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Hello everyone,
I've bought a Transcend microSD 8GB class 6 for my hero, but the photo album seem really slow. When I open album it displays photos one by one, instead of instantly and even after it loads them all grey boxes appear when scrolling.
If I close the application and then browse the album again, it loads them all one by one although they were loaded before.
Any suggestions?
How big are the pictures? what rom are you using?
I run Modaco's 2.0 rom and don't have any issue's its really fast and all the pictures are loaded directly. with a 16Gb sd card
Some are 640x480, and other 8MP resolution but that seem to not affect the load times since they all take the same time to load.
I am using the stock ROM.
Did you update your Hero? with the stock rom its a disaster its really slow i had the same issue till i moved to modaco's rom.
is your hero rooted? if so try Modaco's rom if not try to update youre hero.
ZenorGR said:
Hello everyone,
I've bought a Transcend microSD 8GB class 6 for my hero, but the photo album seem really slow. When I open album it displays photos one by one, instead of instantly and even after it loads them all grey boxes appear when scrolling.
If I close the application and then browse the album again, it loads them all one by one although they were loaded before.
Any suggestions?
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I thought I was the only one. I am having the exact same problem. It seems like the "thumbnail cache" does not work as it is supposed to do. It did work however in the beginning with the original microSD card. After inserted a ScanDisk 8GB class 2 this issue started (same pictures on both cards). Swaping back to the original card and it worked fine again. Deleting "thumbnail cache and it "builds up" nice again after viewing the pictures in grid view the first time. Now back in with the 8GB card and it did not not work. Now I deleted all pictures and added some of them and then it suddenly worked in some folders. I dont know how many time I have deleted all pictures and tried to get it to work but allways failed. There is no logic, randomly folders sometimes starts to work and even in some folders were the "cache" is working after adding some new pictures just those new ones are not added in the cache. Always when going back to the original card everything works perfect. All this testing was made on the original rom.
After switching to Modaco's 2.0 rom I made another attemp to get this working but the result was exactly as above.
I did searched a lot and I did not find any one with this issue so I concluded that it must be the ScanDisk 8GB class 2 card causing this.
Ordered a Transcend microSD 16 GB class 6 card and have just inserted and started up and STILL THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM
We can't be the only one with this issue. I think many may not even be aware of it. For me it is terrible knowing how smoth it goes when it works.
Should be intresting to know if it actually works for anyone that have change the card.
PLEASE HELP. All inputs are very much appriciated.
Its really anoying. I replaced my SD card i have a 16gb i thought class 2 and before that i had a 8Gb class 4 both worked fine. i don't think the problem is the sd card. i had this problem with the stock rom but when i moved to modaco's rom it was fixed. did you try to wipe?? maybe that will fix the problem.
Ok i just made a movie to show the speed off mine hero album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4V8OIQlO8M
Is it slower than this?? or the same?
Sorry if its not sharp but its only to show the speed right.
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This is with a 16GB class 2 SD card i forget to mention it.
haha at first i thought you want to show us how slow it is on your device. and i was wondering: what the hell is wrong with the album?! its working perfectly on this video
now i realized that the video is meant to show that there are no problems with different sd cards
commodoor said:
Ok i just made a movie to show the speed off mine hero album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4V8OIQlO8M
Is it slower than this?? or the same?
Sorry if its not sharp but its only to show the speed right.
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This is with a 16GB class 2 SD card i forget to mention it.
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Thanks commodoor for trying to help out. It is much slower and I dont think this is easy solved by changing rom. I have tried that and wiped and cleard cashe and format card and so on but nothing helps.
The first time you open up a folder with pictures it takes longer time due to that it is building up the thumbnail cache. If you then add pictures it will add it to the cache so everytime you open that folder it goes very quickly and smoth.
My and the first poster issue is that it does this everytime like it was the first time always.
