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[Android Apps and Games] geniouspeter:
some suggestion

1. the "system (root access)"could not change the sort by users,pls update it

2. the text editor doesn't have the scrollable bar ,pls add it

3. could the network and could storage's all kind of files changes as streaming,not asking for download?

4. pls add filter feature,let users finding the files and folders in current folder quickly.

5. pls let users to change the font size they want

thx!!
[Android Apps and Games] macanovic88:
Thank you very much for this great app! It works perfect, this is now my default file explorer. :) :)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Really appreciate the help debugging this! I think I've got it replicated here on both FTP-S and FTP-ES. Not specific to a single phone. 0.163 exhibits the same behavior, although 0.167 appears to fail faster than 0.163. This is priority #1, thanks again!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
@elban

After five days of debugging, I think I have a fix for the FTP-ES/S failure problem. Literally haven't done much of anything in the past five days except for this (it's an extremely critical issue, we claim FTP-ES/S support and that certainly means that uploads of decent-size files need to work rather than aborting and displaying error messages.)

I'm still testing it and need to try it on at least a half-dozen more devices, if all goes well I'll try and put up a new release shortly thereafter.

The underlying issue appears to be an incompatibility between Apache Commons Net and Android (I managed to make the Commons Net example code fail on Android while it ran fine on my Linux PC). It appears it can be worked around.

Thanks again for reporting this!
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
you're welcome :-)

looks like those kind of troubles that makes up for the usual programmer's insomnia :-P

if you wanna send me an apk I'll test it for you.
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
Too does this mean the FTP issue may be fixed soon? Also is there any chance you could add a link to apks in the main screen, its so much more useful than having to find them manually, like in the miui file explorer :D would be awesome
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Yes, should be out ASAP. This will fix uploading on FTP-S/-ES connections only though...is that the issue you're seeing or is there something else as well?

How would you feel about FX simply providing the ability to create bookmarks to search results? I believe this is all the MIUI explorer is doing, just with a fixed target.
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
Well if I download something or upload over mobile network it gets stuck at 99% even though its completed and I have to stop operations to get rid of it

Over wifi it works fine

Yeh that would be cool
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, are you using encryption (FTP-S or FTP-ES)? If not, does it happen just downloading files from public sites, e.g. ftp.mozilla.org?

And finally what phone/device/ROM are you running?
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
I'm on galaxy nexus using aokp rom and glados kernel

It happens when I connect to my seedboxes which as far as I'm aware are just FTP, user name/ password jobs

I don't have the problem over wifi only on mobile network and its both downloading / uploading

If I try to do multiple files its stops on the first file because of the "hang" even though it does complete the first one it just stops at 99%
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Haven't much of an idea what could be causing this at the moment. Is this a Verizon/Sprint CDMA unit or the GSM item?

Is there any chance you could see if an upload via SSH does the same thing...or even a cloud service?

Additionally, when you say it only does it on mobile networks and not WiFi...are both the phone and the server on the same WiFi network? If so, could you try transferring a file from a different WiFi network to see if the issue is really cellular vs. WiFi or simply not being on the same network as the server?

Thanks again for reporting this, and my apologies for not following up earlier on your original post about it.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
0.170 is now available on the Play Store/Android Market. This is a very minor release that is primarily intended to resolve the FTP-S/FTP-ES errors encountered uploading larger files (thanks again elban!) It also offers a few trivial cleanups, bugfixes, and aesthetic tweaks.

Supplies are limited, get yours today! :D
[Android Apps and Games] winkshow:
Download location

Not sure if this had been mentioned, but the default download location for cloud storage creates a new folder called "download" instead of sending it to "Download". Easy enough to change, but since "Download" is a button on the main screen, it doesn't make much sense.

Great app though.
[Android Apps and Games] geniouspeter:
1. the "system (root access)"could not change the sort by users,pls update it

2. pls add filter feature,let users finding the files and folders in current folder quickly.

3. pls let users to change the font size they want
[Android Apps and Games] blackcell1:
a little bug that iv found, is when i open up the sub menu it's not full screen... i guess the screenshot will help explain this more :)
[Android Apps and Games] AndreS93:
THX! It's very fast!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks! Do you actually have a case-sensitive filesystem that has both "Download" and "download" folders in the same place? Or is one of these folders on your phone/device's internal storage and the other on the media card?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Are you referring to the pop-up menu not spanning the entire horizontal size of the screen? This is actually by design; the popup menu columns have maximum widths. This becomes apparent on phones with screens larger than 800x480 (at 240dpi).
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
The wifi and server are on completely different servers so is deffinately a mobile network problem, also its a GSM phone, UK on 3uk network

I'll try something on cloud not sure if I have access to SSH server
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I'm curious if your carrier might be doing something odd with FTP connections? One more thing to try might be connecting to the server using FTP-S or FTP-ES (if supported).

