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[Atrix 4G General] co.ag.2005:
OP, I'd say give it a try. Do you know of anyone who has AT&T where you live/work? I know every carrier is different in every location, so it may be worth it to give AT&T a try. I personally love the Atrix and have been with AT&T since they were Cingular. I know for my fiance, when she had T-Mobile, speeds were good right next to a tower, but it seemed like every time we traveled, she was roaming on AT&T Edge. This was true for where her parents live and where my parents live, too. At those locations, I was on AT&T 3G and speeds were great. So for us, AT&T has good 3G in more places than T-Mobile. But, everyone's mileage may vary. What is good for one person with regards to phone/network may not be good for the next person.

EDIT: oh, and you have a trial period with AT&T. If you aren't satisfied, return the Atrix and AT&T service and stick with what works for you.
[Atrix 4G General] GavinMazey:
I do not know anyone with att but I think I'm gong to return this phone tonight and pick up an atrix and try out att. Hoping its better than tmobile here.
[Atrix 4G General] knv8:
i have no complaints about att, go for it. i would definitely make sure your own house is not an att dead zone though. dont forget to apply employer discounts for your monthly bill.

tmobile on the other hand, lots of problems.
[Atrix 4G General] GavinMazey:
I literally live 200 ft from a tower that seems to have every carrier up there. Everyone that comes to my house has full service. And e what kind of employer discounts are you taking about? I an self employed.
[Atrix 4G General] Deggy:
I left Tmo on 04/10/11 for ATT. So far, so good. Love the Atrix since .83. Atrix is a suitable phone if you want android. iPhone is fine too. I'm still within the 30 grace period and I'm deciding to go with ATT for my mobile carrier.

My mom loves the the free mobile to mobile (no minutes used regardless of carrier).

I'm converting and I have no qualms. Haven't had any dropped calls (yet). I'd say go for ATT.
[Atrix 4G General] Hydro360:
keep your g2x stay with tmo. its basically the same phone just a lg body instead of motorola. my buddy has the g2x. plus by next year all the networks tmo and att have will be shared and there will be new phones out. get your handset replaced if your having issues it may be hardware lemon. the atrix has its issues too no phone is without issues. youd just be trading one tegra based device for another and getting a slower network that costs more
[Atrix 4G General] GavinMazey:
The problem is the screen bleed on the g2x I've looked at several devices and they all have it. And our makes the screen look like crap. plus I've been missing way too many calls at work because bad reception. And I really want a tegra 2 over the other dual core processors.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cliq:
Is there a total clean ROM for Tmobile G2/Desire Z?

My situation: I have a Tmobile G2 ROM from the US and I am using it in Europe. My problem is that this ROM is not all that stable and working as I would want. Also, with the recent blocks of tethering apps by NA operators, I think I would like totally free my phone from crap!

My worries is that I can have the Scandinavian åäö still usable on this phone. Well at least I have been able to use the software keyboard now with the stock Tmobile ROM.

Any suggestion is accepted... thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
What's not stable with the stock G2 ROM? If you aren't happy with the stability of the stock G2 ROM, I don't know if a custom ROM or the stock Desire Z (with Sense) is going to make you any happier.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
They only blocked the apps from market...though I can still find easy tether lol
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aegishua:
My advice is just flash a stable ROM onto it. The most stable ROMs I've tested so far are Virtuous and Trollogen if you want something stable but you don't want updates from TMob. The updates you'll receive with developer ROMs are obviously just from developers. Although you'll probably get more updates on a developer ROM than a TMob one.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
People are so damn lazy these days...here's an idea, try some for your self, I know I know crazy new concept :rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aegishua:
Cut him some slack, hes trying to get some advice.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ericc191:
This.

It's a Q&A Forum. Don't be a ****.
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Inspired by this post on the blog I decided to ease up the exclusion of directories from the gallery/media database. Gallery Excluder does the job for me.

Here's why:

Many apps create folders on the sd-card and drop their stuff there. Often, they place images as well. Now that Android checks the sd-card for new media from time to time, these folders will be added to the media database and displayed in the stock Gallery app.

