hi there.
the devs' of one game (EA's monopoly) were so brilliant to forget to hide their game's pictures and other media from android gallery.
I have added the file .nomedia in all folders that contain the game media, cleared gallery data and rebooted, but the pictures still show up in gallery.
what am i doing wrong?
Would've thought the file would do the trick. Strongly suggest QuickPic. MUCH faster, lighter and has more options. The gallery is a cpu hog.
s15274n said:
Would've thought the file would do the trick. Strongly suggest QuickPic. MUCH faster, lighter and has more options. The gallery is a cpu hog.
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yeah that's what i thought.
used quickpic on my other phone, liked it. generally want to go stock as much as possible though... weird that it doesnt work the way it should
so there is no known solution for the monopoly issue? its too bad, i really like the game but its messing up my gallery so much
obi1visionary said:
so there is no known solution for the monopoly issue? its too bad, i really like the game but its messing up my gallery so much
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Unfortunately I couldn't find any
I put .nomedia file in every possible sub-folder and rebooted, but the media still showed up. Kind of weird, because ".nomedia" should and has worked in the past... so kind of a combination of EA making this blunder in their game design, and something wacky about the GT ROM not properly rescanning media files...
I ended up deleting the files and uninstalling the game, periodically checking the market whether EA has updated the game... I also sent them a bug report to their support Email in their website (although for support they do not have Android as a platform listed... go figure...) -haven't received an answer yet
^ certainly understand your thoughts... just curious though... the stock gallery is a cpu hog. why not just freeze it and use quickpic? You know from using it you could easily hide/exclude the galleries you did not want scanned/shown and the Tab has proven to run much better for me without the stock Gallery.
I know you mentioned staying stock as much as possible.... just felt I'd beat the drum a little more for those who read this later.
RootzFan said:
^ certainly understand your thoughts... just curious though... the stock gallery is a cpu hog. why not just freeze it and use quickpic? You know from using it you could easily hide/exclude the galleries you did not want scanned/shown and the Tab has proven to run much better for me without the stock Gallery.
I know you mentioned staying stock as much as possible.... just felt I'd beat the drum a little more for those who read this later.
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no prob.
i used quickpic on my old Galaxy Tab (and my wife still does).
Gallery in Honeycomb just has a pretty good integration with Google+ and Picasa.
quickpic is a good app, can recommend it definitely.
right now i however just wish that EA would take android programming more serious... it tells me a lot that their user support pages don't even list Android as a platform... they haven't really arrived here yet...
I also have this problem, tried everything and my gallery is still full of monopoly trash . Sad cause I liked the game.
Have you cleared app data for media storage in settings/apps?
not entirely related to your issue, but an interesting side note.... When i plug in my nikon sd card via the usb adapter gallery refuses to show the contents, but quickpic works fine
Never had this with my other droid devices, so defo something odd on the tab re gallery/media scan
adzman808 said:
Have you cleared app data for media storage in settings/apps? ........ so defo something odd on the tab re gallery/media scan
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Yes and yes
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I have become really frustrated with the 3d gallery app. It takes forever to load my pics. When I first had the phone it was fine, but ever since the 1st update (JI6) it has been slow. I am now running Nero V3 with voodoo, and it is still slow as ever. It seems ridiculous, this phone is really fast especially with this rom. Is there a way to make it run faster, or a better gallery app. I sometimes use justpictures, but don't like the interface as much as the 3d gallery.
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I have become really frustrated with the 3d gallery app. It takes forever to load my pics. When I first had the phone it was fine, but ever since the 1st update (JI6) it has been slow. I am now running Nero V3 with voodoo, and it is still slow as ever. It seems ridiculous, this phone is really fast especially with this rom. Is there a way to make it run faster, or a better gallery app. I sometimes use justpictures, but don't like the interface as much as the 3d gallery.
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installing a lagfix may do the trick
^ he said he has voodoo
Why not try another app, not the gallery:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/justpictures/com.justpictures
jstein222 said:
I have become really frustrated with the 3d gallery app. It takes forever to load my pics. When I first had the phone it was fine, but ever since the 1st update (JI6) it has been slow. I am now running Nero V3 with voodoo, and it is still slow as ever. It seems ridiculous, this phone is really fast especially with this rom. Is there a way to make it run faster, or a better gallery app. I sometimes use justpictures, but don't like the interface as much as the 3d gallery.
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On first opening, you have to let it build the cache thumbnails, after this it will be a little faster ..... Most don't do this, and especially if you have a lot of pics, it will load slow, and try to build the cache every time they open it .... So just open it and let it for its thing ... Also you can browse to to your sd cards, to the DCMI folders, and delete the thumbnails folder , then open the gallery app and let it rebuild .....
