Hi
I've searched for a solution to this problem and cannot find it. It either seems to work for people or it doesn't. As I understand it since a Gmail update at the end of last year this should work. So why isn't it for me?
The problem is when I receive a calendar invite in my email, on my old Galaxy S3 it would need to open the ICS in Calendar for me to be able to accept it. This was not ideal but it worked and I was never able to improve it. In my new Oneplus, it's even worse - if the invite is from Outlook I just get a blank email, with no ICS let alone yes/no options. From Google Calendar, I get weblinks and it takes me to a browser version of the calendar.
I cannot get my head round this, how can it be that the iPhone app by default has simple yes/no/maybe buttons that work in the email without jumping to any other app, but on Google's own phone it seems to have a problem with such a basic feature?
Please help, driving me mad! :crying:
Cheers
No-one?
OK, so can someone help me out with how this SHOULD work?
Here's what I see in the iOS app with an invite from Outlook:-
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And here is what I see in Android:-
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If the invite is from gmail, iOS works exactly the same but Android shows up like this, with weblinks:-
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Is this the same for everyone? If you see something different can you please post it and help me work out why I see something different? Surely Google's own OS should be able to handle calendar invites at least as well as it's app on iOS?!
Thanks!
Slightly shocked that not one person has replied with simply whether they see the same as me or not. Guess I'll have to go elsewhere
Same Here
nickjwall said:
Slightly shocked that not one person has replied with simply whether they see the same as me or not. Guess I'll have to go elsewhere
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In the past, I had "Invitation Plugin" installed to be able to add the invitations to my calendar. But now, since there is no attachment or .ics or anything, even that doesn't work. I get the same "blank" emails as you. This is very frustrating as my wife and I use invitations for everything. She sends them, and I have to get to a PC to open my Gmail to see (and accept) the invitations. Very frustrating when this used to work.
I hope somebody has some answer/workaround for this.
I found a workaround. There's an app called Cal by any.do. It's just a calendar app, but, it does have an indicator/filter that shows pending invitations and allows you to accept/deny and notifies the meeting chair. This is mildly better than searching the entire calendar trying to find the pending invite.
So, when the email comes in, pop over to Cal and do the needful. Not perfect, but better than where I was before.
Thanks for replying, nice to know I'm not alone in this issue Yeah me and the wife do exactly the same
Yep, Cal seems to provide a workaround of sorts, thanks for sharing it. Seems utterly nuts that Google should make their own solutions work better on a competitive platform to their own. Very very poor
If anyone else has any solutions or comments would love to hear them
Cheers
same problem here
I'm running the latest gmail update (v 5.0) on KitKat and I get the same problem - google calendar invites present a links only that take me to a webpage. on gmail for my iPad get big easy buttons to use. How is it possible that the experience is better on iOS than Android?
Same problem here. Confirmed that it is because the invitation is from Outlook. Why is there no solution? Seems like the bug is on the Android Gmail client.
Still no solution available in June - as far as I can tell - is this some kind of spat with Microsoft?
It's a real PITA whatever it is...not what I expected running the latest software versions available.
nickjwall said:
No-one?
OK, so can someone help me out with how this SHOULD work?
And here is what I see in Android:-
View attachment 2957496
Is this the same for everyone? If you see something different can you please post it and help me work out why I see something different? Surely Google's own OS should be able to handle calendar invites at least as well as it's app on iOS?!
Thanks!
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I am facing the similar issue. My problem is bigger - I get at least 30-35 outlook exchange invites on my gmail account and my Gmail App shows just the emails (it doesn't show the date and time) which is sad. All the time, I have to check the calendar app, open each invite / meeting requests and select - Yes / No / Maybe from the Calendar. I so wish that the Android Gmail App comes up with a simple feature (just like you have shown for iOS Gmail App.) so that at least we will know that the email which we have received is an actual Outlook Meeting invite and not a standard email. Can somebody please contact Google Android department and raise this issue? I have tried to report this on the official Google App. Gmail forum but no luck on their response so far.
Again, thanks for bringing this up here on XDA.
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Hi,
Sorry to open a new topic but I've googled during hours and didn't find a response.
As some of you know, android 2.1 has a very annoying bug: It's unable to open eml files.
This prevent to read attached or forwarded exchange emails (*.eml files).
Does froyo solve this?
Can someone having a Froyo device test this ? (just attach an email to another one in exchange and send it to yourself) ie do a forward but with mail attached, not embedded
Google just said "enhanced exchange support for froyo"
I know that Touchdown for exchange can do this, but I would prefer a built in solution to propose Android as a real enterprise alternative.
Thanks a lot !
And this is a busniess phone?
I hope they get this working as this OS is useless to our company. Granted Google doesn't care about a small 15 person company but I would love to start using my Evo for work and have to carry around my old Treo 800w just so I can read a forwarded email.
Yes I know the work around is to just have them reply and change who it's going to but I can't do that for everyone that emails me because Google can't get this fixed.
nobody having a 2.2 can test this please ?
I have an EVO, upgraded to 2.2 yesterday. Opening .eml attachments still isn't working. Make sure you post a comment and vote for this bug on google project site:
goo.gl/I5DF
I can confirm the issue.
We just deployed a bunch of EVO's and some are having this issues and other are not.
When you forward an attachment lets say a .wav file it repackages the entire message and text into a .eml that the EVO can't open.
You can open it on the desktop.
All are running 2.2.
Damn sad if you ask me. Maybe it's a Microsoft thing and they need licensing to open a .eml extension.
