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[Q] where are s memo lite images stored?

When you press the stylus button and double-tap the screen, s memo lite pops up and you can record a note. Does anyone know where the note is stored once saved? It never appears in my gallery, and I cannot find any of them!

/sdcard/Application/SMemo/switcher

Thanks for that!

They are in PNG format, and so do not show up in the Gallery. I can't see any way to open them form anywhere but a file manager, either. Seems like a but of a stuff up generally.
I'll put it under Sugarsync control so I don't lose them, but it would be nice to have proper access.

jeromepearce said:
They are in PNG format, and so do not show up in the Gallery. I can't see any way to open them form anywhere but a file manager, either. Seems like a but of a stuff up generally.
I'll put it under Sugarsync control so I don't lose them, but it would be nice to have proper access.
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Gallery handles PNGs fine. What's stopping them from showing by default is an empty marker file called /mnt/sdcard/Application/SMemo/switcher/.nomedia - delete that and they'll show up.

edanfalls said:
Gallery handles PNGs fine. What's stopping them from showing by default is an empty marker file called /mnt/sdcard/Application/SMemo/switcher/.nomedia - delete that and they'll show up.
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cheers the best tip i've had in ages if not ever.

I did look for that, but on reading your post I looked harder and realised I had not displayed hidden files.
Thanks!
Now working as desired? I still think it's a stuff-up as they should want these accessible in some way after saving.

[Q] Sony Album App/Gallery

Evening all..
So I've had a quick look through the forums, and not really seeing much about this...
I'm finding that the stock album/gallery app, although brilliant, is really annoying me! When you load the app, it shows the "Pictures" tab.. which appears to be ALL images it finds on the device (regardless of '.nomedia' files exising) The thing I'm finding the most annoying about this, is if I send someone a photo on whatsapp, or they send me one, it shows in this pictures tab. So If I take a picture, then send it to someone, it shows up as a duplicate image. A bit frustrating because I like the app!
Has anyone found a way of making it respect .nomedia files? Coming from CM10.1 on my old phone, so used to seeing it all in different folders.. can't remember if they were hidden before or not..
Thanks!

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+1 , or someone can mod it? ;D

Bump!
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+1 there should be an option to select which foldes are displayed in the album.
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maverick1103 said:
+1 there should be an option to select which foldes are displayed in the album.
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Yeah, I was thinking about where I would store white/blacklists for media if I would be ignoring the tools that have been given to me by Android OS (given the fact that they are ignoring the .nomedia files). As my phone is not rooted I am not able to explore the sqlite databases, but maybe someone with a rooted phone could have a look? It's a long shot, but it's worth trying . I'll be rooting my phone as soon as it's possible without unlocking the BL (and I know I might be waiting for a loooooong while, but it happened with the Motorola RAZR, so I figured as this device is officially unlockable developers might be able to find an exploit sooner?).

adzjwarner said:
Evening all..
So I've had a quick look through the forums, and not really seeing much about this...
I'm finding that the stock album/gallery app, although brilliant, is really annoying me! When you load the app, it shows the "Pictures" tab.. which appears to be ALL images it finds on the device (regardless of '.nomedia' files exising) The thing I'm finding the most annoying about this, is if I send someone a photo on whatsapp, or they send me one, it shows in this pictures tab. So If I take a picture, then send it to someone, it shows up as a duplicate image. A bit frustrating because I like the app!
Has anyone found a way of making it respect .nomedia files? Coming from CM10.1 on my old phone, so used to seeing it all in different folders.. can't remember if they were hidden before or not..
Thanks!
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There is. Nomedia file in demo video folder try that file out.
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TechGuru_x10 said:
There is. Nomedia file in demo video folder try that file out.
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First thing I tried, thought maybe I was making the .nomedia file incorrectly. No dice i'm afraid!

.nomedia should work, but it might take a while before the media library does a full rescan. Reboot the phone, connect it to PC and move a file to it, ... Those things could trigger it.

Ambroos said:
.nomedia should work, but it might take a while before the media library does a full rescan. Reboot the phone, connect it to PC and move a file to it, ... Those things could trigger it.
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Nomedia works until you add another photo to that folder
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the same thing is annoying me!! i came from s3 and i was using a custom rom with i don't know which album type... i've been looking all over the place for a solution or a way of porting the album from another rom or the phone!! is there any?

I also like the Album application and wish it gets "fixed"
Sony disregarding the ".nomedia" files is weird, since its android's standard way of dealing with media, although the ".nomedia" files are a really bad solution in itself since they provide no configuration options: Either you have media scanned or not (I hate having album covers appearing mixed up with my photos in the gallery, but cannot add a ".nomedia" file since that would make the system not find my music). Adding files with a specific key name in a folder manually is not a user friendly way of managing what folders to scan.
I always wondered why Android does not provide a system level interface to define what media to scan and where.
PS: The N900 provided a file where the scan paths and supported file types could be configured. I feel like android gave a step back in this regard comparing to maemo/meego.

