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how do i hide folder in gallery app

i recently downloaded a app called launcher icon and dock. i saved a lot of icon form it. and it all appear in the gallery. i can hardly find my camera folder.
how can i just hide all the icon in the gallery.(it make 1 icon 1 folder...)
i tried to use Linux file type with "." it works but all apps that is changed icon is affected, to back to original icon.

Are the files on your sd card?
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Did you try putting a file called .nomedia in the folder where the icons are stored. That will exclude the files from the gallery. It will also exclude sub folders.
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grkmano said:
Are the files on your sd card?
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yes!
quarlow said:
Did you try putting a file called .nomedia in the folder where the icons are stored. That will exclude the files from the gallery. It will also exclude sub folders.
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thanks for help, but it doesn't work...

You could switch to a different pic viewer, like Quickpic. It allows you to exclude folders from scanning. However, in the stock gallery, it still scans them. I also saw an app on the market that supposedly hides pics. I haven't tried it, so i couldn't tell you if it works.

Deleted Gallery app

Hi,
using Market Fixer I inadvertently deleted my stock gallery app which also meant I couldn't use the widget for having pics of my baby daughter on my screens.
Does anyone know how I can get another copy of is there a better app that has similar functionality?
Cheers for any help.

Quickpic is much better! Set it to 32 bit colour.
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I already use QuickPic but need to be able have gallery for the widget function and also to be able to change the lockscreen pic (unless I'm being dumb).

I noticed that too, that without the gallery, the option disappear also. Anyway, luckily I've just frozen it instead of deleted.
On the other hand, I think you can go to settings > Display >Screen display and change it from there. It has an option to change the wallpaper and lock screen from there.

Without the gallery installed going via settings only gives access to the wallpaper folders.
Does anyone know where I can get the gallery apk without having to factory reset?

Here you go
- Download it to your phone
- Use ES File Explorer or another file manager with root access**
- Move the APK to /system/app
- Reboot
**Press Settings -> Root Explorer [Enable it] and also enable "Mount File System". Tap and hold the star on the top left (favorites) and navigate to /system/app

i've also accidently deleted the gallery app..(dont know what i'm doing lol)..
but thanks for your guide,i manage to get it back..
lots of thanks!

You sir are a gentleman! That's exactly what I wanted. Thanks very much.
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Could you please upload that apk! I cant seem to find it. Even i deleted gallery apk accidently. Thanks.

Multiple File References messing me up

So I have this strange problem that is causing my Ringtones not to work.
I go into settings >> sound >> and click to select the default ringtone.
In there some of my Ringtones are listed 3 times.
These are MP3's that I have on my Ext SDcard in a drirectory.
If when I am trying to select the ringtone, I select the first 2 of the 3 of any particular ringtone, the "preview" does not work at all. The 3rd version of the ringtone works with the preview but the phone won't work with it.
I select the thrid version and close settings and try to call my phone. Only vibration. I look back in the settings and the first entry is selected.
So I took out my ext sdcard and only 2 versions of the file name show up now and neither of those will play, preview, or work.
I downloaded Rescan Media Root and rescanned media but nothing gets rid of these Ghost entries.
Any ideas?
The built in phone ringtones are entered only once and they work.

Try removing the ext. sd card and rebooting the phone. Also while it is removed, go to settings and then applications and clear data of the Music Player app and Media Storage. You can find them under the "All" tab in applications manager.
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joey_oggie said:
Try removing the ext. sd card and rebooting the phone. Also while it is removed, go to settings and then applications and clear data of the Music Player app and Media Storage. You can find them under the "All" tab in applications manager.
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Thanx! That did it. It was the media storage.

les_garten said:
Thanx! That did it. It was the media storage.
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Glad it worked.
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How to stop XZ from getting pics from whatsapp?

MY XZ keeps pulling pics from whatsapp into the ALBUM app on XZ..how to stop that?

There'll be a bunch of folders on the storage area, you need to put a blank file called " .nomedia " in there to stop it from looking in that folder.

Gemdog said:
There'll be a bunch of folders on the storage area, you need to put a blank file called " .nomedia " in there to stop it from looking in that folder.
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Does not work.
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**** man..i really need this..some random 'adult' pics turn up in my albums

Download quickpic from the playstore and use that to place the nomedia file as suggested by gemdog. It works.
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kchino said:
Download quickpic from the playstore and use that to place the nomedia file as suggested by gemdog. It works.
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It only work if you using quickpic to view picture, stock album apps still showing the content from whatapps.

This is a big security bug from SONY..Why does no one complain about it?

No one is complaining because it's not the fault of Sony. Whatsapp is the problem here not Sony or the lack of complaints.
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is there any other solution to this up to date???
its really annoying...

I wish there was some way to exclude folders from view in the stock album viewer also.

You can download a hacked version of whatsapp and it has an option to disable that. On top of that, the photos you upload are not compressed, so it's the full hd photo when others download it.
I think it's called whatsapp plus or +
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Just for the record the problem also happens on Galaxy phones, this isn't a sony problem it's a whatapp problem.

Bless, did you clear media storage app data after creating .nomedia file and restart the phone and wait again to do the scan?? Obviously if you create the file and not reset the media storage index of filed I'll keep loading them.
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just copy the .nomedia file from whatsapp\video and try https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS51YmVydWxsdS5yZXNjYW5zZCJd
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I think he means that the phone auto download sended pics... Its a whatssapp issue and not a very cool one if you ask me, i downloaded whatsapp plus from androis hacking/apps threat and ticked auto download off!
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Custom notification sound

Hi all, just a quick one, does anyone know how to set a custom text tone? I've got an mp3 file, I've messed around with file explorer and placed it in media, audio, notifications and also created a notifications folder but it's still not being recognized in the settings as a choice for notifications.
I'm not rooted.
It's odd because I can see the Facebook pop sound in the notifications folder I'm trying to put this file in.
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Ps-original file I'm trying to use is a voice memo if that makes any difference
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I downloaded some sounds off zedge and had to move them to the /media/notification folder and they did not show up, after restarting my device they were there.
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Cheers Steve. Not sure why it wouldn't let me do it directly
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