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...
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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.
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Hello all, I had recently upgraded to a SanDisk Class 4 32GB microSD card and within a few days after I had merged all of my phone's data and my old sd's data, my pictures come up as broken files, and my music shows about 5-8 duplicates of each song but only a select few will play and the others will act like they're playing but no audio plays and the seconds of the song stays at zero. I even restart my phone with the sd out and the media scanner doesn't show that it's running, and I'm pretty sure it's not because when I go back to the music player I still see all of the songs that are on my sd and the pictures still show that they're broken...idk how the files still show in there without the sd card being in there, but I'm afraid I might have done something wrong when I had cut and pasted all of the files from the phone itself onto the sd. I have no real knowledge of android programming or rooting or anything like that so I figure it would help to mention my phone is stock but officially upgraded to 4.0.1.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and could possibly help more users out there!
I think you have to go to settings-apps-all tab-media storage- clear data. I think I remember right. Maybe try it without your card in. Replace SD card and turn on phone and I think it will scan correctly.
Or something like that. Hope it helps
Yeah I've tried all of the available functions from the phone and also mounting & unmounting it. I'm assuming from being a windows user that I might have transferred over some sort of "playlist" that remembers all of the file extensions for each file, and since they're not located in their original place it cant find the file...idk but it really takes a toll on my drive to work!
Hi all,
My O1 has a problem wherein some apps recognise the files present on the SD card and some don't. I'm going to eloborate the scenario below.
Well, firstly the current ROM i'm running is the latest MIUI by Zack, which i had installed yesterday night. But prior to that i was running the stable CM7.2 with the candied kernel by DjnoXD.
While i was running the CM7, i noticed that only PowerAmp was able to detect my music present in the microSD card. Apps such as GentleAlarm, JetAudio, Fusion Music player and the default music player wasn't able to detect any music on my phone. So i assumed that the microSD card has ran it's course, since it was more than 2+ years old.
So yesterday, i bought a SanDisk Ultra 16GB class 10 card, and I installed MIUI on it, and to my disappointment, MIUI player didn't detect any music player, same result with JetAudio, Fusion and GentleAlarm. Yet somehow PowerAmp magically is able to detect the music!
Now I'm sure this problem is not because of a faulty microSD card, Kernel or the ROM.
I hope i have provided enough information, If more is needed please inform me about it.
What could be the problem? I searched a lot before making this thread.
Regards,
CD
Edit: I'm facing a lot of signal loss recently... Could this be due to a damaged hardware? I did drop the phone a couple of times
Installed ROM Manager?
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Installed ROM Manager?
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I never liked Clockwork recovery or the ROM Manager, I use amonra recovery and MIUI doesn't have ROM Manager... Also i did check for the .nomedia file using root explorer, i didn't find it in the .nomedia file in the ringtones/alarm/music folders...
I feel my phone has a hardware damage as the signal keeps getting lost way too often after i dropped the phone... It wasn't a very steep fall, probably it fell on a delicate spot which i presume is located where the sd card and antenna is located(i.e., at the top of the phone)
Can this be fixed by servicing? My phone's out of warranty anyways... or do i buy another phone?
Does your sdcard work fine otherwise? Can you view pictures/documents or move apps to sd? If so, it looks like for some reason the phone is not scanning for music files and building it's music database. Why don't you try flashing another gingerbread or an ics rom to test?
Nothing is wrong with your phone. There can be many reasons for this problem.
Copy entire microsd card to your PC. Now delete all the useless folders created by so many music
players you used.. in the copied folder. Search for .nomedia in complete copied
folder.
Format your microsd card.. (fat32). Copy everything back. Done!!!
Dont do this if you dont have knowledge about which folders to keep and delete.
I recomend you to use only one music player at a time!!
> search for .nomedia files on folder and delete those.
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I had deleted all the .nomedia files present... yet i had the problem. So I formatted my sd card again, created a 512 MB ext2 partition, a 64MB swap partition and the rest as FAT32 via the recovery.
I flashed the latest CM7 nightly and the default music player is able to recognise the files...
However randomly, the music apps keep scanning for media files and show 0 results... it's as if the sd card slot is loosly attached to the phone.
