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gallery 3d app replacement

dear members of xda,
im running defrost 6.0 on my HTC desire. although it id a great Rom, i encountered a Problem with this Rom, which is the constantly fc'ing gallery. now i want to ask you whether you know of a good replacement for the cooliris media 3d gallery that is part of cyanogen mod. it neednt be 3d btw.
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la ray said:
dear members of xda,
im running defrost 6.0 on my HTC desire. although it id a great Rom, i encountered a Problem with this Rom, which is the constantly fc'ing gallery. now i want to ask you whether you know of a good replacement for the cooliris media 3d gallery that is part of cyanogen mod. it neednt be 3d btw.
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Not sure there is a good replacement for it, but I agree, the 3D gallery (which is the normal Android gallery BTW) really does suck. Its slow, tries to be overly bling, and can't even show high res images with full detail. As you say, it suffers from bouts of instability too - it force closes on me when I try loads of different wallpapers about one time out of six.

tameracingdriver said:
Not sure there is a good replacement for it, but I agree, the 3D gallery (which is the normal Android gallery BTW) really does suck. Its slow, tries to be overly bling, and can't even show high res images with full detail. As you say, it suffers from bouts of instability too - it force closes on me when I try loads of different wallpapers about one time out of six.
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Oh, I didn't know that. Anyway, I would really appreciate if someone could help me out with this one as the laggy gallery is really, REALLY annoying!
thanks so much!

I use JustPictures instead 3d gallery, it support local images, facebook, picassa and few other

r4vpl said:
I use JustPictures instead 3d gallery, it support local images, facebook, picassa and few other
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But it doesn't support pingchat... if I set justpicture as my default picture viewer I get a error when trying to view picture received in pingchat. I m waiting for an update and another alternative.

please send your bug to developer code.google.com/p/justpictures/

Honeycomb 3.1 announcement

So we should be seeing Honeycomb 3.1 for our transformers in the near future.
Google only showed a new task switcher and adjustable widgets as two new features. Shouldn't this be called Honeycomb 3.0.1? I'm not terribly impressed... I hope they fix some major force close issues and general bugs in the next release....
As for task/memory management, I wish they added a feature that allows us to exclude apps from ever being closed. Going back to a browser and having it reload 5 tabs EVERYTIME consumes a fair amount of bandwidth and time.
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I feel the same about the update, seems very underwhelming. I wanted to see new games etc but that was non existent.

EP2008 said:
So we should be seeing Honeycomb 3.1 for our transformers in the near future.
Google only showed a new task switcher and adjustable widgets as two new features. Shouldn't this be called Honeycomb 3.0.1? I'm not terribly impressed... I hope they fix some major force close issues and general bugs in the next release....
As for task/memory management, I wish they added a feature that allows us to exclude apps from ever being closed. Going back to a browser and having it reload 5 tabs EVERYTIME consumes a fair amount of bandwidth and time.
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We are already at 3.0.1, but I agree with you doesn't seem like too much though I do like the new features.

I don't know what the heck google is thinking, but they need to focus on building a STABLE Android OS and really dumping resources into getting apps up to par with apple.
Instead they focus on remote light switches and facial recognition gimmicks... if quality apps don't start coming soon, it won't matter what flavor of desert they put out as it will be weak.
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I am sure they appreciate your input.

v0kal said:
I am sure they appreciate your input.
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I'm sure they don't... I'm not sure who's giving them ideas like this, but when I upgrade my browser on my PC, it's not a Windows 7.1 update... with google, something as trivial as resizing widgets (which has been possible via 3rd party apps for a while) seems to qualify as a substantial upgrade.
Oh well, whatever keeps people excited.
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Stop and think for a moment. They are releasing a new build of an OS. I'm sure that the resizing of Widgets is not the only thing they are doing. I would be willing to bet there will be plenty of fixes in the update.
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Of course there are a lot of little things making 3.1 a great release.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1-highlights.html
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1.html
For consumers and for developers.

513 said:
Of course there are a lot of little things making 3.1 a great release.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1-highlights.html
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1.html
For consumers and for developers.
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Yes, little things. This should be a 3.0.1 release. The USB host thing... my Archos was using USB devices and it was running froyo! LOL
I'm looking forward to 3.1 anyways. I hope it's more stable than 3.0.
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Some notable updates
- An updated home button, while still appearing the same, will now take the user to the most recently used home screen panel when pressed in an app instead of always taking the user to the center panel. (my pet peeve so far).
- PTP will allow users to connect a digital camera directly to a tablet so that the tablet can import all of the camera's photos.
- Web pages can now be saved for offline viewing, and the browser also offers faster zooming and support for hardware accelerated plug-ins.

A simple feature request. Allow us to choose which folders we wish to display in the Gallery. I'm unable to use it as all the album art from my music as well as bitmaps from apps really clog it up.

