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[Q] gallery and camera lag

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.

nside said:
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.

[Q] Impossible to upload photos to Picasa

Hello,
I use Picasa much to save my pictures, and I have a problem with the S3 :
My sync is functional because my Picasa albums appear.
But, when I want to upload one or more photos, I can't select the destination album.
And if I try to upload it anyway, I have a message like "unable to retrieve account information".
I had many android phones, and never had this problem? Have you ever met this?
Bonus question: under ICS and its new photo album, Picasa photo files do not appear like the Picasa website (cover photo, album order ...). Do you know how to manage the display order of albums in the gallery? and choose a cover photo? thank you

Solved here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652770
It's same with all account use same login than gmail.

[JB] Gallery crashes upon loading albums [FIX]

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!

Rotated Photos destination album

Hi,
After the Marshmallow update, every photo I rotate creates a copy of the photo in the "Photo editor" picture folder, instead of just rotating the original photo. So I end up with 2 photos each time I rotate :crying: (the original one in the "Camera" album, and the rotated one in the "Photo editor" album).
Before the update, the original photo would just rotate and that's it (as it was with any other phone I had).
Anybody else experience this? And is there any way around it other than using some other gallery app?
Thanks.

After latest "social" update I can't see the gallery's album names

Hi guys,
Did this happen to you as well? After the latest "social" update (which I won't be using), the gallery has now the option for Stories, and they remade the Albums tab so now it's a list, instead of the neat previous arrangement of two colums of thumbnails for the folders. And in my case, it's a list without the album names, only the numbers of pictures in each album. Is everyone facing the same issue? Or is it the gallery not figuring out the dark theme?
Thanks!