Hey guys, I've been having a maddening problem with music stored on my external SD card and hopefully someone can help figure this out:
I'm running AOKP, and have all of my music stored on a 16GB external SD card. The problem I've been having is that whenever I open up the phone (generally to switch SIM cards as I'm living overseas and use several different cell companies) the media storage gets all messed up.
I used to be using Google Play Music, and whenever I'd do a SIM swap I could no longer play music. I'd get an error saying "could not play the requested track" on all of my music files.
Figuring GPM just sucks, I switched to WinAmp. Well, the same thing kinda happens. Now, when I do a SIM swap, all of my music tracks get listed twice. One version of the track won't play, the other one will.
Basically what it seems like is that every time I change the SIM card, the media scanner is re-running. Except that it doesn't realize that the files haven't changed, so it re-indexes everything. But this causes music apps to go haywire.
I used to do a data wipe on the Media Storage app, which would clear everything out on Google Play Music (haven't done it yet when using WinAmp). But eventually the problem would crop up again.
To be clear, I recently did a full wipe and installed a fresh version of AOKP. Unfortunately after swapping SIM cards just once the problem reappeared, and TBH I shouldn't have to do a clear data on Media Storage every time I swap the darn SIM card.
I used the phone overseas about 6 months ago when I was still running stock 2.3.6 from AT&T, and never had issues with media storage. Is this an issue using non-Samsung ROMs, or is it an ICS issue in general, or is something else at work here? It's a bit maddening that something as simple as using my phone to play music has become such an ordeal, and I'd like to find a permanent solution to this without having to constantly do data wipes.
Thanks
Anyone? I realize probably the majority of people here are using their i777 on ATT and probably don't open the phone much, but this is a pretty maddening problem to not be able to store my music on the external SD card without the phone going crazy after every time I open it up. I may try going back to a Samsung ROM and see if it's just an AOSP thing, but I'd really prefer to stay on AOKP if possible...
goheels said:
Anyone? I realize probably the majority of people here are using their i777 on ATT and probably don't open the phone much, but this is a pretty maddening problem to not be able to store my music on the external SD card without the phone going crazy after every time I open it up. I may try going back to a Samsung ROM and see if it's just an AOSP thing, but I'd really prefer to stay on AOKP if possible...
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I have this too. Would like to know a solution!
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This probably isn't the solution you're looking for, but I'm pretty sure PowerAmp uses its own media scanner, so that should mitigate the problem. See if that helps. As for listing twice, that's usually because there's a symlink somewhere; for me it's usually /emmc and /mnt/emmc, so it's listing twice.
Thanks for the tip, if I decide to stick with AOKP I'll probably give PowerAmp a try I'm actually wondering if the Samsung music player works the same way and has its own media scanner; that would likely explain why I don't remember ever having a music issue when I was running Samsung-based ROMs.
Regarding the symlinks, how would I know if that's the real issue? I do have both /emmc and /mnt/emmc, and I also have /sdcard/external_sd. How could the problem be fixed if that's what's going on?
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Hey guys, I've been having a maddening problem with music stored on my external SD card and hopefully someone can help figure this out:
I'm running AOKP, and have all of my music stored on a 16GB external SD card. The problem I've been having is that whenever I open up the phone (generally to switch SIM cards as I'm living overseas and use several different cell companies) the media storage gets all messed up.
I used to be using Google Play Music, and whenever I'd do a SIM swap I could no longer play music. I'd get an error saying "could not play the requested track" on all of my music files.
Figuring GPM just sucks, I switched to WinAmp. Well, the same thing kinda happens. Now, when I do a SIM swap, all of my music tracks get listed twice. One version of the track won't play, the other one will.
Basically what it seems like is that every time I change the SIM card, the media scanner is re-running. Except that it doesn't realize that the files haven't changed, so it re-indexes everything. But this causes music apps to go haywire.
I used to do a data wipe on the Media Storage app, which would clear everything out on Google Play Music (haven't done it yet when using WinAmp). But eventually the problem would crop up again.
To be clear, I recently did a full wipe and installed a fresh version of AOKP. Unfortunately after swapping SIM cards just once the problem reappeared, and TBH I shouldn't have to do a clear data on Media Storage every time I swap the darn SIM card.
I used the phone overseas about 6 months ago when I was still running stock 2.3.6 from AT&T, and never had issues with media storage. Is this an issue using non-Samsung ROMs, or is it an ICS issue in general, or is something else at work here? It's a bit maddening that something as simple as using my phone to play music has become such an ordeal, and I'd like to find a permanent solution to this without having to constantly do data wipes.
