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Gallery app freezing!?

mygt8a4re

mygt8a4re

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So Friday when I opened the gallery app to view some recent photos I noticed the screen/app would freeze after I had opened my "camera" folder and swiped through approx 3 pics. It would freeze, somtimes I would get the "gallery not responding" popup and have an option to force close it or wait. Somtimes I could hit the home button and get to the homescreen within a minute or so. This is on a Galaxy Note 2 that I had since december of 2012 problem free to date. The "video" folder was doing the same thing but only froze when trying to play the vids, I had no problem swiping through the list. In a bit of a rush to get back to normal I used my backup program to back everything up and I did a factory reset. After reinstalling my backup app it could not find the backups on my SD card and I was forced to spend hours getting my phone back to the way it was previously....and then....the gallery "camera" folder was STILL freezing....So, the only thing I could find to work was to delete all of my pics and vids. I had recently taken about 10 pics or so and everything seems normal again! Can anyone enlighten me on what is/was happening? Is my SD card currupted? All signs point at the SD, but why problem free after pic/vid deletions?
Things to note: All pics and vids in topic were taken with my Note 2, Never had a problem with the phone in 6 months, No other app freezes or stalls, Majority of pics couldnt be viewed (error message in place of pic) when phone was attached to pc and even the windows viewer seemed to lag when trying to scroll through pics. Deleting all pics and vids on phone fixed problem (so far)......! ? ! ?
 
I had similar problems with my previous phone (Galaxy S2). It turned out to be a bad micro SD card, or at least, it had some bad sectors on it.

I managed to repair it by inserting it into my laptop, where (in my case) it showed up as drive E:

Then, I right-clicked the drive E: icon and went to Properties, where I could scan the card for errors (the "Extra" tab) and automatically fix them. After that, I never had any problems with this card.

I hope this works for you.
 
OK, so I stuck my SD card in my laptop and allowed windows to attempt to fix the bad sectors, it found them and claimed to have repaired them but unfortunately there are still problems with my SD card... No biggie, SD cards are rather affordable and Im honestly glad my phone isnt messed up! Im running out now to get a new one....Thanx again!
 
mygt8a4re said:
OK, so I stuck my SD card in my laptop and allowed windows to attempt to fix the bad sectors, it found them and claimed to have repaired them but unfortunately there are still problems with my SD card... No biggie, SD cards are rather affordable and Im honestly glad my phone isnt messed up! Im running out now to get a new one....Thanx again!
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Better luck with your new card :-)
 
Wanted to come back and say thanx again to Vosg for the help. I was able to extract about 99% of what was on the old SD card and the new card is working perfectly. Not sure if it really matters but the old card was a PNY class 4 and the new card in a Sandisk class10...

Im hoping this thread might help somone having the same issue in the future!
 
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