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HELP!! Is there a way to DELETE files under 'windows' folder?

Thanks in advance!
I was trying to delete some wav file in windows folder. Because, these files exist in the list when I select the notification sound for reminder!
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I searched the registry, device and the sd card. I found they are in the 'windows' folder...
But I cannot delete them...
I am using the Energy rom... I do not think it does exist in the rom before... Acturally, it appears after I installed some software....
Does anyone have a way to delete them? Thanks...

im using resco explorer which allows me to delete such files, im not familiar with total commander but there may be something in the settings which will allow you to delete those files....
you could download the free trial of resco and try that way....
hope that helps....

Thanks mate... I have Resco as well...it shows me
Any suggestion? I am pretty sure the ENERGY team did not put these useless wav file with meaningless name under windows folder... It s my fault... I install some software...but I cannot remember which one...

yeah I was wrong I cant delete them either...
it must be to do with the rom though....
il look into this when I get home and let you know if I get to the bottom of it....

Hey
i had a similar issue when trying to free up some space on my old tytn2
the files were ringtones (.wma) but in theory this should work with most files
give this a go: copy the offending file to any other folder (my docs, sd card...)
uncheck 'read only' in file property
copy back to windows folder - overwrite when asked/ warned
then you should be able to delete from windows folder.
(backup 1st, just in case)
hope this helps

kam333 said:
Hey
i had a similar issue when trying to free up some space on my old tytn2
the files were ringtones (.wma) but in theory this should work with most files
give this a go: copy the offending file to any other folder (my docs, sd card...)
uncheck 'read only' in file property
copy back to windows folder - overwrite when asked/ warned
then you should be able to delete from windows folder.
(backup 1st, just in case)
hope this helps
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Cheers man but that didnt work for me Im afraid.......
I listened to the files and they seem to be sound files for some sort of gps / navigation program.... Ive never installed any such program and as resco says they're in the rom memory it must be something to do with the energy rom........
Cant think of any way to delete them, They dont realy occupy much space its just a pain that they appear in the notification sounds menu......
Oh well...... Im stumped....

I would love to know to

rickytr23 said:
I would love to know to
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Those files are for Bing, for the voice navigation ....

watcher64 said:
Those files are for Bing, for the voice navigation ....
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ahhhhh of course.......
stoopid bing........
Thanks

if im not mistaken even if you do delete them they will get restored when you soft reset.
anyways rename the files instead of deleting them, soft reset and then delete the renamed files however as i said i think you will just have a fresh copy.

optiknerv said:
if im not mistaken even if you do delete them they will get restored when you soft reset.
anyways rename the files instead of deleting them, soft reset and then delete the renamed files however as i said i think you will just have a fresh copy.
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If you ever plan on using the voice navigation built into Bing, don't touch them .....

watcher64 said:
Those files are for Bing, for the voice navigation ....
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Thanks for the explanation! I tried to play them... Yeah...it is the navigation... I installed tomtom. I though it was tomtom before...
Thanks again... Do you have any idea about how to hide them from the alert selection menu???

I'm having this same problem. I don't want to delete the files, I just don't want them showing up in the drop down menu in Sounds & Notifications. Can't they just be moved to the Sound folder in App Data in the phone memory?

[App]New Android Market 3.3.12

Change Log
Added free songs of the week
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New setting: Auto-update apps
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Download Android Market 3.3.12 here
If normal installation didn't work out well for you, use the method below.
Procedure to install via Root Explorer Method
1. Download the apk file from the above link to your sd card.
2. Now using Root explorer, go to /system/app
3. Mount the system to r/w.
4. Now search for Vending.apk & rename it to Vending.apk1
5. Copy the file you just downloded to /system/app & rename it to Vending.apk
6. Now press & hold the app and select Permissions
7. Select only the options given below. Now REBOOT & enjoy.....

thanks very much! any chance of hosting the file on XDA?

Sage said:
any chance of hosting the file on XDA?
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Why do you want that????
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Here you are.

vascer said:
Here you are.
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Thanks for that. Installed without issues...... Now to mess around with the settings for a bit
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Auto update with wifi on combined with cm7 hboot causes a restart if you have much apps that is going to be updated. Probably because of high data write velocity and small cache.

