Hi. Like to ask something about what appears in the picture. I made the folder but deleted by mistake. I created a new folder. How do I lock or secure it in some way; again can be deleted by mistake. Also read about creating hidden or personal folder. How is this; Is in File manager; I do not want to cloud storage. I would like the file is on the device. I can not find the settings Secret or Confidential .What function must do just to lock or secure some files / folders;
Friendly greetings - Alkis
You can put it in the /system partition. But you can delete it by remounting the system partition as r/w (root required) or you can chmod it to r/w only for root and place it anywhere. DO NOT PLACE IT IN ROOT directory.
Hi. Thanks for your answer. Trying for a few days to find features of the device and see that there are many. For example (file lock or hide applications etc.) .More looking for videos on YouTube. Friendly greetings - Alkis
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Hello folks,
I am tired of restoring all my apps settings and replaying my games from the beginning each time I install a new rom or do a factory reset so I was looking (a couple of hours ago) for how to restore my apps setting and especially my games progress after every data wipe......
I read that many users faced problems using helium and some similar apps (Titanium Backup seems to be perfect for this job but it's a paid app and that is the problem:laugh and after all this I figured out that what were doing these apps to make a full backup of an app is just making a copy of the app.apk and the app folder in /data/data where app is the name of the considered app(sorry if this is well-known but I really didn't know)
So I made this tutorial on how to backup/restore your apps and data MANUALLY because this let you choose which app to backup/restore...
This tutorial is for noobs (because I am noob!!!!!)
Requirements:
Galaxy SL or any other android device.
ES explorer or any other file explorer with root access support.
Your phone needs to be rooted.
Backing up app and data:
Enable your explorer read/write permissions (for ES explorer >>settings>>root options).
Go to /data/app and copy the app.apk to your SD card backup folder.
Go to /data/data and copy app folder to your SD card backup folder.
that's it, now your app is fully backed up.
Restoring app and data:
Install app.apk from backup folder
Go to /data/data and remove the existing app folder (don't launch the app now because it won't start)
Copy the app folder from the backup folder to /data/data
launch your app now, it should work!
that's it, now your app is fully restored.
Notes:
I tried this to backup and restore NFS most wanted progress and it WORKED!!!!
Maybe this methode don't work for some apps but it should work for the rest of them.
For system apps go to /system/app .
app folder should start with "com." (for example "com.ea.games.nfs13_na" for NFS most wanted).
I don't know what is the difference between this methode and the adb methode so can someone tell me if there is a difference.
Restoring apps settings from/to different android versions may not work
hey guys, this is my first thread so please don't blame me if it's not good enough
sorry for my bad English and hope this will be helpful for you
Best regards
any replays here???
how to restore helium backup manually????
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ASMI1 said:
3. Copy the app folder from the backup folder to /data/data
4. launch your app now, it should work!
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Thanks, it works!
But there is some small point. The Android system uses technical users to separate the data of the apps from each other. If you copy the files this way then the copied files will belong to root and be accessible for all apps.
So you should also take care that the file and folder attributes for rights, users and groups are correctly set. Therefore start and stop the installed app again, it will create its folder in /data/data. You can then see (and set) the attributes in the properties entry of ES file explorer. And only then overwrite the files with the backup and after this set the attributes.
Unfortunately this is not very comfortable with ES file explorer, because it has to be done for each and every file/folder separately and the technical user has to be chosen from a long list...
ThemGo said:
Thanks, it works!
But there is some small point. The Android system uses technical users to separate the data of the apps from each other. If you copy the files this way then the copied files will belong to root and be accessible for all apps.
So you should also take care that the file and folder attributes for rights, users and groups are correctly set. Therefore start and stop the installed app again, it will create its folder in /data/data. You can then see (and set) the attributes in the properties entry of ES file explorer. And only then overwrite the files with the backup and after this set the attributes.
Unfortunately this is not very comfortable with ES file explorer, because it has to be done for each and every file/folder separately and the technical user has to be chosen from a long list...
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Hi ThemGo! You have reopened a bit old thread :laugh: Now a days, the play store is bull of useful apps to backup almost everything on your android device. I found that Titanium backup Pro is the best among them all. Its a paid app but it really deserve it
Kind Regards
ASMI1 said:
the play store is bull of useful apps to backup almost everything on your android device
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Of course, but what - as happened to me last month - if your phone dies suddenly, you get yourself a new one and fortunately have a not too old backup made with cwm recovery, what will you do?
Yes, extract the necessary data from the backup and then copy it manually to the new phone.
ThemGo said:
Of course, but what - as happened to me last month - if your phone dies suddenly, you get yourself a new one and fortunately have a not too old backup made with cwm recovery, what will you do?
Yes, extract the necessary data from the backup and then copy it manually to the new phone.
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Havent really tried that but if both phones are using same android version that may work. Because some of my apps that were backed up on Jellybean are not working on Kitkat & Lollipop even when using the same phone so I guess the backup procedure is not just a matter of copying & pasting.
Hi folks,
hope I'm posting this in the correct place.
