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.
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I just got my hd yesterday. I love it!
Anyway, regarding email attachments....
How can I set it up, so that I can read an email but not download its attachment?
Right now, I can only read the subject line. Then I can choose to download all headers PLUS attachments if I actually want to read the email. But I can't figure out how to simply read the whole email without using up my data transfer costs to download an attached file that I know I won't need on my mobile.
Is that possible? I haven't found how to do it yet.
Wow, that's a hard one, because the automatic procedures for some of the major email carriers (hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc...) differ from the standard ones, which there are 3 of (Internet email, exchange server, custom domain). What email are you using?
I use a gmail account and a couple of Internet email accounts, and their setups are slightly different.
Try this: from the Messaging ap, click the right soft menu button called [Menu], then Tools > Options..., then tap your email account name. Next click the Download Size Settings link, and select [Entire Message] from the Message Download Limit: dropdown box. I noticed in my gmail account, there is an additional dropdown that lets you select how to download attachments.
Did you know you can save attachments on your MicroSD card? After you tap Menu > Tools > Options..., tap the [Storage] tab and check the "When available, use this storage card to store attachments" checkbox. I always do this very first thing after a hard reset or first turn-on before any new messages come in, but I believe if you check that with messages already on the phone, it will automatically move the attachments. To test, use file explorer and navigate to the "\Windows\Messaging\Attachments" folder, and it should be empty. The new folder on your MicroSD card where the new attachments are is "\Storage Card\Inbox.mst(and a bunch of numbers)\Mail Attachments"
That said, did you know you can store ALL of your messages on your MicroSD card, headers and all, not just your attachments? If you'd like to do this, you'll first need to turn off automatic email checking in all your email accounts. Then, using file explorer, navigate to "\Storage Card" and rename the "Inbox.mst(and a bunch of numbers)" folder to "Messaging", just like it is in the "\Windows" folder. Next, using a registry editor (I use Resco Explorer, but you can download PHM Registry Editor for free), edit the following key: HKLM\System\Inbox\Settings:AttachPath and change the value to '\Storage Card\Messaging\Mail Attachments\'. Next, create a new String Value entry and name it 'PropertyPath' and give it a value of '\Storage Card\Messaging\'. Exit the registry editor and bring up file explorer again and copy all of the files in '\Windows\Messaging' to '\Storage Card\Messaging'. Do the same for the attachments in the Attachments folder if they didn't move automatically. Soft reset your HD and you now have ALL your email on your storage card, freeing up valuable system memory.
Hope this helps someone...
--Jesse
Wow Jesse, great tips!! Thank you!! I'll be checking them out and I'll post how it all goes.
Well, I tried your suggestion for to somehow download the email message without downloading attachments - but it unfortunately did not change anything.
I have two email accounts set up. One is a hotmail address and the other one is with Arcor (my ISP in Germany). It's a regular POP3 account.
I did change the settings to store attachments on my storage card. Thanks for the tip. And YES - it will move the attachments from messages you already have. It automatically created a folder in my card and called it inbox.mst(and a bunch of numbers). In it, I now have a bunch of .att files. Some are a couple of KB big and a couple are about 2MB large (which I assume are the attached files). I thought the attachments would be saved as they are (for example .pdf or .doc) but everything is .att.
I haven't tried your last suggestions to edit the registry and have everything saved onto the card. If I do that, I'll post back how it turns out.
If any other ideas come to mind in terms of my initial issue with wanting to avoid downloading attachments, but still downloading the text content of an email - please let me know.
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I am new to the HTC HD2 (Leo) but i am already amazed with its potential, could someone help me with the following.
As i am using this as a work phone as well i get a lot of Excel sheets send, when i download the excel sheet to my storage card it seems to download it as .att rather then .xls
Could someone help me where i can change that download configuration?
Thank you very mcuh
Kaiser
It saves them as xls files whenever I do that.
Can you click the attachment in the email and open it there? If so, save it from within excel that way (bit long winded, but will at least allow you to save them!)
What email are you using for this? I only use hotmail and gmail (not via exchange), so I don't use exchange. It's possible (if relevant) that this may be an exchange issue.
Edit: Sorry - you're using Outlook - that answers my question. I can definitely say it doesn't happen with hotmail, so it may be the outlook client, and it may be the outlook server. I'm sure if this is a client issue then it would have been spotted before now, so someone with relevant experience will be able to advise you accordingly.
Thank you for getting back to me.
Well i open the attachment within outlook and it opens excel , but when i close it and want to open it later on i go to my storage card where i am saving my downloads to but the folder is empty , but when i check on the PC i can see the storage card does have it but as .att and i assume Excel is only can only find/look for .xls and .csv so i wondered where you can change the download settings for file extensions on the HTC HD2
kaiser1976 said:
Thank you for getting back to me.
Well i open the attachment within outlook and it opens excel , but when i close it and want to open it later on i go to my storage card where i am saving my downloads to but the folder is empty , but when i check on the PC i can see the storage card does have it but as .att and i assume Excel is only can only find/look for .xls and .csv so i wondered where you can change the download settings for file extensions on the HTC HD2
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Just to fulfil my curiosity, could you try saving an attachment in Location:Storage Card and Folder:None and be sure that it says Type:.xls (not that you can change that!)
