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Photos disappearing from Gallery

Posted this problem in LeeDroid's thread yesterday(bored to write it again from scratch,so I just did a quick copy-and-paste ).
Guys I have a strange issue.
This afternoon,without having noticed,my battery died.So I tried to turn the screen on and it booted up,telling me about low battery.Then,I plugged it in as soon as I found the charger and it turned off the moment I plugged it in.Then,I turned it on after about half an hour and all seemed ok.At some point I went to the Gallery app(HTC's one),clicked on Camera Shots(or whatever it calls the photos I have taken)and saw that there were no thumbnails,it won't display some pictures even when I select them and a photo was corrupted!I huried and copied the photos to my pc and rechecked.No thumbnails except for one photo and any new I may take with the camera.Tried deleting gallery's cache and data and it didn't help.Any ideas?Don't wanna reflash for such a thing.
Also,can it be related to the problem with 1.72 roms corrupting cards?It's like the third or fourth time data gets corrupted in my card!And it's a ****in' expensive one!
Thanks guys!
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Hope you guys can make something out of it!
Some more people had this problem but they posted it the dev section and I think that thread got deleted.If anyone knows something...Well,ideas are welcome!

tolis626 said:
Posted this problem in LeeDroid's thread yesterday(bored to write it again from scratch,so I just did a quick copy-and-paste ).
Hope you guys can make something out of it!
Some more people had this problem but they posted it the dev section and I think that thread got deleted.If anyone knows something...Well,ideas are welcome!
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I remember a while back when i was a Hero user running HTC stock ROM my 8 GB card crashed just like that. So, it is not a problem with custom ROMs...do not know what it could be but would be nice knowing it!

sphuyal said:
I remember a while back when i was a Hero user running HTC stock ROM my 8 GB card crashed just like that. So, it is not a problem with custom ROMs...do not know what it could be but would be nice knowing it!
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Yeah,it isn't a rom issue.Different people were using different roms when it happened.Unless it's HTC related!
Well,maybe a low level format is needed as someone(whose name is unfortunately escaping me right now)suggested in LeeDroid's thread.But copying 15Gb of data can be a pain!

Well,strange thing is that Gallery(both HTC and stock android one)can't show some pictures(it displays black instead of the image,even for some that there are thumbnails)while the same file,when I open it on my pc,is all ok!Strange...

have the same issue. usually goes away after a reboot.

mjehan said:
have the same issue. usually goes away after a reboot.
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Mine doesn't!

HTC Desire Z Pictures keep dissapering from Gallery
Hai,
Having the same problem with my HTC Desire Z. New pictures seem to disappear in the Galley. Good news, they aren't deleted, they're still on the SD. Connect to your computer and you can see/back up them.
I've installed a file explorer (ASTRO in my case). That made the pictures turn up in the gallery again. I guess the file explorer indexes the SD again?
For now... the pictures are back in my Gallery. It seams to be a bug in Gallery.
Hope they come with a fix soon.
Good luck,
Dee

photo problems
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!

primerow said:
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!
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Thanks, my friend, i had the same problem and your answer is the best, Now I can see all my photos in my SE WT19i.
Thanks again

I've never had this happen to me, but I have had an sd card fail on me ( an expensive patriot one). I would immediately backup your card and keep it backed up as if it's a warning sign that the card is on its way out you don't want to lose all your data.
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primerow said:
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!
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i have kind of similar issue, when i switch off my cell and then switch it on my cell generates a big thumb data of all remaining memory of my sd card and makes my sd card memory zero as well as generates lots of thumbnails. When i delete them some of my clicked pics are not showing in gallary and displayes no thumbnail. so i lost some pics permenantely. plzz help me
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primerow said:
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!
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Exactly where can i find these 2 things on my sd card? show me path exactly folder by folderr

sulaymashru said:
i have kind of similar issue, when i switch off my cell and then switch it on my cell generates a big thumb data of all remaining memory of my sd card and makes my sd card memory zero as well as generates lots of thumbnails. When i delete them some of my clicked pics are not showing in gallary and displayes no thumbnail. so i lost some pics permenantely. plzz help me
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Exactly where can i find these 2 things on my sd card? show me path exactly folder by folderr
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I had this same issue a while ago, and re-flashing the rom I was using seemed to fix the problem (of course, this could be because I formatted my dalvik, as another user mentioned above!)
Have you tried to transfer the photos to your computer from your sd card to make sure that they're still good files?
As for the dalvik, boot into recovery and you'll be able to wipe it from there.

