Running CM10.1. I've read all the different threads about this, and tried everything. I've tried SD maid to clean up orphaned folders, SD tools to fix corrupt images, clearing media storage data, adding .nomedia files, removing them, wiping both SD cards, Media rescan, disabling media storage, wiping cache, fixing permissions, and haloeight's instructions. I have all my music on a 32GB external SD and use PlayerPro as my music player. If I disable media storage, PP loses all my music. Even now, every so often it will lose all my music and have to rediscover it. Mediascannerservice is killing my battery. I left my phone in my car for two hours at 100%. It was down to 47% when I got back to it. Mediascannerservice ran for nearly 90 minutes.
WTF can I do?
geicogecko said:
Running CM10.1. I've read all the different threads about this, and tried everything. I've tried SD maid to clean up orphaned folders, SD tools to fix corrupt images, clearing media storage data, adding .nomedia files, removing them, wiping both SD cards, Media rescan, disabling media storage, wiping cache, fixing permissions, and haloeight's instructions. I have all my music on a 32GB external SD and use PlayerPro as my music player. If I disable media storage, PP loses all my music. Even now, every so often it will lose all my music and have to rediscover it. Mediascannerservice is killing my battery. I left my phone in my car for two hours at 100%. It was down to 47% when I got back to it. Mediascannerservice ran for nearly 90 minutes.
WTF can I do?
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2 Things you should do to find out if it is your hardware or software. Test your SD card.
Take your SD card out of your phone, put it in an SD adaptor or whatever you have to attach it to your computer and back up your music files on your computer. This is a simple copy/paste file copy and through this you will monitor your sd card's performance on your computer and see if it cuts off during the transfer or gets rediscovered ... and if so you would assume there is something physically wrong with your SD card, and replace it.
Meanwhile try a different external SD with some files/content on it and add it to your phone, and see if the phone still keeps looking and searching and indexing ... then try a CLEAN flash of CM10.1. (backup,format data-cache-system-NOreboot install, advance restore your data) to trouble shoot your possible OS problems.
Good luck,
It ended up being a problem with the SD card.
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hello guys. i have a galaxy note, At&T version but i have a little problem. For example, i bought Modern combat 3 from the market store and i downloaded the Apk file off market store into my phone, so all in order to play that game, i have to download rest of the data over WiFi right ? but the data of the games that i downloaded over WiFi, it will instal automatically to my internal memory not to my SD card, usually with my others Android phones that i used to have it before it will install to my SD card. However, with my galaxy note every data of the game that i downloaded over WiFi it will stored into my phone memory and now after downloading more than 7 games my phone memory is full and my 32gb SD card still empty, even though my SD card is mounted.And if i ever moved, any data to the SD card, then i cant play the game it will asked me to download the data again and if i downloaded again it will still install into my phone memory . Any helps please. I'm sorry about my English. I'm a french speaker....
Not sure if i understand what you are saying about your sd card. Is there anything at all on it? If not, is it mounted?
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A little suggestion, read what you typed out loud to yourself (proof reading).
BUT, I think I understand.
Unfortunately, not every app (in fact, only around 50-70%) of apps support the ability of moving the app to the sdcard. Most games that download additional data do NOT support being moved.
So, what I suggest you do is move anything on your phone's internal memory to your sd card. Audiobooks, podcasts, movies, music, pictures, etc should be on your sdcard. This way, you should have more than enough room for whatever additional stuff apps are downloading.
Personally, I use my sd card for all of this stuff for two additional reasons - the sd card is replaceable, my phone memory is not. Media such as podcasts, audiobooks, movies, music, and pictures are always being swapped on my phone for different content. Every time you write data, this is a destructive process that wears down the memory cells that store data on the phone or sd card. But since the sd card is much more easily replaced than the phone, I put all of this content on the sd card.
The second reason I put all of my media on the sd card is, 'if' my phone should need to be warrantied, I dont have to worry about anything in the phone's internal storage because I keep everything I can on the sd card.
You also might need to actually plug your phone into the computer and browse thru the folders on the phone and manually delete any game data that is still around for games you arent playing anymore (games you uninstalled) or apps that you no longer have installed.
Or alternatively, redownload the game and follow the instructions below.
