Okay so I cant get my S4 to playback the videos I've recorded.
It won't pick them up when I go to gallery or videos
The only way I can play them back is if I use a file manager or go into files and find them manually
The videos save by default in DCIM/etc... on my phones memory
The only change I did was delete the .thumbnail folder located in DCIM folder
After that the videos or pictures would not be picked up by the device
To add to this. I copied the videos and pictures in question to my external sd card
Still my s4 was unable to pick them up.
So I transferred the external sd to an old Galaxy s2 from T-Mobile that I have and to my surprise they played fine and where able to berecognized by this phone.
Again the only way I can play back the videos is if i look for them manually using FILE or another file manager.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Because aswell any video that I download and add to the phone wont playback unless I do the work around mentioned abovei
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jledezma said:
Okay so I cant get my S4 to playback the videos I've recorded.
It won't pick them up when I go to gallery or videos
The only way I can play them back is if I use a file manager or go into files and find them manually
The videos save by default in DCIM/etc... on my phones memory
The only change I did was delete the .thumbnail folder located in DCIM folder
After that the videos or pictures would not be picked up by the device
To add to this. I copied the videos and pictures in question to my external sd card
Still my s4 was unable to pick them up.
So I transferred the external sd to an old Galaxy s2 from T-Mobile that I have and to my surprise they played fine and where able to berecognized by this phone.
Again the only way I can play back the videos is if i look for them manually using FILE or another file manager.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Because aswell any video that I download and add to the phone wont playback unless I do the work around mentioned abovei
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Re-create the ".thumbnail" folder located in the DCIM folder" even if it's empty.
Then create a short video.
Then with a file manager like root explorer click on the video file you just created and
it should ask you what you want to open it with, click on the video app you want to use
as "default" for video files and be sure to click "Always".
Good luck!
hi , I have a similar issue, any videos ive recorder or saved from snapchat etc, whenever I try and view them , a black screen comes up and it says cannot play video. to view them I have to upload them onto my laptop, other than that I have no idea on what to do. thanks
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I recently flashed my EVO from CM6 over to the alpha Gingerbread Rom. No issues there, love the new ROM but one thing I noticed was that anytime I scroll over to my Gallery, it says I do not have any pics or vids to view. Same issue when i go to my music app, no music. But I can open up Linda Manager or File Manager and all my pics, vids, and music is there. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I am lost!
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I recently flashed my EVO from CM6 over to the alpha Gingerbread Rom. No issues there, love the new ROM but one thing I noticed was that anytime I scroll over to my Gallery, it says I do not have any pics or vids to view. Same issue when i go to my music app, no music. But I can open up Linda Manager or File Manager and all my pics, vids, and music is there. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I am lost!
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What folder are they are in on your SD card? And when you take new pictures do they show up in the gallery or not their either? It may be that the Gallery is somehow not detecting pictures, or the old pictures are just not in a place where it can.
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I am having this same problem with my phone. I am rooted with unrevoked 3 and now when I take a pic it will show up in my gallery until i reboot my phone then they dont. I can plug my phone up to my computer and they are in the DCMI folder on my sd card. When I unplug my phone from the computer and go back in to my phone they are not there. What would be causing this? I have not put any roms on my phone or changed any kernels.
It's probably a really odd SD card issue. Try going into settings & unmounting then mounting the sd card again. If that doesn't work it could be an issue with the media scanner. Download an app that lets you manually run the media scanner. I know Widgetsoid 2.x has a media scanner toggle. If you can't find another way, download the app & make a 1x1 toggle widget with the media scanner, apply, and tap it.
If that doesn't work, I'm stumped.
I tried that but I couldnt get the widget to actually do anything. Thank you though
I believe the sdcard is the cause, because I've had a similar issue myself and fixed it. I would suggest either re-flashing the rom, or backing up your sdcard and then formatting it, and copy it back over. Also, if you have, in particular, a folder with a lot of pictures in it, I had one with like 300+ because it was an animation, that too slowed it down.
Did you check the folders to make sure there aren't .nomedia files in them? I'm not quite sure how they would get there unless an app put them there.
Have you removed any system files? If so, you could've removed something that keeps the media scanner from running, or possibly removed the media scanner altogether.
Last idea - have you tried opening the files from the sd card to their respective apps? Open the images with the gallery & maybe they'll show up?
Last, last idea - if you're using stock apps, try downloading a third party gallery and/or music player. I use QuickPic, it's fast & caches images so if you can get them to show up in app, they should remain after a reboot.
I'm tapped out of ideas :/
Hello.
After restarting phone i can not see pictures and videos in the Gallery. it's empty. I have seen there is no .nomedia file. Then i have captured some pictures and they are appear in the Gallery but old pictures not. i can see they from file manager. how can i return my old gallery??
p.s. i have no memory card
p.s.2 my phone is Motorola Droid Razr M - android 4.4.2
Is there a way to add specific folders to the music player? On my phone, the player automatically adds voicenotes and audio from whatsapp which is pretty annoying. I would like it to choose only the music folder.
anyone?
