When I saw MP4 was the file type for my Photon's video, I was happy - a simple format that is rather easily converted to others. Boy was I not only wrong about it being easy to convert, I can't even watch the darn videos on my computer. I installed numerous codecs, Media Player Classic, and of course I tried VLC (first). Am I missing something, because I cannot find any other threads with this question??
I use klite codec pack and I don't have any issues.
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I use klite codec pack and I don't have any issues.
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Strange, because I did too, but even Klite didn't work. Hmm, going to have to test the waters a bit more. Thanks.
What video player do you use to watch the videos? I assume yours are also MP4.
slmclarengt said:
Strange, because I did too, but even Klite didn't work. Hmm, going to have to test the waters a bit more. Thanks.
What video player do you use to watch the videos? I assume yours are also MP4.
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I just use windows media player on a windows 7 pc. They are also mp4 videos.
Using gom player on win 7 and my videos play and look great.
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Using gom player on win 7 and my videos play and look great.
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I tried GOM player (never heard of it before) and it also did not work. I'm perplexed as to why this would be an issue, because I've tried what I thought were the proper codecs and it changed nothing... They play perfectly normally on my Photon
EDIT: I think I just figured out why I'm having issues. I like security a lot and by encrypting my entire phone, I created this problem...
That doesn't sound good, let us know how you fix the issue.
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i don't have that issue too..
Update: I'm pissed. I have tried all the different options from importing (via Windows/Photo gallery/picasa) to getting the files directly, etc. Nothing works! Big thumbs down to the morons who developed the piss-poor encryption implementation. They failed miserably to develop a truly comprehensive solution.
I'm still working on finding a resolution, but would love any help!
Encryption is designed so people can't download files from your phone and just view them. You must decrypt the files
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Encryption is designed so people can't download files from your phone and just view them. You must decrypt the files
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Problem: By encrypting the storage card (both internal memory and sdcard), it encrypted every picture and video I took AFTER I enabled encryption.
Attempted solutions:
Copy encrypted files directly via USB mass storage device to computer. Result: FAILED, because files were still encrypted.
Copy files via Motorola Phone Portal to computer.
Result: FAILED, because files were still encrypted.
Import files via Windows/Photo Gallery/Picasa
Result: FAILED, because files were still encrypted.
Seeing a pattern yet???
Fast forward to calling Sprint; first guy didn't have a clue what I was talking about (no surprise, this is quite technical). Second guy thought he knew my problem; he was not even close, also didn't understand what encryption was. Put me on hold to speak with manager, came back 15 minutes later to tell me there was nothing that could be done. I moved on unsurprised by Sprint's inability to help.
Upload files to Youtube/Picasa/Qik
Result: Mixed. Youtube refused to upload the videos correctly - FAIL.
Picasa uploaded only the smaller videos, which was a great start - too bad Picasa doesn't allow you to download your videos off your account - Facepalm FAIL!
Qik uploaded my massive video (800MB), but then online told me streaming was unavailable at the time and also didn't let me download the video - DOUBLE FACEPALM FAIL!
Renamed DCIM folders in SDCARD and SDCARD-EXT to "100MEDIA" then used Windows Media Sync on phone and Windows Explorer to copy/paste files.
Result: SUCCESS! My suspicion is that Google's encryption system design was totally half-assed. They allow encryption of SDCARD data, but not decryption?!?! They allow decryption of personal data! Which reminds me, TURN OFF ALL ENCRYPTION if you want to recover your data, because that MAY HELP!
If anyone else has this issue and needs more help that was not clear already, let me know and I'll try to provide some assistance!
Hi slmclarengt,
I tried following your example of renaming the folders but couldn't figure out what you did for the 'Windows Media Sync on phone' part. I can copy and paste the files but don't know how to decrypt the blasted encryption on the Photon. I've turned off the stupid encryption but of course it won't decrypt the files. Stupid software engineers who wrote the encryption was dumb enough not to include a decryption. Any whoot, suggestions/hints to help with decrypting/viewing my photos/videos would be a lot of help.
