Hi
My problem is that some of my videos seem to have gone missing. They no longer appear when I browse the gallery. These videos I took maybe 4 weeks ago, however, newer videos are still there.
I had a look with astro and then DCIM file and camera and they are not there.
I did mess around a while back with vaults but all my stuff was/is unhidden.
Any useful suggestions welcome!
Have you checked on your external sd card?
Thanks for the reply, stupidly I did have them in a kii safe.
I have just checked again and it seems that not all the files have been restored, there are at least 5 video files missing, I uninstalled the kiis and still nothing. I believe they are there as I checked via USB
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Guys . I am on the the latest official samsung leak from two days ago. everything seems to work fine for the most part. However i have this problem with Icons , emoticons and album artwork not only showing up in my photogallery but pretty much outnumbering my photos 2 to 1. It has gotten to the point where I am no longer synchronising my phone with my pc. my Music folder also has windows files that are not music just sounds that windows makes. today i formatted my external sd card and erased all music and pictures from my internal storage as well.. In reinstalled windows too because i have been seeing these things on my pc as well. i used a flash drive to put about 2 gigs of pictures and 6 gigs of music on both my phone and pc.at this point i thought i had cleaned everything up and that just not syncing would solve my issues until i looked at my dropbox and google plus and picasa accounts. in no time at all my pc was already putting icons and artwork with my pics.
I looked into this issue on other forums on xda . but this problem does not seem to have much of a solution. some say to put .nomedia files in the directories which i have my pics and music. others say that it doesnt work with ics or hc i havent seen any solution for jb. or I9300 or 4.2.2 . By the way I am using the external micro SD card to store pics and music. maybe thats the problem. I dont know. My question is Does anyone know how to fix this short of avoiding syncing with a pc and ditching cloud storage?
ashraf sharif said:
Guys . I am on the the latest official samsung leak from two days ago. everything seems to work fine for the most part. However i have this problem with Icons , emoticons and album artwork not only showing up in my photogallery but pretty much outnumbering my photos 2 to 1. It has gotten to the point where I am no longer synchronising my phone with my pc. my Music folder also has windows files that are not music just sounds that windows makes. today i formatted my external sd card and erased all music and pictures from my internal storage as well.. In reinstalled windows too because i have been seeing these things on my pc as well. i used a flash drive to put about 2 gigs of pictures and 6 gigs of music on both my phone and pc.at this point i thought i had cleaned everything up and that just not syncing would solve my issues until i looked at my dropbox and google plus and picasa accounts. in no time at all my pc was already putting icons and artwork with my pics.
I looked into this issue on other forums on xda . but this problem does not seem to have much of a solution. some say to put .nomedia files in the directories which i have my pics and music. others say that it doesnt work with ics or hc i havent seen any solution for jb. or I9300 or 4.2.2 . By the way I am using the external micro SD card to store pics and music. maybe thats the problem. I dont know. My question is Does anyone know how to fix this short of avoiding syncing with a pc and ditching cloud storage?
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Well there isn't a sure shot solution. For the album arts, try embedding them directly to the mp3 files. That should help. And try not to use the stock gallery app. Use quickpic and hide pics you don't want to see.
.nomedia does work on JB, but I'm not sure that it does what you want.
It is used to hide pictures from the gallery, audio from the music player etc.
It's just a case of creating an emtpy file called ".nomedia".
latest official samsung leak
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That's a contradiction in terms. It's either official or it's a leak. In this case it's a leak
Gooday guys,
I've got serious troubles at the moment. 2 days ago I wanted to show a picture to a friend of mine. Opened my gallery > ehm, what is going on here? > there were no photos images anymore.
First I thought that the gallery app got some problemes, rebooted my phone, still the same. Looked up the folders with Solid Explorer, well ... all files got definitely deleted.
I searched for this here on xda and google. Well, all I found out was that it could be ROM related, or that it could have something to do with RomManager (haven't installed it though). The curious thing is that the *.jpg and *.mp4 files got deleted from all folders and subfolders, not only from DCIM and even from the sd card.
