I'm running Bigexie's Jelly Bean rom and I'm having trouble finding where Play Music is storing it's offline music. I used to be able to find it under Android/Data/com.google.android.music but now this folder is empty, even though I have music set as offline. I thought at first that my music wasn't actually being downloaded, but after it says it's done making the songs available offline I have less storage space on the phone, and when I check the "on device only" option my selected music is shown. The music must be cached in different location in Jelly Bean, but I can't seem to find it. This is causing problems with apps like doubleTwist and Offline Music Importer as they can't find the music either.
Does anyone know where Play Music is storing it's music now?
Same here
Yeah, I found the same problem. Trying to get to the bottom of it atm... I'll follow up if I find anything
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Yep, ok - found it all.
Looks like it stores it directly in the app cache now.
If you something like Root Explorer you can find it under:
/data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music/
Not sure how useful that is to you.
kitizz said:
Yeah, I found the same problem. Trying to get to the bottom of it atm... I'll follow up if I find anything
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Yep, ok - found it all.
Looks like it stores it directly in the app cache now.
If you something like Root Explorer you can find it under:
/data/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music/
Not sure how useful that is to you.
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Thanks. Yeah, I guess knowing where the music is stored doesn't help if the apps don't know to look there. At least my curiosity has been quenched.
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Just got my GNex today, and I'm loving it... However, with that said, I can't seem to get any pictures to transfer to the phone. I wanted to copy over all my SD card photos from my old phone, but the GNex keeps rejecting the copies. I can copy files and folders just fine, but no jpgs. I'm using a windows machine, and the driver is loaded. I can browse the phone, but not move pics. Am I doing something wrong, or do I need to RTFM?
I am having the same problem. Can't copy photos to the phone...
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I found out why, now just need to find the work around...
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...behind-galaxy-nexus-lack-of-usb-mass-storage/
I read something about using Samsung Kies, but I couldn't find any information on it. Maybe it has to be done thru google photos or something... Anyone have ideas?
Same issue for me. Both photos and videos will just hang when trying to start transferring. Bummer.
same issue here...no fix yet...bummer
more info for you guys
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1356593&page=3
I'm using airdroid.com as a work around and its working great. It's a cool system for other uses too.
I can't figure how to delete a couple of songs. This is driving me insane. I did shuffle all on streaming and now I have some songs that I want off the phone. I know where they all are if I plug the phone into a PC, but I don't want to do it that way. There has to be an option in the app.
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/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.music/cache/music/
the songs seem to be unnamed (as they're in ###.mp3) format. you can verify on your computer it's size and compare w/ the ones in the folder
if you are just streaming them then go into settings from inside the google music app and unselect the cache music check mark. I will say that while the cached music is available offline if your phone actually needs more space google music automatically removes what is needed.
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un selecting it will also automatically remove the temporary stored current music
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if you are just streaming them then go into settings from inside the google music app and unselect the cache music check mark. I will say that while the cached music is available offline if your phone actually needs more space google music automatically removes what is needed.
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un selecting it will also automatically remove the temporary stored current music
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When you Say unselecting it, I take it you mean clicking settings and Select Make Available Offline and then when the check boxes appear to the left uncheck them.
The problem there is that none of my offline music is already checked when i get to that screen. This is really messing with me. I truly am starting to believe that google didn't implement a way to delete music after you download it.
OK figured it out. Turns out I had to check them for copy offline. Then it downloaded any missing album songs. After that I could uncheck them and they would be deleted.
I doubt that process follows androids new style guide that Matias is pushing. I think there could be a lot more consistency and user Customization that is needed in these apps.
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OK figured it out. Turns out I had to check them for copy offline. Then it downloaded any missing album songs. After that I could uncheck them and they would be deleted.
I doubt that process follows androids new style guide that Matias is pushing. I think there could be a lot more consistency and user Customization that is needed in these apps.
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How does this NOT follow his guidelines??
Firstly, the guidelines are for the VISUAL elements Android ICS, not internal workings. And secondly, THIS IS STOCK ANDROID FROM GOOGLE. How would this not comply with anything Google. Holy crap.
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S4Rs said:
When you Say unselecting it, I take it you mean clicking settings and Select Make Available Offline and then when the check boxes appear to the left uncheck them.
The problem there is that none of my offline music is already checked when i get to that screen. This is really messing with me. I truly am starting to believe that google didn't implement a way to delete music after you download it.
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open google music hit the three dot setting tab then select settings. Remove the check mark from cache music if you dont want it to make whatever you stream available offline
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OK figured it out. Turns out I had to check them for copy offline. Then it downloaded any missing album songs. After that I could uncheck them and they would be deleted.
