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[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
It's likely your home screen application has crashed and the OS is either unaware of it or is unable to relaunch it. I've seen this before with arbitrary applications, Android will simply pick the most recent activity and display it.

The Home button is controlled entirely by Android, applications do not even have the capability to intercept it.

I strongly recommend watching that video about the Android activity stack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6gSd4ugSI&feature=player_embedded Unless you have active file transfers in progress or have FX's bluetooth push server actively accepting connections, Android will load and unload the application as it sees fit. The state will be persisted and written/retrieved from storage even when the application is unloaded entirely from memory (e.g., all your open windows will reappear when the application is reopened as though you never left it).

The key place where Android developers tend to screw up is not in "exiting" their applications, but rather in things like leaving resources open, threads active, or wake/wifi locks active while their application is not active. By comparison, working with the actual Android activity/application lifecycle is pretty straightforward, i.e., the default behavior does what you want in most cases. And again, forcing exit by shutting down the VM is considered to be very bad design.
[Android Apps and Games] Cocolopes:
Yes I know that...but some time the fx launch from other icon in my dock...I want to open xda app, push the xda icon...and launch the fx...its the only app that make this...

I will try to translate this app to Spanish if you don't care...

If you want the translate files I'll be happy to send it to you.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
That is extremely strange. Is there any chance it's just opening an FX file chooser, e.g., if you were last using the XDA app to select a file with the FX file chooser?

If that's not it, what launcher are you using? I've never seen this problem with any of the ones I've tried (with any app), albeit that's not a very long list (stock 1.5-3.2, ADW, ADW EX, Blur (various), Sense, TouchWiz).

With regard to translations, thanks, love to have help here but want to try to find a means to allow people to package translations themselves without me having to sign APKs and such. Android docs are extremely thin on using the resources/assets system to do things like this (not even certain it's possible). I have some unpleasant ideas for workarounds if it's not possible, but really would like to use standard APIs if it is.

I don't to want to package translations directly into the package that I can't maintain internally. People seem to get extraordinarily angry when they use an app which indicates that its translated into their language and then find out that a few strings are missing.
[Android Apps and Games] Cocolopes:
Well about the translation or anything you need let me know...I'm no dev but I will glad to help.

About the problem I had...I think its related to the fx moved to the SD card...when I moved back to the phone...the problem its gone.
[Android Apps and Games] p51d007:
Good app

Been using this for a week, Streak, 2.2.2, rooted, no issues.

Rooted version would be perfect.
[Android Apps and Games] kay_kiat88:
any updates from dev?
[Android Apps and Games] starbase64:
Hi,

in a kontex menu from a file is "Cut" and "Copy", but i can not find "insert" or "paste".

Please help.

with friendly greet

starbase64
[Android Apps and Games] kay_kiat88:
top left hand corner. tap on clipboard.
[Android Apps and Games] kay_kiat88:
after you select an item and copy it. on the top left hand corner you'll see "Clipboard - 1 item copied"
[Android Apps and Games] starbase64:
Thanks, that helped.

with friendly greet

starbase64
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Sorry, did I miss a question, or are you just asking when the next update will be released?

If the latter, currently working on Bluetooth and some aesthetic features, hope to have a release out in the next couple of days (generally want to have about one a week when possible).

With Bluetooth, I'm changing the way things work a bit, such that you can run the Wi-Fi OBEX Push receiver server while running your phone's stock OBEX Push server (rather than requiring use of the FX OBEX Push server to use this feature.)
[Android Apps and Games] pharz:
Very nice, my compliments!

One thing though (for now :D)

You know how you sometimes take a picture in landscape orientation and sometimes in portrait? The app makes no distinction and shows all in landscape.

Makes it hard to use for images that way.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks!

Are you seeing portrait images displayed rotated 90* in the image viewer? What phone do you have?
[Android Apps and Games] ardax:
The problem with the Incredible 1 (and some other HTC phones, I believe) is that while /data is nicely sized, /data/data is on a separate, tiny partition. In the Incredible's case it's 150 MB.

What's worse is that most standard views of space usage are wrong because they only take into account the free space in /data, while /data/data is stuffed nearly full of.... well... data. So users would get "space low" (or worse "out of space") errors, go look and see that the app space has hundreds of MB free and wonder WTF is wrong.

There's a mod in the Incredible's Development section that will make /data/data a proper subfolder of /data and leave the old /data/data partition unused. (Alternatively, dalvik can be mounted into that space.)

