After flashing KingCobra1X I can no longer see any music in the music player or any photos/videos in the gallery. I also tried flashing different roms, nothing. Any way to fix this?
Connect your phone to your computer via USB (disk drive mode) and see if the files show up, and if you can open them.
You might have gotten stung by the "contents of SD got wiped when flashing" bug.
I can still see them on a file explorer as well as on my PC.
I might try going into settings, manage apps, find gallery and clear its cache as well as google play music or what music app your using,
Reboot and test.
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Most bizarre thing I have ever seen. I connect my Inspire to my PC as a hard drive. Copy music to it but when I try to access the music from the phone, the folder is empty. I can copy ZIP files or APK files to the phone with no problem. But the MP3 files magically disappear. I have copied music to it before. I even formated it again. It lets me copy everything except the music. I tried fixing permissions but still it does it. Anyone ever experience anything like this?
I have kinda the same problem. My phone does not display anything when i click on the music app icon it says there is none even though the my file manager shows there are? My Ringtones are the same way, I've even reformatted the card twice now and it still says there are no mp3's on my card.
A lil more info would help like, what rom, stock, rooted, etc...
I've seen other threads pertaining to this but I have more context around my situation that I hope will help. I'm running MiUi 1.11.4 on a Samsung Infuse 4g, and have flashed it after wiping data/cache. I have SetCPU running perfectly so that no UV/OC crashes occur. Everything runs fine until I reboot it for about the 2nd or 3rd time after flashing the ROM. Once that happens, it doesn't recognize the ext_sd card. I watched the music player load all music on both int and ext cards. Once I reboot, I watch the artists/songs/albums numbers dwindle as it fails to recognize them again. Any suggestions why this is happening? I CAN make changes to the ext_sd and can play the music or open files by using the File Manager to navigate to them, but the other apps don't recognize it.
ALSO: I've tried rescanning the music library.. any music app i use locks up and repeatedly force closes and never functions properly again
So in preparation for backing up my internal storage for 4.2.1 in case it messes up or I do I was planning on copying everything from my internal device storage onto my computer. When going through the folders to see which ones were empty and I didn't need to copy I came across a folder that I had deleted the contents of earlier that day. Thinking I may have not actually deleted it I did it again.
Before copying the information over I went to check to make sure I had my backup of my nova launcher and noticed it wasn't there, I went to make another backup when I hit restore just to check that there was a back up and there was, and in the folder I had just looked on in my computer.
It was then I realized that the data my computer showed was very old files, things I had deleted months ago and some of the newer files were not being shown. I also noticed that old videos and pictures showed in my gallery app even though I knew I deleted them. I tried rebooting my tablet disconnecting it from my computer and reconnecting it and to no avail I also cleared the gallery app data and that seemed to fix the phantom videos and pictures in the app.
If anyone knows what is going on and how I can correct this issue that would be helpful as it does not seem to be an issue with my phone, Galaxy S3.
Thanks,
Frostbiter
You are using MTP connection to delete files/folder or just a file manager? I had similar issues when i was using my PC to delete stuff from the internal storage so you could try to use a file manager and see if it solves the issue.
I do delete stuff from es file manager, I rarely connect my tablet to my computer but when I do its using MTP and only to put files onto the internal storage or sd card.
The gallery thing happens to more people, we have a thread about a multi-GB cache file somewhere around here.
I have never had it show old files on my pc though. Have you tried rebooting your computer? (I feel a bit like the microsoft helpdesk for saying that... xD) Oh, and a registry cleaner might fix the issue. (for the pc, not the tab.)
I have had my sgs3 not showing up at all every once in a while (i use mtp a lot), but thats probably me being an idiot and killing the media storage process again. (I clear out all non-essential processes when gaming.).
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I haven't tried rebooting my computer after plugging my tablet it, but I normally turn it off every night and as I said before I rarely plug my tablet it so I don't think it's a cache issues. I'll clean out my registry and maybe I'll uninstall the drivers for my tablet and let them reinstall too.
I was able to fix the issues by switching usb ports I plugged it into, it started showing the proper files when I plugged it into the first usb too. I took a picture while still connected to the first usb port and it showed up in internal storage in my computer so I don't think it's a usb problem.
Thanks for the info on the gallery issue, maybe this cache file and issues I'm having are connected some how.
