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Question How can I disable Media Scan?

I have a lot of pictures in my SD card.
When I insert the card,Galaxy S starts media scan.
But...It is too long to wait.
While media scanning,I can launch Gallery App.
How can I disable Media Scan?

kuzu92 said:
I have a lot of pictures in my SD card.
When I insert the card,Galaxy S starts media scan.
But...It is too long to wait.
While media scanning,I can launch Gallery App.
How can I disable Media Scan?
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i have a class 6 adata 16gb card in.. it scans memory twice once for internal sd and 2nd for yourown.. it finishes withing 2-3 minutes after startup.. if yours is taking longer recommend you get a newer faster memory card.. without media scan you will never see new pictures movie in galary or new music.

lgkahn said:
i have a class 6 adata 16gb card in.. it scans memory twice once for internal sd and 2nd for yourown.. it finishes withing 2-3 minutes after startup.. if yours is taking longer recommend you get a newer faster memory card.. without media scan you will never see new pictures movie in galary or new music.
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I have class 6 Samsung and class6 Kingstone.I tried both.
hmm...how many pictures do you have in micro SD?
I have about 16000 pictures.

Media Scanning
Hey there,
Did you ever get this sorted out? Looks like you may have. If I may ask, how long was it taking you to sync? So far, the one thing that could be a deal-breaker for this phone is the fact that Media Scanning is taking FOREVER. So far, I think it's been going for at least 45 minutes. Granted, this is a SanDisk 32GB, which is only a class 2, but primarily what I have on there is photos and music, with just a few video clips. The Droid X which I'm also trying takes a fraction of the time (perhaps several minutes but only does once). Is there a way out of the freeze or delay? Not sure it's ever going to finish and don't really wanna start over from scratch again!
Any help is appreciated!!
Thanks,
K-

Even without any external SD card, mine is taking time to do media scan. Yes, the wait is annoying, but only when I soft reboot. Not a big deal for me. I suspect that's the way Android works. In winmo and iPhone, there is no such wait. May be you guys with experience on other android phones could confirm that this happens to all android phones?

Shirley if it could be disabled you could push manual scan after putting files on

Read an interesting blog a while back. Never tried it my self since I don't have that much media on my card.
Some thing about putting .nomedia file in your directory and putting a dot (.) infront of your directory name.
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f7/nomedia-equivalent-for-gallery-24997/
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Get a startupmanager (is in the market) and disable the mediastorage under the system tab. startupmanager is a trial, but after you applied the setting you can uninstall the app and setting remain there. Then if you want to manually scan get the scanmedia app (also in market).

spaanplaat said:
Get a startupmanager (is in the market) and disable the mediastorage under the system tab. startupmanager is a trial, but after you applied the setting you can uninstall the app and setting remain there. Then if you want to manually scan get the scanmedia app (also in market).
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Deadly just tried that and it worked, start up seems faster

mloc33 said:
Deadly just tried that and it worked, start up seems faster
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yes it will work.. but better to use nomedia with the huge directory that is causing the hangup or get a faster card.. reason.. if you have any music you want to play or mp3 ringtones.. they will not work if you disable scan. ie you will not have your ringtones.. but stock sounds such as beeping when a call comes in.

What does Media Scan do?
What does media scan even do?

lgkahn said:
yes it will work.. but better to use nomedia with the huge directory that is causing the hangup or get a faster card.. reason.. if you have any music you want to play or mp3 ringtones.. they will not work if you disable scan. ie you will not have your ringtones.. but stock sounds such as beeping when a call comes in.
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just use ScanMedia app , it will do the scan for you in almost no time it's one one click app

Using a rooted but otherwise stock ROM I removed the "Media Storage" component entirely via Root Uninstall. Now the phone actually takes slightly longer to locate my apps and widgets on boot, however it no longer has to rescan every time I put it in USB Mass Storage mode and/or disconnect it. i use the phone as a flash drive for my job extensively (that and ConnectBot FTW!) so this was a major issue for me.
I suppose disabling the media scanner would be a safer approach, but if anyone is wondering, you CAN safely remove this entirely if you have a rooted phone. In my case, I'm using WinAMP as my music player, so don't need it for that. Gallery still works flawlessly so this service isn't used by Gallery I think.
I have noticed one single side effect of this though. Apparently Google+ installed to my SD card by default, which disabled the Google+ widget entirely (removed it and couldn't re-add it). Simply moving the app to internal storage solved this.

