First of all, I'm on an unrooted Thunderbolt with stock Sense UI and am using the stock gallery as well as the stock camera app.
Today, three different times, I've had some weird problems with my gallery. I'll load it up to find thumbnails of old pics that I've already transferred off my phone. For example, I took pics 36 - 40 (including video 5) off my phone and have two new pics (41 and 42) on there currently. When this strange reload happens, of which I cannot figure out, it shows pics 36 - 40 and the one video in there and not my recent pics. All of the pics won't open (rightfully so as they are no longer on the phone) and some will have missing thumbnails with a little icon on it, making it seem as if they are corrupt (which is what I thought when I first saw this).
The only way to fix this I've found is to use this app I have called SDrescan. I haven't tried restarting the phone as an option. It might work or it might not.
What would be the cause of this? I tried to recreate what I was doing at the time this happened those three times but it just seems to happen after a while. I would really like some insight to this as it's annoying to not be able to upload a pic I just took due it not recognizing it in the gallery.
For some God forsaken reason, the camera in my N5 is a pile of crap. Let me list the issues:
(Note I'm using the stock Google Camera app and have tried CM Focal with identical results).
Switching from Rear to Front camera takes a stupid amount of time, usually winds up crashing the Camera app altogether.
Switching from Camera to Video results in a grey bar, 1/10th the width of the screen, spanning the entire length of the right side of the screen. The app usually crashes after this.
Videos usually can't record, the screen freezes, forcing me to hit the back or home button.
When videos do record, they're corrupt and cant be played on any windows machine or in any program.
Sound quality is laughable. (wasn't when I first bought the phone with 4.4.2 on it)
Snapchat usually can't even launch the camera and asks to restart the app. Usually results in me having to reboot the phone.
When the camera does work in Snapchat, pictures come out fine, but switching cameras usually reproduces the issue mentioned above. Videos, however record only 50% of the time. The times they dont, the screen freezes, resulting me having to restart the app.
When videos do actually record in Snapchat they have about a 50/50 of being unable to be played back, resulting in the error message: "Can't play this video".
On rare occasions, using the camera in Snapchat results in the screen flickering rapidly for a few seconds and then the phone reboots... The last time this occured it wiped all the data to Facebook, Snapchat, and EvolveSMS.
These symptoms exist in both Vanilla KitKat 4.4.4 and CM11 (Snapshot M8). Yes, I have reinstalled Snapchat. I've also tried toggling on/off HDR+ to no avail.
My Camera is basically useless and it's extremely annoying. It has even caused crashes that have wiped data from my phone. Hardware related? Software related? I'm really at a loss here... Any help is appreciated.
Well first try a complete fresh install to see if it's just software related
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Ben36 said:
Well first try a complete fresh install to see if it's just software related
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Factory reset, wiped case and dalvik, freshly installed CM11 last night before bed. Same symptoms exist as they did before.
Running KitKat 4.4.4.
I took a photo last night using the camera from the lock screen. Hours later, i checked my phone for that photo. I looked for it in the Photos app and it was not there, device nor cloud backup.
This morning i turned on my phone and i got the notification that a photo has been backed up onto the cloud. I opened up the Photos app and now it shows the photo i took last night on my device gallery.
Why did it not show up on my device when i first took it?
I haven't seen anyone else with this issue, but maybe they've just been silent. So, I take a picture, everything is fine. I look in the gallery, everything is fine. But when I go to share the picture either via MMS, uploading to an app, or uploading to a webpage, the image appears on the page but has been rotated 90 degrees. Has anyone else had this issue? It doesn't happen all the time, but enough to be annoying. Somewhere between the gallery and the upload, the picture gets rotated. But if I go into my gallery, the picture is fine. It's only on the site/app that it was uploaded to that it rotates on its own.
Happens in hangouts every time I send a portrait oriented photo. Happens on friends s6's too.
Now that you mention it, it has always happened with pictures taken in portrait mode.
Happens to me also. Emailing pictures they are rotated.
Copied the picture to my computer and when I opened it to edit I got a message indicating that the Exif data indicated that the picture had been rotated and asked if I wanted to rotate it.
Odd that it's not displaying correctly.
Same issue, annoying
This has been happening with the S6 I bought for my wife, and so far I haven't seen anyone post a solution. It seems odd that more people aren't complaining about it though. Hopefully the update they just released addresses this issue, but it's not listed in the changelog. Since I bought it off swappa I'm really hoping it's not a hardware defect.
Hasn't happened since applying the last update, fingers crossed that it's fixed now.
S6 Edge pics rotated 90 degrees
I'm having the same problem, but for me it is more than just annoying. It impacts my work. Perhaps 50% of the time, pictures I post to the professional app related to my job are rotated 90dg. More than just annoying, it's unprofessional.
As far as I know, my phone is up to date with updates. In fact, this problem may not have started until the last update.
Please advise.
I've had this problem both with my S3 with various stock and AOSP roms (and different camera apps) and now on the S6 on stock and XtreStoLite as well. After googling a lot and occassionally encountering other people's flipped photos I learned this is a problem with how the phone handles EXIF data and how certain apps or software on the computer handle it. Apparently the info of rotation is changed (90, 180, 270 and 360) but some apps ignore it while others don't. It could be another case of Samsung messing too much with source codes.
Then again, my cousin has the same problem with his iPhone..
I've been wondering last few weeks why all the videos I take during the day end up at the top of the day's thumbnails in Photos. Checked the timestamps on the videos and they are all wrong. Mostly stamped 5 hours later than they were taken. Pictures seem to be fine and have the correct information.
Have tried the usual steps of reinstall etc ...
I'm able to edit the time of the video and once edited it falls in the right spot, but a permanent fix would be better.
Does this happen to anyone else? Thanks