Hi
My Tab Pro 8.4 T325 doesn't scan media, resulting no videos or music files are shown in players only if I reboot the device. What can I do now ? Tablet is not rooted.
Thanks.
Edit:
After experimenting with it I realized that only the external SD card is not scanned by the media scanner. I even tried another card formatted to FAT32 and Exfat but none of them work. I can't believe that I am the only one with this problem.
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Hi all,
First of all, sorry if this isn't in the right sub-forum.
My step-mum's recently got herself a Wildfire and wanted some music putting on it. My younger brother tried copying some music over from his PC but when he opened the default music player, no music whatsoever was there (including the rubbish that comes pre-loaded on there).
I connected the phone to my PC and the music my younger brother copied over was not on the SD card at all. I assumed he messed something up so tried transfering the music over myself but when I unmount the SD card from my PC and open the default music player it says it can't find any music. And when I reconnected the SD card to my PC, the music is no longer there
I've installed doubletwist but it can't find any music on the phone and I've tried repeatedly unmounting and mounting the SD card to force it to rescan. I really have no idea what's up.
Any ideas would be much appreciated guys.
Sorry for asking but I need to first off, try loading the music unmount from PC then mount to PC see if music there.
If not, problem is SD.
If yes, problem is wildfire + SD.
If its wildfire + SD try putting card in seperate reader and format with HP format program (will try to link at later date). If this can't be done use windows to format, file system should be fat32. Then put it back in phone load music app, demount from wildfire and load music into a folder named music.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks. It turned out to be the SD card. I had a spare 1 which I put in her phone and it's working fine.
Glad I could help.
I am using 64 GB external card. I have a large collection of mp3 songs in it. None of the music player can find the songs. I have tried the stock player, player pro and few others.
Mx video is able to find the video collection on the external card.
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are none of the folders hidden?
folders in linux(and android) are hidden when their name starts with a period (ex: ".foldername") and in android folders (and any file/folder within that folder) are hidden from stock applications if they contain a file called .nomedia
and do the files show up over USB(MTP)?
The internal SD card is now merged with the internal memory, that's why App 2 SD is not possible on the SGN2.
I don't know if someone has found a fix around this.
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amit14 said:
I am using 64 GB external card. I have a large collection of mp3 songs in it. None of the music player can find the songs. I have tried the stock player, player pro and few others.
Mx video is able to find the video collection on the external card.
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Rebooting the phone should cause a media scan which will then pick up all the songs, provided you don't have a .nomedia file in any of the directories, which causes the scanner to stop.
You can also download apps to force a media rescan, but that shouldn't be necessary.
- Frank
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Tried everything but no music player has been able to find my music collection in External SD. Even office applications are unable to find the SD card. Any possible fix or solution for this?
amit14 said:
Tried everything but no music player has been able to find my music collection in External SD. Even office applications are unable to find the SD card. Any possible fix or solution for this?
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Try Meridian player.
It has a 'folder' option which lets you manually navigate to any folder.
Perhaps it's the file system of your external card.
Try formatting the card in the phone, and then copying your music back onto it.
My phone has no problems finding all the mp3s on my sd card.
- Frank
If you're rooted, then you can use a tool like Directory Bind to map folders between your phone and card storage. I use it on my S3 and my Note 2 to keep apps like Amazon MP3 from filling up my phone storage.
Directory Bind
Directory Bind tutorial
ChodTheWacko said:
Try Meridian player.
It has a 'folder' option which lets you manually navigate to any folder.
Perhaps it's the file system of your external card.
Try formatting the card in the phone, and then copying your music back onto it.
My phone has no problems finding all the mp3s on my sd card.
- Frank
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Formatting the card worked. "Silly Me". Sometimes simple of steps just throws you off. Thanks again everyone.
SOLVED!!!!!!
FINALLY, THE SOLUTION!