Here's how:

Gallery Excluder lists all direct subfolders of '/sdcard' respectively '/mnt/sdcard' and displays them in a list. If an item/folder gets checked there is a '.nomedia' placed in that folder. If the folder gets unchecked the '.nomedia' is removed.

Since it can take a while to have the gallery update you can force a manual update via options menu.

So please let me know if such a tool can be helpful for anyone except myself.

Now with subdirectories. Downside: there is no feedback when you selected a subfolder for its parent. E.g. when you excluded /mnt/sdcard/folder/subfolder/ you can't recognize it when viewing folder /mnt/sdcard/ (folder won't be selected).

If you feel like supporting my work click some ads. This is an experiment for me to figure if ads work. Thank you.

Market release

- long press an item to dive into the subfolder

- back takes you up one level

- select all/none

- hint for 1st time users

- external sd card support

TODO for next version(s):

- external sd card support

- white list mode

Screenshot:

Current Version 1.1.1 (released 11/05/11)

Android Market Link

Thanks in advance,

Steff
[Android Apps and Games] killersnowman:
This sounds very useful! Ill give it a try

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works great. got rid of a bunch of cached Beautiful Widget Themes thumbnails and other stuff cluttering the gallery

From something awesome
[Android Apps and Games] wej1976:
works a treat, nice and simple saves me messing about .nomedia files.

Thumbs up from me
[Android Apps and Games] vansmack:
Great idea. I just DL'ed QuickPic to fix this exact problem. I'll give it a shot!
[Android Apps and Games] killersnowman:
Also, if you don't mind me suggesting, it would be nice to have an option where you select which folders to add instead of which folders to remove from the gallery. Then if any new apps add new folders with random images they would automatically have .nomedia added

From something awesome
[Android Apps and Games] damngood98:
check out the app "quickpic" -- kinda does what you're talking about here.
[Android Apps and Games] vansmack:
Just a heads up...

It wouldn't exclude the folder "com.espn.score_center" no matter how many times I tried. I had to manually add the .nomedia file myself to get it to work...
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Glad you guys like it.

@killersnowman: I could introduce a black-list/white-list mode that lets you choose which way around you want to look at it.
[Android Apps and Games] Alouch47:
Thanks mate! Yes this is useful, .nomedia files made easy and simple :)
[Android Apps and Games] VO7T:
more ss plzzzz
[Android Apps and Games] MidtownHD:
love this, now all my custom icons won't show up in gallery

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Rico ANDROID:
Knox!!!, simply amazing! When will you roll this out to the android market? It will be a sensation. Cleaned up all the duplicated gallery pics, etc.
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
@V07T: does "ss" mean screenshots?

@Rico ANDROID: hm, good question. I could publish it on the market right now. Don't know if there is a need for it. I don't wanna spoil the market with another crappy app that noone needs...
[Android Apps and Games] Rico ANDROID:
I bet you just about every newbie to android as well as others are having the same clutter in Gallery and would love the results of duplicated clutter removed from the Gallery Display. I have been chasing down cached and replicated pics and icons . This app made it so easy.

You should upload it unless you are working on a paid version. I dont know how that works but wish I had your skills.
[Android Apps and Games] svtfmook:
awesome, now my porn doesn't have to show in gallery!
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Like that one ;)

Ok, I guess I will just release it to the market. Did anyone run into errors?
[Android Apps and Games] Rico ANDROID:
Chencking in to say no errors here. I have powered down and booted up, no glitches at all
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Sweet, sounds good.

Will give you guys time to check for errors until tomorrow. If there will be no glitches found I'll release it to the market.

Btw., I'm thinking about introducing tabs. One for a black-list, one for a white-list (see screenshots). What do you think?
[Android Apps and Games] Rico ANDROID:
Tabs look great ;) . Love to hear others feedback too, but I am sold!
[Android Apps and Games] britoso:
Nice App, I was using something else on the market for this, but glad this one is on XDA!

For me I only need gallery to scan just a few folders

1)\sdcard\MyDocs

2)\sdcard\DCIM

3)\sdcard\Zedge (or other wallpaper download app)

A white list to add just a few folders (with nested subfolders) will be great, provided that once you enter something into the white list it should exclude every other folder (ignoring the black list)
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
The thing about the white list is this: I think I am not able to react on newly created folders. You will always have to at least start Gallery Excluder so it checks if there are any new folders.

