Apparently I'm cursed with Android phone. My last SGS suddenly erased half of itself and I ended up having to take it back to where I bought it from, and it turned out to be faulty.
Now I'm using a HTC Inspire 4G (Desire HD) with the stock 8Gb micro sd card.
I just wanted to see one of my videos in my gallery and the gallery was empty.
All I saw was were two folders: One was "All photos", with 3 photos and one had a blank name with 3 photos.
When I go into "All Photos", I see the 3 photos which are just placeholders. It looks like an icon for a photo - sort of like monochrome hills with a circle for the sun or something, with a little exclamation mark down the bottom right. That's all I see for the 3 photos. If I tap them, nothing happens. If I tap and hold, I can see its size, date, resolution is 0x0, but it can't seem to find the path of the image.
If I open up my DCIM folder in ES File Explorer, then I can browse to DCIM and some (not all) of my images (and none of my videos) are there. I can open the images in ES.
I have images/videos in other folders on my SD card, and some (not all) of the photos from those locations are present, and again no videos are there.
If I take a photo or make a video, that one photo/video will appear in the gallery and in the DCIM folder until the SD card mounts/unmounts (for example if I do it manually, or if I connect it to my PC as a mass storage device). Then, I can still see the photo in ES but not in gallery.
Additionally, my google latitude widget and google places widget on my far right home screen had error placeholders. I can't remember the exactly message but something like "this widget cannot be displayed". I deleted the widgets and re-added them and they seem to be ok now.
I'm running my HTC Inspire 4G (Desire HD) with Revolution 3.3 ROM. I have SetCPU and Llama profiles running persistently in the background.
Any idea why this happened? Is my media lost? Any program I can try to recover them? I had some things there which I would really have preferred to keep.
Thanks.
Okay, so in answer to my own question...
This issue has nothing to do with Revolution 4G ROM, nor with HTC.
Apparently the issue is that Google are douchebags who have known about this issue for almost two years and have done nothing about it.
To reproduce the problem:
First back up you SD card, just in case.
Create a new folder on you SD card... call it "test" or something, and dump some jpegs and videos there. Go into Gallery and let it index the folder. You can see there that there are a number of jpegs and videos.
Go into ES or Astro or whatever and create a new file called .nomedia in the folder.
Force a rescan somehow. I did it by unmounting/remounting the SD card.
Go into Gallery – see the folder is not there. This is the expected result.
Go into ES or Astro to your test folder. Notice that the video files have been DELETED.
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since i've updated to 2.3.3, i've noticed that some pictures are missing from phone. i think i had the issue with 2.3.2 as well. noticed video missing as well. this really gets to me since the pictures just randomly get deleted from the phone. i've googled it and it's a common problem. does anyone have a fix for this yet?
My understanding is that the pictures arn't actually getting deleted, just the gallery isn't displaying them. To be sure, connect your phone to your PC and browse to the pictures, they should all be there.
I believe I saw a 'fix' somewhere about installing a different gallery manager app, and that that seemed to fix the issue. I can't remember which forum I saw it on, so please don't quote me.
This used to happen to me on my NS. It would look like the photos where deleted but then when I would check later on they would be their ,and that was on 2.3.2
As we say in French: "Dans le doute, reboote". (When in doubt, reboot). Your pictures will be back in the gallery. That's the only workaround I found for the moment...
I've had this but the pictures *are* deleted. I do not trust the Gallery app anymore, and only use QuickPic (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&feature=search_result).
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Quickpic is the way to go!!
I use Quickpic as well cuz the gallery app sucks. I just lost pics and a video that i converted and moved onto my phone. They are gone. Can't find them using my computer to browse my phone, can't find them using ESfile explorer either. Rebooted. Still gone
Can't find a fix anywhere. Not happy.
At least I didn't lose data on my iPhone.
I have had this happen to me too, but i had the app AndExplorer on it and i read something where it said that this app was known to delete files just randomly, so if you have this app.. id suggest using Linda Manager or another file manager instead..
Here is what you can try when you see pictures not showing up in gallery3D app:
Stop or FC Gallery.apk so it's not running
Use root expolorer (or some other expolrer capable of displaying files and folders starting with ".")
Browse to /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails
Delete all pictures and files you see there (those are thumbnails only)
You might have to reboot the phone but usually you can just start Gallery and it will regenerate (slowly) all your thumbnails again.
Gallery3D app creates the folder called ".thumbnails" for which it stores all thumbnails of your pictures for quick screen draw on the 3D interface. If for some reason you copy your pictures from one place on SD card to another or you add new pictures without Gallery.apk running they wont show up because thumbnails were either deleted or never created.
