hello,
i downloaded the "vault" app to keep my private pictures hidden. I keep on changing roms so i changed a rom and i forgot to unhide the pictures before. I ran titanium backup that i had stored before changing the rom and i am unable to see the hidden picture either on the sdcard or in VAULT. Please help me get my pictures back :S
Give me the Play Store link to the app.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netqin.ps
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Well your files are located in SD Card>SystemAndroid>Data>MTUwOTQ0Mg== (Or some randomly named folder like that). But unfortunately they have a .bin extension and seem to be really encrypted. Just changing the .bin to .jpg doesn't work. Previous picture hiding software used to just bluff the system into not scanning the pictures by renaming their extensions, but this one seems to be actually encrypting them. Maybe you can contact the developer support of the app and ask them if there's a way to get them back.
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Well your files are located in SD Card>SystemAndroid>Data>MTUwOTQ0Mg== (Or some randomly named folder like that). But unfortunately they have a .bin extension and seem to be really encrypted. Just changing the .bin to .jpg doesn't work. Previous picture hiding software used to just bluff the system into not scanning the pictures by renaming their extensions, but this one seems to be actually encrypting them. Maybe you can contact the developer support of the app and ask them if there's a way to get them back.
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I emailed them but I haven't received any response yet
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Alright, i got it fixed
What I did was that I flashed the previous rom again and opened vault and i got all my data back
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How do you create a private folder on your phone for things such as for photos and numbers and serial keys you dont want everyone seeing?
For my private photos i use folders with dot in front of the name (etc folder photos is .photos). That way folder is hiden and visable just thru some apps (bluetooth file transfer or root explorer)
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erik077 said:
For my private photos i use folders with dot in front of the name (etc folder photos is .photos). That way folder is hiden and visable just thru some apps (bluetooth file transfer or root explorer)
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So it wont show up under your gallery section? Just wondering cause it gets annoying when you try to show somone a photo you took a family pic and there is some photos that you dont want your grandmother to seee lol.
No it wont. All folders with dot and files inside them are hiden. May be required to restart your phone after creation of folder but that it. This also may depend on wich rom are you using. Test it.
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erik077 said:
No it wont. All folders with dot and files inside them are hiden. May be required to restart your phone after creation of folder but that it. This also may depend on wich rom are you using. Test it.
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Thanks man im using CM7 at the moment worked great.
No problem, anytime
chmod will do it.
This will do it:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.redrabbitsw.android.locker&feature=search_result
Free version here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.redrabbitsw.android.lockerlt&feature=search_result
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I just noticed, my audio files aren't showing up in the music app either :S
Plus, I'm not the only one with this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1837120
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Hey,
So this happened day before yesterday, on CM9 beta 5, my photos didn't show up in my gallery, I booted into recovery, mounted and unmounted my sdcard, cleared cache and stuff, to no avail. Today, I installed HTC One maXimus 3.0 with a full wipe, but didn't fix anything. However, what I've noticed is, if a picture is placed in the root of a folder in the sdcard, it shows up, but only if I cut and paste photos there, the ones already in the folder didn't show up either.
What I mean is:
I have a folder, /sdcard/DCIM.
The pictures that were in that directory didn't show up either. But, when I moved pictures from sdcard/DCIM/100Media to sdcard/DCIM, they showed up in the gallery.
I have another folder, /sdcard/pictures.
It has two folders inside it, 'Screenshots,' and 'Instagram.' Those photos weren't showing up either. But, when I moved them into /sdcard/Pictures, they showed up.
The biggest problem, even the pictures I take on the camera, don't show up in the gallery.
The only thing I believe is left is for me to make a backup of my sdcard, then format the sdcard, put everything back, and create new folders for the pictures and place em there.
If you have any suggestions other than that, please post it here. Id really appreciate it and will remember to hit the thanks button too!
-theDroidfanatic
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Anyone? I'm really worried :/
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Check to see if there is a .nomedia file in your root directory. If there is, delete it and rescan.
