Samsung Galaxy Note 4 — Strange camera problem

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Mark B. 1
Mark B.
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Jan 28, 2018, 4:15:19 PM via Website

A couple days ago, my camera started not showing or allowing me to edit any photos taken with the camera. In Gallery, it only shows them as a pale gray square and clicking on it has no effect. If I open the photo from File Explorer, it shows for a second and then goes back to the Explorer. I've cleared the Gallery cache, as well as the System cache. It doesn't matter whether the photos are saved to the card or system storage. It also doesn't matter if I use a 3rd party camera app.

Interestingly, if I connect to a desktop/laptop I can copy the photos over and they're fine. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mark

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James Watson 36
James Watson
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Jan 29, 2018, 4:15:52 AM via Website

  1. You can firstly try to restart your Android device. After that, please check whether the disappeared images come out in the Gallery APP or not.

  2. If the method above doesn't work for you, you should make sure that there is no ".nomedia" file in the folder where your photos taken with the camera are saved.
    If the media scanner detects this ".nomedia" file, data in that folder which contains this ".nomedia" file will not be displayed in the Android Gallery App. So, you should check whether there are ".nomedia" files. If yes, please delete them from that folder.

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Mark B. 1
Mark B.
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Jan 29, 2018, 1:48:17 PM via Website

Thanks, it had been restarted multiple times. I've searched for any '.nomedia' files, there are none in the folders where images are saved.

Mark

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James Watson 36
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Jan 30, 2018, 3:59:07 AM via Website

As default, '.nomedia' files can't be found as they are hidden ones. You should enable the option to show hidden files in order to find all '.nomedia' files.

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Robert Reddy
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Jan 30, 2018, 5:30:25 AM via Website

The virus may also a reason for this issue. Check it once.

Mark B.

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Mark B. 1
Mark B.
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Jan 30, 2018, 3:44:14 PM via Website

That did cross my mind. I've actually done a complete factory reset and re-installed everything. Seems OK now.

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