However, I could create a background process that checks for new folders every say 2 hours. But I generally don't like too many things running in the background.
[Android Apps and Games] Rico ANDROID:
Cool. In your descriptio., it could alert users to include any new folders, just restart the app after a folder was created? Maybe that step could eliminate a running background process?

Can it pick up new folders when restarted?
[Android Apps and Games] carandcar:
This is awesome! Thank you so much! Although quickpic has this funtion built in, SPB Shell uses the stock gallery to display photos in its gallery widget so now I don't have to look at garbage photos anymore. This took care of it wonderfully. Thanks again for a great app!
[Android Apps and Games] Zero-K:
I didn't even know we could do this! lol

Thanks knox. Nice work.

[edit]

I had a screenshot folder, so I checked it to exclude, hit menu and "update media gallery"

When i opened the gallery, it sat with "Loading Media Files" showing for about 2 min, then showed the first view. When I click on any of the options (All Pictures, All Video, Folders, etc...) it crashes the gallery.

I have a Motorola Atrix, so might be something with the Motorola Bloat.

[/edit]
[Android Apps and Games] Nikola P.:
Awesome and very useful, two thumbs up!
[Android Apps and Games] britoso:
I'm also in favor of a disclaimer rather than a background task/service.
[Android Apps and Games] milowke:
To bad not realy helpfull for me.

I have just bought me a Samsung Galxy S and I only can exclude the folder of the internSD card and not the SD card I plugged in myself :(

To bad :(
[Android Apps and Games] DMD9:
Nice work Knox, thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
You are totally right. I am using an SGS as well and also have an external SD card. If I somehow can find a way to determine programmatically if there is that particular external card I could add it to the list.

I am aware that this is missing. This is because I only included all direct subfolder of /sdcard/ (or /mnt/sdcard/). You cannot access e.g. /sdcard/subfolder/sub_subfolder/. Does anyone need this? I didn't think so.
[Android Apps and Games] ripp2003:
great soft, testing it right now ;-)
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Sorry to hear that. I am afraid I cannot say anything about non-AOSP builds. Motoblur seems to be case for itself. I will try to find something out. If you got access to LogCat you could send me the report.
[Android Apps and Games] vansmack:
Would this be why I couldn't eliminate the folders in the ESPN folder?

The icons are in the sub_subfolder. That would make a little more sense.
[Android Apps and Games] vansmack:
One bit of flack you might receive is that if one decides to exclude the folder "Music" to keep the album covers that are appearing from showing up in the Gallery, it might also exclude the music files from appearing in the Music app. I could see a lot of market newbies being pissed about this.

This was the behavior on my Samsung Epic and a friends Samsung Captivate using stock Froyo.

Just an FYI...
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Sorry, don't really get it. I dunno the ESPN app. Atm. you can only exclude the folders that are directly under the root of sdcard. So if you have /sdcard/ESPN/ you can exclude that entire folder including all subfolders. But you can't exclude parts of /sdcard/ESPN/ while including other parts. It's all or nothing at the moment...
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
@vansmack: that's so true. But are you sure about it? Does it really exclude that folder from the Music app? Last time I checked it didn't.

Might be a reason to pull the app for now.

Edit2: Pulled it. Need to think about it. Tomorrow. Thanks for pointing out.

Edit3: I am out for the 12 hours or so. Real life is waiting.

EDIT: Sorry for the double posting
[Android Apps and Games] 10507:
Nice job

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] vansmack:
I'll try to explain the ESPN thing.

When the app ESPN ScoreCenter is installed, it creates the following folder:

/mnt/sdcard/com.espn.score_center

Selecting that folder from the list in the Gallery Excluder App has no effect on the icon files that are stored in:

/mnt/sdcard/com.espn.score_center/mlb/mobile/sml

/mnt/sdcard/com.espn.score_center/nba/mobile/sml

/mnt/sdcard/com.espn.score_center/ncaa/mobile/sml

/mnt/sdcard/com.espn.score_center/nhl/mobile/sml

The folders "sml" still appear in the gallery, along with all of their icons.

