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I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
I don't have my phone yet and I've used WinMo in the past, so I can't directly help answer your question. But have you tried using Dropbox as another way of getting the same thing done? I think it has an android client. You should just be able to save the files in a certain folder on your computer and they automatically sync to whatever other devices you add the account to (including your phone).
derek4484 said:
I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
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You can't.
Try opening gmail in the Web Browser, then you can do it....
Get dropbox from the market and install it on you computer for easy OTA file transfers. Installs in seconds, works well and includes 2gb of storage for free. Also a good way to backup update.zips and .apks without having to keep them on the phone.
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derek4484 said:
I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
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I found that by configuring the internal mail application (the one at your home screen) as your mail client instead of the gmail app will allow you to save attachments
You can't download certain attachments.
If you want to do that, navigate to mail.google.com, login and download the attachment.
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derek4484 said:
I guess this may be a silly question. But if someone sends me an email with an attachment to my gmail account, I know I can click the "Preview" button and preview it. The phone will download it and play it. But how can i just make it download the attachment and save it to my sdcard?? Like I want to email myself a couple of mp3's then save them to my sdcard and use them as ringtones, or do the same with jpegs and use them as wallpaper. That way I dont have to be at home to plug my phone into my computer to do file transfers.
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i'll have to check, but in the gmail app i get the option to preview or download. i cant seem to get the preview to work, but download works fine.
Actually, you can download them. In the market there is an app called Blackmoon. Get it. When you hit preview, it will open a window asking what you'd like to do. You do have to type in a name and ext for it though.
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Upgraded to HC 3.2.1. No complaints. Like the new Supernote app. Just wondering why it and all the other note apps in the market have an upload option to dropbox, google docs, sugarsync, etc, but when you try to upload it says that feature is not working yet (or something similar). I've tried all of the tablet note apps and they all give you the same message, uploading ability, but won't work yet. Supernotes is the same way. What's up with this? Must be something in Android that isn't yet available. All the developers have put the feature in their app, but waiting on the technology to catch up to implement. Frustrating cause I love the Supernote app, but really need to upload to take advantage of cloud storage. My workaround is to use QuickOffice HD which handles uploads to Dropbox, Sugarsync, and Google Docs. Works great, but is more for documents and not notes.
That's strange.
I've never had a problem with any of the note taking apps saving to dropbox.
I just did a supernote test and a paint note and a regular note uploaded to drop box just fine.
might be a dumb quest but do you have qdocs app on your tab? Others have had this prob but also did not know you needed to have the app on the tab for the upload to work.
Are you referring to Google docs?
I don't know what qdocs is....I don't have that loaded on the TF.
No problems sending Supernotes to Dropbox here. Sends it as a JPG. Sends to Google Docs just fine too.
Would be nice to have background web sync of supernotes, but the Android based Sharing is great for the moment.
This app is a real product differentiator... I hope Asus have some more planned.
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Are you referring to Google docs?
I don't know what qdocs is....I don't have that loaded on the TF.
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I think what he means is, do you have the apps for evernote, dropbox etc installed on the tablet, as the share to function wont work unless you have the apps for the options installed.
Regarding Supernotes: I tested again. What I find is you can upload a .jpg file but not a text file. It says that the text upload feature is not available yet. Such as, save the note as a .docx file and try to upload. It will not work. So, if you got text document files to upload, then what am I doing wrong??
I need text file upload for work stuff. .jpg does me no good in sharing work file notes between computers. I use the TF to take notes in many work related meetings. The text format is most needed for mobility.
Yes, I have Dropbox, Sugarsync, Google Docs, etc. loaded on my TF. I have yet to find any note app that will upload a text based note to any of these formats. Am I missing something? Also, what is "qdocs"? I can't find that app on the market.
Thanks.
sorry for the confusion...yes i meant Google docs
I can upload as text file tho on mine....Google docs.
EDIT..my bad that was a doc I only used keyboard on in supernote and it was evernote which it uploaded as a txt to.
Thanks for clarifying.
I only use drop box... no google docs.
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!
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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.
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@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.
Ok i have a 100gb Dropbox account.
Is there a way to hack or edit the phone setting so that when i download an app that it does not store on my SDcard but is stored directly to my dropbox account, also any other download Music, Pics, documents etc...
anyone have any ideas.
let me know
Thx
rinnycoop121 said:
Ok i have a 100gb Dropbox account.
Is there a way to hack or edit the phone setting so that when i download an app that it does not store on my SDcard but is stored directly to my dropbox account, also any other download Music, Pics, documents etc...
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You mean, so it uploads to Dropbox and then removes the file from your phone? I've never heard of something that would do that.
You can use Dropsync to make your phone act like the desktop version of Dropbox, i.e., whatever you put into a specific folder will automatically sync to a folder on Dropbox.
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You mean, so it uploads to Dropbox and then removes the file from your phone? I've never heard of something that would do that.
You can use Dropsync to make your phone act like the desktop version of Dropbox, i.e., whatever you put into a specific folder will automatically sync to a folder on Dropbox.
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Nice Thx
I can easily attach a PDF to a draft gmail from drive using my galaxy nexus on 4.3 android. I can no longer do this since upgrading to the nexus 5?
I click attach in gmail, browse to drive, but my PDFs are now all greyed out on this new phone. Only images allowed. I really need this functionality. Any help very much appreciated. Thanks.
mcgon1979 said:
I can easily attach a PDF to a draft gmail from drive using my galaxy nexus on 4.3 android. I can no longer do this since upgrading to the nexus 5?
I click attach in gmail, browse to drive, but my PDFs are now all greyed out on this new phone. Only images allowed. I really need this functionality. Any help very much appreciated. Thanks.
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I have the same issue. You can't attach any thing other than images from a cloud service like Google drive using the Gmail app. Attaching local files that are on the phone works. This new integration with Drive has broken this.
Thanks for replying Kayno. I wasn't sure if it was just me doing something wrong.
A workaround is to open the PDF using drive and then save it to the phone, them use a file manager to attach it.
It was much easier to attach direct from drive though. Hopefully the app developers are on it.
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Thanks for replying Kayno. I wasn't sure if it was just me doing something wrong.
A workaround is to open the PDF using drive and then save it to the phone, them use a file manager to attach it.
It was much easier to attach direct from drive though. Hopefully the app developers are on it.
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Hope they fix it as I do like the new file picker integrated within gmail but that's no good if we cant attach any files other than images and videos.
Another work around is to attach your drive account to a file manager like Solid Explorer which works very well with all cloud accounts like Box, drive and dropbox. Save your file from there to your phone and then share it as a gmail attachment. I know this is also not ideal