Billus said:
A simple feature request. Allow us to choose which folders we wish to display in the Gallery. I'm unable to use it as all the album art from my music as well as bitmaps from apps really clog it up.
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I think it's fairly good. USB host thing is cool, and resizable Widgets and a better browser good too. Also "UI transitions are improved throughout the system and across the standard apps. The Launcher animation is optimized for faster, smoother transition to and from the Apps list." So should overall feel smoother and no ui lag.
Honeycomb's pretty solid as it is and with these changes even better. Not sure why people are so disappointed really, what did you expect to be added?

bedoig said:
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This blocks music appearing in the official app. PowerAMP and other 3rd party apps can't find music on the microsd in Honeycomb.

I'm pretty sure there are bugfixes that arent in the feature list.

spinkick said:
I'm pretty sure there are bugfixes that arent in the feature list.
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Yes, what we have seen in the links is more than likely not an exhaustive list of improvements, tweaks and bug-fixes.

atxer said:
Some notable updates
- An updated home button, while still appearing the same, will now take the user to the most recently used home screen panel when pressed in an app instead of always taking the user to the center panel. (my pet peeve so far).
- PTP will allow users to connect a digital camera directly to a tablet so that the tablet can import all of the camera's photos.
- Web pages can now be saved for offline viewing, and the browser also offers faster zooming and support for hardware accelerated plug-ins.
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I really hope they fixed the market app. That is my biggest pet peeve. You scroll down for 30 seconds, click on an app to check it out, click "back", and now you are back at the top, have to scroll way down again. When trying to find apps to install it is a huge pain.

brunes said:
I really hope they fixed the market app. That is my biggest pet peeve. You scroll down for 30 seconds, click on an app to check it out, click "back", and now you are back at the top, have to scroll way down again. When trying to find apps to install it is a huge pain.
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LOL, yeah, it's a major pain!
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Hahahah agreed that changes arent much BUT we arent even sure when we are getting THAT update ...........
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I'm pretty sure 3.1 will support hardware acceleration, that to me is a HUGE improvement. Flash rendering should be a whole lot better. I already think Honeycomb is a very solid OS and the new features are exciting. As long as they keep rolling out updates I'll be happy.
I must admit what was announced at IO was underwhelming, but who cares? Are you used to Apple esque keynotes that praise "new" features that have been available on other OS's for years?

[4.0.3] dsp manager and stock gallery

so i updated to the 4.0 leak and so far its been great but the thing that bothered me the most is the crappy EQ that comes built into google music and the fact that samsung is still using the same old crappy gallary from 2.x! so i replaced them with the stock 4.0 gallery and the DSP manager from cm9 and they work perfectly!
just use root explorer to move the 2 .apks to /system/app than reboot
oh and if you want you can disable the samsung gallery so you wont have to deal with that crappy thing
edit: so i couldn't get the stock ics camera working as a system app but you can go ahead and install it as a user app, the only problem i'm having is the video camera crashes a lot

Great thank you, I love the ICS gallery.
I was wondering also if you could find the native ICS camera app , I would love to replace the samsung one.
Thanks again

floppy__ said:
Great thank you, I love the ICS gallery.
I was wondering also if you could find the native ICS camera app , I would love to replace the samsung one.
Thanks again
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Just tried out the stock camera from my transformer on cm9 and my skyrocket went black, vibrated a lot and crashed you could try camera ics+ or w/e is called, its in the play store but its a bit laggy on mine
Edit: I'll try and get the camera from my moms atrix on cm9, I'm not giving up that easily!

Thanks, but don't bother I have several camera apps but I saw some picture of the Vanilla ICS camera app and it looked great.

to late lol

thanks, works great (except video). I really don't understand why Samsung is keeping the old version

They did the same thing when they updated the original galaxy s to gingerbread, they're just trying to get use to buy the sgs3 when it comes out :/
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Thanks! will test shortly. Update: All seem to work, Some parts of the new camera app I like, others not so much, like I can't disable shutter sounds, or tell it to save to my external SD card, whats up with that? The gallery is alright, they added a nice editor with instagram like effects which is cool and easy sharing. Though they removed the contrast/brightness/saturation sliders, which I liked. Everything seems to be a give and take :/
Edit 2: The new gallery allowed me to make scrolling backgrounds work again! WOOHOO.
Any other apps from ICS worth getting? or ICS specific apps from the market?
also, maybe you'd know, anyway to theme the top notification bar to be blue like standard ICS not white/green like GB?