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Auto update with wifi on combined with cm7 hboot causes a restart if you have much apps that is going to be updated. Probably because of high data write velocity and small cache.
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In cm the apps downloaded from market go into /data and removed at the next reboot, so probably ur internal memory is about full
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thanx, i'm going to check it out tonight!

Works perfectly, thank you very much, big improvement

thank you very much，But it is too slow

thanks, no way to get it more quick?

it is very nice of you.... thanks

it's still slow

Market updated

Gonna try 3.3.12 right now. Thanks for the update!
Hope its bit more smooth...

Thank you very much

Thank you very much Works good on my Desire.. but it's a bit slow though.. little lagg and the pictures in the menu takes a long time to load. But much better than first! Thanks!

Help me clean my phone

I am super anal about not having crap I dont need so I want to go in and all I want to save is my pics and my apps, I want to get rid of anything I dont need without deleting pertinent files. Can anyone help? If this has been posted please direct me to that post i cant seem to find anything. Thanks alot!!!

+1, I have the same question.
I know there is an option for formatting the SD card in settings. But I wonder if there are additional steps to complete this without harm. It would be nice if anyone can provide step-by-step instruction of how to do this.

So, you want to delete useless folders on your SD card? Most of them are used by Android, if you delete them, they'll come right back.

i noticed that a lot of the folders are for apps I no longer have so I went ahead and deleted those. I also had 6 backups for ROMS so i deleted 4 of them. After that I moved pics to my laptop and now I am only using 2 GB, removed tons of space!!

I covered this in one of my guides....
what I would do:
backup ANY/ALL things to my PC.
go to settings and unmount/format both internal and external sd cards
ODIN to JFD
move my update b and rom of choice to root, flash....
then move any important files back afterwards.
Phone always felt a lot smoother getting rid of the gunk from day to day stuff.

Thanks, I'll do that too!
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s15274n said:
I covered this in one of my guides....
what I would do:
backup ANY/ALL things to my PC.
go to settings and unmount/format both internal and external sd cards
ODIN to JFD
move my update b and rom of choice to root, flash....
then move any important files back afterwards.
Phone always felt a lot smoother getting rid of the gunk from day to day stuff.
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Yes, but you are still relying on the user KNOWING what is important and what isn't.. If all they have that matters to them is videos, pictures, and music, they can just copy those, follow your instructions, and copy back anything that they deleted they may have needed..
In my opinion, if SPACE is what you want, this app is by far the best. DiskUsage shows you a visual representation of how your space is taken up. This pic may show it better:
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From there, you either just click or long press on a folder or file you don't want, delete it, and move on. I love it so much because it is like a program I use on my mac called disk inventory X, which is what I used to scan my phones SD until I found that app. I wish there was a windows equivalent.
If you are anal and just sick of having a ton of folders you don't need that aren't really taking up space, I haven't found a better solution than figuring out what the files in that folder are for, or doing what s15274n recommended and starting fresh..
Then again, when a rom TRULY gets stable for me, wiping and reflashing will usually get me different results(suddenly worse battery life, or something doesn't work, etc), and I'll have to restore a nandroid. I typically only wipe and reflash if I have a problem with the way it runs.

This is the way I do it:
1. copy all personal files (music, pictures, etc.) to computer.
2. Flash JFD.
3. Format SD card.
4. return all personal files.
5. redownload apps.
You can also backup all your apps and copy the titanium backup folder to computer. That way you don't have to redownload your apps.
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God... I wanna do this but I don't want to flash back to jfd too much of a hassle I'm on ics
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xriderx66 said:
God... I wanna do this but I don't want to flash back to jfd too much of a hassle I'm on ics
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I'm too lazy to do this too. But there's really an improvement in speed when I do this.

[Tool] RomCleaner 1.0

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Hi guys,
Here i want to show my Rom Cleaner, its idea comes from => Here , so credits for the idea and the ini files i used as base belong to him
this app allows you to clean out unneeded crap and bloatware from your roms, before you flash them.
List of files to remove is about 100 different ones now.
i hope some of you will test this and provide feedback.
PS, program is coded in autoit, which some old AV's tend to flag, i'll offer admins a look at the source code if needed.
PS2, Only supports CWM type roms.
Greetz,
Damian
Changelog: version 1.0
fixed bug with repacking >.<
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Download here

I'm assuming course that it would course invalidate md5 checksum, and as a result there's no real assurance that the zip had been repacked correctly prior to flashing.

no, it wont pass that test, but seeying its a regular zipfile, you can always test the zip itself.

