[Q] Problems with gallery on ICS - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I manually updated my nexus s to ICS today, working lovely except for the gallery.
Every time I try to open it, it just closes down again before I can even open a photo.
Anyone else having this problem or know why this is happening?

wipe data in manage apps?

D'oh!
Did not think of that. Works now, cheers

Ah, problems after all!
It would appear that the problem keeps re-occuring, everytime I take a new picture I have to clear the cache before it will work again. There must be something else causing it

Hmmm. Wipe data and cache. Maybe tht will clear it up
sent from my boosted nexus S

Nope, that's not helping.
Strange, can't figure out what's wrong with it

Weird. Why not just rock a real rom like miui? Ics is not special at all imo.
sent from my boosted nexus S

: haven't rooted this phone, wanted to keep it stock as I thought ICS would be more stable... worked out well!
Tried moving all the apps onto internal storage, made no difference. Can't find anyone else online with the same problem. Pissing me off now...

Download a gallery from the market. An aftermarket gallery will work.
sent from my NeXus S

i hooked up my phone to the pc and moved all the picture folders to a folder called dcim that where all the snapped pictures go and it still sorted out when i view them in gallery

So is it working now?
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android.process.media force close! FIX

I know some of you have been having problems with a force close message that looks like this: Android.process.media is not responding please force close or retry.
I have done search after search only to find one way that ultimately fixes this annoying every second force close message.
1. Make sure your phone is rooted.
2. Using a file explorer of your choice go into the directories as follows:
/system/app/
3. Delete this file from the menu, mediaprovider.apk
4. Force close messages will now stop. Horray!
If you have questions post them. I will do my best to answer.
StaplesDroid
i tried it on my G2 and it hasn't worked yet. Had to give ES FileExplorer root.
Have a great morning!
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media.process force close issue rooted htc desire
I fixed this problem without any further issues by clearing the download cache - I'm just as surprised as you.
staplesdroid said:
Yea like I said you must have a rooted phone!!!. Did it work after you gave es file root?
Another great program in root explorer. You can get it from ww w. 4shared .co m
Go there type in rootexplorer .apk and it will have multiple downloads. Just pick one and run it.
You can get all the paid apps for free like that. Just type in .apk after the app you want is typed in for example: rootexplorer .apk or irunner .apk or androidbanking .apk..... you get the picture?
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Or you could get it from the market, and pay for it, and support the developers. But if you want to be a thief, that's your decision.
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staplesdroid said:
I'm not trying to piss anyone off. Sorry if you don't agree with that. But 3.99 for a file explorer. Come on.
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It never ceases to amaze me how people can justify being a thief.
If 4 bucks is out of line, how is it you could afford your phone in the first place?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
The purple bear gets the purple worm!
indymx said:
It never ceases to amaze me how people can justify being a thief.
If 4 bucks is out of line, how is it you could afford your phone in the first place?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
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+ 1, a one time payment of $4 for something useful is nothing.
Sent from my abucus
why patronize piracy?
I live in Asia, where pirated software/apps are more prevalent than legit ones. That is because software like Microsoft Windows is economically out of reach for the man on the street.
But $3.99? Come on! We shouldn't expect devs to continue churning out useful code without getting paid for it. If the developers of Titanium Backup or Root Toolbox had decided early on that it wasn't worth it to develop apps for Android or WinMo, we'd all still be in the Dark Ages of the cellphone era. Making custom ROMs is not the same. For one, many of them were based on stock firmware--which were made by highly-paid software engineers at phone makers in the first place.
What the Android Market offers for free, I download for free. When it has a price and I need it, I pay for it. Simple as that.
1) the fix listed above worked perfectly for me. (HD2, gingerbread, CM7)
2) paying for an app is the right thing to do. free ones are preferred, of course. you know it, i know it, they know it. support open source, support the community. pay it forward.
staplesdroid said:
I know some of you have been having problems with a force close message that looks like this: Android.process.media is not responding please force close or retry.
I have done search after search only to find one way that ultimately fixes this annoying every second force close message.
1. Make sure your phone is rooted.
2. Using a file explorer of your choice go into the directories as follows:
/system/app/
3. Delete this file from the menu, mediaprovider.apk
4. Force close messages will now stop. Horray!
If you have questions post them. I will do my best to answer.
StaplesDroid
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Thanks for the tip mate. I got rid of FC's after removing mediaprovider. But after removing it cannot access any sort of media like photos, ringtones etc :-D. Any other work around?
WARNING!
fshami said:
Thanks for the tip mate. I got rid of FC's after removing mediaprovider. But after removing it cannot access any sort of media like photos, ringtones etc :-D. Any other work around?
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Yep, this is actually a horrible fix. For me, it did nothing except stop me from accessing any of my media. So if you don't care about listening to music, viewing any photos, having ringtones, viewing video you have taken etc, this MIGHT work for you. I had to dig out the mediaprovider.apk from the .zip of my ROM and replace it.
I fixed mine by restoring my last Titanium Backup ("restore all apps with data"). Whatever was corrupted was restored back to working order. I understand that not everyone has Titanium Backup, but it has save my a$$ a couple of times now when an app or system file has started acting weird. Root your phone and get TB, it's so worth it.
EDIT: OK, so the problem came back after I replaced mediaprovider.apk, so apologies for that. I booted into recovery and did a factory/data reset, then restored my Titanium Backup, and all seems to be good now. Again, I understand this may not help everyone, but it worked for me, and it avoids deleting apk files without fully understanding what effect it will have.
Help
I have a droid 2 global. i tried deleting the file and it says i cant. is there anything else i can do? i cant access my pics, music, or market.
la vela said:
I fixed this problem without any further issues by clearing the download cache - I'm just as surprised as you.
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Did this too, was having FCs after installing a new ROM but just cleared the cache and rebooted. My music player worked again after that.
Nothing works!
I tried deleting it which made things worse! Non stop FCs! Put it back. Cleared data multiple times! Rebooted some times! No luck! What to do! Heeelllppppp!!!!!!!!!
CyberZ-JB said:
I tried deleting it which made things worse! Non stop FCs! Put it back. Cleared data multiple times! Rebooted some times! No luck! What to do! Heeelllppppp!!!!!!!!!
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Try formatting ur sdcard, for me i had some temp folders with long file names which used to mess around..
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fshami said:
Try formatting ur sdcard, for me i had some temp folders with long file names which used to mess around..
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using xda premium
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Tried even that! Someone said it might be a Framewore issue! God knows what Android is made of! HELLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!
staplesdroid said:
I know some of you have been having problems with a force close message that looks like this: Android.process.media is not responding please force close or retry.
I have done search after search only to find one way that ultimately fixes this annoying every second force close message.
1. Make sure your phone is rooted.
2. Using a file explorer of your choice go into the directories as follows:
/system/app/
3. Delete this file from the menu, mediaprovider.apk
4. Force close messages will now stop. Horray!
If you have questions post them. I will do my best to answer.
StaplesDroid
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I had the same problem with my Asus transformer. In addition the default Music player did not work anymore as it used to (played the wrong numbers).
The above solution did not work for me (I could get to the files mentioned without rooting).
Sofar I got the problem solved as followed.
1. I found an new version 4 of the Music player (com.google.android.misic.4.0.9.apk) and installed this version
2. This by itself did not solve anything, but now I could reinstall the factory original version and now everything is OK.
No forced closing anymore and the default player works as before
I hope it stays this way.
regards,
alfred
I've just updated to latest Oxygen on my Huawei U8800, and was having that same issue.
After reading this post, I've updated with TB the application "[Playlists] Media Storage 2.3.7 (10)" and it solved it.
It seems that my custom playlists of the music app were causing it...

