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(REQUEST)Two different app ideas: Skydrive sync Single Messenger

I have two ideas I would like to put out there for the awesome developers here at XDA. I have searched for these and have not really seen either.
Skydrive Sync/File Explorer
We have MS MyPhone, which has a measly 200mb of storage, but MS gives you 25gb with your Hotmail account with the skydrive. I have searched and the best thing I have found is the Live Mesh, which is only in Beta and doesn't have devices yet. It would be sweet if someone could create a sync/file explorer program with skydrive so that you could access any information from the skydrive and even better would be auto sync. Kind of creating a RAID setup with the phone and a folder on the skydrive
Single Messenger
I think HTC did a good job integrating social networks into the contacts, but it would be nice to have a tab in Manila or under the contact that would list all contact from one person on one page with an icon to indicate what communication it is. I.E. get emails/sms/aim/gtalk/ircq/facebook/twitter/myspace/etc all in one screen from that one person.
Perhaps I am asking too much, but I figure I throw it out there in hopes someone creates it. Either way, thanks to everyone here for your answers and creations!

I especialy liked the Skydrive project idea. I googled and saw that there is even an opensource .net api available at codeplex. So it would not be very difficult to start. I would love to develop this app, but I am too busy with other projects including LateReader.

They are both great ideas; I'd love to see either one get implemented.

SolusCado said:
They are both great ideas; I'd love to see either one get implemented.
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We should be looking into developing these ideas. It would be great to do minor changes to office docos

Facebook albums on Android gallery. Possible?

Today I was playing with Picasa albums on the Android gallery and was curious if there are Facebook APIs that would allow the gallery to display facebook albums similar to how they display Picasa albums. (run on sentence?)
I recall reading in the past that facebook opened up APIs for displaying photo albums outside of FB, but I was not sure if anyone has thought of adding this functionaliy.
If it is not possible to add to Gallery, is there another photo program besides the built in FB app that will pull FB photos?

The new MyTouch Slide does this.
I'm not a dev or anything, so I couldn't tell you how it's done though.

hoyter said:
Today I was playing with Picasa albums on the Android gallery and was curious if there are Facebook APIs that would allow the gallery to display facebook albums similar to how they display Picasa albums. (run on sentence?)
I recall reading in the past that facebook opened up APIs for displaying photo albums outside of FB, but I was not sure if anyone has thought of adding this functionaliy.
If it is not possible to add to Gallery, is there another photo program besides the built in FB app that will pull FB photos?
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It's there already in Sense. Get an Android made by HTC all you'll be able to do it. It's cool!

I'm considering (if I can find a little time) to extend the gallery app to allow it to be extended to support additional sources of networked albums. Gallery uses android data sources to get the images to and has a class which concatenates two data sources, one for local files, the other for picasa. Extending this to concatenate any number of providers and querying the android system for them would allow this to be extensible.
My goal is to add support for gallery3 (gallery.menalto.com), but facebook, flikr or any other photo service with a suitable API could be added.

tuxfoo said:
I'm considering (if I can find a little time) to extend the gallery app to allow it to be extended to support additional sources of networked albums. Gallery uses android data sources to get the images to and has a class which concatenates two data sources, one for local files, the other for picasa. Extending this to concatenate any number of providers and querying the android system for them would allow this to be extensible.
My goal is to add support for gallery3 (gallery.menalto.com), but facebook, flikr or any other photo service with a suitable API could be added.
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Interested in the Gallery3 support as well.

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Interested in the Gallery3 support as well.
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Great! I'll PM you if I ever get around to working on it and have something usable for you to test.
I did look into it a little bit more and it looks like things are not abstracted quite as well as I had originally thought, which means its a lot more work.

There was an app for the G1 (at least that was how it was labelled, worked fine on my Magic) that worked on Gallery2. Since Gallery3 is a re-write, I doubt it works anymore. I think I found it in the Market.

Morenicano said:
It's there already in Sense. Get an Android made by HTC all you'll be able to do it. It's cool!
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Thank you for pointing this out!! I had no idea! I freaking love this phone! If it could give bj's and make sandwiches I think I'd marry it. ;-)

[Q] How do I remove synced photo folders from Skydrive?

