I have been having problems deleting a file on my Prime. When I bought it, it had the book "Alice in Wonderland" on it for free.. I do not reed books, so I deleted it. But then, suddenly, it was back on the library. I tried deleting it from file explorer, but same thing. I tried deleting the boog-image from gallery, but same thing. Back within in a little while.. Does anyone know how to disable the book-library, or to delete the file?
Thanks..
Edit: The book is called "Adventures in Wonderland", not Alice
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Hi all,
I've used root explorer to clear out a few useless apps on my Orange Atrix, and I've accidentally deleted something. Not sure what, but it's caused my ringtone/notifications to set to something default and if I try to select a new sound, the list is empty.
Any idea what I've deleted and if there's anyway I can get it back?
Thanks
maybe a folder or app where you got your tones from? if the file isnt there your phone plays the default tone.
Nah, I was just deleting APKs from /system/app
Anyone else got any idea what I might have accidentally deleted?
Hello
I currently have a HTC EVO 3D, and on that phone I am able to create a folder named ".story" in my file manager app, and all the pictures i put in there will not be shown in the gallery app. Works very nicely and exactly how i want it to.
Now onto my issue.
I tried to do the same on my Prime, creating the folder, putting the exact same images in that folder (all from dropbox, syncing it to my comp, phone and tablet).
But the images still show up in the gallery app.
I also tried to put a file named ".nomedia" in the folder where i keep all my pictures, still didn't work.
I tried rebooting several times to see if i had to force a media rescan, but it seems like it didn't work.
I'm running .21 update, stock, with root.
Am i missing something, or doesn't this work on the prime? If so, any other way to do so? (I don't want to use a "vault" app to hide pictures and such)
- Moon
I had the same problem a few weeks ago. Try the app Hide it Pro. It's free on the Play Store and does pretty much what your asking for. It also works with videos, Docs and apps.
Sorry can't post links yet!
Edit: oops sorry, I didn't read the full post
it is annoying
You are not alone, naming the folder with a initial . and creating a .nomedia file does not work for me either, and I find it annoying. Clearing Gallery cache did not help either.
Works just fine, ".foldername" with a .nomedia file in it. Does for me at least, hides it from gallery and from the built in file manager. ES file explorer picks it up but it's at that point you're not hiding anything
EDIT: Try making a file on your computer, right click and New>File, name it .nomedia, then DropBox (that's a sign up link, you'd help me out as well as yourself by using it) it. Download it and copy/pasta to the folder. That's how I did it, because a guide I read said it worked better if from the PC instead of through Android.
If you're trying to hide a whole trove of things, make a folder and name it ".foldername" and then put your hidden folder in there and name it ".foldername2", then drop a .nomedia into .foldername and .foldername2 as well, doubling up on that.
I wouldn't recommend that with app picture caches though
If you are up for using a different Gallery app, you can whitelist and blacklist folders to be displayed in QuickPic
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Works just fine, ".foldername" with a .nomedia file in it. Does for me at least, hides it from gallery and from the built in file manager. ES file explorer picks it up but it's at that point you're not hiding anything
EDIT: Try making a file on your computer, right click and New>File, name it .nomedia, then DropBox (that's a sign up link, you'd help me out as well as yourself by using it) it. Download it and copy/pasta to the folder. That's how I did it, because a guide I read said it worked better if from the PC instead of through Android.
If you're trying to hide a whole trove of things, make a folder and name it ".foldername" and then put your hidden folder in there and name it ".foldername2", then drop a .nomedia into .foldername and .foldername2 as well, doubling up on that.
I wouldn't recommend that with app picture caches though
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I did as you suggested, and it friggin worked! AWESOME!, mucho love to you
Now my files on my tablet is in a folder named ".story", inside that is a folder named "story" with a ".nomedia" file in it, and inside the "story" folder are all my pictures. (I made the ".nomedia" file on Windows, dropboxed it over to my Android Tablet (I made a new .txt document, removed the .txt and just named it ".nomedia" if anyone is wondering)).
After you try it, be sure to reboot your tablet, as that forces a media rescan
Since getting the sgs3 this weekend, it's been chewing up my chrome bookmarks. Anyone else getting this problem? Luckily I found one of my computers that wasn't yet synced and pulled the .bak bookmarks file as the .bak on my regular computer was already hosed. After setting up chrome on the sg3 and logging in, it only partially syncs part of the bookmark file and then deletes the rest off of google. Never happened on my tabs / sgs / sgs2lte etc, so i think it has something to do with sgs3... maybe...
Same thing happened to me too! Opened Chrome on my computer and ALL my bookmarks were gone!
Did you find out where to get them back? On my w7x64 machine they're at:
C:\Users\(username here)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
There's two files - Bookmarks (no extension) and Bookmarks.bak
On your computer, go to the wrench and down to the 'Signed in as blahblah' and then sign out of google. Then - hopefully your .bak file hasn't been overwritten yet and then you can copy the .bak file to a safe place, overwrite your messed up Bookmarks file and then sign back into google. When you do, it should pick up the new file and then re-sync it and you should be ok (I've had to do this twice now).
If your computer .bak file is already hosed, then find another device (tab? / laptop?) and before turning it back on, pull the internet connection from the wall so it doesn't overwrite the file again when it connects to the net. Good luck!!
No idea why this is happening, but looks like a sgs3 / chrome problem.
same thing happened to me. I caught it on my desktop before it wiped em all out. There are directions online how to restore them. DONT CLOSE YOUR BROWSER if you havent already. there are 2 bookmark files. you will have to restore from one of them.
Hello All,
I havnt been on here in a long time, but something is bugging me.
On the internet bookmarks there are folders labled as the gmail addresses that i have set up on the phone.
Nothing is saved in them and I want to get rid of the folders.
Isit possible??
Phone is standerd, not rooted.
Thanks in advance!!
Let 'em be, empty folders don't hurt anyone. Have you tried deleting them? Just do it, won't hurt your device (my non developer opinion).
Hello, I just hate them being there, I know it wont do any harm in removing them but i just cannot figure out how to remove them, long press does nothing
You need to be rooted for that.
Now, what are you doing checking your device's folders anyway?, no wonder it's bugging you.
don't be folder hatin' now
The folders are in my internet bookmarks at the top which i find gets in my way
Rename them to "I don't mind this folder being here 1" & "I don't mind this folder being here 2".
I have recently noticed a directory appearing in the root directory of my SD card entitled "SexyAlbum." I have not downloaded any apps or files remotely remotely related to anything that this name would suggest. And every time I delete the directory, it reappears within minutes. It is always empty, and always contains the subdirectories "Saved_images" (which is empty) and "cache," which contains another empty subdirectory called "images."
I have run anti-virus scans, but the scans don't seem to detect any virus or malware. However, since this directory reappears every time I delete it, I am convinced it's malware.
Any ideas on how to address this problem? It happens on both my ICS phone and my JB Nexus 7. Thanks.
There must be a app related to that! Go to manage apps and see if you can find the culprit!
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There must be a app related to that! Go to manage apps and see if you can find the culprit!
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Thanks. After spending almost all day and night yesterday reformatting my devices, I figured out that this obnoxious directory appears to be installed by the Dolphin E-book add-on to the otherwise terrific Dolphin browser. This really shakes my confidence in Dolphin's integrity, or at least the integrity of its add-ons.