Hi All - is there an easy way in iodé / Android to copy files into the /Android/Data/* directories - I can copy the files easily to the user areas (e.g. Downloads) but trying to copy them across into the system side (to go in the directory of a specific app) is torturous. Even though you can navigate there in the system (default) Files app, you can’t just copy directly (which i understand is a system protection thing)…
…the only way I can get it to work is to use USB connection to my Linux PC, and use it’s file manager to do the copy - but it’s taking 20+ minutes to copy each individual 1kb or similar file! It also stops copying every time I go away from the phone and the screen lock time out kicks in - ggrrrrr! - so I can’t even leave it running over night to crawl through it at a snails pace.
And, as I am changing over to Gadgetbridge for managing my Garmin watch, I have 13,500 of these files to copy over! I’ll be an incredibly old man, if not 6’ under, by the time they have all copied and I can see my health and fitness history and trends, etc, again…
Am I missing some alternative, an obvious way I can do this - it should be a 20min - 30min job max (total data to copy is only 90MB, but as mentioned is made up of 13.5k small files so the RW will be slow, so it is inefficient) - so there mast be a way to do it easier (e.g. like how an app can install so quickly)…?
If anyone can help me before I go crazy due to frustration it will be much appreciated…
Files App Files by Marc Apps and software. Available on the Aurora Store
App allows access to the /android/data folder and can facilitate file transfers.
Does not need Google play services. Contains no trackers
Using Developer Options
Enable Developer Options: Go to Settings > About phone and tap on Build number seven times to unlock Developer Options.
Enable USB Debugging: In Settings > Developer options, enable USB debugging.
Use ADB Commands: If you’re familiar with command-line tools, you can use ADB (Android Debug Bridge) to push files directly to the /android/data directory.
Thanks @romluk ! I will try that app tonight. And I had figured there would be a way to do it in developer or debug mode or similar but I wastrying to avoid that if possible - but thanks for the guidance, will resort to that if app doesn’t work out…
Unfortunately this is no help - in fact I think this is the default Files app on iodé - apart from the icon I can’t see anything different, UI is identical, functions identical, has the basic zip functions (can browse into zip files and copy/move contents or can compress items into a zip)… Exactly the same as the default files app.
Unfortunately that also means it can’t move files to or copy files to \Android\Data, nor can it extra files from a zip file already int here to there…
Well the answer was staring me in the face - sort of…
Android File Transfer for Linux (from the Fedora KDE Plasma “Discover” store). Worked perfectly and super fast from PC to phone over USB 2.0 and didn’t need any special rights or anything…
Just drag and drop into the directory window inside the app and hey presto!
