Database Info

[Q] opening a pdf from an email

I have a LG Quantum and I am trying to open a plain pdf that is attached to an email. i am getting an error... "Can't open attachment: Oops, we're not sure what's wrong, but we're unable to open this file" I am just confused and don't know where to start. I am using the yahoo mail client built into wp7 please help

have you already installed adobe reader from the market place?

when i treid, i was taken to marketplace for adobe reader app.

k_aftab said:
when i treid, i was taken to marketplace for adobe reader app.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That is what you need.

I have adobe reader... I just recieved an other pdf and it opened. I am think it has to do with the character in the file name " ****** Schedule 12:18 - 12:24.pdf " ****** is sensitive information and i can't copy it but it is only alphanumeric. I am thinking might have something to do with the ":" or the spaces. could someone try duplicating that error with a space and a colon in the file name? if you do i can send an error report to microsoft and adobe about it

Bump... =)

It's probably due to the colon. It's not an allowed filename character in Windows systems since it's used as a drive letter separator (e.g., C:\). The space should not be a problem.
Sent from my SGH-i917 using Board Express

djca said:
It's probably due to the colon. It's not an allowed filename character in Windows systems since it's used as a drive letter separator (e.g., C:\). The space should not be a problem.
Sent from my SGH-i917 using Board Express
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That looks also horrible. So you cannot use the file because of bad name?!

hmm
same problem here.it's the filename(had to resend myself the email from pc)
any fix on this...or a place we can post this as a bug?

[Q] Own Kindle-Books on Phone

Is there any method (without sideload books with TouchXplorer in the Kindle-folder) to add own books to the Kindle-App?

nop i've been searching all day.

If you have a Kindle account on Amazon.com, you would go to the Manage Your Kindle page and add your phone to the list of authorized devices. Make sure you have the Kindle app loaded on you WP7 phone. If you dont have a kindle account, you can set one up on that page and start your reading experience.
I have already done this on my Focus and it is working fine, in addition to my Real Kindle.
Frank K

fkiehner said:
If you have a Kindle account on Amazon.com, you would go to the Manage Your Kindle page and add your phone to the list of authorized devices. Make sure you have the Kindle app loaded on you WP7 phone. If you dont have a kindle account, you can set one up on that page and start your reading experience.
I have already done this on my Focus and it is working fine, in addition to my Real Kindle.
Frank K
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think ur missing the point. I presume the OP wants his own ebooks which he's got from other sources to be available within the Kindle App. I'd also like this feature.

I believe I did miss the point. I am not aware of anyway to move others books into the reader. If the file manager works, try that but I believe that Kindle uses their own format for their books and non Kindle books may not work.
Keep us updated.

Kindle book sideload instructions
nvr mind you wanted to do it without sideloading Alternatively, you can email books to your Kindle for free through a Wi-Fi connection by emailing the .Mobi file format to [email protected] (replacing youraccount with your actual kindle account name).
This only works if you own an actual kindle as well. which is a bummer
I use sideloading and that works fine for me

The problem in your point ist that you need a "real" Kindle to have this mail-adress. I've no Kindle, I'm using the Kindle-WP7-App and Kindle for PC only. So I've no @free.kindle.com - adress.

Sideload a book with TouchXplorer
For everybody don't know how to sideload books: load the ebook (from gutenberg.org for example) in .mobi and mail it to yourself. Then download the attachment and try to open it. After that copy the .mobi-files with TouchXplorer or Advanced Explorer from "My Device/ApplicationData/Volatile/EmailAttachments/Attachments..." to "My Device/Applications/Data/48195FB4-...-...-...-.../Data/IsolatedStorage/kindle". But this process does only work, if you tried to open the file. If you don't WP7 won't copy the files in "EmailAttachments"; I don't know, if the "number" of the Kindle-folder is the same everytime.

Elerador said:
For everybody don't know how to sideload books: load the ebook (from gutenberg.org for example) in .mobi and mail it to yourself. Then download the attachment and try to open it. After that copy the .mobi-files with TouchXplorer from "My Device/ApplicationData/Volatile/EmailAttachments/Attachments..." to "My Device/Applications/Data/48195FB4-...-...-...-.../Data/IsolatedStorage/kindle". But this process does only work, if you tried to open the file. If you don't WP7 won't copy the files in "EmailAttachments"; I don't know, if the "number" of the Kindle-folder is the same everytime.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I was about to ask

I knew this ...
swordfish2009 said:
I was about to ask
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I knew ...

