Ok, so when I first got the phone, I was having friends send me pictures to associate with their name in my contact list. Well, somehow, one of them got associated with my ringtone files on the phone. So now the album picture for all the downloaded ringtones on my phone is one of the pictures my friend sent to me. Of him. Lol. And it's annoying.
I tried deleting all the ringtones from my phone, yet somehow when I added them back on, it came back. All the ringtone artists are listed as <unknown>. Another thing I cannot figure out how to edit.
Anybody know how to fix this? I don't even want a picture for the ringtones.
Also, the picture that is coming up as the album cover for those ringtones has long since been deleted. And I have no idea how it even became associated with the ringtones. I never set it to represent them. It just did it on its own.
Yes, I’ve had this happen to me and it is annoying!
I don’t know a quick and simple fix for this.
I used a few different apps to help me fix this. I used mp3tagger and itag to fix these issues Search mp3, mp3 tagger and I’m sure you will have a number of different apps come up. It took a while but it worked. If all your albums and songs are unknown you might be working on this for a while.
I use iTag and another called Album Art Grabber... they are each good at different things. Be advised that the stock media apps usually show art based on the Album Artist data. Change all the files you can find with that field blank to have an image (or no image) that you would prefer for your ringtones and then eventually the image that the phone will autofill for those files with an unknown artist will be that of your choosing and not your friend's ugly mug.
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Neither of those apps will delete that picture from being the album cover.
AHA! I figured you out.
You have to go into the My Files app, then go to the folder albumthumbs and then delete anything that is in there that you didn't put there.
Boom, paow!
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In looking at the apps recommendations, I notice people really like Ringdroid. I can't get it to work.
It loads fine, sees the MP3s on my SD card, saves the new ringtone file to the appropriate folder, and then assigns the new ringtone to the contact of my choosing. But when they call, the phone uses my default ringtone.
I've tried it several times now, including deleting and reloading the app, with the same result. Since the initial process seems to work without a problem, it seems like I'm missing something simple, a checkbox somewhere.
I've emailed ringdroid support without any response other than an automatic response to check the FAQ. The FAQ does not address my issue.
Anyone else experiencing the same issue? Not having assigned ringtones is the last thing I miss from WM. I've looked at other ringtone apps that want you to download the MP3s, but they never have the songs I want and the songs are already on my SD card anyway.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks, OKMD
Why would droid OS have all attachments in emails download into your gallery?
How can I stop it? I unchecked "download attachments", but as soon as I open the email to view the attachment, it downloads and puts a copy into my gallery. After vewing the pic, I have to go into gallery and delete it.
Is there anything I can do about this?
Question 2, I saved a pic from a MMS by pressing the and holding the pic. I saved to "SD card". when I go into gallery, its not there?
So for this droid has been okay, but why do they make things so difficult at times!
Any suggestions!
Downloads go into the download folder. While in the gallery you can select to view/hide this folder, or "album" by pressing the menu button. They may not show up immediately in the gallery due to a media scan being required.
i think this is a new bug in sense UI or something because i read this elsewhere about all png's and gif's and email attachment junk showing up in the gallery, and it should not be doing that in any way. like if i receive an email with a border around the email, that border should not be showing up in my gallery as a photo!!!!
so far i've not seen any solution to this.
Yep, I am glad some else is familiar with this!!! Can anyone else confirm this?
Same here. This is my first day on a non-Apple phone since 2007. This is top among a growing list of annoyances. And not just because "Apple doesn't do it that way" but because no one should do it that way.
I can confirm that on my AT&T Inspire 4G, every tiny little logo in everyone's signatures on my corporate email account has bloated my Gallery to over 200 images in one day. Only one of those images is one that I actually wanted to save from an MMS.
I've seen people posting suggestions about how to selectively disable the gallery from seeing certain folders by adding .nomedia files to those folders, but images saved from the Messages app get saved to the same folder as all the garbage harvested from email attachments, and I would like to see those.
This needs to be fixed. People shouldn't be fiddling in the file system for something as basic as browsing the photos on their phone.
Yep I agree 100%, there must be a way for us new guys to do away with this. I am sure it can be done if I would root my phone, but also myself coming from a Iphone, jailbreaking was a easy task. After reading the steps involved in rooting, I do not feel comfortable, I simply don't understand the language. I would love to root it and unleash this beast.
no idea if this will work on the inspire, but on the captivate to get a folder to not show up in gallery you had to put a file called .nomedia in the folder you don't want included.
An easy way to get this is from a command prompt: adb shell
then do touch .nomedia /whatever/folder/you/want it in.
I'm guessing this is only using the sense email app. I don't have a problem with this using gmail. I would suggest using a different email app until HTC gets an update out. Downloading and setting up a different email app takes way less time than deleting hundreds of images daily. Make sure you contact HTC support in regards to bugs and security. Files and pictures being auto downloaded is a pretty big security hole IMO.
