Hey Guys:
After rooting my RAZR i phone using Batakang's .bat file, Google Play and any other music player that reads the default media library cannot find any songs.
I have read several posts for other phones where people remove the NOMEDIA files from the root of the External SD Card, Delete the application's data and cache and removing the music folder and then adding the music files to a new one, and unfortunately that has not worked for me so far.
On a side note, Titanium backup could not find any of the app backups I had previously created that were stored in the External SD Card.
Does this mean that apps are somehow "forced" to look into the Internal SD Card and cannot detect the External one?
Do I need to somehow "swap" the Storage denominations?
ASTRO and Other File managers can find these files without breaking a sweat, which leaves me puzzled.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Hello again:
I tried lots of different things and was able to resolve my problem by formatting the SD card.
I hope didn't have to do that, but I was at my wits ends.
I can only conclude that there were NOMEDIA files somewhere in the SD card preventing a proper media library scan.
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I searched the forums but could'nt find a similar problem. My SD card is read by my phone. But when i connect it to the computer through USB storage, only a few folders are seen(lost.dir, buildprop.tmp, .profig.os) along with any new folders that i create. But while browsing the card through a file explorer on my phone i can see all the files and folders. Anyone know what's wrong??
Try to put it in a card reader and see what happends.
Hey
I bought a sd card from eBay and had countless errors and trouble with it, I bought a new sd and had no issue what so ever. So try a new sd card or even formatt the memory card
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See if you can back the contents up to the pc then run disk check or format.
Formatting at the moment is not an option. I have a lot of data on it that needs to be backed up like photos, videos, music etc. Unfortunately i cant backup the contents onto the PC since they cant be seen! Guess i have to upload everything onto dropbox and then format it. And with my current upload speed its going to take days . Unless there's someother way of doing it
Try doing a backup using a card reader for your pc.
Even with a card Reader only the "New" folders that i create can be seen. But on the phone All the folders can be seen.
Have you tried to connect it with Linux based OS or only with Windows?
Try this also. Currently there's a troyan round the globe. When it activates it hides all the folders on external media devices connected to PC, and creates .exe files with names of hidden folders. When you connect your storage to a PC with good antivirus it deletes .exe files but leaves folders on storage in hidden state. Try to configure your Windows Explorer or Total Commander to show hidden files and folders and maybe you'll be lucky.
Only with Windows XP and 7 based systems as im at a cousin's place. Found this problem when he wanted some songs from my card. I did scan the SD card using AVG. During the scan i noticed that the current files being scanned included those that i couldn't see using windows/commander file explorer. Hope that helps
Edit: A little messing around and i got it!! Folder Options > Hidden Files and Folders > Unchecked "Hide Protected Operating System Files"
Thank you for all your help
Apologies if this sounds similar to other issues that have been previously posted but I have not yet been able to solve this issue.
Basically, rooted and flashed cyanogen 10.2 - 26/8/2013 version which is android 4.3 (nightly) and cannot access my SD Card (from reading up on the issue I know that this is caused by android 4.2 onwards i.e. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274218 )
I can see the SD card in storage settings and I can access the SD card through the root, I can see all of my music files and I can see images I have stored on it. I cannot access this music from either Apollo or Google Play Music. I can however see my images in my gallery app.
I tried following the directions in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274218 this thread which require moving everything from the 'sd card' into its actual directory but my file paths do not match up with those in the description.
I have also tried unmounting and remounting the card, also reformatted the card, no dice.
Any help would be appreciated, please answer in retard terms because I am very very new to all of this.
**EDIT** Managed to get the SD card working again, I am able to play .mp3 files but not WMA files. Is there a way around this? I understand that this function was removed in CM V7?
Hi. A friend of mine was moving pictures from the internal sd of her phone to a external sd using Samsung's My Files app. But now they've seem to be gone, all that's left on the internal sd is some files she didn't move. However, on the external SD the folders (DCIM, Pictures, etc) are present but empty.
I can't seem to find the reason for those files to disappear. I saw in a post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/tried-to-photo..) that they could be in lost.dir folder. I have to check that out since I don't have the phone nearby, but I would like to get some suggestions for my problem.
I don't know if the files could be in the internal SD but hidden. The same way in the external SD. Or the worst case scenario, lost at all.
a_lleras said:
Hi. A friend of mine was moving pictures from the internal sd of her phone to a external sd using Samsung's My Files app. But now they've seem to be gone, all that's left on the internal sd is some files she didn't move. However, on the external SD the folders (DCIM, Pictures, etc) are present but empty.
I can't seem to find the reason for those files to disappear. I saw in a post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/tried-to-photo..) that they could be in lost.dir folder. I have to check that out since I don't have the phone nearby, but I would like to get some suggestions for my problem.
I don't know if the files could be in the internal SD but hidden. The same way in the external SD. Or the worst case scenario, lost at all.
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1. use a root file explorer like ES File Manager (free) and show all hidden files/folders
2. i think your friend didn´t copy the pictures, but delete them (worst case), so they aren´t there anymore.
Good luck
MJ
The images, music and video files i put onto the internal storage doesn't come up in the album, video or walkman or other apps that can read these files but if you manually just open the file with those listed app it works but the properties are all unknown and stuff, however when i put these files onto a Micro SD card it reads it perfectly. Though when i take pics and gets saved in internal storage that still gets read.
i tried force stopping it and clearing data and stuff, reset no luck. Help
LSirzech said:
The images, music and video files i put onto the internal storage doesn't come up in the album, video or walkman or other apps that can read these files but if you manually just open the file with those listed app it works but the properties are all unknown and stuff, however when i put these files onto a Micro SD card it reads it perfectly. Though when i take pics and gets saved in internal storage that still gets read.
i tried force stopping it and clearing data and stuff, reset no luck. Help
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Copy everything you have on your internal storage to your pc and then copy them back to your storage. Sometimes that works.
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Any suggestions... (I've eliminated any problems with FireKat and PopRocks. They are solid)
Running FireKat V20 (4.1.1.) SD card tested and is readable/writeable (128Gb). Pics are in proper DCIM\Camera folder on SD. Music is in Music\ folder on SD. (some players find music but "PlayerPro" and "Sound Picker" do not find music. Cannot change ringtone with Sound Picker or other programs (says unable to change ringtone). The pics will only show in Gallery by displaying through Picasa. These problems also occur even on stock rom before flashing custom rom. Oh, also tried "fix permissions".
I've tried everything I could think of including Odin back to beginning several times. Tried PopRocks rom, no joy. Believe my I've tested and experimented with a lot of stuff but cannot solve the problem.
Any suggestions to help correct finding my pics and music on SDCard would be appreciated.......
Update Pics & Music only on Internal storage
I've determined that pics and music do show up if stored in "Internal" storage.
If I copied all pics & Music to internal storage I can see all.
Is there a way to "move" those files from internal to external storage other than just moving in root explorer??
Larry Fortune said:
I've determined that pics and music do show up if stored in "Internal" storage.
If I copied all pics & Music to internal storage I can see all.
Is there a way to "move" those files from internal to external storage other than just moving in root explorer??
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are you doing a factory reset/clean flash after odin, if not make sure you do so, and also format your sd card using your device instead of your computer
Yes, factory reset/clean flash wiping everything except SD Card many times to try and find the problem. I'll try wiping and formatting the sd card, I have not done that yet.
Thanks!