I scoured all over internet trying to solve the issue of any media player finding music from neither SD Card (internal nor external), even though file explorers did, so I will be posting this on every relevant thread I find.
This method worked for me, so results may vary:
1- Download Rescan Media (I used the root version):
2- Download Media scanner:
3- Go to Settings / Applications / All / Media Storage and clear data
4- Reboot
5- Open Rescan media and disable the media scanner
6- Now re-enable it
7- Now, open Media scanner and tap Start scanning
8- Voilá, now every player will recognize the music stored on both SD Cards.
*As I said, this method worked for me, so maybe just some of the steps above were necessary, but... anyway.
Good luck!
Dear all,
I do have a problem of media scan of GSN2 and I wonder if any friends here are facing the same problem as mine.
The issue is that, in order to restore my existing photos and music from my old phone to SGN2, I used my PC to transfer the photos and music to my 32GB sdcard ("Extsdcard" which was working fine with my SGS2 and SGS3 under ICS OS) and then I insert my SD card into my SGN2. I find that pre-existing media files (pictures,music and videos) in the Extsdcard were not added to the stock gallery/music/video player app. I tried to reboot my SGN2 and/or install the Rescan Media Root app to trigger the media scanner to work. However, no pre-existing photos/music/videos in Extsdcard showed up in my stock gallery/music/video player.
Also, I have tried some kind of suggested solution such as hard reset, full wipe, delete .nomedia, reformat the Extsdcard from FAT32 to exFAT etc and the issue could not be solved.
The only way which is worked for me is, firstly copy my photos/music/videos from my Extsdcard to my internal storage, then, delete the files in my Extsdcard, then, re-copy the files from my internal storage to my Extsdcard. Then the photos/music/videos were properly showed up in the stock gallery/music/videos player again.
Any friends in this forum is facing the same issue with your SGN2 as me? Do you know if there is any way to make my media scanner to scan my Extsdcard properly and find all the photos, videos and music?
Thank you very much!
Did you try clearing cache and data for gallery app in settings. Not sure how to on jellybean, but try unmounting and then remounting the sd card. Didn't se where you had tried this or not
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Dear Max,
Thanks a lot for your response. Both of your suggested methods had been tried but the gallery app won't see my existing photos in my Extsdcard after cleaning the data / cache. I could only get to see my pre-existing photos in the stock gallery until copying the photos from Extsdcard to internal storage, and then re copy the photos from my internal storage to my Extsdcard. Thanks again for your suggestions.
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try to use quickpic app from play store or rescan media app
jackalkwok said:
Dear all,
I do have a problem of media scan of GSN2 and I wonder if any friends here are facing the same problem as mine.
The issue is that, in order to restore my existing photos and music from my old phone to SGN2, I used my PC to transfer the photos and music to my 32GB sdcard ("Extsdcard" which was working fine with my SGS2 and SGS3 under ICS OS) and then I insert my SD card into my SGN2. I find that pre-existing media files (pictures,music and videos) in the Extsdcard were not added to the stock gallery/music/video player app. I tried to reboot my SGN2 and/or install the Rescan Media Root app to trigger the media scanner to work. However, no pre-existing photos/music/videos in Extsdcard showed up in my stock gallery/music/video player.
Also, I have tried some kind of suggested solution such as hard reset, full wipe, delete .nomedia, reformat the Extsdcard from FAT32 to exFAT etc and the issue could not be solved.
The only way which is worked for me is, firstly copy my photos/music/videos from my Extsdcard to my internal storage, then, delete the files in my Extsdcard, then, re-copy the files from my internal storage to my Extsdcard. Then the photos/music/videos were properly showed up in the stock gallery/music/videos player again.
Any friends in this forum is facing the same issue with your SGN2 as me? Do you know if there is any way to make my media scanner to scan my Extsdcard properly and find all the photos, videos and music?
Thank you very much!
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Had that on the S3, just download Startupmanager from Play and rescan media. Open Startupmanager and go to system and disable Mediastorage. Open en and close Mediascan and you`re done. Choose Rescan Media for root or it will not work.