When you remove an app that you know you arent going to play again, you should delete it by going to Settings->Applications->Manage Applications, then tap the 'All' tab near the top of the screen. Scroll thru the list and when you see an app you want to remove, tap it. In this next screen, 'if' Force Stop is selectable, tap Force Stop. Then tap 'Clear Data'. Then finally tap 'Uninstall'. Clearing Data deletes any additional data the app creates that is not the actual apk you originally downloaded from the market (in most cases anyway).
Of course, another option is just to do a factory reset (Settings->Privacy and Storage->Reset Phone). This will clean everything (for the most part) off the phone and give you a clean slate to work off. Then, when you delete apps, do the steps I mentioned in the above paragraph when you uninstall any apps.
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Not sure if i understand what you are saying about your sd card. Is there anything at all on it? If not, is it mounted?
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yes the SD card is mounted. it shows me the capacity and everything.
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A little suggestion, read what you typed out loud to yourself (proof reading).
BUT, I think I understand.
Unfortunately, not every app (in fact, only around 50-70%) of apps support the ability of moving the app to the sdcard. Most games that download additional data do NOT support being moved.
So, what I suggest you do is move anything on your phone's internal memory to your sd card. Audiobooks, podcasts, movies, music, pictures, etc should be on your sdcard. This way, you should have more than enough room for whatever additional stuff apps are downloading.
Personally, I use my sd card for all of this stuff for two additional reasons - the sd card is replaceable, my phone memory is not. Media such as podcasts, audiobooks, movies, music, and pictures are always being swapped on my phone for different content. Every time you write data, this is a destructive process that wears down the memory cells that store data on the phone or sd card. But since the sd card is much more easily replaced than the phone, I put all of this content on the sd card.
The second reason I put all of my media on the sd card is, 'if' my phone should need to be warrantied, I dont have to worry about anything in the phone's internal storage because I keep everything I can on the sd card.
You also might need to actually plug your phone into the computer and browse thru the folders on the phone and manually delete any game data that is still around for games you arent playing anymore (games you uninstalled) or apps that you no longer have installed.
Or alternatively, redownload the game and follow the instructions below.
When you remove an app that you know you arent going to play again, you should delete it by going to Settings->Applications->Manage Applications, then tap the 'All' tab near the top of the screen. Scroll thru the list and when you see an app you want to remove, tap it. In this next screen, 'if' Force Stop is selectable, tap Force Stop. Then tap 'Clear Data'. Then finally tap 'Uninstall'. Clearing Data deletes any additional data the app creates that is not the actual apk you originally downloaded from the market (in most cases anyway).
Of course, another option is just to do a factory reset (Settings->Privacy and Storage->Reset Phone). This will clean everything (for the most part) off the phone and give you a clean slate to work off. Then, when you delete apps, do the steps I mentioned in the above paragraph when you uninstall any apps.
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thanks for ur help bro but it didn't work. i even rest the the phone to the factory but still doing the same thing. tell me on your galaxy note if u download for example asphalt 6 apk and if u star downloading the rest of that over WiFi tell where that file will install ? on your phone memory or to your external SD Card ? thanks
The reality is that any connection you use whether wifi or edge ect.some goes to device and some in sd. sometimes you can put a little bit more inside the SD card.
On my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint I used Apps2SD by Sam Lu to move many of my apps over to my new 32 gig SD Card. After a bit I realized that I had moved many of the apps over that should have stayed on the main internal storage, mainly because of widgets. So I moved many of them back.
Shortly after doing that I was at a retreat with my phone on airplane mode to preserve battery life. I took some pictures and videos, read my Kindle app and Bible and then plugged it in to charge. The next day several of the pictures and videos I took showed up as a black icon and were not accessible. Then I noticed that all the apps that I had moved to the SD card were "greyed out" and even some of the apps that I had moved back to the internal storage. The phone then told me the SD card needed to be formatted.
Since then I have tried to use file recovery software to recover missing files on the SD card and it finds hundreds of photos and several videos, but nothing else. So the big question is, where are my apps? Does anyone have an idea of how to recover my missing apps? They show up on my phone with "greyed out" icons so the phone thinks they're installed but obviously they're not. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nathan
The same with me...
NathanCCI said:
On my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Sprint I used Apps2SD by Sam Lu to move many of my apps over to my new 32 gig SD Card. After a bit I realized that I had moved many of the apps over that should have stayed on the main internal storage, mainly because of widgets. So I moved many of them back.