Try this. Delete all files in DCIM/.thumbnail This is the place where the phone places the thumbnail cache for "Camera shots" (mine is always empty by the way). Now open the "album" and "Camera shots" and the phone will start showing the pictures much slower. When all pictures are loaded (and new thumbnail cache has been creaated close and go in again and now it shuold be quick and smoth again.
this is how it should work but does'nt for me and the first poster.
anyone else has any clue ??
sixpackbud said:
Try this. Delete all files in DCIM/.thumbnail This is the place where the phone places the thumbnail cache for "Camera shots" (mine is always empty by the way).
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I have found that THIS is the problem that it's causing it.
If you use the default sandisk wich came with the Hero this folder is not empty, it contains the thumbnails as it is supposed to, so the next time you open up an album thumbnails are instantly loaded.
That does not happen when using my Transcend 8GB class 6, the folder is empty. Any suggestions?
ZenorGR said:
I have found that THIS is the problem that it's causing it.
If you use the default sandisk wich came with the Hero this folder is not empty, it contains the thumbnails as it is supposed to, so the next time you open up an album thumbnails are instantly loaded.
That does not happen when using my Transcend 8GB class 6, the folder is empty. Any suggestions?
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This is not the root cause to this issue. The problem is that "album" program does not update this folder with "thumbnails". I will try to nail it down further to possible find a solution. I am surprised that it seams that only you and I have this problem.
No one else ????
So now we are 3 persons with this problem.
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/292539/album-thumbnails-not-created/
Who will be the fourth???
I am not sure, but maybe it's caused because when I opened the phone for the first time, I didn't use the stock microSD but the Transcend one?
sixpackbud did you do the same thing?
I've switched to a Sandisk 16GB Class 2 card and have no problem. My phone is rooted running the new ROM and I have 130 pictures in the DCIM folder on the card - a mixture of shots from my old Nokia, the ones that came on the card with the phone and pictures taken by the Hero. It took a while when first opening to generate the thumbnails, but now shows them immediately.
I'm the one who posted on modaco about the same problem (see sixpackbud) post.
I also replaced the stock sd card for a transcend 8GB class 6.
So it seems all the problems started when changing the sd card.
Here I come with my 50 cents:
I tested the transcend class 6 card and I have to say it has a good read speed, but IT IS NOT A CLASS 6 CARD WHEN WRITING.
It does not get to the 6MB/sec it has to, but it stays at 4MB/sec.
So it really is a class 4 speed.
Maybe the album's thumbnails issue has to do with the card's write speed???
Licenced, can you test the write speed of your 16GB sandisk card????
please???
Following testing has now been done.
Wipe and load clean modaco rom 2.0. Directly went to camera and took some pictures and looked in album.
SanDisk microSDHC 8 GB class 2: NOT OK, thumbnails NOT created
Transcend microSDHC 16 GB class 6: NOT OK, thumbnails NOT created
Original SanDisk microSD 2GB Class 2: OK, thumbnails created
So it definitely seems to be connected to the cards. Now I did some speed measurement from the computer.
SanDisk microSDHC 8 GB class 2: NOT OK, thumbnails NOT created
Read: 10 000 kbytes/s
write: 3 600 kbytes/s
Transcend microSDHC 16 GB class 6: NOT OK, thumbnails NOT created
Read: 9 000 kbytes/s
write: 4 000 kbytes/s
Original SanDisk microSD 2GB Class 2: OK, thumbnails created
Read: 4 000 kbytes/s
write: 3 500 kbytes/s
The common thing for the two cards not working is that the read speed is much higher. You can actually see the difference clearly when loading album first time.
The only conclution I can draw out of this is that the thumbnail creating procedure doesn't work correctly when using high speed cards.
Is there anyone out there that can verify this by checking that album browsing works ok while using high speed sdcard
Thanks in advance.
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The only conclution I can draw out of this is that the thumbnail creating procedure doesn't work correctly when using high speed cards.
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Thanks for making these tests. I suppose that if that was the issue then this would have been reported by multiple users. Let's see.
I have also contacted HTC support and awaiting response.
