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[Q] Picture Frame Widget Help

Help!! I was messing with the widgets and when I tried Picture Frame I was asked to set a default action and accidently hit ES FileManager. Now I can't figure out how to change it to something else.
Everything I've read said select Settings->Applications->Manage->Clear Defaults but I don't know what App to clear. I cleared everything I could find that had Defaults and it still won't let me change it.
Once I do get to change it, what do I change it to?

You could uninstall both app, and reinstall. that should do the trick.

The app came with CyanoMod and I tried re-flashing the ROM without success. I suppose I could delete the user data too.

I 'think' if you go to settings - applications - manage applications and find the app your referencing then clear data it should prompt you to choose a default again.

The problem is I can't find the application. That's why I indicated I cleared defaults on every app that showed up that had the button as a choice. I may have missed it somehow. I was hoping someone could tell me which app or that it took something else to do it.

It's a widget, so you can just drag it to the trash can from your home screen to get rid of it. Also, the default you would want to clear is the app you associated it with (your file explorer app). It is looking for a folder where photos are located so it can display them. So you can navigate to the DCIM folder (or wherever your photos are located) with the file explorer program you used. But if you go to manage applications in settings you should be able to clear defaults for that file explorer app and the next time you try to use that widget it will ask you to choose what app you want to use (probably gallery would be the best choice).
Let me know if this works for you!

That was it. I was looking for a photo app not Es explorer.
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Blank copy of images / icons saved in Gallery

Hi... I recently discovered that the image count in my phone gallery just got doubled. When I open any folder in the Gallery (except Camera folder), I see every image saved by me has a corresponding image (or icon) displayed in that folder. All folders in the phone Gallery (except Camera folder) have been affected. I have attached a screenshot of the contents of the Wallpapers folder. There is a pattern which follows; every saved image in the Gallery has got a corresponding blank image / icon. When I open the blank image / icon, the screen turns blank. I have to use the Home / Back key to move out. This has also affected the Videos folder. When I try to play the blank video / icon, it say "Cannot play this file". I ran the Antivirus (AVG Mobilation) scan on my phone, but it shows that my phone is clean. I connected my phone to the Laptop, and ran a manual scan (Kaspersky) on each of the Gallery folders, but still no defects were found. Surprisingly, when I accessed the Gallery folders from my laptop, all the blank Images / Icons were gone. The laptop was only showing images saved on my phone (no blank images / icons). The last application I installed was Foosball 3D (AZanf). I have uninstalled that app now.
However, I am able to delete those items manually. I don't know the cause of this problem. Is it a virus ? I have just explored my Gallery and come across this issue. Other areas of the phone might also have been affected, and I may be unaware of that. Please identify the glitch and help me sort out this issue.
Thanks a lot..

I had something like this happen to me, but I just hid those folders in Quickpic. Not sure what caused that.
Criskelo 4.04 ICS LRG v9, LRB Modem, speedmod 3-7 kernel, Carrier: AT&T (US)

