Running a rooted Galaxy S2 with DarkyROM2 2.3.5 & SuperCore kernel. I have a 32 GB microSD card in addition to the 16 GB internal storage, and it takes ages to scan both when the phone boots. At times when I connect USB mass storage mode and later turn off, it goes into an infinite reboot loop. Have tried [this](https://market.android.com/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot) , but it doesn't appear to work. Any other workarounds?

I have an LG L7 mobile. Since 2 days ago, I had a serious problem with the media files scanner. I turned on my mobile and the media files scanner started scanning. After the scan is completed, it starts again and again, and it is scanning until now. I do not know if it is a hardware or software problem. What do I have to do?

I am using Musicolet player which has an option to use Musicolet scanner or system scanner for media scanning. I wonder why scanning some single huge file is so slow? Does the scanner have to scan each file byte by byte or what takes so long?

I want to know what the purpose of the system app "Media Storage" and the media scanner is for and why for any reason a user would choose to not scan media on boot.

I am trying to permanently disable the notorious power hogging mediascanserver or mediaserver (whatever it's better known) service on a rooted Jiayu S3. Here are my ADB commands: su pm disable com.android.providers.media/com.android.providers.media.MediaScannerReceiver top > /mnt/sdcard2/toplist.txt #Polling the output of top Now getting the file here on my PC: adb pull /mnt/sdcard2/toplist.txt c:\adbf\toplist.txt MediaServer process on line 242 in below o/p. So, my questions are: 1. Why pm disable did not work for Mediaserver? 2. Is there any other Android service in the below o/p which is running as a hack or resource hog and deserves to be disabled? 3. For a specific process I see below, how do I go about finding out the **corresponding service** name, so that the same can be disabled. E.g. the line # 241 drmserver. What is that process? How do you get the service name for it? ---- User 2%, System 1%, IOW 47%, IRQ 0% User 13 + Nice 0 + Sys 11 + Idle 304 + IOW 299 + IRQ 0 + SIRQ 0 = 627 PID PR CPU% S #THR VSS RSS PCY UID Name 9627 1 2% S 13 1031512K 49716K bg u0_a8 com.google.android.gms:snet 9751 1 1% R 1 1492K 488K root top 9578 1 0% S 87 1287976K 88152K fg u0_a8 com.google.android.gms 971 0 0% S 39 1065904K 207896K fg u0_a12 com.android.systemui 796 0 0% D 1 0K 0K root jbd2/mmcblk1p2- 129 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root mmcqd/1 177 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root kworker/1:1H 10 0 0% S 1 0K 0K root rcu_sched 11 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root migration/1 12 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root ksoftirqd/1 14 1 0% S 1 0K 0K root kworker/1:0H 15 2 0% R 1 0K 0K root migration/2 16 2 0% R 1 0K 0K root ksoftirqd/2 18 2 0% S 1 0K 0K root kworker/2:0H 19 3 0% R 1 0K 0K root migration/3 20 3 0% R 1 0K 0K root ksoftirqd/3 22 3 0% S 1 0K 0K root kworker/3:0H 23 4 0% R 1 0K 0K root migration/4 24 4 0% R 1 0K 0K root ksoftirqd/4 26 4 0% S 1 0K 0K root kworker/4:0H 27 5 0% R 1 0K 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Currently I am using a Samsung galaxy note-2 with custom ROM (slimkat 4.4.2.built 4 official). Since the last few days my media scanner is not working properly for some time. Sometimes after restarting it works fine, but not always. I already tried few media scanner apps from Google Play Store but when I run those apps, they crash. It scans only my phone content not my SD-card, while using phone browser I can access the card contents. But my gallery and music players are not able to scan SD card media. Does anybody have a solution for that? Or do I have to wait for slimkat net update?

