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When I got my Nexus 4 phone, I wanted to take full advantage of the high quality screen and set a gorgeous wallpaper on it. But I realized that no matter what wallpaper I set, I always get tired of looking at it quite quickly. What I really wanted was a new beautiful wallpaper every time I would pick up my phone. And that's why I created the app Gainos Fresh Wallpapers. It selects a random photo from Flickr's Explore stream and sets that as your wallpaper at regular intervals. I have mine set to change every hour.
APP HIGHLIGHTS
Images are selected at random from the 'Explore' stream at Flickr. This app is not affiliated with Flickr in any way.
Remembers last 10 wallpapers so you can go back and choose one you previously liked.
Choose to change the wallpaper as frequently as 10 minute to as slow as once every week.
Enable Daydream mode on JellyBean+ devices to start screensaver when device is docked.
Share images with your social networks.
Works well with tablets and phones. For high resolution displays a higher quality image is downloaded.
Choose to download new wallpapers only over wifi to save cellular bandwidth.
Minimal interface that stays out of your way. Just start the service once and forgot about the app.
HOW TO GET
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=li.muhammada.gainos&referrer=utm_source%3Dxdadevelopers
Amazon AppStore: https://amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=li.muhammada.gainos
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I'll really appreciate your feedback and suggestions!
Thanks!!
Hi guys, any issues to report?
Just installed it. Interface is clean and simple, very nice!
I don't know much about Flickr, but would it be possible to choose different "genres"? Such as scenery shots, cities, beaches etc..? That would be be a fantastic addition.
Apart from that, it seems to work exactly as described! I'll see how battery life is affected over the coming days but I don't think it'll be an issue
Great work! :good:
P.S. Check the XDA Portal in a few days
Glad you liked it!
the_scotsman said:
I don't know much about Flickr, but would it be possible to choose different "genres"? Such as scenery shots, cities, beaches etc..? That would be be a fantastic addition.
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I'm planning on adding some functionality like this in the next update or so. It will select photos by keywords or tags.
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P.S. Check the XDA Portal in a few days
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I'll keep an eye out
alinium_ said:
Glad you liked it!
I'm planning on adding some functionality like this in the next update or so. It will select photos by keywords or tags.
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Ahh excellent! I'm still using the app, looking forward to the update!
First of all, thanks a lot for the app! It's a great idea. I just have a couple of requests:
Let's say I have the app refresh every 10 minutes and I leave my phone idle for an hour. It downloads all 6 wallpapers and wastes bandwidth for no reason rather than waiting for me to see the wallpaper before going to the next one. Could you change the app to prevent these useless downloads?
If I don't like a wallpaper, is there a way in the app to skip this wallpaper? Could you make a widget to skip the current wallpaper?
Hello great app, a save option for saving wallpapers to phone will be great!
The auto download on wifi only toggle is missing on the Nexus 7 with 3G (tilapia).
And it seems to get pretty low res pictures for the Nexus 7 as well, not sure if it's better on the N4 because the screen is so much smaller, and my eyes ain't perfect.
Awesome
hi alinium, awesome app bro. just downloaded. works great on my S2. Thanks and good luck.:good:
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well this is nice
Thaaaaaaanks, but..
:highfive:Please give as the opition to choose wallpapers from galery:highfive:
Great app and nice job! Simple, clean and compact. I had been using foxsaver for years before they changed it all for the worst. It used to work like this and now its been whittled down to about 10 pics per week. At a point it updated pics every 3 minutes and rarely repeated itself. I still have a foxsaver cache of over 1000 pics that I use with other wallpaper switchers but I am sick of those pics already.
Yes, after looking at the same 1K pics for over a year you will get bored of them too. Kinda explains marrage and divorse, or getting bored of your favorite foods and past times, if you think about it. The human brain needs changing stimulii to keep it satisfied. I feel like I got back the old foxsaver here. Very nice. I missed the "fresh" new feel of constantly changing wallpaper and now its back on the stack.
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I found one problem and have another request. First problem is when you upload a pic to your dropbox, it has the SAME NAME as previously uploaded pics. In order to upload one pic you have to overwrite another you've already uploaded. Each pic should have a unique name, every time, every day, every week, etc. I should never have to overwrite a pic with another pic. And there is no way in your app to name the pics. They are named whatever flicker calls them so you will probably have to change this.
My request is to be able to save pics to local SD (or internal memory if I choose). There is no option for that in the share function.