Somehow, I have folders with photos on my PC, which have synced to Skydrive photos, which are now synced to my WP7 (Focus). I wish to discontinue this. How do I remove synced photo folders from Skydrive?
Also, when I open “Pictures” on my WP7, the device seems to randomly pick photos to display as wallpaper. I don’t want this to happen with certain folders. Is there a way to exclude specific photo folders on my device to be used as wallpaper in “Pictures”?
Thanks,
Dave

To remove the skydrive pictures, you need to login to your live account (live.com).
for the second query, go to the pictures hub and long tap on the top left where it says pictures. you will get 2 options, change background and change it for me. choose the picture you like in change background

Awesome! This will flat-out work to stop the “Pictures” app from using photos not of my choosing as wallpaper. The pictures in question however are not Skydrive photos, but reside in folders I have synced via Zune. I would like to be able to select specific folders from which wallpaper could not be selected, but this is certainly a solution to my dilemma.
I actually desire to remove all Skydrive photo folders from Skydrive and thus, my WP7, but I can’t figure out how to do this.
Thank you for your help,
Dave

I'm guessing that you want to remove the pictures that you synced to skydrive using your phone:? If so, you can logon to skydrive.live.com and remove them

rhn said:
I'm guessing that you want to remove the pictures that you synced to skydrive using your phone:? If so, you can logon to skydrive.live.com and remove them
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No Sir, not so much. I want to remove all of my photo folders from Skydrive. I don’t want the folders to show-up in my Skydrive. More importantly, I don’t want any folders entitled “from windows live” to show-up when I go to “Pictures” on my WP7. It makes absolutely no difference to me if I achieve this using my lap-top or my WP7. I wish to use only Zune to sync photos to my WP7.
Thanks,
Dave

XATAGuy said:
No Sir, not so much. I want to remove all of my photo folders from Skydrive. I don’t want the folders to show-up in my Skydrive. More importantly, I don’t want any folders entitled “from windows live” to show-up when I go to “Pictures” on my WP7. It makes absolutely no difference to me if I achieve this using my lap-top or my WP7. I wish to use only Zune to sync photos to my WP7.
Thanks,
Dave
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Hello,
I dont think you can remove the folders saying Skydrive camera roll and "from windows live"..

I think Camera roll is a default. I want to remove the photo folders I have added to Skydrive.
Thanks

XATAGuy said:
I think Camera roll is a default. I want to remove the photo folders I have added to Skydrive.
Thanks
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Have you tried logging into your skydrive account at skydrive.live.com? you can delete photos/folders from there. Hope this helps..

rhn said:
Have you tried logging into your skydrive account at skydrive.live.com? you can delete photos/folders from there. Hope this helps..
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How please?

XATAGuy said:
How please?
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Click on the folder, then click more, then delete

Awesome! For some reason, I was missing or not considering the "more" option. I sincerely appreciate your help on this
Thanks a million!!!!!!

Photos from PC
I'm not sure if this discussion is finished but here is my experience. Whenever I view photos on my PC and then later do a sync of my WP 7 phone all the photos in the directory I was looking at sync to the phone. Why? Then I try to delete them off the phone and they delete from my PC--aaaah

Same problem i deleted all photos on windows live/skydrive account, but the album still with the same pictures in the phone...

3 Questions about WP7

i got 3 questions about wp7:
1) is there any way to add mp3s, docs, and videos without syncing into zune?
2) is is possible to change the file system in wp7 to make it like wp 6.5 where you can add files wherever you wanted?
3) will the next wp7 update (mango) change the file system so that we can add files without zune, like in wp 6.5?

koolxx said:
i got 3 questions about wp7:
1) is there any way to add mp3s, docs, and videos without syncing into zune?
2) is is possible to change the file system in wp7 to make it like wp 6.5 where you can add files wherever you wanted?
3) will the next wp7 update (mango) change the file system so that we can add files without zune, like in wp 6.5?
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1. no
2. no
3. no

Well, the third question, it's sure yet. They said 500 feautures. We really don't know.
But take it as a 'no'.
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BTW, this was just released:
http://www.wpcentral.com/tonido-app-spotlight
Maybe this can help you.

And the answer to 1. is more "not really".
You can put documents on the phone without Zune. Email. But, no, not really.

