I have the apk reinstalled and the filed on my external Micro SD. The app doesn't seem to find it. I tried it with it on the internal SD and that didn't work either.
Anyone know?
Is the movie file in a folder titled "Movie"?
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Is the movie file in a folder titled "Movie"?
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umm........
brb
yes it is.
When I open the app I have a choice between:
LOGO.mp4 (Which creates a nasty loop)
or
avatar_trailer.3gp
oohhhh..... It seems you are missing the Avatar movie completely if those are the only 2 files there. The movie is called avatar.dcf
Open your file explorer and navagate to your sd card and make sure avatar.dcf is in the Movie folder if it is not then you are in trouble.
On my phone there is no logo.mp4 maybe you need to download astro file manager in the market and rename LOGO.mp4 to avatar.dcf (who knows maybe it got renamed somehow.
yeah I have avatar.dcf in the movie file. I found another Movie file on the internal SD. I'm copying now. We'll see what happens.
You can also play the movie through the default samsung video player. Have you tried that?
so after a reboot the app sees the movie now....it just won't play it.
What the heck?
the3dman13 said:
You can also play the movie through the default samsung video player. Have you tried that?
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yeah....its says file type not supported
Have you tried a factory reset? I have heard that that has fixed the issue for other people.
since you said the file was in another "movie file" on the internal SD (I guess u mean folder), when you "copied" the file like you said, sometimes it gets renamed the extension from .dcf to .3gp, in that case, when you tried to open the movie it will say file type not supported... make sure the extension is .dcf
i think one of the mods caused a malfunction (a2sd/lag fix/ext hack..) or During "bloatware cleanup" a critical DRM process/file was removed.
i have the problem: "licence expired" no fix yet, too bad..
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740241
wpbcubsfan said:
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740241
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Waste of time
It worx now, started from scratch, odin to stock,
installed lagfix2.0.. and [KERNEL/RECOVERY] Vibrant EXT2/3/4 OC/Stock with init.d support NO WAKE LAG 8/23/10
Then all bloatware removed including all DRM related system services/device manager/blue tooth/csc...
Avatar still plays fine 2 reboots later.
HMM...
Related
I've 800/900 songs on my phone each has an attached "album art" image (due to the way I had to format them for my Sansa Fuse, each song in a folder with album art) any to get to the point of this thread, the gallery app shows everything, caches the lot, I don't want to see millions of pictures of the same thing, I just want to be albe to ignore these folders & just show my camera/wallpapers/whatever else I choose, not every image on my phone
Please tell me there is a way to do it, or point in the direction of an app that will perform the way I want it
Surely this has been raised before, but I can't find it mentioned
put a . (dot) at the start of the folder name and it tells the lynix based android system that it is a hidden folder and then it will not show in the gallery.
Cheers Lenny, but as I mentioned above, that would be 800/900 folders I'd have to edit, I'd prefer to select the folders I want to view and would the dot prevent my music apps from seeing the folders too?
I could go back and re format all my music just to have one album art image in, but I'd rather not & the extra folders would still show up
Apologies for the bad grammar & spelling the in the previous post the edit function here seems to be very aggressive
if your running windows there is a way to rename folders on mass, can't remember how though its been years since I did it.
Lennyuk said:
put a . (dot) at the start of the folder name and it tells the lynix based android system that it is a hidden folder and then it will not show in the gallery.
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This worked, as a test of the theory. I'd a folder named MP3 on my card containing them all, I moved that into the .mixzing folder (couldn't rename MP3 Folder to .MP3 windows won't let you), but the only problem with that is now there appears to be no music on my card, Gallery works perfect as predicted
The .mixzing folder is not selectable by MixZing.....
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This worked, as a test of the theory. I'd a folder named MP3 on my card containing them all, I moved that into the .mixzing folder (couldn't rename MP3 Folder to .MP3 windows won't let you), but the only problem with that is now there appears to be no music on my card, Gallery works perfect as predicted
The .mixzing folder is not selectable by MixZing.....
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ah never thought that far ahead. you can still play the files using something like astro though (as a not so perfect workaround for the time being).
Try adding a file in the directory you want ignored with the filename '.nomedia' The gallery will ignores these folders. (Works for music and videos too)
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Try adding a file in the directory you want ignored with the filename '.nomedia' The gallery will ignores these folders. (Works for music and videos too)
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Don't make this mistake.. his will simply delete the files!
