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No Photos In Sliding Panel (CMyPhotos) SOLVED!!!

I just recently started having a problem where the CMyPhotos panel in CHome no linger shows photos... it just says "No Photos". I have photos in the /Storage Card/Pictures directory and My Documents/My Photos directory on my phone itself. it still doesnt show photos at all though... I can manually look at the photos, but i dont get the thumbnail view on the homescreen.
Anyone else had this issue before?
P.S. and yes.... i have rebooted my device. and i've tried it with and without my storage card. and yes, i know a hard reset will most like resolve this issue, but i'm looking for a fix without the hard reset.

I had the same problem and it went on and on, so I just got fed up with it and did a hard reset on it. I think that will probably be your best bet man.

This is worth a try, create on storage card root "Pictures" and place some pics in there, just notice your dir is named differently.
Might not work but worth a shot.

Try changing showing and hiding Chrome Configurator CMYPhotos a few times and soft reset. Just a suggestion never happened to me.

pfunkside said:
Try changing showing and hiding Chrome Configurator CMYPhotos a few times and soft reset. Just a suggestion never happened to me.
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I tried that when it happened to me and no resolution so I ended up hard resetting... It just happened for me out of no where and I am not sure what caused it to happen...

Thanks, 4 your suggestions guys. I already had the "pictures" directory in the root of my storage card...i did hide and then show the CMyPhotos several times as well. I even tried putting pics on my phones root "my documents/my pictures" directory as well but it still doesnt show anything.
Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Pictures "folder" in the root of your storage card is the best solution.

i guess people don't read what i've already done.......
well here's the fix for it ( in case anyone else has this issue in the future)
you have to re-format your sd card. I tried re-formatting it with resco explorer, but it would not let me. so i had to use the WM5Storage option to let the PC recognize it as a removable disk (sorry, i don't have an sd card reader on my PC). I then copy/pasted all my files to my PC. formatted it (fat16) and then copied all the files back over to it. Now my pictures folder is recognized by the CMyPhotos and i can see all of the pictures on my phone and storage card.

pudgedaddy said:
Thanks, 4 your suggestions guys. I already had the "pictures" directory in the root of my storage card...i did hide and then show the CMyPhotos several times as well. I even tried putting pics on my phones root "my documents/my pictures" directory as well but it still doesnt show anything.
Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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try renamin the picture folder to DCIM hope this helps

Dang I wish I would have done that before I performed a hard reset on my phone... Uhhhh that sucks...

Nice advice!

desire lost photos

hi
i have just looked at my gallery and found the the photos in there wont display ,i get a sdcard pic with a ! infont of it for every photo i have taken!! any one got any thoughts on why this is and how i can get them back ..

I am getting a similar problem. I had my desire running legit eclair and photos were actually just deleting themselves off my SD card. I have recently rooted my phone and running leedroid 1.9 and now the matter has sort of got better. Instead of completely removing any trace of the photos it is now just not showing them in the HTC photo app although they are still there on the SD card? Any suggestions?
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This was the first symptom of my SD card starting to self destruct.
Still trying to get to the bottom of whether it is a fake or a faulty SD, or whether my Desire destroyed the card.

may be a corrupt sd card would backup asap and try a new card see if that helps

techjunkiejp said:
I am getting a similar problem. I had my desire running legit eclair and photos were actually just deleting themselves off my SD card. I have recently rooted my phone and running leedroid 1.9 and now the matter has sort of got better. Instead of completely removing any trace of the photos it is now just not showing them in the HTC photo app although they are still there on the SD card? Any suggestions?
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I too am having this problem...
I noticed a couple of pictures seemed to be missing from the SD card, but restored these from an earlier backup. My initial thought being that maybe I'd inadvertently deleted them
The strange thing is, the same two pictures have been deleted again! And furthermore, they're also missing from an earlier backup of the 8GB card I used to have in the phone.
So, given that I'm now using a 32GB card, and I've lost the same two images, this does not seem to be SD card specific.
It's quite possible I've also lost more, but I'd need to check to be sure - the two I know of just happen to be fairly obvious ones.
I'm now wondering whether this has anything to do with the 3D Gallery app - because I've noticed odd behaviour (e.g. duplicate images) when using this in the past? I'll restore my images again, but uninstall that app first to see if that makes any difference.
(FYI - I'm using an unbranded Desire running Stock Froyo.)

