Problem: Some of my pictures and videos no longer work and they show either one of the symbols (shown in attachments). I can't seem to figure out any sort of pattern other then the majority of them seem to be older pictures/vids. When I mount my phone to my computer it can locate problem files but cannot open them. "media player cannot open file because it is unsupported" or something to that extent.
I'm running Clean Rom 4.0 SE
I recently deleted some old TitBackups and some old Rom back ups....is it possible when I backed up it corrupted some of my files? I'm not positive if the pictures/vids were working before I had done this or after.
The file is probably corrupted. There have been a few threads where people have flashed things and lost pictures and videos on their phone storage.
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Ok so I'm running cog, the latest one, and when I go to the pics on my external sd, it is showing 4 of each pic. However, when I go to the folder there is only one copy. Anybody seem this or know how to fix it?
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I had the samething happen only way i could get it to go away is reflash the rom.
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It's the Gallery app bug in the leaked Froyo ROM we have. I know my JI6 had this problem from day one. There is no sure way to fix it.
The official Galaxy S Froyo ROM released in Europe is not better either. Its Gallery app has a nasty battery drain bug.
Try this without having to reflash.
Connect to PC and MOVE all of your pictures to your PC. Delete anything you see inside .thumbnails in the DCIM folder (from your default Camera storage). Move all of your pictures back to your phone. If you accidentally copied a .thumbnails folder, make sure you don't move that back in. Gallery will reindex all of your pictures and create new thumbnails.
Just deleting .thumbnails and a reboot works for me when/if this happens.
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Just deleting .thumbnails and a reboot works for me when/if this happens.
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That didn't work for me. I just tried it. My gallery started showing multiple photos again. I think this only happens when I connect to my PC at work (and/or home) and browse photos using Explorer.
same thing happening to me, i have 3 of each photo on the sd card
Try going to your picasa web albums at picasaweb.google.com/home
login with the gmail account you use on your phone and look at your web albums
By default the gallery app / android will sync with picasa web albums, so anything added there will appear in gallery.
I've never used picasa but I'm gonna give it a try.
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Move everything into your internal sd card. I know it sucks and it's not as secure but just make sure you backup regularly. It got really annoying deleting the thumbnails once a week and it hasn't happened since I shifted everything to my internal sd.
I had the same problem. Not once, but twice. The first time I deleted the copies from my PC then rebooted. For awhile that seem to work, but just today I had the same problem in multiples of 8 for each pic.
Hopefully someone finds a fix for this
FROYO.UCJI6 Rooted, same issue except I have multiple icons for same pics that dont even exist on the phone anymore. Ive killed gallery, deleted every copy of .thumbnails I can find, rebooted..etc. No avail, folders that no longer exist on the phone show up in gallery, with multiple thumbnails for the same pic, very annoying.
I've been flashing roms like crazy here recently and haven't has problem yet. Though it is said it a leaked rom bug so I'll see if out happens again.
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I also had that same problem with the cog ROMs. I tried many of the suggested solutions, including deleting .thumbnails. Unfortunately, nothing ever worked.
I have since switched to Perception, and I haven't had that problem since.
Ok..here is the fix from other thread
With root explorer delete:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
reboot
Good luck
cgm8 said:
Ok..here is the fix from other thread
With root explorer delete:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
reboot
Good luck
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that worked, thanks
Now if i do delete these strings will they affect any other programs?
cgm8 said:
Ok..here is the fix from other thread
With root explorer delete:
- /dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.media/externalXXX.db
- /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media
reboot
Good luck
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Worked for me too!!!
Thanks!!!
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.
So my gallery stopped showing any of my photos or pictures, but it will show new photos that I take with my camera. I've wiped reflashed and restored with titanium, also wiped reflashed and not used titanium, and still have the problem. I'm at a loss. Has anyone had this issue before? I also tried a couple of gallery apps, they show the same thing. I can see all of the missing files in the file manager, and view them with its built in picture viewer. I'm stumped.
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It is stated in the not working part of the Rom description that galleries weren't working :what:
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I saw in the op for cm10 alpha that videos crashed the gallery, I never tried to open one. I did a search through the thread again and found a post about rom manager dropping a .nomedia file on the root of the sd. Turns out thats what messed me up. Deleted the file, updated rom manager, wiped data on media storage, rebooted. Everything's back! Thanks for the help, now I can get some sleep. Knowing my phone was futzed was keeping me up.
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My problems started today when the music and video apps stopped showing anything from sd card.
Then I got 176 songs from a total of over 1000....
I already gave up on pictures but I at least thought videos and music would always work.
And I took this tablet with me to Korea so stuck with it for the foreseeable future.
I am confused, what is your question -.,-?
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Anyone else having this problem?
What happens if you double-click one of the missing songs using Windows Explorer? It should play then.
It's possible that the app's library database got messed up somehow (perhaps the card lost connection while the app was running?) and needs to rebuild, which takes some time.
Hi, you might want to try this: http://www.teamradicus.com/post/Surface-and-SD-Card.aspx I had similar problems when I had my SD card mounted to a C:\SD folder (I was seeing files that do not exist and not seeing new files and applications crashed when I clicked at those non-existing files) and this helped me to resolve that issue.
Yeah, I started going song by song and got some more back that way.
Playlists never recovered.
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Hi, you might want to try this: http://www.teamradicus.com/post/Surface-and-SD-Card.aspx I had similar problems when I had my SD card mounted to a C:\SD folder (I was seeing files that do not exist and not seeing new files and applications crashed when I clicked at those non-existing files) and this helped me to resolve that issue.
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This site does not seem to exist anymore.
EDIT NVM got the site to work.
Hello to all! Sorry it's a bit long.
About two weeks ago my friend looked at my camera pics. After he gave the Galaxy s4 back to me I decided to look at them two. But the folder was gone! I tried restart, checked file manager for DCIM and everywhere else, but no camera pics/videos. 2 months of pics and vids....
Then I tried to use Android recovery software but it needed Mass Storage Device connection, which is no more. So I found this wonderful guide, thanks to Wartickler! forum . xda-developers .com / showthread . php?t=1994705
I had a problem with it but about 3 days ago I at last managed to make the RAW file, mount it, and use recovery programs with it (tried Recuva and Puran). The progs found many many files, among pics and vids. NOT A SINGLE ONE FROM THE CAMERA BEFORE THE VANISHING OF THE CAMERA FOLDER (but some of the pics I took after it, and were not deleted). I tried to use the phone and get new info on it as least as I could (only took about 15 photos) to not overwrite the old info and pics.
Even If some, I really doubt ALL of the old photos and videos were overwritten. I am not even sure that there even was deleted info found, at least not in a readable file type for me. All whatsapp pics sounds, some vids, none were deleted before, many G+ profile pics...
What can I do??
I really want the photos and videos back....
Thank you xda users!
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Have you checked the LOST.DIR folder on the root of your sdcard/internal memory? Once after I flashed a custom rom for testing, recovery could not find the backup I made before that. I had the same free space in my internal memory so after looking a bit I found that the LOST.DIR folder was taking much space and that all the backup files where inside it with a random name and no extension. Not sure if that's your case but just give it a try.