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How do I make photos show up in Photos and Gallery?

HTC's Photos app doesn't show the photos on my SD card and neither does Gallery (the cooliris Nexus One app ported to Incredible). How do I get photos to show up? Arr, it's driving me nuts!
Edit: SOLVED, see below.

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ThugEsquire said:
HTC's Photos app doesn't show the photos on my SD card and neither does Gallery (the cooliris Nexus One app ported to Incredible). How do I get photos to show up? Arr, it's driving me nuts!
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I fixed this using the free "Gallery Enabler" app from the Market. I definitely recommend it!

ThugEsquire said:
I fixed this using the free "Gallery Enabler" app from the Market. I definitely recommend it!
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I tried that app and thought it was great too, until I couldn't find any of my music playlists.
I think it hides folders from other applications besides Photos.
If you have problems, open gallery enabler and check all folders before you un-install it.
Then the right way to fix it is to open the Photos app on the phone, clck on the menu button and select "Settings" and then "Default Albums" then select the options you want from there.

If you're wondering how this application works, it probably just deletes/adds the hidden .nomedia files from folders. Those files restrict applications from having access to the media by signaling the android media scanner to ignore them. For instance, if you put one in the root of your sd card, the system would ignore any media on your entire card.

In theory, it's a great idea.
The problem is that all of my music is organized in folders and each folder contains the album art for the album.
So blocking the folder with the album art so that it does not show up in the gallery also blocks the music file from different media applications.

gadget! said:
I tried that app and thought it was great too, until I couldn't find any of my music playlists.
I think it hides folders from other applications besides Photos.
If you have problems, open gallery enabler and check all folders before you un-install it.
Then the right way to fix it is to open the Photos app on the phone, clck on the menu button and select "Settings" and then "Default Albums" then select the options you want from there.
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Ah, you're definitely right. All my music stopped showing up. However, once I went back and enabled all the folders and applied settings in Gallery Enabler all my music showed up again and the photos were still fixed. I suppose you could use Gallery Enabler once to "force" Gallery and Photos to see all the folders.
Changing default albums in HTC's Photos app did nothing to make media show up again. Thanks for the suggestion though!

ThugEsquire said:
Ah, you're definitely right. All my music stopped showing up. However, once I went back and enabled all the folders and applied settings in Gallery Enabler all my music showed up again and the photos were still fixed. I suppose you could use Gallery Enabler once to "force" Gallery and Photos to see all the folders.
Changing default albums in HTC's Photos app did nothing to make media show up again. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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Un-installing gallery enabler brought my music back but not the playlists, I had to manually re-build all of my playlists again.

Can i hide elements in Gallery?

Hello,
I have TomTom . How can i hide the images folder in the app Gallery?

create a file called ".nomedia" in the folder you want to hide.
it may not work right away if the folder is already recorded by the media scanner.
if that happens wipe data for the "media storage" app (only visible under settings>application manager>all) and reboot your phone to force a complete rescan of all your folders.

Or you can download Quickpic, which isn't airview enabled but will let you switch galleries on and off as you wish.
It also fills the screen with your images and doesn't waste half the screen with a sidebar, like the stock gallery.

welcomehome said:
Or you can download Quickpic, which isn't airview enabled but will let you switch galleries on and off as you wish.
It also fills the screen with your images and doesn't waste half the screen with a sidebar, like the stock gallery.
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Yes i know it but new gallery is beautifull.
thedicemaster said:
create a file called ".nomedia" in the folder you want to hide.
it may not work right away if the folder is already recorded by the media scanner.
if that happens wipe data for the "media storage" app (only visible under settings>application manager>all) and reboot your phone to force a complete rescan of all your folders.
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It's works great, thank you .

I usually hide my porn by renaming the folder to .porn
/Tubgirl
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Tubgirl said:
I usually hide my porn by renaming the folder to .porn
/Tubgirl
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lol

Use Vault, it encrypts your Videos, Pics, SMS, and Contacts I guess and then you can just uninstall it until you want your files install it and view them you don't have to restore them to view them, vault will not delete your encrypted data if uninstalled ofc. Its perfect for me I use it to hide my family's videos and photos.