Anyone else who can chime in would be I would be grateful as well. TIA
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Hello,
So I use doubletwist to sync all my music which I have a lot of playlists set up in iTunes. The problem is, everytime I add to my playlists and sync, when the SD Card is rescanned, all my playlists get doubled and I have to go back and delete.
This didn't happen on my EVO when I would sync but it does on the rezound. I use the Winamp android app and even when freezing the HTC Music app (thought it was the cause) it still does it.
Is there any possible way to fix this? It really is annoying to have to go back and delete... one time I had 3 copies of the same lists...
Thanks.
DarkPontiac said:
Hello,
So I use doubletwist to sync all my music which I have a lot of playlists set up in iTunes. The problem is, everytime I add to my playlists and sync, when the SD Card is rescanned, all my playlists get doubled and I have to go back and delete.
This didn't happen on my EVO when I would sync but it does on the rezound. I use the Winamp android app and even when freezing the HTC Music app (thought it was the cause) it still does it.
Is there any possible way to fix this? It really is annoying to have to go back and delete... one time I had 3 copies of the same lists...
Thanks.
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Yeah, noticed this too. Very annoying. I have a ticket in to HTC CS asking about it. When I get a response I will post it here.
would probably be a good idea to let doubletwist know of the issue also in case there's some sort of 'fix' they can do on their end.
most of the time i just use a simple folder based mp3 player but times when i use the stock 'music player', upon first opening the app, it'll give some error msg that there's no music found & i'll have to close & re-open, then the music is available.
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Yeah, noticed this too. Very annoying. I have a ticket in to HTC CS asking about it. When I get a response I will post it here.
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Thanks, hope it's something they can fix or tell us how to make it stop.
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would probably be a good idea to let doubletwist know of the issue also in case there's some sort of 'fix' they can do on their end.
most of the time i just use a simple folder based mp3 player but times when i use the stock 'music player', upon first opening the app, it'll give some error msg that there's no music found & i'll have to close & re-open, then the music is available.
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Thing is, it is not doubletwist that is doing it. Even when I tried to use HTC Sync (which annoyingly added "iTunes" in front of all of them) it doubles on each sync. Also I should mention that on the SD Card itself, only 1 of each playlist is on the card and not doubled. I think it has something to do with the fact there is phone storage as well as the sdcard.
I too have the Rezound and am seeing this issue. The playlist-doubling will also occur if I connect it as a Disk Drive. Viewing the SD card files through a Disk Drive connection only shows 1 of each playlist, even when Music shows multiples. if I delete a playlist and disconnect, the next time I launch Music the playlist is still there. It seems like it's caching the playlists in memory and adds whatever is on the SD card to it's mem cache resulting in "doubling".
FYI: I only use the basic Rezound Music app. Never had doubleTwist or a similar app.
I got a response from HTC tech support on this issue. A basic blow off: clear cache, reboot, go away.
Snip.
I first suggest you try clearing the data from the music player. You can clear the data from the music player by going to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications then tap Music then tap clear data. Once you clear the data from the application you will then restart your device. If this does not resolve the issue then you will want to try a 3rd party music player from the Android Market to see if you have the same issue.
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I got a response from HTC tech support on this issue. A basic blow off: clear cache, reboot, go away.
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Yeah, me too. It doesn't work. I told them so and then they said to do a factory reset. What a load.
So has anyone found a fix? It has to do with the media storage app, cause when I clear the data on it they disappear (sadly have to reboot as well since the ringtones disappear with it)
I experienced the same problem with stock music player and Poweramp. I was using HTC Sync. I never found a true fix for the problem but I found a solution for me. I stopped using HTC Sync. I'm now using iSyncr. No more doubling up and it has a better filing system. I have my music kind of buried on my PC and HTC Sync was using the same files on my phone. iSyncr has a music folder and puts everything in there. Sorry it's not a true fix but there are other options out there.
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I experienced the same problem with stock music player and Poweramp. I was using HTC Sync. I never found a true fix for the problem but I found a solution for me. I stopped using HTC Sync. I'm now using iSyncr. No more doubling up and it has a better filing system. I have my music kind of buried on my PC and HTC Sync was using the same files on my phone. iSyncr has a music folder and puts everything in there. Sorry it's not a true fix but there are other options out there.
