Guest trevor432990 Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 Just been looking at the quality of the images displayed on my Vega compared with my Samsung picture frame and they are quite dire by comparison. I read in an article that Google had reduced the quality of the Gallery application so I am now trying to find an app which at least can display an image which is better than that. Has anyone found an app for displaying better quality photo images yet ?
Guest bearded1 Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 Just been looking at the quality of the images displayed on my Vega compared with my Samsung picture frame and they are quite dire by comparison. I read in an article that Google had reduced the quality of the Gallery application so I am now trying to find an app which at least can display an image which is better than that. Has anyone found an app for displaying better quality photo images yet ? i messed around with gallery downloads.. tried gallery 3d? i think it was and now the gallery is completely missing and i need a whole new app!
Guest Prosody Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 Not sure about the image quality but just tried 'fish bowl photoviewer' and really like it. Very interesting presentation of photos... its a beta but worth a gander.
Guest thedicemaster Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 number22 over at xda-developers modified a gallery3D for better details. unfortunately through that i did find out we have a modified gallery3d ourselves, to account for the odd gsensor behavior.
Guest Ter4a Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 Just been looking at the quality of the images displayed on my Vega compared with my Samsung picture frame and they are quite dire by comparison. I read in an article that Google had reduced the quality of the Gallery application so I am now trying to find an app which at least can display an image which is better than that. Has anyone found an app for displaying better quality photo images yet ? That's why some users started to mod Gallery 3D check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752007 I pulled the old one, and pushed this with ADB works fine for me...
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 (edited) i messed around with gallery downloads.. tried gallery 3d? i think it was and now the gallery is completely missing and i need a whole new app! I think Gallery 3D is the same app supplied with the Vega in the first place (well at least the icon is the same) presumably to re-instate this app you'd need to download the core system again? Hopefully, someone else can advise you as I'm new to Android myself :D Update:- I see my post crossed with several others.. Thanks for your advice BTW Edited January 8, 2011 by trevor432990
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 That's why some users started to mod Gallery 3D check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752007 I pulled the old one, and pushed this with ADB works fine for me... Just tried to remove the old Gallery but can't seem to 'uninstall' cleanly so can you tell me how you went about doing this and installing the high-res one please?
Guest Ter4a Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 (edited) you cant uninstall it. Enable USB debugging and remount the system partition adb-windows.exe remount then list the apps installed to the system partition adb-windows shell ls /system/app/ to remove a file use the command: adb-windows shell rm /system/app/filename.apk File names are case sensitive... This way I removed the WHsmith link and the Vegahelp icon as well they just bothered me... After this, you can just use adb to push the downloaded, modified gallery3d.apk to the system/app , restart and job done Edited January 8, 2011 by Ter4a
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 (edited) I can navigate to the /system/app/Gallery3D.apk folder using Astro file manager on the Vega and it looks like I could just delete them all from there rather than use ADB at all. Does that achieve the same result or would I corrupt something? Sorry to be a pain but still learning about Android and this seems a more obvious method that's all. :D Update:- Forget that it won't let me do it from there darn it lol Edited January 8, 2011 by trevor432990
Guest ptbw Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 I can navigate to the /system/app/Gallery3D.apk folder using Astro file manager on the Vega and it looks like I could just delete them all from there rather than use ADB at all. Does that achieve the same result or would I corrupt something? Sorry to be a pain but still learning about Android and this seems a more obvious method that's all. :D Update:- Forget that it won't let me do it from there darn it lol The system area is read only, hence the remount command. When the Vega restarts it will be read only again.
Guest Ter4a Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 you might be able to do it with rootexplorer (same kind of file manager, but with root acess through superuser app) but I never tried it. The pull-push method with adb is much clearer for me... Im learning android too, and if a newbie like me can do it, you can too :D
Guest thedicemaster Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 as i mentioned earlier though: that gallery3D doesn't take in account the odd gsensor we have so if you don't use the orientation-lock switch all images will lean to 1 side.
