The files in the attachment are OGG file types ... and the hero does not recognize them .. how can we get these sounds compatible on the Hero?
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The files in the attachment are OGG file types ... and the hero does not recognize them .. how can we get these sounds compatible on the Hero?
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What do you mean, the Hero doesn't recognize them? Where did you copy them exactly? Do you mean they don't show up when you go to select your ringtone? If so, you need to make sure the ogg files are in /system/media/audio/ringtones/ (or /system/media/audio/notifications/ depending on what files you're dealing with.) You can put them there with
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adb push file.ogg /system/media/audio/ringtones/
or is it a different problem? If the ogg's are on your SD card, can you play them in the Music app? Are there any error messages you can share with us?
i placed the files in their necessary folders, ringers/alarms/notificatios
/sdcard/media/audio/alarms
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
if i open on sdcard and play on phone.. they play fine ... but when i go to a contact and go to select a ringtone .. the file is not showing ... but other ringtones i put in that folder show ....
iTouch24 said:
i placed the files in their necessary folders, ringers/alarms/notificatios
/sdcard/media/audio/alarms
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones
if i open on sdcard and play on phone.. they play fine ... but when i go to a contact and go to select a ringtone .. the file is not showing ... but other ringtones i put in that folder show ....
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I've got them up and running, did you already resolve this, itouch?
No, they still don't show up when I try I'm pick ringtones for someone yet they play when I am listening to music on my phone , so phone recognizes them at that time but not when o am looking for them. And I know if I pit a "." In front of folder name it will hide the music player from playing them but it also hides from everything on phone.
Odd, I put the same files in the same folders and it works fine here. The Audio Manager ignores those folders, so it shouldn't be necessary to hide them.
Regarding wallpapers, they should be placed in sdcard/media/resources/wallpapers
i am running fresh ROM .7 ... not sure if that has something to do with it
but my media player is playing the ogg files ... and they are not showing up when i want to pick one of them for ringtones.. it is like it is setup backwards...
from what u are saying is that the media player should be ignoring those files automatically and they should show up when i pick alarm/notification and ringtone
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would u believe what the problem was
my folders had capital letters ... Ringtones instead of ringtones...
dam i didnt know it was case sensitive ...
thanks guys for assisting on this ...
Haha, it's always the smallest little detail Glad you got it working.
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I have tried inserting my own file into the alerts/ringtone directory (Windows/rings) and they do not show up when I try to change it on my Sprint Touch Pro. I have tried wav, and wma as both file types are present in the directory. Any ideas?
monkeefied said:
I have tried inserting my own file into the alerts/ringtone directory (Windows/rings) and they do not show up when I try to change it on my Sprint Touch Pro. I have tried wav, and wma as both file types are present in the directory. Any ideas?
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Have you tried <My Documents\My Ringtones>? What about saving them as MP3? Stock ROM? How big are these files?
Copy them and then paste into the windows folder. Then they appear as the others do when you select a ringtone as normal. If you look through the windows folder you'll notice the factory ringtones.
terds said:
Copy them and then paste into the windows folder. Then they appear as the others do when you select a ringtone as normal. If you look through the windows folder you'll notice the factory ringtones.
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That's just because everything goes to <\Windows> during a ROM flash. PROVXML's should move some of the Factory rings to <\Windows\Rings>, but it depends on provider and ROM version. Most custom ROMS have the ringtone packages move the main ringtones to the Rings folder.
WM should search all the mentioned folders for Tones:
<\Windows>
<\Windows\Rings>
<\My Documents\My Ringtones>
<\Storage Card\My Documents\My Ringtones>
There might be more, but I know for sure these 4 places work.
Thanks for the replies guys. The provider is sprint on a stock rom. Tried all 4 locations to no avail, the file is only 153K. Haven't tried it as mp3 yet gonna have to convert it. I don't know what the deal is I didn't have any problems on my last phone (elf) but my last phone didn't have the rings folder it just dumped everything into the windows folder.
Ok mp3 worked, weird. Anywho.... thanks guys appreciate the input.
Hey all..
