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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.

How To Improve Image (thumb) Quality In 3D Gallery On 2.1 Official ROM ??

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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Lord Takyon said:
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?

itsjustmeagain said:
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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Gallery 2D, 3D ... Why ?!

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

pooley:) said:
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.

< Camera Comparison > Stock vs 3rd party app

Could anyone please post photos clicked using stock and 3rd party apps?
In some reviews it's mentioned certain manual features (like shutter speed) cannot be controlled in Moto X style/Pure. Is it true?

true for stock camera. can't adjust iso either. the camera app blows.
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Moto Camera app versus Google Camera, in panorama
The first attached file, is a panorama with the Google Camera app. The second is a panorama with the Moto Camera app. With Panorama, the Moto app does not handle lightt well at all. For any indoor panorama shots, use Google Camera.
And of those two photos. I can tell you from being there. The lighting in the room is very much like is shown in the Google Camera shot.

panorama is garbage on this phone. it's such a low resolution, it's always blurry never in focus.. it's god awful.
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jayochs said:
panorama is garbage on this phone. it's such a low resolution, it's always blurry never in focus.. it's god awful.
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Try it with the Google Camera app. What I have posted here, is chopped down during upload to XDA and are not the full size photos.

Thanks for all the posts!!
Could anyone pls try the manual camera app and let me know if the Raw files, ISO, Aperture control etc. are supported on Moto x Pure?
I read somewhere that the camera apk2 is not included in moto camera app and thereby limiting some of the functionalities. Thanks for the reply!

Manual camera does not work. It crashes constantly if you try to change ISO or any of the other settings. I don't understand what Moto was thinking? Surely there is a way to provide a nice point and shoot experience while also allowing advanced settings if the user is so inclined. This phone has a killer Sony Sensor and the Moto Camera app handicaps it terribly.

I installed Google camera on day one and haven't touched the Moto camera since I experienced it's awfulness.
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The Moto camera app is complete trash for panoramic shots. I'm not sure what they were thinking there.
I too have experienced the crashing apps from trying to change ISO. Bummer because I love using FV-5 and it is pretty much useless on this phone.

OzzyRulez said:
The Moto camera app is complete trash for panoramic shots. I'm not sure what they were thinking there.
I too have experienced the crashing apps from trying to change ISO. Bummer because I love using FV-5 and it is pretty much useless on this phone.
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They flat out excluded the Lollipop Camera2 API. That is why nothing works and you get the crashes. Hopefully someone smarter than I can bake it into a custom rom soon.

Motorola excluded the camera2api for some dumb ass reason. No manual controls at all.
I use the Google Camera app, overall I get better results than the Moto crap app.

Can you get Google's camera to record in UHD?
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cyris69 said:
Can you get Google's camera to record in UHD?
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nope, at least I can't. THe option is not there

Irieone said:
They flat out excluded the Lollipop Camera2 API. That is why nothing works and you get the crashes. Hopefully someone smarter than I can bake it into a custom rom soon.
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This is getting depressing. With things like this and the non-enhanced dialer. This is not the "pure" Android experience I was looking for. It at least this is resolved by using Google Camera. Google does not have a separate enhanced dialer app.
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cyris69 said:
Can you get Google's camera to record in UHD?
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Open camera can record in UHD 3840 x 2160

I use open camera but with no stabilization I don't even really bother taking photos at all. Especially since even using flash produces blurry photos with the slightest subject movement. I've been very disappointed with the quality in that department. If your taking a still and nothing is moving even the slightest then the image is good.
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cyris69 said:
I use open camera but with no stabilization I don't even really bother taking photos at all. Especially since even using flash produces blurry photos with the slightest subject movement. I've been very disappointed with the quality in that department. If your taking a still and nothing is moving even the slightest then the image is good.
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You are saying that when you check the auto-stabilize option, it doesn't work for you?

To those that use Open Camera, does the stock gallery display the pictures taken? Seems that with the stock Moto camera, Google camera, and Camera MX, pictures taken by any of them show up in the gallery. Pictures taken with Open Camera? Nope :\

rehpyc said:
To those that use Open Camera, does the stock gallery display the pictures taken? Seems that with the stock Moto camera, Google camera, and Camera MX, pictures taken by any of them show up in the gallery. Pictures taken with Open Camera? Nope :\
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The pictures on my phone showed up under the albums tab, in a folder called OpenCamera on the stock gallery.
I wish OpenCamera had and option to save to the external sdcard though.

JohnMcW said:
The pictures on my phone showed up under the albums tab, in a folder called OpenCamera on the stock gallery.
I wish OpenCamera had and option to save to the external sdcard though.
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Hmm.. seems that I fixed my own issue. Under Options > More camera controls, if you have Use Storage Access Framework checked, it seems it wasn't having my photos appear in the gallery. With it unchecked, photos I now take are. Don't know the cause of that.
Right above that option is the Save location, where you can have the photos saved to the external sdcard :good:

Timeshift burst

So i use the camera to take photos of sports. this is generally several people moving past at similar times.
If like to use something like the old burst function to do this. I can then go back and select the photos i want that evening. However when using timeshift it just looks like a laggy video (screen lags behind the camera dramatically) and i have to select a photo (possibly not the one i want) before moving on. Is there any way to change this?

Unfortunately the camera app and its dedicated applications are abandoned by Sony, same comes for 4K and other modes
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Andybrad said:
So i use the camera to take photos of sports. this is generally several people moving past at similar times.
If like to use something like the old burst function to do this. I can then go back and select the photos i want that evening. However when using timeshift it just looks like a laggy video (screen lags behind the camera dramatically) and i have to select a photo (possibly not the one i want) before moving on. Is there any way to change this?
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You can select a photo after by selecting the burst shot in Sony Album
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