Empty Playlists - LG Thrill 4G

Hey all,
I have looked through this forum and others looking for an answer to my predicament. This issue seems to only be affecting me, but I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas.
First, I am using the Thrill 4G with the stock ROM.
The SD Card is a PNY 32GB HC class 10.
I keep my music on my external SD Card. I would create multiple playlists. Connect my phone to my computer (I've tried 4 different ones). Add music. Eject the device, turn off USB Mode. At first it started with some of the songs not being in some of the playlists. Sometimes it would even leave just one song (the last one I added in one case). Now if I turn on USB Mode while connected to my computer and eject it and turn off USB Mode... all the playlists are empty.
I've used Power Amp (v1.4 and 2.0), the stock player, Amazons MP3 app and others.
I have done the Factory Data Reset a couple of times.
I have not done the reset with holding the 3D+volume down+whatever to reset it though.
The only other thing I haven't tried is to put the original 8GB card that came with the phone back in and see what happens, but I am pretty sure if I do that my playlists will be empty again when I put the 32gigger back in.
At this point I have work-arounds for getting music and data to my phone (cloud drive), but I am very afraid of connecting the phone to my computer and turning on USB Mode.
Any ideas would be helpful especialy if you have seen this kind of thing before.
Thanks!

I noticed one of my playlists got emptied as well. Just one of the bigger ones though (my luck...) because another one wasn't affected. I don't know what exactly I did to cause it to happen. That never happened to me on any other phone. I'm just using the stock music player.

EnderXXI said:
Hey all,
I have looked through this forum and others looking for an answer to my predicament. This issue seems to only be affecting me, but I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas.
First, I am using the Thrill 4G with the stock ROM.
The SD Card is a PNY 32GB HC class 10.
I keep my music on my external SD Card. I would create multiple playlists. Connect my phone to my computer (I've tried 4 different ones). Add music. Eject the device, turn off USB Mode. At first it started with some of the songs not being in some of the playlists. Sometimes it would even leave just one song (the last one I added in one case). Now if I turn on USB Mode while connected to my computer and eject it and turn off USB Mode... all the playlists are empty.
I've used Power Amp (v1.4 and 2.0), the stock player, Amazons MP3 app and others.
I have done the Factory Data Reset a couple of times.
I have not done the reset with holding the 3D+volume down+whatever to reset it though.
The only other thing I haven't tried is to put the original 8GB card that came with the phone back in and see what happens, but I am pretty sure if I do that my playlists will be empty again when I put the 32gigger back in.
At this point I have work-arounds for getting music and data to my phone (cloud drive), but I am very afraid of connecting the phone to my computer and turning on USB Mode.
Any ideas would be helpful especialy if you have seen this kind of thing before.
Thanks!
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Believe it or not, Ejecting the drive from my computer before unmounting is what has caused this issue for me. Ive found if I just unmount usb storage from the phone itself and then unplug it all is well. I know the phone warns to Eject via the computer properly first, but its caused me data loss almost everytime Ive done it.

CallMeAria said:
Believe it or not, Ejecting the drive from my computer before unmounting is what has caused this issue for me. Ive found if I just unmount usb storage from the phone itself and then unplug it all is well. I know the phone warns to Eject via the computer properly first, but its caused me data loss almost everytime Ive done it.
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So I took the plunge this morning and did as you suggested. The playlists are empty again, but PowerAmp did put the playlists in the file-based playlists area. So now they are all "artist.m3u8". The good news is that I don't have to recreate them all again. The bad news is the way PowerAmp handles playlists now in v2.0, I also have "artist 1.m3u8" "artist 2.m3u8". Back top good news again, I can live with this. Just gotta figure out the best way to deal with it.
Thanks.

