How To Save A Video From Facebook Onto Your Phone - In this tutorial, we will be teaching Facebook users ways to download or conserve video on Facebook Lite to their Android phone without using any third-party apps. By following the standards listed below, you will have the ability to directly download videos you view on Facebook Lite to your phone.

Facebook launched 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 primary app. Apart from these, it likewise runs well on poor network and smoothly on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was launched, numerous new features were included among which is the ability to enjoy video shared, posted, which are visible on timeline. Nevertheless, Facebook did not offer users the ability to download the video.

How To Save A Video From Facebook Onto Your Phone

There's a catch however, we wagered much of you would have notice it. You will see that when you click the video you wish to enjoy on Facebook Lite, the player will initially fill for some seconds before the video begin to play. You will also observe that when the video stop playing and you go back possibly to your timeline, if you click the video once again it won't take some time to load like the very first time, it will simply play directly.

This provide us the sense that the video is being download (cache) somewhere when you play it the very first time when you attempt to play it again it will simply load from where it was cached. Finding where the video is cached is our response.

The treatment we will share doesn't exist anywhere on the internet, you are lucky to be the first to discover this technique.

On Lite, Facebook generally reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you are about to see prior to you click on it as revealed in the image above. Pay attention to the megabyte due to the fact that you are going to require it if you are getting this tutorial right. Now, lets proceed.

You are going to require the following apps, not required however they will help.

1.)  ES File Explorer
2.)  MX Video Gamer

All videos enjoyed on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We suggest you enjoy a video on Lite prior to you continue, this will develop the folder we will reveal you.

In our own case, we utilize ES File Explorer. You can utilize any file manager of your choice.

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 named "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 4 various folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you may find more. Nevertheless, it is essential to let you know that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you view 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 2 files inside, one named "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders revealed in step 4 includes only these two files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are searching for. All the four folders includes the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent different video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you see on Facebook Lite.

6.) If you are utilizing ES, just click the "0000000000000000" file to open then select video from the menu, choose a video player (or MX Gamer) and BOOMMM! the video will start playing. You can do similarly for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to watch the cached Facebook Lite videos.

Please Note: The "0000000000000000" doesn't reveal as video file when view by file manager because it does not have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video gamers set up will not have the ability to bring it when scanning the phone. It's a security procedure. You require to open it straight with a video player to be able to consider as a video.

 

Whenever you watch a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone memory card. By following the steps above, you can rename the "00000000000000" which is the video file and enjoy it offline permanently. 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.

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