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Movie icon - like Avatar

I am trying to add a link (icon) to a movie (Transformers 2) to my home screen just like the Avatar movie has. I have decompiled the apk for avatar, replaced the icon with one of my own and changed all references to avatar within the files to reflect Transformers 2. I have also changes the path within the files to point to where the new movie is. When I go to compile it, everything goes well. When I go to install it on my phone, it gives me an error that it was not installed. Can anyone look at this and give me a pointer?
I have the icon labeled the same as the avatar logo, just because I didn't want to rename it within the file as I kept getting compiling errors when I did change it.

Just download a file explorer program long press on the home screen click shortcuts go to your file explorer and find transformers. That's what I did with my leftover card from the hd2
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Not sure what you're getting at. If I choose my file manager program all it does is link to it. I want to be able to have an icon on my screen that launches the file itself, just like it does avatar. Thanks for the reply though.

The logcat output should show the real error message, use adb logcat to view it. Did you resign the apk?
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Yes, I resigned it without error. Where can I find the logcat after a failed install?
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kinda off topic, but where is the avatar movie stored? i havnt been able to find it on the sdcard?

Its on the external sdcard in a folder called movie
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If you have astro installed. You can go to the widget menu, click shortcut, click astro, click the movie. That will add a shortcut directly to the movie on your desktop.
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Awesome, thanks youneek. Now if there is a way to change the icon. hmmmmm

eweo911 said:
Its on the external sdcard in a folder called movie
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ooh astro dosnt pick it up as a movie, so i alwlays looked over it >.<
thanks

hidding video..

hello guyz i just changed my xperia x10 with samsung galaxy s today i'm so happy so far with multi touch and 16 milliyons colour .
i just have a problem now need your help
i have a program i used for long time using for hide my some videos but now its not woking with SGS it says when its inside my external sd card how do i fix this?

Delete the porn and you'll no longer worry about hiding it.

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Delete the porn and you'll no longer worry about hiding it.
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LOLZ funny but how about telling me how to fix it.?

Just name your folder with dot (.) at 1st letter and it will no longer get visible in gallery
For example (.movies)
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I use the app vaulty free. Awesome. It stores all pics and vids secures it with a password
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You can also copy a file called ".nomedia" in every folder that you dont want to be scanned.
Works perfect!

Donald Nice said:
You can also copy a file called ".nomedia" in every folder that you dont want to be scanned.
Works perfect!
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.nomedia works for the folder and sub-folder level.
so you can have a folder "myporn" with .nomedia
under "myporn" you can have image, video, audio, which the media scanning will skip and it won't appear in Gallery, and video player

This thread = WIN

just send your videos of your wife/gf to me and i will hide them

My problem is , i use the apps calls videovault a it only hides the video when its inside internal sd card but when i put in externat sd card then it says faild plz try again later , how can i fix this

lgkahn said:
just send your videos of your wife/gf to me and i will hide them
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i could answer u here in the way u deserve it but i will get banned so i won't..

Why dont you have a seperate folder for all your porns, and in that folder create a folder call .nomedia with a dot like that. It wont show in up in your gallery
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okpc said:
Why dont you have a seperate folder for all your porns, and in that folder create a folder call .nomedia with a dot like that. It wont show in up in your gallery
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wth is wrong with all u ppl why u ppl mind goes to porn when somebody ask this kind of question?
and thanx for replying....

Because why would you hide anything other then porn or videos that are illegal
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whoa! u guys are sick!
well i hide my videos too...no not porn but you see i dont want for my friends to see the family videos i shoot (yea due to privacy reasons ofcourse!) and yea some Katy Perry ones from my family(they r not porn but weird ) so what i do is put them all together in a folder and put a .nomedia file in it too(It prevents the media scanner from scanning it) Hope it helps

80% of mans hiding something will be always porn.. same as on my phone
if you do not agree.. you are weird then

barakoas said:
80% of mans hiding something will be always porn.. same as on my phone
if you do not agree.. you are weird then
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hehe...agreed! (on me being weird )
btw on PORN why not keep a porn SD card....insert....whack off...then get back to normal sd card hehe

this thread is getting funnier.....hahah...btw if you do have porn in your phone where will you watch it??? in the office @ class???.....not work for me....watch it in my pc/lap top is better with a bigger screen.....but anybody do something for reason right!!!!......hahaha....btw thanx for the information...it is new for me with the (dot)file....never know bout it!

barakoas said:
Just name your folder with dot (.) at 1st letter and it will no longer get visible in gallery
For example (.movies)
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I did this, by accident, it works and you save one more app running...

You can try whit app which name is ''App Protector ''.. Just mark Galery, Video Player(or messages) and use you'r password or lock pattern to open it...

Gallery 3d settings?

