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[Q] Double Image in Gallery

Hi there..
I update my SGS to Froyo last 2 days.. and yesterday I apply Voodoo 5 on it.
But today I just noticed that any images from my external SD will appear double in gallery.. dunno when it started to happen.. is there any way to fix this?
thanks

Im my case was 5 for each original, and with a lot of problems to delete the "non-real" ones...

thats hurt.. anyone can help here?

Yup! Just go to Application Manager, then easily clear cache for Media Storage! Ta-Da! No more duplicate images!
(It made my ringtones reset, but I could live with it!)

Eienkei said:
Yup! Just go to Application Manager, then easily clear cache for Media Storage! Ta-Da! No more duplicate images!
(It made my ringtones reset, but I could live with it!)
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thanks for suggesting.. but it still appear double..
crap.. now i'm also lost all my ringtone

Got a Mac? It happened for me when Spotlight indexed my storage after mounting it one day. I used root explorer to delete all the Spotlight files.

Don't have a Mac but i will try use the root explorer like u said..

Hello, i got the same problem, what i have noticed is that a clone of my sdcards is found at /sdcard/ and the original is at /mnt/sdcard/ have not tried to delete /sdcard/ yet since i want to backup my external one before, but i will tell you how it went.

is FROYO 2.2 officially available in INDIAfor samsung Galaxy S.can any one confirm please?

If you have Root Explorer
GO into /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media
and delete both the internal and external files
Reboot

elhpianist said:
If you have Root Explorer
GO into /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media
and delete both the internal and external files
Reboot
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Great hint, just wondering though if there is any way to have an app or script run at boot-up to do this for you, so people don't have to do it manually every time their gallery has a fit?

Music & Gallery App Problems

So here's my problem,I've been using democracy 2.1 and tried to flash other custom roms like idroid, aokp ics, and cm10..now everytime I flash these roms and test it the music app dont work,whenever i touch the play button It will say the playlist is empty,I check the library to find my songs and they're not there,same thing happens to the gallery,no pics nor videos,but I can perfectly see pics and play videos and music through the file manager,at first I thought that the apps are not working properly so I installed a bunch of other gallery and music apks but still the same,I dont know what just happened,so please help..thanks in advance

open dev tool go to media provider and tap on scan sdcard
if don't work check for .nomedia file in /sdcard, music folder, video folder and picture folder

jhimzter said:
So here's my problem,I've been using democracy 2.1 and tried to flash other custom roms like idroid, aokp ics, and cm10..now everytime I flash these roms and test it the music app dont work,whenever i touch the play button It will say the playlist is empty,I check the library to find my songs and they're not there,same thing happens to the gallery,no pics nor videos,but I can perfectly see pics and play videos and music through the file manager,at first I thought that the apps are not working properly so I installed a bunch of other gallery and music apks but still the same,I dont know what just happened,so please help..thanks in advance
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backup sd card on pc
format it
then again copy evrything
IT WORKS!!!!

Shank73 said:
backup sd card on pc
format it
then again copy evrything
IT WORKS!!!!
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I've already done formating my sd card and it does'nt work.
dheeraj (dhlalit11) said:
open dev tool go to media provider and tap on scan sdcard
if don't work check for .nomedia file in /sdcard, music folder, video folder and picture folder
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sorry for being a noob but where can I find the dev tool?cant find it here in democracy rom,maybe its not installed here.
I see .nomedia on the sdcard,what will I do with it?
Im currently using the democracy 2.1,its the only rom where gallery works but music app dont
thanks

just delete .nomedia file from sdcard and reboot device

killar_aka_arabu said:
just delete .nomedia file from sdcard and reboot device
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Thanks..it worked

[Q] CM10 Nightly problem...

Hi
First sorry for my english...
Since cm-10-20120910-NIGHTLY-umts_sholes i can't flash my a853 (milestone).
cm-10-20120823-NIGHTLY-umts_sholes works fine but no other after that, openrecovery says "some symlinks failed" status 7 error instalation aborted....
How can solve this?
and... sorry for my english

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Hernan_ar_c said:
Hi
First sorry for my english...
Since cm-10-20120910-NIGHTLY-umts_sholes i can't flash my a853 (milestone).
cm-10-20120823-NIGHTLY-umts_sholes works fine but no other after that, openrecovery says "some symlinks failed" status 7 error instalation aborted....
How can solve this?
and... sorry for my english
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It's because it cant fit in the system partition. Quentin himself made a little guide, how to make a bootable zip from the new nightlies. HERE it is. I deleted the Live Wallpapers and some other stuff i would disable anyway.

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Erovia said:
It's because it cant fit in the system partition. Quentin himself made a little guide, how to make a bootable zip from the new nightlies. HERE it is. I deleted the Live Wallpapers and some other stuff i would disable anyway.
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Thank you fot the info Erovia. :good:

Hernan_ar_c said:
Thank you fot the info Erovia. :good:
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Your welcome
ps.: please hit thanks button

Here i take this message too (status 7), but in zip package don't have as live wallpapper apk, have some more apk's i have to exclude or someting more?
Sory for my poor english!

