Locked Gallery?

[mattballnz]

Ok, so recently (out of the blue) I went into the gallery on my Android and all the thumbnails were a plain image with a padlock. When I open images, I can view them individually but I cannot swipe to different images. I have no third party applications installed... Please help
Thanks

 

[B. Diddy]

That's weird. Are you referring to the stock Gallery app? Where do you store your pics--internal storage or an external SD card? If external SD, I wonder if something might have happened to the card. I was going to suggest that perhaps the microSD became write-protected, but the microSDs don't have the write-protection switch like the full-size SDs, so I'm not sure how that would have happened.

You didn't encrypt your phone, did you?

In any case, you could try going to Settings/Apps/All, selecting Gallery, and clearing the cache. Then open the Gallery app again and see what happens.

 

[mattballnz]

I tried clearing the cache and data from the app but nothing happened. The images are saved to the sd card but have worked fine for ages. Nothing has happened to the card or phone and I haven't encrypted anything... Help

 

[B. Diddy]

It sounds like it could be a problem with the SD card itself. You might want to take the SD card out, insert it into your computer, back up all of the files, then reformat the SD card. If it still causes problems, it could be a sign of a failing SD card.

 

[mattballnz]

Will do, thanks.