Mainly, I don't want to move my life into the cloud until I can do it all (MP3s, photos, docs... Everything).
I love Google. Their stuff works well. However they cap Picasa at 1GB. All my documents are (mostly) in Office format which can convert into Google Docs format, so it's no big deal there. But the Picasa limit is what gets me on my photos.
You can buy more space (like 200GB for $50/yr... cheap) but....... Google shows no love for Google Apps users.
Now, Microsoft on the other hand, gives you their 25GB Sky Drive which would work well. But, their interface is crap. Also- I don't think I can buy more space if I need it.
Also, my Android phone syncs too well with the Google services (contacts, mail, calendar)- I'm not sure if it'd be viable to switch or not. The mail is NBD- I could have Gmail pull my mail, but the contacts and calendar syncing is big for me.
Any suggestions? Or what do you guys do in this situation? Maybe I'll have to ditch the custom domain and become a regular user or something. IDK.
Another downside to Google's method might be the fact I can't map it as a drive. (Useful for syncing back and forth easily- like if I need to load up my music or photos on a phone).
Edit- I might have to resign myself to using Sky Drive because I can't find a way that you can map Google Dogs or Picasa to a local drive (which is necessary for bulk operations).
Use something like Dropbox for photos and files, it starts at 2 GB (free!) and has clients for all major desktop and mobile operating systems
I have had my A7 for about two weeks. Although I'm not very computer savvy, it all seems like it should be pretty simple. To activate the kindle app tap it, enter your amazon e-mail & password, and that's it, but I keep getting a message that says I have no internet connection when I absolutely do. With the email app it tells me my username or password is incorrect even though I know they are correct. In addition I don't seem to be able to download photos or music from a flashdrive or MP3, except one photo at a time which I am allowed to use as my background. I have sent two emails to customer support and called them once, where I talked to a support tech whose sole support was as a cheerleader. She knew absolutely nothing technical but said she would ask her supervisor to "escalate" my ticket. That was a week ago and still no response.
Wow, that really stinks. I haven't had any of these problems with my A7. Are you experiencing sign in trouble with any other application?
How are your music and image files saved on your micro sd card? Just wondering if there's a simple explanation... these two issues, while really irritating, don't seem to be related. Tech support for the A7 should be a lot better... seems non-existent.
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Can you see the mp3's and photo's in a file manager?
Have you verified that you are indeed Internet connected by going to the browser and seeing if you can access Internet sites?
What application are you running for mp3's and photo's. Most will automatically discover your files.
Have you tried to copy them to an internal micro SDHC card to see if they are accessible? or to the internal disk of the A7?
I don't have the problem with kindle app, have you verified that uppercase/lowercase can be used vs. just lowercase in the entry of your id or password?
Are you using the standard A7 image or Dexters? Have you upgraded the OS image to the newest version?
hudd333 said:
Can you see the mp3's and photo's in a file manager?
Have you verified that you are indeed Internet connected by going to the browser and seeing if you can access Internet sites?
What application are you running for mp3's and photo's. Most will automatically discover your files.
Have you tried to copy them to an internal micro SDHC card to see if they are accessible? or to the internal disk of the A7?
I don't have the problem with kindle app, have you verified that uppercase/lowercase can be used vs. just lowercase in the entry of your id or password?
Are you using the standard A7 image or Dexters? Have you upgraded the OS image to the newest version?
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I've only been interested in trying a few of the other apps. The Aldiko ereader and Getjar apps work. None of the three Amazon apps or the FBReader work. I was using a flashdrive for the pictures, and I could view them in the gallery while the flashdrive was engaged, but could find no way to save them onto the tablet except by picking one and saving it as a wallpaper. When I picked another one, it deleted the previous one. The music I was trying to save was from a Sansa clip using a USB, but reading reviews on Amazon has pretty much taught me that the USB won't handle that, so when I am less discouraged I will transfer to a a micro SD and try again there. I have toggled back and forth from my Amazon account going the roundabout way typing in the address in the browser and trying to get the Kindle app to work (ditto for the email account) but always get the same responses -- the Kindle app says I have no internet connection and the email app says my username or password are incorrect. I have the standard A7 image, but I did do the most current firmware update, which of course wiped everything I had managed to do so I had to start over, but my problems weren't corrected.