I did the same tests that you did, using these cards:
SanDisk microSDHC 8 GB class 2: (the one that came with an htc magic) NOT OK, thumbnails NOT created
Transcend microSDHC 8 GB class 6: (the one i bought and I'm using now) NOT OK, thumbnails NOT created
Original SanDisk microSD 2GB Class 2: (the one that came with the hero) NOT OK, thumbnails created (NOT OK to me)
The speed tests showed exactly the same speeds you got.
See that the transcend is NOT a class 6 card???. What a dissapointment. I trusted the brand.
But..... I just solved the problem.
Copying 4 files I found inside the .thumbnails dir on the 8gb card that came with the htc magic.
I noticed (albeit the dir names are somewhat different) the .thumbnail dir in the magic had 4 files that were not thumbnail files.
The files are named: .thumbdata33-1967290299, .thumbdata3-1763508120, image_last_thumb and video_last_thumb.
I just copied those 4 files into the /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails dir and the albums app started generating thumbnails.
The firs file is 230K long, the others 12K, 2K and 2K.
Maybe is a concurrency issue??? the writing speed of the card is not enough to allow creating more than one file at a time?
So putting in the card a pre-created file helps?
You can try with an empty file.
HTC Support answer:
"We would have to investigate, as having just tried it on mine, it works absolutely fine.
you haven't been messing around with Apps to SD have you? i wonder if that could have anything to do with it? The device should work with any SD card, and it certainly seems to when we try it here, but of course we haven't done anything to the ROM.
what programs have you installed from the market? maybe we could test here and see if the same thing happens here once we have installed the same.
best regards,
HTC Europe Support"
After finding out my internal storage available space was getting low much faster than it should, I deleted the cache from google maps, opera (and moved its location to the storage card), but I can't find a way to move the cache from the HTC Album.
It takes around 30Mb on my device, and if I delete it, it'll just get back to that size in a few days.
I know I can just delete it every time it's too big, but I'm guessing it makes the albums loading faster, so if it's possible, I'd prefer not to delete it, but to move it to the storage card instead.
Is it possible to change the default location of the cache?
Thanks
This would be good, I too ended up wondering where all my space had gone only to find the HTC ALBUM cache folder taking up 20MB
Ditto^^
I find it strange because this would ultimately lead to a completely occupied memory over time (given you take enough pictures). You'd think they thought about that...
I can't seem to find anything about this, and after looking at the registry, I didn't find any key that seems to control this either.
Is there so few people bothered by this?
i am as bothered as you (and running with very few storage left), and wait for a solution. Putting the cache not on the storage card was quite dumb from HTC given the very limited storage. Unfortunately, I am a solution leecher, not a seeder.
Mithrandir007 said:
After finding out my internal storage available space was getting low much faster than it should, I deleted the cache from google maps, opera (and moved its location to the storage card), but I can't find a way to move the cache from the HTC Album.
It takes around 30Mb on my device, and if I delete it, it'll just get back to that size in a few days.
I know I can just delete it every time it's too big, but I'm guessing it makes the albums loading faster, so if it's possible, I'd prefer not to delete it, but to move it to the storage card instead.
Is it possible to change the default location of the cache?
Thanks
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Sorry, probably a noob question but how did you do it for Opera ?
Thanks in advance
It's in the camera settings. Start the camera; select the strange box on the bottom left with an arrow on the side; hit the "settings" wheel - looks like a cart wheel; then you should have a big box in the middle of the screen with settings options; now select the lower left hand box labelled "storage". When you have the "storage" option with the picture of a SD card then that's where the photos will go.
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It's in the camera settings. Start the camera; select the strange box on the bottom left with an arrow on the side; hit the "settings" wheel - looks like a cart wheel; then you should have a big box in the middle of the screen with settings options; now select the lower left hand box labelled "storage". When you have the "storage" option with the picture of a SD card then that's where the photos will go.
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That's not the album cache - that's the camera storage location
alexd83 said:
Sorry, probably a noob question but how did you do it for Opera ?
Thanks in advance
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For Opera, it's not too hard.
Open Opera, and type "opera:config" in the address bar.
You'll then be in the config page, find the section "User Prefs".
In there, you should find something called "Cache Directory4". Just change that path to any directory in your storage card (for example : "\Storage Card\OperaCache").
