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speed up media scanning?

does any one know of a way to speed up media scanning of external_sd and usb storage upon reboots?
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in ROM toolbox app they have a tweak for that but ive never tried it to be honest but its located in the peformance tab when you open up the app and of course you must be rooted running a custom ROM
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Try sd booster or sd speed increase in the market. Raise value to 2048 and set on boot . It made a slight difference on mine when booting up.
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most the custom roms already increased the size of the cache for the sd cards...i might be wrong but from what ive read its the cache size that determines the speed ...but as someone posted earlier speed increase worked great when i had my evo...especially if ur on a stock rom

sergioperalta81 said:
most the custom roms already increased the size of the cache for the sd cards...i might be wrong but from what ive read its the cache size that determines the speed ...but as someone posted earlier speed increase worked great when i had my evo...especially if ur on a stock rom
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thats because the evo's was defaulted to like, 4. it helped SO much lol. i used the sd booster in rom toolbox on both my evo and e4gt and set it to 2048. worked GREAT on evo. but imho, the speed increase is only slightly noticeable on my e4gt. not so much that i swear by it like on my evo. but, i still run it lol

i'm not really speaking on speeding up the process itself, im more or less wondering if we can get it to trigger faster. upon a fresh flash its always fast, but as time goes by and more and more apps get installed it starts to initiate 20-40 seconds after phone is up and running and lock screen hss already been opened
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Add a .nomedia file to folders of any files that you dont need scanned on boot up. I do this to my folders with all my Roms and kernels and anything else that I dont want scanned on boot. This will save a good bit of time if you have alot that it scans. Sorry just read your last comment and i am not sure on how to make it start sooner. I dont know if that is possible.

Scubaasteve said:
Try sd booster or sd speed increase in the market. Raise value to 2048 and set on boot . It made a slight difference on mine when booting up.
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Weird thing I noticed after playing with that setting is SD card bench marking apps, the read and write speeds slowed down after raising the value.

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Add a .nomedia file to folders of any files that you dont need scanned on boot up. I do this to my folders with all my Roms and kernels and anything else that I dont want scanned on boot. This will save a good bit of time if you have alot that it scans. Sorry just read your last comment and i am not sure on how to make it start sooner. I dont know if that is possible.
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Could you go into more detail on how to make this no media file and how to use it correctly? Thanks
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Mynaga said:
Could you go into more detail on how to make this no media file and how to use it correctly? Thanks
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i second this, quite a good idea, please share your wisdom?

stretchwookie said:
i second this, quite a good idea, please share your wisdom?
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Sure. Use a file explorer app like astro or es file explorer. Pick the folder u want to do it for. Open it up and create a new file. Name it
.nomedia so for instance if u did this on the root of your SD card nothing would get scanned (btw I don't advise that) hope that helps guys.
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Sure. Use a file explorer app like astro or es file explorer. Pick the folder u want to do it for. Open it up and create a new file. Name it
.nomedia so for instance if u did this on the root of your SD card nothing would get scanned (btw I don't advise that) hope that helps guys.
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Oh man, that easy? I'm sorry then, I thought it was more complicated. You get a thanks!

If you are rooted, "Rescan media root" will fix your issue.
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Where did my pictures go?

This sounds like a dumb question but I've never had this happen to me before. The other day I switched to Eugene's MIUI Patchrom. I was on it for about ten minutes when I realized I couldn't access my pictures. My gallery was showing a couple hundred when I have over 2000. I assumed it was the rom since it's not super stable. I restored my backup or Juggernaut and I just realized I can still not see my pictures. Surely they didn't get deleted, right? Please help because those pictures mean a lot to me. Thanks.
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Have you tried connecting your phone to your computer and looking for your files that way?

smokeey69 said:
Have you tried connecting your phone to your computer and looking for your files that way?
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Yes. The folders that they were in are now empty.

bbaaccoonn said:
This sounds like a dumb question but I've never had this happen to me before. The other day I switched to Eugene's MIUI Patchrom. I was on it for about ten minutes when I realized I couldn't access my pictures. My gallery was showing a couple hundred when I have over 2000. I assumed it was the rom since it's not super stable. I restored my backup or Juggernaut and I just realized I can still not see my pictures. Surely they didn't get deleted, right? Please help because those pictures mean a lot to me. Thanks.
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I don't know of any ROMS that will wipe the sdcard. Did you check the DCIM directory with root explorer or via USB from your PC?

