So I just downloaded an album and I was trying to copy it onto my Galaxy Nexus using the Android File Transfer. I kept getting a bunch of errors, like usual, saying I have to reconnect my phone, the phone can't be found, and so on. So I attempt the copy, which failed several times. I reconnect my phone for a 3rd or 4th time, and my entire music folder is gone. Mind you, I did not delete it. So now all my music is gone, I can't simply recopy the music onto the phone because I'm out of the country for the next month and I don't have my computer, nor is Google Music working because it's not available outside the US.
possibly corrupted where that folder was because of the connect/disconnecting. probably going to have a make a new one and download music back to it when you get a chance.
If you have access to a computer then it's pretty straightforward to fool Google Music into thinking you are in the US and set it up.
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Chrono_Tata said:
If you have access to a computer then it's pretty straightforward to fool Google Music into thinking you are in the US and set it up.
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I've been trying to use proxies since I got here. They either don't work or are wayyy too slow. The connection here isn't the best to begin with. I'm currently in Switzerland.
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Anyone had this strange problem that the songs you made available for offline use (pinned) disappear after a while. In fact, the entire music app resets as if it was started for the first time and needs to be synced with your account.
I tried to find out the source of the problem, whether the problem occurs when the phone is connected to the computer via USB or something but no. I read other google forums and some people say its a bug and will be fixed. I also need to mention I am not using google music in the USA.
If anyone had the same before or knows a fix, pls let me know.
Using SGN stock 4.0.2, newest Google Music Play app
The music I select to download for offline will not download regardless of rom or version of play music.
It just keeps saying I have a problem with my internet connection, I don't. It is working perfectly for everything else on wireless and 3G but play music does not even reach 1%.
Infuriating as I'm going travelling in 2 days and need the music in my phone offline as I will have no 3G!
Some of my local music wont play at all.
Sometimes it wont download the entire song too, its quite annoying.
styxx said:
Anyone had this strange problem that the songs you made available for offline use (pinned) disappear after a while. In fact, the entire music app resets as if it was started for the first time and needs to be synced with your account.
I tried to find out the source of the problem, whether the problem occurs when the phone is connected to the computer via USB or something but no. I read other google forums and some people say its a bug and will be fixed. I also need to mention I am not using google music in the USA.
If anyone had the same before or knows a fix, pls let me know.
Using SGN stock 4.0.2, newest Google Music Play app
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not I. Google music does loose pinned music when I update it though...
boabsmith said:
The music I select to download for offline will not download regardless of rom or version of play music.
It just keeps saying I have a problem with my internet connection, I don't. It is working perfectly for everything else on wireless and 3G but play music does not even reach 1%.
Infuriating as I'm going travelling in 2 days and need the music in my phone offline as I will have no 3G!
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I think this happens because you don't have the song information (ID3 tags) set up properly in your songs. I've had the same problems before.
Anyone else experiencing this? The problem keeps coming back randomly. The problem also happened on my girlfriend's Nexus S so it's not related to my phone or my account.
I've had this happen too. It's annoying when I discover it when I am away from my WiFi.
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I always have this problem, but mostly is went my pc can't recognise my phone/usb cable and it re-download the drivers while my phone's connected... I'm on stock.
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Google play music stores music as cache. So cache cleaners will remove the offline songs.
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Anyone else experiencing this? The problem keeps coming back randomly. The problem also happened on my girlfriend's Nexus S so it's not related to my phone or my account.
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I've had this issue since day one. Ive had it on two different nexi (think thats the plural) as well. Do you have multiple google accounts on your phone? Its as though something is setting the app back to its default settings because when it happens I have to go through the account selection screen.
Just a thought, are you using a shared account with your girlfriend to both access the same music (I am). Maybe through using lots of devices we are hitting the authorisation limit for the music account (you are only allowed to access from a certain amount of devices I think).
Keeps downloading offline music
For the last few days, my phone keeps trying to download offline music even though my phone has the music and I have not added any new music. It is crushing my battery. Any thoughts on how to fix would be appreciated.
I didn't had any problems with google music. maybe it's because of the codec? i use 256 kbps VBR mp3s from amazon and didn't had such problems since i started to use this service.
I'm currently having this issue, it's driving me nuts. On 4.1.1 with the latest G Music app.
my whole library just up n effin poofed >_< its all gone. i cant even redownload the music manager. google is pissing off lAtelywith theses bugz
This is not unique to Samsung, happened on my HTC One X as well.
There is some suggestion that cabling up to USB in "disk drive mode" triggers removal of all your pinned music.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35153
If you pin a significant part of your music for off-line use, this can be a huge download the next time you connect.
I've only noticed this once, when I cabled my HOX to the computer for no real reason, just to see what happened. (The phone is not rooted).
To those who see this frequently: Are you cabling up via USB?
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Google play music stores music as cache. So cache cleaners will remove the offline songs.
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Not when you pin the songs. It should not be cache-cleaned. Besides, I don't run a cache cleaner.