Cheesy Dave : Thanks for the answer, but as johncmolyneux said, it's the cache I'd like to move to the storage card (which contains the thumbnails of your images along with other information).
The pictures are already going to the storage card.
Thanks for the reply !
Hi, whoops - sorry I misunderstood the question. Now where is the cache kept ?
I did think the question was simple; but, I thought it might help to explain the settings in the camera.
Confession: I've no idea where the cache is kept. Must explore ...
It's kept in \Application Data\HTC\HTC Album\Cache\ in the internal storage.
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It's kept in \Application Data\HTC\HTC Album\Cache\ in the internal storage.
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And how to change it so it goes to another direction?
Filipek88 said:
And how to change it so it goes to another direction?
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OMG.................................... wasn't that the question of this thread???
mouki_9 said:
OMG.................................... wasn't that the question of this thread???
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LoL
A bit off topic; but the same cache problem applies to the google maps and youtube applications. Offcourse we could always empty the cachefolders manually now and then, but I would still like some kind of tweak to solve this problem.
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I wish I knew
Concerning Youtube I don't know how to do it, but for Google Maps, if you get a new version of Google Maps and chose to install it on the storage card, it will put the cache on the storage card as well.
this came to my attention last night when my phone totally ran out of storage when i wasn't actually storing anything on it. i had about 50 mp3's and 10 pictures but all on the storage card. as i didn't know what to do i reverted to clearing the storage which essentially reset it.
i cant believe this problem isn't topping the forum its a massive issue for me. i monitored the storage during a web browsing session this morning. i lost about 10meg of storage in 20 mins and this wasn't cleared when i ended the session. what i dont understand is opera is set to have a 4 meg cache limit. even if someone works out how to transfer all the cache files to the sd card it wont really help as it will eventually fill that up. is i did very little with my phone in the 1st week of owning it other than surf im fairly sure it must have nearly all been browser cache. 130mb of it1! so in fairly sure it will just keep munching and munching storage.
i now have a very tough decision to make i love this phone but i have 24 hours to send it back to o2 and swap it for something else. whats everyones opinions is this likely to get fixed and how long will it take? or should i give up and get an isheep?
Surely htc could just add an option in settings to empty all cache, or auto empty
@jimsteach
A few posts back up this thread there are instructions for moving the Opera cache to the SD Card - it's pretty much an essential in my book given the storage situation on the device.
I too have trawled the registry trying to find where the Album cache is set, but it looks like HTC have modified the architecture and/or use of the registry in building Sense. I'd also love to be able to move mail to the SD Card, but the normal tweak doesn't work for that either.
The location of album cache seems to be hardcoded in HTCAlbum.exe. The Unicode string "\Application Data\HTC\HTC ALBUM\Cache" occurs 7 times when searching in the file with a hex editor. This weekend I will try to modify HTCAlbum.exe and insert a location to storage card.
What puzzles me most is the size album cache can grow to, it seems almost unlimited. I mean, I have never seen any complaints with other devices. The only reg key I found is "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCAlbum:cache_serial". Does anyone know what this does?
And another key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory\FATFS:EnableCache"
Anyone?
This is my first tablet and I'm new to Android (always had Windows Mobile phones) so maybe this is common knowledge to Android users but I sure as hell can't find the answer via searching.
I finally bought a microSD card for my Prime but can't figure out how to use it efficiently. I can access it an copy files and folders to it via the File Manager so I know it works. However, I can't figure out how to make the camera save pictures and videos to it by default. After looking at that for a while I looked at my other apps and none of my programs seem to have an option to make use of the microSD card. Took me a while to figure out I can't even install programs to the SD card like I can with my Windows Mobile phone. I can deal with that last part though with 32 gigs on the internal card but if the only way to use the microSD card is to manually copy files over to it where those files are then inaccessible for all the apps so I have to manually copy them back over every time I need to use them, that's not acceptable.
What am I missing here? I can't believe this was intentionally designed this way. Is there some global setting that I'm missing to open things up?
