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.
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The Gallery app on our phone doesn't increase the detail of images after you pinch to zoom. Does anyone know of a way to fix this or a different gallery app that will do this properly?
If you view pictures directly from the camera app, it shows the full resolution of the photo when you zoom in (but its slow to pinch to zoom). If you do it from the gallery app, it just scales a lower resolution rendering of the photo to fit the screen, but it doesn't actually re-render the image at full resolution (but its very smooth). I'm looking for something that works like the iPhone's gallery app, which scales as you zoom so that the interface is smooth, but once you stop at a certain zoom level, it re-renders the image in a higher resolution (aka best of both worlds).
Just curious, which rom are you running?
I'm running JI6 Froyo. I noticed the same issue on JH7 as well...
It would appear he is correct! Even on a 5MP picture of the underside of my car, I can't get any more detail then I do looking at it normally.
I experience the same thing; my gallery also takes its sweet time to notice new images from downloads or edits in Photoshop. I suspect most of these anomolies are due to the beta Froyo I've been running since it was leaked.
Gallery just sucks , it always had crappy zoomed quality with no details , Be it my Nexus one with eclair -> froyo to Cappy eclair -> froyo.
Its as if your watching thumbnails and not actual pictures.
There was modified gallery a while ago in Nexus one forums not sure if its still around, supposed to be better then default one.
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I'm running JI6 Froyo. I noticed the same issue on JH7 as well...
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Dunno why camera shots are coming out low res (I'd imagine that it's just the gallery program that sucks), but downloaded photos on JI6 are automatically resized to 305x203.
I actually remember reading some article a while back that talked about this issue (the gallery being low-res), and mentioning that this is by design. Apparently the developers decided that UI speed is more important than photo quality. I wish I still had the url to that article..
Also, forget searching for 'gallery' in the market. All the search results are retarded wallpaper/mostly naked girl spam. I wish spamming the market with valueless programs was a hangable offense.
Have you guys tried the apk from HERE? I have it loaded and while it does load alot slower it does seem to be higher res. Give it a shot, You will have to copy over the current APK in system/app with something like Root Explorer, or uninstall the gallery then try to install. I could not get it to install but coping worked great
I also remember reading an article that explained that the Gallery purposefully did not display images in their native resolution.
There is a free application in the Market called, "Floating Image" that will display images from any folder of your choosing as well as Flickr, Picase and Facebook in a floating collage of pictures. You can then tap on one and use multitouch to zoom in on the photo in it's full resolution.
I use it to display my camera roll as it allows me to see my photos in much more detail as opposed to the built in Gallery that I can't stand. The only issues that I have with it are that it stutters a little bit when using the high resolution thumbnail option and that it cannot see hidden folders.
I think the gallery is opengl-based and it treats photos as textures, which are limited to 1024x1024 res.
If you don't mind losing the 3d effects, download an app called JustPictures!. It's now my default photo viewer. You can double-tap to zoom to actual size or pinch-zoom. It's fast and free.
Bonus: slideshow live wallpaper
Did some searching and found an article that talks about the issue:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362605,00.asp
Apparently Google chose the cool 3d gallery instead of better image quality. Its clear to me why lowering the image quality is wroth it for making things smooth, but I don't know why the app can't render more detail after you zoom in. Anyway, JustPictures! works pretty good and does show better details. Its a bit slower (and the stock gallery isn't particularly fast), but it gets the job done. I wonder if JustPictures! is the best solution out there or if there are other apps worth checking out as well...
Previous posters are correct that the lower image quality is part of how the program was built. However, there is an article on this site that has a link to the HTC gallery version which can improve the quality, but still is not truly 1 to 1 quality, jest better than stock.
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?
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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.
Hi
the image quality in 3d gallery when i zooming is very bad
pixels are very big
the thumbs resolution is low and the image on zoom have bad quality
any idea for improve quality or increase thumb resolution ??
TNX , Sorry for my bad english
Sometime the gallery screws up the cache..
inside your SD there is a folder that holds those thumbnails as cache.
You just need to delete that folder and open the gallery to re-cache.
it should be solved.
Some galleries get confused or make a error or gets confused by other similar gallery apps.
unless the pic you are viewing is just.... small.
thank you for reply
but this is not my problem,all thumbs have good quality in normal size ! but when im zoom quality .......
what is folder name ??
is there any way to use 3d gallery whiteout thmbs ?use original photos ??
You are not making sense, it sounds like you are zooming the thumbnails.
When I zoom a pic the quality is fine.
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You are not making sense, it sounds like you are zooming the thumbnails.
When I zoom a pic the quality is fine.
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when i zoom picture on PC image quality is Amazing
but in gallery because they are thumb and not orginal photo quality is very bad
any solution to improve quality of thumbs or use original photo in gallery ??
im downloads 4000*3000 (12MP) photos and transfer to my phone,but in gallery they seems VGA photos
Mediascape an default gallery have bad zooming. Zoomed images are blurry.
My solution to this was downloading the free gallery application QuickPic. Picture quality at it's best.
Try it.
Yeah ok what ever... but i use "high def" only so it's pointless.
But thanx.. ok.. is this a spam bot?
can we keep him?
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Mediascape an default gallery have bad zooming. Zoomed images are blurry.
My solution to this was downloading the free gallery application QuickPic. Picture quality at it's best.
Try it.
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Quickpic is the DAMN BEST!!! So fast, extreme high quality!! 3D gallery doesn't stand a chance.
Ive been using Quickpic for a long time now....I could never go without it. There isn't one other gallery app available that can stand up to it.
Thank you man
Quickpic is good app and it creates maximum resolution thumb from pic
But has not graphically effect like 3dgallery
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Thank you man
Quickpic is good app and it creates maximum resolution thumb from pic
But has not graphically effect like 3dgallery
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actually you don't really benefit from 3d gallery other than 3d eye candy, but at the end of the day you just want your images to look fantastic rather than your gallery.
I think the 3d gallery was like the one that came with the ipad, its rather eye candy than useful. IMO only.
Indeed Quickpic is very cool. The old Sony Ericsson phones had some cool music player and gallery. I meen the series like C905, or w810. It seems they don't make it like they use to.
Quickpic is fantastic, cheers.
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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
I se dropbox quite a lot especially for my photo's I've come to a point where I no longer keep my photo's and video's on my android device which is nice space wise. But now I can only use the dropbox app to show my pictures, is there a gallery app that has a dropbox folder to easily show all my photo's with one app instead of 2. Normal gallery and dropbox.
I am running cm9 openkang. So no sense implementation. If sense seems to be the only option I will need to choose for myself what I like best.