[Q] emailing a URL from browser

[Q] emailing a URL from browser - G Tablet General

Maybe it's just me still being somewhat of an android noob, but is there a way to email a browser link from within the browser? Or at least a way to highlight and copy the link to paste within an email?

Great question. I would like to know how to highlight, copy, and past from anywhere.

mmracing said:
Great question. I would like to know how to highlight, copy, and past from anywhere.
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Yeah, I hate to admit it, but I do use an iPhone and would like to know how as well.

liquidcaffeine said:
Maybe it's just me still being somewhat of an android noob, but is there a way to email a browser link from within the browser? Or at least a way to highlight and copy the link to paste within an email?
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You can press and hold your finger over a link, and you will get a popup asking you to open, save, copy, share, etc link. If you select copy, you can then open your email and paste. If you select Share you then get list of options....bluetooth, gmail, twitter, etc.... Hope this helps.
You can't email link from browser unless the website designed a link to email you something, or you use the above share option.
From the desktop I can use Chrome to Phone with this gtab though and it works great. From desktop and from within a browser, you can send the link your viewing to your tab with one click.

mmracing said:
Great question. I would like to know how to highlight, copy, and past from anywhere.
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From anywhere I believe there is a menu option within the browser to select text, then you can drag your fingers to select the text you want, it gets copied and then you can paste it into anything like email. Not sure about other programs, but usually either press and hold, or menu option to select and copy text. In input boxes just press n hold to get menu to paste text.

raydog153 said:
You can press and hold your finger over a link, and you will get a popup asking you to open, save, copy, share, etc link. If you select copy, you can then open your email and paste. If you select Share you then get list of options....bluetooth, gmail, twitter, etc.... Hope this helps.
You can't email link from browser unless the website designed a link to email you something, or you use the above share option.
From the desktop I can use Chrome to Phone with this gtab though and it works great. From desktop and from within a browser, you can send the link your viewing to your tab with one click.
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Just tried the suggestion on another forum here at XDA with no success. Not sure if it matters, but I m on TnT Lite 2.04.

liquidcaffeine said:
Just tried the suggestion on another forum here at XDA with no success. Not sure if it matters, but I m on TnT Lite 2.04.
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So your saying if you press and hold your finger on a link you get no popup?

raydog153 said:
So your saying if you press and hold your finger on a link you get no popup?
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Correct. Nothing pops up at all.

liquidcaffeine said:
Correct. Nothing pops up at all.
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I'm on CM6.1B4, which has stock browser, don't know what browser in on TnT Light, but I think it may be different from what I read.
I can also use the Dolphin browser and I get the same popup. So maybe you should try to install a different browser and use that as your default like Dolphin HD.

raydog153 said:
I'm on CM6.1B4, which has stock browser, don't know what browser in on TnT Light, but I think it may be different from what I read.
I can also use the Dolphin browser and I get the same popup. So maybe you should try to install a different browser and use that as your default like Dolphin HD.
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Thanks, I'll try Dolphin and see how it works.

Dolphin did the trick, but now I screwed up ADW.Launcher by putting the Dolphin shortcut on the app drawer. Now that icon is missing, lol.
EDIT*** Thank goodness for backup and restore function in ADW! All better now with dolphin HD.

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Unable to download PDF onto phone from Google Docs

Not sure where to post this so here goes.....
I have an HTC Touch Pro 2 and usually use Opera Mini.
In the past, I had been able to go to the mobile version of Google docs through Opera, log in, click on a PDF file, save to My Documents and then open the file through My Documents which allowed me to then zoom in/out as needed to read the document.
As of a day or two ago, whenever I click on a PDF, it simply opens except the pages are so small it's impossible to read the text. The zoom bar doesn't do anything. Double clicking doesn't do anything. Hold clicking on the file doesn't give any option to save/download the file.
I've logged in through my laptop and although PDF's do open directly in Google Docs when you click on them, if you right click it does give you an option to download. I can't seem to find this option anywhere on my phone, although it used to be the default option up until 2 days ago.

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[Q] TF E-mail client

I tried to search the forum but without success...
In the native client, is there a way to have a multiple selection of mails? I tried everything that came up to my mind but found no way... it is a bit annoying deleting item per item
Also, is there a way to empty the trash with a simple tapping sequence or do I have to delete item by item?
Thanks!

