Gallery Won't Open

[hoarder23]

Wish I had found this yesterday before I reset my phone and started from scratch. But I guess it's good to clean out all the unused stuff every now and then

 

[WAldenIV]

WOOHOO! Made the front page!

Hopefully, this helps a lot of people.

 

[miamifin33]

Did this and now the led for incoming SMS with handscent does not work. Any ideas? Settings are all correct.

 

[speednut]

Thank you Sailmaker, your info fixed my gallery crashing issue completely. Media Storage cache was the one buggering it up.

Interestingly enough, like beckerfj, my gallery stopped working at the same time I installed some gameloft games... Hmmm, coincidence?...

Now I just need to search for info about this .nomedia file mentioned in this thread.

@miamifin33: FWIW, My notification sound changed after this fix (easy to configure back), but my LED notification light has remained working as normal.

 

[daveku1]

sweet it worked!! thanks for the tip sailmaker. i was stressing about this when it first went corrupt on me, and it's been bothering me ever since lol. but due to this issue, i did discover JustPictures though (which is a great alternative album viewer).

anywho it's good to have the stock gallery back

 

[ottscay]

Thank you, that worked for me too.

 

[firewolfrl2]

Was not good enought to just clear the caches, I had to hunt down three corrupt picture files that buggered up everything....soon as the cache rebuilt I was at square one again. I used the 3d gallery to find the pics that did not display right then deleted those pics (they were in a temp folder)

 

[elicarter#AC]

Gallery

It worked for me also...unfortunately I lost all my custom ringtones and the "droid" tone. Weird. How do I get that back?

Updated: It just took 5 minutes for them to show up....nevermind. Haha!

 

[blashandroid]

Here is what worked for me...no reformat required:

Go to:
Settings >> Applications >> Manage Applications >> All tab
For each of the following, I clicked on Clear data and Clear cache: (Just clearing Gallery did not do it for me)
Gallery
Media Container Service
Media Storage
Then I restarted phone by holding down power button, clicking Power Off, then held it again to turn on and working great! It did take a few minutes for the Gallery to get all the thumbnails again the first time I started it, but works!
I was afraid I deleted all files on SD but they are all still there. Just be patient, will take several minutes for Gallery to repopulate.

It solved my problem as well. Thank you for posting this recommendation. Only downside so far seems to be my ringtones and notification sounds are all whacked out.

 

[wildman]

I am experiencing the same thing. I open the gallery and it flashes on for about a tenth of a second and then closes. I put 3D gallery on and it works fine, all pictures show but I prefer the original gallery. Very strange.

+1, This is the exact thing that I had happened, 3D Gallery works perfectly so I deleted stock and use it, I prefer it anyway after using it.

 

[Mavix]

Thank you Sailmaker....

 

[Arelunde]

You could also attach the X in USB mode to your computer, open the X's SD card as a flash drive, then open either the photographs or DCIM folders to view your pictures. Find the problem ones and delete there.

 

[Kildaira]

thank you!!!

Sailmaker, thank you, thank you, thank you!! It worked, I'm so excited! Just a note for everyone else, when he says be patient while it's loading, BE PATIENT! I was ready to give up, because it kept saying "loading", for what seemed like forever; (patience is not one of my virtues, lol!) but when I checked, there were all my pics! I'm so happy! Thanks again!

 

[LMO]

You could also attach the X in USB mode to your computer, open the X's SD card as a flash drive, then open either the photographs or DCIM folders to view your pictures. Find the problem ones and delete there.

In my case, it was not a problem photo causing this issue. The gallery was not opening for other reasons. To be more specific, after I installed a bad download of a market app (which was broken and the dev had to update twice after that), I immediately noticed my gallery had this issue. This makes me think that app screwed up my media cache & data. Sailmaker's solution worked for me -- once again!!

 

[LMO]

(Yes, I did the .nomedia file trick too but they were still showing as a folder for some reason - for what it's worth, the .nomedia trick didn't work for my audio files either).

From what I've learned, you need to start out with an empty folder first. Then copy the .nomedia file to it. Then copy your media files to it. After that, any photos/music/media in that folder won't show up in the gallery. After I started doing it that way, it works for me every time.

 

[RHChan84]

I left everything in the folder and put the .nomedia file in it and it didnt work. I had to put a period before text for a folder label. So it would be .folder instead of just folder.

 

[LMO]

Yes, putting a "." before the folder name will work too. But sometimes certain apps that use predetermined folder names for media do not have the "." before the folder name. So in that case, putting the ".nomedia" file in the empty folder first, before any media files, will work.

 

[Mavix]

Had to come back and revisit...Thanks again Sailmaker.

 

[bermudagem]

Thank you so much, sailmaker. That did the trick. Wish I had found this earlier. I have been having this problem for about a month now. But have to busy to go to Verizon, which I know would have reset my phone.

 

[tbok73]

Here is what worked for me...no reformat required:

Go to:
Settings >> Applications >> Manage Applications >> All tab
For each of the following, I clicked on Clear data and Clear cache: (Just clearing Gallery did not do it for me)
Gallery
Media Container Service
Media Storage
Then I restarted phone by holding down power button, clicking Power Off, then held it again to turn on and working great! It did take a few minutes for the Gallery to get all the thumbnails again the first time I started it, but works!
I was afraid I deleted all files on SD but they are all still there. Just be patient, will take several minutes for Gallery to repopulate.

Sailmaker: are you 100000% positive the clear cache & clear data doesn't erase all on the sd card? Im nervous it will. Im having the same gallery issue. But when I go to the gallery app clear cache isn't clickable.