hi , it`s very weird that i see in most phone there is some .thumbdata3 with a huge MB !!
it`s thumbnail right ? it`s a image cache !! but in many times i see the very big size of it from 1 to 2 GB !! on Internal memory
all my picture on the phone is lower than 500 MB and even if i have (2000 pics from all apps like viber , whatsup , ... ) the thumb size must be under 50KB for each image so it should be under 500 MB !! so where this 1 or 2 GB cache file thumb come from ??
it`s not matter that i remove this file cause when i enter gallery again this file create with the same size !!
i try to replace the .thumbdata3***** with another file , but it seems gallery regenerate this file and replace this file too !!
now i think about changing permission of .thumbdata3 but i cant do this with root explorer but the change permission not work cause my phone is not root !
do you have any idea how can i do this without root ??
is there any tutorial to how remove default gallery of android and replace that with Quickpic ??
i can disable gallery from app manager or open quickpic for view but when i what to add photo from viber or line or whatsup they open default gallery and the .thumbdata3 will create and my phone storage full again !!
I think the Android must do something about caching Image and video thumbail system it`s act like a bug , the thumb size is too big for a thumb size and not refresh to regenerate after a while ( cause some photo removed and thumb still in this file)
Arioman said:
hi , it`s very weird that i see in most phone there is some .thumbdata3 with a huge MB !!
it`s thumbnail right ? it`s a image cache !! but in many times i see the very big size of it from 1 to 2 GB !! on Internal memory
all my picture on the phone is lower than 500 MB and even if i have (2000 pics from all apps like viber , whatsup , ... ) the thumb size must be under 50KB for each image so it should be under 500 MB !! so where this 1 or 2 GB cache file thumb come from ??
it`s not matter that i remove this file cause when i enter gallery again this file create with the same size !!
i try to replace the .thumbdata3***** with another file , but it seems gallery regenerate this file and replace this file too !!
now i think about changing permission of .thumbdata3 but i cant do this with root explorer but the change permission not work cause my phone is not root !
do you have any idea how can i do this without root ??
is there any tutorial to how remove default gallery of android and replace that with Quickpic ??
i can disable gallery from app manager or open quickpic for view but when i what to add photo from viber or line or whatsup they open default gallery and the .thumbdata3 will create and my phone storage full again !!
I think the Android must do something about caching Image and video thumbail system it`s act like a bug , the thumb size is too big for a thumb size and not refresh to regenerate after a while ( cause some photo removed and thumb still in this file)
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I have root on my device, so I did the following.
Using Root explorer I went to the folder /DCIM/.thumbnails (hidden) and deleted the huge file. Then with the "+" I chose New file and named it the same as the previous .thumbdata3-.... it created a file that is 0 Bytes and then I went and used the camera and the apps, so far the file stays the same size, so maybe that trick will work for others too. Good luck.
Don't think you can access it without root though.
For internal storage file permission change Go to / data/media/0/folder
The best n easiest way to do it is...
If u want to change the permission of file in your internal storage then just open root explorer ( I assume it already rooted) navigate to /data/media/0/(yourfolder)/(yourfile)
N long press n change the permission..Voila good u did it!!
Now here for thumbnails use root explorer go to /data/media/0/DCIM/.thumbnails/.thumbdata3** long press n change it to read-only I.e tick only read only choices n save!!Bang!!
This is basically due to some of them have Fat32 Filesystem format while they r in storage/sdcard which are different than Linux/UNIX file system permissions!
So if u go through /data/media/0/ then it's in ext3/ext4 format which is why u can change the permissions!!??
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Hi all! Whenever some friends of mine update their Twitter a/c in Hindi Language Fonts, am unable to read them as they show up us empty rectangular boxes. Wasn't Gingerbread 2.3.3 supposed to support Hindi Language Fonts? Anyone knows how to fix this?