Try the hacked gallery from SGS Tools.
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Try the hacked gallery from SGS Tools.
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that sounds interesting, where do I find it?
dan0zone said:
On first opening, you have to let it build the cache thumbnails, after this it will be a little faster ..... Most don't do this, and especially if you have a lot of pics, it will load slow, and try to build the cache every time they open it .... So just open it and let it for its thing ... Also you can browse to to your sd cards, to the DCMI folders, and delete the thumbnails folder , then open the gallery app and let it rebuild .....
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I just tried this, and after the phone is off for awhile it goes back to having to load all of the thumbs again....takes forever. It's as if it's creating new thumbnails every time I open the gallery.
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that sounds interesting, where do I find it?
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SGS Tools can be found in the market. Just click "Upgrade Stock Apps" and then pick the "Modded 3D Gallery".
Hope this fixes your problem.
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SGS Tools can be found in the market. Just click "Upgrade Stock Apps" and then pick the "Modded 3D Gallery".
Hope this fixes your problem.
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I have sgs tools, but maybe it's un old version, it doesn't have an upgrade apps option. When I go to the market I only find sgs toolbox and sgs unlock. Neither of those have that option either. Is there another way to get sgs tools, or does it not work with jl5 maybe?
I dont think thats it, Im on Nero v3 right now which uses JL5 as a base. Try clearing your market data and force stopping it through Settings>Manage Applications.
In any case, heres an apk of SGS Tools (which should be the most recent version).
cool, thanks for the file i'm trying it out now, I appreciate all the help
Hey that's what XDA is here for.
Let us know if it works.
so far so good, the modded gallery ls nice and fast. My only teensy weensy complaint is that when you open a pic from the album it takes a little longer to load and is pixelated during the process, but it's MUCH better than it was.
Thanks again
I found this in the Desire Z forums and tried it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9685595&postcount=13
So far so good. Found all my pics and the camera button is even linked to the HTC camera, so it can easily replace the Sense App.
Hope this helps someone.
Works awesome, takes a sec to load pictures but everything is fully funtional. I don't really like the htc gallery. The only thing that sucks is that the camera takes you back to the htc gallery if you hit the gallery button on the camera app.
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Any chance this gallery links to your picasa albums? I have some albums that I enjoy pulling wallpapers from, but Sense gallery doesn not pull them into the phone.
BuddahWolf01 said:
Any chance this gallery links to your picasa albums? I have some albums that I enjoy pulling wallpapers from, but Sense gallery doesn not pull them into the phone.
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It sure does.
sweet, I know what I'll be getting after perma-root gets working.
Man this is the first time I've seen the 3D gallery move this quickly. I liked the look of it on the Hero, but it was slow to load.
After the initial load up there is no hesitation on the Shift.
This isn't going to make my phone go nuts, is it?
When i had a Moment, if the stock gallery and the 3D gallery were even installed at the same time, not running, it would make the phone slow down like crazy.
BuddahWolf01 said:
sweet, I know what I'll be getting after perma-root gets working.
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You don't need root. Just install the .apk like any other app.
adamr240 said:
This isn't going to make my phone go nuts, is it?
When i had a Moment, if the stock gallery and the 3D gallery were even installed at the same time, not running, it would make the phone slow down like crazy.
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My Shift is running just fine with it and stock gallery. But my Moment didn't have problems when both were installed either.
It's not only about the slowness but the 3d gallery is very unstable even when it comes as stock on many phones if not all the thumbnail cache is a pain in the butt... deleting caches with Astro to rebuild then use it a few days then again black squares as thumbnails.. Nah! I rather use the stock sense gallery works great!
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It's not only about the slowness but the 3d gallery is very unstable even when it comes as stock on many phones if not all the thumbnail cache is a pain in the butt... deleting caches with Astro to rebuild then use it a few days then again black squares as thumbnails.. Nah! I rather use the stock sense gallery works great!
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I had those problems on my Moment but not on the Shift. It is slow to load the thumbnails for the first time but when you've got 20GBs of photos on Picasa that you'd like ready mobile access to it's the way to go. I'm actually really impressed with it. The only problem is that it keeps asking me for permission to sync with a gmail that I've already turned the sync off to and that I've already denied access to.
like some of the people here, my stock browser will hang up and be unresponsive on a regular basis. Sometimes a force close helps, but sometimes, when I look in the Asus Task Manager, or if I go to Settings> Apps > select "Running Apps", the browser doesn't show up, as if it's not even considered running. I usually have to select the app itself from settings > apps and then force close it.