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morder79 said:
I tried to search the forum but without success...
In the native client, is there a way to have a multiple selection of mails? I tried everything that came up to my mind but found no way... it is a bit annoying deleting item per item
Also, is there a way to empty the trash with a simple tapping sequence or do I have to delete item by item?
Thanks!
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AFAIK there are boxes you can check next to each email for folder moves, deleting, etc.
Don't think there's a quicker way to delete the trash..

JaiaV said:
AFAIK there are boxes you can check next to each email for folder moves, deleting, etc.
Don't think there's a quicker way to delete the trash..
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It is very very annoying...
Let's hope in some update with 3.1
Thanks

Sharing

How can I share pictures that are in SkyDrive from my phone?

hah2110 said:
How can I share pictures that are in SkyDrive from my phone?
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Yes you can.

The question was "how can I?".... I don't see an option from the SkyDrive app or Gallery.

hah2110 said:
The question was "how can I?".... I don't see an option from the SkyDrive app or Gallery.
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Launch the SkyDrive app.
Press and hold the album you want to send a link to.
If you want to just send a link to a pic, press and hold the pic.
In each case, you get a send link option.
Follow the rest of the on screen steps. Guessing you can figure it out from there and it just wasn't obvious to press and hold.

JVH3 said:
Launch the SkyDrive app.
Press and hold the album you want to send a link to.
If you want to just send a link to a pic, press and hold the pic.
In each case, you get a send link option.
Follow the rest of the on screen steps. Guessing you can figure it out from there and it just wasn't obvious to press and hold.
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That should definitely be something that exists in the gallery app, not just Skydrive.

Yah I'm hoping more skydrive functionality will be coming later this year. I would expect in Apollo to be some sort of revamp. Skydrive is nice, but is lacking many functions that would make it great.

Directly No but indirectly you can do
Select a Picture > Long Press on a File > Send a Link > View Only
This opens up Email List, Select any and you will find the link which you need to manually copy and paste and then share.
or you can download it your phone and then share but that sucks on the double.

wpxbox said:
Directly No but indirectly you can do
Select a Picture > Long Press on a File > Send a Link > View Only
This opens up Email List, Select any and you will find the link which you need to manually copy and paste and then share.
or you can download it your phone and then share but that sucks on the double.
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This is what I want to do. Point is you can't do it from the Gallery/Media which is silly.

hah2110 said:
This is what I want to do. Point is you can't do it from the Gallery/Media which is silly.
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You definitely can do this in Gallery!!
Go to the album where your pic is.
Go to the pic.
Select ...
Select Share...
Scroll down to SkyDrive.
Now I have got the SkyDrive app installed in my phone. Maybe that is why I get it integrated within my gallery. I am not sure you get this option without having a sky drive app. But if you do, then the OS will smartly integrate it within your gallery. There is one post of mine in 'iPhone v/s Mango' thread where I've listed all the options I get within the gallery to share. I think it's also mentioned as one of the plus points for Mango OS in that thread!

drupad2drupad said:
You definitely can do this in Gallery!!
Go to the album where your pic is.
Go to the pic.
Select ...
Select Share...
Scroll down to SkyDrive.
Now I have got the SkyDrive app installed in my phone. Maybe that is why I get it integrated within my gallery. I am not sure you get this option without having a sky drive app. But if you do, then the OS will smartly integrate it within your gallery. There is one post of mine in 'iPhone v/s Mango' thread where I've listed all the options I get within the gallery to share. I think it's also mentioned as one of the plus points for Mango OS in that thread!
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He means share pictures that are already in a skydrive folder. This is where there is confusion here.
In your pictures hub, if you go to a folder located 'on your phone', you can "share" and share to skydrive, which will put it in skydrive and then share via a link.
But if you go to a "skydrive folder" in your pictures hub, you have no share option. You can't share pictures directly from these folders as they aren't on the phone.
This is some of the functionality that needs to come with Apollo or sooner. You should be able to have all your pictures 'in the cloud' but have all the functionality of local data.