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I wonder if it makes a difference on which volume Double Twist is installed.
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I don't know if this is the same issue but this might fix the problem. I had double everything showing up as well and here is how I fixed it, originally posted in here:
I found the setting that tells the music app where to look/scan for music files. I have mine all in a folder I created on the external card called Music. The phone's settings had that checked as well as /mnt/sdcard I believe, can't remember now what other folder was checked, but got rid of double listings by making sure only my Music folder was checked.
Settings > More > Settings > Music Folders
Then select the folder where you keep all your music and deselect any others voila, no dupes. Hope this works for you guys.
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Anyone know why I can't see files and folders I added to my Sd card and why is it that I can't browse by artist in the sstock music app
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Did you try a reboot? You can try sd card rescan apps as well.
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I copied music directly to the /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/ directory and now I have duplicates of albums. It's a pain. Anyone know how to add music so this doesn't happen?
A fix for duplicate titles in stock music app
I encountered this phenom the other night when using airsync to xfer tracks to the sd card instead of internal storage. Double twist warns that this is experimental, and sure enough, that's when things got off kilter. Long story short, I deleted the music directory on the sd card and then moved the untouched music directory from internal storage to the sd card. I then made sure that the music directory in the internal storage was truly empty. I then performed a clean cache followed by a reboot. Both doubletwist and the stock player are keyed to the sd card directory, and voila, no more duplicates.
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Anyone know why I can't see files and folders I added to my Sd card and why is it that I can't browse by artist in the sstock music app
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I copied music directly to the /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/ directory and now I have duplicates of albums. It's a pain. Anyone know how to add music so this doesn't happen?
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I have no problems with the music app and the music files I copied onto my sd card.
All I did was make a "Music" folder on the external (?) card, the one that mounts second and is NOT named "HTC Storage". Copied my music in there so the next directory down is the band name (Music > PJ Harvey > [album]) and everything works as it should. When I went into the music app the phone scanned for my library, found everything, and I am able to switch between viewing by album, artists, songs etc. with no problem.
I had no idea how to get my music on there since there is no mention of it in the manual so I just tried that out and it worked.
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Anyone know why I can't see files and folders I added to my Sd card and why is it that I can't browse by artist in the sstock music app
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Okay, so driving home tonight I went into PowerAmp to pick some music to play and I saw double listings for the albums. I had just been in the stock music app and not seen that but switched to PowerAmp because I had set the EQ in that. And I left it to see if it would play each song twice and it did.
Now I'm looking at it at home and I just noticed when I look at under the "folders" tab I see the duplicate listings and also see ".sounds" at the top with the dir listed as /sdcard/Spacephysics. The two directories that have music are /sdcard/ext_sc/Music (the folder I made) and /music. When I look at it under the "Library" tab I don't see duplicates unless I go into the albums and look at the song lists.
Stock app still fine.
I'm kinda anal when it comes to my music but just as Fera stated...created a general folder called "Music" and add sub-folders for each Artist and then each album. It would also help if you have the .MP3 tags correct so you don't have files all over the place.
That's what works for me at least.
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What app are you using?
I'm not sure how these are tagged. I had just gotten my tagger all set up and started to get all my mp3s organized and tagged and then my laptop died. HDD was fine so I pulled it and got all the data copied off of it so hopefully I can grab my settings file for the tagger prog but haven't gotten back into mp3 organizing yet.
Do you know what causes the duplicates? I've been reading about apps not dealing with the external sd card properly, so is it just the case of the app needing to be updated and nothing we can do about this on our side?
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What app are you using?
I'm not sure how these are tagged. I had just gotten my tagger all set up and started to get all my mp3s organized and tagged and then my laptop died. HDD was fine so I pulled it and got all the data copied off of it so hopefully I can grab my settings file for the tagger prog but haven't gotten back into mp3 organizing yet.
Do you know what causes the duplicates? I've been reading about apps not dealing with the external sd card properly, so is it just the case of the app needing to be updated and nothing we can do about this on our side?