The signal keeps dropping often, and i'm sure it's not the network problem as i have an older nokia phone which has full signal... i mean at times, if ppl call my o1, i'm unreachable yet if the nokia is called at the same time, people are able to connect...
I suspect it's some hardware fault... Can it be fixed?
I had deleted all the .nomedia files present... yet i had the problem. So I formatted my sd card again, created a 512 MB ext2 partition, a 64MB swap partition and the rest as FAT32 via the recovery.
I flashed the latest CM7 nightly and the default music player is able to recognise the files...
However randomly, the music apps keep scanning for media files and show 0 results... it's as if the sd card slot is loosly attached to the phone.
The signal keeps dropping often, and i'm sure it's not the network problem as i have an older nokia phone which has full signal... i mean at times, if ppl call my o1, i'm unreachable yet if the nokia is called at the same time, people are able to connect...
I suspect it's some hardware fault... Can it be fixed?
Cant be sure about your network problem. May be baseband not properly flashed.
Second.. go to network preferences and select Only Gsm or Only Wcdma. Not auto.
If you are using a2sd or link2sd.. Dont move the default music player to sd card.
Cant be sure about your network problem. May be baseband not properly flashed.
Second.. go to network preferences and select Only Gsm or Only Wcdma. Not auto.
If you are using a2sd or link2sd.. Dont move the default music player to sd card.
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I Will try the gsm/wcdma only option.
Im sure I flashed the new baseband correctly as Ive been using it for more than 8-9 months...
I'll test this for a while...
Could be a long shot, but maybe try to GENTLY clean the contacts on the SD card slot.
Sorry to hear you are still having these issues.
If I had the money for it... I would upgrade to a more powerful phone hehe. Not that it helps your current issue...
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eigokyoukan said:
Could be a long shot, but maybe try to GENTLY clean the contacts on the SD card slot.
Sorry to hear you are still having these issues.
If I had the money for it... I would upgrade to a more powerful phone hehe. Not that it helps your current issue...
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Well, I've gently pressed the sd card slot hoping it would fix the problem ... I'll test this phone for a couple of weeks, and if the problem persits, I'll give it for servicing to a known person rather than a LG service centre...
I can manage with random unmounting issue , but random/often signal losses defeats the purpose of having a phone...
Regards,
CD
CosmicDance said:
Well, I've gently pressed the sd card slot hoping it would fix the problem ... I'll test this phone for a couple of weeks, and if the problem persits, I'll give it for servicing to a known person rather than a LG service centre...
I can manage with random unmounting issue , but random/often signal losses defeats the purpose of having a phone...
Regards,
CD
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Yeah LG ppl are quite useless but still I like them
They change my motherboard everytime I go to them
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[Q] Strange Issue: Stock Music Player loses Playlist & Settings after every reboot
I'm on Stock ICS and every time i reboot my SGSIII, the stock music player loses all my playlists and settings. I've got the same issue on JB (DLIB).
Can anyone help me with this please? Or can anyone tell me, where the stock music player stores the Playlist? Did a forumsearch, but i only found this old an unanswerd thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=979931
Thanks!
Anyone?
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I have seen this on through LI8 leak but with the AOSP music player on the market, really annoyed me.
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I don't have this issue, but similar... after I play a music, if I disconnect the headset after a while (can't say how long) when I plug again the headset, the music starts not from the point were was left, but from the start. This also happens if I restart the phone!!!
I don't get it... is this right?!? Is this a bug or a "feature"?!?!
Samsung, were are in 2012!!! My previous music players, google music and sense player did this!!!
Apologies for bringing back an old thread, but I'm having a similar problem where the playlists in the stock music player app never seem to retain their songs after plugging the phone into a PC to do some backup or synching for example. This is on the 4.1.2 BTU update. Anyone know of any ideas on how to fix it? I have tried dismounting the SD Card (Where all the songs are) and reinserting it.
