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[Q] where do our pics get saved to??

I have flashed three different roms idk how many times today, and I tried to check-out my pics and they wernt there. And I don't know what to do or where to look for them at...... plz help..

i cant guarantee this is where yours are but this is where mine are saved
sdcard/dcmi/100media for camera
sdcard/downloads for text
sdcard/download for web

Ok cool I found them, but when I open the gallery app it says no photos or videos found. And the same thing is going on with my music. How can I fix this, I found everything on my sdcard, so how do I get the players to find them??

Unless there is a . In front of your folder it should pick them up automatically try taking your sdcard put it back on see what happens
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The Roms I have been flashing are cyanogen 6.1, freak e senseless, and Ava froyo10 would that have anything to do with it?

cory88mullins said:
Ok cool I found them, but when I open the gallery app it says no photos or videos found. And the same thing is going on with my music. How can I fix this, I found everything on my sdcard, so how do I get the players to find them??
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Where did you happen to find them by chance.
not here cuz i "justneedafile"

cory88mullins said:
The Roms I have been flashing are cyanogen 6.1, freak e senseless, and Ava froyo10 would that have anything to do with it?
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i could not tell you on that one then last time i used a cyanogen rom i was on Motorola droid and never used ava

I found the pics in the dcim folder under 100 media and the one that says camera

Is there any way that i could make the gallery find them?

cory88mullins said:
Is there any way that i could make the gallery find them?
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i wish i could tell you but i really dont know it should be cant figure out why its not

I ask cuz i had trouble with 3d gallery trying to find pics that were in subfolders. I think i was using myns rom.
Im not exactly sure how to make the gallery find them especialy if their not already there, but unmounting then mounting the sdcard or using switch pros feature to reload media would be my only suggestion.

I fixed my problem, i put all my important files on the computer including my pics. Then i formatted my sdcard then i put all of my pics in the DCIM folder under the camera file and walla i fixed the problem.

cory88mullins said:
Is there any way that i could make the gallery find them?
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The album should find them automatically. I took out my SIM card and put it into a friends Evo and my music and photos were automatically compiled. Is your SD card still mounted? Because if so, your SD card won't work till you unmount it from your PC.

roscoenr said:
i cant guarantee this is where yours are but this is where mine are saved
sdcard/dcmi/100media for camera
sdcard/downloads for text
sdcard/download for web
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Thanks so much. Saved my bacon

[Q] Koni's Elite Series 3 - Cant install HTC Music and HTC Music Widget

I just recently installed Koni's Elite Series III. It is my favorite ROM so far. One thing that i cant get to work is the HTC Music, and htc Music Widget apps. He has them as an optional download on the ROM page. I downloaded them, put them on the root of my sd card, and tried to flash the .zip file through clockwork mod. it says Installing update...
Installing HTC Music and Widget...
Done.
Install from sdcard complete.
When I boot back up nothing has changed and the apps are not there. so i tried extracting the apk's to the sdcard's extracted folder and installing them from there and it says application not installed. I even tried to move the apk's to the system\apps folder and install them from there but still no dice.
I tried to figure out how to post this on the rom page but I guess xda doesnt want people asking questions on dev posts haha. hopefully someone can help! Thanks!

BDawgTrap said:
I just recently installed Koni's Elite Series III. It is my favorite ROM so far. One thing that i cant get to work is the HTC Music, and htc Music Widget apps. He has them as an optional download on the ROM page. I downloaded them, put them on the root of my sd card, and tried to flash the .zip file through clockwork mod. it says Installing update...
Installing HTC Music and Widget...
Done.
Install from sdcard complete.
When I boot back up nothing has changed and the apps are not there. so i tried extracting the apk's to the sdcard's extracted folder and installing them from there and it says application not installed. I even tried to move the apk's to the system\apps folder and install them from there but still no dice.
I tried to figure out how to post this on the rom page but I guess xda doesnt want people asking questions on dev posts haha. hopefully someone can help! Thanks!
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The first thing I would do, is check your permissions on both the Music apk, and the music widget apk. Navigate to /system/app, find the htcMusic.apk, and long press it, then select 'permissions'. Make sure that it's set the same as the other system apps. Most likely you just need to be sure that User: read and write are both checked. Once the permissions are set for both of them, reboot the phone and see if that worked.

sweet!
Worked like a charm! I didnt even think about that. Thanks a bunch!!

