Questions tagged [file-system]
A file system is the logical structure to organize (store, retrieve and update) data on a storage device.
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How to access Android-x86 data (ext4) on other devices?
I recently installed Android-x86 (Prime OS) on my pendrive. However, upon opening through different disk managers on PC & mobile, there is nothing inside my data folder. I can only see system.img ...
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How to modify not just read files in Android/data folder without root [duplicate]
How to modify the files in subfolders of android/data on android 14, I tried shizuku + ZArchiver or FV file explorer and it doesn't work, i connected my phone to my computer and tried to edit files ...
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I think my flash drive is corrupted. is it actually corrupted or am I just dumb? [closed]
Due to suggestions people gave me, I tried to backup my tablet's (Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite) data to a USB flash drive but my laptop (Windows 11 Lenovo laptop) and phone (Samsung galaxy s24 using ...
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What can cause "listing a directory" on Android to be 50-250 times slower than expected?
I ended up with my Android device (Google Pixel 7a, on AOSP 15) having accumulated about ~14k videos/photos files in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera. As a consequence I have noticed some very unexpected delay ...
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Is it possible to access data from your phone from the boot menu? (Motorola One Hyper)
Firstly, I have found a similar question here (Is there a way to access my phone data from the boot menu or to fix an android OS without factory reset? Or even to stop the restart from happening?), ...
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In which file format does Network Monitor Pro app on Android export it's config file?
I had imported a Profile in Tasker that sorts the files in my Download folder based on the file extension.
But there's a file from Network Monitor Pro's export and Google Files app doesn't show any ...
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Is it safe to remount the filesystem root / as read-write?
To clarify: I know that basically any root access is unsafe. But I'm asking only about the remount command itself, not about what can happen after.
I want to execute as root something like:
mount -o ...
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KeepasDX: Is the password sent anywhere?
Does the database password ever get sent to the Google servers if I use KeepasDX app to open and decrypt a file stored on Google Drive storage via SAF?
If I am opening a .kdbx database file through ...
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How to extract Android 13+ ROMs (system.img and other partitions)?
I'm trying to unpack Android 13/14 ROMs from a set of different vendors but it seems that all images using Android 13+ have some changes in how the filesystem images are built. Using simg2img (...
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SquashFS explanation for Android system
I have an Android Pioneer car audio tablet. I want to root the firmware. I managed to backup firmware by taking the eMMC chip and backup partition. For many days, I was trying to unpack system.img, ...
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How to prevent an app clearing its own data
How to prevent an app clearing its own data . Thats the 3rd time WhatsApp deleted its own data against Users wish. There can be a zillon reasons which I don't care . If the user does not clear data - ...
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Restoring photos from backup to PC causes issues with chronological display in apps [duplicate]
I needed to format my phone completely, so I connected it and copied all my photos and music to a location on my PC (running Linux if that is pertinent). After formatting my phone, I reconnected it to ...
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How to find out the native library directory of an app?
I want to find out the directory where the native libraries of an app have been extracted to. The path structure will depend on the Android version. On Android 14 it will be something links this:
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Can someone confirm that this message is normal for an incompatible microSD card?
The first picture below shows what is displayed in the "My Files" app on a Samsung tablet after loading a microSD card into it which is formatted in a filesystem which is incompatible with ...
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Using DevCheck app to check File-System of External-Storage
The DevCheck app shows that an SD-card of mine is formatted as sdfat, which tells me that it's formatted as some sort of FAT-system. I have been searching online for some way to just see exactly which ...
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