Yeah I did. Like I said, the folders are still there with the names I gave them, they're just empty.
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O well, have fun finding the pictures/ taking them again.

Besides the attributes getting changed by accident to hidden, I'd cough it up as a loss unless you can manage to do a file recovery program to scrape them off somehow
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Probably got corrupted, do as advised and run a recovery search
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Yeah I did. Like I said, the folders are still there with the names I gave them, they're just empty.
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O&O Software makes a really good file/folder/partition recovery program. I'd imagine it would work on sd, but im not 100% sure.. It never hurts to check

That's always my biggest worry when switching to a new ROM, because all my videos and pics are of my kids for the most part.
I personally don't know the best way to get them back, and the position you are in really sucks. What I tend to do is backup all my photos and pictures to my external SD card (32gb, so I have the space). Also make a backup on my computer and make another backup through a cloud storage program of your choice, I am currently using Drive.
I know that is a bit of overkill, but again, they are pics and vids of my kids growing up so I want to be 100% certain they don't get lost.
Hopefully you are able to find those pics, if not, perhaps my suggestion will help you in the future. Peace.

Thanks for the help, those who actually suggested something. I used some app from the gay store and it was able to recover some of my pictures, but not all. I suppose I'll just have to be more careful and make backups in the future.
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[Q] Reasons for App removal from GPlay????

Anyone know why an APP would be removed from the app store? I have Disk Defragmenter, and it works great, but now its not in the Play Store. I think it just recently came out too but I don't see why (if) it was removed.. didnt violate any copyrights..

FYI flash memory of any kind (home pc, phone, whatever) doesn't need to be defragmented.
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More so in fact it will cause flash to wear out much faster. There is no spinning disc to seek data from so no need to defragment. As well ext* doesn't fragment files like ms file systems so no need.
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Yep.
Found this thread while looking up whatever had happened to the Disk Defragmenter at the Play store. I think it may have been bumped because it's Push adverts were a little too Pushy. I thought I'd been infected with illegal adware, the way ads started presenting themselves as app alerts in my notification bar. Then I realized one of the products being Pushed was Disk Defragmenter itself.
Perhaps it's buried in their fine print, agreeing to all that pushyness. But I'd be glad to know Google frowns upon apps that aren't very clear about their particularly invasive ad strategies.

Weird, I never had airpush ads using that program..
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Perhaps it's because I'm on a Sprint Evo OG, and either T-Mobile or Samsung has got their act together in a better way...
I don't know, but I've uninstalled DD, and all the "alerts" are gone.
Shame, too... DD was featured in Android Authority's "best new apps" for August 2012. I only found this forum because I wanted to know why such a featured app would just vanish. I mean, I had to go into the OS app manager to uninstall, because the play store wouldn't even acknowledge it's existence on my phone!

Yea me too. And our internal sd does get fragmented. I had a lot before i used it the first time. It works good.. Now i gotta do it on laptop again. I liked how the app was developed for on the go.. Oh well..
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noodles2224 said:
Weird, I never had airpush ads using that program..
DMolina
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They are very prominent with go SMS pro -.-
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noodles2224 said:
Yea me too. And our internal sd does get fragmented. I had a lot before i used it the first time. It works good.. Now i gotta do it on laptop again. I liked how the app was developed for on the go.. Oh well..
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How? Internal sd card is EMMC..that's flash memory... from what I always thought
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When you plug it to computer it reads the "11.26gb" that we have and external sd. Those are what gets defragged. I think the EMMC is the 1.95gb that it also has, which is the linux part that cant be defragged..
Plus, youre probably using a custom rom that has the internal sd as emmc. Like on CM and AOKP I think..
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Repeat after me: You do NOT have to defrag your phone's storage because it is flash.
Android uses flash memory, and flash memory does not benefit from defragmentation because fragmentation does not slow it down in the first place. In fact just the opposite - defragmentation only makes things worse by decreasing flash memory's lifetime. Don't take my word for it - Google it.
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blackangst said:
Repeat after me: You do NOT have to defrag your phone's storage because it is flash.
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Lol, some people dont understand... Soon your computer wont need it either thanks to HDD made of Ram, cant wait for that day. But anyway, no spinning magnetic media = no need for defrag

