Hi,
Since installing the Box app for the free 50GB I found that it opens APK files by default, and I have to a file explorer to manually find them and install.
It doesn't seem like Box has any defaults set, but it still opens files it has nothing to do with.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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I'm having an issue with avi video files not having a default player anymore. I know that the actual default player cannot play them, and I do have other programs for it. Unfortunately though, I cannot seem to figure out how to change the default program used for a specific file type.
Searching the internet keeps coming up with going into Manage Applications then clearing defaults of something that currently is the default, but that option is always ALWAYS greyed out (I went one by one for everything in there). Regardless, I did find a program on the Market called "ClearDefault" that basically clears all defaults for programs, but it did not help.
Also, the problem is not that something else already is the default. The problem is that NOTHING is the default for it right now (something happened to change this but I can't figure out what).
There must be a file somewhere inside the phone that decides this. If it isn't accessible inside the phone, then I'm looking for how to do it manually via my PC, terminal, or adb.
This is something I want to learn for future reference as well as the current problem at hand.
Hopefully we can come together and figure this out.
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I forgot to mention that attempting to open the file via Astro or the browser's downloader just comes up with an error. I can obviously open the file/s via the player's file selection browser, but I cannot figure out how to make it open said player upon download or clicking.
kbone213 said:
I'm having an issue with avi video files not having a default player anymore. I know that the actual default player cannot play them, and I do have other programs for it. Unfortunately though, I cannot seem to figure out how to change the default program used for a specific file type.
Searching the internet keeps coming up with going into Manage Applications then clearing defaults of something that currently is the default, but that option is always ALWAYS greyed out (I went one by one for everything in there). Regardless, I did find a program on the Market called "ClearDefault" that basically clears all defaults for programs, but it did not help.
Also, the problem is not that something else already is the default. The problem is that NOTHING is the default for it right now (something happened to change this but I can't figure out what).
There must be a file somewhere inside the phone that decides this. If it isn't accessible inside the phone, then I'm looking for how to do it manually via my PC, terminal, or adb.
This is something I want to learn for future reference as well as the current problem at hand.
Hopefully we can come together and figure this out.
EDIT:
I forgot to mention that attempting to open the file via Astro or the browser's downloader just comes up with an error. I can obviously open the file/s via the player's file selection browser, but I cannot figure out how to make it open said player upon download or clicking.
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Long press in astro
select open as
select video
select default ceckbox
select program desired
finished
Thanks a lot for the response. I'm glad someone finally came to the rescue. Unfortunately, I tried that already (and forgot to mention it). It just opens the default HTC player which cannot play avi files. Although, I did try it again just to be safe.
kbone213 said:
Thanks a lot for the response. I'm glad someone finally came to the rescue. Unfortunately, I tried that already (and forgot to mention it). It just opens the default HTC player which cannot play avi files. Although, I did try it again just to be safe.
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Damn. I'd try installing again. Or you could dive off the deep and and convert all of them to h264 lol
Oh come on, no one on xda-developers (hackers united) can figure this out? I'm having the exact same problem! Except I have the issue with both music and videos.
Tapping an .mp3 in astro opens up the default Music player, and if I go into astro settings and remove 'audio' from the MIME type for .mp3s and long-press the file > open as > audio it still plays with the default Music app. Going into home > settings > applications > manage applications > music does no good because there are no defaults set, the button is grayed out!
And I have the problem with videos too, except in settings > applications > manage applications, there is no option for 'Dell Video Player' (I have a Dell Streak) or even 'Video Player', it's not even in the list!
If any android genius out there can figure this out I'd really appreciate it.
Is there a way to specify what app the File Manager app on the Eee Pad should use to open a file with based on file extension? For example, I want the File Manager to use ACV to open CBR files.
I noticed some apps are already associated with certain file extensions (for example ezPDF with PDF files). Presumably this association was made by the installer. Is there anyway for me to explicitly make file associations?
asincero said:
Is there a way to specify what app the File Manager app on the Eee Pad should use to open a file with based on file extension? For example, I want the File Manager to use ACV to open CBR files.
I noticed some apps are already associated with certain file extensions (for example ezPDF with PDF files). Presumably this association was made by the installer. Is there anyway for me to explicitly make file associations?
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With android devices, it will ask you about an unassociated file type. If the association is already set though, you can go in to menu/settings/applications/manage applications and then go to the app that whatever you're trying to change the association to and click clear defaults. For example:
I clicked on a jpg in my file browser but nothing is associated with it, it will ask me as well as giving me the "always open with this" checkbox. Say i pick gallery and but i install another gallery app later and want to change it. I'll go in to manage apps, then in to gallery, and click clear defaults. When you try to click on a jpg again it will once again pop up the list with apps that can read jpgs.
If the app in question you're trying to create associations with doesn't show up on the list though, i'm not sure how to manually set it a la windows.
So, I tried my first ePub book from my library today. Figured out downloading it on the tablet, but made the mistake of opening it with MyLibrary. I hadn't used this stock app at all until now, as all my reading has been things I've purchased or downloaded for free in Google Books.
It is, in a word, unusable.