camera dont save

I have a typical problem, from last week.
Whenever i take picture from camera the photos are not saved there.
Rarely the photos are saved but that too remain there till next reboot.
Also the second thing i noticed is of the old pics i have, if i delete some pics then they re appear after reboot.

I donno but.. MAY b a VIRUS??

djvithin said:
I donno but.. MAY b a VIRUS??
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is not a virus sd card is broken format it
btw wrong section

cosminx13 said:
is not a virus sd card is broken format it
btw wrong section
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now actually the problem is severe not only with the camera but the other apps
I cant download anything on mobile and bluetooth transfer also fails
even i cant copy anything within the mobile itself
After that i did unmount and mount sd card and it worked for 10-15 min and same prob again
so are the problems same??? What to do.
P.S. :- where to ask such queries if this is wrong section. I am new to this forums.

djvithin said:
I donno but.. MAY b a VIRUS??
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People who think phones can get viruses still exist?
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sherlockh221b said:
now actually the problem is severe not only with the camera but the other apps
I cant download anything on mobile and bluetooth transfer also fails
even i cant copy anything within the mobile itself
After that i did unmount and mount sd card and it worked for 10-15 min and same prob again
so are the problems same??? What to do.
P.S. :- where to ask such queries if this is wrong section. I am new to this forums.
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i had this problem before with an old sdcard and this is what i done....
i inserted it on my pc with an sdcard adaptor and low level format it with this tool then i inserted it into my phone and tried to download something from internet and it worked again
hope it helps

Apps not working after internal/external memory swap

Hi,
I'm using CM10a3 by arco... I did the internal/external memory swapping and it worked.
The problem now is that many apps I had installed do not work anymore!
Apollo crashed - can't open it anymore! - while others say that they are not installed!
How can I repair them?
I tried copying all my folders from my internal memory to the sdcard (after the swap), but I still face the problems mentioned above!

Of course they dont work. Because you didnt move them. So now you have to reinstall them again

talat054 said:
Of course they dont work. Because you didnt move them. So now you have to reinstall them again
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What do you mean?
They were not installed installed in the sdcard!
And also copying them to the sdcard does not solve the problem as I wrote before...
So what do I have to copy exactly and from where to where?
Can I go back maybe by undoing the swap? Would it work?
Tx

[.::MDT::.] said:
What do you mean?
They were not installed installed in the sdcard!
And also copying them to the sdcard does not solve the problem as I wrote before...
So what do I have to copy exactly and from where to where?
Can I go back maybe by undoing the swap? Would it work?
Tx
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Best to swap immediately after flashing rom..try to clear data and reboot..or better to reflash and swap again. Thats d 1st thing i do. After flashing i boot up, open play store and only download root browser lite before swapping and reboot. Den ony install apps
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K&Q said:
Best to swap immediately after flashing rom..try to clear data and reboot..or better to reflash and swap again. Thats d 1st thing i do. After flashing i boot up, open play store and only download root browser lite before swapping and reboot. Den ony install apps
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Are you saying I should swap back and reboot?
I'll try that.

[.::MDT::.] said:
Are you saying I should swap back and reboot?
I'll try that.
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I mean if u can reflash cm10 it would be better..less chance of bugs..start over. So your process should be..
Wipe data and cache
Flash cm10
Flash Gaaps
Reboot
Then after setting up phone, download any root file browser. I personally dont like d cm10 file manager.
Do the swap. Change 0>1, 1>0
Then REBOOT
And you're done. Can install ur other apps/backups.
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K&Q said:
I mean if u can reflash cm10 it would be better..less chance of bugs..start over. So your process should be..
Wipe data and cache
Flash cm10
Flash Gaaps
Reboot
Then after setting up phone, download any root file browser. I personally dont like d cm10 file manager.
Do the swap. Change 0>1, 1>0
Then REBOOT
And you're done. Can install ur other apps/backups.
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OK, tx for your piece of advice, but I don't want to flash everything from scratch.
I swapped int/ext memory back and now everything works again, of course not the swap anyway...
What's the process of swapping in a not-pristine environment (i.e. with many apps installed)?
Tx.