Shortly after doing that I was at a retreat with my phone on airplane mode to preserve battery life. I took some pictures and videos, read my Kindle app and Bible and then plugged it in to charge. The next day several of the pictures and videos I took showed up as a black icon and were not accessible. Then I noticed that all the apps that I had moved to the SD card were "greyed out" and even some of the apps that I had moved back to the internal storage. The phone then told me the SD card needed to be formatted.
Since then I have tried to use file recovery software to recover missing files on the SD card and it finds hundreds of photos and several videos, but nothing else. So the big question is, where are my apps? Does anyone have an idea of how to recover my missing apps? They show up on my phone with "greyed out" icons so the phone thinks they're installed but obviously they're not. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nathan
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I had the same problem my apps that I had transferred on my SD Card had a grayed icon. This happened when I had plug my USB to store some files on my internal SD Card in my I9000. When I plug my phone and pressed the "Connect USB storage" button it seems that the app had freezed so I unplugged my phone and did it again for several times. When Im fed up I tried to browse my phone and there the icons of the apps I had transferred on my internal SD card had turned gray. I tried to unmount and mount my internal sd card but still no luck. I tried to restart the phone and even remove the battery still no luck. I guess the best solution is to reinstall the apps. Sad to say if i try to plug the phone again as an external drive I can see the files on my phone including the OBB files of the games
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I had the same problem my apps that I had transferred on my SD Card had a grayed icon. This happened when I had plug my USB to store some files on my internal SD Card in my I9000. When I plug my phone and pressed the "Connect USB storage" button it seems that the app had freezed so I unplugged my phone and did it again for several times. When Im fed up I tried to browse my phone and there the icons of the apps I had transferred on my internal SD card had turned gray. I tried to unmount and mount my internal sd card but still no luck. I tried to restart the phone and even remove the battery still no luck. I guess the best solution is to reinstall the apps. Sad to say if i try to plug the phone again as an external drive I can see the files on my phone including the OBB files of the games
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in theory, if you re-install the app without clearing the cache, then all your files and settings should be there.
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in theory, if you re-install the app without clearing the cache, then all your files and settings should be there.
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I did reinstall my apps and most of them retained their settings. I later had the SD Card begin reporting as needing to be formatted again so I removed it out of fear I may have gotten a bad SD Card. I don't know if the phone has issues with loosing SD Cards or if I bought a bad card. Haven't had time to trouble-shoot so I'm just going without a card for now.
[Q] Strange Issue: Stock Music Player loses Playlist & Settings after every reboot
I'm on Stock ICS and every time i reboot my SGSIII, the stock music player loses all my playlists and settings. I've got the same issue on JB (DLIB).
Can anyone help me with this please? Or can anyone tell me, where the stock music player stores the Playlist? Did a forumsearch, but i only found this old an unanswerd thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=979931
Thanks!
Anyone?
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I have seen this on through LI8 leak but with the AOSP music player on the market, really annoyed me.
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I don't have this issue, but similar... after I play a music, if I disconnect the headset after a while (can't say how long) when I plug again the headset, the music starts not from the point were was left, but from the start. This also happens if I restart the phone!!!
I don't get it... is this right?!? Is this a bug or a "feature"?!?!
Samsung, were are in 2012!!! My previous music players, google music and sense player did this!!!
Apologies for bringing back an old thread, but I'm having a similar problem where the playlists in the stock music player app never seem to retain their songs after plugging the phone into a PC to do some backup or synching for example. This is on the 4.1.2 BTU update. Anyone know of any ideas on how to fix it? I have tried dismounting the SD Card (Where all the songs are) and reinserting it.
I am experiencing the same problem. The actual playlist doesn't get deleted but the contents of all playlists gets deleted. It's caused by the external SD card getting unmounted. I found out that if I bump my phone (eg. by putting it down on a table a little too hard or throwing it on my bed) my external SD card will sometimes get disconnected briefly (a warning message does get displayed at the top in the notification area but it just flashes by briefly so you might miss it) and after that all of my playlists have been emptied out. To prove this is the cause I tried to unmount the SD card manually via Settings and the same thing happened to the playlists. Also when you connect to a PC I believe the SD card gets unmounted from the phone so it can be accessed via the PC. The strange thing is the playlists don't seem to be stored on the external SD card. I took my SD card out of my phone and plugged into my PC and did a search. Couldn't find any playlist files. There is a folder on the internal storage card called Playlists and I can see a bunch of files in there that have the same name as all of my playlists. These files don't seem to store the actual playlists though because they are all emtpy zero length files and their modification data is set to the the day I first created the playlist even though I have added songs to the playlist since then.
