how to avoid media scan on samsung galaxy note android

android system by default will scan your phones memory for any audio, video and pictures and add them to the media player/gallery. This in a sense  can be very annoying as they will scan everything even files under application etc and add them to gallery/player.

So, how to avoid it??


method 1:-

Just add a ‘dot’ (.) in the very beginning of the folder-name. (myfolder -> .myfolder) It will avoid scan by hiding the files. u need to click "show hidden files" if want to open the files in file explore.


Method 2:-

Simply create a blank file and call it .nomedia. Whatever directory this file is placed into will indicated to the Android media scanner that any media files inside this directory should not be indexed and left alone. You can do this on the phone via Astro (or a similar file manager) or a terminal app (just do ‘touch .nomedia‘ – touch is a unix command that will create the specified file, but not actually populate it with any content).



enjoy your android system...:-)

ben