Engadget Article - "Droid Incredible saves browser screenshots to internal memory"

[palomosan]

Astro deletes it fine. i did edit>select all>delete. It asked me if I was sure, I told it "sure, why not?" and we're all happy.

I second that, I did this the day the article came out on boygeniusreport website.

 

[mrspeedmaster]

Interesting. Skyfire stores it's bookmark thumbnails in /sdcard/skyfire/ in some sort of special format does not seem to be opened by the stock images app. Never knew until I looked for the stock browser ones and got curious.

You can still open it up. They just removed the extension. Some filesystems can read the mime-type.

 

[WBMc36]

ok, i am kind of at a loss as to how this is a big deal. No one is going to be looking/hacking into my phone to view these pictures of my recent websites i visited on my phone. Are you guys concerned that if your phone was stolen, or you sold it that people could see these? If so i still don't really see how this could be used against you. can someone try to fill me in on why this is such a big deal? If my phone is stolen or lost, and has my account info for my bank, which is really all i care about, i will call my bank and freeze that account immediately. Stuff like facebook or my google password are easy enough to change and those are like the only 3 things saved on my phone.

 

[oysterfuzz]

This whole issue was debunked about 2-3 weeks ago. Let's try to refrain from Necro'ing old threads like this, it only stirs up more confusion and rumors.

 

[WBMc36]

then why does my Dinc still store these pictures. I didnt recieve an update from HTC yet.

 

[tsrdrum]

I'm no HTC software engineer, but it's probably so that you can view thumbnails of your bookmarks. And the ones that are not bookmarks are probably from when you open up a new window in your browser (Those thumbnails don't show up by magic, people). It caches an image of your browser window so that you know which one you're switching to.
But don't quote me on that. As I mentioned, I don't know how HTC does their things.

 

[JollyGreenGiant]

I believe this little gem will help you delete that stuff ( but I have not bothered trying it yet). I do know that this goes away when you power off the phone. You have to re-enter it to get it back.

http://androidforums.com/tips-tricks-incredible/107339-advanced-browser-settings.html

 

[varaonaid]

Don't use the bookmark widget if this functionality of it bothers you.

You can just delete them from the internal memory when you plug in the phone and select disk drive. They're under the .bookmark_thumb1 folder.

Correct folder but I had images of sites that I'd never bookmarked stored there even after a complete delete and factory reset. Required manually deleting them before returning my phone.

Its not a problem. Engadget is wrong. It stores it on the SD card, which doesnt get formatted during a factory reset, for obvuous reasons.

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Nope, it's definitely internal memory (or internal memory AS WELL).

This whole issue was debunked about 2-3 weeks ago. Let's try to refrain from Necro'ing old threads like this, it only stirs up more confusion and rumors.

Again, nope not debunked. Main internal memory emmc/.bookmark_thumb1 Images remain after factory fresh reset.

Not cool HTC.