Thanks
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Just a few points, I'm on AOKP and always stored music on the external uSD card and I never have any problem with any sort of players such Apollo, MortPlayer, VLC, GMP, ..... Am I a lucky one? Could be.
Honestly, I've seen this kind of reports already, in this room, maybe in the AOKP thread, can't remember on which page but you search from there. I'm sure there should be the answer.
I don't know about other TW-based ROMs behavior. If you don't get any feedback from users, you can always install one and try it out and see what happens.
Okay, so after a bit of searching I'm (maybe) convinced that it's a symlink issue. My hope is that the problem was that I still had /sdcard/external_sd from running Samsung-based ROMs, and that the media scanner was getting confused between that and /emmc.
Still have one question, however - there are two versions each of the sdcard and emmc folders:
/emmc
/mnt/emmc
/sdcard
/mnt/sdcard
Should each folder exist twice? If not, which ones shouldn't be there, and are they safe to delete? I've tried figuring out what the default mount points are for AOKP, but some people say /emmc and some say /mnt/emmc.
I've deleted /sdcard/external_sd so I'm going to try putting my card back in and seeing if there are still problems. But in the meantime, knowing if both versions of the emmc and sdcard folders should be there would be great
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Okay, so after a bit of searching I'm (maybe) convinced that it's a symlink issue. My hope is that the problem was that I still had /sdcard/external_sd from running Samsung-based ROMs, and that the media scanner was getting confused between that and /emmc.
Still have one question, however - there are two versions each of the sdcard and emmc folders:
/emmc
/mnt/emmc
/sdcard
/mnt/sdcard
Should each folder exist twice? If not, which ones shouldn't be there, and are they safe to delete? I've tried figuring out what the default mount points are for AOKP, but some people say /emmc and some say /mnt/emmc.
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Yes, that's what a symlink is; both paths are the same thing.
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I understand that both folders link to the same place; the question is, are both of the folders necessary? In other words, if /mnt/emmc is deleted, will the external SD card still be able to be read from /emmc (or vice versa)? Or will it make things go haywire?
My hope is that the duplicate music files I was seeing in WinAmp were because /emmc and /sdcard/external_sd were both on the phone. But if that isn't the case, and even after deleting external_sd I'm still getting duplicates and music playing isn't working properly, then I'd think the only remaining issue is because the phone has both /emmc and /mnt/emmc and the media scanner is seeing them as separate entities.
So yeah, mostly I just want to know if AOKP needs both /emmc and /mnt/emmc to function properly, or if only one of those folders is needed.
I'd be inclined to think they are both required.
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Yeah, I'm having the same issue after moving my music over from internal storage to a external card. On rocket player the files would be listed twice just like what op stated and using Google play they would not be able to play in the player even if they are playable from directly opening them in astro. While my phone is the skyrocket i727, the issue is exactly the same on aokp milestone 6. I tried reformatting the card then putting back on the music yet to no avail. I'm hoping someone would know what the problem is.
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Yeah, I'm having the same issue after moving my music over from internal storage to a external card. On rocket player the files would be listed twice just like what op stated and using Google play they would not be able to play in the player even if they are playable from directly opening them in astro. While my phone is the skyrocket i727, the issue is exactly the same on aokp milestone 6. I tried reformatting the card then putting back on the music yet to no avail. I'm hoping someone would know what the problem is.
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I am having the same issue...
Finally able to fix this problem. Googled a bit more to find solution. Harder to find than expected but anyways this is how I did it.
Went into
setting --> apps ---> all ---> media storage
And cleared data
After I cleared data of both the music player apps I used, play music and rocket player. Somehow on milestone 6, media scanner is very stubborn and refuses to run many times even with the download of media scanner apps and restarts of the phone. Somehow I managed to get media scanner to run and finally I see my files in play music. I click on a file to ru and it starts playing. Very relieved to say the least.
Media scanner apps used were both SD rescan and rescan media. Don't know which one did the trick.
Hope this helps.
Hi guys. Earlier ive put aside my GS3 on my wallet. I notice there's a sound, somekind like a notification. I empty my wallet and found out it caused by my work staff card. The card is biometric if im not mistaken. Any u guys know about this?
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Hi guys. Earlier ive put aside my GS3 on my wallet. I notice there's a sound, somekind like a notification. I empty my wallet and found out it caused by my work staff card. The card is biometric if im not mistaken. Any u guys know about this?
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NFC enabled?
vels707 said:
NFC enabled?
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Yes, its enabled. Anything to do with NFC?
