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[APP] File Expert - Best file manager for Android

* Powerful & Leading File Manager for Android platform - We have thousands of new users each day!
* All basic file operations - Copy, Paste, Move, Create and Rename your files and folders
* FTP/HTTP Server - Share & Manage your files without USB cable, just like Web Sharing or WIFI File Explorer, but we really does more because we can provide both Web & FTP transferring support
* SMB Client - Access your host computer from your phone, now using your phone to manage your PC via WIFI with SMB
* App Manager - Uninstall/Backup apps. We know there're many apps on the market could do this, but none of them could do this work silently. We're the ONLY one app that could install and uninstall apps silently which will makes your batch process more fast and cool!!!
* Zip/Unzip - Create and decompress ZIP archive. You can view your ZIP file just like accessing a folder
* Thumbnails - support jpg/png/mp3/mp4/3gp thumbnails
* Text Viewer - support very large TXT file. This feature is still under development, will continue to improve its functions
* Image Viewer - support both local and remote folder, we will support gestures and multi-touch in the future
* Search SD card
* Help your player to play medias which stores on SMB share (need your player to support HTTP streaming), just like some users on the app comments said that WE are the ONLY ONE file manager that could directly open some type of videos over SMB network
* File Picker - Let FE to help you anywhere you want
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Why choose FE? Here are the answers:
1. No ADs and it's FREE
2. Gives you almost everything you need to manage your phone's resources
3. Smaller size than competitors (Astro and ES are all bigger than 1MB, but FE is only 920KB)
4. Acceptable performance
5. Free technical support via email
6. Clear User Interface, most operations can be done only in touch
7. The ONLY ONE file manager that support both PC 2 phone & phone 2 PC wifi file transfer and directly play some videos and music via SMB
Give it a try and you will find more useful features!!!
Our Final Goal:
We want to make File Expert to be the best file manager/wireless file sharing app on Android platform
Thank you for your great support, and please give us a try and you'll find what you need! I promise.
Any feature requests or bug reports, please directly send to my email. You can see my email address below. I will try my best to reply every email I received. xinxiaoc AT gmail DOT com
If you like FE, please rate it on the market to help more users found us
Okay, that's all.
Enjoy.
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Reviews for File Expert by third-party website:
The Android Soul Reviews: File Expert Android App: Best File Manager on Android!
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/file-expert-android-app-best-file-manager-on-android/

Does it show/allow root files to be modified?
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madeSICC said:
Does it show/allow root files to be modified?
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No.
Also, on my Droid X, stock/rooted, I get a FC after I click the programs tab.

lexluthor said:
No.
Also, on my Droid X, stock/rooted, I get a FC after I click the programs tab.
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Sorry for FC. 3-4 users reported the same issue. But we cannot duplicate this issue on our test phone. Maybe it depends on your software configuration?
Could you please send me logcat?
Thanks very much!

madeSICC said:
Does it show/allow root files to be modified?
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We plan to support root capabilities in the future release.

madeSICC said:
Does it show/allow root files to be modified?
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Root ftp server allows to modify everything

Starting here some bug feedback
Or well at first: File Expert is just Great!
In the newest update were progressbars for copy and more, they are not working.
I see the bar but its the whole time full as if the copy is already done.
Hope for new updates

I found this in one of the 'best new apps' websites. I am loving it. The network features really grab me. I can easily - EASILY - log on to our company network and browse files from anonymous or login-required sources. And it links trivially to my home network, allowing me to push/pull from any public drive on any of the computers at home.
I also really like the look and feel. It is my preferred file explorer of choice.
Thanks for a great product.

Great File Manager...keep up the good work.

It is really good. Only if it could gain root acces... it could be an excelent replacement for Root Explorer.

Just discovered it today, great work

Had high hopes for this app... FTP worked for me but HTTP didn't, was disappointed no root access or facility to mount etc... uninstalled... will be keeping an eye on it though
Would be great if you put sshd in there too....

it looks better than ES and astro but nothing is like ROOT EXPLORER! its so fast, small, usefull and handy. plus, it can access all the system file and folders so easily and quickly without any problem. i'd recommend root explorer for all...
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Great app, successfully replaced Root Explorer for me. If only you can add an option to rearrange the toolbar icons, would be great.

