ftp server Android app with access to folders under Android/data? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

For several years I've been using the FTP Server Pro app from Olive Tree Software when copying files (mainly updated maps for my mapping app that I batch download on a PC) to the folder under Android/data where the app stores its maps. I've just upgraded to a Pixel 6 phone running Android 12, and the app can no longer access any of the folders under Android/data on the phone.
I now have to perform the copy indirectly by using Filezilla to ftp the maps to a folder such as Downloads, and then use File Manager + on the phone to move the maps from Downloads to the correct folder under Android/data.
I emailed the app developer several weeks ago but have received no reply, so I'm wondering if anyone knows if any of the other ftp server apps on Google Play have the code necessary to allow them to be granted the necessary permission. When I check in the phone's Settings app under Privacy / Permission Manager / Files and Media, FTP Server Pro has the permission to "Allow management of all files", but this is obviously not enough, as File Manager + has the same permission and yet can access files/folders under Android/data, whereas FTP Server Pro cannot.

NickJHP said:
I've just upgraded to a Pixel 6 phone running Android 12, and the app can no longer access any of the folders under Android/data on the phone.
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Hi bro! Take a look here, it really works on Android 12. You'll find the downloads in the second post of the thread. To start an FTP server, tap on the menu at the top-right, then tap on Servers, followed by Start FTP Server.
To write to `Android/data` you need to allow writing there on your phone, when MiXplorer asks about that (after you try to access that folder via FTP).

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Dropbox

Hi all,
I just playing around this awesome apps "Dropbox" installed from the Market.
It work very good in syncing your apps,pics,videos,files and other kind of data.
Steps:
1) Install dropbox applications in your PC and run it. You will required to create new user name and password for logging in. For free user you would get 2GB space. But space will increase if you invite others to joint dropbox.
2) In your phone, install dropbox.apk from the market and run it. Using the same user name and password you created earlier to login. You would see exactly the same folders listed in your phone dropbox app as in your PC.
3) Now everything you drop files into this drop box will be available across your sync dropbox. If you have two or three PC or three phones which all of them having dropbox installed. The same files will be available across each other.
4) You can share a folder to your friends around so every one of your friend would get what you wanted to shared with like music,apps,pics..etc..
Conclusion: You would litterally save phone memory space by having your files in dropbox. But you need internet access to access these files.
Check out here : www.dropbox.com to start download the PC dropbox.exe
And here for andriod market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dropbox.android&feature=search_result
Let me know anyone of you would like to share folder with me. Email address is the only required to start sharing.
You could also use Dropbox for Titanium Backup Pro - save everything to the cloud, so you don't depend on the physical memory.
Also, you can set your torrent client to watch a certain folder on your computer, and sync that folder with Dropbox. Thus, if you add a torrent there (by phone even), and if your computer is on, the download will start automatically.

[Q] How to play/ save talkbox message?

Hello,
well i'm trying to save talkbox message in to a normal file type cus i wanna send it to my friend. i found out where the files are but they are. ilbc and i have no idea how to play/convert it.
Any suggestions?
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TalkBox - how to get voice messages from iphone to pc
In order to copy voice messages created by talkbox app from your iOS device all you have to do is to gain access to your device file system with any free software (I used iExplorer ). acess your device and you will see at the root file system the directory User->Applications and there all you application data is stored - one of them is TalkBox (you will recognize it by enter every folder and check for the folder that finish with '.app' or see the icon of the application inside it). all the messages are in [talkbox-folder-id]->Documents->Audio at caf files (Core Audio Format). export it easily with your software to your pc. Cheers and Good Luck !
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white-bear said:
In order to copy voice messages created by talkbox app from your iOS device all you have to do is to gain access to your device file system with any free software (I used iExplorer ). acess your device and you will see at the root file system the directory User->Applications and there all you application data is stored - one of them is TalkBox (you will recognize it by enter every folder and check for the folder that finish with '.app' or see the icon of the application inside it). all the messages are in [talkbox-folder-id]->Documents->Audio at caf files (Core Audio Format). export it easily with your software to your pc. Cheers and Good Luck !
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Hi
This all sounds really good as i have a deceased friend and wanting desperately to switch / access / back up talk box voice messages between my devices.
All was stored on my samsung galaxy s3 and now i have an s5 things are proving a little tricky so could you please brake down these instructions for me so i can successfully access them from the root.
I can access them in the device but only in the .ilbc format..
Thanks in advance