[Q] Picasa albums Flashing

Anyone else having issues of the albums flashing once you are trying to open it up to view the pictures. I thought I read somewhere that there was a fix for this. Anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance.
Not sure what you mean by flashing, but I assume you mean within the Gallery photo/video viewer. I can't even get my Picasa albums to show up, much less flash. Consider yourself lucky...lol
Use gallery3d or picasa tools from the market to use as the replacement gallery on the phone. The stocker has known bugs and the only known 'fix' is to do a master reset which would wipe everything on the phone and be a pain to restore unless you have a backup.
I have the same issue as well as the 75% upload 25% grey pics when using the stock and gallery3d. If you use picasa tool the pics upload fine as well and neither have the flashing issue.
kpjimmy said:
Use gallery3d or picasa tools from the market to use as the replacement gallery on the phone. The stocker has known bugs and the only known 'fix' is to do a master reset which would wipe everything on the phone and be a pain to restore unless you have a backup.
I have the same issue as well as the 75% upload 25% grey pics when using the stock and gallery3d. If you use picasa tool the pics upload fine as well and neither have the flashing issue.
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Well everything uploads fine. I know about the 3d gallery, but I'm not rather fond of it. I was hoping there would be someone who ISN'T having this problem that might have a different plugin (apk) that they could share with me.
Hi !
I solved this by clearing cache and data from app Picasa.
Go to Params > Apps > Picasa and then clear data and cache.
Then it works fine for me.
Hi there, I've posted about this very problem too (gallery won't open /load)
and when i brought my phone into the shop where i purchased it thay said that the phone is faulty They've ordered me a new one!!!! I've tried to do what was suggested and went into apps but it doesn't gine me the option to clear cache or clear defaults (these icons are unlit). Think i'll just take the new phone their offering

