I just installed Wolfs V7b4 but now my gallery is empty, no music in stock player, ringtones gone. I have tried clearing data in Media Storage, fixing permissions, installing SDrescan which just said "done" after starting :s
Wolf mentioned app StudioKUMA.nomedia which can exclude folders from scanning for faster boot so i installed it to check it anything is excluded but none of the folders are.
Has someone had that problem or does someone know how i can manually scan for media?
I had this too, but i fixed it by formatting my SD card and but the files back on it. So just copy everything from your SD card, then format SD card and than put everything back. I hope this helped for you
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Search on the market for an app that may rescan your media...try the rescan media app
I formated my sd twice now, nothing changed. Restored backup and installed every app I could find for media scanning yet the only thing that has changed is that I have my pics from facebook althou I didnt have them before. Poweramp finds my mp3s and plays them with no problem so I dont think its sd cards fault for this
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I found a file .nomedia in root of sd card with .nomedia extension and 0kb in size. I've deleted it and everything went back to normal. Weird i haven't noticed it sooner :S
Anyway thx for your help guys
seriouscorps said:
I found a file .nomedia in root of sd card with .nomedia extension and 0kb in size. I've deleted it and everything went back to normal. Weird i haven't noticed it sooner :S
Anyway thx for your help guys
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Thats from the stuido .nomedia app which places a very small file in any directory you want on your sd card which stops the media scanner scanning it, very useful if you have lots of folders with no media in them.....
But a bit of a schoolboy error there!!
Hmm but i used .nomedia app after all that happened and i haven't excluded any folder. Most of my sd is full of music and few pics so i want everything to be available.
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Hmm but i used .nomedia app after all that happened and i haven't excluded any folder. Most of my sd is full of music and few pics so i want everything to be available.
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If you want everything available dont use .nomedia....
delete all .nomedia files....
I find it easier to have all music in one folder with subdirectories and the same for pics and videos...
I havent used it in first place, I have no idea how it ended up on my phone.
Got only one 13gb folder with music and 150mb of pics in camera folder.
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Anyone else having issues getting the media scanner to find videos and music? I have the files on the usbstorage but the media scanner is not picking them up.
Try rebooting, thats what I did and it worked.
Having the same problem, if I go into File Manager, I can see the music, but in the media player, they don't show!
No one have any ideas? I've gone as far as to format my sd card, reload all my files and still only showing a fraction of the total music! Gonna try to move the music to the internal memory and see if that helps!
Still didn't work, put the sd card back into my atrix , and everything loads fine! This is really weird! I even installed player pro, and it too only finds the same songs as the default player. I hope a genius comes in with the answer soon !
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Media scanner is working fine here...
May take a few delays but mines work
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My media scanner picks up the files on an SD card but not on the internal storage. Is this now a widespread issue?
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My media scanner picks up the files on an SD card but not on the internal storage. Is this now a widespread issue?
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Is there a .nomedia file on the root of your internal storage?
Ok so for my issue, I moved everything off the card and backed up on my PC. Then Formatted the card again but this time I didn't do the quick format. It took about 10 mins but after, put the card in the phone, let the directories build. Then connected USB mass Storage mode, and moved all my files back. 15mins later, I have all my music and videos!
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Is there a .nomedia file on the root of your internal storage?
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Nope.
I guess I can try a format of the usbStorage.
Formatted usbStorage, nothing.
I then put a video file in the /sdcard folder and not the subfolders. Now the video application picks it up. Any idea what may be wrong with the subfolders?
Is there an update/fix to this issue? Are all AT&T units affected?
delettin .nomedia
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Is there a .nomedia file on the root of your internal storage?
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Yes there sure was. It was hidden in the sd card. just deleted it now all media is found. No formatting or anything needed. Thanks!
I have found a folder called "ext_sd" and It has everything i have on External sd.
So poweramp is getting these 2 folders and putting multiple files in my library, And i can't uncheck that from the files in the settings because it always rechecks its self.
And if i delete one of the duplicates, it deletes both of them.
Please help, it's really bothering me!
So is there anyway to delete the "exr_sd" file on the internal SD, or just stop it from showing everything on my external sd card?
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I have found a folder called "ext_sd" and It has everything i have on External sd.
So poweramp is getting these 2 folders and putting multiple files in my library, And i can't uncheck that from the files in the settings because it always rechecks its self.
And if i delete one of the duplicates, it deletes both of them.
Please help, it's really bothering me!