I've tried this with two phones, a Samsung Epic and a Samsung Captivate, both running Froyo. I'll try to recreate it on a 1st Gen Droid tonight. At first I assumed this was do to programming (maybe the "dots" in the folder name, or maybe the underscore). Now I'm less sure, however, manually inserting the .nomedia file in the folder excludes the folders in the gallery.

The ESPN app is free if you want to recreate the error yourself.
[Android Apps and Games] vansmack:
In this case, it may be an issue with the Samsung Media player included in Froyo (presumably something with TouchWiz). It excluded the Music files from both the Epic I used to test and the Captivate.

Any other Samsung users seeing the same experience, or equally as important, any other non-Samsung users seeing 10507's experience?

Great app and I would love to get this sorted out so it can be in the market.
[Android Apps and Games] beejizzle:
Im very pleased with the app although my lg o2x has _ExternalSD which is listed but not its subfolders so i cant use it. Find a solution for that and im pleased!
[Android Apps and Games] SDeba:
Cool thing, gonna test it today ;)
[Android Apps and Games] 10507:
On second though, I am having the same problem as music not showing up on android's default music player. However, I am not sure why but my PowerAmp player are able to pickup all the music.
[Android Apps and Games] armyengineer51:
Great stuff! Being able to select subfolders would be a bonus, but this is definitely a workable solution to a common problem. Appreciate the effort & looking forward to seeing where this goes, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] davidwyl:
this is what i wan.......

used to open the .nomedia file in file explorer manually..

this make my life much much easier.........
[Android Apps and Games] kelvs:
i've thought about placing .nomedia on my music folder so the album art won't show up in my gallery. but i'm worried that .nomedia might stop android from scanning my music folder for music.
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
@kelvs: this is going to happen. Don't use it then

on my SGS my music won't be displayed in the stock Music app when I exclude /sdcard/Music/. However, e.g. Winamp finds it. I guess other players have implemented their own scanners and just ignore '.nomedia' files
[Android Apps and Games] kelvs:
well i use winamp too. so i guess this shouldn't be a problem for me then.
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
So give it a go and report back if it worked out for you

EDIT: I got a new version that supports subfolders (available at the 1st post)

Navigation:

- long press an item to dive into the subfolder

- back takes you up one level

Downside: there is no feedback when you selected a subfolder for its parent. E.g. when you excluded /mnt/sdcard/folder/subfolder/ you can't recognize it when viewing folder /mnt/sdcard/ (folder won't be selected).

Feedback appreciated

GalleryExcluder_v0.2.apk
[Android Apps and Games] vansmack:
Subfolders addition works great. And this version seemed to fix the ESPN app problem I was having. Nice work!

Sorry about the music thing. Not sure there's a work around, other than warning downloaders in the Market the effects of excluding the music folder.

Still a very useful and great app...
[Android Apps and Games] Rico ANDROID:
Version 0.2, nice. I didnt realize the music folder thing until others brought it up. Still a great app!
[Android Apps and Games] cyruz1:
Very helpful tool! Being able to browse subfolders is great. Thanks a lot.

Vielen Dank.
[Android Apps and Games] MaXAiRO:
Market plox? :P It's a useful app, it would be better to upload it on Market since some people (like me) are too lazy to download and then transfer the apk to cellphone. And if you release a new version of it we will update it immediately from Market.
[Android Apps and Games] britoso:
Some ideas...

Menu: Automatically select all nested subfolders.

Menu: Select All, UnSelect All
[Android Apps and Games] paranoiak:
Great app thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Market is going to come soon...

I will try out different menu item and see if they feel right.

guys, thanks for your feedback. never expected that much response
[Android Apps and Games] JohnM109R:
Fantastic it works great ThankYou :)
[Android Apps and Games] chichoCRZ:
Works great on my Nexus One. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Dave the Knave:
This worked wonderfully!!! Thank you very much
[Android Apps and Games] Little Dragon:
Very nice! Will definitely be keeping this for reference! 420 it up!
[Android Apps and Games] :
Great Tool, thank you very much! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Aitrus:
when i uncheck a folder to bring back the pictures, they don't come back. including uninstalling, pictures don't come back. did i miss somewhere where this was already said? or am i the only one experiencing this?

