Hi all,
I recently got a new phone for my wife which seems to have an issue indexing photos either edited or just taken in the gallery. Sometimes when taking a photo, the image can be seen in the gallery preview of the camera app, but when you click on it, an older photo is shown. Going to the gallery directly, the image just taken can't be seen and may not be for several hours. Other times the images appear in the gallery immediately.
My assumption is the media scanner process is getting killed by the O/S often and isn't picking up new media immediately. I have tried media scanner apps in the Play store, but these don't resolve the situation. I also have set "Media Storage" and "Gallery" apps to ignore battery optimisations to see if that helps, but that hasn't had any affect. The phone has Nougat (not sure which version right now) and an SD card which has been formatted as internal memory.
Is there a way to either get the media scanner to run more frequently or stop the service being killed (if that is indeed the problem)?
Thanks all.
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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.
My camera is starting up automatically and takes pictures every one in a while.
I don't use the camera at all on my phone anyway. I don't want the camera to take pictures automatically.
Things that I did already which didn't help fix the issue:
1) Turned off and restarted the phone
2) Reset to Factory settings.
3) removed the SD card, so that it won't store the pictures, but still opens the camera and complains the SD card is missing
4) force stopped the camera in the settings menu.
None of this is helping, when I am doing anything with the phone, touching some button to type/text/call someone/check my voicemail/anything that involves pressing the part of the glass, the camera app is starting up automatically and taking pictures/complains the SD card is missing.
Not sure, if anyone had this issue. Any suggestions would be truly helpful.
Thanks
The phone is a Brazilian xt1033 with 16gb and stock rom on 4.4.2 with gallery app update from google play. Suddenly some photos are all black in gallery app. When I try to open them on xplore, for instance, they come up ll black also. All pictures were taken with the camera app and some of them appear just fine. This is one of the problems.
The second: when I create a folder inside dcim and copy some pictures over there from another folder (all using using xplore), those pictures appear all black on gallery but, on xplore, they show just fine (unlike the pictures taken with camera).
Is somebody else having this problem? I tried rebooting the phone but the pictures still show all black.
Go to settings, apps and then:
Search Gallery -Force Stop and delete data.
Search Media Storage -Force Stop and delete data.
Reboot your device and wait a couple of minutes.
Then please report if it worked
Didn't work for me. Photos are still black. Happened when I was trying to transfer photos to my computer. Photos were on the internal memory, and some (still in the phone) turned black after I copied (ctrl-x - ctrl-v) others in my computer througth usb connection. Photos that were copied to the computer were fine; photos that were in the phone turned black at most (some didn't turned black).
Hi there, when i take a picture on my phone and then i click the little box in the camera app to preview it, it takes like 3/4sec (minimum) to fully load a picture and around 6 sec (maximum). even if i flicked straight back to the picture it takes a couple of seconds. similar issue with the album app. its like it loads the picture in installments, section by section.. however, google photos and any other third party app seems to load it (in one go) within a second. has anyone else experienced this?
i have been through the whole factory reset, software update, clearing camera data/cache, xperia companion tool repair and it seems to be a re-occuring issue..
Yes it's really annoying, and I've seen this since album app on Xperia T or even older. Nobody in Sony thought that they could update this app to load photos instantly, as the hardware now allows that without a hussle...
I have a few applications, one of them i usually use CamScanner. Of course, there is Office Lens, Google drive Scan, but something happened recently: i can no longer scan documents. The app openes with the camera, but when i press the photo button to take a picture, the app freezes for a few seconds then allows me to press again. (this happenes in CamScanner)
Office lens allows me to push but there is no picture taken to be scanned.
Google drive freezes as well for 1-2 seconds.
At first i thought: ok, i might have installed something, since the phone was rooted, TWRP installed (camera working!! i can take normal pictures), and messed up with the camera. Took the fastboot route and cleaned the rom again with a script, reinstalled the OS, all partitions (no exceptions), Data partition formated (backed up!): same thing. Installed both apps, none take pictures. This worked a few days ago, nothing much changed in between ( i might be subjective ). But on a clear phone?
I need to know what's going on...
Oh, something to add: for about 1-2 weeks, i have been having some strange movement on the screen with the gboard, appearing and re-appearing when i was trying to type, like some pixel was pressing on the screen on the right side, down. Some pixel on the touch screen pressing continuously? I dunno, nothing else is affected, i can write, take pictures and so on...
Right now it's not manifesting on the clean install...
That sounds strange. I am using mobile doc scanner from STOIK Soft without any problems (rooted, magisk, xposed). It also gives you the option to load existing images on your phone to load and edit.
Maybe try this and see if it works.
Tried the app, only works with the system camera, and not the camera from the app. I don't understand what's going on....
CamScanner works as well with system camera, but not the embedded one.
Grrr.r...
Are the problem solve? .. I have same problem here after upgrade to pie.. If I downgrade to oreo no problem to use scanner application.. I'm using avenger edition anyway..