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[Q] media scan on samsung galaxy s :(

hi guys!
this is my first post lol so here goes:
basically every time a media scan occurs, my recently added playlist on my stock sgs music player always rearranges/shuffles the music not in date order. however this does no happen on doubletwist! im so confused lol
thanks in advance

rajukaju said:
hi guys!
this is my first post lol so here goes:
basically every time a media scan occurs, my recently added playlist on my stock sgs music player always rearranges/shuffles the music not in date order. however this does no happen on doubletwist! im so confused lol
thanks in advance
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More then likely it has to do with two main things I've typically seen. A) You have two or more folders that only have access to some songs so if you have alot of music it looks like there's things shuffled when they're really missing. or B) You simply have the sort method setup differently.

jenisiz said:
More then likely it has to do with two main things I've typically seen. A) You have two or more folders that only have access to some songs so if you have alot of music it looks like there's things shuffled when they're really missing. or B) You simply have the sort method setup differently.
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thanks for the quick reply, could you suggest anything for me to change on my sgs plz?

[Q] mp3 file format not supported

Hi all,
I've some mp3 files in the internal SD' /Music folder in my SGS i9000 . The problem is that sometimes if I try to play ANY of these files from the music player I got the error "File format not supported". When this happens, my mp3 ringtones does not ring too: I just need to reboot the phone to restore the sounds , but after some hours it stops working again. This is quite frustrating.
I've tried different music readers (the stock one and MIUI), with the same result.
I now have darky's 9.3.XWJS5 and speedmod kernel k13c , but I had the same problem with the stock 2.2 ROM so I don't know if it's a sgs or an android problem.
Any help would be really appreciated
TIA

I have the exact same problem. I've tried several roms and the problem still exist..
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so I'm not alone! some colleagues of mine have exactly the same device but never had this problem!
please help!

I too have this problem and it is rather annoying. I was about to change ROMS but reading here it seems that does not help. Could this be caused by a corrupt sd card? Perhaps trying out a different SD card might yield some results

I removed Advanced Task Killer and Automatic Task Killer from my phone and it worked up to a polint. Now it happens rarely.
But today in another forum a member said that the Twitter application causes that problem. When he removed the Twitter application problem has solved.
If you are using Twitter application try to remove that.
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I've had the same problem, I think I am going to remove the twitter app and try that. It didn't start until more recently so I have a feeling that might very well be the problem. We'll see. I'm running FireFly 3.0 with a speedmod kernal.

sCoRPion_tr said:
I removed Advanced Task Killer and Automatic Task Killer from my phone and it worked up to a polint. Now it happens rarely.
But today in another forum a member said that the Twitter application causes that problem. When he removed the Twitter application problem has solved.
If you are using Twitter application try to remove that.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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this worked for me thanks

[Q] New Android User.

Hi, I just got a Sensation a couple of days ago and there have been a few problems I hope you guys could help me with.
Firstly, my Android Market only shows a few of the apps that there should be. Loads of apps such as the launchers or Angry Birds for example aren't showing up. When I open the Market from my desktop it says that these apps cannot be installed in my country (UAE) when i have friends here with other Android phones with the very same apps.
Secondly, whenever I play a video on the phone it plays fine for about a minute and then the audio switches off and it only comes back if I skip scenes. I don't if this is a fault with my phone or maybe a wrong format I'm using, can you guys recommend a converter?
Thanks for any help, it's much appreciated.