I have my DCIM folder on my SD card, and I have deleted the folder instead of an individual photo in the folder several times now.
Is there a way to prevent the deletion of this folder, by locking it or installing an app that will lock the folder, but not hide it or impact the usability in any way?
Change the permission to read only using any file browser like xplore..
Permission cannot be changed unless its a system folder..
The only option is to be careful not to delete any folder you don't want to or download ES File Explorer from the play store and enable Recycle Bin so you can restore back your folder in case you delete them.
I've installed the ES File Explorer, let's see if that does the trick. Thanks!
Hello
So far from my tinkering i have came to realize that after an android app gets installed the following directory under the root file system gets changed
/data/app : here the apk is stored
/data/app-lib : here the app's native binaries are extracted
/data/dalvik-cache : here the app's dex binary is extracted
/data/data : here the app's db & other files are created under a folder named by the app's package
i rooted my nexus 5
i then installed a simple app
checked the directories mentioned above and saw new contents
then i copied the particular app's contents from the mentioned directories and kept them in a separate folder inside the sdcard directory
i then uninstalled the app & checked the above directories. The files corresponding to the app were gone as per my guess
Then i have copied back the contents from my sdcard to the above directories to restore the app without a new installation
But Now the Android OS is not showing the APP along with the others , but WHY ? Does the OS creates a tree somewhere in the filesystem during the installation ? or If there is some thing else which i am missing which i can change so that the app reappears automatically without any new installation .
Thanks in advance
i have solved the problem .. after reset the app was automatically got by the OS , because the installd daemon starts with boot
Android: How do I Get Read-Only Access to System & Data Partition Without Rooting?
Hi everyone. I have an Android 7 device. It's not rooted. I need a file manager/utility that allows me to view the files & folders of the root directory; specifically the System and Data partitions. I don't need 'Write' permissions, just Read-Only. I want to copy some files. In other words, I don't want to root the device. I just need read-only access. I would prefer a file manager type app but I'm open to other methods.
I have tried Solid Explorer. It shows the System Partition but not the Data partition. Thanks.
TheoFitchner said:
Hi everyone. I have an Android 7 device. It's not rooted. I need a file manager/utility that allows me to view the files & folders of the root directory; specifically the System and Data partitions. I don't need 'Write' permissions, just Read-Only. I want to copy some files. In other words, I don't want to root the device. I just need read-only access. I would prefer a file manager type app but I'm open to other methods.
I have tried Solid Explorer. It shows the System Partition but not the Data partition. Thanks.
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Try root browser:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.root.browserfree
@RaiZProduction
Thanks for your comment. However, I have tried Root Browser as well as FX File Explorer but still no success. I want to copy some files from an app's folder in /data/data/app folder
Both apps simply list the folders in /data/data but when I open the folder of any app, its contents are not displayed in Root Browser and in FX Browser, I get the message Access Denied. See the attached images.
I don't know how to use ABD. I'm searching for a command manual.
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I don't know how to use ABD. I'm searching for a command manual.
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Hi, I'm on android 10 stock version.
When I do a new installation I like to do a debloat of everything that does not interest me, I usually do it with adb shell and everything is ok.
The problem I am seeing is that when I am in the recovery, I access the /system/reserve and /system/india folders with the filemanager but I cannot see the files to delete them.
I can delete the entire folders but when I return to the system, the system emojis are deleted (any keyboard that you put does not have emojis, or for example if I have icons in the name of a contact it is not visible, it looks like a kind of rectangle, like if it were a character unrecognizable by the system).
From the rootexplorer pro, I can see the files in those two folders, but when I try to delete the files it tells me that "attempt failed". I have root permissions to delete from magisk. The files in the folders I see as R/O. I cannot switch to R/W.
I can only delete entire folders, but emojis disappear on next reboot.
PLEASE, does anyone know how to access those folders to delete the blotware that is in them? I have looked 5 days for xda and other websites and I can not find anything about it on this subject.
THANKS A LOT!
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Hi, I'm on android 10 stock version.
When I do a new installation I like to do a debloat of everything that does not interest me, I usually do it with adb shell and everything is ok.
The problem I am seeing is that when I am in the recovery, I access the /system/reserve and /system/india folders with the filemanager but I cannot see the files to delete them.
I can delete the entire folders but when I return to the system, the system emojis are deleted (any keyboard that you put does not have emojis, or for example if I have icons in the name of a contact it is not visible, it looks like a kind of rectangle, like if it were a character unrecognizable by the system).
From the rootexplorer pro, I can see the files in those two folders, but when I try to delete the files it tells me that "attempt failed". I have root permissions to delete from magisk. The files in the folders I see as R/O. I cannot switch to R/W.
I can only delete entire folders, but emojis disappear on next reboot.
PLEASE, does anyone know how to access those folders to delete the blotware that is in them? I have looked 5 days for xda and other websites and I can not find anything about it on this subject.
THANKS A LOT!
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Use terminal and this commands
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
Now you can use terminal/adb to delete files.
Or flash this in TWRP:
India_Fake_Partition_Deleter.zip | by Mauronofrio for Utilities
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