So is there anyway to delete the "exr_sd" file on the internal SD, or just stop it from showing everything on my external sd card?
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Oops, somehow I thanked your post. Anyways, I think I had the same problem before. I want to say I just unchecked the primary sdcard folder, and it worked fine. I have to say though, Poweramp drives me nuts. I've had so many crashes and issues with every version I tried that I don't even use it anymore. One bug is that if I skip too many tracks ahead too quickly, then I have to force close even to get a song to play at all.
Also, when the EQ is active, sound quality takes a pretty big hit. I switched to Mortplayer with barely any regrets. Sometimes I use Poweramp, but until they fix it, Mortplayer is my go-to player.
I had this issue awhile ago also. To fix this you need to go into settings and locate the option to specify which folder the music is in.
The key is to uncheck ALL the boxes and then only selext the one folder on your sdcard with music. For example, uncheck all boxes and only check the box for sdcard/ext_sd/music.
For some reason Poweramp always checks and applies two folders for music on the sdcard because of the symlink of the sdcard to ext_sd.
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Thanks guys, I unchecked everything except for the "ext_sd" folder and that seems to have fixed it.
Hello,
I have a little problem with my phone : when I add a .nomedia file, the gallery or the mp3 player still see my pictures or my song. Sometimes, it's the contrary : I delete the .nomedia file, but it doesnt see any of my pictures or my songs ...
How can I force system to re-scan both of my sd card (internal and external ) ?
Thank you.
Sorry for my english.
needhelp11 said:
Hello,
I have a little problem with my phone : when I add a .nomedia file, the gallery or the mp3 player still see my pictures or my song. Sometimes, it's the contrary : I delete the .nomedia file, but it doesnt see any of my pictures or my songs ...
How can I force system to re-scan both of my sd card (internal and external ) ?
Thank you.
Sorry for my english.
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You can always just restart the phone to do both.
Or rescan the external SD card by going into Settings>Storage>Unmount SD Card. Then Mount the SD card.
Even restarting doesn't hide/add the files :/
I've never tried the .nomedia thing. I just know that if your music files are formatted properly, they won't show up in your photo gallery to begin with. I have over 1000 song files and I've never had any album art show up in the gallery.
As for why you are having problems with media scanning. You got me. Mine always shows 'Scanning' when it reboots.
Mine doesn't show scanning at rebooting : the launcher appears directly and i can use it directly too...
Can u try with a .nomedia file please ?
I use an app from play store called rescan sd.
Works perfectly and it's free
Hey i try it but it doesn't do anything ... I also try same kind of applications but any of them work.
In the application manager 'Force stop' and 'Clear data' of Media Storage and Gallery. You might have to unmount/remount the card to make it visible.
Hey, thanks for reply. I doesn't work but it don't care anymore : i go on my PC and copy/paste again, then it shows up.
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Hey i try it but it doesn't do anything ... I also try same kind of applications but any of them work.
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Some of those rescan apps don't SEEM to do anything. Run them, they exit. BUT check your phone a few minutes later. They just trigger the rescan but it's not instant. I have to do it coz my kids use the WeeMee app to create avatars for all my contacts but when it saves them I can't find them until I do this and wait a while.
Hey guys i have a slight problem last night i transfered a folder from my internal sdcard to my external sdcard but after it transfered my gallery would not show my camera pictures i factory reseted my phone. Cleared memory storage data and gallery data as well...any suggestions?
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hi jason
are you sure your SD is mounted and recignized?
try to pull it off, and re-insert it. afterwards reboot your device.
if it still isn't recognized try to read it with a card reader\another device and backup+format it.
All the photos in the sd show up perfectly its the internal sd that doesnt show pictures. Also it looks like the root directory has been changed to sdcard/storage/sdcard0
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What if your ext-sd damaged inside? Did you try to another sd card? Music player read your mp3 from that sdcard? Or a file explorer app can see and open your pictures?
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Everything seems to be working fine i use astro to see my pics and music but its the gallery that has the issue
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jason62391 said:
Hey guys i have a slight problem last night i transfered a folder from my internal sdcard to my external sdcard but after it transfered my gallery would not show my camera pictures i factory reseted my phone. Cleared memory storage data and gallery data as well...any suggestions?
