Ever since my 2.2 stock update my gallery shows duplicate images, then triplicate and now 4 copies of each.
I verified that I only have 1 copy of each one (all stored on my external sd card).
Has anyone else experienced this?
Does anyone know how to reset the Gallery cache (clearing it via settings-manage apps does nothing)?
I don't have this issue but I do not have external SD in my Captivate.
Since no one is replying I'm assuming you may have an unique issue here but I would connect the Captivate to your PC and browse to remove the pictures if they are truly duplicate and reboot your phone to see if the issue will resolve after that.
Or remove your external SD, reboot your phone to see if all pictures goes away or 3 copies remains in your Internal SD.
Just my 2 cents.
I had this problem first with my music, then with my photos. I've fixed the problem for my music files showing as duplicates. All I did was hook up to my PC, transfer the music folder off my phone, let the media scanner do its thing, then I transferred them back onto the phone. That did the trick. I haven't had time to try this with my photos yet, but I am hopeful that it works the same...
Hope this helps!
This remind me that I did had similar issue right after my phone boot up from Froyo update. But everything went back to normal after 2 other reboot.
So, first self reboot after Froyo updated. System lag like crazy. Let it run about 30 minutes and media scan completed.
Second reboot, Runs a bit better but still sort of laggy and battery done to 35% after just 2 1/2 hour of usage. Plug in to my laptop's USB to charge and as soon as prompt to run kies or mass media come up my phone went blank.
Third reboot. Wait 15 minutes until Media scan is completed. Plug into my USB port and charge with my laptop at work. No more issue found other then battery sucks big time for this day.
Everything back to normal and battery is back to normal again the next day.
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I don't have this issue but I do not have external SD in my Captivate.
Since no one is replying I'm assuming you may have an unique issue here but I would connect the Captivate to your PC and browse to remove the pictures if they are truly duplicate and reboot your phone to see if the issue will resolve after that.
Or remove your external SD, reboot your phone to see if all pictures goes away or 3 copies remains in your Internal SD.
Just my 2 cents.
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One thing I should mention, which I think is triggering the bug is that I have my camera set to save on the external card. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it appears that Froyo keeps a gallery cache on the internal and external card. Perhaps the info is getting duplicated in both files.
I moved all images off to my PC, then disconnected from the PC. Going into the Gallery, I still saw placeholders for all of the images - but they were black (no image to display).
I found that on each sd card (internal and external), there is a DCIM folder that contains a .thumbnails folder. Inside of this folder is a THUMBDATAxxxxx file. I had to delete both of these files to clear out the Gallery placeholders. I then copied the images back to the external card. Both DCIM THUMBDATAxxxx files were recreated. My images are no longer duplicated. We'll see if the problem reappears.
Does anyone else have their camera set to "Memory Card" Storage?
Thanks,
Rich
Fix for this is easy. Open sgs tools 4.5(I think that's the most recent) go to apply scripts>clean_thumb_db.txt then reboot. Issue solved. I'm not sure what causes this but its happened to me many times and that is the easiest fix.
Is there any other way of doing this? Every time I run that script it deletes all my custom ringtones from my contacts, my custom sms tones from my handcent conversations, and all of my playlists from the media player....
You're not missing anything. The script didn't remove the duplicate images for me.
The easiest way I've dealt with this is go to manage applications and delete data in the media storage app. Problem is it does do away with customized ringtones, playlists..so have to rebuild that
thumbnails
I experienced the same problem with pictures in the gallery, I checked my folders and did not have any duplicates. After reading some of your posts and poking around I decided to try resetting the gallery app from the manage applications menu with no success. I then tried deleting the contents of .thumbnails files on the internal and external sd cards (in the DCIM directory). I experienced no loss of data as far as i can tell but the duplicates did disappear. I went from 6 copies to a single image. I rebooted the phone 3 times and the images did not duplicate in the gallery but the .thumbnails directory was repopulated. I powered down the phone and removed my external sd card, all external pictures disappeared from gallery. I reinstalled the card with the phone powered on and presto 6 copies of all external sd card images! I'm not sure why this is occurring but I just deleted the .thumbnails directory contents again and hope that the problem does not recur as long as i don't remove my external card. Hope this helps!
I would just delete media storage and move on. You may have to re-do ringtones tho..and playlists
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One thing I should mention, which I think is triggering the bug is that I have my camera set to save on the external card. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it appears that Froyo keeps a gallery cache on the internal and external card. Perhaps the info is getting duplicated in both files.
I moved all images off to my PC, then disconnected from the PC. Going into the Gallery, I still saw placeholders for all of the images - but they were black (no image to display).