I have remote smb folder containing about 700 images and it seems impossible to view last modifyed images first. Image viewer sorts images regardless of files sort order.

Very nice work!
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Very good app! Uninstalled ES File Explorer. Keep up the good work.

I think this is not a best file manager for Android. Even not from top 100.

Does this program work if run from an SD version of Android?

ROOT EXPLORER is the best of all

[Q] Renaming Files and Folders

Hi all,
Loving my Optimus 3D but can't seem to work out how to rename files and folders. I know once you have taken a photo it gives you the option to Rename, but I was wondering how I could go back and rename photos and video files, and folders from before (without connecting to my computer). Anyone know?
Also can you create folders within the phone for content? And can you organize content in the Applications section, e.g. sorting Downloads in order or placing them in different categories.
Any help would be much appreciated
Cheers

karlgent said:
Hi all,
Loving my Optimus 3D but can't seem to work out how to rename files and folders. I know once you have taken a photo it gives you the option to Rename, but I was wondering how I could go back and rename photos and video files, and folders from before (without connecting to my computer). Anyone know?
Also can you create folders within the phone for content? And can you organize content in the Applications section, e.g. sorting Downloads in order or placing them in different categories.
Any help would be much appreciated
Cheers
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To rename files and folders and create folders on your phone you'd have to have an explorer app that allows you to browse your filesystem. I'm not aware of any browser apps that don't require root (ie. Astro or Root Explorer) but then again, I've never had the need for one and always had my phones rooted.
You might wanna be carefull when renaming folders and files though.
I don't think the standard launcher allows changing the contents of the applications drawer.

Thanks for the response, appreciate it. At the risk of sounding like a total noob, what do you mean when you say having your phone rooted? I'm total new to smart phones and always just had an old simple mobile.
Also, is the Optimus 3D like the iPhone in that you need to hack it to install apps downloaded from your PC for free or can you install any apps via PC

get "estrongs file explorer". it's free and does many many many more amazing things than just letting you rename files without root requirement.

karlgent said:
Thanks for the response, appreciate it. At the risk of sounding like a total noob, what do you mean when you say having your phone rooted? I'm total new to smart phones and always just had an old simple mobile.
Also, is the Optimus 3D like the iPhone in that you need to hack it to install apps downloaded from your PC for free or can you install any apps via PC
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Rooting a phone basically gets you super access, kind of like having an administrator account on Windows. It comes in handy for example when you want to use custom roms, get complete file access, use screenshot tools etc.
And an Android phone is in no way an iPhone when it comes to installing apps. There's an option that when turned on allows the installation of apps you didn't get from the Market (it's in the Application section of your options menu). Presuming you only use free programs you downloaded you can just put the .apk file on your internal or external sd card and install it, either by using a file browser (such as the mentioned Estrong) to find the apk or using a separate app installer which you can download from the Market.

Awesome, thanks for the reply really appreciate it, and I actually understand it now.
So if I downloaded and installed an app or game from the internet for free, that usually had to be bought on the Android market or from Gameloft for example, could you get in trouble or banned/blocked in any way?
Sorry if this is a noob/inappropriate question
Cheers

no. google actiually lets you do what you want with your device.

Awesome, good to know. I'm really wanting the Gangstar games from gameloft but they aren't available to purchase via Gameloft yet. I can download the pirated versions and install them, but would Gameloft cause any problems when I did so or would I always have to play in airplane mode?

Most pirated software works just like the original version, just check if there's any installation instructions. The biggest disadvantage in my opinion is not being able to update pirated software through the Market.

You can use Polaris Office included in the phone as file explorer for all the naming, copying etc.. The name is a bit misleading

Nice, I didn't know that Polaris was a glorified file browser. Works great for viewing, editing and removing files and folders.
So, to the topicstarter, this is all you need to do the things you want. You can edit your filesystem and browse to your downloaded apps to install them (for example create a map called DownloadedApps, connect your phone to your pc, copy any downloaded apps to the map you created, disconnect, use Polaris to browse to the DownloadedApps map and click on any app you want to install).
If you want to rename a file or folder just long press on it and you'll be presented with all the options you need.

