I have an issue where it looks like the samsung keyboard inside secure folder does not learn words. It doesn't matter how many times I hit the check mark, it will never remember the word. I hope this isn't something I have to add my samsung account for because I would rather not have accounts inside secure folder.
As an edit to avoid the inevitable "just switch keyboards". I like the Samsung keyboard on this phone. The goodlock mods allow a very deep level of customization. This is really the only issue I have with it. It just tend to do a lot of messaging from within secure folder.
Anyone else run into this?
i don't think secure folder will save your samsung keyboard data
Its meant to be like that. It doesn't track your activities, doesn't cache your data etc.
sp1312 said:
Its meant to be like that. It doesn't track your activities, doesn't cache your data etc.
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That is true. As the purpose of the Secure folder is to keep all your data safe. As everything stored in the Secure Folder is encrypted.
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Hi all
just a quick question does anyone know of a simple app that will allow me to password protect a folder(s) on the PDA WM5.
I dont want nothing fancy, no encryption, no other features other than when someone tries to open a folder they must enter a password.
I have tried looking arround and all i can find are encryption/security software, not just the simple app that I'm looking for
Cheers
Secret porn stash?
I wish, my company is going to deploy Universals to the workforce and i want to be able to lock certain folders ie settings etc so they dont mess and end up buggering them up
If you don't find what you are looking for and decide an encrypter is the next best thing, I can recommend Airscanner Mobile Encrypter, which you can pick up for free.
Hi FOZZER!
If you are looking to protect device settings, blocking folders really isn't the way to go.
1st settings isn't a real folder. Yes there is such a folder under windows\start menu but it is usually empty. The contents you see in 'settings' is compiled automatically by windows from cpl files and such, just like 'control panel' on the PC.
If I remember correctly, if you delete the the settings folder, it will disappear from start menu and average user won't be able to access device settings.
To make things harder you can delete the link to file explorer so people will be less likely to mess with the device.
There is a thread here somewhere about doing just this sort of things. Try searching for 'kiosk' and not just this site.
I have a mis-spelling in there that keeps popping up and it is pissing me off any ideas?
Ha, I've got the same problem! For some reason it has "the" as "thee." You can imagine how problematic that is! I checked through the settings but I couldn't find it. It's probable in the application management section, but I haven't really looked.
I figured I would just do a complete wipe when I got home from vacation and it should delete the whole thing.
Anyone know how to edit the list otherwise?
You will have to delete the cache. Not sure which. Let me look in my phone and see if I can find it. Which will delete all saved words.
*NOTE* THIS WILL DELETE ALL SAVED USER WORDS.
Go to settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Touch Input > Clear data
the only way to do this is to delete the whole dictionary.
If your phone is rooted, it's really easy, its just a button push in Flipz kitchen
Otherwise go to settings>aplications>manage>touch input> clear data. It won't uninstall it, it will just clear your dictionary and clear your keyboard settings (haptic feedback etc.) but its pretty easy to put your settings back
Ironic that you can remove/edit individual entries to the Moment dictionary. Also funny it came preloaded with "Sprint" "Samsung" and "Moment" as custom words.
Kcarpenter said:
Ironic that you can remove/edit individual entries to the Moment dictionary. Also funny it came preloaded with "Sprint" "Samsung" and "Moment" as custom words.
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Yea, SprintPCS is preloaded as well.
Couldn't you pull the db, open it with sqllite and edit it?
gbhil said:
Couldn't you pull the db, open it with sqllite and edit it?
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Good Point, too much effort for me.
Kcarpenter said:
Good Point, too much effort for me.
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somebody know where the db is stored? Maybe we could write an app to do it.
I think I found it at /data/data/com.htc.android.htcime/udb
It's not a sqlite db, but just looking at the file it does appear to have some words I've saved along with a lot of other words, might be the entire prediction dictionary?
/sdcard/ime/tubd.dat is also supposed to contain words, but I am not seeing it on my card.
is there a way to edit the file ?
chtamina said:
is there a way to edit the file ?
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I've been looking at it... and it seems like new words are added to the end. I think the only way to delete a word in the middle of the list is to rewrite the file completely but leave that word out. I just haven't had time to play with it.
I don't know whether to ask it here or not.
Want to know that is there any way of hiding the apps and folder other then putting period(.) before file name or folder
I want to do it parametrically I just want to know the way or anyidea about it other then above one
I am working on app which is password protected and have to take care that hidden files once hidden that are even not visible to root users without that application.
So it here any way of doing this in external memory card.
Please provide me with solution or coding reference if you have.
Note that I am not asking for any android application that available in android market
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dykhatri said:
I don't know whether to ask it here or not.
Want to know that is there any way of hiding the apps and folder other then putting period(.) before file name or folder
I want to do it parametrically I just want to know the way or anyidea about it other then above one
I am working on app which is password protected and have to take care that hidden files once hidden that are even not visible to root users without that application.
So it here any way of doing this in external memory card.
Please provide me with solution or coding reference if you have.
