So its been like this since stock. Drag n drop music to several different directories trying to find the path that works. /music, /media/music, /media/mp3. Just doesn't show up. if I navigate to the music files manually they will play but only 1 at a time. I want to just hit shuffle and put phone off to the side. Any ideas?
Edit: solved, for whatever reason there was a .nomedia file on the root of my sd card and apparently it makes all sub folders invisible.
You know, this happened with me as well with this phone. But not any other android device I've had (This is the fourth). Is this something that the device is shipping with? It's kinda weird.
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I deleted a few tracks from my storage card but the playlist wont update and shows an exclamation point instead. I tried to delete AudioManager_Eng.vol but it wont let me. How do I fix this?
It usual fixes itself.
behrouz said:
I deleted a few tracks from my storage card but the playlist wont update and shows an exclamation point instead. I tried to delete AudioManager_Eng.vol but it wont let me. How do I fix this?
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Do a soft-reset. When your phone boots back up, go DIRECTLY into file manager and delete the file. If you visit the music tab in TouchFlo 3D before trying to access the file, it won't let you delete or make any changes to it.
I've had this issue over and over and found a fix for it. Your pix are there. Don't delete the grey box with ! in it or you will lose your pix for sure. There is also no need to reformat your card. Reformatting has been linked to high blood pressure and short card life.
Here is the fix.
Open your file explorer (I use Root Explorer) and go to sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails.
-You should have two entries at the very top called Thumnaildata with some numbers at the end. One will have a large size and one will have a size of 0.
Delete them BOTH. Then go into settings and unmount your SD card fully and the remount it (this will initiate the Media Scanner). Give it about 3-5mins to fully finish scanning. Open your media gallery and viola they are back and good to go.
Not sure what causes this but what I am finding is that something interupts the write portion of it or a download. This is actually a common problem, so I might actually start a guide/thread of its own.
If it still doesn't work, then last resort and this way works everytime but you'll lose that picture, is open media gallery and long press the grey icon with ! in it and delete, then do the above. I've had to do this one a few times and lost some really great pix, but usually the top part works for me 99% of the time.
I wish I knew this about a month ago. I had pics of getting a hole in one and then I pulled the card to copy to my computer and they were gone, gone, gone. Won't do that again. thanks
I listened to my music on the Sky ICS GS3 music player fine on my way home yesterday and when I went to listen to my playlist today nothing would play. The timer woould sit at 0 no matter where it was in the song. After a little bit I went to All Songs and I noticed that each song had a second copy. A song would show up as 2 files that were seemingly identical except the first file was blank as I described above, while the second was normal and intact. All the music in playlists were the blank copied versions though. Has anyone else had this happen or know how this could of happened so it doesn't happen again? Should I remove all music from my SD and reload?
Why wouldn't you try that? Gotta start somewhere, ya know...
Dump your music, open the app, see what you have left. Research and dump whatever's left.
Reload music to SD via Windows. See what you have in the app.
Rinse/repeat till you figure it out.
Worst case scenario, you need to wipe your phone and reload the rom. I've had crap left over on my emmc that caused oddball issues on the next flash. Gallery finding every album cover, wifi drops, etc..
Can say the latest ICS works perfectly after a full wipe and reload. Redid my TB backups too.
I'm trying to use a custom ringtone in CM10.0, android 4.1.2. On my previous ICS phone, i just placed the ringtone in "/sdcard/Ringtone" (the internal sd card partition). It worked forever. In addition to this, i had two custom alarms. I placed them in "/sdcard/Alarms" (internal) and they worked flawlessly. No issues whatsoever.
I tried the exact same setup on CM10 on my phone, and nothing. Rebooted. Nothing. Tried other folders, like "/sdcard/media/audio/notifications". Nothing.
None of my ringtones (and even alarms) show up in my menus when i try to select the default ringtone under "sounds" in settings.
Any ideas???
i use something called "signalcheck pro" on my phone and it placed two "custom notifications" in the "notifications" directory on my internal sdcard. they were called "chimes_sc.mp3" and "venture_sc.mp3". my custom alarms and ringtone are also MP3s.
the "chimes" and "venture" notification appeared in the notifications list when i go into sound settings. so, having a working model to work from, i moved them to a network file server. i didn't modify the 1s and 0s of them in any way. after removing them, they disappeared from the "notifications" list. this makes sense.
when i moved them back to the exact same "notifications" directory, they DIDN'T SHOW BACK UP.
THIS MAKES NO SENSE. I REBOOTED AND THEY STILL DIDN'T COME BACK.
THAT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL
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I'm trying to use a custom ringtone in CM10.0, android 4.1.2. On my previous ICS phone, i just placed the ringtone in "/sdcard/Ringtone" (the internal sd card partition). It worked forever. In addition to this, i had two custom alarms. I placed them in "/sdcard/Alarms" (internal) and they worked flawlessly. No issues whatsoever.
I tried the exact same setup on CM10 on my phone, and nothing. Rebooted. Nothing. Tried other folders, like "/sdcard/media/audio/notifications". Nothing.
None of my ringtones (and even alarms) show up in my menus when i try to select the default ringtone under "sounds" in settings.
Any ideas???
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Using Root Explorer, try to copy your ringtone mp3 file to /system/media/audio/ringtone. And alarm mp3 file to /system/media/audio/alarm. And don't forget to change the following files to right permission (rw-r--r--). It would be better if you remove 1 or 2 ogg files from that folder. Then reboot your device and see what happen.
Do it with your own risk. And I hope you have backup before doing this modify
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This is a new problem... i originally deleted the settings for media storage after reading that that would get rid of the 3 times my ringtones were showing up in my selection list (when they only exist in one location.... i tried to make sure they werent duplicating themselves, the first 2 were silent and the 3rd was the real file.). so deleting that got rid of the 3 times thing, and i thought i had it licked. but every reboot, my phone forgets my ringtone setting... when i go to repick it, its not in the list, only the factory ones are.
Now, i *know* there is the work around of putting the one i want to use on the internal memory.... but thats kinda not the point... id like this to work properly. as it should. as it did before i reflashed. i reflashed the exact same rom and am using the exact same SD card.
upon googling and reading advice, i put a new folder on my sd card called media, and within there, ringtones, and notifications. (the site i read also recommended making one for alarms but i never use my phone as an alarm, ever. and the very rare time i will ill just pick a factory sound). As of right now, every reboot, i have to move the ringtone i want to use out from that folder, and then put it back in, causing media scanner to re-run, which then finally, once that is done, allows it to show up in the list along with the factory default choices.... but doing this every reboot just to have the sound i want is a ROYAL pain......... before i reflashed, it would forget what i had chosen on occasion, but at least then i could just go into the list and reselect it before... it didnt forget it existed, but only that i had chosen it. at the time that was a royal pain.... but now, id take that over whats been going on.
before reflashing i had a folder called "sounds" that it was able to see, all the time.... i had left it the same... but when my phone couldnt see that anymore, i looked for other ways of making it work.
Not sure if this is related but i have on occasion (2 or 3 times now) had my gallery forget about ALL of my pictures on external (whcih is where i keep all of them). deleting gallery data at least fixes that, and that doesnt happen every reboot either.
and before anyone asks, there is no ".nomedia" file in with my ringtones, or in with any of my pictures.
advice anyone??
anyone?? Ive already tried everything google-able