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Gallery not reading pics on sdcard help.

What could make my gallery not read my pics. I have to use quikpic. Or even winamp not reading mp3's. I have to use poweramp. Thanks in advance. Tried reformatting sd card once and still didn't work.
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rayvil30 said:
What could make my gallery not read my pics. I have to use quikpic. Or even winamp not reading mp3's. I have to use poweramp. Thanks in advance. Tried reformatting sd card once and still didn't work.
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Hm, you check the format of the pictures or the music? Sometimes the gallery or media players don't understand some formats.

My pics are jpg and music mp3. Should be read. Thanks for responding.
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you tried quickpic and it didnt work?? what i would suggest is removing the sd card from your phone. then saving all of the media (media only!) on the computer. format the sd card on the computer (fat32). then put the sd card back in your phone. format it on the phone. then connect the phone to the computer and copy all of the media back onto it. reboot recovery. clear cache and fix permissions and see if it works.

Thats the thing. It does work with quickpic. And poweramp plays fine. Gallery is useless. Lot of other players wont read mp3. Have reformatted in past on PC too.
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go into cwm and fix permissions.

Done that. Doesn't matter which rom I use also. Thanks.
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then you are doing something wrong. if quickpic can see the pictures, then it is not a hardware problem. go to setting and manage applications and clear all data, cache and updates to the gallery. then go back and fix permissions.

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then you are doing something wrong. if quickpic can see the pictures, then it is not a hardware problem. go to setting and manage applications and clear all data, cache and updates to the gallery. then go back and fix permissions.
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Did all that and still not working. Took couple of pics and they came out in gallery. Restarted phone and now they cant be found. In quickpic I have to show all hidden for them to show. Might be something about the tags. Don't know.
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this one is perplexing. can you try to switch the apk with one from another rom and see if that works?

jager555 said:
this one is perplexing. can you try to switch the apk with one from another rom and see if that works?
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Is there supposed to be a nomedia file in that folder. Dcim/camera etc. I dont have one.
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I'm running Valhalla 1.3.2 and my folder is /DCIM/camera.
**EDIT**
I also have a thumbnails folder in /DCIM
I hope this helps and you resolve your problem.

Dude same was happening with just check your SD Card for errors from your PC...My problem was fixed after this no need to format or change your ROM just check for the errors from your PC.

Songs randomly duplicated themselves

Anyone know what would cause this? And what would fix it without going through 1 by 1?
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Are you using a media player or something to sync music to your phone? That's the only time I've ever seen it happen.
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I just installed Poweramp (again) butni dont think that would do it
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Never had it happen on the 4g but it's happened once on my Skyrocket. Still don't know what the cause was. Every time I rebooted I'd have one more set of songs as well as photo's from the gallery. I ended up just reflashing, but someone over there had this as a suggestion
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27256803&postcount=38

I think poweramp allows you to see track locations. Long press a song and check where it's located on the sd card, then long press the duplicate and check where that one is. Maybe there are just 2 copies on the sd card, if not then it's a library problem with poweramp. You can always rebuild the library.

If you were using jetplayer it could be because it builds a database and other players like poweramp does that also. If you dont have two actual copies then its because of a database creating two listings in your playlist.
another thing to try is sd maid. It should pick up the duplicates if they are there and allow you to remove them. Not sure if you can remove singly or in groups tho.

eollie said:
another thing to try is sd maid. It should pick up the duplicates if they are there and allow you to remove them. Not sure if you can remove singly or in groups tho.
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+1 for SD Maid
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Ive got sd maid and I thought about using it actually. Would uninstalling jetAudio fix it?
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Maybe if it removes all the db files on uninstall. Is your music saved in the media folder on your sdcard or another folder? I know on older versions of froyo and gb there was a bug that if music wasnt in a folder called media then it would show up twice because media scanner would create a fake media folder and non stock players would see it and duplicate the songs.

Can we get an ETA on when you'll find a solution for this? Trollololol.

FBis251 said:
Can we get an ETA on when you'll find a solution for this? Trollololol.
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SCREW YOU TROLL IM TAKING MY BALL AND GOING HOME! (im kidding, not poking fun at the dev )
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infuse wont show the dcim or music folder

hi for some reason my dcim or music folders wont show up on my pc when i put my infuse into storage mode and i just got back from a trip so i wanna show my pictures but i cant =/ any help will be appreciated !

tavito05 said:
hi for some reason my dcim or music folders wont show up on my pc when i put my infuse into storage mode and i just got back from a trip so i wanna show my pictures but i cant =/ any help will be appreciated !
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Can you see them in on your phone at all
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Is it only those two folders not showing?
Are both the internal and external SD card showing?
Are they, by some chance, marked as hidden?
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in my phone i can in both gallery and quicpic
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Can you see them in on your phone at all
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i really dont know how to check if is hidden and yeah both cards are showing
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Is it only those two folders not showing?
Are both the internal and external SD card showing?
Are they, by some chance, marked as hidden?
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tavito05 said:
i really dont know how to check if is hidden and yeah both cards are showing
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In your Windows Explorer folder settings / options, there is an option to "show hidden files".
Also, you can view the info of a file or folder on your Android from a file browser.
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do you have a file manager type app? can you see /sdcard/DCIM from that?
there isn't nessesarily a "sdcard/music" folder unless you created one, the media scanner will find music and photos no matter where they are stored. the files would be stored in /sdcard/download if you used the browser to download them, they may also be in folders that are created by apps if you use some mp3 downloader app.
the lack of */DCIM would be odd though. unless you use a 3rd party camera app.

