Hi there,
I have yet another strange problem on my HD2 (T-Mobile).
My ROM (if relevant) is the original version that came with the phone - 2.13.531.1
when i look into the album, i can see pictures from all kind of sources: wallpapers, camera roll, facebook, internet pages i visited...
Even if i delete the pictures, after i visit facebook pages, they're back on.
any clues as to how to fix this?
Thanks,
Guy
Not sure if this will do what you want, but on starting on Sense albums tab:
Albums > More > [select desired folder] > Menu > Set Album as Favorite > Ok > tap 'x' to close
Photos in your selected album should now be the only ones which show, and no others.
Same Problem Im having also every single ringtone and game sound get into my song list in my mp3 player.
Yorkshire Yellow said:
Not sure if this will do what you want, but on starting on Sense albums tab:
Albums > More > [select desired folder] > Menu > Set Album as Favorite > Ok > tap 'x' to close
Photos in your selected album should now be the only ones which show, and no others.
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Thanks for your suggestion i already applied it previously.
This solves half the problem, since after i take a photo, if i press on the arrow that takes me back to the photo album, then it takes me back to the photo album that displays all the duplicates, facebook pics, etc...
only if i access the photo album from the home tabs (manila menu), it shows the favorite album i assigned.
I assume that something got mixed up in registry, maybe after i installed Hebrew language.
did anyone encounter this issue ?
I am also having this issue, it is rather annoying to say the least. I don't care to have to scroll through pics from games and every pic I have seen in facebook or Twitter. somehow though I keep having to do it .... I am stock out of the box, aside from minor changes like the UI and a new Twitter app.
Well at least i'm not alone here.
Hopefully someone out there has already found a solution for this..
here's for hoping...
When You search this forum carefully You will find a tweak to exclude all folders containing pics, music etc. which You do not want to have shown in Album or playlist ...............
Search-function is Your best friend
When I open my gallery, I see thousands of folders and one thumbnail image in each of those folders!! Those thumbnail images are the auto generated album art from various mp3 files that I copied to the sdCard.
Its almost impossible to find my folders and important pictures in all this mess.
I have been searching on the market, forums and everywhere for days now, and I did not find any way to stop the gallery from showing these auto generated thumbnails in the gallery.
This is a huge flaw in the android gallery app, there should be some option to include or exclude certain desired folders.
When I searched, I found the album art thumbnails which the gallery app was showing were in this folder - /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails/
This folder also has thumbnails for my important pictures and camera taken pictures. I don't want to remove those.
What I don't understand is, even if I clear thumbnail cache, it will again generate thumbnails for those mp3 files and show them when I open gallery again!!!!
Its like a loop and there is no way to fix this.
I searched almost everywhere to find a proper solution to this problem, but could not. If anyone has any proper fix for this problem, please help me out
P.S : dont tell me the .nomedia fix etc , i have tried all and it just makes the mp3 files disappear from the media player.
Arjs said:
When I open my gallery, I see thousands of folders and one thumbnail image in each of those folders!! Those thumbnail images are the auto generated album art from various mp3 files that I copied to the sdCard.
Its almost impossible to find my folders and important pictures in all this mess.
I have been searching on the market, forums and everywhere for days now, and I did not find any way to stop the gallery from showing these auto generated thumbnails in the gallery.
This is a huge flaw in the android gallery app, there should be some option to include or exclude certain desired folders.
When I searched, I found the album art thumbnails which the gallery app was showing were in this folder - /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails/
This folder also has thumbnails for my important pictures and camera taken pictures. I don't want to remove those.
What I don't understand is, even if I clear thumbnail cache, it will again generate thumbnails for those mp3 files and show them when I open gallery again!!!!
Its like a loop and there is no way to fix this.
I searched almost everywhere to find a proper solution to this problem, but could not. If anyone has any proper fix for this problem, please help me out
P.S : dont tell me the .nomedia fix etc , i have tried all and it just makes the mp3 files disappear from the media player.
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"Gallery exclude" in market search.
Regards!
Taavi
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Please go through my entire post :|
And read description of app on market:
Here's how:
Gallery Excluder lists all direct subdirectories of '/sdcard' respectively '/mnt/sdcard' and displays them in a list. If an item/directory gets checked a '.nomedia' file is placed in that directory. If the directory gets unchecked the '.nomedia' file is removed.