[Q] Ford Escape 2011 SYNC Version Gen1 - V3.2 and the Cappy in USB

I am running Mosaic IV (2.3) on my Captivate. So far the SYNC picks up my phone, grabs the phonebook, can dial and play media through bluetooth. Really don't care about text messages coming through.
The thing I'd love to know is how to get it to be recognized and play the media through USB connection so it will index the music, etc.
I did read a ford post that the person put it into media player mode and connected and it worked but it doesn't even find the device when I do that (can't get it to install a proper driver in my Win 7 either). It does find it when I put it into Mass Storage and hit the connect button but sits at initializing for a long long time then pops up as unsupported device.
I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with this? I'm also wondering if it has something to do with the Media player mode not working on my Win 7 either.
Thanks in advance

You will have to download an app called Sync My Ride made by Ford and run that to change the tags on your music files so that sync can recognize them. Keep your phone in USB Storage mode. Also, try moving your music files from the SD card to the internal card or vise versa. Not sure how sync handles the two different drives that come up if you have a SD card in. I use my Captivate in my Ford Focus with no problem. It does take a while to index my music files (about 30 mins for all my music) using the usb connection, so I prefer to use the Bluetooth media option through sync now.

Thanks for the info. Can't find it in the market or by Google. Any ideas? Have the apk handy?
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Primus76 said:
Thanks for the info. Can't find it in the market or by Google. Any ideas? Have the apk handy?
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It is for your computer not your phone. Sorry for not mentioning that. Here is the link: https://secure.syncmyride.com/Own/Modules/SupportContent/SupportHome.aspx
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Vaanhoot said:
It is for your computer not your phone. Sorry for not mentioning that. Here is the link: https://secure.syncmyride.com/Own/Modules/SupportContent/SupportHome.aspx
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Hunting through their software I see sync my phone which would help with my phonebook but i'm not having a problem with that. I took the music folder off my phone and put it on a simple 2gb usb memory stick and it picked it all up and indexed no problem so i don't think it's an issue with the tags otherwise they wouldn't have read.
It didn't pick it up when the music was on my internal sd just sat at initializing then eventually timed out and said not supported. Did the same thing when ONLY my music was on the external sd card and formatted at FAT. Saw someone say to use FAT32 (which is what the USB is formatted at and it works), so I did just that and put it at FAT32 and with only my music folder on there it still had no love.. didn't even try to initialize just said USB Empty.. so it thought it was supported, just nothing on there.
Well I think it is just going to be easier to have a basic usb drive in there with the music. I can 'sync' my music folder to the USB at anytime.. and as I won't have playlists i'll just make album tags since that works just fine.
If anyone else has any ideas toss em in.
Thx!

[Q] can ds7 play .mkv?

I tried to put an .mkv movie on my ds7, and the windows or the computer, who knows, didn't let me do it. It said that the file is larger than the permitted, or something like that.
Oh, and I have an other question as well. Is there a faster way to put movies, actually files from the computer to the tablet than just copying it simply to the chosen directory?
Thanks in advance!

raidon24 said:
I tried to put an .mkv movie on my ds7, and the windows or the computer, who knows, didn't let me do it. It said that the file is larger than the permitted, or something like that.
Oh, and I have an other question as well. Is there a faster way to put movies, actually files from the computer to the tablet than just copying it simply to the chosen directory?
Thanks in advance!
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Since the format is FAT32 you can't put a file larger than 4gb on the SD... I may be mistaken... as far as file transfer you can learn to use ADB commands or something like SAMBA which for me both are faster than MTP

Okay, I see... and should I change its format to NTFS? I read somewhere on the internet that somebody changed his SD card's format to NTFS and it solved his problem. But I also heard something about that it's intentional I mean significant that it's FAT32... what do you think? And what would happen if I changed it and would go bad? Would it screw the whole SD card?

raidon24 said:
Okay, I see... and should I change its format to NTFS? I read somewhere on the internet that somebody changed his SD card's format to NTFS and it solved his problem. But I also heard something about that it's intentional I mean significant that it's FAT32... what do you think? And what would happen if I changed it and would go bad? Would it screw the whole SD card?
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im not sure the kernel supports ntfs

u should split ur movie file to bring it under 4gb.
reformatting ur sd card to some other filesystem will render it unusable in the tablet.
u can try using an ftp server or stream directly from ur computer (like using vlc direct).
class 4 sd cards (the common class) ve max write speed of 8-10mbps, so cant go beyond it.

Thanks! Good ideas! I think I'll just split it to 2 parts, but the streaming through VLC is also simple. Thanks again! Btw, would you recommend me a program what I could do the splitting with?

handbrake is considered one of the best video editors (available for both linux n windows)

tlnlion said:
handbrake is considered one of the best video editors (available for both linux n windows)
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This time I did it with something called mkvtoolnix..and was quite good. I could do what I wanted, so I'm kinda satisfied. Thanks anyway, I think I'll check that one also.

You can try to put it on the Internal and use an app to play it. That's what I do.

ikutoisahobo said:
You can try to put it on the Internal and use an app to play it. That's what I do.
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I was trying to put it on the internal. But I think I have solved the problem. I got a player called Dice, and as it is said it plays HD videos perfectly. It really does play movies better than MXplayer, so I recommend it, especially for Tegra 2 tablets.

[Q] Transfer mkv files to note?