I think most use the external card for music & vids and such that they carry over TO the tablet. I also noticed you cannot set apps to save there and I have an app that monitors apps when they install. & if they are SD compatible it alerts you.... it never works in this setup. No doubt you could - if rooted - move apps to SD card as I do this on my Droid all the time.
As for camera & vids no way to set SD as default.
Unless there been a change since honeycomb saving and running apps to sd is not native. Most people state that due to all the space the device comes with you don't need it since apk are so small. But I had 4 games take up 4.5 gb of space on my device so that rational does not float.
If you ever root your device there is app called gl to sd
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1328053
worked great on honycomb (waiting till i get home to use new root so have not tried on ICS yet) I moved all my games to SD and they ran fine .. games like shadow Gun GTA III DeadSpace Backstab 9mm.
Just my two cents if there is way for using the sd card natively in ICS I also wold love to know.
On my measly 512mb OG Droid I have 110 apps on the SD card. Ahhhh thank God root.
For this 32gb beast I decided to forgo SD card apps as it does slow the app down (has to r/w from slower card) and Widgets can bust.
It is lame though that we cannot set cameras & vids to auto save but again you'd get a performance hit to a small degree.
The situation was worse before Honeycomb, in Gingerbread you could have a 16GB phone but the way it was partitioned only 1GB to 2GB was considered "internal memory" for app installation space/data while the rest was partitioned into a virtual "sdcard" folder that you needed things like App2SD to move over to that parition space (and not even fully, portions of app/data/cache would stay in the internal memory space). With HoneyComb/ICS the full 32GB or 64GB storage space is visible and useable between the internal/sdcard mounts. I got the 64GB Prime so I wouldn't have to worry about app install space any more since I like to load hundreds of apps/games. I also have a 64GB microSDHC card which I use to store a bunch of videos/music.
Thanks for the reply guys. Surprised that Android is built to limit itself like that. Really though, 32 gigs is a lot of space for the apps themselves. If it was just a matter of having to install the apps on the internal card, I wouldn't even bother cause I know with my use I'd never approach the limit if that was the only limitation.
However, not being able to save data used by the apps to external SD card is an issue as I see it. Will probably get around to rooting my Prime just so I can move some of the apps to the external SD card so they'll, hopefully, save and use the data there to keep my internal card free. I have a few aviation chart based apps that will be taking up quite a bit of space. I don't think it will max it out on their own but I like having plenty of extra space.
Not being able to save the video and pics from the camera directly to the external card is a bit ridiculous though. Perhaps a developer can fix that? In the mean time, I've thought of a work around that, while not perfect, will work for me I think in regards to keeping the camera videos and pics from clogging up my internal drive. I've installed an app called SyncMe that syncs via wifi network to my computer. I'll set it automatically to move all the camera data from my internal card to my computer and then I'll have another event that syncs the files on my computer to my tablet external SD card. The effect will be a daily transfer of all my camera activity to my external SD card while also making them available on my computer until I have time to sort through them.
Yea, once you play around with it a bit you'll find what works best for you. Some apps wont install on the external sd card and a lot of apps behave better when install on internal memory. Apps to SD is great for some but not all apps. Now separating the data from the apps that are internal to the external ? I'm not sure how well that will work.
Oh wait. I just re-read what you wrote. Yes - you can save the data to the external sd card and you will want to. There are lots of apps that do that, our Primes came with a backup app that will allow you to select apps to backup and/or apps with data. Sometimes you only want to restore apps and not data.
Your work around for storing pictures and video to external sd sounds like it will work well. 32gb is a lot of space. It's also really easy to use the File Manager to copy them over. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm guessing a lot of us here, especially if we rooted our phones, have grown accustom to setting schedules for apps to backup or data and for me - that includes things like pictures. Some of these backups will sync to a cloud so the data/pictures are safe and wont get lost. With 32gb I'm not concerned about space.
I wasn't really concerned about space that much until I recorded some video of my son's basketball game. Just over 6 min and the video was well over 800mb.
I could see that adding up real quick if I didn't stay on top of it and I know I won't without some 'auto' help. Got concerned that I might clog up my internal card with personal stuff that would inhibit my work stuff, which is what this is was for in the first place.