Put a blank file in the folder named .nomedia
This will prevent android from scanning the folder for any media (music, pics, videos, etc)
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drwx said:
Put a blank file in the folder named .nomedia
This will prevent android from scanning the folder for any media (music, pics, videos, etc)
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Hey, worked perfectly! Thanks!
.nomedia with no success
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Hey, worked perfectly! Thanks!
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I am really surprised to see that .nomedia had any desired effect in your case. I'm trying to exclude those files in my WhatsApp folders from appearing in my Galaxy s3 music player as well as in the gallery. I can do whatever I want, these files ALWAYS are visible.
When trying QuickPic i am able to exclude mentioned folders and no pictures apper in the QuickPic gallery, but they do prominently appear in the Gallery app. the same goes for audio files. I tried to exclude them from DoubleTwist media player. Actually they never appear there, no matter i have a .nomedia file placed or not.
I have no understanding, which folders are scanned for media. And I cannot say that ALL folders are scanned because that would mean my mp3-ringtones under Ringtones shall appear in my music player media list?
So for me it is hard to believe that the .nomedia trick will do the desired effect (keeping WhatsApp media files out of my galleries and media players).
Actually browsing the web a bit, it seems I am not alone with this experience and I am surprised, that there is no clear description about that ominous .nomedia file. I do not say it has no effect (it does have in QuickPic - but that is about all), but not the effect everyone is talking about.
So I am really curious how you managed to have those files eliminated from your media lists (gallery, music player) by simply putting the .nomedia file in the respective directory
Thanks
mtfh
The .nomedia file did the trick just fine on the S3 mini. Thank you.
@mtfh: a late answer but, after creating the .nomedia file, try restarting the phone. Also, I guess it depends whether your (music player/photo gallery) app reads for .nomedia files to ignore those directories. In my case, I created with ES File Explorer a .nomedia in the following locations:
WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Audio/
removed the audio files from the stock music player
WhatsApp/Media/WallPaper/
removed the whatsapp custom wallpaper folder in the stock photo gallery
As for:
WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Images/
I actually liked having that folder in the photo gallery to check all whatsapp pictures in one place (without opening whatsapp itself), so I left this folder intact.
Galaxy s3
I know I am going to seem dumb as dirt, but we just got our first smart phone a few months ago. I am learning a lot with it, but I just cant figure out how to do this. I can figure out how to tap the lower left corner while in my files to create a folder. But for the life of me I cant figure out how to do this. If I click on the music note on my player it brings up a list of all my music and the ringtones, but I cant do anything with them other than shuffle them or delete. I cant find a specific folder with all ringtones in it. I have dl a couple of apps that have ringtones. Can anyone give me a step by step?
Tammy
drwx said:
Put a blank file in the folder named .nomedia
This will prevent android from scanning the folder for any media (music, pics, videos, etc)
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step by step info
tammyinwv said:
I know I am going to seem dumb as dirt, but we just got our first smart phone a few months ago. I am learning a lot with it, but I just cant figure out how to do this. I can figure out how to tap the lower left corner while in my files to create a folder. But for the life of me I cant figure out how to do this. If I click on the music note on my player it brings up a list of all my music and the ringtones, but I cant do anything with them other than shuffle them or delete. I cant find a specific folder with all ringtones in it. I have dl a couple of apps that have ringtones. Can anyone give me a step by step?
Tammy
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Hey there, follow the instructions in this link, very useful and graphic.
http://www.guidingtech.com/15563/hide-certain-files-android-music-player-photo-gallery/
Rgds,
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I have an HTC One M8 running ViperRom.
Anyway, I have Amazon Video app installed. It allows you to download videos and play them back on your phone. I downloaded one video it's over 700MB.
I want to find where the files are stored and see what file format they are. Maybe I can stream them elsewhere from my phone?
I have tried to search, but can't find the file. I tried to do a search for files > 128MB and can't find it.
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I have an HTC One M8 running ViperRom.
Anyway, I have Amazon Video app installed. It allows you to download videos and play them back on your phone. I downloaded one video it's over 700MB.
I want to find where the files are stored and see what file format they are. Maybe I can stream them elsewhere from my phone?
I have tried to search, but can't find the file. I tried to do a search for files > 128MB and can't find it.
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I haven't used the Amazon Video app, but I imagine it is like Spotify. When you download files to your phone, they are encrypted, and you can only use the app to play them.
That being said, you can find any files and folders on your phone using the DiskUsage app from the playstore.
I suppose you're right, thanks. I was able to find where the files are.. they're split up into close to 1300 directories, each with a file in them about 400 - 530KB in size, which adds up to 625MB. I don't know why I couldn't find it with ES File Explorer, but with DiskUsage it showed it to me easier and I was able to navigate there with ES.
