I have been throwing apks between my computer and phones for years now. I noticed when i was pasting data inside titanium backup some showed up on the phone and some did not.
also when browsing sd card in root browser I can see folders that i can not see when browsing from my windows 7 machine. Not system folders but folders like tunny browser etc folders that I know I should be able to view its weird. Anyone else exp anything like this? Thanks PR
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Ever since I got my S3 a few weeks ago when I look at the DCIM photo folder I don't get a thumbnail image of my photos or videos. This makes it very difficult to pull photos from my phone to my computer because I can't see what the photo is till its copied to my desktop. Anyone have any idea why its doing this or a fix for it?
With Windows 7 the only way to see thumbnails is to use Kies or remove your SDCard and mount it directly (assuming you are saving images to your card). Even though the MTP protocol supports thumbnails, Microsoft's implementation of it in Win7 doesn't. Whats weird is that even with the custom rom I use *Frosty I'm not able to see the thumbnails but when I changed to Ktoonez Kernel I was able view thumbnails, no clue why.
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Removing your SDcard and inserting it into your PC is probably the simplest solution other than using Kies. But if you don't want to hassle with taking of your case (if you have one) then you could try connecting it as a camera instead of MTP. If that doesn't work, you could use your cloud service of choice and manually upload the photos and access the cloud from your PC. Just my 2 cents, sorry if it was too common sense.
Thanks for the tips. I guess I was just used to my NexusS not doing this so I thought something was wrong with my S3 when it wouldn't show any thumbnails when looking at my photo folders. I figured out the Kies thing last night by chance when I was seeing what that did but I don't want to load extra software on my work PC. I guess I'll stick with moving them from my picasa instant upload folder to my PC.
I just got a Galaxy S3 Tmobile, and I used Kies to restore data, photos etc, from my S2, but the only photo folders shown are the new ones created by the phone( new taken by the camera, my new photo messages, etc), but, using Quickpic I can see all the photo folders that I restored, I tried resetting the phone, deleting the Gallery's cache data, forcing stop and restarting the phone, manually transfering the photos, and still, nothing is shown in Gallery, but, just the new folders. Somebody has a clue why this is happening?
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I just got a Galaxy S3 Tmobile, and I used Kies to restore data, photos etc, from my S2, but the only photo folders shown are the new ones created by the phone( new taken by the camera, my new photo messages, etc), but, using Quickpic I can see all the photo folders that I restored, I tried resetting the phone, deleting the Gallery's cache data, forcing stop and restarting the phone, manually transfering the photos, and still, nothing is shown in Gallery, but, just the new folders. Somebody has a clue why this is happening?
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Check a file manager app. It's probably downloaded to a different SD card directory the gallery isn't scanning for.
I think it's sdcard/emulated/0 or something like that. New android versions changed sdcard directories to handle the ability to have multiple users on the phone.
When you find them use the file manager to move them over or connect the phone to USB so it's easier to see all the directories on the screen.
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Check a file manager app. It's probably downloaded to a different SD card directory the gallery isn't scanning for.
I think it's sdcard/emulated/0 or something like that. New android versions changed sdcard directories to handle the ability to have multiple users on the phone.
When you find them use the file manager to move them over or connect the phone to USB so it's easier to see all the directories on the screen.
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Sounds good, thanks for the advice, funny part of this is that the new pictures and the old ones are together in the DCIM folder, but, gallery only shows the new photos from that folder, is like something is telling to just show the phone own photos and messages.
After is usb plugged, there are 2 folders: Card and Phone, Phone shows DCIM, Picture folders in it, so I don't really see any other directories. I hope you guys understand what I am trying to explain.
So I have a 2 part Dropbox question that basically amounts to me not fully understanding how it all works even though I use it on a daily basis... maybe someone here could help me out...
So I have Dropbox, on my phone (Galaxy Note 3) and 2 PCs, Home and Office.
Question 1 - You know how Dropbox on Android automatically when you're on Wifi uploads every single picture from your phone to a "Camera Uploads" folder on your Dropbox? Well since they're all uploaded already, and I have something like 3000 photos, which is starting to make my Gallery load slowly... Wouldn't the best way to clean them out be to just completely wipe all the photos from my phone... Then go through the Dropbox folder on one of my desktop computers and delete any crappy pictures I don't need to keep, leave the rest in there for backup purposes, and then if I wanted to keep some on my phone, copy those ones back onto my phone?