BDawgTrap said:
Worked like a charm! I didnt even think about that. Thanks a bunch!!
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Glad it worked! Those pesky permissions can cause a headache if it slips the mind!

k2buckley said:
Glad it worked! Those pesky permissions can cause a headache if it slips the mind!
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Ya seriously! so would you know by chance how to get the htc music 2x3 widget? I thought thats what the .com.htc.musicwidget.apk was, but strangely enough that is the standard android 1x3 music widget.... I was hoping to get the htc one because its twice the size and i can control the song without going into the app, plus when the screen is locked it has controls on top of the lock bar

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Ya seriously! so would you know by chance how to get the htc music 2x3 widget? I thought thats what the .com.htc.musicwidget.apk was, but strangely enough that is the standard android 1x3 music widget.... I was hoping to get the htc one because its twice the size and i can control the song without going into the app, plus when the screen is locked it has controls on top of the lock bar
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It should be the com.htc. MusicWidget.apk. are you sure its named correctly and permissions are good on that one too?
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k2buckley said:
It should be the com.htc. MusicWidget.apk. are you sure its named correctly and permissions are good on that one too?
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ya, i pulled it from another rom (stock turbo) that has the 2x3 widget. in fact while i was on that rom earlier today (to get this, and the flashlight app) i renamed the com.htc.musicwidget.apk to com.htc.music.widget.blk and the widget disapeared. so.... the htc.musicwidget.apk must be the right file, but why would it only give me the option for the regular android 1x3 widget..... and ya the permissions are the same as all the other widgets. user has read and write and everyone else has just read. I just renamed the htc.musicwidget.apk on my phone on koni's to htc.musicwidget.apk and the android music 1x3 is still there. so i dont think that they are connected, the apk probably just isnt installing right

BDawgTrap said:
ya, i pulled it from another rom (stock turbo) that has the 2x3 widget. in fact while i was on that rom earlier today (to get this, and the flashlight app) i renamed the com.htc.musicwidget.apk to com.htc.music.widget.blk and the widget disapeared. so.... the htc.musicwidget.apk must be the right file, but why would it only give me the option for the regular android 1x3 widget..... and ya the permissions are the same as all the other widgets. user has read and write and everyone else has just read. I just renamed the htc.musicwidget.apk on my phone on koni's to htc.musicwidget.apk and the android music 1x3 is still there. so i dont think that they are connected, the apk probably just isnt installing right
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I would re download your widget, and try again. Are you sure the file didn't get corrupted? (Size is the same as it is in the rom you took it from) The 1x3 widget you're describing sounds like its the widget for the stock android music player, which I also believe is included in konis elite. That would tell me that something isnt right with your com.htc. MusicWidget.apk. did you name it right? (Capitals matter, it can't be all lower case. The m and the w both need tone capitals. (Just throwing stuff out there at this point)
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Ya I pulled it streight from the other rom, and it does have to capital M and W. Well ill just keep trying stuff haha. Thanks a ton for your help! If you come up with any other ideas just post them

BDawgTrap said:
Ya I pulled it streight from the other rom, and it does have to capital M and W. Well ill just keep trying stuff haha. Thanks a ton for your help! If you come up with any other ideas just post them
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That's odd. That is definitely the correct apk, so I don't know. Hope you get it figured out man!
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I got it to work! i just enabled all the permissions on everything and it worked. I tried doing that earlier, but it was a different apk. not sure what made it work but im just happy it does Thanks a bunch for all your help

BDawgTrap said:
I got it to work! i just enabled all the permissions on everything and it worked. I tried doing that earlier, but it was a different apk. not sure what made it work but im just happy it does Thanks a bunch for all your help
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Glad you got it working! Not a problem, any time.