I doubt that process follows androids new style guide that Matias is pushing. I think there could be a lot more consistency and user Customization that is needed in these apps.
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Believe it or not, but you are not supposed to be bothered by the cached files(the program will handle them just fine if the memory is needed elsewhere). And if you don't want music to cache them, go to settings(uhh consistency) and remove the checkmark from caching music.
So just found "google play movies" running on my HOX from taskmanager.
search it on web and open link with play store.. updated it and open program.
but why isnt there a link in programs for it?
I really liked the layout.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/70923282/2012-05-20_10-13-16.png
Very cool find!
It's really nice for browsing your own videos .. if anyone else can figure out how to make the icon appear though that'd be nice ..
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Very cool find!
It's really nice for browsing your own videos .. if anyone else can figure out how to make the icon appear though that'd be nice ..
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Scratch that .. the icon's actually on my homescreen .. it's not in my app drawer though which is weird
guys can you post here the APK? thanks
Does anyone know where if you rent a movie and download it for viewing offline what directory it is stored in on internal memory or the file extension?
Thanks,
acke999 said:
but why isnt there a link in programs for it?
I really liked the layout.
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Scratch that .. the icon's actually on my homescreen .. it's not in my app drawer though which is weird
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On my phone, its there in the app drawer under the name "Play Movies"...
Ok I finally figured out where it is stored. So I temp unrooted my phone made purchase and then selected download for offline viewing. So in the directory there is a file
application_4jSa8szMNjs.wvm
so i brought my root back to get into that directory then where i was stumped i figured it would be wmv mp4 3gp or whatever with drm protection but no its wvm I have never heard of wvm. so anyways I moved the wvm file to a different directly. Temporarily unrooted my phone . Then went into the google play movie app and it said that the download was missing. so i know I have the proper file. Now my question is does anyone here know anything about a .wvm file ?
I'm currently using Contacts+ as my SMS app, I like using one app for my dialer/contacts/texting. The number of texts on my phone are getting out of hand. I see on Hangouts there is a way to check a button to reduce the number of texts if needed. I know there used to be apps that worked in ICS to delete old text messages.
How are you guys doing it now? I can't be the only one.
I'm currently running DigitalHigh's Rom on my verizon device.
Thank you,
Z
I use the google messaginer for sms
I would be asking the app makers about that?
Or surely just go into the stock messaging app and delete them?
I know 8sms can delete them anyway, as well as every other app I've ever seen.
Unless I'm misunderstanding your issue? ?
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Oh, auto delete? Yeah... Many apps have that option, if yours doesn't... Again, app developer would need to add that feature or explain how.
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Yes, 8sms has that feature.
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Stock Sense does too.
Even though your using another app.... Have you tried limiting the number in Stock messaging app... It may still work, even if you're using another app.
I'm using an GPE version of Lollipop so the only native app is Hangouts and Google Messenger. Messenger does not have a delete function and Hangouts just has a function if too much space is being used.
I reached out to the the developer and they said use the native messenger to delete, I emailed back showing screenshots of not having that feature. Hopefully they can put it on their to-do list.
i was wondering if any 1 knows how to set up my fire tv stick with a layout to show my sideloaded apps to look like this. as i have a 2nd FTV and i have to go the long way to get to kodi ect through settings, managed installed apps..
or know of a way i can totaly back up my stick and transfer all data to another device. i looked at rooting but looks like i need to do some soildering
i have images to show how my layout is with apps like mobdro WSS and kodi skygo, btsport, ect with in the actual apps section without me going into manage installed apps. unable to post pics due to post count. i could link any 1 with images if some 1 could post for me
Not sure what you mean, cause you said "like this", but did not post a pic. I have a feeling that you might be talking about making all your apps show up in the apps section. All you have to do is downoad and install the Amazon App Store apk then reboot. It will show all of your apps in the apps section on the fire launcher, but it will break some functionality like being able to install amazon apps, but to fix it all you have to do is uninstall the app store and reboot. I never install apps from the amazon launcher anyway so I just leave the app store installed.
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Just some advice, install Dock4Droid and you can launch apps from anywhere. You can set your favorite apps to always appear on the dock. With Dock4Drid there is no reason to go to the launcher to open any apps.
i posted like this. as i was going to add pics but cant due to post count. i will try wat you said and see if it works. if so i will come back with feed back. thanks
YES i installed the Amazon App Store apk, and it changed the layout what i was looking for. kudos
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