How Do You Save Videos From Facebook To Your Phone - In this tutorial, we will be teaching Facebook users the best ways to download or conserve video on Facebook Lite to their Android phone without using any third-party apps. By following the standards below, you will be able to directly download videos you watch on Facebook Lite to your phone.

Facebook introduced Lite in few Africa and Asia nations in early 2015 and from there the app was broadened to lots of other areas. Facebook Lite is light in size and does not takes in information like the main app. Apart from these, it also runs well on poor network and smoothly on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was launched, many brand-new functions were added amongst which is the capability to see video shared, published, which show up on timeline. Nevertheless, Facebook did not provide users the capability to download the video.

How Do You Save Videos From Facebook To Your Phone

There's a catch however, we wagered a lot of you would have discover it. You will notice that when you click the video you wish to enjoy on Facebook Lite, the gamer will initially pack for some seconds prior to the video begin to play. You will also discover 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 time to pack like the very first time, it will just play straight.

This offer 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 again it will simply load from where it was cached. Locating where the video is cached is our answer.

The procedure we are about to share does not exist anywhere on the web, you are fortunate to be the first to learn this trick.

On Lite, Facebook generally shows the size (in megabytes) of the video you will enjoy prior to you click it as displayed in the picture above. Take note of the megabyte because you are going to require it if you are going to get 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 Gamer

All videos seen on Facebook Lite are download in a folder on the phone storage. We suggest you see a video on Lite before you continue, this will develop the folder we will reveal you.

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

1.) Open ES Explorer, find a folder named "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder named "information", open it. It will lead you to where is shown in the above photo (We alter the folder view to "Medium Details" under More -> View in ES UI). Among 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 4 different folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you might find more. Nevertheless, it is very important to let you know that each folder in the "video" folder represent each video you see on Facebook Lite. As you can see, the folders are called in random letters that appears like lingos.

5.) Opening one of these video folders there are 2 files inside, one called "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders displayed in action 4 includes just these two files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are searching for. All the 4 folders includes 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 on the "0000000000000000" file to open then select video from the menu, pick a video gamer (or MX Gamer) and BOOMMM! the video will begin playing. You can do likewise for other "0000000000000000" files in other video folders to watch the cached Facebook Lite videos.

Please Keep in mind: The "0000000000000000" doesn't show as video file when view by file supervisor since it doesn't have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video players installed won't be able to fetch it when scanning the phone. It's a security measure. You require to open it directly with a video player to be able to deem a video.

 

Whenever you view a video on Facebook Lite, the video is cached (download) on the phone sd card. By following the actions above, you can relabel the "00000000000000" which is the video file and see it offline forever. You can even copy it to a separate folder to keep save. Such articles How Do You Save Videos From Facebook To Your Phone from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.

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