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[Q] [Help] some apps icon missing from homescreen everytime I reboot

Hi, I just update my Galaxy S to Froyo yesterday, followed one of the tutorial here and apply the lag fix and everything.
I just realize it today that some apps that I've placed on homescreen is always missing when I just reboot the phone. not a big deal since I can just go to apps list and set the shortcut again on homescreen, but it gets annoying after a while. further digging, I found that all missing shortcut are all apps that has been installed on my external 1gb sd cards.
so can anyone help me with this? also my phone felt a bit slow when I boot it. took a while until widget like beautiful widget, and battstat to load. same with scanning internal and external sd card. is this normal? I swear it felt faster yesterday when I just finished updating froyo.
thank you

I cannot help you, but it is a pain that the phone has to scan the SD files averytime you do anything, take a photo, load musica, reboot, and it takes too long to do it...

Its normal
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[Q] issues with Pictures and Mp3 files

i have a HTC Incredible S unbranded . For the last couple of days i have noticed that some of the pics that i download or take using the camera are not visible in the Gallery app of the phone. The same happens with some mp3 files which i have copied on the SD Card.
These files are visible when viewed in a file manager like Astro or OI File Manager.
If i reboot the phone couple of times or do a factory reset these files reappear in the Gallery and the HTC Music App , but only for a few days.
Is my SD Card corrupt or is there a fix for this?

I just noticed the same over the weekend. Some pics I took Friday do not show in gallery but I can find them through ES File Explorer...

This used to happen to me, just unmount and remount the SD Card and they'll reappear. Hasn't happened yet since the OTA to Gingerbread.

I unmounted and remounted the SD Card and its fine for the moment. Just waiting for the 2.3.3 update to hit India.

I've been updated to Gingerbread now since it was released in the UK, this is the standard OTA update.
I've also just noticed in the last week that some recent photos I took at the weekend are not showing up in Gallery. If I reboot the phone they appear again (for a while), clearing the cache/data in the app manager doesn't work. Even after rebooting to make them appear, they have disappeared again after a day.
When I open the Gallery program, the rotating 'refresh' icon is present, but some photos just don't appear in there.
I can find and open the photos using a File Explorer (Speed Software's Explorer v1.0), just not with the Gallery app.
I downloaded FxCamera last week, I wonder if this has caused some sort of corruption as it couldn't open the Gallery from inside the app...? I just uninstalled it and have rebooted my phone, I'll see if this fixes the problem.
Any other ideas anyone?

well after the gingerbread update , the pictures and the mp3's disappeared once. Did the unmount and remount thingie and it has reappeared. Also Wifi is now broken.

I noticed that for some wallpapers
not showing on Gallery.
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nniicckkss said:
I downloaded FxCamera last week, I wonder if this has caused some sort of corruption as it couldn't open the Gallery from inside the app...? I just uninstalled it and have rebooted my phone, I'll see if this fixes the problem.
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To quote myself and report back on my findings, after I uninstalled FxCamera, I haven't lost any of my files in Gallery again. So I blame that app for my problems with missing images!
(If you don't have that installed but are still seeing the issue, then it must be something else on your device... (obviously!))
Cheers.

Certainly seems like an issue with some app interfering here.
No problem with my IS before or after 2.3.3 update.
i suggest you try with all stock apps (camera, music & pictures related) for a few days & see if this solves your issue.

A pain of a problem

I'm currently running icssgs 4.1 with devil 14.2
My problem is that I keep getting a few problems all my music tracks keep doubling and my picture gallery keeps getting blank copies yet nothing new has appeared in the folders I'd be so grateful if someone with a wider knowledge could help
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xstarbuckx said:
I'm currently running icssgs 4.1 with devil 14.2
My problem is that I keep getting a few problems all my music tracks keep doubling and my picture gallery keeps getting blank copies yet nothing new has appeared in the folders I'd be so grateful if someone with a wider knowledge could help
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Press your menu button and choose Manage Apps. From there find the Media Storage app, and select the Clear Data option. Reboot your phone, and the problem should be fixed