I have a few media players installed on my hero, but on the preinstalled one is there a way to get it to ignore a folder? I am currently learning spanish and have about 500 mp3's on the phone. It unfortunatly lists them all on the media player. I want to get it to ignore them so when i let it play my entire playlist on random it wont choose any of those.
is there a way? I have MixZing lite which does have an option to look at specific folders, but it wont intergrate with the lock screen (which is really very handy!). I tried adding the .nomedia onto the directory but to no avail....
I had the same problem, so far all I've done is hide the entire folder by stiking a '.' on the front of the folder e.g. hide the folder 'hidestuffinhere' by renaming it '.hidestuffinhere' using Astro or something.
The media player ignores everything under these folders:
\Media\Alarms
\Media\Ringtones
\Media\Notifications
However, if you move your spanish mp3s into these folders, they'll show up in alarms, ringtones or notifications.
sweet! that will solve my ringtones issue to then
just moved ringtones to the folder /media/ringtones but not showing up in the ringtone selection... should i do a reboot first?
Try a reboot,
If it doesn't work, backup your SD to your PC. Then format the SD card through the phone and recopy your data back.
That worked for me.
Cannot rename a folder starting with a "."
wheeljack said:
I had the same problem, so far all I've done is hide the entire folder by stiking a '.' on the front of the folder e.g. hide the folder 'hidestuffinhere' by renaming it '.hidestuffinhere' using Astro or something.
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Tried to do the same on my HTC pro but file explorer does not allow me to rename a folder with a name starting with a dot "." ??????
tbondexpert said:
Tried to do the same on my HTC pro but file explorer does not allow me to rename a folder with a name starting with a dot "." ??????
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you need to use linda file explorer or similar.
ricostuart said:
you need to use linda file explorer or similar.
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Yeah, I use Astro, and it works fine.
Yep just used Astro to change my download folder (where I download ringtones to on my sd card) anyways in the music player it used to show a load of unknown albums and list the weird ringtones I had downloaded.
Changed the folder through Astro .downloads and now the music player doesn't pick up those unwanted files.
The other alternative is:
Using notepad, create an empty file
save the file as .nomedia (do not save as .txt, but "All files")
add the file .nomedia to the folder you want to avoid showing media from
This works for video, photos and MP3. They can still be accessed using file explorer.
Hope that helps
I've 800/900 songs on my phone each has an attached "album art" image (due to the way I had to format them for my Sansa Fuse, each song in a folder with album art) any to get to the point of this thread, the gallery app shows everything, caches the lot, I don't want to see millions of pictures of the same thing, I just want to be albe to ignore these folders & just show my camera/wallpapers/whatever else I choose, not every image on my phone
Please tell me there is a way to do it, or point in the direction of an app that will perform the way I want it
Surely this has been raised before, but I can't find it mentioned
put a . (dot) at the start of the folder name and it tells the lynix based android system that it is a hidden folder and then it will not show in the gallery.
Cheers Lenny, but as I mentioned above, that would be 800/900 folders I'd have to edit, I'd prefer to select the folders I want to view and would the dot prevent my music apps from seeing the folders too?
I could go back and re format all my music just to have one album art image in, but I'd rather not & the extra folders would still show up
Apologies for the bad grammar & spelling the in the previous post the edit function here seems to be very aggressive
if your running windows there is a way to rename folders on mass, can't remember how though its been years since I did it.
Lennyuk said:
put a . (dot) at the start of the folder name and it tells the lynix based android system that it is a hidden folder and then it will not show in the gallery.
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This worked, as a test of the theory. I'd a folder named MP3 on my card containing them all, I moved that into the .mixzing folder (couldn't rename MP3 Folder to .MP3 windows won't let you), but the only problem with that is now there appears to be no music on my card, Gallery works perfect as predicted
The .mixzing folder is not selectable by MixZing.....
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This worked, as a test of the theory. I'd a folder named MP3 on my card containing them all, I moved that into the .mixzing folder (couldn't rename MP3 Folder to .MP3 windows won't let you), but the only problem with that is now there appears to be no music on my card, Gallery works perfect as predicted
The .mixzing folder is not selectable by MixZing.....
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ah never thought that far ahead. you can still play the files using something like astro though (as a not so perfect workaround for the time being).
