myExplorer Overview

Features
Main screen
Wi-Fi file transfer
Password protection
Text viewer
Archive files support

Features

myExplorer has few major features:

Main screen

When you run the program, you will see the main screen, which displays the available disks. The first one is the My Private Files, which can be protected by a password and is only accessible through myExplorer. The next two disks are Phone Memory (it represents the internal storage of your phone) and Memory Card (the micro SD memory card in your phone, if you have any). These two disks are the same that you can see in the built-in file manager of the phone. You can add network disks (which are located on a computer and accessed by Wi-Fi) by pressing the Add button in the lower left corner of the screen.

You can open each of the disks by pressing its name. The currently connected network disks have a green glowing dot next to their names. When the network disk is not connected, you can change its settings or remove it by long pressing its name. When the network disk is connected, you can see its details (capacity, free space, etc.) by long pressing its name and then selecting Details from the context menu. To disconnect from a network folder, long touch its name and select Disconnect.

If you want to set a password to protect the My Private Files disk, you must long press it and select Set Password from the context menu. You can use the option menu in the bottom of the screen to change the global settings of myExplorer or see some information about the program.

Wi-Fi file transfer

With myExplorer you have full access to any network folder (shared network disk) on any computer as long as you have working Wi-Fi network. The operations with network disks are the same as with the local phone memory. You can browse the folders, open the files, rename them, and copy or move them between the phone and the computer.

If you have a working Wi-Fi network (most probably using Wi-Fi router or Wi-Fi access point), you can connect to your shared network folders right away. If you are not sure how to share the folders on your computer for network access, please click here (external link).

Even if you do not have a Wi-Fi router or Wi-Fi access point, you can setup the Wi-Fi adapter in your laptop or netbook to work with myExplorer and to provide remote access to the disk of your laptop from the phone. Click here (external link) for more information how to do this.

myExplorer supports all network shares via CIFS (SMB) protocol over TCP (using the default port 445). In addition to Windows PC network shares, the program works with Mac OS SMB shares and Linux Samba shares. Please note that because of the security restriction of bada, all file transfers must first be copied on the My Private Files disk and therefore it is not possible to copy files that are larger than the free space on this disk.

Password protection

Sometimes it is very useful to have a password protected place to keep the highly secure or sensitive images, videos or documents. You can set a password on the My Private Files disk and then use it as a vault for the most sensitive information. Even if your phone is lost or stolen, the content of this disk cannot be accessed without the password. Additionally, you can give the phone to someone without worrying that (s)he can see everything on the phone.

You can copy or move files to and from My Private Files disk, create new folders and do any other file operation. Once you set the password, you will be asked to enter it every time when you start myExplorer and try to open the My Private Files disk.

WARNING! If you forget your password, you will not be able to access any of the files in the My Private Files disk. Even if myExplorer is uninstalled from the phone, the contents of My Private Files disk will be deleted. Please note that the password is case-sensitive (i.e. PASS is not the same as pass or PaSs). You can also change or remove the existing password (only if you know the current password, of course).

Text viewer

myExplorer has integrated advanced text viewer. You can use it to read all kinds of plain text files. The text viewer is optimized for the phone screen and allows you to rearrange (reflow) the text in a way that is most convenient for reading of long documents.

The text viewer supports the following text encodings: ASCII/Latin-1 (supporting most European languages), Cyrillic-1251 (supports all Cyrillic languages), Windows-1252 (adds support for some additional European languages), UTF-8 and UTF-16. The UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings are detected automatically if the text file is saved correctly. You can switch the encoding manually if it does not appear correct.

Additionally, you can change the font size, the color of the text and the background, and go to specific places in the text document (by line number or by percent). There is a dedicated Page Down button, which scrolls exactly one page down and allows convenient and fast reading.

Archive files support

myExplorer allows you to open, view and extract files from Zip, Rar, 7z, Tar, Gz and Bz2 archives. Password-protected archive files are supported too.