Thank you for the initiative!!
Chaoticaa said:
First of all, thanks a lot for the app! It's a great idea.
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Hi Chaoticaa, thanks for your interest in the app!
Let's say I have the app refresh every 10 minutes and I leave my phone idle for an hour. It downloads all 6 wallpapers and wastes bandwidth for no reason rather than waiting for me to see the wallpaper before going to the next one. Could you change the app to prevent these useless downloads?
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It's designed this way so that you can see a new wallpaper whenever you go back to the home screen. If it waited till you were on the home screen before downloading a wallpaper, you would have to wait a while to see the actual results. Its very likely that you would have actually navigated away from the home screen by the time the wallpaper changed.
If you are concerned about bandwidth, you can use the option that only auto downloads new wallpapers over WiFi, or use a longer interval. I have mine set to 1 hour and I find it pretty good as I get to see a new wallpaper almost every time I pick up my phone.
If I don't like a wallpaper, is there a way in the app to skip this wallpaper? Could you make a widget to skip the current wallpaper?
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You can go into the app and press the big green button to get a new wallpaper. You can also re-select any wallpaper from the last 10 you had. I have plans to add either a widget or a low priority notification (or maybe both) which will let you do the same without having to go into the app in a future update. Also, in case you get some embarrassing wallpaper, you can long-tap it in the app and select 'Remove from History'.
When I first downloaded it I was using my Galaxy S3 which is running an AOSP AOKP ROM, however when I downloaded and tried it out on my Galaxy Note 2 which is running a Touchwiz ROM I don't see how to set the app to set both the Lockscreen and homescreen wallpaper. The app just sets the homescreen wallpaper.
myhayserano said:
Hello great app, a save option for saving wallpapers to phone will be great!
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You can use the share button in the app (turquoise colored button), to export the currently selected wallpaper to other apps on your device. This way you can save the picture somewhere on your phone.
You can also long-tap on a wallpaper thumbnail and then tap 'View Wallpaper' to see the original image on Flickr. You can then save the image from that website. Please be mindful of the image owner's copyright though - however its usually ok to keep the images for personal (non-commercial, non-promotional) use.
kenkiller said:
The auto download on wifi only toggle is missing on the Nexus 7 with 3G (tilapia).
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That's a good catch! I am hiding the option for devices that didn't support 3G. But Android doesn't provide a good way to detect these devices. So I was checking if the device supports phone functionality. However, it looks like tablets like yours will fail this test even though they support 3G functionality. I'll look into finding some better way to detect which devices have 3G capability. Look out for it in the next update
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And it seems to get pretty low res pictures for the Nexus 7 as well, not sure if it's better on the N4 because the screen is so much smaller, and my eyes ain't perfect.
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As for the resolution, the size of the images downloaded is related to the display size. The image size picked is always one that's larger than the screen's dimensions. However, care is taken not too choose something ridiculously larger as that would just be a bandwidth hog. Sometimes Flickr might not have the correct sized image, in which case a smaller resolution image has to be downloaded. But most of the time, you should be getting a high-res, crisp image.
IvanAugustoBD said:
:highfivelease give as the opition to choose wallpapers from galery:highfive:
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Thanks for trying out the app IvanAugustoBD! But I wonder if you're missing out on the point of the app. As elfaure mentions in his post, the idea of the app is to keep providing a fresh stream of images to keep your visual senses stimulated at all time. This is hard to do if you keep seeing images from a pre-determined set. The advantage of using Flickr is that you get an endless stream of new gorgeous images.
Having said that, I realize that some people might prefer seeing the same set of images e.g. if it is pictures of their loved ones. But truthfully, this sort of feature is very low on my list.
If this is truly what you want, you might be able to find other apps in the store that cycle through images in your own photo gallery. But I believe you will have a better experience using Gainos than those apps.
elfaure said:
Great app and nice job! Simple, clean and compact. I had been using foxsaver for years before they changed it all for the worst. It used to work like this and now its been whittled down to about 10 pics per week. At a point it updated pics every 3 minutes and rarely repeated itself. I still have a foxsaver cache of over 1000 pics that I use with other wallpaper switchers but I am sick of those pics already.
Yes, after looking at the same 1K pics for over a year you will get bored of them too. Kinda explains marrage and divorse, or getting bored of your favorite foods and past times, if you think about it. The human brain needs changing stimulii to keep it satisfied. I feel like I got back the old foxsaver here. Very nice. I missed the "fresh" new feel of constantly changing wallpaper and now its back on the stack.
