Hi,
I bought a nexus 5 about a week back. I had a million music folders, so to organize it i put all in one folder. After that it never showed up in my music player, then all my high storage games like fifa14, MC4 stopped working, it said connect to wifi and download it again. I then checked my ES file Explorer, there was SDCard shortcut created in which all the folders were there and Nexus 5 has only Internal memory(No SDcard). I thought maybe it is virus, my antivirus said No issues and it detected only 3 apps.
What do you think is the problem? Should i format everything and put it again or can it be fixed ?
Thank you for your time.
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I'm trying to copy over a Top Gear episode - it's 1.59GB. Explorer crashes.
Just copied over a 188MB video and it's fine. Took about 15 seconds. What gives? BTW I'm copying to the internal 16GB of memory instead of the external SD card because the r/w speed is way faster. Last resort I'll copy over the 1.59GB file to my Class 2 MicroSD
Tried renaming the extension it from .mkv to .avi(extension that worked on the 188mb file) and still crashes.
There's 10GB left on the TF(so not a space issue)
--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATmmM2BawM
update:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDiP3ID3fjg
wow... it works when I connected it to one of my Windows 7 VMs in VMWare.
Furthermore: I just copied over a 2.05GB movie file from my collection on the host pc(wanted to see if a different large file would cause it to crash). So what's up with this Top Gear episode???? Windows never fails to amuse me...
Did you find a solution to the problem? I'm experiencing exactly the same problem on my Acer Iconia A500 tablet. Also with an Top Gear episode.
Could it have something to do with NTFS vs FAT32 file systems? I don't know what the TF uses, but I assume it is FAT32. Just a thought.
Gawd knows what makes Explorer crash when trying to transfer MKV to the GS2, but I solved it by using Directory Opus instead of Explorer. Everything is then fine.
I wish someone could explain it to me, though. It makes no sense!
you can also rename mkv to avi
This is a pretty involved question for here, but I need my 10 posts.
On the GT 7 plus (unrooted), I am having all kinds of issues trying to use the External SD card for mp3s. Music players, stock and aftermarket, all look in the /sdcard/Samsung/Music folder (not sdcard/music). So I used the Blackmoon File Browser to make a jump point from that folder to /sdcard/extstorages/sdcard and it worked (music fed into database, sorted, played in music player, and album art retrieved) Two days later, it lost the link and I only have a few of the Samsung music samples that came with the tab. All attempts to re-link have failed, including reinstalls of file browser, reformatting SD and reloading mp3s etc.
In Blackmoon and ES file browsers I am able to read and write to the external SD and even play the mp3s, but they will not feed into any music player. I think the trouble started when I installed Sky FM and noticed a DRM app running in Services. I uninstalled Sky FM and the DRM is gone, but still no music player linking to external SD.
I guess I could reset to factory defaults and lose all my GPS maps, and maybe still not fix it. Why does Samsung/Android make functions that should work right out of the box for the average, non-technical consumer SO problematic?
One thing Blackmoon shows me that may be a hint- all folders (system files) have a lock symbol except sdcard (internal sd) BUT within this, the extstorages folder (external SD card) is also locked.
I understand the 10 post rule, but I think this post needs to be escalated by the moderator out of this simple questions thread. And I'll bet there are plenty of other people having the same problem with the 7 plus and 7.7.
bump
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the best place for this to be posted would be in the General Section of the Galaxy Tab Forums( http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1427&order=desc)
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Replying to my own post with a fix for anyone with the same problem of music files on an external sd not being visible to music player(s).
I was about to restore factory defaults anyway, so I went into Settings/Applications/All/Media Storage and DELETED its data. After rebooting, the media scanner started right up and the music was visible in the music player(s) after about a 10 minute media scan (of 24 albums).
It seems that once the music player somehow lost its link to these files, the media scanner did not start up because it already had what it thought was legitimate data. Why it would not re-run after unmounting and remounting the sd card is beyond me. Maybe it did run but did not send a new pointer to the music player. But once I deleted the data the Media Storage section of Applications and rebooted the tablet with an sd card that obviously had media files on it, it must have triggered the media scanner to run again, and all was well.
The lock on the external sd card is another issue- it means you cannot write to the external sd card on this tablet with any application or market file browser, only with the Samsung supplied MyFiles file browser. There is a long thread on this issue here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458021 , but it leaves people with un-rooted machine with factory recovery (rather than CWM recovery) hanging.