Hero and Instagram

So as many of you have already heard, Instagram dropped for we Android users about a week ago. Google Play won't let me find the app, so I downloaded the latest apk and installed it using a file manager. The app does everything fine except let me upload photos. It'll allow me to take/choose a photo from my gallery, crop it, but crashes at the filter screen. Has anyone looked into this at all, or am I just gonna have to avoid this app until I choose to upgrade my phone?
Oh, and I'm running CM7 if it matters at all.
100 Views and no responses? Looks like we're all screwed huh? XD
Might be. Didn't know about this program until today.
avoid app until you upgrade your phone i ran into similiar problems with my hero
I managed to get working by downloading and installing the apk itself
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA

Instagram hangs on processing

Hi Forum
I bought HTC Sensation two days back. Instagram giving me problem. It stuck on processing, and my phone goes unresponsive. I have to put my battery out. -a thing that I dont want to do every time-.
How to get rid of this issue? Any one having issue with Instagram?
Thanks for your time.
tahirakramch said:
Hi Forum
I bought HTC Sensation two days back. Instagram giving me problem. It stuck on processing, and my phone goes unresponsive. I have to put my battery out. -a thing that I dont want to do every time-.
How to get rid of this issue? Any one having issue with Instagram?
Thanks for your time.
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Are you trying to process pic from gallery and not from the current pic you took with the camera?
The issue happened when I process pic that I just taken. Once issue happened when I process the pic that I took from stock camera. And second time issue happened when I took picture from Instagram camera.
In both ways, app read the pic from gallery. Am I right?
tahirakramch said:
The issue happened when I process pic that I just taken. Once issue happened when I process the pic that I took from stock camera. And second time issue happened when I took picture from Instagram camera.
In both ways, app read the pic from gallery. Am I right?
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That's a problem with instagram , even myself have the same problem. Instagram cant process picture from the Gallery. So you must process it immediately after you took it from camera. Also the ugly thing when you try to load from the galley you notice the confirmation message at the back the Green and Red button, when i use it for the first time thought someone was calling. LOLS, so live with it or uninstall
I picked a existing picture from gallery and it successfully uploaded. But when I select the picture that just taken by camera it hangs.
By this, it means I should give it a delay. And then upload pic on Instagram.
darkmantra said:
That's a problem with instagram , even myself have the same problem. Instagram cant process picture from the Gallery. So you must process it immediately after you took it from camera. Also the ugly thing when you try to load from the galley you notice the confirmation message at the back the Green and Red button, when i use it for the first time thought someone was calling. LOLS, so live with it or uninstall
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Hmm in my case, issue is with the freshly picture taken by camera. An old pic can work.
tahirakramch said:
Hi Forum
I bought HTC Sensation two days back. Instagram giving me problem. It stuck on processing, and my phone goes unresponsive. I have to put my battery out. -a thing that I dont want to do every time-.
How to get rid of this issue? Any one having issue with Instagram?
Thanks for your time.
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Are you rooted and running a custom ROM or are you stock?
If you are rooted, flash the attached file. It's the newest GL 218. It helps FPS and boosts the performance of your device. It will also help with your Instagram issues, specially if you are rooted, the older GL versions had issues with it.
l2icky said:
Are you rooted and running a custom ROM or are you stock?
If you are rooted, flash the attached file. It's the newest GL 218. It helps FPS and boosts the performance of your device. It will also help with your Instagram issues, specially if you are rooted, the older GL versions had issues with it.
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You've got it completely backwards. OpenGL 128 breaks Instagram.
Rusty! said:
You've got it completely backwards. OpenGL 128 breaks Instagram.
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So does 213. I was meaning my attachment was the new 218 GL that had functioning Instagram. Not that the new 218 was the reason.
Sent from my Sensational LeeDroid Beater.
Tried the simple "Clear Data" in App settings?
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
l2icky said:
Are you rooted and running a custom ROM or are you stock?
If you are rooted, flash the attached file. It's the newest GL 218. It helps FPS and boosts the performance of your device. It will also help with your Instagram issues, specially if you are rooted, the older GL versions had issues with it.
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@l2icky
I am using stock OS ICS.
tahirakramch said:
@l2icky
I am using stock OS ICS.
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I wanna say there is a way to flash even though you have S-On. I always root, so unfortunately I don't know the process or any guide that might help you.
You might want to check into that. There may even be another way that I am not aware of. It's something worth looking into if you want to fix instagram.
Sent from my Sensational LeeDroid Beater.
My phone suffers from the same problem.
I believe it has something to do with the HTC Gallery because in AOSP/CyanogenMod ROMs this never happens to me. After you share a photo from gallery and it hangs, if you check your DCIM folder in the SD Card after 5 minutes, the .thumbnails folder has a lot of space taken. (Mostly from 500-1.5GB for me) If it's empty the app hangs and freezes. Don't know why but thumbnails folder get full after the app freezes and those files are temporary and get deleted after some time for me.
You just gotta live with it and hope you're lucky if it doesn't freeze, or use an aosp rom.
tahirakramch said:
Hi Forum
I bought HTC Sensation two days back. Instagram giving me problem. It stuck on processing, and my phone goes unresponsive. I have to put my battery out. -a thing that I dont want to do every time-.
How to get rid of this issue? Any one having issue with Instagram?
Thanks for your time.
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I have the same problem before. Solved after untick/disable Setting > Develop Option > Force GPU rendering.
@hariadi
This option is already untick.
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My Solution
NEVERMIND....IT DIDN'T WORK
I hope it works for you as well. For me the problem was coming because i had Instagram on the SD card. I transferred it on the internal memory and it works perfectly.
Just wanted to share
tahirakramch said:
Hi Forum
I bought HTC Sensation two days back. Instagram giving me problem. It stuck on processing, and my phone goes unresponsive. I have to put my battery out. -a thing that I dont want to do every time-.
How to get rid of this issue? Any one having issue with Instagram?
Thanks for your time.
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I am also having the same problem. It's driving me crazy having to take off my otterbox and removing my battery every time I want to post a pic. Nothing has been working. Clearing data, uninstalling, force stopping, my phone just keeps freezing.
If memory serves, it's to do with the OGL that HTC have used. If you want to fix it, you'll need to use a custom ROM.
fix
installing Instagram to the Internal Storage fixed this ! ...but filters don't work all the time
I'm using MildWild's Rom (HTC Desire), it has this option to install apps to your internal, even though app2sd is installed
other solutions I found(didnt work for me, might work for others) were:
-Instagram>Settings>Advanced Features>Use HQ Image Processing
-Go to Developer Settings>Force GPU Rendering
-Crop/resize to 612by612 before uploading (Filters work if I use this)
-Dont use filters
-Use instagram itself to take teh pictures
---- my Instagram btw: amclouds
Ahmed93 said:
installing Instagram to the Internal Storage fixed this ! ...but filters don't work all the time
I'm using MildWild's Rom (HTC Desire), it has this option to install apps to your internal, even though app2sd is installed
other solutions I found(didnt work for me, might work for others) were:
-Instagram>Settings>Advanced Features>Use HQ Image Processing
-Go to Developer Settings>Force GPU Rendering
-Crop/resize to 612by612 before uploading (Filters work if I use this)
-Dont use filters
-Use instagram itself to take teh pictures
---- my Instagram btw: amclouds
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My xperia x10 have the same issue... just tried everything...
Since the last update, instagram never worked again.

