The new Liberty ROM made some changes to my camera that I don't like. My pics aren't full screen as they were before and I don't have options to choose from for my video camera (i.e. concert mode, night mode, etc). Does anyone know how/if I can the old camera back? If not, is there another camera app or something I could download?
wtivey said:
The new Liberty ROM made some changes to my camera that I don't like. My pics aren't full screen as they were before and I don't have options to choose from for my video camera (i.e. concert mode, night mode, etc). Does anyone know how/if I can the old camera back? If not, is there another camera app or something I could download?
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Go into your apps,
There should be a app called Liberty Toolbox,
Go to app management at the top,
Go to install Add-ons,
Scroll down and click Camera [blur],
Also if you want the blur fm radio, it's in there too.
and that is all to get the old camera app back with the full screen.
It's simple, really.
Go to the Liberty Toolbox app ->App Management -> Install addons -> Camera [blur]
Click on that and it will install automatically.
I did all of that and now my camera won't even open...
Did you try rebooting?
I ran into the same problem. I ended up having to use root explorer to change the permissions of the downloaded blur camera apk, then it installed fine.
ya tried that didnt install then i started getting force close on email and something else so i use apkinstaller went to liberty folder /downloads and installed it still have the FC for the email how do i fixs
thanks for the info i like my blur camera better as well
I tried using root explorer and apkinstaller - neither one of them worked. Is there anything else I can do?
I have found problems with both the blur cam and AOSP cam under Liberty 1.5
The blur cam seems to create currupted videos if they are longer than a few seconds.
The AOSP cam will occasionally complain about needing an SD card installed before it will take a picture. I can to reboot to make this problem go away temporarily but it's annoying when I need to take a pic right away. I do have a 32GB Sandisk class 4 card instead of stock so it's possible that's the root cause, I gotta go back to stock ROM and see if that fixes things.
I use my cam to document everything in my life including store receipts, meeting whiteboards, contracts, etc. I also like to record vids when my kids are doing the goofy little things that they do so this is quickly becoming a deal-killer for me.
EDIT: or maybe I will try some alternative camera apps. That would be easier than changing ROMs
EDIT2: Looks like the AOSP Cam problem was something else. It seems that Android will remount the SDCard read-only if it encounters an error. I removed the card and did a full file scan. There might be a way to remount it so that errors do not result in read-only-remounting. It's probably an option of the mount command. That could be dangerous so I will only investigate that route if this gets annoying.
Hello,
Ars Technica seems to have written a rather harsh review of the note 3. They are mostly critical of the software. Has anyone with the phone actually experienced this freezing in the gallery app? I am surprised it has not been more widely discussed.
http://bcove.me/e41lnia4
Full Review: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013...-big-and-it-pulls-some-benchmark-shenanigans/
I suspect the reviewer is jumping the gun a little here. Looking at his video demonstration, I notice there was Dropbox folders. In my experience with the Note 2, anytime i loaded the gallery for the 1st time (or 2nd or 3rd or 4th and so on if I got impatient and exited) when it had cloud accounts to sync with like Dropbox or Facebook, it took a VERY long time to populate all of the thumbnails. Especially if like me, there were thousands of images in Dropbox. The trick is to just leave it to do its thing the 1st time, go have a coffee, then afterwards opening gallery will be almost instant.
My gallery opens up instantly, I think he has some sofware or app conflict
thanks guys. I expected more of ars technica.
He also complained about poor battery life, which is completely contrary to most everything I've read elsewhere. So hmm, performance issues + battery issues? Sounds like a bad app.
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I can only speak from my experience but I have had the gallery lag everytime I open a folder. I have also have pretty poor battery life.
Just to add some piece of mind, I can confirm that I have now checked the gallery since getting my Note 3 delivered today and it's as fast and smooth as could be expected. I've made a short video showing how responsive it is so you can decide for yourself but seeing as I'm new to posting, the forum won't let me show the link. I'll edit this post to include it once my post count is high enough.
Thanks guys. I guess I already pre-ordered the device anyway. Maybe the bad app is carrier specific (some sort of conflicting bloatware)? Do you guys mind adding your providers to the posts?
flybass said:
Thanks guys. I guess I already pre-ordered the device anyway. Maybe the bad app is carrier specific (some sort of conflicting bloatware)? Do you guys mind adding your providers to the posts?