How do you exactly create playlists on your computer? Have you tried some sync software on PC like songbird with MSC and Device addon + anything but stock player (Google Music works for me). I didn’t test that on Thrill 4G yet, but it works perfect on my SGS2

The ones I have now I created in PowerAmp (which now has it's own way of doing playlists in v2.0). I have tried WinAmp, Amazon, the stock player and a couple of others. It used to remove some or all of the songs, but now it just always removes all the songs.
Test: created ACDC playlist in Amazon, plugged phone into computer, usb mode on\off, unplug, no songs... Oops, Spoke too soon. After PA and the system finished it's scaning of the SD card, the songs were there, twice. Adding songs in from another artist that I did not have a playlist for previously shows all the songs in Amazon and now the stock player is showing this artist after it scanned. PowerAmp (of course) does not and now all the playlists that I had created before are populated in Amazon and the stock player. Crazy.
Songbird looks really nice, but no equalizer or pre-amp which is one reason I like PA so much.
Here it is a couple hours later and I haven't even posted this... Well, I give up. I beleive it was an issue with PowerAmp so I am using PlayerPro now. Very nice design. A few extra features. No problem with playlists (knock on wood). Has a 10 band equalizer. Just what the Dr. ordered.

I found a fix to the problem!
Download the disable service app from the playstore, go to Media Storage under System apps and disable the MediaScannerService.
This does, however prevent the device from scanning for new media, so if you want new songs to show up in your device, re-enable the MediaScannerService and reboot.
EDIT: It seems that this app disabled the Media Storage from running on boot. Startup manager fixed it.

this is in fact a good solution!

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Can't copy-paste all my music to external SD

Hello.
I am trying to copy-paste my quite extensive mp3-collection to my Galaxy S. Its about 6GB.
The problem is that I don't want to use Kies as it mucks up all my ID3-Tags...at least it did the first time I tried it.
I just put the phone in Mass Storage mode and tried to copy-paste the Mp3's to the /music folder on the external SD. When I tried to let it copy all together I disconnected the phone properly (safely remove, then disc. from the screen) and let the media scanner run...it didn't find anything. When I connected it to the PC again I saw that the /music folder was empty and the /Lost.dir folder was 6 GB. So the files probably ended up there somehow.
Afterwards I tried copying the folders with my mp3s one by one, disconnecting the phone after every one and letting it search again and again and it worked fine for the first 3 GB...after one more copy paste it lost the new folder and wiped half of the rest which were working fine by then along with it.
I also tried doubletwist and WMP, same problem there.
I'm running Froyo.
Thanks for reading. Any ideas?
When you say you have tried WMP, have you sync'ed them to the card as you would do a mp3 player? It has never failed on me in the past so not sure what else to advise.
Also you may have a corrupt SD card or a fake? Make a backup of the files you have on it at present, then format the card, replace the back'ed up files and try again. There are allot of fake cards sold on ebay and there are some programs about that give diagnostics on cards so might be worth running one to see the genuine capacity and/or to see if there is any corruption.
Yep, I tried syncing as with a normal MP3-Player. Its really weird as it does this only with music and it also does it retroactively...it has lead me to believe that theres some kind of problem with the media scanner.
The card is bought off ebay, but its original Kingston...it was sealed up and everything. I formatted it yesterday just to be sure...didn't bring up any errors...I'll take a look at those programs you mentioned though.
Thanks.
Hmm... If it's only happening with music it might be worth checking to see if there is any DRM on the music files as well. If there is any you'll need to run them through a convertor to remove this.
My music files all AAC+ moved to external SD card .
New Folder on SD card named SONGS and placed all music in that folder via USB mass storage mode .
But all my music is DRM free .
jje

[Q] Require Reboot to see new Media files

Has anyone else experienced this issue.
I plugged my O2x into my PC, selected USB mode when it appears on the phone and copied a video over into the Video folder on my External SD.
Selected turn off USB Mode, Unplugged the phone, it remounted the cards and scanned media files.
However, when I tried to access the Video player or Gallery, I kept getting Force Close on both.
Unmounting and Re-mounting the cards didn't work, the only solution was to reboot the Phone
It's going to be a pain in the Arse if you have to do that everytime you copy something over to the phone
Edit:
Stock ROM

[Q] Need help - WMP doesnt recognize Nook Color as device.