Kops said:
Press your menu button and choose Manage Apps. From there find the Media Storage app, and select the Clear Data option. Reboot your phone, and the problem should be fixed
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Thanks its sorted the music files out and removed the extra blank pictures but now the thumbnails show a totally different picture to what it is, very strange, is this a common problem.
Update you are my new best friend did a recovery to before I started to delete these files then just did what you said and its all back.
Whish Id of know this yesterday then I wouldnt have gone through flashing my phone 3 times

xstarbuckx said:
Thanks its sorted the music files out and removed the extra blank pictures but now the thumbnails show a totally different picture to what it is, very strange, is this a common problem.
Update you are my new best friend did a recovery to before I started to delete these files then just did what you said and its all back.
Whish Id of know this yesterday then I wouldnt have gone through flashing my phone 3 times
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Yeah, it was a pretty common problem for most people flashing to early versions of ICS roms, I think its a one time fix though - so you won't see it happen as you flash any other ROMs.
Glad to help

Also noticed another problem. Using the stock camera as it saves to SD is fine but if you use a 3rd party camera in my case camera FX so as to save to emmc you can't delete pictures/videos, they will remove from gallery but not the card and will pop back up again in the gallery unless deleted through file explorer.
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[Q] Problem recognizing transferred photos.

I am having a problem with transferring photos from my pc to my phone.
No matter what file I try to transfer them to. They won't be recognized. Like they don't even exist.
I try to transfer them again to the same file to see if maybe it did not work but it says they are there. But when I go to check my gallery, there is no sign of them.
What is going on? Do I have a virus? Can anyone help?
Thanks.

clearlydawn said:
I am having a problem with transferring photos from my pc to my phone.
No matter what file I try to transfer them to. They won't be recognized. Like they don't even exist.
I try to transfer them again to the same file to see if maybe it did not work but it says they are there. But when I go to check my gallery, there is no sign of them.
What is going on? Do I have a virus? Can anyone help?
Thanks.
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i hate the built-in gallery try to download quickpic (alot of option + fast )
or try to clear cache

OK so that helped with updating my contact pictures list, but I originally wanted to update my wallpaper. I use multi picture live wallpaper. And like I said any new picture I put onto my phone is just not recognized.

I'm just directly put my photos under a folder created by myself in the internal storage.
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I have actually done that, but alas did not make a difference. If it makes any difference. I notice that whenever I either plug in my phone into my pc and/or move photos around the "Media Scanner Running" icon notifies me on and off for about 5 minutes even after I have finished. And it as well tends to randomly close any app and the app drawer when I open it.

OK just replying to myself but haha I am becoming more and more frustrated with this. It is also affecting my music as well. I transfer the music files from my pc to my phone and they are only in "My Files" app section. Not found in any of my music players.
Now I have recently downloaded a few apps for customization. Such as ADW Launcher EX, Widget locker, and a few others.
Would any of those somehow change things in my phone. I did pay for them.

Make sure there isn't a .nomedia hidden file in the directory where you placed your picture. Additionally unless you use a media scanning app to force media scan, you will need to restart your phone.
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I think I am going to assume there is something wrong with my media scanner on my phone. It is always running and constantly popping up saying it is running, then force closing anything I have open.

duplicate empty songs, images

Hi
Since i upgrated the os from GB to ICS, i have a problem with the music player and the gallery they showing empty duplicated files. For example, if i go the the music player i will see every song that i had before i upgraded the os twice, one is empty and does not play, the second one is the real file songs that i addes after the ICS upgrad, showing well, only once. I can't even delete the empty song from the music player.
Same on the gallery app
How can i fix this?
Maybe there is an index file for those files so i can delete it?
I tried already clear data from the app manager
Thanks

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27607973&postcount=3

And I thought I was alone on this.
I tried unmounting SD and remounting, did not work.
Unmounting and rebooting neither
I can cancel these files one by one, after first finding out witch one if the wrong not working copy, but we are talking thousands of files, so not an option.
Any suggestions ?
ps. this is not happening to all files but I have not found a pattern yet.
Update: I now took the SD out and put it in the pc, did a little cleanup (but no double files to see on the pc), did a defragmentation (do not think it had any effect but it is a healthy thing to do), at the same time I rebboted Gnote without the SD.
After this, replacing the SD in the Gnote it appears my problem has gone....nice

Thanks
I just tried to unmount&mount, unmount&reboot without sd and i saw still dublicates but now both were empty because the music is on the sd that i put out that time. I tried and it didn't work
Slinbin - can you explain me again what you did?
I need to replace it with another sd and then to back again the original sd that i use?