I, personally haven't had this issue in ages now. I never used to (and still don't) plug my devices into a computer. It may have been account related though in my case. I used to use a separate google account for my music (I shared the account with my girlfriend). I gave up on that approach and uploaded all my music to my own account and deleted the music one. Haven't had the problem since. Could be coincidence, could be something else.
I did find a workaround when I had the problem though. When you go into play music and it acts like it's not been setup, don't do anything, don't try to reset it up. Just reboot the phone. I did this a couple of times when I had the issue and when the phone came back up everything was back to normal, account still related and pinned music still pinned. Admittedly I can't remember the precise point to reboot it but I definitely saw it work.
I owned a Galaxy S on AT&T for two years, and now have the E4Gt on Sprint. Through both devices, I've used a 16GB external SD card for holding music. From android v2.1-4.0, I've had issues on EVERY music player I've tried (See: Stock, Google Music, Ubermusic, Winamp, Apollo, and more) with playlists randomly clearing out. I listen to music all day at work, and my second job is playing music at clubs as a DJ. This bug is really killing me. I'll plan out a setlist, and get home to see it emptied out.
From searching XDA, it seems to be a common issue. Playlists are stored in a database and not on a physical file and are somehow easily cleared out. I'm basicly looking for a solution here. Any search I've done comes up with no answers, or workarounds such as using back-up apps or cloud storage.
Does anybody know of a solution to playlists being deleted/emptied??
I think your SD card might be bad
My playlist have never been cleared out
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How could it be bad? I've attempted storing music on the external. I've tried swapping it after a flash so that music is on the internal instead. The issue comes up after a reboot typically after any files are changed or moved on the phone. I'm guessing it may have to do with the media scan.
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How could it be bad? I've attempted storing music on the external. I've tried swapping it after a flash so that music is on the internal instead. The issue comes up after a reboot typically after any files are changed or moved on the phone. I'm guessing it may have to do with the media scan.
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I am having the same issue on my AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. Did you ever figure it out?
I found a solution
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I am having the same issue on my AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. Did you ever figure it out?
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I FOUND A SOLUTION
i have the exact same problem with my samsung galaxy 3s, with the software 4.1.2. the playlists content disapears all the time.
what helped on my phone was to make a backup on your pc, from the phones and SD-cards memory, then format your phone (both phone card) PROBLEM FIXED. I know it takes some time to restore everything, i recommend that you install "backup and restore" and "playlist backup" on your phone and make a backup on your apps and playlist. good luck
PS. install only the apps that you need (it could be an app that did made the bug)
PPS. if you can use another music player than the default one, that could also prevent the bug, i am using "Now Playing"
I was listening to music earlier today and it just stopped all of a sudden, so I open the music app and it instantly force closes. I went back into the app to find what I was listening to was no longer in my library. I checked the music was still on my SD card and sure enough it was, none of the files were corrupt, they just didn't show up anymore in my library. I tried taking it off the SD card and putting it back on, putting it on the external SD card (Where all my other music is), rebooting. Idk what else to try, anyone got any ideas???
While I'm still new to this phone and haven't experienced that on this phone...I have on my previous. Damn near pulled my hair out trying to find the issue. It ended up being and id3 tag conflict. Withing the files was info for id3 v1 and id3 v2 or revisions whatever u wanna call them. Anyways, I killed the v2 info, and all was well. Hope this helps...again this is what I did for my previous phone.
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are you sure you don't have your phone tethered to your pc? because thats the only logical reason why it would do that...
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are you sure you don't have your phone tethered to your pc? because thats the only logical reason why it would do that...
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Nope, hell my PC is probably too old to even function correctly with my phones.
Thanks for the help but I am hopefully trading the Ion for the One X today.
I didnt see a thread for this and saw it on the XDA new portal a while back and cant believe its not more popular. Im not the original developer of this app.
AppSync
Description: So if you're like me you have multiple android devices and all of them have your choice of games and such. But whenever you pick up your phone play a few levels on lets say Angry Birds but then want to play it on you're tablet, you then have to replay the levels just to get as far as you are on the phone. Not anymore, this app utilizes Wifi-Direct and will synchronize with your phone or tablet to the other phone or tablet.
Instructions:
Open the app on both devices. Then on the device you need sync'd (lets say i want my phones game progress on my tablet.) Then on the tablet you would select to sync withe android device present. Then it will bring up the list of apps you have that are the same as on the phone and tablet and you can choose to either sync the tablet to the phone or vice versa. When its done open up the app you sync'd and you'll see that its the same as on the phone.
Enjoy! I might post a video how-to or update with some screenshots if you can't figure it out. But it is pretty self explanatory.
Here is the Devs original post : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1814755
This is very good, however since getting this n7 I don't play games on my phone anymore lol.
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There are times where the tablet isnt ideal.