I have a stock Nexus 5 running OS 6.0.1. Yesterday I decided to use DS Cloud to backup my documents to my Synology Disk Station (NAS). For simplicity I just told it to sync the entire internal storage folder. This appears to have been a BAD mistake.
Everything looked like it was going well I saw the files from my phone appearing in the backup folder on my NAS. IT was almost done when suddenly my Blue tooth music stopped streaming. I looked and Google Play Music says there are no files on my device. Browsing from a USB connection all of the files are in my Music folder, the app just can't seem to find them.
I uninstalled DS Cloud, rebooted the phone, etc. but it's still broke. Basically all of the files appear to be intact but Google Play Music, and Photos can not find anything. I used VLC to browse and play the files so they really are there and undamaged.
I suspect that some "virtual" folders or symbolic links may have been corrupted. The reason I think this is because when I open VLC it shows 4 paths "Internal Memory", "Emulated", "Emulated", "Emulated". I seem to recall that since the N5 does not actually have a SD card slot, it had a fake SD Card folder, and I do seem to remember vaguely there were some emulated or legacy folders, I assume for backwards compatibility with older apps.
In any event I don't remember exactly what those "special" folders were or how to recreate them.
I suspect that if I can recreate them then Music and Picture will start working again.
If I do a factory reset on the phone will that recreate the proper folders and links?
Any ideas?
More research/info.
OK doing more research, now I am fairly certain that the issue is the missing folders. Apparently there's a symbolic link to /data/user/0/com.google.android.music/files/music that is needed for Play Music. Using adb shell I can see that there is a sdcard folder and it is linked to /storage/self/primary.
I think I am on the right track but can anyone tell me what links/folders I need to create? Can I even create them without root? Is there a utility that will fix it? Will a factory reset/wipe fix it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Don't know how to recreate the missing folders, but I'm fairly sure a complete factory reset will fix this. Unfortunately, you will lose your data if you go this route.
RESOLVED - The Hard Way
Last night I tried Settings > Backup & Restore > Factory Reset. It said it was doing it for several minutes. I read that it could take a long time, so I left it in the office and watched a TV show. Came back an ouur later and it was rebooted but 100% intact??? Even though it said "Erasing..." for at least 30 minutes, nothing was gone.
I used the phone all day and except for the original problem it worked fine.
Tonight I tried again. Same process. This time after the wipe it came up like a new phone. Strange.
Anyhow it looks like everything is working. Copied a few songs and pictures and they worked.
I am in the process of restoring everything else which is probably going to take some time...
As of several days ago my phone had this problem where it lists all of my files (e.g. music, videos) as "others" in the Storage setting. These files are accessible through the file manager, but Blackplayer, MX Player, and the stock gallery app cannot find and display them. In addition, these apps would sometimes force close for no obvious reason. The stock file manager also force closed at one point when I tried to access the files manually.
I tried doing a factory reset, which solved the problem at first. However, it returned after I tried to copy some files from my pc. Perhaps this is related?
My phone is unrooted running on the stock Color OS (F1fEX_11_171125).
Anyone here have the same problem? Ideas on how to repair this would be greatly appreciated!
klpex16 said:
As of several days ago my phone had this problem where it lists all of my files (e.g. music, videos) as "others" in the Storage setting. These files are accessible through the file manager, but Blackplayer, MX Player, and the stock gallery app cannot find and display them. In addition, these apps would sometimes force close for no obvious reason. The stock file manager also force closed at one point when I tried to access the files manually.
I tried doing a factory reset, which solved the problem at first. However, it returned after I tried to copy some files from my pc. Perhaps this is related?
My phone is unrooted running on the stock Color OS (F1fEX_11_171125).
Anyone here have the same problem? Ideas on how to repair this would be greatly appreciated!
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Update: It seems that the problem happens when copying certain files through MTP, which in this case was an MKV video. One sign that the problem would occur was that the copy operation got stuck at near completion for a long time. Deleting the file returned the phone to normal.
Hoping that this could assist others who also encountered the same problem.
I was not able to see this bug on my phone, even after transferring lot of music files on SD card via MTP.
I guess that it's more probably related to big files (videos) on internal memory via MTP transfers. Thanks for the info, I hope it's not your flash or controller getting old...