Hello, some of you may noticed it. There is a new section in Samsung's file manager software. It's a list of all accessed files "timeline"
How can I disable that? Or at least delete it contents from time to time?
Thanks in advance
Additional information. I guess this only applies to Samsung Galaxy Tab's.
I've got here a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7°
Didn't find anything helpful via Google, so maybe someone here knows about it and can help me/us to disable it (my device isn't rooted if that is important to know)
Regards
Meh
No idea. When I delete all cache files from 'my files', 'gallery' and 'media storage' it also clear temporary this Timeline. But it will only last a few moments.
Any additional ideas where to look at are very welcome
facing the same problem here
cant find any way to disable this new crap function
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Hello
I was hoping someone could help me out with some info. I'm trying to figure out how to remove items from the installed apps list. There are some apps there that is uninstalled and so trying to uninstall them again just shows an error.
Can I somehow edit the list?
I'm new to android but I am used to Linux and I have root access plus terminal and scripting (python) installed.
It's android 1,6.
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Doesn't anybody know?
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Thanks for the help guys!
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You might want to consider what the rules say about posting. It says give appropriate time for people to answer.
I found your post because I have nothing better to do than go one by one through threads. I don't think I has been visible to many people (unless you got a really high views number), but then again might be that the ones who saw simply don't know the answer.
I do not know the answer to your question but all apps that show in the list are either in /data/app/ or in /system/app/ once you delete them from there they are actually uninstalled and removed from that list. Note that /system/app/ is a read only file structure and you need to remount it as RW with terminal or use something like Root Explorer. As always, there is a reason for it to be read only, so you dont mess with it unless you know exactly what you're doing. Apps here are the ones that you cannot normally uninstall.
Look at the date of the first post. Deleting from those folders does not remove apps from the installed apps list. They just show up with a size of zero. Deleted them from the cache too and still no luck. Android must have some kind of file or database with installed app names. Only way to remove apps is to delete them, install them like normal apps and then uninstall them. Someone must know where it actually get the items on the installed apps list from.
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I remember when I was removing Motonav from Milestone, in some tutorial there was some xml-scutrctured file containing all that information, but now I can't remember it's name and location, sorry
Hello,
i have search for about 30minutes but i wasn't able in finding a solution so i will start with the generic question and then go into the specific..
i am trying to look for a way to have logged (with an app or any other method) all the recent files read on my device.. so that if i launch an app which reads some files, anywhere they are stored, it will report me what was opened and read..
in the specific i have a app installed which saves the info into a file surely (i doubt it uses any kind of database). i would like to get in hold of that file and since i don't know where to look into my phone memory i was looking for a sort of file logger which could help me in this way. Else it could be also usefull to know if there is a specific folder dedicated for saving files of the various installed apps..
thanks
/mStation
Italy!
My Samsung Galaxy S4 is infected by virus.
The virus loads a application that locks any inputs to the touch screen immediately after start up (brown section in the attached image).
It disable any input to the screen - meaning, you can't open any application as if the installed apps are protected by another transparent layer of application.
In the attached image, if displays "<app name> is Ready now!", and "Open" next to it. when you tap "Open", it will load the application, but you won't be able to do anything because input to the touch screen are all locked. Meaning the tap input is just not working.
It also disable the commands to the phone "Menu" and "Back" option that Samsung Galaxy S4 has. So, tapping any of these gives not activity.
The attached zip file have the folders (some with subdirectories and files inside) that this virus creates automatically at startup as follows:
GoAdSdk
Nearby
tessdata
wdh_update
sc5.txt
SessionTime.dat
These files are residing in the phone memory and listed like other app folders.
Even if you've deleted these files/folders via Explorer after accessing the phone via PC, they automatically get created at phone startup.
I wasn't able to open apps like Task Killer and be able to tell which apps are running in the background as this caught be by surprise.
Does anyone know where are the Startup Files for Samsung Galaxy S4 resides in the root directory. My thought is, if I delete the startup app for this virus in the startup folder, it will prevent it from starting up with the phone.