Oh, and btw now three emails and one phone call to customer support have gone ignored for about two weeks now. I have decided I will send them a complaint e-mail every day for a little while and if still no answer will "escalate" my own e-mails to two per day.
I would try a hard reset and wiping the cache clear it will clear everything but along with that any possible problem. Remember you have 30 days to return it and or replace it so maybe do that instead of the email campaign or at least in conjunction with the email campaign.
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I got my elocity in the mail this week. I installed the 1.3 and the ad hoc fix. I tried to connect to the internet through my motorola backflip with Barnacle and nothing doing. Will someone help?
I have had my A500 tablet for about 2weeks and love it. I am still exploring it and getting use to HC but what I can not do is add my school email account which is an exchange format. I could do it on each of my other tablets (elocity, gtab) and I know those tablets were 2.2.
I have tried apps from the market that says you can use this or that to install email but nothing works. Any ideas would be appreciated. I would like to make this my go-to tab but with out this email account, especially during school months...
Thanks,
Touchdown is the App you want, and it works great on the A500. I use it for my corporate Exchange account. It has the best support for Exchange out of any programs I've tried so far, so give it a shot. There's a 30 day trial available, and if it works, I think it's only $20.
Hello everyone. This is "old" news but y'all should know that Box, cloud storage company, has a deal going on now through March 23. If you create an account through their app, then you get 50 gb free. I have always and will continue to be a firm supporter of Dropbox but there's no harm in taking this offer too. I'm not providing a link cuz its available in the Android Market/Google Play store.
i just signed up for this the other day, seems to work pretty well. the only problem I have with it is not android related, it is that my corporate firewall has blocked access to all online storage so i can't access the files on my computer. They block evernote and everything else useful too.
That's unfortunate, however I can understand why they would deny access to cloud storage sites. It's a necessary preventative step.
I signed up a while back when they were offering 50GBs for LG users using my Inc
Hi guys!
I am a happy android user on a galaxy nexus. I was waiting for the nexus 4 but I live in Italy and it is going to sell for about 600€ versus the 350$ so I'm pretty disappointed. I started looking around and I'm curious about the new WP8 and, especially, the Lumia 920. I haven't had a Nokia in ages!
The deal breaker is the app eco system.
I am a big Google services user and have understood that there is total sync capability while I m still undecided on the app part.
Is there a site with a list where I can find the most common apps or app categories on android and see if there is a counter part in wp 8?
My last resort would be going on the windows market place and just look around.
Thank you!
PS I searched in the forum but wasn't able to find anything very specific
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The best thing to do is search the marketplace yourself. You will find apps for almost everything you do on android, except those rendered useless by the system (in WP, system apps are actually doing a pretty damn good job and do not require replacement from the marketplace), but they are likely under different names, so a list would be very difficult and pointless to compile.
I switched from Android to Windows Phone 8 and i have everything i used on Android. Sure i miss some apps, like PowerAMP; Google+, a good Facebook App and a AD Blocker app. But i can life without them. There are some apps as well which sucks like WhatsApp, but i guess WhatsApp is goin to fix that soon.
What are your favorite apps on Android ?
I consider essential apps like
Google reader,
adobe reader,
kindle,
evernote,
medscape,
epocrates,
Dropbox,
whatsapp (I barely eve use SMS'),
And of course Google maps
I'm a doctor so I use a lot of medical apps but seeing the shortage on android vs iOS I bell believe wp8 only to be worse...
I have to ask what is the point of using Evernote as in Windows environment you have OneNote? You sync your OneNotes automatically to your Outlook (or Live/Hotmail) account and can sync to desktop.
Well, first of all I don't have a Microsoft environment (I have a Mac, galaxy nexus, iPad and nexus 7!) and second I have never had a windows phone so I really don't know how all the syncing works!
Since I work on different platforms I use drop box for documents and evernote for notes and everything is always perfectly synced!
mrc87 said:
I consider essential apps like
Google reader,
adobe reader,
kindle,
evernote,
medscape,
epocrates,
Dropbox,
whatsapp (I barely eve use SMS'),
And of course Google maps
I'm a doctor so I use a lot of medical apps but seeing the shortage on android vs iOS I bell believe wp8 only to be worse...
