I have flashed several JB Roms on my Dinc. Namely, Albinoman's RC 3, Pons AOKP and Pons CM10. All are great roms. On Albinoman' I can access music and ringtones on the SD card. However, for the other JB roms, I can not access ringtones or music on the SD Card or emmc.
Couple of things:
1) The roms were all installed with clean wipes. Format boot, system, factory reset, etc.
2) The SD card has pictures and documents that are readable by other programs and load no problem,
3) The SD card music files and ringtones appear in my file browser (File Expert), and if i click on I can play each singularly in FileExpert
4) I tried several different music players and they do not read or recognize the music on SD card. They see/report "Zero" songs.. Even FileExpert reports no songs (weird ehh?).
5) In the system/sound settings, the only sounds that appear are system sounds and ringtones.
6) I tried fixing permisions
7) I also tried copying "ringtones" to a folder of the same name on the emmc. Ditto for some music.
8) I do have sound, using the notifications and ringtones that came with the rom. So I got that going for me.
So at this point I ask for some assistance. But as I am not totally soundless, I can survive. Thanks!
Running CM10, I have no idea, as I only use ringtones from the SD card, same for playing music, and I have no issues here.
You don't have a .nomedia file in sdcard or emmc do you?
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Try and scan your sd card with an app called SDrescan.
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Zimeron said:
Running CM10, I have no idea, as I only use ringtones from the SD card, same for playing music, and I have no issues here.
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I believe I may swap and reformat SD cards to see if that will help. I am currently using a 32 GB class 4 micro SD
tiny4579 said:
You don't have a .nomedia file in sdcard or emmc do you?
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I scanned my card and found multiple .nomedia files in various directories. *All are zero byte files. *Delete them?
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Try and scan your sd card with an app called SDrescan.
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Thank you I will run SDrescan
I appreciate the responses and I will set out to fix this, and when fixed I will post the fix sequence.
CyanoLou said:
I scanned my card and found multiple .nomedia files in various directories. *All are zero byte files. *Delete them?
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These files tell the system to not scan those directories and sub-directories, so if they're on the root of the sdcard or anywhere you want the music to be scanned, then yes.
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These files till the system to not scan those directories and sub-directories, so if they're on the root of the sdcard or anywhere you want the music to be scanned, then yes.
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You beat me to it!
Most likely it was caused due to a buggy version of ROM manager if the OP was using it. I think I'll use some .nomedia files to limit the scanning to just my music and camera/screenshot folders. I've never used them but it may help cut battery usage due to scanning.
Zimeron & Tiny: Thank you! Unfortunately it worked only temporarily. So I suspect something is up with my uSD card, although using various tools nothing was listed wrong. I swapped the 32 GB Class 4 card for a 8 GB card Class 4 card, copied files over, and I am up and running with Ringtones and Music through several reboots, tests and trials. When I get the space (and time) I will copy the content on the 32 GB card, wipe, format and refill. If it still does not work then perhaps there is some uSD size limit with the ROM, or I just need a new 32 GB uSD card. Thanks again for all your time.
For those who have the ".nomedia" file issue:
1) Mount the SD card on a PC (this can be done several ways: USB adapter, or cable rigt to phone with USB drive enabled)
2) Open Explorer on the PC to view the drive (if it does not pop up automatically)
3) In the Explorer search bar type: .nomedia
4) Hit enter then click on: Search in Subfolders
5) Select and delete the .nomedia files found in media folders with music and ringtones
6) Repeat the above for the EMMC.
Enjoy your music!
Cyanlou, try removing sdcard, clearing media storage, and adding the 32gb sdcard.
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tiny4579 said:
Cyanlou, try removing sdcard, clearing media storage, and adding the 32gb sdcard.
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Didn't do the trick. Now that I know the problem and what to search on, I am finding the issue across devices on JB Roms. Interesting:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1880163
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1969205 (I found non xda links as well, but did not include here)
ROM manager is being pointed to as the source at several sites. I do not NOW use ROM manager, but their may be lingering files. Really? That is almost like a vi... a vir... I can't spit it out and wont. In the forums I see talk of wiping this and that, which brings me back to trying a newly formatted SD card, a totally clean wipe, and Rom install. Or seeing how future nightly's may change the handling of media.
Perhaps this belongs in a development forum as a JB issue?
Tiny:
Your patch here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1882918&page=81 to Pons' CM10 Kang totally fixed the issue!! I see all ringtones and media files on the SD card. Checking in Titanium backup prior and after flashing the ROM I found
Prior: System ROM: 260 MB (12.1 MB Free)
After: System ROM: 260 MB (64.4 MB Free)
So the lack of system space may not have enabled seeing all the media files in some way or another? Pons was always saying how tough it was to squeeze JB into the Inc. When he gets back, he should be thrilled with this. I know I am. Thanks again. Issue solved! :good:
First I'll start by noting that I haad my n2 several days before purchasing a 64gb sd card. So system was already setup with a few apps installed pre-sdcard.
However now that I have it in, nothing saves to it. Everything still saves to the internal sdcard. I dont care about apps and such installed from market or xda, those are fine.
But anything I download from Tapatalk or the web browser automatically saves to internal. Pictures taken as well.