Try adding a file in the directory you want ignored with the filename '.nomedia' The gallery will ignores these folders. (Works for music and videos too)
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Try adding a file in the directory you want ignored with the filename '.nomedia' The gallery will ignores these folders. (Works for music and videos too)
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Don't make this mistake.. his will simply delete the files!
In theory, that should work, but i experienced many problem with this .nomedia file:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3129
dingatron said:
Try adding a file in the directory you want ignored with the filename '.nomedia' The gallery will ignores these folders. (Works for music and videos too)
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profete162 said:
Don't make this mistake
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No, no I won't, 800/900 .nomedia files, which, no doubt, will hide the the mp3 file too
Try this so that your music files are not deleted:
1. Backup your folder that contains all the music and album art onto your pc.
2. in the PARENT directory of the 800/900 folders put a file in there called ".noimage" (without the quotes).
3. now your album art shouldn't show up in pictures, but your mp3's will come up in the player.
4. If it does delete the music/album art after a restart, then keep the .noimage file in the parent folder and then put your files back from the PC.
5. if you don't have the 800/900 files in a seperate parent folder then do so.
6. let me know how you get on. but please make sure you have backed up your media.
Put a new txt file into the folder, remaned it with Astro File manager, Windows won't let you do that, images still in Gallery, still no luck Bad4ss, thanks for trying
It didn't delete the music by the way
*ignore*
I will try something else.
profete162 said:
Don't make this mistake.. his will simply delete the files!
In theory, that should work, but i experienced many problem with this .nomedia file:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3129
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Please explain to me where it does delete the files when you place .nomedia?:
Code:
// ignore directories that contain a ".nomedia" file
if (pathRemaining >= 8 /* strlen(".nomedia") */ ) {
strcpy(fileSpot, ".nomedia");
if (access(path, F_OK) == 0) {
LOGD("found .nomedia, skipping directory\n");
return OK;
}
// restore path
fileSpot[0] = 0;
}
Please do so sir...
I've never really taken a look at the android source code but are you even sure that's the _ONLY_ code related to .nomedia in the entire project?
There is something that deletes those files and it does seem related to .nomedia according to all those reports.
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Please explain to me where it does delete the files when you place .nomedia?:
Please do so sir...
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Are you telling all the people complaining in Google code are liars?
I don't want you to have the same issue than me ( 1.2 Gb of beautiful holidays pictures that were lost with a .nomedia file in the same directory.
I tried to mount the SDCard on a mac and a PC and both of them showed an empty directory!
I succes to get back my pictures with some tools for getting back files on a formated disk!
I don't care about what you thinbk, i just told my story so that don't happen to other users! Feel free to say i'm a fool, but so.. i am not alone!
When a ".nomedia" file is added to a directory that has already been
scanned by the media scanner, any jpg and gif files in that directory and
all sub directories will be deleted.
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I just had the same experience with video files (*.mp4) deleted from a folder when I've
put the .nomedia file in it and the videos were already indexed by the Media Scanner.
So it seems this issue is general for all file types.
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Have the same issue using Android 1.6.
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This is serious. I have lost files I can't replace because of this. Managed to rescue
some through undelete. Please fix and force phone firmware providers to rush out the
fix imediately
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I too have noticed undesirable behaviour when using the .nomedia file. Indeed, as
metago.inc states, when images or movieclips are added after the .nomedia file, these
files do not get deleted.
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This is the most serious issue I have found on the Android platform and, in my
opinion, should be addressed immediately so people stop having important files
arbitrarily deleted by the OS.
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This is huge. What I don't understand is why the media scan even has code to delete
files.
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and more and more
profete162 said:
Are you telling all the people complaining in Google code are liars?
I don't want you to have the same issue than me ( 1.2 Gb of beautiful holidays pictures that were lost with a .nomedia file in the same directory.
I tried to mount the SDCard on a mac and a PC and both of them showed an empty directory!
I succes to get back my pictures with some tools for getting back files on a formated disk!
I don't care about what you thinbk, i just told my story so that don't happen to other users! Feel free to say i'm a fool, but so.. i am not alone!
and more and more
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WOW.. This is unbelievable.. Sorry for my assumption and possible misdirection, i have a HTC hero without problems and I checked the source so I thought no problem but after some more research it appears that the problem starts even at some other hero users..
us1111 said:
WOW.. This is unbelievable.. Sorry for my assumption and possible misdirection, i have a HTC hero without problems and I checked the source so I thought no problem but after some more research it appears that the problem starts even at some other hero users..
