Hello Everybody,
I'm wondering anyone figured out already how to share media between users in Android 4.2.2 (Nexus 10)? I mean sharing a large number of photos and movies, something without online connection (no dropbox/drive). A solution without duplicating the files in each account is highly preferred.
I know /sdcard/Android/obb folder is shared, I used it to transfer large files between the accounts. But it is not recognized by Media Scanner / Gallery. Links are not working for me (I tried both - symbolic and hard link, ln -s reports Function not implemented, ln alone Operation not permitted. Not mentioning that root shell doesn't see the content of obb (strange)). Folder sync seems not to work either (even though it states 4.2.2 is supported).
TIA
The same issue in KitKat obviously... Still without a solution
I found a solution.
Use the android/obb folder since it is shared space. I added a Movies folder there can can access it from multiple locations. For MX player to see the movie files I had to uncheck the recognize no media option under settings but it works.
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- I've been experienced video files (mkv, avi) in sdcard2 get deleted using Vegan Rom version beta4 & beta5.1. Some others also have same issue while using Vegan rom.
- I've added ".nomedia" file to sdcard2 as suggested but to no avail (video still get deleted).
Anyone know of a way to fix this issue?
Any info is greatly appreciated.
Happy New Year to all !!!
Same issue..... Never had this problem until flashed VEGan Beta 5....
Happens everytime I reboot the Tablet...
Yup, same happened here. It didnt' happen on the first few boot ups but this morning when I booted all the video and picture files were gone from my /sdcard2.
In the few Android years, I have never heard of that happening on a device. Is the actual file missing from the card if you pull the card out and use a reader direct with the computer? Seems it would be more an indexing issue native to the Gtablet and not the card itself. If the files are being deleted, that takes some direct I/O effort. Random file corruption would not just be exclusive to media files.
99% likely the root cause is that the Advent Vega rom does not have two storage locations and only one. This may be causing some conflicts that the devs have not picked up on yet. Still, how would it delete files?
Questions on missing files (assuming they are gone, even when pulling the card and reading card with computer):
1. Is it files that were transferred via the Vegan interface?
2. Were the files directly transferred to the card via computer and ZERO interaction with Gtablet (besides trying to view them)?
If 1, this suggests index issues and conflicts due to storage issue mentioned above.
If 2, and the files were not moved at all by the interface of Vegan, that is uncharted territory (for me).
mmracing said:
Yup, same happened here. It didnt' happen on the first few boot ups but this morning when I booted all the video and picture files were gone from my /sdcard2.
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I GOT the same here too
rushless said:
In the few Android years, I have never heard of that happening on a device. Is the actual file missing from the card if you pull the card out and use a reader direct with the computer? Seems it would be more an indexing issue native to the Gtablet and not the card itself. If the files are being deleted, that takes some direct I/O effort. Random file corruption would not just be exclusive to media files.
99% likely the root cause is that the Advent Vega rom does not have two storage locations and only one. This may be causing some conflicts that the devs have not picked up on yet. Still, how would it delete files?
Questions on missing files (assuming they are gone, even when pulling the card and reading card with computer):
1. Is it files that were transferred via the Vegan interface?
2. Were the files directly transferred to the card via computer and ZERO interaction with Gtablet (besides trying to view them)?
If 1, this suggests index issues and conflicts due to storage issue mentioned above.
If 2, and the files were not moved at all by the interface of Vegan, that is uncharted territory (for me).
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Files transfered using pc to usb interface with zero interaction with G-tablet. They were all retained with TnT-Lite before flash to Vegan B5.1.
suggestion to windows users on .nomedia file solution
I've had thing file on the root of my microSD for week now, with no issues yet - I lost all my videos prior to that, and it was due to the TnT 3.x kernel I suspect. It manifested itself fairly quickly. Before that, I'm pretty sure I used to have this issue on /sdcard, but most of my videos were on /sdcard2 so I kind of ignored it.
If you are a Windows user.....
If you are creating this ".nomedia" file from scratch in notepad, it will add a .txt extension by default. I remember this from my days in XP and I just fired up a Windows 7 VM to test this and it added that stinkin' extension. You won't even see the extension in Explorer, but it's there.
Here's a test, for Windows users ..... go into the command prompt, go to the drive where that file exists and check the file. If there's a .txt extension, you'll see it there. And, if there's an extension, it's not going to work - you need to remove it.
In Explorer, I don't think you can rename it without making extensions viewable - the easiest way is to use the command line:
Code:
ren .nomedia.txt .nomedia
Reloading my SDcard2 Now .... also renamed .nomedia thru, dos box to get true file name ext.
Any word on this problem?
I was wondering where my movies went!
Use ifile manager to create folder '.nomedia' and put all media in that folder.
All media files still retained after reboots/shutdowns.