AOKP media files lost !!

I flashed this rom here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36441591
And i knew it were gonna move many of my media file to another folder which i cannot find anymore i have : sdcard0/1 and emulated folder also I've been checking everywhere and i cannot find them anymore please tell me i didn't loose them forever !
I couldn't post in that thread because it is closed.. Ive read in the thread almost every page and no one posted this so yeah ...
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Install Quick pic from play store. Run media scanner. Its will search all media files.

bikrame said:
Install Quick pic from play store. Run media scanner. Its will search all media files.
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Couldn't find media scanner .. But how is that gonna find my music ? I really need my music had like 220 of them
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Check /storage/emulated/legacy.

Aerowinder said:
Check /storage/emulated/legacy.
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I did and it isn't there...
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Install new ROM

bikrame said:
Install new ROM
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Ugh... I really like aokp roms and its just killing me the fact that i can't use music whit this rom any other solution as of now ?..
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Anyone?
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Ugh... Anyone?
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What is changing to a new rom going to do for him? If his music is gone it's gone... Unless I'm missing something? Why isn't your music on your computer or somewhere else? How did you get it on your phone, lol? If it some where and you can't find it, pull everything from your storage places and put them on your PC and search both files with in your computer search index and see if you can find them... If they are there, then create a folder named /music and you will good to go. If they aren't there then get new music or however you got them there in the first place.

Im really getting fed up whit this ... The way it makes another folder where everything elses moves there is really nonsense i have lost all my game data's also my titanium backup
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shahkam said:
Im really getting fed up whit this ... The way it makes another folder where everything elses moves there is really nonsense i have lost all my game data's also my titanium backup
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So you are just going to vent and whine, or help me help you?

mt3g said:
So you are just going to vent and whine, or help me help you?
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Sorry did not see your post.
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What is changing to a new rom going to do for him? If his music is gone it's gone... Unless I'm missing something? Why isn't your music on your computer or somewhere else? How did you get it on your phone, lol? If it some where and you can't find it, pull everything from your storage places and put them on your PC and search both files with in your computer search index and see if you can find them... If they are there, then create a folder named /music and you will good to go. If they aren't there then get new music or however you got them there in the first place.
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So i downloaded all of my musics whitin my device reason i never store music on my pc is because i barely do use it...
I guess i could do that too but i once remember i restored an backup and everything was in its place ? Its weird..
Also since i use various apps to get my music they are in different folders there js nothing inside my /music folder is this anything bad ?
I could download the music back also but takes quite a while + my lost game datas and precious images :/
Off topic : thoughts on the xperia t ? Im wanting to buy one..
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shahkam said:
So i downloaded all of my musics whitin my device reason i never store music on my pc is because i barely do use it...
I guess i could do that too but i once remember i restored an backup and everything was in its place ? Its weird..
Also since i use various apps to get my music they are in different folders there js nothing inside my /music folder is this anything bad ?
I could download the music back also but takes quite a while + my lost game datas and precious images :/
Off topic : thoughts on the xperia t ? Im wanting to buy one..
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I would start putting the music somehwere other then only on phone storage, just in case. I've accidentally wiped internal storage once, and I've had External sdcards go bad or just randomly out of no where lose all data in it. make a dropbox and do TiBu once a week and move them there your self with some type of file manager if you don't wanna pay the money for Titanium Backup pro. I also bet all your stuff is there you are just looking in the wrong places. What file manager are you using to look for your "lost stuff"?

