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Help (Solved)How do I get files from the root (/) directory?

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lsutiger

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I have a stock (not rooted) Evo 4G. I just received a new phone and want to transfer some files from the old one to the new one. Some of these files are the stock ring-tones which are located in the /system/media/audio/ringtones folder.
How can I copy these over to the sdcard in order to transfer them?
Thanks in advance!
 
hmmm...it's been so long since I've had an unrooted Evo but, what file browser do you have? Try ES File Explorer.
Ya know what? Let me fire up one of my old unrooted Evo's to see if I can access that file. :)
I'm not sure you can pull them with the File browser being unrooted.. Perhaps adb can pull them but I am not well versed in adb.
Stand by pal:)
 
o.k..I downloaded ES File Explorer from the market.
Went into the app, navigated to the /system/media/audio/ringtones. Longpressed on the ringtones folder, then navigated to the sd card and pasted.
Presto! ringtones on sd card.:)
 
OK, and 1M thanks! But how did you navigate to the root folder, if I may ask? I tried every which way but could not get to the / folder.
I am using the ES app, but it only gives me access to the /sdcard folder
 
In ES File Explorer, click on the "star" icon.
Then you will see an icon that looks like a phone with a slash underneath it.
Click on that.
That takes you to the /root directory. :)
Navigate to your ringtones and longpress on the folder.
Then back button to the root directory and find the sd card and paste in there :thumbup:
 
You sneaky! LOL! Thank you so much!
In the meantime, I found an alternate way by using the terminal. If you know any *nix CLI, you can use the terminal emulator for file commands. For some odd reason the cp (copy) command is not included (???!?!?huh?). But you can use the cat command to copy files. It's basically :
cat (location/filename A) > (location/filename B) without the parentheses. Example:
cat ringtones/filename1 > /sdcard/folder/filename2
I also learned you can not use the move (mv) command to do the same between the root and sdcard file systems. Odd, but it worked. One thing I love about *nix OS...there is always a solution!

Again, thank you very much for your input! I truly appreciate it!

PS - I wish this forum had a 'Solved' tag
 
lsutiger said:
You sneaky! LOL! Thank you so much!
In the meantime, I found an alternate way by using the terminal. If you know any *nix CLI, you can use the terminal emulator for file commands. For some odd reason the cp (copy) command is not included (???!?!?huh?). But you can use the cat command to copy files. It's basically :
cat (location/filename A) > (location/filename B) without the parentheses. Example:
cat ringtones/filename1 > /sdcard/folder/filename2
I also learned you can not use the move (mv) command to do the same between the root and sdcard file systems. Odd, but it worked. One thing I love about *nix OS...there is always a solution!

Again, thank you very much for your input! I truly appreciate it!

PS - I wish this forum had a 'Solved' tag
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Your welcome!
I edited the thread title for you with "Solved" :)
 
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