If you have an Inc 1, drop to a root shell on it and run "df -h" (or just "df" if the -h flag isn't recognized). You'll see what I mean immediately.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I do have an inc1, but have only really used it as a test device (physical keyboard zealot here). Had never noticed this was the case. The Inc1 certainly is an unusual Android device, there's a lot unusual about its Android implementation. The biggest oddity is its use of two separate media databases for internal and external SD card storage, as far as I know it's the only device set up this way.

As of the next (imminent) release, FX will be clearing the cache on exit. This won't kill the search database, but it will take out any web view caching (which appears to happen even when we inform our web views to entirely disable caching).
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Regrettably the search screen doesn't behave as a "window" like the file/media/network views in FX. So making this change would be a bit more complex than it might seem.

I do find the current search behavior to be annoying with your use case. What will likely be done in the near future (not next release) is to have you returned to your search results when you press the search key or use Tools->Search within a reasonable window of time since the last search.

FX is intended to be compatible with USB sticks. It should automatically display them when they are attached. The one issue is that they won't show up if they're read-only. This is an unfortunate side-effect of Android providing no API to handle this, as FX currently looks for user-writable storage in order to determine what mounted filesystems should be displayed. It may be possible to further improve this code though. Is the USB stick you're mounting writable? To what path is the USB stick being mounted? And what tablet are you using? (You might be able to find the path and R/W status using FX's Filesystem Manager, i.e., Tools->Filesystems).

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] ardax:
I didn't realize it was such an odd device. I always thought it was a Nexus One in a slightly different skin.

BTW, I'm still getting the crash when loading a file listing via SFTP that I provided a logcat for in you rootz thread. Should that be fixed, or does that get chalked up to the risks of running an ICS kang? :)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Hardwise-wise I think it's pretty close to a Nexus One with a substantially larger internal flash memory. While it's still a reasonably spec'ed device, the problem is that it came out in April 2010 and this was a time when many manufacturers were making bad decisions about their Android implementations. Just look at the Nexus One with 200MB for its *entire* /data partition.

Replied to the rootz thread as well. Regrettably it might be one more iteration before this is fully fixed. That exception is happening in a place where it just plain shouldn't happen (if conditions were right for it to occur, it should have occurred a few lines earlier and the API docs say it shouldn't happen at all). If it continues in the new release (due imminently) please post another stack trace and I should be able to get rid of it once and for all.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
There certainly should be a shortcut created on the homescreen, Is the Filesystem manager showing that it's mounted read/write?
[Android Apps and Games] ardax:
Ah, I love getting bug reports with errors that "can't happen" in places where "nothing can go wrong". I appreciate the effort!

I'll keep my eyes up for the new release and let you know.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
0.144 is now available on the market (just uploaded, may take 30 minutes or so before it becomes generally available.)

Changes in this release:

ImageViewer now supports opening previous/next images by swiping vertically.

Fixed bug with creating Tar archives (without compression).

Support for creating and decompressing single files using BZIP2 and GZIP (without TAR).

Improved progress feedback creating and decompressing archives.

Improved handling of over-recursive file operations (errors/warnings).

Improved memory management/out-of-memory scenario handling for text editor.

Media server (for streaming media from network locations) will now shutdown in 15 seconds if the screen is turned off. Some media players will continue retrieving data even when they are not playing anything, causing the media player to needlessly drain the battery (and largely blame FX in battery usage statistics).

Added "Close All" button to Windows menu. Tap-and-holding on this item will now FX's user interface to completely shut down (any background file transfer operations will continue).

Better handling of soft enter key in password dialogs for some phones/tablets.

Added relevant information to "Details" screen when viewing a filesystem root.

Confirm delete checkboxes can now be disabled in the settings.

Fixed issues with hanging operation dialogs for operations that executed near-instantaneously.

Character encoding support for text editor.

Additional bugfixes.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Updated. So far everything appears to be working ok with one exception.

When trying to swipe through photos, it doesn't appear to work very well. It takes a good 30 seconds or more before the scrolling starts working, and then I get a message saying "Not enough memory to load image at full size: reducing resolution for display".

Some folders scroll fine without any issues, some folders will scroll with the error message above, some wont scroll at all. It seems to have issues handling larger photos around the 2-3Mb+ mark.

I love that I can now remove the delete confirmation check box. :D
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
How large are the images (in terms of resolution, rather than disk size)?

Is the device responsive during the 30 second wait, or are you seeing "Application Not Responding" error messages.

And lastly, what is the maximum heap size on your phone? To find out, go to Windows->Operations, then choose "System Status". It will be listed under the "Memory" section.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
They are about 3600 x 2700px - around 4-5Mb each.

The device is completely responsive - it doesn't appear to slow down or lag in anyway. When the pictures don't load I can go back easily enough.