Can anyone get the mms apk for the messaging app?
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edgex said:
Thanks! will test shortly. Update: All seem to work, Some parts of the new camera app I like, others not so much, like I can't disable shutter sounds, or tell it to save to my external SD card, whats up with that? The gallery is alright, they added a nice editor with instagram like effects which is cool and easy sharing. Though they removed the contrast/brightness/saturation sliders, which I liked. Everything seems to be a give and take :/
Edit 2: The new gallery allowed me to make scrolling backgrounds work again! WOOHOO.
Any other apps from ICS worth getting? or ICS specific apps from the market?
also, maybe you'd know, anyway to theme the top notification bar to be blue like standard ICS not white/green like GB?
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I tried this and it seems to work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1568128
At least for the battery icon

cashyftw said:
Can anyone get the mms apk for the messaging app?
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I haven't really been working on getting more stock ics apps but I know that the movie editor works and I'm gonna try to get some more apps when I get home, BTW I'm not a themer(yet) so I can't change the status bar :/

How do I get those black and white pictures of random dots to work into something useful?

Wallpaper

So what happened to the wallpaper option?? I re-flashed my charge with the office froyo build. This then updated to gingerbread and then the new radios unlock screen. And now when I go pick a new wallpaper, I don't get the multi option anymore. Just a single cut out and it looks like utter .
I really hate this phone.

Samsung changed the Gallery app in the FP1 update. Not sure why they did it, but it was a common complaint after the update. If you're rooted and have the old Gallery app, you can replace it and reboot. You can also download an alternative gallery app from the Market, like Gallery ICS.
The Tweaked ROM also contains the old Gallery as an option.

example.

Like I said, Samsung changed the Gallery app in FP1. Change the Gallery app to the old one or get a different one that supports it and you'll get the widescreen wallpaper option again. No other way to do it.

shrike1978 said:
Like I said, Samsung changed the Gallery app in FP1. Change the Gallery app to the old one or get a different one that supports it and you'll get the widescreen wallpaper option again. No other way to do it.
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Thank you very much! The Gallery app from ICS totally worked. It is the little things that make using this phone a bit more enjoyable.

xaerospace said:
Thank you very much! The Gallery app from ICS totally worked. It is the little things that make using this phone a bit more enjoyable.
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Quickpic is a good one too
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[APP]Awesome Note taking app. Handy Note

Awesome note making app for a very less price
Just sharing Handy Note...
Not my app, but an extraordinary one

Jamal Ahmed said:
Awesome note making app for a very less price
Just sharing Handy Note...
Not my app, but an extraordinary one
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I bought the app some time before, there is NO settings in this app, palm recognition doesnt work so good, Spen not so sensitive as on other and original Spen apps....
but the app is very nice hopefully when crerator of the app is reading this and will react. I will come later on again to this app when there will be upgrade.
I tried alllll of the Spen apps, still the original Snote one is the best one - although i really like in Papyrus ability to choose paper format (A4, infinity, letter.....) very handy when you want to print out your sketch, but in papyrus miss adding pictures.

ianbbaa said:
I bought the app some time before, there is NO settings in this app, palm recognition doesnt work so good, Spen not so sensitive as on other and original Spen apps....
but the app is very nice hopefully when crerator of the app is reading this and will react. I will come later on again to this app when there will be upgrade.
I tried alllll of the Spen apps, still the original Snote one is the best one - although i really like in Papyrus ability to choose paper format (A4, infinity, letter.....) very handy when you want to print out your sketch, but in papyrus miss adding pictures.
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Hey just so you know Memo by Nathan Garside is really similar to papyrus but has ability to add pictures.
Only grudge I have towards it is that at a somewhat low DPI the rules are far too close... but that's what we have PA for I guess

guitarplayerone said:
Hey just so you know Memo by Nathan Garside is really similar to papyrus but has ability to add pictures.
Only grudge I have towards it is that at a somewhat low DPI the rules are far too close... but that's what we have PA for I guess
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I know MEMO - also nice, hopefully it will improove....but from all apps i have tried, everyone gave me a FC in some case but Snote/Smemo - never FC!!! Thats the reason to stay on stock rom for someone who wants to use NOTEs Spen features. Papyrus looks to be kinda strong, this never FCd for me, but ability to add pictures is really needed! Imagine, i also sometimes make a notes, add picture and want to print out as A4 on normal printer -- all other apps can do print, export to PDF etc... but it is horrible scaled up, i know you can lower your font and pics, but it is for me more natural to work direct on format A4 and know how it will look like when i print out or export to PDF.
I moved this week from stock to other custom JB rom, just to change for some time, so will test again some Spen market apps. But when official JB will roll out, will definitelly go back to stock based roms.
But this HandyNote need some small tweaks, and looks to be good replacement...

You should try 'float note ' it's. On this thread . One of us made it and its great. It opens up and floats over the scren. You can move it ,resize. It's basic ,but great . The Guy's done a great job . Its not in the shop ,just on this thread.
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Tried them all, Samsung got there memo suite pretty much spot on, and is integrated thought the ROM, shame you can't use the complete suite on cm based roms, guess this is where memo apps like these are required.
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S memo and s note are the apps i use for my regular purpose and even for drawing. No other app in the whole play store match it.
I am using the stock roms just because of these apps.
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I'm sure you guys have heard, but there are Paranoid Android betas with S Pen gesture integration now