Tips & Guides

Access

SDCard

You may enter in case that ImMobile will fail to copy files from SDCard

even if you can browse the files it doesn't mean you're able to manage them

in Quick Access or This Phone tree, there option called Add Access

this option help to gain full access to the desire folder/drive

always ensure to perform this step even if you can access the files

Another similar issue may occur (internal bug), that when you try to pick folder from SDCard it may don't show root items

although you can see that with the Files from home grid,

this is easy to fix, just ensure to have your desire folder at SDCard bookmarked so you can access to it from Quick Access

ImMobile Data

If you navigated to another folder than the default startup folder (ImMobile data)

you possibly may lost to back again to that folder

this folder called LocalState, you can always navigate to it from Quick Access tree

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Window Focus

ImMobile handle windows in complicated way to ensure it can focus back to the desire window

however it still not fully accurate, so you may have cases like clicking on tab and it doesn't response

this happens in extensions windows or when you toggle some other windows

when the tap doesn't switch or do the desire actions (multiple times) it mean the window isn't in focus mode

just keep attention to the window title bar, if it wasn't highlighted (colored) and was black or gray

this mean the window isn't in focus mode, and ImMobile just uses the touch protection to avoid sending any action to it

to claim the focus back just click on the window body (any empty) area, and everything should back to normal

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Files

Quick Actions

To use ImMobile files manager, there are few points you should understand to never get confused

• Item context menu appear when you tap on the icon
• Current folder actions can be reached from top right (...)
• Images thumbnails are disabled by default
• Multiple selections allowed for copy/cut/delete

Below image explain where the icons exists

Context Menu

For easy to use, don't try to perform PC/Desktop like tap to get menu or open folder/file

the left icon of each item is a button that show context menu.

Multiple Selection

By default files manager allows you to choose only one item

but for easy actions such as multiple copy/cut/delete you can toggle this multiple selection mode

Thumbnails

Images thumbnails disabled by default for performance and quick load

you can enable them on demand if you want, generally the preview is cached and optimized

but they can lead to a little slow down

Bookmarks

In many cases you need to reach some folder again

but to avoid navigating to them manually each time you can just bookmark them

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Packages (Appx/XAP)

ImMobile provide very smart internal packages resolver

however you need sometimes to make some adjustments

to use packages manager without getting confused understand the following:

Package manager provide two cases

• Direct quick install
• Details then (install or register)

inside the files manager when you select a package you also have two cases:

• Context then choose install
• Context then choose Details or Open

Quick Install

This is the first case that you expect to do after context appear

however understand that this designed for smooth quick install and doesn't show any details

also it will apply the default options (using smart resolver) without asking you

in some cases this doesn't help if package failed to you need to show details and check

Details & Install

The details dialog appears in case of opening the package or context then choosing Details

this is very helpful if you want to adjust some installation options

also it has very helpful details such as package required frameworks..etc

beside details can shorten your time, because it will tell you if the package is compatible or not.

Repacking Package

ImMobile files manager has option to easily extract then repack the package after modification

The image below explain in steps how to do that:

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Extensions & Addons

This can be very confusing if you didn't understand how the whole engine / UI is made

ImMobile allow to develop extension as DLL files then load them

there are many ways to load or install extension inside ImMobile:

• Just open it from files manager to install
• Use Library tab from Extension window (Called Addons at home grid)
• Use Online tab for quick download and install

The first option allow you to run extension in place quickly but only if you have root access, otherwise it fail

After installing the extension, it has the following behavior:

• The bolt icon run the extension
• Tab Running will show what extensions are running
• Each extension has GUI, LOGS & UNLOAD
• Not all extensions has GUI such as BingWallpaper example
• Each extension can register many addon if the developer want that
• Addons are like shortcut for easy toggle extension UI
• You can Check the option called Home to add the addon in home grid
• You can Check the option called Startup to run by default on startup

Here you need to know whether to waste time clicking on GUI button and find nothing when using service such as BingWallpaper

because not all extension do require a GUI, so you need to predict that based on what are you using

as example BingWallpaper designed to be set on startup and it will auto load and easily change your background

you will be very much confused looking for GUI/Options for it, but it made to be much easier than that.

Add Extension

Here how to add extensions

Understand Addons

Below showcase on where and how to access addons shortcuts

Load Startup

Here how to enable loading extension on ImMobile startup

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Archive.org

Below simple showcase on the main elements in Archive window that may confuse you