Hello, dear community.
I am writing because I lost my default content from the internal storage music folder.
One of those 5 files (as far as I can remember) was my ringtone. Now I am missing it.
I would like you to ask for sharing the folder with me, so I can recover the last pieces.
It did get lost after I hard-resseted the device to achieve better battery performance.
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hello everybody,
i am searching here for a while and couldn´t find any helpful webpage or forum thread here that shows me, where are the standard folders located ( registry settings ) in WM6.5 or in special for the HTC HD2.
i would like to re-arrange any folder for media files ( ringtones, mp3-music, videos,documents, ebook and so on....)
to an easier structure in \\storage card and saving memory/space in mydevice
for that reason i´d like to know where are folders for what reason of standard-copy paths in \\mydevice and \\storagecard to erase un-needed things and avoid duplicating
the goal is to have easier folders to locate files
like
\\strorage card\Pictures
\\strorage card\Videos
\\strorage card\Music
\\strorage card\Ringtones
\\strorage card\Documents
and make sure that standard applications use that new paths for managing
i think i am not the only person who is interested in that, otherwise sorry for disturbing
thank you
PS
Everything you mentioned happened to be under \\My Documents. They are part of file sync to Windows.
It is a bad idea to place ring tones on SD card. It probably won't work.
thanks for that info.
that was indeed my intention also to change ringtones to storagecard. i am aware that didnt´ work , but with changing reg-keys maybe..any idea where they are ?
Yeah, don't put anything on the storage card that your device might need at any given time. Even if you never remove your card, it won't always be available when needed. For instance, when your device wakes up from an incoming phone call, it can't access the storage card right away since it may take a moment to activate the reader. Therefore it might not be able to use a ringtone stored there.
For the same reason, I wouldn't redirect the "standard" locations to the storage card through a registry change if I were you. You never know how the device will react if it wakes up and doesn't find its "My Documents" folder right away.
Other than that, it doesn't really matter where you put your media files: most of the built-in applications look for them everywhere. So if you want to save internal storage space, you can move most media stuff to your storage card without redirecting the default folders.
For music, I'd say go for "\\strorage card\Music", since that's where music files are automatically stored when you sync with Windows Media Player on the desktop.
For pictures, you might want to use "\\strorage card\DCIM\100MEDIA", since that's where the camera puts new photo's; but "\\strorage card\Pictures" will work just as well. HTC Album will pick up pics anywhere you put them. You can even choose which folder to display in the Sense tab. From the Sense tab, just go to > "Album" > "Albums", pick the one you want, then > "Menu" > "Set as favorite".
As you can see, these will work without redirecting the default folders to your storage card. If, however, you want to try anyway and don't mind the risk of experimenting, the content of this registry key looks promising:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Explorer\Shell Folders
Good luck!
If you want to change the location where the camera stores new pics, you might want to look at this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/Pictures/Camera/OEM/PictureLocation
But again: I haven't tried this, so use at your own risk!
Robrecht said:
For music, I'd say go for "\\strorage card\Music", since that's where music files are automatically stored when you sync with Windows Media Player on the desktop.
For pictures, you might want to use "\\strorage card\DCIM\100MEDIA", since that's where the camera puts new photo's; but "\\strorage card\Pictures" will work just as well. HTC Album will pick up pics anywhere you put them. You can even choose which folder to display in the Sense tab. From the Sense tab, just go to > "Album" > "Albums", pick the one you want, then > "Menu" > "Set as favorite".
As you can see, these will work without redirecting the default folders to your storage card. If, however, you want to try anyway and don't mind the risk of experimenting, the content of this registry key looks promising:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Explorer\Shell Folders
Good luck!
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thanks for that imput, thats what i need for get the knot out of my brain :=)
thanks so much...i will try that hints.
Hello Guys,
Today I installed a cab to my phone. Usally I have around 100MB free on my device. But today there where only around 10MB?
I searched around and found a mysterious directory in the Application Data directory called "Volatile" which exactly eats up the missing space...
I said to myself, mhh are you trying to move that directory to storage card and risk a hard-reset? I did it and my device still works.
But I want to know from where this directory "Volatile" came?!
Scilor
the app data\volatile folder is a system temp folder. clearing shouldn't be a problem (unless maybe you clear it before restarting after installing something, perhaps).
You can also reg edit the location to move it to your storage card, at
hklm\system\filesys and change the path.
