[Q] Best camera app for recording videos - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello.
I've been looking recently for one, good camera app, For shooting videos. And Im posting this thread here to ask for an advice /suggestions.
What I am looking for :
-I want to record videos directly to the specified directory. I want to store all videos on my mounted USB drive to my Nexus (most apps dont support it) MOST IMPORTANT!
-I want to record 1080p with the Best quality and framerate possible
-Good focus and manual adjustments, such as white balance.
-App can be either paid or free.
I am running newest CyanogenMod updated every day. If an app will require some custom system mods, thats not a big deal.

Emkarcinos said:
Hello.
I've been looking recently for one, good camera app, For shooting videos. And Im posting this thread here to ask for an advice /suggestions.
What I am looking for :
-I want to record videos directly to the specified directory. I want to store all videos on my mounted USB drive to my Nexus (most apps dont support it) MOST IMPORTANT!
-I want to record 1080p with the Best quality and framerate possible
-Good focus and manual adjustments, such as white balance.
-App can be either paid or free.
I am running newest CyanogenMod updated every day. If an app will require some custom system mods, thats not a big deal.
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Maybe Snap Camera HDR or L Camera can do the job

Omg, I really love the L camera, but wish I could change the save directory... Maybe there is a possibility to change it in the source and the compile it? Idk how to do it
Snap Camera is also awesome, plenty of options there, but I cant make it to work with my USB drive, It says that it is not connected...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.almalence.opencam

Allright, as I noticed, many great apps have some issues with saving to custom directories in Android L, I tried using many apps that allowed me to change the save location, but still, even If I choose any other location that the default one, it shows a message saying something like "save directory change is not avilable in Android 5" or something like this, or it just wont save where I want.
Any fix for that?
BTW I tried some camera apps, and Cinema FV-5 wins so far

then maybe you can try mount your OTG hdd to DCIM folder ?

RolF2 said:
then maybe you can try mount your OTG hdd to DCIM folder ?
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How can I do so? I tried using Stickmount, but It kept saying, that mounting services are currently busy.

maybe you can try symbolic links in stickmount :
Code:
(Pro) Create symbolic links
Create symbolic links in /mnt and /storage to the actual mounts in /sdcard/usbStorage/, handy with some file managers and some apps that auto-detect storage locations.

The problem is that stickmount does not want to work. Whenever I try to mount, it says that mounting services are busy, so I cant even use it.

So your hdd isn't mounted at all ? Then of course you can't write to it

Is is mounted, but it works just without the app, I can browse all my files on my OTG, delete, create, rename, read without any problems, and the OTG is mounted by system by itself, as it works in Lolipop without any 3rd party apps, but its in the directory root/storage/usbdisk.
And this directory is visible to all camera apps, but I cant make it to write files there. It says that this location is unwritable, or something other, as I said in one of my older posts there. My OTG cable is also fine, the OTG is fine aswell, so the problem imo is that camera apps dosent have permissions to access this directory.

So your disk is mounted as read only. NTFS file system maybe ?

RolF2 said:
So your disk is mounted as read only. NTFS file system maybe ?
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Nope, its FAT32.
Also, I can write things there via Root Explorer.
And the permissions are rwxrwx--x

bump
anyone?

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[Q] /sdcard2 and /usbdisk picture viewing.