[Q] Windows Explorer/File Manager for WP 8.1

Hi. I'm new to this forum that I searched for an answer to my question which goes like this: Is there a REAL file manager (similar to Windows Explorer or Free Commander XE or Total Commander for PC) that shows ALL directories and files on my Windows Phone 8.1, including system files on drive C: (the SD card being called drive D: )? So far, I tried "Files", "Folders Free", "Metro Commander" and others - they all are not satisfying my requirements. Thanks for your inputs.
Which app is good? When I download a file ,then open store,but idk which app is good to open the file.
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@veryfunny: Not really, for the same reason that there's no such app (at least, without jailbreaking) on iPhones: Microsoft has locked down access to the file system.
The closest app I know of is my own WebServer app. That one lets you request any file system path, and if it can read the path it will display the contents. If it can't display it, you'll get a message about error code 5 (ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED).
Hi GoodDayToDie
Thanks for your explanations. Sounds like Microsoft is developping the same proprietary behaviour like Apple...
I downloaded your own webserver from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43364277#post43364277 and copied it onto the download directory on the phone. However, as I'm pretty new to Windows Phone 8.1, I do not know how to install it. Would you please let a greenhorn know? Thanks so much!
Works on 8.1.1 after patch
App
spavlin said:
Works on 8.1.1 after patch
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Do you have these apps?

How can we mount network folders as local on Remix OS?

I want my Android apps to access files stored in my local Windows network (aka "Workgroup").
Unfortunately, Android apps can only access locally stored files.
The best solution is to "mount" network folders as local on Remix OS.
This way, all Android apps can see the files and open them as if they were local.
Unfortunately, I cannot find any clear way to perform this task on Remix OS.
It is good that Remix OS is rooted.
But the problem is that none of the apps & tutorials available online work in Remix.
Can anyone share a solution to this problem?
you can access your windows shared folders with ES File Manager.
This is not a good solution. Many times, apps do not open the files. Or they open the files in limited features app window. But the biggest problem I notice is that many times files are copied to internal as part of "cache" & then opened (this can take long time).
Users who mount network folders do not suffer these problems because the apps treat the files as if they are on local storage...using full app window, file listing, & opening immediately.

