I'd like to put some PDFs on one of the homescreens on my Xoom. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right spot but it doesn't seem to have the capability built in. Could someone explain to me how to do this? I downloaded ES File Explorer and found the pdf in the download directory. I assume I can just cut and paste it to a directory and it will show up on a homescreen?
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I'd like to put some PDFs on one of the homepages on my Xoom. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right spot but it doesn't seem to have the capability built in. Could someone explain to me how to do this? I downloaded ES File Explorer and found the pdf in the download directory. I assume I can just cut and paste it to a directory and it will show up on a homepage?
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I do the same thing. We recently bought a house and everyone always as me for pictures and the floor plan. I created a pdf that I sent around, but it's useful to have it on the xoom to show people.
I have two suggestions, both of which I use:
1. Download Astro. You can then create a direct shortcut to any file including a pdf. Go to "+" --> More --> Astro. Browse to the file you want. The location depends on how you got the pdf onto the device. Since that file doesn't change, that works.
2. Use dropbox. This is good option for pdf's that change a lot. I often read weekly publications that I get in pdf. I created a direct shortcut to a dropbox folder. When I'm using my computer, I get and store pdf's there and use it as a "read later" option. Creating the dropbox folder is also in the "more" tab.
Both work for me pretty well. hope this helps.
to answer the OP android doesn't support files on the home screen like a desktop on windows or Mac
Hey guys,
Everytime I download a .mobi file (not through amazon) it always tries to automatically open with my app snesoid and then says it isn't a rom. When I try to use dropbox to transfer files, dropbox tells me it doesn't have a suitable viewer to read it.
I have to manually transfer the file into the kindle folder using a micro-usb wire and then it'll show up in the docs and kindle folder making it readable by the kindle app.
Tried ireader, but it always force closes on me. So my question is, how can I set it up so that anything ending up in .mobi is opened by the Kindle reader app? I'm using Go Ex Launcher and also got File Explorer as an alternative when I'm not near my laptop to do manual transferring.
Any advice would be appreciated!
Try making snesoid NOT the default program for mobi files. Sounds like it is.
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Hey guys,
Everytime I download a .mobi file (not through amazon) it always tries to automatically open with my app snesoid and then says it isn't a rom. When I try to use dropbox to transfer files, dropbox tells me it doesn't have a suitable viewer to read it.
I have to manually transfer the file into the kindle folder using a micro-usb wire and then it'll show up in the docs and kindle folder making it readable by the kindle app.
Tried ireader, but it always force closes on me. So my question is, how can I set it up so that anything ending up in .mobi is opened by the Kindle reader app? I'm using Go Ex Launcher and also got File Explorer as an alternative when I'm not near my laptop to do manual transferring.
Any advice would be appreciated!
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are you downloading it as a zip file? because snesoid would try to open that. but like xeddicus said try clearing snesoids default.
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huskerdu25 said:
Hey guys,
Everytime I download a .mobi file (not through amazon) it always tries to automatically open with my app snesoid and then says it isn't a rom. When I try to use dropbox to transfer files, dropbox tells me it doesn't have a suitable viewer to read it.
I have to manually transfer the file into the kindle folder using a micro-usb wire and then it'll show up in the docs and kindle folder making it readable by the kindle app.
Tried ireader, but it always force closes on me. So my question is, how can I set it up so that anything ending up in .mobi is opened by the Kindle reader app? I'm using Go Ex Launcher and also got File Explorer as an alternative when I'm not near my laptop to do manual transferring.
Any advice would be appreciated!
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Same exact problem manually transfer with caliber, any fix?
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Hey All,
OK, this is driving me nuts, any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a swarm of Project Gutenberg books. After searching around that interweb dealio, I have Cool Reader, Kindle for Android, and something else on the Fire, but none of them will find or display any type of book (DRM or no). All of which can read .mobi files.
The books are loaded in THREE different places on the Fire: a folder called Books, a folder called Documents, AND in the actual Kindle folder. None of the programs find them.