Elerador said:
For everybody don't know how to sideload books: load the ebook (from gutenberg.org for example) in .mobi and mail it to yourself. Then download the attachment and try to open it. After that copy the .mobi-files with TouchXplorer from "My Device/ApplicationData/Volatile/EmailAttachments/Attachments..." to "My Device/Applications/Data/48195FB4-...-...-...-.../Data/IsolatedStorage/kindle". But this process does only work, if you tried to open the file. If you don't WP7 won't copy the files in "EmailAttachments"; I don't know, if the "number" of the Kindle-folder is the same everytime.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the tip and it works. However when I do this method the Cover Art for the book is incorrect and instead the first Picture in the book is being shown instead. Any tips to correct?

Elerador said:
For everybody don't know how to sideload books: load the ebook (from gutenberg.org for example) in .mobi and mail it to yourself. Then download the attachment and try to open it. After that copy the .mobi-files with TouchXplorer from "My Device/ApplicationData/Volatile/EmailAttachments/Attachments..." to "My Device/Applications/Data/48195FB4-...-...-...-.../Data/IsolatedStorage/kindle". But this process does only work, if you tried to open the file. If you don't WP7 won't copy the files in "EmailAttachments"; I don't know, if the "number" of the Kindle-folder is the same everytime.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great stuff, clear instructions, thanks!

No, sorry. For this you gotta edit the .mobi files.

why don't you all just use Freda which is a free ebook app that allows you to read ebooks that you got from other sources well aslong as they are DRM free

I like the Kindle-App much more, but that's subjective.

Delete
Elerador said:
For everybody don't know how to sideload books: load the ebook (from gutenberg.org for example) in .mobi and mail it to yourself. Then download the attachment and try to open it. After that copy the .mobi-files with TouchXplorer or Advanced Explorer from "My Device/ApplicationData/Volatile/EmailAttachments/Attachments..." to "My Device/Applications/Data/48195FB4-...-...-...-.../Data/IsolatedStorage/kindle". But this process does only work, if you tried to open the file. If you don't WP7 won't copy the files in "EmailAttachments"; I don't know, if the "number" of the Kindle-folder is the same everytime.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Now im in the same folder and trying to delete the nameofbook.mobi file from the kindle folder using touchxplorer and i get an error
"Unable to delete file {0}"

Deleting Error
mayfly007 said:
Now im in the same folder and trying to delete the nameofbook.mobi file from the kindle folder using touchxplorer and i get an error
"Unable to delete file {0}"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, but that's a problem with Windows Phone 7. TouchXplorer and Advanced Explorer can't do this. But the easy thing is: Reinstall the Kindle-App. If you do this, the whole folder will be removed. But if you do this, you gotta recopy all of your books.

Elerador said:
Yeah, but that's a problem with Windows Phone 7. TouchXplorer and Advanced Explorer can't do this. But the easy thing is: Reinstall the Kindle-App. If you do this, the whole folder will be removed. But if you do this, you gotta recopy all of your books.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks. Done

timi22666 said:
why don't you all just use Freda which is a free ebook app that allows you to read ebooks that you got from other sources well aslong as they are DRM free
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for mentioning Freda! Two points to note:
1) Freda reads EPUB (also TXT and HTML) formats, but doesn't handle MOBI. So if you have an existing MOBI/Kindle book collection, you'll need to use various technical tricks to convert it into DRM free EPUB format.
2) There is a new version of Freda coming onto the MarketPlace in a few days, which offers some GUI and stability fixes, and performance improvements. Though I admit the thing still does look a bit like an engineering prototype .

Update
Jim Chapman said:
Thanks for mentioning Freda! Two points to note:
1) Freda reads EPUB (also TXT and HTML) formats, but doesn't handle MOBI. So if you have an existing MOBI/Kindle book collection, you'll need to use various technical tricks to convert it into DRM free EPUB format.
2) There is a new version of Freda coming onto the MarketPlace in a few days, which offers some GUI and stability fixes, and performance improvements. Though I admit the thing still does look a bit like an engineering prototype .
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
After the update, I'll test it again. If it's better then the old (the actual) version, I'll use it.

Polaris Office corrupting .doc files

I've found that if i import an ms .doc file into polaris, edit it and then transfer it back to my pc, i'm unable to open the file - i get an error "unexpected error occured while reading". I get the same result whether i open it in word, wordpad, open office etc.
tried this with a few docs, even tried an factory reset, but the problem still occurs. maybe it's just a bad install on my transformer but at the moment it makes polaris pretty much unusable - if i can't sync up my documents, or send them to other people to open on their computers, then it's pointless.
has anyone else noticed this?

