i have two folder of videos in the phone(video songs, video folder) they are shown in gallery and mxplayer i dont know what happen now they are gone not shown in mxplayer neither in gallery nor in my videos but they are in my phone because when go my file manager browse they are also when connected to usb they are shown in laptop what do i do.?
grown ups said:
i have two folder of videos in the phone(video songs, video folder) they are shown in gallery and mxplayer i dont know what happen now they are gone not shown in mxplayer neither in gallery nor in my videos but they are in my phone because when go my file manager browse they are also when connected to usb they are shown in laptop what do i do.?
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Did you recently changed your ROM?
Post your ROM and kernel details
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nope nothing is change i have my as i bought stock dont know how to change rom
grown ups said:
nope nothing is change i have my as i bought stock dont know how to change rom
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My Assumptions:
1. You mistakenly created a .nomedia file in the video folders.
- to confirm this, go to Mxplayer, goto it's settings and enable "show hidden folders" , refresh your list again.
- Download "Quickpic" from market as a reference app. Run it and tell me if the videos are shown in the app
Let me know what happens.
2. Your media scanner process is misbehaving. This is possible but i believe in my assumption.
Solution will follow as soon as you post the rest results as suggested in 1.
Next time, when someone asks you to post you ROM and kernel details, you have to post it no matter what!
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thank u so much i was freaking out yes there are nomedia.file in both folders .thank u again how they get there.
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Hello im new to this forum and i have come to a little problem maybe somebody in here might be able to help me with
I by mistake erased the avatar movie, and sure enough the icon would say movie not found, so i used pandora data recovery and was able to recover the movie from the Sd Card to my computer, i then transferred the movie to my phone again, and now the movie just wont play when you click on the icon it just sits there doing nothing i did a factory restore, but that didn't work either, any ideas???????
please let me know if something comes to mind to any of you of how i might be able to make it work.
Thank you in advance
The path of the video might be in different location and icon wont work. You dont need the icon to play movie its just shortcut
Just open video player it should show there
Hi, and thanks for your reply, i just did that, but it says your phone does not have any media files, even tho the movie that i was able to retrieve again is 1.4 gigs, and it wasn't overwritten or anything on the sd card, any ideas? should i transfer it to another folder on the sd card or to the phone???????
Thank you.
Even though you did data recovery the file could be damaged, it should play.
I deleted the avatar shortcut and just access it from video player
Go to a local t mobile they can probably put it back on for you
Yea im going to do that this weekend, i went to a couple of tmobile stores but they had no returns, its weird the data doesn't seem corrupted at all.
Thank you for your help.
pb3000 said:
Hi, and thanks for your reply, i just did that, but it says your phone does not have any media files, even tho the movie that i was able to retrieve again is 1.4 gigs, and it wasn't overwritten or anything on the sd card, any ideas? should i transfer it to another folder on the sd card or to the phone???????
Thank you.
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Make a new folder on your ext SD card name it ...Movie... Put avatar in it reboot then try it make sure it just says Movie
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dbm0361 said:
Make a new folder on your ext SD card name it ...Movie... Put avatar in it reboot then try it make sure it just says Movie
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doesn't need to be in a folder "movies" it will see it anywhere and you dont need to reboot you just unplug usb from you PC and it will update everything.
I do have a movies folder, just to be organized and after you mentioned that i moved the file to another location and still showed and played fine
pb3000 said:
Yea im going to do that this weekend, i went to a couple of tmobile stores but they had no returns, its weird the data doesn't seem corrupted at all.
Thank you for your help.
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What do you mean returns? Just ask them if they can transfer it from the demo display model.
Also this file is DRM protected so when you did data recovery something could have happened with DRM... IDK
ok so im guessing is corrupted since i moved it to the phone video folder and media player finds it but it says 00:00 minutes.
pb3000 said:
ok so im guessing is corrupted since i moved it to the phone video folder and media player finds it but it says 00:00 minutes.
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It wont play on computer even if it wasnt currupted
The video DRM protected it will only play on the phone
yea its on the phone, the internal storage of the phone inside the DCIM folder of the phone, vibrant media player finds it there but it says what i wrote above.
demo23019 said:
doesn't need to be in a folder "movies" it will see it anywhere and you dont need to reboot you just unplug usb from you PC and it will update everything.
