This is a somewhat frustrating issue for me. Media Scanner seems to be running all the time. I've tried Rescan Media Root, ScanMedia, Hard Reset, Factory Reset, and nothing seems to be working. I got it to finish scanning somehow once, and everything was fine. Now all the sudden it's back and I can't open up my camera. It also feels like my device is slower while it's running and my battery drains a lot faster. I've tried disabling Media Scanner with some other process apps too, and it's just not working. It seems like this happens on most LG devices though, where you can't open the camera and stuff. Anybody else have this issue? Anybody know what I could try to do?
There's a file that you added onto the SD card that's messing it up. It was doing the same thing to me when I added this one specific wmv file even though nothing was wrong with it or any of the other ones I put on. Just clear your SD card and put everything back on.
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PearsonDKA said:
There's a file that you added onto the SD card that's messing it up. It was doing the same thing to me when I added this one specific wmv file even though nothing was wrong with it or any of the other ones I put on. Just clear your SD card and put everything back on.
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Thanks! That did the trick
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Since I have not posted enough times I couldn't post this in development section where it belongs. I have been trying to use Jellybean ROMs since they became available but always reverted back to Blazer ROM because of the media scanning bug. This is where media scanner fails to find any media on both SD cards, in other words gallery and the default music player fails to load any of the media. I tried everything that was suggested on these forums and could not figure it out. I found all .nomedia files and deleted them, updated rom manager, cleared the media cache, etc.
One of the solutions was to copy everything on the sd cards over to my computer, format the SD cards then copy everything back. This did not work the first time I did it. The second time I tried it I forgot to copy over my DCIM folder to the main SD card on my phone. I turned on my phone and after a reboot all of my media was there. I use Jetaudio for my music and I was finally able to to use it. I then realized that I had forgotten to copy my DCIM folder in particular the Camera folder with my more than 1,000 pictures and videos. I then went to check my media and it was still there but none of my new pictures where showing up. So I went into Apps settings and cleared my media, still nothing, so I rebooted. Now all of my media including my music in jetaudio was gone. So I went ahead and deleted my Camera folder with all my pictures, and all of my media came back after a reboot. To make a long story short something in my Camera folder was stopping the media scanner from functioning properly, I have yet to figure out what it is. But maybe with the help of some of the people here we can figure it out. I am currently happy having all of my music and none of my pictures. I can always look at them on my computer if I get nostalgic.
I am currently running Paranoid Android 2.16 and I think that the fact that Media Scanner is no longer stuck allows my phone to Sleep. I was previously loosing 10% battery life per hour getting about 5hrs battery with moderate to heavy use. I now get 10+ hours battery life with moderate to heavy use and loose about 1% per hour.
If anyone can make suggestions as to what files might be causing media scanner to hang. I would appreciate the feedback. It would be nice to have my pictures back on my phone but I can live without them.
By the way all new pictures i take show up just fine and cause no problems. I have also added new music and this shows up just fine as well.
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Since I have not posted enough times I couldn't post this in development section where it belongs. I have been trying to use Jellybean ROMs since they became available but always reverted back to Blazer ROM because of the media scanning bug. This is where media scanner fails to find any media on both SD cards, in other words gallery and the default music player fails to load any of the media. I tried everything that was suggested on these forums and could not figure it out. I found all .nomedia files and deleted them, updated rom manager, cleared the media cache, etc.
One of the solutions was to copy everything on the sd cards over to my computer, format the SD cards then copy everything back. This did not work the first time I did it. The second time I tried it I forgot to copy over my DCIM folder to the main SD card on my phone. I turned on my phone and after a reboot all of my media was there. I use Jetaudio for my music and I was finally able to to use it. I then realized that I had forgotten to copy my DCIM folder in particular the Camera folder with my more than 1,000 pictures and videos. I then went to check my media and it was still there but none of my new pictures where showing up. So I went into Apps settings and cleared my media, still nothing, so I rebooted. Now all of my media including my music in jetaudio was gone. So I went ahead and deleted my Camera folder with all my pictures, and all of my media came back after a reboot. To make a long story short something in my Camera folder was stopping the media scanner from functioning properly, I have yet to figure out what it is. But maybe with the help of some of the people here we can figure it out. I am currently happy having all of my music and none of my pictures. I can always look at them on my computer if I get nostalgic.