I found that on each sd card (internal and external), there is a DCIM folder that contains a .thumbnails folder. Inside of this folder is a THUMBDATAxxxxx file. I had to delete both of these files to clear out the Gallery placeholders. I then copied the images back to the external card. Both DCIM THUMBDATAxxxx files were recreated. My images are no longer duplicated. We'll see if the problem reappears.
Does anyone else have their camera set to "Memory Card" Storage?
Thanks,
Rich
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Deleting "media storage" did not work for me. What I did was similar to Rich (I also have mine set to store to the external SD) -
Removed all photos from SD card. When I remounted the card, I noticed I was now down to 2 copies of each photo rather than 3.
Next step: Applications > My Files. Deleted the entire DCIM folder.
Now I'm down to 1 copy of each photo.
Applications > My Files > external_sd. Once again, deleted the entire DCIM folder (loading the sd card on my computer, the thumbnails dir wasn't even showing up, as I'd deleted it... sneaky little thing!).
Hey, look, no pictures!
Recreated DCIM folder on my SD card (I did all of this by unmounting/removing the card and using a card reader on my PC - not sure if it would have worked using the cable-PC connect, as I don't have my cable on me), moved all my photos back in... and now I have my photos, only one copy of each. Hopefully this doesn't reoccur or the bug gets fixed, as that was quite a pain!
I had this problem as well, and it annoyed the **** out of me. No matter how many times I removed the external card and did the scanner trick, they kept coming back. I used to run the SGSTools script, but got tired of redoing all my ringtones every day. I even deleted the thumbnails folders over and pver again, but they still kept coming back.
The only thing I found works long term was to give in and keep the pics on the internal memory. It seems like Froyo can't accept having them on the external card for me.
I had the exact same issue, 36 images virtually duplicated to 360. Possible cause could be haste when phone is scanning the sd card or force quitting when running the application or messing around while the phone is connected to pc.
I was able to fix the issue by copying the Dcim folder to my pc > then deleting the original one on the phone > and then making moving it back to the phone. Once done let it finish the scan and then go to the gallery.
RESOLVED: Duplicate thumbs in Samsung Captivate
Just delete all the files in "sdcard/android/data/com.cooliris.media/cache/hires-image-cache" directory. Then delete all the files in
"com.cooliris.media/cache/local-album-cache" which includes any "index" files and "chunk_##" and delete files in "local-image-thumbs". Disconnect phone from computer and let the phone do the media scan, your pictures will return to single again.
This happens when your phone does a media scan after connecting to a computer as a mass storage device and you change data in the parent directories that you have picture, video and sometimes music media. Any questions or concerns you can also contact me via [email protected] and your appraise are also welcome. Enjoy
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I have tried copying some of my movie files as well as my pictures and they won't transfer to the mytouch 4g. It says the files transfer, and I see them when viewing through window explorer but once I disconnect they are gone. If I plug it back in, the folder and files are gone.
However, some files like my music, has transferred with no issue.
I have tried using a different microsd card and the same thing happened. Anyone else experiencing this?
***This is odd, I downloaded and ran astro manager and went into my sd card. All the normal showing folders and files say "drw" next to them. All the files/folders that are now gone show up as files i cannot open with "-rw" next to them. Sadly I have no idea what this means.
My photos seem to be split randomly into two different "Camera" folders on my phone.
Storage in the camera app is set to SD and still no matter what I've done, I always seem to get 2 camera folders and the pics sent to each one seem rather random to me.
Any input?
Edit: Just looked again and one folder is on the SD card and one is on the phone's internal storage. Photos seem to be randomly sent into one or the other. I've reset the app, wiped the phone, nothing worked.
Anyone?
Just making sure, you know that in the file browser, "SDcard" is the phone's storage, and "extSD" is the memory card.
With that said, if I understand you correctly, you say you selected memory card for the storage in the camera app, correct? I realized a few days ago that for some annoying reason, even when that is selected, the app still creates a "DCIM" folder in the internal memory which it uses to cache thumbnails. Why it can't do that on the external card, I'd like to know.
If this is the wrong forum please direct me to the correct one.
I recently did a fresh install of SlimKat 5.4 on my I9100, and Google+'s Auto-Backup isn't working.
Even if I manually select photos in the Gallery and 'share' to 'Photos' (whereupon it attempts to upload them to my G+ account) it simply does nothing.
What is going on here? Does anybody have any suggestions? Additionally, when I open the Photos app, it lists all the images on my device and they can be opened, but they are completely black, as if it's having trouble reading them properly.