I am a professional photographer, and I was wondering if there was anyway to have gallery (or any other photoviewing app) see /usbdisk to view pictues from.
I have tried dozens of apps and none quite work how i want them to. it would seem that gallery is capable of viewing pictues from the usbdisk. but mediascanner(in dev tools) will not scan /sdcard2 or /usbdisk.
any tips or tricks anyone else has learned about?
Personally I use es viewer with the preview option turned on. It allows you to see them as thumbnails, but it's not as nice an interface as the gallery. From there you can flip through them as slideshow or whatever.
I have yet to find an app that allows the native use of the gallery on sb2. Es viewer is just a workaround, but it does seem to work.
Hoplon said:
Personally I use es viewer with the preview option turned on. It allows you to see them as thumbnails, but it's not as nice an interface as the gallery. From there you can flip through them as slideshow or whatever.
I have yet to find an app that allows the native use of the gallery on sb2. Es viewer is just a workaround, but it does seem to work.
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Same problems on other devices with the gallery app. Android 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 are infamous for that app (and OEM derivatives) not working well for indexing and scanning storage correctly.
Even if you get it to work, removing the microsd for any reason will lose the index again and may not come back. Does not matter if new out of box, or old device.
People that get it to work reliably are very lucky.
I have found that if you format the sd2 card in the device from the settings menu prior to use it seems to index properly in the gallery app for both pictures and movies. I haven't figured out the usb card yet.
i also use es file explorer.. I'm guessing that seeing how your a photographer, your file will be quite large.. Keep in mind, it's going to take longer to view the file on the tablet, and obviously it doesn't support any RAW format (well not that i know of)
I'm still waiting for an app that will let me tether my canon to my tablet .. hehe
I haven't tried my usb hd, but I recall reading that it needs to be FAT32 in order for the tablet to see it.
-=Sent from my ViewSonic G Tablet (VEGAn) using Tapatalk=-
aaron19953 said:
i also use es file explorer.. I'm guessing that seeing how your a photographer, your file will be quite large.. Keep in mind, it's going to take longer to view the file on the tablet, and obviously it doesn't support any RAW format (well not that i know of)
I'm still waiting for an app that will let me tether my canon to my tablet .. hehe
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yeah it wont view the raws. but thats why my camera takes a raw+a large jpeg.
also i found out that astro does es file explorer one better here. if you use the astro picture viewer it works very well with even the large files.
i have read some articles and heard some people talking about an SD card that can transfer data via ad-hoc. so this might be something to look into.
all i know is with an ipad you have to tranfer the data onto the ipad before you can view it.
and now i can just throw the sd card in its reader and throw it in the usb drive and slideshow them.

Import new images only from camera to tablet?

Could probably be placed in a q&a section for general Android questions, but since I have the TF700 I'll ask here.
Is there a way to import only new (new as in not located in the 'Imported' directoy on the tablet) images (JPG) from a camera that is connected to the tablet through a USB-cable (I have a keyboard dock) without too much hassle?
As of now I've only used the gallery app that detects the camera (Nikon D3200 for my, if that should matter) as soon as I connect it and turn it on, but that app won't let me import only the new images, hence, for each day that goes by on my holiday and the number of images increases, the time it takes to import the pictures also increase greatly as I have to import them all every single time. Grouping the files by date works for browsing the new images, but it's not posible to import the groups of images for some stupid reason.
I can of course delete the pictures I've already imported from the camera's SD card, but I'd like to keep them there as a second copy until I get a better wifi-connection that can handle uploading all the images to dropbox/etc (only holiday now in an area with limited internet connection).
I've read people recommend using file explorers for copying the files manually (e.g. ESF), but I can't find in which dir the camera's SD card is mounted in the app (at the same time, the stock gallery app recognizes the camera, so there shouldn't be any problems with the communcation between the devices). If this is the way to go, where do I find the camera directory?
Or are there any apps out there that are made for this kind of problem that just haven't found yet?
EDIT:
Kinda solved the problem by taking out the SD card of the camera and insert it into the keyboard dock, and then use an app called QuickPic which discovered the new images only. But I think it still is interesting to know how I can do the same thing using the USB cable to transfer the files, so I assume the problem again is where the camera is mounted when connected with the USB (in the QuickPic settings I'm allowed to specify which directories that should be searched for files).
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[Bug Report] after update player can't see MicroSD card

