I've experienced this problem for very long time, that is, when I ran Gallery then switch to another application, soon Media process would force-close. Or after I booted the phone, in about few minutes, Media would force-close.
This problem became very annoying after I realized that when I watch a video in Gallery, Media forces close but video's still playing, if I close Media, then video stops playing and Gallery quits.
So I tried many ways.. clear data, re-installing other roms, formatting SD card, but all those ways didn't help.
Until yesterday, I formatted SD card again and discovered that Media no longer forces close. This time I didn't format it using Windows' format application, but instead, I used Android's format function.
So maybe this is the solution : to format SD card using Android's format function instead of using Windows'.
Update 11 Aug:
Sorry.. after two days no fc, today again I got FC, so that means formatting SD card by Android does some help but not much.
I used a wallpaper stored in SD card, now I use a system wallpaper and so far haven't got any more FCs, so hopefully this time it fixes.
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Hi,
Lately i have been facing problem with audio manager in manila.
When i play a song in manila, the music is played for few seconds and then it stops. If i hit the play button again, it plays from the start and again stops in few seconds. But this problem is not happening in Windows media player.
I tried multiple memory cards and changed different ROMs. Also I have formatted the memory card withd efault allocation size and also checked the card for errors. Used the SD tune up as well. There seems to be no issue with the memory card.
Currently running Xanny's 2.0 Rom. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Amuthan
I'm getting the same thing. Tried playing some music earlier (think I have Maryone 23051) and the music stops playing after about 1.5 minutes. Pressing pause the first time does nothing then again and it starts laying from the beginning.
Can some one throw some light on this problem please?
It plays fine in Media Player so must be a problem with the new manilla or the newer 6.5 builds. I'll try another to see if there is any difference.
Also:
Tried searching but didn't find anything useful. One person said to format the card due to fragmentation but tracks that used to play fine when I first had the phone (and will be no more fragmented than they were then) now pause trying to play them
Same problem here. It started since I am using WM 6.5 (and at the same time Manilla 2.5).
I have not found any fix since.
Same problem. Checked and freshly formatted SanDisk 8gb SD card in my TD2. Mediaplayer works fine, manila player stopps playing after few seconds. In fact, it seems to be an manila problem...
It seems whenever an energy saving event occurs, the player stopps responding. if you - while playing a song - tapping the screen, checking mails, running the browser etc. the songs will play until you stop working. Perhaps it is a feature ;-)
Any usefull idea would be helpfull...
Greets!
I wouldn't say for definate that its a manila issue, as plenty of users, myself included use wm6.5 manila 2.5 roms and have not got this issue.
Leaving in the sd card in during flashing process has been known to currupt or damage the card which may be the reason for your failure.
Only solution I've heard of so far is to format your card. If you can, try backing up your card first
Fallen Spartan said:
I wouldn't say for definate that its a manila issue, as plenty of users, myself included use wm6.5 manila 2.5 roms and have not got this issue.
Leaving in the sd card in during flashing process has been known to currupt or damage the card which may be the reason for your failure.
Only solution I've heard of so far is to format your card. If you can, try backing up your card first
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OK, if i remove the SD card, the player works fine using only internal memory.
BUT: the storage card is definitly not damaged (freshly formatted) and hasn't been in the device while flashing. Still works fine in a lot of other devices.
AND: as i tryed any other SD-Card here i got the same issue
AND!!! : why does the player plays every song from SD card without breaks while tapping the screen?
Any further idea? --- greetings
solution
Quite simple:
I found a folder in my music database with write protection enabled. I changed the folder and disabled write prtection and the manila audio player is working without any problems now!
Manila player needs wirite permissions to the audio folders, because manila puts a hidden coverart file in each audio folder: hTC_AM_AlbumArt.jpg
I think, in fact - this is a (small) bug in the latest 6.5 ROM build. Can't remember to this behavior in 6.1 build...