Ok, I know partially why now - I'm also having a problem whereby I can't see any SD Card image folders when I open Gallery. They exist and I can navigate to them via Explorer, but Gallery can't access them - nor can Photos. I've tried clearing Gallery's cache but that won't fix it.
What could be causing this? I also tried re-seating the SD Card in case it was physically loose.
Whan can I do??
lations said:
Ok, I know partially why now - I'm also having a problem whereby I can't see any SD Card image folders when I open Gallery. They exist and I can navigate to them via Explorer, but Gallery can't access them - nor can Photos. I've tried clearing Gallery's cache but that won't fix it.
What could be causing this? I also tried re-seating the SD Card in case it was physically loose.
Whan can I do??
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Ok, so I've also tried: formatting the SD card, tried a new SD card, and neither of those things made any difference.
There must be a simple reason for this?
Has nobody had this happen before?
Additionally, Google Music doesn't display any music files, and sometimes when I navigate to the SD card in Root Explorer, the rom freezes.
So it sounds like it's a problem with the SD card port, or perhaps the ROM itself has problems. There shouldn't be anything wrong with the SD card port though, it was fine before I upgraded to Slimkat 5.4.....
Hi,
my last phone was android 4.0.3. everything was perfect (and logical ). i had my internal space and my sd (wich was mounted to /sdcard). when i connected my phone to the pc i could acces my sdcard directly as it was... what a wonderful world
i know android changed the sd access because of security issues. i know the OPO got no sd.
but now i get crazy
OPO shows my something like "internal storage /storage/emulated/0" with an nice sd sign nearby. looked what was inside this, connected my phone as media device onto pc and found the same content. i thougt: well stange path but ok idc.
i placed my titaniumbackup and whatsapp folder there and placed a picture into pictures. then i installed whatsapp (it found my backup and restored it, but the backup folder was still in this place), changed background to the picture and set up everything else.
well, no it starts to get confusing after setting everything up i connected my phone onto pc a moment ago. and what did i saw then? the picture, movies, music,... folders all where gone. the only fodler left inside the whats app folder is media.
the picture i placed in pictures is still my background but cant find the filename with any (root) file brwoser. whatsapp still everything ok but where are the files and folder gone? how can i backup whatsapp in the future?
so im like:
- why are there at least 5 ways to go to the "internal storage" (/sdcard, /mnt/sdcard, /storage/emulated/0, /storage/emulated/legacy, /storage/sdcard0)? (only because diefferent devs using different pathes?)
- why, how and when got this place changed/folders deleted (from system?)?
am i maybe using something wrong? is there another way supposed to do it?
for me everything is really weird at the moment
Help!
I have researched and looked, but the answers are not fixing my problem.
Long story short, I had to reset my phone last night. Since then, gallery hasn't showing any pictures that are on the SD card... it is only showing pictures on the phone, that I have taken after, or the cloud sync photos. (when I do take a photo with the card in, it does save to the card) I'm running 7.0 Nougat and it updated Sunday... and the gallery was fine as far as i know.
I have tried:
restarting the phone
force stopping gallery
clear data AND cache for gallery
force stopping media service
clear data AND cache for media service
*tried both gallery first and media service 1st*
reformatting the phone (and on a blank install it still didn't pull anything. )
unseating the SD card (both with the phone on and off)
I have downloaded 2 or 3 media scanner apps.... no dice.
I have looked for .nomedia files - nothing (except a fold
I have deleted the lost.directory
I have deleted the data/android.3d (whatever its called) folder on the sd card... I don't have one on the internal card.
I have probably tried a bit more, but can't currently remember.
The only thing i have not tried is formatting the card and putting everything back on it... I'mnot in a place i can do that right now. (card reader is the one thing i DON'T carry)
ooooh, and I have turned permissions on and off a few times.
I'm wondering if its a naming issue with the card???
I have also downloaded 2 additional gallery apps - Fishbowl did NOT work... and CM QuickPic DOES. (but i hate it.:cyclops
I was finally able to "fix" it
i went ahead and copied everything from the card to the computer
quick formatted the card
long formatted (then got tired of waiting and canceled)
quick formatted again
turned phone off
inserted card into phone
turned phone on
took a picture to create the DCIM folder for pictures
turned phone off
put card back into computer
copied DCIM photos to new DCIM folder
copied all my photos, etc to the card (i let the phone recreate any necessary folders
inserted card
turned phone on
opened gallery
nothing there
said "F" it and went to sleep
opened gallery the next morning and everything showed up.