In theory, that should work, but i experienced many problem with this .nomedia file:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3129
dingatron said:
Try adding a file in the directory you want ignored with the filename '.nomedia' The gallery will ignores these folders. (Works for music and videos too)
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profete162 said:
Don't make this mistake
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No, no I won't, 800/900 .nomedia files, which, no doubt, will hide the the mp3 file too
Try this so that your music files are not deleted:
1. Backup your folder that contains all the music and album art onto your pc.
2. in the PARENT directory of the 800/900 folders put a file in there called ".noimage" (without the quotes).
3. now your album art shouldn't show up in pictures, but your mp3's will come up in the player.
4. If it does delete the music/album art after a restart, then keep the .noimage file in the parent folder and then put your files back from the PC.
5. if you don't have the 800/900 files in a seperate parent folder then do so.
6. let me know how you get on. but please make sure you have backed up your media.
Put a new txt file into the folder, remaned it with Astro File manager, Windows won't let you do that, images still in Gallery, still no luck Bad4ss, thanks for trying
It didn't delete the music by the way
*ignore*
I will try something else.
profete162 said:
Don't make this mistake.. his will simply delete the files!
In theory, that should work, but i experienced many problem with this .nomedia file:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3129
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Please explain to me where it does delete the files when you place .nomedia?:
Code:
// ignore directories that contain a ".nomedia" file
if (pathRemaining >= 8 /* strlen(".nomedia") */ ) {
strcpy(fileSpot, ".nomedia");
if (access(path, F_OK) == 0) {
LOGD("found .nomedia, skipping directory\n");
return OK;
}
// restore path
fileSpot[0] = 0;
}
Please do so sir...
I've never really taken a look at the android source code but are you even sure that's the _ONLY_ code related to .nomedia in the entire project?
There is something that deletes those files and it does seem related to .nomedia according to all those reports.
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Please explain to me where it does delete the files when you place .nomedia?:
Please do so sir...
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Are you telling all the people complaining in Google code are liars?
I don't want you to have the same issue than me ( 1.2 Gb of beautiful holidays pictures that were lost with a .nomedia file in the same directory.
I tried to mount the SDCard on a mac and a PC and both of them showed an empty directory!
I succes to get back my pictures with some tools for getting back files on a formated disk!
I don't care about what you thinbk, i just told my story so that don't happen to other users! Feel free to say i'm a fool, but so.. i am not alone!
When a ".nomedia" file is added to a directory that has already been
scanned by the media scanner, any jpg and gif files in that directory and
all sub directories will be deleted.
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I just had the same experience with video files (*.mp4) deleted from a folder when I've
put the .nomedia file in it and the videos were already indexed by the Media Scanner.
So it seems this issue is general for all file types.
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Have the same issue using Android 1.6.
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This is serious. I have lost files I can't replace because of this. Managed to rescue
some through undelete. Please fix and force phone firmware providers to rush out the
fix imediately
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I too have noticed undesirable behaviour when using the .nomedia file. Indeed, as
metago.inc states, when images or movieclips are added after the .nomedia file, these
files do not get deleted.
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This is the most serious issue I have found on the Android platform and, in my
opinion, should be addressed immediately so people stop having important files
arbitrarily deleted by the OS.
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This is huge. What I don't understand is why the media scan even has code to delete
files.
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and more and more
profete162 said:
Are you telling all the people complaining in Google code are liars?
I don't want you to have the same issue than me ( 1.2 Gb of beautiful holidays pictures that were lost with a .nomedia file in the same directory.
I tried to mount the SDCard on a mac and a PC and both of them showed an empty directory!
I succes to get back my pictures with some tools for getting back files on a formated disk!
I don't care about what you thinbk, i just told my story so that don't happen to other users! Feel free to say i'm a fool, but so.. i am not alone!
and more and more
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WOW.. This is unbelievable.. Sorry for my assumption and possible misdirection, i have a HTC hero without problems and I checked the source so I thought no problem but after some more research it appears that the problem starts even at some other hero users..
us1111 said:
WOW.. This is unbelievable.. Sorry for my assumption and possible misdirection, i have a HTC hero without problems and I checked the source so I thought no problem but after some more research it appears that the problem starts even at some other hero users..
