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BankZ

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I am have a problem with the Gallery. I open it, it starts for a 1/2 sec and then just closes. No error, just closes. Any ideas?
 
I'd first try just rebooting the device.

That failing, I'd go into the application manager and clear data in the Gallery app, after first saving my pics, reboot again and see if that remedied the closing issue.
 
Frisco said:
I'd first try just rebooting the device.

That failing, I'd go into the application manager and clear data in the Gallery app, after first saving my pics, reboot again and see if that remedied the closing issue.
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I tried both of these before I posted. Any other ideas?
 
assuming the battery pull / reboot doesn't work, here's what i did :

plug the phone into your pc via usb

copy all of the files and folders on your sd card to your pc hard drive

on your phone, go to settings > sd card and phone storage > and pick unmount the sd card. then format it.

at this point, gallery should open again and tell you that there are no files to display. then you copy all of the files off of your hard drive back onto the card.

this fixed the problem for me yesterday. hope that this helps.
 
Many people are having this issue. Generally it's a corrupted file somewhere causing the problem. For me, it was a corrupted video. Might take some brute force copying the SD Card to the PC and then some files back at a time.

They must have changed something with the gallery and it crashes when it sees some type of file now.
 
Thanks lexluthor - I had the same issue with the gallery not working as well as random reboots after I updated the os. I took your advice and it worked like a charm. Thank you
 
Found this on another thread and worked for me - also much easier/faster than formatting the sdcard:

Settings >> Applications >> Manage Applications >> All tab
For each of the following, I clicked on Clear data and Clear cache: (Just clearing Gallery did not fix for me)
Gallery
Media Container Service
Media Storage
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/#
Power phone off/on. Open Gallery as normal; it will take a few minutes for the Gallery to build all of the thumbnails.
 
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