Moreover, when I have the Fire in USB mode and side loaded the books to those places, I can see them plain as day. But Titanium Backup can't find them, Script Manager can't find them, and ROM Toolbox can't find them, let alone any of the ereaders.
Any thoughts? This is making me nuts, heh.
Thank you!
This is the page I got when I Googled, "how to side load books on kindle fire"...
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39...books-show-up-under-books-on-the-kindle-fire/
The directory that you'll put your mobi books is Android\data\com.amazon.kindle\files. I have to reboot my Kindle after copying files there before they'll show up in the Kindle app.
Tried that.
Thanks for the heads up. I could SWEAR I did that 5 times. I'll check that particular site later and see if there's something I missed or whatnot.
So irritating. And thank you!
EDIT: No dice. Rebooted, everything, none of the readers find anything.
I'm stumped.
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OK, fixed. After about the fifth reboot for other things, they finally showed up. Criminy.
Either way, it seems it just needed to be rebooted a few times. Never found out why. Scaplet had the location correct.
Verizon GN3, updated, stock ROM, not rooted.
I have a 64gb MicroSD card installed, and put a copy of my photography website on it. I find I am unable to figure out a way to open it in Google Chrome.
I used ES File Explorer's FTP function to begin with, to copy files from my website to the card, and this worked beautifully. When I click on the index.html file on the card, the only options offered are HTML viewer and some text editors. Chrome is not an option (Chrome is the default browser for my phone).
If I long-press the file, and select Properties, I can copy the Path for the file, but when I paste this into Chrome's URL bar, it won't open:
Access to the file was denied
"The file at file:///storage/extSdCard/PhotoWebsite/index.html is not readable. It may have been removed, moved, or file permissions may be preventing access"
I have searched quite a bit, and tried various addresses, including localhost, localhost/mnt, etc., etc., but nothing seems to work.
Ultimately I want to have a Bookmark in Chrome where I can view my website offline when necessary, but this seems to be more complex than would appear necessary.
Any help appreciated.
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Does anybody here know how to get an html file on your MicroSD Card to open in a browser??
Seriously? Is there no way to accomplish what should be a fairly basic task: for a browser to open up an html file???
If you use My Files to navigate to the file and then select it does it not give you options as to how to open it?
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If you use My Files to navigate to the file and then select it does it not give you options as to how to open it?
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Thanks for the reply.
And unfortunately, no. My Files is a more basic app than ES File Explorer, and when I locate the file with it, and select it, 2 options are given:
Complete Action Using ES Note Editor or HTML Viewer.
Chrome or other Browser are not provided as an option.
HTML Viewer is apparently a type of minimalist browser, but fails hopelessly as a way to view webpages. No controls, no resize, etc. And I haven't figured out any way to get HTML Viewer to send anything to Chrome or other Browser.
As I said, this is really quite puzzling. It should be a no-brainer for a browser to open an html file, regardless of its location. Hopefully I'm missing something basic, but I've done quite a bit of searching and experimenting, and can't seem to find the trick, or particular syntax, to get this working.
Hmmmm.... Very weird! like you said, you'd think it'd be a simple task. I may play around now, just because LOL
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I'm guessing you have tried the apps in the play store but just in case here is one option https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.gelin.android.browser.open
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I'm guessing you have tried the apps in the play store but just in case here is one option https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.gelin.android.browser.open
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I had run across one or two like that in my searching, but haven't tried them yet. I like to keep my systems as 'clean' as possible, and so my first choice would be to do it natively. It seems a lot of the problems people develop with their phones, lagginess, various quirks, etc., arise from some odd app or two that doesn't play well with others, or which fix some problem, but create others.
But reading the reviews of the app you linked to, it does seem to fill a pretty major gap that is apparently present in the Android OS, so may be worth a shot.
Thanks.
