hi,
Since few weeks i have installed a new SD card, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Mic...&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 which so far did the job, but something strange and annoying has been happening.
Even though i scroll to all the photos in the gallery (i have been told this way they all cache), oftentimes the gallery will have to reload all the photos again, which means that the cache is not working/reading at all.
My wife has another S5 with my older SD card and this does not happen, although she has less photos than me, we scroll down all photos ONCE and boom they are all there all the time, when you shoot a new photo, just one is reloaded, as it should, etc.
Is this a problem with the phone or the SD card or too many photos? I checked in the application the cache size and it fluctuates, at one point it was 146 MB which i thought okay that seems to have loaded all thumbs, then in the morning i checked it again and it went at 86MB, with the phone just being in airplane mode all night...what is happening?
Also, SOMETIMES when i restart the phone, the gallery's cache seems to be wiped out if you go to application manager > gallery... but not all the time....
any ideas?
thanks,
Gabrio
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... problem exactly as stated above. Sometimes I will take a picture with the camera and it doesn't show up in the photo gallery until I restart the phone.
Anyone else have a problem with this? Has anyone figured out a way to fix it without restarting?
Yeah I'm having these issue as well and also happens with picture downloads. they wont show in the gallery until after a few reboots at times as well. or sure what's going on with that.
a quick fix, so you dont have to reboot your phone is to kill gallery with a task manager, and open it up again.
ok guys i'm had that same issue now my gallery is gone altogether....my gallery will load but it says loading images...then it says there is no content to be read...i down load an app from the market and it not seeing my sd card either...but if i go in file explore i can see everything on my card....i done a hard reset like three time no luck please help....htc said may have to send the phone back...i think its to small of an issue to lose my phone for a week or more...it maybe a simple fix so i will try this first before...ty for any help someone can offer
oh yeah if i take a new pic it will show up in the gallery but when i reboot its gone....
ok guys i fixed....what i did was took everything off my sd card....re formated...turn the phone off for like 5 min....then back on....put every thing back on the card check the music player and gallery to see if they worked and everything was there....then i rebooted to see if everything would disappear so far i'm good to go i have all my pics and files back....only thing on the first gallery load up be patient it take a min to load the sd card it will flash loading...but after that im good to go...i'm by a new sd card i think that may have been the issue....
It happens to me too. I unmount and remount the sdcard, and the Gallery finds everything.
I find if i go into the camera app, the latest photo is there in the preview box. if i open it, and then go back to the gallery app, it (usually) appears. but yes, annoying bug really.
turael said:
I find if i go into the camera app, the latest photo is there in the preview box. if i open it, and then go back to the gallery app, it (usually) appears. but yes, annoying bug really.
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oddly, i never had this problem until just a second ago, but what this guy said is exactly how i got around it too. i took a photo, task killed camera, went to gallery, no photo, reopened camera, photo was in preview, clicked on it, went to gallery from there, and there it was, ready to share.
it's gotta be a bug of some kind. perhaps the most recent photo isn't loaded to gallery until another photo is taken, or you click preview box. stupid, but possible.
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Hi friends, I encountered the problem as well today and found the solution: Go to the sdcard and search folders for a file named .nomedia and delete it should solve the problem. No need to format or things like that worked fine for me. seems some kind of bug
.nomedia is a file designed to hide directories from being searched by Android Media Scan (which includes Gallery). There is absolutely no reason to delete it, and it's not a bug.
However, there is a bug in Media Scan, which sometimes causes Gallery to "miss" pictures. Executing Media Rescan (from "Development") solves it, or as stated above, just unmounting and mounting the SD card.
There's no Media Rescan in Development on my gb 2.3.3.
I've experienced something similar. I've been running the various CM7 builds and whenever I'd take a pic and immediately share it on Facebook, the pic will never be seen again.
Since then, I've gotten in the habit of hitting up Sugarsync first to sync the new pics, the send it up to Facebook via the gallery.
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stock 2.3.3 and i had the problem today.
force quit gallery and it was back to normal.
why is 2.3.3 so buggy!?
When going into Applications => Gallery => Camera Shots, new pictures I took with the camera do not appear there.
Using Astro, I can see that the new pictures I took all appear in /mnt/sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA, and this directory also contains the pictures that DO appear in the gallery.
Phone is DZ Froyo 2.2 stock, and this could have started after the OTA upgrade, not really sure though...
I just took another picture now in order to verify the problem, and for some reason it DOES appear in the Gallery, however pictures from the last week do not appear there (they are in the 100MEDIA directory like I mentioned).
Any ideas?
It's a gallery cache issue. The stock gallery app just sucks, a simple reboot fixes it, but I know it's a pain in the
As omarsalmin wrote it is a cache issue. Instead of rebooting, use a app to reload the cache. Eg Rescan w w w.appbrain.com/app/rescan-media/com.addz.mediascanner.
Had the very same issue the other day. It's really strange and affects more than the stock gallery. Both it, the Nexus one and SugarSync had the same problem. So I assume the problem has more to do with Android/HTC than the specific app.
Thanks! I must've missed other posts about this because the same thing happens to me, and I was thinking there was a problem with my microSDHC card. So rooting and installing a new ROM will probably fix this right? Thinking about going to Virtuous.
