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[Q] custom ringtone and photos problem ?

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.

timbo007up said:
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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[Q] Gallery Broken?

Hey, I just upgraded from Beast 19/12 to Beast 24/12 and my gallery app seems to be broken somehow by it(?) or maybe broken anyway.... I can't open pictures on my phone (it gets stuck) and when I enter the gallery app settings (which happened in 19/12 as well) it stops working.
also I wanted to know if there's an option of opening the gallery from the external SD card and if there's an option to save from the camera to the external as well.... Thanks in advance

When ever I move something to my external sd card it seems to go somewhere and I can'

I tried freeing up space on internal memory by moving pictures,videos and apps to external card when I fix I lost pictures and apps show up in the app drawer but they are greyed out and say not installed. Anyone no why
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gscarborough said:
I tried freeing up space on internal memory by moving pictures,videos and apps to external card when I fix I lost pictures and apps show up in the app drawer but they are greyed out and say not installed. Anyone no why
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What are you using to move them? Is this just on stock ROM? Are you rooted? More details, please.

slimbrady said:
What are you using to move them? Is this just on stock ROM? Are you rooted? More details, please.
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rooted S-off and on stock rom. ive used es file explorer and htc free space to move the items.

gscarborough said:
rooted S-off and on stock rom. ive used es file explorer and htc free space to move the items.
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Ok so you're not using an app designed specifically for moving other apps/etc to your SD then. With that being the case you'll need to be very careful in where you're pulling the data from if you expect it to continue functioning as it used to.
You mentioned initially that your moved pictures and videos still show up in the app drawer but are greyed out and say not installed....this is a bit confusing as pictures and videos are usually just single file images or single file video clips and would not ever actually show up in the app drawer and are instead accessed via an app from the app drawer like Gallery or Google Photos, etc. Generally speaking, the apps themselves are usually much smaller than the total amount of space taken up by your videos or (if you have a lot) pictures....you don't even need that many pictures to start adding up to a respectable size if they are all High Quality images.
So, I would recommend you attempt to undo the moves you've made thus far (though if you can't get the apps to show back up as normal then just reinstall them then clean your SD card and internal memory with a junk cleaner) and focus solely on ".img, .png, .mov, .mp3, .gif, .jpeg, .mp4" or any other similarly formatted files if you're doing the moves freely with a root explorer like ES.
If you really want to move your apps over, or at least some of them, try using an app specifically designed for that purpose as this will hopefully ensure they continue to function after the move.....If you're on the stock ROM you should be able to move the apps just by going to Settings > Storage I think or Settings > Apps. One of those two (pretty sure it's storage but I'm on AOSP rom atm so can't check sry) and then click on one of your apps you should get options to Force Quit, Clear Cache, Clear Data then below those you should see a Move to SD option.
Hope this helps! Let me know if I wasn't clear enough or you have further questions^^

No you were very clear I wasn't clear when I said the pictures and videos in the app drawer I should have said from the gallery they where showing up as an empty space Now I believe my card was just going corrupt because it's corrupted now
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i have this issue as well. When i transfer files like pictures and music from my internal to my external it says its transferred which is cool but when i reboot the device the files are gone. I have tried the sd card fix apps in the play store and it says its fixed but obviously not. It wont let me format either on the computer or on the phone or it says it does but it actually doesnt. So i have lost all hope on what to do i dont want to buy another card if this is going to happen to it.

Storing photos on external sdcard by default

Is there a method to store photos/videos on the external sdcard by default? I've got a rooted i9295 running a recent Cyanogenmod nightly.
Possibly there is there a camera application that allows setting the default storage location for photos. Something I'm missing here? TIA.

Yes, swipe right in camera - press settings cog wheel.

O-T said:
Yes, swipe right in camera - press settings cog wheel.
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Very nice.
Now, what is the method to make this the default location for photo storage?

portsample said:
Very nice.
Now, what is the method to make this the default location for photo storage?
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Once you change it, it remains that way until you change it back.

I use open camera, because cyanogens camera did not have that option before.
I deleted the default camera, how can i get it back?
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Move multiple apps to external storage simultaneously.

Hi All,
I have an unrooted Z3 compact running Sony flavoured Marshmallow (6.0.1). I would like to be able to move multiple apps to the SD card simultaneously. I tried AppManagerIII but unfortunately this still makes me change the storage settings for every app individually and every time the app updates it reverts back to internal storage. This just isn't good enough, does anyone know of any better solutions? I'd prefer not to root but if that's the only way I'd be willing to do it.
Thanks for the help,
Jonny

jonathanmoneill said:
Hi All,
I have an unrooted Z3 compact running Sony flavoured Marshmallow (6.0.1). I would like to be able to move multiple apps to the SD card simultaneously. I tried AppManagerIII but unfortunately this still makes me change the storage settings for every app individually and every time the app updates it reverts back to internal storage. This just isn't good enough, does anyone know of any better solutions? I'd prefer not to root but if that's the only way I'd be willing to do it.
Thanks for the help,
Jonny
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link2sd has a good interface for this and similar app data size management. Root required for batch moving
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