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Just about everyone I've talked to about a good way to explore a rooted phone recommends Root explorer. I was a little put off on that it was not a free application, but I did attempt to buy it, only to end in failure. I can only assume that since I am a United States system ,and the Root Explorer's price is registered in £'s, that there is an issue when purchasing applications with currency other than what is listed. So my question is this:
Is there an American equivalent to the Root Explorer, a way to get around the currency issue, or a free alternative?
there is a root option on ES File Explorer (free app). i have never used it tho, so i can't say if it works at all.
I like Astro File Manager, a free app in the Market. I like it.
rdisanza said:
I like Astro File Manager, a free app in the Market. I like it.
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astro is nice, but you can't view root system files.
I just SSH in, you can see everything I think.
shark0807 said:
Just about everyone I've talked to about a good way to explore a rooted phone recommends Root explorer. I was a little put off on that it was not a free application, but I did attempt to buy it, only to end in failure. I can only assume that since I am a United States system ,and the Root Explorer's price is registered in £'s, that there is an issue when purchasing applications with currency other than what is listed. So my question is this:
Is there an American equivalent to the Root Explorer, a way to get around the currency issue, or a free alternative?
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dude...i have no issues buying apps priced in non-dollar currency. it requires i use my visa instead of amex...hope this helps..........
You can try to use EStrongs File Explorer, there is a root user option in the prefs. I have not had success so far but feel free to give it a try should you feel comfortable with the risk.
It works, give it root access and the check the Mount image as.... and it works as a root explorer with all the functionality.
Just remember to also check the Show hidden files - option.
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You can try to use EStrongs File Explorer, there is a root user option in the prefs. I have not had success so far but feel free to give it a try should you feel comfortable with the risk.
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lms1407 said:
It works, give it root access and the check the Mount image as.... and it works as a root explorer with all the functionality.
Just remember to also check the Show hidden files - option.
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Thanks to You both I was able to use EStrongs File Explorer to load The Htc fm radio widget and app to my system/app folder. Adb is pretty unreliable for me on Win7 64 bit.
Cheers
Vernox701 said:
Thanks to You both I was able to use EStrongs File Explorer to load The Htc fm radio widget and app to my system/app folder. Adb is pretty unreliable for me on Win7 64 bit.
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Rooted Evo on Sprint Lovers 3.7 1-10-11 update, Estrong's method worked for me. Need to enable Root in settings for Estrong and then choose the "Hiapk" option( CM was the only other option, and I wasn't on that, had no idea what hiapk was but went for it anyway!). Was able to easily copy my personalized widget.txt to the \system\customize folder, reboot, and the widgets that I wanted showed up right away.
Flawless.
try super manager in the market it works for me
ES explorer works very good. It has the option to explore as root but is disabled by default.
Enable the option in ES File Explorer and try it.
Super Manager
elliotn said:
try super manager in the market it works for me
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+1 - this worked for me perfectly and it's FREE.
ES Manager root access didn't work for my cappy - looked like it only worked for CyanogenMod and one other ROM....
i tried all of them, but non let me copy and paste to system folders!
how can i do it? tjs!
tutincho said:
i tried all of them, but non let me copy and paste to system folders!
how can i do it? tjs!
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In ES Explorer you must set the option to mount the /system partition as writable first. Once done you can do anything there
take a look at androotfile on google code it does the trick for me
http://code.google.com/p/androotfile/updates/list
i would also like to "vote" for super manager.
can't say i like the layout of the file list but it just works.
there is a less popular free alternative called "yaffs explorer" which IMO has an AWESOME file list layout (no huge icons... very slender, great overview) but unfortunately keeps crashing on me. i've only used it for maybe two minutes total and it crashed twice already. and just randomly while i was e.g. changing folders too.
would be nice if others here could try it out and if it doesn't crash on your phone - good for you. but if it does, i hope we'd be able to put a little pressure on the developer to iron out those bugs because i'd LOVE to use this thing as my primary file manager. hell, if it would be stable i'd pay a couple of bucks for it.
trevolutionary said:
You can try to use EStrongs File Explorer, there is a root user option in the prefs. I have not had success so far but feel free to give it a try should you feel comfortable with the risk.
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This one nice.
Go to the market, and download estrong. Its a great and goodlooking apps, almost can handle everything you need
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The stock FroYo browser seems to have some filetype restrictions giving the error
Cannot download. The content is not supported on the phone
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when downloading .zip and .doc files, and there are probably others that I haven't encountered yet.
Some elementary googling has led me to either 'AndroZip' or 'Download All Files' however I can't dissuade myself from believing that a lower-level solution, such as a flashable zip or something along those lines, exists somewhere. Does it? If not, what's the best way for dealing with this?
