On my OnePlus-One: why is my Gallery eating my battery?

[VMdoug]

OnePlus-One: Gallery eating my battery...

Not sure why. It's using more than my screen...

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[B. Diddy]

Re: Gallery eating my battery...

Are all of your photos in Internal Storage, or on an external SD card? If there's a corrupt file somewhere, the Media Scanner might be hanging up on it, which uses battery. It usually shows up as Media Scanner in the Battery screen, but I wonder if it might have been folded into the Gallery app.

If your photos are on the external SD card, try unmounting and removing the SD card, and see if the battery drain persists.

 

[someguy01234]

Re: Gallery eating my battery...

It's a OnePlus, there is no SDcard.

I suggest clearing the cache and data for the Gallery app and Media Scanner, then reboot. If that don't fix it, try disabling it and use a third party Gallery app.

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: Gallery eating my battery...

It's a OnePlus, there is no SDcard.

D'oh! Sorry, I had it stuck in my head that it does have an SD slot.

 

[enigmax]

Re: Gallery eating my battery...

syncing photos from a cloud?

Sent from OPO.

 

[VMdoug]

Re: Gallery eating my battery...

I think it be because I was syncing. I disabled Picasa sync and I'll see if it improves over the next few days. Thanks all

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[Javier P]

Re: Gallery eating my battery...

I think it be because I was syncing. I disabled Picasa sync and I'll see if it improves over the next few days. Thanks all

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Try looking for a setting to sync only when the phone is charging.

 

[VMdoug]

Re: Gallery eating my battery...

Thanks for the tip Javier. The sync wasn't really that important. I'm doing much better today, and yes, this is my work phone too

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[HTMLSpinnr]

Re: Gallery eating my battery...

+1 on the syncing. Once I removed the additional accounts (especially G+ where I have 80k photos), Gallery was much more responsive and used far less data.

Since I have Google+ and Google Camera installed, I can rely on those apps to show me my online photos. Gallery is fine for local photos otherwise, but it doesn't stand up to Google's gallery when it comes to built-in editing features.