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Hi,
I have a question regarding media storage location of Whatsapp - I don't necessarily expect a solution but would like to at least verify the behaviour on other phones.
My old android device (Sony Ericsson SK17i) saved the Whatsapp media files to the external SDCard.
I bought a S3 mini this week and noticed a difference: Whatsapp media files are not stored on external SDCard anymore, but on the internal storage. I guess that this comes from the internal storage being presented as SDCard0, so maybe Whatsapp thinks that this is in fact the external SD-Card.
Can somebody with S3 mini check how this behaves with his phone? Within Whatsapp I didn't find a way to configure this, can anyone think of a solution to that?
Many thanks in advance.
I bought a S3 mini this week and noticed a difference: Whatsapp media files are not stored on external SDCard anymore, but on the internal storage. I guess that this comes from the internal storage being presented as SDCard0, so maybe Whatsapp thinks that this is in fact the external SD-Card.
Can somebody with S3 mini check how this behaves with his phone? Within Whatsapp I didn't find a way to configure this, can anyone think of a solution to that?
Many thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
mine saved on phone internal too....and i'am afraid there's no setting from within whatsapp to store in external sd card....however you can reduce space by using directory bind....search around and you will find it.....directory bind or link2sd should do it....
nazri5363 said:
mine saved on phone internal too....and i'am afraid there's no setting from within whatsapp to store in external sd card....however you can reduce space by using directory bind....search around and you will find it.....directory bind or link2sd should do it....
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ok, thanks for double-checking, I was afraid so. I don't want to link the whole app to sd card, but directory bind sounds like a very good idea, I haven't thought of that.
FolderMount (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122) did the trick. Thanks!
F157 said:
FolderMount (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192122) did the trick. Thanks!
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How do you managed to make the default Image preview program to work properly?
I marked the "Media verification" checkbox on the folder mount configuration so that de SD Card folder wouldn't appear on the image preview program, but now I only can see some black thumbs with no image "attached" that points to internal memory.
Did any of this happened to you? Or something similar with the images or how you see them?
in my S4
whenever i open this app , notifications comes saying :
checking for root ......
exit
and nothing happens !
install GL to SD from google play and move the data from sdcard0 to ext and link it
Nothing worked out for my xperia zl
evildog1 said:
install GL to SD from google play and move the data from sdcard0 to ext and link it
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This seems like a solution to my problem- moved my whatsapp media folder using the manual settings in Gl to SD, but it seems wonky. I took a picture of myself and sent it to someone, and it worked fine. Image is stored in my "sent" folder on the card, which also shows up in internal if I browse there with an explorer. I click on the image in whatsapp, it becomes full screen.
But when someone sends ME an image, it seems to never download. I see the thumbnail, I click it, and then it says that the media is not found on the SD card.
Sure enough, I browsed the folder in explorer (hooked up to my computer as PTP, browsing in windows 7) and the file isn't there. Only the one that I originated. I tried to create a file there, and it actually timed out on me and said device wasn't available. So it seems to sometimes work but not other times? How strange!
Dishe said:
This seems like a solution to my problem- moved my whatsapp media folder using the manual settings in Gl to SD, but it seems wonky. I took a picture of myself and sent it to someone, and it worked fine. Image is stored in my "sent" folder on the card, which also shows up in internal if I browse there with an explorer. I click on the image in whatsapp, it becomes full screen.
But when someone sends ME an image, it seems to never download. I see the thumbnail, I click it, and then it says that the media is not found on the SD card.
Sure enough, I browsed the folder in explorer (hooked up to my computer as PTP, browsing in windows 7) and the file isn't there. Only the one that I originated. I tried to create a file there, and it actually timed out on me and said device wasn't available. So it seems to sometimes work but not other times? How strange!
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it seems you have root permission problem. you may try to fix permission via custom recovery. GL to SD is working fine and i'm able to download additional data on ext SD.
evildog1 said:
it seems you have root permission problem. you may try to fix permission via custom recovery. GL to SD is working fine and i'm able to download additional data on ext SD.
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Ah, that might have been it.
In the mean time I gave up, removed it and went with foldermount, linked above. Works just fine out the door, cleaner UI too.
Move WhatsApp Media To External SD Card
This App automatically redirects WhatsApp media to the External SD Card in order to save memory: I cannot post the link, but you can search Nicola Rosada On Play Store and download Photo & File Redirect.
Dishe said:
Ah, that might have been it.
In the mean time I gave up, removed it and went with foldermount, linked above. Works just fine out the door, cleaner UI too.
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I got foldermount and used it to mount data/obb folders from some apps to my ext SD card. But this is what i get for whatsapp: The data and obb options are greyed out so i cant select them and it says there is no data to begin with (0 B). How did you do it? Thanks
Thanks for saving me to ask this question. My son has a SG Grand Prime SM-G530H and is facing the same problem.