Same here I also have the same thing but I thought these were corrupted photo any help p
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Go to settings to application find the all button and search for media something click on it and clear data it will remove doublicate files on next start of a application, it may need to clear music apps data and galery apps data too.
Hope it helps it removed my doublicated files.
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I did not mess arnd with any app or files aftr I found these files present in my Gallery. However, this morning when I checked the Gallery again, I found that the blank files/icon have doubled; now there are 2 blank files/icons present for evry image in my Gallery. I had cleared out 1 folder yesterday, but that folder now contains 1 set of the blank files.
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Hey Braxos.. Many thanks for ur solution...
I did as u explained, cleared data frm the Settings... But the files are still there... They have not been deleted...
Also, I am not sure if these blank files are duplicates of the images. I understand tht they are non-existent (as they are not being reported by the antivirus, nor are they visible in the laptop).
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Hey Braxos.. I think I messed up some Application setting.. I selected the "Clear Data" option for the "Media Storage"... And now everything is gone.. My saved images, the blank files, all the songs....
I am able to see the images/songs frm My Files -> External_hd..
Please help..
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Download SD Maid from Play store.
Go to system cleaner in SD Maid and delete all of your thumbnail files.
Then go to Media Storage in Settings Applications All and clear data and cache.
Reboot and all should be okay.
It will take time after the reboot for Media Storage to re-index your media files so be patient.
FF
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FabreFaction said:
Download SD Maid from Play store.
Go to system cleaner in SD Maid and delete all of your thumbnail files.
Then go to Media Storage in Settings Applications All and clear data and cache.
Reboot and all should be okay.
It will take time after the reboot for Media Storage to re-index your media files so be patient.
FF
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I would be very careful using that app. I had my sd card almost corrupted after using that app and clearing all the thumbnails.
Criskelo 4.04 ICS LRG v9, LRB Modem, speedmod k3-9 kernel, Carrier: AT&T (US)

Don't know if you noticed that it only happened to the images on external sdcard.
My way is to delete those corrupted images manually in Gallery.
I also find out that it usually happens after I flashed something in cwm or force close gallery application during media scanning.

Search before posting mate. It's been already answered somewhere here.
Look for media storage app.. Clear its data.. Reboot the device and leave it for 5 to 10 minutes to rebuild everything up from scratch again. And u will be fine. I've had it and fixed it many times by doing this.
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incisivekeith said:
I would be very careful using that app. I had my sd card almost corrupted after using that app and clearing all the thumbnails.
Criskelo 4.04 ICS LRG v9, LRB Modem, speedmod k3-9 kernel, Carrier: AT&T (US)
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I've never had a problem with it.
It might depend on your read ahead and cache settings in your kernel for SD card if you're having problems.
You might also want to check how aggressive the I/O is on your kernel.
If you have problems with AS corruption it is extremely unlikely to be an app, more often than not it is your kernel.
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need some clarifications
Goodm7sn said:
Search before posting mate. It's been already answered somewhere here.
Look for media storage app.. Clear its data.. Reboot the device and leave it for 5 to 10 minutes to rebuild everything up from scratch again. And u will be fine. I've had it and fixed it many times by doing this.
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I got the solution for my prob. Goto Settings --> Application --> All --> Media Storage --> Clear Data. Rebooted the device, waited for 10-15 mins for the cleared data (images + songs) to get reloaded. All the blank icons were cleared from the Gallery + Media Playlist. I did not use SD Maid.
However, I am very curious to know, whatever affected my Images + Songs, did it also affect any other data, as in some other files in the phone. I only know abt the Image & Songs coz I use them very frequently. But it might have happened that blank files were also created for other data as well, which are located deep inside some folder.
Also, do you have any idea what cld have created these blank files ? A crappy app or something ?

Superb this helped
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ItsNotRocketScience said:
I got the solution for my prob. Goto Settings --> Application --> All --> Media Storage --> Clear Data. Rebooted the device, waited for 10-15 mins for the cleared data (images + songs) to get reloaded. All the blank icons were cleared from the Gallery + Media Playlist. I did not use SD Maid.
However, I am very curious to know, whatever affected my Images + Songs, did it also affect any other data, as in some other files in the phone. I only know abt the Image & Songs coz I use them very frequently. But it might have happened that blank files were also created for other data as well, which are located deep inside some folder.
Also, do you have any idea what cld have created these blank files ? A crappy app or something ?
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That just killed all my Music, images and videos in the gallary and music player. The final fix is to delete all the .nomedia files from the SD card. That fixes that problem.

