- I've been experienced video files (mkv, avi) in sdcard2 get deleted using Vegan Rom version beta4 & beta5.1. Some others also have same issue while using Vegan rom.
- I've added ".nomedia" file to sdcard2 as suggested but to no avail (video still get deleted).
Anyone know of a way to fix this issue?
Any info is greatly appreciated.
Happy New Year to all !!!
Same issue..... Never had this problem until flashed VEGan Beta 5....
Happens everytime I reboot the Tablet...
Yup, same happened here. It didnt' happen on the first few boot ups but this morning when I booted all the video and picture files were gone from my /sdcard2.
In the few Android years, I have never heard of that happening on a device. Is the actual file missing from the card if you pull the card out and use a reader direct with the computer? Seems it would be more an indexing issue native to the Gtablet and not the card itself. If the files are being deleted, that takes some direct I/O effort. Random file corruption would not just be exclusive to media files.
99% likely the root cause is that the Advent Vega rom does not have two storage locations and only one. This may be causing some conflicts that the devs have not picked up on yet. Still, how would it delete files?
Questions on missing files (assuming they are gone, even when pulling the card and reading card with computer):
1. Is it files that were transferred via the Vegan interface?
2. Were the files directly transferred to the card via computer and ZERO interaction with Gtablet (besides trying to view them)?
If 1, this suggests index issues and conflicts due to storage issue mentioned above.
If 2, and the files were not moved at all by the interface of Vegan, that is uncharted territory (for me).
mmracing said:
Yup, same happened here. It didnt' happen on the first few boot ups but this morning when I booted all the video and picture files were gone from my /sdcard2.
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I GOT the same here too
rushless said:
In the few Android years, I have never heard of that happening on a device. Is the actual file missing from the card if you pull the card out and use a reader direct with the computer? Seems it would be more an indexing issue native to the Gtablet and not the card itself. If the files are being deleted, that takes some direct I/O effort. Random file corruption would not just be exclusive to media files.
99% likely the root cause is that the Advent Vega rom does not have two storage locations and only one. This may be causing some conflicts that the devs have not picked up on yet. Still, how would it delete files?
Questions on missing files (assuming they are gone, even when pulling the card and reading card with computer):
1. Is it files that were transferred via the Vegan interface?
2. Were the files directly transferred to the card via computer and ZERO interaction with Gtablet (besides trying to view them)?
If 1, this suggests index issues and conflicts due to storage issue mentioned above.
If 2, and the files were not moved at all by the interface of Vegan, that is uncharted territory (for me).
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Files transfered using pc to usb interface with zero interaction with G-tablet. They were all retained with TnT-Lite before flash to Vegan B5.1.
suggestion to windows users on .nomedia file solution
I've had thing file on the root of my microSD for week now, with no issues yet - I lost all my videos prior to that, and it was due to the TnT 3.x kernel I suspect. It manifested itself fairly quickly. Before that, I'm pretty sure I used to have this issue on /sdcard, but most of my videos were on /sdcard2 so I kind of ignored it.
If you are a Windows user.....
If you are creating this ".nomedia" file from scratch in notepad, it will add a .txt extension by default. I remember this from my days in XP and I just fired up a Windows 7 VM to test this and it added that stinkin' extension. You won't even see the extension in Explorer, but it's there.
Here's a test, for Windows users ..... go into the command prompt, go to the drive where that file exists and check the file. If there's a .txt extension, you'll see it there. And, if there's an extension, it's not going to work - you need to remove it.
In Explorer, I don't think you can rename it without making extensions viewable - the easiest way is to use the command line:
Code:
ren .nomedia.txt .nomedia
Reloading my SDcard2 Now .... also renamed .nomedia thru, dos box to get true file name ext.
Any word on this problem?
I was wondering where my movies went!
Use ifile manager to create folder '.nomedia' and put all media in that folder.
All media files still retained after reboots/shutdowns.
Hope this help.
having .nomedia there doesn't do anything for me. Videos were still deleted but I did noticed that it only targets .m4v files and my .avi files were still there. I just encode to .avi now and so far so good. Videos are still there
VeganTab 5.1.1 Media WipeOut
I had transferred two dozen .avi files onto a 16GB microSD card via PC and at some point over the last few weeks, they all disappeared. I am left with only a LOST.DIR folder that is empty. Bummer. Trying the .nomedia trick now but will need to re-transfer the files later tonight. So far no issues with my other microSD card, but I had experienced quite a few no power ups after sleep recently (pushing the power button on didn't wake up the tablet and even a slight push eventually displayed the birds of total reboot) and I also have had the battery drain all the way down twice in the last few weeks. Weird.