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I would start putting the music somehwere other then only on phone storage, just in case. I've accidentally wiped internal storage once, and I've had External sdcards go bad or just randomly out of no where lose all data in it. make a dropbox and do TiBu once a week and move them there your self with some type of file manager if you don't wanna pay the money for Titanium Backup pro. I also bet all your stuff is there you are just looking in the wrong places. What file manager are you using to look for your "lost stuff"?
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Yeah dropbox is a good idea and i use root explorer and oi file manager tried whit both same results folders are not being shown but if i restore my nandroid backup they all come back ? Until i come back on a 4.2 aokp/aosp rom..
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list all the areas you are looking for the media... what is your recovery?

Aokp is awesome ROM. I dont mean to be rude but if you think those files are still there (in your phone) ;install different ROm or restore backup and pull al data from it. And wipe both internal and external cards. Amd install aokp and enter those files again via PC.

mt3g said:
list all the areas you are looking for the media... what is your recovery?
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Sorry for late answer but i looked into sdcard/storage0/storage1/usbdisk/ also checked emulated and legacy folder...
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bikrame said:
Aokp is awesome ROM. I dont mean to be rude but if you think those files are still there (in your phone) ;install different ROm or restore backup and pull al data from it. And wipe both internal and external cards. Amd install aokp and enter those files again via PC.
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Yeah ill do just that i guess aokp 4.2 is just perfect for me except it has low incall volume -.-...
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Titanium backup

How do I change my backup folder location to external SD card. I changed it but when I go to titanium backup folder on external SD card after doing a backup, there is no backup. I emailed the developer and got troubleshooting link and nothing helped. Sent him another email but no reply. Sucks cause I paid the money for the license. Any help will be appreciated.
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Why don't you think simple and basic. Hook phone up to pc and transfer there. No special apps or complex set of directions to follow.
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anoymonos said:
Why don't you think simple and basic. Hook phone up to pc and transfer there. No special apps or complex set of directions to follow.
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When I did that Titanium Backup created a new file on the internal drive and could not see the moved back up. Also the file will not let you manually add APK files.
I haven't found a way to change the backup path either.

You guys are really funny. In 5 seconds I found like over 30 threads by using search. On google I found instructions and video. Lmao.
Open app. Click bottom right. Says problem?. Click center button on bottom that says preference. Change back up path.. It really not hard if you take the time to search and read.
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A simple answer would suffice. If YOU bothered to read the OP, you would notice that I changed the backup location to the external SD and it's not saving them there. If you don't have a helpful reply and wanna just be a [email protected]@, don't reply to my posts. That's why I hate posting questions on this forum, everyone likes to make people look stupid.
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You guys are really funny. In 5 seconds I found like over 30 threads by using search. On google I found instructions and video. Lmao.
Open app. Click bottom right. Says problem?. Click center button on bottom that says preference. Change back up path.. It really not hard if you take the time to search and read.
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A simple answer would suffice. If YOU bothered to read the OP, you would notice that I changed the backup location to the external SD and it's not saving them there. If you don't have a helpful reply and wanna just be a [email protected]@, don't reply to my posts. That's why I hate posting questions on this forum, everyone likes to make people look stupid.
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I guess it is true what they say.
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Try uninstalling and reinstalling did u do sd card fix incase?

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Try uninstalling and reinstalling did u do sd card fix incase?
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I have done the SDfix, unistalled and reinstalled - no dice

Since you are asking in questions and help, I'll give it a whirl. I don't KNOW this is the answer, but it is something to try. KK blocks access to directories that haven't been created by the app in question. Did you get TiBu to create a new directory for backups? Or did you select a directory that already existed? You might try a new directory with a different name on the external card. Good luck.
edit: FYI, just tried this and it works. The method to browse a folder in TiBu is a little obscure. Choose backup folder under preferences, then push the back key. You'll see folders pop up in the window. The first 'folder' is actually a key to make a new folder. Do this on the SD card, and it worked for me.

Yep, gotta create the new folder using titanium.
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