I guess I will have to add the Hindi font ttf file in the "fonts" folder in my Root> System folder. I have the droidhindi.ttf file downloaded but I don't know how to copy it to the required folder in root. It does not show sytem files when connected to a Laptop via USB. I can view the folder in Root Explorer on my phone, but how to transport the droidhindi.ttf file to the Fonts folder in the phone??
And will it work if I just add the drop the droidhindi.ttf file in the Fonts folder? Anyone who knows this??
a lot of indians are buying this phone
TheMegastar said:
I guess I will have to add the Hindi font ttf file in the "fonts" folder in my Root> System folder. I have the droidhindi.ttf file downloaded but I don't know how to copy it to the required folder in root. It does not show sytem files when connected to a Laptop via USB. I can view the folder in Root Explorer on my phone, but how to transport the droidhindi.ttf file to the Fonts folder in the phone??
And will it work if I just add the drop the droidhindi.ttf file in the Fonts folder? Anyone who knows this??
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ok this is what you need to do...
goto systems/fonts and take a backup of DroidSansFallback.ttf
move it to computer/sdcard...but keep it safe...
now move the droidhindi.ttf to systems/fonts
rename droidhindi.ttf to DroidSansFallback.ttf
restart the browser....by killing it from task manager and relaunching...
go to a hindi site....
@pHyRe7
@woodstock_ahem : Thanks a ton for your response. In a hurry right now, will do as you posted in my first free time. Hope it works
@woodstock_ahem : Ok, got down to acting upon your advice. But the problem is that I can only view the /sdcard directory of my phone when connected to my laptop via USB cable. I cannot access any other space in the phone except the /sdcard.
I can view the root files via the Root Explorer app on my phone, so I tried to Move the DroidSansFallback.ttf from the System>Fonts folder, but when I click on the Move command, I get the message that "You cannot move System Files as they are Read Only". So the problem I'm facing is HOW to transfer the new .ttf file from my laptop to the Fonts folder in System? I can neither transport the new file from my laptop to the Fonts folder in the phone coz that folder is not accessible when connected to the laptop, nor can I move the existing DroidSansFallback.ttf file anywhere else from the Fonts folder on the phone. So what to do now?
Just a piece of info which might be useful for you : My phone has KE8 Kernel, is rooted but reverted back to original kernel to remove the yellow triangle.
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@woodstock_ahem : Ok, got down to acting upon your advice. But the problem is that I can only view the /sdcard directory of my phone when connected to my laptop via USB cable. I cannot access any other space in the phone except the /sdcard.
I can view the root files via the Root Explorer app on my phone, so I tried to Move the DroidSansFallback.ttf from the System>Fonts folder, but when I click on the Move command, I get the message that "You cannot move System Files as they are Read Only". So the problem I'm facing is HOW to transfer the new .ttf file from my laptop to the Fonts folder in System? I can neither transport the new file from my laptop to the Fonts folder in the phone coz that folder is not accessible when connected to the laptop, nor can I move the existing DroidSansFallback.ttf file anywhere else from the Fonts folder on the phone. So what to do now?
Just a piece of info which might be useful for you : My phone has KE8 Kernel, is rooted but reverted back to original kernel to remove the yellow triangle.
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To alter any system files you need to set to R/W(read/write) if you keep it at read only you cant alter anything.(its designed as a protection)
On the top R/H conner of root explorer there is a button to set it to R/W or RO.
Hope this helps you.
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To add to what @iznee has mentioned....
do the following:-
copy the droidhindi.ttf anywhere in the phone memory(after preferably creating a folder).. this doesnt need root explorer...just a file copy from the laptop should be enough... (you said you can see sdcard folder right ?... copy the file there)
i am guessing so far you have not used root explorer for anything else than browsing system files..else you wont be asking the question...
so first things first you have to provide root access to the root explorer app else you would not be able to provide it with r/w access...
install a free app superuser and give the root access allow to root explorer...
follow what @iznee has mentioned above
then follow what i advised in my first reply to this thread
@Iznee : "To alter any system files you need to set to R/W(read/write)".....this is what I had missed! Thanks a ton, your post was very helpful.
