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Photos disappearing from Gallery

Posted this problem in LeeDroid's thread yesterday(bored to write it again from scratch,so I just did a quick copy-and-paste ).
Guys I have a strange issue.
This afternoon,without having noticed,my battery died.So I tried to turn the screen on and it booted up,telling me about low battery.Then,I plugged it in as soon as I found the charger and it turned off the moment I plugged it in.Then,I turned it on after about half an hour and all seemed ok.At some point I went to the Gallery app(HTC's one),clicked on Camera Shots(or whatever it calls the photos I have taken)and saw that there were no thumbnails,it won't display some pictures even when I select them and a photo was corrupted!I huried and copied the photos to my pc and rechecked.No thumbnails except for one photo and any new I may take with the camera.Tried deleting gallery's cache and data and it didn't help.Any ideas?Don't wanna reflash for such a thing.
Also,can it be related to the problem with 1.72 roms corrupting cards?It's like the third or fourth time data gets corrupted in my card!And it's a ****in' expensive one!
Thanks guys!
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Hope you guys can make something out of it!
Some more people had this problem but they posted it the dev section and I think that thread got deleted.If anyone knows something...Well,ideas are welcome!

tolis626 said:
Posted this problem in LeeDroid's thread yesterday(bored to write it again from scratch,so I just did a quick copy-and-paste ).
Hope you guys can make something out of it!
Some more people had this problem but they posted it the dev section and I think that thread got deleted.If anyone knows something...Well,ideas are welcome!
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I remember a while back when i was a Hero user running HTC stock ROM my 8 GB card crashed just like that. So, it is not a problem with custom ROMs...do not know what it could be but would be nice knowing it!

sphuyal said:
I remember a while back when i was a Hero user running HTC stock ROM my 8 GB card crashed just like that. So, it is not a problem with custom ROMs...do not know what it could be but would be nice knowing it!
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Yeah,it isn't a rom issue.Different people were using different roms when it happened.Unless it's HTC related!
Well,maybe a low level format is needed as someone(whose name is unfortunately escaping me right now)suggested in LeeDroid's thread.But copying 15Gb of data can be a pain!

Well,strange thing is that Gallery(both HTC and stock android one)can't show some pictures(it displays black instead of the image,even for some that there are thumbnails)while the same file,when I open it on my pc,is all ok!Strange...

have the same issue. usually goes away after a reboot.

mjehan said:
have the same issue. usually goes away after a reboot.
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Mine doesn't!

HTC Desire Z Pictures keep dissapering from Gallery
Hai,
Having the same problem with my HTC Desire Z. New pictures seem to disappear in the Galley. Good news, they aren't deleted, they're still on the SD. Connect to your computer and you can see/back up them.
I've installed a file explorer (ASTRO in my case). That made the pictures turn up in the gallery again. I guess the file explorer indexes the SD again?
For now... the pictures are back in my Gallery. It seams to be a bug in Gallery.
Hope they come with a fix soon.
Good luck,
Dee

photo problems
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!

primerow said:
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!
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Thanks, my friend, i had the same problem and your answer is the best, Now I can see all my photos in my SE WT19i.
Thanks again

I've never had this happen to me, but I have had an sd card fail on me ( an expensive patriot one). I would immediately backup your card and keep it backed up as if it's a warning sign that the card is on its way out you don't want to lose all your data.
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primerow said:
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!
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i have kind of similar issue, when i switch off my cell and then switch it on my cell generates a big thumb data of all remaining memory of my sd card and makes my sd card memory zero as well as generates lots of thumbnails. When i delete them some of my clicked pics are not showing in gallary and displayes no thumbnail. so i lost some pics permenantely. plzz help me
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primerow said:
try 2 things-delete dalvik-cache, and look for a .nomedia file on root of sd card-delete it as well-got my photos back for gallery no problem!!
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Exactly where can i find these 2 things on my sd card? show me path exactly folder by folderr

sulaymashru said:
i have kind of similar issue, when i switch off my cell and then switch it on my cell generates a big thumb data of all remaining memory of my sd card and makes my sd card memory zero as well as generates lots of thumbnails. When i delete them some of my clicked pics are not showing in gallary and displayes no thumbnail. so i lost some pics permenantely. plzz help me
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Exactly where can i find these 2 things on my sd card? show me path exactly folder by folderr
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I had this same issue a while ago, and re-flashing the rom I was using seemed to fix the problem (of course, this could be because I formatted my dalvik, as another user mentioned above!)
Have you tried to transfer the photos to your computer from your sd card to make sure that they're still good files?
As for the dalvik, boot into recovery and you'll be able to wipe it from there.

