Ever since my 2.2 stock update my gallery shows duplicate images, then triplicate and now 4 copies of each.
I verified that I only have 1 copy of each one (all stored on my external sd card).
Has anyone else experienced this?
Does anyone know how to reset the Gallery cache (clearing it via settings-manage apps does nothing)?
I don't have this issue but I do not have external SD in my Captivate.
Since no one is replying I'm assuming you may have an unique issue here but I would connect the Captivate to your PC and browse to remove the pictures if they are truly duplicate and reboot your phone to see if the issue will resolve after that.
Or remove your external SD, reboot your phone to see if all pictures goes away or 3 copies remains in your Internal SD.
Just my 2 cents.
I had this problem first with my music, then with my photos. I've fixed the problem for my music files showing as duplicates. All I did was hook up to my PC, transfer the music folder off my phone, let the media scanner do its thing, then I transferred them back onto the phone. That did the trick. I haven't had time to try this with my photos yet, but I am hopeful that it works the same...
Hope this helps!
This remind me that I did had similar issue right after my phone boot up from Froyo update. But everything went back to normal after 2 other reboot.
So, first self reboot after Froyo updated. System lag like crazy. Let it run about 30 minutes and media scan completed.
Second reboot, Runs a bit better but still sort of laggy and battery done to 35% after just 2 1/2 hour of usage. Plug in to my laptop's USB to charge and as soon as prompt to run kies or mass media come up my phone went blank.
Third reboot. Wait 15 minutes until Media scan is completed. Plug into my USB port and charge with my laptop at work. No more issue found other then battery sucks big time for this day.
Everything back to normal and battery is back to normal again the next day.
bb6vtec said:
I don't have this issue but I do not have external SD in my Captivate.
Since no one is replying I'm assuming you may have an unique issue here but I would connect the Captivate to your PC and browse to remove the pictures if they are truly duplicate and reboot your phone to see if the issue will resolve after that.
Or remove your external SD, reboot your phone to see if all pictures goes away or 3 copies remains in your Internal SD.
Just my 2 cents.
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One thing I should mention, which I think is triggering the bug is that I have my camera set to save on the external card. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it appears that Froyo keeps a gallery cache on the internal and external card. Perhaps the info is getting duplicated in both files.
I moved all images off to my PC, then disconnected from the PC. Going into the Gallery, I still saw placeholders for all of the images - but they were black (no image to display).
I found that on each sd card (internal and external), there is a DCIM folder that contains a .thumbnails folder. Inside of this folder is a THUMBDATAxxxxx file. I had to delete both of these files to clear out the Gallery placeholders. I then copied the images back to the external card. Both DCIM THUMBDATAxxxx files were recreated. My images are no longer duplicated. We'll see if the problem reappears.
Does anyone else have their camera set to "Memory Card" Storage?
Thanks,
Rich
Fix for this is easy. Open sgs tools 4.5(I think that's the most recent) go to apply scripts>clean_thumb_db.txt then reboot. Issue solved. I'm not sure what causes this but its happened to me many times and that is the easiest fix.
Is there any other way of doing this? Every time I run that script it deletes all my custom ringtones from my contacts, my custom sms tones from my handcent conversations, and all of my playlists from the media player....
You're not missing anything. The script didn't remove the duplicate images for me.
The easiest way I've dealt with this is go to manage applications and delete data in the media storage app. Problem is it does do away with customized ringtones, playlists..so have to rebuild that
thumbnails
I experienced the same problem with pictures in the gallery, I checked my folders and did not have any duplicates. After reading some of your posts and poking around I decided to try resetting the gallery app from the manage applications menu with no success. I then tried deleting the contents of .thumbnails files on the internal and external sd cards (in the DCIM directory). I experienced no loss of data as far as i can tell but the duplicates did disappear. I went from 6 copies to a single image. I rebooted the phone 3 times and the images did not duplicate in the gallery but the .thumbnails directory was repopulated. I powered down the phone and removed my external sd card, all external pictures disappeared from gallery. I reinstalled the card with the phone powered on and presto 6 copies of all external sd card images! I'm not sure why this is occurring but I just deleted the .thumbnails directory contents again and hope that the problem does not recur as long as i don't remove my external card. Hope this helps!
I would just delete media storage and move on. You may have to re-do ringtones tho..and playlists
richb500 said:
One thing I should mention, which I think is triggering the bug is that I have my camera set to save on the external card. I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it appears that Froyo keeps a gallery cache on the internal and external card. Perhaps the info is getting duplicated in both files.