[Q] Music not showing up in music player(s) [SOLVED]

Looking for some help here. Long time viewer/poster, first time I've had a problem. Perhaps I can find help.
After a music transfer last night, my phone is no longer recognizing the files in my SD card's Music folder. The files can still be located and played through ES File Explorer and other file manager apps, but all my music players (Play Music, Winamp, stock HTC player) do not show them.
Upon searching the forums and the Internet, I have noticed this problem exists across multiple devices, and the solutions are easy to do and seem to work...for everyone except me. Clearing app data/cache, uninstalling/reinstalling, using SDrescan, searching for .nomedia files (none found anywhere), unmounting/remounting, wiping and reflashing my current ROM (DigitalKarma V8)...nothing works, and I am running out of patience. I am close to completely resetting the phone and reformatting the SD card (after backing up, of course...I'm not THAT stupid )
It's likely I may be doing something wrong, but to be safe, I want to see if there is anything I am either missing or overlooking in order to fix this common yet annoying problem. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah the best step if you've tried everything would just be to reformat your sdcard because it sounds like something broke on that
OH. 1 thing before you do that, make sure that the permissions for your music is set to readable by everyone, hopefully that fixes it
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CNexus said:
Yeah the best step if you've tried everything would just be to reformat your sdcard because it sounds like something broke on that
OH. 1 thing before you do that, make sure that the permissions for your music is set to readable by everyone, hopefully that fixes it
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Wait, hold the phone. Using File Manager to search my SD card, I find a whole s***load of .nomedia files. ES File Explorer couldn't find them...guess I found a new file manager lol
Now to delete all those files and try this thing again...wish me luck.

Fixed! Looks like I did miss/overlook something, and deleting those .nomedia files took care of everything. Now that I have my music back (and a new file manager...well, not really new, I've used it occasionally in the past), I can get back to enjoying the piece of classic awesome we call the EVO 4G. Consider this case closed.

Put "[SOLVED]" in the thread title please
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Ah, I knew I forgot something. Thanks for the heads up. Like I said, first time I've had a problem/question.

MysticRhythms87 said:
Fixed! Looks like I did miss/overlook something, and deleting those .nomedia files took care of everything. Now that I have my music back (and a new file manager...well, not really new, I've used it occasionally in the past), I can get back to enjoying the piece of classic awesome we call the EVO 4G. Consider this case closed.
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That's exactly what you do is delete all those .NO MEDIA files. Also, there's an app called Rescan Media that will work

GOOGLE MUSIC [while switching ROMs]

Ok so this has been pissing me off for a very long time and I have done a lot of research and read through a bunch of forums and im still NOWHERE. When you save music to the SD card in google music on our LG optimus G it saves it to /data/data/com.google.android.music/
This is a HORRIBLE place to save music. Every time you wipe data you lose all the music you have downloaded which in my case is upwards of 10 gigs. Not fun to download 10 gigs of music every time i switch roms. I could merely not wipe data, but the problem with that is its then a dirty wipe and ive been doing this long enough to know that dirty wipes don't always go perfectly. So on to the solutions I have tried that have failed:
1.) Use the music+ app made by a user here on XDA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2140756
Now this solution seemed to work at first because when you download the music for offline use you can literally store it anywhere. So store it on the simulated sd card and your problems are solved right? wrong. after downloading all the music, wiping your phone flashing a new rom and restore the apk+data with titanium i find out that the app can not see any previously downloaded music that still exists in that folder and thus when you try to download more music, it wipes everything and starts fresh.
2.)Use Directory Bind created by another user on XDA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
now I had some hopes for this one but unfortunately it cannot access data stored in /data/data i dont think it has root permissions, which is the problem
3.) I briefly tried symlinking the data from a different folder (though i may have done it wrong i didn't put my whole heart into the attempt)
this didn't work either (unless i simply did it wrong.)
If anyone has a solution that does actually work I would greatly appreciate hearing about it because its at the point where i hesitate before flashing roms because i dont want to lose all my music.
Also please don't suggest simply putting the music on my phone and using a different player. i have come to find that i need to use google music as not all my music fits on the amount of storage we are given and i inevitably need to stream it sometimes.
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions. I hope this thread also helps others having the same issues.
Edit: this is interesting. im gonna take a crack at it see if it helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1842568

