Develop Bugs

Music files not reading

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

[Q] Music Playlist Deletion - Is There a Solution???

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.

rmikulus said:
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
Putter said:
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"

Rooted: After ROM Install - Pics/Music Disspear from View

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
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

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
HashTagHell said:
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.

levelbest said:
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:

levelbest said:
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.

Problem with pictures, music, ringtones

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'...

Meelocheck said:
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

Media Storage/Scan Issue

It appears our great Sammy S2's have a issue that I don't seem to see a lot of people talking about. When media storage scans for our media files and runs into a "corrupt" audio file tag. It goes haywire(at least on my phone and another s2 I tested), deleting files, causing music files to not play, causing them to disappear and reappear. Me being an avid music lover, I cannot stand for this after paying so much for what's supposed to be a good phone. It looks as though the problem is caused by the Android/Samsung media scanner constantly scanning for files after it runs into a "corrupt" iD3 tag in a music file. So far I haven't had much problems with it until I have to reboot my phone then media scanner takes it's good ole time trying to scan my files which I have over 3,000 of and when it's done it reduces down to showing me under 1,000 of them. Now I was told by Samsung and T-Mobile to delete them files. But since I love all of my music, I just cannot do that. So after I reboot my phone I try to get to the media storage to FS it so it doesn't delete or "ghost" my files on me. Of course this happens with little luck and by the time I FS it, it has erased or "ghosted" some of my media files. I'm using PowerAmp as a media player which has it's scanner built into it. If I don't disable the Android Scanner then the files that do remain end up in an unknown folder on PowerAmp. So instead of having to deal with renaming and copying my files back onto the SD card I was wondering if there is some kind of app or script or something that will disable the Android scanner totally. It's not needed since PowerAmp has one built in.
Would it be safe to totally remove media storage from the System folder?
Is anybody by any chance working on a fix for this as I would believe this is a major problem with a phone that's supposed to be awesome?
Is there anybody else dealing with these same issues?
As being a NOOB when it comes to development I would be crazy to try and start to work on some kind of fix as I know I would mess something up if it came to programming.
Somebody told me yesterday to copy my music files from under the storage files and into the external_sd folder but that folder is under my internal sd file system and well to me that doesn't sound right because I have over 20gb of music and only 4.5gb of space left on the internal.
Has anybody tried anything that worked yet?
Would copying the files into the external_sd folder put them on that external sd card even though the folder is on the internal card?
I know I may seem annoying but I love my music and must have it on the go because I travel long distances and cannot stand the radio at all. I would be willing to fund a fix if there isn't already one in place. Somebody please get back to me please as I do get frustrated which leads to flying phones without superpowers. LOL
Hmmmmmmmm would it be at all possible to port media storage from a non-Samsung JB ROM?

Ok now if you are having this same problem it probably means you are running a music/media player with it's own internal scanner. What you need to do then is to disable the internal scanner in the media player. If you try to freeze the ROM's media scanner you'll lose all your custom ringtones and stuff until you re-enable it.
What is happening is if you use a media player with it's own scanner then both of them are trying to run at the same time and when they do you can end up with lost files or them "ghost" files as I like to call them. Also if that doesn't help it may help to freeze the system scanner before opening your media player. This so far is the longest I have run my media player without files failing to play or disappear. Hope this helps for anybody having the same problem. If I find a better fix I'll post it in here.