.nomedia keeps generating itself in the root of my SD card .. out of nowhere . It wipes out all my music and pics and stuff .. i delete , reboot , and its cool for a while , but then it pops back up inevitably .
this just recently started . Anyone know of a fix?
That's odd ... that is the purpose of the .nomedia file ... to tell the OS not to look for photos etc there. My guess is that some app is generating it. Can you detect a pattern to when it appears?
I have exactly the same problem. Did you install cover art downloader or PowerAmp? I think that the problem may be for one of this applications or a service of them, and if you have one of this app, It would be suspicious.
PD: sorry about my english, i'm spanish and this is the only post that I found with the same problem. I would like to find a solution for both.
Thanks.
I used to have cover art downloader but not anymore . And I have never used poweramp .. so I dunno , a strange problem
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This broke my theory. But this morning I did something... (I don't know what), and the file and will not come back.
if tomorrow, if the file is still missing, I will tell you everything I did, step by step.
Sometimes the file appears, one minute after remove it, and other takes hours.
The problem is more important than it seems (at least for me) because if the file exists, the phone don't sounds when somebody call me, or the alarm either.
Yeah my pictures get permanently wiped . My music always comes back
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Something similar happens to me, and:
- Copy the entire sdcard to pc (include hidden files and folders)
- Fomat the sdcard
- Copy the data back to the sdcard
- Run the app "rescan media" or "scanmedia", which are free in market.
This not solve the problem with the .nomedia, but maybe solve the problem with the videos and other stuff.
This is insane. . I just Odined and its still happening, which makes me believe its an sd card problem. Ill inspect that tomorrow
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i Odined again ... and formatted my sd card ... and the problem continued .. until i realized when i signed in with my Google account , there were two or three apps that were getting restored .... i deleted those apps that were automatically getting restored . then rebooted several times , then snapped several pictures and rebooted some more ... so far the .nomedia file has not reappeared , Im about to put some apps and my music back on my sd card and see what happens .
Interesting ... what apps were restored already?
Some animated weather app. Msnbc .. and I forgot the others
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Well, I'm glad you figured it out.
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I don't know what I did, but the file is missing since sunday morning.
If I did something, it makes no sense. I did what I explained in my previous post, but didn't work, then uninstalled an application of wallpapers (I forget the name ).... also install "ES Task Manager", "ES Security Manager" (Both from the developer EStrongs Inc.) and .... the file disappeared.
I do not know what happened, but I think it was anything I did. The file is alive.. elsewhere.
The trouble is that we will not know it was.
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I have a rooted vibrant with lag fix, the day before yesterday my camera wad working fine, but now when I went to it today it gives me a warning saying not enough memory, yet my internal is showing 910mb and my sd has 10.3gb. The only thing I can think of howe this might be messed up is I installed metamorph last night, buy never even tried to apply a theme being that the file did not unzip properly. Besides that,i only installed an app called disk usage (which doesn't even ask root permission) from thee time I took my last photo. Any ideas on how to fix this before I reinstall my nandroid backup to see if that works?
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I changed the directory where the files go to the phone instead of the sd, because in reality my true sd was full but the phone memory sd is not.
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I have a rooted vibrant with lag fix, the day before yesterday my camera wad working fine, but now when I went to it today it gives me a warning saying not enough memory, yet my internal is showing 910mb and my sd has 10.3gb. The only thing I can think of howe this might be messed up is I installed metamorph last night, buy never even tried to apply a theme being that the file did not unzip properly. Besides that,i only installed an app called disk usage (which doesn't even ask root permission) from thee time I took my last photo. Any ideas on how to fix this before I reinstall my nandroid backup to see if that works?
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I posted a fix for this a while back
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752471&highlight=Database+Storage+Low
looks like the thing to do is click on the warning and delete the bloated contacts link and you will be fine.
The android.media.process is taking a large chunk of my battery. I haven't seen this process on any of the previous ICS passion roms. Can anybody tell me why this is constantly running?
Here's a couple screen shots. I would ask the dev but I'm a couple posts away from being able to do so. Hopefully he'll read this and explain why it would be different than the previous versions..
Try clearing data for all those services mentioned.
It's weird, I've seen this problem a lot in the thread, but I don't have it.
What are you syncing, by the way? Which do you have enabled?
Only thing synced is my gmail. I make sure to go through all of the settings and uncheck anything that would run in the background. I'll update after I clear out my cache.
Alright, hm.. could be a faulty app, too.
Let me know how it goes.
Cleared cache from recovery, set permissions.. etc. Its still running. It must be something different with this rom... I may just return to 6.5. I had no problems with it and I have gotten used to no GPS.
