Hey All,
I've got a ton of media files on my SD card that will all play using WMP, But for some reason when I try to add them to the WMP library it won't add them. When I use the update library feature it finds all the files, but when it says adding files to library it only adds the files saved on the device and not the sd card. When going to library and selecting storage card as source and then clicking on music or videos I get an error message that says "Windows Media, An unexpected error occurred". Does anybody know of o fix or has had this problem. Any help is appreciated.
I dont have this issue. one question is what size memory card. has it ever worked in the touch? does it work in any other device?
it may be a problem of the card.
Try moving the files to a subdirectory on the SD..eg.: /Storage Card/Music/*
Right now the files are in the my documents\my music folder on the storage card. I hadn't tried it with my old sd card because with the 512 card was large enough to bother. I can play all the files if I select them with open file, I can even play the whole folder if I select it. It even puts up the album art on the screen. It just won't let me add them to the library.
Thanks for everyones suggestions. I was able to fix it by deleting the MSMETADATA and the WMRDM folders from the storage card and this fixed it. I got the answer from sprintusers forum but the guy that posted it said he ound the fix here. So thanks to those on this forum also.
cruise350 said:
Thanks for everyones suggestions. I was able to fix it by deleting the MSMETADATA and the WMRDM folders from the storage card and this fixed it. I got the answer from sprintusers forum but the guy that posted it said he ound the fix here. So thanks to those on this forum also.
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Thanks. This has also been bugging me for a long time!
monadikimagapi said:
Thanks. This has also been bugging me for a long time!
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And me, great find
This may seem like a silly question, but once i've installed a cab file do i have to keep it in the program file folder on my internal storage or can i delete it to free up some memory?
Stevie18 said:
This may seem like a silly question, but once i've installed a cab file do i have to keep it in the program file folder on my internal storage or can i delete it to free up some memory?
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You can delete the CAB after install, there's an option in Advanced Config to do this automatically for you
Dave
Thanks for the quick reply. Appreciate it....
Or you can keep the .cabs in a file named apps, so when you flash you have all your favorite apps at hand.
Sergio PC said:
Or you can keep the .cabs in a file named apps, so when you flash you have all your favorite apps at hand.
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I'd also go for this one!
I keep mine on the internal storage so they are not robbing vital memory, but ZIP them in one file just to save space and tidy things up. Nice and easy to unzip if I ever flash the phone! (or the next time I do it, seems to be fortnightly at the mo).
Keep them. Best place for that is the internal storage. Sadly mine are in a folder called "Current" as I seem to be flashing on a regular basis (Swiftblades fault as he keeps updating his ROMS)
Oops, i've gone and deleted them all. But i've got them all on my pc anyhow. Prob put them back on my phone again then. I was just trying to free up some memory as i've only got around 20mb left. Not much considering i've only got 1 theme stored and a few additions on top.
Where does all the memory go to?
last 3 dax i have mesage - out of memory,try to uninstall some programs
in memory menager i see
sd card - free 6 giga
phone memory - almost completely full
but i didnt instal anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i have made soft reset,deleted all sms,mails and mms
pictures are on sd card
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp
tatek1325 said:
last 3 dax i have mesage - out of memory,try to uninstall some programs
in memory menager i see
sd card - free 6 giga
phone memory - almost completely full
but i didnt instal anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i have made soft reset,deleted all sms,mails and mms
pictures are on sd card
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp
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How full is the phone memory? Details...
Did you download something? Downloaded files usually goes to the root of the main memory.
search moving cache on here, that takes up a big chunk of memory...
arxx said:
How full is the phone memory? Details...
Did you download something? Downloaded files usually goes to the root of the main memory.
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no downloaded anything
device
total storage 181.60 mb
used storage 181.60 mb
free storage 0.00 mb
total program 336.97 mb
used program 140.63
free program 195.44 mb
paulking said:
search moving cache on here, that takes up a big chunk of memory...