ItsNotRocketScience said:
Hi... I recently discovered that the image count in my phone gallery just got doubled. When I open any folder in the Gallery (except Camera folder), I see every image saved by me has a corresponding image (or icon) displayed in that folder. All folders in the phone Gallery (except Camera folder) have been affected. I have attached a screenshot of the contents of the Wallpapers folder. There is a pattern which follows; every saved image in the Gallery has got a corresponding blank image / icon. When I open the blank image / icon, the screen turns blank. I have to use the Home / Back key to move out. This has also affected the Videos folder. When I try to play the blank video / icon, it say "Cannot play this file". I ran the Antivirus (AVG Mobilation) scan on my phone, but it shows that my phone is clean. I connected my phone to the Laptop, and ran a manual scan (Kaspersky) on each of the Gallery folders, but still no defects were found. Surprisingly, when I accessed the Gallery folders from my laptop, all the blank Images / Icons were gone. The laptop was only showing images saved on my phone (no blank images / icons). The last application I installed was Foosball 3D (AZanf). I have uninstalled that app now.
However, I am able to delete those items manually. I don't know the cause of this problem. Is it a virus ? I have just explored my Gallery and come across this issue. Other areas of the phone might also have been affected, and I may be unaware of that. Please identify the glitch and help me sort out this issue.
Thanks a lot..
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I had the same problem once, even all of my songs were also appearing twice, I just unmounted and then mounted external SD card and the problem was solved.

I got the solution for my prob. Goto Settings --> Application --> All --> Media Storage --> Clear Data. Rebooted the device, waited for 10-15 mins for the cleared data (images + songs) to get reloaded. All the blank icons were cleared from the Gallery + Media Playlist. I did not use SD Maid.
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Thank you very much for the tip. Works like a charm !

Andrew Marais said:
That just killed all my Music, images and videos in the gallary and music player. The final fix is to delete all the .nomedia files from the SD card. That fixes that problem.
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i think this is the best solution.. it happen to me too.. only in sd card.. still dont know what cause it..:crying:

Thanks
Goodm7sn said:
Search before posting mate. It's been already answered somewhere here.
Look for media storage app.. Clear its data.. Reboot the device and leave it for 5 to 10 minutes to rebuild everything up from scratch again. And u will be fine. I've had it and fixed it many times by doing this.
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Worked great thanks for post!
Settings --> Application --> All --> Media Storage --> Clear Data. Rebooted the device, waited for15 m ins.

[Q] Keyboards?

Anyone Have any luck getting a replacement keyboard to work. I have tried Slideit, Swype, Swiftkey. All of them crash regardless. I can set them up, its just once there ready to go it crashes. Then i have to go back to using the default keyboard. I even tried using the old Nooktools for the original kindle, can't seem to get anything to work. Anybody have any luck?

Josepho1997 said:
Did you put their lib files(or .so file, idk what its called) in the /system/app directory?
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I finnally did this, but what sucks is that in landscape mode the keyboard doesn't fit the screen properly. But in portrait mode the keyboard works amazingly. Guess I will fiddle with some other keyboards till I find one that works if there are any. They really did not want keyboards to work.

Bump.
So ive noticed that keyboards do work. in both portrait and landscape, but the landscape only works correctly with the lock screen password. This is due to the home key bar, it covers over part of it. Anyone have a way around this or a fix? possibly settings change to the keyboard apps. Not sure how to work this.

iMJets said:
I finnally did this, but what sucks is that in landscape mode the keyboard doesn't fit the screen properly. But in portrait mode the keyboard works amazingly. Guess I will fiddle with some other keyboards till I find one that works if there are any. They really did not want keyboards to work.
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got the same prob with the crashing app. which *.so file is it I need to move for using swiftkey?

You need to install SwiftKey normally. Use root explorer go to data/app. I then find SwiftKey and move it to system/app. I then go to data/data find the com.touchtypeSwiftKey go to this folder. Then /lib and right click move the file in lib folder. I move it to system/lib. Restart device then it should work. But be careful
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iMJets said:
You need to install SwiftKey normally. Use root explorer go to data/app. I then find SwiftKey and move it to system/app. I then go to data/data find the com.touchtypeSwiftKey go to this folder. Then /lib and right click move the file in lib folder. I move it to system/lib. Restart device then it should work. But be careful
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thx, I'll try later. Did you install the swiftkey or the swiftkey-tablet app?

