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Help ES File Explorer Alternative

You all will be pleased to know I have narrowed it down to 3 Apps :thinking:
File Manager. File Manager Flashlight & Clock and Explorer.
I can access my computer on them all. But done will access my tablets as ES did.
 
jo69 said:
Thanks
Tried it but its constantly awake searching for files I don't like that.
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All you need to do is open the hamburger icon and tap 'Exit'.

Or, you can simply open the settings and turn off the option to continuously listen for transfers.

It really doesn't get much easier.
 
Do you mean an app called "File Manager Flashlight & Clock" or an app called "File Manager" by a developer called "Flashlight + Clock"? I haven't managed to find the first, but have found the second.

An app that combined a file manager, flashlight and clock would sound sketchy to me because those are utterly unrelated functions with no plausible reason to be in the same app except as cover for giving it more permissions.
 
Hadron said:
Do you mean an app called "File Manager Flashlight & Clock" or an app called "File Manager" by a developer called "Flashlight + Clock"? I haven't managed to find the first, but have found the second.

An app that combined a file manager, flashlight and clock would sound sketchy to me because those are utterly unrelated functions with no plausible reason to be in the same app except as cover for giving it more permissions.
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An app like that would have permissions that allow access to the camera- which would include both the camera andvthe microphone- just to make the flashlight work.

A file manager app has full access to all the files on the device and onvthe SD card(s).

If it also had internet access to obtain the time, it could be used for all sorts of things.
 
I had the same problem.
For months and months now I'm looking for a alternative for the ES File Explorer.
I downloaded now almost everyone of the Google Store Explorers and they are all between rubbish and bad.
There was non who came close to the ES File Explorer.
In the end I downloaded ES again from a free Website.
I'm still searching for a alternative but I can't find one so good.
In the last few weeks I tried to buy the full version of the ES but there is nobody at the moment who offers this service.

ES File Explorer is still the best.

And the worst File Explorer I ever have seen is the original pre-installed File Explorer on my Android A7 phone.

jo69 said:
I have used ES Explorer for years. It is so handy transferring files from my phone to tablet and my pc.
But it has had bad reviews and now not on google play
So unable to add it to my new phone.
Can anyone suggest a simple program that will enable me connect my gadgets with a couple of clicks?
Most of the file explorers seem so complicated when I try them. I cant figure them out.
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That is not a bad File Explorer.
It is the only one I could find who can handle my 2TB external Harddisk on my Mobilphone.
All the others could handle extermal HDD but not 2TB.

But the GUI burns your eyes out?
The grafik remaings me on old Win3.11 times.
Hey, it's 2020.
There are possibilitys to make something nice?

ES is still no1 on my phone and tablet.

jo69 said:
After all the suggestions here I am now using File Manager+
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alphainventor.filemanager
It does everything I want it to, accesses my pc, google drive etc
Very simple interface and really pleased with it So thanks all
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The pre-installed explorer on a android phone is one of the worst I had ever in more as 30 years computer ......... Sorry, I would say it harder but I can't say in public what I really think about it.

svim said:
A hat tip to you that you're looking to change to a different file manager app -- ES was at one time a very highly regarded file manager app, but after it was bought out by a different company a few years ago its shiny features became really tarnished.

Anyway, your request for a simple replacement with a low learning curve is something that's a very subjective point. What's good for someone else isn't necessarily what's going to be good for you. I'd suggest something like this 'Moto File Manager' app, or 'Explorer' app as their default user interfaces have at least a similar 'look and feel' to ES Explorer.
Moto
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lenovo.FileBrowser2
Explorer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.explorer
But these are just non-specific suggestions. You might want to just go to the Play Store yourself to find something that appeals to you.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=file manager no ads&c=apps
We can all tout our favorites but this is something you should decide on based on what you are most comfortable using. Pay a lot of attention to the screen captures each file manager app provides in their respective Play Store page. They will show each app's default user interface and see what appeals to you -- functionally they are more or less equivalent, it's the user interfaces that vary so much (... and the user interface is how you interact with the app).

What phone do you have? If a Samsung model, there's a pre-installed file manager, Samsung's 'My Files' app. It's a pretty good, basic file manager with a clean, user-friendly interface of its own that you might want to try out:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.android.app.myfiles&hl=en_US
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Hi I started the thread and worked my way through a few File Managers.
I now use File Manager +.
It does everything I want and more. Connects with my PC and Google Drive and its very fast.
And free!
 
I checked it before I would write something wrong.

File Manager + was one of the multiple file manager I tried.

Full screen ads after every click and often enough with sound and music was something I couldn't live with.

It was one of the apps that broke all records in my top 5 list "how fast I deleted a app".