Wow this is a huge issue for us that we were not aware of.
To clarify the eml format is only used when you forward a message with an attachment from the Android device when an exchange server is used. Forwarded messages from outlook are fine.
Apparently this has been an unresolved issue for some time.
Can post the link to but do a search for eml and android.
Looks like you can control this behavior in Exchange.
Anyone else know of a solution?
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4760
Doesn't seem to be a proprietary MS file format. See: http://filext.com/faq/decode_eml_files.php
A dev would probably be able to create an app to read these files pretty easily. Unfortunately, I'm not a coder.
Hi guys. Sorry if my English is not good. I would like to recommend an app I came across.
Basically it's an app that can allow you send SMS to any contact on your Android phone's Google Contacts via your Chrome browser. There's even an extension for chrome to do that.
Meanwhile, that's not the only thing it can do. You can receive SMS via Google Talk and reply the SMS to the last person who sent you the message. The app requires Android 2.2 and above as it makes use of Google's C2DM.
I'm sorry, I do not have enough posts to attach links here. But do search for (Push Contacts) on the Android Market and give it a try. It's only 81kB in size!
For your reference, the developer's name is Ngo Minh Nam.
enjoy!
That is pretty slick. Only problem is that it doesn't find my son's contact info after importing my contacts. Nor does it find it when I use the extension to add him as a contact. Once they get kinks like that worked out though, it will be pretty cool. I like having the SMS conversation show up both on my phone and on my computer. Would make it real convenient to start a conversation in one place and finish it in the other. And my son, who I was testing this with, could not tell that I was switching from the phone to the PC and back to the phone. It was all coming from "me" from what he could tell.
it worked for a few days a while ago, then it stopped working, decided to give it another try; the website is now working, but the gtalk account is messed up: I'm getting "oops. something went wrong." when I type something , and I don't get a message on gtalk when I get a new sms please help me/fix the issue
I'm getting rather frustrated with the whole Facebook and Android experience. I have used the official Facebook app, Flow for Facebook, which became FriendCaster and the Facebook Notifications app.
We all know the official app only works sometimes for notifications. FriendCaster and the notifications app work better, however not 100%.
For about the past three weeks now, whenever I would post a link on my wall and someone would comment on it, I would receive an email from Facebook saying so, but would never get a push notification of it on either FriendCaster Pro (using Gmail or K9 Push), or Facebook Notifications.
If someone commented on a regular Wall post I made (no links), those comments will come to the applications as push notifications.
I just don't understand what the difference is between a comment on a regular Wall post and a comment on a link Wall post. I figure since both apps fail to receive notifications of comments on the latter, that it must be something on Facebook's end.
Would someone with a greater knowledge of all things Android, Facebook and push have any insight on this?
Thank you.
Facebook Push Notifications
I'm no expert in Facebook or even Android (I'm a noob). However, I have heard the same exact issues on iphone, blackberry, and windows phones. I must agree that this is no doubt a facebook issue. I carry both an Android for pleasure and a Blackberry for work. I have tried the application on both personally and have experienced the lack of reliable notifications on both operating systems.
Hope that helps!
Lance
I remember the notifications being very reliable with the BlackBerry app. Perhaps I'm remembering through rose tinted glasses. I wish FB were like Twitter, where the notifications just worked.
There has been an article on portle about this and how people who had crackburrys previous should get the same reliability as previous check if still have bb authorised in fb as that was what some users found solved problem, I find issues with notifications not just limited to fb as g+ can be the same wonder if just a problem regarding process and sleep of device.
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Thanks for the info guys!! It has been a while since I tried facebook with the old blackberry so maybe the issues I had got ironed out. If I ever try it again on there I will make sure facebook has access.
Thanks,
Lance
What is everyone using as their email app? The google stock one is garbage. I need similar options as Microsoft Outlook.
Specifically I need a better way to handle junk/trash mail and specify what is junk and what is not junk. Lately my email went nuts and is sending important email to the trash file before I see it. It is picking random mail and sending it to the trash.
Also my email appears to longer work with wifi. That is a must for me at the office.
Mods, I realized I posted this in the wrong forum after hitting the post button. Please move to Q&A.
Enhanced Email is pretty good. I tried Touchdown and Moxier and didn't care for either. K-9 would have fit for me if I hadn't the need of push email from exchange.
K9 has not been updated in a long time and the recent reviews were very poor. I will give Enhanced Email a shot.
If anyone else has any ideas, I am open to anything.
I want to report something that I'm not sure is a bug. I guess I just need some advice
When using the AOSP-based Corporate email app, I'm getting unintentionally highlighted text in my messages
Example:
If I open my email app and search for "hello", I see all emails that contain the word "hello". Also, the text within the email "hello" is highlighted in yellow.
If I reply or forward that message, the highlighted text persists which can be seen by all recipients.
I can duplicate it on my friend's stock Galaxy Nexus and on my Galaxy S3. It happens with all AOSP based email apps (4.0+).
The really strange thing is that I can't find anyone online who is reporting the same thing. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks
No idea but I find AquaMail to be a awesome email client, maybe switch if it meets your requirements?
x714x said:
No idea but I find AquaMail to be a awesome email client, maybe switch if it meets your requirements?
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It doesn't work for me. I need full Exchange 2010 integration and AquaMail only operates with IMAP / POP enabled. I'm wondering if it is just my Exchange server. I find it hard to believe that no one else has reported this. I'm wondering if maybe this was a "feature" added by Google and I'm just not seeing the value haha
Thanks for your reply