I have SwiftKey 3 tablet
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FINALLY! it works! thx!
just wonna leave a step by step instruction in case someone else got the same prob.
install Keyswift tablet (not sure if it works from the Playstore because I sideloaded it) - hit done after installing
use root explorer (or any other file manager with root access) to move the com.touchtype.swiftkey.tablet.full.apk from data/app to system/app
use root explorer (or any other file manager with root access) and navigate to data/date/com.touchtype.swiftkey.full/lib and move the libswiftkeysdk-java-internal.so (it should be the only file in that folder) to system/lib
reboot
open swiftkey and change the preferences the way you like

Your welcome. If you figure out how to fix landscape mode please let me know
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Just|Me said:
FINALLY! it works! thx!
just wonna leave a step by step instruction in case someone else got the same prob.
install Keyswift tablet (not sure if it works from the Playstore because I sideloaded it) - hit done after installing
use root explorer (or any other file manager with root access) to move the com.touchtype.swiftkey.tablet.full.apk from data/app to system/app
use root explorer (or any other file manager with root access) and navigate to data/date/com.touchtype.swiftkey.full/lib and move the libswiftkeysdk-java-internal.so (it should be the only file in that folder) to system/lib
reboot
open swiftkey and change the preferences the way you like
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Thanks man you're a life saver .
finally i can type in my language !!
Works perfectly.

Lanscape keyboard
iMJets said:
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So ive noticed that keyboards do work. in both portrait and landscape, but the landscape only works correctly with the lock screen password. This is due to the home key bar, it covers over part of it. Anyone have a way around this or a fix? possibly settings change to the keyboard apps. Not sure how to work this.
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I have the same problem in fact I installed 4 kind of keyboards Go keyboard, SwiftKey 3 tablet, Thump keyboard and Multi keyboard with the same result when the lanscape position some keys hide behind home key bar.
How do you do it to make it work perfectly with the lock screen password I tried but it did not seem to work maybe you can show me a way before some expert here can make a tool to hide the home key bar.
TIA

[Q] Cant Delete Pictures!

Hey guys, need a little help here and wanted to see if anyone else had this problem. My pictures are being saved to my microsd card. If I use quickpic for my gallery, delete a pic, it's gone from the gallery. If I restart the phone, it's back. I've tried going in through astro and deleting the files, and it just hangs, won't delete anything. I was able to go in through the camera app, then review pics through the camera app and delete from there and it worked, but I have no idea why quickpic, the stock gallery app, and astro all can't delete the pics! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
And just to clarify, I'll delete a picture in quickpic, so it doesn't show up there. But if i go through astro and look in my pictures, the pics are still there, so when I restart the phone, it reloads the pics into the quickpic gallery.

Use build in file manager to delete stuff from SDCARD, google screwd everyone up by locking up sdcard functionality , the only way to fix it is by having root.

milhouse21386 said:
Hey guys, need a little help here and wanted to see if anyone else had this problem. My pictures are being saved to my microsd card. If I use quickpic for my gallery, delete a pic, it's gone from the gallery. If I restart the phone, it's back. I've tried going in through astro and deleting the files, and it just hangs, won't delete anything. I was able to go in through the camera app, then review pics through the camera app and delete from there and it worked, but I have no idea why quickpic, the stock gallery app, and astro all can't delete the pics! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
And just to clarify, I'll delete a picture in quickpic, so it doesn't show up there. But if i go through astro and look in my pictures, the pics are still there, so when I restart the phone, it reloads the pics into the quickpic gallery.
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you can delete cache

ghost77 said:
Use build in file manager to delete stuff from SDCARD, google screwd everyone up by locking up sdcard functionality , the only way to fix it is by having root.
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Wow, that's unbelievable, I used the built in file manager and it worked, that's ridiculous that you can't even delete pictures from the stock gallery app either. Thanks for the help!