I didn't read your whole post because I'm tired, but I do know you can place the music in whatever place you want, and the music application will pull it up.
Edit: also, in my experience, any music I've saved through the music app has stuck through several rom flashes, including EOS and CM.
Tried a few things, including the methods in that last link you posted. I was missing pictures since flashing CM because of the sdcard/0 partition thingy it created. They seem to have come back. Maybe that will fix your music issue.
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outerpip said:
I didn't read your whole post because I'm tired, but I do know you can place the music in whatever place you want, and the music application will pull it up.
Edit: also, in my experience, any music I've saved through the music app has stuck through several rom flashes, including EOS and CM.
Tried a few things, including the methods in that last link you posted. I was missing pictures since flashing CM because of the sdcard/0 partition thingy it created. They seem to have come back. Maybe that will fix your music issue.
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Yeah im kind of hoping that the most recent solution i have found will solve my problem (deleting the nomedia thing) i haven't tried it yet but i would have to use google music+ for this not the regular. you can put your music elsewhere and google music will read it but see i want to have the adaptability of just clicking the save offline music thing to both add music to my offline, and remove music from it. its just convenient. If i had it in a different spot on the sd that wouldn't work.
when you flashed between eos and cm, did you factory reset in between? because if i dont do that the music will stay but i dont want to be constrained that way

There is an app called cloud music importer or something like that. It logs into your Google music account and then allows you to download your music. It stores it in the music folder under cloud music. Google music player will still play it too. The free version of the app only allows 50 downloads. There is an in app purchase that is tied to your Google account so you don't have to keep purchasing it.
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jbuggydroid said:
There is an app called cloud music importer or something like that. It logs into your Google music account and then allows you to download your music. It stores it in the music folder under cloud music. Google music player will still play it too. The free version of the app only allows 50 downloads. There is an in app purchase that is tied to your Google account so you don't have to keep purchasing it.
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Good idea but not what im looking for. two apps instead of one. and then the music is separate from the music in the google music app itself. kinda defeats the purpose
EDIT: i might end up giving in and doin this. i have been unsuccessful in just about every way im testing this app out to see how well it works
just realized this cant be my solution because i can't fit all my music on my phone otherwise this would be a good solution

You don't have to download your whole library. Just the albums or playlists that you want. I mainly use it to place music on my phone so zombie run can see it
Edit: I'm totally with you tho and wish it was back to how it was in the beginning instead of just downloading inside the app
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[Q] GS3 Won't play music files

My GS3 will not play any music file. It wont even play Pandora. If I navigate to the file with a file explorer and try to play, it still won't play regardless of which media player I use but one.... I can play them with "Poweramp". Thats the only app I've been able to use to play my mp3s. I have no clue what's going on. I'm rooted. I seem to remember having to edit some system files to gain write access to my SD Card. I'm wondering if that have anything to do with this issue. I even roll back the updates on the Google Play Music app... No dice. I appreciate any advice.

bejamin96 said:
My GS3 will not play any music file. It wont even play Pandora. If I navigate to the file with a file explorer and try to play, it still won't play regardless of which media player I use but one.... I can play them with "Poweramp". Thats the only app I've been able to use to play my mp3s. I have no clue what's going on. I'm rooted. I seem to remember having to edit some system files to gain write access to my SD Card. I'm wondering if that have anything to do with this issue. I even roll back the updates on the Google Play Music app... No dice. I appreciate any advice.
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You changing the system file is most likely the cause. When i tried it my phone went all wonky and I wasnt able to view anything. Id either odin back to stock or flash a different rom :fingers-crossed:

I will see about setting the edited files back to original state. If this was the reason for the files not playing then why does Poweramp work? Also I'm not sure if Pandora should've been affected by that either. Though, I'll find the steps I use to gain write access to my external SD card and reverse them. Let u know how it go.
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bejamin96 said:
I will see about setting the edited files back to original state. If this was the reason for the files not playing then why does Poweramp work? Also I'm not sure if Pandora should've been affected by that either. Though, I'll find the steps I use to gain write access to my external SD card and reverse them. Let u know how it go.
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Poweramp must have not used that permission. Pandora most likely did. I'd flash a stock based ROM like wicked X or singularity if you want stock but still want that permission set by default
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I remove the line to the "permissions" file that I had edited. Same result. The edit that I did to allow write access to my external SD card was just adding some text (a new line of code) to the file. Nothing was removed from what was originally there. I agree that this may be the culprit but I'm not convinced. I'm pretty surprise that no one else seems to have this issue.
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I remove the line to the "permissions" file that I had edited. Same result. The edit that I did to allow write access to my external SD card was just adding some text (a new line of code) to the file. Nothing was removed from what was originally there. I agree that this may be the culprit but I'm not convinced. I'm pretty surprise that no one else seems to have this issue.
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Hmmm. The only other suggestions I have are flash a new ROM, or Odin back to stock
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