Okay so Ive Been an iPhone user for the las 3 years and jump ship to the Captivate for something new. I'm having trouble getting my email I had from iPhone (yahoo). So is there a place to learn how to get the following things?
1. Email
2. iTunes music I have
3. Pictures
4. Digital copy movies
Thanks !!!
I, too, have come from the iphone and had trouble with my yahoo mail account. The information in this thread works fine for me.
h**p://androidforums.com/samsung-captivate/132950-yahoo-mail.html
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The above said link tells the same thing. Basically the default email client works with yahoo only on att network. And it will not work on any other network including our wifi. Best thing is to move to Gmail. That is what I am thinking to do because it works on every platform, you can do imap, pop3, web you name it. So ditch yahoo it makes life easy
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I'm sorry !my email is from verizon.net but on my iPhone on settings was under yahoo. Really confused
For music it not hard as itunes. Simply copy the songs to the SD card that's it. Just make sure you have proper properties are set on the files.
Same with photos and movies, just copy on the SD card.
Its very very simple not like sick iTunes.
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But forgot to write that the same account was fetching emails perfectly on my phone even there is no sim in it. I think yahoo has some dealings with apple and att that's why those work fine on those. I am really surprised yahoo behaving as it's still going to live more so simply ditch.
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If you have drm'ed itunes music then you can't use it.
There is a program for iTunes for android. I don't remember but I Google it and it came up. Really nifty program. I had my music setup in tunes and didn't feel like dragging and creating folders and such. The music player on captivate is pretty nice. I start using it as my music player now.
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DoubleTwist and MediaMonkey will sync music to your phone. Also Samsung has their own app: Kies.
As for your email - if verizon.net is your email then setup a new email account on the phone using the Verizon settings. No one can tell you why you have Yahoo and VZW combined on the iPhone - there is no love between the 2. AT&T has a relationship with Yahoo.
I find that drag and drop of movies and music is easiest. DoubleTwist failed for me, MediaMonkey only does music, and Kies is slow.
As mentioned above, if any of your music is DRM protected, you will only ever be able to play it on iSomething.
If you want to sync music, pics and photos you can use songbird. You can export your play lists as. M3u? And songbird will easily recognize everything. PM if you want help setting it up.
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K-9 Mail works better than the OG email client and works great with mobile me, yahoo and gmail.
yahoo has their own mail app which u can also use
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Does anyone use the social hub on their note? I've been persevering as I like the concept, but I'm finding it a bit limited in functionality. e.g. no option to select multiple items.
Also it always opens on the feeds page, which I hardly ever use.
Is anyone else using it?
Yep I use it and love it. Have 5 email accounts, facebook, twitter and linkedin all in one place. Superb app
I am using it also it us great.
I didn't get your point about not able to select multi
I try to use it ! I think it's difficult to use in with de note. I also want to have e-mail first and not the fields page...
the scrolling on it is really slow. Anyone else get that?
no more using it...and set it to not boot at startup. laggy for me too
Only use is to check social updates from the Contacts
Is there a social Hub widget as I cant find it anywhere?
I uninstalled threw titanium backup
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Froze it on day one.
jeremy.chan said:
no more using it...and set it to not boot at startup. laggy for me too
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How is it?
I'd like to give this a test drive, anyone able to post up the latest social hub apk?
Seems it's not in the market now, and I'd frozen it when it first launched as I don't use facebook and other (anti)social stuff, but it might be worthwhile now I'm sync'ing work email so that I can use one app to handle work and personal email. I like how the default mail app does pinch-zoom which gmail lacks, so if social hub will do that and handle gmail the same way I'd be happy. After freezing it and then updating firmware the apk's seem to have gone so cannot re-install
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I'd like to give this a test drive, anyone able to post up the latest social hub apk?
