yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chargen2:
All the other players I tried use the system media DB as the source, which is where the data problem lies.

I tried Winamp, poweramp, doubletwist and all have the same problem.

Looks like maybe we need a firmware update to fix this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alloneword:
M4A tracks don't have an artist

I have the same issue here.

Any applications that use the system media library (which include DoubleTwist, Winamp, PowerAMP) don't display the artists.

I downloaded a tag editor app onto the phone, but when I go to edit the tags, they are all correct, it does seem to be an issue with the system, and not any apps.

Has anyone tried installing the default music player from vanilla Gingerbread?

Or is the media library part of the OS more than just that app?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wazzamatazz:
Would imagine that the stock Android music player will have the same problem. It's pretty apparent that Samsung have customised the media scanner and broken it for no apparent reason, since it worked just fine before!

I'm not completely clear on how components such as the media scanner/media store database are packaged up but would hazard a guess that it might be possible to replace the Samsung version with the vanilla version...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raymond77:
In PowerAMP > Folders view, if I long press a m4a file then select Info I can clearly see that the artist info is there.

However, in Library view (which I wan't using at all until last week) the Artist section is definitely missing the m4a files.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reddie555:
The problem somehow seems to be all files that use AAC-codec (m4a, mp4, etc.). My .mp4-files wich worked perfectly on my old SGS are now broken (tags, that is).

It must be a system problem, cause other programs experience this also. And The music player seems to be pretty much the same as in SGS.

REALLY hope they fix this soon. I've been ripping my CD:s tp MP4:s for years. Not going to convert them all to mp3:s.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thelle.k:
Yes, def. a problem

I have the same problem. It seems that the "Media Scanner" simply doesn't recognise the .m4a files at all.

Hope this is fixed soon!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alloneword:
KE7 update doesn't help :-(

Samsung clearly are interested on keeping the phone updated, releasing 2 updates within the last month.

Anyone know if Samsung knows this is an issue.

@GalaxySsupport on Twitter said they didn't know anything. Directed me to Australian Samsung site.

Cheers, Tim.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gkh77:
hi guys

I've been struggling with this problem for hours and have finally found a partial solution which is simply to transfer my M4a files to Mp3. My GS11 doesn't seem to like the m4a format from Itunes (all my music is stored on itunes).

If anyone comes up with a better fix for this problem please post as otherwise I'm going to be spending a long time transferring my music (40 Gig!!) to mp3!

thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaTiCeK-:
This is getting on my nervers big time. Has anyone tried if it's location related?

I have all my music on the external SD card, maybe I should put it on the internal flash drive?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chargen2:
Anyone tried contacting Samsung about this yet?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hobsgrg:
When I transferred m4a using WMP 12 then the tags worked fine, everything else and tags are missing
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaTiCeK-:
Did WMP12 reencode the files?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coincoinlapin:
Main priority according to me: make sure Samsung is aware of it. They're not bad people...they're just slow as sh** and they're hardware manufacturers, not software developers. The sooner they know, the better...

Edit: I'll inform my phone provider, in case they are in contact with Sammy.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphaola:
Guys try Mediafix,it works.Atleast it sorted out 80% of unknown artiste issue.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bollefles:
EXCELLENT!

Fixed it all on my SGS2!

Thank you...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chargen2:
Holy sh*t! That might be a great workaround!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nkj:
poweramp also supports it. plus gets the embedded art
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsais:
ewww, we use AAC cause its better audio quality than MP3...

Not to mention that encoding something twice really turns it into nasty sounding audio mush.

I think the solution is having Samsung fix their dang phones...

Second time I buy a Samsung phone with major glitches :s

I spoke to one SGS2 owner who had the tags and embedded artwork from M4A files working fine, till he got a leaked update to 2.3.4.

But I'm on factory 2.3.3 and its not working right anyway.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsais:
Yes, MediaFix is nice, but doesn't fix embedded album art...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JazonX:
Yeah Mediafix is good for the names, but the albumart doesnt show up.

Too, bad, wish there is a way to fix this, by like replacing the media scanner with the JVH one, or something geeky like that,...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LightspeedGalaxy:
Are there any news for this problem, is it fixed with the 2.3.4 Firmware?

If anyone is interested, the bug is still there with Android 2.3.4
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JazonX:
Bug is still there. However Cynogenmod has corrected this, I tried extracting the Smali files from their framework and modifying the 2.3.4 framework related to the media scanner. Apparently i dont see any changes in both files. Maybe im doing it wrong.

Converted all M4a to MP3 using dbpoweramp. The Loss is minimal, but its still a loss.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
This is hateful. I have planned phone usage to manage my music library almost entirely .m4a based and now I discovered this bug.

I also bought a 99€ 32GB memory card for this.... Shame on Samsung.