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All that is doing is creating that file. I already wrote above-
P.S : dont tell me the .nomedia fix etc , i have tried all and it just makes the mp3 files disappear from the media player.
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I need a proper solution to this, which I think does not exist at all .
Ok. What music player you using? Player setting mayby helps.
I had about 100 mp3 in sdcard BUT gallery dont show me any thumbnail..exept my photos.
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Use Quickpic - it's an awesome gallery replacement app - and exclude the main thumbnails directory. This does not create a nomedia file, it excludes the folder from being scanned by Quickpic and therefore the files don't show up. It will not fix the problem with the stock gallery, but I think you'll be happy with Quickpic's speed and functionality. It's a million times better than the stock gallery.
Be sure to "exclude" and not "hide". Hiding will place a nomedia file.
I know it's not the solution you were hoping for, but it does solve your problem.
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Use Quickpic - it's an awesome gallery replacement app - and exclude the main thumbnails directory. This does not create a nomedia file, it excludes the folder from being scanned by Quickpic and therefore the files don't show up. It will not fix the problem with the stock gallery, but I think you'll be happy with Quickpic's speed and functionality. It's a million times better than the stock gallery.
Be sure to "exclude" and not "hide". Hiding will place a nomedia file.
I know it's not the solution you were hoping for, but it does solve your problem.
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CoolIris stock Android gallery aka SlowPic <--> QuickPic
;-)
Still no solution.. not even a proper bypass
plainjane said:
Use Quickpic - it's an awesome gallery replacement app - and exclude the main thumbnails directory. This does not create a nomedia file, it excludes the folder from being scanned by Quickpic and therefore the files don't show up. It will not fix the problem with the stock gallery, but I think you'll be happy with Quickpic's speed and functionality. It's a million times better than the stock gallery.
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Thanks for helping me out
I have already tried using quickpic. This is the folder where the thumbnails are located, which I want to be excluded -
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
And this is what I see in the quickpic exclude folder options -
Maybe I am being really stupid and missing on something obvious, but otherwise...... Where is the .thumbnails folder ?? Its a hidden folder, which is not visible in the quickpic app.. so How do i select it to exclude ????
Lastly, the UI of the stock gallery app is really awesome looking, with images floating and blurred backgroud ( i.e cooliris ) . quickpic is really simple and boring looks.
So I am back onto my original question - Does any1 have any fix to this major flaw in the stock gallery app ??
Default Gallery is crap. It's no good having something that 'looks nice' but doesn't perform it's function.
1) Create a Folder on your SD called 'Pictures'.
2) Move all your images to 'Pictures'. (Create sub-folders if necessary)
3) Install Quickpic.
4) Select option to only include Pictures folder.
5) ??
6) Profit!
5) ??
6) Profit!
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err.. No!
I have a dropbox folder, where I have my dropbox pics
I have a screenshots folder where I have my screenshot pictures
I have a whatsapp folder, where I have all the pics we friends share on our group chat
I have a few other apps, which have their separate folders, and their pics automatically go in those folders. Which I like very much. And i would like to keep it that way.
When I open my gallery, all these folder show up nicely and its much more easier to recollect what pic is from when and where.
I liked everything about my gallery, UNTIL now! when it started showing all the thumbnails. My album art is embedded inside the mp3 tags. I just don't want it to extract them from there and display in gallery.
C'mon there must be some way to get rid of this little but annoying problem!!
Mayby use some file manager and make those pictures "hidden"
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taaviu said:
Mayby use some file manager and make those pictures "hidden"
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i know you are trying to help me bro, but you have no idea what solution I am looking for, or maybe you are not able to understand what the problem is.
Still, let me explain it to you, those are mp3 files, i cant hide them. my media player won't be able to find them them. I cannot do anything with the files. I just have to find a way for the gallery to overlook them.
Arjs said:
i know you are trying to help me bro, but you have no idea what solution I am looking for, or maybe you are not able to understand what the problem is.
Still, let me explain it to you, those are mp3 files, i cant hide them. my media player won't be able to find them them. I cannot do anything with the files. I just have to find a way for the gallery to overlook them.
