Dear fellow XDA members,
I have run into a problem that I am not really sure of what to do with.
Basically, the problem is this: on my sgs2 gt-i9100 running slimbean (happened on PA 2.10, too, though), My external SD card is being read 3 times by apps such as winamp. It would encounter a song 3 times and list it 3 times because of this.
This is because my card has been mounted to 3 points.Or rather, mounted to /storage/sdcard1 and symlinked twice. I think. The biggest issue is that 2 of 3 cannot be read by any app. They'll list the songs but refuse to play them. Only /storage/sdcard1 works as it should.
Now for me my most obvious option is to remove the symlinks since all apps seem to be fine with the /storage/sdcard1 itself. I did a rm -rf /mnt/extSdCard and also for /extSdCard, but they keep coming back. I looked at vold.fstab but apart from that, I have no idea where to look.
Another thing I should note is that (/mnt)/extSdCard have lrwxrwxrwx rights, but the actually working /storage/sdcard1 has d---rwxr-x.
If anyone could even point me in the right direction, that'd be great. Thank you for your time.
Edit: the symlinks came back every reboot.
Vold.fstab mounts the SD to /storage/sdcard1
Edit 2: I added the rm commands to init.rc, but it doesn't seem to be working.
Edit 3: Winamp is now listing all the songs 4 times. I'm figuiring out where the new link is.
As much as I hate bumping, I feel like I have to in order to maximize my chance of anyone finding this thread.
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As much as I hate bumping, I feel like I have to in order to maximize my chance of anyone finding this thread.
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Clear data for winamp, download Rescan media root and run it.
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Clear data for winamp, download Rescan media root and run it.
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Thank you for your quick answer.
I have cleaned cache/data and uninstalled winamp to be sure, and installed and ran media scanner root. I then installed winamp. Sadly, to no avail. It still lists all the songs 4 times, of which only 1 plays. The same goes for other apps that list media, such as Sleep As Android.
I also just now found where the symlinks are being made: /init.smdk4210.rc, but deleting the symlink operations does not help; the file is somehow restored and the symlinks re-made after the reboot. I also haven't been able to find out where the new, 4th symlink is, yet.
joeyvanhummel said:
Thank you for your quick answer.
I have cleaned cache/data and uninstalled winamp to be sure, and installed and ran media scanner root. I then installed winamp. Sadly, to no avail. It still lists all the songs 4 times, of which only 1 plays. The same goes for other apps that list media, such as Sleep As Android.
I also just now found where the symlinks are being made: /init.smdk4210.rc, but deleting the symlink operations does not help; the file is somehow restored and the symlinks re-made after the reboot. I also haven't been able to find out where the new, 4th symlink is, yet.
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Deleting sym links will not work since they will be recreated by the kernel on boot.
To resolve this clear data for Media Storage and reboot. Run the Media scanner and wait for Media Storage to reindex all the media files. Time for scan will depend on how many media files and recursive directories you have on your SD card so please be patient during the first scan.
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acekay said:
Deleting sym links will not work since they will be recreated by the kernel on boot.
To resolve this clear data for Media Storage and reboot. Run the Media scanner and wait for Media Storage to reindex all the media files. Time for scan will depend on how many media files and recursive directories you have on your SD card so please be patient during the first scan.
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Thank you, I did this just after rm -rf'ing the symlinks, and it worked! Not sure if after the reboot it'll scan for media on the symlinks, but atleast I have a workaround.
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Ok, Seeing as how the first 10 pages and search yielded no results, I think I might be one of those special kids mentioned in the terms and agreements video.
I need to know where Astro installs the apks, because obviously it's not under system/app nor data/app. I've browsed both twice while revealing hidden files but they have not yielded any results. I can find every app on the phone but the ones that I've installed through Astro... So if anyone can shed some light as to where I might find them, that would be great.
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dont know if its similar but i have same problem with ics not being able to find apps that were unremovable (they just kept reinstalling) but noticed some apps were also in /preload (dont know if this helps your case or not)
Maybe /mnt/sdcard?
Check peferences in astro for home directory?