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I have a similar problem. My external SD card is mounted and browsable using ES File Explorer and all my media files are visible and viewable from ES. However, none of the media files on the external card appear in the various apps (i.e. pictures not visible in gallery, mp3s in the music player etc.). What is even stranger is that once I set the stock camera to save new pictures to the external SD these pictures are visible in the gallery, however all other pictures present taken on my previous phone (HTC Desire) are still not visible, even when located in the same folder. The same pictures do show up if I transfer them to the internal SD card but I would rather not have them all stored there.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Cheers,
Sam
shardy said:
I have a similar problem. My external SD card is mounted and browsable using ES File Explorer and all my media files are visible and viewable from ES. However, none of the media files on the external card appear in the various apps (i.e. pictures not visible in gallery, mp3s in the music player etc.). What is even stranger is that once I set the stock camera to save new pictures to the external SD these pictures are visible in the gallery, however all other pictures present taken on my previous phone (HTC Desire) are still not visible, even when located in the same folder. The same pictures do show up if I transfer them to the internal SD card but I would rather not have them all stored there.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Cheers,
Sam
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I have the direct opposite problem, my internal doesn't show, whereas met ext-sd is visible in my apps. Need help too!
I have resolved this on mine, I formatted the external sd card and copied everything back. I guess the S3 just didn't like reading a card formatted by the Desire, I'll know better next time!
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Search inside your photo folders. If you see a file named .nomedia delete it.
This is because you're using third party file manager. Use the stock My File to move the files back and forth and it will show up in the gallery.
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I read somewhere that there was a bug in cwm manager latest version which put a .nomedia file in the root directory. There are fixes where you have to remove the .no media file and reinstall cwm.
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This is because you're using third party file manager. Use the stock My File to move the files back and forth and it will show up in the gallery.
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sd card does not show on my lg optimus p509, while it works on other phones and pcs. it shows sdcard umnounted or not inserted while i was sending a file through bluetooth before, and from then onwards...i have formatted it through pc also. i had rooted it with superclickone before. it is from t-mobile and i have unlocked it in my country. current software version lg-p509-v10l, android version 2.2, kernel 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #1 sun oct 24 19:10:09 kst 2010, build number FRF91. thank you...
My sd photos do not show in my Gallery
Dears,
All you need to do rather than resetting your phones is simply go to your application manager and clear the cache and anything for the Gallery as an application. And make sure that you also acquire the Gallery app with all the needed permissions to access your sd card. Then open your Gallery app, and there you go.
Enjoy!
Mahmoud Mahfouz.
I was surprised yesterday after re-flashing the stock LSD, and seeing that the media scanner problem draining 60% of the CPU was back.
I had it dont remember if on LS8 or other before, and it was easilly patched by setting the camera folder location to external SD/DCIM and moving everything there. However, with this LSD, that doesn't work anymore :S
There's any way to get rid of this? Or its impossible to make your battery last more than few hours on stock LSD?
Thanks in advance!
I'm on lsd and did the sd thing, no media scanner trouble.
Are you sure the pics are going to the ext sd?
Set it up in camera settings.
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Thanks gastonw!
On the camera settings, I've selected external SD as storage option. I've tested and when I make a photo, the image goes there (external SD/DCIM/Camera/.)
However, I just noticed that the thumbnail file, doesn't go to the external/DCIM/.thumbnail, but moves to the internal SD card DCIM folder :S
I've deleted Camera, Galery etc Cache's, the interal SD/DCIM folder has only the 2 empty folders, Camera is set to store on external SD.. and the photos are stored on the external SD and the thumbnails on the internal SD..is this normal?
No it's not and that's why media scanner is going crazy.
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:S Any clue why thumbnails are being stored there?
I have no idea, my internal SD/DCIM folder has a .thumbnail folder empty and the Camera folder empty, and the external SD has all the stuff in the same DCIM folders..
What is wrong here? Where is the option to set the thumbnails storage location? apparently it isn't the same than the camera one
Post a screenshot.
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What do you mean?; Screenshot of what exactly?
My problem is that media Media scanner runs for 6m33s everytime I reboot the phone (then stops) even with the DCIM folder empty, and that even when the photos get stored in the external SD DCIM's, the gallery thumbnails are stored into the internal one . How can I screenshot this? :S
I dunno, I don't get how a thumbnail is storaged the way you say it's storaged.
Post a pic of the internal DCIM folder and cache.
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For me there isn't the problem.. Use rescan media root
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albelomba said:
For me there isn't the problem.. Use rescan media root
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It's a pain in the ass running that app everytime you reboot.
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Don't let the phone turning off lol
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