Facebook released Lite in few Africa and Asia countries in early 2015 and from there the app was broadened to numerous other regions. Facebook Lite is light in size and does not takes in information like the main app. Apart from these, it also runs well on bad network and efficiently on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was launched, numerous brand-new functions were added amongst which is the ability to enjoy video shared, posted, which show up on timeline. Nevertheless, Facebook did not give users the capability to download the video.
How To Save A Video From Facebook Onto Your Phone
There's a catch though, we bet a number of you would have observe it. You will discover that when you click on the video you want to see on Facebook Lite, the gamer will first fill for some seconds before the video begin to play. You will likewise discover that when the video stop playing and you go back possibly to your timeline, if you click the video once again it will not require time to pack like the very first time, it will simply play directly.
This give us the sense that the video is being download (cache) someplace when you play it the very first time when you attempt to play it once again it will simply fill from where it was cached. Locating where the video is cached is our response.
The treatment we are about to share doesn't exist anywhere on the internet, you are fortunate to be the very first to learn this trick.
On Lite, Facebook typically reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you will see prior to you click on it as displayed in the picture above. Take notice of the megabyte since you are going to require it if you are going to get this tutorial right. Now, lets proceed.
You are going to need the following apps, not required but they will help.
1.) ES File Explorer
2.) MX Video Player
All videos enjoyed on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We recommend you view a video on Lite prior to you continue, this will develop the folder we will show you.
In our own case, we utilize ES File Explorer. You can utilize any file supervisor of your option.
1.) Open ES Explorer, locate a folder named "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder called "information", open it. It will lead you to where is displayed in the above photo (We change the folder view to "Medium Details" under More -> View in ES UI). Amongst the folders, you will see one called "com.facebook.lite", open it.
2.) In the "com.facebook.lite" folder you will see "cache" folder, open it.
3.) In the "cache" folder, find "video" folder and open it.
4.) In our own case, there are four various folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you may discover more. Nevertheless, it is essential to let you understand that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you enjoy on Facebook Lite. As you can see, the folders are called in random letters that looks like lingos.
5.) Opening among these video folders there are two files inside, one named "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders revealed in action 4 consists of only these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are searching for. All the four folders contains the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent various video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you enjoy on Facebook Lite.
6.) If you are using ES, just click on the "0000000000000000" file to open then select video from the menu, choose a video gamer (or MX Player) and BOOMMM! the video will start playing. You can do similarly for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to see the cached Facebook Lite videos.
Please Note: The "0000000000000000" doesn't reveal as video file when view by file manager since it does not have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video players set up won't have the ability to fetch it when scanning the phone. It's a security step. You need to open it directly with a video gamer to be able to view as a video.
Each time you watch a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone memory card. By following the actions above, you can relabel the "00000000000000" which is the video file and watch it offline forever. You can even copy it to a separate folder to keep conserve. Such articles How To Save A Video From Facebook Onto Your Phone from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.