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Triggering a SD card scan?

I'm experiencing the problem that after I download mp3's or photos by ftp or lan, that these are not registered in the music player or photos application. Also moving around my photo's doesn't update the photo albums.
I'm looking for a way to trigger the rescan of the SD card, similar to the process that happens after turning the phone on where you can see the photo app refreshing the images.
1) Is there a way to manually trigger this scan? A function somewhere, a widget or even a pointer to an android java call will do?
2) Is there a way to soft remount the SD card as in without pulling off the backcover as a workaround. I know you can unmount it in the phone storage settings, but can't see a way to remount it.

Also interested, but for the "Music" app. Copied in a load of MP3s last night, but they don't appear.

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No videos, pictures or music found in gallery

Hi guys,
Today I opened a game on my phone and it suddenly crashed so I force closed the game and uninstalled it.
Now when I open the gallery or the music player itbsays no pictures, videos found and in the music player it says no music found!
I used efile manager to take a look to the files on the SD card and the pictures are on the SD card and can see them when I tap on them in the file manager just like always. But they are not in the gallery or the music player.
After that I removed the SD card without knowing you can unmount the SD card.
After that I unmounted the SD card and did it several times.
But it's still the same.
Please help me
What should I do?
ThX
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Take a photo using camera app then close and go back onto gallery for some reason ingot this bug in cm7..
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Hi,
I took pictures and videos today with the DHD and went to upload them but the internet was too slow and it consumed all the battery, so the battery died and of course the phone turned off. Now I went to send the videos from the DHD to my pc and the new videos and pictures I took are not not in the gallery anymore.
And the phone still doesn't recognize the Music, Videos and Pictures that were already taken with the DHD itself.
SO now it says No Videos or Pictures found and says No Music found in the Music player.
Pleaseee help me I really need help with this problem.
ThX

Make a backup of your memory card then format it.....see if the gallery can read files again then paste back on your backup
.......apart from that don't know what else ......are you using HTC gallery or android stock gallery
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Hi,
I will try it out today.
I am using the only gallery you find in the apps tab. And the video and music player in the app tab.
I will try making a backup and format the microsd card and see if it works.
Thanks for the help.

Hi,
NOW I know what my problem was. I didn't know how to work with that nomedia folder.
NOW I know that putting the .nomedia folder on the SD card it will not scan the items to the gallery. I thought that because the .nomedia folder was empty it is not working
I was nearly going to buy a new SD card.
But now I have a problem that I can't find the videos that I took when I had that problem.
The videos are not on the sd card :S
Please help!

with in 2 days, have had this .nomedia file turn up on my sd card, and it deletes my video files.....
any idea why??
please
steve

Strange SD card error

so i recently purchased a 64GB but it's having really strange data load errors with my music sometimes the album art doesn't fully load or even load at all also sometimes also the tags are messed up sometimes it says unknown album or unknown artist and sometimes picture don't show up in the gallery and even sometime it disconnects from my computer when im copying files to it but if i put it in another android phone everything works fine

[Q] SD Card Erasing?

First of all I'm running the ViperOne rom but I can't post this there because its restricted. But I had a 64gb sd card in my phone and today it erased all the music and pictures I had on it. About 30gb. So I "formatted" the card in the phone. Put all the music back on and pictures. When the phone is rebooted. All the music stays but all the pictures are erased. I can't figure out why. Anyone have any ideas? Even if I set the camera to store its pictures straight to the SD Card once the phone is restarted it deletes all the pictures.

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Google Play Music / On the Huawei? ...has anyone got it to work?

So I have my saved to phone file (music) and I have them attached to a play list. Then I set in the wear app to allow store on watch, pulled up the list and clicked the playlist I wanted to send to watch. Then on the watch I hit play Music and on wear, and the list shows, I then pick what I want and see a orange check on the bottom of the watch screen. What ever I do with that check, swipe or click it just goes back to the watch face?
Has anyone got the Music to transfer to the watch?

Yes, it works for me. Try to follow these instructions:
http://www.wareable.com/android-wear/how-to-get-music-on-your-android-wear-smartwatch
It takes a while to transfer the songs from the phone to the watch. In Google Play Music, you can go to Settings > Manage Wear Downloads and check the progress in the orange circle. When the transfer is complete, you should get a notification on your watch.

tiagobt said:
Yes, it works for me. Try to follow these instructions:
http://www.wareable.com/android-wear/how-to-get-music-on-your-android-wear-smartwatch
It takes a while to transfer the songs from the phone to the watch. In Google Play Music, you can go to Settings > Manage Wear Downloads and check the progress in the orange circle. When the transfer is complete, you should get a notification on your watch.
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Thanks for the info, I actually found that same page & tried several times. I even get the watch to show the list and pick albums, playlists, songs, and then try that orange check and nothing.
Cleared cashe on music app, reset connections, and rebooted both devices. It all reads just like the web page except for the actual file transfer. I get error phone disconnected on the watch, yet when I go to wear app it is connected. Or I just see the watch go back to the watch face, no notification what so ever. Sigh.
looks like many are having issues, depending on the version of google play music. It also seems it has been broke, fixed, broke again. These things do happen when working on updates and such, I'll keep checking for an update. https://productforums.google.com/fo.../DGr1WPiy9Po;context-place=forum/android-wear

We found the issue, and I have music transferring now!
It is related to sd card, two ways to get past googles sd card failure.
1. put a .nomedia file on your sd card root folder, this will work if you have a third party music app that will allow you to choose an sd card folder so it still reads files.
2. put music files you want on internal memory and remove sd card until music is transferred. keep that music on internal when replacing sd card.
I believe this is an issue with googles sd card security, and you probably won't see this if you have marshmallow and have formatted the sd card the new way making it your secure memory. If you choose to keep your sd card as removable and usable elsewhere you will need to try some type of work around. It frustrates me but the way they are doing it is more secure in the long run. I just never put files that need securing on my sd card in the first place, just music, games, videos.

I'm glad it worked!
My phone is running Android Marshmallow and the songs are stored in the internal memory (not the SD card). Maybe this is the reason why I didn't have problems in first place.

tiagobt said:
I'm glad it worked!
My phone is running Android Marshmallow and the songs are stored in the internal memory (not the SD card). Maybe this is the reason why I didn't have problems in first place.
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Thanks! I'm super Happy with the results. I used the .nomedia on sd card. I have 1.4 GB now on the watch and I'm able to do my walking with bluetooth sound, without carrying the phone.