The problem is, my phone huawei p80 lite with android 5.0.1 can't detect few video programs, when Im using "open with" option from file managers.
Im not allowed to post links, but they're both called "Video looper"
As for file manager, Im using ""ES File Explorer" right now, I also tried others but none of them detects these 2 programs upon using "open with" and as a video with file managers.
I even tried to open it as "other" where it shows you a list of basically every app like google maps,contacts, sms and other stuff that isn't related to the video files and even there, I can't find these 2 programs.
Is there any other way I can assign one of these 2 programs as default video players or make them appear in the list, so I don't need to run them and search videos through them, but I could just browse and open videos through file managers ?
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Is there a way to prevent certain pictures and videos from appearing in the gallery?
Also can I lock apps to prevent their use.
On my sisters phone the video player says that avatar is locked.
Most of the apps in the market to hide stuff do little more than hide the file by adding a dot to the beginning of the filename and/or changing the file extension to txt. This will hide it from the gallery and video player, but it still will be visible to any good file manager.
The locked thing on Avatar might be due to DRM.
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Vibrantthing said:
Is there a way to prevent certain pictures and videos from appearing in the gallery?
Also can I lock apps to prevent their use.
On my sisters phone the video player says that avatar is locked.
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like what t313 said...just add a dot/period (.) in front of the file/folder name. i found that windows doesnt allow me to add a dot ,so i use my file manager(Astro PRO) on my phone to manually rename.
basically your phones gallery will ignore anything with a dot in front of the name. on my phone, i have a folder called .hide. thats where i put files that i want hidden
brian_v3ntura said:
like what t313 said...just add a dot/period (.) in front of the file/folder name. i found that windows doesnt allow me to add a dot ,so i use my file manager(Astro PRO) on my phone to manually rename.
basically your phones gallery will ignore anything with a dot in front of the name. on my phone, i have a folder called .hide. thats where i put files that i want hidden
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Just remember that brian_v3ntura said to use a file manager to add the dot, and so by extension this "hidden" folder will not show up in the gallery (or anything that respects hidden files and folders) but will still show up in most decent file mangers.
If you girlfreind/wife/parents/mountain goat happen to snoop around using the file manager they might find that folder you named ".HardCoreDonkeyPorn" so even though security through obscurity almost never works out, it might still help a little to name it something like ".sbin" instead.
One of the reasons to avoid the market programs is because there "hidden" folders stand out a bit when they are named something like ".HiddenFolder" or ".MyVault"
Just something to keep in mind. The long and short of it is, if you don't want CSI to finds it, don't put it on the phone at all.
T313C0mun1s7 said:
Just remember that brian_v3ntura said to use a file manager to add the dot, and so by extension this "hidden" folder will not show up in the gallery (or anything that respects hidden files and folders) but will still show up in most decent file mangers.
If you girlfreind/wife/parents/mountain goat happen to snoop around using the file manager they might find that folder you named ".HardCoreDonkeyPorn" so even though security through obscurity almost never works out, it might still help a little to name it something like ".sbin" instead.
One of the reasons to avoid the market programs is because there "hidden" folders stand out a bit when they are named something like ".HiddenFolder" or ".MyVault"
Just something to keep in mind. The long and short of it is, if you don't want CSI to finds it, don't put it on the phone at all.
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actually astrology file manager ad supported version and the PRO version has a setting to hide hidden files so it doesn't show up in the file manager until u reenable in settings. or just create a zip file using astro then hide
brian_v3ntura said:
actually astrology file manager ad supported version and the PRO version has a setting to hide hidden files so it doesn't show up in the file manager until u reenable in settings. or just create a zip file using astro then hide
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I did not know this because I don't use it. Does it just create the dot files we mentioned, or does it actually do something special like encrypt it? If it just becomes a dot file then it will still be visible to another file manager, like say root explorer.
Dot files are a standard way to create "hidden" files in Unix and Linux and it goes back over 40 years. The issue is that it fully relies on programs to respect the setting. Even the ls command will show hidden files if you just add the -a switch.
Ty for the tips. One of the things that I wanted hide from the gallery was some apps had their pics show up in the gallery which to me is annoying plus some random album art too. Plus not having to worry about showing pics in gallery to family with some random katy perry pics and gifs is good too.
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Vibrantthing said:
Ty for the tips. One of the things that I wanted hide from the gallery was some apps had their pics show up in the gallery which to me is annoying plus some random album art too. Plus not having to worry about showing pics in gallery to family with some random katy perry pics and gifs is good too.
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Then for these casual cases to hide images, the dot hidden will work just fine for you. I do this to hide all my eBook covers from the gallery. For album art, I just embed it in the ID3 tags. I think it is both cleaner and it makes sure the metadata (in this case album art) travels with the file itself, which is exactly what the ID3 tag is for.
The ".nomedia" file in the directory will keep the media scanner from finding anything. That works to keep random junk out of the gallery - but isn't a "hidden" solution.
-bZj
Hello
I currently have a HTC EVO 3D, and on that phone I am able to create a folder named ".story" in my file manager app, and all the pictures i put in there will not be shown in the gallery app. Works very nicely and exactly how i want it to.
Now onto my issue.
I tried to do the same on my Prime, creating the folder, putting the exact same images in that folder (all from dropbox, syncing it to my comp, phone and tablet).
But the images still show up in the gallery app.
I also tried to put a file named ".nomedia" in the folder where i keep all my pictures, still didn't work.
I tried rebooting several times to see if i had to force a media rescan, but it seems like it didn't work.