My device is an Acer Iconia a700 running Android 4.1 stock and unrooted.
Yesterday MX player happily played my media files.
Today after an update of both player and codec to the most recent version it plays nothing.
The folder list is bare and empty except for ringtones and notifications.
The folder list includes /Removable (which is where all my media is kept because the onboard storage is full of boring work stuff)
But I have no video or audio available.
The card is mounted OK
I can see the files using the file manager and long-press and play with MX
But surely I should be able to expect the same behaviour as before this KitKat update ?
saywot said:
My device is an Acer Iconia a700 running Android 4.1 stock and unrooted.
Yesterday MX player happily played my media files.
Today after an update of both player and codec to the most recent version it plays nothing.
The folder list is bare and empty except for ringtones and notifications.
The folder list includes /Removable (which is where all my media is kept because the onboard storage is full of boring work stuff)
But I have no video or audio available.
The card is mounted OK
I can see the files using the file manager and long-press and play with MX
But surely I should be able to expect the same behaviour as before this KitKat update ?
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Kindly refresh the list. If you are still not getting immediately goto help | bug report. Save the log and upload here.
It will be helpful to resolve the issue.
ktsamy said:
Kindly refresh the list. If you are still not getting immediately goto help | bug report. Save the log and upload here.
It will be helpful to resolve the issue.
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I've refreshed quite a few times
- the folders/files on the card remain invisible.
I'll have a go at uploading a log when I've looked for alternative players.
This one was OK but I don't have time to fiddle around with it for too long to get it to work.
saywot said:
I've refreshed quite a few times
- the folders/files on the card remain invisible.
I'll have a go at uploading a log when I've looked for alternative players.
This one was OK but I don't have time to fiddle around with it for too long to get it to work.
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Saving & uploading the logs won't take much time. Log file will a size of few kb.
If you really want to get it resolved, kindly upload. It's upto you.
I can confirm this issue
Hi,
I can confirm this issue on my daughters Tesco Hudl also. The hudl is running android 4.2.2. Up to yesterday it was working perfectly all year long with mx player to play all her kids tv shows. However after the update which downloaded to the tablet yesterday, none of the content on the microsd is detected in the mx player. I have tried manually adding it but to no avail. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling to rule out the possibility of a corrupted update but still no luck. I am attaching the bug report here. Hopefully this can be resolved quickly since she uses it everyday.
Thanks,
Barry.
boneill81 said:
Hi,
I can confirm this issue on my daughters Tesco Hudl also. The hudl is running android 4.2.2. Up to yesterday it was working perfectly all year long with mx player to play all her kids tv shows. However after the update which downloaded to the tablet yesterday, none of the content on the microsd is detected in the mx player. I have tried manually adding it but to no avail. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling to rule out the possibility of a corrupted update but still no luck. I am attaching the bug report here. Hopefully this can be resolved quickly since she uses it everyday.
Thanks,
Barry.
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The log file doesn't contain any scan logs. Refresh the video list.
Once it completes Immediately open Help | Bug Report
Save the logs & upload
Maybe this will help someone.
ktsamy said:
The log file doesn't contain any scan logs. Refresh the video list.
Once it completes Immediately open Help | Bug Report
Save the logs & upload
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I have managed to get to the bottom of this issue on my device. The issue was in the new update of mx player. I uninstalled and re-installed and started with a fresh version to make sure I was getting an accurate representation of the problem. When I navigated to the settings regarding the folders included in the search, there were two listings active. The main local path and also another one "/removable". However when I checked the path of my microsd on the Hudl, the card is mounted as "/mnt/[sdcard or external, I dont have the device to hand right now to check the exact path name but it is in the mnt path]/". So the issue in this new version seems to have been that it did not automatically include/add the sdcard path to the listings in mx player. I had to manually search for the path and then add it. After this a refresh showed all my media. Perhaps the new version removed some default paths etc, since the old version automatically detected the sdcard everytime. Either way I hope this information helps someone else. Sorry I don't have the exact path to hand, but you get the idea anyway. Mx player is a top notch product and I am delighted it works well for my daughter again.