[.::MDT::.] said:
OK, tx for your piece of advice, but I don't want to flash everything from scratch.
I swapped int/ext memory back and now everything works again, of course not the swap anyway...
What's the process of swapping in a not-pristine environment (i.e. with many apps installed)?
Tx.
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No worries
I haven't tried non-pristine flashing b4 but this should work (its vy similar to the above):
I am not responsible for any mishaps *MAKE NANDROID BACKUP*
Make CWM backup
Wipe data and cache (and dalvik cache, if u want)
Flash cm 10
Flash GAAPS
Reboot
Swap sd card (refer above)
Boot into cwm
Backups and restore > Advance restore > restore data
Wipe cache
Reboot
Pls tell me if it works out=)
If it doesn't jz restore ur backup..
P.s. If some apps FC or have problems after this method, try uninstall and reinstall.
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MDT ...
The apks aren't working because when you did the swap you broke the "file paths" (to use windows terminology).... in other words, the phone OS was unable to locate the apk code/file where it expected to find it and the apk force closing/not working was the end result.
Have you undone the swap and found that everything now works?....
If that's the case, then there's no need to reflash. All you need to do is use an app like Gemini app manager to move all your apps to internal phone storage, then apply the swap and finally use Gemini again to move your apps back to your (now swapped) SD card....it's what I do, and it works perfectly every time.....
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......

keithross39 said:
MDT ...
The apks aren't working because when you did the swap you broke the "file paths" (to use windows terminology).... in other words, the phone OS was unable to locate the apk code/file where it expected to find it and the apk force closing/not working was the end result.
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Clear, thanks.
keithross39 said:
Have you undone the swap and found that everything now works?....
If that's the case, then there's no need to reflash. All you need to do is use an app like Gemini app manager to move all your apps to internal phone storage, then apply the swap and finally use Gemini again to move your apps back to your (now swapped) SD card....it's what I do, and it works perfectly every time.....
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......
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Correct: undoing the swap, everything works fine again.
You're right: I can confirm that the apps that the OS does not find - after the swapping - are those now on my SDCARD memory (moved via App2SD).
I had forgotten about these, sorry!
So I assume that following your suggestion, these apps will work after the swapping.
Nevertheless, Apollo - which is NOT on my sdcard - after the swapping FC, whereas it works flawlessly in "normal" (not swapped) environment... any idea how to solve that?
Tx a lot.

[.::MDT::.] said:
Clear, thanks.
So I assume that following your suggestion, these apps will work after the swapping.
Nevertheless, Apollo - which is NOT on my sdcard - after the swapping FC, whereas it works flawlessly in "normal" (not swapped) environment... any idea how to solve that?
Tx a lot.
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Yes, doing the move "post swap" with Gemini will work and has worked several times for me....
As for Apollo, I'm afraid I can't help there......I don't use it, I've frozen it in favour of Google Play Music which I downloaded from a link on XDA.
There are some apps which I keep on phone storage no matter what.... apps which I guess are used during start up.....apps like trebuchet, any themes you might have installed (and are using) and any security apps...(anti virus, permissions managers... that sort of thing).....the reason being that the phone performs a media scan at every startup, and the SD card is always the last storage volume to be mounted and scanned, so if there are any apps stored there that are needed during startup, the phone won't be able to access them until the Mount and scan has been performed......(remember I mentioned about file paths in my previous reply.....same principal applies)
Edit...just had a thought about Apollo, there are *some* apps that will only work if installed in phone memory....Gemini app manager is one of them.....maybe Apollo is another?....just a guess...
Edit 2....just had a similar problem with Google play music....to begin with, I had it in phone memory, then I moved it to SD card and suddenly the "widget" for it stopped working and the playlists I'd created were all empty.....moved it back and no issues other than the fact I had to re create the playlists.....
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......