Seems it's not in the market now, and I'd frozen it when it first launched as I don't use facebook and other (anti)social stuff, but it might be worthwhile now I'm sync'ing work email so that I can use one app to handle work and personal email. I like how the default mail app does pinch-zoom which gmail lacks, so if social hub will do that and handle gmail the same way I'd be happy. After freezing it and then updating firmware the apk's seem to have gone so cannot re-install
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Social Hub will use the stock email app for emails, so you can pretty set up your account there.
I'm not using it anymore since it consumes a lot of memory. Also, occasionally the account for Windows Live would suddenly stop working with no way to retrieve mails. Furthermore the extra things that it can do for emails can be configured in the stock email without it. Example, to use Hotmail, configure the server to m.hotmail.com as Exchange account. For Yahoo, configure it as imap. You get push service for both.
For social apps, since I'm using Facebook official app, I don't see why I need to set it up using Social Hub. Well the thing I hate the most is that I can't choose the default tab when I start it up.
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Social Hub will use the stock email app for emails, so you can pretty set up your account there.
I'm not using it anymore since it consumes a lot of memory. Also, occasionally the account for Windows Live would suddenly stop working with no way to retrieve mails. Furthermore the extra things that it can do for emails can be configured in the stock email without it. Example, to use Hotmail, configure the server to m.hotmail.com as Exchange account. For Yahoo, configure it as imap. You get push service for both.
For social apps, since I'm using Facebook official app, I don't see why I need to set it up using Social Hub. Well the thing I hate the most is that I can't choose the default tab when I start it up.
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thanks for the info, I was hoping to just have one app in the quick launch area for exchange/gmail/IM but maybe sticking with stock apps is a better bet then. Might look at moving the gmail accounts into this and dropping the gmail app instead.
Dave
I've been using social hub anytime now, it works fine. putting all accounts in one, easy to access emails and messaging the only thing is that, it eats more memory (allocating more memory to social hub0 with out actively using it.
frozen for me too
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Froze it on day one.
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same here
I'm coming from a 3GS tomorrow and was wondering is it possible to somehow extract data like wifi connections with passwords, Bluetooth devices, etc to a Android device so I don't have to set it all up again?
That would be no. Unfortunately apple is a very closed system. Makes it very frustrating to switch devices. I'm sure that's not their intent at all
If you're not jailbroken the backup/transfer choices you'll have will be even more limited. The best bet will be to do a google search for each thing you want saved/transferred. That way you'll find the latest methods for what you're trying to do.
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Yea I figured it would be a pain if at all possible. I'm jailbroken so maybe it will be a little easier. Can't wait to get out of Apple's grasp haha
To get a nice jump on things, go ahead and get a google account setup. With a google account you get google: voice, gmail, calendar, docs, picasa, music, plus a few others.
Start uploading your stuff to each of those, if you're not using them already.
Export your phone book to voice, up to 20,000 songs to music, all calendar appts, documents, and pictures on your phone -and desktop if you want- to picasa.
Once you get your android and log in with your google account, the only thing that will download is your phone contacts. The rest you can use like they're on the phone but they'll be online. Just open google music and all your songs are there. Saves alot of space on the phone. And if you want you can download music, pics, and documents to your phone through each of those apps.
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To get a nice jump on things, go ahead and get a google account setup. With a google account you get google: voice, gmail, calendar, docs, picasa, music, plus a few others.
Start uploading your stuff to each of those, if you're not using them already.
Export your phone book to voice, up to 20,000 songs to music, all calendar appts, documents, and pictures on your phone -and desktop if you want- to picasa.
Once you get your android and log in with your google account, the only thing that will download is your phone contacts. The rest you can use like they're on the phone but they'll be online. Just open google music and all your songs are there. Saves alot of space on the phone. And if you want you can download music, pics, and documents to your phone through each of those apps.
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Yea I've always used gmail & have a voice accnt but never really used it. I did finish uploading all my music to google music and am really looking forward to that. How is the performance streaming with that? I'd prefer to not have to keep much music physically on the phone.