All the best,
Barry.
boneill81 said:
I have managed to get to the bottom of this issue on my device. The issue was in the new update of mx player. I uninstalled and re-installed and started with a fresh version to make sure I was getting an accurate representation of the problem. When I navigated to the settings regarding the folders included in the search, there were two listings active. The main local path and also another one "/removable". However when I checked the path of my microsd on the Hudl, the card is mounted as "/mnt/[sdcard or external, I dont have the device to hand right now to check the exact path name but it is in the mnt path]/". So the issue in this new version seems to have been that it did not automatically include/add the sdcard path to the listings in mx player. I had to manually search for the path and then add it. After this a refresh showed all my media. Perhaps the new version removed some default paths etc, since the old version automatically detected the sdcard everytime. Either way I hope this information helps someone else. Sorry I don't have the exact path to hand, but you get the idea anyway. Mx player is a top notch product and I am delighted it works well for my daughter again.
All the best,
Barry.
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The new logic was introduced in 1.7.32
If your primary sdcard (it may be internal or external) is mounted under /mnt/ then mx player will list /mnt/, if primary sdcard is mounted under /storage/emulated/ it will list /storage
It looks like your primary card is mounted under /storage & secondary card is mounted under /mnt
Even in this case, most of the vendors leave symbolic links.
The main issue is that, android doesn't use any standard for external Sd mount points. There is no api to determine the mount point too.
ktsamy said:
The new logic was introduced in 1.7.32
If your primary sdcard (it may be internal or external) is mounted under /mnt/ then mx player will list /mnt/, if primary sdcard is mounted under /storage/emulated/ it will list /storage
It looks like your primary card is mounted under /storage & secondary card is mounted under /mnt
Even in this case, most of the vendors leave symbolic links.
The main issue is that, android doesn't use any standard for external Sd mount points. There is no api to determine the mount point too.
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Thanks for the reply. The card with the content in question(the physical microsd that I put in and out of the slot) is definitely mounted under /mnt/. You are correct the initial paths shown were /storage/ and /removable/. I had to manually add the /mnt/ one in the new version. Just out of curiosity, is the new logic the root of the issue for me? Before the update at the weekend the previous version detected the microsd immediately when it was inserted and then refreshed but the new one would not until the /mnt/ path was added manually.
Cheers,
Barry.
boneill81 said:
Thanks for the reply. The card with the content in question(the physical microsd that I put in and out of the slot) is definitely mounted under /mnt/. You are correct the initial paths shown were /storage/ and /removable/. I had to manually add the /mnt/ one in the new version. Just out of curiosity, is the new logic the root of the issue for me? Before the update at the weekend the previous version detected the microsd immediately when it was inserted and then refreshed but the new one would not until the /mnt/ path was added manually.
Cheers,
Barry.
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If you have device with you, can you send the mount point list. If you don't know how to do, install fx explorer. From the options open file systems.
Can you post the screenshots (especially user storage area)
It will be helpful to diagnosis
ktsamy said:
If you have device with you, can you send the mount point list. If you don't know how to do, install fx explorer. From the options open file systems.
Can you post the screenshots (especially user storage area)
It will be helpful to diagnosis
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I don't have the device with me at work unfortunately but as soon as I get home I will take the screen shots and the info you requested from fx explorer and upload here for you. I'll be in touch again in a few hours. Thanks again for all the help.
Cheers,
Barry.
boneill81 said:
I don't have the device with me at work unfortunately but as soon as I get home I will take the screen shots and the info you requested from fx explorer and upload here for you. I'll be in touch again in a few hours. Thanks again for all the help.
Cheers,
Barry.
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Thanks.
There is no need of mx player screenshot.
Just take the screenshot of fx explore home & File systems (from options).
I think it will be enough.
boneill81 said:
I don't have the device with me at work unfortunately but as soon as I get home I will take the screen shots and the info you requested from fx explorer and upload here for you. I'll be in touch again in a few hours. Thanks again for all the help.
Cheers,
Barry.
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Would you try latest test version? This issue might be fixed.
https://sites.google.com/site/mxvpen/translation/test-build