Haven't looked at the backup utility yet but every other app I've tried, I can't see a selectable option for getting choosing where to save and access data. Well, except for the SyncMe and File Manager I already mentioned. Oh, and I noticed that the gallery can see the photos and videos I moved to the external card so that's good.
Well, I found another reason to not like the microSD card option but this time, it's directly related to the Prime rather than a generic Android problem.
Took my prime out for work. First full day with hotel stay since buying the microSD card. By the time I get back to the hotel to settle in for the night, I notice the microSD card is missing. WTH!!!
Now, there wasn't anything on it that I don't have on the computer at home BUT, that card wasn't cheap. If it comes out of that slot so easy as to be gone after my first full day away from home with the Prime, I can't trust it at all.
First question, is there an easily accecible log file that would show when the card was unmounted? If so, that might narrow down where to look for it. Might actually be able to find it if I know when it came out.
Second question, does anyone know if the SD card slot on the dock is more secure? I would really like more space but I'm not paying for another microSD card.
To answer one of your questions, the dock SD card is much more secure, it does not stick out of the dock at all unlike the Micro SD in the tablet
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk
I would definitely recommend you have at least a sleeve for your Prime. That will help with the microSD not popping out, too. I have been carrying mine with me for weeks and haven't had mine pop out at all. No, I'm not aware of a way to find out when it was unmounted.
And yes - the dock has a SD card reader, so it's bigger and it will insert flush as opposed to sticking out a little due to the beveled design of the sides of the Prime. And with the usb port......well it's limitless really - maybe not to carry for every outing, but at home it's so easy to contect to the external hard drive and transfer movies and pictures that way. I really like the dock. Also, the prices of microSD cards have come waaaaay down. Sandisk, class 6, 16gb, $20.
"Haven't looked at the backup utility yet but every other app I've tried, I can't see a selectable option for getting choosing where to save and access data. Well, except for the SyncMe and File Manager I already mentioned. Oh, and I noticed that the gallery can see the photos and videos I moved to the external card so that's good."
The built in app backup does save your data to either or both places. This is data from your apps. Not things like downloads or pictures. It saves your apps too but you don't really have to do that since as soon as you sign into the market your apps are there. I have 2 other 3rd party apps that do the same thing with more features (schedules, bookmarks, etc)
Yep - the gallery and video player are going to find the pictures and videos/movies that you put on the removable sd card. The built in media player lets you tell it where to look for movies/videos. There really is plenty of room in the 32gb for most of your needs. Unless you root and start storing multiple weekly nandroid backups, you'll likely only need to manage your files when you "want to" - i.e. when you want to transfer pictures and videos on and off the Prime and/or when you back the Prime up. I have a 16gb $20 sandisk class 6 microsd that I've loaded up with 10 movies, but now I only have 4 gb left. I have over 80 3rd party apps installed to internal, that combined with the apps that came with it amount to only about 5gb, (plus misc pictures, videos, several hundred books, etc) and I still have 22 gb left. So I'm moving more movies to internal. I didn't get a 32gb tablet to leave a bunch of dead air
I have a TON of pictures and videos in my gallery. TONS. Thousands. But I've been using an android phone for several years so I'm synced with Google and the Cloud. Every picture I take with my phone or tablet is stored in the Cloud, private, available only to me unless I choose to make it public. I can access them anywhere from any computer within seconds of taking them. So they don't take up any space at all on any of my devices. Neither does my music anymore
Yeah, the 32 gigs is good for my needs. Not for my wants. I justified buying this thing to carry aeronautical chart which takes up several gigabits of space. Quite a bit of space but not so much that it overwhelms the internal card. However, when using it for secondary tasks like an HD video recorder, that space get chewed up fast. MicroSD was my plan for stuff like that. Will have to rethink that now.
Was planning on getting a sleeve or a case once I had the tab and keyboard and could figure out exaclty what I wanted for it (just got the keyboard) but that card got lost way too easy. Not buying another one even with the sleeve/case.