@woodstock_ahem : Thanks, Woody! Once I was able to change the option to r/w......rest was easy. Replaced the .ttf like you said. Now opening some hindi sites to test whether it works. And voila! it works! Thanks again to both of you
But one minor hiccup has occured. I've lost the Original DroidSansFallback.ttf file I'll tell you how. I had moved the original file to my sdcard>android folder. The original was a 4.5 MB file but it was showing as a .nomedia file with 0 bytes. So I thought let me move it to my Data Folder inside the Android folder from where I intended to transport the original file to my laptop, where I thought it would be safer. Till I moved the original file to my Android folder inside sdcard, the file was showing as normal (DroidSansFallback.ttf), but as soon as I moved it from there to my Data folder inside the Android folder it turned into a .nomedia file with 0 bytes! And when I moved it back to the android file it was still showing as a .nomedia file with 0 bytes.
So does this mean that Samsung is not allowing us to move the Original DroidSansFallback.ttf file outside the phone? I hope I will never need the original file as the file I replaced it with is working fine, but just in case I need it......now I don't have the original
Just as you got the droidhindi.ttf from the web you can get the lost file...you would also get it back when you update the next released firmware..or reflash ROM...plenty of ways...no big deal...this would be a learning point for you...
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Ya, no big deal that I lost the original as the new one is working fine, so I won't miss the original. But my question was this.......does this mean that we cannot move system files of the phone outside the phone? How did the file change its filetype to .nomedia and its filesize to 0 bytes from 4.5MB?
i had not elaborated on how to copy a file from the phone memory to the computer assuming that is too simple to write about it...
i dont see any problem here...the learning point for you is..always...always create a new folder for taking backups...and not just move a file into a systems library..
this equates to dowloading a music file into c:\windows\system32\data as an example...why not have a separate folder for it..
i have taken a copy of DroidSanFallback.ttf into a new folder created in both Sdcard phone folder as well as into a folder created into external_sd (which is a separate physical sd card)...
can move it back and forth to/from computer without issues...
this will work for any kind of file..any extension...
so there is no issue here...
what the hell is this file (.thmbdata3) in sd card>dcim>thumbnails.each time i free some space on my sd card ,this file getting bigger and take all the space (sd card becomes full).i dont have that much photos on gallary,so what is the problem???
gt i9000
ics4.0.4dark knight rom 5.5
i added a screenshot to see in attachment
it looks like nobody knows what am i talking about .....i think im going to flash a new rom again
i also have 2 .thumbdata files of 200 MB each in my /DCIM/.thumbnail folder
maybe it`s a bug since i only have few pictures in my phone
Think thats bad!
Think that's bad. I have two thumbdata's both at 2gb each!
My partners Xperia S still had all her old thumbnails in her album even though she has deleted most of her pictures. So I googled how to remove them, the best solution I've found is go into settings, apps, all, media storage and erase the data. When I try to test it on mine the data is only a few mb. No where near 4gb!
Still I'll let you know if I find out.
its like an temp folder on windows,android makes an virtual protokoll from files and something,you can delete these file but its come back ever,i delete these file every day,because im addicted to flash,lol and i haved never problems.so delete it,its safe(my opinion).greeeeeetz
the best solution i found my self is: delete the big file thumbsdata and then never run the stock camera app,if you run it ,the file will be generated again consuming all your free space(me becomes 0 bites free :crying.......of coarse i cannot live without a camera app so i installed fx camera app.... it is good now but if i turn fx cam to video mod the problem comes again(it uses the stock camera app for video ,but not for photos),,,,,so i will not use video record option, until some hero comes with a fix
Yeah! That's it!
magician369 said:
what the hell is this file (.thmbdata3) in sd card>DCIM>thumbnails.each time i free some space on my sd card ,this file getting bigger and take all the space (sd card becomes full).i dont have that much photos in gallery, so what is the problem???
