My photos in my gallery disappear from the gallery but when I check they are under my sd card > DCIM > so I am wonder is there a way to point my pictures so they show up all the time in the gallery? They never did this until I decided to flash which is worth it. I would bet there has to be a way to point our pics to the gallery from the sd card?
Also I have noticed my Videos does the same as well
Cheers,
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My photos in my gallery disappear from the gallery but when I check they are under my sd card > DCIM > so I am wonder is there a way to point my pictures so they show up all the time in the gallery? They never did this until I decided to flash which is worth it. I would bet there has to be a way to point our pics to the gallery from the sd card?
Also I have noticed my Videos does the same as well
Cheers,
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Wow, weird.
What ROM are you using? Have you tried opening the pictures up through Astro or Root Explorer? Those will usually give you the option to "Open With," and you can choose the gallery. I wonder if that would make the gallery realize the pictures are there.
Also, do you have your phone plugged into USB when this happens? Maybe your sd card is mounted as a drive automatically (instead of charging only), so it's unavailable to read from the phone.
I am an Android newbie here, but my god this seems difficult!
I am trying to take songs off either my usb flash drive or the memory card and put them onto the hard drive of the tab. Why the hell is this so difficult?! I must be really missing something here...
I can find the MP3 files on the devices but I have no clue how to get them into the "music" app on the tablet or even just somewhere onto the tablet itself. Any ideas here? And sorry if I sound like a complete idiot...
The media scanner will find songs on any attached storage. If you really want the songs on internal storage, use a file explorer to move them from /Removable/MicroSD to /SDcard
Edit - sorry for being brief. I'm writing from my TF...
It might take a bit, but the system will eventually scan all attached storage for media. Also, the way storage is mounted varies widely and is not always intuitive. In the case of the TF, the internal storage is mounted as /sdcard and a microSD in the tablet is mounted as /removable/microsd. Not sure what other storage is mounted as, I dont have a dock yet.
Thanks for the quick response. I had nothing pop up when I put in either Microsd, SD or my flash drive. So the "media scanner" ain't working?
And I just went to the app store and downloaded a file explorer, but now I cant find any of the drives?!
This is friggin painful! I was using filemanagerhd and could see the mp3's but there is now way to copy them onto the hardrive?
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The media scanner will find songs on any attached storage. If you really want the songs on internal storage, use a file explorer to move them from /Removable/MicroSD to /SDcard
Edit - sorry for being brief. I'm writing from my TF...
It might take a bit, but the system will eventually scan all attached storage for media. Also, the way storage is mounted varies widely and is not always intuitive. In the case of the TF, the internal storage is mounted as /sdcard and a microSD in the tablet is mounted as /removable/microsd. Not sure what other storage is mounted as, I dont have a dock yet.
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there are no drives in android. the filesystem is organized as a tree and as such, everything is attached to the root or "/"
off the top of my head the internal storage is in
/sdcard
while microsd is in
/Removable/microsd
if you don't see your microsd, it didn't get recognized for one reason or another
also why the hell are you downloading a file explorer when one is included.
Yeah, use the built in file manager. Most of the ones on the market are designed for the phone variant of Android and restrict you to only being able to view the /sdcard folder.
Also, make sure you're actually correctly inserting the SD/MicroSDs (i.e. pushed in all the way and not upside down, etc).
First, how the heck are you even connecting an SD card or USB drive? If you're using the gender charger, I wouldn't count on that.
When inserting your microsd card, do you get a message that it's preparing media and then an icon in your system tray? If not, it's not seeing your card correctly. You should be able to open the file manager from there.
The easiest way I've found to put files on my device is by buying a program named "Wifi Explorer Pro." It was only 0.99 and it lets you open a web browser and upload files to your device over your wifi network. The only thing that isn't great is I can't find a way to select multiple files.
Otherwise, I think you can copy files with the file manager by selecting them and doing a long press. You can then navigate to the folder you want them copied to and paste them.
When I first got my device I just put my microsd card in a sd card adapter, plugged it into my laptop, copied over a bunch of media files and the next time I put the card in the Transformer they showed up.
That's the way it should work... Also, have you updated to the latest firmware from Asus' site? In addition, a reboot never hurts. Usually.
npompei said:
I am an Android newbie here, but my god this seems difficult!
I am trying to take songs off either my usb flash drive or the memory card and put them onto the hard drive of the tab. Why the hell is this so difficult?! I must be really missing something here...
I can find the MP3 files on the devices but I have no clue how to get them into the "music" app on the tablet or even just somewhere onto the tablet itself. Any ideas here? And sorry if I sound like a complete idiot...