Well, the card showed up. Well, more accurately, it was sitting in a convenient place for me to stumble across it this morning.
Lucky for me for now.
I first saw this on my wife's S3 and now I have the same thing on my Note 2. Whenever I go into the Gallery app, it is so extremely slow. I thought it was building indexes or something, but my Thunderbolt wasn't this slow. I have searched around and can't find anything.
I do have images on an extSD card, but even before I put the card in the pics I took on camera were slow to come up. I can use other apps like quic pic but I don't think S-pen works with other apps.
Anyone else seen this?
EDIT: It appears the S-Pen works fine in quic pic. I was able to select and copy to clipboard just fine. I would still like to know why Gallery is so slow though.
hmm I'd call mine quite fast. I have 42 local pictures already and it that album and facebook ones instantly and when I click local, the pictures all pop right up instantly. Have you noticed reads/writes from your memory being slow with anything else?
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hmm I'd call mine quite fast. I have 42 local pictures already and it that album and facebook ones instantly and when I click local, the pictures all pop right up instantly. Have you noticed reads/writes from your memory being slow with anything else?
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My phone overall is very fast. It is just the gallery. The fact that I saw it on my wife's S3 made me wonder. I even moved her pics off of her extSD card and onto her internal memory. Then I reformatted her card. I also reformatted my card in the phone before putting the pics back on it. Quic Pic works like a champ, so I believe it has to be Gallery.
No issues here with opening gallery, pics taken from phone or photos on memory card. Also my s3 was fast.
Yep, mine too. I have a lot on my card, when i open the gallery it shows a bunch of gray squares that should be the folder names.it takes forever to show thumbnails for some reason. Never had this on my S3
I have 6000+ pictures separated into 50+ albums all stored on my 64gb xdhc and its fast. for an album of more than 600 pics, the gray boxes turn to thumbnails quick enough to keep up with my scrolling.
I'm in the same boat as the OP.... It takes quite a long time to load up my pictures in my gallery. Quite annoying...
use a ultra high speed sd card an it will help with gallery speed. i have a 64gb sandisk that reads 50mb/s...
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I first saw this on my wife's S3 and now I have the same thing on my Note 2. Whenever I go into the Gallery app, it is so extremely slow. I thought it was building indexes or something, but my Thunderbolt wasn't this slow. I have searched around and can't find anything.
I do have images on an extSD card, but even before I put the card in the pics I took on camera were slow to come up. I can use other apps like quic pic but I don't think S-pen works with other apps.
Anyone else seen this?
EDIT: It appears the S-Pen works fine in quic pic. I was able to select and copy to clipboard just fine. I would still like to know why Gallery is so slow though.
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I have had the same problem since owning the S3 and now the GN2. I have about 6gb of photos on my internal storage and a couple gb on my sd card.
I have been able to figure out that it's something with my home network. Try to turn off Wifi and then open Gallery on all 3 of my Sammy phones the gallery is instantly fast.
PS Someone also told me to disable Tag Buddy and Face Tag as well.
Motorola is similar yo this except that the moto gallery pinch room is choppy. Quick pic fixes. Its something about the ui that makes it drag along on the gallery. Hopefully they address it because my old gs2 didn't really have that issue.
Same issues with gallery sometimes
I've noticed some slowdown on the gallery but mostly when other apps try to access it.
Like if i try to look at the gallery from picsay or something.
I notice the camera folder shows up right away but it hangs on the other folders.
I have it showing all my facebook photos too. Don't know if that has anything to do with it.
And I have noticed its quite hit or miss. Sometimes its instant sometimes it hangs.
It is quite weird when the phone is so fast.
I would love to know what is causing it.
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I've noticed some slowdown on the gallery but mostly when other apps try to access it.
Like if i try to look at the gallery from picsay or something.
I notice the camera folder shows up right away but it hangs on the other folders.
I have it showing all my facebook photos too. Don't know if that has anything to do with it.
And I have noticed its quite hit or miss. Sometimes its instant sometimes it hangs.
It is quite weird when the phone is so fast.
I would love to know what is causing it.
