i just rooted (but not any special ROM)and everything worked perfectly until a couple of hours ago when gallery showed no images/folders. i restored it to a backup with titanium backup which then showed my folders but when i clicked on them, they disappeared. i used a file manager to make sure they are there, and it shows that there are images there. has anyone seen this? is there a way to fix it? or am i boned?
I would just use quickpic from the market. Its free and way better than the stock gallery. Hope this helps.
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What did you restore with Titanium Backup? Wouldn't the Gallery app be exactly the same as what you have on your phone? I would try Clear Data from Manage Applications. Also, where are your items stored? If on external SD, I would try to get my hands on another SDcard to see it that's not the problem. Very rarely, I get something like what you are saying, but usually unmounting and remounting the SDcard fixes it. Maybe try fixing permissions with ROM Manager or in ClockworkMod?
well i tried just restoring the data with TB and then i also did app and data an got the same results, i tried mounting and un mounting but that didnt work either. ill try another sd card
getbuzzin said:
I would just use quickpic from the market. Its free and way better than the stock gallery. Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the heads-up on Quickpic. So much easier to use and view than the stock gallery.
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Hi everyone. My problem seems common but I couldn't find anyway a solution (except the drastic one).
Well without any reason using my mobile, I've found many, almost all the apps into my sd not working anymore.
I can't launch them and I receive this message: "could not launch the request activity" and I can't find them on my appdrawer.
What's happaning here?
I have a rooted Samsung GS 2.3, tried changing touchwiz and launcherpro, but nothing happened...
Any suggestion? Thanks
It sounds like your sd card is at fault. You need to format. Yes, you will loose everything, but this should fix the problem. If you are root, may try titanium backup, to backup the apps and their data.
thanks
thanks, of course formatting is always the best solution but what do you think if first I reinstall just the missing apps? ..or it's not suggested because it will happen again. (hope it's just a software problem)
You aren't moving the folders are you? May try downloading the stuff to the internal memory.
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Well the only thing I did was moving the apps to sd with android, but long time before this disaster.
This is really annoying, really.
I would not move program/app folders. That is a disaster just waiting to happen.
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thanks for telling me. but it's crazy that the system lets you do it
Hi all,
I've been using my Galaxy S2 for a few weeks, and finally decided my 16gb SD card was not quite big enough. I bought a 32gb card and used my PC to transfer everything from the small card to the large one. Then, I placed the new card in my phone and booted up.
Everything seemed ok, but then I noticed that I now have two of every media folder in my gallery app.
My first thought was that the folders and pictures must have gotten deplicated in the transfer process, but I checked with root explorer, and there is only one of each folder on the card.
Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
Thanks,
-Matt
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Hey Matt
I think the reason your seeing duplicates of everything is because with android they store everything on the pre-installed sd card you can try to delete the old ones but make sure you make a backup before you do anything.
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don't delete anything.
Go to the media storage application under manage applications (in settings) and clear the cache for that app. You may need to reboot. then check the gallery to see if the duplicates are still there.
This happened to me a while back.
That was one of the first things I tried, but the clear cache button is greyed out. Should I try clearing the data from that app?
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yes, clear data. that should work. that's actually what i meant before.
Hope it works.
Hey guys
this is my situation. I have my stock ROM configured just the way i want it working, over 157 apps installed on my sd-ext partition using link2sd working with no issues whatsoever. have everything backed up with titanium. have a ton of apps that i keep frozen till i need them (this is important i find to keep the system from slowing down to a snail's pace).
I hesitate to try new ROMs because of the hassle involved in setting up everything again. even with titanium its a pain. I find i always end up restoring my nandroid backup after fooling around with a new ROM for a bit (just did it again :x). Initially i thought that once i create a link 2sd partition, all these issues will be solved. i was wrong.
Recently i installed Apocalypse 17.6.12 and managed to get my sd-ext to mount. however all the settings for my apps are messed up and not all of them where detected/restored from the partition properly. moreover, all my frozen apps were suddenly unfrozen leading to system crashes and low disk space warnings.
so how do you guys deal with this. this is keeping me away from really giving new ROMs a go. just takes too much effort to get all my stuff in place.
please help.
Maybe because of the rom. I got them messed up this morning
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Do you get a message saying Mount Warning when it reboots?
TB has issues when used on this ROM and another one named DEMOCRACY.
App you can backup with astro or ES File Explorer. Data, you might just wanna try MyBackup and try whether that works.
so you're saying i will have to reinstall all these apps from TB or another backup app?
Im not getting any mount error message.
this sucks.
With tb you can restore your app data
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No. No need to reinstall again all apps if you have tb buyed
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Well, my only suggestion here would be to use Titanium since its what I always use and never ever had problems with it. Keeps everything exactly the way it is and always works wonders.
But seeing as you're having problems with it, I don't really know what to recommend. :/
I would suggest:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531880
In my opinion its the best tool ever for this job.
Hope it helps
I use Go Bacup. It is good for bacup & restore all data and apps.
Sorry for bad english.
Hello
I just flashed CM9 on my Infuse coming from ZEUS and I'm LOVING IT. Such a perfect ROM <3
I can think of only one minor bug (flashlight) but CM9 is beyond quick, gives me a lot of control, and I love all the many UI options. Thanks to anyone who was on the CM9 development team
I had backed up contacts to my SIM AND my SD card in addition to backing up through Titanium Backup before I flashed. Is there any way to retrieve them from any of these?