I'm not here for any recovery attempts, have done this already
Well this is not all. I've got some *.avi files on my phone (internal and external storage). Theses files were deleted too. BUT not at the same day as the other media files (*.jpg and *.mp4).
So this is the pre story. Now I wanted to know what can I do to discover what is causing this problem, because what's next? Is my phone deleting all my files in a few days?
For me it seems like a script that is searching the whole device for media files and deleting them. (malicious?)
My thoughts were:
to smali all applications and try to find out if a app is causing this
to analyze logcats
Well, These options seems to be very long-lasting, so I ask you if somebody have any ideas on this?
Information about my phone
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300)
ROM: ParanoidAndroid v3.68
Kernel: Googy-Max v1.5.9
I haven't isntalled any apps or updates the last two weeks so I think there are no problems with apps and therefore will not list them.
tldr;
phone is deleting media files
two days ago it deleted *jpg and *.mp4 files from internal and external storage and from all folders (not only DCIM)
today it deleted *.avi files from internal and external storage
could it be a malicious script that is crawling my phone for those files?
how can I find out what is causing this problem?
I hope that somebody could help me *pray pray*
thanks a lot in advance!
Wish you guys a nice weekend
John
Sounds like a nasty software bug
Oooooooooooooo NOT fun! I have seen this before (first time on the S3 though). Sounds like a nasty software bug. Sometimes you can fix this and sometimes you cannot.
What you NEED to do is backup ALL of your phones information. I recommend that you back it ALL up to a computer, even your memory cards information as well.
Then wipe that device clean with a Factory data reset. This will set the phone back to its default settings and will be like a brand new phone.
You might also want to consider formatting your SD card at the same time. Just in case whatever is causing this issue is coming from your Memory Card.
Afterwards I recommend that you try using your phone without any 3rd party applications for a couple days, just to make sure it’s not a bad app causing trouble.
If the phone is still acting up and erasing things then you should file a warranty claim as soon as possible.
Good luck John.
~James~
Hello all I rooted again recently after getting the 3 XX update from verizon.
and now that im rooted I cant get gallery to see any images in any folder except what is now taken with camera app.
any ideas.
restarted phone, cleared cache, restarted app, shut down phone and turned back on, tried different camera apps, different gallery apps....... all with same result that it will not see any of my pictures or videos I took before rooting or see any images in any other folder.
so im lost as to what to do to fix it.
Rom is OTA plus rooted is all.... nothing else was changed.
Im still a newbie but I know enough and i cant figure it out.
cheers all.
If I remember correctly, the files are stored in a different place in 4.2,2 then in 4.1.2. Do some searching to find the folder, and move your pictures there
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frostysnowman3567 said:
If I remember correctly, the files are stored in a different place in 4.2,2 then in 4.1.2. Do some searching to find the folder, and move your pictures there
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ive tried moving folders and files..... but the issue is that the pics i have are in the same folder as the 1 pic i took once rooted..... so they are in the same folder. its like the gallery wont see anything else but what is taken from the camera now.
just stuck as to why its doing that..... had pics be seen in other folders before. i even have another folder on the root of the phone, well emulated sd card.... called Pics and it does not see those either.
noticed though that the camera does see the pics i took before but when i open the gallery to view those pics they are not there.
even booted into hboot and bootloader then restarted and still nothing.
oh and also i was already on 4.22 stock from verizon..... had some pics and a vid i took.... then rooted and now can't see pics and vid i took before I rooted.
found an answer i think
Ok think i figure out the issue.
the pictures i had on my device were not in a folder that the gallery app recognizes by default, so it was a naming issue and location issue. I moved the old pics taken with my camera before rooting to the folder labeled "Camera" and now the gallery an see all my images.
Before pics were in the folder named Camera....and now they are in a folder named 100MEDIA... very strange but happy it all ok now.
hope my issue helps someone sort out a problem if they ever have that issue like i did.
cheers all
About a week after I got my Edge, I noticed one day using the Samsung file explorer that the camera file had dropped in memory from having gb to mb in there. My heart sank and upon checking yes my photos had disappeared. Thought maybe because I was playing around with roms etc. Weird thing is I used ez file explorer to check and they were still there. So plugged phone into computer to back up to hard drive and next thing, they were gone.
