duplicate empty songs, images

[shirhh]

Hi
Since i upgrated the os from GB to ICS, i have a problem with the music player and the gallery they showing empty duplicated files. For example, if i go the the music player i will see every song that i had before i upgraded the os twice, one is empty and does not play, the second one is the real file songs that i addes after the ICS upgrad, showing well, only once. I can't even delete the empty song from the music player.
Same on the gallery app
How can i fix this?
Maybe there is an index file for those files so i can delete it?
I tried already clear data from the app manager
Thanks

 

[bloodyhippo]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27607973&postcount=3

 

[slinbin]

And I thought I was alone on this.
I tried unmounting SD and remounting, did not work.
Unmounting and rebooting neither
I can cancel these files one by one, after first finding out witch one if the wrong not working copy, but we are talking thousands of files, so not an option.
Any suggestions ?

ps. this is not happening to all files but I have not found a pattern yet.

Update: I now took the SD out and put it in the pc, did a little cleanup (but no double files to see on the pc), did a defragmentation (do not think it had any effect but it is a healthy thing to do), at the same time I rebboted Gnote without the SD.
After this, replacing the SD in the Gnote it appears my problem has gone....nice

 

[shirhh]

Thanks
I just tried to unmount&mount, unmount&reboot without sd and i saw still dublicates but now both were empty because the music is on the sd that i put out that time. I tried and it didn't work

Slinbin - can you explain me again what you did?
I need to replace it with another sd and then to back again the original sd that i use?

 

[bcn_nospam]

I had them in triple... This is what I did.

First off, I had all my music and photos on my external SD card, I don't think this would work if they are on the internal SD storage.

Shutdown phone
Remove SD card
Restart phone
Music Player, All, Left click, Delete, Select all

Same for Gallery

Then shutdown, put the card again and restart

It took a few minutes for the indexes to be rebuilt while ICS was scanning the SD card and now all's good.

-- Be careful if you have Music and/or Photos on your internal storage because this may delete it forever!!! -

 

[shantanubarik]

Same problem was with mine. Just go to application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application and just delete cache and data and restart. It will solve the problem a it force to re build data base

Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2

 

[slinbin]

Thanks
Slinbin - can you explain me again what you did?
I need to replace it with another sd and then to back again the original sd that i use?

1. I had all my pictures and music on the ext. SD.
2. Took it out
3. Rebooted GN without any SD card
4. (did cleanup and defragment on PC during this but do not think that helped removing the dublicates)
5. reinserted the SD
6. Viola ! it is working fine without the dublicates

PS: reading bcn_nospam's post above I think he/she ? has the better solution (now i do not have the problem so I can not test it) but a corrupt cache as reason for the doubles makes sense.

 

[Coolkriss]

Same problem was with mine. Just go to application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application and just delete cache and data and restart. It will solve the problem a it force to re build data base

Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2

This would be the ideal solution. Do not panic after doing this.

This process basically cleares the cache and the Android OS will start finding all the media files (Photo, Audio and Video) .. then you should have a single copy of the ..

I did not try the Mounting an unmounting method...

 

[chriswilson_m3]

I deleted the data from the music player and gallery application through: application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application. I then unmounted the SD card and re-mounted it. All issues corrected.

Is this a bug with ICS on the note??? I am routed and I have the Speedmod kernal running on the standard ROM. I would be good to know if the cause is a standard bug or something I have done?

Thanks

 

[NealJ777]

Same problem was with mine. Just go to application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application and just delete cache and data and restart. It will solve the problem a it force to re build data base

Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2

How do you remove the duplicates from the Cloud version of Google Music?

 

[ruffrideralec]

Duplicate Music Samsung Galaxy Note

I have the same issue, and working on my second phone.
Initially I thought this problem to be caused by Google Music, downloading and adding music files to the phone. So, I did a restore and stopped Google from accessing the web and syncing with online. But then it happened anyway. I'm also having issues with the photo gallery giving blank thumbnails for photos and not being able to access them.
Samsung has no clue about these issies. I contacted Samsung today,919/12 and spoke with a rep. The only advise the rep had was to clear the application cache, which DID NOT WORK for me. Or do a restore which I'd already done and landed me back at the same place.
Switched from Sprint to AT&T to get this phone but could have stayed with Sprint and gotten the Galaxy S3 which I understand is not having these issues.
As yet, a 2nd level rep has contacted me back with no fix, but suggested it could be a bad batch of phones and said I should try another from another city. So I'm going to take a 30 mile drive to the next city and do the second exchange I've done in the last 10 days.
Anyone come across a fix for these issue feel free to email me [email protected]

How do you remove the duplicates from the Cloud version of Google Music?

 

[sdvsf]

Same problem was with mine. Just go to application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application and just delete cache and data and restart. It will solve the problem a it force to re build data base

Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2

:good:thanks man this really helped me, this worked for me if anyone has this problem try doing this first.

 

[ruffrideralec]

Samsung Galaxy Note Duplicates

Didn't work for me.

:good:thanks man this really helped me, this worked for me if anyone has this problem try doing this first.

 

[washin21]

Clearing data and cache solved the issue for me till next restart. What solved it was clearing data cache and dalvik cache. Try that.

Enviado desde mi GT-N7000 usando Tapatalk 2

 

[NealJ777]

How do you remove the duplicates from the Cloud version of Google Music?

Okay. I deleted my full library from the cloud and I'm currently re-uploading my library.


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[sdvsf]

Didn't work for me.

try doing what user: washin21 suggested. clear data cache and dalvik cache, and see if that works.:good:

 

[ninja08]

I deleted the data from the music player and gallery application through: application manager> all application and search media storage, music player, gallery application. I then unmounted the SD card and re-mounted it. All issues corrected.

Is this a bug with ICS on the note??? I am routed and I have the Speedmod kernal running on the standard ROM. I would be good to know if the cause is a standard bug or something I have done?

Thanks

I think its a bug with ics. Because my Sony Xperia ion is having this problem and my brothers atrix hd Had this problem

 

[Triarius]

Welcome to the wonderful world of android. Erasing the media cache will solve the problem temporarily, but every time you reboot the device it will scan and duplicate all of the media database entities and create new empty duplicates. This renders any android device (nearly) useless as a media player.

I have verified that this issue exists on multiple roms on the following devices:

Droid Incredible 1: GB
i-9100: GB
i-9100: ICS
N7000: GB
N7000: ICS

In fact, I have yet to use an android device that doesn't encounter this issue. It seems like a pretty major issue for a smartphone to be unusable as a media player but no one else seems to complain much. I've wasted hours on this issue.