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[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] powernoid:
So this issue has persisted for a few weeks now and I'm not sure how to resolve it, short of doing a full factory restore (which I consider last resort, but I'll probably do this over Xmas if I don't resolve it soon).

The issue : Gallery app seems to have "lost" a whole load of my images.

I can see photos/videos I've taken, screenshots/recordings and my Download folder, but all "other" folders are gone.

I had this problem before and I managed to fix it by removing a .nomedia file which was in the same folder as a whole load of images that the Gallery app decided to ignore. The .nomedia file isn't there now.

If I use a file exploring app I can see all my images in various folders on my phone (images saved from reddit/VSCO/facebook etc). Other apps such as Google Photos can see all my images. If I go to share an image from the Facebook app then I can see all my images (although they are always mixed up and not sorted by date/name or anything like that. also very frustrating) so I know 100% that all my images are there, but the stock Gallery app has decided to ignore them.

It's not like the problem is confined to one folder and sub folders either as I'm missing my "reddit_sync" and "prisma" folders which are located EVA-L09\Internal storage\Pictures but the "Screenshot" folder saved in that location is accessible in the Gallery app. Same with EVA-L09\Internal storage\DCIM: \Camera\ is accessible as I can see all the photos and videos I've shot with the phone but the folders \Facebook\ and \Photoscan\ are not showing up at all in Gallery.

If I long press a folder (i.e Download) in the Gallery app from my phone and select "Add to Others" then the folder just disappears. The "Others" folder has totally gone.

Things I've tried

Settings > Apps > Gallery > Storage > Clear Data and Clear Cache : This restores any folders that I've put in "others" but "others" is still missing

Created a new folder and cut and pasted images into this folder on the phone. Reboot phone to see if Gallery now sees images. It doesn't

Moved a whole load of images off my phone as I thought maybe I had too many images stored on it or something. Made no difference.

Searched for all .nomedia files on the phone. None of which were stored in any of the effected folders.

Checked to make sure there's no folders selected in "Hide Albums" from the Gallery.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have a feeling I may just need to clear the data/cache on some other app or something, but I don't want to start dropping mini-nukes on apps in the hope that I get a direct hit on the one thing that's causing "Others" to disappear.

Thanks in advance.
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] FadeFx:
Did you try settings>apps>media storage>storage and clear data for this? I guess this will solve your issue

Edit: probably you need to either reboot afterwards or wait some minutes for the media library to be rebuilt.
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] powernoid:
Haha that did it! Thanks so much, it's been driving me mad!

Just FYI I didn't have to reboot, the library started to rebuild almost instantly after opening up the Gallery app..

For anyone else who has this problem and has stumbled across this post: When in Settings > Apps make sure you select "Show System Processes" from the menu. I couldn't find Media Storage until I had done that.

Thanks again, FadeFX
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] FadeFx:
Sry, forgot to mention that... ;)

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[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] Mekt:
I've been here so many times, hoping I must of done something wrong but I followed it right, I've cleared the date enough to lose count hoping that the albums that I put in "others" would show up, even restarting my phone after I've cleared it, they still don't show up at all.. and can't move them to another gallery folder on "files" due to it.
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] suhail.adil:
Albums don't show in photos

All albums appear correctly in albums tab, but the photos tab (where all pictures are shown) only includes camera photo and video and screenshot albums, tried the solutions above didn't work
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] berbo55:
Missing video Huawei

I have a Huawei Nova and 4 days after transferring videos from my PC to phone , discovered that they were ''gone''. Inspired by your suggestions , I tried: Settings, then Apps, then Gallery, then Storage, then clean data ....rebooted and videos ......are back.

Very much wonder if this issue wil come back in the future or is this a permanent ''cure''.:fingers-crossed:

Thanks a million for your suggestions
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
Hey guys, I have a major problem on my Samsung Galaxy Note II (N7100), that is it slowly corrupts my applications, whether I install them or the system apps that are already installed. Now I used the word "corruption" because that's how I can compare it to a computer and corrupted hard drives, files go missing, or become unreadable. I also experience a lot of random reboots, I assume because the corruption messes with system files and it reboots to reset said files. After each reboot I have most likely something lost, whether it is just settings (notifications reset to default sound), or whole applications vanish from the apps tab but show in the app manager as the android symbol and can't be opened or uninstalled/reinstalled.

The device wears its original Kitkat, updated from ICS, the one and only major update this phone had, and is rooted with kingo one click root.

I already tried a reset to factory, worked fine for a few hours, then started presenting the same behavior again.