I can live with sometimes a little ad or so.
But File Manager + was a ad nightmare on elmstreet.

jo69 said:
Hi I started the thread and worked my way through a few File Managers.
I now use File Manager +.
It does everything I want and more. Connects with my PC and Google Drive and its very fast.
And free!
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PeterMikeWarden said:
I checked it before I would write something wrong.

File Manager + was one of the multiple file manager I tried.

Full screen ads after every click and often enough with sound and music was something I couldn't live with.

It was one of the apps that broke all records in my top 5 list "how fast I deleted a app".

I can live with sometimes a little ad or so.
But File Manager + was a ad nightmare on elmstreet.
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Over the years, I've noticed this paradigm that some folks live in where they're just simply not going to pay for software. I don't use file manager+, but I wanted to see what the upgrade cost was, it's $1.99 / year, most people can find that in their couch, it's literally chump change. You should consider looking at the feature set, and consider the upgrade to ad free cost before just dumping something. Folks here seem to give it high marks, as do the reviews at the play store.
 
You are absolute right.
I don't pay for software.
Why?
There is software that is absolute great and free.
And there is a lot of software you pay and you get crap with bad updates.

I was computer technician from older DOS/Win3.11 times and I came up from bought software in a time you could get free a great flexibel fantastic OpenOffice that could handle everything and in the same time I had to buy a Microsoft Office for 1000 bucks that was so far blocked it handled only MS Office documents.

I learned on the hard way the most of the bought software is done from companys who want to make money and don't care about the users.

And there is a lot of software from free developers who loves there job and know what they do.

That was the way how the great free Linus came on the market and the overtook the expensive MS Windows.

That was the way free Firefox and Netscape Browser came on the market and overtook the badly programmed MS Internet Browser.

There are many examples paid software is crap and software from freaks who do it for fun is great.

So is ES File Explorer great (and still the best) and File Manager + is rubbish to press money out of you.

Sorry mate, I think and live so for 30 years and a old fart changes seldom his opinion ..... and never when you have reasons not to change your opinion

Trom said:
Over the years, I've noticed this paradigm that some folks live in where they're just simply not going to pay for software. I don't use file manager+, but I wanted to see what the upgrade cost was, it's $1.99 / year, most people can find that in their couch, it's literally chump change. You should consider looking at the feature set, and consider the upgrade to ad free cost before just dumping something. Folks here seem to give it high marks, as do the reviews at the play store.
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Also a good example who companys goes the wrong way with software is Android.
From Android 4 to 5 to 10 it get fatter and bigger and slower and that one and only with unnecessary functions nobody need and software nobody want, one and only to develop a "new" Android to make money.
But in the same moment enough users are there who get this new crap with stupid functions and don't like it.
And it is possible to downgrad your mobile (a friend has done it with my last) but companys like Samsung deny it.
So is again a free Android freak with a free android and the knowledge better as a paid android from a company.
I downgraded also my laptop from Win10 to a older version because it's better.
And use on my laptop still OpenOffice because it's good.

And also on my Android tablet I use the FREE AndrOpenOffice because it's great and better as everthing else I could find.

I'm avoiding payed software not because I'm greedy.
I avoid payed software because somebody want to make money with it and does what they want and don't care what the people want.


Trom said:
Over the years, I've noticed this paradigm that some folks live in where they're just simply not going to pay for software. I don't use file manager+, but I wanted to see what the upgrade cost was, it's $1.99 / year, most people can find that in their couch, it's literally chump change. You should consider looking at the feature set, and consider the upgrade to ad free cost before just dumping something. Folks here seem to give it high marks, as do the reviews at the play store.
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I liked the android game "little soldier" and the first time in ages I payed for it to have less anoying ads ..... to find out later this game get offered from multiple companys, always with the offer to pay for removing ads, and my version was from a company the game was still after paying heavyli restricted and from somebody else I got it with a lot more functions without paying.

I pay for nothing anymore.
And ads is something ..... either I see it NOT REGOGNISABLE or if it so offensive like in File Manager + ...... I delete such software in 5 secunds doesn't matter how good it is.

Trom said:
Over the years, I've noticed this paradigm that some folks live in where they're just simply not going to pay for software. I don't use file manager+, but I wanted to see what the upgrade cost was, it's $1.99 / year, most people can find that in their couch, it's literally chump change. You should consider looking at the feature set, and consider the upgrade to ad free cost before just dumping something. Folks here seem to give it high marks, as do the reviews at the play store.
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PeterMikeWarden said:
You are absolute right.
I don't pay for software.
Why?
There is software that is absolute great and free.
And there is a lot of software you pay and you get crap with bad updates.

I was computer technician from older DOS/Win3.11 times and I came up from bought software in a time you could get free a great flexibel fantastic OpenOffice that could handle everything and in the same time I had to buy a Microsoft Office for 1000 bucks that was so far blocked it handled only MS Office documents.