One more question...are the files in question large (do they take a while to upload)...and if so, do smaller files seem to work correctly?
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
All files do this, normally between 500mb and 3gb but have done 5mb files with same result

Its like its not being recognised as fully uploading/downloaded even though it has and cannot move onto the next file
[Android Apps and Games] blackcell1:
ah if its by design then ok :) i though it might of been a bug due to my huge Resolution. thanks for the sweet app
[Android Apps and Games] AndreS93:
beautifull :) THX
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
It would really be nice if one of the next things would be a better text file support for the viewer and editor:

The editor doesn't support ANSI files with German umlauts. (Wasn't this already added?)

The viewer and the editor are having problems with UTF8 files (with BOM, whatever this does mean). Both are showing a not existing space at the beginning of the file.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
FX has encoding auto detection on file load. You can also set the encoding if you open the file from within the text editor. Is this all failing?
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
How do I set the encoding? There is no dialog if I open files from within the editor. And therefore it makes no difference.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
In the text editor, go to File->Open. In the open dialog, select Tools and then tap Encoding.
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
OK, now I had a little success:

ANSI, with umlauts:

Auto detection -> Windows-1255 -> doesn't work

Manual detection -> Windows-1252 -> works

Manual detection -> ISO-8859-1 -> works

UTF-8 without BOM, with or without umlauts:

Auto detection -> UTF-8 -> works

UTF-8 with BOM, with or without umlauts:

Auto detection -> UTF-8 -> doesn't work

Manual detection -> no working encoding found so far...
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the report.

FX uses juniversalchardet, which is a port of Mozilla's character encoding detection algorithms. The automatic detection mode sends it the first 64KiB of a file to determine encoding, with a default of UTF-8.

What text editor is generating the files? If you create a file in the FX editor with umlauts, save it as Windows 1252 (again available in the Tools menu in the Save As dialog) and then reopen it, does it work as expected?
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
It seems that it's not very good. It detects my very simple test files with German umlauts as Hebrew...

If I do this reopening also fails.

On my PC I'm using Notepad++, but even with the simple Windows Notepad it is the same. I've attached a very simple test file. It should show:

abc

äöü

123
[Android Apps and Games] Kirmeswatz:
THANKS!!! :)

---------- Post added at 10:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:37 AM ----------

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks a bunch for this, I've replicated the problem here (with your test file). Regrettably the encoding-guessing code is not a particularly easy read for someone who didn't write it (open-source third-party library), but I will be looking into this.

The fact that the Hebrew encoding is showing a non-printable character certainly suggests that something is amiss, rather than it being a "valid incorrect guess". gedit (a common Linux text editor) also manages to figure out that it's Windows-1252.

ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252 are extremely common encodings and should be a "recommended guess" when certainty is not an option.
[Android Apps and Games] Randi:
Request:

searched the thread already but no mentioning yet, so: I would kindly request a MS Skydrive Integration. I already use the gdrive integration but as MS has 25gb i like to use that as well. Would be willing to pay for the extra cloud feature (will all cloud feature be ONE pack or per cloud thingie?)

thx in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
SkyDrive is very likely to going to be added, not sure if pre/post-1.0 (pretty much the same for most features at this point).

Yes, all cloud stuff will be in one paid module. There are going to be two "add-ons" for FX. One is the root module, and the other is a network/media module. The network/media module will include all cloud functionality (as well as traditional network connectivity (FTP/SSH FTP/SMB). The network/media module may wind up being sold as 'Plus', 'Pro', 'Elite' or some other superlative, and may include other not-yet-released features as well.
[Android Apps and Games] winkshow:
Apparently I do :) "Download" and "download" are both in /sdcard. Verizon Galaxy Nexus, LiquidSmooth 1.4.
[Android Apps and Games] Unkn0wn.Ag3nt:
Really like this app, it's quality. As are the rest of your apps. But once development slows down (after general availability) will you revisit any of your other products, to unify UI/look & feel, or other improvements (specifying mount point(s) for WebSharing such as /sdcard-ext or /Removable)?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Yes, getting WebSharing updated is a fairly high priority, but it is behind getting FX out. WebSharing also needs improved file upload capabilities, and FX needs a WebDAV client that will talk to it. Bringing the FX UI to the rest of the product line is very much on the list. And there are quite a number of features that very much need to be added to SystemPanel beyond even the UI, e.g., increasing the number of tracked parameters.

There will still likely be a ton of work to do on FX though after general availability.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I didn't realize any Android user-storage filesystems were case sensitive. Can you try opening a shell on the phone and doing "mkdir Test" and then "mkdir test"?

Have a stock VZW GNex (4.0.4) here that is certainly case insensitive.
[Android Apps and Games] Glasofruix:
I can't seem to open .avi files stored on my nas (smb storage).
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Can they be opened if you download them locally first?

