My last two phones were both Samsungs (Galaxy Sii and GNex). Videos that I have took with those phones, which obviously worked when I transferred them to internal storage between the two, do not play on the RAZR M. Am I missing a codec or do I have them in the wrong folder or something? Or is there a reason those aren't working when I go through the gallery / videos and try to play them. I can see all the videos in the gallery (or at least it shows that something is there with a play button symbol in the middle) but nothing happens when I click them.
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Honest guys, I searched and searched here and all over the internet
I've had my HD2 for about 6 months now. I'm not up to your level of tweakiness with mobile phones
Just upgraded to the latest O2 ROM - 1.72.xxx ?
AND I realise posting new threads on here is faux pas in the extreme, but I spent hours searching and I have a headache plus maybe a small deathwish now!
Please, please, please can someone tell me the answers to;
1. What format do my music videos have to be in, on my storage card, to pick them up in the Photo's and Video's album? I've converted them to mp4 but still I'm told there are no videos found
2. My previous phone was a POS LG Renoir, however, compared to my HD2 it had one redeeming quality in that any photo I looked at I could select 'Send' and Bluetooth was an option. On my HD2 Facebook, Messages etc etc are the only options. Up until 6 months ago I used the bluetooth on my Renoir alot to send work photos. Is there anyway to enable this 'right click' function?
3. I signed up for this phone for 2 years, thinking it was the bees knees. Colleagues at work all waited for the HD2 Desire, and it looks fantastic. I'd ditch WinMo in a heartbeat to have Android - but after reading 100 pages of the 415 available....Is Android a viable option yet? (not taking away the extremely hard word the developers have put into it)
Sorry for asking such newbie questions but as I said originally I just can't find the answers on here (probably because of my ineptitude with using the search function)
Balders
Not sure if it helps but a work around for sending pics via bluetooth is using file explorer instead of album providing of course you know where your pics are and you know what the pics is called unless you have renamed them you can then press and hold the pic until menu pops up the first option is send via bluetooth
Not sure about the Vids did you save them to your storage card/video folder?
Just read up a little there is another option, you can use the pictures and video app which is in the multimedia folder in start menu this will show what pics you have on device or SD card with thumbnails again hold the pic and select bluetooth from pop up menu
Again regarding Vids I had several Vids which were stored in my DCM folder and did not show up in Album/Video I just moved them to the video folder on my SD card and now they show up so check that out
Thanks ozmoran for your reply
The bluetooth thing works a treat, can find pics by thumbnail and send by bluetooth. Much better than the work around I had figured using file explorer
Not as easy as having bluetooth being a send option from albums though (just in case anyone can make this work!!)
As for vids showing under albums, I did what you suggested, even reformatted the card. But unfortunately for me it still doesn't work. When I use the album 'search' bit the phone sees two files briefly (two music vids I've encoded to mp4) but then disappears them and says 'no photos or videos found'. I can browse to them normally and play them, in fact they look fantastic. Video I record on the phone shows up in Albums ok, so I guess it's a problem with the way I've encoded mine. I'll do a gspot comparison tomorrow and try to figure out where I'm going wrong
Really annoying though, I wanted the HD2 to be like an iPhone 4 but with the capability of making phone calls!! hahahaha!
Balders
oh well half the problem solved
I had the same prob with Avatar the file was too big I think I re encoded it and now I can watch it but only with media player and it wont show up in my vids in album either
You could always make a shortcut to your vids and put them on a quicklink I suppose
all depends how fast you want to find those vids eh
let me know how it goes
Ps this is much better than the other one and you know it ha ha
Is it possible to alter the thumbnails of the videos on the Tab?
my 3 year old uses it a lot (so obviously he can't read) and I have quite a few videos on there, I would like to alter the thumbnails to another part of the video like I do with the ones for his iPod (I'm trying to ween him of the iPod and onto the Tab, he already uses my Desire more than the iPod)
can anyone help with this?
for example he has 9 videos on there that are spin-offs to the Disney film "Cars" and they all start the same so the thumbnails for them all are the same and there's no filename their either (he can recognise numbers but there's nothing for him to see)
Any help with where the thumbnails are stored and how I can change them?
thanks
I have my each video stored in a folder with a thumbnail image of the movie poster. When I go to my gallery it shows the thumbnails
hpric said:
I have my each video stored in a folder with a thumbnail image of the movie poster. When I go to my gallery it shows the thumbnails
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What do you name the thumbnails?