This is a screen cap (it won't let me post the link, so I removed three dots and replaced them with # - i1383#photobucket#com/albums/ah298/Jo_The_Veteran/Screenshot_2016-12-02-21-48-55_zpss697tn89#png -) before the factory reset that show what I'm experiencing, applications are there, but can't be accessed or deleted or anything and sometimes even looking at this view causes a reboot. At this moment I have 1 or 2 apps that present that behavior.

So I was thinking to reinstall the firmware, maybe the same again, or some other ROM if it's better. The thing is, I don't think that will fix the problem either. If it's flash corruption then this will happen again. So maybe there's a tool that can isolate those damaged sectors of the flash memory? Is there a tool that can search for damaged sectors for that matter? Let me make something clear, this isn't the extSDcard causing this, the extSD is a brand new card and I can have it removed at any time and the problems remain. The problem lies with the onboard 16GB flash.

So I provided all the info I could think, but if you have any questions feel free to ask.

So any ideas on what's going on?
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
Excellent replies! :P

Well today my phone crash and burned. I booted into recover and get messages all over the board, E:Can't mount/cache/recovery/last_log, E:failed to mount /cache (Block device required).... a bunch of others as well.

Tried a data reset and another batch of errors followed.

Is the phone memory dead? Can I do something? Anybody?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
You can flash the stock firmware via Odin, then see if the problems remain.

Did you recently update the stock firmware? Such as with an OTA update?
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
I had some OTA updates arrive almost immediately since I tried a factory reset, some Samsung security updates I believe.

I tried flashing with ODIN, I used Odin3-v3.07 because it has worked for this phone before.

So I went through this whole process : Volume Down + HOME + POWER, enter the custom OS programming menu, hit volume up, it is at the screen "downloading, don't turn off". Connect USB via ODIN, it shows <ID:0/006> Added!!, hit PDA button, load N7100XXUFND3_N7100OXAFND3_N7100XXUFND3_HOME.tar (I'm downloading another firmware as I write this, just to cross reference). Anyway it says :

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

then after a while

<OSM> N7100XXUFND3_N7100OXAFND3_N7100XXUFND3_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

I hit start, it did some actions but then said fail almost immediately.

<ID:0/006> Odin v.3 engine (ID:6)..

<ID:0/006> File analysis..

<ID:0/006> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/006> Initialzation..

<ID:0/006> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/006> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/006> sboot.bin

<ID:0/006> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/006> FAIL!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Then I saw this post

http://xdaforums.com/chef-central/android/nand-write-start-fail-odin-soluction-t2851096

but haven't tried it yet. I wanna try the other firmware first.

That's another subject altogether? Where can I find the official Samsung firmware? Currently I'm downloading from http://www.sammobile.com/ and the other one I tried that failed I downloaded from this post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2740496 (the first one).
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Sammobile .com or samsung-updates .com are where you can get the official firmware, you just have to make sure its the most up to date version for your model number and that it is the correct firmware for your model number and carrier/region/country.

For troubleshooting why you got a failed Odin flash, you can try reading this thread also. The thread is from the S2 forum but the process is the same.

xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-t2345831
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
Ok found it but I'm still downloading it (another 27 minutes or so left).

Did some edits in the second post, added more details. Please take a look if you will.
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
Unfortunately the sammobile N7100XXUFNL1_N7100EURFNL1_EUR firmware didn't work either. Same errors. I'm downloading specifically the Italian firmware, since this is the country where I got this phone from, but I have little hope it will work. In my mind this problem sounds like a hardware fault, NAND Write Start!!<ID:0/006> FAIL. I do hope I'm wrong though. Replacing an eMMC looks like a serious pain in the ass. And although I own most of the tools for that job, I do want to avoid it and only try it as a last, last resort.
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
Tried a bunch of odins 3.07,09,10.6,11.1,12.3. None worked, same error.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I doubt it is the eMMC and I don't think it has anything to do with which version of Odin you are using. Have you read the thread for troubleshooting a failed Odin flash? There are options in Odin that do different things. Just don't use the NAND erase all option, that won't go very well for you, you nay can try finding the PIT file for your model number and try flashing the PIT along with the firmware but that should be a last ditch effort if nothing else works, that can go bad sometimes also. They can be finicky sometimes even when flashing the absolute correct files, sometimes it takes 3 or more flashes before it works.
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
I didn't want to explore the PIT option, everyone says it's a bad idea. Btw I have tried EVERYTHING in the odin section troubleshooting. I'm even trying in another PC today with other USB 2/3 ports.

I also kinda cross referenced the eMMC must be ok since I see the product number in recovery, if I can it means it's fine (or so I read), so that's a definite relief.

