dan said:
im going to bump this issue because i have some thoughts on what might be the issue..
titanium restore.. there was an incompatibility with 4.3 when 4.3 was released. of course i had flashed 4.3 prior to titanium app update and used it to restore snapchat. this is when the no video problem started.
my hypothesis is this.. snapchat needs to store your videos locally on the phone before viewing, then deletes it after viewing. do you think that when titanium restored the app, it restored it with incorrect internal storage mapping? if snapchat can't access internal storage, that would explain why it cant load or record videos.
now, ive uninstalled and reinstalled snapchat before with no luck.. might that be because snapchat leaves bits and pieces of itself in the phone therefore never really has a fresh install?
if this is the case, how can i go about hunting down every last bit of snapchat?
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I'm able to view videos fine, but I'm having the same problem recording videos. One thing I've noticed, if I flash a new rom [complete wipe] I can record videos fine for a few hours, but after that it starts acting up again [recording, but then only saving the first frame and sending only a picture.]
Also, I should note I'm on a Galaxy S3, noticed this issue on Cyanogenmod [4.2+] and ParanoidAndroid [4.2+], haven't tried stock. I'll reply here if I figure it out, let me know if you have any results too!
iSecks said:
I'm able to view videos fine, but I'm having the same problem recording videos. One thing I've noticed, if I flash a new rom [complete wipe] I can record videos fine for a few hours, but after that it starts acting up again [recording, but then only saving the first frame and sending only a picture.]
Also, I should note I'm on a Galaxy S3, noticed this issue on Cyanogenmod [4.2+] and ParanoidAndroid [4.2+], haven't tried stock. I'll reply here if I figure it out, let me know if you have any results too!
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I did find a solution. I uninstalled Snapchat then went into twrp recovery and deleted the folder associated with it located at data/media/android/data/*snapchat*
Reboot and reinstall Snapchat. That folder will be recreated... Correctly.. With what I believe to be the right permissions.
If you want to try something else first try the app "fix permissions" and run it on Snapchat. Maybe that will fix the permissions of the folder.
Lastly there is a zip you can flash that fixes all permissions on your internal storage to proactively fix this issue for any other app. Search for fix internal storage permissions. The thread should come up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239421
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.dan said:
I did find a solution. I uninstalled Snapchat then went into twrp recovery and deleted the folder associated with it located at data/media/android/data/*snapchat*
Reboot and reinstall Snapchat. That folder will be recreated... Correctly.. With what I believe to be the right permissions.
If you want to try something else first try the app "fix permissions" and run it on Snapchat. Maybe that will fix the permissions of the folder.
Lastly there is a zip you can flash that fixes all permissions on your internal storage to proactively fix this issue for any other app. Search for fix internal storage permissions. The thread should come up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239421
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Thanks. I boot to TWRP 2.6.x, File Manager, use chmod on snapchat folder and subfolders, reboot and the video record works. This was on Supernexus 4.3 on T-Mobile Galaxy S2 T989.
.dan said:
I did find a solution. I uninstalled Snapchat then went into twrp recovery and deleted the folder associated with it located at data/media/android/data/*snapchat*
Reboot and reinstall Snapchat. That folder will be recreated... Correctly.. With what I believe to be the right permissions.
If you want to try something else first try the app "fix permissions" and run it on Snapchat. Maybe that will fix the permissions of the folder.
Lastly there is a zip you can flash that fixes all permissions on your internal storage to proactively fix this issue for any other app. Search for fix internal storage permissions. The thread should come up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239421
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4
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when i go into the /data folder it says TWRP stopped working. any ideas?
bchi49 said:
Thanks. I boot to TWRP 2.6.x, File Manager, use chmod on snapchat folder and subfolders, reboot and the video record works. This was on Supernexus 4.3 on T-Mobile Galaxy S2 T989.
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I'm a little slow, what is chmod? I tried finding the snapchat folder to delete after unistall, but could not. I'm flashing a new rom now coincidentally so I'm hoping snapchat will just work after that... otherwise I might try this fix permissions app. I would really like to be able to send video snaps. Seems like it should be an easy enough thing....
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Also having this problem. I installed Cyanogenmod 10.2 on my GS3, used titanium backup. Ended up reverting to my nandroid backup a few hours later, and now my snapchat cannot record videos, look at videos, OR see "My Story" posts (if i click on them, it does a quick load, but doesn't open)
I read through this thread, but cannot figure out how to delete the SnapChat folder in recovery mode. I tried deleting it in the TWRP file manager, and it SAYS it deleted it, but it is still there. Any help please?
same problem
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[Q] Gallery problem here[Plz help]