DamianSixSixSix said:
no, it wont pass that test, but seeying its a regular zipfile, you can always test the zip itself.
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True. What about the repacking of system.img ?

this basicly only works on the CWM based roms, which are zipfiles, so i dont touch those

DamianSixSixSix said:
this basicly only works on the CWM based roms, which are zipfiles, so i dont touch those
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Ahh. Hrm odd I don't recall ever actually using a CWM based rom, every rom I've tried after CM7.2 have been mostly ICS roms, and every i've ever unpacked have had each of the partitions saved as img files.

yes that is weird, every rom i use can be flashed by cwm, and when unpacked, only bootimage is a img file, rest is folders and files.

Interesting idea, cool. So far, I've been deleting manually files from the zips. One suggestion, could you add someday ability to add programs into the selected ROM?
Or even better, enable user to create batch package/batch deletion of his apks/always-deleted-apks that could be added/removed with a single click to/from every consecutive ROM ? Just a loose idea.. Thanks!

Deathmehr said:
Interesting idea, cool. So far, I've been deleting manually files from the zips. One suggestion, could you add someday ability to add programs into the selected ROM?
Or even better, enable user to create batch package/batch deletion of his/her apks /always deleted apks that could be added/removed with a single click to/from every consecutive ROM ? Just a loose idea.. Thanks!
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you can allready do that, just place the apk's in the files/add folder' it allready has system and data in there, just make a apps folder and drop them in
good idea, ill let program save removal settings on exit, so it can load them when it starts

DamianSixSixSix said:
you can allready do that, just place the apk's in the files/add folder' it allready has system and data in there, just make a apps folder and drop them in
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I'm afraid I don't follow. Drag and dropp doesn't work in any case. I tried dnd on apks, zips with structured folders or folders alone. Give me a tip

chech the program folder, in the files/add folder, are 2 more folders, data and system.
if you make an app folder in there, and drop your apk's in there, they will be pushed to your rom
example, 'files/add/system/app/MyTestApk.apk'

DamianSixSixSix said:
chech the program folder, in the files/add folder, are 2 more folders, data and system.
if you make an app folder in there, and drop your apk's in there, they will be pushed to your rom
example, 'files/add/system/app/MyTestApk.apk'
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Ok, thanks for the advice! I assume that it won't push apks that aren't supported in removal? I'm talking specifically about Cerberus.apk - it is very advantegous to integrate the app with a ROM.

Deathmehr said:
Ok, thanks for the advice! I assume that it won't push apks that aren't supported in removal? I'm talking specifically about Cerberus.apk - it is very advantegous to integrate the app with a ROM.
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thats totally unrelated, any file you place there gets pushed, any file.

Come to think of it, I might actually be thinking bout backups I do recall a lot of roms do have the folders set where they're migrated to the existing filesystem.

true, CWM backups are img files

Very nice idea for a program. Is it limited to only roms for our device or literally any CWM flashable zips?

it works on all actually, but i only have HTC phones, so others arent much supported in the apk department, simply because i cant check them

DamianSixSixSix said:
it works on all actually, but i only have HTC phones, so others arent much supported in the apk department, simply because i cant check them
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Fair enough, and thank you for the prompt reply!
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updated to version 0.7 changelog in first post

anyone found bugs or has suggestions?

[HOW TO] Fix Dropbox on Android L Developer Preview

HOW-TO FIX DROPBOX on ANDROID L DEVELOPER PREVIEW​
This method worked for me, so hopefully it'll do the same for you as well.​
1. Download Root Explorer from the Play Store.
2. In Root Explorer navigate to:
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sdcard/Android/data/
3. Delete the com.dropbox.android folder.
4. Next go to your device's root directory (/) and go to:
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/data/system/
5. Delete the dropbox folder.
Just for safe keeping I booted into recovery and to wipe dalvik and cache, rebooted, reinstalled Dropbox and it's been working smoothly ever since.
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I basically summed up my blog post and posted it here.