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Check to see if there is a .nomedia file in your root directory. If there is, delete it and rescan.
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I deleted the file, and rebooted, problem is all there. How do I rescan?
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Check that the file has not reappeared. I think this is a bug from ROM Manager which has just been fixed in the latest version. So may need to update ROM Manager too.
The .nomedia file tells the photo gallery and music player that there is no media there and to ignore any it sees. If it is in the root directory then it will not see any media files in any directory
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It isn't there, and I don't have Rom manager :S
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I even deleted .showme, no luck :/
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You may just have to wait a while and it will update the gallery/music automatically. Sorry I can't be more help, but if you did have that .nomedia file, it would have stopped your apps seeing the files
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Also try deleting the app data
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See my post "reset the mediadatabase". ICS stores every medialink in a database, so that no other app has to search mediafiles (vids, pictures and music) in the storage everytime. If this database is corrupted, ICS will not find any new data by this moment. The way I described in my post fixed the problem.
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Also try deleting the app data
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See my post "reset the mediadatabase". ICS stores every medialink in a database, so that no other app has to search mediafiles (vids, pictures and music) in the storage everytime. If this database is corrupted, ICS will not find any new data by this moment. The way I described in my post fixed the problem.
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Thanks guys! The photos started appearing today, just had to cut paste them here and there, and now all is good! thanks so much for your help
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a friend of mine installed keep safe in mobile and secured some photos with it...but now he forgot the passsword and is not able to get back those photos...is there any method to recover them..pls help
How much is your friends ransom/blackmail?
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its not ransom or blackmail....its a serious issue he has some family photos which he use to keep safe because his mobile was used by many peoples.
It probably just hides them somewhere in the internal memory, download es file explorer, enable show hidden files/folders in the settings, then look through the folders beginning with a "."
I'll download and try keep safe (if it's free) soon to test this myself.
Edit: confirmed, they're in ".keepsafe" the and they have ".hid2" added as a file extension. Just move them out of there and delete the ".hid2" from the name and it should be fine.
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It probably just hides them somewhere in the internal memory, download es file explorer, enable show hidden files/folders in the settings, then look through the folders beginning with a "."
I'll download and try keep safe (if it's free) soon to test this myself.
Edit: confirmed, they're in ".keepsafe" the and they have ".hid2" added as a file extension. Just move them out of there and delete the ".hid2" from the name and it should be fine.
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Thanks brother i recovered the pics....and thanks on my friends behalf as well...he is so happy.
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Thanks brother i recovered the pics....and thanks on my friends behalf as well...he is so happy.
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Highly recommend your friend use Dropbox or equivalent for this. This is one of the few things cloud excels in. Automatic upload of pictures.
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I am glad your "friend" got his "family" pics back
I use rapidshare for mine, its very secure
I found that my note 2 internal storage & CPU battery all used by Gallery, which is scanning my internal storage & external SD files to create thumbnails. And even worse, it created one stupid big file which is totally wrong. I tried deleted it, created a fake one. But more than thousands thumbnails keep generating. Any one has similar problem, or recommended solution?
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I'm new to the note 2 but you could try the .nomedia trick. Is there a particular folder where it's finding tons of thumbnails? Make a file called .nomedia and put it in that directory and it won't scan that folder. Kind of a hack but just to get the phone going.
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Thanks, I did the trick. The problem is still the same. The Gallery automatically create one directory DCIM under sdcard, and also create .thumbna ils sub-directory under DCIM. I followed one solution here, create a directory name the same as the .thumbdata3--????. And it keeps this dumb file never being created again. Even though there are still a lot of tiny thumbnail files created, at least no more single dumb huge file error any more. FYI.
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So, apparently none of the stock music players give any option to add local files/folders?
WHAT THE **** is the reason for this? Have to purchase every track from HTC or Google play to listen on my device?
Added songs to device in standard mp3 format. Can not figure out anyway to play them without downloading some ****ty third party file manager, navigating through the cluster **** android folder tree and selecting them each time I want to play.