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Yea pretty much nothing can be done unless the app devs fix the issue or we get permanent root and can re-mount the SD cards however we see fit.
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What app are you using?
I'm not sure how these are tagged. I had just gotten my tagger all set up and started to get all my mp3s organized and tagged and then my laptop died. HDD was fine so I pulled it and got all the data copied off of it so hopefully I can grab my settings file for the tagger prog but haven't gotten back into mp3 organizing yet.
Do you know what causes the duplicates? I've been reading about apps not dealing with the external sd card properly, so is it just the case of the app needing to be updated and nothing we can do about this on our side?
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I've been using the stock app for my music currently and I have had no issues with duplicates except for newer files I haven't fixed the .mp3 tags on.
Edit: I just installed PowerAmp (the only other music player I will use besides stock) and I noticed my library was also showing duplicates. If you go under settings when viewing your folders you can select Menu->List Options->Path and that will get rid of the duplicate listings.
This is a beta version of PowerAmp so maybe they're still working out the bugs though? I never had that issue before and I even had the paid app.
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I've been using the stock app for my music currently and I have had no issues with duplicates except for newer files I haven't fixed the .mp3 tags on.
Edit: I just installed PowerAmp (the only other music player I will use besides stock) and I noticed my library was also showing duplicates. If you go under settings when viewing your folders you can select Menu->List Options->Path and that will get rid of the duplicate listings.
This is a beta version of PowerAmp so maybe they're still working out the bugs though? I never had that issue before and I even had the paid app.
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Actually that doesn't do it. That just sorts it so that the list is duplicated but one entire list at a time based on location. But since I didn't memorize where you told me to go I found the setting that tells it exactly where to look/scan for music files.
Settings > More > Settings > Music Folders
Then select the folder where you keep all your music and deselect any others voila, no dupes.
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Awesome. Glad you figured it out. I've never had to deal with that.
I know there is probably nothing that can be done, but it's worth a shot to ask...
The other night when I was texting on my phone at work, I got a random notification that said something to the effect of "SD Card has unmounted unexpectedly". I just cleared and figured it was no big deal. Later on, I noticed that I couldn't access any music or pictures that were saved so I restarted my phone, and still nothing showed up. I went to recovery and it wouldn't mount my SD card(external 16GB, by the way). When I look at my SD card in root explorer, some of the stuff still shows up but they all say "0 bytes". And now, I just have this constant notification that says "SD card blank or has unsupported file system". I click on it and it gives me the option to "Format" or "Cancel". My question is, is there any way to recover what's on the SD card before I format? I don't understand what caused this at all. I've never had a problem with my SD card on any of my EVOs before, and now it suddenly gets 'corrupted' or something? I don't get it... But I really don't want to lose every picture and song on my SD Card, if possible.
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Did you try putting it in your pc to see if your files were there? I don't know if anything can be recovered. You probably don't want to hear this, and not to be a jerk, but that's what Dropbox and other backups are for. Someone might have an idea for helping out though, that really sucks if you lost it all. I'm always afraid of that happening.
This happened to me. I downloaded "test disk" to my PC and recovered everything
Edit: its a free program.
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Did you try putting it in your pc to see if your files were there? I don't know if anything can be recovered. You probably don't want to hear this, and not to be a jerk, but that's what Dropbox and other backups are for. Someone might have an idea for helping out though, that really sucks if you lost it all. I'm always afraid of that happening.
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Lol, three years ago there was no Dropbox to count on and I never had this problem until now... I have some saved on the PC, but it's several months so I will still be missing some pictures, music, and other files.
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This happened to me. I downloaded "test disk" to my PC and recovered everything
Edit: its a free program.
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Thanks! I will give this a try and hope I can recover everything as well.
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Yeah, I've been slowly adding old stuff to Dropbox. Along with my subscription which is only $9 a month, and the free space we got with our phone I have like 100 gb. Hopefully you can recover your stuff though.