Hope it helps... Regards
Just been doing a bit of fiddling and realised TF3D doesn't like playing certain albums I have on my SD card. Tried formatting the card with different setttings copying across a couple of albums each time and had no luck. One time I only copied one album across and it played perfectly.
All the Lame encoded files seem to work fine but have some others which stop the music playing even if they are not being played themselves, but are just on the card.
The other thing I noticed when the music kept stopping was the updating spinny arrows kept appearing while the music started playing. Not doing it now I've copied over just lame encoded files and all is playing well.
So like i said in the title, i used the app SDRescan to force my phone to rescan media because i found that the gallery app was not automatically refreshing when i added new media to the phone.
I ran the app and a couple minutes later it finishes. Turns out it deleted ALL the phones videos (luckily no pictures). But the problem im having now is that the gallery app is not detecting any media on my phone. There are still pictures, and i readded a lot of my videos back, but the app is showing no media on the phone
I force closed the app, cleared it's data etc. I even formated my sd and put the files back on. Still it shows i have no media.
I thought about taking a new picture with the camera to see what would happen then, and guess what, now it shows i have 1 picture in the gallery. Is there a way i can get the gallery to see the other 1000 pictures i have taken? And all my videos?
edit: i downloaded the stock android gallery app but its the same in that app too. So it's not just HTC's app. Somehow android isnt recognizing my old media.
anybody? this is really killing me.
edit: did a factory reset and the problem persists What's have i done!
hmmmm this is an interesting one. ive had this before but i couldnt remember how i fixed it ...
what ROM are you using, or are you stock ?
SDRescan did nothing to your phone. Your are having problems with the stock Android Media Scanner in your phone. SDRescan does nothing else but notifies the Media Scanner to do it's job on demand, instead of on-boot or SD card mount. That's all it does.
So in short you are having problems with Android Media Scanner, try to look around in this area. I seen few reports on internet when media scanner deleted some files.
fkofilee said:
hmmmm this is an interesting one. ive had this before but i couldnt remember how i fixed it ...
what ROM are you using, or are you stock ?
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On stock... I really hope u remember, nothing I try is helping. Even after a factory reset which is weird
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SDRescan did nothing to your phone. Your are having problems with the stock Android Media Scanner in your phone. SDRescan does nothing else but notifies the Media Scanner to do it's job on demand, instead of on-boot or SD card mount. That's all it does.
So in short you are having problems with Android Media Scanner, try to look around in this area. I seen few reports on internet when media scanner deleted some files.
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I figured the problem lies with the media scanner so I went into Settings > Manage Applications > Media Storage > clear data... but nothing changes.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3692
Isn't this your problem ?
I did have a .nomedia folder on my phone with some videos in and those were deleted. But also the videos in my DCIM folder were deleted. However im over that, my problem is that media scanner isnt picking any media.
I thought i would try another microsd card i had in my sister's mp3 player, and believe it or not android picked up the media. So somehow i think this SDRescan app damaged my sc card..
No, it didn't. Media Scanner has separate databases for each and every SD card. So it's the database for your old SD card which doesn't work, when you put in a new card a new indexing database was created for the ID of your new SD card.
This has happened to me a few times, all i do is find the file using "ES File Explorer" then select to open it with the default video player and it gets added to my library of videos
It's easy to do for a couple of vids, but not really practical if you've got like 10+
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No, it didn't. Media Scanner has separate databases for each and every SD card. So it's the database for your old SD card which doesn't work, when you put in a new card a new indexing database was created for the ID of your new SD card.
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i see. but this index, is it not stored on the phone memory? because a factory reset still hasn't solved the problem. I also formatted the sd card, so shouldn't the phone recognize it as a new memory card then?
sromer said:
This has happened to me a few times, all i do is find the file using "ES File Explorer" then select to open it with the default video player and it gets added to my library of videos
It's easy to do for a couple of vids, but not really practical if you've got like 10+
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I tried that wil ES File explorer, and other explorers i have and it doesnt work for me.