Have you guys find out any way to hide images from Sony album app..?

hijagdeep said:
Have you guys find out any way to hide images from Sony album app..?
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If you have a folder with pics which you don't wanna see in album app:
create a text file on PC with name .nomedia without content (nothing before the point!). Then move the text file in to this folder.
Hmm or is this only for songs??!^^ you have to try
You can also use apps to hide pics or videos like keepsafe or something.

gripfly said:
If you have a folder with pics which you don't wanna see in album app:
create a text file on PC with name .nomedia without content (nothing before the point!). Then move the text file in to this folder.
Hmm or is this only for songs??!^^ you have to try
You can also use apps to hide pics or videos like keepsafe or something.
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This .nomedia method works till we add new picture to that folder..
After that , new image copied to that folder, shows in album app..
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hijagdeep said:
This .nomedia method works till we add new picture to that folder..
After that , new image copied to that folder, shows in album app..
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Aha, ok.
And then you have to delete .nomedia and take it again in? Or doesn't will hide again?
And when you restart?

We have to clear cache of album and media storage everytime to hide images in album app

Ok.. Thx for trying. Then the only thing which we can use is an app..
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Yr, someone pls get the solution of this....
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This super annoys me to. In fact a couple of things annoy me with the app.
Here is my wish list for the Sony Album app.
1. That upon opening, it should start with the "My Albums" tab
2. That there be an option to sort photos other than date.
3. That when I want to select a wallpaper form my album app right from the home screen, I am not bombarded with the whole long list of 5000 photos. It should present me with folders to choose from.
4. If it wants to stick to displaying the "Pictures" tab as default upon opening, it should at least start with displaying only the camera album. Then a small shortcuts to enter all folders at once.
5. If it wants to stick to sorting only by date, it should at least follow the exif data of pictures. Sometimes after flashing a new ROM, I find my taken pictures in wrong orders. Most recent at the bottom and old ones at the top.
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Can someone please explain pictures and storage on the Nexus 6?

Hi All,
I got the Nexus 6 a few weeks ago and I like it pretty well though I'm having a hard time figuring out how to work it lol. One major thing I'm not understanding - it seems to have no picture storage in the phone itself that I can find. Is this correct? There's no "Gallery" or anything - all I can get into is my google photos. Which would be okay I guess except that not everything saves to Google Photos. For example:
Last night I took a picture with the camera app I use (Camera 360) and edited it in another app (don't remember which one - it was an in memory pic so I just needed to add some text). Anyways, I saved it and it said it was saving to the phone, however, it's not anywhere in the google photos. I couldn't find it anywhere. But then when I went to Facebook it popped up in my options to upload a photo. So it has to be saving somewhere!
I also have a lot of issues with photos from Camera 360, Instagram, FB, and other apps doing the same thing - they'll show in my FB options or if I click within the Camera 360 app on the preview area but they don't show in Google Photos or anywhere else on the phone.
Can anyone explain this to me please?
Thanks!

Sunshine32 said:
Hi All,
I got the Nexus 6 a few weeks ago and I like it pretty well though I'm having a hard time figuring out how to work it lol. One major thing I'm not understanding - it seems to have no picture storage in the phone itself that I can find. Is this correct? There's no "Gallery" or anything - all I can get into is my google photos. Which would be okay I guess except that not everything saves to Google Photos. For example:
Last night I took a picture with the camera app I use (Camera 360) and edited it in another app (don't remember which one - it was an in memory pic so I just needed to add some text). Anyways, I saved it and it said it was saving to the phone, however, it's not anywhere in the google photos. I couldn't find it anywhere. But then when I went to Facebook it popped up in my options to upload a photo. So it has to be saving somewhere!
I also have a lot of issues with photos from Camera 360, Instagram, FB, and other apps doing the same thing - they'll show in my FB options or if I click within the Camera 360 app on the preview area but they don't show in Google Photos or anywhere else on the phone.
Can anyone explain this to me please?
Thanks!
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Did you set Google Photo`s to backup all pics and video`s in the cloud? Have you checked /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/?

gee2012 said:
Did you set Google Photo`s to backup all pics and video`s in the cloud? Have you checked /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/?
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No. I don't really use the cloud. I want to be able to access everything physically on the phone if possible but I'll look into that too.
I thought it didn't have an SD card slot so how to I check what you said at the end there? If there's no SD card then how would it be saving to an SD Card? Sorry... I'm not the brightest with this kind of thing.

