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.
Hi,
It's my first post in this section, I've been somewhat active in Nexus One and HTC Tytn forums in the past.
Now, my wife and I own a GS3 each, and we are very happy with it.
But, we have 2 problems with music playing on the S3 :
- Android doesn't seem to scan music on the ExtSdcard. I tried to re-tag the mp3 files, change the folder, clean caches (general cache, music apps cache and media scanning cache), reboot several times, etc. The phone seems to only find the mp3 on the internal memory (I tried to copy a music album on the internal memory, and it was found immediatly). It's true on the two phones, but it don't really bother me because I'm used to folder navigation. Only my wife uses tags system, and she noticed this first.
I could add that this behaviour started recently but we didn't notice it, because the cache has been populated before, and it was kept in memory. We saw this behaviour yesterday, when trying to add new music files. They weren't added to the music database.
Confirmed with : stock mp3 app, Meridian, and musicmatch. I didn't try other media players.
It's a big problem since we are huge music fans, and we own large sdcards for this purpose. Especially my wife... We don't want to put the music files on internal memory, it would be stupid.
- On my own S3, the "media players" notification, when you plug the headphones and see a list of media players, this function is not working, nothing shows up. It's not a real problem for me, but I just found this lost of fonctionnality a little strange. It's working on my wife's S3.
My wife's S3 is completely stock, only rooted and some small mods.
I'm rooted, stock modded rom, with Siyah kernel b6. Very happy with it.
We both are XXLFB. I suspect XXLFB introduced the first problem/bug.
mods :
- real brightness
- skip tracks on handsfree (me)
- bloatware removed (me)
- small fonts
- camera shutter sound menu
- cell standby fix (me)
Thank you for your help, or ideas...
(sorry if this is a double thread, I can't the the first I wrote)
double post, could be deleted
Stouf said:
Hi,
- Android doesn't seem to scan music on the ExtSdcard.
I installed a few music files via KIES to EXT Card Likewise a few videos .
Then just copy and paste the rest in to the folders Kies made Media = MP3 Video = Video .
jje
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Hi,
I read everywhere to avoid using Kies, as it could harm the phone. And the last update contained a trojan, according to my AV (gdata). Is it really, the recommended method ?
I really don't like to use softwares to make simple tasks I could do by hand.
Why, suddenly, my phone stops scanning the sd card ? I used to simply copy/paste files from the windows explorer, and it always worked :/
It's my first samsung smartphone, so maybe I'm missing something subtile ?
Stouf said:
Hi,
I read everywhere to avoid using Kies, as it could harm the phone. And the last update contained a trojan, according to my AV (gdata). Is it really, the recommended method ?
Its the official Samsung tool .
trojan = false positive
It's my first samsung smartphone, so maybe I'm missing something subtile ?
No the layout of sd card and ext card is changed for SGS3 .
You could try just making the two folders and copy and paste .
jje
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One thing I am sure is my S3 does scan music from my extFAT 64GB card. I am not sure about Android as awhole but you shouldn't have problem doing so. Both PowerAMP and Samsung Music Player works.
extFAT 64GB card
yes if its that format fat32 gives problems .
jje
So, I tried to rename the "music" folder on ExtSd to "media", on both phones and it didn't work. Even after a reboot + removal of battery and sd card.
It is not possible to use Kies, as it is constantly crashing while media scanning...
So you think it could be related to the format of the partition ? It's Fat32.
One thing for sure, on internal memory, scanning is working. And it worked with extsd, a few days/weeks ago. Could XXBLF break this fonctionality (one of the few things the 2 phones both have) ?
Edit :
OK, I managed to make it work.
I had to backup the content of my sd to the pc, re-format using exFAT, copy my backup back. After several reboots and a media scanning cache cleaning, it now works on my phone. I now have to make the same thing on my wife's phone...
Why it stopped working on both phones is still a mystery.
However, many thanks for your help !
Can someone tell me what is going on with my music folder in my phone ? all the sudden today I find playerpro and the samsung music player both can NOT recognize my music folder in my phone memory. But both player only recognize my sd card mp3 folder
with solid file explorer ( and usb mode thru PC ) I can see all the mp3 in my music folder that are on my phone's memory.
How did this happen ? how can I fix it ? if my phone defective all the sudden ?
Please advice, thanks in advance~
PS. I have tried reboot and even swapped battery. still same.
also
Also my note is stock verizon with the ota update.
here is a screen shot. notice my SdCard( phone memory) folder is missing.
screen shot here ( unable to link in post due to new member status)
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any advice ?
solved
wow so crazy !! took almost 2 hours of digging n researching...
I dont know how the heck a .nomedia file exist in my phone's memory root dir. upon deleting it, note 2 immediately recognized the medias in my internal memory.
Thumbs up to myself :good:
Hi guys, I'm using Xperia Go with stock JB 4.1.2.
I don't remember doing anything that could make it happen, but some of my music files aren't showing in the player, only some of them, and yet when looking in a file manager, everything's in place. What I tried to far in order to solve this:
- Tried a few music players.
- Formatted the SD card and copied everything back.
- Formatted the phone itself.
- Created the folders media/audio as I read in some guide and moved the files there.
None of it worked. Plus, whenever I restart my phone, different songs seem to appear in the player.
Also, it only happens with the music files. All of my photos on the SD card are fine.
Any solutions?
Use the Audials App that stores recordings in a folder on the SD card "sdcard1/android/data/audials/files/music". Can play this music from Audials or ES file explorer, but only one song after another. But all this music is never added to the stock music player, nor to Google play music and not to the VLC player. Can not select "sdcard1/android/data/audials/files/music" as directory in all these players. The mentioned directory is either not visible, or is greyed out and can not be selected. All hints on the Web (clear cache / data in the music apps, reboot phone) do not help.
Since it is not possible to change the directory in the Audials application (can only select subdirectories below .../data/audials..., but can not go further up in the directory structure), The only solution I found was to copy all the music to a folder "sdcard1/music". With this, all the media players work and find the music. But my music is stored twice on the SD card, and I have to manually copy new recordings to "sdcard1/music". A very bad solution.
I don't know if this is a Honor 5x problem, or a problem on all unrooted Androis 5.x phones. I don't have this problem at all on my rooted Galaxy S3 with Archidroid V3.15 ROM, which is also Android 5.x.
Is there any better solution for this problem? Or is SD card support in Android 5.x really so bad and complicated, or only on the Honor 5x? Thank you in advance for any hint.
Franz