I know this might seem like a very common question, but when I have searched for a solution it seems almost no one has this same problem, all that is discussed is how to hide pictures that no one should see, which is not my case. I need to stop the media scanner from scanning several folders and subfolders for pictures, but still scan them for audio media. My case is that I have a lot of music albums in folders with album art in the same folder. So in the stock gallery app I get all this album art which is meaningless. The following found 'solutions' would **not** work in my case: 1. to create a file named .nomedia, since that would stop the music from being scanned. 2. to use the privacy mode (I have a Galaxy S5), since that would still display all this album art when I am in the privacy mode 3. to use some kind of file vault, since that would hide everything in the folder from every app (I guess) 4. to use another gallery app, since KitKat doesn't allow non-stock apps to modify the external SD card I might consider rooting if that would enable non-stock app to modify the SD card, since I use ES File Explorer anyways.

I have an ASUS Zenfone 7 Pro phone running Android 11. This phone comes with an SD card slot and so I wanted to make use of it. It stored the files great, I can read the files all good. But I cannot make my Gallery/Android System ignore any folder on the MicroSD card. For example, I have a folder with album previews. These all show up as folders in Gallery - needlessly. So why I can't make the file? I don't know. If I open Solid Explorer and try to create a new empty file as .nomedia anywhere on the SD card, it will just time out and will fail at the task. I can only force close the app when this happens. Other apps just gave me an error, but nothing specific. How do I overcome this limitation? Maybe it's because the SD card is formatted FAT32? But I remember using MicroSD in my old Note 4 and other phones, and they handled .nomedia just fine. What changed? Something Android 11 related?

I have encountered a problem with several file managers which I have failed to resolve. Files in my device are not properly indexed and hence are not recognised by the file managers at least to my understanding. Instead of choosing a desired category in the file manager e.g documents or video etc, it shows as empty yet have several files of that type. I have to manually dig through the internal Storage to find the specific file see image: I understand in some devices running MIUI, the culprit apps usually are Downloads and MediaStorage so I have wiped their data and even uninstalled updates yet the problem still persists. Funny the problem does not in second space (multi user space), anything that I am missing. *Android 9, MIUI 11 Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 (mido)*

I have had this problem on both the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 (of all phones). I have a file, it is the same ringtone file I use on all my phones, it is an edited mp3 of a song I like. I put this file in the "Ringtones" folder of my device. When I go to change my ringtone, my new file is not available as a selection in the Android settings. Rebooting the device does not cause the new file to be detected. What I end up doing EVERY SINGLE TIME I have to add this ringtone file (I wipe my device occasionally) is finding the "Media Storage" app on my device and clearing its memory. At this point the phone thinks there are no ringtones, but then once I reboot, all the old ringtones are there along with my ringtone which has been in the same location the ENTIRE TIME. So I have a workaround, but can anyone tell me where I am going wrong?! This is driving me nuts! Is anyone else seeing this problem? I have to be missing something simple because all the internet forums I am reading are all straightforward "just put the file in the ringtones folder and it works like magic" which is very frustrating. EDIT: Some additional info, I have had the file there for a couple days now, just to see if that makes a difference. Rebooted the device over a dozen times in the last couple days. The file still is not available as an option. EDIT 2: See comments below. Seems to be something to do with how I am placing the file there, but still strange that media scan does not pick it up on reboot. Anyone know anything about media scanning? Maybe it is optimized on boot to skip folders like the Ringtone folders since those shouldn't change frequently...?

I recently rooted my Samsung Exhibit II. and was going through and deleting some bloatware and accidentally fat fingered and deleted the MediaScannerService not realizing what I was deleting. Does anyone no how to reinstall the service? I have tried downloading applications but they are just accessing the service and restarting it. Since the service has been deleted the applications essentially do nothing.

This is a seemingly common problem and I viewed the dozen suggested posts before posting this but none of that helped since it was mainly things I already tried. 50 GB worth of MP3s in /sdcard/Music I can see all those files in various file browsing apps and terminal emulators but no music player app can see them. I tried three different players already. They can see music files in Download directory but not in Music. There was a .nomedia file in there but I deleted it days ago and re-scanned media multiple times and rebooted multiple times. I had all this music in the same location on my last phone Pixel 3 Android 9 but then got a new phone Pixel 5 Android 11, moved all the files onto it, just via file copy from Windows, but player apps can't see them. It's almost as if that .nomedia file was still in there, totally invisible to me.

My Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 is rooted + 3rd party Jellybean 4.1.2 XXLS6 MIUI rom Music apps tested: DoubleTwist | Songbird | Google Music In all of these apps, the music list shows empty. I have tried: - Reboot recovery & "fix permissions" - Launching music files directly from File Explorer (WORKS) I have a feeling it may be partition or mounts or permissions related. That the apps just can't read the file-system or something? Can anyone suggest what other things I can try?

I often manage my files in Termux with scripts that use the mv command to move or rename them. I want to manually trigger MediaProvider to scan my internal stroage (/storage/emulated/0) or a given directory in it with command line, on a phone running Nougat or Oreo. When I use a GUI file manager application, all moves/renames are immediately reflected in other MediaScanner-dependent apps like Gallery, but changes done in a terminal don't, until a reboot. So I have to manually call MediaScanner to update my changes in the filesystem. Before KitKat, this worked well on /storage/sdcard0 (a separate partition named glow): am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED -d file:///sdcard The above command doesn't work now (/storage/emulated/0), obviously. I also tried this, but it doesn't seem to be working, either. am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_SCANNER_SCAN_FILE -d file:///sdcard Just tested the commands again, they seem to be working on removable storage like /storage/sdcard1, /storage/usba or /storage/{volume id} (it gets re-scanned), but not my phone's internal (where /sdcard points to, or /storage/emulated/0). Anyone have some insights? Rebooting my phone always causes a rescan but that's inconvenient in some cases. Note: the commands are run as root, so no concerns about permissions.

MTP (_Miserable Transfer Protocol_) failed once again. After moving a directory to a different path, it is still on the same path as before according to MTP. I already tried re-plugging the USB port and reading it from a different computer. Same result. Why is MTP so bogus that it shows a moved folder on its previous path?

I used this link Use Adb to disable Media Server hoping to permanenenly disable the battery hogging media server process . It did not work Mediaserver still runs on my Android 4.4 Jiayu S3 phone as /system/bin/mediaserver and I found another just as pricky process called /system/bin/drmserver which shows up on adb # top . So I mounted the /system in RW mode and removed -x from them both. After that I killed the existing processes for these binaries. The phone just froze . After a force restart it will NOT BOOT until I restored the -x bit again ( restored execute ) . What do these do . How do I ensure they don't run if they are not needed.

Is it possible to trigger the media scanner to update its DB via the command line? I have an SSH server installed on my Android device and I copy files to/from over the same link. It would be great if I could also trigger a re-scan for the media scanner. I am aware that there are applications on the market to do this via the UI but this is not what I want. Any help fully appreciated.

I want an app that can hide/encrypt selected pictures and video on the external memory card without moving them to internal storage where space is at a premium. This is the problem with Keepsafe and other popular apps in this category. I have rooted my phone & am using the Xposed media scanner module to exclude a hidden directory on the memory card, and done the platform.xml workaround to make the external card writable. I've also wanted to try the symbolic link trick by placing the files on an ext2 formatted partition on the memory card used for link2sd and then ln -sf from the internal storage, but that doesn't work either. The media scanner exclusion works, but the files themselves are still readable on the memory card. Is there any app, even a root requiring one, that can encrypt or hide the files as they are despite the stupid restrictions put in since Kitkat?

If a file called .nomedia gets put into a directory, the Media Scanner skips that directory, e.g. sprite images. Does that also work if .nomedia is a folder?

Is it possible to scan specific folders for music files and import them to some android media player app, which could then stream the music to a DLNA device? Another challenge is that the music files are on a NAS device, so they would be accessed through an SMB share (or AFP, or NFS share, if that changes anything). I found a way to mount it to android's filesystem (using command busybox mount iocharset=utf8 -t cifs -o username=guest,rw,noperm,iocharset=utf8 //192.168.0.106/xxx /data/media/0/xxx), so apps see it as a local folder (you must have root for that I think, also the kernel should support cifs filesystem, and apparently the android device should not be in battery saving state and iocharset=utf8 is important if you have file or folder names with special characters), but the problem is that many apps rely on android's media scanner service to find music, which probably has trouble scanning the whole mounted folder and the apps do not see all the music files.