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how , pls tell me
I've got the same problem with my son's phone it keeps on coming up with the message "your phone is running low on free storage space. delete old or unused items to create more space" when I look in file explorer/ windows/youtube its full of old files but will take for ever to delete them indavidualy does anyone know how to remove these old files as I can't access them when the phone is conected up to the pc, plus is it possible to change the cache so these files are saved to the memory card instead.
Please help as my son is driving me around the bend asking me to fix it !!!!!
Hard reset the phone to clear the storage.
Also check you don't have something like voice recorder activating in your pocket or something creating large files of nonsense filling the memory.
I've managed to delete all the old you tube files 525 of them but storage memory is still full
total 180.98mb
in use 177.89mb
free 3.09mb
so now I don't know whats using allthe memory
does any one have any idea whats wrong
cheers
caz3mc said:
I've got the same problem with my son's phone it keeps on coming up with the message "your phone is running low on free storage space. delete old or unused items to create more space" when I look in file explorer/ windows/youtube its full of old files but will take for ever to delete them indavidualy does anyone know how to remove these old files as I can't access them when the phone is conected up to the pc, plus is it possible to change the cache so these files are saved to the memory card instead.
Please help as my son is driving me around the bend asking me to fix it !!!!!
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youcan access them from your computer so long as you allow hidden and system files.(in win 7 open the phones windows folder, click alt, tools, folder options, then I think its the second tab, un tick hide protected files and the hidden files one, apply and they should appear.you MAY need to apply to all folders)
or, use resco explorer on your hd2, much than the built in one and will also allow you to choose to un hide system and hidden files.
as for multi select...in resco is a menu option for multi select.
Going to do a hard reset but can't keep on doing that every time it fills up it's only been 2 weeks since it was last reset.
Last month i have big problems with veeeeeeery big .thumbdata-xxxxxxxxxxx files which is automatically created in dcim/.thumbnails folder, after instaling 4.2.1 rom.Often this files eat whole free spce in internal memory, and then strat corruption of files, slowdowns etc. I tried many solutions online, and finally found . BTW my .thumbdata are using over 2gb internal memory because i have lot of pictures on external sd. Not any more
Simple solution is to delete .thumbnails folder, and create .thumbnails file with filemanager, or any other file explorer. Remember, u must do it on phone, on PC u cant create file that begin with "."\
After that Android cant create folder with same name like file in same folder, and your DCIM folder remains perfectly clean.
Over a month of usage, i dont have any problem with this solution, everything work normally.
Bye and hope this will help to someone.
yes yes!
yes! thank you! I have the same f****** problem. It's incredible how much space that thing takes up.
But are you sure I can jus't delete it? won't that cause more problems down the road?
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After a month of usage, everything works, i can't guaratee, but there is currenly no better solution.
Great. Now my entire virtual SD Card has been wiped! Don't delete the storage directory in the root of your virtual SD Card (/storage/emulated/0/) or (/storage/emulated/legacy/). Watch out!
Now, I'm wondering if I can somehow gain access to the files if I recreate this folder. From what I remember, there were a number of nested folders within this "storage" directory.
Can someone give me the dir structure of your "storage" folder? Thanks!!
EDIT: This is how I did it. See post 6. Stay away from your "storage" folder while browsing your phones sd card over MTP at the computer!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44519212&postcount=6
I'm not sure if this is what you are asking for. If it is, then yay! If it isn't, please ignore.
/storage/emulated/0/
/storage/emulated/legacy/
/storage/sdcard0/
OneChaos said:
I'm not sure if this is what you are asking for. If it is, then yay! If it isn't, please ignore.
/storage/emulated/0/
/storage/emulated/legacy/
/storage/sdcard0/
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Hey thanks for that, but I'm pretty sure there was a folder called "storage" in /storage/emulated/0/ (or the same location /storage/emulated/legacy/).