Well a couple of things to try, boot into recovery and try to fix permissions. I had a problem where out of the blue pics music and apps didn't work that were on the card. I couldn't get anything to work so I fixed permissions and everything came back. Now as far as recovery goes, what OS are you working with on your computer. If it is mac, try DISKWARRIOR that program is AMAZING, so far I have had to use it on a mac and a windows pc at work. This program literally found every doc, pic and mp3, flipchart and smartboard pages on each HD and the HD was corrupt enough that NOTHING was able to see it when I put the HD's in an external case.
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Well a couple of things to try, boot into recovery and try to fix permissions. I had a problem where out of the blue pics music and apps didn't work that were on the card. I couldn't get anything to work so I fixed permissions and everything came back. Now as far as recovery goes, what OS are you working with on your computer. If it is mac, try DISKWARRIOR that program is AMAZING, so far I have had to use it on a mac and a windows pc at work. This program literally found every doc, pic and mp3, flipchart and smartboard pages on each HD and the HD was corrupt enough that NOTHING was able to see it when I put the HD's in an external case.
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I run Kubuntu(Linux) on my personal computer that I built almost three years ago now(still a beast!)... I have Windows 7 on one of my secondary HDs for those rare times that I require the use of Windows. My mom has a Mac, though, so I hopped on there to see about DiskWarrior and it costs $100! Maybe if I can find a free trial version somewhere or something... I'm going to give a few things a try, though. Obviously the information is still on there but there's something causing it to not read correctly on anything. The Mac won't read it normally either...
Anyone have any idea where all my internal memory is going.
I realized that I only had 2.85gb of memory on my internal sd
I deleted some crazy but I truly have no idea where it's getting these numbers.
It shows I have 7.83gb in miscellaneous files. When I opened it and added the files size up, it only comes to 2.07gb.
Not only that. I completely cleared my download folder and it still shows 20mb usage.
Damn I miss my 32gb s3
Am I missing something?
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Does it show something different from your computer when you plug it in?
Do you have any games or apps that downloaded extra data? Gameloft games love to use your internal storage and ignore the SD card.
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Does it show something different from your computer when you plug it in?
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No my computer matches up.
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Do you have any games or apps that downloaded extra data? Gameloft games love to use your internal storage and ignore the SD card.
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Not a game guy. Just angry birds star wars. But that shows up under apps
Music from Google Play Music?
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Music from Google Play Music?
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Im guessing music also. Turn off automatically cache in google music.
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Try SD Maid and look at the Biggest Files tab.
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Music from Google Play Music?
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I just unchecked the Automatically cache on Google music. Made no difference
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Try SD Maid and look at the Biggest Files tab.
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Ill give it a run thanks
I had that problem before on this phone but I just did a full wipe and started over and it was fine but I could not tell ya what caused it cause I haven't been really even using too many apps and games cause I have been too busy flashin different roms and playin around with the phone.. I have been being a huge slacker... If it's not too hard for ya I would just backup everything with TB and start over and then restore with NO app data included. I do it all the time but I have been crackflashin for years so I got it down to a science now. lol It is a pain though so if you can figure it out it would be better, of course.
** And YES, I do miss my 32gb S3 sometimes**
Okay. Downloaded SD maid.
Pretty much tells me exactly what I've seen on my storage tab.
I did clean some corpses (lol) but nothing out of the ordinary.
Don't mind the Six Feet deep episodes, those are on my SD card.
Btw, as far as roms go. I've only flashed beans v2 and I always fully wipe and never restore with data, ever.
I also have never had a problem with a rom, and I credit that towards always wiping clean. So what it takes a few more minutes to set up. At least you know it's a fresh install right?
So it looks like your 4GB of TWRP backups were the culprit?
Edit: Oops - I guess only 1.44 GB of the TWRP backups were on the internal SD.
FormeriPhoney said:
Okay. Downloaded SD maid.
Pretty much tells me exactly what I've seen on my storage tab.
I did clean some corpses (lol) but nothing out of the ordinary.
Don't mind the Six Feet deep episodes, those are on my SD card.
Btw, as far as roms go. I've only flashed beans v2 and I always fully wipe and never restore with data, ever.
I also have never had a problem with a rom, and I credit that towards always wiping clean. So what it takes a few more minutes to set up. At least you know it's a fresh install right?