Hope this help.
having .nomedia there doesn't do anything for me. Videos were still deleted but I did noticed that it only targets .m4v files and my .avi files were still there. I just encode to .avi now and so far so good. Videos are still there
VeganTab 5.1.1 Media WipeOut
I had transferred two dozen .avi files onto a 16GB microSD card via PC and at some point over the last few weeks, they all disappeared. I am left with only a LOST.DIR folder that is empty. Bummer. Trying the .nomedia trick now but will need to re-transfer the files later tonight. So far no issues with my other microSD card, but I had experienced quite a few no power ups after sleep recently (pushing the power button on didn't wake up the tablet and even a slight push eventually displayed the birds of total reboot) and I also have had the battery drain all the way down twice in the last few weeks. Weird.
Lost video files
The .nomedia trick worked for me under Vegan 5.11
Ed Kinsel
I actually create a folder called .nomedia and stuffed all my videos there. The problem stopped then. The bad side effect is that they do not show under the Gallery app. I open them via the file explorer.
Is this an issue with certain ROMs? I've used G-Harmony v1.2 mostly and never noticed this issue. Now I'm using the new G-Harmony-Gingerbread and still don't see this issue.
I have the same going on. Please post any fixes that anyone finds (besides hiding the files in a .nomedia directory.)
Thanks.
I'm actually still having this problem with Vegan 5.1 and supplement along with Clemsyn's kernel.
Videos may last 1 reboot or 1 day with no reboots and then they'll just disappear.
I've tried with .nomedia file (following Roebeet's advice to manually rename to avoid .txt extension) as well as the .nomedia folder holding the videos. I even used Windows and made the MP4 files read only to see if that made a difference.
I'd really like to hear some expert input on this problem! Everything has been great and this is one of my last hurdles.
I thought I was doing something wrong until I decided to do a quick search about the problem. It seems as though it would be an easy fix, but I am not a programmer by any means. I love Vegan, but I dont like to keep removing my SD card all the time. I will try the .nomedia trick for now.
This happened to me too! Gonna try the nomedia trick, too.
As it was, some of my Avi files didn't play at all.
I think I have to do a mass conversion...
I have a weird issue with my Echo phone.
I used FileExpert to transfer few jpeg images yesterday. The images did not show up in the gallery.
I restarted the phone and I could see the transferred photos under Gallery.
Same for music. I copied over some music (mp3 files). I went to the stock app (Music) and they did not show up. However, When I restarted the phone, the files showed up immediately.
I am wondering whether this is a regular phenomenon? Is there a way to refresh the stock gallery / music to ensure that the files reflect immediately? Or should i transfer files in a different way?
I am using Kyocera Echo, Gingerbread (2.3.4).
Any help is appreciated.
hmm, is odd, but if you go into setting and memory settings, then unmount and re-mount the sd card, and let the phone scan, then they should show up hope this helps
You need to force a media rescan after adding new media files. Both rebooting the phone and un/remounting the sd card will do it. There are also a bunch of apps on the market that will also do it.
Do you have Dev Tools app?
Dev Tools -> Media Scanner
selection16 said:
Do you have Dev Tools app?
Dev Tools -> Media Scanner
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Can you please share mode details on where to download the same from?
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Can you please share mode details on where to download the same from?
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I think it comes with CM7 so I'm not sure if it will work if you don't have CM, but this post seemed to have success. (and a download link - Development.apk = Dev Tools)
Now Windows Phone 8 Got his First Real File manager.
Pocket File Manager .
Now The latest improvement:
- Full Access to media library
- Full access to video files
- Full access to SD Card
* I think Now Microsoft open windows phone 8 API's .
Common Developers....Hurry Up...
Now U can Make More Powerful File managers for Wp8.
Get it Here:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-in/store/app/pocket-file-manager/56dd9c3d-fe0a-4ceb-84b0-043e58e55b19
Checked....Working Fine with All capabilities in....
Yeaaaah this was posted a couple days ago so I wouldn't really call it "GRAB IT FAST" (nor, for that matter, is this post quite in line with the forum rules as you're kinda-sorta advertising a paid app, even though it's not yours).
If you read the dev's forum thread (it's not here, it's easy enough to find though) you'll see he got special permission from Microsoft to use a capability which is normally only available to OEMs. Sure, it's a good sign and may mean good things to come, but don't go getting all breathlessly excited about it *just* yet!
Also, "Full API Access" is a pretty bad description. It doesn't appear to use any non-standard APIs at all, in fact (I decompiled it already). The filesystem APIs are available to all developers. You just can't *DO* much with them because apps run in sandboxes with very low permissions. The dev got permission to add *one* extra capability, ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PHOTO_FULL, which gives full access to the pictures library and the SD card. It does not give anything even vaguely close to full access to the whole phone (as a trivial example, it still doesn't give access to the Documents folder). It's also not something that just any random developer is going to be able to use.
Thanks for trying, though, I guess...
Not the means of any ad here.
I just got it...usefull....
Delete the thread...if its not suitable here.
thanks
Amirphp said:
Not the means of any ad here.
I just got it...usefull....
Delete the thread...if its not suitable here.
thanks
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I don't think this thread should be deleted.
Anyway I just went to the Pocket File Manager facebook and this is what I found out :
"Hello developers.
I want to info you that in next version of Pocket File Manager we added support for third party application to save files into Phone storage and SD Card. It is very simple process and will cost you nothing.