That was the first thing that came up in my search and I agree with keeping the phone "clean". I'll keep looking
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Well, I went ahead and installed 'Open in Browser.' It installed without problem, ran it to select my preferred browser (Chrome), but when I try to open the file, with either Chrome or the stock Browser selected, I still encounter that same dang error message.
I even rebooted the phone, just to make sure, but no joy.
I have emailed the author of the app, to see what the deal is, and will post here if he replies.
Is there some type of Verizon 'protection' or 'security' software running by default that could be getting in the way? Any other ideas?
No responses from anyone else. This seems to be a built-in security "feature" of Chrome for Android, which prevents it from loading an HTML file from an External SD Card. I can't figure out any way around it.
I went ahead and copied the files to the GN3's internal memory:
files:///storage/emulated/0/PhotoWebsite
And I am then able to open the files without any difficulty in Chrome. I have kept the "Open in Browser" App, as it does add the option to open HTML files to a Browser directly from a File Manager, which comes in handy.
I have created a Bookmark for the link for ready access to it within Chrome, but weirdly, I have to long-press and select in Open in New Tab to get it to work. A simple tap, like any other Bookmark, doesn't work.
Fortunately, I have a lot of available Internal Memory, but I should be able to put the files on the External SD Card, and be able to open HTML files from it.
I am still interested in a way to do this, if anybody has any suggestions.
Ignore - duplicate entry. The forum seems to have a glitch here - every time I post, it warns me it can't post another within 20 seconds, even though I've only clicked it once.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the .html file can also be opened in desktop programs like MS Word, right? Have you tried any programs like open office or QuickOffice?
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LeftyGR said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the .html file can also be opened in desktop programs like MS Word, right? Have you tried any programs like open office or QuickOffice?
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Thanks for the reply.
There's nothing wrong with the file itself (nor any of those from my website), so yes, it can be open in other programs (including HTML Viewer in my Note 3). The problem, as I currently understand it, is that Chrome (and the default browser on the GN3 as well) has some type of security provision that prevents it from loading HTML files that are stored on an external SD card.
When I copied all of the files to the GN3's internal memory, a "pseudo" SD Card, they can be opened without any difficulty.
Why it is this way, I have no idea, nor if there is any way of circumventing it.
Hi DLCPhoto,
I see the last post here was December 22, 2013.
Have you come up with any solutions as of yet?
I am having the same experience even at this late date using Android 5.1.1 Lollypop in a Samsung Core Prime
Standing by . . .
Unfortunately, I never figured out a work-around. I just gave up and put the files I wanted on the Device's memory, where they can be readily accessed.
I'm still using that Note 3, and don't know if anything has changed with more recent versions of Android.
Sorry...
I'm looking for something like this: https://www.pushbullet.com/. It requires Android 4.0 or higher, so this itself won't work, but I'd love to have a one click send-to-nook app that I can use to send stuff from my laptop without a cable (especially for pdfs). I was never able to get Gapps working, so emailing myself won't do it. Anybody know of anything similar? Thanks!
Neat idea--less cumbersome than Dropbox for that purpose. How about something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smarterdroid.wififiletransfer
Says it's compatible with my Nook--doesn't mean it will work. There seem to be a few similar. Google "wireless send file to android app"
Meanwhile, I need to look at that
Update: I tried the app and I like how it works...but: when I transferred a book into the internal My Files folder it did not show up in the Library, even after a refresh. Under the My Files tab it did appear but could not be read. So I tried a transfer to the My Files folder on the sdcard. That showed up in the Library right away. Not sure if the process can be tweaked, but it's worth looking at more closely. It may be worth noting that ES File Explorer has an ftp interface (news to me but I found it) but it's not as user-friendly as the WiFi Transfer app.
If you have a dropbox account you can use dropsync instead of the official app, it can sync entire directories so it works much like the desktop client.
However, it doesn't do direct over-the-wifi transfer, so perhaps that's not what you're looking for.
Try airdroid,not exactly one click but drag and drop
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