Amazon used to let you download videos to your PC, but not any more. I would play them back and record so I could keep them forever. I just am always afraid I bought digital content and one day in the future if I want to watch them and they got taken off Amazon I'll lose them.
I'm coming from a S6. All I had to do was connect the S6 to my MacBook, and AFT had the videos ready for me to drag onto my computer. They were mixed in with the photos.
With the S9, I only see photos in the DCIM Camera folder. The Video Editor folder has a couple videos that I "shared" from the photo gallery.
Please tell me I don't have to click "share" on every video before I can transfer it to my computer...
Also, I've noticed that the super slo mo videos look correct after I download them from Google Photos, but the regular slow motion videos do not play back correctly. Kind of disappointing.
Edit: Nevermind, I'm not used to looking at the SD Card tab....
Copy them in Google Drive and sort them there based on their file type (videos and pics)
All my music albums are appearing in the gallery and i have hundreds of music albums !! (Didnt happen in my old samsung phone which was very latest too - A70) - And, i have confirmed its a one UI 2.0 thingy.
I have songs with custom Albumarts embedded transferred from PC to Mobile.
create a .nomedia file in the music folder and it will stop the pictures from appearing OR in the gallery app click menu settings and hide the folders
bunglebp said:
create a .nomedia file in the music folder and it will stop the pictures from appearing OR in the gallery app click menu settings and hide the folders
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I just created a blank text file with ".nomedia" name and copied it to my Music folder on my phone sd card, and the albums are still there.
PS: I want to make file on my PC only, hence pls inform solution tht can be done via computer.
craige said:
All my music albums are appearing in the gallery and i have hundreds of music albums !! (Didnt happen in my old samsung phone which was very latest too - A70) - And, i have confirmed its a one UI 2.0 thingy.
I have songs with custom Albumarts embedded transferred from PC to Mobile.
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Do it like this:
If you have all your music files in a folder called Music, rename the folder by adding a dot to the folder name with a file explorer app. (like this: .Music)
This way the albumart isn't visible in gallery (have done this myself)
Keep in mind that some music player apps aren't able to find the music in the folder when done the above.
In my case Pulsar+ couldn't find my music in the folder if I let it scan for music.
Omnia (from the same developer as Pulsar+ is working fine tho.
With Omnia I have to manually tell Omnia in which folders contain music.
While Pulsar+ just scans the phone for folders containg musicfiles and I can add exclusions afterwards.
Keep in mind also that some file explorer apps can't find the folder after you have added the dot in front of the folder name.
I am using Solid Explorer and have to enable 'show hidden folders' in the app settings after I have added the dot.
craige said:
All my music albums are appearing in the gallery and i have hundreds of music albums !! (Didnt happen in my old samsung phone which was very latest too - A70) - And, i have confirmed its a one UI 2.0 thingy.
I have songs with custom Albumarts embedded transferred from PC to Mobile.
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You can hide all the pictures music folders in the settings of gallery.... i know because i have the same problem, now it is solved
william84 said:
Do it like this:
If you have all your music files in a folder called Music, rename the folder by adding a dot to the folder name with a file explorer app. (like this: .Music)
This way the albumart isn't visible in gallery (have done this myself)
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Now inside my SD card, i cannot create .XXX folder as it says "You must typre a file name" Error. BUT, inside Music folder - when i copy my music albums i renamed them to .music succesfully.
Now, the albums are neither appearing in my gallery nor on my samsung music player
craige said:
Now inside my SD card, i cannot create .XXX folder as it says "You must typre a file name" Error. BUT, inside Music folder - when i copy my music albums i renamed them to .music succesfully.
Now, the albums are neither appearing in my gallery nor on my samsung music player
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I am sorry to hear that my suggestion didn't work for you.
Then i would suggest to revert the changes you have done and hide the folders containing albumart in the gallery app itself, like user brunsman6229 suggested.
william84 said:
I am sorry to hear that my suggestion didn't work for you.
Then i would suggest to revert the changes you have done and hide the folders containing albumart in the gallery app itself, like user brunsman6229 suggested.
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I am sure there has to be some solution...
Hopefully someone know a trick here, now comes the waiting part!
craige said:
I am sure there has to be some solution...
Hopefully someone know a trick here, now comes the waiting part!
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Have you done the following in the Samsung Gallery app?
brunsman6229 said:
You can hide all the pictures music folders in the settings of gallery.... i know because i have the same problem, now it is solved
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Have you done the following in the Samsung Gallery app?
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I cant there are too many of them !
UPDATE: I transferred few albums today and to my surprise.
Few albums appear in gallery and few doesnt !
Now all album/tracks are embedded by same method by me, so what can be difference ?
Please guide how to check Tag details so to pinpoint to a solution.