You'll need a media player that is capable of opening HTTP streams. The FX media playback system retrieves data from a server using any of its supported protocols and provides it to media players using HTTP (which is broadly supported by the media players).

AVIs won't play back in the stock Android media player. I believe VLC, MX Media Player, and RockPlayer can handle them though.
[Android Apps and Games] CoopZor:
looks fantastic, thanx for your great work.

Could you also mount a Dropbox acount and let it see as a regular disk on the device ? just the same with google docs ?

That would make it the perfect file browser :D
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Regrettably I don't believe this is practical to do with Android without root and even then I think it was done with device/version-specific implementations.

Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but you can view/edit text files, view images, and play audio/video on remote filesystems with FX. (The only exception to this is that audio/video streaming is not enabled on Google Drive, due to the fact that it seems to "ban" users from files very quickly if streaming is attempted, at least with free accounts.)
[Android Apps and Games] Glasofruix:
It opens the files if they're local, no problem here. I use the default archos player (on arnova 7b g2) which can play almost anything. It seems odd that it opens .mp4 files without any problems but stumbles on every .avi file, saying that it's too large to be opened.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
So mp4 files work locally and remotely, but avi files only work locally? Regrettably that's probably the player itself. Any luck with VLC, MX, or RockPlayer?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Question for everyone:

Should the separate "FX TextEdit" application stay or go?

Have received a fair amount of flak over it. It is useful to be able to launch it independently, and unfortunately there's no way to turn it off without simply deleting it.

I can certainly delete it and then offer users the ability to create a shortcut to it from within FX, but I'm guessing no one will ever find such functionality if that's the case. I personally like having it there by default.
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
Now that you make me think of it, I probably never launched it with the launcher icon, always from within file explorer. Also it is a bit slow with big text files, expecially when trying to select text, but maybe this isn't your fault :-)
[Android Apps and Games] Crashdamage:
Keep it!

Registered Linux user #266531. Android user since v1.0.
[Android Apps and Games] Unkn0wn.Ag3nt:
How about having it available as a free module, as (I infer) you intend to do with root/cloud/etc.? Maybe not included by default -- give the users options?
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
I don't use the launcher icon much, but I use the text editor all the time from within fx when tapping a file
[Android Apps and Games] Unkn0wn.Ag3nt:
Another idea along this thought process would be to have a dialog box open on first run (maybe with a remind me later option?) to add/download/install additional modules, such as Text Editor, Root, Cloud Storage, etc.
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
I think I have never used the link in the app drawer. I'm always using the editor from within the main app, Dropbox or together with Tasker.
[Android Apps and Games] Szczepanik:
Stay please.

Cheers

Tom
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
0.173 is now available.

This release adds support for directly exploring Zip and RAR archives. You can now view text and image files and play audio and video media without extracting it.
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
Nice update!

Even nicer would be if I could extract a single file/dir (open -> extract or long-click)
[Android Apps and Games] SifJar:
I actually came to this thread just to post about this :p

I think it should go personally. My reasoning for this is I use a BlackBerry PlayBook, which can use specially converted Android apps. I converted your file browser and it works excellently, but the problem is the PlayBook only allows one icon per app, and unfortunately the one shown is the text editor one. I can launch your app via another Android app, and it works superbly, but it is a bit irksome to have to do so.

I would be very grateful if you decided to remove this, or at least release a version without it (I have disabled it myself by decompiling the APK with apkmultitool, editing the XML and recompiling, and it works very nicely, but an official version would be great)
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
Same here. Never launched it independently. To be honest, I don't ever remember seeing an FX TextEdit icon - I actually had to check before posting this. :D

Used it a few times from within the app to view txt/log files etc though.

Add-on module is a good idea.

Otherwise, I'm happy to use Jota. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Re: Swipe-to-select

I just discovered an annoying flaw in swipe-to-select with regard to ICS (or at least the Galaxy Nexus' configuration of it). On the Galaxy Nexus I've noticed that you have to swipe "very" horizontally: if you deviate more than 15 pixels vertically (on a 316dpi display) the selection will abort and the view enters vertical scrolling mode. This may apply to other phones as well with a tight "touch slop" setting.

I've fixed the issue in a new version, swipe-selection is now limited based on angle. Feel free to try out the following APK:

http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r174/FX.apk

(note that this URL is case-sensitive)

r174 will install over FX r173 and shouldn't break anything. There are no other changes in r174. I'm not uploading this to the market yet as I'd like feedback.

And the current angle-limit setting is 25 degrees. Try it in icon view and list view and see what you think. The desired behavior is that is capture the swipe gesture well, but not interfere with vertical scrolling.

