Rooted my Galaxy Nexus - Sprint today.
Not a stranger to rooting, had a nexus s and evo before that... but am having something odd going on.
Transfered pics from previous phone along with music and ringtones. They show up when I first bring a rom up (have tried 3-4 today and only installed basic stuff). Literally, you can go into the gallery app and watch the photos be found, and then start to be removed.
After a few minutes of running - none of the pics or music are visable in the gallery or google play. If I grab a file explorer program - they are all there. Also QuickPic shows the pictures.
What the heck is going on here? It's like a process is scanning the folders, seeing them and then deciding to discard the files from view.
Strange stuff.
Is it possible something on the storage card got hosed? I'd wipe it but the recovery files, backup etc are on there. I've seen some reports of this happening to others - but most say to clear data or use SDRescan - and that's not worked for me.
Was hoping I would wake up this morning and this would all have sorted itself out but no luck - anyone have any ideas?
I am also dealing with this issue.
Just uploaded a rom and kernal for the first time and copied my old Music folder and pasted it onto the phone. The File Manager sees it but when I go to the music player there's nothing there.
Its an issue with ROM manager
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30285277&postcount=22
It works! Thanks HashTagHell
I'll edit my comment below to address the problems I had
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clear media storage data
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Could you elaborate? Delete the media file?
ANSWER: media storage data is in the apps list under all.
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remove ROM manager
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Rom manager wasn't there to begin with
Answer: Didn't matter/didn't come up
So - not knowing the answer yet - I was removing the .nomedia file and trying everything but couldn't get the new roms to see my pics and music. Highly frustrating and messed around for a day clearing cache, clearing program data. Still nothing. Ran SDRescan and similar programs - nothing.
By chance installed PowerAMP media player to see if it would see the music. After it did it's own scan - suddenly - everything started showing up in the play music player, apollo and gallery. Something about what it does kick started Android into seeing things. Odd.
So, What you are saying is this is caused by ROM manager? Are they aware of the issue and fixing? Would be a pain updating existing ROM's if you had to uninstall, install, uninstall, install etc....
Yeah, he released an update lastnight. The new update doesn't place the .nomedia file on the sdcard.
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So - not knowing the answer yet - I was removing the .nomedia file and trying everything but couldn't get the new roms to see my pics and music. Highly frustrating and messed around for a day clearing cache, clearing program data. Still nothing. Ran SDRescan and similar programs - nothing.
By chance installed PowerAMP media player to see if it would see the music. After it did it's own scan - suddenly - everything started showing up in the play music player, apollo and gallery. Something about what it does kick started Android into seeing things. Odd.
So, What you are saying is this is caused by ROM manager? Are they aware of the issue and fixing? Would be a pain updating existing ROM's if you had to uninstall, install, uninstall, install etc....
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Did the same thing as you, I had no ROM manager on mine either. Installed PowerAMP and mine is working now also.
rweddy1 said:
Did the same thing as you, I had no ROM manager on mine either. Installed PowerAMP and mine is working now also.
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Sweet - nice to see two days of my life lost at least helped someone! LOL. :silly:
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Sweet - nice to see two days of my life lost at least helped someone! LOL. :silly:
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What I did was remove the .nomedia file from the root of the SD card then copied the media files in question to my laptop. I then deleted thos folders from the SD card and copied everything back in and it started working again.
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Ok, I just got a 4gig Sandisk MicroSD (SDHC) placed about 2.5 gigs of music on it last night and everything was working great. I used WMP11 to sync files onto my storage card.
This morning things worked out for awhile, then, Media Player Mobile stopped seeing the storage card. The storage card still shows up in File Explorer and I can play files individually using the Windows Media Player Mobile, but since it's not seeing the card I can't play songs by Album, Genre, Artist, etc. I tried Updating Library and it runs ok, but when it says it's done the Storage Card still doesn't show up.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I'm running vp3G 3.61
Thanks
Dwight2001
my honest answer to this......is that WMP sucks a$$......dont use it man....what you want to use is htc audio manager....its an incredible, stable and versatile program for music, you can try it and keep it if you like it and if u dont just delete it....its free and best of all is that you can still turn off your screen while the device plays music to save battery.....windows media player is very unstable, messes up a lot, and its just plain aggravating....i had the same problem you are havin a few weeks ago....
you can find the link to htc audio manager here in this cab library
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319468
hope this helps....PM me if you have questions bout it
I had this problem the other day - first time since November last year when running WM5. I was in a flashing mood so tried various different WM6 Roms and the problem remained - I could see the card in all ways except for when WMP tried to update my music files (It found them but wouldn't add them).
I re-formatted my micro-SD cards (1GB and 2GB) from FAT16 to FAT32 and all is now well again. I seem to remember this was also one of the tricks for the old 'SD card disappears' problem.
You can format through any compatible card reader, or direct on your phone using pocket mechanic from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=300353
WMP does SUCK! and yes HTC audio manager is 100* better...
however the problem i htink you're having is a common problem with WMP, i dont know the reason it happens but IIRC the WMP media DB gets currepted.
this is a hidden file on your SD card called somthing like METADATA or somthing along those lines.