Max heap size is 48Mb.

:)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks...these would be 9.72 megapixels each, or requiring 37MB to load the full image into an Android 4-byte ARGB bitmap, which FX is unfortunately trying and failing to do on the first go round...this needs to be changed, as it's easy to determine ahead of time that such a strategy simply isn't going to work. :)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
If possible, could you post the contents of the file "/proc/mounts" hrere (with the USB device connected?)
[Android Apps and Games] domin0311:
hi....are you gonna include google drive in the future ?
[Android Apps and Games] doumer:
this app is the best filemanager for android so far but i'm missing one feature: miexplorer has a option to toggle n ftp-host so that you can access your entire phone (internal/system+sd) via ftp, which is incredible usefull to transfer large amounts of data. is this also possible for FX? this and the final root feature would make the app perfect and I'll devinitivly spend my money on it ;-)
[Android Apps and Games] paul c:
Really enjoying FX File Explorer :)

A couple of things:

UI - would it be possible to re-order the shortcuts on the home page, that is, move up and down Bookmarks, Files, Media, Internet/Network? I spend virtually all of my time between the Media Card and LAN/FTP, would be nice to have them at the top of the screen without having to swipe (I'm using it on a phone)

Also... if System root access is enabled, the System shortcut is redundant, so would be nice to be able to hide some/any of the shortcuts.

FTP: I currently use AndFTP, which for me is currently the best FTP client, would be great to use some of the ideas that are implemented there, like being able to switch between the FTP server and the device root folder while in FTP mode. The next step for this is to be able to select files (and folders :)) for upload from within the client.

I'm still having difficulty keeping the connection alive during data transfer when the phone goes to sleep, but i suspect this is an Android thing, and is a topic in itself. Would be great to implement a basic workaround like "keep screen on during data transfer" :)
[Android Apps and Games] zs0mby:
first i thought that fx doesn't have root for changing system files but when i read the hole article and a saw this:

where can i download the root module?
[Android Apps and Games] DarkhShadow:
Check play store description

Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Is this app still being developed? :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] DarkhShadow:
Yes? Just because dev isn't posting doesn't mean its dead

Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Of course. But I haven't seen a post or an update for some time so I was just asking the question. :D
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Too busy with the project to post much at the moment.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
0.152 is now available.

This release adds Google Drive / Google Docs support. This feature is part of the cloud storage package, which will be in the paid version but is of course free during beta.

When downloading Google Docs files (i.e, Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations created by Google Docs or imported to it) you can choose the file format of the download. Available formats include Microsoft Office, OpenDocument (OpenOffice/LibreOffice), PDF, plain text, HTML, and more.

For example:

In 0.152, files will by default be downloaded in Microsoft Office formats. This will be configurable in a future release. Files will automatically be renamed with the correct extensions at time of download.

FX may eventually gain support for viewing certain types of Google Docs documents, but unfortunately this feature is broken on mobile platforms in Google Docs at present in some cases (e.g. text document viewing). I need to hit up stackoverflow and find out if this can be corrected.

In addition to Google Drive support, this release improves the image viewer a bit, specifically with regard to dragging, zooming, and switching between images. The updated version should be less prone to switching images on accident, and a few bugs have been corrected with regard to multiple touch zooming.

And finally we now have support for refreshing local directory information automatically when files are updated as a result of background operations or by other applications.

This release was uploaded moments ago, so it may take 20-30 minutes before the market allows it to be downloaded.
[Android Apps and Games] everlethal:
Awesome like always.

Can we see unrar soon?
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
+1

rar is for me the most important missing feature.
[Android Apps and Games] paul c:
a very elegant implementation of Drive (& all the cloud services) :)

I d/led a couple of files to test - the download dialogue froze halfway through the first download, I had to close the connection and reopen Drive.

Could have been anything (lost connection with Drive, the local wifi, something in the phone itself) - could autoresume be implemented on cloud drives, or a dialogue box with "failed - press here to reconnect"... or something similar?
[Android Apps and Games] ljose7:
fx file is the best file manager :D
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
Well you've certainly done a lot more with this project than I've seen any other file manager do. Bravo.

The two major paper cuts I'd still like to call out are;

A) homepage displays /system and /system (root) which is redundant. Again, how likely is it that any user who has installed the root module will ever need or use non root access to /system? Installing the root module should cause /system (root) to replace /system so both are not shown.

And

B) having permissions displayed but not editable in the file details window is redundant to having the separate permissions editor.

Why bother showing them in the details window if I can't edit them?