Sunshine32 said:
No. I don't really use the cloud. I want to be able to access everything physically on the phone if possible but I'll look into that too.
I thought it didn't have an SD card slot so how to I check what you said at the end there? If there's no SD card then how would it be saving to an SD Card? Sorry... I'm not the brightest with this kind of thing.
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Get a file manager from Google Play and look for /sdcard/DCIM/Camera and your pics etc should be there.

gee2012 said:
Get a file manager from Google Play and look for /sdcard/DCIM/Camera and your pics etc should be there.
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Okay thanks! So what do I do then? Do I just use that file manager going forward every time I want to access my pictures? What I'm trying to figure out is how I can view/display/transfer my photos going forward. Should I download a gallery app?

Sunshine32 said:
Okay thanks! So what do I do then? Do I just use that file manager going forward every time I want to access my pictures? What I'm trying to figure out is how I can view/display/transfer my photos going forward. Should I download a gallery app?
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That should do the job too

gee2012 said:
That should do the job too
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Awesome thanks! Appreciate the help. I'm not good with phones in general sometimes but this one is completely different than I'm used to lol.

Sunshine32 said:
Awesome thanks! Appreciate the help. I'm not good with phones in general sometimes but this one is completely different than I'm used to lol.
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QuickPic is quite good.

gee2012 said:
QuickPic is quite good.
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I actually had that on my last phone and liked it but there was a weird glitch on my old phone where it wouldn't let me delete anything. Even if I deleted pics from the phone gallery they would still show in QuickPic. Then if I tried to delete them in there it gave me a weird error. I could probably try it on the new phone again here though!
I did download the file manager and that seems like it will work perfect.

Sunshine32 said:
I actually had that on my last phone and liked it but there was a weird glitch on my old phone where it wouldn't let me delete anything. Even if I deleted pics from the phone gallery they would still show in QuickPic. Then if I tried to delete them in there it gave me a weird error. I could probably try it on the new phone again here though!
I did download the file manager and that seems like it will work perfect.
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Well then the problem is solved

Isn't there is device folder at the left side of the menu in the google photo app. I usually find all the picture there, screenshoot and stuff like that.

Sunshine32 said:
No. I don't really use the cloud. I want to be able to access everything physically on the phone if possible but I'll look into that too.
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Do consider backing it up to the cloud. That way, if your phone dies or gets lost/damaged, you won't be stuck trying to figure out how to recover your pictures. Google Photos app gives you unlimited storage for your photos (just don't choose "original resolution"). The photo/video will still be there on your phone, but will have a backup on the cloud.

emptydream said:
Isn't there is device folder at the left side of the menu in the google photo app. I usually find all the picture there, screenshoot and stuff like that.
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Yes, I do the same. Tap the menu icon on the left side of Goole Photos App, and then tap "Device Folders",
This will show OP all the local camera photos in DCIM, as well as any screenshots/downloads, etc

jj14 said:
Do consider backing it up to the cloud. That way, if your phone dies or gets lost/damaged, you won't be stuck trying to figure out how to recover your pictures. Google Photos app gives you unlimited storage for your photos (just don't choose "original resolution"). The photo/video will still be there on your phone, but will have a backup on the cloud.
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Hmm. I'm confused. Maybe I do this and just didn't know it was called the cloud? Right now my photos from my last like 4 phones are in my "Google Photos" and I can access them all on any phone I've had, on the computer, etc. So they're already stored in Google Photos?
Yes, I do the same. Tap the menu icon on the left side of Goole Photos App, and then tap "Device Folders",
This will show OP all the local camera photos in DCIM, as well as any screenshots/downloads, etc
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AWESOME! Will have to look at that more thanks.

Sunshine32 said:
Hmm. I'm confused. Maybe I do this and just didn't know it was called the cloud? Right now my photos from my last like 4 phones are in my "Google Photos" and I can access them all on any phone I've had, on the computer, etc. So they're already stored in Google Photos?
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Go to photos.google.com and sign in with your google account. See if your photos are showing there. If yes, then you are good - they are being backed up. You can verify the settings in the photos app on your phone too - settings/backup and sync. Verify that it is on, and that upload size is high quality (or you can choose original - but that will not be unlimited)

Two problems I've noticed

Had my S10e (T-Mobile) for 5 days now and really like it! But, right away I noticed that (1) I could not install my own mp3 or ogg notifications. Posted on another forum and got some great suggestions, but nothing worked so I did a chat with a Samsung technician, even gave him permission to log into my phone, but after 40 minutes of work he could not get this to work properly either. He promised to send the problem up the line as a known bug and said he hoped they would get it corrected on the next update. A side issue to this is that sometimes when I tried to add ringtones the software worked but other times it said the same files were the wrong type and to try again. The second issue I'm having is that (2) when I initiate a soft reset I lose a lot of my permission and notification settings for individual apps and have to do resets. Very frustrating. If anyone has workarounds for either of these issues I would be happy to try your suggestions!