[Q] sd problem

I rooted my evo and its been working fine, but I now have a problemo..
The SD card is mounted because I can see everything through astro, I can connect it to the computer and browse the sd card and see pix and music
The music player says "No music found" and the gallery wont display my photos.
Any suggestions? I dont want to format the sd card if possible. More info by request.
Thanks

Also when I take pictures theyll stay for a while, I dont know exactly when they disapear, but maybe when the phone is rebooted. They do although get saved to the sd card in the proper 100MEDIA folder

Would you happen to be on the sense 2.1 ports? That happens to me when I'm on them.

what do you mean by the port? I am using 2.1 tho. its been working fine for about 4 months

Take SD card out..copy contents, format SD card, copy contents back, insert SD card back..your problem should be fixed..if not, get a better SD card.
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If you don't want to format it, try unmounting & remounting the SD card. You can also try manually running the media scanner. There are multiple toggle widgets that do this - Widgetsoid is my personal preference, but there are others. The dev tools app on CM7 also has an option to run the media scanner.
I think this is a rom issue & not an sd card issue. Backup your current rom, then restore from a backup of a different rom or try a clean install of a new one. If you choose to do a fresh flash, I suggest going with the stock rooted rom. If you still have the problem, then copy all of the files to your computer, format the card, then copy what you need back to the SD.
If it works fine on a different rom, you know the problem is rom related. You can try a completely clean install of whatever rom you're running right now, but it may just be a bug pertaining to the rom.
What rom are you on at the moment? Just curious...

honestly I cant remember. how to I find out?

iknowthefuture said:
honestly I cant remember. how to I find out?
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You don't remember what rom you're on? Really?
Umm, okay. Go to settings, then about phone down at the bottom. If you don't know which piece of info is the rom - you should recognize the name - just post everything in that menu.

iknowthefuture said:
I rooted my evo and its been working fine, but I now have a problemo..
The SD card is mounted because I can see everything through astro, I can connect it to the computer and browse the sd card and see pix and music
The music player says "No music found" and the gallery wont display my photos.
Any suggestions? I dont want to format the sd card if possible. More info by request.
Thanks
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You want to make sure that you don't have a ".nomedia" file in with your pictures or music. Certain apps can automatically create a .nomedia file and place it in with your music files or pictures, etc. When a .nomedia file is present, that folder won't get scanned for media of any kind, therefore your stuff wont show up. I'm not saying that's definitely your problem, by any means. However, simply suggesting that you check your folders, to make sure that the .nomedia file isn't there. I forget which apps can create that file, but I know it can happen.

i used unrevoked.. which one is the rom in software info?

iknowthefuture said:
i used unrevoked.. which one is the rom in software info?
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It may be named Rom Version, Mod Version, build number... I've seen multiple different wordings for it. Mine says "Build Number", but I'm on MIUI. It isn't baseband, kernel, model version, or Android version. It won't be only numbers, and it isn't PC36100.
Let me ask you this... have you flashed any roms through recovery or Rom Manager? If not, you're on stock.

3.70.651.1 cl294884 release-keys is build number

I just tried to install fresh evo 3.5 rom and when it rebooted it stuck at the white "htc evo 4g" screen

k2buckley said:
You want to make sure that you don't have a ".nomedia" file in with your pictures or music. Certain apps can automatically create a .nomedia file and place it in with your music files or pictures, etc. When a .nomedia file is present, that folder won't get scanned for media of any kind, therefore your stuff wont show up. I'm not saying that's definitely your problem, by any means. However, simply suggesting that you check your folders, to make sure that the .nomedia file isn't there. I forget which apps can create that file, but I know it can happen.
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found the .nomedia file. deleted it and pix and music are back. It was at the root of the sd card. Thanks

iknowthefuture said:
found the .nomedia file. deleted it and pix and music are back. It was at the root of the sd card. Thanks
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Glad to have helped. And I just gave you your first thanks (it was an accident, I meant to hit the quote button, lol). But either way, you got your first thanks! Take it easy.

