Hey Gurus,
My file system seems to be having trouble. I used to have a number of items accessible through the built-in Gallery, Music, and Google Play Music, but now they're all gone from view, but I can access them through a file mgr app ES File Explorer. Another symptom is that when I take a screenshot, it reports that it is saving the jpg, then that it cannot save it, yet it actually does write the jpg as I can see it via File Explorer.
When I run the Music app it shows nothing but a message that I need to load and SD card - funny - no SD card slot on the phone.
Two possible software related causes come to mind, but I don't know for sure that either one is definitely responsible. (1) I used Nexus Media Importer to load an album of mp3s from an SD card to the HTC One, and (2) I also used the HTC Sync app on my pc.
So I was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and what action might fix the problem
Thanks,
Doug
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dsd_99 said:
Hey Gurus,
My file system seems to be having trouble. I used to have a number of items accessible through the built-in Gallery, Music, and Google Play Music, but now they're all gone from view, but I can access them through a file mgr app ES File Explorer. Another symptom is that when I take a screenshot, it reports that it is saving the jpg, then that it cannot save it, yet it actually does write the jpg as I can see it via File Explorer.
When I run the Music app it shows nothing but a message that I need to load and SD card - funny - no SD card slot on the phone.
Two possible software related causes come to mind, but I don't know for sure that either one is definitely responsible. (1) I used Nexus Media Importer to load an album of mp3s from an SD card to the HTC One, and (2) I also used the HTC Sync app on my pc.
So I was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and what action might fix the problem
Thanks,
Doug
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Use your file manager and move all the objects from /data/media to /data/media/0
you should be all set
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Hey guys i have a slight problem last night i transfered a folder from my internal sdcard to my external sdcard but after it transfered my gallery would not show my camera pictures i factory reseted my phone. Cleared memory storage data and gallery data as well...any suggestions?
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hi jason
are you sure your SD is mounted and recignized?
try to pull it off, and re-insert it. afterwards reboot your device.
if it still isn't recognized try to read it with a card reader\another device and backup+format it.
All the photos in the sd show up perfectly its the internal sd that doesnt show pictures. Also it looks like the root directory has been changed to sdcard/storage/sdcard0
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What if your ext-sd damaged inside? Did you try to another sd card? Music player read your mp3 from that sdcard? Or a file explorer app can see and open your pictures?
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Everything seems to be working fine i use astro to see my pics and music but its the gallery that has the issue
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Hey guys i have a slight problem last night i transfered a folder from my internal sdcard to my external sdcard but after it transfered my gallery would not show my camera pictures i factory reseted my phone. Cleared memory storage data and gallery data as well...any suggestions?
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I have a similar problem. My external SD card is mounted and browsable using ES File Explorer and all my media files are visible and viewable from ES. However, none of the media files on the external card appear in the various apps (i.e. pictures not visible in gallery, mp3s in the music player etc.). What is even stranger is that once I set the stock camera to save new pictures to the external SD these pictures are visible in the gallery, however all other pictures present taken on my previous phone (HTC Desire) are still not visible, even when located in the same folder. The same pictures do show up if I transfer them to the internal SD card but I would rather not have them all stored there.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Cheers,
Sam
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I have a similar problem. My external SD card is mounted and browsable using ES File Explorer and all my media files are visible and viewable from ES. However, none of the media files on the external card appear in the various apps (i.e. pictures not visible in gallery, mp3s in the music player etc.). What is even stranger is that once I set the stock camera to save new pictures to the external SD these pictures are visible in the gallery, however all other pictures present taken on my previous phone (HTC Desire) are still not visible, even when located in the same folder. The same pictures do show up if I transfer them to the internal SD card but I would rather not have them all stored there.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Cheers,
Sam
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I have the direct opposite problem, my internal doesn't show, whereas met ext-sd is visible in my apps. Need help too!
I have resolved this on mine, I formatted the external sd card and copied everything back. I guess the S3 just didn't like reading a card formatted by the Desire, I'll know better next time!
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Search inside your photo folders. If you see a file named .nomedia delete it.
This is because you're using third party file manager. Use the stock My File to move the files back and forth and it will show up in the gallery.
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I read somewhere that there was a bug in cwm manager latest version which put a .nomedia file in the root directory. There are fixes where you have to remove the .no media file and reinstall cwm.
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cb_jimmy said:
This is because you're using third party file manager. Use the stock My File to move the files back and forth and it will show up in the gallery.
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sd card does not show on my lg optimus p509, while it works on other phones and pcs. it shows sdcard umnounted or not inserted while i was sending a file through bluetooth before, and from then onwards...i have formatted it through pc also. i had rooted it with superclickone before. it is from t-mobile and i have unlocked it in my country. current software version lg-p509-v10l, android version 2.2, kernel 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #1 sun oct 24 19:10:09 kst 2010, build number FRF91. thank you...
My sd photos do not show in my Gallery
Dears,
All you need to do rather than resetting your phones is simply go to your application manager and clear the cache and anything for the Gallery as an application. And make sure that you also acquire the Gallery app with all the needed permissions to access your sd card. Then open your Gallery app, and there you go.