Hi, I just got my note and when I copy a .mkv file to it, windows explorer crashes. Same thing happens when I try to transfer to micro sd card. Any way around this except having to rename .mkv to .mkvv?
Edit: Video showing problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU14QXjGqTQ

I transfer mkv files all the time.. never had any problems. Have you tried using Samsung Kies?

sapalot said:
I transfer mkv files all the time.. never had any problems. Have you tried using Samsung Kies?
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Tried transfering a 1gb mkv file now with kies but it automatically converts the file to mp4 and takes forever to transfer. Any way to just transfer a mkv file to the note?

Anyone know?

I transfer.mkv files all the time. Never had an issue.
Try android commander if doing a power cycle on your computer doesn't fix it.
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kidio007 said:
Hi, I just got my note and when I copy a .mkv file to it, windows explorer crashes. Same thing happens when I try to transfer to micro sd card. Any way around this except having to rename .mkv to .mkvv?
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How large is the file? You might be going over the 4 GB max file size of FAT32?
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Nope if you past the 4GB max filesize of FAT Windows will tell you that it doesn't allow you to transfer. I have a feeling your computer is too slow to buffer large video files. How's your com specs?
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Mazzstrikers said:
Nope if you past the 4GB max filesize of FAT Windows will tell you that it doesn't allow you to transfer. I have a feeling your computer is too slow to buffer large video files. How's your com specs?
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Yeah the files are 1-2gb. I have a quad core cpu at 4.6ghz and 6970 crossfireX, so shouldn't be a problem. I made a video showing what happens here:
Might have to watch in 720p to see the letters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU14QXjGqTQ
I can transfer .avi and other file formats fine, but mkv just doesnt work for me.

A guess...I reckon it might be due to MTP and the WMP <-> Explorer handler not working for mkv files, i.e. it tries to convert/handle the file and cannot so dies.
Are you on GB? If so, use USB mass transfer mode instead. The speed difference kicks ass.

Ranafram said:
I transfer.mkv files all the time. Never had an issue.
Try android commander if doing a power cycle on your computer doesn't fix it.
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Android commander worked great!! Thanks man!!
Will be usuing this program a lot from now.

I think it's the codec installed in windows crashing
It is trying to generate a preview during copy. Try installing latest k-lite codec
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mobilevil said:
I think it's the code installed in windows crashing
It is trying to generate a preview during copy. Try installing latest k-lite codec
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It worked fine to transfer mkv files using my laptop now, so its my desktop that's the problem. I installed K-Lite Codec Pack 8.7.8, but still explorer crashes. I also tried different usb ports. I use windows 7 on my desktop and laptop, so weird that I have this problem only on desktop.
Edit: Did a reinstall of windows 7 and that fixed it. Thanks for all the help guys! Really appriciate it.

Ranafram said:
I transfer.mkv files all the time. Never had an issue.
Try android commander if doing a power cycle on your computer doesn't fix it.
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I installed Android Commander and I did all the Phone and Computer Requirements:
I can start Android Commander, it sees my Galaxy Note Rocket ROM ICS LPY v4 + Speedmod kernel, but I have no root acces. What am I doing wrong?

False external SD-card
For months I've tried to transfer mkv-files (<4gb) to my external card.
I tried to watch mkv-files (>4gb) via USB-stick (NTFS formatted) via OTG using [root] Ntfs Mounter-app. No problem watching it.
I tested my sd-card, it has a storage of 4GB...scammed! Better scammed than a not 100% working Galaxy Note

[Q] Walkman and video players not finding files on my SD card

Just got the phone and I'm digging my way through it but I've found that for some reason my music and video files are not being seen by the phone.
Photographs are fine, but I see no obvious way of forcing the walkman and movie apps to scan my SD card. The files are still there and I've tried unmounting/remounting but I'm not having much luck.
Has anyone else experienced this? I tried to search but only saw reports of skipping tracks etc.
Edit: I've come from a Galaxy S3 and the card was formatted on that phone - could it be a slightly different file organisation system? I hope I don't have to reformat!

I understood the media server will scan for files if you:
- Add new media to the SD card and unplug USB cable.
- When you power cycle the device.
If all this fails maybe try an app like "Rescan Media":
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-addz-mediascanner-jtDAw.aspx
Rescan Media is a simple app will rescan your mobile phone for new files that usually happens on a system re-boot.
It only calls the android media scanner.
Kind regards, Stefan.

You can also delete android folder from the sd and reboot.
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Thanks guys. Oddly enough I'm now seeing my files. It seemed to just happen! When I rebooted and used usb, nothing happened. Then out of the blue it just does it, unexplainable! That app looks handy though

can't find the media
Same to me. I can find any mp3 or mp4 file that i have in sdcard in my walkman, Still can see it through file explore. How can I fix it? Tried media scan app, flash new app, wipe anything... but still can't see anything in the damn screen.
Please help me! You can send email for me: [email protected]