

Imagine you have your phone set to a custom ringtone you have stored on your SD card, and you miss a call for an important meeting or interview or whatever else because your phone didn’t ring. You then go to your settings and discover that all your ringtones are gone! You had just flashed a new ROM, so your first instinct might be to post an excited and/or panicky comment on that ROM’s thread, but you might not be aware of the true source of this issue: the 8/15/2012 update to ROM Manager.

Thanks to Rootzwiki developer erishasnobattery (again) who confirmed the bug, we now know that the reason why some of you may be missing your ringtones, pictures, videos, and audio files. ROM Manager, in its 5.0.1.3 update, placed a file called .nomedia on the root of your SD card, which causes the media scanner to skip the entire SD card when it scans your phone for media at startup. This will not only hide your ringtones, but also all of your other media files (don’t worry, they’re still there on your SD card, only your phone doesn’t know it). ClockworkMod, the developers of ROM Manager, are aware of the issue and tweeted that the issue has been fixed in the 5.0.1.4 update now available in the Play Store.

Erishasnobattery also provided this workaround in case you still don’t see your media files: delete the .nomedia file on /mnt/sdcard/, clear media storage data, remove ROM manager, reboot.





How to clear media storage data for those of you who don’t know:

(1) Find Media Storage in settings/apps/all apps, (2) open app info by tapping on the Media Storage icon, clear data

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