I foudn mine got currupted regularly.
a format of the card will resolve the issue but with that much media to copy off and on its tedious. another solution is to (while WMP is NOT running) rename this file.
next time WMP loads it will re-search your card for media and re-build its DB resolving the issue.
you may be able to delete the file but i found i couldn't due to some file locks or currption im not sure.
OH!!! importantly the built in file explorer wont be able to see the hidden file. i would sugest rename it on a PC, or install GSFiner+ which is a MUCH better file browser anyway. you can use GSFinder to show hidden and system files you otherwise can't see in the built in explorer.
hope that helps... (or switch to a decent media player p
Msmetadata
This post is all over here if you would search. I know it is a pain but we all go through it. So go to File Explorer on your phone. Go to the storage card on the main screen of the storage card click on menu show all files and then you will see MSMETADATA folder. Delete it. I had to do mine a few times and then it quit showing up. Just a little FYI. It will work. No need to do ANYTHING else.
8thcivic said:
my honest answer to this......is that WMP sucks a$$......dont use it man....what you want to use is htc audio manager....its an incredible, stable and versatile program for music, you can try it and keep it if you like it and if u dont just delete it....its free and best of all is that you can still turn off your screen while the device plays music to save battery.....windows media player is very unstable, messes up a lot, and its just plain aggravating....i had the same problem you are havin a few weeks ago....
you can find the link to htc audio manager here in this cab library
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319468
hope this helps....PM me if you have questions bout it
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Well I tried out HTC Audio Mangager and you were 100% right, this is a much better and UI Friendly Player. I already had it, but never really messed with it much. I was so impressed I went ahead and downloaded the HTC Home Customizer so I could make it the Default Player on the 'Music Tab'.
Thanks for the tip,
Dwight2001
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This post is all over here if you would search. I know it is a pain but we all go through it. So go to File Explorer on your phone. Go to the storage card on the main screen of the storage card click on menu show all files and then you will see MSMETADATA folder. Delete it. I had to do mine a few times and then it quit showing up. Just a little FYI. It will work. No need to do ANYTHING else.
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That's right.. Though you will need to set the file explorere to show hidden files before you can delete the folder.
What I found out though is that it will somehow mysteriously return... Like when the phone is powered off and some other such.
So what I did was delete the MSMETADATA folder from the storage card and rebuild the library on the storage card... Once it was rebuilt and loaded then I built a PLAYLIST and saved it...
Now when I want to play from the storage card I just go to open FILE and then go to mydevice->storagecard->playlist->myplaylist
No more problems with the lost library stuff (only need to do it again when adding new songs)...
This works fine and solve the problem with my 8525 thanks
Thanks this worked
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This post is all over here if you would search. I know it is a pain but we all go through it. So go to File Explorer on your phone. Go to the storage card on the main screen of the storage card click on menu show all files and then you will see MSMETADATA folder. Delete it. I had to do mine a few times and then it quit showing up. Just a little FYI. It will work. No need to do ANYTHING else.
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YOU ARE THE BEST! this annoyed me for a while now. I thought it will be something simple
Thank you
We need to make this into a sticky
prestonjb said:
That's right.. Though you will need to set the file explorere to show hidden files before you can delete the folder.
What I found out though is that it will somehow mysteriously return... Like when the phone is powered off and some other such.
So what I did was delete the MSMETADATA folder from the storage card and rebuild the library on the storage card... Once it was rebuilt and loaded then I built a PLAYLIST and saved it...
Now when I want to play from the storage card I just go to open FILE and then go to mydevice->storagecard->playlist->myplaylist
No more problems with the lost library stuff (only need to do it again when adding new songs)...
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Thank you for pointing this out.
wfg
starbase64
After syncing windows media player 11 with my windows mobile device (to the storage card) when I open up the libary and select any song it plays for 2 seconds and then moves on to the next song with the previous song having the red exclamation point next to it, I particularly encounter this problem within a created playlist,how do I resolve this?
Music Library
All you have to do in that situation is update the player library if you have alot of music it may take awile but it takes care of the Storage card problem everytime
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This post is all over here if you would search. I know it is a pain but we all go through it. So go to File Explorer on your phone. Go to the storage card on the main screen of the storage card click on menu show all files and then you will see MSMETADATA folder. Delete it. I had to do mine a few times and then it quit showing up. Just a little FYI. It will work. No need to do ANYTHING else.
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I was having the same problem, but this fixed it Thanks a lot!!
Hey guys I was wondering if anyone has troubles with there mp3s not playing. For a couple of days my music player would play music then all of a sudden it would say file not supported or something along the lines of that. Where it would no longer play my music. At first thought it was the player so I downloaded another player and it said file didn't exist. The files are obviously there as I just played it a day ago.
After rebooting my phone it would play again. Then same thing would happen a couple of days later. So then I tried unmounting my sd card and remounting. That works as well for a day. The same thing it wouldn't read or play the mp3s. Is it my sd card (stock sd btw) or just a buggy phone? Thanks in advance? I'm rooted using syndicate rom, was happening b4 I rooted as well. Thought it would help it doesn't.