Restoring everything through Titanium (though I didn't try JUST restoring contacts, I ran the batch operation) gave me crazy frequent force close messages that forced me to reflash. I'm pretty sure that the Contacts backed up in Titanium while I was running ZEUS are no longer compatible with CM9, though I'm not sure. I don't want to risk the FCs again because I already restored everything else (which work absolutely perfectly)
Contacts>Menu Button>Import/Export>Import from SIM Card
^Told me that there were no contacts on my SIM.
How is that possible when I know I backed them up?
Settings>Apps>On SD Card
^Shows me that there isn't anything on the card at all. Yet when I go to Storage in the Settings menu, it shows me the correctly occupied SD card space and when I USB connect to the computer and browse the folders, all my old stuff appears. What's going on?!?!?!
I tried (and failed) backing up to Google multiple times before doing the SIM backup and Titanium (SD) backup. I dunno, I never got Sync to work for me
The XDA moderators might be mad at me for completely abusing this forum with the 3 threads in 3 days... This will be my last for a little while so that I'll ease their annoyance
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Have you tried importing from sd? If that didn't work Download some sort of file manager app. Find contacts backup, Should be in emmc, move to sdcard. Try to import again in contacts. The settings> apps > on sdcard is only going to show APPS that were installed/moved to your sd, out of the data partition. Definitely keep trying to get your contacts backed up with Google, so much easier. Hope this helps.
EDIT try the single restore for contacts in titanium backup
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Have you tried importing from sd? If that didn't work Download some sort of file manager app. Find contacts backup, Should be in emmc, move to sdcard. Try to import again in contacts. The settings> apps > on sdcard is only going to show APPS that were installed/moved to your sd, out of the data partition. Definitely keep trying to get your contacts backed up with Google, so much easier. Hope this helps.
EDIT try the single restore for contacts in titanium backup
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Thanks so much for the quick reply!
I tried the Titanium single restore.
Good news: No FCs
Bad news: None of the contacts appeared even though I got the notification that the restore was successful.
I even rebooted, ran the back up again and rebooted again after THAT to no avail. :-/
But there are no FCs which really is welcome news for me.
Regarding the other method you described: in ES File explorer, I couldn't find "emmc" anywhere. Is it its own directory? Thanks!
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! IT WORKED I FOUND THE .vcf, moved it, and everything imported!!! Thank you so much!
EDIT AGAIN:
There are FCs whenever I try to text through the stock messaging app now
On the plus side, it appears I got Google to work syncing contacts.
Just putting the info out there in case anyone else finds themselves in my position.
Try wiping data on your messaging app. Glad you got your contacts back
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Hi! Could anyone suggest what should I do if my older photos disappeard from my gallery? I made a Fix permissions and an FXP133 reinstall (without any wipe, because I was an idiot and I wanted to replace the Contacts app but I failed and I couldn't restore the original Contacts app so I thought maybe if I reinstall only the ROM, it will working again). Before and after the reinstall I made a permissions fix in ROM manager. Now the Contacts app working, but I found that all of my older photos disappeard from the Gallery. It shows only those photos which have been made since the reinstall/perm. fix and my Picasa web albums. I checked in the file manager and all the photos are still there, but I can't make the gallery to show those photos... Should I reinstall the whole ROM again with wipe or there is an easier solution with less work? Thanks
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Hi! Could anyone suggest what should I do if my older photos disappeard from my gallery? I made a Fix permissions and an FXP133 reinstall (without any wipe, because I was an idiot and I wanted to replace the Contacts app but I failed and I couldn't restore the original Contacts app so I thought maybe if I reinstall only the ROM, it will working again). Before and after the reinstall I made a permissions fix in ROM manager. Now the Contacts app working, but I found that all of my older photos disappeard from the Gallery. It shows only those photos which have been made since the reinstall/perm. fix and my Picasa web albums. I checked in the file manager and all the photos are still there, but I can't make the gallery to show those photos... Should I reinstall the whole ROM again with wipe or there is an easier solution with less work? Thanks
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I sometimes get something similar on my stock ICS where the camera, gallery or any other similar apps show the photos, videos or music that's on my sdcard.
I'm not sure what causes it, but I think it's an issue with the sdcard indexing. It's generally fixed by either deleting a picture (make a copy of one and delete it) or by adding a new one. That normally forces the phone to reindex the sdcard and everything turns up again. Sometimes I need to reboot first, but the issue doesn't last for too long anyway since I'm always taking pictures or downloading stuff.
It's a good excuse to make sure your sdcard is backed up though.
Thanks, but that way is not working for me, because since this problem cam up, I already made at least 15 photos, deleted some and not just the rest did not come back, but the new ones also getting disappear constantly... :S and meanwhile I already re-flashed the kernel and re-installed the whole fresh ROM (CM9 FXP133) with full wipe (fact. reset, cache p., dalvik) and the gallery still doesn't show the older/newer photos... So yes, now I think that the problem will be somewhere in my SD card too... I think I will backup my stuff and make a full format, that's my last hope... :/
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Okay, it worked. I formatted my miniSD card and restored the most important stuff. Now the gallery shows the photos again. Hurray
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banciii said:
Okay, it worked. I formatted my miniSD card and restored the most important stuff. Now the gallery shows the photos again. Hurray
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That's good to know. Must have been a bad memory card. A lesson to us all..back up your phone!
Yes, sadly something definitely wrong with my SD card... And this is not the 1st case. Earlier, after a simple data transport from notebook to SD card (which I have already done a million times), my phone (and later also my notebook) couldn't recognize the card anymore... I had to format the card from windows' disk manager manually to make it work again. I hoped that it was just an accident, but after this problem which also caused by the card, I think I have to buy a new card shortly... (After 11 months using...)
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the same happened when I flashed new sony firmware latest ICS