So I hand fed a few .jpg images to my DCIM/100MEDIA folder since I was having some issues with them becoming unreadable, They just seem to disappear, then I find them in File browser, but no longer exist in gallery, limiting editability for use as desktops and such... Using thunder and lightning 1.3
Im having the same issue but Im running VirusRom. Gallery doesnt work unless I manually find the image thru a file explorer and choose the gallery option. But just opening gallery from app tray does nothing, or opening gallery thru wallpaper does nothing.
There has been some talk that these MicroSD cards are crap. Mine started corrupting pictures and then failed completely, had it replaced by Verizon.
Weird. I haven't had that issue and I transferred some photo's from my OG Droid DCIM folder.
I was having this problem with all roms. I had to back up my SD, format it, and then put everything back. Haven't had a problem since.
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Now they're disappearing completely, even images taken with the phones cam/vid. Cheap SD cards make a little sense... I have formatted, almost every ROM... I'll check it out.
By chance, do you happen to have a .nomedia file in any of these directories that are "losing images" or making photos "unusable".
If so, this would be your issue. Remove that file and they will show up in Gallery again.
I feel stupid to ask this!
Where are the pictures that I see in the photo gallery located! All I see in my astro file manager are the pictures I took with the camera but I can't find all the other albums that are in the gallery!
I have a g2x on 2.3.3 and I am not rooted!
Thank you for your help!!!
Everything Ive got is in mnt/sdcard/DCIM. Not sure where else they could be. Some are in a folder related to whatever photo app I used, or if its a picture for an app, its usually in a folder related to said app. At least thats what QuickPic says.
Ah! Maybe you could download the QuickPic app and it will show you all your file extensions?
I wish than I would find them! Quick pic does not find the albums that are in my gallery. I want to copy all pi tires in the main dcmi pi tire album! That's why I am asking.
Thank you for trying
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Different apps store pictures in different locations. i.e. - there is a /pictures folder, /mnt/sdcard/dccim has pictures, and there is a /camera folder on my sd card as well.
The gallery scans all media on your phone, and then shows it in the app itself. I would try to figure out what application the gallery is pulling that picture from, and that might help you locate it on the phone.
dbl3dge said:
Different apps store pictures in different locations. i.e. - there is a /pictures folder, /mnt/sdcard/dccim has pictures, and there is a /camera folder on my sd card as well.
The gallery scans all media on your phone, and then shows it in the app itself. I would try to figure out what application the gallery is pulling that picture from, and that might help you locate it on the phone.
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Thats why I thought quickpic would be a good app. It tells you the file path under the albums, making it easier to pull them up on the phone when looking through your SD card on a computer or whatever.
I guess I dont understand the question
When I try and change my wallpaper I can't seem to find any of the images on my*SD*card*to pick from. The gallery does however show images that are stored on my*externalmicroSD*card. I can explore the internal*SD*card*with a file manager I downloaded (I think it's called File Manager 1.1.4) and copy the images from my internal to a folder on the external. If I can explore the internal, why can't I see the pics in the gallery?*
Is there a way to tell the gallery app to search all folders or something? A refresh button? The gallery app is stock CM11 mod.*
I just noticed the same thing is happening with videos. When I open up the stock video app it shows "no videos", which is certianly not the*case*as I have a bunch transferred to the internal*sd card*and a couple that I've taken with the camera.
Any ideas outside of completely reformatting/re-flashing?
Hi there,
About what device are we talking about?
Thanks
Greetings,
Recent pictures dragged from my PC (Windows 8.1, 64 bit OS) to my Note Edge cannot not be seen using stock gallery app. I download jpeg, jpg files and folders containing jpeg's and jpg flies to the picture folder on the Device memory and to the picture folder in my SD card. The dragged and dropped files can be seen using the phone's file manager, but can't be seen using the Gallery app. Older pictures initially downloaded to my phone can still be seen using the Gallery app. My unit is running ver 4.4.4... Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
I posted something similar few days ago. No response.. No support.
primo523 said:
I posted something similar few days ago. No response.. No support.
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Thanks for the heads up. I will contact Samsung's customer support and post my finding here.
Samsung Product Service Response
Greetings all,
Upon conveying my issue with a Samsung Rep online, I got this resolution:
Put the pictures and folders not detected in the Gallery in the DCIM folder. This seems to work but I am not satisfied with this answer because I have some files and folders in a separate location that are detected by the Gallery app.
I initially performed a "soft reset (removed and replaced the battery after powering off unit)" with no change or resolution. Next, I cleared the Gallery app cache with no change. I then dragged and dropped a picture file (.jpg) from my pc to the Phone's DCIM folder. The picture was detected in the DCIM folder by the Gallery App. Then I cut and pasted a folder that wasn't detected by Gallery in the DCIM folder on my SD Card. The folder was detected. The pictures can be detected if you put them in the DCIM folder in either the phone or SD Card.
As I have mentioned before, I am not fully satisfied with this solution because I have pictures outside of the DCIM folder that are detected by the Gallery app, but this option seems to work.