New 32 gig ad card so I know its not that.
I think they are still there but just get blank boxes with a card simble with an ! Mark in font rinsed of a pic .

Forgot I'm running stock froyo and am unbranded.

Sorry forgot I'm running stock froyo and am unbrande

TractorMatty said:
I too am having this problem...
I'm now wondering whether this has anything to do with the 3D Gallery app - because I've noticed odd behaviour (e.g. duplicate images) when using this in the past? I'll restore my images again, but uninstall that app first to see if that makes any difference.
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I uninstalled the app, and restored all my missing images yesterday. (As it happens, I'd lost several images from various different folders.)
So far at least, everything's fine and the images are yet to disappear again. Bearing in mind that when I last restored them on Friday, and they were gone by Monday, it's not conclusive yet - but it could well be related to the 3D gallery app.
I was using the APK file found here.
Can anyone else with this problem confirm whether or not they've installed the 3D gallery app too? There seem to be a lot of variations of this app, perhaps some are more buggy than others.

Someone find the solution?
I have this problem too.

You may try to unmount the SD card first.. and putting it back in, using official way by menu -> settings -> SD and phone memory.
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its not the same, but i found if photos move folders it still keeps them lingering in the gallery for awhile... I have loads of photos on my phone so if i leave the gallery app open for a few minutes it starts re-jigging itself and correcting all the 'missing photos' in gallery and eventually reconfigures itself (i assume after doing a little scan).... first noticed this when i added a folder to the sd card with pics in and couldnt see them, rebooted, opened and closed gallery a few times - nothing - when i left gallery open for a few minutes it eventually appeared...

IVS IVRIS said:
You may try to unmount the SD card first.. and putting it back in, using official way by menu -> settings -> SD and phone memory.
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Normally I just use the HTC menu to change only charge to Mass Storage, and after finish my job I use safe remove on windows.
I think your idea maybe could prevent this kind problem.
Thanks to remember this aspect, I forgot-it completely.

Lothaen said:
its not the same, but i found if photos move folders it still keeps them lingering in the gallery for awhile... I have loads of photos on my phone so if i leave the gallery app open for a few minutes it starts re-jigging itself and correcting all the 'missing photos' in gallery and eventually reconfigures itself (i assume after doing a little scan).... first noticed this when i added a folder to the sd card with pics in and couldnt see them, rebooted, opened and closed gallery a few times - nothing - when i left gallery open for a few minutes it eventually appeared...
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If it's happen is a serious case.
So I mean that I need to Terminate HTC Gallery to prevent possibles issues with my precious photos!!!
So this fact is more understandable because it is only photos that goes to "galheiro", as I say in Portuguese.

Media process draining battery

Hi,
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.
Thanks :good:

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?
Thanks again :good:

Camera pictures and videos showing problem

Hi! I have this problem which is bothering me for a week now. When i open gallery and try to view camera pictures it only shows me pictures i made during last week or later, the rest are black or says "loading". I have already tried changing the saving directory for pictures from external storage to internal but it makes no difference. :/ on my external sd card i also have some pictures from my previous phone. it makes no sense because the pictures were shown normally untill now. i also tryed showing them with Quickpic app but its the same. I can only view the on my computer and maybe if im lucky from preinstalled "File organiser". If anyone has any solution for this please write it.
Thanks for help, cheers

Strange issue. I just took a look at my stock gallery app and I'm not noticing it. I typically use the Google Photos app, though. Have you tried clearing the data for the stock Gallery app?

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Strange issue. I just took a look at my stock gallery app and I'm not noticing it. I typically use the Google Photos app, though. Have you tried clearing the data for the stock Gallery app?
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Thanks for taking a look. Yes i already tried wiping the data for stock Gallery and everything but no difference :/ i dont know what to do. i also cant show these pictures when i connect my G3 with USB cable to my PC, though. I think they are broken or something.

Pictures keep disappearing

Hi all! I love this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I recently upgraded from the HTC one m8 to the HTC 10 and I noticed that sometimes when I take pictures they completely disappear. They're there for a short while then I can't find them again even when I connect the phone to my PC. I can't change the camera settings to store the pics on the device rather than the SD card. For some reason it won't let me change it. Also sometimes when I take a screenshot I get an error saying that it couldn't store it on the SD card because the app doesn't have permission or sometimes it says that there's no room on the SD card. Both are untrue.
I went to a comic convention today and took some good pics, I went to upload one to twitter but I think there was a network problem because nothing online was loading so I restarted my phone and then the pic (and the others I'd taken during that day) had disappeared. I took more pics and double checked they were in the gallery, which they were only to find they have gone missing now.
Is this a device issue or an Android issue? Any help would be great, I'd love to get these pics back.

