No Photos In Sliding Panel (CMyPhotos) SOLVED!!! - HTC Excalibur

I just recently started having a problem where the CMyPhotos panel in CHome no linger shows photos... it just says "No Photos". I have photos in the /Storage Card/Pictures directory and My Documents/My Photos directory on my phone itself. it still doesnt show photos at all though... I can manually look at the photos, but i dont get the thumbnail view on the homescreen.
Anyone else had this issue before?
P.S. and yes.... i have rebooted my device. and i've tried it with and without my storage card. and yes, i know a hard reset will most like resolve this issue, but i'm looking for a fix without the hard reset.

I had the same problem and it went on and on, so I just got fed up with it and did a hard reset on it. I think that will probably be your best bet man.

This is worth a try, create on storage card root "Pictures" and place some pics in there, just notice your dir is named differently.
Might not work but worth a shot.

Try changing showing and hiding Chrome Configurator CMYPhotos a few times and soft reset. Just a suggestion never happened to me.

pfunkside said:
Try changing showing and hiding Chrome Configurator CMYPhotos a few times and soft reset. Just a suggestion never happened to me.
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I tried that when it happened to me and no resolution so I ended up hard resetting... It just happened for me out of no where and I am not sure what caused it to happen...

Thanks, 4 your suggestions guys. I already had the "pictures" directory in the root of my storage card...i did hide and then show the CMyPhotos several times as well. I even tried putting pics on my phones root "my documents/my pictures" directory as well but it still doesnt show anything.
Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Pictures "folder" in the root of your storage card is the best solution.

i guess people don't read what i've already done.......
well here's the fix for it ( in case anyone else has this issue in the future)
you have to re-format your sd card. I tried re-formatting it with resco explorer, but it would not let me. so i had to use the WM5Storage option to let the PC recognize it as a removable disk (sorry, i don't have an sd card reader on my PC). I then copy/pasted all my files to my PC. formatted it (fat16) and then copied all the files back over to it. Now my pictures folder is recognized by the CMyPhotos and i can see all of the pictures on my phone and storage card.

pudgedaddy said:
Thanks, 4 your suggestions guys. I already had the "pictures" directory in the root of my storage card...i did hide and then show the CMyPhotos several times as well. I even tried putting pics on my phones root "my documents/my pictures" directory as well but it still doesnt show anything.
Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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try renamin the picture folder to DCIM hope this helps

Dang I wish I would have done that before I performed a hard reset on my phone... Uhhhh that sucks...

Nice advice!

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Everytime i disconnect the usb from my Samsung Epic 4G touch or restart it for some weird reason the pictures i screen captured or downloaded disappear from my gallery but all the old saved pictures i saved on my SD card stayed there. I went to "my files" and checked if all my pictures were still there that i saved internally and they're still there. It's very weird it started happening this morning. Has anyone had this issue ? I want to see all my pictures i saved in my gallery rather than going to the folder its self. Please help! :crying:
Could be the modem ?
I ran into the same problem recently. I can't take credit for the fix (http://forums.androidcentral.com/ht...ind-my-sd-card-music-photos-videos-2.html#anb) but the solution is easy. Attach your phone to the computer, open the internal SD card and delete the file called ".nomedia". Works like a charm. Let me know if this works.