Also, for this app to have a true desktop feeling the separate permissions window shouldn't exist and the permissions display in the details menu should be editable because I've never seen a desktop with a separate permissions window (not that they don't exist, but all the ones I've used just have editable permissions from file details/properties window)

Also I like the suggestion a page back to allow reordering the homepage

I disable bookmarks because I prefer access to the "files" category on top, but bookmarks would do well being second for me (and maybe somewhere else for others). Also I NEVER use the "media" category so being able to move it down or even hide it would be great. Everything else seems fine.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks!

Google Drive and I believe most others due support resuming file uploads, and I do hope to have it available in FX in a future release. It likely won't be available in 1.0 though.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
FX certainly does need more ability to customize the homescreen, with removing the non-root "System" item likely being one of the most common scenarios. There are some legitimate reasons for retaining system, e.g., if the device has user-writable storage that is not detectable by FX. And being a full-time Linux user, I've always subscribed to the philosophy that root should only be used when required.

The permissions view in the details page will soon open a new dialog with the permissions editor. We don't want it editable directly. The first issue here is that the permissions view in the Details view is sized for reading rather than user interaction (see below). And more importantly, there's no Ok/Cancel step so we'd have to apply permissions immediately, which would not be a good thing. For example, an intended scroll gesture incorrectly interpreted by the touch screen to be a tap could result in immediate permission changes as root. Do this to the wrong file and you'll brick the device.
[Android Apps and Games] dskina:
I was using ES, but this just looks better :D
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
I see your point about not using root if you don't need it and about non detected user spaces, still the option to turn off showing both would be cool

P.s. I'm also a full time Linux user ;)

Point taken here as well, I look forward to the button that launches the permission editor
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
It IS better! :D
[Android Apps and Games] Mr_Gee:
Love it,

the only thing i'm missing is a thumbnail image of movie files in a folder

similar to "solid explorer"
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks again, this will all be in the next release. Permissions will be accessible from details and I've added the setting to turn off the non-root System folder. When the hide-system setting is enabled, the context menu for the "System (Root Access)" item will also offer a menu option, "Open (without Root)".
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
0.154 is now available for download on the Google Play Store.

This release is a maintenance update, its primary purpose being to solve some reported bugs and implement some user-provided suggestions.

SSH: Fixed crash with some SSH servers.

Root: Permission editor can now be opened from details view (root and SSH).

Root: Option to hide non-root System catalog when root is enabled. Long-pressing on root System catalog now has option to open it without root when this option is enabled.

Google Drive: MD5 hashes are now displayed in details.

Music/Audio: Individual album view now has option to sort by name or track number.

Music/Audio: Significantly improved performance (e.g. scrolling) when album art is enabled.
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
Very nice, thanks for your work :D

All I'd say could be better is complete home screen editing (hide/reorder everything)

But otherwise you've got way more than enough to be called the best in class file explorer.
[Android Apps and Games] kUdtiHaEX:
So I wrote you a review on Play Store about great performance issue I've encoutered two days before but I'm not sure that you take them seriously since there is a lot if strange people giving their comments there.

So here is a thing - I own Galaxy Note which is pretty big 5.4 inch phablet, running AOKP ICS 4.0.4 Just for the record, I don't have any performance problems with my phone, generally.

On my mSD (16 Gb, class 10) there was a one folder with icons, PNG files of them mostly - about 400 of them to be more precise. What I wanned to do is to move all those files to the another folder. So, I've entered into my folder with all those files and guess what - FX was rendered unusable, almost stoned. Calling Menu took almost 5 minutes, selecting all files almost 15.

Same thing is about browsing my DCIM folder with a lot of pictures - ICS instantly says "close or wait" and I have no other choice but to say Yes, close it.

At the and I gave up, fired another file manager called Root Explorer which handled the same situation with no problems at all. Pretty smooth I must say.

There are some other things which you could improve - first of them is a scrolling smoothness which is pretty bad on my Galaxy Note. For example, if I browse the root of my mSD, I have two columns with folders and just scvrolling up/down is pretty choppy. I know that scrolling is not a primary function of this application but just maybe it could be related with a problem I've described above.

Also there is a small bug with swype-like selection of folders and files - If i swype from left to right but if accidentally my finger goes to the part of the screen which is reserved for a scrollbar, my selection will fail. Pretty annoying for us with a big hands.

Another performance issue I have on SGS2 and Note is a noticeable lag when calling some of the menus like Tools.

And for the end one question - I saw that you have implemented a lot of Cloud storage connectors which is pretty nice. My question would be - is there a plan of adding pure WebDAV support to this File Manager since there are some of us who have our own Cloud based storage which uses WebDAV?