Before if I wanted to send video on my Evo, I could just select Gmail and it would send as an attachment. After the last OTA update, I have not been able to send any video files.
Even if I just go to Gmail & try to add attachment, it doesn't even give me the option to attach videos, it just shows my pictures.
I have a stock rooted phone now, but I am sure this started before I even rooted.
Is anyone else having this problem or found a fix for it?
Not a fix, but I've got a bit of a workaround for now since I have not been able to find a solution.
-You have to make a mental note of the video name
-open gmail
-select add attachment
-select astro file manager
-browse to the folder where your videos are saved then select the video by name (there aren't thumbnails on the video files)
-then continue as usual.
Since I am sending the videos to another evo, I tested on my gmail to make sure I could open it, which I couldn't. It gave me the error "Sorry, the attachment could not be fetched." Ugh.
So, I found that if I used skyfire to open gmail in the browser and switched it to basic html view, I could then download it and view it fine.
When I clicked on it from the downloads list, it played fine, but if I tried to open it using astro file manager, I had to long click the file name and select open as - video.
So there is my long workaround for sending and receiving videos on the evo. Hopefully something more straight forward comes along.
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I have been trying to download attachments sent to my gmail account and am having some problems.
A small pdf file (15k) will download fine, i click it, it opens, no problems.
If I download an mp3 file of a couple of meg it downloads then the icon switches to the generic unknown extension icon and nothing happens. I click the file and it says the download cannot be found, would I like to download again.
I checked all over the net, people were saying they delete the mail folders on the memory card, switch and swich back and it works, but no matter what i do, removing and resetting up the account, restarting, redownloading, setting the settings to download entire message with attachments, moving form internal memory to storage and back several times. No luck.
I found that if I go to the attacment folder, rename the file there to .mp3 it will play in media player, so it has downloaded, it's just not getting renamed and moved to the right place.
It's driving me absolutely mental now, has anybody else had any experience with this problem or got a solution?
Anybody know the location of the registry keys to set the attachment save location so I can check this also?
No?
Can anyone atleast tell me if this works for them or not, even if not the actual solution, atleast so I can stop searching for a fix if there isn't one.
I can't send things via gmail or text on my nexus because it says it's too large :< Any way to fix this? It's really important and not being able to send videos is really killing me as far as gigging goes.
Bump. Anyone? I'd just like to know why i can't.
setup a ftp server, and upload to it, if it's a mac, set the folder to upload to youtube or whateever.
You're either going to have to use the "MMS" setting when you take videos or take shorter videos if you want to send them via MMS.
You can't send video via a TEXT message.
Sorry not an actual solution but I've used Qik for steaming / uploading video on-line with good success (on wifi at least).
Hi
how can i save non-supported format email attachments to my SD card.
I have received an email with a video file (AVI), and i just see a green android and a paper clip in place of the attachments, with no options to save (i tried long pressing)
I have tried k-9 client, but it also does not give me an option to download the attachment (only works for supported formats)
Thanks
anyone? dddd
I don't know, but if it's the same as for the browser (not letting you download unsupported file types) you could try something like byte tornado.
I installed that and I am now able to download any file (for sure from the browser but, if I remember well, from gmail app too) from the interwebz.
I have found that using the stock email app doesn't allow you to "open" or attach PDF files to emails.
I have three email accounts connected to the stock email app, Exchange, Gmail and Hotmail.
1) If I send an Excel or Word document to any of these accounts I get the option to "save" or "open" the attachment. However, if I send a PDF document to any of these accounts the only option is to the "save" the file. Then I have to go find it using a file manager before I can open it. I have tried Adobe PDF viewer & Thinkfree that comes on the device and neither will allow me to open PDFs in the email app.
2) The stock email application will not allow me to attach any files other than pictures. When I click attach it brings up the file manager (it appears to be the stock "my files" application) which allows me to view the SD card and won't show any other file types other than picture types. I have multiple PDFs on the SD card in various folders and NONE of them show up as being able to be attached to the email.
The weird part is that if I use the "Gmail" email application (the one that only allows gmail accounts) I can open PDFs straight from the Gmail application without saving first. I can also attach any file type using this application.
Does the stock email application suck this bad? My two co-workers with Dincs have no problem doing either of the above things.
I tried Touchdown, Maildroid & K9. They all attach all file types & open files directly from the email.
Does anyone elses mail app exhibit the same behavior as mine? Or did mine get messed up somehow.
The issue actually appears to be related to what program the email app will allow you to use to find attachments.
The stock mail program appears to use My Files, but it only allows you to see picture files. The Gmail program will only use "Gallery" to find attach files if you don't have a file explorer installed.
I have Astro installed and if you use the Gmail program and try to attach something it will ask you if you want to use Astro or the Gallery. I then went and uninstalled Astro and went back to attach a file through the Gmail App and it only allowed me to use the Gallery app to look for attachments.
So the problem actually DOES exist in the Gmail app, but the Gmail app will let you use other file explorers to look for attachments.
I just cant see how that got past whatever process they use in developing their app.... How can you design a mail app that doesn't allow you to attach anything but picture files.... I mean thats just ridiculous.
I would not recommend the Fascinate to be honest just because of this issue. Sure it can be worked around using other email apps and downloading file explorers. Its not that big of a deal if you only use Gmail, but if you heavily use exchange and have to rely on the mail app or a 3rd party mail app it sucks.
I ran into this just last night actually when I tried to open a pdf from an email.
So I emailed samsung to ask if this was intentional or not. They didn't give me a real good answer but here is what they said.
"Thank you for your inquiry. With the SCH-I500 mobile phone, you can only attach picture file types. If you would like to attach other files such as PDF files, you need to download an application through the android market for PDF application."
To me, that sounds like this was intentional and the stock mail app will never have the ability to attach anything other than pictures.
astraelraen said:
So I emailed samsung to ask if this was intentional or not. They didn't give me a real good answer but here is what they said.
"Thank you for your inquiry. With the SCH-I500 mobile phone, you can only attach picture file types. If you would like to attach other files such as PDF files, you need to download an application through the android market for PDF application."
To me, that sounds like this was intentional and the stock mail app will never have the ability to attach anything other than pictures.
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Out of curiosity, with all the great email apps that you mentioned having tried, why not just use one that does what you need it to do? That's one of the great things about Android: the stock apps are just there to get you started!
Maybe this is a bug due to the DB issues, but whenever I click "Read first unread" for this thread, it takes me here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8315757#post8315757
hi all, as per title,
i have been sent some pictures into my yahoo accounrt.
i can view them on my phone but there is no option to save them :-(
does anyone have any ideas?
the options and settings are limited as i can see.
i did have an excel file i sent, that opened with quick office and gave me the option to save but then the file contains none of the data on the spreadsheet.
any advice or input would be wonderfuel.
thanks.
mahender.
solved i think
when email picture attachments are donloaded, the phone saves them in the camera folder under 'downloads'
it either also then adds them to 'all pictures'
or
i have had to move them using dual file manager i have installed.
if there is another way then please let me know
i think that it will also save anything from the email. i have deleted them now but there were little facebook banners and my yearbook banners in there too.
i dont really want to download every image from an email just what i choose.
regards
mahender.