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No need to download any file manager as it is on your device. Go to file manager if you don't see it on your desktop, click on apps at the top right hand corner and select file manager
With your microSD in the slot with music on it, go to the root directory....then click on removable, then microSD, You should see your music there.
Now click on the pencil icon on the top right hand corner, this will put square boxes on the left hand side of all your files and folder. Select the music or folders of music that you want to copy to the device by putting a check mark by it. Then select the copy icon on the top right hand corner.
Now go back to root, navigate to sdcard, in there there will be a folder called music, click on it. Once you are in the folder, click on the paste icon in the top right hand corner. Your music is now on your device, remove your card.
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No need to download any file manager as it is on your device. Go to file manager if you don't see it on your desktop, click on apps at the top right hand corner and select file manager
With your microSD in the slot with music on it, go to the root directory....then click on removable, then microSD, You should see your music there.
Now click on the pencil icon on the top right hand corner, this will put square boxes on the left hand side of all your files and folder. Select the music or folders of music that you want to copy to the device by putting a check mark by it. Then select the copy icon on the top right hand corner.
Now go back to root, navigate to sdcard, in there there will be a folder called music, click on it. Once you are in the folder, click on the paste icon in the top right hand corner. Your music is now on your device, remove your card.
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FYI - File Manager HD is specifically written for HC. It's much better than stock I think.
For superuser stuff the stock file manager is no bueno, i'm using root explorer with no complaints.
If you cannot see your sd card it probably needs to be formatted again via a phone or even a pc but try and keep it as FAT32.
Other things i've noticed when my media scanner doesn't run is to reboot and it for sure will run on startup
A really good file manager for those with old habits, especially if you have the dock, is Ghost Commander. It's a two-pane file manager like Total Commander or Far, and it's fully keyboard enabled with familiar shortcuts - Tab to switch between panels, +/- to select/deselect files by pattern. It also uses number keys to represent F1-F10 - so 5 is "Copy", 6 is "Move", 7 is "MkDir" etc. And all letter keys start inline file search by name. Very fast when used keyboard-only.
Also see this for more info on what it can do...
I always just drag and drop, create a folder called music > artist > album name > music files
doesn't get any easier than that.
I can see photos stored on the Micro SD card I have, but when I put the SD card from my camera into the Dock I can only see the contents through File Manager or any other file browser - Gallery doesn't see them & I can't find any ability to scan media.
Anyone made this work, it seems to be an obvious thing to want to do ?
Same problem here... I really wish they would fix this, it would be great to display pics off the SD card immediately after a photoshoot.
Yes this is indeed annoying - Gallery will only acknowledge images from the microSD
(with no setting / config option for additional / alternative source)
Floating Image is a pretty good replacement - but geared more for presentation / slideshow.
I've got a 32Gb SD card in my Surface and have it setup as an NTFS folder rather than a drive letter.
I have moved the default locations for documents, pictures, video's etc but the "Pictures" app doesnt seem to pick up images from the library even though it has been changed in the Explorer library locations.
Anyone else got this problem or am I going to have to dig around in regedit?
Make sure your sd card folders have indexing turned on
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I've got a 32Gb SD card in my Surface and have it setup as an NTFS folder rather than a drive letter.
I have moved the default locations for documents, pictures, video's etc but the "Pictures" app doesnt seem to pick up images from the library even though it has been changed in the Explorer library locations.
Anyone else got this problem or am I going to have to dig around in regedit?
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Think you might be onto something there, when I go into indexing options its not picking up the folder that I created for the mSD card.
However I can import images from the mSD card using pictures and it puts them in the moved pictures folder with a datename and they appear in the "Pictures" app...
Bit of random behaviour there...
I'm trying to move away from google photos and I have a ton of images from Google Takeout all sorted out. As such I need to know where do I put my photos in so that the default MIUI gallery app (and other apps of the like) will see them. Also is it possible to change photos saving location to an external SD card as my model is pretty susceptible to breaking and I need to make sure that my photos aren't truly gone.
Thanks in advance
The more technology becomes better/advanced/easier to use, the more people seem inept at using it.
Dude, put the photos on external sdcard in any damn folder you like. Android's mediastore will fully scan your storage on a let's say, a reboot and show the photos in any gallery app you can think of. Personally, I prefer F-Stop gallery app, since it has all I need to move/copy/rename/share or do anything with pictures or video files, and it does not depend on internal mediastore system. FStop gallery app even shows up as a file selector in default file explorer, if you use one.
Also make a full backup of the images to a disk in your PC. It's not that hard.
...and have an off-site backup obviously.
external sd or you can copy it to your pc
ok thanks for all the advice