I called att today and they called HTC, they never heard of this issue. They are sending me a new phone to replace mine!
Ok I've loaded some ringtone files and notifications on to my SD card currently in
/mnt/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
Now my ringtone I've set as default plays when the phone rings as does my notification for txt(Sms) messages.
But if I try to assign a ringtone to a user it reverts back to default.
Ps I've just tried picking one of the other defaults and it does the same thing, so I don't it the location of my files that's the issue.
Anyone else able to set individual ringtones for people??
Don't put the files there. Make new folders on the sd card for Ringtones/Notifications/Alarms & put your files in whichever folder you want the sound to be
The files appear in the lists ok and as I said I can pick them for default ringtone and messaging.
The problem is that I can not assign an individual ringtone to a specific person regardless of its one of my own or one of the inbuilt ones.
try taking out of the folder you put them in & making folders like I suggested & then try it & report your findings.
Nope no difference. I still can not assign any alternative ringtone to an individual.
I can see the list and select anything, it plays and then soon as I hit ok, it goes back to the contact details and shows as default.
hmm that's odd. I don't know what to tell you. If someone else doesn't come up with a solution you may want to try a hard reset
have you rebooted since moving the files? Just a though.
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have you rebooted since moving the files? Just a though.
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Yep a soft rest was the first thing I did.
No biggie for now I'll keep digging around and see if I can figure it out, if not hard rest.
cheers guys
my custom ringtones are in a folder called "media" on the root of my sd card. with four folders inside notifications, ui, ringtones, and alarms. I have a separate default ringtone for calls then I have multiple contacts with different ringtones and my text app and gmail app both have separate ringtones. I have had no issues...
Use your Music app v3.0.211... to do it !
It has a colored note as an icon.
This tablet is awesome, however the stock gallery app seems to be useless or am I missing something? I bought tablet because of the stylus and photo editing possibilities. I copied my photos from my pc on a micro sd card and inserted it into the note. However the gallery app does not seem to sort the resulting folders in any order, just a random mishmash of dates and names, I'd rather use the stock gallery due to the multi screen support however it is a real chore to find a folder / photo when it's presented randomly....does anyone know how to make the folders sort and appear alphabetically? Or even how the gallery app sorts the folders that photos are in?
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That's easy:
Arrange photos in Folders (= Albums) and You have them sorted in Albums. (Which by themselves can be sorted by time, location etc .)
Once You are IN an Album You can sort them by tTime, location, persons or groups
troed said:
That's easy:
Arrange photos in Folders (= Albums) and You have them sorted in Albums. (Which by themselves can be sorted by time, location etc .)
Once You are IN an Album You can sort them by tTime, location, persons or groups
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I'm missing something with the gallery, too. I have my photos in folders, and when I have albums selected from the upper-left menu, I see a bunch of randomly sorted "albums." If I choose something else from that menu... say, time, for instance, each item on the screen (each thumbnail) is a group of photos from a specific day. I'd like the folders to be sorted in such a way that makes sense. Ideally, I'd like to sort them by name, as my folders are named with year and month (yyyy_mm). And I'd also like to not see every folder on that main screen, because some of them are inside the yyyy_mm folders. Ideally, I would only see a bunch of thumbnails named yyyy_mm, in chronological order... the way they appear in my folder structure on my PC.
Is this possible?
What I've found out about the stock gallery..........
Firstly there seems to be a limitation on android that it whilst it knows folders are nested, it will not support displaying only the parent folder, rather it displays all the orphan folders, I've tried lots of photo organising apps and they all have this limitation....this is a right pain if you want to sort your folders in logical way without every single folder displayed on the root display
In the stock gallery app the display options are based on..
Place, uses GPS data on the photo
Album, the folder names that your pictures are stored in on the device
People, face tagging which you have to enable on the device and then assign names from your contact directory.
groups, will display face tagged photos in the group's that are set up in your contact directory.
The limitation of face tagging is that you can't just enter a name for a face, it will only use your contacts directory so you have to enter a load of names in your directory to use for this feature, I suggest you make a group for these entries.
The main problem with the stock gallery is that once you have your photos in the gallery displayed in one of the ways detailed above you can not sort them, hide folders or enter manual information such as a location on places.
For my purposes I just want the folders to be displayed as I have them saves in my sd card, I have a parent folder for each year since 2000 within each oh these folders are a series of further folders for each set of pictures such as holiday, wedding etc. I just want my parent folders displayed in the gallery root, sorted by date. This doesn't seem possible as the stock gallery has no sorting options, my albums are displayed with no logic just, it seems, randomly.