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I use DataSync
Same basic concept except it backs it up to the cloud. It also can auto detect other devices on the network using DataSync and pass login information if you desire. It backs up to Box and a few others. I like this because you can setup a schedule to sync. I have mine to sync only on WiFi, update only newer changed content, every night in the AM. Then, even if I leave my tablet at home, I can still sync with Box.net to get my latest app data.
Pretty cool. It really puts my mind at ease with having a Galaxy Nexus and a Nexus 7 with no removable storage. If something happens, all my stuff is backed up off the device.
I have a HTC One X. I just want to put some music on it, anyone help with how to do this?
First attempt - install the htc sync manager thing.. nope my phone will not connect to it. Says something like "cannot connect to HTC sync manager make sure the program is open on your computer". Guess what... yes the program is clearly open.
Second attempt - mount my phone as a disk drive. copy and paste files into my music folder. This worked when I first got the phone, but I now would like to remove my music collection and add a new one. Now this option is totally screwed up, Ive deleted everything in the "music" folder, everything. But there are still some albums left on my phone. I have also tried copying new music files into this folder and yes you guessed it.. they ain't on my phone.
Please someone help me with the incredibly complicated task of putting music onto a phone. God I miss Itunes.
Thank you.
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I have a HTC One X. I just want to put some music on it, anyone help with how to do this?
First attempt - install the htc sync manager thing.. nope my phone will not connect to it. Says something like "cannot connect to HTC sync manager make sure the program is open on your computer". Guess what... yes the program is clearly open.
Second attempt - mount my phone as a disk drive. copy and paste files into my music folder. This worked when I first got the phone, but I now would like to remove my music collection and add a new one. Now this option is totally screwed up, Ive deleted everything in the "music" folder, everything. But there are still some albums left on my phone. I have also tried copying new music files into this folder and yes you guessed it.. they ain't on my phone.
Please someone help me with the incredibly complicated task of putting music onto a phone. God I miss Itunes.
Thank you.
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Did you already tried to reboot and see if it is correct? Sometimes Mediascanner does not work after removing usb storage. Did have same issue sometime, reboot always fixed it.
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Did you already tried to reboot and see if it is correct? Sometimes Mediascanner does not work after removing usb storage. Did have same issue sometime, reboot always fixed it.
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I have tried restarting my phone and computer. Now I have uninstalled htc sync manager. When I try to reinstall it I get the error message - "The installation of HTC driver appears to have failed. Do you want to continue with the installation?"
Looks like this is the problem.
Try with AirDroid...
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i had trouble getting music onto my phone so i use this now http://doubletwist.com/ u just have put ya phone into mass storage mode for it to work
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Second attempt - mount my phone as a disk drive. copy and paste files into my music folder. This worked when I first got the phone, but I now would like to remove my music collection and add a new one. Now this option is totally screwed up, Ive deleted everything in the "music" folder, everything. But there are still some albums left on my phone. I have also tried copying new music files into this folder and yes you guessed it.. they ain't on my phone.
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No, they're not... Your library is not properly synced with music folder files... Force stop 'media storage' app, clear its data and cache and reboot.. it will rescan your musicfolder automatically..
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You can try iSyncr from the play store.. It works really well with iTunes. A little expensive though
Try uncheck usb debugging.
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My advice is to move your collection in the cloud. Google music allows you to upload 20.000 songs, free. You can use it from any country, using a VPN solution - eg Tunnel Bear. If you don't have a big data plan, you can create playlists home on the pc and download them on the phone via WiFi.
Google Play - Oh Yes...
Otherwise I use Media Monkey - Syncs beautifully!
I had this issue, follow these steps and it will work:
1 - Delete all the music off your phone (which you have attempted)
2 - Make sure you check the "Downloads -> Bluetooth" folder, as some songs may be in their.
3 - Delete the "Music" folder (FROM PC)
4 - Re-create a folder and name it "Music"
5 - Download "Re-scan SD" from market.
6 - Open it (it has no UI, it just re-scans)
7 - Check phone, you should now have no music.
8 - Put your music into the new folder you made
9 - Rescan SD again
10 - Unplug and enjoy.
Might make a post about this
ok people I really dont want to download any other software, but thanks for the recommendations..
I just want to put some music on my phone either using the htc sync manager or by using my phone as a hard drive.
Please this is really getting me annoyed. It looks like the problem is with the installation of the sync manager, specifically the drivers. i dont even know what to ask for. please someone help me put music on my phone.
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ok people I really dont want to download any other software, but thanks for the recommendations..
I just want to put some music on my phone either using the htc sync manager or by using my phone as a hard drive.
Please this is really getting me annoyed. It looks like the problem is with the installation of the sync manager, specifically the drivers. i dont even know what to ask for. please someone help me put music on my phone.
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Go into device manager and manually remove HTC drivers. Reboot. Plug the phone in. It should reload drivers. Or you can reinstall the HTC driver pack. I had that problem with my rezound and s3. Luckily, naked drivers were available. Hated HTC synch.
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