Hi all,
Just wanted to put this information out there in case anybody else is pulling out their hair trying to figure this out.
PROBLEM:
Using the Google Photos app, upon deletion of pictures, a restart brings the pictures back. Occasionally caused corrupt pictures.
SOLUTION:
When I stopped using the photos app and used the LG gallery app, all seems to work fine.
Steps I took to resolve:
- Factory reset (5 times) - DIDN'T WORK
- Deleted 3rd party apps (Keep safe - Hides photos) - DIDN'T WORK
- Cleared gallery cache - DIDN'T WORK
- Deleted Photos from Googles Photos app - DIDN'T WORK
- Deleted photos from Gallery APP - WORKED
I found if you use a photo app that hides pics it usually hides them in the internal memory. So if you go back and pull a picture to hide that's located in your ext sd card it will just copy it. Best bet when wanting to delete or move a picture you are trying to hide make sure it's in the internal memory first.
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Dear all,
I am looking for a gallery app with the option to display all photos on my android without being grouped into folders, so they display all at once.
I have a couple of camera apps which store photos in their own separate folders, and it's becoming a bit of a mess. Of course I could move all photos (and downloaded pictures) into one folder, but I would need to be doing this regularly.
Any ideas?
Cheers
gallery... all photos...
or get quickpic and add all the folders and none of the junk ones.
Thanks, but that's not quite what I meant.
I want the any gallery app which will display ALL of the photos/images on the sd card without having me choose a folder first.
I was trying to get rid of Drop Box and other Picasa folder that was randomly created by cleaning the Camera app cache and it started to delete all my pictures one by one in about a minute.
But all my photos are still in DCIM folder and some other picture folders in SDCARD directory.
It's just that my stock gallery app can't find them, so it says I have 0 images...
I went to settings and looked at option like Backup and Restore as well as Account & sync (only has an option for Google Photos but this doesn't seem to be it). I disabled Backup and Restore by default.. I enabled them for a day but didn't do anything.
Is there a way to back up the pictures? Things like bookmark, contacts, pictures automatically backed up whenever I flashed new ROM or update them, but it seems like my phone deleted all of them this time...
Please help me out!
All my pictures are still in SDCARD/DCIM/Camera directory and other directories where jpeg files are, but my ICS stock Gallery app cannot detect them ever since I cleaned the Camera app and Gallery app cache..
Is there any way to get them back to display on my Gallery app?
I tried
1) reflashing GAPPS
2) Move the pictures out from DCIM folder, reboot, and put it back on
3) Sync manually
4) Reset settings to default (camera app)
None of them seem to work... only new pictures that I take shows up..
Hi, my gallery is not detecting properly anymore the images on the phone, showing most of them as black thumbnails. I would like to reset the data, so it also synchronizes everything with picasa, because also those show as black thumbnails. So far only the camera folder and the whatsapp images show. The other camera folder (the one in the other memory) is showing as black.
How could I do this?
Thank you very much!
timonoj said:
Hi, my gallery is not detecting properly anymore the images on the phone, showing most of them as black thumbnails. I would like to reset the data, so it also synchronizes everything with picasa, because also those show as black thumbnails. So far only the camera folder and the whatsapp images show. The other camera folder (the one in the other memory) is showing as black.
How could I do this?
Thank you very much!
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go to system--->apps-->"all" tab...search for picassa and gallery and in both clear data in it. reboot and let media scann finish scanning (can take several minutes)
Check how much space you have on your SD card(s), when youre running out of space it doesn't show thumbnails in the gallery properly.
pelpa87 said:
go to system--->apps-->"all" tab...search for picassa and gallery and in both clear data in it. reboot and let media scann finish scanning (can take several minutes)
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Muchas gracias! Deleted Gallery data. Couldn't find Picasa though. Still no luck. Also deleted data for media storage. Apparently this one worked after rebooting.
Hi all, I'm trying to delete my photos on my device which already backed up in Google Photos. When I open the app on my phone and tap free up space it keeps saying no items to remove. I can see all the photos in Google photos but I can't delete the device copy from my phone.
Any suggestions? cheers
I figured out that when you open the app from your phone you need to go to device folders tab and delete all the photos from there, that soved the issue.
Mods please close the thread.
Cheers