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My stock Gallery opens fast, but its so laggy i can't use it. If you have many photos and/or use Dropbox/Facebook sync photos it's going to be a PITA to use. I tried downloading Gallery ICS from the play store and it works as it should, blazing fast.
Probably a easy fix for Samsung, i imagine.
My experience it's with 400 photos. I can only imagine how it would be with more.
flybass said:
Thanks guys. I guess I already pre-ordered the device anyway. Maybe the bad app is carrier specific (some sort of conflicting bloatware)? Do you guys mind adding your providers to the posts?
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Mine is the SM-N9005 from Three UK
And here is the vid of my gallery as promised
http://youtu.be/r3VsYVU10fM
Datafiend said:
I can only speak from my experience but I have had the gallery lag everytime I open a folder. I have also have pretty poor battery life.
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I second that, my battery life has been horrible. It's draining at the rate of 12% in one hour. It's crappy compared to G2 which had awesome battery life. I used G2 for a week. So disappointed
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Hang - no.
But the Gallery is not really smooth when you had a lot of photos.
Samsung will not be able to fix this, they don't have the work force.
The gallery app (SGallery.apk) is 50MB. Fifty megabytes! QuickPic as a comparison is 0.39MB. Okay, it doesn't have cloud sync, so here is Flipboard: 4.7MB
All of the Samsung apps are this crazy large, which is the sign of total lack of optimization. They throw something together in some very high level scripting language, and the first time it appears to run they ship it.
Samsung phones have great hardware (yes, i think plastic is the ideal material to make phone from), great specs, good expandability. Samsung's marketing division is top notch. What the company lacks are designers and software developers.
Until they pull themselves together in these areas, our only bet is to root, delete the Samsung garbage (gain a lot of space!) and buy / install replacement apps.
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gallery apk problem
I can confirm that this issue exists.. My gallery app takes a while to load photos from album and it screen freezes when i open up a photo from an album
aamirkhanjadoon said:
I can confirm that this issue exists.. My gallery app takes a while to load photos from album and it screen freezes when i open up a photo from an album
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I've been conducting a little bit of research about this issue. I moved my class 4 32GB sd card from my Note 2 to the Note 3 with no problem whatsoever. over 3500 photos and videos (that apparently totaled to 16GB), various TiBu files & old Custom ROM zip files, downloads, mp3's, PDF's, etc. the first week that I had my phone, there wasn't any kind of difficulty whatsoever. then in that second week, i noticed that i had a broken photo, kind of like the same glitch with the Note 2 when empty/corrupted files would show up in the gallery alongside your actual photos. it was only then that the gallery would freeze on me. not any of the other folders on there, just the folder with the photos that i captured. i tried to find that file and delete it, but it inadvertently corrupted other files in that folder too. the gallery would force close, and my battery life was horrible as a result of it. i tried to use QuickPic as an alternate gallery browser to find the files, but it froze that app too. i also changed up the settings on S Finder, deleted some other files i had on the memory card, but still a no go. (there was a link over on Android Central that suggested alot of the other things I've done too, http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...-stopped-screen-freezing-every-2-minutes.html). i figured that the first thing i would need to do would be to replace the memory card altogether. moving the files to my PC i found the corrupted files and videos, left them on the old memory card, deleted them, reformatted it, but still threw just about everything else on a new class 10 64GB card and put that in the phone. so far the gallery is performing as normal, though instead of 3500 pics/videos, i left about 1200 of them on my PC to just free up some space. i'll let you all know if it persists as well.
derrtydee said:
I've been conducting a little bit of research about this issue. I moved my class 4 32GB sd card from my Note 2 to the Note 3 with no problem whatsoever. over 3500 photos and videos (that apparently totaled to 16GB), various TiBu files & old Custom ROM zip files, downloads, mp3's, PDF's, etc. the first week that I had my phone, there wasn't any kind of difficulty whatsoever. then in that second week, i noticed that i had a broken photo, kind of like the same glitch with the Note 2 when empty/corrupted files would show up in the gallery alongside your actual photos. it was only then that the gallery would freeze on me. not any of the other folders on there, just the folder with the photos that i captured. i tried to find that file and delete it, but it inadvertently corrupted other files in that folder too. the gallery would force close, and my battery life was horrible as a result of it. i tried to use QuickPic as an alternate gallery browser to find the files, but it froze that app too. i also changed up the settings on S Finder, deleted some other files i had on the memory card, but still a no go. (there was a link over on Android Central that suggested alot of the other things I've done too, http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...-stopped-screen-freezing-every-2-minutes.html). i figured that the first thing i would need to do would be to replace the memory card altogether. moving the files to my PC i found the corrupted files and videos, left them on the old memory card, deleted them, reformatted it, but still threw just about everything else on a new class 10 64GB card and put that in the phone. so far the gallery is performing as normal, though instead of 3500 pics/videos, i left about 1200 of them on my PC to just free up some space. i'll let you all know if it persists as well.
