Probably asked a billion times but can somebody quickly explain how i can have a custom startup picture instead of the cingular one? thanks
If u do a simple search, u will find many posts talking about it.
Anyway, here's the steps (WM5 ONLY):
Step 1)
Backing up the original Bootscreen image.
Open your device's File Explorer and go to /Windows.
Search for an image named 'welcomehead.96.png'.
Copy that file (Tap & Hold on the image's name and tap on Copy).
Paste it somewhere else on your device. Preferably on a removeable storage card (SD, Mini-SD, etc)
Paste the file by tap & holding on an empty space in the file explorer and tapping on paste in the context menu.
Now the file is backed up!
Step 2)
Take the Bootscreen skin you've chosen, and put it on your device.
Now, you need a third party file explorer, because Microsoft, for security/safety reasons, disabled the Built-in File explorer (and ActiveSync Explorer)
from replacing system files.
Resco Explorer is a good 3rd Party explorer but there are tons of freeware explorers out there to do the job.
Paste the Bootscreen skin in the /Windows folder with the 3rd party file explorer.
A pop-up will appear asking you to overwrite the original file. Overwrite the file.
You will also probably get a system warning about replacing a system file. This can be ignored.
Please note, as stated above, that this only works on Windows Mobile 5 devices.
Requires Root
Needs not even a Single Paid App from the market.
Tested on Droid Razr Maxx XT912
Tools Required:
Phone
ES File Explorer
PC/Mac (Anyone of the Below)
SQLite Database Manager for Windows
Mozilla Firefox + SQLite Manager Addon (Any OS)
Steps:
Android Phone Part 1:
Open ES File Explorer and enable Root and Mount RW
Open Settings (Press the Menu key then Settings)
Scroll Down to "Other Settings"
the Select "Root Settings"
Check the following Options
Root Explorer
Up to Root
Mount File System
GoTo the following directory in ES File Explorer:
/data/data/com.motorola.android.providers.settings/databases
Copy settings.db and paste it in /sdcard or /sdcard-ext or a convenient location
PC Part:
Transfer this file to your PC via USB/Bluetooth/Beam/WiFi/WTYH(Whatever Technology You Have) :angel:
Open this file in SQLite Database Browser(I used Windows Version. The Firefox Plugin Version is also Similar so are other SQLite Editors):
File --> Open
open the "settings.db" database file
The first view will show three tables and one index.
Now Click the Browse Data tab
From the Drop-down select Settings
Scroll down to line 68 where it says 79 entitlement_check 1
Double Click on the 1 to edit it.
Change the value to 0
Click Apply Changes and Save the Database from File --> Save (important)
Now Copy this Modified file back to Android Phone
Android Phone Part 2:
Open ES File Explorer
Copy the new settings.db and paste it in /data/data/com.motorola.android.providers.settings/databases
ES File Explorer will ask for Overwrite Confirmation. Agree it,
Now Exit ES File Explorer and Reboot the Phone.See the below Gallery for Screenshots..
Thats all.. Hit thanks:good: if I helped you.
Hi all;
Can i know why the thumbdata3 file folder in /mnt/sdcard/DCIM is so big in size (nearly 1gb) in my internal storage? Actually, all my photos or videos are in my ext-SD.
I have tried to delete the thumbnail folder but it come back again in same location. As shown in the picture, the device memory bar is almost full,but the available space still show 7.24gb. Please advice. Thanks.............
Anyone can help..? Thanks.........
Big thumbdata3 file in internal storage
erictanyh said:
Anyone can help..? Thanks.........
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Using a disk space analyzer, I was surprised to see that my Android tablet had 1.03GB of photos. This was odd to me, because I knew there were only a couple of photos on the device.
I pinpointed the problem to thumbnails. These are tiny copies of photos used by some apps to more quickly display pictures. Specifically, the 1GB was being taken up by a thumbnail index file, and I didn't need to lose that 1GB to a function I don't use on the tablet. I erased the file as follows:
1. Open a file manager on Android. I use File Manager from Rhythm Software.
2. Ensure that it can display system or hidden files. This is an option somewhere under Settings. In File Manager, tap Menu > Settings > Show Hidden Files.