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Just copy names of that files (thumbdataX--x), delete that files and other files in folder, then create folders named the same as deleted thumdatas. Reboot device. No annoying thumbdata3 (my spend 2Gb) anymore! And look in folders named LOST.DIR (you can find it in the root directory of your internal memory and your SDcard) - huge temporary files may be left in these folders, so delete these files.
Tested on Toshiba Thrive Tablet (ICS). No problems with gallery and camera apps.
Kyonex said:
Just copy name of that file (thumbdataX--x), delete that file, then create folder named the same as deleted file. No annoying thumbdata3 (my spend 2Gb) anymore!
Tested on Toshiba Thrive Tablet (ICS). No problems with gallery and camera apps.
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I will check this up...because untill now i cannot use my camera without generation of big files eating all my space no matter what rom..anyway u mean creating a new file with the same name right?
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new FOLDER with the same name as thumbdata-file
Untile now this works.i dont see any thumpsdata files.
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Solution works!
In my opinion that file was related with pic preview directly from camera app, when you click on little thumbnail.
When I deleted it, camera stopped working and that thumbnail was blank until file was recreated, then it worked again (with 2GB pictures and a 2.74GB .thumbdata!)
Now creating the folder with the same name of file stopped that huge file from recreating himself.
I think camera now refers directly to thumbnail files (in thumbnails folder) for preview. Or, if not, that's the same because now I have 2.74GB more on my internal SD!
Yes this is a camer app problem(or bad feature:banghead: ) it takes space more than the photos itself....anyway this is the only way right now to fix it.
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Kyonex said:
Just copy name of that file (thumbdataX--x), delete that file, then create folder named the same as deleted file. No annoying thumbdata3 (my spend 2Gb) anymore!
Tested on Toshiba Thrive Tablet (ICS). No problems with gallery and camera apps.
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Thanks man. that solution worked for me.
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ROM: XXLPQ
4.0.3
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Kyonex said:
Just copy name of that file (thumbdataX--x), delete that file, then create folder named the same as deleted file. No annoying thumbdata3 (my spend 2Gb) anymore!
Tested on Toshiba Thrive Tablet (ICS). No problems with gallery and camera apps.
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I have tried this but seem failed
I created the directory with a dot infront
and the folder seem to be fail to created
So I trying another method is using Root explorer
and change the permission to remove all write permission on that thumbdata file
Let see which one works
Hi!
This solution did work but the free memory in my sd card is almost the same as before. And moreover my stock gallery app cant be opened since it says free up some memory. I am using xperia z gallery as my substitute.
Plz help me if any1 has a solution
Hit thanks if I helped
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@tenkoh Try to rename it in windows and delet the file before renaming the folder ,they cannot have the same name in the same directory.
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@einst31n Maybe there is another thing eating yor memory...try "folder size" for windows, it is a tool that arrange all folders in size and give you a statistic figure.
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magician369 said:
@einst31n Maybe there is another thing eating yor memory...try "folder size" for windows, it is a tool that arrange all folders in size and give you a statistic figure.
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folder size does not arrange the files of portable devices i guess, since it didnt show my phone's files. only the hd files are shown
einst31n said:
folder size does not arrange the files of portable devices i guess, since it didnt show my phone's files. only the hd files are shown
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actually it does,i do it all the time.....be sure that usb in your phone is set to mass storage and here is a link to the tool i mentioned http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
magician369 said:
actually it does,i do it all the time.....be sure that usb in your phone is set to mass storage and here is a link to the tool i mentioned http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
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its currently being used via MTP, ok will check that as well
I had two files named .thumbdata3-1763508120 and .thumbdata3--1967290299 in sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails. It keep generating when I delete them until my memory full. So I dont know exact size of fully grown these files. when I delete them size about 380+ MBs. Google not help me much (except the cure for avoid genereting files) I want to know what they are and deleting them harm the android?