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He means share pictures that are already in a skydrive folder. This is where there is confusion here.
In your pictures hub, if you go to a folder located 'on your phone', you can "share" and share to skydrive, which will put it in skydrive and then share via a link.
But if you go to a "skydrive folder" in your pictures hub, you have no share option. You can't share pictures directly from these folders as they aren't on the phone.
This is some of the functionality that needs to come with Apollo or sooner. You should be able to have all your pictures 'in the cloud' but have all the functionality of local data.
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Ah I think that's expecting too much out of it!
Thinking of how it can be implemented:
To share something that is online, you need to access it. You could access things that are in cloud by using SkyDrive app. Then share it as you would. But the gallery which is 'sandboxed' into the phone doesn't have Skydrive access. I think accessing clouds via gallery might be difficult. However what is surprising is - when you scroll to application within the gallery, I get my boxshot (dropbox client) but not SkyDrive! That SkyDrive official app has to update and use the app-link features.

Yeah the skydrive app needs some extra functions... like moving files between folders

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Ah I think that's expecting too much out of it!
Thinking of how it can be implemented:
To share something that is online, you need to access it. You could access things that are in cloud by using SkyDrive app. Then share it as you would. But the gallery which is 'sandboxed' into the phone doesn't have Skydrive access. I think accessing clouds via gallery might be difficult. However what is surprising is - when you scroll to application within the gallery, I get my boxshot (dropbox client) but not SkyDrive! That SkyDrive official app has to update and use the app-link features.
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Yah, and it wouldn't surprise me to see the skydrive "app" actually just come integrated like that in Apollo. MS is very serious about the cloud, so I expect to be surprised with what they are able to bring in that area in the future.

[How To] Export Bookmarks from chrome to Dolphin

The objective of this thread is to be able to get the chrome bookmarks (desktop) into the dolphin hd browser (on the device).
I know that there are already apps that do that (syncing process). But, although they are not all paid, none of them really did what i was expecting and was a hole lot of trouble.
What were going to be doing is to "pass" the hole chrome bookmarks into the dolphin hd.
Theres no auto-sync function. Hell...actually theres no sync at all...its kind of a weird solution to be able to export the bookmarks.
so let me start by saying that the "idea" on how to do this came from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459360
in there, user wifesabitch exported the bookmarks (.html) and then transfer it to the boat browser in the phone and restore the bookmarks.
So, i took the same idea, but with my mind set in the dolphin browser.
First you have to export your bookmarks in your chrome.
1- Open chrome
Then do ---> Customize & Control (the tool logo on the upper right corner) ---> Bookmarks ----> Bookmark Manager
In Bookmark Manager go to Organize and click on the option "Export Bookmarks to HTML File"
Choose a path, name, and accept.
Ok. So now we have our hole collection of bookmarks in our nice little desktop...now what?
2- Go to your android. Open dolphin, and go search for the add-on (you can do that from the same browser) called Bookmarks to SD. Install it.
Great!. were almost there....
Now, using any file explorer, you can go to "SD/TunnyBrowser" (the dolphin folder) and youll see a new folder created there...called ...."Bookmarks". (really original...)
3- connect the android to your desktop. and copy the .html file from chrome inside that folder (SD/TunnyBrowser/Bookmarks)
4- open the newly installed add-on / app / whatever you wanna call it... (Bookmark to SD)
And youll have a few options. Go to Import. then mark in "dolphin browser" and click import.
It will ask you wich file you wanna import (you can have different ones). Choose one. and accept.
5-There you go!. you can go and check all your chrome bookmarks but within the dolphin browser.
Doas this mean that i have to do the same $"$"#$"#"#$#&T#%$&% process all over again everytime i wanna sync?
Yes. :S
Do you feel funny having to do all this mess for a simple little thing like importing bookmarks. And yet, there are ppl who can program NASA stuff?
Yes. :S
But. Hey..it is what it is.
If this help you guys, Awesome. I know that this is probably a really dumb stuff for this forum, but, i reallllllly search and could not find anything, so may be some of you can feel good having a nice simple way to do that.
I know it was good enough for me
Have Fun.