I actually just managed to get it to work by only deleting sdcard/Android/data/com.dropbox.android
didn't need root, didn't need to do anything in /data/system
Also didn't need to reinstall Dropbox either, it just worked first time after deleting that one folder

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I actually just managed to get it to work by only deleting sdcard/Android/data/com.dropbox.android
didn't need root, didn't need to do anything in /data/system
Also didn't need to reinstall Dropbox either, it just worked first time after deleting that one folder
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Hmm, that didn't work for me. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact I always check to enable early releases?

chaosdefinesorder said:
I actually just managed to get it to work by only deleting sdcard/Android/data/com.dropbox.android
didn't need root, didn't need to do anything in /data/system
Also didn't need to reinstall Dropbox either, it just worked first time after deleting that one folder
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delete Dropbox.apk in PlayStore....without Root and download this apk here.
LINK: DOWNLOAD
https://mega.co.nz/#!N0QTnJxT!slKC0eSNT6gGCAY-oskpnaTxXo2JBcbbIiL2uyZtAzM
and work fine...Please do not update the app from PlayStore!!!!!

Deleting /data/system/dropbox fixed it for me. Thanks!
Edit: actually it's force closing again. It did work once though

I'm on a Nexus 7 2013 with Android L and so far none of these solutions have worked The dropbox team really just needs to update their app.

drdoulittle said:
delete Dropbox.apk in PlayStore....without Root and download this apk here.
LINK: DOWNLOAD
https://mega.co.nz/#!N0QTnJxT!slKC0eSNT6gGCAY-oskpnaTxXo2JBcbbIiL2uyZtAzM
and work fine...Please do not update the app from PlayStore!!!!!
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Could you please reupload that apk? It's down...

Greg11784 said:
Deleting /data/system/dropbox fixed it for me. Thanks!
Edit: actually it's force closing again. It did work once though
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Works for me until now

drdoulittle said:
delete Dropbox.apk in PlayStore....without Root and download this apk here.
LINK: DOWNLOAD
https://mega.co.nz/#!N0QTnJxT!slKC0eSNT6gGCAY-oskpnaTxXo2JBcbbIiL2uyZtAzM
and work fine...Please do not update the app from PlayStore!!!!!
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Please reup this apk.

I tried the method in the OP a few times, but it didnt seem to work at first. Then I used QuickPic to upload some photos to dropbox, which worked like a charm. Now for some reason I am able to directly use the dropbox app itself with no problems. Not sure exactly what fixed it though. Kind of weird.

uodii said:
I tried the method in the OP a few times, but it didnt seem to work at first. Then I used QuickPic to upload some photos to dropbox, which worked like a charm. Now for some reason I am able to directly use the dropbox app itself with no problems. Not sure exactly what fixed it though. Kind of weird.
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Accepted. It works

Sadly this tutorial didn't work for me.
Still gettin force close every time.
I tried QuickPic and i can access Dropbox with it, but even after that the normal app still crashes

Start QuickPic, send file and then run Dropbox. QuickPic let the background.

Doesn't work either..

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Start QuickPic, send file and then run Dropbox. QuickPic let the background.
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I tried this... didn't work It's weird because it had worked once and now it doesn't, I wonder why.

not work on everytime, that wired
for now
i use solid explorer to access my dropbox files

None of the methods above worked for me. So I restored an old Dropbox apk from a backup and it works very well.

fripp63 said:
None of the methods above worked for me. So I restored an old Dropbox apk from a backup and it works very well.
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I was finding the same, nothing was working to get it fixed, but I could still access files in dropbox from other apps like ES File Explorer. However I really wanted the camera upload feature. I installed this old apk and it appears to be working, but I haven't tested to see if the camera upload is working. Hopefully it is... Thanks for sharing the apk.

fripp63 said:
None of the methods above worked for me. So I restored an old Dropbox apk from a backup and it works very well.
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Now that works!

fripp63 said:
None of the methods above worked for me. So I restored an old Dropbox apk from a backup and it works very well.
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That apk works for me too. Thanks