Enjoy!
Mahmoud Mahfouz.
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.
I have done some searching around for storing my Google play music on my external sd card instead of the internal memory. Basically from what I have found is your changing the directory path to the external memory. I am somewhat of a noob to this. I tried using this method here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2003930
I could not find the cache file with Rom tool box or esfile I also on a side note have had issues with finding zip files at times when I know I put them on the external memory.
So my question is, has anyone tried this and with success?
This method seemed to be the most simple way of doing it.
Also I am on flappjaxxx aosp jb Rom so is the directory different?
In the screen shot for Rom tool box you can see that it is empty and in esfile it is not there.
Am I looking in the wrong spot? Any help our someone's expertise would be amazing!
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You are over thinking this...
All you need to do is put the music on the sdcard.. clear data of Google music, reboot and the media scanner will read all storage and tell apps where things are.
As you can see in the pic of Google music, I have a sound file that isn't in my music folder. The media scanner still displays it on the player even though I didn't point it there.
I am not sure how to move it to the external memory if I can't find it. I have tried doing that in the past but Google music wanted to download the music again. I guess I could always download the music to my pc and transfer over. I guess I am not sure how to put new purchased music on the external?
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I believe the OP is asking about the technique that forces your cloud-based music to be stored on an external SD when the user "pins" the song for offline access.
You seem the referring to music stored on the SD by other means.
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I believe the OP is asking about the technique that forces your cloud-based music to be stored on an external SD when the user "pins" the song for offline access.
You seem the referring to music stored on the SD by other means.
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You are correct in that I want my music stored our pinned on the external memory. It would be great if I could do that between flashing different roms. I am in the process of downloading all the music from play and then stick it in a file on the sd and hopefully Google music will find it
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i have had alot of issues with binding to external SD to where i had to wipe my SD card, what happens is when you save ur files to the sd card it works, but when u reboot, it appears google music starts 1st before your bind does so it thinks ur files are missing and starts dowloading them to internal and it will corrupt ur ext SD card and u have to wipe it, that is what i have been having issues with, but u may not, best of luck to u.
That is good to know. I ended up downloading my entire library and copying it to the sd card. Google music saw the music as stated earlier, however I did not log into my account because it was wanting to double everything. So it kind of fixes my problem, but I am not sure what to do when I buy new music as I did not see a option to just download a album from music manger.
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IMHO, the fact that one can't direct offline music (or the cache for that matter) is a huge design oversight by Google.
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IMHO, the fact that one can't direct offline music (or the cache for that matter) is a huge design oversight by Google.
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totally agree, i don't understand it, u would be more likely to use it, but alot of online music apps are like that
cached music files for google music are in /sdcard/android/data/com.google.android.music/files/music move from here to external sd
Hey guys I've noticed an issue with the phone reading slash showing duplicates I'd certain files...namely music, mp3's. I use Dropbox for most of my file storage, this my music files are stored there. I used the Dropbox app to download about 10 mp3's by "export(ing) to external sd." Once I went into the stock music app (yeah I use stock lol) it showed exactly two of each of the files I added. Nowhere on my external sd are they duplicated, only one of each, I also searched the internal sd and didn't find any of said files there.... Finally, once I used stock file manager app to delete the music files giving me the issue, upon going back into stock music app-the app was still showing (only one now) the files I deleted, but it was unable to play them. I cleared the music apps cache and storage then restarted the phone which removed all traces of the deleted files and duplicates. My question is this: is this Dropbox app related? Anyone else have this issue or can recreate it? Is there maybe a known bug/fix I've missed in the forums somehow? Lastly, some additional information...if I transfer from my computer it doesn't do the duplicate file garbage....odd. I haven't tried using the stock file manager app's "online" access method to download files from Dropbox so I dunno if that does it too or not...
Thanks in advance for any help and or insight offered!
Unrelated topic: One more quick question: I'm aiming to find a way to make holding the vol buttons skips to next song but due to my noobness I'm unsure as to whether this is a tweak or mod? I'm using the mobile xda app from work now so I can't search the forums at the moment, is this covered in our forums that I've missed? If not, I'd eventually like to start a walk through thread for it... Thanks again guys.
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Try to look into internal storage folder /android/data/com.dropbox.android/...
I don't know about xda app but on tapatalk app(almost the same app) you can search...
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Hi guys,
I was previously using a Galaxy Nexus but exchanged it for an S3. The main deciding factor was because the S3 has support for SD cards. I have a lot of music, and I wanted to benefit from more storage than the Galaxy Nexus had built in.
I immediately had trouble copying data to my SD card, but after some google searching I figured out how to get Bit Torrent Sync to sync music to my phone from my computer. It was just a matter of naming the folders a certain way. I also synced my picture collection to my SD card as well. That worked fine too.
However, my favorite music player (Player Pro) and my favorite picture viewer (Quick Pic) cannot see media on my SD card. Player Pro cannot see any MP3's and Quick Pic cannot see any pictures. I've been Googling for a couple of days, and I'm getting more frustrated. I find countless topics about how to write data to an SD card, but I can't find any good topics on how to READ data stored on an SD card. Both apps can't see a thing. I even tried Google Play Music (which I loathe and don't like using) and it can't see any of my music files on my SD card either.