Dishe said:
This seems like a solution to my problem- moved my whatsapp media folder using the manual settings in Gl to SD, but it seems wonky. I took a picture of myself and sent it to someone, and it worked fine. Image is stored in my "sent" folder on the card, which also shows up in internal if I browse there with an explorer. I click on the image in whatsapp, it becomes full screen.
But when someone sends ME an image, it seems to never download. I see the thumbnail, I click it, and then it says that the media is not found on the SD card.
Sure enough, I browsed the folder in explorer (hooked up to my computer as PTP, browsing in windows 7) and the file isn't there. Only the one that I originated. I tried to create a file there, and it actually timed out on me and said device wasn't available. So it seems to sometimes work but not other times? How strange!
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Got the same Issue - can send Images and theyll get stored on SD via Foldermount, but when i receive images, just got the blurry thumbnail and after i downloaded the image i got that "Media is not found on the SD card" issue.
Anyone knows what i did wrong?
I have an album in my photos which was picked up from my SD card (a music folder which had an image called fanart.jpg for XBMC use). I deleted the image (and it disappeared from the album), but the folder still remains. If I delete the album by a long press, it just immediately comes back again. If I format or remove the SD card it goes through the process of 'updating' but still this album will not go!
Any help would be much appreciated.
Also posted here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...album-it/552f67f1-e4b3-4201-aeaa-8a9c8371710b
marky9074 said:
I have an album in my photos which was picked up from my SD card (a music folder which had an image called fanart.jpg for XBMC use). I deleted the image (and it disappeared from the album), but the folder still remains. If I delete the album by a long press, it just immediately comes back again. If I format or remove the SD card it goes through the process of 'updating' but still this album will not go!
Any help would be much appreciated.
Also posted here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...album-it/552f67f1-e4b3-4201-aeaa-8a9c8371710b
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Still no joy with this (even with the SD card removed). If I do a factory reset will the backup restore everything as it was?
Hello!
For a few days now I've noticed that my device has been creating some weird files on my SD card. I have tried formatting the SD a few times but it still happens. If I do not delete these files more and more keep being created until there are hundreds of them in my SD. They seem to not take up any space at all, but it bothers me having to browse for files in the card. I have attached a screenshot from the root of my SD card with the suspicious files highlighted. If they are completely normal for an android device, I would like to know if there is a way to stop them, hide them or maybe have them appear inside a separate folder so I can keep my card organized.
Also, it may or may not be related, but whenever I'm listening to music (whether it'd be Play Music or another app) sometimes the phone stops playing it, as if I closed the app. I had Clean Master installed and it happened frequently until I figured out it was the source of the problem and uninstalled. It worked fine for a while but it started again. I believe it could be related, since I keep all of my music on the SD card.
Thank you in advance for any assistance provided!
Do you see these files only when phone is plugged to PC via USB or can you see them with ES-Explorer or similar Filemanger on the phone also?
I have a few of these files but they are only present when I check the SDcard on a Windows- PC, in ES or Rootexplorer they aren´t visible.So my opinion is that these files are created temporary for connecting.
Wolfcity said:
Do you see these files only when phone is plugged to PC via USB or can you see them with ES-Explorer or similar Filemanger on the phone also?
I have a few of these files but they are only present when I check the SDcard on a Windows- PC, in ES or Rootexplorer they aren´t visible.So my opinion is that these files are created temporary for connecting.
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The files also appear with file managing apps on the device as well. As you can see, the files have "reproduced" since I started this thread.
Inquisitor956 said:
The files also appear with file managing apps on the device as well. As you can see, the files have "reproduced" since I started this thread.
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I also have the same. Just deleted 400 0byte files on my motog 2ndgen sd card (kitkat 4.4.4). I see them with es and when connected to PC.
Hi everybody,
I did a factory reset, because the speakers of my phone weren't working anymore.
Did a backup with PC- Companion.
After the reset put everything back on my phone. My speakers are working again.
But I don't see my pics in the Album anymore. They are in the internal storage and I can access them with the File Commander, but I want them in my Album again.
How can I do that?
My phone isn't rooted and has Kitkat on it.
Johanna
libralion52 said:
Hi everybody,
I did a factory reset, because the speakers of my phone weren't working anymore.
Did a backup with PC- Companion.
After the reset put everything back on my phone. My speakers are working again.
But I don't see my pics in the Album anymore. They are in the internal storage and I can access them with the File Commander, but I want them in my Album again.
How can I do that?
My phone isn't rooted and has Kitkat on it.
Johanna
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Try clearing data of Album app. If it doesnt work , Take the photos from the phone and put them in your PC . Then put them back in your phone in a different folder . Hope this helps.
-XperiaMan- said:
Try clearing data of Album app. If it doesnt work , Take the photos from the phone and put them in your PC . Then put them back in your phone in a different folder . Hope this helps.
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I cleared the data, but that didn't help.
And in which folder should I store the pics then? So that I can see them in the Album?
Johanna
libralion52 said:
I cleared the data, but that didn't help.
And in which folder should I store the pics then? So that I can see them in the Album?