From quite a few months none of my gallery app are working properly.I cant see the image previews..tried re-flashing ROM changing the ROM but nothing worked.But i can see the images on clicking them.i also tried deleting the thumbnails file and allowed the gallery app to recreate it but still no solution.....any help will be great.
smith44 said:
From quite a few months none of my gallery app are working properly.I cant see the image previews..tried re-flashing ROM changing the ROM but nothing worked.But i can see the images on clicking them.i also tried deleting the thumbnails file and allowed the gallery app to recreate it but still no solution.....any help will be great.
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Try alternative gallery app like QuickPic.
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Tried all gallery app none works all have the same problem
smith44 said:
From quite a few months none of my gallery app are working properly.I cant see the image previews..tried re-flashing ROM changing the ROM but nothing worked.But i can see the images on clicking them.i also tried deleting the thumbnails file and allowed the gallery app to recreate it but still no solution.....any help will be great.
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Try fish bowl gallery or u gallery
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You tried reflashing stock firmware via Odin?
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Yes, the best alternative is the QuickPic, in my opinion, is better than the default app.
Try rebuild the cached pics by opening the settings menu, going into Applications->Manage Apps->go under All Apps and look for the Gallery app.
Clear Cache and Clear Data and Force stop.
Flash stock rom via odin.. then do a clean install of your rom. And see if the problem still persist..
flash the stock rom by odin .... then wipe data and cache open phone wipe data and cache from gallery ... REBOOT!
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[Q] Blank images in Quickpic?

So I've just installed a Google Edition rom on my i9505, clean wipe obviously, and I have encountered a problem.. When I export a image from Dropbox onto either the internal or external SD, the image appears as a blank dark grey square in Quickpic/Gallery. For downloaded images from chrome they appear fine, and it only seems to happen with images over 3Mb.. And when I open Quickpic the whole gallery slows down, and if I delete the Dropbox exported photo it goes back to normal. Does anyone else experience this issue? Or know of a fix?

CM13 2016.06.12 Nightly (and older versions) Camera broken

Hi guys, since a month I have problems with my camera-app. I'm using CM13 nightlies, just reflashed from yesterday with Open GApps Nano (to not overwrite Snap Camera for a try). With WhatsApp I can take photos without a problem but for holidys the quality is too bad . I also tried Camera MX without success. When I take a picture it shows the preview in Snap Camera without problem (the small icon bottom left). If I want to navigate to Gallery it just shows grey or sometimes even no file is created. I've searched a lot but nothing helped. I also tried to revert to last build where it worked but only got bootloops. I also completely wiped my phone and removed sd card, no success.
Does anyone have a solution to my problem?
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Tried it with nightly from today, no success. Also video recording force closes. No advice?
So after again a lot of reading, could my camera work again if i update baseband/modem/bootloader with latest from sammobile? Mine are really outdated from june 2015 (so lollipop version..)
If I update them I dont have to root etc, right?
best regards
So.. I tried OpenCamera again and set the save location to my download-filter (internal), this works. With my default Camera I can only save to internal, without choosing a dir so this doesnt work. Is there a possibility to fix the rights of DCIM so that the camera apps are allowed to write there?
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Seems like the permissions are the same from both folders. will try to delete the folder and let the app recreate it or possibly try sd-card as location..
I solved this now... I've installed latest CM13 nightly with camera fix https://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/156891, made a full wipe (except my internal user data) and clean install. Unfortunately this did'nt solve my problem. I also installed latest bootloader and modem, no success, too.
I think the solution was to change permissions of dcim to 777 via recovery... that's why I couldn't delete pictures or take pictures but it worked with open camera on another file path...

Can't view saved photos in photos/gallery app

Recently I've installed Lineage OS 14.1 on my G4 Play. Everything is good. But I'm facing problem after downloading media. Thing is after I download or save any picture, they are not being showed in the gallery app. But they are in the device storage. I can access them through file manager. And if I reboot phone, then they apper in app. Samething happens with music files also. They won't show up in music app and I've to go to music folder to access them.
Same problem with other custom ROMs(AOKP and RR) as well.
Yeah, I have the same problem in RR. Even when I download a file, takes a while until can view it on the file manager.
It's a bug in the media scanner, just wait for the next release and it should be fixed.

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