Dear all
I think I have figure out what happen in my Extsdcard. I guess there were some photos from other non stock camera apps had been corrupted which led to the media scan hanged at some point and not able to scan my whole Extsdcard.
Thx so much for advising me.
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Ever since I rooted my note 2, I keep losing access to the external SD card. Trying to access through file managers or apps (music or video player) results in freezing/hanging. If I unmount then mount, I will briefly have access and it will play files as normal. After I watch a movie, I will not be able to open another file. I have to unmount and mount again.
I've tried just about everything I can think of. still need to reformat the card. Any other ideas?
Can you see files on your ext sd with a file mgr? If you are only having issues with media players finding music or videos, there are a number of free "rescan" apps in market. This just happened to me (i.e., alarm clock xtreme and stock music player couldn't find my mp3 files on ext sd)... Only took 30 sec to resolve by running "Rescan SD" app... now all my apps can find my media files stored on ext sd... something to try at least...
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Can you see files on your ext sd with a file mgr? If you are only having issues with media players finding music or videos, there are a number of free "rescan" apps in market. This just happened to me (i.e., alarm clock xtreme and stock music player couldn't find my mp3 files on ext sd)... Only took 30 sec to resolve by running "Rescan SD" app... now all my apps can find my media files stored on ext sd... something to try at least...
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I'll try that. But the problem is with all apps including file managers.
I have the same problem. Everything worked fine for a month after root. Today i plugged in using a 3rd party charger and now the card wont mount or stay mounted. Ive used other 3rd party charges without problem. Could thisbe the problem?
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Sounds like you sd card is going. Backup all data on the card to the pc if possible.
SOLVED!!!!!!
FINALLY, THE SOLUTION!
I scoured all over internet trying to solve the issue of any media player finding music from neither SD Card (internal nor external), even though file explorers did, so I will be posting this on every relevant thread I find.
This method worked for me, so results may vary:
1- Download Rescan Media (I used the root version):
2- Download Media scanner:
3- Go to Settings / Applications / All / Media Storage and clear data
4- Reboot
5- Open Rescan media and disable the media scanner
6- Now re-enable it
7- Now, open Media scanner and tap Start scanning
8- Voilá, now every player will recognize the music stored on both SD Cards.
*As I said, this method worked for me, so maybe just some of the steps above were necessary, but... anyway.
Good luck!
Am I the only one who is having difficulty in loading to external sd card sometime movies will load and play once and the next time say cannot play video sometimes the movie files will just be completely gone. Same happens with music files sometimes but not as much trouble with the. This happens with both avi and mp4
I just did the 4.4.2 update but this was going on with 4.2.1 also
It doesn't. Matter if I load files wifi direct or use SuperBeam or straight USB hookup
My SD card is a Samsung Pro 64 gb xc
WoodyFX said:
Am I the only one who is having difficulty in loading to external sd card sometime movies will load and play once and the next time say cannot play video sometimes the movie files will just be completely gone. Same happens with music files sometimes but not as much trouble with the. This happens with both avi and mp4
I just did the 4.4.2 update but this was going on with 4.2.1 also
It doesn't. Matter if I load files wifi direct or use SuperBeam or straight USB hookup
My SD card is a Samsung Pro 64 gb xc
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I had the problem using custom ROMs and having to format the SD card to Fat32.
Decided stock ROM was best for full function, and never got the issue since.
Also if you get SD cards from Ebay, there have been cases of fake name brand SD cards from china. You can look for an SD format tool online. There is one in particular that will properly format beyond a Windows format. If it passes, it should work well.. if not it will probably be toast after a few format attempts. Meaning you can format to Fat32 or Exfat but it will not hold data. Seen one with my very own eyes a few years back. Would format and show its maximum free space and load files, but after a certain amount was placed on the card, files would corrupt or go missing.