Dilushan said:
I had two files named .thumbdata3-1763508120 and .thumbdata3--1967290299 in sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails. It keep generating when I delete them until my memory full. So I dont know exact size of fully grown these files. when I delete them size about 380+ MBs. Google not help me much (except the cure for avoid genereting files) I want to know what they are and deleting them harm the android?
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These are the Thumbnail files of Photos..
Thumbnails are Small pictures shown in album while browsing the album which you click to open image
hassaan_july said:
These are the Thumbnail files of Photos..
Thumbnails are Small pictures shown in album while browsing the album which you click to open image
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Not possible. I only had images less than 10MB in sdcard while these files 380+MBs. by the way all the thumbnails also in .thumbnails folder explicitly. So clearly thumbnails has nothing todo with these big two files.
Those are the index files of the thumbnails that get's generated by stock camera app. Not using the stock camera app solves this. A simple google gave me this answer.
Search before you post.
.:goutham:.
gouthamthemostwanted said:
Those are the index files of the thumbnails that get's generated by stock camera app. Not using the stock camera app solves this. A simple google gave me this answer.
Search before you post.
.:goutham:.
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Yaa. I did. im afraid I cant still find what u are talking about
In simple terms,
1.Stock camera app indexes the thumbnails and saves the respective image's properties in a thumbdata file.
2.The problem is that each and every pic present in your memory card will be indexed in the thumbdata file and even if you remove the image, the indexed properties of the image still remains dormant in the thumb data file.
3.If the removed image is again restored in the memory card, it creates another new id for the image and indexes it once again so two entries are present for a single image (it may be the same image for us but the operating system takes the date of creation of the image in the sd card into consideration so it's another new image for it)
4.This thumbdata file increases in size in time if you keep on adding and deleting images in your sdcard because new entries gets created and old entries are not at all removed and still remains in the thumbdata file as dead weight.
5. Eventually it's size increases to hundreds of megabytes that's why you have a heavy thumbdata file even though at the particular point of time your gallery is only few megabytes because you have added and deleted files before and those entries remain there in the thumbdata files.
6. This thumbdata file can be deleted with no hesitation what so ever because it's not so important and it eventually gets generated again.
7. You may ask "what is the purpose of this thumbdata files?" the main purpose is to load images faster into memory using the indexes generated so that when you open apps like gallery it doesn't lag to display the thumbnails.
8. That's all I know . I might be wrong somewhere but that's the whole point of thumbdata files generated, getting so heavy.
9. This is again, sourced from google
the answers for your questions are not always found in the first page of your google search
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pitchblack5691 said:
In simple terms,
1.Stock camera app indexes the thumbnails and saves the respective image's properties in a thumbdata file.
2.The problem is that each and every pic present in your memory card will be indexed in the thumbdata file and even if you remove the image, the indexed properties of the image still remains dormant in the thumb data file.
3.If the removed image is again restored in the memory card, it creates another new id for the image and indexes it once again so two entries are present for a single image (it may be the same image for us but the operating system takes the date of creation of the image in the sd card into consideration so it's another new image for it)
4.This thumbdata file increases in size in time if you keep on adding and deleting images in your sdcard because new entries gets created and old entries are not at all removed and still remains in the thumbdata file as dead weight.
5. Eventually it's size increases to hundreds of megabytes that's why you have a heavy thumbdata file even though at the particular point of time your gallery is only few megabytes because you have added and deleted files before and those entries remain there in the thumbdata files.
6. This thumbdata file can be deleted with no hesitation what so ever because it's not so important and it eventually gets generated again.
7. You may ask "what is the purpose of this thumbdata files?" the main purpose is to load images faster into memory using the indexes generated so that when you open apps like gallery it doesn't lag to display the thumbnails.