If possible, I would appreciate if one can upload a screen shot or startup app list for samsung so that I don't deleted the genuine critical ones. But I'm desperate in knowing the directory where these apps and startup apps for installed ones resides in the root folder.
I would appreciate any help that one can profide on this. I am only able to access the phone via MobileGo application by Wondershare.
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. if it were me I'd flash the stock firmware with odin and return the phone to like new condition. That way you are assured that you'll get rid of the virus. you didn't mention what variant of the S4 you have so I can't point you in the right direction to get further help.
Hi! I'm a newbie in this forum. I need help on my samsung galaxy S2. It have problems and I don't know what to do.
The problems:
-Can't capture screenshot(s) and says storage is full, but there is 3,4 gb unused
-can't capture photo(s) and says storage is full, seems same case with the first one
-can't open samsung/stock gallery app, which also says the same thing
-can't make new folder in samsung/stock file explorer, and says "folder creation failed."
-can't make any new file/ edit files (rename, delete, move only works as copy, and edit file in app like microsoft word)
-mostly the problem is in usb storage.
I wanted to screenshot the problems but I can't. It seems like my usb storage is locked by itself or whatever I don't know because I'm not that good at technology.
Okay, I searched google and gets similiar like mine (problem) but I don't find it solves. And note that I rooted my phone about 6 months. Thank you! Please reply asap because I use my phone for business.
Hello All,
Can anyone help me with one problem, please? This is regarding WhatsApp media history. It is growing too large and consuming space with unnecessary media files.
I did "Clear chat" activity for some threads I believed were obsolete. But surprisingly, although chats were cleared, media files themselves were left untouched in the file system!
As a result I now have lots of orphan media files, which are not referenced in any WhatsApp chat. I cannot simply delete WhatsApp Media folder from the file system, as I have useful media there.
So my question: is there any way to scan the WhatsApp Media folder and delete orphaned/unreferenced media files?
I'm using Galaxy S8.
Thank you!
I have exactly the same problem, also looking for a solution here.
If anyone have a clue on this, please share.
Thank you !
I'm on same page in 2019.
Whatsapp backup on android seems to do a differencial backup on all files of whatsapp folder and is always larger than whats being listed on Storage option.
My ratings are so bad: Storage says 17gb and backup says 60gb ;/
If I use file manager apps to delete dupes, some chats will not present the media.
It would be awesome to have an app to defrag whatsapp chats and media files.
Hi. I have this problem too! Storage says 19GB but actually its taking up 38GB!
Count me in as well. 2.6GB vs 3.16GB. It may not seem much but it's on a Note 5 with just 32GB of storage and I'm trying to squeeze every available byte.
Just leaving my ward.
I managed to solve this manually. Kinda. It was hell. Still a lot of orphan files.
Hope someone has an answer.
RonAshman said:
Just leaving my ward.
I managed to solve this manually. Kinda. It was hell. Still a lot of orphan files.
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How did you manage to (partially) clean up manually?
Any update on this issue ? Its driving me nuts having close to 20 gigs of unreferenced media in my phone.....I'm pretty sure Whatsapp can easily introduce a "cleanup" feature based on the same algorithm that generates the "storage" figure.
Once its done cleaning the Drive backup is as easy as deleting the old backup and creating a new one.
Question is what's the best way to submit this "feature request" which is in fact more like a bug report?
schaggo said:
How did you manage to (partially) clean up manually?
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I downloaded everything to my pc and looked for duplicates martching crc.
Then for like a week I went over pictures deleting the ones I was sure I didn't need, and also used the file name to divide them by year/month.
Not really the best option.
I'm in 2022 and with the same issue for years. Love to know who to code for Android/IOS and have Whatsapp integration options so I could search for each media file agains each group or direct channel to do :
- remove duplicated/triplicated media content by replace the file reference in groups/conversations ;
- than process all orphaned files that are not located in group/conversations discussion.