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The code you were looking for in your first post was this
The above is pretty standard. So how does this delete files off the SD card? When a row is deleted from the table there is a little piece of code that's run called a trigger. The trigger is defined earlier in this file
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Code:
db.execSQL("CREATE TRIGGER IF NOT EXISTS images_cleanup DELETE ON images " +
"BEGIN " +
"DELETE FROM thumbnails WHERE image_id = old._id;" +
"SELECT _DELETE_FILE(old._data);" +
"END");
i used a program named "Mp3tag" and included the albumart into the files. It will take some time but i found it the best soloution.
Is there any sucessful tweak or alternative to the 3D gallery?
Gallery Excluder.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063358
Hi all,
I'm the new with this 4rum. yesterday, i upgrade my phone with [ROM] LGP500 AmberHome V1.1.
This rom 's perfect & work like a charm (thanks to corwin42). but for a while, i found that my music player & also video player does not work. Although i have many music & video files in my sdcard. But whenever i open music or video player, they do not find anything.
I searched our 4fum, but found no clue. please help me solve this issue.
Do i have to reinstall music & video player? Where i can find the apk file??? And how can i install, via adb? i guess ? I used root explorer to copy music & video apk file from GT540, and try to paste in P500 system/app via root explorer. But i got "install error"
Maybe stagefright is enabled. Try disabling it via the tweak script. You can download the script from the thread in the development forum.
I 've just tried the script, but nothing solve. The same thing happen with music & video player.
please help me ...
try another music player
Okay, try this (for a little troubleshooting): Open your file manager and go to the directory where you have your files. Try playing one of them. If it plays, I think your player can't find your music for some reason. If it doesn't, I bet it's stagefright.
By the way, after you disabled sf from the script, did you restart your phone?
after try the script , i restarted...
the music player can play the file, but in the screen it show no thing... i mean no album art, no artist, no song's name ... although my files have full information and show normally before i do upgrade. it's so strange...
Thanks for your quick reply
edit: btw, i do not see the music.odex in system/app folder? is it normal ?
Strange. I have this problem for only some of my files. Do videos play? Do the same thing just like the music.
the same thing happen. When i use file manager to open, it open & play as normal. But when i open video player, it say "no video"
update: i installed another music & video player. The same thing happen. They say no file in sdcard.
I'm not sure and this is just a guess, but I think something may have went wrong with the partitioning process. Do you have a backup of your files on the memory card?
yes i have, so i will try to re - partion ?
Yes, try to repartition. Then restore your backup to your memory card. Make sure you copy your files to the FAT partition, and not the ext one
update:
Things were solved. I do not know exactly to explain. When I mount the sdcard, I noticed that there's a file which was named ".nomedia". I did not know where it come from. Just delete & things were solved. I do not have to re - partion, now my music & video player work like a charm !
Any ideas abt the file".nomedia" ????
anyone knows how can I restore de stock alarm widget??
Hey Guys,
My English is not perfect, sorry about that. I think you could help me to solve this problem.
I have cyanogen 6 the final version on my mini pro and my media apps (like gallery 3d, or MIUI music) can't find any pictures or music from sd card. But these files are in the sd card - I can open it from my computer or Es File Explorer. One gallery app said that it can't find any photos from sd, because I have to get access for it, or something like that. I think this is because of the superuser app.
Thanks for the answers.
I had the same issue initially. A reinstall of the ROM fixed it though.
I tried this. First Gallery 3d was ok, but laiter it started showing ,,there are no items in your collection. I think the files in sd card are protected or something like that. But thank you Sideromelane for your trying to help. Any more idea?
Hey check if you have a file/folder named 'nomedia.' in your sd card. If yes delete it.
Worked for me.
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Make sure you look for it with your PC, as it's a hidden android file and some android explorers won't show it, it's a file called .nomedia
check whether its excluded from media scan...
Yeah! I found the file with name .nomedia and deleted it. Now it works perfect!
Thank you guys for your help!
Now that we are able to use the 11+ Gb of internal storage (assuming you are rooted) are there any media players (e.g., mp3 and/or mp4) that can view data or data/media?
Media files can be seen/played via Root Explorer or ES File Explorer (although it's very kludgy) but I have not been able to find any player capable of accessing this storage area.
I'm pretty sure that you can specify which directory to use with MX Player
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I'm pretty sure that you can specify which directory to use with MX Player
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And make sure you get the arm7 codec too.
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And make sure you get the arm7 codec too.