I am currently running Paranoid Android 2.16 and I think that the fact that Media Scanner is no longer stuck allows my phone to Sleep. I was previously loosing 10% battery life per hour getting about 5hrs battery with moderate to heavy use. I now get 10+ hours battery life with moderate to heavy use and loose about 1% per hour.
If anyone can make suggestions as to what files might be causing media scanner to hang. I would appreciate the feedback. It would be nice to have my pictures back on my phone but I can live without them.
By the way all new pictures i take show up just fine and cause no problems. I have also added new music and this shows up just fine as well.
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Have you tried copying just the pictures in the DCIM folder to the Camera Folder and not the entire folder? Are there any weird files that are not pictures or videos in your DCIM folder? I'm on Paranoid Android 2.16 also but I haven't copied over any old pictures to my phone and have not experienced this issue myself. I did have an issue with my music files not showing up in my music players on my old Epic 4G (the one with the keyboard) and when I first transferred my music files onto my external SD card. Getting PowerAmp fixed that issue and I also a Rescan SD app occasionally if needed. I haven't really needed to use it after I got both my SD cards all setup on the phone. Maybe try using a Rescan SD app?
Okay so every time media scanner is running, my phone becomes extremely laggy, as in 4-5 fps. Everything grinds to a halt, for example pressing on the menu button has a 1-2 second delay before the menu opens. I am using a 64GB SanDisk microSDXC card, and yes its genuine I tested it. I have also tried numerous different ways of formatting it (exfat and fat 32) with easeUS, fat32format and other programs. On top of this I have attempted to clear the media scanners data and then force a manual scan with Media Scanner as was suggested in other posts.
I know that media scanner is to blame because if I terminate its process the phone comes back to normal with 1-2 seconds. I should mention that this only happens when the SD card is inserted and has several files on it (currently 4622 songs). This behavior also happens on all kernels and roms I have tested (roms: stock unrooted, stock rooted, AOKP; kernels: stock, Lean kernel, Underwear, and KT747).
If anybody has any suggestions it would really be appreciated. I am open to anything and am willing to give more information if necessary such as processes using up CPU when this is happening or anything else.
Thank you.
Just put a .nomedia file on your sd card directory that has songs in it.
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Seems to be working
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Just put a .nomedia file on your sd card directory that has songs in it.
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Wow this actually seems to be working. I haven't experienced any lag in a couple of hours. Do you know if this is a normal/common problem? i tried searching for it and couldn't find any mention of it.
Hi guys,
I have a bone stock Note 2.
Since a couple of days ago, the gallery has been acting really weird. It would lag, freeze, ask to close/wait and even crash. When i zoom into the image, it would jerk and jiter even if my hands are of the screen. The upper part of the phone around the area of the sd card reader and front part fo the screen would become really warm to touch.
This is all of a sudden, mind you. Ive never experienced any lag in the gallery. I use it all the time over wiwfi to send images to my dlna connected devices without a hitch.
I thought my sd card was going back. i replaced the 16gb kinstaon card with a 32gb sandisk, and it hasn't made any difference at all. SAme problem.
The problem is alleviated if i switch wifi off. But ive never had to do that before. I have always hd wifi on and connected all the time with no problem until a few days ago.
I have all sync's off including cloud sync. There should be nothing syncing in the background.
Its not the sd card, it cant be the sd port as it works fine with wifi off... so im at a lost as i have no more ideas on what to trouble shoot.
Im thinking it may have been an update that i did not notice maybe? All share cast is not samsung link... dont know if that would do it...
I do hop ei get some insight to what is going in with my note 2.
Anybody else having similar problems or a solution?
Any and all help is much appreciated.
tried new card,.. same thing.
tried hard reset, and still same thing...
what else can it be?
hardware failure?
Figured it out!!!!
Plex media server was causing it. Once i disabled it on my PC, gallery is working like it should again.
Hey Guys, newbie here!
I've been using CM13 for a while now. Recently my Spotify app started freezing and crashing my phone when accessing my 64GB MicroSD card. I can not reproduce this however since it seems to happen randomly. But when Spotif or my SD card are uninstalled i do not get these freezes.