If you severely dislike the update and want to revert back to 173, it can be found here:

http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r173/FX.apk

Make sure you apply one over the other without uninstalling, or Android will kill your preferences/bookmarks/server info.
[Android Apps and Games] DarkhShadow:
Just downloaded r174, swipe to select is MUCH better, I haven't had any issues with swiping aborting now

Very good work :D

Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
+1 this bug did my head in now its all sorted

Also the FTP failure bug I reported seems to have stopped now iv changed from and kernel which has also fixed mobile network transfers when running ttorrent

So no idea why I was the only person getting them issues as I'm the only person reporting them :(

But your doing brilliant job! When's rc1 out? U deserve some rewards! Lol
[Android Apps and Games] lazyb421:
Was having this problem using FX on my Samsung Vibrant. Works brilliantly on this new version though.
[Android Apps and Games] paul c:
As far as I'm concerned, this is production-quality, congratulations tliebeck. It's now my default explorer.

Apart from a couple of minor GUI changes which I've mentioned in the past, the only thing which annoys me is Android's ability to go to sleep while file transfers are taking place, cutting the data connection and aborting the transfer. Talking about FTP/LAN here.

How about some logic to keep the phone awake if there is a data connection over a certain rate of kbs/sec? Could be in the Settings/Network menu.
[Android Apps and Games] michelepum:
Great App!! Thanks!!
[Android Apps and Games] peterbonge:
It is much better now.
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
I had noticed this because I first started using fx on cm7 (gingerbread) and when I switched to cm9 I thought it was an update to the app that caused this issue, but I figured it was intended. Not sure if I had mentioned it earlier in the thread or not, but I certainly wouldn't have found the real technical reason behind the issue like you did, so good find :)

PS the selection on 174 is much more natural feeling than 173 (which is how it used to be back in the day when I first started using fx on cm7)
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
Separate idea so I'm making a separate post, otherwise sorry for double posting

Back on page 40 in this thread there was talk of recursive permission editing (or a suggestion I made of editing permissions for multiple selected files)

There were other talks of how to do recursive permission editing, I'm wondering if this will make it into a future release or if the idea was canned?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
It's not implemented yet, but is certainly still on the to-do list. It may wind up being implemented only as you suggested, with the additional constraint that you cannot apply permissions to both folders and files at the same time (to avoid people hamhandedly removing exec permissions from directories or adding them to files).
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, but there is already code in place to do this. We're not keeping the screen on, but Android allows you to keep the CPU awake and keep Wi-Fi turned on. There was an issue with Wi-Fi transfers slowing down dramatically with the screen off, but that was fixed (I think in 0.167 or earlier).

Is the phone in your sig, and is the transfer always getting cut-off completely or is it just slowing down? Does it happen on mobile networks *and* Wi-Fi or just one or the other?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
0.175 is now available. This one is a trivial update, especially compared to 0.174. It incorporates the improved swipe-to-select of 0.174, and also adds a bugfix where the media scanner would crash if it encountered extremely deep directories.

Thanks for all the feedback on the 0.174 test!
[Android Apps and Games] ardax:
I thought that maybe I was insane when I had so much trouble selecting files.

This is a very welcome change indeed!
[Android Apps and Games] mdalacu:
Hi, great app!

I have problem signing to gdrive sine last 4-5 updates on galaxy note and transformer prime. It is something related to my google account because someone else can log through this app on my devices. Then again, on this devices i can use gdrive through es file explorer.

What can it be?

I also have a small feature request: export/backup all network connections to a file protected by keyring password (encrypted).

I have posted here because on the support forum i got no answer.

Thank you again for the best file manager on Android!
[Android Apps and Games] Palthron:
Can anyone confirm bug on device with external storage mounted on /mnt/extSdCard? Each attempt to rename file/folder results in app force closing.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
I've not seen this. Would greatly appreciate it if you can send a logcat or file use Google's crash reporting on the device. All I need is the stack trace (should contain the phrase "nextapp.fx"). Force closes are extremely high priority to solve, I like to keep the count of known FC-issues at zero on each release.

If you're phone/device doesn't support Google error reporting, my email is (my XDA username) at (Google's free mail service).
[Android Apps and Games] mdalacu:
Here is a screenshot regarding my GDrive problem. All other cloud services are working fine.

Do you need any log file?
[Android Apps and Games] Palthron:
Since no one else reported similar behaviour I'll try reflashing my ROM first in case this is an OS environmental problem. It's beta after all and I tend to pull the 'bug report' trigger too fast. Should be done in half a day.

NB : Is there an date for feature freeze?
[Android Apps and Games] ThePrinceDefy:
This is really great app having every thing. Stopped using other file explorers. Thanks.

Sent from my MB525
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Regrettably FX is doing a terrible job of explaining the problem here. If you can find anything interesting with an "FX" tag on it in the log about what caused the failure, yes it'd be quite helpful. I'm not sure if the released version will report it with more specificity in the log though,