ackoolness

did a search and didnt find anything relating to my issue...

I installed a program (photofun) and i regret it. i tried it out with one pic and when i went to the gallery to view it, it would just force close when i would scroll.

So i uninstalled the program but when i enter the gallery, pick a folder, and try to scroll, then it will force close. cannot scroll at all bcuz it will force close.

heres what i tried:

-rebooting (countless times)
-unmounted SD card
-deleted dcim/.thumbnails
-reinstalled said program, cleared cache, force closed, then uninstalled

unfortunately still have this force close issue with gallery. any suggestions from you android super geeks?

droidx running 2.1 unrooted, btw.

Last edited by ackoolness; September 3rd, 2010 at 02:02 PM.

ackoolness

Found other users having the same issue...

i also noticed, just like these other users, that when i am able to scroll it will crash when it gets to a certain set of photos and videos. weird.

Gallery Crashes When Scrolling... - Android Forums

teknonoob

I have the same problem. I downloaded the gallery app from droid life and that works fine. Here's the link DROID X Owners Missing the 3D Gallery from Stock Android? Download it Here. | Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

I haven't tried to remove the pics and vids from sd card then re-add them yet, I'll look into it when I get home from work.

Jayme

I just started having this issue this morining. I didnt install any gallery apps though. I will search through the other threads to see if the issue has been resovled.

Jayme

Tried the various fixes nothing worked...
Downloaded 3D gallery 'till 2.2 comes out. I hope 2.2 fixes the problem.

androy

Same thing just happened to me. Very strange..

I didn't install anything new since it started happening. What I did do though is try and edit a pic, the next time I went to scroll it crashed. Now it crashes every time in vertical view, horizontal scrolling still works though.

Screwy

My wife had some very similar issues with her phone too. The only thing different was that her phone would lock up hard while scrolling through the gallery. She didn't install any photo apps either. It would happen whenever she'd scroll through the camera roll or come across some pics in the full gallery view.

I set the usb to work as a removable drive when it was connected to a Windows computer. The phone would lock up and crash windows explorer on WinXP SP3 or Vista 64 if you tried to browse it there though. The last ditch effort was to use the command prompt to copy the photos off of the SD card. Of the 164 photos/videos on there I was able to recover 155 of them before we reformatted the card. That seemed to work for a few days but now the phone is back to locking up when using the camera every third or fourth time and the gallery is back to locking the phone up again too. A new twist to add to it as well is every so often when the screen is locked, it won't come out of lock. You gotta pull the battery.......

Boot the phone with the SD card from mine in there or without one at all and it works fine. And put the card into my phone and it performs the same as her phone. We're off to the VZW store today to try to get a new card since it's been like this since day 1.

Last edited by Screwy; September 8th, 2010 at 10:04 AM. Reason: added content

Jayme

Please let us know if the new card works.

thanks

ackoolness

I just came back from my vacationm so couldnt update.

I removed all of my pics and took about 200 more and have not been able to duplicate this issue. Its very strange but hopefully it doesn't happen again or that at least fixes it.

ackoolness

I just came back from my vacationm so couldnt update.

I removed all of my pics and took about 200 more and have not been able to duplicate this issue. Its very strange but hopefully it doesn't happen again or that at least fixes it.

pixelsyndicate

Fix for stock android gallery crash

Sometimes, after syncing items to your Android phone's storage card, the stock gallery application will start acting like it's force-closing immediately it's opened.

Here is how to fix it without having to back-up your SD card and format it, then restore.

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications
click "All" applications tab

"Clear Data" on Media Storage
"Clear Data" on Gallery

back out to Settings > SD card & phone storage

Unmount SD card

Once the SD card is unmounted, you should power-off your phone.

when the OS reboots, open the stock gallery application

The gallery will display "loading Media files" and a quick toast saying 'Loading' will fade off the screen, and the busy icon will display in the gallery's chrome. The main display of the gallery will show a default icon for media files.