Yeah, I just had a play around with it, looks and works really good. Thanks for all the help folks much appreciated.
PS - If anyone could provide instructions and a link on how to install the Gangstar games (hereby showing me how to install ripped games at the same time) I would very much appreciate it. Been having no luck getting it to work

File Expert App thumbs up

Just wanted to share an app I found on the market that is truely awesome. It is called File Expert and it is a utility that allows you to browse the files on your device. It has root explorer functions and a whole host of other file operations and tools. The best thing it contains is a built in file transfer utility that allows you to transfer files via web browser, FTP, etc. from your computer to the device. And all of this for free what's not to love about this app??? I downloaded WiFi File transfer from Amazon because it was on a limited free download special several days ago and never even used it as File Expert does the same thing and very well i might add. Just an awesome app I highly recommend.
Android Market File Expert

Blackberrynomore said:
Just wanted to share an app I found on the market that is truely awesome. It is called File Expert and it is a utility that allows you to browse the files on your device. It has root explorer functions and a whole host of other file operations and tools. The best thing it contains is a built in file transfer utility that allows you to transfer files via web browser, FTP, etc. from your computer to the device. And all of this for free what's not to love about this app??? I downloaded WiFi File transfer from Amazon because it was on a limited free download special several days ago and never even used it as File Expert does the same thing and very well i might add. Just an awesome app I highly recommend.
Android Market File Expert
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thanks for support File Expert!!
Any questions or feature requests, please let us know: [email protected]
File Expert Dev Team

Blackberrynomore said:
Just wanted to share an app I found on the market that is truely awesome. It is called File Expert and it is a utility that allows you to browse the files on your device. It has root explorer functions and a whole host of other file operations and tools. The best thing it contains is a built in file transfer utility that allows you to transfer files via web browser, FTP, etc. from your computer to the device. And all of this for free what's not to love about this app??? I downloaded WiFi File transfer from Amazon because it was on a limited free download special several days ago and never even used it as File Expert does the same thing and very well i might add. Just an awesome app I highly recommend.
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Really good APP...I just installed and it is really fast over the WiFi network too. I also used Windows Explorer to use the ftp//ip port command to bring up the directory and transfer files and it works like a dream. Thanks for letting us know about this little gem! And thanks you File Expert Team for developing such a all in one useful app.

Kies air is a lot like this. Check it out in gtg's rom, and u can always tiba it and restore if u want to be stock
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Mounting remote file systems (CIFS/NFS/SSHFS)?

Is it possible to mount a remote file system, either SMB/Samba/CIFS, NFS or SSHFS?
If so how?
Do I have to root to do this?

The big question is what you are trying to do/access on the remote share.
From the way your question was phrased, it sounds like you just want system wide access. It would probably be easier just to get specific apps with remote share support for what you're trying to do.
There are quite a few file explorers and media players that have the SMB client support you're looking for.
ES file explorer and Solid Explorer both have share drive access that you can setup.
I've been using BSplayer for videos and it also has SMB support. I'm sure that plenty of others have it as well.
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Going this route also means that you shouldn't need root access to reach the network shares.

darksabre_x said:
The big question is what you are trying to do/access on the remote share.
From the way your question was phrased, it sounds like you just want system wide access. It would probably be easier just to get specific apps with remote share support for what you're trying to do.
There are quite a few file explorers and media players that have the SMB client support you're looking for.
ES file explorer and Solid Explorer both have share drive access that you can setup.
I've been using BSplayer for videos and it also has SMB support. I'm sure that plenty of others have it as well.
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Going this route also means that you shouldn't need root access to reach the network shares.
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Is there some reason I don't want system wide access?
It seems to me that requiring apps to have some kind of remote access would limit the apps I use.
What I mainly want is to treat remote files the same way I would treat local files in three circumstances: when seen in a file manager, when seen in an open dialog box, and when seen in a "save as" dialog box. The last two in particular for any app I wish to use not necessarily just those that are particularly enabled to do it.
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I don't mean to hijack the thread, but are there any roms or kernels available with cifs support? I've been looking around but can't seem to find anything...