Johanna
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Wherever you want .... for example , store them in Pictures folder . . If you have the pics in internal storage , move them to SD card or if you have them in SD move them to internal .
1. Check/Search any file ".nomedia" in your pics folder or from internal and external storage, make sure the file DIDN'T EXIST, if you find ".nomedia" file, delete it
2. Try to delete any gallery/album folder from Internal Storage, Android>data> your gallery/album data
3. Try to clear data Media Storage via Settings> Apps> All
Option 2 & 3 need reboot to take effect.
Yenkazu said:
1. Check/Search any file ".nomedia" in your pics folder or from internal and external storage, make sure the file DIDN'T EXIST, if you find ".nomedia" file, delete it
2. Try to delete any gallery/album folder from Internal Storage, Android>data> your gallery/album data
3. Try to clear data Media Storage via Settings> Apps> All
Option 2 & 3 need reboot to take effect.
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No .nomedia file. No gallery/ album folder.
Cleared the data from the Media Storage. Rebooted.
Nothing still in the Album.
libralion52 said:
No .nomedia file. No gallery/ album folder.
Cleared the data from the Media Storage. Rebooted.
Nothing still in the Album.
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Try using QuickPic and enable "Show Hidden"
If nothing appear, something wrong with your device.
Make sure you can copy and delete any pics from Internal and External storage.
If problem persist, try to factory reset with Internal storage erased.
Also, ".nomedia" sometimes recognized as hidden files.
Yenkazu said:
Try using QuickPic and enable "Show Hidden"
If nothing appear, something wrong with your device.
Make sure you can copy and delete any pics from Internal and External storage.
If problem persist, try to factory reset with Internal storage erased.
Also, ".nomedia" sometimes recognized as hidden files.
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Yes! In Quickpic I can see all my pics. Thanks!
When I set it to show hidden and connect my phone with my PC I find numerous .nomedia files. But for some reason I can't delete them on my PC. Get an errorcode.
How can I search and delete the files on my phone?
Ok managed to delete the .nomedia file. Album and everything is working good again.
Thank you all for your help!
Johanna :good:
I can't believe this.
The same crap happened to me on a second XT890. I'm lost for words.
here is what happened.:
Got a phonecall, when I wanted to pick it up the phone would turn off saying not enough power, at 30 % !!???
Ok, so no big deal I thought,...turned it back on, had the same person calling me, everything was fine. Then i noticed the stored mms images would not load inside the conversations. Si turned the phone off and on again, mms images are loading again.
Got another phone call and my personal ringtone, gone, no longer there. Couldn't even switch it back even though the file, supposedly was there. Then I tried to play the file, google play music would not.
Next, all my images are gone, no longer folders of the camera and images and videos. Using quickoffice , that app says, no files on the internal sd card! WTF!?
Turning the phone off an on again, let me see the files on the card again, even let me play an audio file, going in and out of the folder, the files disappeared again.
So long story short. Everything seems to work except my files are gone and quickoffice and fileviewers won't find the files. When i put in an external sd card that works fine on other devices, it won't load the files, images, videos, only maybe 3 of 100!? What the hell.
This is the second time on a different phone but same model this has happened.
I can't afford to loose the images and recordings. are they gone? what has happened? I ran DR Fone recovery, and even that won't find the images i need,
Phone is rooted. And it's driving me nuts. Battery was replaced 6 months ago, everything was fine. Now that.
Please help, need my files, desperately.
What could have caused this? ? What is not working properly? Indexing? Gallery? Quickoffice?
Could be a corruption in the data
" corruption on your internal memory
" corruption on the system partition or dalvik
See if adb can find the files on your internal sdcard. With the command: adb shell ls /storage/sdcard0/[path to video/photo]
Thanks will try.!
In the meantime Root Browser shows the sd card as empty, and last time changed as 8/5/12 which was the build date of the phone.... :-/
Funky, When hooking up for adb and running a command the files and sd card became visible. So while visible I was able to safe all the files to external card. When restarting the phone the internal sd and files disappeared again. I cleared cache and dalvik and media storage, no effect. files remain hidden. Running sd maid it says system files are hidden. using es file explorer running showing hidden files i get a no permission response. same for sd card, says no permission. so something is blocking me. virus? i don't really use wlan or internet, wondering how to get everything working again. files and everything is there, but i have no access.
Still looks like a corruption somewhere. I should just safe all files that u need, backup data and do a full system restore and start over. With full I mean also a internal memory wipe.
Maybe there is a much better option, but I don't know any atm.
Still fiddling with it. Thought I just do a factory reset. Well didn't work.
Somehow before I did the reset the media store app was moved to sd card and a different apk was placed in system / app folder.
After the restart you guessed it, all data was gone as expected. Gallery and ringtones and video, and so on won't show. The media storage apk is in system/app folder, but it won't show under settings/apps/all.....
Not being an expert I think I messed this up by switching out the apks,.../
The one now in the system folder is: version 4.04-1351904261 but I need version 4.04-1344118159
Who can tell me where i can find one?