Force Media Scan was a tools app developed by PromethylHosting.com. It was removed from Google Play May 10, 2018 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Force Media Scan had been downloaded 22 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Force Media Scan was rated 3.10 out of 5 stars, based on 370 ratings.
App Information
Force Media Scan was free to download. The APK download size was 184.44 kB. The last available version was 1.3. The last update was on January 19, 2014.
Technical Requirements
Force Media Scan required Android 2.2+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play November 2012.
Description
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.
Recent changes: 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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★★★★★
Works great Worked without a hitch. Scanned all my files nicely
★★★★★
Hariom Pandey My music ,gallery & so not work (I downloaded this app
★★★★★
It did work for me. It did work for me on Android 4.1.2 on ZTE Majesty. Did add MP3 files in sdcard downloads folder to Music library. Followed instructions. Files are tagged.
★★★★★
It worked 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.
★★☆☆☆
Does NOT run on my Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini being on KitKat (4.4.2) 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.
★★☆☆☆
It just crashes 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 :-(
★★☆☆☆
Force close When I try to use the app it force closes. Nexus 5 unrooted
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