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Right on! This was my main motivation for making this app.
elfaure said:
I found one problem and have another request. First problem is when you upload a pic to your dropbox, it has the SAME NAME as previously uploaded pics. In order to upload one pic you have to overwrite another you've already uploaded. Each pic should have a unique name, every time, every day, every week, etc. I should never have to overwrite a pic with another pic. And there is no way in your app to name the pics. They are named whatever flicker calls them so you will probably have to change this.
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This should be pretty easy to do. In my next update I'll make it so that the images have unique names. I'll probably use the current date/time for the image name.
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My request is to be able to save pics to local SD (or internal memory if I choose). There is no option for that in the share function.
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The share function is handled by the Android system itself. It does looks like they don't provide any functionality to save images directly to sd card. I'll take a look at what other possibilities exist. For the time being, you're best off saving them to some other app like Dropbox or Google Drive.
Jonnyredcorn said:
When I first downloaded it I was using my Galaxy S3 which is running an AOSP AOKP ROM, however when I downloaded and tried it out on my Galaxy Note 2 which is running a Touchwiz ROM I don't see how to set the app to set both the Lockscreen and homescreen wallpaper. The app just sets the homescreen wallpaper.
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I've had a few Galaxy Note 2 users complain about this issue. They all seem to be using Samsung's TouchWiz. I looked into it and found out that Samsung has modified the Android API functionality in Touchwiz so that the wallpaper changing function only changes the home screen wallpaper. In all likelihood they have a separate function for setting the lock screen wallpaper, but it is not documented any where and Samsung has said that they do not make it public either. So the way it stands right now, there is no way I can fix this issue.
How many times you've share photo to Instagram and become sad because it was cropped on sides? I bet it happens all the time. With this app you can avoid cropped pictures. Keep all details of your photos!
#SquareDroid is a simple photo editor for Instagram that helps you to avoid photos crop by making your photos square, adding borders of any size and color, rotating and optionally cropping your photo.
After you've finished with photo editing #SquareDroid will let you post your photo directly to Instagram in one click, or share it via other apps you have.
There are background options: Solid color, Blur and Gradient. Also app picks four complimentary colors to make your photo's background look beautiful.
You can choose format of saved photo PNG/JPG and compression quality for JPG. It also makes resolution of your photo as big as your device can handle.
App has pure Material Design theme that looks polish and crisp.
Key Features:
You can pick photo from gallery
You can take a shot exactly from App
You can share pictures from Gallery/Google Photos App directly to #SquareDroid
Crop functionality
Ability to choose between JPG/PNG formats.
You can select folder to save result images
Tune picture size
Solid color, Blur and Gradient as background
App analyzes your photo and pics complimentary colors
Sharing directly to Instagram from app
Sharing to any app like Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, vk.com client, Email app, Bluetooth etc.
Stylish Material Design theme
Grab #SquareDroid at Google Play.
Add hashtag #SquareDroid when sharing photos to Instagram to get more likes!
Updated to version 1.02
Fixed layout for 3.5" devices
Fixed bug with black screen on some devices
THX, it's beautiful
darkknightma said:
THX, it's beautiful
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Hey! Thanks for feedback, I'm glad you like my app.
great
great app ...
5 stars
Hi,
Does your app keep the original Exif metadata? especially the geo-location metadata.
This is the main reason why I haven't used any of the other "#square"-like apps.
I've been looking for something like this! This is great. Thanks!
simple easy
i used to doing this using photoshop touch, but now it just make it easier to do it.. thanks.. :laugh:
I cant use this app
Always stuck like this
My phone have ldpi and 3" screen
Sent from my GT-S5360 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Thanks it helped a lot. :good:
Might start using this instead of InstaSize. Thanks.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda premium
Simple
I have always been thinking about something like this.. Thanks bro, I like IT! DDDDDDDDD
Can't use on HTC One X
It's always a black screen.
Works really good, but I can't seem to use it for panorama shots.
I've tried a lot of apps, none of which let me use panorama shots and still this one is the one I like the best, thank you!
Genious
I never thought I would love letterbox. Great idea and execution!
sanil1986 said:
great app ...
5 stars
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Thanks! I'm glad you like it!
idoa01 said:
Hi,
Does your app keep the original Exif metadata? especially the geo-location metadata.
This is the main reason why I haven't used any of the other "#square"-like apps.
