Is there a way to hide folders or photos in the stock gallery?
Album art and other things show that I would rather hide.
Deebo took your bike too?
I don't think so. Only way I can think of is move them to SD card and unmount SD whenever you have the need to hide them.
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Check out Gallery Lock from the market. .99 cents and the app hides any pictures from the gallery you want hidden, also has stealth launcher, so the app that says gallery lock is also hidden. To open it, you dial a 4 digit code in the dialer, and it opens. I reply like the app!
-Matt
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mylexon20s said:
Check out Gallery Lock from the market. .99 cents and the app hides any pictures from the gallery you want hidden, also has stealth launcher, so the app that says gallery lock is also hidden. To open it, you dial a 4 digit code in the dialer, and it opens. I reply like the app!
-Matt
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Can apps still use them if they're locked?
Deebo took your bike too?
U can get gallery excluder apk from xda, just do search. That would work perfect, it's what I use
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You can also add a blank file named ".nomedia" to the folder with the files you want to exclude from the gallery. It's recursive and all sub folders from that point will be excluded.
I had to do this with podcasts that were showing up in my gallery.
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KLR Rico said:
You can also add a blank file named ".nomedia" to the folder with the files you want to exclude from the gallery. It's recursive and all sub folders from that point will be excluded.
I had to do this with podcasts that were showing up in my gallery.
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Right Android ignores all files and folders with labels beginning with a period.
.backup
.porn
.bachelor_party
will not show up in gallery.
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mettleh3d said:
Right Android ignores all files and folders with labels beginning with a period.
.backup
.porn
.bachelor_party
will not show up in gallery.
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You forgot .evidence
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KLR Rico said:
You can also add a blank file named ".nomedia" to the folder with the files you want to exclude from the gallery. It's recursive and all sub folders from that point will be excluded.
I had to do this with podcasts that were showing up in my gallery.
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yup, this is the best solution .nomedia works across all android devices, it will make the graphic apps ignore the folders with the empty .nomedia file
Photo vault does the trick
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Thanks for everyone's input and ways of doing this. I wasn't able to hide the album art, but the rest is now hidden.
Thanks again. xoxoxo
Deebo took your bike too?
hide it pro is legit you can hide pics videos apps conversations etc and it it disguised as a program called audio manager
The .nomedia file has to be the first file in a folder in order to ignore media there. If files are already indexed, just rename such folders forth and back (opening the Gallery in the middle) and there you go.
You can use the Nomedia application for creating easily the .nomedia
Quickpic is a good app, hides full folders with password and it won't show unless you put the password. You can use your regular gallery app and have quick pic just hide the folders desired and they won't show on your regular gallery app
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jorgerangel159 said:
Quickpic is a good app, hides full folders with password and it won't show unless you put the password. You can use your regular gallery app and have quick pic just hide the folders desired and they won't show on your regular gallery app
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I think he just wants to hide them, not password protect them.
Put a . In the folder name
I.e.
.pix = hiden
Pic = shown
You can then see them in a filemanager app
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xile6 said:
Put a . In the folder name
I.e.
.pix = hiden
Pic = shown
You can then see them in a filemanager app
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This doesn't work when the folder name has to be preserved, you can't just add a dot to the name. Even if this did work, there are some applications that won't read files or folders marked as hidden, even if that is the predefined folder for their data.
So, there are two quite different solutions: one is adding a .nomedia to the folder and other renaming the folder or file itself with a dot in the front. Just choose what you need most.
Is there a way? I have a bunch of various icon folders, clocks, and weather skins that show up in my gallery. Very annoying.
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You can try to add a file to your folders called .nomedia
make sure you put the period in front of it.
I have that in some of my folders and they dont show up in my galler app.
How do I just create a file? You mean like an empty folder and just name it .nomedia?
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How do I just create a file? You mean like an empty folder and just name it .nomedia?
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an empty text file named. . nomedia
Not a folder, you put this on every folder containing pictures you don't want gallery to show.
ON BLAZER 1.7 /JELLYBOMB 9
i had hundreds of icons folders deleted all that mess .I'm thinking there from theme i flashed idk.
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gallery excluder
app called gallery excluder
in root explorer you can press menu and select new file. Just name it .no media like it was said previously. Or you can scrap the junk gallery and dl quick pic. Its a much nicer faster cleaner gallery app. And you can hide entire folders by long pressing and select exclude folder
On my GS2, I would just hit usb and picassa would import them. On the GS3, it is different. How do I get my photos off the phone onto my pc?
Thanks
Go to the dcim folder and drag and drop to your computer
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So on this MIUI rom, I can't seem to copy a lot of things (like it doesn't even have a copy dialogue when I try to copy a text message that I received). Anyone know of a good app that can copy system wide kinda like copy text from the app store but doesn't use ocr?
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Go to message hold the message you wanna copy and click more then that pops up
Let me know I'd that helped
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i guess the dpi i used made that copy menu disapear but i raised it and it works now ty!
I'm running 4.1.2 and I created a folder and copied some texts to it within the messenger. Where is this folder stored? I'm trying to move them to an ad card and onto another phone.
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Download a file manager from the play store and search the internal memory as well as the SD card for a folder that might contain the messages.
If you still can't find the backed up messages, then download an app from the play store that backs up messages, there's plenty of them on there.
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I'm running 4.1.2 and I created a folder and copied some texts to it within the messenger. Where is this folder stored? I'm trying to move them to an ad card and onto another phone.
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/storage/sdcard0/Messaging
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I can't ever recall being able to create folders and backup/export/import text messages from within the messaging app to the sdcard??
I am stock 4.1.2 and do not see this as an option. Nor have I ever, and I've looked! Only way I know to do this without an sms backup app is to copy the db file from telephony....If I've missed something I would definitely like to know!
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Maybe I'm missing something here, but I can't ever recall being able to create folders and backup/export/import text messages from within the messaging app to the sdcard??
I am stock 4.1.2 and do not see this as an option. Nor have I ever, and I've looked! Only way I know to do this without an sms backup app is to copy the db file from telephony....If I've missed something I would definitely like to know!
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Must be a Dandroid mod. I definitely have the option.