Anyone else find it strange that the device doesn't even show the app as "running"? I don't know what to make of this, but perhaps someone else here does.
BTW, I did try Gary's Key's experimental fix, and got rid of Chrome and flash, rebooted, and then reinstalled Flash, but I'm still having the same problem.
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like some of the people here, my stock browser will hang up and be unresponsive on a regular basis. Sometimes a force close helps, but sometimes, when I look in the Asus Task Manager, or if I go to Settings> Apps > select "Running Apps", the browser doesn't show up, as if it's not even considered running. I usually have to select the app itself from settings > apps and then force close it.
Anyone else find it strange that the device doesn't even show the app as "running"? I don't know what to make of this, but perhaps someone else here does.
BTW, I did try Gary's Key's experimental fix, and got rid of Chrome and flash, rebooted, and then reinstalled Flash, but I'm still having the same problem.
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Ya, uninstalling Chrome and Flash didn't work for me either. I want to say that the browser hanging issue has been a problem with mine ever since I got it, but I honestly can't remember for sure. Hopefully this is something that is fixed soon as the browser is probably the most used thing on a tablet, so it is quite an annoying thing to have to deal with.
As far as the browser not showing up in the Running Apps list, I know I have seen the same thing with other apps as well. I'm not sure off the top of my head which Apps they were but I know in the past I have tried to go to the Running Apps list to try and force close an app only to find that it wasn't listed. I had to switch to the All Apps view and found the app that I wanted to kill that way.
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sometimes, when I look in the Asus Task Manager, or if I go to Settings> Apps > select "Running Apps", the browser doesn't show up, as if it's not even considered running. I usually have to select the app itself from settings > apps and then force close it.
Anyone else find it strange that the device doesn't even show the app as "running"? I don't know what to make of this, but perhaps someone else here does.
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Have you tried tapping "Show Cached Processes" in the top-right corner? Android apps might appear to be "running" but are in fact suspended and cached ready to be instantly restored provided that the RAM being used to cache them isn't needed for other purposes.
I havent looked to see if the browser shows up in apps running.....
BUT BY GOD FIX THE BROWSER.....OH THE HUMANITY!!!
I may have 10 apps intalled, stupid ones. Even before I installed ANY apps I would get the "browser not responding...wait/cancel...."
It seems to have gotten worse with the latest updates. Now I get LOCKUPS like others are talking about. Resets havent helped.
Dont know, but this **** is getting old!
EDIT: Why the hell do I have to go thru all these apps, resets, clear caches etc.....the browser should, well just freaking work.
I've noticed more and more browser issues lately. Like playing a game on Facebook.... forget it. Then I get the dreaded wait box. Why can't Google make a browser that actually works?
Do you have plugins set to "always on" or "on demand" in the stock browser? I found that setting them to on demand stops all that. I think it's the flash plugin and the way sites are using it that's causing all the problems.
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Do you have plugins set to "always on" or "on demand" in the stock browser? I found that setting them to on demand stops all that. I think it's the flash plugin and the way sites are using it that's causing all the problems.
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I get problems with the stock browser with them on "on demand". "Always on" would slow things down too much to leave on anyway.
I had these problems since the Prime's inception.
I really like to see an Internet Explorer for Android. That's how bad the current batch of Android browsers have sucked so bad. I have to turn to IE for hope.
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I had these problems since the Prime's inception.
I really like to see an Internet Explorer for Android. That's how bad the current batch of Android browsers have sucked so bad. I have to turn to IE for hope.
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I realize the quasi-joking, but what a horrid comment.
I'm sorry, but I feel that Opera Mini generally does a better job than IE ever thought of: then there's Opera Mobile, it's the only one I'll consider for my phone. ICS Browser+ does a good job of showing you what the stock browser could be. MaxthonPad handles and looks pretty well, I don't personally use gestures and the new tab button is kind of in a bad place IMO.
Anyway, nothing I've tried has remedied the stock browser, and I hadn't noticed it missing in Running Apps, but it's not often that I look there or force close anything.
Both my ICS phone and my TFP as well as my friend complaining about it on his ICS phone are all unstable. Granted it has yet to really annoy me but I think its Android not the TPF. This is my opinion YMMV and it could be the ASUS fault in some way.
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Both my ICS phone and my TFP as well as my friend complaining about it on his ICS phone are all unstable. Granted it has yet to really annoy me but I think its Android not the TPF. This is my opinion YMMV and it could be the ASUS fault in some way.
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Not true.
I have a Galaxy Nexus with ICS and I never had this problem on that browser.
