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.
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I noticed that my Gallery app is showing I have no "albums" or anything. Up til now, it automatically added folders when I saved a pic, and it had a folder of pics I had on my SD2 card. Unfortunately this also affected the Multi Wallpaper App that I use. Any suggestions?
I am using Tnt 4.3.2.
Reggie777 said:
I noticed that my Gallery app is showing I have no "albums" or anything. Up til now, it automatically added folders when I saved a pic, and it had a folder of pics I had on my SD2 card. Unfortunately this also affected the Multi Wallpaper App that I use. Any suggestions?
I am using Tnt 4.3.2.
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There have been reported issues all over in regards to media getting deleted on the sd cards. so far IMHO is to create a blank .nomedia file on both the root AND your media folder (just to cover all basis). It has seemed to work for me so far and another tab that I get to work on.
basically use whatever file explorer you use and create a 'new file' and call it .nomedia (dot - nomedia) and that should cover it.
Hope that helps some.
Thanks for the suggestions. But unfortunately, they did not work. Let me give you some more symptoms....
The pics are still on the storage cards. I can see then with my file app. When I try to open one of the pics, jpegs, Gallery will open it, but very slowly... thinking first, going to a blank screen, and then a few seconds later, displaying the file. If I choose to view it with ESFile Explorer, the pic comes up almost immediately. It's almost as if Gallery is unable to acknowledge the existence of the files unless forced to.
Reggie777 said:
I noticed that my Gallery app is showing I have no "albums" or anything. Up til now, it automatically added folders when I saved a pic, and it had a folder of pics I had on my SD2 card. Unfortunately this also affected the Multi Wallpaper App that I use. Any suggestions?
I am using Tnt 4.3.2.
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I have never gotten photos to show up in gallery. I use JustPictures and it works great. It works with pics on the device and any online services.
.nomedia solution works great
it2steve said:
There have been reported issues all over in regards to media getting deleted on the sd cards. so far IMHO is to create a blank .nomedia file on both the root AND your media folder (just to cover all basis). It has seemed to work for me so far and another tab that I get to work on.
basically use whatever file explorer you use and create a 'new file' and call it .nomedia (dot - nomedia) and that should cover it.
Hope that helps some.
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Thanks Steve, the .nomedia file creation in the sdcard directory worked great!
this fixed my issue too thank you
Hi all,
I have my brand new IS for a while. I had no problem with setting a custom ringtone or photos taken by cam. but a while ago (im not sure when or why) it starts to behave weird. the device doesn't see my music files anymore, i can not choose any custom ringtone. After running Music app, it says "No Music Found" but i can see the file is there( via Astro File Manager etc.).
Same thing happened for photos, too. after taking photos, i can't see them with Gallery app but i see they are in sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA as usual?
Hope i could tell the problem, any help appreciated..
The apps seem very very bad at refreshing new data off the sdcard. I find unmounting/mounting does the trick.
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Thanks for the repy but it doesn't work. Neither Unmount > Mount nor Disable Fast Boot>Unmount>Reboot . I can not see previous photos taken with phone even by the quick button at camera screen.
I can change ringtone by an external app like "Android Movie or Zedge etc." But after restarting the device, it selects default one that shipped with the phone and ignore my custom ringtones.. really weird..
Is a common problem in stock. I thought that making remounting the SD card and afterwards make a photo and than go to gallery should start the reindex. Than start your HTC music app. Should have everything in it by then.
Note: reindexing can take a little while.
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Is a common problem in stock. I thought that making remounting the SD card and afterwards make a photo and than go to gallery should start the reindex. Than start your HTC music app. Should have everything in it by then.
Note: reindexing can take a little while.
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Not working..
What i did: Unmount > Mount SDCard. Take a photo > Go to gallery. After a quick refreshing process, there's only latest photo. After a reboot, latest photo is gone, too. Yet no tracks in Music
Just a wild guess, maybe your sdcard is corrupted? FAT32 is very easy to get into such problem. Perhaps you can do a scandisk from a PC.
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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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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.
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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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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.
Hi all, I am from Mauritius and is a happy owner of the Note 1. Friday while trying to review the pictures and video I took few hours ago, my phone says media scanning, like 4 times. I switched it off and on again.
All pictures and video in my gallery were gone!! only received files were here, like downloaded pics, viber or whats app pics.
I am so desperate as I did videos of my daughter's 1st school show on it...I didn't sleep for 2 days trying to find a solution.
Anyone can PLEASE help me:crying: And I have no external memory on the phone I have only been using the internal one.
Do you use any application to stop media scan?, or maybe you have some corrupted media file on your sd.. Download app from play store to restart media scanner service.. Try this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dcd.scanmedia
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Or try wipe cache and data of gallery and media scan using its own application manager. Restart phone and let it scan again.
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devll said:
Or try wipe cache and data of gallery and media scan using its own application manager. Restart phone and let it scan again.
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Thanks How do i do that please?
Connect to pc and check if the picture/video are there in DCIM folder.
If they have gone then download free windows file recovery like Recuva.
Enable usb utilities in setting
Scan your phone(which is now removeable storage) for deleted file
Mildred2103 said:
Thanks How do i do that please?
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Theres a place to see all apps. Use that and scroll to gallery and media app. Clear the cache and data.
Application manager is the one.
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Rosli59564 said:
Connect to pc and check if the picture/video are there in DCIM folder.
If they have gone then download free windows file recovery like Recuva.
Enable usb utilities in setting
Scan your phone(which is now removeable storage) for deleted file
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Thank you, recuva found a thousand jpg, i saved them but I cannot open them.
devll said:
Theres a place to see all apps. Use that and scroll to gallery and media app. Clear the cache and data.
Application manager is the one.
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Thanks. but no... still nothing
Mildred2103 said:
Thank you, recuva found a thousand jpg, i saved them but I cannot open them.
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U mean they're just black? Possibly they have been overwritten by something but can't b all.