Instant instagram crash

Hi,
Since yesterday I am not able to use instagram on my one s anymore. Whenever I start it says: instagram has stopped instantly. I've tried reinstalling it via play and apk and i've tried a factory reset on my phone, nothing seems to work. anyone else got this problem?
Thanks in advance
What ROM are you using ? Have you tried to delete the apps cache and data ?
I can confirm its working on my phone, Ive just uploaded some pics less than 10mins ago.
azzledazzle said:
What ROM are you using ? Have you tried to delete the apps cache and data ?
I can confirm its working on my phone, Ive just uploaded some pics less than 10mins ago.
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I've cleaned the cache several times with app cache cleaner. How can I see what ROM i'm using (sorry i'm new at this)
mvdss said:
I've cleaned the cache several times with app cache cleaner. How can I see what ROM i'm using (sorry i'm new at this)
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If you dont know what ROM your using then it will be stock I meant are you using a custom ROM but i guess you are not lol
try to clear the cache and data manually via setttings > apps, Not all 3rd party apps do a good job.
azzledazzle said:
If you dont know what ROM your using then it will be stock I meant are you using a custom ROM but i guess you are not lol
try to clear the cache and data manually via setttings > apps, Not all 3rd party apps do a good job.
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Tried that aswell, didn't work. I even tried to log in with another account, in that case it doesn't crash instantly but when loading up the photo feed it does crash...
that is super strange lol do you get the option to report it when it FC's ?
My next step would be to contact the developer
azzledazzle said:
that is super strange lol do you get the option to report it when it FC's ?
My next step would be to contact the developer
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Yes I have the option, did it several times. I'll send a mail to the people from instagram. Thanks for your replies
Mine force closes when using the search function. Everything else works fine.
My wife was having issues with her feed (she has a galaxy s blaze 4g), ao I am guessing that there may be an issue with the app.
agentc13 said:
Mine force closes when using the search function. Everything else works fine.
My wife was having issues with her feed (she has a galaxy s blaze 4g), ao I am guessing that there may be an issue with the app.
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Mine is working again partly. Everything works but if I scroll down in the photo feed or tap on my grid it crashes...

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