Man, what a pain. how can this even be an issue? unbelievable!

Not true. You can delete photo's from the stock gallery. I just did it with a photo located on my external sd card.
Also, from what I understand about the external SD changes Google made, it would be mostly the application developers fault if something like that doesn't work correctly. An app can only write to it's own folder on the external SD, but can read all. When uninstalling, the applications folder is also deleted. I imagine this would be very tricky with pictures as you don't want to store them in 2 locations. I guess this would actually render a stand alone gallery app and file manager app useless in Kitkat when dealing with external SD files.
Also, it says this on Quickpic's page in the play store, "Can't modify the external storage in Kitkat." Sorry bro.

[Q] Where is the smart manager???

The application is there, but no way to access it

same issue no smart manager
I'm having the same issue is installed on my phone but no icon to launch it

Why is this happening to my phone? this glitch happens in chrome too when im scrolling horizontally through images

leonciozamora11 said:
I'm having the same issue is installed on my phone but no icon to launch it
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someone should really explain this

Same issue on my Verizon S6. I feel dumb that I have spent 30 minutes trying to access this app.

Same here. Why cant we do download booster as well? Carrier killing a good phone.

Found it. You have to put the usage manager widget on the home screen then click on battery and it will take you to the usage manager.

The usage manager is not the same thing as the smart manager.

360 security app from playstore does the same thing.

hmmm I see that the app is on the phone, maybe someone can tell us how to unhide an app as it seems to of been Hidden rather than removed for some reason by Verizon and ATT.
ooooh, I think I see why ATT and Verizon Hid this app. It is installed at Ring 0 , Same level as Knox. Hmmm wonder if we found our Exploit Point of access for Root.

What do you mean it's installed at Ring 0? How can you see that information?

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What do you mean it's installed at Ring 0? How can you see that information?
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This is more a windows referance but a program that operates at ring 0 has full operation permissions that allow it to modify read/right code that effects base operation of the device. In otherwords Root access without user permission. If you open up the Application manager, Settings>systems>Storage>used space>Applications. Then scroll Down and press on the app it shows you the App info, usually used to Force stop or Unistall manually as you'll notice most Bloatware Unistall command is greyed out and doesn't work.
But anyways if you scroll down, It'll show you Permissions the App has and is allowed to do, and a nice little note by Samsung telling you this app works at administration level at the same level as Knox and a reason being so it doesn't use a lot of memory. Basically the Smart Manager App has Permissions to pretty much do everything on the phone.
Ps. Looking over the apps I decided to look at Usage Manager the app that att seems to have replaced it with. and it has no where near the Permission level that Smart Manager has. So it seems ATT did not like that app and used theres instead. with them Bootloader locking and Root locking the Device, I Wonder why.

I was looking at the feature.XML and there is a thing in there that has disable smart manager/ disable anti malware set to true...of course without root we can't change that line to see if that bring access to it back
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Should I be able to view the main folder like this? I'm using root explorer btw
Edit: not sure if pictures posted, but using root explorer, I can view the main folder and almost all system folders. In system/app there are quite a few apps that have permissions like smart manager. I was surprised to see the permissions on the kiosk app.

Rodman101 said:
Should I be able to view the main folder like this? I'm using root explorer btw
Edit: not sure if pictures posted, but using root explorer, I can view the main folder and almost all system folders. In system/app there are quite a few apps that have permissions like smart manager. I was surprised to see the permissions on the kiosk app.
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yah its really mind boggling the permisions these simple apps have. guess when something is installed at root level in factory they just give em all permissions and hit next.

Can USB debugging be used to maybe change one of these apps and push it back? I figure you can't because it's r/o, but there are a lot of other high level folders that are r/w