Casey_boy said:
And the answer to 1. is more "not really".
You can put documents on the phone without Zune. Email. But, no, not really.
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in that vein, you could also add files to your skydrive and access them on the phone without a zune sync, but I don't think that is what the OP has in mind.

munkeyphyst said:
in that vein, you could also add files to your skydrive and access them on the phone without a zune sync, but I don't think that is what the OP has in mind.
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I don't think you can save them on your phone that way though? Whereas you can save the documents from an email.
But, yes, I was just being a bit of an arse lol.

mikeeam said:
BTW, this was just released:
http://www.wpcentral.com/tonido-app-spotlight
Maybe this can help you.
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hi, mikeeam. does this app physically sync the phone with the pc? i hope its not one of those apps that you sync over wifi.

koolxx said:
i got 3 questions about wp7:
1) is there any way to add mp3s, docs, and videos without syncing into zune?
2) is is possible to change the file system in wp7 to make it like wp 6.5 where you can add files wherever you wanted?
3) will the next wp7 update (mango) change the file system so that we can add files without zune, like in wp 6.5?
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1. Yes with Mango via SkyDrive
2. Only of it's software unlocked
3. Nope

day2die said:
1. Yes with Mango via SkyDrive
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This is definitely not true for Music and Videos. You may be able to play them, but they won't be added to your library (based on the currently announced features). Not sure about the skydrive support for office, haven't paid much attention.

To the OP... I been a windows mobile man since year dot and initially didn't like the idea of zune sync (al a itunes) but it does have advantages for me... Like always having a full-set backup of all my music and vids on the PC...
Now, I'm completely sold on WP7 and realise some of its quirkiness is necessary to have such a slick OS...
I sync contacts and calendar via gmail which is even easier than outlook and activesync...

For me these lacks were one of the reasons why I left WP7 as my main OS.
Especially when travelling alot to different countires. Skydrive is nice but cannot be taken as the main sync option. AFAIK you can't store media from SkyDrive, just docs.
If MS would be more sensible to collect all their services together it would be awesome, but we'll have a mess instead. To sync all the necessary files to your device you will always need Zune & Skydrive together what is quite silly.
Anyway you all talk about something what WILL happen. For another half a year you have no way to put some files on your phone other than emailing it to yourself.

No Billy Goats here Dominstry, move along
Sent from my Focus using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

munkeyphyst said:
No Billy Goats here Dominstry, move along
Sent from my Focus using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
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Have no idea what's that.

doministry said:
For me these lacks were one of the reasons why I left WP7 as my main OS.
Especially when travelling alot to different countires. Skydrive is nice but cannot be taken as the main sync option. AFAIK you can't store media from SkyDrive, just docs.
If MS would be more sensible to collect all their services together it would be awesome, but we'll have a mess instead. To sync all the necessary files to your device you will always need Zune & Skydrive together what is quite silly.
Anyway you all talk about something what WILL happen. For another half a year you have no way to put some files on your phone other than emailing it to yourself.
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I have all my documents and pictures on SkyDrive. Sharepoint keeps my office files and DropBox most of my personal ones. Music syncs from Zune thru my laptop and I have yet to feel the need to use a file manager/USB connection.
I have adapted and love the new concept.

[Q] Attaching file to emails

Long time WM user, fairly new WP7.5 user.
Love the platform and for the most part, don't miss WM at all.
Except, I used to be able to attach files to my emails like MP3 and Wav files but I have yet to see a way to do that under WP7.5.
I have searched and scrolled through this section to see if I could find something however nothing really addressed the question. Based on some of the threads I read, it looks like this cannot be done.
Can it? Does anyone know if it is coming out in a relase fix?
Thanks,
Rick

The EmailComposeTask class does not support attachments which is ridiculous and it's been a long time complaint. Microsoft doesn't seem to bothered by it and I haven't heard anything about them supporting it. I think it's part of their strategy to get devs to start using the cloud more.
Just noticed this wasn't the developer forum. My post is development related and doesn't really apply to question.

