Unhide and view Hidden files and media
You will find many Android apps in Google Play Store which provide hiding features for your photos, videos, music, apps and files. If you want to find hidden media content in any Android smartphone, then you can just by making some changes in files.
let us first learn how this ‘Hidden Apps’ work.
These Hiding Vaults which hide pictures, videos and apps works basically by changing the file name. For example, if you wish to hide a audio song say, ‘Lean On‘; if you check the file extension format in file manager you find it in .mp3 format like “Lean_on.mp3” and on hiding it using any app the format will change to “Lean_onmp3”. Since there is no •(dot) extension the music player is unable to recognise the audio file and is not shown in music player. And hence the file is hidden. Same is case for all other media files.
Files Hidden using vault app by removing the .dot
It is very easy view the hidden photos, pictures and files.
Change the file name with .dot extension to make the photos visble
Note & Conclusion: I hope the post was helpful and you were able to find and locate all the hidden media in the Android Smartphone. Do comment below for any further assistance.
This post was last modified on May 14, 2016 11:13 am
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Would be much Grateful if you can please process me the procedure to hide or search the hidden folder, files in Micromax vdeo4. its quite different, searching the whole web but couldn't find.
It depends on the App you are using to save and also on device type. So, can't exactly say.
I cannot view a hidden folder that has a . in front of the foldername (Android and Linux consider files/folders with a . in front to be hidden) when I plug my phone into my laptop using MTP even though I have it set to show hidden files in Folder Options. I might have to copy the files I want to transfer to my laptop to a different unhidden folder using the Android File manager. I cannot rename the folder since it contains appdata and that is the name that must be used.