I do have a movies folder, just to be organized and after you mentioned that i moved the file to another location and still showed and played fine
What do you mean returns? Just ask them if they can transfer it from the demo display model.
Also this file is DRM protected so when you did data recovery something could have happened with DRM... IDK
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Not movies..... Movie. Try it this will let it play from the icon short cut
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movies movie same thing for what im talking about, think there was miss communication. You came in with really vague information
I thought you were saying video player wont see it because it wasn't put into a folder "movie"
any ways the movie is corrupt
OP when you get the video working do what dbm0361 said if you want to play from shortcut.
pb3000 said:
...so i used pandora data recovery
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How appropriate.
While browsing through my phone looking to find anything that was waking up my phone while it was meant to be sleeping especially during the night I went into my gallery app.
Now I use "QuickPic" app as my default gallery app as I just preferred it to the default on on the S2, so I continued to use it on the S3 when I got it.
However, I clicked into the gallery app just a while ago and too my amazement I found that it had somehow downloaded over 1700 photo's and videos from my windows live writer account to the phone!!
I never set it up to do this or did I even know that it was downloading.
So I clicked menu button and it gave me 3 options:
1. select album
2. Scan for nearby devices
3. View by.
I clicked the scan button and it said "scan started. Device list will soon be updated automatically.
A few seconds later i got the message: "No devices found. Scanning for nearby devices will continue in Background"
Now for me, I think this is what's possibly waking up my phone at night time as its probably searching/scanning for devices.
So i went to settings-more settings-nearby devices and it was set to "off" so it wasn't set up by default as I didn't go near it.
However, does anyone know how I can stop the gallery app from scanning for nearby devices in the background like it said above?
I'm nearly certain that its the cause of my battery drain, or at least a big part of it.
I wonder has anyone else come across this problem?
those pictures are probably cached pictures that wouldn't show up in the stock gallery
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those pictures are probably cached pictures that wouldn't show up in the stock gallery
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yeah they are showing up in the stock gallery? but I can't seem to delete them as when I long press there's no delete option.
But there's only 32mb of photo's showing up on the internal memory so your probably right about them been cached. But how/why did they become cached and how can I make sure that no devices are been scanned for in the background as that's what it said it was doing.
Yep, had the same problem here Saturday night! Was viewing the gallery earlier during the evening and it decided to continue caching during the earlier hours...1GB of data!!! Received a lovely sms from T-Mobile a few hours later to warn me that I had over used my data allowance
Is this linked to the pull media from around me. I noticed that while on the same network as devices sharing media my GS3 would automatically pulling pictures to it which also gave me a lot of lag loading my gallery.
I was looking thought the menus and saw that under the network and sharing tabs there may be a possible way to stop this by switching off file sharing. This can be done in the settings application:
Settings > Wireless and networks > more settings > Nearby devices > file sharing > slider on or off.
Also there is way to leave this on but block certing devices as well under the file sharing tab there is a a menu called "not-allowed devices"
Yes it's set to off but I can't delete the cached photos in gallery app???
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chicoelnino said:
Yes it's set to off but I can't delete the cached photos in gallery app???
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Ok I don't have any cached images on my phone but this may work
Use a file manager such as Astro or Estrongs and navigate to /mnt/sdcard/nearby
and delete everything inside of there, let me know how its goes.
SkillfulMmd said:
Ok I don't have any cached images on my phone but this may work
Use a file manager such as Astro or Estrongs and navigate to /mnt/sdcard/nearby
and delete everything inside of there, let me know how its goes.
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Nothing at all showing up in that folder using astro??
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Just got my phone. I've inserted an SD card that has a lot of music, and each album has an image for the album cover.
The problem is that the stock Gallery app reconizes each album folder as a gallery. Is there a way to exclude a folder from the media scanner?
This could be done by creating a File with the name .nomedia in the folders you want to exclude.
The media scanner should then ignore those folders.
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Create a folder .nomedia (include the full stop at the beginning) and move required files inside. Reboot
Edit, see answered above while I was procrastinating.
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Should you create a file or folder with the name .nomedia????????
I have the same problem and creating a file ".nomedia" is not a good solution...
I have like 250 albums, I should create one in every album folder?
Thank you all for answering.
@UpInTheAir, what do you mean by "(include the full stop at the beginning)"
pedrohp said:
Thank you all for answering.
