Save Facebook Video To Phone - In this tutorial, we will be teaching Facebook users ways to download or save video on Facebook Lite to their Android phone without utilizing any third-party apps. By following the guidelines below, you will have the ability to directly download videos you enjoy on Facebook Lite to your phone.

Facebook launched Lite in couple of Africa and Asia nations in early 2015 and from there the app was broadened to numerous other regions. Facebook Lite is light in size and does not consumes data like the main app. Apart from these, it likewise runs well on bad network and smoothly on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was introduced, numerous new features were included among which is the ability to watch video shared, published, and that show up on timeline. However, Facebook did not give users the ability to download the video.

Save Facebook Video To Phone

There's a catch though, we wagered many of you would have see it. You will notice that when you click the video you wish to enjoy on Facebook Lite, the player will initially pack for some seconds prior to the video start to play. You will also observe that when the video stop playing and you return maybe to your timeline, if you click the video once again it won't take time to pack like the very first time, it will just play directly.

This provide 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 pack from where it was cached. Locating where the video is cached is our response.

The treatment we are about to share does not exist anywhere on the internet, you are fortunate to be the first to learn this technique.

On Lite, Facebook usually shows the size (in megabytes) of the video you are about to view prior to you click on it as displayed in the photo above. Focus on the megabyte since you are going to need it if you are getting this guide right. Now, lets continue.

You are going to need the following apps, not needed however 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 before you continue, this will create the folder we will show you.

In our own case, we use 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 revealed in the above pic (We change the folder view to "Medium Details" under More -> View in ES UI). Among 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, locate "video" folder and open it.

4.) In our own case, there are four various folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you might discover more. However, it is very important to let you know 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 jargons.

5.) Opening among these video folders there are 2 files inside, one named "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders displayed in step 4 contains only these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are searching for. All the four folders consists of 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 utilizing ES, simply click the "0000000000000000" file to open then choose video from the menu, pick a video player (or MX Gamer) and BOOMMM! the video will start playing. You can do also for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to view the cached Facebook Lite videos.

Please Keep in mind: The "0000000000000000" does not show 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 players installed will not be able to fetch it when scanning the phone. It's a security measure. You require to open it straight with a video gamer to be able to consider as a video.

 

Every time you watch a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone memory card. By following the steps above, you can relabel the "00000000000000" which is the video file and enjoy it offline forever. You can even copy it to a separate folder to keep conserve. Such articles Save Facebook Video To Phone from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.

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