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The Gallery shouldn't see mp3 files, and the ".thumbnails" folder is hidden, the period in front of the folder name causes it to not be shown in apps. So whatever you're seeing in the Gallery app is not coming from that folder, and they aren't mp3 files.
Do you see the images in Quickpic? If so, long-press on one of the folders with the images you don't want to see. Choose exclude from the menu. In the dialog there is a dropdown, you can choose to exclude a parent directory instead of the folder you long-pressed. It's made for stuff like album art. Choose whichever folder holds the subfolders you don't want to see.
This will also tell you where the images are coming from so you can possibly do something else about it.
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The Gallery shouldn't see mp3 files, and the ".thumbnails" folder is hidden, the period in front of the folder name causes it to not be shown in apps. So whatever you're seeing in the Gallery app is not coming from that folder, and they aren't mp3 files.
Do you see the images in Quickpic? If so, long-press on one of the folders with the images you don't want to see. Choose exclude from the menu. In the dialog there is a dropdown, you can choose to exclude a parent directory instead of the folder you long-pressed. It's made for stuff like album art. Choose whichever folder holds the subfolders you don't want to see.
This will also tell you where the images are coming from so you can possibly do something else about it.
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The long-pressing method worked. I was able to select the parent directory and remove all the unnecessary images and have a organised view.
And yes its not extracting those images from the .thumbnails folder but the path which was showing on long-pressing, it was the path to the actual mp3 file itself.
example-
there is a Folder called eminem with its album art in the gallery, the path to that pic is -
sdcard/music/eminem/recovery/not_afraid.mp3
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So the gallery is thinking the mp3 file as a image file, because the image is embedded in the mp3 tags.
Though its not the solution I am looking for, but still because of you I have found a workaround, until someone figures out how to fix this default gallery flaw.
Arjs said:
err.. No!
I have a dropbox folder, where I have my dropbox pics
I have a screenshots folder where I have my screenshot pictures
I have a whatsapp folder, where I have all the pics we friends share on our group chat
I have a few other apps, which have their separate folders, and their pics automatically go in those folders. Which I like very much. And i would like to keep it that way.
When I open my gallery, all these folder show up nicely and its much more easier to recollect what pic is from when and where.
I liked everything about my gallery, UNTIL now! when it started showing all the thumbnails. My album art is embedded inside the mp3 tags. I just don't want it to extract them from there and display in gallery.
C'mon there must be some way to get rid of this little but annoying problem!!
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You can select exactly which folders you want to be included in your gallery with QuickPic...
I am so glad I am not the only one with this issue. In my case the stock photo gallery was picking up my folder.jpg image that is saved in each of my artist music folders. As you can imagine I ended with over a thousand images being displayed in my gallery. I will try the Quickpic option.
Found this fix, might be your issue
Not sure if you stated what phone you have, but I had the same problem with my Samsung GS3 and here's how I fixed. Apparently the Samsung Gallery app only scans for .nomedia files on first load, so unless you have the .nomedia files where they need to be on first launch you need to clear cache and data for both Gallery and Media storage apps. After I did this mine worked perfect. Might be more than just Sammy phones too so worth a shot either way I would say. I like the stock gallery app too and am glad I can use it again. I used StudioKUMA .nomedia Manager to quickly and easily add the .nomedia files where they needed to be. Hope this helps! :fingers-crossed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27797700
Originally Posted by exge
Samsung gallery only scans it on first time, so
Place .nomedia files in all the folders you do not want displayed in Gallery
Go to settings - apps - gallery
Clear cache, clear data, force close
Go to settings - apps - media storage
Clear cache, clear data, force close
Hard reset (cold boot) this will not delete any data
go and click star on this issue, so it gets fixed !
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35879&thanks=35879&ts=1343920475
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hello taavi,
gallery exclude also excludes your Music from your library, so as it hides Album Art from your gallery, it also hides Music from the music player... so is completely useless to me.
1) Start Quickpic.
2) Select a folder within the mp3 folderstructure - doesn't matter which one.
3) Click Menu -> Exclude
4) The path is clickable. Select it and from the folders you see, select the 'root' of your mp3 files.
5) Click on OK
Done.