LG 360 Cam Download to MicroSD ?

Hi,
I was on a vacation and used the LG 360 Cam heavily. I was so excited with the pictures & videos I took and tried to download all of them from the cam's microsd and not realize that they were actually downloaded and saved to my internal memory until I got the popup saying that my internal memory is full.
Have been trying to find any setting to change the path to my microsd instead of internal memory but couldn't find one. Already provided my feedback in app store to ask the same thing and also dropped an email to the author but received no response so far.
Is there any of this forum member can advise if we can change the path somehow? Thanks.
Have you tried manually moving the files with a file explorer like es file explorer?
Sent from my LG-H830 using XDA-Developers mobile app
I have scoured the camera settings in the app and haven't found the ability to save to the SD Card.
As mentioned above, I've been manually moving the to the SD Card using Astro, tough I have been meaning to test Redirect File Organizer to see if that might do it for me automatically.
QUIETLYloud said:
Have you tried manually moving the files with a file explorer like es file explorer?
Sent from my LG-H830 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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Moving the files manually is possible using stock gallery app but only after I downloaded to internal memory. I'm avoiding a condition where my internal memory is full so I can download directly to microsd in my phone.
vansmack said:
I have scoured the camera settings in the app and haven't found the ability to save to the SD Card.
As mentioned above, I've been manually moving the to the SD Card using Astro, tough I have been meaning to test Redirect File Organizer to see if that might do it for me automatically.
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Please let me know how it goes...
I receieved the reply on my review I left in 360 Cam Manager page in Play Store :
Developer Response said:
Please use default Gallery app. Downloaded app doesn't have SD card permission.
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swoofz said:
Please let me know how it goes...
I receieved the reply on my review I left in 360 Cam Manager page in Play Store :
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Yep - figured this out last night. No SD Card support for this app. I'll keep looking.
After leaving the review in playstore I also dropped an email to the developer and received a reply just now telling me that it will be supported in October.. let's see
the app just updated with some new stuff and it mentions something about other storage, and the cam also has an update but i still do not see sd options
it says support adoptable storage for download image/vids
swoofz said:
Hi,
I was on a vacation and used the LG 360 Cam heavily. I was so excited with the pictures & videos I took and tried to download all of them from the cam's microsd and not realize that they were actually downloaded and saved to my internal memory until I got the popup saying that my internal memory is full.
Have been trying to find any setting to change the path to my microsd instead of internal memory but couldn't find one. Already provided my feedback in app store to ask the same thing and also dropped an email to the author but received no response so far.
Is there any of this forum member can advise if we can change the path somehow? Thanks.
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I was able to edit the photos and videos from the 360 cam I have made a video about it here
https://youtu.be/wszkGqhooxE
Also Fyi there is a new firmware and app update which seems to have improved the quality of the images a bit as well as introducing an interval meter (timelapse) which is cool in 360 for that I used adobe premiere but the results where great
Hello,
can anyone tell me where the files from the 360 cam are stored in the internal Memory on my phone ?
I dont own the camera anymore but want to use the app an my phone for viewing purposes (and taking some screenshots as Little Planets)
So I need to know the excact path for Android to put my files there again
Thx in advance !
Ingo
fotoingo said:
Hello,
can anyone tell me where the files from the 360 cam are stored in the internal Memory on my phone ?
I dont own the camera anymore but want to use the app an my phone for viewing purposes (and taking some screenshots as Little Planets)
So I need to know the excact path for Android to put my files there again
Thx in advance !
Ingo
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The route is sdcard/DCIM/AccessoryCamera/360 CAM...
kanehun said:
The route is sdcard/DCIM/AccessoryCamera/360 CAM...
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Thank you :good:
I created this dir and put my files inside the /360 CAM directory but the files don´t appear in the app...
Is the app creating thumbnails or anything ? Can someone upload one thumbnail here for me ?
Thank you for your help !
It´s working now. Thank you. I had just a bad folder Name.
fotoingo said:
Thank you :good:
I created this dir and put my files inside the /360 CAM directory but the files don´t appear in the app...
Is the app creating thumbnails or anything ? Can someone upload one thumbnail here for me ?
Thank you for your help !
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Did it work

