Did anyone have the slow gallery problem on Galaxy Note II? Specially when changing wallpapers using the settings. Is there any solution to it?
My gallery has suddenly gotten extremely slow too. Started yesterday. Tried clearing the gallery cache but that didn't help. I did some searching and haven't found a solution yet. If I do I'll let you know.
Very slow gallery
shahidhussain said:
Did anyone have the slow gallery problem on Galaxy Note II? Specially when changing wallpapers using the settings. Is there any solution to it?
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Mines been like it for ages, slow to the point of unusable, searched and searched but no solution at all, its really annoying now, tried differant Kernels and rom's but no luck.
Through Settings/Application Manager/All/Gallery I cleared the cache. I then used a file manager (Total Commander) to manually delete the .thumbmails directory. I also turned Facebook Gallery syncing through Settings/Accounts/Facebook.
My phone automatically rebuilt the thumbnails and after maybe half a day Gallery sped up to it' usual speed.
haven't noticed any problems on my end, seems to be as fast as day 1
John
Mine is slow as ****e as well. I assumed it was something to do with the Facebook galleries.
I use Quickpic though instead.
ETA: lbloo's solution worked for me although I had to clear data rather than just cache on mine.
lbloo said:
Through Settings/Application Manager/All/Gallery I cleared the cache. I then used a file manager (Total Commander) to manually delete the .thumbmails directory. I also turned Facebook Gallery syncing through Settings/Accounts/Facebook.
My phone automatically rebuilt the thumbnails and after maybe half a day Gallery sped up to it' usual speed.
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I did it. Cleared cache. Cleared all files related to Gallery. But still it is very slow. Specially while changing wallpaper and picking picture from gallery. Thanks anyway
Now it appears that after doing above steps and I cannot select a picture for setting wallpapers. (Long pressing on screen and selecting wallpapers from gallery does not show any pictures, only place holders for the pictures. )
I have like 6400 photos on my SGN2 and i can't feel the slow init
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Today I factory reaet the phone and gallery seems to work perfectly.
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OMG this is a major problem for me too... im having a headache trying to find a fix for it. i did restore it to factory settings... still no good. gallery app for me is unusable! i cant even select a photo to view. i even make a thread asking for help too...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34910365#post34910365
I found it really slows down when using a custom rom. Redpill kernel made a difference though and speeds things up again.
poplectic said:
I found it really slows down when using a custom rom. Redpill kernel made a difference though and speeds things up again.
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but i just flash it with the official stock firmware and restore it to defaut factory settings. what am i doing wrong
After factory reset gallery speed improved. But still selecting a wallpaper from gallery by long pressing the homescreen is toooo slow.
I was also having a horrendous experience with the Gallery, the page would always jump up to the top and be extremely slow to load.
Solution: I used Titanium Backup to freeze the "AllShare Service", now it's all smooth!
tux-lover said:
but i just flash it with the official stock firmware and restore it to defaut factory settings. what am i doing wrong
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Dont know. I found a clear difference though
Between photos on internal sd and external sd.
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Working smooth for me
gabster21 said:
I was also having a horrendous experience with the Gallery, the page would always jump up to the top and be extremely slow to load.
Solution: I used Titanium Backup to freeze the "AllShare Service", now it's all smooth!
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This did the trick, AllShare is apparently trying to look at the photos to do something with with the "Change player" option, disable Allshare (which is useless anyway IMO as it's far too slow) and it sorts it out, gallery is MUCH faster and the multi-second hangs are totally gone.
AllshareCast keeps working which I actually _do_ use.
Hopefully Samsung will fix this in the future to make it useful, but for now, disabling AllShare with TB does the job.
I don't have this issue with my phone but I don't either keep more than 300 pics or video in my gallery. But I use to clear gallery data through sdmaid app
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All times work good for me... I am always on Perseus Kernel...
Hi guys.
A friend of mine gave me to take a look at her Grand Duos yesterday (now that sounds weird ). She said that although she had very little applications installed the handset would not allow her to install anything anymore even it was a mere application of some kilobytes.
I went to application management and storage and noticed something very weird. Although it is an 8GB handset (no external SD card attatched) and although the installed applications are indeed very few (Viber , Facebook, Instagram and another 2-3 apps) the system reports outrageous numbers in her data storage like 32GB or more which is simply impossible.
She is non rooted on stock version and the issue began since she tried to upgrade OTA to the latest version (I assume this must be 4.2.2). I own an XPERIA so I am copmletely unfamiliar with the Samsung forums and the general samsung tips-tricks and issues. Is it fixable. Is there a way to eliminate that issue? What are my options?
Sorry if I am asking something that has been answered before but due to lack of time it is impossible for me to look over tens/hundreds of forum pages to find something similar. I'd appreciate any help you can provide.
Thanks in advance.
Once I also got the same problem...
Go to app manager.... And then go to ALL applications Tab.... Press the menu key... You will see a Popup menu in which you will see.... SORT BY SIZE... select that... You will see at first it would be gallery which will be of 15gb or else.... Clear data of gallery.... And your problem would be fixed...
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siddhu2199 said:
Once I also got the same problem...
Go to app manager.... And then go to ALL applications Tab.... Press the menu key... You will see a Popup menu in which you will see.... SORT BY SIZE... select that... You will see at first it would be gallery which will be of 15gb or else.... Clear data of gallery.... And your problem would be fixed...