Pictures disapeared.

hi, my pictures have dissapeared from the stock gallery on 4.1.1 they are still on the phone by looking for them through a file manager but they dont show up in gallery only the ones i have taken that uploaded with google picasa show up very annoying, please dont reconmend other gallerys i want to fix this one.

this help?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30285277&postcount=22

blair287 said:
hi, my pictures have dissapeared from the stock gallery on 4.1.1 they are still on the phone by looking for them through a file manager but they dont show up in gallery only the ones i have taken that uploaded with google picasa show up very annoying, please dont reconmend other gallerys i want to fix this one.
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From what I read this was a problem with an update ROM manager got that is now fixed. Some people said that installing PowerAmp from the Play store fixed this issue. Personally, I deleted the file called ".nomedia" from the ROOT of the SD card and then copied my media folders (pictures and music) to my laptop. I then deleted those same folders from the phone and then copied them back to the phone and everything shows up fine. Hope this helps you!

Still more new threads! lol :cyclops:

Google Music to external sd?

Cant get google music to save all my songs locally, have tried to create a link to the external sd which shows up with my 24gb free, but it always fails and says "cannot download music at this time, will try again later"
Any suggestions?

Are you downloading to your computer and your phone is connected via USB? If so, download it to a folder on your computer, then drag and drop it into the folder you want it to be in on the phone.

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Are you downloading to your computer and your phone is connected via USB? If so, download it to a folder on your computer, then drag and drop it into the folder you want it to be in on the phone.
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I was hoping to just have my music download from play music. I know i could download it to computer and put it on my phone. But i was hoping to have it all come from google music so i can have my new stuff upload without having to manually ad d it to my phone.

Have you tried Directory Bind?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...MB9y6XhJx7BmrBYmw&sig2=Y_W6AiYe_XOT79a1FpNa3w
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Thanks, just tried it, but it cant see anything in the data folder so I cannot get it to the correct folder.
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You may have too many devices on your account. This happened to me and it wouldn't let me save locally. Just had to go into my account and delete a few old devices. Worked fine after that.

Froid said:
You may have too many devices on your account. This happened to me and it wouldn't let me save locally. Just had to go into my account and delete a few old devices. Worked fine after that.
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Probably should have mentioned that I have googled and tried everything I could think of. I only have two devices authorized, and I have plenty of storage availible. I guess im trying to find somone who has downloaded all their music to their external card. I have roughly 13gb of music and 24gb free space on my card
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Gotcha..mine were pretty much all the same phone, just would add as a new device everytime I flashed a new ROM.

kleeman7 said:
Probably should have mentioned that I have googled and tried everything I could think of. I only have two devices authorized, and I have plenty of storage availible. I guess im trying to find somone who has downloaded all their music to their external card. I have roughly 13gb of music and 24gb free space on my card
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This worked perfectly for me. Let me know if you have any questions or help getting it working. Basically it uses root explorer to create a symlink. Note that the directions will actually delete you google music cache and offline music. So you'll have to recache/download everything. If you don't want to do that you can always copy the files folder to the sd card, then do the clear data, and then create the symlink. Let me know if you need more precise help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34615796&postcount=84

Thanks. It starts to download music then says cant download right now. Any ideas why? The link is created properly.
This whole time it has been getting stuck on a couple songs, currupted files I would assume. All is well now.
So just for reference if I flssh a new rom and create the link I wont have to redownload it all?
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kleeman7 said:
Thanks. It starts to download music then says cant download right now. Any ideas why? The link is created properly.
This whole time it has been getting stuck on a couple songs, currupted files I would assume. All is well now.
So just for reference if I flssh a new rom and create the link I wont have to redownload it all?
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How fast is your card? I am using the Sandisk Ultra UHS-I 64gb and had no problems downloading any music. I am unsure why you are getting the error downloading files. When you go into Music and click on 'choose on device music', do you see the free space for your external SD card? If you do it should have worked properly. I've read in other forums that they recommend that you don't let your screen go to sleep when music is downloading. Maybe that's it? I also had this weird bug where music would kind freak out if I started playing a song and then pressed the home button to do other things while listening to music. Like when I went back into the Music app to fast forward, the album art disappeared and the music scroll bar froze. What I ended up doing is rebooting the phone. And that resolved my issue. Maybe a reboot will help you with the downloading problem?
And you are correct, if you flash a new rom, and make the link before you open google music, you shouldn't have to redownload. At least this is my understanding of it. I have yet to try. As soon as Cleanrom w/ Multiwindow comes out, I am going to try it, so i will let you know then. If that doesn't work I have a theory that I will try. Basically, making a link of the entire com.google.android.music folder in the data/data directory. Maybe that will be better cuz there are other files besides the files folder that is created. It's just that the music files are stored there. but it looks like other important files are in there like the database files and others. I have a feeling that I'm gonna need to do this to prevent having to download each time I flash a new rom. I will keep you posted.