I moved all images off to my PC, then disconnected from the PC. Going into the Gallery, I still saw placeholders for all of the images - but they were black (no image to display).
I found that on each sd card (internal and external), there is a DCIM folder that contains a .thumbnails folder. Inside of this folder is a THUMBDATAxxxxx file. I had to delete both of these files to clear out the Gallery placeholders. I then copied the images back to the external card. Both DCIM THUMBDATAxxxx files were recreated. My images are no longer duplicated. We'll see if the problem reappears.
Does anyone else have their camera set to "Memory Card" Storage?
Thanks,
Rich
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Deleting "media storage" did not work for me. What I did was similar to Rich (I also have mine set to store to the external SD) -
Removed all photos from SD card. When I remounted the card, I noticed I was now down to 2 copies of each photo rather than 3.
Next step: Applications > My Files. Deleted the entire DCIM folder.
Now I'm down to 1 copy of each photo.
Applications > My Files > external_sd. Once again, deleted the entire DCIM folder (loading the sd card on my computer, the thumbnails dir wasn't even showing up, as I'd deleted it... sneaky little thing!).
Hey, look, no pictures!
Recreated DCIM folder on my SD card (I did all of this by unmounting/removing the card and using a card reader on my PC - not sure if it would have worked using the cable-PC connect, as I don't have my cable on me), moved all my photos back in... and now I have my photos, only one copy of each. Hopefully this doesn't reoccur or the bug gets fixed, as that was quite a pain!
I had this problem as well, and it annoyed the **** out of me. No matter how many times I removed the external card and did the scanner trick, they kept coming back. I used to run the SGSTools script, but got tired of redoing all my ringtones every day. I even deleted the thumbnails folders over and pver again, but they still kept coming back.
The only thing I found works long term was to give in and keep the pics on the internal memory. It seems like Froyo can't accept having them on the external card for me.
I had the exact same issue, 36 images virtually duplicated to 360. Possible cause could be haste when phone is scanning the sd card or force quitting when running the application or messing around while the phone is connected to pc.
I was able to fix the issue by copying the Dcim folder to my pc > then deleting the original one on the phone > and then making moving it back to the phone. Once done let it finish the scan and then go to the gallery.
RESOLVED: Duplicate thumbs in Samsung Captivate
Just delete all the files in "sdcard/android/data/com.cooliris.media/cache/hires-image-cache" directory. Then delete all the files in
"com.cooliris.media/cache/local-album-cache" which includes any "index" files and "chunk_##" and delete files in "local-image-thumbs". Disconnect phone from computer and let the phone do the media scan, your pictures will return to single again.
This happens when your phone does a media scan after connecting to a computer as a mass storage device and you change data in the parent directories that you have picture, video and sometimes music media. Any questions or concerns you can also contact me via [email protected] and your appraise are also welcome. Enjoy
Why is it whenever I plug in\out phone, the home screen is blank, then 10-20 seconds later all the icons\widgets appear?
Also, related I assume, when I reboot, all the icons come up as the green system standard icon, then the actual icon is populated about 3-5 minutes after. The phone can't seriously be THAT slow can it?
I have a feeling it's based on the apps on the internal vs external SD card, but still, this is 2011, why do they take so long to populate?
Thanks!
This is a question I have had. I have noticed it takes several minutes to populate my Apps in app drawer.
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This is a question I have had. I have noticed it takes several minutes to populate my Apps in app drawer.
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Super annoying when I just want to get loaded back up and run an app and can't because it's not showing in the apps listing yet and on the main screen it's showing as a default system icon. Ugh :-(
Where it gtg to solve my problems?!?!
After unplugging your phone from a PC, the internal and external SD cards do a rescan.
It can take a while, especially depending on the size of your external card.
I suggest moving ALL of your apps back to the phone and off the SD card. This helps a bit. Unless you have a trillion apps, there's not much point putting apps on the SD card anymore. That was for old android phones that had little to no internal storage space for apps.
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After unplugging your phone from a PC, the internal and external SD cards do a rescan.
It can take a while, especially depending on the size of your external card.
I suggest moving ALL of your apps back to the phone and off the SD card. This helps a bit. Unless you have a trillion apps, there's not much point putting apps on the SD card anymore. That was for old android phones that had little to no internal storage space for apps.
