Android is an open, customizable platform for mobile development. It allows for the rapid development of apps and provides access to file management. This post will show you how to move files from your phone to your computer using Android 11.
Google released the Android 11 operating system on September 8, 2020. This new operating system brings many new features to help improve the user experience for Android users. Some of these features include redesigned notifications, built-in screen recording, a new conversations tab, and others.
However, there is one feature that has been giving users some problems: its “privacy and security.” The security feature on Android 11 restricts the OBB folder from being accessed by the user—this makes the folder unable to receive files already on the phone’s storage via the move or copy function.
The Android OBB folder stores OBB files, an expansion file used by some Android apps distributed using the Google Play store. It contains data not stored in the application’s main package (. APK file), such as graphics, media files, and other large program assets.
Without these OBB files, you won’t be able to install games like Call of Duty Mobile, PES Mobile, Gangstar Vegas, etc without having to download them yourself. Of course, this restriction has forced many avid game fans, and users to continuously download their entire games and favorite apps from scratch rather than the old ways of collecting the app’s APK and the OBB files, installing the APK, and simply copying the obb folder to android/obb file-path to play the game on their device.
This restriction surely has a solution and I’m going to show you how you can easily bypass it. So, you can continue to wait for your friends to update these large file games, and copy the APK and OBB files to your phone.
Steps to bypass OBB folder restriction on Android 11
Before we begin ensure you have the OBB file on your phone.
- Download and install Solid Explorer File Manager from Google Play Store.
- Open the file manager and grant all permissions to the app.
- Copy the OBB file from the current location, navigate to Internal Storage/Android/obb and paste the file. Grant permission to the app to complete the action.
With this, you can copy OBB files to OBB folders on your Android 11 device without restrictions. For those wondering why we didn’t use ES File Explorer, it just didn’t work for me.
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5 comments
It did not work on my tecno spark 8c
It may not show the moved or copied data in your main File manager but it’ll show in the solid Exp app.
Then try whatever game or app app you want to set on!
Nice job!
It worked.
Thanks it’s worked
Have tried it,
Not working ols