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Push mp3 folders to phone...?

I have been messing around with ADB and pushing and I was wondering if there is a way to push an entire folder over to the phone. I think I could figure it out, but if someone knows how to do this that would be awesome, I searched but everything came up as ADB for noobs or ADB for dummies and just showed basic ADB commands... anyone know the command for pushing mp3 to sd card... also, i dont have a Music folder on my sd card anymore... if i push directly to SD without the directory, will it be created?
Thanks in advance guys

There might be another way but I just plug a USB cable into the phone, drag down the USB icon in the notification area, press the mount button and then make a new folder called Music and put my mp3's into it.
But like I said, there's a lot of ways to skin a cat and this is only one.
If your looking for some automated way, through a batch file or script, well... that'd be useful too.

i have done that too. but time and time again when i do this, especially after i rooted my phone, it says unable to read sd card and i have to either wipe or re-format my card. i was hoping that ADB would help this from happening...

The command to copy is cp -a so you would navigate to whatever location that folder is in and type
cp -a xxxxxx /sdcard/xxxxxx
That should do it

borodin1 said:
The command to copy is cp -a so you would navigate to whatever location that folder is in and type
cp -a xxxxxx /sdcard/xxxxxx
That should do it
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Nah, that command is for copying a folder from one location on the phone to another. With adb you need to place the folder of music (we'll call that folder Music in this demo) in the same folder as your adb.exe. Then press start and run cmd, then:
cd location of adb
adb push Music /sdcard/Music/
exit
That will push everything within your Music folder to another folder on the sdcard called Music. Then you can just listen to your music through the Music application. Good luck.

h.nocturna said:
Nah, that command is for copying a folder from one location on the phone to another. With adb you need to place the folder of music (we'll call that folder Music in this demo) in the same folder as your adb.exe. Then press start and run cmd, then:
cd location of adb
adb push Music /sdcard/Music/
exit
That will push everything within your Music folder to another folder on the sdcard called Music. Then you can just listen to your music through the Music application. Good luck.
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I'm ok with copying it. I am not sure if pushing something leaves a copy in original location, but then again, I just drag and drop files on my sdcard and if I need to do anything else with them I do it from shell.
Your way work though, may be even easier.

borodin1 said:
I'm ok with copying it. I am not sure if pushing something leaves a copy in original location, but then again, I just drag and drop files on my sdcard and if I need to do anything else with them I do it from shell.
Your way work though, may be even easier.
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I thought that he wanted to know how to transfer files from the computer to the sdcard without mounting since mounting corrupted his sdcard...

h.nocturna said:
I thought that he wanted to know how to transfer files from the computer to the sdcard without mounting since mounting corrupted his sdcard...
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You're correct.
adb push it is. Thank you for pointing this out.

How to view root files in Windows

I want to use switchrom.sh and are unsure of how to copy the file into the /system/sd folder. Is there a way to view the root files in Windows? How do you go about it?

ryantomo said:
I want to use switchrom.sh and are unsure of how to copy the file into the /system/sd folder. Is there a way to view the root files in Windows? How do you go about it?
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There are two ways. The best is to push it through ADB (Just search for ADB, I don't have the time to walk through it and it has been already done better)
Or you can move it to the root of your sdcard and type in the terminal:
$su
#cp /sdcard/switchrom.sh /system/sd

backup SD content to another SD

since im working this days pretty far from my home i arrive late to my home perhaps in my work i have my usb wire so i can use the massive storage.
the thing its the files for linux like .nomedia and so on, so i cant copy to windows and then copy again to the new SD since i dont have time to install linux at home (and maybe i dont have space lol ) so anyway to do in windows? because i buy a 8 gb SD and i need transfer all my files :s thanks =D

Why do you need the .nomedia files? Can't you just show hidden files in windows and copy them all?
You don't even need to install linux, just grab a live cd and your good to go.

evilkorn said:
Why do you need the .nomedia files? Can't you just show hidden files in windows and copy them all?
You don't even need to install linux, just grab a live cd and your good to go.
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live cd indeed i have a distro iguess if not i need download... and i said .nomedia as example there is a lot of "system" files

you know, I'm sorry for the dumb question.
I've just selected all, copy, and pasted onto a new card.
Does this not copy everything?
sorry, nevermind, I read that wrong

jbrinkley said:
you know, I'm sorry for the dumb question.
I've just selected all, copy, and pasted onto a new card.
Does this not copy everything?
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could be, perhaps windows take some files and "configure" or add a extension for this files and do not a copy. for example try make a .nomedia file in windows and you have an error, so when you copy windows could not copy or rename or add a extension .
but maybe in some cases do a exact copy, not happen to me at least on w7 isnt copy all files ._.

