Today I tried to send movie made by N1camera through GMail. The file size was about 16 MB, but I get info, that is over accepted attachment size. I remember, that 20 MB is web GMAIL limit. Why N1 has another limit? Is any way to cross this limitation?
The only thing i could think is its a network limit, have you tried sending it over wifi?
Encoding overhead taking it to over 20MB?
JoshHart said:
The only thing i could think is its a network limit, have you tried sending it over wifi?
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Yes it was over wifi...
Typically, email attachment limits are set at 10mb, so anything over that can't be sent. I know Gmail offers a 20mb limit and when I had Yahoo, a premium account allowed 20mb attachments, but that has nothing to do with the recipient. I would imagine it would only work for sending large files from Gmail accounts to other Gmail accounts, but Android might be set to 10mb by default for the rest of the email domains out there.
j.bruha said:
Typically, email attachment limits are set at 10mb, so anything over that can't be sent. I know Gmail offers a 20mb limit and when I had Yahoo, a premium account allowed 20mb attachments, but that has nothing to do with the recipient. I would imagine it would only work for sending large files from Gmail accounts to other Gmail accounts, but Android might be set to 10mb by default for the rest of the email domains out there.
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Is any hack to increase this limit? It is annoing, when I can not send 16MB size file. It's not so big.
gmadajczak said:
Is any hack to increase this limit? It is annoing, when I can not send 16MB size file. It's not so big.
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Not that I'm aware of. I'm sure it's possible, but if someone fixed it on the device, that's not to say it would bypass limitations on the various email domains.
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So, I recently starting using IMAP on my web servers to check my email. And I have a good 20+ email accounts. I only need to access 8 of them on my phone. But.. it wont let me add more than 6!? I made sure it was the limit, if I delete one of these accounts then I can add another one.
Is there any work around to this limit? And does anyone even know why the limit exists? Seriously, what the hell?
Thanks..
It's around 4.5 or 5 megs on the Vibrant I see. Not handy for videos or several photos attachment.
Is this true across other Android phone gmail apps? Any workaround?
I have been able to do much larger attachments through the browser on the mobile gmail site. But ah how nice it would be from the native app when clicking through from the camera or camcorder...
How do you check it?
Pretty sure the cap to send/receive is 25 MB's.
Of course, there is likely an easier way to share such a large file.
You can check by shooting a video and sharing via gmail. You'll get a "too large to attach" error when gmail opens.
Yes, it's easy to send more than 5mb. A single 20 sec 640x vid set to normal quality exceeds the limit.
I don't like how it compresses the pictures when you try to send it. When I upload to facebook it looks like crap. So I tried to upload to facebook via gmail and it still compresses the picture. Wish there was a way around it.
^ have you tried image shrink lite?
Hi
I get the sending.... hanging problem with the galaxy s built in gmail app.
clearing the cache doesn't work, and using the other email app wont attach video , it just says too big.
what are the good alternative email programs?
Cheers
Hi,
I'm using K-9 Mail via an IMAP Account and are fairly happy with it. Only one thing: Push-Mail via IMAP-Idle drains the Battery like Hell... but a 15 Minute poll is fair enough (shorter Intervals are also available).
And it is FOSS...
Bye
ayn said:
Hi,
I'm using K-9 Mail via an IMAP Account and are fairly happy with it. Only one thing: Push-Mail via IMAP-Idle drains the Battery like Hell... but a 15 Minute poll is fair enough (shorter Intervals are also available).
And it is FOSS...
Bye
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cheers K9 came up in a google search, it sounds good
I turn off sync with email and check it manually when i want to.
its more about sending an email and it actually getting there . where the gmail app fails .
I check my mail on my main computer, but use my phone to 'quick check' stuff. but if an app is a 'beast that takes ages to open' that would be a pain. I didn't think about battery life, (cheers for that). so many apps just run in the background on my galaxy s. as much as i love it, it is another crazy computer in my life .
is K9 a free app or advertising/donation?
also any other suggestions welcome too
Are you sure the gmail app is failing? If you've got your phone to manually sync, the email will never send. The gmail app does not send emails as per request, they are put in a queue and sent out only when the phone syncs. Try it now. Send an email and keep syncing disabled. Nothing happens. Hi options the. Choose refresh option and I will push through the queued emails. As for file size limit, I wouldn't know but I have added a total of 5.8mb in an email which sent fine.
Edit: re read your post. Use the gmail app and try what I said, it has no issues with file size like other **** apps.
galaxy44 said:
is K9 a free app or advertising/donation?
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K9 is free open source software without any kind of adds or something else.
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Are you sure the gmail app is failing? If you've got your phone to manually sync, the email will never send. The gmail app does not send emails as per request, they are put in a queue and sent out only when the phone syncs. Try it now. Send an email and keep syncing disabled. Nothing happens. Hi options the. Choose refresh option and I will push through the queued emails. As for file size limit, I wouldn't know but I have added a total of 5.8mb in an email which sent fine.