lolwut16 said:
Hi, I just got a Sensation a couple of days ago and there have been a few problems I hope you guys could help me with.
Firstly, my Android Market only shows a few of the apps that there should be. Loads of apps such as the launchers or Angry Birds for example aren't showing up. When I open the Market from my desktop it says that these apps cannot be installed in my country (UAE) when i have friends here with other Android phones with the very same apps.
Secondly, whenever I play a video on the phone it plays fine for about a minute and then the audio switches off and it only comes back if I skip scenes. I don't if this is a fault with my phone or maybe a wrong format I'm using, can you guys recommend a converter?
Thanks for any help, it's much appreciated.
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I do not know the answer to your first question, but I would assume that your friends either have a different ROM flashed to their phone that allows them to bypass country restrictions, or they have downloaded the APK's from somewhere else, then 'adb push'ed them to their device... Someone more knowledgeable than me can answer that one...
The second question regarding video converters... I have used an application called Handbrake in the past to re-encode my video files, and it has worked wonders. I highly recommend it. Link: http://handbrake.fr/
Hope this helps.

lolwut16 said:
Hi, I just got a Sensation a couple of days ago and there have been a few problems I hope you guys could help me with.
Firstly, my Android Market only shows a few of the apps that there should be. Loads of apps such as the launchers or Angry Birds for example aren't showing up. When I open the Market from my desktop it says that these apps cannot be installed in my country (UAE) when i have friends here with other Android phones with the very same apps.
Secondly, whenever I play a video on the phone it plays fine for about a minute and then the audio switches off and it only comes back if I skip scenes. I don't if this is a fault with my phone or maybe a wrong format I'm using, can you guys recommend a converter?
Thanks for any help, it's much appreciated.
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You can try to find the apk for the apps you want and install them outside of Market by copying the apk to your SD card then installing from there (be sure to check the allow non-market applications box under the applications settings) this should (I think) bypass any country restrictions. If you look around I'm sure you can find the apks you want. If not you could probably make a request for certain apps and someone can upload the apk for you.

Thanks, I'll let you know how it goes.

Where do I paste the App file in the SD card?

Anywhere . You can, for example create new folder - "Apps" on yours sd and paste applications there.
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Ahh, sorry should've been more specific. After copying the file over, where do I go in the phone to install it?
Nevermind, got it.

You can use the web-market to install apps. No idea why it doesn't appear on the phone's market app, but it should appear on the web market.
market.android.com
For the second problem: what video format are you using? Try *.mp4 or *.avi and see if they work Also, what resolution is the video?

lolwut16 said:
Secondly, whenever I play a video on the phone it plays fine for about a minute and then the audio switches off and it only comes back if I skip scenes. I don't if this is a fault with my phone or maybe a wrong format I'm using, can you guys recommend a converter?
Thanks for any help, it's much appreciated.
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You can try another video player such as MoboPlayer to see if you have converted your video ok.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil&hl=en
I also use HandBrake converter.
There is an app called android market enabler "lets you access paid apps from countries where paid apps are not yet available". But it requires you to root your phone which is not currently possible on our phone. This could be what your friends are using.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/market-enabler-v3-0-8-for-root-users/

I just copied some random avi files I had on my desktop, which gave me the problem above. Haven't tried using converter yet but I'll give it a shot now.

regarding your second problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104685

Try the dice player. It's plays my .MKV 720p files perfect.
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Thanks guys, I tried the qqplayer and its playing perfectly. Though one more thing, how do you set custom (from the SD card) notifications for things like messages or emails? Atm I can only find it for ringtones. Oh and how do I switch off the annoying sound upon unlocking?
Sorry for the trouble, first time user and all. =/

lolwut16,
I am from UAE too and have the same problems with paid apps from Android Market.
I am just waiting a software solution to turn my Sensation S-off and install a "market enabler".
You are not alone........

lolwut16 said:
Thanks guys, I tried the qqplayer and its playing perfectly. Though one more thing, how do you set custom (from the SD card) notifications for things like messages or emails? Atm I can only find it for ringtones. Oh and how do I switch off the annoying sound upon unlocking?
Sorry for the trouble, first time user and all. =/
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make a folder on the root of your storage card & name it notifications & put the sounds in there.
for the weather sound you can disable that in the weather app or somewhere like that

[Q] Music app acting spastic?