Thank you, so what exctly it is for?
scilor said:
Thank you, so what exctly it is for?
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its the wm5 and above equivalent of \temp in wm2003. just somewhere the system dumps files, especially when installing and such like. so long as nothing is running when you do, just empty it now and again.
Keep it off!
As for the HD2 - you may NOT delete this folder!
Reason for my frequent hardresetting in the past was deleting this folder - directly or by third party apps to gain storage space.
If you did so - your phone won't be able to recognize soundformats - it won't ring or play anything after deleting this folder!
Cover arts will be skipped very fast, because sense thinks that tracks are played in no time. Very frustrating bug.
Discovered it this morning ... and wanted to share it with the community as none knows about that.
I never had a problem with this, I only deleted the content. But thank you for that info.
So I will now just move the files to my SD card
I emptied it regularly when I was on winmo, never had a problem.
Hi everybody, i copied directly both pictures and videos of a family event to a folder under Pictures to my Nexus 7 using Total Commander. Surprisingly all the files lost their own original timestamps, Nexus 7 updated them with current timestamps. The outcome was that the files' original order was lost.
Ok, the Gallery app can order files by EXIF metadata but only for pictures not the videos!
Total Commander can keep timestamps during file copy, i actually tested it on my Sony Experia Neo smartphone and succeeded.
I tried to identify the problem and found that the picture folder's UID on N7 is: 0 root (the similar folder on my Sony Experia Neo has UID 1000 system), which means that the picture folder has higher rights that nobody can modify and TC can not keep timestamps.
Is it a bug or is it a feature? is this by design?
I love my N7 but this sucks!
Advice or workaround, anybody? Thanks!
Hey guys,
I've got a Nexus 4 running the latest version of Cyanogenmod.
Every things been fine with the phone until I woke up this morning and found I'd lost my custom ringtone. Also, my photo's wern't showing up in Gallery. I connected my phone up to my PC to see what was what. (Half the time my computer won't open the phone, it just opens up saying '0 items', and I have to un-plug and re-plug in the phone several times before it lets me access the internal storage).
I found that nothing had changed; everything was still on my phone, all my pictures, ringtones etc. I quickly backed them all up to my PC in case the Nexus decided to delete them.
I really don't understand why my phone is doing this. I've put my custom .mp3 ringtone in every audio folder I could find;
Media>Audio>Notifications>Ringtones
Music
Notifications
Ringtones
I've got the song saved in about 8 different locations on the phone, and it still won't recognise it in the ringtones options. I've tried various 'ringtone-setting' apps, but they haven't worked. They told me that my custom ringtone was selected but when the phone rang, it used the default tone.
ALSO, when I tried to put my photos back on my phone (DCIM>Camera) they arn't showing up in my Gallery.
Any one else experience similar problems and knows a solution?
Many thanks
jjl5590 said:
Hey guys,
I've got a Nexus 4 running the latest version of Cyanogenmod.
Every things been fine with the phone until I woke up this morning and found I'd lost my custom ringtone. Also, my photo's wern't showing up in Gallery. I connected my phone up to my PC to see what was what. (Half the time my computer won't open the phone, it just opens up saying '0 items', and I have to un-plug and re-plug in the phone several times before it lets me access the internal storage).
I found that nothing had changed; everything was still on my phone, all my pictures, ringtones etc. I quickly backed them all up to my PC in case the Nexus decided to delete them.
I really don't understand why my phone is doing this. I've put my custom .mp3 ringtone in every audio folder I could find;
Media>Audio>Notifications>Ringtones
Music
Notifications
Ringtones
I've got the song saved in about 8 different locations on the phone, and it still won't recognise it in the ringtones options. I've tried various 'ringtone-setting' apps, but they haven't worked. They told me that my custom ringtone was selected but when the phone rang, it used the default tone.
ALSO, when I tried to put my photos back on my phone (DCIM>Camera) they arn't showing up in my Gallery.
Any one else experience similar problems and knows a solution?
Many thanks
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Use file explorer and start to hunt down a file name ".nomedia" (without quotes), the file explorer need to have "show hidden files" enabled. For your case, most likely there is one placed under /sdcard.
ksilver89 said:
Use file explorer and start to hunt down a file name ".nomedia" (without quotes), the file explorer need to have "show hidden files" enabled. For your case, most likely there is one placed under /sdcard.