8. That's all I know . I might be wrong somewhere but that's the whole point of thumbdata files generated, getting so heavy.
9. This is again, sourced from google
.:goutham:.
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Can i delete them ?
khaledreno said:
Can i delete them ?
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Yes, there shouldn't be any problems after deleting them
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Solution is to create a file with exact same name including the period in front . Place your .thumbdata3--1967290299 file into the dcim/thumbnails folder . You may have to use your file manager to allow hidden files to be viewed. Make sure there is no extension just exactly .thumbdata3--1967290299 as shown or whatever thumbdata file you may have. Now delete the old file andriod had made. Will keep andriod from making huge index files . This occurs when using stock camera , this solution will fix It. Hit thx if this helped you
HTC sense 5
Suddenly all my pictures and videos disappeared.All Viber, Whats app, Screenshots, camera, downloaded - everything... Only new ones I take are showing. The files are missing in the folders too. I have two DCIM folders - one on internal and another on external drive but they are empty now. I tried File Explorer, ES File Explorer with "show hidden files", and I've checked all of the device folders, but I can not find any of my pictures or videos. I tryed with QuickPic - same sh**... If i connect my device to my PC the result is the same. The PC recovery soft which I test, found about 3000 files, and with all emoticons and trash there were my pictures but in very low res. So I tried Hexamob Recovery Pro (from the Play store), but the result was the same - about 12 000 junk files and some of mine in low res... The method with deleting all .nomedia files doesn't work. Than I've installed Undelete - This app found about 300 files, and these were all of the missing files, but when I tried to restore them, It asked for a license key... The free version could restore only pics...one by one... You can't select all!!!
So how to restore all my stuff without stupid apps!?
*my camera freezes often. "Could not connect the camera" appeares, and I need to reboot to solve this prob
Samsung GT-I9300
Android Version 4.1.2
Baseband I9300UELK1
Kernel 3.0.31 -Siyah-1.8.6+
AOKP Milestone -1 Jelly Bean
Omega v4.2
Where are these files stored (hidden), what is there extension? And why only Undelete can find the proper files with their full resolution!?
So, I found that Undelete detects files at DCIM\DCIM\Camera, but even with "show hidden " explorers does not see the second DCIM folder... Any suggestions !?
You can try
http://android-photo-recovery.com/tutorials/recover-deleted-photos-from-samsung-galaxy-s3.html
Or buy the Undelete licence .
Or read the multiple identical lost photos / files posts .
jje
Thanks!
But I already checked similar posts, and stil can't find solution .. The soft that you recommended, resulting small images too.. The idea is not only to recover, but to prevent future problems of this kind.. I want to understand what causes that
well i know this can be see as a duplicate post , but believe i search and read many Thread and search around google and no success or real useful tutorial find for this
i want to remove default gallery from my phones ( Huawei G600 & Sony V ) and replace it with Quickpic
both is rooted .
i use a Root file manager and Go to system/app and delete gallery2.apk ( Huawei G600) or semcAlbum.apk in sony V
now i copy Quickpic.apk to the system/app
and copy libqpicjni144.so to system/lib
after i restart the phone , when i enter some app like whatsup or viber and what to add a image the default gallery load again !! seems it`s still somewhere and only removed from app list in menu
so whats the problem ??
how can i edit Default app for opening image and video in android ?
selecting Quickpic as default on app asking or using titanium backup to freeze the gallery will not help for prevent run gallery in some app and make .thumbdata3 file
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why i need to remove default gallery :
after i test and remove .thumbdata3 ( with huge size and make my phone memory full ) for a few times , i see when i enter the gallery again this file re created with the same size and never can get ride of it
even i try to create a file with the same name and replace it with read-only permission but after the day I see another ..thumbdata3 created with some difference in numbers
so i really need to remove default gallery and more important of that make Quickpic the default gallery for all third party apps like camera, whatsup, line , ...