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How fast is your card? I am using the Sandisk Ultra UHS-I 64gb and had no problems downloading any music. I am unsure why you are getting the error downloading files. When you go into Music and click on 'choose on device music', do you see the free space for your external SD card? If you do it should have worked properly. I've read in other forums that they recommend that you don't let your screen go to sleep when music is downloading. Maybe that's it? I also had this weird bug where music would kind freak out if I started playing a song and then pressed the home button to do other things while listening to music. Like when I went back into the Music app to fast forward, the album art disappeared and the music scroll bar froze. What I ended up doing is rebooting the phone. And that resolved my issue. Maybe a reboot will help you with the downloading problem?
And you are correct, if you flash a new rom, and make the link before you open google music, you shouldn't have to redownload. At least this is my understanding of it. I have yet to try. As soon as Cleanrom w/ Multiwindow comes out, I am going to try it, so i will let you know then. If that doesn't work I have a theory that I will try. Basically, making a link of the entire com.google.android.music folder in the data/data directory. Maybe that will be better cuz there are other files besides the files folder that is created. It's just that the music files are stored there. but it looks like other important files are in there like the database files and others. I have a feeling that I'm gonna need to do this to prevent having to download each time I flash a new rom. I will keep you posted.
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Yeah. I have a uhs-1 card. It just hangs on a few songs. The same skmgs that whem I try to stream say they csnt be streamed. So I have been deleting them when this happens. I am almost done downloading my 13gb of music, lol.
Please do let us know how the new rom goes.
Edit: May have did it wrong but I updated from CR 2.1 to 3.0 frsh install made the link, but google showed no songs on device. Maybe I will open play music and then make the link after it loads. Next update and see how it goes.
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kleeman7 said:
Yeah. I have a uhs-1 card. It just hangs on a few songs. The same skmgs that whem I try to stream say they csnt be streamed. So I have been deleting them when this happens. I am almost done downloading my 13gb of music, lol.
Please do let us know how the new rom goes.
Edit: May have did it wrong but I updated from CR 2.1 to 3.0 frsh install made the link, but google showed no songs on device. Maybe I will open play music and then make the link after it loads. Next update and see how it goes.
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As it turns out, I was right. You need to symlink the entire com.google.android.music fold for it to survive rom flashes. Just symlinking the files folder does save the music files to your external sd card but other needed files like database and what not are still on the internal card and therefore flashing a new rom deletes those essential files. So try symlinking the entire com.google.android.music folder. It worked for me and if you flash a new rom remember to remake the symlink before opening Google Music.
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It appears symlinking the entire com.google.android.music folder only worked temporarily. After a while I noticed my Play Music app just disspeared from my drawer. I had to delete the symlink and copy the folder back over to my internal storage and reboot to get it to come back. Hmm. I think the only thing you can really do is symlink the files folder only so that way the large music files do get saved to your external storage. And anytime you decide you want to reflash your phone, make sure you backup the com.google.android.music folder before you do so. Then flash your rom. Copy that folder back to your internal storage and recreate the symlink for your files folder. That should do the trick.
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[Q] My gallery app doesnt show the pictures moved in external sd card

