I have just seen someone else face the same issue I did (EVEN AFTER A FACTORY RESET) that music was still present on the phone, but not present on my PC.
I did this which completely rectified my problem, this may also work with actual files that are still present on phone, but not on the PC? (Just ignore the parts about the music, and make it fit your scenario)
1 - Delete all the music off your phone (which you want deleting)
2 - Make sure you check the "Downloads -> Bluetooth" folder, as some songs may be in their.
3 - Delete the "Music" folder (FROM PC)
4 - Re-create a folder and name it "Music"
5 - Download "Re-scan SD" from market.
6 - Open it (it has no UI, it just re-scans)
7 - Check phone, you should now have no music.
8 - Put your music into the new folder you made
9 - Rescan SD again
10 - Unplug and enjoy.
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Wilks3y
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Hello i recently swapped from ARHD to pabx's [ROM][Feb 8] Jellybean 4.2.1 for Endeavoru AOSP Build [Kernel 3.1.10] #14 but im getting a strange problem sometimes im loosing all the media from my phone (photo's and music). It is still there when i try to mount it from recovery>mount USB.
Before installing the new ROM i wiped the whole sd card and transferred the media files trough MTP,and had no problems with listening to music from the phone until i restarted,then everything went missing. Any help is appreciated.
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Hi mate, try this:
Rescan SD
I tell you to do this first as I use this one.
Its not an app, you should just see "Media Rescanned" then check for your music again
If that doesnt work try this one:
Try this second
If not let me know and I'll help further.
Hello and thank you for answering those apps were the ones i first tried,but sadly it didn't work. Any ideas ?
Are you using any different media apps? Like PowerAMP etc? If so, Remove them for now.
Also, as you said, make sure all files show up in PC.
Restart Phone (MAKE SURE FASTREBOOT or whatever its called) IS NOT!!! selected. Turn Fastreboot off.
Restart the phone.
Re Scan media.
Re-check, let me know what happens
Edit (ROOTED) solution:
Another solution is, if your rooted, go to your Music App (In settings) Clear data/cache, Disable the music app.
Restart phone.
Then re-enable music app.
Voila, music should be visible.
(Same applies for Pictures, just follow the steps but for Gallery).
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Also simply try holding power for like 10+ seconds. You should see a reboot coming up. This is equal to a battery pull, whereas rebooting from the menu is a simple reboot.
I tried this i even wiped cache. I don't think it is related to the music app itself because even with File explorers like Astro and ES i can't seem to find the media files.
PS: I think the fastboot option is only in sense roms ,im with AOSP and didn't find any option of enable/disable this function.
You may wonder why I have so many resolutions for you, its because I had this issue:
My final idea for you to try, then I'm stumped.
This worked for me, but wanted to hold off as if you have alot of music, it can take a while.
Heres what to do:
Plug device into PC.
Copy Music folder (ALL OF IT, including the actual "Music" folder, to your PC Desktop.
When it has copied to PC, Delete it from the device (yes delete it).
Unplug device
Re-scan SD
Restart device
Plug device back in
Create a new folder named "Music" (CREATE A NEW ONE)
Open the "Music" folder you copied TO your PC.
Copy all the music into your new "Music" folder on device
Re-scan
Restart
Some of these steps may not be necessary (such as re-scanning twice) but DO ALL STEPS.
This resolved my missing music, let me know if it works for you. Goodluck.
Removed all media (music and photos) and added them again (trough Recovery>mount USB) then wiped cache and dalvik cache,rescanned sd and the problem is still there :/ The weird thing is that i get this problem only on Pabx's rom and not on any other. I had this issue on RC 11 then swapped back to ARHD ,now im back to RC14 and the problem is still there.
PS:Btw i reinstalled windows,and when i was seting up adb when i type adb devices i didn't get a list of devices as like there was no devices connected,but when i flashed the boot.img (fastboot flash boot boot.img) the boot.img flashed correctly i got the two OKAY's. Might it be related to this ?
Bah, so your not stock I now find out.
I also feel bad for telling you all these things, when it hasnt helped.
I would re-install ADB/Fastboot, and also add the path to your Fastboot/ADB to your envioronment variables. (Control Panel - Advanced System Settings - Envioronment Varibles)
Make sure you add it to the current list, dont replace anything, it should have a " ; " at the start and end of every variable.
That will make it so you don't have to CD into your fastboot/adb folder in CMD. You can use ADB from anywhere.
Also remove any and all drivers related to Android, just to be on safe side. (They'll be re-downloaded when device is plugged)
Ok it's done i flashed the boot.img, (I don't need to reflash the whole ROM right ?)
Now how should i transfer the music back to the sd card ? Trough MTP or Recovery USB Mount ?
PS:The problem is still there but i think it is because of the big /data partition. For now im going back to arhd. Thank you Wilks3y.
Hi there guys,
From my time being on Android, I've come across a few errors that say they don't have enough "space" and this is usually down to SD card errors - but in this instant I'm completely stumped. To the point I think it is a very very bad virus.
Mum's phone: Note 2 - SIM unlocked, bought outright - she's been using it for over a year now
Symptom: When trying to open ANY picture (be it screenshot ON or OFF the EXT SD card - the erro (attached) crops up.