Have you tried other browsers to download these files?
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The stock FroYo browser seems to have some filetype restrictions giving the error
when downloading .zip and .doc files, and there are probably others that I haven't encountered yet.
Some elementary googling has led me to either 'AndroZip' or 'Download All Files' however I can't dissuade myself from believing that a lower-level solution, such as a flashable zip or something along those lines, exists somewhere. Does it? If not, what's the best way for dealing with this?
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Just grab Astro file manger. That will fix it up. Or use Firefox as it accepts all downloads
zelendel said:
Just grab Astro file manger. That will fix it up. Or use Firefox as it accepts all downloads
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Would you happen to know what's causing this?
Just noticed it's not taking .apk either.
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Would you happen to know what's causing this?
Just noticed it's not taking .apk either.
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It is because the browser doesnt know what to do with the files. That is the reason I never use the stock browser. Like I said grab Astro from the market and you will be good to go.
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It is because the browser doesnt know what to do with the files. That is the reason I never use the stock browser. Like I said grab Astro from the market and you will be good to go.
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Thanks for the clarification but as I note in OP, I'd prefer a low-level solution as opposed to hitting the market.
So this should be a rather simple fix somewhere...
perosredo said:
Thanks for the clarification but as I note in OP, I'd prefer a low-level solution as opposed to hitting the market.
So this should be a rather simple fix somewhere...
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There is nothing that you can do about it with the default browser. It is one of the probs with the basic browser, there are ways around it and they all come from diff browsers or getting a different file manager like astro or Root explorer. There is no update zip that will fix this without rewritting the browser apk.
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There is nothing that you can do about it with the default browser. It is one of the probs with the basic browser, there are ways around it and they all come from diff browsers or getting a different file manager like astro or Root explorer. There is no update zip that will fix this without rewritting the browser apk.
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I thought the issue was with file associations and not the browser; and that would make sense, considering I have nothing for handling .zips or .docs and I guess .apks were not meant to be installed this way. Astro automatically creates assocations for a lot of filetypes--did I understand wrong?
However, it doesn't seem as easy as I thought--no wonder since it hasn't been done already--as Android seems to have a funny way of handling associations...
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I thought the issue was with file associations and not the browse and that would make sense, considering I have nothing for handling .zips or .docs and I guess .apks were not meant to be installed this way. Astro automatically creates assocations for a lot of filetypes; did I understand wrong?
However, it doesn't seem as easy as I thought--no wonder since it hasn't been done already--as Android seems to have a funny way of handling associations...
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Its is as easy as installing a file manager that will work. It has been a known issue for as long as I have had an android device. One of the reasons I paid for Root explorer.
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Its is as easy as installing a file manager that will work. It has been a known issue for as long as I have had an android device. One of the reasons I paid for Root explorer.
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Here's a Google engineer's take which says that Android doesn't know what extensions are. However, the linux kernel has a feature-set for this. I do seem to have the /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc directory, although it is empty; which of course means I fail this test for the support of this feature.
I'm in over my head technically so I think I'll stop right here.
Requirments:A rooted fone,root explorer
Step1:move your whatsapp to sdcard via apps to sd
Step2pen root explorer ->goto data(folder)->data(again its a folder)->com.whatsapp
Step3pen databases->move both of those files to the databases folder of the whatsapp folder in sdcard(both of them are .dl files)#mark the step
Step4:after you moved it, go back to the com.whatsapp folder and open files
Step5: delete the logs folder,its useless anyways
Step6:close root explorer reboot the fone
now u will c that the same whatsapp which was consuming 25MB or more will shrink down to just 3-4MB
there are other methods too but this is the most simple and most effective one
thank you!
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Requirments:A rooted fone,root explorer
Step1:move your whatsapp to sdcard via apps to sd
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now u will c that the same whatsapp which was consuming 25MB or more will shrink down to just 3-4MB
there are other methods too but this is the most simple and most effective one
thank you!
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25MB or more will shrink down to just 3-4MB
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How Is that ?!!
How it works?
Or at least, Is there any disadvantages?
Best Regards
it is *.db files in database folder, tried but not working so now moved back to default stage
yeah guys it goes to the default state
it went to that state after a day for me
sorry
seniors please find some soln on it
by anyway can we manipulate whatsapp to keep its db in the memory card?
C'mon,
apps2sd,links2sd,amarullz...and whatnot scripts.
My logs are hardly worth 5 MB whereas the msgstore.db is worth 50 MB+. :crying:
This method hardly made any difference. :crying:
Need a different workaround. :crying:
Hi together
I just got my new S2 tab 9.7" wifi. I took the SD-card from my S4 phone and put it in the tab. Now it sees how much free space is on the card, it also sees the folders, but no files. I also can't write on the card.
