sometimes you will come across this huge file called 'thumbdata' in the dcim folder on your sdcard0 which occupies like 1.5gb and sometimes even worse, 2gb+. to put an end to this retarded thing, i've followed this method and it works perfectly..
your phone needs to be rooted and rom toolbox must be installed..
step1- from the appmanager option in the rom toolbox app, backup the following system apps - album, photo editor, photos and videos.
step2- again from the appmanager option in the rom toolbox app, uninstall the system apps - album, photo editor, photos and videos.
step3- from the google playstore dload the 'quickpic' app
(actually the quickpic app acts as the replacement for your album app which produces the huge thumbdata file and the 'photo editor, photos and videos' apps are the sub apps of the album app)
now you can view all the pictures you've taken in the quickpic app and its actually quite better than the stock album app with many options to explore.
if you dont like this app and revert to the initial stage, you can choose 'restore' option for the 3 apps that you've backed up from the appmanager in romtolbox app and also dont forget to choose 'convert to system app' option after restoring the 3 stock apps.
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Hey all,
I've been using galaxy R for couple of months now and i've started to face this problem from a week.I have observed that after i add new images (jpg) to usb storage they dont appear in the gallery after the media scan.I've tried restart and clear data for gallery app but nothing seems to work.
I can very well see the images in myfiles or astro file manager, also tried quickpic and it displays the newly added images correctly.Also if try to open images from filemanager using gallery app,takes long time to open any image which is again not the case with quick pic.
I really need the default gallery app very badly.
Thanks.
Check if there aren't any other files in your image folder. Sometimes noimage.dat or other file appears out out nowhere and it causes the gallery problem. Delete that file if it is the case + try to not keep other file-types in your pics folder.
Well I've checked it and there are no such files neither hidden one. Also i've completely deleted the previous folder and copied to a new folder.But looks like gallery is freezed except for the camera folder and images downloaded through internet only gets updated.I've deleted entire contents of cache folder in data/cooliris but does not work.In fact previous images turned black.I dont seem to understand whats going on with the gallery.
maybe try a factory reset
Hi!
I used the default launcher of our XL..
On my home screen, I made 5 Folders for Web, Social, Games, Misc, and Japanese Language apps..
And I put at least 3 apps on every folder..
On my app drawer, I made folders for Google,Utilities, Games,Desktop, Sony, and Camera apps..And some individual apps like MX Player, recorder, calcu, ES file explorer, settings, TiBackUp, Speed Test and Greenify..
After every reboot of my phone, some of the icons(specially the user installed apps) are not on their folders on the home screen I made and have been lined up again on the app drawer.. Did some users experienced the same thing?any suggestions??
Thanks..
signashoes007 said:
Hi!
I used the default launcher of our XL..
On my home screen, I made 5 Folders for Web, Social, Games, Misc, and Japanese Language apps..
And I put at least 3 apps on every folder..
On my app drawer, I made folders for Google,Utilities, Games,Desktop, Sony, and Camera apps..And some individual apps like MX Player, recorder, calcu, ES file explorer, settings, TiBackUp, Speed Test and Greenify..
After every reboot of my phone, some of the icons(specially the user installed apps) are not on their folders on the home screen I made and have been lined up again on the app drawer.. Did some users experienced the same thing?any suggestions??
Thanks..
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Go to Settings>Apps> Menu=Reset app preferences
Reboot device again
Hope it will work.
ashoksc19 said:
Go to Settings>Apps> Menu=Reset app preferences
Reboot device again
Hope it will work.
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nope.. didn't work for me.. T.T
signashoes007 said:
nope.. didn't work for me.. T.T
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try to clear data of "Xperia Home".
You will lose all customize setting on homescreen.
Make again 5 folders and see if that works?
I am also trying to figure out exactly what reason that could be.
Has anyone ever figured out what causes it or how to fix the situation? I have the same issue with my Xperia Z1. App Drawer folders just disappear on reboot, sending the contained apps all over the drawer.
Tried both things (App Data Reset and specifically deleting data of Xperia Home) to no avail.
Move all apps from internal sd to phone, this will solve most issues. It's the same with modified icons & names in custom launchers when the apps are on the internal sd. It's because these apps are loaded after the launcher loads.
Not sure if it's the device or kitkat 4.4.2 sepifically? I've been using Vaulty in the past on previous device on android 4.2 and worked fine. I have private photos saved on my external sd card but want them hidden on my device. The stock gallery photo app shows everything, trying to avoid this. I know in the gallery app you can choose to not show certain folders but anyone can toggle this feature.
Basically want to hide the pictures i have on my sd card. I installed Vaulty which does not hide anything on this device. I found an app Gallery Lock lite which does but as soon as i reboot my device the "hidden" pictures are again visible in the stock gallery photo app. Any ideas on this? I have the private photos now saved in the Gallery Lock lite app so maybe now just delete them off my SD card and they won't show on stock gallery photo app?
Then if i take private photos with the phone's camera i hide them with this app and if photo is still in gallery just delete and the app will still have a copy saved inside? Seems confusing on this thing when it was so simple on my previous device, HTC One X+.
Should be able to create a .nomedia file and put it in the directory where the pictures are. This will make the phone ignore that directory when scanning for media.