I tried and it got to do with NFC. Can this feature reads data on my staff card? =-O
No it's doesn't read data but it will make a connection with either your staff card or a back card over nfc
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Download TagInfo from the marketplace and you can read what's on the card, almost certainly nothing exciting and just an apparently random number to identify the card. If you are feeling brave you can download TagWriter and see if you can write to it, just don't expect to be able to clock in/open doors/etc the next day at the office.
Download NFC RETAG and you can assign different tasks when your phone comes into contact with your card.
I've got it to open a Tube application when I scan my oyster card, my bank app when I scan my bank card and have a few old cards here and there as recycled NFC tags.
PowerAmp is not really working that well for me in 4.2. It shows my external sd card, however, it doesn't show any of my folders underneath the tree. I have tried to reinstall, clear app data, and whatnot, but nothing seems to work. I'm formatted in FAT32, and was wondering if anyone on 4.2 got this to work? I'm guessing my card might need to be formatted to exFAT? But i'd like to get confirmation before I transfer 50gb of data to my computer/back to my sd.
It works fine for me on 4.1.2 with fat32.
Op is talking about aosp not tw... I think haha 4.2 is only aosp unless he typed it wrong
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Op is talking about aosp not tw... I think haha 4.2 is only aosp unless he typed it wrong
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That is right, 4.2 is correct
My mistake, I also use poweramp on Liquid which is 4.2, with no issues.
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PowerAmp is not really working that well for me in 4.2. It shows my external sd card, however, it doesn't show any of my folders underneath the tree. I have tried to reinstall, clear app data, and whatnot, but nothing seems to work. I'm formatted in FAT32, and was wondering if anyone on 4.2 got this to work? I'm guessing my card might need to be formatted to exFAT? But i'd like to get confirmation before I transfer 50gb of data to my computer/back to my sd.
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I jump between TW & AOSP pretty often - I've never noticed any problems with Poweramp in CM 10.1 (Android 4.2.2) - I've got a lot of nested folders and they are all accessible in-app.
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I jump between TW & AOSP pretty often - I've never noticed any problems with Poweramp in CM 10.1 (Android 4.2.2) - I've got a lot of nested folders and they are all accessible in-app.
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Really weird. This looks like a pretty common issue from what i've been seeing. I did an absolutely clean wipe. I'm formatting my card to exFAT right now because I had some issues and heard that FAT32 doesn't work.
I will report back if it fixes the problem.
kimdoocheol said:
Really weird. This looks like a pretty common issue from what i've been seeing. I did an absolutely clean wipe. I'm formatting my card to exFAT right now because I had some issues and heard that FAT32 doesn't work.
I will report back if it fixes the problem.
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My card is fat32. I think many people switched to fat32 because some ROMs wouldn't work well with exfat.
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PowerAmp is not really working that well for me in 4.2. It shows my external sd card, however, it doesn't show any of my folders underneath the tree. I have tried to reinstall, clear app data, and whatnot, but nothing seems to work. I'm formatted in FAT32, and was wondering if anyone on 4.2 got this to work? I'm guessing my card might need to be formatted to exFAT? But i'd like to get confirmation before I transfer 50gb of data to my computer/back to my sd.
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I'm running MeanBean ICE and PA has been playing a song and locking up when it ends recently. I haven't had any filing system issues.
I just reinstalled. I haven't been to the car, so I'm not sure if it's fixed.
It was the ROM. Carbon has charging issues. I switched to XenonHD and it works perfectly fine.
Formatting the SD/going from exfat4>exfat did nothing.
I lost a lot of files because it would constantly drop the USB connection and transferring files would fail.
PowerAmp shows my storage tree now...
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It was the ROM. Carbon has charging issues. I switched to XenonHD and it works perfectly fine.
Formatting the SD/going from exfat4>exfat did nothing.
I lost a lot of files because it would constantly drop the USB connection and transferring files would fail.
PowerAmp shows my storage tree now...
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Well from what o understand on AOSP for full compatibility you need to format to fat32, else you risk corruption and read/write issues.
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Is there a way to disable media scan on KitKat? I have a rooted Sony Z3 with an external microsd card.
I know there was an app for Gingebread, but I understand it's not compatible with Android 4+.
I understand it used to be common to place a .nomedia empty file in folders not to be scanned, but is this still possible/does it still work now that Kitkat has made it harder to write to external SD cards?
I am asking the question because android.process.media is draining my battery. I use poweramp as a music app and I have disabled background scanning, but something else must be triggering it.
Btw, I tried formatting the card with the phone, and I also tried removing the card altogether (so i don't know what on earth is being scanned), but android.process.media keeps running and draining battery!
Thanks!