What do I do wrong?
Many tks!
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Hi together
I just got my new S2 tab 9.7" wifi. I took the SD-card from my S4 phone and put it in the tab. Now it sees how much free space is on the card, it also sees the folders, but no files. I also can't write on the card.
What do I do wrong?
Many tks!
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If you are using mm, you need to give the file manager explicit permission to write to the sdcard.
The file manager should ask for this permission.
ashyx said:
If you are using mm, you need to give the file manager explicit permission to write to the sdcard.
The file manager should ask for this permission.
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Thank you ashyx. What is "mm"? (Sorry for my stupid question but someone stands on my brain)
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Thank you ashyx. What is "mm"? (Sorry for my stupid question but someone stands on my brain)
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MM = Marshmallow
Tks
I felt it's a stupid question...
It's strange. Android sees the card in Settings/memory. It also sees that 51 GB of 59 are full. But only sometimes it also sees the files. Sometimes it only sees the folders, and when opening them they seem to be empty. Just no files can be seen. But once it even worked to open Fotos on the SD-card, change something and save it again...
That's really strange, and I have no more idea what I could try else?
Sir Backe said:
Tks
I felt it's a stupid question...
It's strange. Android sees the card in Settings/memory. It also sees that 51 GB of 59 are full. But only sometimes it also sees the files. Sometimes it only sees the folders, and when opening them they seem to be empty. Just no files can be seen. But once it even worked to open Fotos on the SD-card, change something and save it again...
That's really strange, and I have no more idea what I could try else?
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Use a different file manager. If you're rooted the best is root explorer.
They also have a free non root version called Explorer or try ES Explorer.
ashyx said:
Use a different file manager. If you're rooted the best is root explorer.
They also have a free non root version called Explorer or try ES Explorer.
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I already did that. The phone is rooted, TWRP on it. Since Total Commander didn't work on the SD card, and also the built in file manager from Samsung I installed ES file explorer. And then it worked. But only for a short time. It's really strange.
Thanks for your help anyhow! I keep on trying and hoping...
Same here, tried several fm, and reformatted my Samsung evo+ 128gb from the tablet and win 7 still having issues.
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I already did that. The phone is rooted, TWRP on it. Since Total Commander didn't work on the SD card, and also the built in file manager from Samsung I installed ES file explorer. And then it worked. But only for a short time. It's really strange.
Thanks for your help anyhow! I keep on trying and hoping...
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You won't have any issues with root explorer.
Also MM manages sdcard access on a per app basis. The app must be mm compatible and request access permission.
App permissions can also be enabled/disabled in app manager.
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You won't have any issues with root explorer.
Also MM manages sdcard access on a per app basis. The app must be mm compatible and request access permission.
App permissions can also be enabled/disabled in app manager.
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tks ashyx. Yes, I already bought a new Samsung superfast card. This works now. Merry Christmas!
Had the same issue, it was definitively the card. Works perfectly with any file manager after getting a new one. Cheers
I can use the internal file manager and I've found one by cm_filemanager that works. But ES just doesn't show any files and a few others I tried seem to work but you just don't see any of your files on the phone.
Anyone know why this happens or have a way to fix it?
Thanks
I think this is because many apps, file explorers in particular, need to be updated to work properly with Oreo (android 8.0) as there have been changes in background process usage, permissions, security etc.
I think I read somewhere a list of file explorers that work 100% with oreo so you may wish to have a google.
Secondly, I would recommend to NOT use ES File Explorer as it is apparently a shady piece of $hit software
ES works at least better for me than Solid Explorer (which seems to have its development stopped), it doesn't obtain write access to the memory card.
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ES works at least better for me than Solid Explorer (which seems to have its development stopped), it doesn't obtain write access to the memory card.
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There's always Amaze file manager.
Works for me. Though, as with all FM apps now, the first time you perform an action on a file located on the external SD card, you will be prompted to grant access and need to do so by navigating to the root of the external SD card with the built-in file manager and hitting the "select" button.
I don't think it's 8.0 related because I have 8.0 on my pixel and ES File Explorer works perfectly.
I guess I'll just try giving some more FMs a try.
I thought I remembered this being a problem on my old z5 compact, but maybe I'm just making that up.
I use Total Commander [free, ad-free], the UI is not the most user friendly or intuitive, but it gets the job done, has tons of features, and works on this phone.
Lol r u seriously using ES? Dude that is just a garbage app full of spyware.
Totaly agree with @Dany XP
Avoid ES as soon as possible. Here is explorer coming from XDA which great (used since a couple of years) > FX file explorer
MiXplorer is still one of the best file management apps for any Android device. Open source and extensible.
I can recommend x-plore.
Really nice, very powerfull, and no ads!