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You just gave me idea for the next update. Stay tuned.
tehloxely said:
I've been looking for something like this! This is great. Thanks!
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Thank you!
imrude said:
i used to doing this using photoshop touch, but now it just make it easier to do it.. thanks.. :laugh:
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I'm happy you like it!
iskandar1023 said:
I cant use this app
Always stuck like this
My phone have ldpi and 3" screen
Sent from my GT-S5360 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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Sorry, ldpi and small screens are not supported.
muskanstha said:
Thanks it helped a lot. :good:
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Thank you!
.Bambino said:
Might start using this instead of InstaSize. Thanks.
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Yay! Thank you!
Ambkor said:
I have always been thinking about something like this.. Thanks bro, I like IT! DDDDDDDDD
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I'm glad you like it!
laruku said:
It's always a black screen.
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I have a few reports from One X users about this, but I can't figure out what can cause this bug. Stay tuned, I'll try to find some workaround.
tatit1011 said:
Works really good, but I can't seem to use it for panorama shots.
I've tried a lot of apps, none of which let me use panorama shots and still this one is the one I like the best, thank you!
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Thanks for feedback!
dbin78 said:
I never thought I would love letterbox. Great idea and execution!
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Thank you!
what a coincidence i was looking for a app similar to this yesterday and today i found yours THANKS
Yeah liking it a lot
bliizzz said:
what a coincidence i was looking for a app similar to this yesterday and today i found yours THANKS
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This is a sign from the Universe.
Are there any problems with this app and the GT-i9505?
I'm having the black screen issue.. :/
Immorten said:
Are there any problems with this app and the GT-i9505?
I'm having the black screen issue.. :/
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I've had an idea about this problem and I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.
In FB and in Google Photos the rotation of some of my pictures are wrong.
The rotation is fine in the Xperia photo app.
Any suggestions to a solution.....or is it a bug? Am I the only one that has this experience?
Doelpher said:
In FB and in Google Photos the rotation of some of my pictures are wrong.
The rotation is fine in the Xperia photo app.
Any suggestions to a solution.....or is it a bug? Am I the only one that has this experience?
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I guess I am the only one with the problem as no one has replied I still have the problem though.
I sometimes have this problem.
Very rare though.
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Doelpher said:
In FB and in Google Photos the rotation of some of my pictures are wrong.
The rotation is fine in the Xperia photo app.
Any suggestions to a solution.....or is it a bug? Am I the only one that has this experience?
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I See It too.
I Rotated an image using Xperia Album App then I set it as wallpaper But when i wanted to upload it to instagram it was like first time (not rotated)
maybe Album App bug that not rotate the actual image file and maybe temporary file in cache or something!
or maybe rotate the frame of image in Album!
The Solution is using another app to rotate
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Geeks Empire said:
I See It too.
I Rotated an image using Xperia Album App then I set it as wallpaper But when i wanted to upload it to instagram it was like first time (not rotated)
maybe Album App bug that not rotate the actual image file and maybe temporary file in cache or something!
or maybe rotate the frame of image in Album!
The Solution is using another app to rotate
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Your solution is a possibility, but is really not good if you wanna take a picture and use it right away in ex. Facebook Messenger. You don't see the wrong rotation until the picture is in Messenger and then you have to edit the picture with another app....and then send it with Messenger
I have the same issue, but I think I have understood. My screen orientation is locked on portrait. When you take pictures the camera app still rotate.
So if you take a picture with camera in landscape mode and screen in portrait mode. the photo will be rotated... Hope I'm clear.
I tried to view some pictures on my PC that i'd taken yesterday and they were upside down! Don't think I was so drunk I took them upside down but you never know.
Always had rotation issues on Xperia I see it as a quirk of the phones.
Hi
Seems like Google Photo's is hard coded to be the default picture viewer.
If you install something else you are not prompted to choose the new default as you would expect.
Disabling google photo's and trying to force new default doesn't work either.
Perhaps with future ROM?
Anything anyone achieved without root etc. till now? Thanks.
Reorienting back and recent keys seems like a no go either, what do people do to get round that?
Thanks for any tips already.
technotika said:
Hi
Seems like Google Photo's is hard coded to be the default picture viewer.
If you install something else you are not prompted to choose the new default as you would expect.
Disabling google photo's and trying to force new default doesn't work either.
Perhaps with future ROM?
Anything anyone achieved without root etc. till now? Thanks.