Please help before I dig out my UT starcom PPC because it's more user friendly than the 'best phone you can buy'
I hope I'm a total noob idiot and there is something preposterously easy I missed. Please help.
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I put it in the /sdcard/music folder and it's detected automatically... Though I don't think it even needs to be in that folder for Android to detect it. Not sure where you're going wrong.
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What format files are you putting on the phone?
My Sprint version finds all my local music (in MP3 format) on the SD card fine with both Google Music and HTC Music Apps.
I just created a 'music' directory on my sd card and filled it up. I have a mix of mp3 and flac in there. Music player found it and played.... you don't have to buy from Google.
For that sh** you want Apple.
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So, apparently none of the stock music players give any option to add local files/folders?
WHAT THE **** is the reason for this? Have to purchase every track from HTC or Google play to listen on my device?
Added songs to device in standard mp3 format. Can not figure out anyway to play them without downloading some ****ty third party file manager, navigating through the cluster **** android folder tree and selecting them each time I want to play.
Please help before I dig out my UT starcom PPC because it's more user friendly than the 'best phone you can buy'
I hope I'm a total noob idiot and there is something preposterously easy I missed. Please help.
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How did you add them? If you are using a wireless transfer like ftp or one of the apps out there, it may not work. Let me know how you added and i'll tell you how to fix.
Downloaded rar from Google drive. Extracted files into
/downloads
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Fixed. Thanks. There is something wrong with my folder tree. Will only recognize files if they are in /music. Problem is that third party 'file manager' can't read the storage on my phone properly, created/displaying 3 to 4 copies of diff folders, sd cards (im only using internal storage), etc. Had to try 4 diff /music folders to find the right one.
Is there a native file Explorer that I missed? I've noticed that some programs are in the phone without having icons in launcher. 'Voice recorder' is one. I can open it with google now voice, but it shows up nowhere in my launchers.
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Downloaded rar from Google drive. Extracted files into
/downloads
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Simply use a file manager and move everything you downloaded to another directory and move it back. When you extracted the files, the system never implemented them like if you were to transfer using windows or aft on a mac or htc sync. The system doesn't actually know they are there. If this does not work, dowload that rar on your computer and manually move music to the device, it will pick them up automatically
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Downloaded rar from Google drive. Extracted files into
/downloads
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What format are the music files in?
Are you sure you actually extracted them?
I wouldn't keep music in "Downloads" that seems like an awkward place to keep it and might be treated specially.
I consider downloads a "Temp" folder that I can wipe any time because it fills up with junk over time.
Also are you rooted? There are issues of 3rd party apps accessing the external SD Card.
You may have two /downloads one on external SD card and one on internal SD card.
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Simply use a file manager and move everything you downloaded to another directory and move it back. When you extracted the files, the system never implemented them like if you were to transfer using windows or aft on a mac or htc sync. The system doesn't actually know they are there. If this does not work, dowload that rar on your computer and manually move music to the device, it will pick them up automatically
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That's nonsense. That sounds like you never really extracted them. And when you "copy" them you are actually extracting them.
Once extracted they should be EXACTLY like you copied them there. If you are doing it right.
Some compression formats and browsers make it look like they are extracted, but they are not. You are just browsing within the RAR or ZIP file.
You need to explicitly "Extract" to somewhere else.
The best test is. Delete the RAR file. If you still see the files then they are extracted and no need to copy them back and forth.
But again. I think downloads is a bad place to keep your music.
Still ridiculous to not allow me to manage my own library.
Let Apple dumb it down for everyone. We aren't buying their products for a reason, and this is it.
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They were definitely extracted and moved to several locations. Each time (before I found the 'correct /music) I could use a file manager to force open them in a media player, but they were never added to the library until copied into the magic music folder.
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Thanks again for all the help. XDAers = $$
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You can get poweramp if you want to manually manage directories. There is no magic music folder btw, stock app picks up any folder but i'm glad you got it working.
If you do get PowerAmp, make sure you untick everything except your Music folder (under Settings>Folders & Library), or you'll have ringtones and notifications show up, too.