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Cleared cache from recovery, set permissions.. etc. Its still running. It must be something different with this rom... I may just return to 6.5. I had no problems with it and I have gotten used to no GPS.
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I'm having this issue with V7 too. I read online that it could be a corrupt media file causing it. Apparently, you need to move your media off you SD card to see if it helps.
Haven't tried it yet
You can figure out what media it is scanning and then in that file open it up and put a .nomedia file in it and when your media scanner is engaged, it will skip over that particular file.
Be careful with .nomedia files b/c if you put them in say DCIM or you album art, take a wild guess what you'll see in your media player or your gallery.
.nomedias work as long as your make sure you know where they go. Wouldn't make sense to put on right in the root of your SD now would it? But find the file it keeps scanning and put one in there.
In my experience just let media process run until it eventually stops 10-15 min.. then reboot. Should stop excessive CPU usage after a couple reboots and data built.
I also .nomedia titanium backup and CWM.
Otherwise you may have a corrupt file causing this. I thought so at 1st but maybe its something with this ROM. I formatted my SDcard and media process still loose at boot. So just give time for it to settle and it usually goes away.
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First time happened was back in about a month ago. One day I noticed some of my pictures were gone ( may be 15 to 20 of them ) I could not find them in any where such as SD card internal/external the strange thing was some pictures still there until today so the defective SD card is ruled out and I was still using the stock firmware 2.3.3 then I also noticed there are other pictures ( almost 100 of them ) not actual pictures they just blank but all with different file names like: My piano, A day in Hollywood etc, etc.
No body has been messing up my phones because it stays with me at all times. The question is who deleted my pictures and put a bunch of files back? Could it be happened remotely like some one using Bluetooth to mess around if the person is happened to be near by? later on I upgraded my phone to 2.3.4 through KIES and hope it will help me to solve the mystery but it did not. By now I know those pictures are long gone...
Two or three days later I upgraded my phone to 2.3.5 until I found the official FW XWKL1 here in XDA, again, upgraded.
So some days later I decided to change song for my ringtone I found out all of them have been replaced by some files with number names. 41203,41204 the list go on...When I use Astro to look for my songs and they are all there ( inside the music folder ) I went back & click one of the number file to see what kind of song and the player pops up a message saying the file format is not supported. It took me almost 30 min to figure out and delete all the number files under MUSIC then I see all my songs back.
My question is has my phone been hacked or infected by viruses/spyware? Or software glitch? I don't have data plan. To go online I use my home wifi all the time.
If some one can help I'll be really appreciated.
Sounds like a problem with the sd card or phone itself.
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Sounds like a problem with the sd card or phone itself.
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But most of the pictures and songs are still there that was why I think the problem is not in SD card other than these problems the phone is functioning good in all aspect.
Highly doubt someones in ur phone.
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Sounds like the card is corrupted. Just make a backup of everything on the card, and do a full format (not quick format) of it from your computer. That should fix it. I had a similar problem too recently. New files I transferred would get deleted and old deleted files would reappear. Maybe the file table is messed or something, I don't know, but a full format fixed it for me.
Note: Preferably use a card reader, or if you mount it as mass storage from your phone, do it from recovery if you're rooted. Otherwise just mount it as you would normally and proceed.
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Sounds like the card is corrupted. Just make a backup of everything on the card, and do a full format (not quick format) of it from your computer. That should fix it. I had a similar problem too recently. New files I transferred would get deleted and old deleted files would reappear. Maybe the file table is messed or something, I don't know, but a full format fixed it for me.
Note: Preferably use a card reader, or if you mount it as mass storage from your phone, do it from recovery if you're rooted. Otherwise just mount it as you would normally and proceed.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I am gonna try it & see what's going on then.
Update?
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I had the same problem.
I had the same problem.
The solution was format SD card , after Back up some things i wanted from the card.
Hi all, thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I've been going between 2 ROMs recently (Tron 2.1 and PAC-Man 23.0). For both of them, it is showing that the "Media" app is using a larger percentage of my battery (around 18%). I'm just not sure what this app is, or how to disable or remove it.
When I click on the app from the Battery details, "Force Stop" and "Report" are disabled buttons. Down below, it shows the included packages being "Downloads", "Media Storage", "Download Manager", "DRM Protected Content". I haven't been downloading anything, nor adding songs or movies, so I'm not sure what this "app" is spending its cycles doing.
Thanks!
I guess that it would be a better idea to report this incident to the ROM developer..
I have the same problem sometimes. After a google search I found that basically, your phone is searching for all the media on your internal and external storage. What causes the wake lock is that it is searching for or has found a file that is corrupt. It basically gets stuck on that file for awhile.