3. Navigate to \mnt\sdcard\DCIM\ .thumbnails. By the way, DCIM is the standard name for the folder that holds photographs, and is the standard for pretty much any device, whether smartphone or camera; it is short for "digital camera IMages." Another BTW: when a folder name is prefixed with a period, then it is a hidden folder in Android (such as .thumbnails).
4. Select and erase the file that's about 1GB and contains the word 'thumbdata." The exact file name will vary.
After I did this, image viewing apps like Gallery operated just fine, with no apparent slowdown from the loss of this file.
In this way I freed up 1GB on my Android v4 tablet, 1GB on my Android v4 phone, and 750MB on an older Android v2 phone.
Keeping the 1GB Free
Because .thumbdata is a system file, Android recreates it. Indeed, you may find more than one copy in the .thumbnails folder, if you have reinstalled Android or similarly redid the system in some way.
To keep Android from creating the 1GB file anew, we need to create a dummy file that fools Android. In short, we create a text file with a text editor, and then move it to the thumbnails folder. Here are the steps to doing this:
1. Use File Manager to determine the exact name of the thumbnail index file. On one of my Android devices, the name is .thumbdata3--1967290299. Write it down.
2. Start a text editor or word processor on the Android, and then create a new text file.
3. Use the Save As command to save the file in the DCIM folder. (We move it to the .thumbnails folder in a later step.) Save it with the same name at that index file, such as ".thumbdata3--1967290299". Now, depending on the text editor's capabilities, it might not allow the "." prefix or a blank extension. Thus, you might end up with thumbdata3--1967290299.txt as the file name. We fix this in a later step.
4. Exit the text editor, and then switch to File Manager. Now, it is important you use a file manager like Rhythm Software's File Manager app, because it does what some others cannot: it can (a) rename file extensions and (b) access hidden folders.
5. In File Manager, navigate to the \DCIM\ .thumbnails folder. If the thumbdata3 file is there again, erase it again.
6. Move up a level to the \DCIM folder, and then right-click the thumbdata3--1967290299.txt file name. ("Right click" means hold your finger down on the name until a menu appears.)
7. From the menu, choose Rename, and then rename thumbdata3--1967290299.txt to .thumbdata3--1967290299 -- (a) add the dot (.) to the start of the file name, and (b) erase the ".txt" from the end of the file name.
8. Click OK (or Rename) to finish renaming.
9. Right click the file name, and then choose Move (or Cut).
10. Navigate down to the .thumbnails folder, and then tap Paste.
The dummy file will now prevent Android from creating the huge index file.
Thumbdata files allow most devices to access the file it is in i.e if u give another device permission to access your device it will create a thumbdata file so it can browse your personal files so should be treated with caution as app developers would be able to illegally access your sensitive personal images or information on your phone or smart device without consent from the owner therefore maybe should be treated as spyware permissions for thumbdata should be an optional decision from the user in Android systems and currently is not
So I renamed a folder on my SD card to ".bak". The folder disappeared completely as soon as I changed it. I named folders .bak on my jailbroken iPhone to hide stuff and never had any issues. Anyone know how to get my porn back?
A file name starting with a period or full stop ("dot file") is by definition a hidden file.
Use a root aware file browser and ensure that it is configured to display hidden & system files. Or use the -a (display all) option on the command line e.g. ls -la
.
Thank you sir! I had to set ES file explorer to read hidden files- the setting tab is somewhat hidden. got them bak.
Maybe you know about it, but I just wanna share something I think very interesting : Simple way how to put and modify a file/folder to C:\directory*
1. Based on this thread , pleased know: How to open C:\ folder directly on your phone.
2. Firt thing, copy your file to "This Devices". ex: Documents folder (is up to you, not only Documents folder. You can use other folder)
3. Now, open C:\ directory like following step 1.
4. Go to C:\DATA\USERS\PUBLIC\Documents (here is your file)
5. Try to Copy or Move your file on here (C:\DATA\USERS\PUBLIC\Documents) to root of C:\ or somewhere you liked by pressing the address at the top bar.
*you must know, some file/folder can't modified or re-write because they're have read-only attributes. :laugh:
Thanks, :good:
@T4ufik_Hidayat