I learned on the hard way the most of the bought software is done from companys who want to make money and don't care about the users.

And there is a lot of software from free developers who loves there job and know what they do.

That was the way how the great free Linus came on the market and the overtook the expensive MS Windows.

That was the way free Firefox and Netscape Browser came on the market and overtook the badly programmed MS Internet Browser.

There are many examples paid software is crap and software from freaks who do it for fun is great.

So is ES File Explorer great (and still the best) and File Manager + is rubbish to press money out of you.

Sorry mate, I think and live so for 30 years and a old fart changes seldom his opinion ..... and never when you have reasons not to change your opinion
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I certainly enjoy my share of free and open source software, I wrote my share of freeware as a fidonet sysop, I had need for certain utils which I made available to other sysops. Open source is usually a collaboration for the love of the language, and to gain notice. However, most software authors put in many, many hours to put out something that they're proud of, and if it's decent stuff, I don't mind handing over what amounts to twenty five percent of a lunch at md's. I'm sorry some random game left you bitter about it, but isn't that kind of like saying that you'll never buy another car because you had an AMC Pacer once?
 
Trom said:
I certainly enjoy my share of free and open source software, I wrote my share of freeware as a fidonet sysop, I had need for certain utils which I made available to other sysops. Open source is usually a collaboration for the love of the language, and to gain notice. However, most software authors put in many, many hours to put out something that they're proud of, and if it's decent stuff, I don't mind handing over what amounts to twenty five percent of a lunch at md's. I'm sorry some random game left you bitter about it, but isn't that kind of like saying that you'll never buy another car because you had an AMC Pacer once?
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Not at all.
But not for the reason that you think.

Actually, the AMC Pacer was a rather good car, and in many ways ahead of its time.
Not too many years after its demise, a particular Japanese car looked very similar.

The Pacer came out at a time when its design did not fit with the dominant vehicular fads at the time, and so it greatly suffered in the numbers of cars sold.
But the engine was a tried and true model, used for years in everything from USPS trucks to various passenger cars and Jeeps.

Just because something doesn't sell well doesn't mean it wasn't any good.
Sometimes the consumer misses out because of popular opinion.
 
PeterMikeWarden said:
The pre-installed explorer on a android phone is one of the worst I had ever in more as 30 years computer ......... Sorry, I would say it harder but I can't say in public what I really think about it.
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The thing you don't seem to know is that there is no single "pre-installed explorer on an android phone": different manufacturers include different file explorers, so your pre-installed one won't be the same as mine won't be the same as a third person's.

I admit that apart from the dialer and contacts app I don't really use the pre-installed apps on any phone, because there are always better alternatives. But ES lost my trust with their early data protection issues, and I ditched them long before their series of subsequent problems (security holes you could drive a bus through, further privacy issues, bundling junkware in one release, and finally the click fraud that got them chucked out of the Play Store). I don't care what an app does or even how much I might like it, once trust is gone the app goes - I don't give second chances in these things.
 
puppykickr said:
Not at all.
But not for the reason that you think.

Actually, the AMC Pacer was a rather good car, and in many ways ahead of its time.
Not too many years after its demise, a particular Japanese car looked very similar.

The Pacer came out at a time when its design did not fit with the dominant vehicular fads at the time, and so it greatly suffered in the numbers of cars sold.
But the engine was a tried and true model, used for years in everything from USPS trucks to various passenger cars and Jeeps.

Just because something doesn't sell well doesn't mean it wasn't any good.
Sometimes the consumer misses out because of popular opinion.
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Actually, I was using it more for its cliche value :)
 
PeterMikeWarden said:
That is not a bad File Explorer.
It is the only one I could find who can handle my 2TB external Harddisk on my Mobilphone.
All the others could handle extermal HDD but not 2TB.

But the GUI burns your eyes out?
The grafik remaings me on old Win3.11 times.
Hey, it's 2020.
There are possibilitys to make something nice?

ES is still no1 on my phone and tablet.
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Yep I have actually achieved quite a bit using ES File Explorer. I use an older V though, there not all bloated out like any of the newer versions. RW/RO feature options have come through dor me BIG TIME. Like when all the links and info for the ZMAX (draconis) links ALL links fed to me the oposite commands for Hroark13 and his nice find. (The reboot disemmcwp) would put you in RW.... AND NOT RO/ commands to hinder ol' Truth!... Lol The Rominator put me up on RW command! hmmmmm... still RO/my farkin arss upon reboot anyway logcat revealed!!!
 
I've used one called X-Plore File Manager for several years that will do this with a million other options, also, I can't remember if I paid for it or if it was free.
 
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