Yes, the newest nightly doesnt have live wallpapers by default. You have to delete some other stuffs.
Ringtones, some fonts are safe to delete. (and those asian fonts eats up at least 8Mb...)

I can't make it work too. I tried to delete some stuff, but I don't know what is safe to delete or not.
I don't need Live Wallpapers and so on, but the apk isn't in the zip file anymore.

DerET said:
I can't make it work too. I tried to delete some stuff, but I don't know what is safe to delete or not.
I don't need Live Wallpapers and so on, but the apk isn't in the zip file anymore.
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Try booting ROM form that post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32403158#post32403158
Its already prepared for booting. Before that you better wipe all user data and cache - it should work after that

The installation worked, but my Milestone stuck while the boot logo is shown.
Edit: Works after a restart, but now it tells me every minute that text-to-speech has crashed. >.<

CM10 boot issue with latest nightly
Greetings all, I am new to this forum so bear with me :laugh:
I have just tried out the latest rom from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445209
(I am currently running CM9)
It boots to a blank screen with just the bar at the top, which seems to work, but no home screen to be seen :crying:
I understand there won't be a wallpaper, but I should see icons, right?
I have cleaned all the caches and reset to factory before installing, but nothing ..
I do not have the /data partition though, is that necessary?
Thanks,
B.

You should have wallpaper, only the live wallpapers were deleted by default.
I guess, the problem is your /data partition. It's necessary to wipe it if you upgrade your rom. Wiping it should solve your problem.

Well, after some restarts it's working. But Angry Birds isn't running and World of Goo is lagging. Isn't the great project butter working?

Erovia said:
You should have wallpaper, only the live wallpapers were deleted by default.
I guess, the problem is your /data partition. It's necessary to wipe it if you upgrade your rom. Wiping it should solve your problem.
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Hmm, I don't have a /data partition yet ... I guess that is the problem.
Question: If I create a new SD card with a FAT32 partition at the start and an EXT3 at the end, can I just copy my phone SD card contents
including hidden files to the FAT32 partition, put it in the phone and all will be good?
I am guessing that the OS will find the partition and create a mount point for it and that I don't have to do that, right?
Thanks,
B.

DerET said:
Well, after some restarts it's working. But Angry Birds isn't running and World of Goo is lagging. Isn't the great project butter working?
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Project Butter improves the reactiveness of the UI and increases the framerate.
But the reason for games not working is a lack of RAM (in 90% of the cases).
To circumvent this you need to use a kernel that supports zRAM and/or swap.

bmentink said:
Hmm, I don't have a /data partition yet ... I guess that is the problem.
Question: If I create a new SD card with a FAT32 partition at the start and an EXT3 at the end, can I just copy my phone SD card contents
including hidden files to the FAT32 partition, put it in the phone and all will be good?
I am guessing that the OS will find the partition and create a mount point for it and that I don't have to do that, right?
Thanks,
B.
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So I created the card with the new partition and it works fine with my CM9 backup from nandroid.
When I try to install CM10 I deleted all the caches, factory reset etc and installed CM10.
When it eventually booted to the setup wizard, I enter all the information and it says it is complete, but then on exit the wizard dies and I am left with the status bar and a black screen ..
I tried re-booting, but it won't boot until I go and delete the caches etc again ..
What's wrong?:crying:

Did you wipe everything from recovery? Because doing a Factory Reset might not be enough.

Erovia said:
Did you wipe everything from recovery? Because doing a Factory Reset might not be enough.
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What does "Did you wipe everything from recovery" mean? If you mean did I execute all of the three menu options in recovery, then yes I did that.
However, I do have it going now ... but only after many resets .. and I got stuck on the setup app crashing ..
I am using it and have found it a bit flakey .. slows down at times and the keyboard goes away sometimes, I have to use the hard keyboard.
EDIT: Found the reason for that was voice typing was on for some reason.
I also noticed that the font is very light (alsmost un-readable) in contacts, I have to hold the phone at an angle to be able to read the names.

Here is the cure for the font problem:
Open "HWA Settings" and disable "Contacts" and "Messaging".

Erovia said:
Here is the cure for the font problem:
Open "HWA Settings" and disable "Contacts" and "Messaging".
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Cool thanks, that did it ..:good:
So what is "HWA Settings" anyway?