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What's the best way to move them from external to internal with ease? Then how do I tell my phone to install to internal SD by default?
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What's the best way to move them from external to internal with ease? Then how do I tell my phone to install to internal SD by default?
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First of all, this isn't a matter of installing to the internal SD as opposed to the external SD. I recommend installing to the 2GB "Internal phone storage".
If you look under
Code:
Settings > SD card and phone storage
you'll see what I mean.
The internal phone storage never gets unmounted.
Go to:
Code:
Settings > Manage applications > On SD card
Click each app and the tap the "Move to phone button"
You could get the app SDMove which may help you manage your apps a bit easier. I'm sure there are dozens of other similar (maybe better) apps, too.
The only apps I install to the SD card are games. I really don't care if a game isn't available the second I unplug my phone from the PC.
I have no clue how to set everything to install to phone by default instead of some apps defaulting to SD. I believe it's something internal to the individual app installer itself.
tankmorph said:
First of all, this isn't a matter of installing to the internal SD as opposed to the external SD. I recommend installing to the 2GB "Internal phone storage".
If you look under
Code:
Settings > SD card and phone storage
you'll see what I mean.
The internal phone storage never gets unmounted.
Go to:
Code:
Settings > Manage applications > On SD card
Click each app and the tap the "Move to phone button"
You could get the app SDMove which may help you manage your apps a bit easier. I'm sure there are dozens of other similar (maybe better) apps, too.
The only apps I install to the SD card are games. I really don't care if a game isn't available the second I unplug my phone from the PC.
I have no clue how to set everything to install to phone by default instead of some apps defaulting to SD. I believe it's something internal to the individual app installer itself.
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Cool, I've moved everything over, and now just giving it some time to see if it feels snappier Thanks for the tips!
Hi! I apologize, I cant seem to get the search function to work on my phone.
Anyway, I just bought the samsung infuse 4g the other day. One of the first things I did was change the default storage location for everything to the sd card. It worked fine but today I did a factory reset (just to see how it worked). Now I cant remember how to set it again. Just to clarify, it was an option to send EVERYTHING to sd card ( internal sd im guessing, the one with 13 gigs of space). Everything meaning contacts, apps, media, photos and such. I know how to do those thing individually, but there was an option for everything. Anybody know? Thanks.in advance..
If you have an external sd card, setting the camera save option to sdcard saves them to external sd card.
Do you know that? Dont know why, but it does. Everything else goes to internal sd card as far as ive seen, even game data. I never set it to do that, it just does.
My phone is a AT&T Galaxy S3, rooted, running M11 (cm11). I have NO sd card in the phone. The internal storage capacity is about 12 GB.
During a recent trip, I used the phone as a storage device, i.e. transfer files from my Canon camera to my phone regularly. I stored about 5GB of files (mostly pictures & videos) from my Canon camera to my Galaxy S3 during the past week during my trip. At the end of the trip, the phone had about 1GB internal storage left.
This afternoon, I copied another big file (a DVD file) to the S3 internal storage, that left only about 400MB of space. I thought that might be too low, so I deleted some apps to free up spaces, it leaves about 700MB space after that.
Then I was going to copy those 5GB pictures & videos from S3 internal storage to my PC, the copy keeps failing. I tried rebooting the phone -- after rebooting, A LOT of my files are gone. Now, the phone has 9GB space left! Looks like a lot of files/folders are gone, it does not appear any apps are gone.
Any one has any idea what might go wrong, obviously, my main concern is to recovery those 5GB pictures & videos from my last trip. Note that those 5GB pictures & videos are originally not in DCIM folder, I put them in a separate folder in the phone.
Since I noticed the lost files, I've stopped using the file to avoid any more writing to the phone. Also, since I've never used a SD card with this phone, I believe it should have nothing to do with LOST.DIR issue. TIA!
I used Disk Digger and it recovered most of the pictures, although MP4s seems mostly corrupted after a few seconds of play. Wish there is a way to recover all, still puzzled at how this all happened..
So I attempted to use an app to transfer apps to SD card and instead it sent all my music and everything in my gallery, and it's all completely gone. I try to access them on the SD card but not sure how, as anything I try most of them are gone and the pictures are in such bad quality they're ruined. Is there any way to undo this or get everything back? I tried copying everything back but it only put all the files in "other" in nternal storage instead of the right places like gallery and music.