I've never used picasa, but I was always interested in that, any tips for that?
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Yea I've always used gmail & have a voice accnt but never really used it. I did finish uploading all my music to google music and am really looking forward to that. How is the performance streaming with that? I'd prefer to not have to keep much music physically on the phone.
I've never used picasa, but I was always interested in that, any tips for that?
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Lol, I got at least 6 more days of uploading music to go. It's already been running 24/7 the past 7 days. ~13,000 tracks is a but much I guess, not to mention only a 2mb broadband line. But it's free internet. Perk of renting from a friend.
But music loads pretty fast. Usually less than 4 seconds for the first song, then usually 1 second or so for each one after that, depending on signal.
Picasa is awesome. It shows up right in the gallery on your phone. Can't even tell they're not on your phone they load so smooth.
And to share photos with picasa is really easy. It also integrates with google+.
It really takes a little bit to realize all the things you can do with your phone. People will ask me to send them a picture of something I took, 8mp camera after all, and my brain gets overloaded trying to pick only 1 way to send it to them.
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What all would people recommend for email.
I have been using the stock app on my phone but it's a bit restricted I think.
I've tried K9 but it's so fecking convoluted and overly complicated.
All I want is an app that will allow me to access multiple accounts easily, and quite simple delete an email which will then be deleted from my mail provider server.
I've tried to set this up on K9 and it just won't work. Having turned on my laptop I've just found I have hundreds of mails still on my account which I thought I'd deleted! Having come from Apple I'm now a fully fledged android convert but the one thing that Apple does better is mail management!
LG-G2 / Android 4.2.2
I've been using Blue Mail. It has a nice simple interface and provides some options without being overloaded like some apps.
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Cloud Magic is good.
I use Nine and I really like it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolders.hd3
Make sure you have your email app set up as IMAP (& IMAP authorised on your email account) that way your email will sync. It sounds like it's currently set up as POP which just downloads copies of your email. POP doesn't mark as read or delete from your account. IMAP does.
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Ok, so I delete one account from k9 and set it back up bit this time add imap and it's now working more like I want it too. However, the app is still showing costs that don't exist when I look at the account on my laptop. I deleted some folders from my account.?
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CloudMagic and SolMail :good:
The Android Apps and Games forum is for Developers to share and support their work. It isn't really the place to ask questions or discuss an App. There is an App discussion thread for that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230428 Please repost your question and comment there.
Thanks!
A friend of mine is getting her first ever smartphone and I want to help her transition as smoothly as possible. She will not give up her Hotmail account, so I need to find an app that will give her access to her emails, and preferably gives push notifications and allows easy attaching of documents.
I've been suckling on the Google/GMail teat for years and was mildly surprised when I 'unfroze' the native email app - it seems pretty decent. But it only gives options for attaching of pictures or videos, unlike the GMail app which has a generic 'attach file' button. Obviously I know that I could find my document using a file browser or other app and then 'share' it to the Email app, but this sort of 'well you can't do it this way, you have to do it that way' crap is what I want to avoid for my friend. I want everything to be obvious, easy and for her introduction to Android to be effortless.
Any suggestions, please? A free email app, with push, and easy file attachments of all types.
EDIT: I have just signed up for a Hotmail account so I can test apps myself. The Outlook.com app seems alright - anyone got experience using it? Any fatal flaws?
Try using [email protected] Mail Pro app. I use it since it pretty much unifies all of my email accounts in a neat way with plenty of customizations available for your taste. I especially like the fact that unlike with the built in app, I can create a unified email widget for all my accounts instead of having multiple widgets and it allows me to attach any kind of file, and has a pretty advanced editor. Try the free version first and see if you'd like to upgrade to the pro.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onegravity.k10.free
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I use Aqua Mail which works very well for me, can sync with POP and IMAP accounts. Link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail.