It should. You don't have by any chance .nomedia file in root folder of the SD card, right ?
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It should. You don't have by any chance .nomedia file in root folder of the SD card, right ?
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I do. I'll try delete it and see if that helps
Edit: nope
You deleted it and what did you do next ? Did you started SDRescan or rebooted your phone ? Until the Media Scanner kicks in, there won't be any change.
The point is :
1) if you had a folder with data and then added the .nomedia file to it, then unfortunately thanks to the inner workings of the media scanner the file gets deleted instead of only removing the reference from database
2) the card will get indexed again only at boot, SD card insertion or when you execute apps like SDRescan which start the Media scanner manually.
yes! it works now!! thanks for all your help faugusztin!!
after i deleted the the .nomedia folder i did a restart and the problem persisted, but now (like two hours later) i just thought i would go and check the gallery app again and low and behold all my media appeared. Maybe the media scanner didnt finish or something idk. But im happy now
But i was under the impression that the .nomedia trick only blocks media from within that folder? Why was it blocking all my media?
Anyway thanks for all your help mate. really appreciated.
It does index, but it takes time.
It block media from that folder - and all subfolders. It is a sign which says "nothing to see there" - that includes the subfolders of that folder too. Since you had the file in root folder of the card, it didn't indexed anything.
I was too late...glad you got it sorted supreme.
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Don’t know what will end up being useful info so here goes. I had 1000 songs on my 32 GB sd card and was able to use the built in music player and MusiXmatch to play. Then I updated the MP3’s with embedded cover art and lyrics. Things were still good. Then I installed MXvideo, podcast addict, instagram. Then I copied about 2GB of 12 video files and was playing those with MXvideo. I changed quite a few settings in MXvideo and podcast addict.
Now I went back to MusicXmatch and Music player and my 1000 songs are not shown. They are still there in My files and if I click on them they play with the music player from the sd card. If I try to play a previously created playlist or recently listened to it tells me can’t play that audio type. If I copy a file from the sd card to phone it will be added to the library and play. If I try to go to a folder on the sd card from with in a music app it doesn’t seems to recognize that there is an sd card.
Steps taken
Reboot
Remove SD card, reinsert, reboot
Cleared all default apps that I thought had anything to do with audio
Uninstalled all recent apps
Thought it was something try to take over the playing of .mp3’s but they play fine if on phone
Stumped!
.nomedia file
Ok so I noticed a .nomedia file on the root of the sd card. Evidently, this stops all apps from scanning this or sub folders.
So I deleted it BUT this doesn’t clear the problem. I unmounted SD card, cleared cache, reboot, etc. trying to get the apps to rescan.
What I had to do was unmount, pull card, reboot without card and then insert.
Still don't know what app put that file there.
Hope this helps someone else someday.
Since the time I had installed CM 11 my SD card's media is not being displayed in app including Apollo, Gallery, MX Player and even on stock music app.. But I can view image files from QuickPic. I can view the media from other SD card in CM 11 and Stock but I can't view my media in other phones too! I tried formatting and repartitioning many times but in vain except sometimes after that I was able to view them for a little time. Please help me resolve this problem. TIA
I recently updated my XZ Premium to Android 9.0 and noticed that when I restart my phone, it would seem like the SD card only mounts after you unlock your phone. Media stored on either the internal or external storage would only appear in the media apps (Sony's Album, Music and Videos) app after it scans it for media which is kinda annoying if you have a large library. Furthermore, music on the play queue gets reset to only include those in the internal memory. This did not happen on Android 8.0
Is there any way to fix this or is this a known bug on Sony's firmware?
Happens to me too. I am using WallpaperChanger with the library on my SDCard and it takes a while after reboot to be able to load them.
xshunin said:
Happens to me too. I am using WallpaperChanger with the library on my SDCard and it takes a while after reboot to be able to load them.
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It seems to me every time the phone reboots it rebuilds the entire media storage on Android 9.0