Gallery Not Showing Images/Videos

So, I have been having a lot of FC's with the media process so I figured I would clear the data/cache of media storage in hopes it would get rid of this. It did! However, it also got rid of all my images/videos from the Touchwiz Gallery app. The pictures are still there (I can see them via ES File Explorer and QuickPic). However, the Gallery app isn't showing anything. I tried unmounting/mounting the SD Card. I also tried clearing data/cache from the Gallery.apk. Nothing!
Any other ideas?! I don't really use the Gallery app as it is hideous and slow, but it is linked to the camera.apk so I want it to show the pictures again.
Thanks in advance...
Nobody?! Wow... =(
Ever try restarting your phone lol? It might not be automatically scanning your memory
ReapersDeath said:
Ever try restarting your phone lol? It might not be automatically scanning your memory
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I hope you're kidding.
Step at me bro! Jk =p. But no seriously try. When you restart your phone it will rescan your memory for pics and vids.
It's worth a try. Your file explorer may of scanned but possibly not your phone. I've forgotten to restart before XD
I'm either extremely stupid somehow or caught a noob mistake >_> which is it D=
I've had a lot of issues with music/pictures/videos not opening or the internal SD card not being read and a restart fixes it. Only has happened to me on Blazer ROM 1.8 although I don't know if it is coincidence or not.
Check for .nomedia on folders.
let's go to the next level... BRICK IT!!!
Tried all of this. I got it to show up after downloading the Rescan Media app and restarting my phone. However, only 100 pictures/videos of my 203 that's on the card is showing in the Gallery app. In QuickPic, everything shows. What could be the issue? So frustrating...
akarol said:
Tried all of this. I got it to show up after downloading the Rescan Media app and restarting my phone. However, only 100 pictures/videos of my 203 that's on the card is showing in the Gallery app. In QuickPic, everything shows. What could be the issue? So frustrating...
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Yeah, I've moved everything around. Put all my photos on my sd card. No my gallery says I have no items. I'm getting frustrated also!

Photos disappearing from SD card

Hi people.
I recently bought a 64gb MSD card from eBay, and I had set the photos to be storaged at the external storage. Besides that I'm running Android 6.01
The problem is, last night I attended a wedding where I shot some pictures, and during last night I could see in the gallery that when I started taking the pictures, the pictures in the gallery was in the beginning there, however, soon after the gallery would say the pictures format was unrecognizable (WTF?), and the pictures would go missing from the phone. I've tried using the storage handling, which is provided by android. And I'm not able to see the picture. I've tried downloading ASTRO, and get it to show the hidden files. No luck either. I've tried erasing the .nomedia file from the MSD, still nothing.
I've tried here, the morning after to take a new photo, and I can see it's supposed to be saved at storage/emulated/o/DCIM/100media, So I've gone there by the USB port on my desktop, and I still can't see the pictures. I've been through every bloody folder on the storage without any result (And yes, I've tried installing the HTC app for desktops )
If you people have any idea how to get a hold of the pictures (If they are still there?), it would greatly appreciated!
//Paaboel

