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

Facebook launched Lite in few Africa and Asia nations in early 2015 and from there the app was expanded to many other areas. Facebook Lite is light in size and does not consumes information like the main app. Apart from these, it likewise runs well on bad network and efficiently on 2G (GPRS/EDGE) connection. After it was introduced, numerous new functions were added amongst which is the capability to enjoy video shared, published, which are noticeable on timeline. However, Facebook did not offer users the ability to download the video.

Save Video From Facebook To Phone

There's a catch however, we wagered a number of you would have discover it. You will see that when you click on the video you wish to enjoy on Facebook Lite, the gamer will first load for some seconds before the video begin to play. You will likewise discover that when the video stop playing and you return maybe to your timeline, if you click the video once again it will not 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) someplace when you play it the very first time and 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 will share doesn't exist anywhere on the web, you are fortunate to be the first to learn this technique.

On Lite, Facebook generally reveals the size (in megabytes) of the video you will enjoy before you click it as shown in the photo above. Take notice of the megabyte due to the fact that you are going to need it if you are going to get this guide right. Now, lets proceed.

You are going to need the following apps, not essential however they will assist.

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

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 produce the folder we will reveal you.

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

1.) Open ES Explorer, locate a folder named "Android". In the "Android" folder you will see another folder named "data", open it. It will lead you to where is displayed in the above pic (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, locate "video" folder and open it.

4.) In our own case, there are four various folders inside the "video" folder, in yours you might find more. However, it is essential to let you understand 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 appears like lingos.

5.) Opening one of these video folders there are two files inside, one called "0000000000000000" and the other "metadata.json". All the folders shown in step 4 contains just these 2 files. The "0000000000000000" file is the video we are trying to find. All the four folders includes the "0000000000000000" video file and each file represent various video in each of the folder. Each folder is each video you watch 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 player (or MX Player) 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 Note: The "0000000000000000" doesn't reveal as video file when view by file manager because it doesn't have a video extension (e.g.MP4, AVI e.t.c). Facebook do this so that video gamers installed will not be able to fetch it when scanning the phone. It's a security procedure. You need to open it straight with a video gamer to be able to consider as a video.

 

Whenever you view 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 watch it offline forever. You can even copy it to a different folder to keep save. Such articles Save Video From Facebook To Phone from my thank you for visiting hope can help you.

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