You know it REALLY burns me up that Dolphin cant have a "import bookmarks from file" option. If they really want to be taken seriously as a web browser, then they need this option.
Hell I bet internet explorer 2.0 had it, but in 2012 we still need to jump through all these hoops just to import some goddamn bookmarks.
(yes I am angry)

So here's what I do. Manual but less steps, perhaps. Works for me. Your mileage may vary.
I export my bookmarks from Chrome.
Upload the file to Dropbox.
Set the Dolphin HD home page to the Dropbox file.
When I want to update the bookmarks file, all I have to do is repeat the first two steps above. I'm running on a Mac and use a utility called Hazel that basically all I have to do is create the export and Hazel does the rest for me. Basically takse all of 15 seconds form to update the file on Dropbox.
Now when I hit the 'Home' button, I see a web page with all my links.
Hope this helps provide another way to accomplish the same thing that may be better suited to others.

I finde another solution. Just imported my Firefox bookmarks as .html file. Copied it to my phone. Opened it with Dolphin. It opens it as a list. And I added that listed page as bookmark.

nekher said:
The objective of this thread is to be able to get the chrome bookmarks (desktop) into the dolphin hd browser (on the device).
I know that there are already apps that do that (syncing process). But, although they are not all paid, none of them really did what i was expecting and was a hole lot of trouble.
What were going to be doing is to "pass" the hole chrome bookmarks into the dolphin hd.
Theres no auto-sync function. Hell...actually theres no sync at all...its kind of a weird solution to be able to export the bookmarks.
so let me start by saying that the "idea" on how to do this came from this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459360
in there, user wifesabitch exported the bookmarks (.html) and then transfer it to the boat browser in the phone and restore the bookmarks.
So, i took the same idea, but with my mind set in the dolphin browser.
First you have to export your bookmarks in your chrome.
1- Open chrome
Then do ---> Customize & Control (the tool logo on the upper right corner) ---> Bookmarks ----> Bookmark Manager
In Bookmark Manager go to Organize and click on the option "Export Bookmarks to HTML File"
Choose a path, name, and accept.
Ok. So now we have our hole collection of bookmarks in our nice little desktop...now what?
2- Go to your android. Open dolphin, and go search for the add-on (you can do that from the same browser) called Bookmarks to SD. Install it.
Great!. were almost there....
Now, using any file explorer, you can go to "SD/TunnyBrowser" (the dolphin folder) and youll see a new folder created there...called ...."Bookmarks". (really original...)
3- connect the android to your desktop. and copy the .html file from chrome inside that folder (SD/TunnyBrowser/Bookmarks)
4- open the newly installed add-on / app / whatever you wanna call it... (Bookmark to SD)
And youll have a few options. Go to Import. then mark in "dolphin browser" and click import.
It will ask you wich file you wanna import (you can have different ones). Choose one. and accept.
5-There you go!. you can go and check all your chrome bookmarks but within the dolphin browser.
Doas this mean that i have to do the same $"$"#$"#"#$#&T#%$&% process all over again everytime i wanna sync?
Yes. :S
Do you feel funny having to do all this mess for a simple little thing like importing bookmarks. And yet, there are ppl who can program NASA stuff?
Yes. :S
But. Hey..it is what it is.
If this help you guys, Awesome. I know that this is probably a really dumb stuff for this forum, but, i reallllllly search and could not find anything, so may be some of you can feel good having a nice simple way to do that.
I know it was good enough for me
Have Fun.
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Thank you for this - it was helpful to me

Well here goes nothing. I need to try this again (restored my phone)...

thanks
nico9 said:
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Thanks! Half works for me, I had installed "Bookmarks to SD" previously but it was just throwing up a whole bunch of error. Thanks for the pointer about the "Bookmarks" directory with the "Tunnybrowser" directory.
Still, after churning for a while, I got a page saying "ERROR", nothing else. This is one nasty piece of work in my book. And the fact that in this day and age, you can't sync bookmarks between browsers? The alternatives are $ based subscription service like XMarks and CMarks?
Sorry for my rant.

Not working for me on GS3 JB rooted
Thanks to the OP for getting this going.
I tried the first post directions, but checked for the 'Booksmarks' folder in TunnyBrowser, but it was not there after installing the 'Bookmarks to SD' add-on for Dolphin.
I'm not sure if something has changed with Dolphin or the Add-On since the original post, but wondering why I don't see the 'Bookmarks' folder in sdcard/TunnyBrowser
I even created the Bookmarks folder and pasted an exported Chrome .html file in it, but 'Bookmarks to SD' will not find/see it.
Anyone else have this issue? workarounds?

Try Dolphin Connect from Chrome Web Store. I just started using this, and my bookmarks are totally synced now between Chrome and Dolphin.