It flickers constantly and doesn't respond to touches on the screen 50% of the time. It's not like I have a staggering number of documents on my Transformer -- it's only detecting a grand total of 45 things, almost all of which I would never want to open with it. Unfortunately, there's no way to limit it to a specific folder branch, but I digress.
My problem is that having opened my ePub file with MyLibrary, even though I intentionally didn't choose a default application on opening it from File Manager, it now defaults to opening in MyLibrary, even after a reboot. I've confirmed there are no defaults set for either MyLibrary or File Manager, and indeed even downloaded an app that listed all defaults on my system, and removed the only two that it found.
Still, the ePub will now only open with MyLibrary.
How--without rooting or wiping--can I get this hateful application either disabled or unlinked so File Manager will allow me to open the book in another app? I have other ePub-capable apps (eg. Nook) installed, so it must be possible to get my book into another app, but I can't for the life of me figure out how.
Easy, if you have Nook installed then go into file Manager, tap on the Nook folder then you will see MyDocuments folder. Move all your epubs into that folder and open the Nook App. Top Left select "My files" then hit the refresh icon top right. All your epubs should populate the screen.
Oh yeah, My Library is a piece of junk . . . lol
Just go to Settings > Applications > Manage applications > All. Scroll down to the Mylibrary app, select it and you should see 'Launch by default' there. Select 'Clear defaults'.
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I'm trying to remove some of the bloatware from my rooted OTA GB 2.3.6. I'm using Root Explorer and deleting select apk's and their odex file from the system/app directory. However there is one app called Rhapsody that I haven't got all the pieces, because the Rhapsody process keeps showing up in my running services list after I reboot. Both the apk and the odex file have been deleted. Anyone know what other file(s) I missed that are connected with Rhapsody?
Also, there is this rather annoying "media scanner" that runs every time that I boot my phone. Is this a must have, or can I delete it? It adds to my boot time, and if it doesn't have to be there, I want to get rid of it. And if I can delete it, what is the name of the app?
Lexus One said:
I'm trying to remove some of the bloatware from my rooted OTA GB 2.3.6. I'm using Root Explorer and deleting select apk's and their odex file from the system/app directory. However there is one app called Rhapsody that I haven't got all the pieces, because the Rhapsody process keeps showing up in my running services list after I reboot. Both the apk and the odex file have been deleted. Anyone know what other file(s) I missed that are connected with Rhapsody?
Also, there is this rather annoying "media scanner" that runs every time that I boot my phone. Is this a must have, or can I delete it? It adds to my boot time, and if it doesn't have to be there, I want to get rid of it. And if I can delete it, what is the name of the app?
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in root explorer you must delete the apk from /system/app and the associated data folder in /data/data then do a search of the whole system for 'rhapsody' as there might be little fragments left in dbdata or dalvikcache folders just delete anything with rhapsody in the name... as for the media scanning, there is a work around for this which I believe is putting a file named '.nomedia' in whatever folder you want excluded from the scan (music or pictures for instance), if you want no scanning at all put on root of SD card and that should stop it however this means you will have manually search/scan for anything you're looking for because that file will tell all apps trying to access what you're blocking that there's nothing there
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The Media Scanner feeds Gallery and possibly the default music player. I don't think it is something you can get rid of, but I could be wrong.
There is an app called Super Manager that makes it very easy to mark folders as "noscan". I use it so all of my ebooks don't show up in the gallery.
I didn't know about the additional related app files being in the data/data. What might be the repercussions if I miss cleaning up all of them? Do they just take up memory space, or are they being executed by the system, even if the apk and odex files are gone?
As for the media scanner...I take it this is a critical system function? Is it an indexer? If the ONLY way around it is the ".nomedia" trick...and there are obvious disadvantages to using this method, then perhaps it is just best to put up with the extra boot time.
UPDATE: Just ran "Rescan Media Root" from the Market. It stops the media scan from occurring. And you can re-enable it at any time by running this app.
I also got Rhapsody stopped by searching and deleting the rest of the associated files. Thanks for the help guys!
I'm a little late here, but Rescan Media works fine to stop the scanner, and Titanium Backup has a "Chuck Norris" mode of killing bloatware.
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Rescan media Root is what I use
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Hi all,
I have a Nexus 5 and I am trying to use the app "Smart Audiobook Player" to listen to my audiobooks. Inside the app, one can select a root folder to avoid the app from scanning the whole device and listing unrelated audiofiles in the library. When I try to do so however, and the app opens the folder list, It looks for a "/storage/emulated/0" folder which does not exist. When I go to "/" I can only see "/storage" and when I go into that it is empty! I use to have a Nexus 4 and I used this app on that device and I never had such problem. I guess it should have something to do with android M 6.0.1 directory structure and how it organizes user files. Anybody knows what might be the problem? Is there such folder as "/storage/emulated"?
P.S. When I open ESFileExplorer and brows the device I see "/sdcard" in the root of the device and when I go into that I see all my files. But obviously, the app does not see such folder in the root.
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I contacted the developer and he sent me a version that works. However, before that, I sideloaded an older version (2.7.3) and it detected the folders easily. After setting the root folder I updated it using google play.