Does it show them in the "video" app?
I just got my 10.1 two days ago. Transferred a few movie files (.mkv & .mp4) into it through MTP (cable connection). I am 100% sure those video files were already inside the tab storage, they even appear in my moboplayer list, none of them appear in my stock video app. It just shows empty. I had no trouble opening those video files via my files and then open through video app.
What should I do?
nobody cares to help?
The stock gallery sometimes needs a reboot before it picks up new video and pictures.
Try using another gallery app like QuickPic, it's faster and has much more functionality than the stock app anyways.
I don't know what happened for this recent google play update, after that, the personal videos tab disappeared, i have to select certain button to select 'personal videos' to see the videos on the nexus 7. Even worse, all the file name disappeared as well, for me to watch those TV series, i have no clue about which one is 1st episode, which one is 2nd since i put all episodes under same folder. Pls. help. I want my old version good play video back!:crying:
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I don't know what happened for this recent google play update, after that, the personal videos tab disappeared, i have to select certain button to select 'personal videos' to see the videos on the nexus 7. Even worse, all the file name disappeared as well, for me to watch those TV series, i have no clue about which one is 1st episode, which one is 2nd since i put all episodes under same folder. Pls. help. I want my old version good play video back!:crying:
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I 100% agree!
Has anyone found a solution?
Hi everybody.
I have a Moto X Style, one year of use, and a SanDisk 32 GB Class 10 UHS-1 inserted with some GB's loaded of music (bought at the same time). After upgrading to 7.0 OTA, I didn't yet have any problem whatsoever.
On the SD root folder I had one folder called Music. Inside of it, one folder per artist. Inside each one, one folder per album, and then the music files (all of them -mp3 -CBR 320 kbps o VBR at its best- or .flac 16-bit, max compression). I manually tag all my music files with Mp3tag, ID3v2.3 UTF-16 and ID3v1 (both of them coexist in the same file) and I know all these files are in perfect condition.
The problem started when, exploring through Moto File Manager, I noticed the SD card had a folder called Audio I had never seen. So, I moved all my music from Music to Audio. And then deleted the empty Music folder. Everything via Moto File Manager. Still don't know why in the world would I did that.
All my music was still ok except for my Beach Boys discography. I had 21 of their albums on the SD, and roughly half of them didn't display metadata. What do I mean? Google Play Music showed, let's say 10 albums ok, the rest were shown like this: Album name was the album folder ("[1973] Holland" for example"), it didn't show the album image, didn't have artist or year, and songs didn't have name, only their files' name ("01. 02. Steamboat" for example).
At this point, I backed up my music to my PC. I formatted the SD via Android (as portable). Restored my music. Nothing. I then ran a complete formatting of the SD with Windows, washing everything away. Again, nothing. I hard reseted my device, complete formatted the SD, downloaded my Beach Boys discography from OneDrive again and still nothing. I re-encoded the files. Nothing. I wrote ID3v2.4 tags. Nothing. I went mad, unlocked the phone, erased EVERYTHING with fastboot, turned back to 6.0.1 and OTA updated to 7.0 (don't laugh, I still regret doing so and having this stupid boot logo). Nothing.
I have a Moto 3 3rd gen, running stock 6.0.1. Used the SD there and voilá, no problem at all. Music was fine. I tried the SD in a friend's identical Moto X Style (bought at the same time). The problem reappeared in his device. I tried it in my father's identical Moto X Style (all 3 devices boughtthe very same day). The problem persisted. The music has this problem even when inside internal storage. The problem persists even with a decent media player as VLC (I don't remember well, but I think that app didn't even find these files). The files display correctly in my PC.
Does Nogaut have a failure reading metadata? Is there a fix that doesn't require using a custom ROM or complicated things like that? Is it repaired in a more recent 7.x Android? Why do you think it only happens with a particular selection of my discography? Does it have anything to do with Motorola's nearly-stock Android?
Any ideas are welcome! This is a hell of a riddle for me.
Sorry for my English!