EDIT!!! nevermind... my fingers are just to fast. operator error. haha

thanks for this, really helps. looking forward to future releases. now what would be nice is if the pictures that are no longer showing up would allow the ones that are to come closer together.
[Android Apps and Games] aleksb:
Excellent little app there. Thanks to the OP. Works a treat on my device :)
[Android Apps and Games] nyze211:
too bad about the music thing ... still a very usefull app to remove other useless stuff from the gallery
[Android Apps and Games] tizaktizak:
thanks...working on my sgs
[Android Apps and Games] movieaddict:
for some reason i cant get this to work!! i checked the boxes i wanted to be not shown and updated the media library twice and there still there. I even rebooted and there still there!! what am i doing wrong????????
[Android Apps and Games] domonas:
like others have said before, being able to choose both internal and external sd cards would be a great addition.
[Android Apps and Games] rgn2000:
This is not working for me. I checked most of my folders to exclude, except for DCIM and a few others. I then updated gallery, but now the gallery will not open. I have a Droid X.
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Your signature says you are running a custom rom. Does it come with the stock Gallery app? I can't really tell you anything since I just don't know. Sorry for that...

I am very sorry to hear that. I am afraid that this might be related to Motorola. Unfortunately I don't have a device to check this. Does Motoblur come with a modified gallery?

There is also a new version in the first post
[Android Apps and Games] vansmack:
For those that it's not working for, are you hitting the home key after you make your selections?

Initially, I was hitting the back key after I made my selections, and that doesn't save changes.

The best process:

Open the App.

Make your selections

Hit the Menu Button

Run the Update Media Gallery Utility

Hit the Home Button

That should do the trick.
[Android Apps and Games] TheMathMan:
Will excluding music folders with album art also exclude music from being picked up by the music player due to the .nomedia file?
[Android Apps and Games] vansmack:
It's discussed earlier in the thread, but yes, the .nomedia file will prevent the stock music player from seeing your music files. This is not true of some third party music apps (like PowerAmp and WinAmp).
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
That's interesting to hear. Actually it shouldn't make any difference. I can't think of a reason for this, either.

Btw: did you test the new version from yesterday? Only marginal changes but I'd like to hear its working before publishing it on the Market. (time difference is quite annoying when talking asynchronously to you non-europeans ;))

Unfortunately yes, it will also exclude music for the stock Music app. However, other apps such as Winamp still find your music. I am afraid there is currently no way in Android to exclude pictures while maintaining music...
[Android Apps and Games] maslaq:
Hello!

You have managed great app, but I cannot exclude any folder from external sd. Maybe i'ts rom version fault. /mnt/emmc

SGS CM7 nightly
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Yes, I am aware of that. Next version will support this but a.t.m. I think you will have to choose that folder manually since there is no way to programmatically distinguish between internal and external sd card in Android
[Android Apps and Games] vlug:
you should make an app like this for music too
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Unfortunately this seems to be impossible at the moment. This is an Android thing
[Android Apps and Games] vlug:
yea its really annoying to be listening to music and hear a UI sound i have sitting on my sd card... but i jus installed the app and it works perfect
[Android Apps and Games] maslaq:
That would be great :).
[Android Apps and Games] kaasbroodje:
works great on samsung galaxy spica 2.1
[Android Apps and Games] kelvs:
i'm not sure how you set your poweramp/winamp but my winamp don't show the mp3s if there's .nomedia

i remmeber poweramp letting you put all your songs under a certain music folder though
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Okay, in that case the app will work for you. It will exclude all kinds of media, so it will work for MP3s as well. Give it a shot.

Alright, maybe I was too fast to judge. It kept displaying my songs but I checked only once.

By the way: Gallery Excluder is now in the Market :D
[Android Apps and Games] maslaq:
Rated and commented :)

Thanks again :D
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
hope positively ;)

EDIT: yes, you did :D

thanks mate
[Android Apps and Games] Rico ANDROID:
Will download from the market later today. Look for my comment ;)
[Android Apps and Games] knox420:
Great, thanks. Got the 1st "negativ" rating (3 stars) because someone is complaining it ain't working on Motorola Defy. Can't do anything about it. This is what I dislike about Android...