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
Using win 7. Rooted but sometimes things don't show up or show up properly.
For instance I have a EA game save folder in android data but when I bring it up on my computer it shows me a 4kb file (not a folder) and I can't copy the contents directly to my computer.
Could this be an issue with where the computer is looking or the way I am saving things to the phone?
I see there are multiple paths to storage in root explorer. Are all paths the exact same? Like legacy and sdcard0?
They are all symlinks to the same directory.
I know this may sound daft but try rebooting your phone then connecting again. Mtp has major bugs and what you are describing sounds like one of them.
Rebooting forces a rescan and usually sorts bugs like this
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Thanks man but already rebooted phone and computer.
Weird thing is (just an example) I deleted my titanium backup folder from my phone. And when I went to recoppy another tb folder to my phone from my computer it told me the folder already existed. Sure enough I clicked the folder and all the contents appeared to be inside even though I deleted them and did not show on my phone.
Crazy right? How is that possible?
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
Hello everyone. First of all: if this Thread doesn't fit in this forum, please move it to the correct one, thanks.
Yesterday I experienced a Problem with third party apps like MyPhoneExplorer. My device was connected to my PC via WiFi, and I wanted to move some files to the external storage of the U12. I got a message, that no third party app is allowed to move files into external storage.
Next thing I figured out was: no matter which file explorer I use, I am not able to move any files from the device to external storage. First I thought it was a problem with the SD card, but I tried another one, same result. Today I wondered about my notification sound. Usually I set on sound from external storage, but as I checked, i saw that the default notification sound is set again. I tried to change it inside of WhatsApp, but I got the message, that "adding custom notification sounds is not possible"...
Is anyone here experiencing the same "errors" as I do? But most important: why are these errors appearing? My device is running Stock Android 8, not rooted, no unlocked bootloader. Security Patch from 1. September 2018, and there are no Patch-Updates
Cheers
Stefan
Have you tied Solid Explorer app from the Play Store?
Sent from my HTC U12+ using XDA Labs
Hello Emji79.
I haven't tried the mentioned File Explorer, but I will give it a try later when I'm at home. I will report the result here.
But anyway, I am still curios with the notification sound thing.
I downloaded a random notification sound, saved it on internal storage and tried to set it as an application-self notification sound, but I still get the message that custom notification sounds cannot be used...
I don't have an answer for that.
Sent from my HTC U12+ using XDA Labs
Can be closed. For some reason my SD card is broken, and after formatting the other one everything works as expected.
Although it is resolved now, maybe this is relevant to someone. I found this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore to be really good and with lots of features
I have an S10e from tmobile with the new android 10 OS. I used to be able to copy an mp3 to the folder named"Notifications" in the internal memory. This would enable that mp3 to be listed as a notification sound choice. SInce my update this is no longer the case. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you
Sturtle
Hi, I always do exactly the same. I copied the notification sounds in the Notifications folder and the mp3's for ringtones in Music folder on internal memory. Restart the phone and they should be seen by your device.