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I have installed a custom ROM.. and since then i didn't find this issue issue anymore.. it could be ROM specific too.
My Gallery continues, after the most recent firmware update, very very laggy. But i can browser the photos with the Samsung Link app, which is very very responsive and fast.
Those of you with lagging/freezing issues, does the gallery work smoothly if you disable Wi-Fi? If so...
Solution:
On a rooted device:
Navigate to system/app
Rename AllShareMediaServer.apk, AllShareMediaShare.apk, and the identical named .odex files to .bak extensions
or
Install Titanium Backup Root and freeze:
Nearby devices 2.0.0 (or later)
Nearby Service 1.4r476 (or later)
Once done with either of the above methods, the gallery app will not freeze while WiFi is enabled simultaneously.
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BTW, if you're not rooted, I think going through App Manager and disabling those two apps may have the same end result.
This worked for me, gallery is now butter smooth. Hopefully it will help others.
JSB
Oh yeh, nice tip justsayinbro.
Unfortunately i can't disable those apps, i don't have root access, i can only force closed them in the App Manager.
When Wifi is OFF the Gallery is completely smooth and fast. When i turned it on, can't use it.
tWoBrO said:
Oh yeh, nice tip justsayinbro.
Unfortunately i can't disable those apps, i don't have root access, i can only force closed them in the App Manager.
When Wifi is OFF the Gallery is completely smooth and fast. When i turned it on, can't use it.
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You're welcome @tWoBrO. Disabling Wi-FI is definitely useful as a temporary work-around for non-rooted users. :good:
For whatever reason, AllShare Media apps aren't playing nice with Wi-Fi right now (in our case, maybe others). With Wi-Fi enabled, the gallery app seems to trigger the AllShare services to scan for media that users may want to share with capable devices. Either it's working damn hard in the background to have such a taxing impact on the gallery, or there's a bug or two that needs to be squished.
To my understanding, AllShare is actually a nice feature to take advantage of. I just hope its issues on the Note 3 get resolved.
I got quite a few things and am not sure of whether to post all in one thread or not but I dont want to clutter the board so here they are.
1. How to actually get the sd card working right on KK, I tried the app but it already said it was ok, yet i load stuff from my computer to my card and it disappears the second my computer is disconnected from the phone. Oh and the camera app FC every time i choose sd card storage then pictures get corrupted and I cant move my current taken pictures to the SD card via the included file manager app like I did on JB
2. How to get rid of the samsung notification widgets and get the stock KK icons there or have a way to hide them then slide through KK and Samsung.
3. How do I disable the camera shutter, I had a major problem at a piano concert at a high school where my shutter tone went off. I got dirty looks from some moms.
4. How can I fix this damn auto brightness bug.
5. Is it possible to change the damn magazine app to something else like google now?
I am on the NC2 leak, rooted, safe strap, with the NC4 modem and recovery.
Well thanks for reading, please help, this is my first samsung device really and I am so used to the new moto blur thats near stock along with the old way of one click root, bootloader unlock (razr hd) and if needed using the bat file utilities to restore from a botched flash. I got to say samsung life is different but I like the better internals and the huge screen.
AndroidGreg said:
I got quite a few things and am not sure of whether to post all in one thread or not but I dont want to clutter the board so here they are.
1. How to actually get the sd card working right on KK, I tried the app but it already said it was ok, yet i load stuff from my computer to my card and it disappears the second my computer is disconnected from the phone. Oh and the camera app FC every time i choose sd card storage then pictures get corrupted and I cant move my current taken pictures to the SD card via the included file manager app like I did on JB
2. How to get rid of the samsung notification widgets and get the stock KK icons there or have a way to hide them then slide through KK and Samsung.
3. How do I disable the camera shutter, I had a major problem at a piano concert at a high school where my shutter tone went off. I got dirty looks from some moms.