Is there any chance we will see a fix on this? Is there an email address to get in contact with the dev team?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
Wonder how Samsung could leave this out, if they want to catch iPhone users they're throwing away a big opportunity.... seems to me unbelievable
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raymond77:
MediaFix is what you need!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
Thanks mate. While this is worth while waiting Samsung for a fix, it wiil mean that each time we add music to the phone we will need to run MediaFix? :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
Downloaded. It does fix the Unknown Artist, but doesn't fix the cover art issue
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raymond77:
Unfortuantely yes, if you're adding new m4a files.

However the app is brilliantly simple, and takes almost no time to update your MediaStore database.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
Thanks Raymond
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reddie555:
The Mediafix-app doesn't work for me for some reason.. Does it matter that I have all my music on my external sd?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
I have placed two tracks into my external SD and MediaFix did the job.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jake-CT:
Still a problem in 2.3.4 but mediafix solved the issue in around 30 seconds for me - worth a download!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
:) yes!

We need an app to fix cover arts!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LightspeedGalaxy:
It doesn´t work so good, while I can live with the missing cover-arts, they are only eye-candy anyway, about 1/3 of the my files still show no tags.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LightspeedGalaxy:
Good news, KG6 deals with the problem. I tested just a hand full of m4a-files, and the mediascanner recognized the Tags as well as the album-art.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
Really mate??

Flashing immediately the new ROM!!!!!!!!! Will let you know!!!!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
Oh well.... let me see a bit how the KG6 works... will be following the official thread for a while. I don't care about Google Video, so if KG6 shows to be reliable, I'll go for it!;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
Mate, still little feedback on KG6..... awaiting a bit more before flashing....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheSobadef:
I found a work-around for the cover art, try downloading the app called "cover art downloader" works great!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
OOOHHHHHH YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

This has been fixed since KG5!!!!

Currently running KG5 and WORKS!!!!!!!!!!

WOOHHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
One little bug still here: Genre shows Album name instead of Music Genre...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
What would be the proper place to send complains about the media scanner not working properly? Google android development? Or?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LightspeedGalaxy:
Samsung replaced the mediascanner (they support more formats than stock-android), so you have to complain to Samsung.

BTW: The stock media-scanner from Android 2.x isn´t great either, it has its problems with m4a too.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
I was wondering if there is a way to fix m4a on the computer so that the media scanner wont faoil. Without reencoding tracks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boier:
Damn this is annoying...

MediaFix doesn't work for me: "MediaFix was unable to update MedieStore with track information."

Aarrgghh.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lurkapup:
Any progress

Anyone know if this is been resolved at all (other than by using a custom ROM)?

Also wondering if anyone knows whether the issue continues in ICS?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReeX:
I gave up long time ago. PowerAmp is the way to go.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] maximus350zx:
Hello

I use both gmail and exchange on my G2X, On my Samsung Vibrant the exchange icon was bright yellow and gmail was as it is on the G2X. On the GTX, both the exchange and gmail icons are black and similar. Is there a program that lets you change the notifcation icon for these?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] maximus350zx:
No Love?

No Solutions?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] DubSteppin':
Hi everyone, after hours of fiddling around with my phone and trying to figure this thing out by reading through many many forums, nothing seems to help. So out of pure frustration I decided to start a new thread (Which was my last resort) :mad:

My phone has a whole slew of problems:

First of all, I basically have no home screen. It's just a black screen accompanied by the two 'Contacts' and 'Calender" buttons on the bottom. After reading through the forums I figured it most-likely was a TouchFlo 3D issue that needs to be addressed by restarting/starting up the TL3D program. Great right? No... The damn thing won't even load when I push the Settings icon.

long story short:

-manilla.exe cpu usage is 80%-95%

-phone won't completely lock, backlight turns on with the slightest movements/bumps

-active sync wont detect phone (can't access connection settings in phone)

-phone will occasionally freeze and won't turn on unless I remove battery and restart it.

-hard reset wont work (using keystroke method, also last resort)

-lag lag lag lag lag lag ....L...A....AGGG..G

-Very low volume when engaged in a phone call (transmitting and receiving volume)

Keep in mind I can't get into settings. :mad:

Also, no new programs installed recently in case you guys were wondering.

Those are the only issues that come to mind... help??!!??!! Thank you in advance
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] CH3NO2:
try reflashing your rom fresh and then getting a new launcher and overclocking your min and max cpu a bit ;) might help out
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AuroEdge:
Widgets will not auto-update on latest adryn KangBang ROM. This has happened to me twice before in the distant past on froyo leaks.
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whitepaint:
Are you talking about the community ROM? I am unaware of a KangBang ROM by adryn..
[Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thefunkbot:
If you looked at the comm rom thread you would see that the real name for the rom is the kangbang rom. Everyone just calls it the comm rom.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Drakknar:
WARNING

Always be careful before flashing any kind of firmware. This may end up in bricking your device, loosing the possibility to root it or flashing/using a custom recovery

ASUS has finally released flashable firmware updates for the Transformer.