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Great I'll try that. I assume this will also resolve the issue during which the phone won't allow her to install more applications, right?
Supposedly the reason why she cannot install even the smallest app right now is that the system detects an excess of 32GB of stored content. So once this is "cured" then everything will be ok.
Mr_Element said:
Great I'll try that. I assume this will also resolve the issue during which the phone won't allow her to install more applications, right?
Supposedly the reason why she cannot install even the smallest app right now is that the system detects an excess of 32GB of stored content. So once this is "cured" then everything will be ok.
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Its because of gallery app its a bug actually....Follow what siddhu2199 said... If that doesnt work just got to setting - application manger - search gallery app and disable it...clear the data too and see if it works...u can enable it if u have any probs... I personally tried it and it had worked for me... If u want to view pics u can download QUICKPIC app which is very light and Awesome but after disabeling default gallery app u will not be able to view u r photos straight away from camera...
After the recent update if ur phone starts lagging go see how much space ur applicatons are occupying. Because due to the recent changes the gallery app is broken nd this causes it to use abnormal amount of space(~14gb which our grand doesnt have) causing the lag issues.. the simplest fix is to just disable the app completely through manage application setting
Just clear data,clear cache and turn off gallery and use googles photos app until the next official upgrade...
Typing this on the renewed smooth and zippy grand running nb2
Excuse me for not posting screen shots or an official guide... but this fix is fairly very simple
Do tell me if I helped you
greatoak said:
After the recent update if ur phone starts lagging go see how much space ur applicatons are occupying. Because due to the recent changes the gallery app is broken nd this causes it to use abnormal amount of space(~14gb which our grand doesnt have) causing the lag issues.. the simplest fix is to just disable the app completely through manage application setting
Just clear data,clear cache and turn off gallery and use googles photos app until the next official upgrade...
Typing this on the renewed smooth and zippy grand running nb2
Excuse me for not posting screen shots or an official guide... but this fix is fairly very simple
Do tell me if I helped you
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wow...dats a news for me............everybody worrying about the bnb2 update can try that....
greatoak said:
After the recent update if ur phone starts lagging go see how much space ur applicatons are occupying. Because due to the recent changes the gallery app is broken nd this causes it to use abnormal amount of space(~14gb which our grand doesnt have) causing the lag issues.. the simplest fix is to just disable the app completely through manage application setting
Just clear data,clear cache and turn off gallery and use googles photos app until the next official upgrade...
Typing this on the renewed smooth and zippy grand running nb2
Excuse me for not posting screen shots or an official guide... but this fix is fairly very simple
Do tell me if I helped you
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Thnx for sharing useful info... But u must give a try for 4.4.2... Lag free..
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From last 3 days my phones' gallery showing all the pics but there r many black thumbnails as well..how to resolve such problem? Im using cm12 lollipop in my samsung galaxy grand phone for 10 12 days.. Cleared cache of gallery in the app settings didnt find it helpfull. Do i "clean data" also? It says it will clean all the files too inaide gallery would i loose all pic by doing data clean in app setting of "gallery"???
Saurabhrajoria said:
From last 3 days my phones' gallery showing all the pics but there r many black thumbnails as well..how to resolve such problem? Im using cm12 lollipop in my samsung galaxy grand phone for 10 12 days.. Cleared cache of gallery in the app settings didnt find it helpfull. Do i "clean data" also? It says it will clean all the files too inaide gallery would i loose all pic by doing data clean in app setting of "gallery"???
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yes this is the issue with all the 5.0 roms
use quickpic galley app from play store .
or you can go to settings . In that find media storage and clear its data.... thn reboot ur device.....wait for ur gallery to load.....afterward all black thubnails would be gone...hit like if it helped
Neelansh said:
or you can go to settings . In that find media storage and clear its data.... thn reboot ur device.....wait for ur gallery to load.....afterward all black thubnails would be gone...hit like if it helped
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thnx man:good:
samsung galaxy tab s 8.4 smt705
rooted with twrp
selamba rom
when i open a camera app i get an error message and the app force closes. i ve tried all the clear cache reboot fixes and itll work for awhile, then it stops working again. wondering if the changelog might give someone an idea.
edit- cant post screenshot for some reason. now i understand why a lot of posts dont have screenshots and you cant figure out what the **** theyre talking about.
This sometimes happens with ROMS. All you need to do is download some random camera apps from the Google Play Store. One of them will eventually work!
ZimriTech said:
This sometimes happens with ROMS. All you need to do is download some random camera apps from the Google Play Store. One of them will eventually work!
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yeah, thats what ive been doing. open camera 1.34 seems to be working fine. it did get an error message when i first downloaded it, but i had just uninstalled camera fv. after reboot its been opening the camera just fine. i liked the samsung camera but i dont like gallery, so ive got both of those froze. camera/cinema fv light would not work with this selamba rom.
camera and gallery work with each other. if you frozen one, the other one definitely will give a problem. its how samsung wrote the code. its in the framework. camera will search for gallery that it was mean to work with.
edan1979 said:
camera and gallery work with each other. if you frozen one, the other one definitely will give a problem. its how samsung wrote the code. its in the framework. camera will search for gallery that it was mean to work with.
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i dont like gallery. i use quickpic. thats why i cant use the samsung camera. is there another app that can freeze apps thats smaller than titanium backup?