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When we speak about media files:
an empty < no media > file, in a folder,
ussualy solves the problem of visibility, for other-media focused-on board apps,
I presume is not what you have in mind,
The ussual way-the apps are protecting their data-in windows for example,
is to create their own file format, like: .cpt, .dat, etc...
Files on an external sdcard are recognised by the strings to them,
and thus known to the index...
but when you remove those strings,
you ussualy destroy also the files structure
although he files themselves still do exist...
In my humble opinion, only the separate,encrypted partition on an sdcard,
along with internal file format, may provide
efficient level of security that you seek for your app...
There surely always will be an app, able to see hidden contents,
especially on removable media,
but to be able to see it- is one thing,
and the ability to read its contents- is a completely different story...
asgardr said:
When we speak about media files:
an empty < no media > file, in a folder,
ussualy solves the problem of visibility, for other-media focused-on board apps,
I presume is not what you have in mind,
The ussual way-the apps are protecting their data-in windows for example,
is to create their own file format, like: .cpt, .dat, etc...
Files on an external sdcard are recognised by the strings to them,
and thus known to the index...
but when you remove those strings,
you ussualy destroy also the files structure
although he files themselves still do exist...
In my humble opinion, only the separate,encrypted partition on an sdcard,
along with internal file format, may provide
efficient level of security that you seek for your app...
There surely always will be an app, able to see hidden contents,
especially on removable media,
but to be able to see it- is one thing,
and the ability to read its contents- is a completely different story...
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What you have said makes seance to me sir but I forgot to mention here that I am only taking about android mobile OS specially. I am making application specially for android mobiles.I am not concern about another whether i can be display in PC or not that is not my concern.
can you have any idea for that
dykhatri said:
What you have said makes seance to me sir but I forgot to mention here that I am only taking about android mobile OS specially. I am making application specially for android mobiles.I am not concern about another whether i can be display in PC or not that is not my concern.
can you have any idea for that
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1.there is always a possibility that something hidden locally- on board of your device-
could be found through a computer connection,
so if you wanted app sensitive data to be secure, this aspect should also be taken into consideration...
2. windows is just an example:
some dependancies are similar throughout many other systems- just because they work as expected...
An internal file format and file encription is to be found in some of the android apps as well
Question about the Secure Folder. I tried to open the guide on this site but for some reason it would not open.
Got the new s8+ And like they said amazed.
Pretty much set everything up OK.
I have given the Secure Folder a password.
I have made a few notes in the Samsung Notes but cannot work out how to move them to the secure folder.
Advice much appreciated.
If there's no menu option on an individual note to move it, then probably you can't. What you'd have to do instead is install the Samsung Notes app separately as a Secure Folder app, and use it there when you want a note to be in the Secure Folder.
I believe you can go into samsung my files and add it to secure folder from there.
A recent unwanted Firefox for Android automatic update has replaced all the open tabs and history with a different set of tabs and history. The tabs and history I had before the automatic update are now gone and in their place are a set of tabs which I had in a previous install of Firefox on the same device, but some time ago.
Some of the tabs I had open int he session before were important (reminders, notes for things, pages I needed to look at for various reasons, etc.).
Any ideas how I can get this session back?
Some ideas:
How do I find out the version of Firefox that was installed prior to the automatic update, for the purpose of reverting to it and hoping the previous tabs are there?
Is it possible that data for two Firefox installations are on the phone, even though only one installation is listed? This must be the case with histories and tabs because a bunch of old tabs and an old history have appeared along with the automatic update. Any idea where this data is stored with Firefox Android?
I'm not too worried about the history. I had that synced anyway. The open tabs is the main thing.
Thanks for any help.
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If you knew the version of Firefox that you previously had, it may solve your issue. But, the problem is there is no way that I know of to find out which version you had previously. There may not even be a way to find the answer to that question.
The open tabs may be gone for good as they would have been loaded and stored in your cache partition, not in your app data. The update more than likely cleared any cached data held in queue by Firefox, if that is the case, you will not be able to retrieve the lost tabs.
Do you remember the tabs you had open? Can you go back to the web pages that you had open and open them in new tabs?
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If you knew the version of Firefox that you previously had, it may solve your issue. But, the problem is there is no way that I know of to find out which version you had previously. There may not even be a way to find the answer to that question.
The open tabs may be gone for good as they would have been loaded and stored in your cache partition, not in your app data. The update more than likely cleared any cached data held in queue by Firefox, if that is the case, you will not be able to retrieve the lost tabs.
Do you remember the tabs you had open? Can you go back to the web pages that you had open and open them in new tabs?
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I thought firefox stored its data in the data/data folder. Which cache folder are you referring to? Location please?
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I thought firefox stored its data in the data/data folder. Which cache folder are you referring to? Location please?
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Yes, it stores its data in data/data, but that is not where cached data is stored, cached data is "live" data, not "stored" data, temporary data that is loaded into cache while it is being used and dumped when not in use or to make room for other cached data to be loaded. When you bookmark a page, that bookmark is stored in data/data partition but when you have tabs open in Firefox, those open tabs are stored in cache, if cache gets wiped or if the tabs are closed, the open tabs stored in cache are gone. Bookmarking pages is the only way to "keep" those tabs long-term.