Having some issues with the Music app. I am running Prime 1.9.something-or-other and I have been adding music to an SD Card then plugging it back into the tablet. Sometimes when I open Music, it just flickers like it is trying to refresh and having a panic attack in doing so. I have read other threads here where the user had to go into Application Settings and clear the cache/data for Music, which seems to work, but it bothers me that I have to do this regularly instead of just working like on my phone. Is there something I can do to permanently fix this behavior or is there a recommended free music player that may be similar to the stock player? I don't need any special features, just something that looks okay and has good logical sorting of music, preferably that cooperates well with the taskbar.
I tried Double Twist yesterday and its okay, but would rather just get the stock player working correctly.

Happens here, too. But no custom ROM - Stock B80 Transformer

Happened to me too in Stock 3.2, I had to kill the player and everything is fine for now.

No expert here but I feel that it has to do with the app itself (it is a beta version after all). I had this issue on tablet and phone. On my phone I reverted to the previous version of the google music app that did not include access to the Google cloud and haven't had the problem again.
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On stock ROM and B50 TF here.
I had installed the Beta application to give access to the streaming from cloud feature, and I had experienced the flickering, so I reverted back. Worked for a while, but a month or so on, and the flickering is back.

Popsiclestand said:
No expert here but I feel that it has to do with the app itself (it is a beta version after all). I had this issue on tablet and phone. On my phone I reverted to the previous version of the google music app that did not include access to the Google cloud and haven't had the problem again.
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Could you provide the apk for the app?

My 16gb sd got fried and that happened my phone recognizes it but tf101 don't anymore
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Solaris_irc said:
Could you provide the apk for the app?
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Sorry mate, it was already installed on my phone from the factory (so basically I had two google music apps after I downloaded music beta). But I think the APK version is 2.3.3. A search should bring up a site for download easily.
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Same problem here. Clearing the cache fixed the problem for a while, but it came back quite soon.
I think it's to do with playlists that have invalid references in them. I looked at the logcat to determine this. I have removed my playlists, and it doesn't seem to have come back (so far).
Let me know if this works for you.

CrazyPeter said:
Same problem here. Clearing the cache fixed the problem for a while, but it came back quite soon.
I think it's to do with playlists that have invalid references in them. I looked at the logcat to determine this. I have removed my playlists, and it doesn't seem to have come back (so far).
Let me know if this works for you.
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After I deleted my playlist, album listing was fine, but under artists, the app kept scrolling back to the top of the list on its own. What doesn't it want me to see?! Buggy!

Should have also said after removing playlists, also clear the cache in app settings, it will then scan everything and should eventually settle down.

[Q]

Hello!
I have a galaxy S2 (original ICS) and I want to be able to hide (exclude from scan) some music files from showing up in the music player. I looked for music apps that could do this but cant find any. For the pictures I use quickpic where you can choose which folders not to show. It seems really weird to me that there are no apps or an easy way to do this.
I know there is a .nomedia trick or whatever. But its seriously that difficult to have this built in in an app? There is no other way?
I googled and tried to find info but there doesnt seem to be a good music app that lets u do it. Im willing to pay for an app too so it doesnt have to be free.
Hope someone can help.

daniel.pouragheli said:
Hello!
I have a galaxy S2 (original ICS) and I want to be able to hide (exclude from scan) some music files from showing up in the music player. I looked for music apps that could do this but cant find any. For the pictures I use quickpic where you can choose which folders not to show. It seems really weird to me that there are no apps or an easy way to do this.
I know there is a .nomedia trick or whatever. But its seriously that difficult to have this built in in an app? There is no other way?
I googled and tried to find info but there doesnt seem to be a good music app that lets u do it. Im willing to pay for an app too so it doesnt have to be free.
Hope someone can help.
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Power Amp Does this. Over all best music player on the market. Paid? Yes but well worth it.

Ok I downloaded it but I didn't find that function. Where in the settings is it. I must have missed something.

daniel.pouragheli said:
Ok I downloaded it but I didn't find that function. Where in the settings is it. I must have missed something.
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It maybe a paid version only option
The option is under music folders