Yeah I use root explorer and I can access it with no problem and on windows I already tried to show hidden files too.
Already tried going to stock.
reinstalling drivers on PC
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If all else fails, try uploading the to Google drive then pulling them down to your PC.
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Yeah I will do that! Thanks for your help!
QUOTE=Goneeuro;30370472]If all else fails, try uploading the to Google drive then pulling them down to your PC.
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If they're not hidden, I wonder why they don't show in Windows when the phone is plugged through USB...
Do you have a USB micro SD card reader dongle?
If so, try taking the card out of the phone and plug it directly into your computer.
If the files show, something on the phone (somehow) is messing something up.
If they don't show, there's some sort of issue with the card.

Here he is having your same problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1837023
They suggested deleting a .nomedia file somewhere in your sdcard and removing rom manager
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The problem is that I don't use rom manager and the files don't show in my computer. In my phone I have no problems
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You don't have to use it for the problem to show up. If it is installed it may be affecting it. Also, the .nomedia file is a hidden file so make sure show hidden files is turned on in your file explorer.
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andros11 said:
You don't have to use it for the problem to show up. If it is installed it may be affecting it. Also, the .nomedia file is a hidden file so make sure show hidden files is turned on in your file explorer.
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.nomedia isn't his problem.
He said everything shows fine when viewed on his phone.
He wants to view the files on his COMPUTER (pc) when the phone is linked with usb and storage mounted.
But those two folders won't show in WINDOWS.
The problem is entirely different from that thread.
Tavitos, have you tried plugging the SD Card directly to the computer with a dongle like I asked?
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Oh I see, sorry. I misunderstood his situation.
That's quite strange though.. something similar has happened to me with my tablet before. Could somehow your usb connection be malfunctioning?
Maybe the cable or the ports?
What rom are you currently running? If the problem persists consider reflashing.
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I'm running Aeon.
and the only issue is my internal. Not the external. You think it can be a driver issue?
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If the computer is popping up a folder at all when you plug it in, it wouldn't be the driver...
So they're on the internal SD?
Hmm... On a whim, take out the External card, boot up your phone, then hook it up to the computer and see if those folders show.
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I fixed it guys. Thanks for all yur help. I formatted both the external and internal and boom! It was fixed! Thanks guys!
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I fixed it guys. Thanks for all yur help. I formatted both the external and internal and boom! It was fixed! Thanks guys!
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But formatting makes you lose everything! xD
Kidding, glad that fixed things. Still wonder what caused it in the first place...
Good to know you won't be having this problem any more, though!

Sd card on pc?

I installed the Samsung drivers and all and the pc is recognizing the phone but it will only give me options to go into windows media player to transfer music or access it as a camera...the phone won't show up as a drive with all my Sd card files and I can't move anything to it...I used my old card from may fassy so I thought I wouldn't have too reload all my music and ringtones which all shores up on the phone as extsd...and anything now ids saving to Sd...
Is the phone supposed to show up as a drive on the computer? Would formatting my Sd card fix this or is this how it's supposed to be? I want to root and whatnot but can't find a way to view the full Sd card content only music and pictures...do I need an external reader to do this? Is it normal? I have a class 4 16gb card...I can't even view the pics on the pc just icons and numbers and although the pictures I take show up on the Sd in the phone they're not pin the computer
Any advice would be much appreciated...I just got this phone from having a fassy and am quite confused...
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If it's not rooted there isn't many options other than cheetah sync. You can use Kies which let's u sync media files easily. To root these phones its extremely easy now. There is a program u put on your computer and it does everything for you. After its rooted do a search on the forum for ums and it should pull up the guide that people have used to get it working. From rooting to running a script to let u enable ums mode its really easy thanks to the people who take the time to come up with the work arounds. I have done it and it was simple to do. I would estimate it taking 30 min to root and setup the script using pre made scripts from the guide and the program available free from the play store.
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I'm surprised out doesn't let you do mass storage...the pc program in the routing guide...I'm assuming that works for the newest phone radio, or is it modem maybe on the phone? I know I saw root66 its for the older one....
Sorry for all the questions...just trying to make sure of everything so I don't end up with a very expensive paperweight and making sure its all working as it should be...Verizon's user manual is useless for this phone
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Rooting using the program gs3debugfsroot doesn't matter which radio u have. From my understanding it just enables su in the stock roms. It doesn't reset any of your data and doesn't require you to flash anything. The programs connects to your phone and then probably uses an exploit to push the su files enabling more system control.
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view pics and other files
quick 2 questions on this as well. So I can see "Some" of my files but not all for ex.... the files with . (dot) "file name" or .. (dot dot) "file name" will not show up nor will .jpg thumbnails show up. I can take the files such as pictures .jpg and move them to my pictures folder and they will show thumbnails, just cannot view thumbnail pics while connected via usb to pc. Hope that makes since. any ideas

I had the same problem at first...i think i reinstalled the drivers with my phone plugged in switched to camera mode and it worked...either that or rooting it made it work...i almost find it easier to just get a 2 dollar micro sd usb reader off amazon just stick the card in there plug it into the pc and then you have full access...this phone is a real pain with sd card access...you can always use dropbox or kies (although it didn't work on my old pc)
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Music downloaded off Datpiff mobile?

Ok so I've been having this problem on and off for almost a year now. I say on and off because I give up wen I hit a dead end and go back to downloading songs one by one with other apps. However I'd really like to figure out why when I download an album off Datpiff mobile, go thru unzipping it and all that I still get the notification that the media isn't supported. But if I downloaded it on a computer, unzip it, then drag and drop onto my sd card the music works. Has anyone got this to work without a computer and if you have can you please help me out? Thanks in advance for the help guys
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