When I save MMS attachments, they are automatically placed in the downloads directory on the SD card. I wish I could save MMS attachments with Astro file manager instead of using the built-in Gallery app. Then I could specify where I want to save the attachments, but I've cleared all the defaults, and it doesn't seem possible to use Astro because the messaging program automatcally uses Gallery (without giving you a choice), and the Gallery app saves all mms attachments to the downloads directory. Short of installing a third party messaging app like handcent, is there a way around this?
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is there anyway you can save attachments in gmail to the SD card through the app. this is driving me mad.
Pretty sure you have to Preview it, then save it.
when i try open a zip file using preview it just opens up my file manager then crashes..
Theres a free app called Blackmoon attach save lite that will do the trick..
My problem mostly is with the mail app. It never downloads the attachments. I always get "attachment is corrupt." But then I fwd it to gmail and open it right up.
I can't attach a video to my email using my gmail. After I type an email I click "attach" and it takes me to the Gallery but the videos don't show up. What's going on?
I've also tried attaching a video right after taking it but it says "file too large".
I can attach the same video using yahoo email.
Can anyone explain this to me? Thanks.
Wow, that is a weird one. Not sure if it's a gallery or a gmail bug, though. I'll confirm that videos in the camera folder in the gallery don't show when trying to attach from the gmail app, but videos I have in a synced Picasa album do.
I've just tested it a couple of different ways and both worked. Have you tried either of these?
1) Open the Gallery app, then tap the video you want to send, then select the Share button, then pick gmail. Gmail will open to a new email with the video attached.
2) Use a file explorer app (like Root Explorer) and do the same basic thing as in #1 - browse to, select and share to gmail.
I used test files up to 20mb in size. If you've tried one of these and it's telling you the file is too large, how large is the file? Have you validated that gmail allows attachments of that size?
distortedloop said:
I used test files up to 20mb in size. If you've tried one of these and it's telling you the file is too large, how large is the file? Have you validated that gmail allows attachments of that size?
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According to Google Help for gmail, the maximum file attachment size you can send through gmail is 25mb. That's probably your issue.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8770
distortedloop said:
According to Google Help for gmail, the maximum file attachment size you can send through gmail is 25mb. That's probably your issue.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8770
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You're right. So, is yahoo mail - file attachment limit is 25 MB.
I checked the size of the video I've been trying to attach - it is 6.17 MB. And I still can't attach this video when I select it from the gallery.
If I write an email first, and then select "attach" the video does not even show. Pictures do.
Anyone???
distortedloop said:
Wow, that is a weird one. Not sure if it's a gallery or a gmail bug, though. I'll confirm that videos in the camera folder in the gallery don't show when trying to attach from the gmail app, but videos I have in a synced Picasa album do.
I've just tested it a couple of different ways and both worked. Have you tried either of these?
1) Open the Gallery app, then tap the video you want to send, then select the Share button, then pick gmail. Gmail will open to a new email with the video attached.
2) Use a file explorer app (like Root Explorer) and do the same basic thing as in #1 - browse to, select and share to gmail.
I used test files up to 20mb in size. If you've tried one of these and it's telling you the file is too large, how large is the file? Have you validated that gmail allows attachments of that size?
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I did the first thing and I keep getting message " file too large" although it is only 6.17 MB.
How do you do the second thing - I would need step by step directions. But does it solve my problem?
Thanks!
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How do you exactly do that? Thanks.
The problem is that when i'm trying to save an MMS sent to me through a third party SMS app, it'll save the file as "null" or basically a file without the ".jpg" extension. When this happens the picture doesn't show up in any imaging viewing app. The only way to view it is to either attach the .jpg extension to it by renaming or by going into a file manager and "open as..."
When the file saved is 450-501KB, it'll save as null 75% of the time.
Anything higher or lower saves correctly 100% of the time.
To avoid this problem, I have to use Hangouts. It seems immune from this issue. Every other third party app, Chomp SMS, Handcent, Go SMS, Textra and Hello SMS has the problem.
I know for sure this issue happens on SlimKat ROM and AICP ROM with stock kernels and ElementalX/Franco kernels.
EDIT: Issue present on CarbonROM now too. Gonna test these ROMs again but with no apps installed other than the thirdy party app.
Recently I was searching for a way to send apk to my friend, via whatsapp but since its directly not possible, I was looking for workaround. All Google posts linked a extra app, that combines our other extension file with jpg, so that whatsapp sees that jpg to send it. After being sent, recipient needs that same app, to use it, to extract the original file what we intended to send..., Since This isn't effective solution, due to new documents sending feature in Whatsapp, I thought of way and it works well on latest 2.16.97 (as on May 26- 2016) and wanted to share it. This is so simple solution that any Android power user can easily think of...
1. Go to file explorer and change the original app's extension to "txt"
Example: if you want to send a calculator android app, then if app's name would be like "calculator.apk". Rename that to "calculator.txt"
*I have tried other document formats ppt csv pdf etc, none of them expect "txt" extension works, I didn't try "rtf"..
Note: Dont append ".txt" to original file like example "calculator.apk.txt". Whatsapp refuses to accept these...
2. Share that renamed file with extension "txt" to your friend (Can use Share file from file explorer or Go to Whatsapp->contact->attachment->Documents->Browse to renamed txt file location. Works both ways)
3. Whatsapp will send it and your friend will receive that file at sdcard/whatsapp/Whatsapp Documents
*The file can't be opened directly from whatsapp. If opened, only random characters will be seen..
4. Ask your friend to open File explorer and go to "sdcard/whatsapp/Whatsapp Documents" to spot your file. Then ask you friend to rename txt extension by original extension. Example: if calculator app is sent, "calculator.txt" should be renamed back as "calculator.apk"
5. Thats its!... Max file size of 16MB can be sent by this method...
Thanks for reading and give me a Thumbs up if this idea seems worthwhile to you...
I recently got root and was moving some apps to the sd card and accidentally deleted my documents app thinking it was the "Google Documents" app for text editing, when it was actually the default file explorer on the moto 3, android 6.0. This is pretty bad because a lot of apps direct me to this app (for instance to choose a backup file like in "reddit is fun"). The documents app then instantly crashes because it's not there. It also crashes randomly everyday.
Can I download an apk of the documents app somewhere? I already searched but couldn't find any. Does anyone maybe want to get an apk file from there documents app?
tl;dr: deleted documents app, need it back