Pictures keep disappearing

Hi all! I love this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I recently upgraded from the HTC one m8 to the HTC 10 and I noticed that sometimes when I take pictures they completely disappear. They're there for a short while then I can't find them again even when I connect the phone to my PC. I can't change the camera settings to store the pics on the device rather than the SD card. For some reason it won't let me change it. Also sometimes when I take a screenshot I get an error saying that it couldn't store it on the SD card because the app doesn't have permission or sometimes it says that there's no room on the SD card. Both are untrue.
I went to a comic convention today and took some good pics, I went to upload one to twitter but I think there was a network problem because nothing online was loading so I restarted my phone and then the pic (and the others I'd taken during that day) had disappeared. I took more pics and double checked they were in the gallery, which they were only to find they have gone missing now.
Is this a device issue or an Android issue? Any help would be great, I'd love to get these pics back.
I feel like I was having issues finding photos I downloaded from Google Drive as well.
Download Quick Pic from the store and see if you can find them through settings.
HTC10
Thank you for your advice. I downloaded it but unfortunately the pics are still missing. It's just so weird. I shared one via Skype before it disappeared. It still shows up in the Skype convo but nowhere else
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Did you try a file Explorer?
HTC10
I did and still nothing. Only 5 pictures appear that I've taken with the camera on this phone and I've taken at least 20. The ones that have disappeared are from different times as well.
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Where are you saving them to? The internal storage or external SD card? It shouldn't really matter I suppose but it might be a factor.
I save to the external card and haven't lost any.
To the external card. I tried changing it to internal to see if that made a difference but for some reason it won't let me change it
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More pics keep disappearing. I don't understand it. Some stay on the phone and some don't
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try formatting your SD card within the phone and see
IllusiaX said:
Hi all! I love this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I recently upgraded from the HTC one m8 to the HTC 10 and I noticed that sometimes when I take pictures they completely disappear. They're there for a short while then I can't find them again even when I connect the phone to my PC. I can't change the camera settings to store the pics on the device rather than the SD card. For some reason it won't let me change it. Also sometimes when I take a screenshot I get an error saying that it couldn't store it on the SD card because the app doesn't have permission or sometimes it says that there's no room on the SD card. Both are untrue.
I went to a comic convention today and took some good pics, I went to upload one to twitter but I think there was a network problem because nothing online was loading so I restarted my phone and then the pic (and the others I'd taken during that day) had disappeared. I took more pics and double checked they were in the gallery, which they were only to find they have gone missing now.
Is this a device issue or an Android issue? Any help would be great, I'd love to get these pics back.
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As the person above me stated, reformat your sd card from within the phone and restart your device. Then change the photo save location to your sd card.
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after you get your card formatted and working because it does seem like you have a faulty card or not formatted properly to save the photos, I would set up google photos to save them automatically, you have unlimited storage with it if you choose that setting. That way you will have have them backed up even when on the go and since its kinda the new htc 10 gallery no reason not to use it fully, will also remove the sync sign in the app on the corners of your photos
IllusiaX said:
Hi all! I love this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I recently upgraded from the HTC one m8 to the HTC 10 and I noticed that sometimes when I take pictures they completely disappear. They're there for a short while then I can't find them again even when I connect the phone to my PC. I can't change the camera settings to store the pics on the device rather than the SD card. For some reason it won't let me change it. Also sometimes when I take a screenshot I get an error saying that it couldn't store it on the SD card because the app doesn't have permission or sometimes it says that there's no room on the SD card. Both are untrue.
I went to a comic convention today and took some good pics, I went to upload one to twitter but I think there was a network problem because nothing online was loading so I restarted my phone and then the pic (and the others I'd taken during that day) had disappeared. I took more pics and double checked they were in the gallery, which they were only to find they have gone missing now.
Is this a device issue or an Android issue? Any help would be great, I'd love to get these pics back.
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Do you have an issue where you SD unmounts?? Try a different camera app to see if you can map the internal memory.
I've had the problem with the SD card ummounting, it's a pain but apparently something which a lot of people live with.
Try a different SD card, see if this persists, try with no SD card, see if it persists.
Clear data on the camera app within application manager.
Use a file manager and go to DCIM check all the folders within that folder and see if you can see the images you took.
So long as the little preview of the image showed a change within the camera app, the images should still be on there.
Hope this helps.
dynamikd said:
As the person above me stated, reformat your sd card from within the phone and restart your device. Then change the photo save location to your sd card.
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The photos already save to the SD card. They've always saved to the SD card from the moment I bought it, put it in the phone and formatted it. I didn't even need to change anything in the camera settings. They're just automatically stored there. I could format it again but then if the photos are somehow hidden on the card then they'll get deleted.
dladz said:
Do you have an issue where you SD unmounts?? Try a different camera app to see if you can map the internal memory.
I've had the problem with the SD card ummounting, it's a pain but apparently something which a lot of people live with.