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YUP! I am just sayin that something is not right and if you do it again and the problem is gone then "problem solved" ... But I didn't know if that was something you wanted to try? I went from the International Note 2 to the T-mobile Note 2 and now am on the Verizon Note 2 and I have seen this issue but I just don't have an answer for ya...?
EDIT: You do have some TWRP backups in your system files (in your internal storage) The one at the top anyways...
I'm confused about the Twrp backups. I only have 1 in there and it's the stock rooted backup.
This is my first time using Twrp. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I have been using clockwork for the past 2 years. Flashed hundreds of roms from my OG DX, DX2, Bionic, Gnex, Sgs3 and now Note 2. Never had this issue on CWMR
Hmmm here's how I interpret it...
7.83 GB of Miscellaneous files
5.77 GB of which are dedicated to System Memory.
2.06 GB remain
1.62 GB of that being TWRP
0.44 GB dedicated to everything else listed.
I wonder what is in Note II's Android OS that requires 5.77 GB of memory.
TouchWiz is a big *****
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Just want you to know that you're not alone. Stock, I had those 5gb and now on Beans 3 it's still there. I've wiped more times than after eating dirty mexican food and nothing seems to work. I'll be creeping this thread hoping someone finds an answer.
I also have 5.77GB of Miscellaneous Items. Granted reading that post earlier 5.77GB dedicated to System Memory. So yeah. I guess mines alright.
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I just unchecked the Automatically cache on Google music. Made no difference
Ill give it a run thanks
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That is because it doesn't delete the previous cache, AFAIK.
If this has been answered, I really apologize--site search is down right now and my google search only returned results from before the Jelly Bean update (when playlists worked fine for me).
I used to run MeanROM 4.6, and the HTC music app worked beautifully with my playlists. I use Media Monkey to manage my music, and it would sync to my external SD card (using HTC Media Sync mode on the USB connection menu). I updated to MeanBean 2.81 last night and have not been able to get playlists to work since.
Since the SD card was unchanged, I originally just went into the music app to test it. When I open a playlist, it would say "No music found." So I tried re-syncing it with Media Monkey, which had no impact at all. Then I deleted the playlists and all music from the SD card, wiped the music player's data and cache, and tried re-syncing, but that also had no impact.
Then I restored a backup of the ICS music app. No difference.
Then I deleted the device from Media Monkey and set it up as a new device. No difference.
Then I uninstalled the drivers for the device and installed the HTC Sync software (which comes with drivers, of course). No difference.
To see if it was my computer or something with the phone, I synced the same playlist I was using for testing to my ASUS TF700. Synced fine. Playlist shows up in the Play Music app, so I looked in the Play Music app on the EVO - playlist doesn't appear.
When I connect both devices to the computer and look at the playlist file (both of which show 0 bytes, but I guess that's normal), I am able to see a reference tab with the track listing on the TF700's file, but not the EVO's file (see below).
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"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"
}
I'm out of ideas... what is going on and how can I get my playlists back? I have a workaround to be able to organize my music (I can have Media Monkey sync them with play order prefixes to folders named for the playlists), but that's not the ideal solution... I know the JB update broke a lot of stuff, but I didn't see any reports that this one was one them.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Nobody has any ideas?
Same problem here with every jb sense rom. Have to store music on internal SD
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fpineda101 said:
Same problem here with every jb sense rom. Have to store music on internal SD
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Do they playlists show up when you do that? I have all my music on the external, and the songs show up just fine--it's just the playlists that aren't cooperating.
I can absolutely move my music to the internal storage, I just prefer to use my external for music and leave the internal for everything else.
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Do they playlists show up when you do that? I have all my music on the external, and the songs show up just fine--it's just the playlists that aren't cooperating.
I can absolutely move my music to the internal storage, I just prefer to use my external for music and leave the internal for everything else.
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Yes it totally works too. Don't have to re download album art all the time as well. I just had delete a bunch of songs and keep my absolute faves, 2gbs worth
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I shall give it a try this weekend. Thank you for replying!
I just moved the playlist folder to the internal memory to see if that could be a simple solution... I'll post back if it does (it's scanning now).
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I shall give it a try this weekend. Thank you for replying!