Just go to this ASUS support page, then choose "Android" from the "OS" dropdown menu, then click on the "Firmware" link and download the firmware you want.

To flash it, ASUS suggests to download the Update_Launcher_SOP_WW available under the "Others" subsection.

Hopefully this will help people with bricked transformers and everybody else trying to figure out a way to easily flash recovery and/or root devices with new bootloaders :)

PICTURE PROOF
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dictionary:
Doesn't help those with bricked devices but should help the rom devs.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] SlimDan22:
It says May 1 as the build date, im going to give it a shot
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tineras:
Let us know how it goes.

Also, I'm interested to know if it's possible to root the device after applying this update. If anyone is successful, let us know.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] SlimDan22:
My Transformer needs to charge :rolleyes: 37%

I guess you just put the update.zip the root of an SD card and the OS detects that there is a firmware file present and it updates like an OTA

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/TF101/Update_Launcher_SOP_WW.pdf
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1041502

Along the same lines. ;) Unofficial changelog there for anyone wondering what is updated/fixed.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] football0552:
U.S. version worked for me. No brick :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] seshmaru:
what does your about tablet say now?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] SlimDan22:
Nothing different about it via settings , same as the OTA that bricked some peoples devices it seems
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neilkarunatilaka:
current build is HRI66.US_epad-8.2.2.6.1-20110325

I'm copying the update to a SD card (taking 10 minutes to copy :()

Will update post after update completes with new build version.

I want my Splashtop App! :D

---

EDIT: Successfully updated my US Transformer to 8.2.3.9-20110423

It fixed my camcorder FPS when recording video.

No more camera green screen.

Got MyCloud app (SplashTop Remote Desktop software)

Noticed Layar app was installed also.

Couple more ASUS Widgets (MyZine)

Hopefully will get rooted eventually :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dictionary:
Are you already rooted? Or are you planning to root @ any time? If so, I'd hold off on the update until it's confirmed rootable.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] neilkarunatilaka:
Thanks for the advice, but it's no biggie. For what I'm using the tablet for, rooting isn't a big deal currently. :) But I'm sure this new FW will be rooted... eventually :D And updated sucessfully and I got my splashtop remote desktop software finally (MyCloud) haha.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] pingpongboss:
Any way to flash this update if I've already previously flashed the CWM_BLOB_V4 recovery image? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1035197

I can get to the prompt when I put the update zip on the MicroSD card, but when my Transformer reboots, it ends up in ClockworkMod Recovery, where it's impossible to flash the ZIP.

Can I revert back to the stock Asus recovery somehow?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dictionary:
Read post #4: http://android.modaco.com/content/a...om/338353/full-root-for-transformer-post-ota/

Then download this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13023220&postcount=29

:)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] linear_craig:
the ww or UK update works fine for me ezine widget crashes though
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Matchstick:
I've posted details on how I unrooted and reset the Recover here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13445218&postcount=154

But this method will only work if you've already applied an update to the tablet. In my case I'd applied the first (mid-April) update so was able to use the Boot image blob from that.

However even after doing this I couldn't get the Transformer to detect the update file again so I'm guessing that some kind of flag is being set which is telling the tablet that the firmware has already been applied (even though it hasn't) and so it's ignoring the update when you reinsert the MicroSD card again.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] pingpongboss:
Thanks! This definitely got me back on the right track. However, the 2nd link you provided is from a WW_epad (UK) version of the ASUS Update. After I flashed it, my Transformer no longer recognized the (US_epad) firmware update that I put on the MicroSD card. I think this is similar to what Matchstick said above.

Yea I wonder if there is a way to force an update?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] howarmat:
did the update with no issues
[Eee Pad Transformer General] URPREY:
I did the manual update with no issues. However, my TF already had a notification in the system tray that an update was available (this was from the day I got it, and I never updated because of the bricking going on with some TFs).

Anyway, it's still showing the upgrade notification. Is there any way to get rid of it without rooting? I don't really want to try and apply that update because I'm still afraid it might brick.

Thanks for any insight
[Eee Pad Transformer General] RMXO:
I'm on WW SKU from flashing ROMs from the Dev forums. How do I go back to US SKU?

EDIT: followed this post to get back to US_epad. I used the BLOB from the UpdateLauncher_US_epad_user_8239

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13445218&postcount=154
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake21:
If I purchase a female to female adapter and plug a device (such as usb memory stick) into the cable will the transfomer recognize it and be able to mount it as a disk ?

How about other devices such as keyboard ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Merlin_AZ:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13442199#post13442199
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] entropia:
Does anyone know of a website and/or app similar to the Apple dedicated appshopper.com ?

