Messing around I hit hide file and now go figure I can't find it. How do you locate and restore a hidden file? Its my bootanimation.zip file. Bootanimation still works properly so its in there some place.
Es file explorer help.
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, Jun 23 2013 06:48 PM
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Posted 23 June 2013 - 06:48 PM
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Posted 23 June 2013 - 07:43 PM
The bootanimation.zip typically lives in /system/media .... maybe try to navigate there and unhide it.....
I'm not too familiar with es file explorer... (I always delete it and use Root Explorer)
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Posted 24 June 2013 - 03:24 AM
I had originally tried to delete it after saving a copy to the SD card in an attempt to install a custom one. No matter what it wouldn't delete. So I tried hiding to see if the custom could be moved over but it still says bootani already exists so it won't move. Going to system/media doesn't appear to have an option to unhide files nor does it give any info where to find the file after hiding it. Suppose its something simple going on here.
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Posted 24 June 2013 - 03:31 AM
I had originally tried to delete it after saving a copy to the SD card in an attempt to install a custom one. No matter what it wouldn't delete. So I tried hiding to see if the custom could be moved over but it still says bootani already exists so it won't move. Going to system/media doesn't appear to have an option to unhide files nor does it give any info where to find the file after hiding it. Suppose its something simple going on here.
It appears that your es file explorer does not have root access.... that's why you are not able to modify /system files......
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Posted 24 June 2013 - 03:34 AM
In ES click the icon in the very upper left corner. Click tools. Scroll to the bottom and you will see hide list. Click that and it should be listed there.
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Posted 24 June 2013 - 03:36 AM
With what John said, in almost all file explorers you need to mount system prior to manipulating system files.
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Posted 24 June 2013 - 03:44 AM
You can also use ADB to mount and manipulate /system files.....
I personally find it more reliable
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Posted 24 June 2013 - 07:57 AM
The first thing I did was manually grant su access to the app and it is on the list as having access. I did move the custom zip to data/local . After that was able to grant permissions to it I think it was rw-r--r--. Still wouldn't move over after hiding. I'll have to take a better look for a hidden list. Was looking earlier and saw what looked like the file in system/downloads. Will have to look further at that perhaps it was moved when hiding.
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Posted 24 June 2013 - 08:00 AM
The first thing I did was manually grant su access to the app and it is on the list as having access. I did move the custom zip to data/local . After that was able to grant permissions to it I think it was rw-r--r--. Still wouldn't move over after hiding. I'll have to take a better look for a hidden list. Was looking earlier and saw what looked like the file in system/downloads. Will have to look further at that perhaps it was moved when hiding.
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Posted 24 June 2013 - 06:01 PM
Thanks for your assistance and patients with me on this one. I got it all sorted out and figured out how to move the files and change the names and also found that hidden file. Unfortunately all the bootani zips seem to be incompatible with the stock ROM but I learned some things about file managing so its all good.
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