If an app don't need hardware acceleration, than it will ask the system to not to do it, but sometimes it's just not working properly and with HWA Settings we can disable the hw acc on that app.

cannot see my music, pics on sdcard

Hello!
I cannot reach my pictures, games, music and whatever on the sd, well i can see them only with file managers and its not good actually. Because some apps such whatsapp, music (stock), some games etc.. i am using sensational rom but it has happened again when i was using cm rom, it was just 1 hour or less but now, i cannot see them for 2 days.. it seems i should try a new rom but i havent enough time for it. Can you tell me what should i do?

tuppeh said:
Hello!
I cannot reach my pictures, games, music and whatever on the sd, well i can see them only with file managers and its not good actually. Because some apps such whatsapp, music (stock), some games etc.. i am using sensational rom but it has happened again when i was using cm rom, it was just 1 hour or less but now, i cannot see them for 2 days.. it seems i should try a new rom but i havent enough time for it. Can you tell me what should i do?
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First of all you should download es file explorer...
Then locate all the music in your sd and make sure they are placed in a folder named MUSIC...similarly,
The pictures should be placed in the folder called DCIM, further in camera or any other folder you want to keep in...
Just open any 1 song from the sd through the manager and the rest are found by the music app...similarly for the pictures as well...just tested and it works for me...
If the problem persists then reboot it once and try the method again...
If still the problem persists then i recommend you should use cm10 build 3...
Any other doubts you should reply and make sure you hit thanks!:good:
All the best !:good:

warrior1208 said:
First of all you should download es file explorer...
Then locate all the music in your sd and make sure they are placed in a folder named MUSIC...similarly,
The pictures should be placed in the folder called DCIM, further in camera or any other folder you want to keep in...
Just open any 1 song from the sd through the manager and the rest are found by the music app...similarly for the pictures as well...just tested and it works for me...
If the problem persists then reboot it once and try the method again...
If still the problem persists then i recommend you should use cm10 build 3...
Any other doubts you should reply and make sure you hit thanks!:good:
All the best !:good:
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music was already in "Music" folder in root, tried to open some songs with es but still doesnt work well now im downloading addictz's cm10 rom. hope it wont happen again..

tuppeh said:
music was already in "Music" folder in root, tried to open some songs with es but still doesnt work well now im downloading addictz's cm10 rom. hope it wont happen again..
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As i said try different roms...do reply once you flash the rom...
All the best:good:

warrior1208 said:
As i said try different roms...do reply once you flash the rom...
All the best:good:
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gallery works well, but cant say the same thing for the music app. got playerpro and everythings works perfect for now. no problems at the moment

[Q] Gallery keeps crashing

So after rooting my phone, my gallery has been crashing every time I try to open it.
I rooted with this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709701
I tried clearing the data and clearing the cache and it didn't work.
I tried going in from my computer and copying out the data and deleting it so that I can restart with a new DCIM folder, but it's written protected... =/
Ideas anyone?

How do you mean password protected? Never seen that on an Android folder. Shouldnt you just remove this lock to help your app?

Uberharm said:
How do you mean password protected? Never seen that on an Android folder. Shouldnt you just remove this lock to help your app?
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Sorry didn't mean to say password protected. I misspoke and meant to say written protection. I can't delete the files or edit it, but I can copy it.

Ok So it's slightly different from flashing a phone like my galaxy S2 I9100.
On my phone I should flash a ROM and a .zip package of gapps (google apps) among which is the gallery app.
Since you don't have to flash such a package I wonder whether you came from a KK ROM.
You said you rooted it like this. So I assume you came from stock KK ROM which comes with your AT&T Note 3, which should be no fine. But you can check that though.
Further ideas;
it could be a corrupt file somewhere on your device. You're gallery app will try to show it or make a thumbnail out of something which will result in a crash. For this you can try other gallery apps (I liked quickpic) and see if they crash.
Maybe you can unprotect the folder/files simply by:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5059293_rid-write-protection-file.html
On this thread it appeared to be an old SD card so that could be the problem as well.

Uberharm said:
Ok So it's slightly different from flashing a phone like my galaxy S2 I9100.
On my phone I should flash a ROM and a .zip package of gapps (google apps) among which is the gallery app.
Since you don't have to flash such a package I wonder whether you came from a KK ROM.
You said you rooted it like this. So I assume you came from stock KK ROM which comes with your AT&T Note 3, which should be no fine. But you can check that though.
Further ideas;
it could be a corrupt file somewhere on your device. You're gallery app will try to show it or make a thumbnail out of something which will result in a crash. For this you can try other gallery apps (I liked quickpic) and see if they crash.
Maybe you can unprotect the folder/files simply by:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5059293_rid-write-protection-file.html
On this thread it appeared to be an old SD card so that could be the problem as well.
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Lol sorry for the misunderstanding. Just to clarify, yes I flashed it with the KK ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709701
and rooted with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783157
Yeah I've tried to unprotect it, but the options were grayed out. It won't let me click on them or unclick them.
When I access my DCIM folder it looks like this. The folder would contain my pictures and a bunch of other files that I don't recognize. I'm not sure whether it was from the ROM or the root.....
and with Quickpic it worked... ish~ I was able to open the app with a long loading time...and it also contains the other files that I don't recognize as well....

ugh i ended up just reformatting my SD card, i just wanted to get rid of the problem.
oh well. thanks for the help really appreciate it.