When the list of folders looks like this:
/storage/extSdCard/Music/Albums/Elvis Presley/Music Diary 1
/storage/extSdCard/Music/Albums/Elvis Presley
/storage/extSdCard/Music/Albums
/storage/extSdCard/Music
/storage/extSdCard
then select this one:
/storage/extSdCard/Music
This will exclude every folder beneith /storage/extSdCard/Music too, so all your icons will be invisible in Quickpic.
My problem looks like it, but I need the gallery to see the Dropbox pictures. However, they are relocated with DirectoryBind to external SDcard. The gallery sees every folder twice. Unfortunately, the gallery cannot exclude certain folders with accompanying subfolders.
Interesting, I have yet to come across this issue myself. But I am quite curious to re-creating it so I can try to find a solution.
Arjs what is the process you are taking to get you music tagged in the first place?
For example, are you using windows media player or itunes to rip it (I ask because you mentioned a separate folder for each album),
Also, you mentioned the songs have a direct link to the album artwork in the TAG. Usually I am use to seeing a seperate file that links the MP3 to the JPG but I may be using a different app then you
I guess what I am asking is A-Z how do you get your music on your phone and what app are you using to play it, tag it, get artwork etc.
If I can re-create the issue myself I am willing to attempt a fix.
1) I recently added several folders with pictures onto my sd card. When I go into the Album I see that the preview and initial folder displayed is the same one every time. Is there a way to change the folder that shows up when you first open the album? Unfortunately, this one folder has some inappropriate photos :angel:
2) Coming from a Galaxy phone, the default music player had tabs to view tracks by artist, album, playlist etc, but most importantly it also had a tab to view by "Folder" so I could pick out one of the many music folders I had and play what was in there. The Walkman on the Z2 seems to have everything except for "Folder" view. Is there a way to do this?
ChopinLives81 said:
1) I recently added several folders with pictures onto my sd card. When I go into the Album I see that the preview and initial folder displayed is the same one every time. Is there a way to change the folder that shows up when you first open the album? Unfortunately, this one folder has some inappropriate photos :angel:
2) Coming from a Galaxy phone, the default music player had tabs to view tracks by artist, album, playlist etc, but most importantly it also had a tab to view by "Folder" so I could pick out one of the many music folders I had and play what was in there. The Walkman on the Z2 seems to have everything except for "Folder" view. Is there a way to do this?
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Well i dont fuly understand your problem but i have on my sd /pictures/screenshots and /pictures/oldcam
It showw within my albums each individual folder
If your trying to hide some folders put what you want in a folder and rename it to have a . In front of it like this .hiddenpics
And the walkman you cant change to tab view, folders are displayed in albums like on the albums app
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Well i dont fuly understand your problem but i have on my sd /pictures/screenshots and /pictures/oldcam
It showw within my albums each individual folder
If your trying to hide some folders put what you want in a folder and rename it to have a . In front of it like this .hiddenpics
And the walkman you cant change to tab view, folders are displayed in albums like on the albums app
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The album problem is like this, I open up the album and there is a preview of several pictures at the top, just the the Movies app plays a little preview of some of the movies/videos you have. on my phone, the Album has chosen to show previews of this one particular folder and also the first pictures shown are from that folder, I have to scroll, all the way down before I see another folder. So I simply want a different folder to be at the top of the list and in the preview.
Hey guys.
I'm coming from using the Galaxy S3, and the default application (Gallery) was beautiful, in that I could manage my photos (delete, move, copy etc).
Also, everything was easily accessible because it was all organised in folders, where as this seems like a cluster**** to me, where I can't even find the pictures that I just took, unless I looked really hard for them.
Isn't any of this possible in the Album application on the Z2?
TIA
NfScLambo
That's why I don't use the default Album app, and switched to using QuickPic instead.
NfScLambo said:
Hey guys.
I'm coming from using the Galaxy S3, and the default application (Gallery) was beautiful, in that I could manage my photos (delete, move, copy etc).
Also, everything was easily accessible because it was all organised in folders, where as this seems like a cluster**** to me, where I can't even find the pictures that I just took, unless I looked really hard for them.
Isn't any of this possible in the Album application on the Z2?
TIA
NfScLambo
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You get to the folder view by pressing the album icon on top left.
davidian666 said:
You get to the folder view by pressing the album icon on top left.
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Didn't know that! :laugh: :good:
hush66 said:
Didn't know that! :laugh: :good:
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Now u know ... Heheje enjoy!
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