It's almost as if the SD card is locked from reading. I read a lot of forum posts all over the Internet talking about being unable to write, but nothing about being unable to read.
Is there some magic to get these apps to see media on the SD card?
jlacroix82 said:
Hi guys,
I was previously using a Galaxy Nexus but exchanged it for an S3. The main deciding factor was because the S3 has support for SD cards. I have a lot of music, and I wanted to benefit from more storage than the Galaxy Nexus had built in.
I immediately had trouble copying data to my SD card, but after some google searching I figured out how to get Bit Torrent Sync to sync music to my phone from my computer. It was just a matter of naming the folders a certain way. I also synced my picture collection to my SD card as well. That worked fine too.
However, my favorite music player (Player Pro) and my favorite picture viewer (Quick Pic) cannot see media on my SD card. Player Pro cannot see any MP3's and Quick Pic cannot see any pictures. I've been Googling for a couple of days, and I'm getting more frustrated. I find countless topics about how to write data to an SD card, but I can't find any good topics on how to READ data stored on an SD card. Both apps can't see a thing. I even tried Google Play Music (which I loathe and don't like using) and it can't see any of my music files on my SD card either.
It's almost as if the SD card is locked from reading. I read a lot of forum posts all over the Internet talking about being unable to write, but nothing about being unable to read.
Is there some magic to get these apps to see media on the SD card?
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Download any file manager from Playstore. I like "Es File Explorer". It's free and very good. And see manually if the MP3's are in the directory where you want them to be. :angel:
GeekyDroid said:
Download any file manager from Playstore. I like "Es File Explorer". It's free and very good. And see manually if the MP3's are in the directory where you want them to be. :angel:
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Yes, I've already confirmed that the files are definitely there.
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Yes, I've already confirmed that the files are definitely there.
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Are they in MP3 format?
Well, I don't even understand. Try to tap on them and start through ES File Explorer manually. They should start playing.
What kind of SD card? What format is it in? If you go into Settings / Storage - does it display your SD card there? If you plug the phone back to the PC, can you play MP3s and see your pictures through the computers media players?
Thanks for your reply. Yes, MP3 format and yes, they do start playing if I tap individual files. It's just that apps can't find media on the sd card. I've read that kit kat changed the way apps access sd cards, so I'm wondering if that's why I'm having problems?
jlacroix82 said:
Thanks for your reply. Yes, MP3 format and yes, they do start playing if I tap individual files. It's just that apps can't find media on the sd card. I've read that kit kat changed the way apps access sd cards, so I'm wondering if that's why I'm having problems?
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If you are rooted, then that is an easy fix.
The other way to test this is to use the built in Music player from Samsung. If it reads all the MP3s, then it's probably the SD card issue.
es0tericcha0s said:
If you are rooted, then that is an easy fix.
The other way to test this is to use the built in Music player from Samsung. If it reads all the MP3s, then it's probably the SD card issue.
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The stock music player doesn't see music either. I thought about rooting my phone, but it seems like all the instructions are for Windows. I don't have a Windows computer, I'm all Linux (even at work). I'd rather not install Windows just to root my phone if I don't have to.
jlacroix82 said:
The stock music player doesn't see music either. I thought about rooting my phone, but it seems like all the instructions are for Windows. I don't have a Windows computer, I'm all Linux (even at work). I'd rather not install Windows just to root my phone if I don't have to.
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Best bet is towelroot. I had the same issue with player pro with it not playing them because even though they are in mp3 format it told me they weren't
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ShapesBlue said:
Best bet is towelroot. I had the same issue with player pro with it not playing them because even though they are in mp3 format it told me they weren't
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Thank you so much! The issue is now solved!
Here is what the problem was. Kit Kat prevents apps from not only writing to sd cards, but reading from them as well. Each app can only read and write to their own specific folder on the sd card. In my case, I was using Bit Torrent Sync to handle syncing music from my PC to my phone (as I always have) and in order to get Bit Torrent Sync to work, I had to set it up in the following folder on the sd card:
Android/data/com.bittorrent.sync/music
The problem was, that Kit Kat prevented all my media apps from scanning that folder, since it enforces it to belong to Bit Torrent Sync, and will not allow another app to even touch it. I have no idea why ES File Explorer was able to open it and play music from within that folder. Perhaps it bypasses Kit Kat's restriction somehow.
So, I used towelroot as mentioned above and installed SuperSU, then, I downloaded and installed the sdcard fix from the play store and ran it.
After running the sd card fix, it said it enabled normal sd card usage. But it STILL didn't work. But after rebooting my phone, all my media apps (including Player Pro) immediately started seeing my media and everything seems to be back to normal!
If Google patches Android to prevent this fix from working in the future, I am officially done with this platform. There's no excuse for someone to have to go to this extreme just to get something as simple MP3's seen by a music playing app. I can understand the security improvement of this, but they shouldn't be preventing normal usage of a device.
Thanks so much, I appreciate the help! I hope my steps above helps someone else.