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The code you were looking for in your first post was this
The above is pretty standard. So how does this delete files off the SD card? When a row is deleted from the table there is a little piece of code that's run called a trigger. The trigger is defined earlier in this file
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Code:
db.execSQL("CREATE TRIGGER IF NOT EXISTS images_cleanup DELETE ON images " +
"BEGIN " +
"DELETE FROM thumbnails WHERE image_id = old._id;" +
"SELECT _DELETE_FILE(old._data);" +
"END");
i used a program named "Mp3tag" and included the albumart into the files. It will take some time but i found it the best soloution.
Is there any sucessful tweak or alternative to the 3D gallery?
Gallery Excluder.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063358
Where are these located on the system? I have a file on the SD card under media/notifications. I also put a .nomedia file in there so it wouldn't show up as a music file, but now it doesn't show up for my ringtones. What can I do? Thanks for the help.
420fan said:
Where are these located on the system? I have a file on the SD card under media/notifications. I also put a .nomedia file in there so it wouldn't show up as a music file, but now it doesn't show up for my ringtones. What can I do? Thanks for the help.
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Why not just let it be a music file. Then just long press the file inside the music player (not the new google music app) and select use as ringtone. You might also be able to download a ringtone application and use the folder that it places its files in and use it from there.
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Why not just let it be a music file. Then just long press the file inside the music player (not the new google music app) and select use as ringtone. You might also be able to download a ringtone application and use the folder that it places its files in and use it from there.
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I don't want to have my ringtones play when I am listening to my music. I know I can create a playlist, but then everytime I add new music, I have to redo the playlist. It looks like I can convert them all to ogg files and push them to the system/media/ringtones file. Didn't know if there was an easier way.
WARNING: you need root for this!
A common problem with ICS and JB Stock as well as ROMs is that the music isn't appearing in the music player.
This is caused due to presence of a file ".nomedia" in your music player folders.
Up until now, you either had to use inbuilt music player ES File Explorer or search and delete all .nomedia files and hope that you get lucky.
But searching your entire phone AND sdcard can take hours, especially if you've got a big (16/32 GB) sd-card.
Also, thousands of .nomedia files could turn up if you've got lots of media files (hello manga addicts ). I have Mango installed and had nearly 3 GB of manga on my phone (), thus the search (using SolidExplorer) hadn't finished even after 3 hours.
Well, don't worry!
I've got the quickest solution to your problem:
Connect phone to computer via USB cable, or better yet use sd-card reader to directly connect the sd-card.
Use your computer to search and delete all ".nomedia" files. It's much faster .
Re-mount sd-card on your phone.
Now use Root Explorer or any other file explorer with root access.
navigate to <root directory>/data/
delete the ".nomedia" file present over there.
Enjoy your music!
Press the THANKS button, I need it.
The problem isn't quite so simple. I don't have have .nomedia files anywhere in my music folders, and yet it doesn't scan them.
I too dont have .nomedia file anywhere ! I think the problem is in libs ?
Try this.
If you have the patience, install mixzing player. reboot your phone. then open mixzing first. go into folders, then the folder where you store your music, then wait. The names of the songs should change from filenames to the id3 information. Repeat for each folder, scrolling so that the info appears for each track; all while not actually playing anything. Now open your stock player, the tracks should have appeared. If they haven't, force stop the media scanner and try again.
Hit thanks if it helps !
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rahul93 said:
I too dont have .nomedia file anywhere ! I think the problem is in libs ?
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TjBurn said:
The problem isn't quite so simple. I don't have have .nomedia files anywhere in my music folders, and yet it doesn't scan them.
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Are you guys sure you checked the /data and /data/data files? Get your SD mounted on a pc and search for .nomedia files; include hidden files in your search.
Should work. Did for me AND a couple of my friends, all facing same problems and having different ROMs.
Just in case, tell me the names of the ROMs you people are using.
Will try to help.
Running a fresh install of PAC by nims11 and I have all my media visible. So no worries.
Did notice some corrupted jpgs , deleted them
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