Reorienting back and recent keys seems like a no go either, what do people do to get round that?
Thanks for any tips already.
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For remapping the buttons the app from Flar2 works.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutton
technotika said:
Hi
Seems like Google Photo's is hard coded to be the default picture viewer.
If you install something else you are not prompted to choose the new default as you would expect.
Disabling google photo's and trying to force new default doesn't work either.
Perhaps with future ROM?
Anything anyone achieved without root etc. till now? Thanks.
Reorienting back and recent keys seems like a no go either, what do people do to get round that?
Thanks for any tips already.
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Hmm...
If I tap on an image file I get a choice :
jhill110 said:
Hmm...
If I tap on an image file I get a choice :
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try from within the camera - take pic - review it - only allowed Google Photo's, for me at least..?
technotika said:
try from within the camera - take pic - review it - only allowed Google Photo's, for me at least..?
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Tryna different camera. Counterintuitive? Maybe. Probably. Definitely. But you will get the option that you want.
But this has ALWAYS been the case with HTC. I have installed the HTC camera app on other phones, and it was imperative to have the HTC Gallery app to be able to review the photos after they are taken. I know that it's a different gallery app that we are taking about, but I think have the Camera App is the real issue here. The app defines the default photos app.
I may be wrong, but that's something that I discovered a while back.
technotika said:
Hi
Seems like Google Photo's is hard coded to be the default picture viewer.
If you install something else you are not prompted to choose the new default as you would expect.
Disabling google photo's and trying to force new default doesn't work either.
Perhaps with future ROM?
Anything anyone achieved without root etc. till now? Thanks.
Reorienting back and recent keys seems like a no go either, what do people do to get round that?
Thanks for any tips already.
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You could use a custom rom like leedroid, there you can define your favorite app for pictures and it will launch from the camera.
And you can use custom roms without root.
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You could use a custom rom like leedroid, there you can define your favorite app for pictures and it will launch from the camera.
And you can use custom roms without root.
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Still need to unlock the bootloader. I'm sure you know that...but there are still some newbies to the scene.
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Still need to unlock the bootloader. I'm sure you know that...but there are still some newbies to the scene.
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Sure I know about that, it was just a hint to the right direction.
There are some very good guides for it.
What if you sideload the old Gallery app?
If you want back the old HTC Apps try here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...blinkfeed-plugins-devices-08-03-2015-t3049438
I tested it on my shiny new U11
Still no way to change the gallery app when you open photos from camera? Google photos is driving me nuts and I dont want to use it
NeoDJW said:
Still no way to change the gallery app when you open photos from camera? Google photos is driving me nuts and I dont want to use it
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Switch to QuickPic
I cant, already tried that.
NeoDJW said:
Still no way to change the gallery app when you open photos from camera? Google photos is driving me nuts and I dont want to use it
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install htc album from apk mirror, then disable the google photos app. It should default to htc album then.
It should but it doesn't, and I don't know why... When I disable google photos and install htc gallery nothing hapens when I try to open photos from camera.
Any fix for this yet?
Would love to see a fix too!
I got around all the little issues with Photos by disabling that app.
Then got "QuickPic" from Google Play and made it Gallery app in it's settings.
Aggravation instantly gone. Works fine without giving an argument about everything.
haasgo said:
Would love to see a fix too!
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on our rom you can pick any gallery app as preview album in the camera app.
I've tried many apps as I've never really used Google photos before and had no luck with any. But I've started to like it now. Especially since they added opening straight to albums in the settings.
hey guys!
is thers anyway to fix the facebook story? cause they cut from above the pic because of the resolution
anyway to fix it ? so it will looks normal
the facebook itself looks ok full screen just the story crop
bubu23 said:
hey guys!
is thers anyway to fix the facebook story? cause they cut from above the pic because of the resolution
anyway to fix it ? so it will looks normal
the facebook itself looks ok full screen just the story crop
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Facebook lite app
Clear treats and store, in case you're utilizing a PC; ... - Restart your PC or telephone; - Uninstall and reinstall the application, in case you're utilizing a telephone; - Log into Facebook and attempt once more.
Same issue with Instagram stories. The only way is to use Good Lock to resize the app to 16:9 so that stories will work properly.
clarkgable said:
Same issue with Instagram stories. The only way is to use Good Lock to resize the app to 16:9 so that stories will work properly.
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If you do so, like options etc configuration fails, you can't click tose options
Move the app in multi window covering 3/4th screen when viewing stories.