I just moved the playlist folder to the internal memory to see if that could be a simple solution... I'll post back if it does (it's scanning now).
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Good luck
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No luck. Synced one playlist to the internal memory and it still comes up empty on the phone.
Worked for me but I created the playlist on htc music, not by syncing anything
Been around awhile, it's just time for a new screen name...
Just as an update, I tried using HTC Sync Manager, but it would never recognize my phone. I then downloaded WinAmp to both my phone and laptop in the hopes that it could handle its own playlists, and had zero luck there. I still absolutely cannot get my playlists to sync properly.
Try this
Mathman85 said:
Just as an update, I tried using HTC Sync Manager, but it would never recognize my phone. I then downloaded WinAmp to both my phone and laptop in the hopes that it could handle its own playlists, and had zero luck there. I still absolutely cannot get my playlists to sync properly.
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MathMan85, had the same thing happen to me last night. I can't get Windows Media Player to sync the playlists to my SD card anymore after the update... but here's what I did:
1) Took the SD card out and put it directly into the laptop... Came up asking to scan saying something was wrong and needed to be fixed. I let it scan and nothing was wrong.
2) I installed DoubleTwist on my phone and then on my laptop..
3) Imported the Playlists from Media Player
4) Deleted everything in my music directory... (You dont have to but I was frustrated last night and did it.)
5) Started the Sync.
6) Once completed, I looked at the app on the phone and clicked Playlist and everything was there.
7) I had the Music Widget mounted on a windows on my phone and removed it... Replaced it with the DoubleTwist Widget...
8) Everything is working now.
Not sure what happened but that's how I worked around it.
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MathMan85, had the same thing happen to me last night. I can't get Windows Media Player to sync the playlists to my SD card anymore after the update... but here's what I did:
1) Took the SD card out and put it directly into the laptop... Came up asking to scan saying something was wrong and needed to be fixed. I let it scan and nothing was wrong.
2) I installed DoubleTwist on my phone and then on my laptop..
3) Imported the Playlists from Media Player
4) Deleted everything in my music directory... (You dont have to but I was frustrated last night and did it.)
5) Started the Sync.
6) Once completed, I looked at the app on the phone and clicked Playlist and everything was there.
7) I had the Music Widget mounted on a windows on my phone and removed it... Replaced it with the DoubleTwist Widget...
8) Everything is working now.
Not sure what happened but that's how I worked around it.
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I'll give it a shot tonight. Thanks!
So... in the process of trying that, I've found that if you sync it as mass-storage, the playlists work fine. It simply cannot sync playlists in MTP mode.
Thank you for the recommendation that led me to finding this out, though! (DoubleTwist only syncs MSC, and was giving me problems after my first test sync, so I retried Media Monkey with MSC and it worked fine.)
... so after a ROM update, I decided to look into this a little further since this doesn't seem to impact too many people. As it turned out, I think the problem in my case was my version of Media Monkey. I bought the software a long time ago, and since they charge for updates, I never updated. I tested syncing on my girlfriend's laptop, since she has a newer free version of Media Monkey and it synced just fine. Installed the newest version of Media Monkey and the problem went away entirely.
So if you have an old version of Media Monkey (or I suppose any media software) and experience empty playlists, just update and see if that resolves your problem.
If you don't want to do that, my workaround involved exporting each playlist as an .m3u, opening each in notepad, copying the contents into Excel (cell A1), entering the following formula in cell B1
Code:
=IF(LEFT(A1,3)="..\","..\"&RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND("\",A1,4)),A1)
copy the formula down to the end of the playlist, copying column B into the .m3u file and re-saving (as .m3u), syncing with Media Monkey in MTP mode with the destination as /Music/<filename>, and then copying the .m3u into the music folder on the phone. To explain why this works, the .m3u is essentially just a list of track locations, and the formula takes the original computer locations and trims them to just be the filenames, which is how you synced the files to your phone. Thus, you've created an .m3u file that defines paths to the tracks on your phone. You can see why I wanted to look further into this... this is a PITA to do when you sync many playlists and frequently make changes.
Hope this helps someone, though.