MTP / Media Storage issues –*need to deactivate indexing for one directory

Hi all,
I have a quite special issue. I hope someone here can help me or point me into the right direction.
Huawei P9 with Android 6.0, rooted.
For my purposes (*) I use a MicroSD card with 128MB capacity that contains a lot of small files (abt. 1.5 million files).
I wondered for weeks, why the phone becomes incredibly slow and hangs from time to time.
I learned that the Media Storage service could be responsible, because it tries to index all files and that can take a very long time if there are lots of files.
I deactivated Media Storage (using Titanium Backup) and BINGO! My phone is like new. Snappy, well usable.
Since I don't need MTP access to the phone, I thought it might be good now.
HOWEVER:
I just found out that ring tones don't work anymore, neither for phone ringing, nor for the alarm clock etc.
It seems that those apps also rely on the file index, that's gone now.
Without any ring or alarm tone, the phone is almost unusable again.
Do you know of any way to make the MTP / Mediastorage server ignore one directory when indexing? That would help, as I could simply let it ignore the directory on SD card that contains those 1.5 million files.
Or can you think of any other good solution for my problem?
Thank you so much!
Daniel
(*) to explain my usecase, why I need so many files on SD: I am a photographer, doing gigapixel panorama photography. For presenting my work to customers, I put my demo panoramic tours onto the SD card. These are HTML files with a data directory containing JPG tiles of the gigapixel panoramas. One panorama image consist of up to a few 100.000 files. A webserver running on the phone makes the panorama tours accessible to onboard browsers or, via WiFi hotspot, to other devices in the surrounding, e.g. a PC or tablet of the customer.
I considered solutions like an external storage (USB OTG) connected to the phone only when I present that stuff to the customer, or an entirely separate device (Pandora / Dragonbox Pyra or so) to host and serve the panorama tours, but I like to carry only one device, the small smart phone, to do it all. An extenal OSB OTG storage solution would almost fit my needs. But.. only almost, because a small storage is something that can get lost or stolen easily and that needs additional handling and provides additional points of failure, which I don't want to have in front of the customer.
Android is capable of doing it all, and my philosophy is, that a computer needs to adapt to my way of work than vice versa. This was the intention when Neumann and Zuse invented programmable computers. And I don't really want to eat humble pie here.
daniel908 said:
Hi all,
I have a quite special issue. I hope someone here can help me or point me into the right direction.
Huawei P9 with Android 6.0, rooted.
For my purposes (*) I use a MicroSD card with 128MB capacity that contains a lot of small files (abt. 1.5 million files).
I wondered for weeks, why the phone becomes incredibly slow and hangs from time to time.
I learned that the Media Storage service could be responsible, because it tries to index all files and that can take a very long time if there are lots of files.
I deactivated Media Storage (using Titanium Backup) and BINGO! My phone is like new. Snappy, well usable.
Since I don't need MTP access to the phone, I thought it might be good now.
HOWEVER:
I just found out that ring tones don't work anymore, neither for phone ringing, nor for the alarm clock etc.
It seems that those apps also rely on the file index, that's gone now.
Without any ring or alarm tone, the phone is almost unusable again.
Do you know of any way to make the MTP / Mediastorage server ignore one directory when indexing? That would help, as I could simply let it ignore the directory on SD card that contains those 1.5 million files.
Or can you think of any other good solution for my problem?
Thank you so much!
Daniel
(*) to explain my usecase, why I need so many files on SD: I am a photographer, doing gigapixel panorama photography. For presenting my work to customers, I put my demo panoramic tours onto the SD card. These are HTML files with a data directory containing JPG tiles of the gigapixel panoramas. One panorama image consist of up to a few 100.000 files. A webserver running on the phone makes the panorama tours accessible to onboard browsers or, via WiFi hotspot, to other devices in the surrounding, e.g. a PC or tablet of the customer.
I considered solutions like an external storage (USB OTG) connected to the phone only when I present that stuff to the customer, or an entirely separate device (Pandora / Dragonbox Pyra or so) to host and serve the panorama tours, but I like to carry only one device, the small smart phone, to do it all. An extenal OSB OTG storage solution would almost fit my needs. But.. only almost, because a small storage is something that can get lost or stolen easily and that needs additional handling and provides additional points of failure, which I don't want to have in front of the customer.
Android is capable of doing it all, and my philosophy is, that a computer needs to adapt to my way of work than vice versa. This was the intention when Neumann and Zuse invented programmable computers. And I don't really want to eat humble pie here.