[Q] How to add mp3 file to Windows Phone 8 (Lumia 521) from Linux

I'd like to add MP3 files to Windows Phone by linux machine. How to do this?
Recently I bought Lumia 521 phone.
I connect the phone to my linux(Ubuntu) machine.
Ubuntu have MTP support, and I can open Phone directory by file manager.
The phone have sub-directories Documents, Music, Pictures, Ringtones and Videos.
I copy my MP3 files to Music directory, but "Music + Videos" app in phone doesn't recognize the file.
I tried to use "Windows Phone app" in Windows machine.
Added MP3 files by the windows phone app was recognized by "Music + Videos" app.
Is there any way/application to add MP3 file by linux?

have you tried gmtp?
I've read that gmtp sometimes can be useful

qandrav said:
have you tried gmtp?
I've read that gmtp sometimes can be useful
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Thanks for reply.
I tried gmtp by package.
I can copy media to phone. It recognized by phone.
But the file on gmtp is not shown in gmtp window.
Next I tried mtp-tools package, mtpfs and qlix.
But there didn't works well.
(Maybe all of this uses libmtp.)
Finally I found rhythmbox supports mtp.
This looks works now.
I'll use this.
Thanks,

.nomedia folder

I accidentally named a folder with photos .nomedia and disappeared, can ι bring it back?I tried with ΕS explorer and tick hidden filles but no luck.Please if someone knows..Thanks

In the files app, to settings and choose show dot files

The Restless Soul said:
In the files app, to settings and choose show dot files
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I did it,but no folder foundI made a mistake and instead of naming an archive .nomedia I put the name in a folder..

You can try two things
1) tc file Commander, navigate to the folder and delete the .nomedia file
If this didn't work, try terminal app
Use the "cd" command to navigate to the folder e.g. cd storage/downloads/blabla
Then del to delete the file

aoryx said:
You can try two things
1) tc file Commander, navigate to the folder and delete the .nomedia file
If this didn't work, try terminal app
Use the "cd" command to navigate to the folder e.g. cd storage/downloads/blabla
Then del to delete the file
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Thanks for the info but i dont know to use terminal..and how to view storage.

.nomedia is a marker file,this file is empty
this .nomedia file in folder marking for the huawei gallery app,that don't search media file in folder...
you delete this file, gallery wil show you in media file in folder
media file is videos and pictures

@The Restless Soul @aoryx
The question is not for a file named ".nomedia" but for a folder named ".nomedia".

titi66200 said:
@The Restless Soul @aoryx
The question is not for a file named ".nomedia" but for a folder named ".nomedia".
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Does the pc detect the folder?

Jason The Greek said:
Thanks for the info but i dont know to use terminal..and how to view storage.
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Look for Android terminal emulator in Playstore
After installing, run the terminal app
Then use the he following commands
cd /path
Will navigate to folders e.g if your .nomedia folder was inside the sdcards pictures folder, the use the command
cd /sdcard/pictures/
Then to make sure that your nomedia folder is here do
ls -a
Will list files and folders including hidden folders
Once found, use mv command to rename it
mv .nomedia/ newname/
Hope this helps

aoryx said:
Look for Android terminal emulator in Playstore
After installing, run the terminal app
Then use the he following commands
cd /path
Will navigate to folders e.g if your .nomedia folder was inside the sdcards pictures folder, the use the command
cd /sdcard/pictures/
Then to make sure that your nomedia folder is here do
ls -a
Will list files and folders including hidden folders
Once found, use mv command to rename it
mv .nomedia/ newname/
Hope this helps
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Thank u Ι try it but when i put cd /path says cd /path not found..my phone is not rooted.The only symbols appears when i start terminal is :/$ i forgot to say my .nomedia folder is on root of internal storage of my p20 pro.

Jason The Greek said:
Thank u Ι try it but when i put cd /path says cd /path not found..my phone is not rooted.The only symbols appears when i start terminal is :/$ i forgot to say my .nomedia folder is on root of internal storage of my p20 pro.
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Type
cd /sdcard
mv .nomedia nomedia
It will change the name of .nomedia to nomedia

djlukas1983 said:
Type
cd /sdcard
mv .nomedia nomedia
It will change the name of .nomedia to nomedia
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/system/bin/sh:sdcard:not found

There is a space between "cd" and "/sdcard."

Jason The Greek said:
/system/bin/sh:sdcard:not found
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There is a space after cd and after mv.

djlukas1983 said:
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cd /sdcard
mv .nomedia nomedia
It will change the name of .nomedia to nomedia
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djlukas1983 said:
There is a space after cd and after mv.
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I did it at last, but can't find the folder. Does the first dot "." at list to be?

@Jason The Greek
Unfortunately it seems that the ".nomedia" folder is deleted as well as the files.
I did a test.
Memory used from my p20 pro: 24.20 GB
Creating a "Titi66200" folder and copying a large file in it.
Memory used from my p20 pro: 26.03 GB
renamed the folder "Titi66200" to ".nomedia".
The folder ".nomedia" is not found with "rootexplorer, terminal, adb etc." and the memory used is returned to 24.20 GB

It's gone.. By the way thanks all for your time and help.