Can anyone please provide an explanation of how the stock player stores playlists or how to back them up? I would like to at least be able to backup my playlists in case they get cleared out again.
Oyyyy
Well that blows. My s2 didn't do this, my s3 sure does tho. Sounds like when the SD is unmounted, it notices files no longer exist, and removes them from playlist. Definitely supports my hatred of the Nexus line (no SD card so Google likely just overlooked this).
Anyways, I read this as a some-what fix:
"I use MyBackup Pro to save my playlists, it does a really good job but have just recently changed all mine to M3U playlists which I store and update on my PC. I just move them to my music folder on the sdcard of the phone and my media players (mixzing, stock player, amazon mp3 and google music) all recognize them. This save me a lot of hassles if something gets lost or not backed up right."
I haven't tried yet, but it's better than having to re-create playlists I suppose.
Pro-tip: Create a tasker/local/NFC launch to backup playlists weekly/ whatever
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and just stumbled upon this post... I unmounted my SD Card and then re-mounted and bam... The playlist on my stock music player is gone. I tried to restore data only from Titanium Backup and MyBackup Pro. No luck... will now try to restore just the data partition image which I made a few days ago.
Hopefully this will bring it back, if not, will have to do a full Nandroid Restore.
This should not happen if I choose to unmount and then remount the sdcard to refresh data.
I have done this by accident again, even knowing that this would happen. Back to the drawing board.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and just stumbled upon this post... I unmounted my SD Card and then re-mounted and bam... The playlist on my stock music player is gone. I tried to restore data only from Titanium Backup and MyBackup Pro. No luck... will now try to restore just the data partition image which I made a few days ago.
Hopefully this will bring it back, if not, will have to do a full Nandroid Restore.
This should not happen if I choose to unmount and then remount the sdcard to refresh data.
I have done this by accident again, even knowing that this would happen. Back to the drawing board.
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I sincerely doubt a Nandroid restore is necessary, just delete all music off the phone/sd card, and send the playlists to the phone again...I've done this several times.
No idea why it keeps happening, it is annoying, but I have all the playlists stored in Winamp, so I just send them to the SD card, and I'm back up and running in short order.
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I sincerely doubt a Nandroid restore is necessary, just delete all music off the phone/sd card, and send the playlists to the phone again...I've done this several times.
No idea why it keeps happening, it is annoying, but I have all the playlists stored in Winamp, so I just send them to the SD card, and I'm back up and running in short order.
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No disrepect, but it does not make any sense to have to delete all of my music to restore a playlist. I do not use Winamp so not a viable solution for me. I found out that the default players can see playlists under the internal sdcard card, music, then playlists folder. As I said I have a T-Mobile Note2.
The reason my for post was that Playlists should not be lost when unmounting and re-mounting of your external sdcard.
I am new to Samsung, coming from HTC Desire. And got into bizarre already )
A couple of days ago noticed a strange problem with photos in galery unreadable, appearing to be corrupt (all of them on external sd, internal sd photos are displayed properly). Then today happened that Music app couldn't play music files on external SD.
Read countless of similar issues on the internet, with lots of people blaming on the sd card. However, I found that it is not the case.
Put into a SD card reader and plug into PC, the files on SD card are all ok.
Put back card into phone and investigated further. First I thought maybe it's a problem with SD card reader in the phone. BUT! Noticed files are perfectly visible in ES File Explorer, and even display correctly when using Gallery App to open them from ES file explorer. But if Gallery is opened first, it cannot display files.
I'm sure somebody else happened the same, since the internet is full with such reports regarding Galaxy devices (even S1 and Note alike), but anyone identified the sorce of the problem and eventually solved it? I would be very much interested.
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I am new to Samsung, coming from HTC Desire. And got into bizarre already )
A couple of days ago noticed a strange problem with photos in galery unreadable, appearing to be corrupt (all of them on external sd, internal sd photos are displayed properly). Then today happened that Music app couldn't play music files on external SD.
Read countless of similar issues on the internet, with lots of people blaming on the sd card. However, I found that it is not the case.
Put into a SD card reader and plug into PC, the files on SD card are all ok.
