How to Search Android Phone Internal Files?

[f0rkyou]

Well, this seems pretty basic, but I did look through the forum a bit, couldn't find an answer (thought there are a lot of hits), so apologies beforehand:

How do I search content that is on the phone?

I don't want to search the web, it's just I stuck something in a file or list manager somewhere, and cannot remember where, so what I'd like is something equivalent to Google Desktop search, but searching the files on the phone.

This is most likey what you are looking for: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...bDUOG4Vbn8lNSw

[hunxiaoyang]

You can try the androd desktop search on Market:
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result

[Jim12]

I realize this thread is OLD, but I just ran into it when searching for text file searching today, and then, when I chased down a couple of suggestions offered here (back in 2010), I ran into the best answer I have seen so far!

The app 'InFileSearch' looks in TXT, DOC, PDFs, and maybe more for a matching string. It is very fast, allows you to open a discovered file while it continues the search, and has a very good interface! I haven't had a chance yet to see if it supports wildcard characters (? and *, for example, or better yet, regex), but I am already satisfied!

I cannot believe that a Google OS (for the Android) neglected to offer the phone equivalent of GDS, sigh!

Well, this seems pretty basic, but I did look through the forum a bit, couldn't find an answer (thought there are a lot of hits), so apologies beforehand:

How do I search content that is on the phone?

I don't want to search the web, it's just I stuck something in a file or list manager somewhere, and cannot remember where, so what I'd like is something equivalent to Google Desktop search, but searching the files on the phone.