Im coming from an evo3d where pics and all media/files I downloaded would go to the sd card and not internal.
I do see that for whatever reason samsung nsmed there internal as sdcard which probably makes a lot of apps think that is the external and not internal but its extremely annoying. I dont know if its because I started using phone before I had an external one in or if thats by design.
But its ridiculous to think I'd have to manually copy everything over from internal to external sfter downloading something when my 3d used to place on external.
Do I need to factory reset to correct this or what. Whats the point of an external card that isnt being utilized??
Also it isnt recognized at all in twrp which after some reading I see it doesn't support 64gb? What gives?
Do I need to format it a certain way?
Thanks in advance.
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I have not been able to move my Tapatalk download folder, but you can relocate where things download to under settings in the browser and camera apps.
For formatting, I'd format the card via the phone under storage if you haven't already tried that.
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I changed camera to external so it now saves to /storage/extSdCard/DCIM which is good but dolphin broswer only lets u select /storage/sdcard0 which is default internal storage. Doesnt even show the extSdCard as an option. Why in the world would they do it like this. Very gay.
Had no issues on previous HTC models going to the correct place.
Would I be able to use root explorer to rename the directories?
Need this fixed more than anything. Some apps dont even give you the option to change path as they assume sdcard0 is your actual sdcard. :/
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sdcard0 to extsdcard
I found a scripts the tricks ICS to use your external sdcard as your internal storage. So when apps write data to sdcard0 it is actually writting to your external sd. I tried it and it works!
I dont have permission to post outside links but you can find it at galaxynote2root in the tutorials section.
Just wondering if someone could help me with a particular SD card issue: Whenever I flash a 10.1 ROM, I can't find any files that I previously had on my internal, including anything in the emulated/0/ directory. Because of this, I had to essentially move my TiBackup directory to external. Whenever I flash back to anything 10.0 or TW-based, all my files are back where they belong. I remember after coming off of Euroskank's kangs, I had multiple 0 directories (emulated/0/0/0/0) when I flashed back to a TW-based ROM. Each 0 directory formatted like it's a new internal memory. I had to move different files from each 0 directory, and deleted the emulated folder. I tried going 10.1 again, with the Illusion CM 10.1 ROM specifically, and all my internal memory files "disappeared" again. Any idea how to fix this?
I've got the same problem on my S2 running CM10.1 and also on my new Nexus 4 running CM10.1.
It's very strange. The file manager of CM says, that /pictures is empty, except /pictures/cache.
But my Gallery show all my pictures.
Very annoying.. Have you found any solution?
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Update your recovery to the latest twrp using goo.im
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For some reason when I install a rom that is 4.2.2 based, it sees the directories in the INTERNAL SD but they are all empty.
HOWEVER. When I revert BACK to a 4.1.2, or 4.1.1 ROMS the files are there, and it sees them and they work fine.
What is it doing this weird behavior??
Furthermore if I try hooking up the phone to the computer it sees that there is a LOT of space taken up on the internal SD card. But again ALL directories are empty. Of course if I reboot into recovery all my files are there. ALl my zips whatever. What the heck is going on?
nafeasonto said:
For some reason when I install a rom that is 4.2.2 based, it sees the directories in the INTERNAL SD but they are all empty.
HOWEVER. When I revert BACK to a 4.1.2, or 4.1.1 ROMS the files are there, and it sees them and they work fine.
What is it doing this weird behavior??
Furthermore if I try hooking up the phone to the computer it sees that there is a LOT of space taken up on the internal SD card. But again ALL directories are empty. Of course if I reboot into recovery all my files are there. ALl my zips whatever. What the heck is going on?
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4.2 AOSP ROMS emulate your internal memory by creating a secondary sd partition. There are many paths to viewing your internal memory but the most common directory is
/storage/emulated/0
"0" is your actual internal sd card.
You can also view ALL existing files in
/data/media/
So if the first path doesn't show you any files then the /data/media directory should do it for you..
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4.2 AOSP ROMS emulate your internal memory by creating a secondary sd partition. There are many paths to viewing your internal memory but the most common directory is
/storage/emulated/0
"0" is your actual internal sd card.
You can also view ALL existing files in
/data/media/
So if the first path doesn't show you any files then the /data/media directory should do it for you..
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That's a problem then because titaniumbackup can't read that directory neither can my phone find any of my downloaded songs
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That's a problem then because titaniumbackup can't read that directory neither can my phone find any of my downloaded songs
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It's really not a problem man.. TB can't read that directory cuz you haven't set it to.. You need to move your current TB folder to the path mentioned above then go and change your current backup directory to that or just simply scan the entire device and it will find it. Same applies to your music or any other media files.
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Hi there,
Two days ago I was using a rom with the external storage script, and everything was working pretty good - just a few problems, such as SwiftKey language packs not recognized after boot and stuff.
Now I flashed a new base rom and decided not to install the script.
All my application backups stored on the external sd card.
Now, when I am trying to start a game, it says to me that I need to download the data files even that it is stored on my external sd card.
Is there any possible way to make that the system would recognize that the data file is stored already on the external storage?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Boris
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you can use folder mount or directory bind to make it appear like the data is in your internal storage.
Thanks!
Where can I find an apk for directory bind?
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