hi all,
just wondering whether some of you noticed the lag in loading the gallery?
or just after taking a picture, the newly taken picture takes a really long time to load?
i suspect its something to do with the usb read speed.
Same here. Sometimes it even needs a reboot until newly taken pics show up in the gallery. I just use the filebrowser to display pics.
I think the gallery never really worked fine i already had issues on my n1...
I've found that when Bluetooth is on, my Gallery lags badly. But it goes back to normal when Bluetooth is switched off.
The gallery app seems to try and discover all of the pictures on the phone...that's maybe what takes so long? The other day it discovered some album art- I don't want album art displayed in the gallery.
I have also noticed it takes a couple minutes to add a recently taken picture into the gallery. Weird.
same here gallery lag ...
any fixes for this yet?
nside said:
The gallery app seems to try and discover all of the pictures on the phone...that's maybe what takes so long? The other day it discovered some album art- I don't want album art displayed in the gallery.
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You can exclude any folder on your sdcard from displaying pictures in the Gallery by adding a blank file named .nomedia into the folder. This tells the media scanner to skip that folder when indexing the sdcard. Two caveats to that: first is that it excludes sound files from the music player also, and it excludes all subfolders of the one with the .nomedia file in it.
The lag in having a pic you just took is also annoying. You could probably force a faster review by getting that app from the Market that forces a fresh run of the media scanner. Google must have built some delay into the stock scanner that keep it from constantly running to improve battery life or phone performance. The media scanner sucking up resources was a common complaint on the SGS i9000 forums for a while.
I'll bet you could write a Tasker profile that forced a fresh scan after any new pictures are taken. That might backfire in terms of performance though.
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I have also noticed it takes a couple minutes to add a recently taken picture into the gallery. Weird.
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^ Truth.
And I've also experienced Gallery lag. It's really frustrating.
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I just DLed upStream specifically so I can batch upload my camera shots (I use Vignette btw). Although it's not ideal, I can live with having to choose each shot one-by-one before I upload a set. It would be really nice if I could like swipe my finger over multiple thumbnails instead (I can't right?).
My real problem is with the gallery, namely that it scans for photos and videos every time it opens up - which is a real waste of time since I also use the SDrescan appe. Is there anyway to turn the gallery scan off?
Thanks in advance for the help.
i also wondered the same thing. i hated the fact that sooo my cpu and battery was wasted every time i opened the gallery..
never found a answer for this.
so i switched back to the older 2d gallery.
3d has a better interface.. but the 2d is well worth it if you don't want the continuous scanning.
i wonder
can any one explain me the systematization behind the picasa and the 3D gallery
the reason i am asking this is because i am confused by the way the gallery choose to order the photo it seems that it is by the order of the upload which is doesn't make sense.
another thing and more important is the way it is splitting the photos to groups
it should be by date and geolocation but what i get is:
for example,
first group (dec 8 2010) with 21 photos
second group (dec 8 2010) with 1 photo
* both groups with the same geolocation
sometimes it is split to 3 groups with the same date even photos with few minutes intervals
any ideas how to avoid this
its really bad when you have 1000 picture and instead having 10~15 groups you have 25~30
please Help
(i am using Nexus S, CM7)
UP PLease !!!
I can't say for sure, but I'm guessing it relies on the media scanner process, and service in the Android system that automatically scans your SD card for media files. And when the media scanner detects new photos, the gallery probably just throws them into their own group without considering how they relate to the other groups present. At least that's how it seems to happen.
I'm guessing the ordering of albums is so strange because it doesn't order albums. They appear in the way that they're internally cached, which will depend on a few different factors all mostly out of your control.
Honestly, I despise the default gallery with a burning passion. Sure, it's got a cheesy 3D effect that makes it all shiny and 2.0, but it's slow as hell, has several small but irritating problems (like everything you're talking about) and lacks any real features at all.
I use QuickPic myself. It's simpler: it presents your albums in a 2D grid, but it gives you a bit more control via the settings. Its big plus is, it's very fast. It picks up new images instantly, it renders the albums and individual pictures very quickly even when they're very large, and it can do so without lagging at all. The default gallery would lag like crazy whenever it tried to render newly-added content, and that's on my Evo 4G that I've done some work to optimize. I can only imagine how people deal with the default gallery on a slower phone.
Is there a version of Web Albums for ipad on Android? Or something equivalent.