Thanks guys, but after testing it myself I think my friend will be happy enough with the Outlook.com app (although the interface certainly isn't to my taste, it is simple enough and does what she needs).
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I recently purchased the Moto G 4G LTE and have been having a blast with it. It was simple to unlock the bootloader, add TWRP, and root the device. It was also simple to unbloat the device since it did not have much bloatware on to begin with. Over all I am really pleased with my purchase.
I did change out the SMS app because the original was very bland. However, the email app was driving me crazy. So I spent a better part of the day looking at the available free email apps to see which one I would prefer over the stock app. I was totally disappointed when I found that all the apps I tried did not work well with GMail. Each app would fetch the test mail from GMail and then delete the mail preventing me for using Outlook to download the mail to my PC. No matter what I tried, the app would either delete or "mark as read" and my Outlook could not retrieve it.
It seems the only email app that worked in keeping the GMail intact was the stock email app on the phone. But I don't like it because it does not tell me if it is sync'ing with the server and downloading or not. So I have no way of knowing except if an email is download it will give me a notification. It won't even give me the last sync timestamp.
Anyone using an email app that works with GMail (retrieve but leave unaltered), AND, you can also download the email with Outlook?
What's wrong with using the actual Gmail app and syncing on your Outlook?
There's going to be a combination of Gmail POP3 settings and mail client settings that will determine if a message is deleted from the server or not upon retrieval.
I use the free version of Maildroid, it works great with what I use, being Outlook, MSN, and Gmail. Puts everything into one place.
I don't understand why, but the OEM email does not affect the mail on GMail. When I access the mail and download it to my phone, I can then access the same email from Outlook on my PC and download the same mail. But using other applications like K-10 and Aquamail, when I download the mail to my phone I cannot access with Outlook on my PC. So the other mail programs must be doing something that the OEM email app is not doing. Strange. I have also tried some different settings in GMail to no avail.
I cannot comment about the apps that you have mentioned, but providing the app that you choose uses IMAP then the various email clients should maintain synchronization with each other. @Darkshado mentioned POP3. I used to have problems with Hotmail using POP3, but since they implemented IMAP the problems have disappeared. I can confirm that Maildroid works correctly, you can choose in settings whether or not to delete messages off the server.
Thanks for the tip on Maildroid. That works for me. Much appreciated.
Glad to help. I just wish that is was cheaper, but I hardly notice the ad's at the bottom anymore
I am surprised the other apps that you tried have problems, I was thinking that you had made a mistake in the configuration or something. We learn..... Cheers.
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Glad to help. I just wish that is was cheaper, but I hardly notice the ad's at the bottom anymore
I am surprised the other apps that you tried have problems, I was thinking that you had made a mistake in the configuration or something. We learn..... Cheers.
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I have added AdBlock and the ads are gone. The other mail programs had all the same options but did not do what I wanted. Very frustrating because I liked their aesthetics. But like you said, live and learn...
I use K9. It's open source and has pretty advanced settings to manage synchronization and server actions. It takes some to to configure, but that can be an advantage...
K-9 was another one I tested that did not work for me. Appreciate the response though. Some of these mail programs look really nice. K-9 was one of them, I just wish it would not molest the mail so I can download it later into my Outlook mail for archiving.
Hi, Can you tell me which Adblock is the best one to use. I find quite a few on play store.
grahamgo said:
Hi, Can you tell me which Adblock is the best one to use. I find quite a few on play store.
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I have used Adblock Plus for the longest on my Firefox browser PC and Tablet. So I went with what I know best, AdbLock Plus ver 1.2.1. On my free apps I see absolutely no ads. Wonderful.
Thanks for the pointer. Apparently it's banned from the Play Store, no wonder that I didn't find it. I did try another one called Adblock which is on Play Store and it seemed to do nothing at all. Anyway, I have been using the one that you suggested for about a week now, and you are correct, no ads anywhere. No wonder Google doesn't allow it! Thank's..