Question 2 - If I go through that "Camera Uploads" folder (Or any other folder in my Dropbox really) deleting and renaming and reorganizing files on one of my desktop computers... Will all those changes instantly happen on the others? Even if I'm deleting and/or renaming and/or moving around hundreds of files? What's to stop the other computer from syncing back to the one I'm currently going through and undoing all the changes I just made? Like if I have a folder called "X1" and another called "X2" and I delete a bunch of stuff out of each and then combine them into one and then name the new folder "X" ... The other computer at work isn't gonna go and sync my "X2" folder back to the computer I'm currently working on, right?
Obviously these are both a simple but clear misunderstanding of how all this cloud syncing works. I get it in principle, and use it constantly, but there are certain ideas of it that I think I'm just overthinking probably.
Any help would be appreciated.
Also I know that Q&A goes in the Q&A forum but I thought since this is a software thing and not really a phone thing it would be more appropriate in here...
From how I know it works (at least for me) as long as all accounts are logged in with the same info (name/password), and are auto-syncing, the folder that is modified first will be copied to the others when you open Dropbox on the others. In your example you have three (two PCs, and your phone). If you change something from your phone, it will replicate to your two PCs. If you change something on one of your PCs, it will replicate to your other PC, and your phone. It also works with the online site the same way. I just changed something in my phone, logged on to the website through my PC browser, and it replicated right away to match what I did on my phone.
EDIT - And I know you are talking about pics and gallery, and for that I would move/delete from the app on your phone, and not through the gallery. I think if you do something in the gallery it will just change back because you're not actually modifying Dropbox. I'm not really sure since I do all my stuff through Dropbox itself. You can try with one pic to see if it deletes from your other places if you delete it from the gallery.
Thanks for the reply. So yea if it's basically doing it instantly, then I think I'd be safe doing my plan the way I'm planning on it. My plan is to delete everything off the phone, which I know from experience doens't sync deletions to the dropbox... Just new pics get synced to dropbox... So if I delete pic11111.jpg it will still be in my dropbox folder... So with ALL my pics deleted from my phone's gallery, I can then go to my computer and spend a couple hours deleting specific garbage pictures, and those will then sync between the 2 pcs. Then I can move them out of that "Camera Uploads" folder and into a more permanent "Pics" folder. Or move first is probably even better...
Thanks again.
I use Dropbox all the time, I've got 4 accounts (Need that extra space) and then I've got it installed on my Note 3, Nexus 7, and a Galaxy S3. As for computers it's on my Mac, two laptops and a PC desktop. I installed them on all of those for the referral bonus space but now they all have the exact same account. So in answer to your question, you could go on your phone go into settings and turn off camera uploads, but then you would need to go into your gallery and manually upload the pictures you want to keep (which isn't a huge hassle to me at least.) Since you are using cloud storage technically all the photos that get uploaded wouldn't get eating up your space unless you have google+ enabled as well, then they will appear on your phone. Not all of them, but a good majority. I don't know what kind of a computer you use, but when I have dropbox on my MAC sync all of my folders that i have, I swear I get pictures that are quadrupled all the time....so frustrating. In answer to your second question, you can modify any picture, document, etc, that has been uploaded from dropbox to a computer and make any changes you want to it without it making changes to another linked computer. Only way it it would is if you put that changed photo for example, back into your dropbox folder. Hopefully that made sense
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Been having a battery draining issue on my 8.4, something called Media is constantly hogging the battery and in many instances is using more power than the screen. The Media icon is blue with a downward arrow and I can't find a way to stop it. I did a lot of reading about this but cant find a fix other than to remove any corrupted media files. I removed the sd card as that is the only place I keep photos and vids, but it is still killing my battery really quickly.
This isn't the mediaserver process by the way, just Media.
Any ideas please people?
Thanks.
Don't see it on my tab. maybe something baked into a 3rd party app?
This is a well known issue especially with Samsung devices. It's the media scanner having problems with (usually) certain files on an SD card. Just Google "Media scanner causing battery drain" and you will find a fix.
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IIRC you need to store an empty file named .nomedia in the root of your SD card to stop the scanning. Don't forget the leading period.
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Thanks for the replies and suggestions, I'll give the empty file thing a try tomorrow.
I did find lots of info about similar things but not quite the same. In the end, I managed to kill a couple of processes relating to the download manager and then I unmounted the sd card, rebooted and remounted and its been ok since.
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An update on this.
The .nomedia file placed in the root of the sdcard does indeed stop the media server activity, but putting it in the root will stop any of your media files / photos etc from being visible in the gallery. I have 3 folders on the sd root, android, DCIM and one I can't re!member the name of. Adding the .nomedia file to all but the DCIM folder seems to do the trick, but I still have no media files in the gallery.
Can't seem to find a way to make it rescan the files so they appear back in the gallery, anyone know how that is done please?
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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.