4. How can I fix this damn auto brightness bug.
5. Is it possible to change the damn magazine app to something else like google now?
I am on the NC2 leak, rooted, safe strap, with the NC4 modem and recovery.
Well thanks for reading, please help, this is my first samsung device really and I am so used to the new moto blur thats near stock along with the old way of one click root, bootloader unlock (razr hd) and if needed using the bat file utilities to restore from a botched flash. I got to say samsung life is different but I like the better internals and the huge screen.
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1. i solved it by moving stuff to computer , formatting card with phone, moving files back
2. you lost me a little on what exactly you are asking but Xposed generally handles all of that stuff
3. see answer to #2
4. Lux Auto Brightness
5. some roms like Hyperdrive have this built in or you can try any of the S5 launchers that have built in app called PullUp to replace it. so basically whatever the launcher apk has built into it so find one you like. here are some but other sin other Note forums sections like Sprint or universal
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1. i solved it by moving stuff to computer , formatting card with phone, moving files back
2. you lost me a little on what exactly you are asking but Xposed generally handles all of that stuff
3. see answer to #2
4. Lux Auto Brightness
5. some roms like Hyperdrive have this built in or you can try any of the S5 launchers that have built in app called PullUp to replace it. so basically whatever the launcher apk has built into it so find one you like. here are some but other sin other Note forums sections like Sprint or universal
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I got exposed on and so far i love it with the samsung specific mod, I did what you said and found out my card, a sandisk ultra 64gb UHS 1 class 10 card will not accept any formatting, even the fat 32 it is at right now. So I'm going to be reverting to a sandisk 32gb card and looking for a samsung card or other brand, any recommendations? I am going to slowly leave sandisk entirely after this crap
Hi, i used to have a note 4 and in the stock samsung gallery i was able to see all mi videos and photos located in external or internal memory but now in my s7 edge i can only see the multimedia located in internal memory...how can i change/fix that?
I have a second problem, when i reboot the device i always get a external memory notification, kinda anoyhing, why is that happening and how can i fix it?
Tnx a lot, first day with s7 edge.
galarond said:
Hi, i used to have a note 4 and in the stock samsung gallery i was able to see all mi videos and photos located in external or internal memory but now in my s7 edge i can only see the multimedia located in internal memory...how can i change/fix that?
I have a second problem, when i reboot the device i always get a external memory notification, kinda anoyhing, why is that happening and how can i fix it?
Tnx a lot, first day with s7 edge.
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Your photos and videos should be under Camera if taken with it, there is a little icon on the folder if it's external. Otherwise in their respective folders. The Gallery has both your internal and external medias per default (not even sure it can be changed, unless you manually hide them). I'm thinking your SD card might be bad, which would also explain the high memory notification you get on reboot. Backup what's on it to your pc or other device, format it and copy the stuff that you need/want back on it.
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Your photos and videos should be under Camera if taken with it, there is a little icon on the folder if it's external. Otherwise in their respective folders. The Gallery has both your internal and external medias per default (not even sure it can be changed, unless you manually hide them). I'm thinking your SD card might be bad, which would also explain the high memory notification you get on reboot. Backup what's on it to your pc or other device, format it and copy the stuff that you need/want back on it.
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tried that already but still nothing appears in the gallery, i can access all files with a explorer even the stock one but nothing appears in the galley app.
galarond said:
tried that already but still nothing appears in the gallery, i can access all files with a explorer even the stock one but nothing appears in the galley app.
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Do you still get the high memory notification after formatting? If so, test something: Format the sd card, put it in your phone with nothing on it and reboot to see if you get the notification. If you don't, the issue is one or a few of your files on it. If you do tho, the sd card is faulty or simply doesn't play well with the S7.
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Do you still get the high memory notification after formatting? If so, test something: Format the sd card, put it in your phone with nothing on it and reboot to see if you get the notification. If you don't, the issue is one or a few of your files on it. If you do tho, the sd card is faulty or simply doesn't play well with the S7.
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tnx for th help but i returned the phone got my money back...scared of s7 edge with so many problems, coneccion, gps, signal, speaker, screen, sd card, etc.
galarond said:
tnx for th help but i returned the phone got my money back...scared of s7 edge with so many problems, coneccion, gps, signal, speaker, screen, sd card, etc.
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Sounds like you had a faulty device. The issue you've experienced are quite isolated. Sucks though cause it's a great device