Try a different SD card, see if this persists, try with no SD card, see if it persists.
Clear data on the camera app within application manager.
Use a file manager and go to DCIM check all the folders within that folder and see if you can see the images you took.
So long as the little preview of the image showed a change within the camera app, the images should still be on there.
Hope this helps.
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I tried different camera apps and they wouldn't let me choose anywhere but the SD card to save photos. I removed the SD card and the camera apps would'nt take pics. They kept insisting I insert an SD card. The camera app that came with the phone wouldn't even bring up the storage option. The other camera apps wouldn't let me choose anywhere else to save photos. They said cannot write here. I'll try another SD card when I have a chance to get one. The little preview showed at first in the photo gallery but the moment I selected it it wouldn't load then it refreshed and the image was gone.
It's just so odd that it's not all pics.
IllusiaX said:
I tried different camera apps and they wouldn't let me choose anywhere but the SD card to save photos. I removed the SD card and the camera apps would'nt take pics. They kept insisting I insert an SD card. The camera app that came with the phone wouldn't even bring up the storage option. The other camera apps wouldn't let me choose anywhere else to save photos. They said cannot write here. I'll try another SD card when I have a chance to get one. The little preview showed at first in the photo gallery but the moment I selected it it wouldn't load then it refreshed and the image was gone.
It's just so odd that it's not all pics.
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And in file manager?
Also what rom are you running mate?
Any mods which alter installation locations? Are you on the correct firmware? What htc do you have US carrier? International?
It does sound odd, but I'm thinking fixable. Could it be a read / write issue? Has permissions been denied for the camera?
Check permissions within camera in app manager.
dladz said:
And in file manager?
Also what rom are you running mate?
Any mods which alter installation locations? Are you on the correct firmware? What htc do you have US carrier? International?
It does sound odd, but I'm thinking fixable. Could it be a read / write issue? Has permissions been denied for the camera?
Check permissions within camera in app manager.
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Once they've disappeared from the photo gallery they also disappear from the file manager.
It's the stock rom that came with the phone. I haven't modified it like that in any way.
It's O2 carrier in the UK.
As far as I know it's the correct firmware.
The only time there is ever an issue with the camera is when occasionally it tells me it can't save the image due to insufficient storage (which is untrue because there's plenty of storage) the same happens for screen shots sometimes but a restart of the phone fixes this on both occasions.
IllusiaX said:
Once they've disappeared from the photo gallery they also disappear from the file manager.
It's the stock rom that came with the phone. I haven't modified it like that in any way.
It's O2 carrier in the UK.
As far as I know it's the correct firmware.
The only time there is ever an issue with the camera is when occasionally it tells me it can't save the image due to insufficient storage (which is untrue because there's plenty of storage) the same happens for screen shots sometimes but a restart of the phone fixes this on both occasions.
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If it's stock then you're on the correct firmware, have you tried factory wiping the device??
If you have then it could be a faulty phone as this does sound pretty unique, i've never heard of it before.
dladz said:
If it's stock then you're on the correct firmware, have you tried factory wiping the device??
If you have then it could be a faulty phone as this does sound pretty unique, i've never heard of it before.
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I haven't tried a factory wipe yet. Was hoping to exhaust all other options first just in case the lost photos are recoverable some how. But if that's my only option left I might just contact HTC about it.
You could be having an SD card issue. My SD card has been replaced and formatted more than once. My pix disappear, and my music disappears. I use a ringtone from my music folder and my phone keeps un-mounting my sd as if it's not in the phone. I know when it happens because my notification and ringtones change.
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Ok so I tried getting in touch with HTC but they didn't respond to my email. I logged onto a live chat with them but I got disconnected because they finish at 6pm.
Then I decided to just format the SD card. I figured if I haven't been able to recover those lost pictures by now, I never will be. Besides the phone was getting worse. I could no longer take pics through Instagram and an HTC software update wouldn't download because apparently my phone storage was "read only" which isn't true.
Any way I formatted the SD card twice and set it only for storage not for installing apps and the phone seems to work fine now. I can actually select phone storage in the camera app now where before it wasn't an option. I also no longer get errors when saving screenshots. The whole thing was so weird I'm just glad it seems to be ok now.
Thanks for all your help and advice.

Internal pics taking an age to load in gallery/File explorer after transfer

Hi, wondering if anyone can help. I moved over to an S20. Before doing so, I copied all my whatsapp media/any pics saved on my internal SD off my old s9 onto my pc, and then transferred them back to the new phone. So far all good. All my pics are there. The problem is, when I open the gallery, it takes an age to load them. The same thing when I navigate to the folder in file manager. ok there's over 30k pics, but it shouldn't be an issue if it works fine on the old phone.
I also noticed that the ".thumbnails" folder isn't being created within DCIM, or anywhere for that matter. Not sure if it's linked or not. Anyways, the phone internal storage is a lot quicker than my old s9, so it can't be a speed issue. Any ideas what I can do? Media storage only shows as using 100mb. I was going to try clear the data for Media Storage, but on Android 11 it seems to be greyed out. I tried adb shell pm clear com.android.providers.media but that doesn't do anything
Anything I can try or any recommedations?
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Scope storage? It's so secure... yeah whatever.
I also noticed weirdly that if I take the ad card out, it loads a crap load quicker.

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