I had them in triple... This is what I did.
First off, I had all my music and photos on my external SD card, I don't think this would work if they are on the internal SD storage.
Shutdown phone
Remove SD card
Restart phone
Music Player, All, Left click, Delete, Select all
Same for Gallery
Then shutdown, put the card again and restart
It took a few minutes for the indexes to be rebuilt while ICS was scanning the SD card and now all's good.
-- Be careful if you have Music and/or Photos on your internal storage because this may delete it forever!!! -

Same problem was with mine. Just go to application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application and just delete cache and data and restart. It will solve the problem a it force to re build data base
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shirhh said:
Thanks
Slinbin - can you explain me again what you did?
I need to replace it with another sd and then to back again the original sd that i use?
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I had all my pictures and music on the ext. SD.
Took it out
Rebooted GN without any SD card
(did cleanup and defragment on PC during this but do not think that helped removing the dublicates)
reinserted the SD
Viola ! it is working fine without the dublicates
PS: reading bcn_nospam's post above I think he/she ? has the better solution (now i do not have the problem so I can not test it) but a corrupt cache as reason for the doubles makes sense.

shantanubarik said:
Same problem was with mine. Just go to application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application and just delete cache and data and restart. It will solve the problem a it force to re build data base
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This would be the ideal solution. Do not panic after doing this.
This process basically cleares the cache and the Android OS will start finding all the media files (Photo, Audio and Video) .. then you should have a single copy of the ..
I did not try the Mounting an unmounting method...

I deleted the data from the music player and gallery application through: application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application. I then unmounted the SD card and re-mounted it. All issues corrected.
Is this a bug with ICS on the note??? I am routed and I have the Speedmod kernal running on the standard ROM. I would be good to know if the cause is a standard bug or something I have done?
Thanks

shantanubarik said:
Same problem was with mine. Just go to application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application and just delete cache and data and restart. It will solve the problem a it force to re build data base
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How do you remove the duplicates from the Cloud version of Google Music?

Duplicate Music Samsung Galaxy Note
I have the same issue, and working on my second phone.
Initially I thought this problem to be caused by Google Music, downloading and adding music files to the phone. So, I did a restore and stopped Google from accessing the web and syncing with online. But then it happened anyway. I'm also having issues with the photo gallery giving blank thumbnails for photos and not being able to access them.
Samsung has no clue about these issies. I contacted Samsung today,919/12 and spoke with a rep. The only advise the rep had was to clear the application cache, which DID NOT WORK for me. Or do a restore which I'd already done and landed me back at the same place.
Switched from Sprint to AT&T to get this phone but could have stayed with Sprint and gotten the Galaxy S3 which I understand is not having these issues.
As yet, a 2nd level rep has contacted me back with no fix, but suggested it could be a bad batch of phones and said I should try another from another city. So I'm going to take a 30 mile drive to the next city and do the second exchange I've done in the last 10 days.
Anyone come across a fix for these issue feel free to email me [email protected]
NealJ777 said:
How do you remove the duplicates from the Cloud version of Google Music?
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shantanubarik said:
Same problem was with mine. Just go to application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application and just delete cache and data and restart. It will solve the problem a it force to re build data base
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:good:thanks man this really helped me, this worked for me if anyone has this problem try doing this first.

Samsung Galaxy Note Duplicates
Didn't work for me.
sdvsf said:
:good:thanks man this really helped me, this worked for me if anyone has this problem try doing this first.
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Clearing data and cache solved the issue for me till next restart. What solved it was clearing data cache and dalvik cache. Try that.
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NealJ777 said:
How do you remove the duplicates from the Cloud version of Google Music?
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Okay. I deleted my full library from the cloud and I'm currently re-uploading my library.
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ruffrideralec said:
Didn't work for me.
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try doing what user: washin21 suggested. clear data cache and dalvik cache, and see if that works.:good:

chriswilson_m3 said:
I deleted the data from the music player and gallery application through: application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application. I then unmounted the SD card and re-mounted it. All issues corrected.
Is this a bug with ICS on the note??? I am routed and I have the Speedmod kernal running on the standard ROM. I would be good to know if the cause is a standard bug or something I have done?
Thanks
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I think its a bug with ics. Because my Sony Xperia ion is having this problem and my brothers atrix hd Had this problem

Welcome to the wonderful world of android. Erasing the media cache will solve the problem temporarily, but every time you reboot the device it will scan and duplicate all of the media database entities and create new empty duplicates. This renders any android device (nearly) useless as a media player.
I have verified that this issue exists on multiple roms on the following devices:
Droid Incredible 1: GB
i-9100: GB
i-9100: ICS
N7000: GB
N7000: ICS
In fact, I have yet to use an android device that doesn't encounter this issue. It seems like a pretty major issue for a smartphone to be unusable as a media player but no one else seems to complain much. I've wasted hours on this issue.