Iverse media has developed a software to let collectors save comics to SD cards, Iverse Comics Collector. It's a cool thing until I noticed a big problem w/ the whole process. Iverse collector is supposed to free our phone from memory used up by the comics application. It certainly does it's job by storing the comics to SD card. The big issue is w/ uninstalling of the original download which is supposed to free back the used memory. Unfortunately, this is not the case. When I uninstalled the original document, it did not release the used up memory. I tried it w/ two comics with the same observation. I also tried to reinstall the same comics hoping that it will use the previously unreleased memory (kind of on-hold thing) but instead, it used up another space. I also tried uninstalling other programs in the Market (not Iverse) for comparison and they are uninstalling just fine, freeing the used memory. I wonder if this is something unique w/ Iverse comics. Anybody has a clue what'a going on here? Now my G1 is almost out of memory and I may end up doing a factory reset if this remained unresolved...
No you are totally correct. I noticed this too but it was too late. I had a few installed, even the largest one being the Carnival comic and once uninstalled I didt get the memory back and had to hard reset and do everything over. I dont know what the deal is with those.
i seem to run into the same problem... can somebody do sth about this? this is a huge problem...
Hey all,
Anyone know if its possible to exclude certain directories (or only scan certain directories) from the media scanner? I have a bunch of games on my phone that put audio / video files on the SD card. The media scanner picks these up and means when I am in music player I have thousands of tiny sound effect files from the games listed. Bit annoying to say the least
i believe you can get around this by adding a file .nomedia into the directory
ive never tried it personally but thats the way. a google search for .nomedia on android will probably point you in the right direction if no one can give u a 100% answer.
this link may provide more information:
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
might be worth trying on a test folder first.......
Sweet, that works a treat.
Thanks!!
Yep, worked here too...saved me from makin a post
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Yep, worked here too...saved me from makin a post
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..... did not.
So this post is over a year old but you know what it was useful and also worked for me!
and here is free app from market to do that =)
StudioKUMA .nomedia Manager
Do not apply this
Did any of you actually read the issue report mentioned by OrionTC? (code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692)
It says that if you place a .nomedia file in a directory, all media files that were previously indexed inside will also get deleted from the file system because of a bug!
The bug report was officially closed on May 3rd but if there ever was a working fix, it hasn't made it into any major distribution of Android 2.2 and upwards.
So if anyone finds this thread (like me) and applies the .nomedia solution without reading the bugreport (luckily unlike me), I hope they see this warning.
Do not apply this solution if you care about any of the files inside the affected folder (+ recursive folders inside)!!
Apparently I'm not even affected by this, but I'm on a custom ROM so it's not clear who put the fix in or whether I tested this correctly.
On the issue report there's a Nexus S user confirming the issue on his stock Android 2.3.4.
Please subscribe to the reopened issue report code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19798 and comment there if you're able to reproduce this on your device. (use a test folder!)
emmm...
I DO NOT know what is written somewhere.
I know what I DID.
So, let me make one suggestion to you: before posting: check.
On stock Froyo, then JVQ/JVR - i NEVER experienced this, although I put .nomedia files on.... some directories.
ALL files remain visible, and can be view/transferred.copied if I want.
Again: try. Make: dummy folder on SD card, copy ONE jpg there, and then - make .nomedia file there.
Browse, edit, reboot, make whatever you want. then: delete .nomedia file. Browse with gallery, and whatever you want.
TIP: your link refers to i-897 model, we are here with i-9000. then: sorry, mate, but who's so stupid idiot, who expect that AFTER FACTORY RESET, his/hers files will remain?
Isn't it obvious, that during factory reset you shall remove card/copy your files?
Let me just remain you: FACTORY RESET should format ALL your files, not the media ones, and if any of your file is remaining - this is a bug.
This is a general issue at the core of android, just happens to be discussed in the I9000 forum. I found it through Google.
The factory reset in the new issue report isn't important. This is also reported to happen after a simple remount of the sd-card.
Factory resets shouldn't touch the sd.