Lost video files
The .nomedia trick worked for me under Vegan 5.11
Ed Kinsel
I actually create a folder called .nomedia and stuffed all my videos there. The problem stopped then. The bad side effect is that they do not show under the Gallery app. I open them via the file explorer.
Is this an issue with certain ROMs? I've used G-Harmony v1.2 mostly and never noticed this issue. Now I'm using the new G-Harmony-Gingerbread and still don't see this issue.
I have the same going on. Please post any fixes that anyone finds (besides hiding the files in a .nomedia directory.)
Thanks.
I'm actually still having this problem with Vegan 5.1 and supplement along with Clemsyn's kernel.
Videos may last 1 reboot or 1 day with no reboots and then they'll just disappear.
I've tried with .nomedia file (following Roebeet's advice to manually rename to avoid .txt extension) as well as the .nomedia folder holding the videos. I even used Windows and made the MP4 files read only to see if that made a difference.
I'd really like to hear some expert input on this problem! Everything has been great and this is one of my last hurdles.
I thought I was doing something wrong until I decided to do a quick search about the problem. It seems as though it would be an easy fix, but I am not a programmer by any means. I love Vegan, but I dont like to keep removing my SD card all the time. I will try the .nomedia trick for now.
This happened to me too! Gonna try the nomedia trick, too.
As it was, some of my Avi files didn't play at all.
I think I have to do a mass conversion...
I use ZPlayer.
h t t p s ://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.odesanmi.and.wpmusic&feature=nav_result
When I transferred new mp3 files, the files does not appear in zplayer. Not even when I re-start the phone.
Days later, the files appear.
How can I get that new files are immediately detected by zplayer?
I need to programmatically transfer some files from one Android device to another via a Bluetooth connection. The devices will have been paired already and in close range. This isn't for something that will be for public consumption. It's for use between two devices under the permanent control of a company for use only within the company. One device (the sending device) will have an app that we'll write that calls for user input. Once the user choices are made and submitted, the sending device will send a file or files (probably text files that we'll create dynamically) to a specific path on the receiving device via that Bluetooth connection.
Both devices will probably be rooted, certainly the receiving device will be. But we'll write to a directory on /sdcard, not at the root level. It's likely that the OS will be 4.1.2 or later on both. It'll be 4.2.2 on the receiving device for sure.
I can execute this file transfer easily with something like ES File Explorer. But that won't work in the application that I'm developing because the users can't handle that sort of interactivity and wouldn't have the knowledge to create or choose the files to transfer if they could. They'll need the aforementioned app with the form to make this appropriately simple.
My question is: can I write an app that lets me transfer files via Bluetooth from one device to a specific path on another, without security issues on the receiving device stopping the transfer from successfully taking place? I'm figuring that if ES File Explorer and the like can do it, that I should be able to do it using the Android API. But I'm not clear on that, so better to ask than to have to tell my client after doing a bunch of work.
Any help would be appreciated.
Hi there,
For 4 weeks I am using the Huawei Mate 10 PRO. Previously I've been using a Xiaomi Mi5. I have one problem regarding the data migration. I mean - when I copy photos and videos (but it happen with all files, but I need to fix this for pictures and movies to sort them properly in Galery and other apps which allow to attach photos and videos like Whatsapp), then the files on the Internal Storage of the Mate get the current date, not the original from files. To fix this I tried use the HiSuite - import, copy with Android file transfer on Mac, robocopy on windows and the last chance was given to samba share and copy with Total Commander with Lan plugin. No of them were successful. So I have to ask you, if you know working workaround... I read a lot articles about this problem and it looks like this is not the Huawei problem, it's the Android FUSE problem. But is there any working solution for this problem? I tried to change the attributes from my PC using Exiftool, but I get an error "No privileges".
Copying files changes the file creation date. That is totally normal behaviour. Same happens when you copy files in Windows from one drive to another. And as you realized yourself it is not a Huawei issue.
The EXIF-Tool can only change embedded EXIF data in pictures but that is not changed anyway when you copy pictures from your computer to your phone or viceversa.
The problem are the apps of the phone reading the file creation date instead of the EXIF data of pictures. If there is no app to change the file creation date on the phone I think there is no way to solve this problem.
try advanced renamer for windows. if i remember right it has option to set creation date from exif info
So my tests show that only moving file from one folder to another preserve the dates. I tried to change the creation date with total commander on the phone, but i get error message Access denied! (1x).
One idea left - use the otg cable and move files from it to internal storage, but i think that this will give the same result...
Hello All,
When I browse my WhatsApp Image folder through google photos I see 57 photos but when I connect the phone to the computer and browse the folder, I see 80+ images.
I tried restarting the phone several times in case it was a scanning media issue. I have even checked if there was a noMedia file and I don't get what the issue is
Any suggestions ?
Thanks,
Pete