Things I've tried:
-Changing folder location of the camera app
-Clearing cache for camera, my files and gallery
-Clearing dalvik and cache in recovery
-Removing EXT SD card (with safe to remove and pulling out suddenly)
One thing I've noticed: I CANNOT move the DCIM folder. It says it "cannot be copied/deleted/moved"
The DCIM folder in "My Files" in fact doesn't exist as a folder - looks like a .DAT file - and when trying to click for details on the folder - it force closes the "my files"
One thing that's curious is that she can get the photos OFF her phone and view them on her PC without any problems.
I thus think the phone has a virus (also because there was two apps installed on there, which I've never seen before - apps that are from the play store, but apps I've never installed nor imagine my mum installing them)
Any ideas?
My only trail of thought is:
TB up and factory reset the phone.
-Dubbed
(Dead zone) - no one care to help?
I just completely wiped the phone, even wiped the system - re-flashed the ROM from scratch - as I restore the apps - the "gallery FC" what the beep is going on - I've had enough of these crap Samsung phones!!!!!
Fix Missing Music And Files When Transferring Data To PC​
How you ever connected your phone to your pc to transfer a file only to find when you open up the sd card folder on your pc the file or even entire folders are missing?
Have you ever opened up your music app only to find it can't find your music on your sd card?
Well this app will scan your entire sd card and find all those files and make them available - a job that the inbuilt android media scanner should be doing but doesn't always work.
Instructions
Download media.Re.Scan: media scanner for android2.3 to 7.1
Open app
Tick all the relevant boxes if not already ticked
Click start media scan
Note that the media explorer will force close a few times - just keep clicking to reopen it
once done all your files will be visible on your pc via usb and in 3rd party apps
Can you please add Android pie support?
DemonDroid_97 said:
Can you please add Android pie support?
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Ask the app developer - details on Google and page
All it does is trigger a manual refresh of the media library - restarting your phone should have the same effect
Dear all,
I have been using RMN5 for a while and this is the most f**cking annoying error in this phone (or MIUI's error - i got it in my LG F180L running MIUI7 a long time ago and it happened too)
Every time i connected the phone to PC, i got this problem, I've followed the tips on XDA about disable media storage and download (force stop only in RMN5) and reboot, ok it fixed for a while, but not for long, next time i connect, it happen AGAIN.
I'm so tired of this sh*t and want to get rid of it.
Please, somebody please show me the way.
Thank you
Don't disable those apps instead go to the app settings media storage and download and clear both cache and data, hopes this will solve the problem and move this post to question and answer thread. It belongs there.
you disabled critical system app and complained why you get error messages
This is the Android Media Scanner, looking for files to index on your storage.
Some options are:
Try creating a file called '.nomedia' in every folder, and the problem should dissapear. In that case you may have a corrupted file somewhere, so try to delete the .nomedia file in some of the suspected folders to see if the problem comes back (or google something like 'android.process.media .nomedia' for a better explanation or solution.
You can also enable debuggind (via developer options), to inspect the problem with adb logcat, or to install a logcat related app from Play Store, in case the dump that should appear at the time of the error contains some hint.
rgawenda said:
This is the Android Media Scanner, looking for files to index on your storage.
Some options are:
Try creating a file called '.nomedia' in every folder, and the problem should dissapear. In that case you may have a corrupted file somewhere, so try to delete the .nomedia file in some of the suspected folders to see if the problem comes back (or google something like 'android.process.media .nomedia' for a better explanation or solution.
You can also enable debuggind (via developer options), to inspect the problem with adb logcat, or to install a logcat related app from Play Store, in case the dump that should appear at the time of the error contains some hint.
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I'm having this issue after updating my Samsung GT-N8013 to lineageos 16.0. When you say to put a .nomedia file in every folder, do you litterally mean every single folder on both the tablet and sd card or a certain level of folder?
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I'm having this issue after updating my Samsung GT-N8013 to lineageos 16.0. When you say to put a .nomedia file in every folder, do you litterally mean every single folder on both the tablet and sd card or a certain level of folder?
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The .nomedia flag file will stop the scan in the directory it's placed and all of the directories contained in it.
I ended up reinstalling the the OS 16.0 rom for my Samsung N8013. It took a total of running the installation 3 times but it finally became stable.
I notice that some playlists get removed randomly on my Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite and I didn't remove them by myself but sometimes if I open Mixplorer Silver (The filemanager I use) then my music is suddenly gone
I've tried to turn off "Remind to clean" in Cleaner but that didn't solve the issue.
If I download them, they get removed again after a while and it goes like this all the time and this is very annoying.
How can I fix this?
You must be deleting them (including using cleaning tools) - files don't disappear by themselves
If you using cleaning tools make sure you are not deleting your files especially if you keep them in the downloads folder
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You must be deleting them (including using cleaning tools) - files don't disappear by themselves
If you using cleaning tools make sure you are not deleting your files especially if you keep them in the downloads folder
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I don't delete my music in Mixplorer Silver and I use the default Cleaner app from Xiaomi and I don't delete music in that app too.
I guess I'm deleting them accidentially but I don't know.