File sharing between android devices

Hi
Yesterday I have come across a beautiful app called SperBeam which is used for file sharing between android apps.
I am able to transfer 1GB data(videos and photos) from my samsung galaxy s3 to asus transformer infinity tablet in 6 minutes. Thats awsome.
This software uses wifi if it is available, or else wifidirect technology.
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no results on google play for "sperbeam"
sounds interesting though...
edit: its "superbeam"

Thank you
Great find. Thanks for the share.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.majedev.superbeam

Wow, really like this app. Thanks for sharing!:good:

ES file Explorer is a also good option to tranfer files between android devices... and between android and pc? Any one have a good app ? Something that works like es file explorer would be amazing.

Chesterblue137 said:
ES file Explorer is a also good option to tranfer files between android devices... and between android and pc? Any one have a good app ? Something that works like es file explorer would be amazing.
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Why not simply use your PC's file manager via MTP?

What do you mean by that? Use the usb cable?

I still feel all these P2P file sharing apps are clunky and not consumer-friendly. That said, I'm going to fix that...I'm building an app called Drop, and it is a simple, fast, and secure way to share files with people/devices in proximity over WiFi Direct. It is going into a limited Private Beta soon, so if you're up for the challenge, (and running Jelly Bean) then sign up at www.get-drop.com. Seats are limited, and we have a rolling enrollment, so check it out.

whatisreal7 said:
I still feel all these P2P file sharing apps are clunky and not consumer-friendly. That said, I'm going to fix that...I'm building an app called Drop, and it is a simple, fast, and secure way to share files with people/devices in proximity over WiFi Direct. It is going into a limited Private Beta soon, so if you're up for the challenge, (and running Jelly Bean) then sign up at www.get-drop.com. Seats are limited, and we have a rolling enrollment, so check it out.
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Thanks Whatisreal. I just signed up. There are tons of file sharing apps in the app store, but they all look like they were made by engineers who know how the inner plumbing of your phone works, and they expect you to know too. I'm a casual user, and I'm looking for something that works for "everyone", not just the propeller heads! Kind of like Apple's approach (putting flame suit on..)

Sorry for bumping this old thread. But I am using esfile explorer to transfer files between pc and my phone/tablet using wifi. They are connected to the same wifi. But though I am able to transfer between tablet and pc or phone and pc. I am unable to do the same between phone and tablet. Of course I can install this superbeam for the same but I just wanted to know if it is possible by using esfile explorer. Also can I transfer files using wifi direct(ie without using the common wifi modem) using esfile explorer?

narasimhan said:
Sorry for bumping this old thread. But I am using esfile explorer to transfer files between pc and my phone/tablet using wifi. They are connected to the same wifi. But though I am able to transfer between tablet and pc or phone and pc. I am unable to do the same between phone and tablet. Of course I can install this superbeam for the same but I just wanted to know if it is possible by using esfile explorer. Also can I transfer files using wifi direct(ie without using the common wifi modem) using esfile explorer?
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I use wifi file transfer - ttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antosdr.wififiletransfer&hl=en
ES File Explorer uses this as a plugin so I can select multiple files or folders then take the option in ES to "share" and then share via wifi file transfer, you just need to have the app installed on both devices and make sure the receiving device has wifi file trasnfer running and recady to receive
The other option I use for files that arent huge is dropbox and gogole drive - again ES File Explorer can plug into those for easy upload and download

Actually ES File Explorer has the ability in itself to create a wifi file sharing hotspot. I just couldn't find it before. Now after some tries I finally got it to work. It doesnt require an external wifi(modem). ES file itself creates a wifi server (similar to bluetooth) to which other devices can connect and share files.

I've found an app called shoutr, that's available in the Google Play Store and at shoutr.net, that lets you share between devices without even having to have internet or WiFi access, pretty convenient!