Or something to lock the current photo app?
Thanks.
I just saw two in the market...sexting vault was one I think. Can't remember the other.
PhotoVault works good. You can hide individual pics, they wont show up in your stock gallery. Have to sign in w/ a password in the app to see the blocked pics....
I recommend photovault "sextingvault" just sounds suspicious. Its the same app. But better name.
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The Easy way to hide photos is to mount the sdcard to your computer or use Astro or EStrongs File Explorer and just move all the photos you want hidden to another folder on the sdcard and name the folder .Whatever
Just put a Period . in front of the folder name and the Gallery app will not look for photo's in that folder so it hides them.
All you have to do is navigate to the folder with Astro etc and then view the photos from there.
This is how i hide photo's as most people are not going to go using a file explorer to go find photo's
fdot said:
I recommend photovault "sextingvault" just sounds suspicious. Its the same app. But better name.
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Yeah, photo vault was the other. Go figure sextingvault was the one I remembred. Lol
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I recommend photovault "sextingvault" just sounds suspicious.
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LOL....sure does. I'll grab photo vault.
zippy-man said:
The Easy way to hide photos is to mount the sdcard to your computer or use Astro or EStrongs File Explorer and just move all the photos you want hidden to another folder on the sdcard and name the folder .Whatever
Just put a Period . in front of the folder name and the Gallery app will not look for photo's in that folder so it hides them.
All you have to do is navigate to the folder with Astro etc and then view the photos from there.
This is how i hide photo's as most people are not going to go using a file explorer to go find photo's
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Thanks for the option.
best app hiding pictures of anykind THE APP IS CALLED......VAULTY...it can hold alot of pics and can be password protected if your phone is stolen the pics are encrypted as .txt. files so they can never be seen without the app installed.
Hide it pro is the way to
go dude its better than those up there plus it can hid apps and other stuff
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I use an app call al2 from 4shared it locks any app u want with a number of different locking methods its not in the app store only on 4shared I have mine locked to where if u open the locked app it shows the force close screen and u have to tap the text 5 times to open it lol I will try and find a link for u.
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I use an app call al2 from 4shared it locks any app u want with a number of different locking methods its not in the app store only on 4shared I have mine locked to where if u open the locked app it shows the force close screen and u have to tap the text 5 times to open it lol I will try and find a link for u.
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Not sure if pirating or just plain bad idea
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gallery lock is a great one has alot of features ... i use it
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best app hiding pictures of anykind THE APP IS CALLED......VAULTY...it can hold alot of pics and can be password protected if your phone is stolen the pics are encrypted as .txt. files so they can never be seen without the app installed.
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+1 for vualty it's an awesome app
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Pandoras box. when downloaded it will just say pandora in your app drawer and it will require a password to get in.
I use the keepsafe app from google play u
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The absolute easiest and probably best gallery app available is quickpic. It has just what you are looking for.
You can also make any folder hidden by adding * before the folder name.
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Audio Manager (Hide it pro). Its awesome! It hides pictures, apps, music, and it even locks any apps you want. Best part, is that the app disguises itself as a volume controller app. Check it out.
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I placed ".nomedia" in my music folder and still the album artwork appears in the gallery, even after a reboot.
Is there another way to hide albums from the gallery?
I had this issue too, the following advice solved it for me.
Download an app called quickpic from the market. For some reason it correctly hid my nomedia folders despite them showing in the Xoom, so I told it to show hidden folders. Then for the folders that were misbehaving, long press them, click unhide, then long press again and click hide.
My guess is manually making the nomedia file goes wrong somehow, but doing the above hid the folders I was trying to hide
If it only shows folders with pics and you want to hide a music folder, I guess the workaround would be to also have a small picture file in each folder you want to hide.
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I want to hide one book/folder in SNote. Is there a way that I can do it within the SNote app? Or would I have to use a file manager like Astro and change the file name to hide the file? Or are there other apps that would hide the files for me?
I would like to hide a diary folder that I plan to use and add entries to several times a week. I have hidden photos in the past that I didn't want to access that often, so changing the file name with Astro was not a problem for situations like that. It would seem cumbersome to have to do that with every diary entry that I make though. Any suggestions are appreciated.
I think an actual diary app would be better in your case. That allows for passwords too
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Has anyone managed to use the .nomedia method to hide unwanted photos etc? I can't seem to get it to work.
Edit: never mind I found a fix.
And .......?
Could you please let us know what the fix was?
You can hide photos from gallery by renaming the folder the photos are in with a "." period before the name.
Well use a .nomedia application from market to select folders you would like excluding from media scan. Then go to apply manager and find gallery clear defaults and data then (not sure if you need to) goto media manager and do the same. Then reboot. Not ideal but it works
Try using Quickpic from the market.... Hide pics and video and lock with passcode.
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Could anyone let me know if, when you put several apps into one one folder on your homescreen - say all your games into a single folder, is this folder then saved as a file in the device's storage and can it then be located on Astro File Manager or any file managers? And if so where is the folder located?
Thanks for any help in advance,
Kev
Whatever launcher you are using will store this information, either way in a shared_pref xml or more likely am sqlite database file. For instance, on CM10.1, which uses trebuchet as the default launcher, it's in /data/data/com...trebuchet/databases/launcher.db
Not super accessible, but yes it is "saved" somewhere on your device, but really this is just a list of the apps you placed in your home screen folder, not a folder of apps in the conventional sense.
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Thanks for the help. Would you have any idea where it would be located if I'm using AOKP and Nova Launcher? Basically all I'm trying to do is to create a new homescreen icon using Desktop Visualizer to open my app folders. I've seen ways to do it using other apps such as Simi folder but I'd prefer to have the stock Android interface when you open the folder. I've noticed with Desktop Visualizer, when selecting what to launch, you can open something from the file manager and so I'm hoping I can use this as a way to open my App folders - if I can locate them.
Any other ideas are very welcome! Thanks again
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