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 Thanks everyone I managed to use ADB and get the new Gallery3D.apk loaded and the photo quality is a massive improvement on the original Gallery app supplied. As you said Dice the photo gallery does lean to one side even with the orientation switch set which is a bit of a shame but I've found if I rotate two fingers on the screen it goes straight again for a while at least. Out of interest Ter4a which version of the app did you download from the xda-developers site was it Gallery3D or Gallery3Dr ? :D
Guest Ter4a Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 I used the normal, but ill try the other one, with the rotation hack as well. I will post here is I find any differences
Guest thedicemaster Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 rotation hack fixes the leaning problem in the modded gallery3D.
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 Oh excellent thanks Dice I shall download that tomorrow then :D
Guest bearded1 Posted January 8, 2011 Report Posted January 8, 2011 I think Gallery 3D is the same app supplied with the Vega in the first place (well at least the icon is the same) presumably to re-instate this app you'd need to download the core system again? Hopefully, someone else can advise you as I'm new to Android myself :D Update:- I see my post crossed with several others.. Thanks for your advice BTW yay! removed the knackered gallery through adb and installed the one from xda-devs..
Guest Restless_UK Posted January 9, 2011 Report Posted January 9, 2011 i used Root Explorer to remove the gallery3d from /system/app, restarted then installed the Gallery3dr version.. noted improvement :D (got rid of Vega Help and WHsmith Ebooks while i was there too :P )
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 9, 2011 Report Posted January 9, 2011 i used Root Explorer to remove the gallery3d from /system/app, restarted then installed the Gallery3dr version.. noted improvement :D (got rid of Vega Help and WHsmith Ebooks while i was there too :P ) Can you tell me how you managed to do this using Root Explorer please as when I attempt that it just says that Gallery3D.apk is 'read' only and will not therefore allow me to delete it ?
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 9, 2011 Report Posted January 9, 2011 rotation hack fixes the leaning problem in the modded gallery3D. Dice I just installed Gallery3Dr.apk version from the xda-developers website and can't really see any difference in the leaning gallery and effects of rotation movement or are we talking about different things here ? :D
Guest thedicemaster Posted January 9, 2011 Report Posted January 9, 2011 i used the rotation hack for the vega from this forum, not the rotation-fixed gallery.
Guest trevor432990 Posted January 9, 2011 Report Posted January 9, 2011 i used the rotation hack for the vega from this forum, not the rotation-fixed gallery. oops my misunderstanding :D thanks !
Guest Higgsy Posted January 9, 2011 Report Posted January 9, 2011 (edited) All - I have knocked up an Update.zip for easy application of the high res gallery fix via ClockworkMod. It in corporates the rotation fix by Newbe5 and the high res Gallery3D by Number22 on XDA - all credit goes to them - I just put it together in an update.zip, so people don't have to mess about with ADB. Get it here Vega High Res Gallery and Rotation Fix all in one Update.zip Edited January 9, 2011 by Higgsy
Guest simonta Posted January 9, 2011 Report Posted January 9, 2011 All - I have knocked up an Update.zip for easy application of the high res gallery fix via ClockworkMod. It in corporates the rotation fix by Newbe5 and the high res Gallery3D by Number22 on XDA - all credit goes to them - I just put it together in an update.zip, so people don't have to mess about with ADB. Get it here Vega High Res Gallery and Rotation Fix all in one Update.zip Nice one Higgsy, Newbe5 and Number22. For those without clockwork. Unzip the update and run these commands from the root of the unzip and reboot. (Windows folks, case is important). adb remount adb shell rm /system/app/Gallery3D.apk adb shell rm /system/framework/framework.jar adb shell rm /system/lib/libsurfaceflinger_client.so adb push system/app/Gallery3D.apk /system/app adb push system/framework/framework.jar /system/framework adb push system/lib/libsurfaceflinger_client.so /system/lib adb shell chmod 0755 /system/app/Gallery3D.apk adb shell chmod 0755 /system/framework/framework.jar adb shell chmod 0755 /system/lib/libsurfaceflinger_client.so adb shell rm /data/dalvik-cache/* adb reboot
Guest Restless_UK Posted January 9, 2011 Report Posted January 9, 2011 Can you tell me how you managed to do this using Root Explorer please as when I attempt that it just says that Gallery3D.apk is 'read' only and will not therefore allow me to delete it ? simples.... there is a button at the top that says "Mount R/W" press that.. it makes the folders read and write, press it again and it goes back to read only..
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