I had the same problem the other day with my recent pictures and videos. it didn't even show the video folder. I rebooted and it fixed the issue.
Thanks for the advice mullepol, I'm going to install the application you suggested
Thanks guys, the pictures actually came back before I had a chance to check this thread, but they were kind of messed up order-wise. after installing Rescan it seems to be better.
9 out of 10 times, nothing loads in the gallery. Sometimes the folder shows up but no pictures, and sometimes just the yellow/black background. I can reboot my phone but the problem will persist again after leaving it on for awhile.
Anyone else having this problem?
I am with Virtuous 9.0 and 9.5 which uses the HTC Gallery. Only folder it displays is the camera shots folders. There are a couple of other folders on my phone that won't shot up (like my DroCap folder).
the 3d gallery is total garbage.
Believe it or not, the stock gallery that came with the espresso sense on the Mytouch slide was better than the 3d gallery. At least all the pictures showed up and it wasn't dog crap slow.
Do you guys have tons of pictures on your phones?
I may have 100 seperated into folders on my sd card. Just wondering if the amount of pics may be the problem.
Have over 300 pictures in my gallery and MOST of the time it works just fine. Sometimes it will open up and not display anything. A force close and a cache clear typically fixes that though.
I've also noticed mine sometimes does not load any pictures and I have to close it and try again. It's been working pretty good the past few days though.
Any chance at getting the old-school gallery version on these G2s? I tried QuickPic and really liked it, but the only downfall is that it took a while to generate thumbnail images when you launched it. Worse of all, it seemed to do that every time I started that application, but it is better than the 3-D gallery.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/quickpic/com.alensw.PicFolder
Here is a thread for the old 2d gallery.
I tried it but I was too lazy to let it make thumbnails of all my pictures and I nandroided back. I may try it again if there are good results.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=891201&highlight=gallery
You could try clearing cache for the gallery. Settings - manage applications - all - gallery then clear cache.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
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9 out of 10 times, nothing loads in the gallery. Sometimes the folder shows up but no pictures, and sometimes just the yellow/black background. I can reboot my phone but the problem will persist again after leaving it on for awhile.
Anyone else having this problem?
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When it happens, use Rescan Media. It will scan your phone and show up all of your pictures and videos.
Mog said:
Do you guys have tons of pictures on your phones?
I may have 100 seperated into folders on my sd card. Just wondering if the amount of pics may be the problem.
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I don't think it has something to do with the quantity. The 1st time it occured to me it was 10 days after I got my phone and I had something like 50 pics in it.
From what I've read since this is a well-known bug.
Recently my camera app randomly stop saving photos.
It shows and act like photo is saved, but when click on thumbnail in camera app, fails to load the photo, infact, photo never saved.
so basically:
IF I choose SD Card as storage, I will see an error saying failed to save into SD Card, changing to device storage ( however image is not in device storage too )
IF I choose Device as storage, It will act like everything went smoothly and successfully, but when I try to open photo, it fails.
This problem come and go away randomly, making it harder to fix. I have lost many valuable photos because I thought it saved them successfully.
I figured out that I can have my photo saved in my device, If I press power+home button, to take screenshot, but that will include camera controls as well!
Recently installed a custom ROM hoping for this problem to go away, but it happened again.
Any idea why this problem is happening?
hi there,
I have just installed a new SD card the other day and i noticed that every time i access the "gallery" app, then not all thumbnails are loaded by default... it's still extremely fast but it seems is not caching EVERYTHING... does it take some time for that to cache everything?
I went under all applications and the size of the cache of "Gallery" is in fact growing... or is there a limit for which IF you have more than XYZ photos, then it will NOT cache all of it?
thanks,
Gabrio
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hi there,
I have just installed a new SD card the other day and i noticed that every time i access the "gallery" app, then not all thumbnails are loaded by default... it's still extremely fast but it seems is not caching EVERYTHING... does it take some time for that to cache everything?
I went under all applications and the size of the cache of "Gallery" is in fact growing... or is there a limit for which IF you have more than XYZ photos, then it will NOT cache all of it?
thanks,
Gabrio
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Any ideas? Or maybe that is normal?
If I clear the cache, to make the gallery show all thumbs instantly, I have to slowly scroll through them all until they have all been generated
Subsequent visits to the gallery show the thumbs immediately, until I clear the cache again
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If I clear the cache, to make the gallery show all thumbs instantly, I have to slowly scroll through them all until they have all been generated
Subsequent visits to the gallery show the thumbs immediately, until I clear the cache again
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So if i do the same thing and clear cache, it will be really slow.. then i do as you say and slowly scroll down the gallery until i see all thumbs, first time going slow and consequent times are faster, but not all thumbs are instantly there which makes me think cache is disabled or something?
I have all photos on the sd card and i think i have like 2-3000 photos in few different folders...
Just strange.. thanks
Gabrio
hi again,
so i have done more testing, it seems really strange.... the gallery app doesnt want to cache more than 50-60mb of stuff, on my wifeàs phone that is another S5 with a different Sd card, it caches 200MB without any issue and all thumbs are loaded fine after the first "slow load", could it be a problem with the SD card? its quite annoying..
also, if you do a photo with the camera, i noticed that it starts loading all thumbnails again, even the very recent ones... is there a setting somewhere for caching photos at all anyone knows ??
thanks,
Gabrio