What does PIT does anyway? Is it possible I loose even the firmware install option? Or is that hard coded into the device? I'm asking cause I managed once to enter recovery, I had a bunch of error messages in red "E:cannot mount... log file" stuff, I don't remember. A LOT of them. Would a new PIT fix that?
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
I tried to flash CF-Auto-Root-t03g-t03gxx-gtn7100.tar with odin as well. Same error. Nothing works. At this point I'm just trying out pretty much anything really.

I've tried this because I'm thinking how computers act in situations like that again. If the computer is stuck at boot, it's probably the bootloader and boot section at fault (if the disk is ok). So how can I go and fix that? How can I reinstall the stock bootloader? Does flashing a firmware do that as well? Or do I need that PIT thing? Or something else?
[General Questions and Answers] remosam:
for sure your emmc is starting to get hardware failure, a reflow could fix temporary this issue
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
Yes, the bootloader is included in the firmware. I get the feeling that your bootloader is corrupted also instead of it being an eMMC issue because you are getting the failure error when it tries to flash your boot.img.

Have you tried finding your firmware in a 4 part file? If you can find one, it is flashed by placing each part in its own slot in Odin instead of in the PDA/AP slot like you would with an all in one firmware file. You can try flashing just the bootloader by itself and then see if it boots or flash each other part individually, you can extract the boot.img from the firmware if needed by using Cygwin or a VM running a Linux distro if you have a Windows machine, or a Linux machine if you have one. I can get you a thread with instructions for extracting the firmware and making your own Odin flashable .tar if you need it. The bootloader and the kernel are both in the boot.img contained in your firmware. They both effect whether the device boots as it should.

In my time here I've rarely ever seen a device with eMMC issues out of the hundreds of different models of devices I've encountered so don't give up yet. Its possible that you are having memory failure but in my opinion it isn't likely, I could be wrong though.

To answer your earlier question about the PIT, it is basically your partitioning table.
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
What had me going thus far was this post here

http://xdaforums.com/chef-central/android/nand-write-start-fail-odin-soluction-t2851096

but this must be one of the most incomprehensible guide I've even seen online. The writer is definitely not versed in the English language. Still the whole concept got me going, I experience the same errors he describes, and he says there's a solution. Alas, I can't make heads or tails of his explanation though.

Still now you as well give me great hope, I've almost given up on it and was looking for replacement eMMC chips and soldering methods.

Please provide the links and I'll try that as well.

Also, is there a way to absolutely know if the eMMC is not busted? All I found was a mention that the device name must appear in recovery, and mine does, so that's definite? Are there any other tests? (other than failing every flash attempt and having a corrupted bootloader, which is kinda obvious)
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
Yeah I have no Linux vm, will parted magic work? I have a flash drive with a small linux environment, but I know next to nothing about linux, would be better if I could find the boot file directly.

Still I don't think that'll work either because, well wouldn't the boot file be the first that the firmware try to install? So maybe I need to remake the PIT, see if that helps. The things is, other than in a PC, I don't know how that works in android. There's a bunch of programs made for partition recovery or reconstruction, is there one for android?

And If I do try that and it ****s up, do I loose recovery as well? Or is that hard coded to an EPROM BIOS or somewhere?
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I'm not sure if a Linux USB or CD would work but you can try it.

I'll link you some threads to help explain what you're asking.

For extracting the boot.img, look here

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2138885

For how to create a Odin flashable .tar with what you extract, look here

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2154762

The PIT file for your model number might be available for download somewhere, just do a Google search for

"PIT for (your model number)"

I'm not sure about partition recovery programs for android, I'm not sure that's possible, I've never had to try it.

To explain the ins and outs of android firmware, look here

www.addictivetips.com/mobile/android-partitions-explained-boot-system-recovery-data-cache-misc

Recovery partition is not like PC, no EPROM or BIOS, android recovery is flashed on the eMMC either in its own partition on some devices, or in data partition on some, or its packaged along with your kernel(ZIMAGE) on some. Intel based android tablets have an actual BIOS but they also use a separate bootloader, android is a fickle thing and varies in structure from brand to brand or device to device, they're all different.

I'm trying to help you but I'm not making sense of what you have going even though I'm pretty experienced with Samsung. I'll keep trying to wrap my head around it, you have a software issue I'm pretty sure so there should be a solution SOMEWHERE.

Try reading through Q&A forums for the various Samsung devices here at XDA, there are many of them.

