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
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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
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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
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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
Hi,
my last phone was android 4.0.3. everything was perfect (and logical ). i had my internal space and my sd (wich was mounted to /sdcard). when i connected my phone to the pc i could acces my sdcard directly as it was... what a wonderful world
i know android changed the sd access because of security issues. i know the OPO got no sd.
but now i get crazy
OPO shows my something like "internal storage /storage/emulated/0" with an nice sd sign nearby. looked what was inside this, connected my phone as media device onto pc and found the same content. i thougt: well stange path but ok idc.
i placed my titaniumbackup and whatsapp folder there and placed a picture into pictures. then i installed whatsapp (it found my backup and restored it, but the backup folder was still in this place), changed background to the picture and set up everything else.
well, no it starts to get confusing after setting everything up i connected my phone onto pc a moment ago. and what did i saw then? the picture, movies, music,... folders all where gone. the only fodler left inside the whats app folder is media.
the picture i placed in pictures is still my background but cant find the filename with any (root) file brwoser. whatsapp still everything ok but where are the files and folder gone? how can i backup whatsapp in the future?
so im like:
- why are there at least 5 ways to go to the "internal storage" (/sdcard, /mnt/sdcard, /storage/emulated/0, /storage/emulated/legacy, /storage/sdcard0)? (only because diefferent devs using different pathes?)
- why, how and when got this place changed/folders deleted (from system?)?
am i maybe using something wrong? is there another way supposed to do it?
for me everything is really weird at the moment
Hopefully I just haven't made a big error...
The storage on my phone suddenly got really low so I looked at where it was all allocated and in Misc. there was almost 4GB taken up by semc-mtpbackuptransport, I ticked it to see if it was deletable and ended up deleting it by mistake. Is this an imperative file on my phone that I shouldn't have deleted? My phone was super slow for a while afterwards (may have just been due to deleting such a big file) but I just wanted to make sure my phone isn't going to die without it?
The storage warning which alerted me to this occurred when I was trying to do an Xperia Transfer from my IPhone via desktop. I don't know if it was coincidence and the file was already on my phone or if was created while I was attempting this transfer (which didn't work anyway).
Worried about doing anything with my phone as I don't know what that file I deleted was. Will I be ok without it?
It should be save to delete the file (or even the whole folder structure) as this indeed is/was written by the Xperia Transfer from your IPhone.
However, check whether all data has been restored to your new Xperia as desired (e.g. contacts, calendar entries, music, pictures... whatever else).
If so, go ahead. But even if not, you may start the transfer all over at any one point in time.
I was just putting some more music on my OnePlus One (using MTP on my pc) when I got slightly irritated of all the junk folders on it. I decided I should clean some of them.
After I finished copying my music I noticed my phone couldn't access the internal SD anymore. I did a reboot, same thing. It kind of shows my SD now, but it's almost empty...
When I attach it to my pc, I see the same (almost none) files.
Anyone an idea what I did wrong, and how to fix?
Many thanks in advance.
Have you tried using fastboot to go back to stock? You will lose all of your data if you do this, so hopefully you have a backup on your pc. It seems like something happened with your partitions when you were deleting stuff.
Hey folks,
Bit of a long story, short version is "Phone seems wiped, did I mess up? If not how is it possible?"
I've been passed a device with a report that it had an important video file on it that was accidentally deleted, and tasked with seeing if the file was recoverable. I was also later passed the only SD card (2gb) in the owner's possession.
Phone first. I followed instructions to root the device and rip an image of the data partition. This did mean uploading the root zip to the phone, a risk I undertook before discovering you can get a temporary root. I don't think that act accounts for what I found.
I used these two [1] [2] links for guidance. Ripping the data took many attempts but I did eventually get a 32gb-ish image down the wire. The image seemed to mostly be zeroes viewed in hex editor. Video-wise, recovery software found only operating system background videos of clouds. There didn't seem to be any user data on there at all. Recovery seemed to run very quickly with image stored on an SSD. As I say, even if I'd overwritten the video file header with the root zip, there'd have been other data on there, seems to me. Other photos. Other videos. Perhaps I ripped it wrong. Ripped on a windows machine. Is ripped even the right word, I'm not very good at this and a bit stressed
Did I get the wrong partition? Wouldn't be 32gb then though, right? I ripped mmcblk0 and mmcblk0p37 or whatever seemed to be mounted as the data partition, various times, and got similar results regardless of the resultant file size (i.e. stop half way through, data is mostly zeroes, get the whole image, it's mostly zeroes, all ripped images contain the OS video files).
Did rooting / flashing recovery wipe the data? Seems unlikely. I did start the phone by accident at one point (reboot from recovery seemed not to acknowledge my holding down the volume / power combo to get back into recovery) and OS claimed to be "upgrading all the apps" so I powered it down straight away. This is the terrifying moment for me, did something I do kick off an OS process that wiped the phone?
Owner claims never to have done a factory reset, and in any case that doesn't wipe data anyway right? Only file table. So data would still be there. But like I say they don't claim to have wiped phone, only accidentally deleted files. Even automatic OS upgrade would leave data intact. Flashing a mod would do it I guess but that's not happened.
SD card next, it's labelled "BLACKBERRY" and owner did have a bb once. They say the card was in the phone, I figured maybe phone was using sdcard instead of internal memory for user data but the card is essentially blank, it's like it has never been used since it was formatted by the blackberry. No data on it, just 6 folders. Recovery software finds literally nothing. Seems like a dead end. Ripped on a mac using dd.
Possible that the owner had another sdcard at some point but they cannot recall having one.
Also possible I ripped the data wrong? I used sudo dd to get it, then ran Disk Drill on the mounted .dmg, which is 2gb, the size of the sd card.
dd would not substitute zeroes for unallocated filetable areas, right?
So this leaves me with so many questions about how we got to this point with no data, but mainly I want to sanity check what I've done here so I can be more confident I haven't wiped the data I'm trying to recover myself. Then it'll be a case of digging deeper into what happened to this phone between the video being taken, the video being deleted, and the phone arriving in my hands.
Thanks in advance to anyone for literally any input!!
I've asked the owner to trawl their cloud drives for HTC backups, hopefully they had daily backup linked to one of their clouds. Otherwise, I guess I'm at a loss...
If the lost data cannot be scanned by the recovery tool, they has been overwritten. But fortunately, the owner to cloud drives for HTC has backup file.
Thanks bobii. What's confusing is that the data I retrieved seems mostly to be zeroes, which wouldn't be the case if it had been overwritten. Unless it was overwritten with zeroes, which as far as I know would only happen if you flashed a brand new OS or intentionally wiped the data partition, both processes I think that the owner would remember doing.