Put back card into phone and investigated further. First I thought maybe it's a problem with SD card reader in the phone. BUT! Noticed files are perfectly visible in ES File Explorer, and even display correctly when using Gallery App to open them from ES file explorer. But if Gallery is opened first, it cannot display files.
I'm sure somebody else happened the same, since the internet is full with such reports regarding Galaxy devices (even S1 and Note alike), but anyone identified the sorce of the problem and eventually solved it? I would be very much interested.
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Try to run Rescan Media app from Play store.
Maybe your media scanner service does not work properly and needs to refresh the list of media files on your sd card.
Good luck !
rescan is done automatically every reboot. doesn't help. thanx anyway.
investigated further and found out that the files are not corrupt, but the libraries of Music app and Gallery app created duplicated empty files (in fact 2 fake entries in library for every valid file on the card). Duplicate files don't exist physically on SD card, only in libraries of the two applications.
Already tried formatting cache and dalvik cache, but to no avail...
ICS 4.0.4 Orange Romania (BVLPH) stock ROM.
Later EDIT: This was an easy one. Unmounted SD Card and open Gallery app and Music app. Then re-mount SD Card, both apps will refresh libraries, wait a while for media scan in the background and voila: duplicate files disappear, everything is in god order.
I had a similar problem where both gallery and music files were duplicated, but the duplicates were unreadable.
My solution was Settings -> Applications -> All -> Media Storage -> Clear Data.
This forced a refresh and everything turned normal again.
Slightly annoying that the media scan data is stored under a separate application and not within the data of the gallery or music player applications, but once I discovered this it was an easy fix.
A few days ago while I was on ICS 4.0 on my SGS3 (can't remember whether 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 - international stock ROM either way), I noticed that my phone was not displaying pictures correctly. For example, I took a picture with my camera and it automatically saved it to my SD card, after which it would say the picture cannot be opened. I then transferred my photos to the internal memory as I felt my SD card was getting corrupted, however the music on it still worked fine. Then I noticed a huge increase in battery usage, mostly consumed by the 'Media Storage' application (60-70%). I then updated my phone to JB 4.1.2, and my pictures would not show up at all (music was alright). After some research I found out that there could be a faulty Media Storage app, but it only mentioned the rooted ROM version for people wanting JB earlier than the release date. I did what the instructions I found told me and cleared the data on the Media Storage app (around 4 GB). This solved the problem momentarily but the data keeps going up and using the battery. Now I'm stuck with the Media Storage disabled since I need my battery, however it's annoying to hear a full ringtone for a simple notification, not to mention I want to listen to my music.
What I want to know is, is it a problem of a faulty SD card, corrupted (music) files, or a faulty Media Storage app?
I haven't tried removing the SD card and leaving it to see if it still consumes battery but I just formatted it and am looking to see what happens.
With the Media Storage off, there have been HUGE improvements on battery life! Wow.
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A few days ago while I was on ICS 4.0 on my SGS3 (can't remember whether 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 - international stock ROM either way), I noticed that my phone was not displaying pictures correctly. For example, I took a picture with my camera and it automatically saved it to my SD card, after which it would say the picture cannot be opened. I then transferred my photos to the internal memory as I felt my SD card was getting corrupted, however the music on it still worked fine. Then I noticed a huge increase in battery usage, mostly consumed by the 'Media Storage' application (60-70%). I then updated my phone to JB 4.1.2, and my pictures would not show up at all (music was alright). After some research I found out that there could be a faulty Media Storage app, but it only mentioned the rooted ROM version for people wanting JB earlier than the release date. I did what the instructions I found told me and cleared the data on the Media Storage app (around 4 GB). This solved the problem momentarily but the data keeps going up and using the battery. Now I'm stuck with the Media Storage disabled since I need my battery, however it's annoying to hear a full ringtone for a simple notification, not to mention I want to listen to my music.
What I want to know is, is it a problem of a faulty SD card, corrupted (music) files, or a faulty Media Storage app?
I haven't tried removing the SD card and leaving it to see if it still consumes battery but I just formatted it and am looking to see what happens.
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You could try formatting your SD card, if this doesn't work it may be the case that your SD card has bad sectors.
If you want to know wether that is the case, you can try this:
Click Start and then Run. Type cmd and then click OK. Type the following:
chkdsk [sd card drive letter] /r
That will scan for bad sectors on the card and repair any found.
on the PC, that is