Help Having problems with my upgraded Android version.

[Espiritual]

Not sure if I'm placing this in the correct section or not. Pardon me if I didn't.

Model: Droid Bionic
Android Version: 4.0.4

So I finally upgraded my Android version after much procrastination and now I wish I kept procrasting.

Been having problems with the updated version especially in different forums. When I make a title to a forum, it takes previous titles that I've made as a dropdown and when I need to move the arrow to a certain location in the title name, it takes it as an autofill of a previous thread name. This has been making me bat crazy.

My other problem is that I used to enjoy having my gallery having mainly only photos I've taken in there. Since the update, it takes EVERY single image on my phone and places in there and I can't find anything properly. I try and keep images in my gallery as minimal as possible and with this current set up, I can't.

I've tried looking in my settings but can't find anything. I'm not sure if I missed something.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Thom]

The first question is ... did you do a Factory Data Rest after upgrading to ICS? If you haven't it is strongly recommended that you do.

I use ... QuickPic ... as an image organizer/viewer. It gives much more control than My Gallery of how it is presented.

... Thom

 

[acejavelin]

I agree with Thom Little on the Factory Reset... this is HIGHLY recommended after a major OS change, which this is.

For photo management I recommend F-Stop Media Gallery, the author is a regular user over at DroidForums and is very responsive to any issues or questions.

 

[Espiritual]

My problem is that not everything fits onto my SD card that's on the phone itself and I don't have access to a computer to back everything up. (Even the assistance can not back up my stuff and rejects PIN numbers. That feature has been broken since I got this phone a year ago. Even the technical support at Motorola and Verizion couldn't figure it out. )
So I take it I'm screwed there.

But I'll try out the suggested stuff for the gallery.

 

[Thom]

My problem is that not everything fits onto my SD card that's on the phone itself and I don't have access to a computer to back everything up. (Even the assistance can not back up my stuff and rejects PIN numbers. That feature has been broken since I got this phone a year ago. Even the technical support at Motorola and Verizion couldn't figure it out. )
So I take it I'm screwed there.

But I'll try out the suggested stuff for the gallery.

If I understand you you want to backup the pictures on your SD card, you don;t have a computer to connect to, and you don;t have room for it on your SD-Ext card.

Many people simply store their pictures directly on their SD-Ext card.

You could invest in a larger SD-Ext card and then copy the SD card images to the larger SD-Ext card.

You could get a second SD-Ext card simply for backups ... pull the current SD-Ext card ... insert the second SD-Ext card ... make backups ... pull the second SD-Ext card ... insert the original SD-Ext card.

With regards to My Gallery ... it was in my opinion clunky in Gingerbread and it is also clunky in ICS ... I called the Gingerbread version iGallery and I guess that makes the ICS version My iGallery. I like QuickPic and there are others.

... Thom

 

[SNeitzel]

IMHO, the gallery on my OG Droid was passable, the version that came on the Bionic was a POS. I installed QuickPic as well and have never looked back.

 

[Groid]

You can get some significant storage in the cloud with Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Copy those pictures to Picasa or something similar. As suggested, get a bigger microsd card and move pictures, music, videos, downloads, backups, etc. to the sd-ext.