I agree about the cloud but you still need to be able to send a link in an expeditious way. Openning windowslive and finding the folder/file and then specifying share and sending an email is a PIA.
I do like the cloud for my contacts and other stuff since it is not taking space on my phone. I like it until I travel into the boonies of Texas and want to make a call but the contact list is not there cause there is not connection to 4G, 3G but to whatever was there before God created cell phones. Not looking forward to that day.

For most things it is done under the application. For example, in office word, you can hit share and choose the email account. Same within most apps. Zune though does not have this option. probably because your not supposed to pirate them to your friends.

Yet more prof that Windows Phone sucks and Windows Mobile still rules. What a damn shame. I tried to email someone and attach my resume but couldn't I had to go through the stupid office hub to do it, what a bunch of B.S. And they wonder why their sales suck ass.

ROCOAFZ said:
For most things it is done under the application. For example, in office word, you can hit share and choose the email account. Same within most apps. Zune though does not have this option. probably because your not supposed to pirate them to your friends.
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You're not trying to imply that I would send MP3's that are illegal are you?
Just kidding.
Actually they are my own files and sometimes ring tones that I created and want to share.
As for the resume email... kind of hard to attach a file to an email when it is not located on your phone. I am liking the fact that the cloud has the files and not the phone. There just needs to be a simple way to access and send it. Like Sinister1, I would prefer to have it attached to an email that I authored like we have been doing every since email allowed attachments rather than going to the file on the cloud and sharing it with an individual.

Is there any way to extract files from our phones and store them in Dropbox or Skydrive? for example pdf files or mp3.

Office files will sync on SkyDrive, or if opened on the phone (from email or web) can be saved to SkyDrive or to the phone itself. In either case, you can then send them as attachments (but only that one file at a time) in email.
Sadly, though, that's the only way I know of to send email attachments other than pictures. Microsoft really needs to either add the API for attachments, or they need to allow Outlook Mobile to open files from the public parts of your phone.
Irony-mode: Zune (the hardware, all the way fromt he HD to the original 30GB model) allowed sending files by WiFi - a feature MS has not bothered to add to WP7 even though I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be difficult (both run on some variant of CE, both have WiFi, the HD even used a touch interface similar to the phone...). Instead, forget sending music, forget sending video, and you can barely send a Word doc!

GoodDayToDie said:
Office files will sync on SkyDrive, or if opened on the phone (from email or web) can be saved to SkyDrive or to the phone itself. In either case, you can then send them as attachments (but only that one file at a time) in email.
Sadly, though, that's the only way I know of to send email attachments other than pictures. Microsoft really needs to either add the API for attachments, or they need to allow Outlook Mobile to open files from the public parts of your phone.
Irony-mode: Zune (the hardware, all the way fromt he HD to the original 30GB model) allowed sending files by WiFi - a feature MS has not bothered to add to WP7 even though I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be difficult (both run on some variant of CE, both have WiFi, the HD even used a touch interface similar to the phone...). Instead, forget sending music, forget sending video, and you can barely send a Word doc!
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Is there another way to extract pdfs, zips or mp3s of our phones even through data cable?

My PDF files are adding up. Whenever I open up Adobe reader, the files are pilling up. I know I can press and hold on any one of them and delete the file but some I want on my PC and this just is too funky.

@Rickgig, what phone do you have? Some WP7 devices are able to use apps that will access the phone and move/copy/transfer files.
Alternatively, don't you have other copies of those PDFs? I mean, they got onto the phone from somewhere, so wouldn't it be easier to get them from there? Then you could safely delete the unneeded ones off the phone.

GoodDayToDie said:
@Rickgig, what phone do you have? Some WP7 devices are able to use apps that will access the phone and move/copy/transfer files.
Alternatively, don't you have other copies of those PDFs? I mean, they got onto the phone from somewhere, so wouldn't it be easier to get them from there? Then you could safely delete the unneeded ones off the phone.
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I have a Titan with AT&T.
You're right... I can get them from someplace else. They are mostly menu's from restaurants but then they are business documents too. I have since learned to upload them from my PC to Skydrive and access them there.
There's a work around for everything I just wanted some of the WM features to be here. Like the file that prompted me to start this thread in the first place. My son did some work on his car and took a short video of the results and MMS'd to me. I can forward it to others but that is about it. Can't save it, can't email it to myself... if I deleted the text thread, it's gone.