I am experiencing the same problem. The actual playlist doesn't get deleted but the contents of all playlists gets deleted. It's caused by the external SD card getting unmounted. I found out that if I bump my phone (eg. by putting it down on a table a little too hard or throwing it on my bed) my external SD card will sometimes get disconnected briefly (a warning message does get displayed at the top in the notification area but it just flashes by briefly so you might miss it) and after that all of my playlists have been emptied out. To prove this is the cause I tried to unmount the SD card manually via Settings and the same thing happened to the playlists. Also when you connect to a PC I believe the SD card gets unmounted from the phone so it can be accessed via the PC. The strange thing is the playlists don't seem to be stored on the external SD card. I took my SD card out of my phone and plugged into my PC and did a search. Couldn't find any playlist files. There is a folder on the internal storage card called Playlists and I can see a bunch of files in there that have the same name as all of my playlists. These files don't seem to store the actual playlists though because they are all emtpy zero length files and their modification data is set to the the day I first created the playlist even though I have added songs to the playlist since then.
Can anyone please provide an explanation of how the stock player stores playlists or how to back them up? I would like to at least be able to backup my playlists in case they get cleared out again.
Oyyyy
Well that blows. My s2 didn't do this, my s3 sure does tho. Sounds like when the SD is unmounted, it notices files no longer exist, and removes them from playlist. Definitely supports my hatred of the Nexus line (no SD card so Google likely just overlooked this).
Anyways, I read this as a some-what fix:
"I use MyBackup Pro to save my playlists, it does a really good job but have just recently changed all mine to M3U playlists which I store and update on my PC. I just move them to my music folder on the sdcard of the phone and my media players (mixzing, stock player, amazon mp3 and google music) all recognize them. This save me a lot of hassles if something gets lost or not backed up right."
I haven't tried yet, but it's better than having to re-create playlists I suppose.
Pro-tip: Create a tasker/local/NFC launch to backup playlists weekly/ whatever
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and just stumbled upon this post... I unmounted my SD Card and then re-mounted and bam... The playlist on my stock music player is gone. I tried to restore data only from Titanium Backup and MyBackup Pro. No luck... will now try to restore just the data partition image which I made a few days ago.
Hopefully this will bring it back, if not, will have to do a full Nandroid Restore.
This should not happen if I choose to unmount and then remount the sdcard to refresh data.
I have done this by accident again, even knowing that this would happen. Back to the drawing board.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and just stumbled upon this post... I unmounted my SD Card and then re-mounted and bam... The playlist on my stock music player is gone. I tried to restore data only from Titanium Backup and MyBackup Pro. No luck... will now try to restore just the data partition image which I made a few days ago.
Hopefully this will bring it back, if not, will have to do a full Nandroid Restore.
This should not happen if I choose to unmount and then remount the sdcard to refresh data.
I have done this by accident again, even knowing that this would happen. Back to the drawing board.
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I sincerely doubt a Nandroid restore is necessary, just delete all music off the phone/sd card, and send the playlists to the phone again...I've done this several times.
No idea why it keeps happening, it is annoying, but I have all the playlists stored in Winamp, so I just send them to the SD card, and I'm back up and running in short order.
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I sincerely doubt a Nandroid restore is necessary, just delete all music off the phone/sd card, and send the playlists to the phone again...I've done this several times.
No idea why it keeps happening, it is annoying, but I have all the playlists stored in Winamp, so I just send them to the SD card, and I'm back up and running in short order.
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No disrepect, but it does not make any sense to have to delete all of my music to restore a playlist. I do not use Winamp so not a viable solution for me. I found out that the default players can see playlists under the internal sdcard card, music, then playlists folder. As I said I have a T-Mobile Note2.
The reason my for post was that Playlists should not be lost when unmounting and re-mounting of your external sdcard.
So I'm not sure if this is Samsung's fault or Androids. But I'm very disappointed with the Samsung Note 2 on Verizon, for one MAIN reason. The SD card is 16GB internal which honestly isn't very much. Everything you put on your phone is put onto the internal storage of the device instead of the " optional " SD card slot which I have a 32GB in there. WHY even have this option if you can't use it to put apps on it? My main beef with this is Google Play Music and Video's. Recently Google Play launched the service where it has unlimited streaming etc which is wonderful. Come to find out you can't change the directory of where it's put at. I am Rooted. I have tried beans ROM SD swap which STILL puts the music on the 16gb even though the swap says it did the transfer and I have 32GB free. I have looked for weeks and ran many scripts, use Rom Tool Box Pro and there is just no work around for this that I have found to work on my phone. Heck I even go to sdcard/data/android/come.google.android.music and yeah it has a data and file folder but there is NOTHING even in them, even when I cache my music in Google Play or click the " keep on device " Im so frustrated I don't even know what to do. I bought the new Die Hard movie yesterday which is 3GB and of course it saved it to my internal storage. The reason I wanted it on my phone is because I'm taking a trip to California soon and being a Verizon customer I only have 2GB of Data ( which sucks ) so Yeah. I know this is really my first post and I'm sorry to be ranting and raving but I have no IRL i can vent to about this because they will have NO clue what I am talking about. So besides beating my head on my keyboard, slicing my wrists or throwing the phone away does ANYONE have some good advice on what to do with my whole situation?