alan77ss said:
I've found that if i import an ms .doc file into polaris, edit it and then transfer it back to my pc, i'm unable to open the file - i get an error "unexpected error occured while reading". I get the same result whether i open it in word, wordpad, open office etc.
tried this with a few docs, even tried an factory reset, but the problem still occurs. maybe it's just a bad install on my transformer but at the moment it makes polaris pretty much unusable - if i can't sync up my documents, or send them to other people to open on their computers, then it's pointless.
has anyone else noticed this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My PC is down right now, so I can't test, but I had edited a doc file that was emailed to me and sent it back without problems. Does this only happen when you edit an existing file or also with newly created docs?
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

alan77ss said:
I've found that if i import an ms .doc file into polaris, edit it and then transfer it back to my pc, i'm unable to open the file - i get an error "unexpected error occured while reading". I get the same result whether i open it in word, wordpad, open office etc.
tried this with a few docs, even tried an factory reset, but the problem still occurs. maybe it's just a bad install on my transformer but at the moment it makes polaris pretty much unusable - if i can't sync up my documents, or send them to other people to open on their computers, then it's pointless.
has anyone else noticed this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I couldn't get my PC to read a document I created and then transfered from the Transformer either. I could read it when I emailed it to myself and picked it back off of my email on the PC. Could be in the transfering?

DilloDroid said:
I couldn't get my PC to read a document I created and then transfered from the Transformer either. I could read it when I emailed it to myself and picked it back off of my email on the PC. Could be in the transfering?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
tested with one excel and one doc document, didn't have any problems viewing them on PC.

Thanks for the response.
Seems to be an issue just on edited files. So it might be that the files on the PC are somehow corrupted. But then i don't have a problem editing and sending docs on my PC - it's only once edited through polaris that there's a problem.
i noticed that when i open up a doc polaris prompts me to 'remove protection' - no idea what that's about as i don't protect the files. maybe it's something to do with that.
Pretty sure it's not the transfer methods, i've tried bluetooth,ftp, drag 'n drop etc...same results.

In my line of work I have come across some interesting information about older office files (doc,xls,ppt). There was an update for office that basically broke them, if you opened an older format file and saved it corrupted them. This same problem may have gone across to Polaris.
Does Polaris allow use of the newer format files(docx,xlsx,pptx)? If so this might be a way around the problem.

Well i tried creating a new document on my PC, edited it in polaris then transferred it back and had the same problem. can't really try other file formats (odt, rtf) as polaris doesn't appear to support them. i might try a quickinstall/refund of one of the other office apps and see if the problem is replicated.
incidentally i can open the editd documents on the docs2go viewer app and i can upload to google docs. so it might be that i have an ancient version of word, but then surely open office should be able to open it ?

I had edited a file for work last week using Polaris (document file with images, headers, etc... ), so I tried opening it on my office PC using Office Word 2007 and it opens and renders perfectly.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

Ok well the problem does seem to lie with polaris. i did a quick install/refund of quick office and was able to edit docs and view them on my pc with no problems.
i've got a feeling it's to do with the 'remove protection' prompt i get in polaris, didn't get that with quick office.
maybe it's just a bad install on my device as no one else seems to have the problem. I guess i'm gonna have to call up ASUS as polaris doesn't seem to offer any support on its site.

Same probs here. Gdocs let's me view but not edit. Kword crashes, libre office can't open.

alan77ss said:
Ok well the problem does seem to lie with polaris. i did a quick install/refund of quick office and was able to edit docs and view them on my pc with no problems.
i've got a feeling it's to do with the 'remove protection' prompt i get in polaris, didn't get that with quick office.
maybe it's just a bad install on my device as no one else seems to have the problem. I guess i'm gonna have to call up ASUS as polaris doesn't seem to offer any support on its site.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I got that same message on the file I edited, but what I did was save a copy and worked off the copy. Not sure what the protection was, but that's what I did and it worked with opening the file on a PC.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

EP2008 said:
I got that same message on the file I edited, but what I did was save a copy and worked off the copy. Not sure what the protection was, but that's what I did and it worked with opening the file on a PC.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just tried your method and it worked with one file but that didn't prompt me for copy protection, but the other file with protection still wouldn't open. also tried creating a couple of docs in polaris from scratch but they wouldn't open either. it's just far too unreliable,i can't risk using this for work.
kind of thinking, to hell with it, i'm gonna buy quick office, it may be a tener but at least it works and you can actually paste stuff into it from other apps, which polaris doesn't do.

Had exactly the same issue, could write things / edit but once i saved it.... nothing would open it. Compounded by the known issue that you can't copy n paste from polaris (why!?).
The work around I use (while considering what office app to buy) is to send to google docs.
In view mode (not edit mode) click the menu and send to google docs (you'll need to have the google docs app installed first obv. - it then imports it and you can save from google docs, or email a link to the doc.
Hope this helps.
(long time reader first time poster)

With further testing I've found older versions of MS Word and Open Office won't open files edited on Polaris - Newer versions of MS Word will.
Can anyone else test and confirm this?