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Not sure if it's the device or kitkat 4.4.2 sepifically? I've been using Vaulty in the past on previous device on android 4.2 and worked fine. I have private photos saved on my external sd card but want them hidden on my device. The stock gallery photo app shows everything, trying to avoid this. I know in the gallery app you can choose to not show certain folders but anyone can toggle this feature.
Basically want to hide the pictures i have on my sd card. I installed Vaulty which does not hide anything on this device. I found an app Gallery Lock lite which does but as soon as i reboot my device the "hidden" pictures are again visible in the stock gallery photo app. Any ideas on this? I have the private photos now saved in the Gallery Lock lite app so maybe now just delete them off my SD card and they won't show on stock gallery photo app?
Then if i take private photos with the phone's camera i hide them with this app and if photo is still in gallery just delete and the app will still have a copy saved inside? Seems confusing on this thing when it was so simple on my previous device, HTC One X+.
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You could also simply edit the file name to some random file extension using es file explorer.. rename them all to .txt files.
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Hide it pro - best app ive found after valuty, so many features, including different functional secondary apps, web recovery, sd card, email recovery, picture, video, apk. Plus document hider, also secondary pin entry incase you have to load under duress, inorder to enter a secondary empty vault. Give it a shot
5 best android apps to hide photos and videos
You can use apps to hide photos and video. And this's 5 best android apps to hide photos and videos
1. Hide Pictures Keep Safe Vault - is one of the best apps to lock away your personal pictures and videos with ease. The app makes it effortless to simply store away your videos and photos in a safe vault. The separate gallery is kept hidden from the regular ones. I have used the basic version of the app for a while and it worked perfectly.
2. Gallery Lock (Hide pictures) - is one of the most popular apps around for Android. Almost every friend of mine recommends this free app for daily usage. I was pleasantly suspired to see the robust feature list of this app. Gallery Lock comes with almost every feature you would want from an app that hides photos and videos for you.
3. Hide Something - Photo, Video - With Hide-Something, your public gallery remains available to your friends, family, and coworkers. And your hidden images are only for who can unlock. With Hide-Something, you can customize your gallery when you want to show different photos to different people. With Hide-Something, you can share your photos and videos easily, even hand over your cell phone to others and no worry about your privacy.
4. Gallery Vault - Hide Video&Photo - comes with a simple and understandable interface and a good design. You simply need to move the images to the GalleryVault and they will be kept safe behind a lock code. The app also has the option of making the launch icon hidden; virtually making it completely concealed from your device.
5. Hide Pictures & Videos - FotoX - allows you to store your private pictures and photos in a secret gallery. If you want, you can take a picture directly from the app itself and it will be stored instantly. It is a great way to avoid the extra work of manually selecting pictures and hiding them in a secret vault.
Just released this app to the market yesterday (as a paid app) but I figured I'd also make a XDA thread to give it out for free, but instead of doing it in the general section, I decided to give my fellow Moto X users the treat. Screenshots & video are at the market listing ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.milone.fakedel ) but I’ve also copied the description below.
Keep your private photos hidden without anyone even knowing they are there, with the most discreet photo security app on the Play Store.
How it works:
Its purpose is to mimic the action of deleting an image from your device, but instead of deleting it, it just moves it to a hidden folder that the Gallery app does not detect.
Key Features:
•Remove images from your gallery, but move them to a hidden folder
•Utilize your own native or 3rd party gallery app to select images
•Completely customize the Discreet Delete dialog to match your UI, including actions to occur after dismissing the dialog
•View Hidden Photos with ease, share or open them in other apps just like the normal Gallery
• Two easy launch modes, create a shortcut or turn on a notification that appears whenever a new photo is taken with your camera. Both with customizable labels and both load straight into your installed gallery app to select an image to fake delete
Hide your photos in plain sight without anyone even knowing that you have anything to hide.
You'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
App Info & Permissions:
Android 2.2 and up (API 8)
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: move and delete images
android.permission.CAMERA: to detect when a new photo is taken
android.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT: create direct icon that launches the image selector
Let me know what you think.
Thanks. Pretty cool of you.
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Works great thanks.
Is there any way to make this work with videos?
So I have mostly moved away from EMUI, as much as I can anyway, got way to used to Moto/Nokia devices with pure Android... Using Nova Launcher Prime, Google Photo, Google Calendar, Google Calculator, etc. and even though I have set defaults to these apps, like the default Gallery App to Photo in settings, in apps like Facebook when I go to post a picture or something it still is using Gallery to get me to pick the photo.
What do I need to do "fix" this so everything uses Photo? Use adb to disable Gallery (it's about the only thing I can think of I haven't tried)?
I do not think it's possible, I've also uninstalled several apps that come by default on the phone and I tried to use Google photos but according to a thread I follow to disable apps by adb, If the native gallery app is disabled, it would not be possible to access the thumbnail in the camera app. If you find some way to make it work, it would be great to know it too.
@acejavelin I'm with @Frankgefre . It's not only the non-working thumbnails. The Gallery is bound to the camera app. It provides features like adjusting the strengh of the bokeh effect or rendering a 3D-Panorama.
Thanks! Guess I'll just keep things as is.
You can try disabling it by adb, I'm using Google Photos instead of Emui 8 gallery app. Thumbnails works.
After that you can install again gallery app to your user 0. Or try with new user. Then use adb to remove gallery app.
This is basic behavior for the apps like Facebook it needs permission to access the Storage on your phone that includes Gallery and Photos, you can forbid this permission in phone Settings / Apps / Permissions.