I had the wake lock for a couple days then it just went away.
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I have the same problem sometimes. After a google search I found that basically, your phone is searching for all the media on your internal and external storage. What causes the wake lock is that it is searching for or has found a file that is corrupt. It basically gets stuck on that file for awhile.
I had the wake lock for a couple days then it just went away.
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That is really interesting! Using a previous ROM, I do have a few corrupted images from a camera-app-gone-haywire. I'll have to clean those out (which I should have done anyway), and see if that helps.
Great idea!
No problem! I should go through and clean my SD card out, but I am too lazy and don't have the time to spend on it. I just deal with it because I usually have a charger nearby most of the time.
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Check to make sure the .thumbnails folder in the DCIM folder isnt overloaded with 2GB of images. Dont use the stock camera app regardless what ROM you are on. It accesses the stock Gallery app which in turns eventually creates thousands and thousands of "thumbnail" images. More like small pics at about 400x300 resolution. It JAMS up android.process.media .. hell.. it would make my phone hot because sometimes it ran straight for 24 minutes killing cpu.. deleted all the files in there and stopped using the stock app, no more problem.
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Check to make sure the .thumbnails folder in the DCIM folder isnt overloaded with 2GB of images. Dont use the stock camera app regardless what ROM you are on. It accesses the stock Gallery app which in turns eventually creates thousands and thousands of "thumbnail" images. More like small pics at about 400x300 resolution. It JAMS up android.process.media .. hell.. it would make my phone hot because sometimes it ran straight for 24 minutes killing cpu.. deleted all the files in there and stopped using the stock app, no more problem.
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So what do we do when we have been using the stock gallery and camera app? Can I delete the .thumbnails folder? What kind of camera and gallery app do you recommend? I have both stock samsung and stock android camera that I use everyday...
I have been using my phone (unrooted stock) for quite some time now and only recently did the media act up on me and killing the battery. I have rooted and install custom rom and reformatted my sdcard.
It'll now i kinda check the battery more frequently.
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So what do we do when we have been using the stock gallery and camera app? Can I delete the .thumbnails folder? What kind of camera and gallery app do you recommend? I have both stock samsung and stock android camera that I use everyday...
I have been using my phone (unrooted stock) for quite some time now and only recently did the media act up on me and killing the battery. I have rooted and install custom rom and reformatted my sdcard.
It'll now i kinda check the battery more frequently.
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Just following up (I asked the original question). What I've found is that between various ROMs, I have two images folders on my sdcard. Mostly, I just went through and deleted a few invalid images (I think my Tron 2.0 ROM used to take corrupt images, but no longer). I cleaned out many many images I no longer needed as well.
Also, not sure if this is related: I uninstalled and reinstalled Google+ (which has an image auto-backup feature). I had been restoring it from a backup, and I think it got corrupted along the way. It was no longer automatically backing up images, for example.
Since then, I've been in much better shape, and I haven't noticed the Media process taking as much battery.
Hey guys I've noticed an issue with the phone reading slash showing duplicates I'd certain files...namely music, mp3's. I use Dropbox for most of my file storage, this my music files are stored there. I used the Dropbox app to download about 10 mp3's by "export(ing) to external sd." Once I went into the stock music app (yeah I use stock lol) it showed exactly two of each of the files I added. Nowhere on my external sd are they duplicated, only one of each, I also searched the internal sd and didn't find any of said files there.... Finally, once I used stock file manager app to delete the music files giving me the issue, upon going back into stock music app-the app was still showing (only one now) the files I deleted, but it was unable to play them. I cleared the music apps cache and storage then restarted the phone which removed all traces of the deleted files and duplicates. My question is this: is this Dropbox app related? Anyone else have this issue or can recreate it? Is there maybe a known bug/fix I've missed in the forums somehow? Lastly, some additional information...if I transfer from my computer it doesn't do the duplicate file garbage....odd. I haven't tried using the stock file manager app's "online" access method to download files from Dropbox so I dunno if that does it too or not...
Thanks in advance for any help and or insight offered!
Unrelated topic: One more quick question: I'm aiming to find a way to make holding the vol buttons skips to next song but due to my noobness I'm unsure as to whether this is a tweak or mod? I'm using the mobile xda app from work now so I can't search the forums at the moment, is this covered in our forums that I've missed? If not, I'd eventually like to start a walk through thread for it... Thanks again guys.
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Try to look into internal storage folder /android/data/com.dropbox.android/...
I don't know about xda app but on tapatalk app(almost the same app) you can search...
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