When I do that, I can use file explorer to find the file in the root of my storage card. If you could try that and it doesn't work then there's definitely something funny going on!
ok i have tried the following i have downloaed a attachment and closed it found it saved it on my storage card the phone seems to have created a folder on my storage card inbox\mailattachments and i can see all my downloaded excel sheets saved as .att i renamed one to .xls and now i am able to see it when opening Excel and going to the folder strange .. still no close in knowing why it is saving as .att , maybe once i opened them the first time i have an option to save them as .xls which i doubt
strange problem bit annoying
kaiser1976 said:
ok i have tried the following i have downloaed a attachment and closed it found it saved it on my storage card the phone seems to have created a folder on my storage card inbox\mailattachments and i can see all my downloaded excel sheets saved as .att i renamed one to .xls and now i am able to see it when opening Excel and going to the folder strange .. still no close in knowing why it is saving as .att , maybe once i opened them the first time i have an option to save them as .xls which i doubt
strange problem bit annoying
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Very strange problem indeed. You're obviously viewing files in a manner that shows you the extension, so what happens if you just change it to .xls instead of .att ?
yes i could rename them but that just annoying to always have to rename them so that i can view them at a later stage
kaiser1976 said:
yes i could rename them but that just annoying to always have to rename them so that i can view them at a later stage
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Yeah, you're right, but it's obviously a problem somewhere. At least there's a solution for now. Maybe there's a user that has had similar issues and found a solution. Have you checked in non-Leo forums? This is a windows issue, rather than a phone-specific issue, so you may get more help there.
I really hope you've already done this, but there's an immediate suggestion from searching here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4415147
Thank you, i have just tried that and its a lot easier to tap&hold and save as rather then having to rename all the docs
I would like it to be saved auto with the .xls extensions but to be honest i am happy with this as well as i can now also save it directly into the folders i need it to be in rather then having to move them .. which was another problem for me
Thank you very much for your help really appriciated
Kaiser1976
I can't seem to download attachments if they're audio files. Is there a way to fix that or a app that can help. I have a aol email account if that info is helpful
I also cant download .doc file that are attached to emails, so a way round this would be great.
That's strange... I can save .doc and .m4a from the standard mail app without problems.
You could try using K-9 Mail app instead, though. I like that one much better.
whenever i want to attached something, its always only a picture, how can i change it, for example i want to attached doc or music, etc, seems i cant find a way to do it. anyone care for a helping hand? much appreciated
Choose another file besides an image?
@ mark- have you got a file size limit set on your mail account? or on your phone?
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It seems that the default Mail app only allows us to add photos as attachments. In a way that makes SOME sense, because that is the only filetype that the phone can create (by default).
K-9 mail app allows me to add music as attachment.
K-9 also forwards any file type. Unable to test forward of attachments in Mail, it seems to time out...
Hi all,
Well, the title says it all. In the gmail app or in the internet browser I cannot save attachments to the sd card.
Mainly the Galaxy tries to open it with the ThinkOffice app, but I only want to save the attach, be it .odt, .mp3, .epub, ...
Thanks in advance.
i have the same problem, every format, pdf, exl, etc shows preview only in the message and if I hit preview it comes up Fetching attachment, then 'An SD card is required to download attachments' i have a SD card in aswell as an internal one.
Nothing i seem to do will let me open an attachment, not only with the standard office viewer even with Docs to go installed it wont let me save or open them.
jordicm said:
Hi all,
Well, the title says it all. In the gmail app or in the internet browser I cannot save attachments to the sd card.
Mainly the Galaxy tries to open it with the ThinkOffice app, but I only want to save the attach, be it .odt, .mp3, .epub, ...
Thanks in advance.
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My experience, on a quick test just now. Within the email app, the save feature is dependent on file type (I had two attachments, 1 being a pic and 1 being an excel file).
Picture: Options - download or preview (buttons right after the pic)
Excel file: Options -preview (button right after the pic). After getting put into ThinkFreeOffice (which you don't have to activate), you can click the menu button then click "File" to save to the SD card.
Hope that helps, at least the OP.
APKatcher
This should work.
Sorry, this only works for apk´s.
I've found using the gmail through the web browser allows me to save attachments, rather than trying to open them like the gmail app does.
I would suggest you download and install the astro app and in preferences go and put a check mark against "enable browser download". This should enable you to save any kind of attachment via gmail app. Works very well for me.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
jordicm said:
Hi all,
Well, the title says it all. In the gmail app or in the internet browser I cannot save attachments to the sd card.
Mainly the Galaxy tries to open it with the ThinkOffice app, but I only want to save the attach, be it .odt, .mp3, .epub, ...
Thanks in advance.
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download from market "tAttachApkInstaller", should overcome your issue
I just use browsers for attachments. it is much quicker.
Roy Ngan said:
download from market "tAttachApkInstaller", should overcome your issue
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How do you do this... can you please explain. I need to download mostly pdf's word and excel docs for work... please help!
Thank you!!
just instal astro file manager
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