BrownNote80 said:
Try Dolphin Connect from Chrome Web Store. I just started using this, and my bookmarks are totally synced now between Chrome and Dolphin.
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I confirm : it works fine !
I have deleted "chrome" which is a verry nice browser, but too "big" (>65Mo and not movable to Internal SD nor External SD)

Perfect Solution!
BrownNote80 said:
Try Dolphin Connect from Chrome Web Store. I just started using this, and my bookmarks are totally synced now between Chrome and Dolphin.
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Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for

thank you very much

anyone else having sync problems with this lately ??

robgee789 said:
anyone else having sync problems with this lately ??
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Yes I am.
Have spent far too much time trying to get my bookmarks from Chrome to Dolphin without success
The sync between Chrome and Dolphin seems to be working okay.
Even have a Chrome bookmark folder showing in the Dolphin bookmarks list.
Inside are 3 files, Bookmarks Bar, Mobile Bookmarks and Other Bookmarks.
Only problem is, they are all empty.
Mike

mikerr44 said:
Yes I am.
Have spent far too much time trying to get my bookmarks from Chrome to Dolphin without success
The sync between Chrome and Dolphin seems to be working okay.
Even have a Chrome bookmark folder showing in the Dolphin bookmarks list.
Inside are 3 files, Bookmarks Bar, Mobile Bookmarks and Other Bookmarks.
Only problem is, they are all empty.
Mike
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i loaded dolphin today and the at the top of the home screen it asked if i wanted to try the 9.4.2 beta version with flash enabled and the sync worked perfect with that version guys, if anyone cant find the 9.4.2 version just let me know and ill give you a link to it

robgee789 said:
i loaded dolphin today and the at the top of the home screen it asked if i wanted to try the 9.4.2 beta version with flash enabled and the sync worked perfect with that version guys, if anyone cant find the 9.4.2 version just let me know and ill give you a link to it
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Hi Rob,
I did download the Dolphin Beta version from the Play Store yesterday. But having exactly the same result, except there are no Chrome folders showing.Not certain what build this Beta is, as I can find no number anywhere. However flash has been disabled and it won't allow to be enabled.
The desktop Chrome is showing a link with Dolphin and even tells me how many bookmarks have been sent along with history.
Dolphin tells me it syncs okay and the download was successful. However, I cannot find the sent bookmarks anywhere in Dolphin,
I can receive a current Chrome desktop page that has been sent to Dolphin.
So, could try your source of Beta if you have the link please.
Thanks, Mike

[Q] Copy images from Chrome, paste in message

So I was looking through my gallery today and noticed I have a ton of images downloaded or screen-shoted from Chrome that I used to send in MMS. I'm aware that in iOS you can just copy an image from Safari and paste it into a message without having to download a local copy. I would really like this functionality on my phone so I don't end up with a bunch of silly pics in my gallery.
Anyone know a solution for this?

cheekzilla said:
So I was looking through my gallery today and noticed I have a ton of images downloaded or screen-shoted from Chrome that I used to send in MMS. I'm aware that in iOS you can just copy an image from Safari and paste it into a message without having to download a local copy. I would really like this functionality on my phone so I don't end up with a bunch of silly pics in my gallery.
Anyone know a solution for this?
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It depends on the browser. I can do that using puffin browser. Just long-press the image, tap Share, tap SMS app or Hangouts and choose the contact.
I think not possible with Chrome.

GUGUITOMTG4 said:
It depends on the browser. I can do that using puffin browser. Just long-press the image, tap Share, tap SMS app or Hangouts and choose the contact.
I think not possible with Chrome.
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That's what I figured. I've read that people with the stock Samsung TouchWiz browser could do this. Guess I need to try some different ones. Anyone have a recommended one that supports this function?

cheekzilla said:
That's what I figured. I've read that people with the stock Samsung TouchWiz browser could do this. Guess I need to try some different ones. Anyone have a recommended one that supports this function?
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I can recommend you UC browser that is faster and saves more battery than chrome and has that function. Puffin Browser also does it and looks like Chrome PC version (they have a free and paid version which supports flash)
There are many other you can try like the AOSP, Firefox, Opera and Dolphin, but I'm not using them and can't confirm if those have the feature.
You are free to explore.

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