I feel like I was having issues finding photos I downloaded from Google Drive as well.
Download Quick Pic from the store and see if you can find them through settings.
HTC10

Thank you for your advice. I downloaded it but unfortunately the pics are still missing. It's just so weird. I shared one via Skype before it disappeared. It still shows up in the Skype convo but nowhere else
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Did you try a file Explorer?
HTC10

I did and still nothing. Only 5 pictures appear that I've taken with the camera on this phone and I've taken at least 20. The ones that have disappeared are from different times as well.
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Where are you saving them to? The internal storage or external SD card? It shouldn't really matter I suppose but it might be a factor.
I save to the external card and haven't lost any.

To the external card. I tried changing it to internal to see if that made a difference but for some reason it won't let me change it
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More pics keep disappearing. I don't understand it. Some stay on the phone and some don't
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try formatting your SD card within the phone and see

IllusiaX said:
Hi all! I love this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I recently upgraded from the HTC one m8 to the HTC 10 and I noticed that sometimes when I take pictures they completely disappear. They're there for a short while then I can't find them again even when I connect the phone to my PC. I can't change the camera settings to store the pics on the device rather than the SD card. For some reason it won't let me change it. Also sometimes when I take a screenshot I get an error saying that it couldn't store it on the SD card because the app doesn't have permission or sometimes it says that there's no room on the SD card. Both are untrue.
I went to a comic convention today and took some good pics, I went to upload one to twitter but I think there was a network problem because nothing online was loading so I restarted my phone and then the pic (and the others I'd taken during that day) had disappeared. I took more pics and double checked they were in the gallery, which they were only to find they have gone missing now.
Is this a device issue or an Android issue? Any help would be great, I'd love to get these pics back.
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As the person above me stated, reformat your sd card from within the phone and restart your device. Then change the photo save location to your sd card.
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after you get your card formatted and working because it does seem like you have a faulty card or not formatted properly to save the photos, I would set up google photos to save them automatically, you have unlimited storage with it if you choose that setting. That way you will have have them backed up even when on the go and since its kinda the new htc 10 gallery no reason not to use it fully, will also remove the sync sign in the app on the corners of your photos

IllusiaX said:
Hi all! I love this forum and I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I recently upgraded from the HTC one m8 to the HTC 10 and I noticed that sometimes when I take pictures they completely disappear. They're there for a short while then I can't find them again even when I connect the phone to my PC. I can't change the camera settings to store the pics on the device rather than the SD card. For some reason it won't let me change it. Also sometimes when I take a screenshot I get an error saying that it couldn't store it on the SD card because the app doesn't have permission or sometimes it says that there's no room on the SD card. Both are untrue.
I went to a comic convention today and took some good pics, I went to upload one to twitter but I think there was a network problem because nothing online was loading so I restarted my phone and then the pic (and the others I'd taken during that day) had disappeared. I took more pics and double checked they were in the gallery, which they were only to find they have gone missing now.
Is this a device issue or an Android issue? Any help would be great, I'd love to get these pics back.
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Do you have an issue where you SD unmounts?? Try a different camera app to see if you can map the internal memory.
I've had the problem with the SD card ummounting, it's a pain but apparently something which a lot of people live with.
Try a different SD card, see if this persists, try with no SD card, see if it persists.
Clear data on the camera app within application manager.
Use a file manager and go to DCIM check all the folders within that folder and see if you can see the images you took.
So long as the little preview of the image showed a change within the camera app, the images should still be on there.
Hope this helps.

dynamikd said:
As the person above me stated, reformat your sd card from within the phone and restart your device. Then change the photo save location to your sd card.
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The photos already save to the SD card. They've always saved to the SD card from the moment I bought it, put it in the phone and formatted it. I didn't even need to change anything in the camera settings. They're just automatically stored there. I could format it again but then if the photos are somehow hidden on the card then they'll get deleted.