As I already stated, I couldn't reproduce the problem myself, but since people of various models and Android versions reported this, including Nexus S, I think it's important to point that out.
I couldn't in good conscience give the .nomedia advice to anybody, as long as the bug hasn't been confirmed dead for some time. It's just too gross and too risky.
Nomedia trick is safe...the folder n all sub folder will be excluded in media scanning. It doesnt delete or adds files...it just scan..
Thread closed. Problem solved already.
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I'm not sure about Samsung, but I've just lost 10GB of videos because of this bug on HTC Desire S, [Endymion V2.1|Sense 3.5|GB 2.3.5].
The problem is when media scaner "knows" about your files, and you add .nomedia. After next rescan are all media files deleted. Not by mediascanner itself, but by some job connected to mediascanner database.
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I'm not sure about Samsung, but I've just lost 10GB of videos because of this bug on HTC Desire S, ....
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I'm not sure about Samsung, but uncle of my grandma's sister's nephew lost his pants when entered the church. We all think that it was a God's will... and is common to SGS same way as your post...
holy shmoly youve got my banana face moulded in concrete award for that one
I know this is an old thread, but since this is one of the first results when googling how to hide directories from media scanning, I'm reporting here that the ".nomedia" solution had always been the official solution: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html.
Hiding your files from the Media Scanner
Include an empty file named .nomedia in your external files directory (note the dot prefix in the filename). This prevents media scanner from reading your media files and providing them to other apps through the MediaStore content provider. However, if your files are truly private to your app, you should save them in an app-private directory.
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The bug reported by @OrionTC should be no more relevant in recent Android versions.
My Galaxy Note is running Android 4.0.4. I am running the stock ROM. Not rooted.
After I just installed the latest Samsung patch DDLR9, whenever I switch off my phone and restart it, the Icons on my Homescreen disappear. These are those programs which I have saved on my SD Card.
Never happened before this. Is there is fix to this specific to the Galaxy Note?
no this is a bug in the new DDLR9 firmware and happens to the apps moved to sd. For now move all these apps to phone and it will work fine
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and wait for jb uodate
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Fast Boot option may be the culprit
This is actually a long-standing problem in Android OS, going back at least two years (donkey's years in this technology!)
Something about the interaction of the OS and an sdcard formated for holding apps creates odd behaviours.
Lots of complicated suggestions have been made, including reformatting sdcard, reinstalling ROMs, changing launchers (the one suggested here) and such.
None of these approaches seems really to solve the problem even in most cases.
Now a ROM bug is proclaimed the cause. Well, maybe... That could always be the case, but given all the problems all the others have had in so many different configurations, I wonder...
What seems to be working for me (at least for the last week or so) is the following very simple tweak.
CUT TO THE SOLUTION BELOW -- SEARCH FOR ////
Some (not all) of my apps moved to SD (all by Titanium Backup Pro) have begun to disappear and (sometimes) reappear without warning after I began to add and delete large Virtual Machines created in QEMU from my 16GB SanDisc class 10 microSD card on my HTC Droid Incredible running rooted stock Verizon Android Froyo 2.2.3. I know this thread is far from my phone's "home base", but from what I can tell this problem with disappearing apps located on an sdcard is NOT determined by hardware or even Android version.
I also happen to use LauncherPro by Federico Carnales instead of the built-in HTC Sense launcher. I noted elsewhere on XDA that a user had suggested that because at least some (maybe all) launchers start before the SD Card that this may be a problem, especially if changes are made to the sdcard that the launcher did not perform, or was not active during their performance by other apps such as Titanium Backup. That fits my situation, because I unmounted the SD, physically removed it to a PC, and added/deleted large VM files to save (lots) of time. No problems of this sort before I did this, so there must be some connection.
I noted that other users have tried reformatting SD, substituting different brands of SD, using newer/older SD etc. None of these reliably helped. So I skipped these options.