How it works:
All what you need is to add special extension into your file and execute Launcher. PFM will receive file and save it to desired location , also it will remove extension so the file name remains original.
Extensions supproted:
.tosd - Save file to SD Card. For example you have file named "my new file.dat" and you want to save it to SD card. Rename the file to "my new file.dat.tosd" and use Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchFileAsync(); PFM will store the file named "my new file.dat" in SD Card. If no SD card is presents file will be stored into Phone's storage Picture folder)
.tols - Save file to PFM local storage.
.tops - Save file to Phone's storage under the Pictures folder.
If you have any questions fill free to ask!"
Maybe this can be helpfull to other developers that can't get the ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PHOTO_FULL capability for their own app.
I think this is interesting ...
Best app
Super app!! Installed trial version on Lumia 925, all works as described. Hurry up developers!!!
This looks great! But I wish the ability to access even a small part of the SD card was open to all developers. Its been very difficult to build a productivity app when the only way to get files out of the phone is email. Looks like he got into the Nokia collection about a month before he added the capability, I assume Nokia made this happen.
That could be. Nokia has the ability to add ID_CAP_MEDIALIB_PHOTO_FULL to "their" apps if they want; they could probably arrange for this app to receive it.
I'm with you on the SD thing. The official APIs for SD access (read-only, limited to the file types you specify beforehand, can't specify reserved file types, can only see so many files) are really stupid.
The fact that 8.1 supposedly allows devs to enable installing apps to SD is encouraging. If that feature stays, there's a decent change it will mean the apps are installed to a FAT partition, which would mean they would have full access, automatically (MS can restrict access to the mount point, but then the app couldn't get at its own binaries and resources; if they allow that, they allow it all). Of course, they might split-partition the card, making part of it NTFS so that they can ACL it to hell again. Even then, though, you could remove the card and put it in a PC...
From my experience with the emulator, the SD card still appears to be a single partition, FAT32 to be exact. Installed apps are stored in a hidden folder, namely WPSystem\Apps. Unless there's some trickery here that I'm unaware of...
Heh, "hidden" folder. Yeah, that'll be effective. I bet they set the readonly flag too...
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Heh, "hidden" folder. Yeah, that'll be effective. I bet they set the readonly flag too...
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That folder was there before, but now it also contains apps and appdata as well, besides some system files from before. Some folders are marked as partially read-only.
Well if there is a difference between the winRT file access and the winPTR 8.1 file access for apps I am yet to find it (aside from not being able to get on network locations and DLNA from phone).
I say devs should be more focused on getting their apps ready for 8.1 than still trying to live up with the *redacted* limitations of WP8.0...
I want my Android apps to access files stored in my local Windows network (aka "Workgroup").
Unfortunately, Android apps can only access locally stored files.
The best solution is to "mount" network folders as local on Remix OS.
This way, all Android apps can see the files and open them as if they were local.
Unfortunately, I cannot find any clear way to perform this task on Remix OS.
It is good that Remix OS is rooted.
But the problem is that none of the apps & tutorials available online work in Remix.
Can anyone share a solution to this problem?
you can access your windows shared folders with ES File Manager.
This is not a good solution. Many times, apps do not open the files. Or they open the files in limited features app window. But the biggest problem I notice is that many times files are copied to internal as part of "cache" & then opened (this can take long time).
Users who mount network folders do not suffer these problems because the apps treat the files as if they are on local storage...using full app window, file listing, & opening immediately.
Hi there,
For 4 weeks I am using the Huawei Mate 10 PRO. Previously I've been using a Xiaomi Mi5. I have one problem regarding the data migration. I mean - when I copy photos and videos (but it happen with all files, but I need to fix this for pictures and movies to sort them properly in Galery and other apps which allow to attach photos and videos like Whatsapp), then the files on the Internal Storage of the Mate get the current date, not the original from files. To fix this I tried use the HiSuite - import, copy with Android file transfer on Mac, robocopy on windows and the last chance was given to samba share and copy with Total Commander with Lan plugin. No of them were successful. So I have to ask you, if you know working workaround... I read a lot articles about this problem and it looks like this is not the Huawei problem, it's the Android FUSE problem. But is there any working solution for this problem? I tried to change the attributes from my PC using Exiftool, but I get an error "No privileges".
Copying files changes the file creation date. That is totally normal behaviour. Same happens when you copy files in Windows from one drive to another. And as you realized yourself it is not a Huawei issue.
The EXIF-Tool can only change embedded EXIF data in pictures but that is not changed anyway when you copy pictures from your computer to your phone or viceversa.
The problem are the apps of the phone reading the file creation date instead of the EXIF data of pictures. If there is no app to change the file creation date on the phone I think there is no way to solve this problem.
try advanced renamer for windows. if i remember right it has option to set creation date from exif info
So my tests show that only moving file from one folder to another preserve the dates. I tried to change the creation date with total commander on the phone, but i get error message Access denied! (1x).
One idea left - use the otg cable and move files from it to internal storage, but i think that this will give the same result...