• Hide / Protect files : No Application required

By this trick, you can hide files without use of any application. You can hide media files like Songs/Recordings(Mp3, wav...), Videos(mp4, 3gp, avi...), Images(jpeg, jpg, gif, png...) etc. in your Android Device. This will also helpful to you to protect your private & secret files.

For this trick, you will need a file. ".nomedia" is a file, which is used to hide such media in Android phone. You can get this file by clicking here - Create .nomedia file.

A ".nomedia" file is a blank file, placed inside a folder. When the Android media scanner detects the .nomedia file in any folder, Android media scanner does not scan media files(sound, video & image) from that folder. So the images, songs or videos in that folder don't appear in the Gallery or Video/Music player.

Follow these steps to hide & protect media files:
➧ Firstly, get or create ".nomedia" file.

➧ Open file manager in your Android. Create a new folder or go to your created folder.

➧ Paste your Private Images, Videos, Songs, Call recordings, Recordings etc. in that folder. Means, paste those files in the folder, to which you don't want to display in your gallery.

➧ Paste .nomedia file in that folder. (Click here to create .nomedia file.)

➧ Done!! Those media files will not appear in Gallery, Music Library or Video Player.

Here, such media files are not encrypted or converted in other formats. They are just skipped from scanning by Android. If you use any other kind of "Media Hiding Apps", those apps will encrypt/convert media files & we can't open them directly.

But files, hidden by this trick, will always appears and can be opened in your file manager and other systems. To overcome this problem, place the folder in some other folders with different name.  This will be also one kind of hiding & protecting trick.


[! If you remove .nomedia file from the folder, those files will be appeared in Gallery or Music/Video player. ]
[! Such hidden files will still appear in File Manager and in PC. Those files will be hidden only in Android Gallery & Music Players. ]
[! You cannot hide files like Text file, Documents, Pdf, .apk, etc. by this trick. ]

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• Create ".noMedia" File

Default applications in Android like Photo Gallery, Android MP3 Player, Android Video Player will display all the photos, songs & videos from all of the folders in your device. But if you add ".nomedia" file in any folder, the media content of that folder will be disappear from the Gallery/Player.

".nomedia" is a simple blank file to hide pictures, songs & videos in Android based phone/tablet. ".nomedia" file will let you to Hide media files without installing any other application.
So start hiding your personal, private or confidential media files in your Android phone by just creating a ".nomedia" file.

Here are two simple methods to create a .nomedia file.

>>>  Method-1  <<<
(Direct Copy this file from another pre-installed Application in your phone.) 
► Open File Manager in your Android phone that you have installed.
► Simply go to ../sdcard/Andriod/data/.   
► In this folder, there will be a ".nomedia" file. Copy this ".nomedia" file.   
► Then create a new folder or open your any media folder & paste ".nomedia" file in that folder in which you want to hide your private/important media files.

>>>  Method-2  <<<
(Create file by Notepad in your PC.) 
► In your Windows OS, go to Start Menu » All Files » Accessories » Notepad to open notepad.
► After opening notepad file, don't write anything in that file. Just leave it totally blank, not even any space or symbol.  
► Then in notepad Menu-bar, go to "Save As" option.  
► In Save as Dialog Box at bottom, select "All files (*.*)".  
► To give a name for this file, type .nomedia and click on Save.
► Your ".nomedia" file is ready and copy this file into your phone.

► Click here how to use ".nomedia" file to hide media files without use of any application. 
[! Created .nomedia must be blank in thumbnail view as shown in above image. ]

Click Here for use of ".nomedia" file and more information about that.

You can download ".nomedia" from a link here given at below... !!
ツ Direct Download link (.nomedia file)

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