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its a known issue:
http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=1363d927a73ee840&hl=en
send sometimes works
sometimes doesn't (usually when i attach pic or video)
i can send very small test messages by clicking refresh
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Try it now. Send an email and keep syncing disabled. Nothing happens. Hi options the. Choose refresh option and I will push through the queued emails. As for file size limit, I wouldn't know but I have added a total of 5.8mb in an email which sent fine.
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i always use refresh to send the email with sync disabled
its a know issue
the file size issue is to do with the 'other' email program that came with my phone.
I've ruled both out as not fit for purpose.
but i don't want to try hundreds of apps so i thought a few good recommendations might help.
cheers anyway, but I'm giving up on the gmail app.
quick update:
I've tried K9
it had success sending video attachments (that were stuck on gmail app or cancelled on the other galaxy s email app)
the bad
when it set up, it took ages (i have 1000s of email on my gmail account. so it could just be that)
it doesn't seem to group the emails (like replies from forums etc) can i set the settings to do this?
the names like expunge and poll (empty trash and refresh)
it seems a bit slower than the gmail app? but i could just be me
i'm trying to get used to the scrolling left and right in messages.
the good
it showed the full message
it could send video attachments to gmail (is 25mb max for gmail)
it sent the items (unlike the gmail app)
it seems pretty equipped with options
looks ok
I'm still not sure
What else might i try?
ok
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S
I shoot 3 videos (all 3 are about 7mb)
Gmail can handle attachments up to 25MB
Gmail app always gets stuck on sending (with no warning to let you know its not sent)
MMS wont convert the files
Other Email app wont accept the file size
K9 sends them (which is a step forward)
but doesn't group messages by conversation
also it has the push always running (i don't know what push is)
and seems to always be checking my mail (I don't mind exploring the oddly named and confusing settings if its the program i am going to use)
also the built in gmail app shortens messages so replies from this forum wont display the link to the topic (pretty annoying) the other built in email app does display the link long enough to click.
I feel very frustrated.
I just wanted to send a couple of funny videos to my friend via any means.
And it feels like my Samsung Galaxy S is just completely against me doing this in any easy fashion
I might keep K9 but turn all the setting to check the email off and use it if i want to send a file.
how do i turn the check mail settings off on k9 (the options are confusing, confusingly named, and different depending on where you are in the program.
if i turn K9 off, and use it only occasionally will it take ages to open if i keep all my messages on the server?
Or is there a fourth email program:
that opens fast
groups the messages
sends attachments up to 25mb
Cheers
i tried Maildroid but he adds were annoying.
back to K9:
How do i stop K9 automatically checking mail?
and how do stop the k9 mail service app running constantly (i assume its the push thing)
I'm thinking of keeping the app on there to send files by email, and for links that don't show up properly like replies from this forum. but i don't want it spanking my battery or checking for emails
How do i set it up for "there when i need it"?
the options are confusing and have nonsense kind of names.
Cheers
I'm on a data plan with 1GB/month on my Galaxy SII. Recently, I discovered that my "credit" was shrinking incredibly fast, sometimes by multiple hundred MB a day. First I thought I might have downloaded a big game or app that day, but these high drops did not stop so I finally started to look for a solution.
I downloaded a data tracking app and tried to find out which app it was that downloaded so much data.
Finally, I found out that the pre-installed (Samsung) Mails app caused the problem. At every try to receive mails (which I had set to an automatic interval of 15 minutes), the app downloaded between 20 and 100 MB. It seemed like logging into one of my email accounts failed, but the app kept trying for multiple times et each sync.
Finally I set up an automatic redirection of new mails of all my accounts to one gmail account on the email provider's web site, deleted all email accounts from the preinstalled (Samsung) email client and I am now using the preinstalled gmail app, which works fine.
Now, my 1GB is enough for the month, again.
I hope this helps anyone with similar problems.
U could have simply disabled the sync... And when ever u want u could simply refresh the mail....
Prashanthme said:
U could have simply disabled the sync... And when ever u want u could simply refresh the mail....
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Yeah, but every refresh would have been 20-100MB again vs some KB now...
1word droidwall
Download only headers and limit each mail to 20kb or so. I use K9 and Touchdown for my mails . As previous post, get a Firewall to monitor and block unwanted programs using up your data connection.
In the last 2 days my Yahoo email app has used nearly 2GB of Background Data. T Mobile blamed me for sending large files but I know I haven't done this. Previous month was something like 78mb. Anyone else experienced this? Is it a glitch? Don't know how to stop it apart from disabling Background Data, but is this the only way?
Maybe you should check your sync settings for the Yahoo mail app.
I personally dont use the app, so i dont know how it behaves.
My only suggestion is check the sync settings.
does the Yahoo email app automatically download images from each email? Are there any ads embedded in the app itself or in each email that are received?
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does the Yahoo email app automatically download images from each email? Are there any ads embedded in the app itself or in each email that are received?
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Thanks, I'm not aware thats downloading images - it wasn't before, the data use has happened within 2-3 days. I'll look at that though. I turned Sync off but seems a bit pointless to have it and not sync!