It's somewhat related to the TPF.
sad, because besides this problem I love this tablet.
rubi76 said:
Not true.
I have a Galaxy Nexus with ICS and I never had this problem on that browser.
It's somewhat related to the TPF.
sad, because besides this problem I love this tablet.
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Like i said your mileage may vary. Three cases on my end is making me think its Android its self. You haven't seen the issue on your end so it points to the Prime. Different cases and different perspectives. Then again the Galaxy Nexus is also ICS Native so maybe that could be part of the problem I don't pretend to have that answer.
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markimar said:
I've noticed more and more browser issues lately. Like playing a game on Facebook.... forget it. Then I get the dreaded wait box. Why can't Google make a browser that actually works?
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Don't blame Google. Blame Asus. I've had a GSM Galaxy Nexus since launch, and the browser works flawlessly - no hangs, no unresponsiveness. This is all Asus.
Speaking of stock browser problems, anyone else notice anything like this? Some kind of malicious exploit in a browser's cache or something-other, apparently even an unrooted user got the issue so I just find it really interesting since that rules out changes to the hosts file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1542804
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Annoying but works
Someone mentioned in the other post that taking off javascript and putting plugins on demand helps. No lies it does its like night and day. Nothing like just plugins on demand by itself. Im not sure if its Asus or Android but the problem is somewhere in there.
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Someone mentioned in the other post that taking off javascript and putting plugins on demand helps. No lies it does its like night and day. Nothing like just plugins on demand by itself. Im not sure if its Asus or Android but the problem is somewhere in there.
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It was me, and indeed ics browser+ without javascript is extremely fast. It's now even faster then chrome on my desktop pc.
It's gone from 5sec loading time for this forum to sub 1sec.
Only problem is that some sites need the javascript. But for that you can use a different browser.
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Don't blame Google. Blame Asus. I've had a GSM Galaxy Nexus since launch, and the browser works flawlessly - no hangs, no unresponsiveness. This is all Asus.
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Exactly!! If anyone remembers awhile back I was bragging on how the galaxy nexus running ICS put the iPhone 4s browser to shame & that was with flash running!!
I said once Asus got ICS it would blow Apple away. Well Asus screwed that up big time!
Guys, could someone who knows what he's doing change vm heap size to 128 or even lower and try then? I've done a bit of research and 256 seems way to high.
One thing for sure, its not browsers, chrome or flash fault.
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It was me, and indeed ics browser+ without javascript is extremely fast. It's now even faster then chrome on my desktop pc.
It's gone from 5sec loading time for this forum to sub 1sec.
Only problem is that some sites need the javascript. But for that you can use a different browser.
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Try using it while streaming radio in background. You'll be unpleasantly surprised.
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mgmCube said:
It was me, and indeed ics browser+ without javascript is extremely fast. It's now even faster then chrome on my desktop pc.
It's gone from 5sec loading time for this forum to sub 1sec.
Only problem is that some sites need the javascript. But for that you can use a different browser.
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How exactly do you know if a site uses javascript? Does the site just not load or is it minor? What kind of stuff uses it?
Going to give this a shot on my prime. The hangups are pretty annoying but I have really gotten used to and like the ICS+ browser so don't want to change!
Hi guys,
Lets discuss the benefits of ICS upgrade on Sony Tablet S..
I can improved performance, better camera, good browser experience.
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xperiax10.awesome said:
hi guys,
lets discuss the benefits of ics upgrade on sony tablet s..
I can improved performance, better camera, good browser experience.
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where is face-unlock feature ???????
Still no ics here in Italy
Italy still no ics, thats crazy! Im glad there is no face unlock feature, ics 10 out of 10.
Performance Good.
Only Flickering Screen, any solution??
At first, it looks nice. It is more stable and smooth.
I didn't see any screen flickering.
The browser is more fast, stable and smooth, but the opera is better anyway.
The launcher is like CM trebuchet, very nice.
I thought I read it somewhere that you can access your SD card directly from SONY apps but I'm unable to do that. Reader still can't scan files on my SD card.
Somehow the screen flickering is gone but now if i press resent apps my apps flashes on the homescreen dissappear and reappear nothing spectaculair but in the begin when i pressed the recent app button my screen flickers. Thats over now, i really like ics and about the missing face unlock,,, i don't care because it works 3 times over 10 so it doesn't bother me at all.
Edit: nevermind still have the flickering its just when you have more then 5 apps running i guess..
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Performance Good.
Only Flickering Screen, any solution??
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the will probably be a update fixing this.