//// The (simple!) solution I tried that SEEMS to work (only time will tell!) is buried in the main Android Settings (accessed from the Menu button while in Home screen). Under "Applications" there is a setting "Fast Boot" that I checked long ago and forgot about (it seemed like a good thing to do at the time). The text warns "Turn off to use some Market apps" (that shows the age of my 2-yr old used phone and Android OS -- ohmygosh!-- because it refers to Market rather than Google Play Store!) Anyway, I unchecked the option and rebooted the phone.
Yes, it took a bit longer to boot (maybe a whole minute!), but after waiting about another minute ALL my home screen apps had normal icons and loaded properly. Titanium Backup Pro batch scenarios confirmed there were no apps in a forced uninstalled state (i.e. I had not done the deed, the system somehow had done it or at least rendered the apps "invisible" to Titanium, which decided they needed reinstallation).
The only odd behaviour was that auto brightness was turned off after I unchecked Fast Boot and rebooted. Going into Android Settings > Display and rechecking "auto brightness" took care of that. No other oddities or strange behaviours thus far (but it has only been about an hour).
I will report anything further on this thread only (Samsung Fascinate > Fascinate Q&A > What just happend? apps on sdcard) if anything else requires reporting. Silence implies success!
link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1873670
(I am copying this post to other relevant threads, but will not post anything further elsewhere -- only there. This is a bit arbitrary (especially now that the chosen thread no longer is the most recent active one on this topic), but I hope this approach pleases the XDA sysops/admins) :angel:
Hello Folks,
I'm fairly new to Android and my HTC One (4.4.2).
I've been having a semi-frequent problem with taken notes breaking: I believe the first two times occurred after respective system updates, and shame on me (I suppose).
However the third, and most recent occurrence, appeared to occur without any prompting (that I can tell)... and I now have a number of useful notes - and one that's quite important - that are ostensibly inaccessible.
The only thing that I clearly recall doing, prior, was to disable what I believed were non-essential applications (Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter and an asian font app) and clear respective caches. I did not touch any running application, nor application that was explicitly or implicitly known. I did not clear any cache that wasn't explicitly known.
Is there explanation for this behaviour? Would Notes have any non-explicit dependencies on other apps or their caches?
Most importantly: how can I avoid this occurring again, and can I recover these broken notes?
I've attempted to locate the notes using Windows Explorer in tandem with ES File Explorer on my phone, and I've noticed an odd discrepancy: Windows Explorer (Computer\HTC One\Internal storage\storage\emulated\0\.data\HtcNotes\) shows one note folder (.1407123984759), and if I navigate to the same folder using File Explorer (\storage\emulated\0\.data\HtcNotes) I see something entirely different (.1407357402157).
Again, I'm new to this...
Any help or insight would be appreciated! Thanks!
Hi,
I rooted my Lenovo K3 Note yesterday, and I am now running the Limonchelo NovaMod 5.0 custom ROM, Android 5.0.
Everything was running very smoothly. I installed all the apps I needed, set the launcher settings as per my liking, changed the ringtone to a custom one ( a song stored on my SD card). But suddenly, today when my phone rang (this is the first time it rang since I rooted the phone), I realised that the ringtone was still set to the default system ringtone. So, I tried to change it once again to a custom one.
Just as I had done numerous times before, I went to Settings-->Ringtones and volumes-->Call Alert Tone-->More Ringtones.., but this time, instead of being transferred to a new browser screen from where I can select any song on my device (even on SD card) as my ringtone, I got a small message at the bottom of my screen-- "No such application".
I have tried googling everything but it seems like no one has ever encountered a similar problem before.
Just before this problem appeared, I was messing around with the folders in my Internal Storage. I found many of them were obsolete (folders related to apps I had before rooting, which I don't need any more). So, I deleted many of them as I wanted to free some storage space. I'm afraid I have deleted some important system folder which has led to this issue. I read somewhere that the app "Theme Center" is probably required to browse for "More Ringtones...", but I can't find the app on my phone. Maybe this is what is causing the problem.
People root their phones so they can customise their systems extensively and I can't even set a custom ringtone. :crying:
Can anyone please help?
P.S.- I'm just a beginner and this is the first time I've rooted my phone. So, please give a detailed solution if possible.