Here's a link to a list of all devices supported at XDA, read through some of the Samsung forums, you might find answers or solutions in their Q&A subforums.

xdaforums.com/?nocache=1&z=8504840892273933

If the link isn't showing the supported list correctly, view the forum in a browser and look at the bottom of the page and you'll see a box to choose the XDA theme are viewing in, select that and change the theme to the 2013 theme, then at the top of the page you'll see a tab that says "COMPACT", select that and you'll see the list, find the list of Samsung devices and start looking through the forums for those, find the Q&A subforum in each of them and see if there are any threads that help you find answers solutions.

I'll let you know if I think of or find anything that might help. If you have more questions, feel free to ask and I'll see if I can answer them.
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
Ok, I'll start digging around, see what I can find.

Thank you very much for all that info. I'll make sure to update this post if I accomplish anything, good or bad.
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
So I've followed this post. The writer seemed to know his stuff, so I've tried everything he told. Nothing worked.

I've even tried flashing the bootloader alone as a last resort like the guide creator stated, nothing.

This is what odin presents to me trying to do exactly that.

I also got a line of red letters in download mode reading SW REV. Invalid Magic String. exactly the moment I hit start when tried to flash the bootloader. Whatever that would mean?

Of course I also tried to recreate the PIT, which got stuck at

Which from what I can say is another classic error everyone gets.

Umm.. I don't know. There are like, millions of opinions out there, but no one who really know his stuff. I mean I read guides on "do this" and "that" but I don't read why should I. I mean, I think those people got there by experimentation, like "try this button, meh doesn't work, oooh try this now, works! Let's make a guide!"... this isn't right man... it just ain't.

Still trying though. My phone ain't totally dead. It has recovery and download mode yet. That ought to mean something... right???

I'm taking a break from all the flashing, it gets me a nasty headache. Will try again tomorrow. Would be cool if anyone had any ideas that could help.

Just a thought, can I use ADB commands to manually fdisk the partitions? I just noticed that apply update from ADB option in recovery. Could that work? Also again in recovery I noticed my firmware is the KOT49H.N7100XXUFNE1. None of the firmware I tried to restore has this code. Does that mean I did everything wrong all that time? I have

N7100XXUFND3_N7100OXAFND3_XEF

N7100XXUFNL1_N7100EURFNL1_EUR

N7100XXUFOE1_N7100ITVFOF1_ITV

and the

N7100XXDLJ2_OXA_FACTORY from that guide.

Could flashing that specific firmware fix it?

I haven't noticed all that before because I though recovery was dead because it takes a lot time to load. But it's there, and works as intended, it just gives a bunch of error messages not being able to mount the partitions, I assume the OS and CACHE.

Bah my head! Enough for today.
[General Questions and Answers] Jo The Veteran:
Ok I wanna ask something to make it crystal clear. Would a bad USB cable/port give me the

<ID:0/004> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/004> FAIL!

error?

Or would it give me an error prior to that? No one says for 100%, but if they get that NAND error everyone says change USB cable. I find that difficult to understand, what does a USB cable has to do with the inability of ODIN to copy data from one device to another? If it were a totally screwed cable it wouldn't find the phone at all, right? Anyway to make sure I used a USB to Micro USB adapter as well. No cable is included in that one, only the internal connections. Well that failed as well prompting that NAND fail message.

Let me put it in another way, does the original Samsung cable maybe have some chip in it, that is used in certain situations like that? Or is everyone who says change cable/use original when faced with the NAND write fail error just plain wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] ravkant shrma:
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[Android Apps and Games] Dissambler:
what ? where is the link?
[Android Apps and Games] cafehouse:
click the link but no results.
[Android Apps and Games] darkriff:
Just wanted us to watch the videos

links

launcher

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inotify

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control center

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jetlockscreen

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[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] FelixNolan:
i have j7 s-mj700h i want update to Marshmallow i tried to connect to kies and install many samsung driver but not connected.

i try use odin but when try boot to download mode com factory mode
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] ashyx:
You need the Samsung USB drivers.

Just install Smartswitch and it'll install the correct drivers.
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] FelixNolan:
still same proplem not connected to smart switch
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] ashyx:
You realise you have to boot to download mode not recovery?
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] FelixNolan:
i try boot to download mode but its boot to factroy mode and try force it to boot to download mode but not work
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] ashyx:
You're not pressing the right button combo.

Hold POWER + HOME +VOL DOWN until it boots to download mode then follow the onscreen instructions.
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] SidRose01:
for drivers issue,

1. uninstall kies

2. uninstall samsung usb drivers

3. install Samsung Smart Switch.

Also kies is not for you, use Samsung Smart Switch.
[LG G Flex 2] msmu27:
sory for bad english.

help me pleas. LG H959 imei number change code or software
[LG G Flex 2] adds08:
Cannot be posted on XDA...

Imei change is illegal in many countries!!

Imei recover is possible however