APK MAPS on amazfit watch + offline + GPS

I've been testing apps for days and this is the one that worked best on my AMAZFIT PACE watch. It works quite well and with the method I present you can download maps from all over the world in the internal memory of the watch. It does not work with the clock wifi itself. It perfectly locates the location and you can access most of the options.
Sometimes you can not read the content well but we can help you from the same application on the phone. I briefly explain how I did it. More ahead I will go up explaining videos.
We will need to have a phone with Android.
First, we installed the app on the phone and in the watch (via apkinstaller). The application (apk) that I have installed is called "All-In-One Offline Maps + .ver.2.4.build.51" if you put it like that in google you will appear to download.
Then we open the app on your mobile phone:
• We go to the symbol of the map,
• Click on "save an area"
• Framing the part of the map that we want to save and the zoom that we want to obtain
• Press the save button
• This process will take a long time to download
• Once downloaded we will go to the root folder of the phone and copy the folder "OfflineMaps" and save it in our PC.
Once the folder is saved in our PC we replace it with the one in our amazfit . Now we will open the app on our amazfit and should see the downloaded area. It perfectly locates our location. To be able to know what you put in the options it is better to go browsing the app on the mobile at the same time.
Sorry i can put a link because i am a new user.
Search: "Amazfit Maps + GPS offline [NEW APK compatible]" in youtube and you can see a video demostration
I hope I have been helpful.
Hi, I can't find the folder "OfflineMaps" in my phone
hystrix65 said:
Hi, I can't find the folder "OfflineMaps" in my phone
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After saving the maps it should appear in the root folder
hello
very interesting.
I see release 2.7 available, do you recommend 2.4 because it is the only one working or should I proceed with 2.7?
Do you how to uninstall the app if I need to?
thank you
regards
davidjog1 said:
After saving the maps it should appear in the root folder
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I tried many times but with no success. I'm using an Oneplus One
hystrix65 said:
I tried many times but with no success. I'm using an Oneplus One
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Try:
in your mobile phone>OfflineMaps+>Preferences>Storage device>Choose the first option (/storage/emulated/0/OfflineMaps) And repeat all the instruction of the thread)
Tell me if its solve your proble to modify the instructions :laugh:
BANFY211 said:
hello
very interesting.
I see release 2.7 available, do you recommend 2.4 because it is the only one working or should I proceed with 2.7?
Do you how to uninstall the app if I need to?
thank you
regards
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I am the only version I have tried. Under my experience with other apps in the amazfit, the older the actualization the less likely to fail. That is why I have stayed with version 2.4.
Anyway try to try it and tell us how you have gone. You can uninstall from apkinstaller
it work so far but I have a blank area at the bottom of the screen (same on the phone).
I could not remove it, do you know how to do so? you dont have it from what I have seen on youtube
edit: this is the area for the adds...
free version APK
BANFY211 said:
it work so far but I have a blank area at the bottom of the screen (same on the phone).
I could not remove it, do you know how to do so? you dont have it from what I have seen on youtube
edit: this is the area for the adds...
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try use the paid version APK
apk for watch?
Hi,
which google maps version did you sideload on your watch?
Where can i get it?
Thank you
Hi,
Everything went well with version 2.7 but cannot find Offline Maps folder on watch.
The apk is on the watch and runs. Where is the folder located.
THX
ququci said:
Hi,
Everything went well with version 2.7 but cannot find Offline Maps folder on watch.
The apk is on the watch and runs. Where is the folder located.
THX
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I have the same issue, did you solve it? i can't find offlinemap folder on the watch
because you have to create it
fzelle said:
because you have to create it
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How?
Do you create it manually? I'm not able to see this folders through the PC.
Send the card files into the Amazfit Pace watch.
davidjog1 said:
I've been testing apps for days and this is the one that worked best on my AMAZFIT PACE watch. It works quite well and with the method I present you can download maps from all over the world in the internal memory of the watch. It does not work with the clock wifi itself. It perfectly locates the location and you can access most of the options.
Sometimes you can not read the content well but we can help you from the same application on the phone. I briefly explain how I did it. More ahead I will go up explaining videos.
We will need to have a phone with Android.
First, we installed the app on the phone and in the watch (via apkinstaller). The application (apk) that I have installed is called "All-In-One Offline Maps + .ver.2.4.build.51" if you put it like that in google you will appear to download.
Then we open the app on your mobile phone:
• We go to the symbol of the map,
• Click on "save an area"
• Framing the part of the map that we want to save and the zoom that we want to obtain
• Press the save button
• This process will take a long time to download
• Once downloaded we will go to the root folder of the phone and copy the folder "OfflineMaps" and save it in our PC.
Once the folder is saved in our PC we replace it with the one in our amazfit . Now we will open the app on our amazfit and should see the downloaded area. It perfectly locates our location. To be able to know what you put in the options it is better to go browsing the app on the mobile at the same time.
Sorry i can put a link because i am a new user.
Search: "Amazfit Maps + GPS offline [NEW APK compatible]" in youtube and you can see a video demostration
I hope I have been helpful.
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Hello,
On my smartphone the saving of saved cards is on Android / data / net.psyberia.offlinemapsplus / files / cache / builtin-maps,
So if I understand I get the two files * .DAT and * .DX that I put in a folder "offlineMaps" on the PC, that I send to the watch Amazfit Pace, but how to send it in the watch? With the PC and the connected watch? But there is a specific file to put this folder map in the watch?
Thank you for your reply.
adb shell
mimichris said:
Hello,
On my smartphone the saving of saved cards is on Android / data / net.psyberia.offlinemapsplus / files / cache / builtin-maps,
So if I understand I get the two files * .DAT and * .DX that I put in a folder "offlineMaps" on the PC, that I send to the watch Amazfit Pace, but how to send it in the watch? With the PC and the connected watch? But there is a specific file to put this folder map in the watch?
Thank you for your reply.
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start adb shell on your PC and send:
adb push ./<pc-path>/filename.Dat /mnt/sdcard/storage/emulated/legacy/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps
adb push ./<pc-path>/filename.IDX /mnt/sdcard/storage/emulated/legacy/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps
Thus you get you files at least to your watch. I enabled on the Watch the option "Use Only local storage" in order to avoid network acceess issue.
But at the moment I do not get it why the APP is not finding the local files?
The APP on the watch indicates a different path to the workspace on the mobile for offline data:
watch pach: /storage/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache
with adb I do not get the access rights to create the /storage/emulated/ (read only) etc. dirctories and with the mounted path I am allowed to create everything but then itis not found by the watch app:
/mnt/sdcard/storage/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache
Still I have no clue how to solve this directory issue?:silly:
you can kill the package on the watch with an adb shell too:
am force-stop net.psyberia.*
Beside the APP is only working in a reasonable way with the Paid version. With the free version you get a blank column in the buttom which makes navigation impossible. The App itself can only be started on the watch and only be dismissed via adb shell -> am force-stop ....
or power shut down. Since it can be very CPU consuming I would assume that the resulting power drain is not funny. Currently I think it can only ne used as a sort of emergeny app I only will use if I am completly lost and the mobile is out of power too. Therefore you should think twice before you spend time and money on this.
I am using All-In-One Offline Map+ version 2.9
gswolf said:
start adb shell on your PC and send:
adb push ./<pc-path>/filename.Dat /mnt/sdcard/storage/emulated/legacy/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps
adb push ./<pc-path>/filename.IDX /mnt/sdcard/storage/emulated/legacy/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps
Thus you get you files at least to your watch. I enabled on the Watch the option "Use Only local storage" in order to avoid network acceess issue.
But at the moment I do not get it why the APP is not finding the local files?
The APP on the watch indicates a different path to the workspace on the mobile for offline data:
watch pach: /storage/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache
with adb I do not get the access rights to create the /storage/emulated/ (read only) etc. dirctories and with the mounted path I am allowed to create everything but then itis not found by the watch app:
/mnt/sdcard/storage/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache
Still I have no clue how to solve this directory issue?:silly:
you can kill the package on the watch with an adb shell too:
am force-stop net.psyberia.*
Beside the APP is only working in a reasonable way with the Paid version. With the free version you get a blank column in the buttom which makes navigation impossible. The App itself can only be started on the watch and only be dismissed via adb shell -> am force-stop ....
or power shut down. Since it can be very CPU consuming I would assume that the resulting power drain is not funny. Currently I think it can only ne used as a sort of emergeny app I only will use if I am completly lost and the mobile is out of power too. Therefore you should think twice before you spend time and money on this.
I am using All-In-One Offline Map+ version 2.9
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I finally got it and it works great! The "simple" solution is to install a file explorer on the watch itself. I found one online and it works great (com.alphainventor.filemanager.apk). The local file explorer (on the watch) 'sees' all the directories properly. You can therefore copy and paste the files from your PC on the "SD card" part of the watch (where you can see some directories and have read/write access). Then use the watche's file explorer to move those files/dirs (the maps) to the right folder on the watch. It will then work!
As an added bonus, once you copy files into those "unseen by Windows" directories (for example one of mine was "Android" and all its subdirs) it becomes visible in Windows Explorer! So next time you update maps on the PC you should be able to copy and paste over without requiring the use of the watche's file explorer.
I hope that helps.
darkguset said:
I finally got it and it works great! The "simple" solution is to install a file explorer on the watch itself. I found one online and it works great (com.alphainventor.filemanager.apk). The local file explorer (on the watch) 'sees' all the directories properly. You can therefore copy and paste the files from your PC on the "SD card" part of the watch (where you can see some directories and have read/write access). Then use the watche's file explorer to move those files/dirs (the maps) to the right folder on the watch. It will then work!
As an added bonus, once you copy files into those "unseen by Windows" directories (for example one of mine was "Android" and all its subdirs) it becomes visible in Windows Explorer! So next time you update maps on the PC you should be able to copy and paste over without requiring the use of the watche's file explorer.
I hope that helps.
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Ok FileManager works but you can achieve the same with adb shell too.
Still I do not understand to which path the offline map files needs to be pushed that they get loaded. According to Settings->StrorageDevice I should know the right path but it is not working.
So where to push the files?
Now I got it. Of course the offline strorage path is different for each map type and can be seen with the details of the map.
I am using OSM Hike&Bike, it states in its details for offline storage /storage/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps an therefore I pushed it to the followng path (means "/storage" is substituted by "/mnt/shell")
adb push ./<pc-path>/OSMCYC.DAT /mnt/shell/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps
adb push ./<pc-path>/OSMCYC.IDX /mnt/shell/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps
Beside I have installed a task manager thus I am able to kill the app. Thus it very much easier to restart the app when needed.
gswolf said:
Now I got it. Of course the offline strorage path is different for each map type and can be seen with the details of the map.
I am using OSM Hike&Bike, it states in its details for offline storage /storage/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps an therefore I pushed it to the followng path (means "/storage" is substituted by "/mnt/shell")
adb push ./<pc-path>/OSMCYC.DAT /mnt/shell/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps
adb push ./<pc-path>/OSMCYC.IDX /mnt/shell/emulated/0/OfflineMaps/cache/builtin-maps
Beside I have installed a task manager thus I am able to kill the app. Thus it very much easier to restart the app when needed.
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Glad you got it working. I am using the free version of Psyberia maps, as it is much lighter in resources. Of course you do get a white bar at the bottom of the screen (only on free version - paid shouldn't have it) but it is still very usable so....

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