I have problem attaching files (specifically an EPUB file which I keep in myfiles\books) using the email app. When I click on "Attach file" I'm offered a choice of music clips, images, etc... but not the library directory. Is that a no-no, because B&N does not want you to give books to other people? These books were downloaded from my PC to the Nook using the USB cable.
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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.
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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
Is there a way to download/buy books any other way (other than through the phone) than sync with your phone.
I am in Afghanistan and cannot download books via wifi. I have pc internet, so I wanted to download them off the net and xfr them. Any ideas or suggestions?
This may be a stupid question but ... I assume you are trying to use the kindle app on the EVO or some android phone correct? Do you have 3g connection at all? Can you use your phone at all? You don't need wifi you can download via 3g.
Otherwise... what I would do is this. Connect your phone as a Disk drive to your computer and start browsing the folders looking for where your existing books on your phone are stored. Mine were stored in a folder called kindle right under the root of the drive that showed up when i connected my phone and went to explorer on my pc.
I notice for each book there are two files - B000xxxxxx_EBOK.prc and B000xxxxxx_EBOK.mbp. There is also a covers folder under the kindle folder and there is a file with just B000xxxxxx.
I would download a book to your pc kindle app. Then i would go to your pc explorer and find where these same three files are stored and try to copy them over to your phone in the corresponding folders.
Give it a try it may work.
Lynn
Yeah... its is the kindle app for android on my EVO. I have no conn here.. .wifi/3g/4g. And I want more books paid or free... I will look into that. Is the format the same as on a standard Kindle? I assume not.
Thanks for the response by the way.
I love the Fetch News option in Calibre to download RSS feeds into beautiful epubs but find it annoying that the Nook STR requires a USB connection to download news.
At first I decided to download the Calibre Library app, but was annoyed by having to be on the same network with my computer running.
Then I get around this by setting my Calibre library in my Dropbox folder, and using the Downloader for Dropbox app to download the entire folder daily. This works pretty well, but I still had to set my computer to wake up daily and was unable to figure out how to setup a script to have just the epubs "save to disk" in a single directory as opposed to the Calibre format... but I think I have found the best solution
If you want to use the B&N stock reader to open epubs sideloaded wirelessly:
1. Download and install ASTRO File Manager
2. Open Astro and go to preferences. Choose "Edit File Extensions" under Data. Choose "New Extension".
Extension Name: epub (no . in there, just epub)
Mime Type: application
SubType: epub (again, no . in there, just epub)
Save
Exit Astro
To automatically download news without having a computer running Calibre you will need to use Readbeam:
Readbeam hosts a Calibre server, and supports many devices (including the Nook STR). It has many stock recipes that are ready to use, and you can even use custom news recipes.
1. Go to readbeam.com and create an account.
2. There is an option for device email address - You may want to create a new gmail address just for your device.. more on this later.
3. Add recipes that you want to read and import your custom recipes if desired. Custom recipes can be found in: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\calibre\custom_recipes
NOTE that custom recipes will need to be approved by an admin (this may take a few hours)
Now you have set Readbeam to automatically create an email an epub of each news source daily! You are almost done...
Now you will need to download an app called Attachments Auto Download
NOTE this app is currently $0.99
This app will automatically download any attachment sent to a gmail address. Since this app downloads every attachment, that's why it's easy to make a new gmail for this purpose.
1. Open the Attachments app and add the account information to where your news will be sent.
2. You may also want to change the Check Interval to 2 minutes. I would also check the box Flat Folder (this will save time when opening files).
3. Click the back arrow in the upper left to exit
Now just connect to WiFi and wait as your news is emailed to you and automatically downloaded!
To read the epubs with the stock B&N reader, just open ASTRO and navigate to "/sdcard/Downloaded Attachments"
You can also set this folder as ASTRO's home directory (by long clicking on it) for easy access!
I am using http://sendtodropbox.com. You receive a new mail and all attachments are saved to you dropbox folder.
For me the best solution is to use
ReadBeam to fetch news
send news from ReadBeam by mail to sendtodropbox
use Dropsync from Market to sync the "attachement" directory created by sendtodropbox on my Dropbox acount with "My Files/Magazines/" on my Nook
tebra said:
For me the best solution is to use
ReadBeam to fetch news
send news from ReadBeam by mail to sendtodropbox
use Dropsync from Market to sync the "attachement" directory created by sendtodropbox on my Dropbox acount with "My Files/Magazines/" on my Nook
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I assume this approach requires you to root the NST? I'm still concerned about the potential for battery drain so I'm trying to avoid this initially.
BTW, for us noobs, is there a quick way to see what this would look like on the Nook? I assume have Readbeam build the file and then just wire it over for a test?
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I assume this approach requires you to root the NST? I'm still concerned about the potential for battery drain so I'm trying to avoid this initially.
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Yes you have to root your NST to install dropsync
i use rss reader over wifi but it doesn't always download the articles properly for offline later so I'll look into this, thanks
Hi all,
I use my rooted NST most for read content I catch on Web, like blog entries, articles, etc. Currently I find the content, generate a .epub with caliber or through services like EbookGlue, upload them to my dropbox account and later, on my device, I open dropbox client, download the .epub file to the My Files directory on my SD and finally I read it.
I am looking for a way to automatic sync these dropbox files to my library, as soon as I turn on WiFi connection.
Does any one know if there's a way to do it? Or some similar aproach to do it?
Thanks in advance!
Harlley Sathler said:
Hi all,
I use my rooted NST most for read content I catch on Web, like blog entries, articles, etc. Currently I find the content, generate a .epub with caliber or through services like EbookGlue, upload them to my dropbox account and later, on my device, I open dropbox client, download the .epub file to the My Files directory on my SD and finally I read it.
I am looking for a way to automatic sync these dropbox files to my library, as soon as I turn on WiFi connection.
Does any one know if there's a way to do it? Or some similar aproach to do it?
Thanks in advance!
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Try dropsync, it autosyncs selected dropbox folders.
Oh, thanks! I didn't knew about dropsync. I'll try it as soon as go home today and post the results!
I just keep directories on my desktop filled with books and documentation.
I sync with adbsync: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1898358
I use it on my cell phone(s) and Nook(s).
Hi All
New to Android and looking for the best way to sync my music to the honor 8. Downloaded doubletwist and it won't recognise my phone. Keeps saying to mount it and on the phone via notifications, I select files but has no option to mount the device.
Android file transfer works but want a sync function for better functionality. Alternatively tried just connecting my SD card however doubletwist won't sync FLAC / ALAC files, can it onyl sync MP3?
Thanks
How about using a free cloud service like Drive, Mega or Dropbox?
Just use a PC folder with the songs, have the cloud client installed and syncing that folder. At the phone side, point the music library folder as the synced folder and you don't have to worry about what type of files you are using.
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How about using a free cloud service like Drive, Mega or Dropbox?
Just use a PC folder with the songs, have the cloud client installed and syncing that folder. At the phone side, point the music library folder as the synced folder and you don't have to worry about what type of files you are using.
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Thanks for the advice, really good idea but I have over 50GB of music. Most are Flac
Anybody got doubletwist to work?
Also I noticed on PI Music Player + Black player, music controls on lock screen do not show, anybody else noticed?