BTW...here's the link for Google play music...
http://db.tt/ZMQZBzjz
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keithross39 said:
Yes, doing the move "post swap" with Gemini will work and has worked several times for me....
As for Apollo, I'm afraid I can't help there......I don't use it, I've frozen it in favour of Google Play Music which I downloaded from a link on XDA.
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OK... does Google Play Music fully replace Apollo, i.e. can u you use GPM even for your (offline) mp3s?
I thought it was only for listening to music while connected, or for buying new mp3 tracks...
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There are some apps which I keep on phone storage no matter what.... apps which I guess are used during start up.....apps like trebuchet, any themes you might have installed (and are using) and any security apps...(anti virus, permissions managers... that sort of thing).....the reason being that the phone performs a media scan at every startup, and the SD card is always the last storage volume to be mounted and scanned, so if there are any apps stored there that are needed during startup, the phone won't be able to access them until the Mount and scan has been performed......(remember I mentioned about file paths in my previous reply.....same principal applies)
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Yes I know, but imho it's not a problem waiting those 10 seconds for the SD to be read... every time you reboot your phone (very rarely in my case, like 2-3 times a week).
My policy anyway is to keep everything on phone storage, if possible, and move things to SD when the space is finishing.
keithross39 said:
Edit...just had a thought about Apollo, there are *some* apps that will only work if installed in phone memory....Gemini app manager is one of them.....maybe Apollo is another?....just a guess...
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OK, fair enough, but I did not move Apollo to SD card, so even after the swap it should be in the phone memory and runs flawlessly... I don't understand!
keithross39 said:
Edit 2....just had a similar problem with Google play music....to begin with, I had it in phone memory, then I moved it to SD card and suddenly the "widget" for it stopped working and the playlists I'd created were all empty.....moved it back and no issues other than the fact I had to re create the playlists.....
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Yes, I think for using widgets you need to have apps in phone memory, if I remember correctly.
keithross39 said:
BTW...here's the link for Google play music...
http://db.tt/ZMQZBzjz
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Thanks!

[.::MDT::.] said:
OK... does Google Play Music fully replace Apollo, i.e. can u you use GPM even for your (offline) mp3s?
I thought it was only for listening to music while connected, or for buying new mp3 tracks...
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Yes.
No.
[.::MDT::.] said:
OK, fair enough, but I did not move Apollo to SD card, so even after the swap it should be in the phone memory and runs flawlessly... I don't understand!
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There's a folder called /mnt/sdcard/android/data
If you swap the SDcards, that folder becomes 'shifted' to /mnt/external-sd/android/data.
Apollo dies.
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Yes, I think for using widgets you need to have apps in phone memory, if I remember correctly.
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True. Unless you symlink your apps into SDcard.

pepoluan said:
There's a folder called /mnt/sdcard/android/data
If you swap the SDcards, that folder becomes 'shifted' to /mnt/external-sd/android/data.
Apollo dies.
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Thanks for the info.
So, are you basically saying, there is no way of making Apollo work if you swap your int/sdcard memory?

[.::MDT::.] said:
Thanks for the info.
So, are you basically saying, there is no way of making Apollo work if you swap your int/sdcard memory?
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Swap before you run Apollo for the first time.
If you've run Apollo before, try Clear Data before.

[.::MDT::.] said:
Thanks for the info.
So, are you basically saying, there is no way of making Apollo work if you swap your int/sdcard memory?
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Apollo working find after swap. Yeah lik Pep said, just wipe data..
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Can't access SD Card on PC since RamExpander installation

Hi!
I recently installed the RamExtender application for my One V so it could run games more fluently.
However, right after installing it and creating a "ram-swapping" partition, my SD Card would not show up anymore in "My Computer" tab. I can only see my phone storage and the H: letter (usually the SD Card) is there but when I click on it, it says "Please Insert a disk into removable disk".
Please see the picture attached to the thread so you can see what's actually happening. The SD Card is not corrupted since my games still work and I can browse its files in ASTRO file manager... HTC Sync Manager won't sync either.
Any ideas how to fix it? I still want to put music and custom APKs in my SD Card!!
Thank you very much everyone

First of all, NEVER use these kinds of apps
if you're ROOTED, flash the Turbo Boost MOD
just delete the swap file u created from the SD card and you should be okay !