It will take some time to rescan your photos and videos, but you will have your stock android gallery working again.

baberz

little late buddy.

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mulveyr

Except when it doesn't. Mine had been crashing, I had tried this, but the only thing that ended up fixing it was a factory reset.

AirGibson

This worked perfectly for me. Many thanks. I had the issue where Gallery would immediately close every time I started it. It now works normally after following these steps.

jammypack

That worked great! Fixed my gallery crash no problem. Thanks!

JTBSRT8

Ok i had the same problem with my DX after going root. My solution was to install a 3rd party gallery (gallery++) and to completely remove the stock gallery from the phone all together.

You will require root for this, and an app called terminal emulator.

An easy root access tutorial can be found here: DROID2 Rooting Method Works for DROIDX Running Froyo - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

After you have achieved root access open your terminal and type following commands as is.

su
mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
cd /system/app
rm MediaGallery.apk

Go to Setting > applications > manage applications > force close terminal emulator

restart terminal emulator

su
mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system

now reboot and enjoy never having to see the stock gallery again.

redifrogger

Thank you pixelsyndicate!! that fixed my gallery!!

Frisco

Good stuff, and great first post, JTBSRT8.

This needs to be linked to in the Droid X All Things Root Rooting Guide sticky thread.

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lexluthor

Bad idea.

Don't remove it. It might cause future OTAs to fail.

You should either rename the file to .bak or something or better yet, freeze it using Titanium. That way, you can easily recover the file should a system update require it to be there.

JTBSRT8

true in that case it would be

su
mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
cd /system/app
cp MediaGallery.apk /system/app/MediaGallery.bak
rm MediaGallery.apk

Go to Setting > applications > manage applications > force close terminal emulator

restart terminal emulator

su
mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system

now reboot and enjoy never having to see the stock gallery again.

fred525

Worked for me too!

Thanks!

glockman

Thanks! Worked for me today.

mizmellyjelly

This won't delete everything off my SD card will it? And apps that I saved on the card as well?

Crumm

This worked on a Milestone X running 2.2.2 Thanks for the very helpful post..

mmarti16

this worked for me..."TEAM Pixelsyndicate F#$K yea!!"

Spartan73

Thanks, Pixel! That did the trick!

Bigcathead

This worked for me too! You're a lifesaver, thanks so much!!

not2shabby

Worked for me too! Thanks, Pixel. Not to see if it got rid of the camera/camcorder bugs too. Every now and then a pic/video wouldn't be saved. Really annoying. I downloaded Quickpic a while back...don't know if it's not playing nice with the stock media apps or what.

tomzpayj

This also fixed a problem that turned all the thumbnails but one to blank images.

MagSteve

Worked for me, thanks.

notslow

I have a Gallery force close issue too, but mine is a little different. The gallery works fine until I go into setting, media share settings. If I click this, it force closes. I have some bloatware frozen with Titanium Backup, but have not erased anything. I don't think any of the frozen apps should be causing this problem. Any ideas?

Edit: figured this out. I had DLNA froze

Last edited by notslow; November 5th, 2011 at 03:26 PM.

shokuchi

I had constant troubles with gallery. Crashing, freezing, not showing media etc. Eventually I found a .nomedia file on the same path level as my DCIM folder which housed the photos.
It wasn't in the DCIM itself (where I was looking) just in the same folder as the DCIM. It was also screwing up Quickpic which I had installed. Removed that one nomedia file and all was back to normal.

/mnt/sdcard/DCIM
/mnt/sdcard/.nomedia - erased.

no idea which program put that nomedia file in there, but it was damn annoying.

chrcol

I have the same issue and this doesnt fix for me.

When gallery crashes it also stops any app from using 3d graphics until the phone is rebooted.

when I mounted the sdcard on the pc I noticed I had various thumbnails for photos I couldnt find on the sdcard as well.

Raptor_Jesus

Worked for me, thanks dude this was driving me crazy