I'm running .21 update, stock, with root.
Am i missing something, or doesn't this work on the prime? If so, any other way to do so? (I don't want to use a "vault" app to hide pictures and such)
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I had the same problem a few weeks ago. Try the app Hide it Pro. It's free on the Play Store and does pretty much what your asking for. It also works with videos, Docs and apps.
Sorry can't post links yet!
Edit: oops sorry, I didn't read the full post
it is annoying
You are not alone, naming the folder with a initial . and creating a .nomedia file does not work for me either, and I find it annoying. Clearing Gallery cache did not help either.
Works just fine, ".foldername" with a .nomedia file in it. Does for me at least, hides it from gallery and from the built in file manager. ES file explorer picks it up but it's at that point you're not hiding anything
EDIT: Try making a file on your computer, right click and New>File, name it .nomedia, then DropBox (that's a sign up link, you'd help me out as well as yourself by using it) it. Download it and copy/pasta to the folder. That's how I did it, because a guide I read said it worked better if from the PC instead of through Android.
If you're trying to hide a whole trove of things, make a folder and name it ".foldername" and then put your hidden folder in there and name it ".foldername2", then drop a .nomedia into .foldername and .foldername2 as well, doubling up on that.
I wouldn't recommend that with app picture caches though
If you are up for using a different Gallery app, you can whitelist and blacklist folders to be displayed in QuickPic
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Works just fine, ".foldername" with a .nomedia file in it. Does for me at least, hides it from gallery and from the built in file manager. ES file explorer picks it up but it's at that point you're not hiding anything
EDIT: Try making a file on your computer, right click and New>File, name it .nomedia, then DropBox (that's a sign up link, you'd help me out as well as yourself by using it) it. Download it and copy/pasta to the folder. That's how I did it, because a guide I read said it worked better if from the PC instead of through Android.
If you're trying to hide a whole trove of things, make a folder and name it ".foldername" and then put your hidden folder in there and name it ".foldername2", then drop a .nomedia into .foldername and .foldername2 as well, doubling up on that.
I wouldn't recommend that with app picture caches though
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I did as you suggested, and it friggin worked! AWESOME!, mucho love to you
Now my files on my tablet is in a folder named ".story", inside that is a folder named "story" with a ".nomedia" file in it, and inside the "story" folder are all my pictures. (I made the ".nomedia" file on Windows, dropboxed it over to my Android Tablet (I made a new .txt document, removed the .txt and just named it ".nomedia" if anyone is wondering)).
After you try it, be sure to reboot your tablet, as that forces a media rescan
I have both the PDF to Go app (part of Documents to Go) and Adobe Acrobat. I initially selected the "always open with" option for .pdf files to use PDF to Go. Now I want to switch to Acrobat. I tried Settings>App>Documents to Go>Clear defaults and that did not work. There is also a "Clear data" option but I'm unsure what that does (sounds a bit riskier). Also, a bit odd, but there is no specific app listing for PDF to Go. Either way when opening a .pdf file through ES File Explorer the default remains PDF to Go. However, when using another file browser, say Astro File Explorer, I can get the default app to be Acrobat Reader. It appears that the app default is file browser app based not global system based. Any help/workaround/solution would be appreciated. Cheers.
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I have both the PDF to Go app (part of Documents to Go) and Adobe Acrobat. I initially selected the "always open with" option for .pdf files to use PDF to Go. Now I want to switch to Acrobat. I tried Settings>App>Documents to Go>Clear defaults and that did not work. There is also a "Clear data" option but I'm unsure what that does (sounds a bit riskier). Also, a bit odd, but there is no specific app listing for PDF to Go. Either way when opening a .pdf file through ES File Explorer the default remains PDF to Go. However, when using another file browser, say Astro File Explorer, I can get the default app to be Acrobat Reader. It appears that the app default is file browser app based not global system based. Any help/workaround/solution would be appreciated. Cheers.
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set your defaults for es file explorer, pdf to go and Acrobat reader.
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set your defaults for es file explorer, pdf to go and Acrobat reader.
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Not sure if it is what you meant but clearing the file settings directly in ES FE was the answer. Settings>File Settings>Clear defaults worked. This allowed me to reset choice of pdf reader and the pdf default behavior.
Every time I set a default for anything when I go to do that operation again later it asks me every time and I hit always.. Is there a fix for this?
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I've seen this with other apps like navigation... no matter how many times I set the app default, it still prompts. I think the best workaround is to just disable the app from the phone if you really only need to use the one app.
I'm using an iropro tablet on android 4.4.2. When I click on "add photos" on a website I am only given a few mostly irelevant options in the pop up that is displayed.On my phone for example the option to open the gallery or file manager app is given. Can I change the options given on the tablet so that I am given the gallery or file explorer options?
Hello,
If I move/delete/create files, Android OS doesn't seem to notice. For example:
– if I use the default music player, it shows deleted songs, doesn't show new songs;
– the picture gallery shows grey squares with file names of deleted pictures/videos;
– cannot select new notification sound after placing new file in Alarms/Notifications/Ringtones folders.
Many apps (e.g. Music Folder Player and Challenger Viewer that I use) have a "refresh file list" option to update folder contents. It seems strange to me that this is even necessary but isn't there such a function for the whole system without needing to reboot every time I move around files?
I've got an Android J7 but I had this issue since S3 already and it annoys me a bit that this hasn't been fixed yet. I wasn't able to find anyone else complaining about this issue though.
Thanks!