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matthewuscenes
matthewuscenes
Inspiring
June 8, 2019
Question

Why is Lightroom Android so slow to show photos?

  • June 8, 2019
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Is there anything I can do to speed up photos loading? It's so slow I have to leave it for a minute or so to get a few photos up on my Samsung Tab A 2016 with S-pen. Maybe I need a better tablet? Or is it a Lightroom server limit? Or is there a setting?

My internet speed is fast enough as my photos quickly sync on my PC. If I scroll down it only tries to open the photos in view, so it is not like I can leave it for a while to load. In fact after an image has loaded as soon as I click another image, the first one needs to load again.

Often photos get stuck loading too. My tablet 's internal storage is nearly full, but Lightroom uses my SD card to store photos. I don't add them on the tablet, I just want to edit them on it. I am using a Fuji 26MP camera shooting compressed lossless RAW and fine JPG. Both are slow to load.

Any tips or ideas about what could make it faster would be much appreciated. Otherwise, I think I will have to go back to Google Photos which is almost instant. But I am willing to try things to get it working faster. I have no idea what would help. Could it be a faster SD card, more powerful tablet, more free internal storage, some LR settings, using normal RAW, or is it normal and I just have to get used to waiting about 20 seconds on average for a photo to render? Thanks.

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    Marc220862260e1e
    Participant
    July 18, 2022

    It's amazing to see that we're in 2022 when the issue is still unresolved. I have been using cracks all my life so I've never had a reason to complain but now that I'm paying I find it absolutely outrageous that the community support is on the such a bad level. Lightroom can really be pleased that there is no serious competitor out there that matches their system that at dobbies offering otherwise I would have switched to their solution a long time ago

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      psyborgue2
      Inspiring
      November 30, 2019

      It's slow because Adobe is incompetent. Always has been. If you want something that doesn't take 20 minutes to load a file you could try Snapseed.

        Akash Sharma
        Akash Sharma
        Legend
        June 10, 2019

        Hi matthewuscenes,

        Sorry that you are facing multiple issues with Lightroom mobile app on your Android device.

        Which version of Lightroom mobile on your Android device are you using?

        I'd recommend that you clear the app cache and let us know if that helps. Navigate to the below menu in Lightroom app and select "Clear Cache":

        Image result for Lightroom mobile clear cache

        Thanks,

        Akash

        matthewuscenes
        matthewuscenesAuthor
        Inspiring
        June 24, 2019

        Hi, I have cleared the cache, I think thumbnails are loading faster. I am up to date using version 4.3.1.

        It takes on average 9 seconds to load 11MB JPG and 13 to load a 28MB RAF raw file. If I let a photo load, then scroll to the next one, then go back... it has to load again. It does it a bit quicker but it is so tedious. It re-orders the photos too. Culling is too tedious as I have to wait, then go back when it has reordered them. It just can't connect to the cloud fast enough.

        On my tablet I can download a 30 MB file in 10 seconds from AWS and I can download and install a 29MB app from Google play in 11 seconds (it may have downloaded in 4 seconds), so 9 seconds for a 11MB JPG is crazy slow, then 7 or 8 seconds when I go back to it.

        There are tonnes of 1 star reviews including my issue from a guy with a better version of my tablet, who insists it works fine on iOS, but not Android. I think I will go back to Snapseed for free and local storage. Sounds like a lot of the reviews are from people who have had issues for a long time, so this isn't something that will be fixed.

        Todd Shaner
        Todd Shaner
        Legend
        June 24, 2019

        Try moving the Lightroom application to the SD card as outlined at the below link. You want this setting and the Lightroom Device Info & Storage set to 'Use the SD Card.' This will free up needed space on the tablet's internal storage, which is probably causing the slow performance

        Move apps to memory card on your Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) Android 6.0 - Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) (Android 6.0) -…

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