dladz said:
Do you have an issue where you SD unmounts?? Try a different camera app to see if you can map the internal memory.
I've had the problem with the SD card ummounting, it's a pain but apparently something which a lot of people live with.
Try a different SD card, see if this persists, try with no SD card, see if it persists.
Clear data on the camera app within application manager.
Use a file manager and go to DCIM check all the folders within that folder and see if you can see the images you took.
So long as the little preview of the image showed a change within the camera app, the images should still be on there.
Hope this helps.
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I tried different camera apps and they wouldn't let me choose anywhere but the SD card to save photos. I removed the SD card and the camera apps would'nt take pics. They kept insisting I insert an SD card. The camera app that came with the phone wouldn't even bring up the storage option. The other camera apps wouldn't let me choose anywhere else to save photos. They said cannot write here. I'll try another SD card when I have a chance to get one. The little preview showed at first in the photo gallery but the moment I selected it it wouldn't load then it refreshed and the image was gone.
It's just so odd that it's not all pics.

IllusiaX said:
I tried different camera apps and they wouldn't let me choose anywhere but the SD card to save photos. I removed the SD card and the camera apps would'nt take pics. They kept insisting I insert an SD card. The camera app that came with the phone wouldn't even bring up the storage option. The other camera apps wouldn't let me choose anywhere else to save photos. They said cannot write here. I'll try another SD card when I have a chance to get one. The little preview showed at first in the photo gallery but the moment I selected it it wouldn't load then it refreshed and the image was gone.
It's just so odd that it's not all pics.
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And in file manager?
Also what rom are you running mate?
Any mods which alter installation locations? Are you on the correct firmware? What htc do you have US carrier? International?
It does sound odd, but I'm thinking fixable. Could it be a read / write issue? Has permissions been denied for the camera?
Check permissions within camera in app manager.

dladz said:
And in file manager?
Also what rom are you running mate?
Any mods which alter installation locations? Are you on the correct firmware? What htc do you have US carrier? International?
It does sound odd, but I'm thinking fixable. Could it be a read / write issue? Has permissions been denied for the camera?
Check permissions within camera in app manager.
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Once they've disappeared from the photo gallery they also disappear from the file manager.
It's the stock rom that came with the phone. I haven't modified it like that in any way.
It's O2 carrier in the UK.
As far as I know it's the correct firmware.
The only time there is ever an issue with the camera is when occasionally it tells me it can't save the image due to insufficient storage (which is untrue because there's plenty of storage) the same happens for screen shots sometimes but a restart of the phone fixes this on both occasions.

IllusiaX said:
Once they've disappeared from the photo gallery they also disappear from the file manager.
It's the stock rom that came with the phone. I haven't modified it like that in any way.
It's O2 carrier in the UK.
As far as I know it's the correct firmware.
The only time there is ever an issue with the camera is when occasionally it tells me it can't save the image due to insufficient storage (which is untrue because there's plenty of storage) the same happens for screen shots sometimes but a restart of the phone fixes this on both occasions.
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If it's stock then you're on the correct firmware, have you tried factory wiping the device??
If you have then it could be a faulty phone as this does sound pretty unique, i've never heard of it before.

dladz said:
If it's stock then you're on the correct firmware, have you tried factory wiping the device??
If you have then it could be a faulty phone as this does sound pretty unique, i've never heard of it before.
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I haven't tried a factory wipe yet. Was hoping to exhaust all other options first just in case the lost photos are recoverable some how. But if that's my only option left I might just contact HTC about it.

You could be having an SD card issue. My SD card has been replaced and formatted more than once. My pix disappear, and my music disappears. I use a ringtone from my music folder and my phone keeps un-mounting my sd as if it's not in the phone. I know when it happens because my notification and ringtones change.
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Ok so I tried getting in touch with HTC but they didn't respond to my email. I logged onto a live chat with them but I got disconnected because they finish at 6pm.
Then I decided to just format the SD card. I figured if I haven't been able to recover those lost pictures by now, I never will be. Besides the phone was getting worse. I could no longer take pics through Instagram and an HTC software update wouldn't download because apparently my phone storage was "read only" which isn't true.
Any way I formatted the SD card twice and set it only for storage not for installing apps and the phone seems to work fine now. I can actually select phone storage in the camera app now where before it wasn't an option. I also no longer get errors when saving screenshots. The whole thing was so weird I'm just glad it seems to be ok now.
Thanks for all your help and advice.