Force Media Scan
Free App
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About Force Media Scan
This app forces the Android Media Scanner to run.
I do this whenever I see duplicates in the music list, or when I manually add and media to the device over USB.
It works with the newer phones including 4.0 ICS/Ice Cream Sandwich and 4.1 JB/Jelly bean, and now 4.2.
To test the media scanner or to clean out the media cache:
Go to settings.
Click All Applications tab.
Click Media Storage.
Click Clear Data.
Click OK.
Now run Force Media Scanner and click the Scan button.
It will take a long time the first time you do this, as it has to read and process each video, and music file on the device.
Afterwards, runs will be much faster, and it's just updating the media store.
It's new, so if you have any issues, please email me.
I do this whenever I see duplicates in the music list, or when I manually add and media to the device over USB.
It works with the newer phones including 4.0 ICS/Ice Cream Sandwich and 4.1 JB/Jelly bean, and now 4.2.
To test the media scanner or to clean out the media cache:
Go to settings.
Click All Applications tab.
Click Media Storage.
Click Clear Data.
Click OK.
Now run Force Media Scanner and click the Scan button.
It will take a long time the first time you do this, as it has to read and process each video, and music file on the device.
Afterwards, runs will be much faster, and it's just updating the media store.
It's new, so if you have any issues, please email me.
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What's Changed
V1.
V3> Looks like media scanning on 4.2 doesn't work now that the insertion event is ignored. Updates to support external SDCards on 4.2. Yay! Works now for me!
V4. Minor changes to suppot 4.4 KitKat.
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V3> Looks like media scanning on 4.2 doesn't work now that the insertion event is ignored. Updates to support external SDCards on 4.2. Yay! Works now for me!
V4. Minor changes to suppot 4.4 KitKat.
Version update Force Media Scan was updated to version 1.3
More downloads Force Media Scan reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
More downloads Force Media Scan reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
What are users saying about Force Media Scan
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It crashing all the time!
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on 4.4
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Crashes every time I try to use this app. Deleted
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It crashing all the time!
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Didn't work. Just crashes :/
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Report sent
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Crashing on kitkat
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No worky.
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After i Click the start button,the app always force close
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Doesn't work on 4.1.2.
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Exits with unhelpful message "nothing to scan"
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Crashes every time I try to use this app. Deleted
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It works fine in my device but it looks like it is not in other devices
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It doesn't work!!!
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Didn't work. Just crashes :/
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Crashes
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It opens and close it's not working properly
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Just crashes every time
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Stopped unfortunately
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Just crashes
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Very simple app: just a button that does exactly what it is supposed to do. This is a feature that should have been built-in to Android itself.
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On my Samsung Galaxy S5 mini running stock Android 4.4.2 (rooted) it doesn't work. Just force closes- A fix would be very much appreciated.
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A one-click method would be nice. Otherwise, it seems to work.
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Nyc 1 but takes alot of time to scan!
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Crashes as soon as I open it in Android 5.0.1
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Work great
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CEP crashing
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Force closes on KitKat
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Just crashed. Note 2
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Just crashes
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Crashes on starting scan
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on 4.4
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A one-click method would be nice. Otherwise, it seems to work.
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When I try to scan media. Note 3
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Does not work on KitKat
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Tiny, compact and works great. Cheers!
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Force crashes. KitKat rooted S5
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Force close ugh
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This app worked great for a while. Now, all it does it crash every time I click scan media. Maybe an update caused the issue not sure but it's unusable at this point :-(
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Kinda surprised me when all my media appeared. I waited ten minutes and nothing happened, so I force closed it but when I looked through my gallery and music player, I noticed that everything was suddenly back to normal. So yeah, it worked but it needs some improvement. Thanks, anyway.