Hope everyone has a good memorial day weekend. Thanks All.
I hate this too, but I think both are to blame. I blame Google for no longer allowing us to install apps to the SD card, and for not allowing developers to install additional game content to the SD card. I'm not sure if this is the fault of Samsung, but why did they call the internal memory sdcard instead of internal? Every app that defaults to the external card such as Titanium Backup thinks the internal "sdcard" is actually the sdcard, because I seem to recall that on my Thunderbolt Google Play Music always downloaded songs to the external card.
Having expandable memory is pretty pointless for me, because the only thing I can use it for it TWRP backups, Titanium Backups, Pictures, and manual files that I copy over. I need more memory for apps, app data, and Google Play Music files.
I have my camera setup to save pictures to my SD Card and my music is also saved there and I'm not rooted.
Just checked and Amazon MP3 files are stored on the internal memory.
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So you feel my pain geoff5093. If I knew this was going to happen I would of opted to find a "comparable" phome with 32gb internal but then I looked and everything has 16. This is really a remarkable device except for that fact. I think your right about it being both samsung and androids dault. I seem to remember on gingerbread OS you could move apps so I dont know why they would take a step back. Having the SD card on here is about as useless as a turd in a toilet. I doubt 4.2.2 will fix this issue as well. No clue what to do.
Also I came from the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which had 32gb internal and no SD and I was happy with that. Blah lol I need a beer!
So any of the apps2sd apps don't work no
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Thats correct or if it does say it moves it , it just tricks you to think you it is but in reality its putting everything on your internal memory.
Ah that sucks! Even those for root?
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Huh
So what's the problem.? There is plenty of space just use sd card put all movies and pics on it. Then use the program gl to sd to put large games on sd card. I have a 64gb sd card you should have no problem putting a 3gb movie of the phone
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So what's the problem.? There is plenty of space just use sd card put all movies and pics on it. Then use the program gl to sd to put large games on sd card. I have a 64gb sd card you should have no problem putting a 3gb movie of the phone
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The problem is google music and movies.. I cant just simple move the movies I buy or rent on google play to my sd card because the program doeant see them then.. I when I put music on my devie for google play it does the same thing.. Im *****ing because google wants u to buy their movies and music but dont give you a viable solution to store them and 16gb isnt a lot especially when apps and the system take almost have of the disk space. I realize I can take music from my computer and use the usb to transfer music but thats not what im trying to do.
Got it
Okay well with movies bought through Google movies you can download them to do card via wifi once downloaded you can move them to sd of phone would that not accomplish what you want?
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So I'm not sure if this is Samsung's fault or Androids. But I'm very disappointed with the Samsung Note 2 on Verizon, for one MAIN reason. The SD card is 16GB internal which honestly isn't very much. Everything you put on your phone is put onto the internal storage of the device instead of the " optional " SD card slot which I have a 32GB in there. WHY even have this option if you can't use it to put apps on it? My main beef with this is Google Play Music and Video's. Recently Google Play launched the service where it has unlimited streaming etc which is wonderful. Come to find out you can't change the directory of where it's put at. I am Rooted. I have tried beans ROM .....
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Have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285312
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Have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285312
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Actually No I have not.. Have you tried it.. Thank you for showing me that thread I am goingbto check it out now and see what it all does and how it does it. Thank You
While I am checking this out.. Does any one know for sure where Google Play Music puts it's music? I thought and have read it was sdcard/data/Android/come.google.android.music but the Cache and File folder on there are completely empty... ( I am rooted and using root browser ) and if I add an entire album from google play to device it shows that my internal storage went down but I still can't see the files..