I tried a trial version of the newer word and was able to open up documents edited in Polaris - but it flagged up a security warning teling me it might be unsafe to do so.
But these were older documents writtten in an older version of word so maybe that has something to do with it. It might be that Polaris isn't handling older word documents properly.

I've been using Polaris Office for school work. Any file created in or edited with Polaris Office is seen by LibreOffice as outright corrupt. Can't open it at all. I tried opening the file on the school's computers with Word (probably the latest version) and it prompted me to open the file in "Protected mode" informing me that the file could possibly damage my computer (I assume they mean it could contain malicious code or something). Seems ASUS needs to get some bug reports about this.

Yep, exactly same issue... Lucky I got a backup of the files cause, only Polaris can read them!... sucks

Hello. I am using the Endnote X5 for my thesis and it makes some automatic arrangements on doc file. When I transfer the file to my Asus, polaris reads it. But back to my PC, not! So I realized that the doc files that contain plain text doesn't make any problem with polaris.

Possible Solution
I have had the same problem.
I could still open the document on my Android smartphone but not on my computer. I am using an old version of Office 2000. My android had 2 office suites that would read the office document. Polaris Office and OfficeSuite. Polaris would not seem to save it in any other format but Office Suite let me re save it in docx format. I then synced with my desktop and was able to open the docx file with Office 2000- though you need to install Microsoft's free file converter to do that.
I use MyPhone Explorer to sync between Android and desktop. I think the issue is associated with Polaris rather than MyPhoneExplorer as I have no other problems with that. I did wonder if Polaris had changed the format to docx without changing the postscript but just changing it to filename.docx did not make any difference so the full conversion seems to be the solution.

[Q] Is it possable to manually move documents to my phone ?

Is it me, or is downloading your documents from the "cloud" a pain in the a$$ half the time ?
I needed to move over 2 13 mb PDF files and 20 min later I still could not access them, I would get errors and I had no choice besides turning on Wi-FI to get the files to read. Even after they are downloaded (the PDF icon says "phone") I select it and get an error "Invalid file path" this is with Adobe's WP7 app.
Is it even possable, with the loads of hacks that is available for Windows Phone 7 to copy/sync documents (Word, Excel, PDF, etc) from a local computer to a Windows Phone 7 device and be able to access them from my phone ?
I know it was not possable a while ago but, now ? Is there any hacks to just have a drag and drop into a folder that syncs with my Phone (does anyone remember the old Breefcase ?) ?
Thanks !

its probably that the adobe reader doesn't support SkyDrive and needs an update. u can try emailing those PDF files to urself and then downloading them.

eric12341 said:
its probably that the adobe reader doesn't support SkyDrive and needs an update. u can try emailing those PDF files to urself and then downloading them.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
As that is possable, that didn't answer the question.
Is it possable NOW to sync documents with a PC at this time or is the only method "cloud"/email based ?

The Adobe Reader app is pretty buggy. Restart your phone and the app will work.

DavidinCT said:
Is it possable NOW to sync documents with a PC at this time or is the only method "cloud"/email based ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nope. Cloud/email only
You can use this tool to get them onto your device, but Office won't recognise that they're on the device, so you won't be able to open them.

[Q] How add epub books to HTC's Reader and my shelf

Hi....
I am not sure this is the right forum for this but I would like to know if anyone solved or can tell me how to put my epub books so they show in HTC's Reader.
I live in China and have a little bit of problem to get paperback books I want to read. I got lots of epub books but the reader only shows some of them and not even the same ones that been showing before.
Is there any directory in the phone I should put them? Tried to put some in the directory system/etc because I found the original books there but still not luck.
Would really like to know how to do it. I know epub works so can't be that most be some other thing that I need to do.
Anyway all suggestions and help would be appreciated.
Rainbow86

Put your epub files on your SD card in a directory called "Digital Editions". They will then show up in the HTC Reader application

Rumball said:
Put your epub files on your SD card in a directory called "Digital Editions". They will then show up in the HTC Reader application
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Mine are in a folder called "eBooks" and the reader app imported them no problem.
Unsure as to if it does a scan of the SD card or if the files need to be in a specifically named folder (either "digital editions" or "eBooks" or perhaps others also)

I have this problem. Let Someone please help
Windows Mobile also makes it possible.

Rumball said:
Put your epub files on your SD card in a directory called "Digital Editions". They will then show up in the HTC Reader application
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i tried adding various books on my sd card to both the digital edition and the ebooks but the reader didnt read, instead message no application found to open this file?