Seraz007 said:
First of all, NEVER use these kinds of apps
if you're ROOTED, flash the Turbo Boost MOD
just delete the swap file u created from the SD card and you should be okay !
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Thank you very much! Well I did uninstall the app and deleted the .swap file left behind by the app, but still the SD Card won't mount on Windows because it seems Ram Expander is not fully uninstalled
What other file/directory should I be looking for? How to be sure it's fully deleted?
Thanks again!

alpha8768 said:
Thank you very much! Well I did uninstall the app and deleted the .swap file left behind by the app, but still the SD Card won't mount on Windows because it seems Ram Expander is not fully uninstalled
What other file/directory should I be looking for? How to be sure it's fully deleted?
Thanks again!
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well after deleting the swap file should have worked(it worked for me before)
umm try installing the app and then Removing SWAP FILE from the APP itself

alpha8768 said:
Thank you very much! Well I did uninstall the app and deleted the .swap file left behind by the app, but still the SD Card won't mount on Windows because it seems Ram Expander is not fully uninstalled
What other file/directory should I be looking for? How to be sure it's fully deleted?
Thanks again!
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The best and final way is to make factory reset, wiping everything, including SD card....
Then just install everything from scratch and you'll have working hov...

Seraz007 said:
well after deleting the swap file should have worked(it worked for me before)
umm try installing the app and then Removing SWAP FILE from the APP itself
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Well I reinstalled the App in order to try it but there is no option to remove the swap file in it I'll try to contact the dev by Email and see what I can do...
*UPDATE* The dev says he's not avaible to provide me support. Contacting another user who used this app before.
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The best and final way is to make factory reset, wiping everything, including SD card....
Then just install everything from scratch and you'll have working hov...
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*Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort* -Lyrics from Papa Roach. And here comes the awesome guitar rift!
Hope this will not be necessary. As a newbie in the Android ecosystem (I come from Windows Phone 7.8 lol), I had a real hard time rooting/unlocking my bootloader and installing the new kernel+rom...

U can do 1 thing.....
Use es file explorer and in the menu click on manager then choose SD card analyst.....
Once it stops scanning check 4 swap file if present delete it and reboot....
Hope it solves the issue
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[Q] downloaded songs,pictures etc not showing in gallery and music player?

How long has this been the case? Sometimes, it just takes a while for the system to rescan for new media. But if its been a long time, than something isn't right.
Have you tried to reboot?

redpoint73 said:
How long has this been the case? Sometimes, it just takes a while for the system to rescan for new media. But if its been a long time, than something isn't right.
Have you tried to reboot?
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Its been two days now..i rebooted again but still same ...factory reset will solve this problem i think..but i do not want to lose my data..
what should i do??

buttgi said:
Its been two days now..i rebooted again but still same ...factory reset will solve this problem i think..but i do not want to lose my data..
what should i do??
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Try this : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=card.rescan.radeff&hl=en

If you search for "scan media" on the Play Store, you will find a few apps that do just that, and might help. Can't vouch for any of these myself, but I think I've seen others here suggest them.
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Try this : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=card.rescan.radeff&hl=en
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Ahh, beat me to it while I was typing! :good:

i did a factory reset and still problem is there and then i tried scan media app it didn't work either....i am out of ideas ..please help me??

Have you try clearing data for both gallery and music app ?
Settings - Apps - All - "the app name" - clear data then reboot.
Also you can try :
If they are on you external sd, transfer them to PC and format your external sd then transfer them back to external sd.
and :
If they are on internal sdcard, transfer them to PC and delete the whole folder, reboot then transfer them back to sdcard.

i tried clearing data and then rebooted it didn't work. Also i don't have a external sd....
Please help me