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how do i hide folder in gallery app

i recently downloaded a app called launcher icon and dock. i saved a lot of icon form it. and it all appear in the gallery. i can hardly find my camera folder.
how can i just hide all the icon in the gallery.(it make 1 icon 1 folder...)
i tried to use Linux file type with "." it works but all apps that is changed icon is affected, to back to original icon.

Are the files on your sd card?
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Did you try putting a file called .nomedia in the folder where the icons are stored. That will exclude the files from the gallery. It will also exclude sub folders.
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grkmano said:
Are the files on your sd card?
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yes!
quarlow said:
Did you try putting a file called .nomedia in the folder where the icons are stored. That will exclude the files from the gallery. It will also exclude sub folders.
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thanks for help, but it doesn't work...

You could switch to a different pic viewer, like Quickpic. It allows you to exclude folders from scanning. However, in the stock gallery, it still scans them. I also saw an app on the market that supposedly hides pics. I haven't tried it, so i couldn't tell you if it works.

"Private Photo" hide...

Is there a way to keep some photos hidden but still keep them on the device? I will typically let people go through my pics especially my 3 year old but there are pics of other things that I don't want him or others to see.......
So, what is the best option?

Vaulty will hide them but it doesn't encrypt them. It just changes the file extension so the phone can't read it. But it would take a bit of a guru to look that far into finding your pics and will most likely be sufficient for you.
I personally use it.
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Unfortunately, Vaulty force closes every time I select multiple pics..

Trying to hide those Scarlett Johansson pics, are we?

No, much much filtier

You can put a .nomedia file in any folders you don't want scanned by the gallery app, most other apps will skip these folders too, though some have an option to allow you to see them when you want. It won't encrypt them and they'll still be visible to file explorers though.
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Hide it pro works great. And its free. Once you hide it, delete the pix out of your gallery. You can even hide apps.
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look up "photovault" in the market.

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Anything out there for video hide?
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I settled for "Hide it pro" and it has video hide

Any that censors my wifey when she flashes me on skype when I am in a public place

As ind3p3nd3ntsaid, Should be able to drop a file named ".nomedia" into the folder you want hidden from media players and galleries. Has always worked fine for me.
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How are you supposed to create this file without linux? Windows wouldn't let me do it.

I did it on my phone, just find a random text file, make a copy of it to desired location and rename it to .nomedia
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ind3p3nd3nt said:
You can put a .nomedia file in any folders you don't want scanned by the gallery app, most other apps will skip these folders too, though some have an option to allow you to see them when you want. It won't encrypt them and they'll still be visible to file explorers though.
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I like this method, definitely going to try it out. I'm pretty sure none of my friends like to go rummaging around in my file browser... and if they do they will perish!

[Q] Contacts exporting pics resoution

Okay Google, very nice you have updated the people app in ICS to support 256x256pix.
The bad side is that when we sync with our contacts from gmail, the pictures will be down scaled and look hideous ! Not good enough!! makes the phone book look ridiculous!! All the photos go to low resolution after a wipe!! such a shame for such a polished OS!!
May be most of you noticed by now that ICS ROM is sucks on exporting contacts bcuz it decreases the quality of contacts pictures during importing the exported vcf file by ICS.. this was fine on GB ROMs..
Can anybody point me to a modified contacts.apk that can export contacts without changing pics resolution or can point to the responsible xml file for exporting contacts photo resolution so I can edit it and flash it to my phone..

I am having the same problem
I have to set all pics again manually , its a disaster.

Didn't anyone try exporting contacts via gingerbread ROM... if you do so and then import them by ICS ROM, the contacts photo will retain their resolutions in which they are exported by gingerbread ROM..
So I conclude that the problem is with exporting code in ICS.. it doesn't export the right pic size (only thumbnail size!!) so even the vcf file size is much smaller than the one created by gingerbread..
So did anyone try to modify gingerbread contacts.apk to work on ICS??? or at least fix this exporting code error..

try HD contact photos
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.contactphotosupdater&hl=en
there is a free version in xda forums as well...

thank you for reponse but HD contact photo is not use for backing up your contact... I need one to backup contacts with ability to retain pic resolution when I restore them... any idea???

no idea...
but this works well for me. I when u restore the contacts the batch function restores all the pics to a good quality.
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Any updates on this one guys?
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read somewhere googleservers only support small ones, an epic fail considering ics supports larger ones
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Gmail attachments

HI
I'm coming from the nexus 4. On that device you had the option to save gmail attachments like pictures.
But on the HTC one all I see is a share option the save options are grayed out.
Please help
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vendetta718 said:
HI
I'm coming from the nexus 4. On that device you had the option to save gmail attachments like pictures.
But on the HTC one all I see is a share option the save options are grayed out.
Please help
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Has the picture loaded properly ?
When I open a picture, I see a quick thumbnail, and if i try and save that, its greyed out, but if i wait a few seconds, the picture loads and I have the option to save.
Also, it could be that the Gmail App was changed to handle attachments better with android 4.2.x and we are currently still stuck on 4.1.x
I'm believe its an Android version thing because the N4 was 4.2.2.

[Q] PIctures taken in some other apps don't format properly

This has been happening since day 1 with my HTC One and I haven't figured it out yet. I am assuming it is a Ultra-pixel issue and I was hoping the problem would fix itself but it has not. For example, I first noticed in my banks app when I take a picture of a check to electronically deposit it. It gives you an outline of 4 corners to line up the check. I snap a picture and the picture is all stretched out and very weird. Next app is Google Drive app. Take a picture of a document for it to turn into a pdf and no matter what the image is always distorted and cropped and unusable. I tested out another app like instagram and facebook that use the camera and they work fine. Any ideas? Can someone else very this for me?

I have the same issue with my banks app. I don't have a solution but I feel your pain
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