Other apps also in /data/app
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mnzt42yd said:
dont know if its similar but i have same problem with ics not being able to find apps that were unremovable (they just kept reinstalling) but noticed some apps were also in /preload (dont know if this helps your case or not)
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Thanks for the reply but it's not an unremovable app, just a few apks that I nicked off the internet. They show up under settings > applications and can be removed, but I just can not for the life of me find them on the system folders
woebetide said:
Maybe /mnt/sdcard?
Check peferences in astro for home directory?
Other apps also in /data/app
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Yeah, I've checked those, and all the home directories and usb directories and sd external directories, pretty much all of the directories listed in the preference for Astro with no success. Also, somehow, my /data/app folder only has the stock apps, nothing new that I've installed so far. Appreciate the reply though
Use your root file explorer to search your device, it will show up eventually.....
Edit: so no confusion, I mean the search function within the app
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krymore said:
Thanks for the reply but it's not an unremovable app, just a few apks that I nicked off the internet. They show up under settings > applications and can be removed, but I just can not for the life of me find them on the system folders
Yeah, I've checked those, and all the home directories and usb directories and sd external directories, pretty much all of the directories listed in the preference for Astro with no success. Also, somehow, my /data/app folder only has the stock apps, nothing new that I've installed so far. Appreciate the reply though
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If you have your phone set to install apps to external memory, there should be a folder called "android.secure". This is where the phone puts apps that are installed to the SD. (by default) Now I am assuming you have not formatted you SD to include a EXT 2/4 partition, or else you would know to look there. I would investigate to see if you can find an android.secure folder.
I have found a folder called "ext_sd" and It has everything i have on External sd.
So poweramp is getting these 2 folders and putting multiple files in my library, And i can't uncheck that from the files in the settings because it always rechecks its self.
And if i delete one of the duplicates, it deletes both of them.
Please help, it's really bothering me!
So is there anyway to delete the "exr_sd" file on the internal SD, or just stop it from showing everything on my external sd card?
Db0y505 said:
I have found a folder called "ext_sd" and It has everything i have on External sd.
So poweramp is getting these 2 folders and putting multiple files in my library, And i can't uncheck that from the files in the settings because it always rechecks its self.
And if i delete one of the duplicates, it deletes both of them.
Please help, it's really bothering me!
So is there anyway to delete the "exr_sd" file on the internal SD, or just stop it from showing everything on my external sd card?
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Oops, somehow I thanked your post. Anyways, I think I had the same problem before. I want to say I just unchecked the primary sdcard folder, and it worked fine. I have to say though, Poweramp drives me nuts. I've had so many crashes and issues with every version I tried that I don't even use it anymore. One bug is that if I skip too many tracks ahead too quickly, then I have to force close even to get a song to play at all.
Also, when the EQ is active, sound quality takes a pretty big hit. I switched to Mortplayer with barely any regrets. Sometimes I use Poweramp, but until they fix it, Mortplayer is my go-to player.
I had this issue awhile ago also. To fix this you need to go into settings and locate the option to specify which folder the music is in.
The key is to uncheck ALL the boxes and then only selext the one folder on your sdcard with music. For example, uncheck all boxes and only check the box for sdcard/ext_sd/music.
For some reason Poweramp always checks and applies two folders for music on the sdcard because of the symlink of the sdcard to ext_sd.
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Thanks guys, I unchecked everything except for the "ext_sd" folder and that seems to have fixed it.
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.
Hey.
I'm on CM10 and when i open gallery,or Apollo,or something else,there's no music or pictures showing...
Has anyone have this problem,how to fix it?
Yarman2000 said:
Hey.
I'm on CM10 and when i open gallery,or Apollo,or something else,there's no music or pictures showing...
Has anyone have this problem,how to fix it?
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This maybe isn't useful to you, but I'm having exactly the same problem. I'm running CM10 FXP133 on my Xperia Ray. Wrote a post a bout it here.
So I guess we're both equally desperate. Anybody please help!
/Daniel
Not sure if this is any good (I don't have time to try it out right now), but I found this.
/Daniel
edit: Nope. Sorry. Didn't work. Crap.
Looks like its a problem with the latest nightly.. it was working fine last release...
