Help gallery keeps crashing...

[Spartan73]

Thanks, Pixel! That did the trick!

Fix for stock android gallery crash

Sometimes, after syncing items to your Android phone's storage card, the stock gallery application will start acting like it's force-closing immediately it's opened.

Here is how to fix it without having to back-up your SD card and format it, then restore.

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications
click "All" applications tab

"Clear Data" on Media Storage
"Clear Data" on Gallery

back out to Settings > SD card & phone storage

Unmount SD card

Once the SD card is unmounted, you should power-off your phone.

when the OS reboots, open the stock gallery application

The gallery will display "loading Media files" and a quick toast saying 'Loading' will fade off the screen, and the busy icon will display in the gallery's chrome. The main display of the gallery will show a default icon for media files.

It will take some time to rescan your photos and videos, but you will have your stock android gallery working again.

 

[Bigcathead]

Fix for stock android gallery crash

Sometimes, after syncing items to your Android phone's storage card, the stock gallery application will start acting like it's force-closing immediately it's opened.

Here is how to fix it without having to back-up your SD card and format it, then restore.

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications
click "All" applications tab

"Clear Data" on Media Storage
"Clear Data" on Gallery

back out to Settings > SD card & phone storage

Unmount SD card

Once the SD card is unmounted, you should power-off your phone.

when the OS reboots, open the stock gallery application

The gallery will display "loading Media files" and a quick toast saying 'Loading' will fade off the screen, and the busy icon will display in the gallery's chrome. The main display of the gallery will show a default icon for media files.

It will take some time to rescan your photos and videos, but you will have your stock android gallery working again.

This worked for me too! You're a lifesaver, thanks so much!!

 

[not2shabby]

Worked for me too! Thanks, Pixel. Not to see if it got rid of the camera/camcorder bugs too. Every now and then a pic/video wouldn't be saved. Really annoying. I downloaded Quickpic a while back...don't know if it's not playing nice with the stock media apps or what.

 

[tomzpayj]

Fix for stock android gallery crash

Sometimes, after syncing items to your Android phone's storage card, the stock gallery application will start acting like it's force-closing immediately it's opened.

Here is how to fix it without having to back-up your SD card and format it, then restore.

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications
click "All" applications tab

"Clear Data" on Media Storage
"Clear Data" on Gallery

back out to Settings > SD card & phone storage

Unmount SD card

Once the SD card is unmounted, you should power-off your phone.

when the OS reboots, open the stock gallery application

The gallery will display "loading Media files" and a quick toast saying 'Loading' will fade off the screen, and the busy icon will display in the gallery's chrome. The main display of the gallery will show a default icon for media files.

It will take some time to rescan your photos and videos, but you will have your stock android gallery working again.

This also fixed a problem that turned all the thumbnails but one to blank images.

 

[MagSteve]

Worked for me, thanks.

 

[notslow]

I have a Gallery force close issue too, but mine is a little different. The gallery works fine until I go into setting, media share settings. If I click this, it force closes. I have some bloatware frozen with Titanium Backup, but have not erased anything. I don't think any of the frozen apps should be causing this problem. Any ideas?

Edit: figured this out. I had DLNA froze

 

[shokuchi]

I had constant troubles with gallery. Crashing, freezing, not showing media etc. Eventually I found a .nomedia file on the same path level as my DCIM folder which housed the photos.
It wasn't in the DCIM itself (where I was looking) just in the same folder as the DCIM. It was also screwing up Quickpic which I had installed. Removed that one nomedia file and all was back to normal.

/mnt/sdcard/DCIM
/mnt/sdcard/.nomedia - erased.

no idea which program put that nomedia file in there, but it was damn annoying.

 

[chrcol]

I have the same issue and this doesnt fix for me.

When gallery crashes it also stops any app from using 3d graphics until the phone is rebooted.

when I mounted the sdcard on the pc I noticed I had various thumbnails for photos I couldnt find on the sdcard as well.

 

[Raptor_Jesus]

Worked for me, thanks dude this was driving me crazy

Fix for stock android gallery crash

Sometimes, after syncing items to your Android phone's storage card, the stock gallery application will start acting like it's force-closing immediately it's opened.

Here is how to fix it without having to back-up your SD card and format it, then restore.

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications
click "All" applications tab

"Clear Data" on Media Storage
"Clear Data" on Gallery

back out to Settings > SD card & phone storage

Unmount SD card

Once the SD card is unmounted, you should power-off your phone.

when the OS reboots, open the stock gallery application

The gallery will display "loading Media files" and a quick toast saying 'Loading' will fade off the screen, and the busy icon will display in the gallery's chrome. The main display of the gallery will show a default icon for media files.

It will take some time to rescan your photos and videos, but you will have your stock android gallery working again.