I have a Nook Color running CM Nightly #144. When I open windows media player with the intention of syncing my music to my Nook, it doesn't see it as an applicable device. I've tried turning debugging mode on and off, and I've tried it with USB storage both off and on.
Under Device Manager -> Portable Devices, I have F:\ (SD card) and MyNOOKcolor.
Am I doing this wrong? Am I missing a driver that lets WMP see the Nook Color as a device? Anyone have any suggestions?
If I had a way of exporting all the music from a playlist to a memory card or external harddrive that might work for me too, but I'd rather be able to sync with WMP or something like it. Will Winamp do that?
I know someone is going to suggest I just drag and drop my music. I don't want all my music on my nook, just certain playlists worth. I.E. gym playlist (Kanye West, Wu Tang Clan), roadtrip playlist (Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble, Pink Floyd), baby making music (Barry White, Bob Marley, Enigma, and Slipknot), robbing banks music (Fun Loving Criminals, Bloodhound Gang), etc., so syncing is the better option for me.
Thanks,
Josh
Michael buble
bobzdar said:
Michael buble
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That's right. Voice like Frank Sinatra, and he makes women swoon like Barry White used to. Michael Buble makes women want to remove their pants.
gijosh28 said:
That's right. Voice like Frank Sinatra, and he makes women swoon like Barry White used to. Michael Buble makes women want to remove their pants.
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Seems like MICHAEL BUBLE should be in babymaking instead of road trip then. BUBLE
bobzdar said:
Seems like MICHAEL BUBLE should be in babymaking instead of road trip then. BUBLE
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I stand corrected.
If you have a card reader, you can try just popping the sd card in that and syncing, I usually get the option to sync a card or usb stick in wmp, though I'll say wmp is not always consistent in what it decides it wants to sync with.
I Digress.
I have installed Winamp which recognizes my internal Nook 1GB memory as "USB drive G:" and my mSD as "ANDROID Drive F:." It lets me sync my music playlists to either (obviously I want it on F: ), but while transferring my music it hems up. It gets about 10 or so songs copied over then my NC turns off USB storage all by itself. When I hit the button on the NC to turn it back on, Windows tells me I need to "Scan and Fix" F:. I tried a different cable (the one from my Droid X) and I tried a different USB port on my laptop, but it just keeps doing it. If I just leave the NC plugged in with USB enabled for a long period of time its fine. I even copied some 350MB movies over to it, and that went fine. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Josh
bobzdar said:
If you have a card reader, you can try just popping the sd card in that and syncing, I usually get the option to sync a card or usb stick in wmp, though I'll say wmp is not always consistent in what it decides it wants to sync with.
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I used your suggestion. I took the mSD card out of the Nook and put it into its adapter and into my laptop and it worked. Winamp is copying the files over now. For grins I opened Windows Media Player just to see, and it also recognizes it as a syncable device. So either would have worked. Thanks for this.
I do still wish I could leave it in the Nook and sync it with WMP, or at least with Winamp, but this will work fine for me.
Thanks,
Josh