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I partially solved my problem. Something had put a .nomedia file in /sdcard, which quite naturally led to problems. I removed the file and did a new scan and now I got photos in the gallery again. Apollo is still empty though, so I'm kinda pulling my hair here. Done the obvious stuff (reboots, clearing cache, purging app data).
/Daniel
Ha! Found the rest of the solution. Seems the media scanner doesn't scan all folders anymore but just some (found out about it in this post). I moved some of my music to /sdcard/downloads, run a scan and suddenly it's there in Apollo.
Oh, and the .nomedia in sdcard root appeared again. No idea where it comes from, but it seems like a good idea to check for it and delete it once in a while. Strange things happen...
Oh. And sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread. I hope some of my mumbling is useful to you
/Daniel
I reflashed rom again,and now in gallery and apollo,media is showing.
Maybe it's a problem with Rom Manager,because that pushed .nomedia files in wrong folders.
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Ha! Found the rest of the solution. Seems the media scanner doesn't scan all folders anymore but just some (found out about it in this post). I moved some of my music to /sdcard/downloads, run a scan and suddenly it's there in Apollo.
Oh, and the .nomedia in sdcard root appeared again. No idea where it comes from, but it seems like a good idea to check for it and delete it once in a while. Strange things happen...
Oh. And sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread. I hope some of my mumbling is useful to you
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on galaxy nexus, paranoid android 1.99:
after using Rescan Media Root https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot
there's a folder in DCIM called 100ANDRO.
put the music files in there and stock player detects them
put pictures in DCIM>Camera and gallery finds them.
check out Mountain Laurel Handrails http://awoodrailing.com
Similar thing happened to me on CM9, Xperia mini. I deleted the .nomedia file and cleared the app data on music players and things are fine now.
My status on this one right now is that scanning mostly works. It refuses to scan some directories though. If I move all my music to /sdcard/music it's scanned, but in /sdcard/subsonic/music where it's always been before it's not. The only big problem with this is that for example /sdcard/ringtones is not scanned. So according to the system I no longer have any custom ringtones. This gotta be a bug, right?
/Daniel
Maybe you could try another music app like winamp. Because there you can do a manually media scan and as far as I know you can choose the folder where it should scan manually, too. Maybe give it a shot
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My status on this one right now is that scanning mostly works. It refuses to scan some directories though. If I move all my music to /sdcard/music it's scanned, but in /sdcard/subsonic/music where it's always been before it's not. The only big problem with this is that for example /sdcard/ringtones is not scanned. So according to the system I no longer have any custom ringtones. This gotta be a bug, right?
/Daniel
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at first i couldn't find my ringtones, put one in sd/ringtones and in the system/media/audio//ringtones
in doing all this i ran SDrescan and rescan media root multiple times.
now i've got two of the same showing up.
one thing the messed me up is that the ringtone filename is not used on the menu.
instead, the ringtone menu is pulling the metadata to tile it.
so I've got my filename 'ringtone.mp3' but it show up in the menu as 'song'
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at first i couldn't find my ringtones, put one in sd/ringtones and in the system/media/audio//ringtones
in doing all this i ran SDrescan and rescan media root multiple times.
now i've got two of the same showing up.
one thing the messed me up is that the ringtone filename is not used on the menu.
instead, the ringtone menu is pulling the metadata to tile it.
so I've got my filename 'ringtone.mp3' but it show up in the menu as 'song'
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Ok. I also ended up putting my ringtones in /system/media/audio//ringtones which solves my problems. The media scanner still doesn't want to have anything with the ones in /sdcard/ringtones to do. Guess the media service will need some polishing before CM10 is released
/Daniel
jimmypader said:
on galaxy nexus, paranoid android 1.99:
after using Rescan Media Root https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot
there's a folder in DCIM called 100ANDRO.
put the music files in there and stock player detects them
put pictures in DCIM>Camera and gallery finds them.
check out Mountain Laurel Handrails http://awoodrailing.com
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the method helped me resolved the music files issue but still Im having problem with the gallery pictures...tried to reboot coz that made the music problem solved but it doest worked on the pics...got any other idea?
but all in all THANKS really :laugh:
info: after restarting my phone music is not again detected by the phone. THis is a head exploding problem.