Hey guys I have a very annoying issue. My gallery app doesnt show up my pictures in my sd card. I moved pictures by file explorer of its own, and they all are gone from gallery app. Although it doensnt show the pics that are moved , it shows the pictures freshly taken into external sd card . But it doesnt show the pics I moved into it. The other fact is that when I unmount the sd card and mount it again, even the freshly taken pictures dissappear.!! but after that I shoot some more and they show up but old pics never shows up. My sd card is new and I have no other issue apart from this ( its class 10 , 32 gb ,kingston micro sd card.! please helppp !! (

oziverson said:
Hey guys I have a very annoying issue. My gallery app doesnt show up my pictures in my sd card. I moved pictures by file explorer of its own, and they all are gone from gallery app. Although it doensnt show the pics that are moved , it shows the pictures freshly taken into external sd card . But it doesnt show the pics I moved into it. The other fact is that when I unmount the sd card and mount it again, even the freshly taken pictures dissappear.!! but after that I shoot some more and they show up but old pics never shows up. My sd card is new and I have no other issue apart from this ( its class 10 , 32 gb ,kingston micro sd card.! please helppp !! (
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Can you still find the pictures in the file explorer ? What folder did you move them to ?
Try downloading quikpic gallery and see if it finds them

They all exist in external sd cad and I can easily find em all just going through file explorer. I can find an open them there. They all in the folder that camera app creates. But gallery doesnt show them

oziverson said:
They all exist in external sd cad and I can easily find em all just going through file explorer. I can find an open them there. They all in the folder that camera app creates. But gallery doesnt show them
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What folder do you have them saved in ? If you have a DCIM folder on the ext card it will find them if they are put in there

They all in dcim buddy but yeah I tried what you told me and downloaded quickpic gallery and it showed my pics up as long as I put a tick on ''show hidden files'' . But I have no clue why would they be hidden. They all appears when im lookin around file explorer. Lets think about it

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They all in dcim buddy but yeah I tried what you told me and downloaded quickpic gallery and it showed my pics up as long as I put a tick on ''show hidden files'' . But I have no clue why would they be hidden. They all appears when im lookin around file explorer. Lets think about it
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Seems odd to me. For some reason it thinks they should be hidden. Normally the media scanner would pick them up. Are the formatted differently ?

I dont know which format it is but recently after having had this problem , i formatted it in storage menu of settings. And I put the files back on it but no sign of pictures in gaplery.but yeah thanks for quick pic app! At least it shows them all! But i need to find a way to get my gallery to work properly again

Have you cleared the data/cache for the gallery?
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Yes , i did ot at my first try .but the same . I think my gallery app is kinda broken down for some reason.it seems to be working very well but, it has problem with external card. Maybe i should replace it but donno where to find it. I found some but they all are modified , not the original ones

Got to be a card issue. Move pics to internal or hard drive and format the card and see if it helps.
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Already did it and its not car issue i think. Becuz ive tried the card in another smart phine and works well

oziverson said:
Already did it and its not car issue i think. Becuz ive tried the card in another smart phine and works well
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Phone could still have an issue veiwing them even though another will or your PC will

Hey guys Ive come up with news. I flashed succesfully synergy rom into my phone. And gallery had no problem showing pictures on my external sd card. After then I restore all the apps and datas through titanium backup that i used to backup all apps and datas from previous system . AND guess what ? Gallery has started not to show up the pictures in external again. I think an app is causing this but i dont know how to find out

oziverson said:
Hey guys Ive come up with news. I flashed succesfully synergy rom into my phone. And gallery had no problem showing pictures on my external sd card. After then I restore all the apps and datas through titanium backup that i used to backup all apps and datas from previous system . AND guess what ? Gallery has started not to show up the pictures in external again. I think an app is causing this but i dont know how to find out
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My general rule of thumb is only use titanium to restore apps sparingly. I just keep an ext SD card with apks of the apps I want to install that aren't on market and use the playstore for all other. Flash synergy again and then do an app and check gallery, rinse and repeat. Might be tedious but worth it.

I used to have 2.3.6 GB stock ROM and flashed THIS JB 4.3 ROM Everything works fine but my Gallery app doesn't want to show my old pics at all... When I shoot new photos they are fine.. But my phone recognizes my OLD photos as VIDEO FILES and when I try to open them it asks me what app to use to open them showing video apps. This thread looks like the closest one to my problem. I hope someone can find a solution to this other than using another gallery apk.
(I can see and open my old photos using file explorer)
Using Galaxy S - I9000
Thanks for any effort..

Try out fish bowl gallery app and unlock all pics . They ll show up in gallery after this
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