For those of you not familiar, you can track apps you have or apps you want for version and price changes. You can a wishlist in your account, and you can filter in different ways such as by popularity, so you can see all the popular apps and games that have a promo, or simply come into the price range you want to pay.

I bought almost all my iPhone/iPad apps using this app.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sckc23:
appbrain is pretty good at filtering apps and i think it also has a price drop filter to search for discounted ones.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] entropia:
Thanks! It is decent but not to the same level, at least for now. Well, it is probably the best choice for now.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] robot1000:
Stumbleupon is not a bad one
[Networking] twaha:
what would be the ideal 3g network to use in northampton for internet on a htc? , sim only plan?
[Networking] pulser_g2:
Giffgaff? They run on o2 so just check them out.

£10/month PAYG :)
[Networking] twaha:
ahaa thanks the Giffgaff network seems really good, ive ordered my sim card and should be arriving soon , :)
[Atrix 4G General] Xirta:
So I updated to GB3 a few days ago and excitedly checked *#*#4636#*#* to see if HSUPA was turned on in my area yet. Sadly it still had only HSDPA. Today my wife did the OTA and she is on HSPA here and I am not. So even though I am showing android 2.2.2 and on the 1.8.3 software I didn't get the radio change.

Should I SBF back, do the OTA then reinstall GB? Would I lose tenfars in an sbf reload?

Long time lurker, first time poster. Thank you to all the devs out there who put in the work for these silly little machines.
[Atrix 4G General] chalybs:
Tried rebooting?

Do a couple speed tests and see where your at...
[Atrix 4G General] CaelanT:
Flash 4.1.26 sbf, then update to 4.1.57 through Moto, then update to 4.1.83 OTA.

Root with Gingerbreak (will probably wipe your internal SDcard), Gladenable to enable sideloading, install CWM Recovery, flash kennethpenn's deodexed 4.1.83, root again with Gingerbreak (root lost when installing deodexed files).
[Atrix 4G General] Xirta:
Yea. I reboot a few times. Speeds are still low. I was also hoping to avoid the whole wipe/reload. Oh well.

Next question. My friend on Verizon has his apps synced to his gmail account, any time he has to reload his apps auto download. When I reload I always have to redownload everything. Any ideas on that?
[Atrix 4G General] Hatespawn:
Your friend is probably rocking a cyanogen ROM. We can't use it with the Atrix so you're better off getting titanium backup pro and using it to back up your apps and data to your external SD card. Then you can batch restore all your apps and data.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] LlabTooFeR:
Here new RUU for Mecha

http://www.filefactory.com/file/cb1..._NV_8k_1.41_9k_1.64_release_182746_signed.exe

Enjoy!
[Thunderbolt Android Development] komradefox:
is this new ota?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ddarvish:
yes .10 char
[Thunderbolt Android Development] PlankLongBeard:
Football... Ive had almost every android phone created with almost every carrier... and everytime.. your always the one with the latest releases and builds :-)

I would like to say thank you :-)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] papi92:
Will this make me lose root
[Thunderbolt Android Development] intangibleDroid:
Why is it an .exe?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] akanatrix:
Is this the leak that came out a while ago? Or is this different in some way?
[Thunderbolt Android Development] Stevez48:
Not sure about the exe part but it does look to be slightly different.

Leaked:

PG05IMG_Mecha_VERIZON_WWE_1.13.605.7_Radio_1.16.00.0402w_NV_8k_1.41_9k_1.64_release_182727_signed.zip

Football OTA:

RUU_Mecha_VERIZON_WWE_1.13.605.7_Radio_1.16.00.0402w_1_NV_8k_1.41_9k_1.64_release_182746_signed.exe
[Thunderbolt Android Development] yareally:
Since it's signed, then yes it will make you lose root.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ProTekk:
Going to check out this "leaked update." The EXE is a giveaway but I'll have fun checking it out.

Also, OP, don't be offended. It's very suspicious when someone posts an EXE file in the world of Android unless it's been confirmed good over and over again.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jcase:
Do your research before insinuating someone is posting something "Bad". RUUs come in EXE form, many people (including me) just extract them first, because we do not use windows.

Football is a reliable source, and if you pay a little attention, you would know many of the early RUUs came from him prior to the phone release.

This is likely the same as the ZIP i posted earlier, will check now.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] jcase:
Also, don't flash this over a rooted device.
[Thunderbolt Android Development] KidJoe:
Not to sound too greedy or impatient... are there any mirrors for this yet? Its downloading really slow... and sometimes even "pausing" (bites received stalls for a few moments)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] whewstoosae:
Hopefully slightly modified radio? I always got reboots on the leaked radio. We can only hope :)
[Thunderbolt Android Development] ProTekk:
Wasn't necessarily saying he wasn't a bad source, merely saying that some people find it sketchy to see an exe over a zip or rar archive.