I did a clean install of the most recent CM13 Nightly and the Experimental CM14 release, which did not yield any results other than corrupting my data file system. After fixing this, I now run in the Experimental CM14 without Spotify.
If you have ans Idea I would really appreciate the help from you guys.
*Edit* This is about the LG G3 D855 which I am using with a 64GB Sandisk MicroSD card.
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Wow, reading that post, it's almost as if I posted it myself.
I have similar issues as you. But I'm using stock. I thought it was something wrong with my new 128gb microsd. I even gotten a new battery just in case, as I see other people pointing to these random issue to battery issue.
Until I realized Spotify somewhat actively caches stuff on my microsd card, plus the earlier issue of using network data in the background even when not actively in use (killed my wife's data usage for that month).
Issues I've seen are phone not waking up from black screen (or taking a really really long time to wake up), issue playing the next song with my regular mp3 player with songs stored on microsd, spotify freezing, bluetooth freeze on connect, etc.
Just recently I've just tried to clear all data/cache on the spotify app (took a long time, I clicked the button and went to sleep). Then as soon as I'm back on spotify, I go to settings and tell it to cache on phone sd instead of external. So far my phone seem to be running better. Will have to wait a few more days to see how it goes. Hope this helps (for myself as well : ) )
Hi all!
I have always kept my music library on internal storage but I recently got a large sd card so I don't have to copy music back again every time I reset the phone. I am currently running stock Pie with June update, no root, bootloader locked.
Since I have put my music library on the sd card (30gb of music on a 64gb card) everytime I reboot or wake up the phone, I got a notification of "scanning sd card". And the music library in several players I have tried (pulsar, shuttle, musicolet) is empty and slowly repopulates.
When I first used the card I put it into the phone and formatted it as portable storage, then copied music in it.
I thought i was the only one with this problem. It happened after the PIE update. It was ok when i was on OREO. The same thing happened to my note 5 pro after the PIE update. It seems this is related to PIE rom, slowly remounting the sd card ofter boot. I changed a few cards before thinking it was the card problem. Hoping the devs would solve this problem with the next update.
Give PowerAmp a try, it's something, and works even after reboot
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I thought i was the only one with this problem. It happened after the PIE update. It was ok when i was on OREO. The same thing happened to my note 5 pro after the PIE update. It seems this is related to PIE rom, slowly remounting the sd card ofter boot. I changed a few cards before thinking it was the card problem. Hoping the devs would solve this problem with the next update.
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With the smaller sd card and music library on the phone storage I didn't have this problem, did you?
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Give PowerApm a try, it's something, and works even after reboot
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I'll give it a try, thx
EDIT: the same problem persists also with Poweramp.
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With the smaller sd card and music library on the phone storage I didn't have this problem, did you?
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I used memory card since i bought the phone, it's a 64 gb card. Never had any problem when i was on oreo. The music from internal storage seems to have no problem. Tried a few cards and seems like the 32 gb card loads faster. The 64 gb and 128 gb loads slowly and these are high speed read/wirte cards. Also if i didn't use the player after a few days i have to rescan the library again for the music to load. The same goes to some stuff on gallery too. Contents from memory card went blank and only viewable after a while.
I've also same issue on two individual A2 lite with 32gb SD cards (1x samsung & 1x intenso).
I expect that the SD card is unmounted when the device goes into sleep mode. If phone wakes up again the card will be mounted again.
the same goes to some stuff on gallery too. Contents from memory card went blank and only viewable after a while.
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I can also confirm this behavior.
May its possible to get some details with MatLog (during wakeup & sleep). But I'm not able to do this, cause my phone is not rooted.
I have this problem only with the music on sd. Images in the gallery show up correctly.
I have searched for this issue, and it seems a lot of people experienced it also with older android versions and phones. Someone fixed it with an app called Wakelock, others just changed their sd card or lived with it.
Guess i'll just live with it until this phone fails me. This problem doesn't really annoy me much. It's still pretty much a great phone for its price.
For me it's very frustrating, gallery does not work correct if i use it direct after unlock and also camera app will crash if used direct out of lockscreen and phone was in deep-spleep before (target directory is set do SD card). Sometimes (1-2%) if i wake up the phone the card is not mounted properly. Phone reports card is damaged, after reboot everything is fine again.