@UpInTheAir, what do you mean by "(include the full stop at the beginning)"
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It must be called ".nomedia" can you see the full stop? It MUST be there
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It seems not to work anymore. When you create .nomedia files in the folders this will be ignored. What worked for S1 and S2 does not work on S3 (Android 4.0.4) any ideas?
irony17 said:
I have the same problem and creating a file ".nomedia" is not a good solution...
I have like 250 albums, I should create one in every album folder?
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Install quickpic select the folders you want to hide and they won't appear in stock gallery too
siberian tiger said:
Install quickpic select the folders you want to hide and they won't appear in stock gallery too
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Thanks a lot!
If the music files are formatted properly, they won't show in the gallery....period.
QuickPic is hands-down, the BEST photo gallery on Android.
Download it, use it as your default, and never look back.
ekjl said:
QuickPic is hands-down, the BEST photo gallery on Android.
Download it, use it as your default, and never look back.
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I've tried it. Still prefer the new ICS gallery.
pedrohp said:
Just got my phone. I've inserted an SD card that has a lot of music, and each album has an image for the album cover.
The problem is that the stock Gallery app reconizes each album folder as a gallery. Is there a way to exclude a folder from the media scanner?
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U can name it what ever u want u just need to put a dot in front of whatever u name it and it would show up.
I found that renaming the images to folder.jpg for instance removed them from gallery view
vinhmac said:
I found that renaming the images to folder.jpg for instance removed them from gallery view
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That worked, but i really don't want to rename every single image manually nor i want to write a piece of code to do that.
Just installed QuickPic and it not even showed such "album art" images! automatically detected and hidden.
Stock gallery still showing them (even after quickpic installed)
Is there a way to clear the media scan cache and start it again (manually)?
ekjl said:
QuickPic is hands-down, the BEST photo gallery on Android.
Download it, use it as your default, and never look back.
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I did this but QuickPic doesn't have the option to include the Picasa/Google Images I have stored online.
the ".nomedia" file works. A reboot is needed though
Want to hide that private stash, right? "album art"
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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.
DanielMalmgren said:
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
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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'
jimmypader said:
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.
Hello Guys. I just bought my xperia z2 yesterday and i am coming from iOS. I had an iPhone 4. Anyway, I am really happy with this phone and learning how to use android.
But when i download images and videos from whatsapp groups it shows everything on Album and movies sony app.
How can i download whatsapp files and not show it on album and movies app?
sorry if its a dumb question...but i am really new into this android world.
hitsukun said:
Hello Guys. I just bought my xperia z2 yesterday and i am coming from iOS. I had an iPhone 4. Anyway, I am really happy with this phone and learning how to use android.
But when i download images and videos from whatsapp groups it shows everything on Album and movies sony app.
How can i download whatsapp files and not show it on album and movies app?
sorry if its a dumb question...but i am really new into this android world.
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Download ES file manager and go to SD card >Whatsapp >images then create a file with this name ".nomedia" and done, remember this file will prevent all the content from that folder to appear in gallery and If you no longer want to hide Whatsapp files erase this nomedia file (it will be hidden so you should mark the see hidden files button in the left menu of the app)
tel033 said:
Download ES file manager and go to SD card >Whatsapp >images then create a file with this name ".nomedia" and done, remember this file will prevent all the content from that folder to appear in gallery and If you no longer want to hide Whatsapp files erase this nomedia file (it will be hidden so you should mark the see hidden files button in the left menu of the app)
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thank you very much my friend. I think it worked. Someone sent me an image and it didnt show on my album. BUT one thing happened. the last video file i watch on whatsapp shows on my movies sony app. Only the last one, not all videos files i watch.
the video plays with the legend like file:///storage/emulated/0/whatsapp/media.....
something wrong?
thanks for the help.
hitsukun said:
thank you very much my friend. I think it worked. Someone sent me an image and it didnt show on my album. BUT one thing happened. the last video file i watch on whatsapp shows on my movies sony app. Only the last one, not all videos files i watch.
the video plays with the legend like file:///storage/emulated/0/whatsapp/media.....
something wrong?
thanks for the help.
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Dont know about that see if it is in another folder and do the same
Add a .nomedia file in the Whatsapp folder to stop making sony media apps detecting stuff there. If you can't find a .nomedia file on your device, just google it and download one