So, what I'm looking for is what the folders are in *that* folder. And it should look something like the following:
/storage/emulated/0/storage/...... <---------- these are the folders I'm missing, and there most likely is a symlink in there. I think if I can just recreate that folder structure and recreate the right symlink there, then I might be able to get my photos back.
Thanks.
You're saying there is a "storage" folder in /storage/emulated/0 or /storage/emulated/legacy? Mine only comes with these 2 directory, and /storage/sdcard0 is a link to legacy.
Now you still have that 2 directory but can't find any of your files inside?
You deleted the storage when hooked up on your PC yes ?.
The storage folder your referring to only shows when browsing your folders via your PC so you could try recreating it via your PC again but I seriously think its gone mate. I accidentally deleted this folder too once but I always have regular backups on my pc.
NeXuS⁴
slymobi said:
You deleted the storage when hooked up on your PC yes ?.
The storage folder your referring to only shows when browsing your folders via your PC so you could try recreating it via your PC again but I seriously think its gone mate. I accidentally deleted this folder too once but I always have regular backups on my pc.
NeXuS⁴
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Yes!!! Thanks for this post! I was indeed cleaning up my "sd card" from the PC (over MTP). And, I noticed a storage folder at the root of the SD card. In fact, it's there right now! If I browse the contents of the SD card on the PC, there is a storage folder there with only an empty "emulated" folder in it. I've never noticed it there before, so I just deleted it. Suddenly, I couldn't access anything else on the sd card from the PC. I thought, that's weird. Sure enough, everything just vanished!!
WORD TO THE WISE: Stay away from that "storage" folder at the root of your SD Card when browsing its contents over MTP!!!!!!!!
why not just do a factory image flash? userdata.img should contain all the folders and locations you need to restore it properly.
hp420 said:
why not just do a factory image flash? userdata.img should contain all the folders and locations you need to restore it properly.
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Oh, there ins't a problem anymore. I just thought that the "missing" symlinks had something to do with my wiped sd card. But, it turns out that the missing symlinks aren't shown in the default CM file browser, only in other file browsers. They were there all along.
The kernel of the story has been solved as I now know how I wiped my sd card.
floepie said:
Great. Now my entire virtual SD Card has been wiped! Don't delete the storage directory in the root of your virtual SD Card (/storage/emulated/0/) or (/storage/emulated/legacy/). Watch out!
Now, I'm wondering if I can somehow gain access to the files if I recreate this folder. From what I remember, there were a number of nested folders within this "storage" directory.
Can someone give me the dir structure of your "storage" folder? Thanks!!
EDIT: This is how I did it. See post 6. Stay away from your "storage" folder while browsing your phones sd card over MTP at the computer!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44519212&postcount=6
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There is no way to get the files back, I deleted it once when connected to PC because I didn't recognized the folder and it was empty, so I deleted it. Then I tried for a week in every forum to found an answer, but there is none.
reflashing your current rom or any other rom would have brought everything back to how it should be. a deleted my whole system once, then just relashed my current rom at the time, and all came back.
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There is no way to get the files back, I deleted it once when connected to PC because I didn't recognized the folder and it was empty, so I deleted it. Then I tried for a week in every forum to found an answer, but there is none.
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Oh, I got most, if not all my photos back. There is a great link which shows you how to transfer your entire userdata partition to your hard drive and search for recoverable files. Alternatively, you can also use the app diskdigger and send your pics to your PC using coreFTP or other FTP server. Both methods recovered about the same number of photos. So, yeah, a reasonably good ending.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
simms22 said:
reflashing your current rom or any other rom would have brought everything back to how it should be. a deleted my whole system once, then just relashed my current rom at the time, and all came back.
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Not in my case. That's the first thing I did. I thought, it's just a symlink, right? Well, not really. It's not really a symlink on a different partition. Again, it is only created during an active MTP session and ONLY visible on the PC. And, as soon as you wipe these seemingly empty folders, all references to the files are lost, as the system begins to slowly re-populate the space, which is really at /data/media/0.