Upgraded to ICS yesterday. I dont like the Apps & Widgets (on top right hand). Previously, I can organised them by games, or apps download by my kids, etc, ie, there are separators. Now the only options are arrange them by "newest or A to Z". Its messy. Any suggestions? Tks
whycb said:
Upgraded to ICS yesterday. I dont like the Apps & Widgets (on top right hand). Previously, I can organised them by games, or apps download by my kids, etc, ie, there are separators. Now the only options are arrange them by "newest or A to Z". Its messy. Any suggestions? Tks
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Use a different launcher???
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nice thread,
is ics booting faster?
i updated but lost wifi and bluetooth
Lost write access to sd card
Now my external SD card is rendered useless.
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Now my external SD card is rendered useless.
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See this thread condi's all in one too v3.2 add sd write reenable http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515720.
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Chur
whycb said:
Upgraded to ICS yesterday. I dont like the Apps & Widgets (on top right hand). Previously, I can organised them by games, or apps download by my kids, etc, ie, there are separators. Now the only options are arrange them by "newest or A to Z". Its messy. Any suggestions? Tks
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I also thought it was odd that they took away the ability to organize the apps as well. Oh well. ICS is still much better than HC.
1080p movies on ICS?
Hi have anyone already tried to play 1080p mkv after ICS upgrade? I've seen a video review where 1080p on HC didn't play or, if yes, they were in "slowmotion" like. Can you do some tests and share experience? And someone noticed a Cam improvement. Is that real? the front camera or rear camera? thanks a lot
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I also thought it was odd that they took away the ability to organize the apps as well.
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But thanks to ICS, it's now possible to organize apps on the homescreen(s) by sliding an icon over another one that you deem related.
This way I've made 'folders', grouping apps by genre (e.g. 'News', 'Media', 'Communication', 'Shopping', etc.)
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But thanks to ICS, it's now possible to organize apps on the homescreen(s) by sliding an icon over another one that you deem related.
This way I've made 'folders', grouping apps by genre (e.g. 'News', 'Media', 'Communication', 'Shopping', etc.)
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For me, folders were the main reason to upgrade. I've got a nice, uncluttered home screen now, with all of my most-used apps categorised and grouped.
Swiping notifications and apps is nice too, and I like Chrome a lot (still needs work though!)
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See this thread condi's all in one too v3.2 add sd write reenable http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1515720.
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I presume this is for rooted devices only? Started to get fed up with having a read only SD card
The stock gallery app is.... garbage IMO. Its constantly reordering my images to some arbitary order instead of by name (very annoying because i have pages of documents scanned and named by page number), just overall it feels rather clumsy, it doesnt animate gif files, no respect for .nomedia, etc.
Yeah, technically this is a question but here goes: What gallery applications do you use? If you could rip the gallery app from any device which would you choose and why?
Personally, im thinking of trying to rip the gallery app from the S2 or the galaxy tab, i know the S2 works well with gif files and thus far has not given me the amount of pain the Asus one has.
what do you think?
only thing I hate is that it won't allow you to rename files in there. so i use Asus file manager to rename. for the pictures or whatever you don't want shown, Quick pic works perfectly to hide whatever you don't want shown. I noticed GIF. don't animate in there also. they do in quickpic. but that's not a big deal for me. Other than that, I actually like the gallery app. its way better than my Ipad stock gallery app. I haven't came across another gallery only app. I'd be up for trying one. as long as its one that doesn't need to make duplicate copies to fill up its own gallery.
pileot said:
The stock gallery app is.... garbage IMO. Its constantly reordering my images to some arbitary order instead of by name (very annoying because i have pages of documents scanned and named by page number), just overall it feels rather clumsy, it doesnt animate gif files, no respect for .nomedia, etc.
Yeah, technically this is a question but here goes: What gallery applications do you use? If you could rip the gallery app from any device which would you choose and why?
Personally, im thinking of trying to rip the gallery app from the S2 or the galaxy tab, i know the S2 works well with gif files and thus far has not given me the amount of pain the Asus one has.
what do you think?
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I use quickpic, I've always used quickpic so I'm not sure whichother I'd use
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+1 on quickpic, you can do so much with it.
put folders the way you like them, move pics around easy and it makes any pic you look at nice and big.
i will never use anything else and ive tried a few.
I also use QuickPic. It is the best gallery app on Android, hands down. Not only is it super fast and responsive, but it is rock solid and has tons of file management and editing options that don't exist inside of the stock Gallery app.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=quickpic&c=apps
+1 on quickpic - however has anyone used the gallery app on MIUI 4??
I used it on my old desire hd, it was pretty nice!
Gave quickpix a try, it does everything i need. Thanks for the suggestions everyone!