I use the excellent quickpic app, which has loads is display and sorting options but has the "can't display only the parents of nested directorys" feature of android.
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manmikey said:
What I've found out about the stock gallery..........
Firstly there seems to be a limitation on android that it whilst it knows folders are nested, it will not support displaying only the parent folder, rather it displays all the orphan folders, I've tried lots of photo organising apps and they all have this limitation....this is a right pain if you want to sort your folders in logical way without every single folder displayed on the root display
In the stock gallery app the display options are based on..
Place, uses GPS data on the photo
Album, the folder names that your pictures are stored in on the device
People, face tagging which you have to enable on the device and then assign names from your contact directory.
groups, will display face tagged photos in the group's that are set up in your contact directory.
The limitation of face tagging is that you can't just enter a name for a face, it will only use your contacts directory so you have to enter a load of names in your directory to use for this feature, I suggest you make a group for these entries.
The main problem with the stock gallery is that once you have your photos in the gallery displayed in one of the ways detailed above you can not sort them, hide folders or enter manual information such as a location on places.
For my purposes I just want the folders to be displayed as I have them saves in my sd card, I have a parent folder for each year since 2000 within each oh these folders are a series of further folders for each set of pictures such as holiday, wedding etc. I just want my parent folders displayed in the gallery root, sorted by date. This doesn't seem possible as the stock gallery has no sorting options, my albums are displayed with no logic just, it seems, randomly.
I use the excellent quickpic app, which has loads is display and sorting options but has the "can't display only the parents of nested directorys" feature of android.
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Wow, that seems like a pretty silly limitation. I would think a lot of people would want to be able to sort the way you described. I organize my photos almost exactly the same way, except that I have a folder for each month. But then, like you, I have subfolders that describe an event. I, too, just want to see the top level. I hope, at some point, someone comes up with an app that does that. In the meantime, I'll try QuickPic, as it seems to have more sorting options and, hopefully, I can at least sort the "albums" in a way that doesn't seem competely random.
Thanks!
I have searched around and found nothing on XDA or anywhere else about this. With that being said, I understand the existence of Gallery and Photos. Not complaining about that.
Is there any way to keep Hangout MMS pictures from populating their own albums in the Gallery app? Here's the issue, every picture I send, creates an album with prefix Hangouts then the name of the contact. Deleting the pictures from the Gallery app deletes it from my conversation in Hangouts too leaving a white picture and the three dots at the bottom which means that the pictures can't be found. This is not only for chats, but MMS as well. Yes I could go get another Gallery App etc... But wanted to try and see if anyone has it figured out first before going down that route.
There is no option to only view albums on the device itself. Disabling the sync, disables auto-backup.
Thoughts or solutions anyone?
+1 on this, I was randomly searching around google support for this the other day but never hit paydirt. Its annoying as hell.
Edit. You inspired me to go look again. Go into the gallery app select settings and turn off sync with google account. Go into main settings/apps/gallery and delete data and cache. Reboot. Worked for me.
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+1 on this, I was randomly searching around google support for this the other day but never hit paydirt. Its annoying as hell.
Edit. You inspired me to go look again. Go into the gallery app select settings and turn off sync with google account. Go into main settings/apps/gallery and delete data and cache. Reboot. Worked for me.
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Thank you! While you solution does work and I have tried it, it isn't quite exactly what I am looking for. Reason being because I do sync my pictures to my google account considering I just blew through over 70GB in DropBox storage and can no longer automatically upload pictures I take. Basically, I am looking for a way to selectively pick what to display in my Gallery app(I don't want anything Picasa/Google+/Hangouts/Photos in there). Since the intro of the Photos app which is mostly tied in with G+, it shows everything online, and if they are going to keep the gallery app, then they should at least allow it to be used for offline images available on the device(Just like Play Music has, where it gives you the option to to use music on your online account or what you have on your device).
Unfortunately, the dependency of the camera app on the gallery app, makes it impossible to revert back to a previous version of the gallery.
Ah, sorry about that. Not sure how you can pull that one off, I sure didn't see mention of such when I was searching.
Try making a .nomedia file in the picassa folder where it downloads the pics. And same to every other folder you don't wanna see in your gallery. This will help you select what displays along with auto sync enabled.
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Try making a .nomedia file in the picassa folder where it downloads the pics. And same to every other folder you don't wanna see in your gallery. This will help you select what displays along with auto sync enabled.
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It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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I've been using Quickpic for years, and it's very stable and easy to use.
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Neurotica said:
It creates one for every contact I send a picture to in Hangouts.
That's going to be a lot of files to be created. I guess there is no other way. Unless I just install another gallery.
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No it's not like that. You would have to copy paste only one .nomedia in the main folder of the data file of hangouts and one in picassa.