Galaxo60 said:
There is no way to get the files back, I deleted it once when connected to PC because I didn't recognized the folder and it was empty, so I deleted it. Then I tried for a week in every forum to found an answer, but there is none.
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I know it wouldn't bring your files back, but it would restructure your storage partition properly so you could start from scratch, rather than recreating all the folders manually.
hp420 said:
I know it wouldn't bring your files back, but it would restructure your storage partition properly so you could start from scratch, rather than recreating all the folders manually.
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? No one is doing anything manually. Did you intend to reply to me? The missing symlinks referred to earlier have nothing to do with it, as I discovered and reported a few posts ago. Again, there is a "storage" folder at the root of the SD card only visible at the PC when connected over the MTP protocol. When this folder is deleted, all is lost immediately, even by re-flashing a ROM. Hope that helps someone to avoid deleting it and consequently all their virtual sd card files.
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Oh, there ins't a problem anymore. I just thought that the "missing" symlinks had something to do with my wiped sd card. But, it turns out that the missing symlinks aren't shown in the default CM file browser, only in other file browsers. They were there all along.
The kernel of the story has been solved as I now know how I wiped my sd card.
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Hey how did you do it? Which third party file browser did you use? I have done the same thing..
Check /data/media/ those folders are just linked to /data/media/ anyways. All your stuff should be there unless if you deleted the entire data partition
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ninad911 said:
Hey how did you do it? Which third party file browser did you use? I have done the same thing..
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The problem is that if you are browsing the SD card contents from your computer (while the phone is connected), a folder appears there that otherwise is NOT present while browsing the card's contents from the phone, while the phone is NOT connected. I forgot which folder it is, but I believe it is called sdcard0 or some such at the root of the SD card. I have no idea why it appears, but if you delete it, you have deleted the entire contents of your SD card. And, yes, you have lost everything unless you are able to acquire a special tool to recover the contents, but if you have done so, don't do anything with your phone, as those contents will be overwritten by new files.
In so doing, I had originally thought that there were symlinks that were also deleted, but that wasn't the case. The symlinks were still present as viewable by ES File Explorer, but not with CM's file explorer. In any case, all my files were still lost, but I was indeed able to recover the majority.
Edit. I used Diskdigger in the Play store. And it worked pretty well. The other option is linked in this thread above.
floepie said:
Great. Now my entire virtual SD Card has been wiped! Don't delete the storage directory in the root of your virtual SD Card (/storage/emulated/0/) or (/storage/emulated/legacy/). Watch out!
Now, I'm wondering if I can somehow gain access to the files if I recreate this folder. From what I remember, there were a number of nested folders within this "storage" directory.
Can someone give me the dir structure of your "storage" folder? Thanks!!
EDIT: This is how I did it. See post 6. Stay away from your "storage" folder while browsing your phones sd card over MTP at the computer!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44519212&postcount=6
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Hey, were you able to recover the data on your phone after deleting that folder? Please let me know and also check your inbox please! Need your help
Aditya Srinidhi said:
Hey, were you able to recover the data on your phone after deleting that folder? Please let me know and also check your inbox please! Need your help
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Yes. First, either turn your phone off or do VERY little with it, as those files could be overwritten.
I had surprisingly good success with Diskdigger. It was able to recover most of my photos, although some were a bit "damaged", as in only half of the photo showing, and some other oddities. But, at least it was better than nothing. You will need root access for this sort of thing.
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Yes. First, either turn your phone off or do VERY little with it, as those files could be overwritten.
I had surprisingly good success with Diskdigger. It was able to recover most of my photos, although some were a bit "damaged", as in only half of the photo showing, and some other oddities. But, at least it was better than nothing. You will need root access for this sort of thing.
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Thanks a lot!!! Im using disk digger and I already see a lot of my images turning up
Just one other doubt, if I were to use the link to guide which you posted which allows to mount the VHD as a USB storage, does that allow me to recover other files too?