I have this same issue
I can still access the SD Card... add / remove files via ASTRO or Drop Box...
Just any attempts to play media fail (even ringtones / notification sounds)
At one point someone said to clean the SD Card contacts... I tried that, no improvements.
Nothing short of an unmount-remount fixes it. Whether mounting the card to a computer or just a reboot (quick or hard works)
No one's been able to figure it out so far :/
ACS 1.1.1
Been doing it since 1.0.2
Ah. See I thought it was my phone but damn glad its a known issue. I was thinking maybe a better sd card instead of a class 2. But may need to do some digging, what r ur thoughts about having just the music files on root of sd card. Instead of folders so that the phone doesn't have to dig so far?
Unfreeze or restore the drm content thingy. This solved it for me a couple months ago
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
Its an issue with mp3s. How would I unfreeze the drm?
Delete the drm app from system/app.
Well I will update you in a day with no rebooting or unmount/remount. If this works I will give you my first child...
I deleted the drm app a while ago when k0nane suggested it... It didn't change anything for me.
It has been working for me. Nothing has gone wrong since the deletion of the drm. Also I might add that I deleted twitter as well. I saw a huge number of posts that suggested doing it. So I did that too. And no hiccups. I got a different client for that.
I do have Twitter installed... I will axe that and see what happens.
I can confirm... After uninstalling Twitter I haven't had to reboot to fix a music file issue...
Thanks for that info kwilbur3... Hopefully anyone else who runs into this will find this post
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"
After Rom Manager updated yesterday I went to look through my gallery and none of the pictures on my internal SD card are there. My ringtones and music aren't showing up either when I go to play them. But if I look in Root Explorer everything is still there
Anyone have any idea as to why?
I know this sounds stupid and you have probably done it, but have you tried restarting the phone? Sometimes that takes care of issues. Good Luck. Meh, I got nothin'...
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I know this sounds stupid and you have probably done it, but have you tried restarting the phone? Sometimes that takes care of issues. Good Luck. Meh, I got nothin'...
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Yep, I've done that. lol Thanks tho.
BUMP! I don't know which app did it, but I updated ROM manager and Google Maps yesterday and I am having the exact same issue. Songs don't load in Apollo, pictures don't load in gallery; however, they are all there when I use Root Explorer.
The external SD card works flawlessly, it is the internal files that will not load. Ironically, the "Camera," "Screenshots," and "Downloads" folders all come up in the albums with new photos and screenshots, but the OLD ones do not appear. This is odd because even when I take new photos they are stored in the same directory as my old photos, but the latter don't show up.
I mounted and unmounted internal and external SD cards. Rebooted phone, shutdown phone (with battery pull), and nothing has been fixed.
Ideas?
EDIT: adding link to show my present kernal/rom situation. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByCO-JlsCEV2TDgwZHpkZ3VrMnM
rom manager caused it. Created a file that impedes media scanning.
http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/articles/rooting/rom-manager-updated-to-unhide-your-media-files-r1052
Was posted in different forum, but useful. I hit this issue too. Ended up resetting and clean flashing before it was known :banghead:
sent from my T989 full of CM awesomeness and a touch of Venom from the Darkside!!
EnigmaticGeek said:
rom manager caused it. Created a file that impedes media scanning.
http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/articles/rooting/rom-manager-updated-to-unhide-your-media-files-r1052
Was posted in different forum, but useful. I hit this issue too. Ended up resetting and clean flashing before it was known :banghead:
sent from my T989 full of CM awesomeness and a touch of Venom from the Darkside!!
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Thank you. I also found this after the fact for anyone else that may want to do a fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30288181&postcount=4
Hi, my Verizon Galaxy Nexus has stopped detecting most media. The gallery only detects the 2-3 pictures I took since my most recent flash, music players will not detect new music, and if I plug my phone in to my computer I only see 5-6 of the 30 folders on my sdcard. I have tried clearing data/cache in gallery and media scanner, and I've forced media rescans with a variety of apps. I've fixed permissions several times. This problem has been around for a few roms now (all JB), and I haven't found a workaround. If I use a file explorer on my phone, I can see/load everything.
I am currently pulling all my needed files off the device (through adb), however this is a long and painful process. After this, I plan on formatting everything and starting again. I would really love a way to fix it without doing all this though, as other then this the phone is working great.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Hi, my Verizon Galaxy Nexus has stopped detecting most media. The gallery only detects the 2-3 pictures I took since my most recent flash, music players will not detect new music, and if I plug my phone in to my computer I only see 5-6 of the 30 folders on my sdcard. I have tried clearing data/cache in gallery and media scanner, and I've forced media rescans with a variety of apps. I've fixed permissions several times. This problem has been around for a few roms now (all JB), and I haven't found a workaround. If I use a file explorer on my phone, I can see/load everything.
I am currently pulling all my needed files off the device (through adb), however this is a long and painful process. After this, I plan on formatting everything and starting again. I would really love a way to fix it without doing all this though, as other then this the phone is working great.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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settings > apps > all > media storage > clear data
reboot.