The best thing about Web Album is it not only access your Picasa storage the way it is meant to be but also offers the option to cache your photos on your device (ipad).
That way, I solve the organization issue & maintains consistency across multiple devices.
Edit: Still looking for equivalent to Picasa for home videos though.... Any tips?
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I use QuickPic myself. It's simpler: it presents your albums in a 2D grid, but it gives you a bit more control via the settings. Its big plus is, it's very fast. It picks up new images instantly, it renders the albums and individual pictures very quickly even when they're very large, and it can do so without lagging at all. The default gallery would lag like crazy whenever it tried to render newly-added content, and that's on my Evo 4G that I've done some work to optimize. I can only imagine how people deal with the default gallery on a slower phone.
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This program doesn't show the picasa web albums
so its not really a substitute for the Built in Gallery
Do you have any solution for that
Why did (the dev) put the gallery apk in ROM ... Lots of people do not like this (slow and so on) Why don't they put JustPicture! instead ... ? It's a "break yo legs" apk !
Give it a try ! And tell me what apk are you currently using as picture viewer...
gallery is indeed slow (even though it creates thumbnails) and buggy (sorting bugs, zooming sucks)
unfortunately, JustPictures! doesn't show videos (i take both pictures and videos, i need to see them in the list)
quickpic (though not perfect because it's still slow) is my choice right now
I agree with quickpic because for me its way fast and loads the thumbnails almost instantly. Even on my epic it was fast. I just use root explorer and delete the stock 3d gallery. Its slow and its just taking up space on the phone.
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+1 for quickpic, it works great for me!
+1 for QuickPic!
quickpic all day, hides folders, shows videos, plays gifs, can select certain folders so i dont have 100 different folders of album art, and stupid fast compared to 3d gallery app
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Why did (the dev) put the gallery apk in ROM ... Lots of people do not like this (slow and so on) Why don't they put JustPicture! instead ... ? It's a "break yo legs" apk !
Give it a try ! And tell me what apk are you currently using as picture viewer...
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Because many users have pictures stored on Picasa, and the 3D Gallery from Google is accessing them directly. Another thing is that there are no issues when applying wallpapers or dock and icons.
Hey guys,
Upon updating both my Transformer Infinity and my SGS2 to Jelly Bean, I noticed that the stock gallery crashed as soon as it was launched. It would open briefly, start loading albums, and then close without an error message. This, I would like to underline, happened on both devices when Jelly Bean was installed - everything was fine in ICS.
After some comparisons, I noticed some incriminating albums that crashed the gallery, so I deleted them from the devices. And voilà! Everything worked like a charm. So while comparing a clean picture with a dirty one (dirty as in, it crashes the gallery as soon as it's loaded), I realised that their EXIF tags were identical... except for Geotagging.
So in short, it turns out JB has an issue with pictures taken with Camera360 with GPS tagging activated. Once you remove those Geotags (with freeware like, say, Batch Purifier), the pictures show up properly and the gallery no longer dies lamentably.
I haven't tried Geotagging with any other application, so I can't be sure whether it's Camera360's own implementation of EXIF GPS tags that send the gallery spiralling or if it happens with other Geotagged pictures.
Anyway, I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Antonius Maximus.
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Interesting - the pictures I have taken on my Lumix camera with gps tagging show correctly in the stock album and link correctly to Google maps if you select 'show on map' from drop down dots.
They are on my micro sd card at the moment and the album sees them all quite properly.
I am having issues with my albums in that not all pics are displayed as thumbnails though they are displayed if you click on greyed out square!
Maybe it's just me and it's a my phone issue but ever since i have started to root and build for my phone and download news roms i've noticed that the regular gallery does't have the animated thumnails anymore. I know it's minor but i just wanted to know if any of you have noticed that also and or know how to get it back animated.
I don't recall stock Gallery ever having moving thumbnails. I'm not saying it didn't but the only place I've seen that is in the Video Player on Touchwiz and Touchwiz roms. My thumbnails for recorded video and video on my sd card animate just fine. That doesn't happen in my Gallery app but it works fine in my Video Player. I'm currently on CleanRom 2.1
yea that's what i was saying my gallery and everything else works fine it's just it doesn't animate the thumbnails of videos like it used to, maybe i'm just overlooking something but if you any review of this phone completely stock you'll see what I'm talking about just in case you don't remember it.