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There's an Xposed module that can do exactly what you're asking. But I'm not sure how nicely the xposed framework will work with your Huawei device (assuming you're still stock). You can check it out if you feel its worth any hassle that might be involved. Here's the link to the forum and a screenshot of the app's description & capabilities
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xposed-xposed-media-scanner-optimizer-t2942609
GREAT! THANKS!
I didn't know that an XPosed module existed that could solve that problem.
An attempt to install XPosed a few months ago has failed.
But I retried today with the Wanam build (official one failed back then) and it worked well. Downloaded this module now and will see how it works.
Thank you so much!
Quick question:
The manual for the Media Scanner Optimizer module says
"Directories: If checked the media scanner will only scan directories that have a .scanMedia file (i.e. an empty file with a dot as first part of the name similar to the .noMedia file). Use a file explorer app to create this file. This file can be placed in a directory that may contain subdirectories. The subdirectories will be scanned as well. If unchecked all directories will be scanned (except for the ones containing a .noMedia file - this default behavior of the media scanner is not altered by the Xposed Media Scanner Optimizer)."
(source: http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.thomashofmann.xposed.mediascanneroptimizer)
Does that mean, in my case I coud simply have placed a .noMedia file in the directory with the millions of files and my problem would have been solved, even without XPosed?
Somewhere I read that the media storage service does NOT care about the .noMedia files, so I refused experimenting with this quite early in my research phase.
Do you have experiences, if this really works or not?
daniel908 said:
Quick question:
The manual for the Media Scanner Optimizer module says
"Directories: If checked the media scanner will only scan directories that have a .scanMedia file (i.e. an empty file with a dot as first part of the name similar to the .noMedia file). Use a file explorer app to create this file. This file can be placed in a directory that may contain subdirectories. The subdirectories will be scanned as well. If unchecked all directories will be scanned (except for the ones containing a .noMedia file - this default behavior of the media scanner is not altered by the Xposed Media Scanner Optimizer)."
(source: http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.thomashofmann.xposed.mediascanneroptimizer)
Does that mean, in my case I coud simply have placed a .noMedia file in the directory with the millions of files and my problem would have been solved, even without XPosed?
Somewhere I read that the media storage service does NOT care about the .noMedia files, so I refused experimenting with this quite early in my research phase.
Do you have experiences, if this really works or not?
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I initially thought about the .nomedia alternative. But I wasn't clear on if the 1.5 million files you have were actually media files. If they are then creating a .nomedia file should do the trick. If not, then you have the Xposed module
I personally have a few .nomedia files here and there on my SD card. And it does what its supposed to, ie; stops any media file that's present in those folders from showing up in the Gallery/music player.
So I guess its safe to assume that they weren't indexed either
Freewander10 said:
I initially thought about the .nomedia alternative. But I wasn't clear on if the 1.5 million files you have were actually media files. If they are then creating a .nomedia file should do the trick. If not, then you have the Xposed module
I personally have a few .nomedia files here and there on my SD card. And it does what its supposed to, ie; stops any media file that's present in those folders from showing up in the Gallery/music player.
So I guess its safe to assume that they weren't indexed either
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I thought the .nomedia trick would only work, if the Xposed module was there?
Or does it work by default, even on a non-rooted stock ROM?
Thise mana files that I have are almost all JPG files. There are a few .js and .xml files, too, that control how the .jpgs are rendered on the client's browser, also some video files that are embedded into the virtual tours, but about 99.5% of the files are .jpg.
daniel908 said:
I thought the .nomedia trick would only work, if the Xposed module was there?
Or does it work by default, even on a non-rooted stock ROM?
Thise mana files that I have are almost all JPG files. There are a few .js and .xml files, too, that control how the .jpgs are rendered on the client's browser, also some video files that are embedded into the virtual tours, but about 99.5% of the files are .jpg.
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It doesn't matter what type of files you have. If the folder has a .nomedia file, it will not be scanned for anything.
This is standard android behavior, and does not require xposed to be installed.

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