Now I haven't changed anything on my phone for a couple of days, go to play music and sand thing has happened! None of my apps can see the music files except ez file explorer and can only play them from here. I'm worried if I plug into computer they will be gone again.
Any one else had similar issues?? Found a fix?
I am in urgent need of help. I have a non-rooted Mate 20 Pro with a nano memory card. Today I noticed all my photos and videos are gone from the memory card.
All the folders are still there just empty, all my files and music is still there just my photos and videos are not.
I tried connecting it to a computer and the same thing. Empty folders,
I'm not sure what happened as they were all there earlier. I didn't use my phone or do anything out of the ordinary for this to happen.
Im on EMUI 10 currently. I took the memory card out and downgraded back to 9.1 to see if the software was the issue but same thing.
I also tried opening the files in different apps to see if they would show up but nothing.
My memory card still shows the same amount of memory being used as it did before.
I also tried to unhide folders, look into the safe but nothing!
At this point I am quite upset
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I am in urgent need of help. I have a non-rooted Mate 20 Pro with a nano memory card. Today I noticed all my photos and videos are gone from the memory card.
All the folders are still there just empty, all my files and music is still there just my photos and videos are not.
I tried connecting it to a computer and the same thing. Empty folders,
I'm not sure what happened as they were all there earlier. I didn't use my phone or do anything out of the ordinary for this to happen.
Im on EMUI 10 currently. I took the memory card out and downgraded back to 9.1 to see if the software was the issue but same thing.
I also tried opening the files in different apps to see if they would show up but nothing.
My memory card still shows the same amount of memory being used as it did before.
I also tried to unhide folders, look into the safe but nothing!
At this point I am quite upset
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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It is probably the most obvious assume you have rebooted?
Have you mistakenly ejected the card? If not try ejecting from settings and reinsert.
Are you using stock gallery viewer? Does it need update?
These are the most common/obvious actions, don't have anything else to add if tried and didn't work.
zolaisugly said:
It is probably the most obvious assume you have rebooted?
Have you mistakenly ejected the card? If not try ejecting from settings and reinsert.
Are you using stock gallery viewer? Does it need update?
These are the most common/obvious actions, don't have anything else to add if tried and didn't work.
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Yes, I have rebooted. I even unmounted it and reset the phone then put it back in and nothing.
I am using stock gallery, I believe it's already updated.
Weirdly all my files and music are still there along with the folders. Just my pictures and videos are gone. I looked to see if they were hidden but they're not. They won't show on the computer either.
I'm not sure what could have possibly happened. They were there in the morning and then they disappeared. I didn't take the card out or anything.
Are there apps that could somehow erase all your photos and videos if you install them. I can't think of anything else it could have been. I've never had any problems until now.
The newest thing I have done is update do EMUI 10 but even after the update everything was still there until the other day when they just disappeared on me.
Do you use Google Photos App? If Yes, see if you can find the missing photos and video with in Google Photos. Google Photos once uploaded will remove the local storage.
sajokj said:
Do you use Google Photos App? If Yes, see if you can find the missing photos and video with in Google Photos. Google Photos once uploaded will remove the local storage.
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I checked. They weren't synched. I'm guessing there's nothing I can do. It's just weird altogether.
Connect to PC and check the Memory card folder to see whether contents are there or not?
iAbhishekh said:
Connect to PC and check the Memory card folder to see whether contents are there or not?
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I tried. Nothing. There are some .hidden or .outside files in some of the folders. I tried to set it to show hidden files just in case but it still didn't pop up.
I'm going to try getting a nano card reader to see if maybe the phone is somehow doing something to the card. In the meantime I'm no longer using so no more damage gets done just in case.
Try sd card recovery, either on phone or on pc.
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Try sd card recovery, either on phone or on pc.
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Yes, that's my next step once my nm card reader comes in.
Also thank you to everyone who tried to help out, I really appreciate it!