[A] Wirelessly syncing music to external SD Card

Just thought I might share this, in case anyone else was running into these problems.
I was always syncing my music to my Android phone using Salling Media Sync over USB, which worked OK. For that to work, the phone memory needed to be recognized as a Mass Storage device. Obviously, this didn't work anymore with the Razr I, since it uses the MTP protocol.
Since I am on OS X, I even needed to install the Google Android MTP driver, which really caused quite a few problems, didn't solve my problem regarding Mass Storage, and really is nothing like an elegant solution.
I tried various syncing apps from the market (wireless sync was not a must, but nice to have - especially considering the fact that I needed to purchase an App in most cases for full functionality). Apps I tried were for example Winamp Pro, Doubletwist, TuneSync and a few others that I don't remember right now.
When using the wireless sync feature however, these Apps had a serious flaw (that's being discussed in the respective manufacturer forums quite extensively, without there being a solution that): to my surprise, none of them would sync to my external SD card, they all synced to the internal storage - and there was no option to specify the storage (or folder) to sync to, even though this should be a really easy thing to do for a developer.
Long story short: the App that offers exactly this functionality and works flawlessly with iTunes and its playlists is iSyncr. You can even select where to sync every single playlist, so you could even distribute your music between the internal and external storage.
As a bonus, recognizing all the playlists and songs on the phone worked flawlessly - with other solutions (like Winamp and Salling) I would always have dead duplicates of playlists and songs that didn't work, sometimes not even any of the entries would work.
So just in case anybody is struggling with the same issue: iSyncr works. Of course it's not perfect, but I think it offers everything I wanted for now.
Best regards,
Hendrik
+1 to all of the above. isyncr is a fantastic product. i also tried doubletwist but it was a major cpu hogger on my laptop :silly:
Unfortunately, I need to add one downside for me when using iSyncr with OS X: when iSyncr is running (which is all the time, if you have it set up to auto start on login), my mouse pointer hangs when I plug in USB sticks and the likes. Spent quite some time trying to figure out why that suddenly happened...
Oh well, I just removed it from auto start and will just start it when I need it. Hope this gets fixed.
coldtech said:
Oh well, I just removed it from auto start and will just start it when I need it. Hope this gets fixed.
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i do that anyway. no need to have it running all the time....unless you are syncing everyday?
Did they break the functionality of the original post? Eg wifi synch to SD card. iSyncr used to do it (http://blog.jrtstudio.com/2011/04/multi-drive-sync-isyncr-140.html) but now the settings are gone.
EDIT: I found it. It is now under Settings -> Wifi POLICIES - Default Storage

[Q] Processor overheating & battery draining due to USB mass storage mode.

A while ago after transfering some files to/from my PC via USB mass storage mode I unplugged the USB cable without doing a Safe Disconnect on the PC. Immediately after this, the processor (or something in the lower right corner) on my Droid 3 started overheating and draining the battery very quickly, as if I was running some very pretentious 3D game or something.
I found some discussions on the Net that lead me to look under Settings / Applications / Battery use to find that an application called "Media" was overusing the processor and causing the overheating and drainage, so I force-stopped that one and the problem went away.
But now every time I connect the phone to a PC in USB mass storage mode, I get the same problem and after I'm done transfering files I have to force-stop the "Media" application. (This is even if I use Safe Disconnect or whatever it's called on the PC.)
I've seen some other suggestion today that I should try the same operations with the SD card pulled out, but the same thing happens even in the absence of the SD card.
Does someone know how I can reset/reinstall the "Media" application or service that handles USB mass storage mode without resetting the whole thing to factory settings or reinstalling the whole Minimoto image?
Boy, I think I remember reading somewhere that this might happen if you have a media file that is malformed. In other words, the media app scans all available storage for media files to put in the gallery (or something like that) and gets hung up when it encounters a media file that has errors in it.
I'm not sure about that, but it might be worth copying to PC and then removing all photo, music and video files from internal storage and the SD card and then see if that still happens. Then look at the files on the computer to make sure that they are good before you put them back on the phone.
My only issue with this theory is that I recall it was an issue with phones that updated from Gingerbread to ICS a few years ago, so maybe that has nothing to do with what you are seeing...
Thanks for the suggestion, it pointed me in the right direction.
I didn't like the idea of a simple copy operation solving a corrupt file problem, so I started looking for ways to run a chkdsk/fsck on my internal drive (since taking out the SD card hadn't eliminated the problem earlier, I assumed something was wrong on the internal drive). All the solutions I found for this involved using ADB and rebooting into some "recovery mode" and that too seemed like too much hassle, so I insisted on searching for some app that could do at least some limited filesystem checks that maybe wouldn't involve unmounting the system drive.
In the end I found something called "AParted", an ad-supported free partition manager that looks like it wants to be the Android homologue of GNOME's GParted, KDE's KParted etc. Of course, while running AParted from the system drive I couldn't perform any operations on the system drive itself, so I said "what the heck" and just ran a Repair operation on the SD card, which was the only one I could unmount in that situation.
Lo and behold, the problem seems fixed now and I'm not getting any more overheating and battery drainage after connecting my Droid to the PC in USB Mass Storage mode (tested with two PCs running Ubuntu and Windows 7).

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