Hi guys,
I know there is an issue with the media scanner killing battery, until now I have been disabling the scanner with the rescan media root app.
My Q: Has it been fixed? Or is there a fix where it does not kill battery soo quick?
Thanks in advance
--r1sh12
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Be on a newest possible samsung rom and everything should be fine.. Atleast i dont have any prob.. And siyah kernel included also..
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Is pretty easily fixed.
First if you do nandroid backups in the blob format change to .tar and delete any current backups.
If that does not fix it format your sd card.
If still not fixed clear your thumbnail caches.
And as a last resort full wipe and start from scratch.
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corrsea said:
Is pretty easily fixed.
First if you do nandroid backups in the blob format change to .tar and delete any current backups.
If that does not fix it format your sd card.
If still not fixed clear your thumbnail caches.
And as a last resort full wipe and start from scratch.
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Thanks for the advise
I can't remember what format my backups were.. It was set to the default one. I have a few on my external SD though so I'll move them to PC.
I also have CoPilot on my internal SD so I'm thinking maybe the map cache is causing a problem? I refuse to delete it though just because Google/Samsung have this annoying bug in their software.
Add .nomedia files in all your backup and cache directories, the scanner should then ignore them.
Try stopping Media Storage, clearing data and rebooting before formatting or wiping, run the scanner once after boot then disable with Rescan Media Root app.
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It's my understanding (See Issue 37199 on codeDOTgoogleDOTcom, comment 45) that
MediaScanner: reimplement the ".nomedia" feature for hiding files from the media provider
Previously we ignored any files and directories that had name started with '.'
and ignored any directories that contained a ".nomedia" file.
Now to support transferring any file via MTP, we now add these previously ignored files
to the media database, but will not mark them as audio, video, image or playlist files.
That way they will be included in the files table but will be hidden from the
audio, video, images and playlist views that are used by apps like Music and Gallery.
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To wit, MediaScanner indexes ALL files irrespective of the presence or absence of a .nomedia file in that directory.
From that same issue it appears that it is because filenames with characters that are also SQL wildcards ( "_" and similar) cause the scan to run slower.
From android googlesource change id I1cd4efbd56a37886cb44a86acb73eb9a3c9f303d
Improve scan time for some cases
When the path being matched has a sqlite wildcard character in it, a "like"
match will be quite slow. Unfortunately this is fairly common, since "_"
is a wildcard character. However, because in most cases the case of the path
in the database will match the case on disk, an "=" match will work, so it
is worthwhile to try an "=" match first, before trying a "like".
If there are no wildcard characters, the "like" will be as fast as the "=",
because of the case-insensitive index on the _data column, so there is no
need to try "=" first in that case.
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Apparently this is substantially improved in 4.2, but there my knowledge ends; I ran across this while trying to fix an unrelated issue.
EDIT @ 1639UTC: Koushik Dutta said the same thing in his G+ post of 27th December: plusDOTgoogleDOTcom/103583939320326217147/posts/Ntgmq2oniA5
Thanks for the info guys
I disabled media scanning the past few days but none of my stored photos would show in gallery apart from recent ones!
If I can keep my library intact but stop the annoying scanning, then I'll be very happy
I've had it twice for different reasons and it is annoying. Don't bother with freezing and using rescan media as that's just as annoying.
It's easy enough to live with while you're trying to track down the cause. Simply stop media scanner after you boot the phone. In my experience the wakelock will not return until you reboot. Then you can just stop it again. That way everything works
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fade2black101 said:
Thanks for the info guys
I disabled media scanning the past few days but none of my stored photos would show in gallery apart from recent ones!
If I can keep my library intact but stop the annoying scanning, then I'll be very happy
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Just enable media scanner occasionally to update your libs
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corrsea said:
I've had it twice for different reasons and it is annoying. Don't bother with freezing and using rescan media as that's just as annoying.
It's easy enough to live with while you're trying to track down the cause. Simply stop media scanner after you boot the phone. In my experience the wakelock will not return until you reboot. Then you can just stop it again. That way everything works
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^^^^ exactly this....so simple :thumbup: