All of a sudden mediastore stopped working on my Note, all the files are there on the card and any program that doesn't require the mediastore database can see stuff fine, but any program that uses mediastore to get it's file data doesn't work, for example all my picture viewers say I have no pictures, though in Quickpic if I change it to explorer mode I can see them fine. Does anyone know how to get it working again? I've tried shutting down and re-starting the phone, un-mounting and re-mounting the card, plugging the phone into my computer, force stoping mediastore and clearing it's data but still nothing works, it simply doesn't even attempt to scan the memory card (and internal phone memory) for media files.
I'm running the stock ICS rom, rooted.
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I'm trouble with android media process taking up 70-100% CPU on boot for about 10-15 minutes. Specifically, I believe it is the Media storage since my music doesn;t load until android media process is done.
I checked for corrupted images. Haven't found anything to check for corrupted music. But I did eventually delete all music,pics videos. Then Factory reset, format /system and reflashed rom ( on passion v6.5) Restored watchdog to check and it is still happening....
Perhaps my file system is corrupted >? My cable sometimes disconnects...
Is there anyway to fix it?
Media Storage is used by Gallery and for ringtones/alarms/notifications. In stock eclair.ji6 and stock froyo.ka6/kb5 it's extremely buggy and does take a while to read all media upon rebooting your phone. There are times when scanning media gets stuck at 0% and you must kill the Media Storage process.
There is no need to factory reset/reflash next time you have a problem with Media Storage. Go to Application Manager, Running Applications, force close Media Storage process and clear Media Storage Data. Reboot and it will scan media twice (internal and external memory). Shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes even if you have tons of media files.
There is nothing wrong with your file system, Media Storage is just a buggy POS. Does anyone know if it has been fixed in Android OS 3 or 4?
Phrack said:
There is nothing wrong with your file system, Media Storage is just a buggy POS. Does anyone know if it has been fixed in Android OS 3 or 4?
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Currently running an ICS rom, I have the same kind of problem... but it is really annoying since I have changed my sd card (copied the old one's content to a bigger sdcard, on which I already had music, photos and other stuff... just did what you suggested, I hope it will run smoother now!
BTW, thank you for the tip, it seems to have resolved my problems!
I had issues for a long time, actually about since I changed my sd card, it seemed to run smoother with a smaller card, I didn't know if it was because my big sd card was faulty, it seems it was almost because of the media process data!
I have my ATT version SGS3 loaded with a 64GB microSD card and used iSyncr to transfer my entire library of about 13,000 songs from iTunes to the card (about 55 GB) on an Win 7 PC, including playlists.
Problem - When I call up a music player, it seems that about 200 songs are missing. If I look in file manager on the phone itself, I can see a bunch of files with zero size and a 1969 last modified date. I assumed they just got corrupted in the transfer. But when I plug my phone into my PC as a media device and look at Windows Explorer, I can only see the just some of the first artists folders (the ones that start with A and B) and none of the rest of them, even though the rest ARE visable on the phone though file manager and the music player. To further confuse the issue, when I take out my microSD card and plug it directly into the comoputer WITHOUT my phone, I see everything, AND the same files that have zero size in the file manager on the phone are perfectly fine on the card!
I'm sure this is just some issue with the "Mediastore" corruption (.e. ICS references all "real" media files by creating a shortcut entry in it's "mediastore" and that's what it exposes to the PC and players), but when I try to clear our all the data in the mediastore (Settings->Application Manager->All->Media Storage->Clear Data) and then reboot the phone and wait an hour+ for the media store to rebuild, it did NOT solve any of the issues described.
I can reformat the card and try to start again, but I was wondering if anyone else has any ideas at all what might be going on here?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
Does anyone have any thoughts on why this might be?
If your 64GB sd card was formatted in your phone or has the out of box format which is exFat, that's your problem. Many users are finding corrupt files because of this. Format your card to Fat32 and you'll be fine.
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Having similar problem with MediaMonkey and Windows Media player..
Will try FAT32 tonight.
Related topic:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=66514&start=15
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28671275#post28671275
However, data on the actual card is NOT corrupted if I read it directly in a microSD card reader. It only appears corrupted once I put it in the phone and look at it though the PC. I think it's because the Mediastore that ICS is creating is faulty, but I can't seem to clear the faulty media references.
So I don't think is a format thing. Anything else?
Still could be a exFat thing if the phone is being read through MTP.
This is a snip of what I posted in the other thread, but basically format your card to FAT32 and you can easily eliminate that problem.
Did some researching as to why Team Epic won't support exFAT. Found this page talking about how many OS's support only FAT32. Here's a link to that page: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm There is a Windows GUI to format it to FAT32 for drives larger than 32GB: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
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No it's not a card format thing definately.
I did the following:
1) I formatting the card to FAT32 which wiped out all the data.
2) I refreshed the mediastore on the phone, and put the card back in and re-refreshed the mediastore
3) With the mediastore showing NO media on the sd card, I reloaded all 13,000+ songs from scratch using iScyncr
4) I looked at the SD card's content with the phone still plugged into my PC without Windows Explorer and everything was there and NOT corrupted at all.
5) I unplugged my phone, rebooted it and gave mediastore about an hour to refresh itself
6) I looked at the contents on my phone using a file manager on my phone and the SAME EXACT 200 or so files were corrupted and would not play. All had a 1969 file date and showed zero size,with strange double extensions like .mp4aS.mp4aa and similar
7) I plugged back in my phone to the PC and both Kies and Windows explorer could now only see the about 10% of the content cut off alphabetically (a's and most B statting artists)
8) I took the sd card OUT of the phone and plugged it into my PC directly using a card reader. Now I could see EVERYTHING and none of the files that were listed on my phone as corrupted were actually corrupted on the card, and the file extentions were all the normal .mp4 and would play correctly
9) I put the card back in my phone and tried various music players and all could see the same number of songs which EXCLUDED the 200 corrupted songs.
10)I tried copying one of the songs directly to the card from my PC and then transferring that copied song into the correct artist folder on the phone and THEN I could see the song in the phone's file manager.
So man - I'm now TOTALLY confused!! Any ideas from anyone?
EDIT: Seems like FAT32 might be working for me.. still testing.
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EDIT: Seems like FAT32 might be working for me.. still testing.
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Doubt it. Check your NUMBER of songs between source PC and your phone after the transfer.
I think the problem is with the mediastore on the S3, or maybe the syncronizer (iSyncr in my case). I'm gonna try to sync with Tunesync instead and see what happens. I still suspect it's the mediastore corrupting some of it's media referencing when things are copied, because the actal files themselves when referenced outside the phone are NOT corrupted, just the mediastore reference to them, which is the only thing the phone let's you view (in ICS at least).
The only way to find the number of files on the phone is by looking at the directory on windows. But the number of file match
5332 files
Hey everyone,
Ever since I upgraded my phone to ICS, the memory card is not writeable and I cannot delete any files. For example, if I try uploading an album, it will show up under my player, but a few moments later it will give me an error saying that files are not found. I try deleting an mp3 track through my player or My Files and it acts like it's been deleted, but will show up again some time after.
I figured it was an incompatibility issue with the ICS OS, so I tried formatting the card through the phone and that didn't work. I tried formatting it via My Computer and even used a program called HDD Low Level Format Tool, but to no avail.
The drive is recognized by my phone and my PC and plays the music and video files on it without a problem, so I don't think it's corrupt, but it's basically useless if I can't add or remove files. I tried chatting with Samsung Support, but the guy was as useless as tits on a nun.
Any ideas?
Can you put another sd card in your phone and test it? I've had 5 out of 10 sd cards die.
Nah, I'm afraid not.
This is happening to me. Any help on how to set interneal memory to read and write. i cannot save any file to my phone from any apps.
I'll apreciate your help.
"Let me first apologize for the length of this but hopefully someone will be able to help. I have a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 SPH-L710 running 4.4.2. I recently attempted to use CMInstaller to load Cyanogenmod (I use otter1 on my Kindle and love Cyanogenmod and I really dislike Samsung's OS and bloatware) but it failed. It would get to the point of "Loading OS" and then the android picture on my phone was laying flat with a red triangle over its chest (I'm guessing that means error). CMInstaller then completed and said everything was successful. My S3 then gave me two yes/no questions but no matter what I answered, it eventually just returned to the stock Samsung OS with no root or superuser. From what I have been reading, this is due to Knox and I need to root my phone and remove Knox. I've found several helpful forums on xda-developers on rooting my phone and deleting Knox.
My issue though is that apparently somehow my phone's internal memory has been set to "read-only" or affected in some other way. The phone still works as a phone and it has allowed me to install apps and I can transfer files to and from both the internal memory and the SD card using my computer. But I've noticed that some apps are acting very strangely.
Amazon Kindle: will not download any books or register that I transferred ebooks to the Kindle folder (and yes, they are in the right folder and the right formats). When I attempt to download a book, the pull down menu for the phone gives me an error of "N/A - Download unsuccessful. Tap to try again." When I tap on that, it goes to a download screen that just sits there and does nothing. If I click on the book in the Kindle app it gives me an error of "Unable to Download. A network connection is required to download your Kindle title. Please connect to a network and try again." During these errors I have network connection (I am able to get online using the Dolphin browser) and have tried multiple different wifi networks and Sprint's network in many different geographical locations. I have tried using my wife's Amazon account on my phone with the exact same result.
Dolphin browser: Will not download anything to the internal memory (immediately results in a "Download unsuccessful") and fails to recognize my external SD card (when attempting to choose it as a download location it displays the message "Can't find file or directory. Please make sure your SD card is ready, and USB Mass Storage is turned off.") My phone is not connected to my computer during this.
Google Drive: Immediately fails to download any file.
doubleTwist: When attempting to set the music location to internal memory, doubleTwist says "It appears that your device has been set to read-only." Can access the SD card and play music found there.
All of the stock Samsung applications can access both internal memory and the SD card with no problem. The camera can save pictures to the internal memory and the SD card, the stock browser can save files with no problems, the voice recorder can record and save without issue and My Files can move, copy and delete files on both the SD card and the internal memory. It could argued that I just use Samsung's apps but I hate Samsung's apps and most of the time there are all hidden/disabled.
All of this started after CMInstaller failed. Is there any way to fix this? More importantly will this stop me from (or mess up) rooting my phone, obliterating Knox and loading Cyanogenmod? Part of me just wants to leave the phone as is since it still works (for the most part) but another, bigger part of me wants to remove Samsung's hold on my phone even more than before."
Hi,
I will have your thread moved to your device section so those that own your device can help.
Good luck!
Problably your problems are caused by CM-installer. Espec., because it tries to change recovery, too. Very comfortable, very fragile. I suggest to rebuild everything. You loose all your settings and data except those on extSdCard. Btw: there is no Knox on S3.
Save your data, as much as possible.
DownloadMode. Flash the newest firmware with Odin.
RecoveryMode. FactoryReset.
You should have a working system now. If yes:
DownloadMode. Root with cfAutoRoot and Odin.
Flash TWRP2.8.1.0 with Odin.
FullWipe. Flash any custom-rom, you want. FactoryReset.
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I am running Twisted v7 FINAL, and I am having issues with my external SD card. I have already tried the 4.4 fix, manually editing platform.xml, and even a full ODIN and reroot, but to no avail. This issue just started recently, and I am unable to add music files through MediaMonkey, or delete files through poweramp. Yet, the card obviously had write permissions of some sort, as I am able to store and delete photos from my camera on the sdcard without issue. This problem is very strange, as on occasion, I am able to sync a few songs, before getting an error in windows. And when I try and drag and drop the files manually in WinExplorer, I get a "the storage media has either stopped responding or has been removed" error. Any thoughts or suggestions? I know I can just use my MicroSD adapter and remove the chip from my phone every time, but it's really annoying and I don't always have it with me.
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Hello all.
I am running Twisted v7 FINAL, and I am having issues with my external SD card. I have already tried the 4.4 fix, manually editing platform.xml, and even a full ODIN and reroot, but to no avail. This issue just started recently, and I am unable to add music files through MediaMonkey, or delete files through poweramp. Yet, the card obviously had write permissions of some sort, as I am able to store and delete photos from my camera on the sdcard without issue. This problem is very strange, as on occasion, I am able to sync a few songs, before getting an error in windows. And when I try and drag and drop the files manually in WinExplorer, I get a "the storage media has either stopped responding or has been removed" error. Any thoughts or suggestions? I know I can just use my MicroSD adapter and remove the chip from my phone every time, but it's really annoying and I don't always have it with me.
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Reformat the card
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Reformat the card
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I'll attempt once I have a stable means of backing up all my content. Thanks. Its now working somehow if I use USB3, so we'll see.