[Q] How Hidden some album on Galaxy Note 2

hi guys...
i have problem on my gallery in galaxy note 2
when i go to my gallery all photo in albums like viber image & whats app &music cover photo other show in my gallery
but i want see only camera gallery or my pic i put in internal storage... not viber .. whats app... cover music and...
how can i do it?! any body help me?! plz
thanks a lot
sorry for my bad english:cyclops:

You need to put a file named .nomedia in the folders you don't want Gallery to index!
Download it from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?xqjjytzzznz
Copy it to your phone and please note that it's a hidden file (because the name starts with a period) so use a file manager in "show hidden files" mode!
Then just copy that file into all the folders you want excluded from the gallery.
Then reboot.

Make empty text file and give it a name .nomedia , copy that file i folder wich you want to hide from gallery app
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Thanks, it was really annoying having all music images showing in my gallery.

Hi,
You should call the image of the album (or the artist) "folder.jpg" and put it in the directory where the songs are (hope I express myself right...). That way none will show up in the gallery but any media reader will use it when you play the track.

Gallery

Whenever I open the gallery, all of the artwork from my mp3s is mixed in with the my pictures. This makes it next to impossible to find something quickly. Is there an easy way to organize them out or hide them without clicking each individual picture? This seems very dumb. My iphone, nor any other phone I've ever used does this. Thoughts?

In your music folder, put an empty text file with the filename 'nomedia' (without the quotation marks and file extention). Then in settings > apps > gallery , select clear data.
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bibek86 said:
In your music folder, put an empty text file with the filename 'nomedia' (without the quotation marks and file extention). Then in settings > apps > gallery , select clear data.
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Sorry for being dense, but the hierarchical structure you listed doesn't work.
Did you mean setting>general(tab)>apps?....if so "gallery" isn't listed there. If I go into gallery and try to move the photos, it just randomly moves them around.....no labels or anything. I don't understand. Do I need to go into my windows explorer on my pc to adjust the folders?....that seems dumb that you can't easily do it from the phone.

MyXDADevName said:
Sorry for being dense, but the hierarchical structure you listed doesn't work.
Did you mean setting>general(tab)>apps?....if so "gallery" isn't listed there. If I go into gallery and try to move the photos, it just randomly moves them around.....no labels or anything. I don't understand. Do I need to go into my windows explorer on my pc to adjust the folders?....that seems dumb that you can't easily do it from the phone.
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It normally has to be done on the computer I believe but it might not let the android media scanner find your music or use the pictures for album artwork. I honestly I just use QuickPic and it has the options to hide(.no media) and exclude folders and I just select exclude folders from my main music folder so it doesn't include them.
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MyXDADevName said:
Sorry for being dense, but the hierarchical structure you listed doesn't work.
Did you mean setting>general(tab)>apps?....if so "gallery" isn't listed there. If I go into gallery and try to move the photos, it just randomly moves them around.....no labels or anything. I don't understand. Do I need to go into my windows explorer on my pc to adjust the folders?....that seems dumb that you can't easily do it from the phone.
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Hi!
Yes i meant setting>general(tab)>apps. Under apps if you scroll horizontally u will find gallery under 'ALL' tab.
In order to move files, folders or any other operation to a file or folder, you need to use a file manager app. There are different file managers available for android. Personally i use ES file manager. A pretty good app called just File Manager is already there in G Pro. You can use it to manage your folders.
As jesi.james above pointed out putting the .nomedia (sorry i missed the '.' before nomedia in my previous post) file in your music folder will hide the album arts from the gallery but it will hide the music files from the music player as well. I am sorry i wasnt aware of that. i do not store my music on my phone. I listen to it from play music.
To solve your problem, i found that there is an option in the gallery menu to hide/show albums. You can choose the albumd you do not want to see in your gallery. If you have a large music collection, you will have to select the albums one by one. Frustrating.
Next option is to use Quickpic. This is a very good alternative to the default gallery and it gives you options to select folders you want show or hide in quickpic as mentioned by the guy above.
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creating an album(folder) in the Album(Stock Gallery) app

How can i create or view the pictures as with their respective folder structure in the stock albums app in my sony Xperia S(Has the recently released Jelly Bean-4.1.2).
There are two tabs in the app - "pictures & my Albums".
Can i create or view them as a folder in - pictures tab ?
I figured out that the images are displayed with their folder name in the - my albums -> internal memory. But every time i need to dig in to get there.
So please suggest a solution for either
creating a folder in pictures tab
or a shortcut for the internal memory folder

You can use stock jelly bean gallery app. It shows photos with their folders.
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