Is there any way to disable gallery 3d from displaying my Picassa pictures?
Thanks in advance.
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Bump?
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Nobody has any ideas at all?
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Don't sync with picasa
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my95z34 said:
Is there any way to disable gallery 3d from displaying my Picassa pictures?
Thanks in advance.
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Settings ->Sync -> you @ Gmail -> Clear check picasa...

I know you're asking about Picasa sync issues, I don't know if they are saved on your sdcard but this may help:
Drop a .nomedia file in a folder and all media files become invisible to the gallery..
A .nomedia file is just an empty text file saved with no name and the extension .nomedia
You can make the file yourself, or just copy one of the many that are already on your card and paste the copy in whatever folder you want hidden from the gallery.
There was a bug last year that caused previously indexed media to be deleted if they were subsequently hidden. I'm pretty certain it's been fixed but you might want to test on a file you don't mind losing before you wipe out your entire porn collection
edit: I'm running CM7rc0 and it appears the bug has been fixed. It's an old bug, I would guess late versions of 2.2 are fixed also. I just tried this on some junk files, rebooted and they are still on my card but not in my gallery

jsergel3 said:
Settings ->Sync -> you @ Gmail -> Clear check picasa...
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Amazing. Exactly what I needed. I never even thought to look there.
Thanks a lot!
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Gallery

Anyone have any idea how to keep Album and Ebook Covers from showing up in the gallery. Want it to be just my photos etc from cam and downloads but they all show up there in all different folders?

Find where those pictures are stored. Go in that folder and make a new folder call .nomedia

Thanks
baseballfanz said:
Find where those pictures are stored. Go in that folder and make a new folder call .nomedia
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Worked really well also for Music folder with all album covers etc, Ebooks etc

norm883 said:
Anyone have any idea how to keep Album and Ebook Covers from showing up in the gallery. Want it to be just my photos etc from cam and downloads but they all show up there in all different folders?
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Just touch and hold the "offending" file and an option menu will pop up where you can select "Exclude" - done.

ziffos said:
Just touch and hold the "offending" file and an option menu will pop up where you can select "Exclude" - done.
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in what program?
i tried in Gallery but not getting that option..
I went in to file explorer too and no option there..
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I use a great little free app called quickpic which allows you to chose which folders are listed and it loads up large galleries nice and quick.
Jason.
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personally i find the default Gallery app pretty rubbish, it only refreshes content on a reboot for example.
i try and avoid using it as much as possible.

Jisonga said:
I use a great little free app called quickpic which allows you to chose which folders are listed and it loads up large galleries nice and quick.
Jason.
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Yes, thats a nice little one.. I just loaded it and it has the exclude in it..
also allows you to backup to the root directry that the offending files are hanging out under..
i.e Books\nonfiction\files.. thus no need to do it individually..
it also works in well with the Picture framer I am using as a widget on one of my home screens..
where I have setup client files for previews.. now I think I just about got the perfect setup for it as a portable
casestudy showcase..so to recap on that..
ESfile explorer - to setup directory links as folders on a home screen
Picture framer to allow 4 large pictures on any one home screen - thus a quick tap takes you in to that themed directry
Quickpic - to run as the main viewer and slideshow engine..

dgcruzing said:
in what program?
i tried in Gallery but not getting that option..
I went in to file explorer too and no option there..
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Very sorry but forgot to tell you that I was using Quickpic rather than Gallery.
Quickpic is excellent.

stop music samples showing in google music

ok yeah so as title says im using a large amount of music samples for music creating apps on my nexus 7, now when i go to google music all the samples show up as tracks, ive moved the "samples" folder outside of "music" but still they show.
anyone know how i can set THAT folder of samples not to appear in google music?

Create a new blank file in the folder you want to be ignored by Google's media scanner named .nomedia I believe. I may have the exact name incorrect...
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gk1984 said:
Create a new blank file in the folder you want to be ignored by Google's media scanner named .nomedia I believe. I may have the exact name incorrect...
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srry can i have a little more explanation there mate, im to sure what you mean, thanx for reply

chismay said:
srry can i have a little more explanation there mate, im to sure what you mean, thanx for reply
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Either in a file explorer or with the device connected to the computer, navigate to the folder that contains the files you don't want it to see. Then create a blank file (with no file extension) and simply call it .nomedia
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done but no change?

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done but no change?
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You rebooted, right? You might have to wipe the app's data also, because this only prevents it from finding it when it scans for new files. Or perhaps it just doesn't work with Play.
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korockinout13 said:
You rebooted, right? You might have to wipe the app's data also, because this only prevents it from finding it when it scans for new files. Or perhaps it just doesn't work with Play.
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will try now post back soon
force stopped, cleared data, and cache, rebooting
no change, as a note i did add a copy of .nomedia to every folder of samples and to the main folder holding "those" folders.,...and still no change. damnit lol