[dotzie]

Hi there,

I have N97 mini with the latest firmware update installed.

Recently I wanted to show a few photos to my friend.

Opening "Recent photos" option in the default photo browser took about 11 seconds. I had about 50 JPEGs and 20 MP4 in it, it was around 476 MB, everything located in the Mass memory.

11 seconds, that's a tad too long if you ask me. Especially for a "flagship Nokia" model. 

I tried to find a fix for this issue. I tried moving all the movies and photos to external memory (SD card). No help. I removed all the movies, hoping, that the "Recent photos" opening time will be faster. No way, it wasn't. I removed all the content there and made 36 photos, just to check -- "Recent photos" opened up in about 5 - 6 seconds.

That's very long. I think that the default photo browser has a bug, where it reads all the image and movie files (not only the displayed ones - who needs a thumbnail for a photo, that's not being displayed in the browser).  Also, thumbnails created are not saved anywhere, that's why opening "Recent photos" always causes a few seconds of lag.

The only fix for this issue is to keep the number of photos stored at the minimum (10 photos, maybe) or to not use built-in photo browser. As the photo browser from Nokia Labs is a simple toy, I don't think it is a reasonable replacement for the built-in photo browser. Also, keeping a small number of photos on the mobile device pretty much kills its purpose in this area - what's the use of big-LCD-equipped mobile device if I can't show my photos to my friends, just because they take many seconds to show up?

I checked my workmate's Nokia 5800 just to compare them. Funny thing - 5800 shows photos on-fly, so there is absolutley no lag when accessing "Photos" folder on it. 

Could you backport 5800 photo browser to N97?

Is there any chance of having this fixed?

Are there any firmware updates coming up in nearest weeks?

This issue is a real PITA and from what I know, it should be reasonably easy to fix. Just don't create thumbnails for every photo on the disk - create them on-demand, as they are being show in the GUI - or if you do a thing like you do, just cache the thumbnails somewhere. 

Dear Nokia Support - could you fix it?

If not, I really re-consider myself being faithful Nokia user.

Regards,

Michal Pasternak

[chanchan05]

1. The N97 checks the entire memory set for the photos. Bad sectors may be slowing it down. Run a disk check on both mass memory and card memory.

2. It may also be a RAM issue. To many thing running in the background slows things down.

[carman58]

Will also save a lot of time if you set up some albums, then group your photos into them and go direst to the album instead of 'recent' or 'downloads'. If you go to your photo's and use the little tick at the bottom to select the pictures you want to put into an album then select options, add to album, create new and name it whatever you like.

ps I have N97 and over 300 photo's and movies on it, loads in about 5 seconds