I am currently downloading that Master Clean app off of google play to see what it does.
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While I am checking this out.. Does any one know for sure where Google Play Music puts it's music? I thought and have read it was sdcard/data/Android/come.google.android.music but the Cache and File folder on there are completely empty... ( I am rooted and using root browser ) and if I add an entire album from google play to device it shows that my internal storage went down but I still can't see the files..
I am currently downloading that Master Clean app off of google play to see what it does.
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I did a Google search and found the music files I had downloaded but the files, according to the post I found, said they were only findable in Root Explorer for some odd reason. They were also in a odd place if I remember correctly. I wish I could find that post again, but maybe try Root Explorer and try Googling Google Music location if you haven't already.
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So that master clean does not work like stated.. was worth a shot. Wish I knew how to properly run a script to get everything to work.
shangrila500 said:
I did a Google search and found the music files I had downloaded but the files, according to the post I found, said they were only findable in Root Explorer for some odd reason. They were also in a odd place if I remember correctly. I wish I could find that post again, but maybe try Root Explorer and try Googling Google Music location if you haven't already.
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After a few unsuccessful attempts to locate where Google stores the files I gave Root Explorer a shot and it works. The music files are stored as mp3s in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music and the tracks are renamed (such as 3947.mp3 etc.). I currently have one album pinned on the device, the album has 14 tracks and there are 14 mp3 files in the folder stated above. Now, I expected the tracks to be protected and not playable in other music player apps (or on other devices) but I was kind of hoping that after I move them to my external microSD, Google Play Music would still be able to play those - which is not the case... *sigh
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After a few unsuccessful attempts to locate where Google stores the files I gave Root Explorer a shot and it works. The music files are stored as mp3s in /data/data/com.google.android.music/files/music and the tracks are renamed (such as 3947.mp3 etc.). I currently have one album pinned on the device, the album has 14 tracks and there are 14 mp3 files in the folder stated above. Now, I expected the tracks to be protected and not playable in other music player apps (or on other devices) but I was kind of hoping that after I move them to my external microSD, Google Play Music would still be able to play those - which is not the case... *sigh
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I've always wondered where it was stored, thanks! Now I can download the songs from All Access
geoff5093 said:
I've always wondered where it was stored, thanks! Now I can download the songs from All Access
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Yup, you can download as many as you can fit on your internal storage. The problem is not being able to play the songs once moved to a different location (unless youre perhaps aware of a method to do so?).
Hi guys,
I was previously using a Galaxy Nexus but exchanged it for an S3. The main deciding factor was because the S3 has support for SD cards. I have a lot of music, and I wanted to benefit from more storage than the Galaxy Nexus had built in.
I immediately had trouble copying data to my SD card, but after some google searching I figured out how to get Bit Torrent Sync to sync music to my phone from my computer. It was just a matter of naming the folders a certain way. I also synced my picture collection to my SD card as well. That worked fine too.
However, my favorite music player (Player Pro) and my favorite picture viewer (Quick Pic) cannot see media on my SD card. Player Pro cannot see any MP3's and Quick Pic cannot see any pictures. I've been Googling for a couple of days, and I'm getting more frustrated. I find countless topics about how to write data to an SD card, but I can't find any good topics on how to READ data stored on an SD card. Both apps can't see a thing. I even tried Google Play Music (which I loathe and don't like using) and it can't see any of my music files on my SD card either.
It's almost as if the SD card is locked from reading. I read a lot of forum posts all over the Internet talking about being unable to write, but nothing about being unable to read.
Is there some magic to get these apps to see media on the SD card?
jlacroix82 said:
Hi guys,
I was previously using a Galaxy Nexus but exchanged it for an S3. The main deciding factor was because the S3 has support for SD cards. I have a lot of music, and I wanted to benefit from more storage than the Galaxy Nexus had built in.
I immediately had trouble copying data to my SD card, but after some google searching I figured out how to get Bit Torrent Sync to sync music to my phone from my computer. It was just a matter of naming the folders a certain way. I also synced my picture collection to my SD card as well. That worked fine too.