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Does it ever ask to download the codecs? It never asks to me download anything. I tried to play with the codecs and without them and I noticed no difference. However the player supports HW for h.264 codec only in both cases.
p.s. PowerAMP is a one of the best audio players. And it can access /mnt/* including "internal" linked to your internal storage.
I must have missed something here.
How exactly can we access the 11 gigs of storage on the nook?
Can someone point me to the thread that explains that process?
I used this method:
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20401344&postcount=72
nook_lover said:
Does it ever ask to download the codecs? It never asks to me download anything. I tried to play with the codecs and without them and I noticed no difference. However the player supports HW for h.264 codec only in both cases.
p.s. PowerAMP is a one of the best audio players. And it can access /mnt/* including "internal" linked to your internal storage.
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Nope, doesn't work (neither MXVideo Player or Poweramp) at least does not work for me. I placed an MP4 and a MP3 in some subfolders in the data directory (which shows 11.6 Gb free). I was able to make data/media/vids and data/media/auds using Root Explorer - I can also see the files in ES File Explorer (and play them by clicking on either one and selecting the app to use.
But I cannot get any music or video player to find the file - is there some simple fix? And maybe I don't understand the meaning of "/mnt/* including "internal" linked to your internal storage" .
docfreed said:
Nope, doesn't work (neither MXVideo Player or Poweramp) at least does not work for me. I placed an MP4 and a MP3 in some subfolders in the data directory (which shows 11.6 Gb free). I was able to make data/media/vids and data/media/auds using Root Explorer - I can also see the files in ES File Explorer (and play them by clicking on either one and selecting the app to use.
But I cannot get any music or video player to find the file - is there some simple fix?
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That is because MXPlayer does not run as root, and thus cannot list the /data directory. (Which is "--x" for anyone but root)
You have to ensure that the permissions on your media directory are setup so that MXPlayer can actually perform a directory listing.
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That is because MXPlayer does not run as root, and thus cannot list the /data directory. (Which is "--x" for anyone but root)
You have to ensure that the permissions on your media directory are setup so that MXPlayer can actually perform a directory listing.
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Just took a quick look at data/media and in Root Explorer, the permissions are all checked - that is for read, write and execute and the owner is shown as root.
Ah, Success
Changed the permissions of the /data directory to allow "others" to read and write and I can now play my media. Thanks to all for the help - that's why I absolutely love this forum!
doc, mind posting the full command you used?
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doc, mind posting the full command you used?
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No command - using Root Explorer. First, I set /data from Read Only to Read Write. If you long press on either a file or folder you see nine "boxes" . Three down read Owner, Group and Others and three across are Read, Write and Execute. All i did was to set Others, i.e., check the box, for Read, Write and Execute. I then reset /data to be Read Only. Of course, you need to be rooted.
I think by setting Others to Read, Write and Execute (rwx) it allows media players to access the file.
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I used this method:
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I'm trying to follow this method, but keep getting an error telling me the operation is not permitted, when I try to use the "mount" command.
Help?
loribuono said:
I'm trying to follow this method, but keep getting an error telling me the operation is not permitted, when I try to use the "mount" command.
Help?
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Are you typing the commands manually? I used the script attached. No issues for me. Of course Tablet is rooted.
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Are you typing the commands manually? I used the script attached. No issues for me. Of course Tablet is rooted.
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Yeah, trying to enter them manually. I tried the script method, but the mkdir command didn't work for me either. It doesn't appear I'm allowed to do anything in ADB. Am I missing something? Is this even necessary? Someone else said they just changed permissions in Root Explorer. It's confusing. All I want is for non-B&N apps to recognize content I store in the large internal storage space, specifically music.
NT's rooted, too.
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Yeah, trying to enter them manually. That's what the instructions say. The script is in the next step. I assume I have to follow step 2 before step 3, or maybe I'm really not understanding this at all.
And my NT is rooted.
So, I don't get it. Do I have to follow the instructions as written, or not?
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You don't have to type them. Just replace the file after backing it up. Set the same permissions as the the original.
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Yeah, trying to enter them manually. I tried the script method, but the mkdir command didn't work for me either. It doesn't appear I'm allowed to do anything in ADB. Am I missing something? Is this even necessary? Someone else said they just changed permissions in Root Explorer. It's confusing. All I want is for non-B&N apps to recognize content I store in the large internal storage space, specifically music.
NT's rooted, too.
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Follow the steps as provided. Manual adding is optional.
Okay, rebooting now. I'm confused about what I just did, though. What was the purpose of the usrdata folder I created?