You need to research the difference between stored data and cached data. Think of the data/data partition being the same as the hard drive on PC and cache as being the same as RAM on PC. Read only memory vs random access memory.
There is no point trying to find it in your cache partition because the data you are looking for is no longer there, that is why your open tabs are gone. If you want those tabs back you will have to find those pages online and open them in new tabs. You are not going to "recover" the tabs you lost, you can only open them the same way you did the first time you opened those pages.
You need to learn to bookmark the pages you want to keep instead of trying to keep them by leaving them open in Firefox.
Droidriven said:
Yes, it stores its data in data/data, but that is not where cached data is stored, cached data is "live" data, not "stored" data, temporary data that is loaded into cache while it is being used and dumped when not in use or to make room for other cached data to be loaded. When you bookmark a page, that bookmark is stored in data/data partition but when you have tabs open in Firefox, those open tabs are stored in cache, if cache gets wiped or if the tabs are closed, the open tabs stored in cache are gone. Bookmarking pages is the only way to "keep" those tabs long-term.
You need to research the difference between stored data and cached data. Think of the data/data partition being the same as the hard drive on PC and cache as being the same as RAM on PC. Read only memory vs random access memory.
There is no point trying to find it in your cache partition because the data you are looking for is no longer there, that is why your open tabs are gone. If you want those tabs back you will have to find those pages online and open them in new tabs. You are not going to "recover" the tabs you lost, you can only open them the same way you did the first time you opened those pages.
You need to learn to bookmark the pages you want to keep instead of trying to keep them by leaving them open in Firefox.
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So Android Firefox is different from desktop in that sense then? In the PC version the cache the browser uses is the browser cache, located in the user's profile folder. You're saying that Firefox stores stuff like open tabs, tab history, session history in the cache partition of Android?
I don't really 'try to keep them open' exactly. It's more that that is just how Firefox works on Android, and it should work (it's hardly convenient to bookmark every page you open but want to read later, seems to me), so pages remain there, but because of Firefox's nasty habit of upgrading itself without warning (and presumably some other causes, judging by other posts on it) they have been known to disappear.
califauna said:
So Android Firefox is different from desktop in that sense then? In the PC version the cache the browser uses is the browser cache, located in the user's profile folder. You're saying that Firefox stores stuff like open tabs, tab history, session history in the cache partition of Android?
I don't really 'try to keep them open' exactly. It's more that that is just how Firefox works on Android, and it should work (it's hardly convenient to bookmark every page you open but want to read later, seems to me), so pages remain there, but because of Firefox's nasty habit of upgrading itself without warning (and presumably some other causes, judging by other posts on it) they have been known to disappear.
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No, it stores what is loaded and in use at the moment in cache, tabs that are open at the time are held in cache. Cached data is not permanent data, cached data is data that is frequently loaded and dumped based on your usage and availability of cache space.
I really don't think you are understanding the point. If you want to keep tabs, bookmark them, if you don't bookmark them, they will not persist the way you want them to, period.
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I really don't think you are understanding the point. If you want to keep tabs, bookmark them, if you don't bookmark them, they will not persist the way you want them to, period.
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Not that I'm looking for advice on that in this thread, but again, tabs are supposed to be persistent (by default) in Firefox Android - users are not supposed to be continually required to replace all their tabs with bookmarks lest they disappear.
Regarding the locations Firefox uses, what you have written above also appears to be wrong, and your response above does not address it. According to several webpages I have now read, Firefox android does in fact store lots of session and tab data in the data/data folder. Indeed I have just found a sessionstore.js file with some currently open tabs, and a sessionstore backup file with old tabs in the data/data folder on my very phone, specifically in /data/dat/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/<profile>.
Droidriven I would kindly ask that you leave this post alone now for others to respond to.
To summarise where I'm at with this, following the Reddit post below I have found a sessionstore.bak file in the /data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/<profile>/ folder, and it does contain a session (bunch of tabs), but not the tabs I had open when the update occurred and the tabs disappeared.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/f4vkrp
Also, there is supposed to be a 'sessionstore-backups' folder somewhere in the profile folder, but I can't find it.
Where are "Previous Sessions" stored? I am changing from Win XP to Win 7 Pro and want to save/access Previous Sessions. | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support
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Any suggestions? Does Firefox Android only ever keep one sessionstore.bak file, and only at that location (/data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/<profile>)?
Bump. Must be someone on this forum who knows how Firefox Android works.
Does Firefox Android only ever keep one sessionstore.bak file, and only at that location (/data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/<profile>)?
Where can I find sessionstore.old files, or any other kind of file which might contain old sessions?
Mozilla's Firefox is open-source, so why you don't inspect its source code to get your question answered?
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Mozilla's Firefox is open-source, so why you don't inspect its source code to get your question answered?
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If I knew how to inspect source code (less than 1% of Firefox user know how to do this) then I doubt I would be posting here.
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