However, my favorite music player (Player Pro) and my favorite picture viewer (Quick Pic) cannot see media on my SD card. Player Pro cannot see any MP3's and Quick Pic cannot see any pictures. I've been Googling for a couple of days, and I'm getting more frustrated. I find countless topics about how to write data to an SD card, but I can't find any good topics on how to READ data stored on an SD card. Both apps can't see a thing. I even tried Google Play Music (which I loathe and don't like using) and it can't see any of my music files on my SD card either.
It's almost as if the SD card is locked from reading. I read a lot of forum posts all over the Internet talking about being unable to write, but nothing about being unable to read.
Is there some magic to get these apps to see media on the SD card?
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Download any file manager from Playstore. I like "Es File Explorer". It's free and very good. And see manually if the MP3's are in the directory where you want them to be. :angel:
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Download any file manager from Playstore. I like "Es File Explorer". It's free and very good. And see manually if the MP3's are in the directory where you want them to be. :angel:
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Yes, I've already confirmed that the files are definitely there.
jlacroix82 said:
Yes, I've already confirmed that the files are definitely there.
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Are they in MP3 format?
Well, I don't even understand. Try to tap on them and start through ES File Explorer manually. They should start playing.
What kind of SD card? What format is it in? If you go into Settings / Storage - does it display your SD card there? If you plug the phone back to the PC, can you play MP3s and see your pictures through the computers media players?
Thanks for your reply. Yes, MP3 format and yes, they do start playing if I tap individual files. It's just that apps can't find media on the sd card. I've read that kit kat changed the way apps access sd cards, so I'm wondering if that's why I'm having problems?
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Thanks for your reply. Yes, MP3 format and yes, they do start playing if I tap individual files. It's just that apps can't find media on the sd card. I've read that kit kat changed the way apps access sd cards, so I'm wondering if that's why I'm having problems?
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If you are rooted, then that is an easy fix.
The other way to test this is to use the built in Music player from Samsung. If it reads all the MP3s, then it's probably the SD card issue.
es0tericcha0s said:
If you are rooted, then that is an easy fix.
The other way to test this is to use the built in Music player from Samsung. If it reads all the MP3s, then it's probably the SD card issue.
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The stock music player doesn't see music either. I thought about rooting my phone, but it seems like all the instructions are for Windows. I don't have a Windows computer, I'm all Linux (even at work). I'd rather not install Windows just to root my phone if I don't have to.
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The stock music player doesn't see music either. I thought about rooting my phone, but it seems like all the instructions are for Windows. I don't have a Windows computer, I'm all Linux (even at work). I'd rather not install Windows just to root my phone if I don't have to.
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Best bet is towelroot. I had the same issue with player pro with it not playing them because even though they are in mp3 format it told me they weren't
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ShapesBlue said:
Best bet is towelroot. I had the same issue with player pro with it not playing them because even though they are in mp3 format it told me they weren't
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Thank you so much! The issue is now solved!
Here is what the problem was. Kit Kat prevents apps from not only writing to sd cards, but reading from them as well. Each app can only read and write to their own specific folder on the sd card. In my case, I was using Bit Torrent Sync to handle syncing music from my PC to my phone (as I always have) and in order to get Bit Torrent Sync to work, I had to set it up in the following folder on the sd card:
Android/data/com.bittorrent.sync/music
The problem was, that Kit Kat prevented all my media apps from scanning that folder, since it enforces it to belong to Bit Torrent Sync, and will not allow another app to even touch it. I have no idea why ES File Explorer was able to open it and play music from within that folder. Perhaps it bypasses Kit Kat's restriction somehow.
So, I used towelroot as mentioned above and installed SuperSU, then, I downloaded and installed the sdcard fix from the play store and ran it.
After running the sd card fix, it said it enabled normal sd card usage. But it STILL didn't work. But after rebooting my phone, all my media apps (including Player Pro) immediately started seeing my media and everything seems to be back to normal!
If Google patches Android to prevent this fix from working in the future, I am officially done with this platform. There's no excuse for someone to have to go to this extreme just to get something as simple MP3's seen by a music playing app. I can understand the security improvement of this, but they shouldn't be preventing normal usage of a device.
Thanks so much, I appreciate the help! I hope my steps above helps someone else.