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If it's looking for facebook albums, it could be data connection that's affecting the speed.
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If it's looking for facebook albums, it could be data connection that's affecting the speed.
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Is there any way of removing sync from Facebook
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Is there any way of removing sync from Facebook
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I haven't found a way. I went into facebook sync and unchecked "sync gallery" and changed the gallery sync interval to never, then went and cleared all data from the gallery but it went through and downloaded them all over again.
Did you try changing the sd speed? I switched from the default 128k to 2048 and my galleries load as fast as I can scroll
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I too have this issue. It would be worth trying what LordRalh3 mentions. Dont know if this is going to help. I had several pictures on internal memory until I remembered to install my external 32gb card, it is slow both ways.
I had the same issue, and found that gallery was caching a ton of data. Over 2 gigs the first day! I cleared it, and again the next day it began caching data again. I have resorted to disabling the app, and I am in the process of wiping to see if that helps. I will let you know what happens.
Stock gallery is bull****. Better is quickpic i use it nearly 1 year
Wiping did not help. Gallery still as slow as molasses. I will report back on cached data. How would I go about changing the sd speed?
I just changed the sd speed to 2048. There was no difference. This is really annoying. I turned off syncing with picasa, facebook, google +. Im not sure what else could cause such a slow down.
After using the phone for a while, even if you don't install lots of apps, the 16GB internal storage area will eventually get full. Facebook, chrome, twitter etc develop large caches on the device. The thumbnail file balloons to several GBs. Even if you have a microSD, Google these days limit portability to the microSD. There are some workarounds. I use an app called Link2SD. I have created a 2nd partition on my microSD card, and use this app to move app data and cache files to this storage area.
How do you cope with the 16GB storage limit? How do you move apps and/or app data to the microSD card?
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After using the phone for a while, even if you don't install lots of apps, the 16GB internal storage area will eventually get full. Facebook, chrome, twitter etc develop large caches on the device. The thumbnail file balloons to several GBs. Even if you have a microSD, Google these days limit portability to the microSD. There are some workarounds. I use an app called Link2SD. I have created a 2nd partition on my microSD card, and use this app to move app data and cache files to this storage area.
How do you cope with the 16GB storage limit? How do you move apps and/or app data to the microSD card?
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Root
And use folder mount. But the ultra does seem to collect a lot of a cache I've noticed over the years. I just clear it. Not to mention es file explorer has a recycling bin which is a nightmare.
I don't use the phone storage expect for Google everything else I run on my SD card.
Link2SD sucks its all complicated folder mount gets right to the point. Plus I use CyanogenMod so out of the box my phone only uses like 700mb
i remember on my desire hd on og the devs made a way to make the phone think that sd card was iternal memory so in other words i had 32gb internal also did this on my samsung tablet too
I have never filled up the internal storage completely. I have a 64GB SD which I use to store some of my music on, and all wallpapers and photos are moved to the SD. The only things I have on the internal storage are apps, and non of them manages to balloon the cache up to several gigs. Chrome has a cache limit of 200 MB, Reddit Sync has an option to clear the cache every day/every time I close it etc, so the things that takes up the most space are games. Those aren't causing any issues either since I only have 2 or 3 games installed at all times. When I'm done with them, I uninstall them. The stock ROM also has "App to SD" (which I don't use, but it's there). So all in all, I don't have to overcome any limits.
I can see how it's an issue if you insist in having 600 apps installed at all times, but then it's not the hardware's fault, but the user that's incredibly messy and stupid.
I use Obb on SD (Xposed) for games such as the GTA series and have a task for cleaning the Album cache with Tasker every day (that app tend to build huge cache files, I have experienced 1 GB....) and I am also careful to move downloaded stuff to the microSD card.
I also clean the cache regularly under storage and is usually with 2 GB free on the internal disk.
It is handy to set up Tasker to do regular cleaning of cache folders for those apps who tend to create big caches as well. When decent Marshmallow ROMs are out, my plan is to format my microSD card as "internal storage" (ext4 per the new feature introduced) which will make everything more seamless.