On my Galaxy Core, since a few days ago, .nomedia files keep auto-forming on the external SD card, making it impossible for apps like play music or even the stock gallery app to detect any media . I delete them (the .nomedia files), format my sd card and put all my stuff back and it works for a few hours, then stops, and when i check it using root explorer, there's another .nomedia file. This is getting extremely annoying. There's hardly any point for me to even have an external sd card if I don't get to put my media on it. Does anyone know the solution to this? any help would be awesome. :crying:
I just bought a new SD card and have been transferring files from my old to the new one. It is mostly music, cca 30 gb from the old one and additional 10 to 15 from my pc. Anyway I transferred all of them and checked if they are there on my PC. IT said that i have some 20 gb fre of 64 gb. When I turned on the phone and went into Poweramp only a small amount of music was there. When I went to storage settings it said I only used 15 gb of my SD and going into file manager just showed folders but there were no files. I formatted the SD and copied all files again this time slowly copying 3-4 folders at a time and watching over the whole process and again the same thing. So I went over all those files and it turns out that those files are all my rips of cds that I did while I was still using iTunes and some of them with winamp. All torrented music was there. They are MPEG-4 audio files while torrents are mostly mp3. The thing all those same files still work on my old SD which is the same apart from capacity (class 10 32 gb). So it happens that files aren't transfered at all and not just that poweramp just doesn't recognize them and it worked fine for my old SD.
I'm using HTC One m8 on stock ROM android 5.0 with htc sense
thanks in advance for any insight you might have to fix this problem
I thought about that too but the thing is exactly the same files are missing twice while others are being copied.
Bump.
EDIT: just a small update, it's not about file type because some of the files that are mp3 are not copied while some mpeg-4 are. Anyway, all photos are transferred correctly but still audio files are sometimes copying and sometimes not
EDIT 2: so I just tried copying those songs that are missing once more for one album. they were copied and file manager said they are as big as they should be (around 10 mb) and poweramp recognize for their full running time. Bt only first few seconds of each song play and they are switched to the next one
Hi there
You'd be best served asking for help from the experts who own your device, here
[HELP THREAD] HTC One M8 - Ask any questions here!
Also please read carefully this guide about SD card issuess:
[GUIDE] The Generic SD Issue (READ FIRST)
Good luck
Hello guys..... I think my files (mostly video and audio files) are missing randomly......
For video files sometimes it shows 'cant play file' in mx player. When i try to copy that video file to computer it shows ' media pool empty'. And the file will be having 0 kb in size.
Some of the Audio files are missing....not like the case of above mentioned video files...... Its completely missing....not even a trace of files.... anybody experiencing the same?? Any help will be greatful....
Jerryxl said:
Hello guys..... I think my files (mostly video and audio files) are missing randomly......
For video files sometimes it shows 'cant play file' in mx player. When i try to copy that video file to computer it shows ' media pool empty'. And the file will be having 0 kb in size.
Some of the Audio files are missing....not like the case of above mentioned video files...... Its completely missing....not even a trace of files.... anybody experiencing the same?? Any help will be greatful....
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Files don't just "disappear"... either something deleted them, the media database is out of sync, or you have a storage problem.
Storage is the most common one... Do you have as SD card installed? Is it setup as adopted (internal) storage or portable (external) storage? Adopted storage is problematic at best in this devices, and the devices are pretty inconsistently finicky with SD cards, one device will work great with Sandisk cards and the next will cause the card to fail in days. To be honest, even Moto support personnel suggest never using adopted storage and to maintain online backups of media with apps like Google Photo (always good idea, even on devices that don't have storage problems). If these are just on internal storage of the device and you don't have an SD card, well, it is entirely possible that the internal storage chip is going bad, which is not replaceable or repairable... so yeah, there is that. TBH, a storage issue is the most likely cause.
Media database is out of sync... No way to tell for sure, but you can rebuild the database by going to Settings - Apps and tapping the 3 dot overflow menu and selecting Show System, then find Media Storage and External Storage apps and open them, then select Storage, and Clear Data on both, then reboot and let the device sit for a minimum of 5-10 minutes without using it after it is fully booted so the databases can rebuild automatically (if you have an adb connection monitoring the logcat, you can see when it finishes, but most likely you don't so just be patient). Then see if they "reappear" and are playable (meaning the databases were out of sync), or the icons are just gone now (meaning the files were deleted but the database hadn't caught up yet).
Something deleted them... Not sure how to troubleshoot this one, could have a rogue app or spyware, but that is EXTREMELY rare, much more uncommon than people believe.