I don't really know if this worked. I can choose any folder on my Nook, from within MX Player, but it doesn't appear to be scanning in the following location: /media/My Files/Videos. No .avi files that are within that, or in its subfolders, show up in MX Player. It sees other .avi files, like one in /system/media/videos.
Is there something else I need to do?
Why are there so many "media" folders on this thing, and which one should I be putting things into? there's one under /. There's one under /mnt, although they appear to be the same location, as the contain the same files. There's one under /system. And, of course, I've got one on my SD Card.
If anyone can clear up any or all of these questions, I'd be eternally grateful. Well, at least, grateful for a long time... like a few weeks, at least.
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Okay, rebooting now. I'm confused about what I just did, though. What was the purpose of the usrdata folder I created?
I don't really know if this worked. I can choose any folder on my Nook, from within MX Player, but it doesn't appear to be scanning in the following location: /media/My Files/Videos. No .avi files that are within that, or in its subfolders, show up in MX Player. It sees other .avi files, like one in /system/media/videos.
Is there something else I need to do?
Why are there so many "media" folders on this thing, and which one should I be putting things into? there's one under /. There's one under /mnt, although they appear to be the same location, as the contain the same files. There's one under /system. And, of course, I've got one on my SD Card.
If anyone can clear up any or all of these questions, I'd be eternally grateful. Well, at least, grateful for a long time... like a few weeks, at least.
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If the script is working now, you can put any of your files to /mnt/internal.
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If the script is working now, you can put any of your files to /mnt/internal.
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Okay. Why? Why would I put them there? You just added yet another folder option to my confusion. I appreciate your help, but I'm one of those people who like to understand what I'm doing and why I'm doing it, rather than just follow someone's instructions.
loribuono said:
Okay. Why? Why would I put them there? You just added yet another folder option to my confusion. I appreciate your help, but I'm one of those people who like to understand what I'm doing and why I'm doing it, rather than just follow someone's instructions.
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The script is linked to /mnt/internal and makes it possible to use the internal storage after each reboot keeping all of the permissions properly set.
WARNING: you need root for this!
A common problem with ICS and JB Stock as well as ROMs is that the music isn't appearing in the music player.
This is caused due to presence of a file ".nomedia" in your music player folders.
Up until now, you either had to use inbuilt music player ES File Explorer or search and delete all .nomedia files and hope that you get lucky.
But searching your entire phone AND sdcard can take hours, especially if you've got a big (16/32 GB) sd-card.
Also, thousands of .nomedia files could turn up if you've got lots of media files (hello manga addicts ). I have Mango installed and had nearly 3 GB of manga on my phone (), thus the search (using SolidExplorer) hadn't finished even after 3 hours.
Well, don't worry!
I've got the quickest solution to your problem:
Connect phone to computer via USB cable, or better yet use sd-card reader to directly connect the sd-card.
Use your computer to search and delete all ".nomedia" files. It's much faster .
Re-mount sd-card on your phone.
Now use Root Explorer or any other file explorer with root access.
navigate to <root directory>/data/
delete the ".nomedia" file present over there.
Enjoy your music!
Press the THANKS button, I need it.
The problem isn't quite so simple. I don't have have .nomedia files anywhere in my music folders, and yet it doesn't scan them.
I too dont have .nomedia file anywhere ! I think the problem is in libs ?
Try this.
If you have the patience, install mixzing player. reboot your phone. then open mixzing first. go into folders, then the folder where you store your music, then wait. The names of the songs should change from filenames to the id3 information. Repeat for each folder, scrolling so that the info appears for each track; all while not actually playing anything. Now open your stock player, the tracks should have appeared. If they haven't, force stop the media scanner and try again.
Hit thanks if it helps !
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rahul93 said:
I too dont have .nomedia file anywhere ! I think the problem is in libs ?
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TjBurn said:
The problem isn't quite so simple. I don't have have .nomedia files anywhere in my music folders, and yet it doesn't scan them.
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Are you guys sure you checked the /data and /data/data files? Get your SD mounted on a pc and search for .nomedia files; include hidden files in your search.
Should work. Did for me AND a couple of my friends, all facing same problems and having different ROMs.
Just in case, tell me the names of the ROMs you people are using.
Will try to help.
Running a fresh install of PAC by nims11 and I have all my media visible. So no worries.
Did notice some corrupted jpgs , deleted them
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