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There isn't a .nomedia file in the root of the storage but there is a NOMEDIA file in the Notifications folder.
While I'm a newbie I don't consider myself brain dead and I'm VERY determined in finding solutions when I have a problem . So trust me when I say I've spent hours trying to find info on this. I'm not sure if my search skills are off or if my phone is meant to work this way but the only answers I got were from my own accidental discoveries !!
Here goes the issues all tie in: First I tried backing up my contacts with an app, from my old Infuse to my new Grand Prime, both phones had the same versions running of the backup app. I put the backup file in as many places related to that app on my Grand prime but the app could not find it in any folder even though I could see it in 'my files' . After 5 hours I took a hiatus and noted I could have manually copied my contacts in an hour lol
Next I copied my music to my phones storage hardly rocket science; getting an app to play it was though !!
I Downloaded 3 different music players none could find my music to play of course I could see it in my files.
Then I Downloaded 2 ringtones again saved on my phones storage in a folder already named Ringtones - pretty straight fowards me thinks ha !! I could not add the ringtones via settings/ ringtones because they were not found.
Lastly photos that I sent from my old phone and computer via Bluetooth that are saved in the folder called download would not show up in my Album .
So a week later of hell and no closer to getting anything to work I was reading about a fix for the ringtone (turned out to be a different phone) but it suggesed creating a folder on my sd card and putting the appropriate file in it.
Example Ringtone folder and putting a ringtone file inside. Music folder and mp3 inside.
And then ........VOILA ... omgeee the apps start finding stuff. UGH, seriously? ? Is this how things should be or is my phone not "right" because after this week I'm certainly not right; )
On my old Infuse the files could go anywhere either sd storage or phone emulated storage obviously with the apps correct path but either way they would be recognized by the app or OS they did not solely have to reside on the SD Card.
With people changing phones often I find the idea of creating correct and specific folders and paths to be too convoluted for the average Joe and so I come to the conclusion my phone must be f'd ???
I'd love some clarification from guys in the know lol cause asking at my local phone store gets me blank stares !!.
So much talent, there must be an answer !!
Sunnbuzz said:
While I'm a newbie I don't consider myself brain dead and I'm VERY determined in finding solutions when I have a problem . So trust me when I say I've spent hours trying to find info on this. I'm not sure if my search skills are off or if my phone is meant to work this way but the only answers I got were from my own accidental discoveries !!
Here goes the issues all tie in: First I tried backing up my contacts with an app, from my old Infuse to my new Grand Prime, both phones had the same versions running of the backup app. I put the backup file in as many places related to that app on my Grand prime but the app could not find it in any folder even though I could see it in 'my files' . After 5 hours I took a hiatus and noted I could have manually copied my contacts in an hour lol
Next I copied my music to my phones storage hardly rocket science; getting an app to play it was though !!
I Downloaded 3 different music players none could find my music to play of course I could see it in my files.
Then I Downloaded 2 ringtones again saved on my phones storage in a folder already named Ringtones - pretty straight fowards me thinks ha !! I could not add the ringtones via settings/ ringtones because they were not found.
Lastly photos that I sent from my old phone and computer via Bluetooth that are saved in the folder called download would not show up in my Album .
So a week later of hell and no closer to getting anything to work I was reading about a fix for the ringtone (turned out to be a different phone) but it suggesed creating a folder on my sd card and putting the appropriate file in it.
Example Ringtone folder and putting a ringtone file inside. Music folder and mp3 inside.
And then ........VOILA ... omgeee the apps start finding stuff. UGH, seriously? ? Is this how things should be or is my phone not "right" because after this week I'm certainly not right; )
On my old Infuse the files could go anywhere either sd storage or phone emulated storage obviously with the apps correct path but either way they would be recognized by the app or OS they did not solely have to reside on the SD Card.
With people changing phones often I find the idea of creating correct and specific folders and paths to be too convoluted for the average Joe and so I come to the conclusion my phone must be f'd ???
I'd love some clarification from guys in the know lol cause asking at my local phone store gets me blank stares !!.
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I was really hoping someone would have an idea here as there are so many highly intelligent people working with Android on this site ,
I went to Fido but I knew way more than them, they sent me to Phone Lab the guy did EVERYTHING I did and was no closer, I called Samsung which said there must be an internal memory problem, send in the phone for repair.
I wish I could fix it without that HUGE inconvenience, any help would be appreciated .