fredlpage said:
Had my S10e (T-Mobile) for 5 days now and really like it! But, right away I noticed that (1) I could not install my own mp3 or ogg notifications. Posted on another forum and got some great suggestions, but nothing worked so I did a chat with a Samsung technician, even gave him permission to log into my phone, but after 40 minutes of work he could not get this to work properly either. He promised to send the problem up the line as a known bug and said he hoped they would get it corrected on the next update. A side issue to this is that sometimes when I tried to add ringtones the software worked but other times it said the same files were the wrong type and to try again. The second issue I'm having is that (2) when I initiate a soft reset I lose a lot of my permission and notification settings for individual apps and have to do resets. Very frustrating. If anyone has workarounds for either of these issues I would be happy to try your suggestions!
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For the .ogg files try putting them in a folder named Media. Within that folder make Ringtones and Notifications and place your sound files in those. I have it set up that way on my s10+ on the external SD card and it works fine.
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Misterxtc said:
For the .ogg files try putting them in a folder named Media. Within that folder make Ringtones and Notifications and place your sound files in those. I have it set up that way on my s10+ on the external SD card and it works fine.
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Thanks. I tried your suggestion, but couldn't make it work.

fredlpage said:
Thanks. I tried your suggestion, but couldn't make it work.
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That's a bummer sorry I couldn't help. I had the same problem with a previous Samsung device and that worked for me. The only other thing I can think of is a factory reset and set the phone up from scratch without restoring any data from a previous backup but even that isn't a guarantee. I hope you get things worked out.

Thats odd, notifications work for me, have you tried placing the file in the interal drive in the notifications folder?

Try putting those files in a folder and add a new file and name it ".nomedia", I've had the issue before and that should help.

Work for me too on my s10e

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Thats odd, notifications work for me, have you tried placing the file in the interal drive in the notifications folder?
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I've tried placing them everywhere I could think of and putting them in folders with all the names I could think of. When I try to make a change it offers the option of Media Storage (which doesn't show any except for the pre-installed tones) or ES File Explorer (which won't open except to a handful of music folders). When I try putting the files in one of those recognized folders and click on one of them, I get a pop-up message saying it doesn't work with that file, please choose another OR when I choose a file, nothing happens at all. What file explorer are you using?

fredlpage said:
I've tried placing them everywhere I could think of and putting them in folders with all the names I could think of. When I try to make a change it offers the option of Media Storage (which doesn't show any except for the pre-installed tones) or ES File Explorer (which won't open except to a handful of music folders). When I try putting the files in one of those recognized folders and click on one of them, I get a pop-up message saying it doesn't work with that file, please choose another OR when I choose a file, nothing happens at all. What file explorer are you using?
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I'm using "my files " the Samsung one

Works for me too. Just put it straight into the notifications folder.
It's in my list twice because I originally used Zedge to download it. I copied it into the notifications folder to test purposes.View attachment 4725676View attachment 4725677
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fredlpage said:
Had my S10e (T-Mobile) for 5 days now and really like it! But, right away I noticed that (1) I could not install my own mp3 or ogg notifications. Posted on another forum and got some great suggestions, but nothing worked so I did a chat with a Samsung technician, even gave him permission to log into my phone, but after 40 minutes of work he could not get this to work properly either. He promised to send the problem up the line as a known bug and said he hoped they would get it corrected on the next update. A side issue to this is that sometimes when I tried to add ringtones the software worked but other times it said the same files were the wrong type and to try again. The second issue I'm having is that (2) when I initiate a soft reset I lose a lot of my permission and notification settings for individual apps and have to do resets. Very frustrating. If anyone has workarounds for either of these issues I would be happy to try your suggestions!
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Thank you all for your support and suggestions. Since nothing seemed to help, I bit the bullet and did a factory reset. Now everything seems to be working normally!

screen recordings get deleted automatically ( screencam magisk)

I've noticed that after a period of time all my screen recordings get deleted automatically

reuben_46 said:
I've noticed that after a period of time all my screen recordings get deleted automatically
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I think can a application x have virus and enter the system and delete data of you. I have so been!! Have fun ?

hoichemgio9x said:
I think can a application x have virus and enter the system and delete data of you. I have so been!! Have fun ?
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What do you mean explain properly

Check in Google Photos if "Auto Delete after Upload" is enabled.

reuben_46 said:
I've noticed that after a period of time all my screen recordings get deleted automatically
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Save your file then cut your file and move into a new folder if not Neosafe will cleaner junk file.

For me,screencam even wont work,,,i already install all the modules,,but nothing happen