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Not sure what Google reader does, but it is not needed.
Adobe reader is present
Kindle is present
Evernote is present, although you have one note.
Drop box is present (although you have skydrive)
whatsapp is not needed
Google maps is not needed (you have offline maps: nokia maps)
As for other medical apps, i am not entirely sure what kind of medical apps you would expect to have, but there's plenty of WP ones.
Even if you use a MAC< getting a Microsoft account and using hotmail/outlook is easy(you only need a browser).
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Not sure what Google reader does, but it is not needed.
Adobe reader is present
Kindle is present
Evernote is present, although you have one note.
Drop box is present (although you have skydrive)
whatsapp is not needed
Google maps is not needed (you have offline maps: nokia maps)
As for other medical apps, i am not entirely sure what kind of medical apps you would expect to have, but there's plenty of WP ones.
Even if you use a MAC< getting a Microsoft account and using hotmail/outlook is easy(you only need a browser).
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Why do say that whatsapp is not needed?
Google reader is a RSS feed app
I already have a hotmail account, I just prefer to use less accounts possible (I know, I can filter and forward messages!)
I prefer Dropbox because all my friends and colleagues have it so it is just easier to handle files.
Off topic: just went to see a Lumia 920 and it looks really nice!
I think "WhatsApp not needed" is a typo. WP has WhatsApp and they are about to update it too.
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WP is like Android. MS wants you to have Outlook/Hotmail/Live email address to access marketplace etc. So you need to have the account. You dont need to sync the emails to your phone if you dont want. Also you use that account to connect with Twitter and Facebook chat. With that account you get SkyDrive space of I think 7gb for free (I got it upgraded to 25gb for free, but that offer is not valid anymore)
mrc87 said:
Why do say that whatsapp is not needed?
Google reader is a RSS feed app
I already have a hotmail account, I just prefer to use less accounts possible (I know, I can filter and forward messages!)
I prefer Dropbox because all my friends and colleagues have it so it is just easier to handle files.
Off topic: just went to see a Lumia 920 and it looks really nice!
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Dropbox is present and accounted for.
As for RSS feed apps, you have plenty. Google is not really active in Windows Phone area, as they will do everything to undermine the platform.
As for using accounts, Windows Phone has a very clean way of managing accounts. Just add them one by one, and you get different apps for each one of them, they are all nicely filtered and stuff like that. You can easily make a hotmail account for the marketplace and keep using your old accounts for the rest of the things you do.
ATM i have 3 accounts attached to my lumia 800: My "marketplace" account which happens to be my main email address, my developer account, under which i publish apps, and some yahoo email for family members. They are all working nicely.
@OP that's kind of a hard question. The apps depends on each user. Some people don't use any while others depend on very specific apps.
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Is there any good app that plays AVI or MKV files? for Android, there's MX player is there an equivalent app for W8?
I use Nextgen Reader for the Google reader app. Works better than the Google app on Android imo.
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Is there any good app that plays AVI or MKV files? for Android, there's MX player is there an equivalent app for W8?
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So far, there are no apps that let you play alternative formats/containers.
Regarding the OP: I can't find any medical apps on the marketplace, I'm sorry
You need a Microsoft account but you do not need another hotmail account. My Microsoft account is my corporate email address.
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shield001 said:
You need a Microsoft account but you do not need another hotmail account. My Microsoft account is my corporate email address.
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What, are you saying I could use my o365 account? I dont think so but please say Im wring here. My o365 account is configured so that my address is [email protected].
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What, are you saying I could use my o365 account? I dont think so but please say Im wring here. My o365 account is configured so that my address is [email protected].
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You can definitely use your O365 account for e-mail, etc.; if you also have a Microsoft Account (a.k.a. .Net Passport/Windows Live/other names it's gone by in the past) set up using that same e-mail address, you can use it as your main account that's tied to the Store, etc. to buy apps and whatnot. I was doing exactly that for a while ([email protected] hosted on Office365 and also tied in as a Microsoft Account). I'm no longer using Office365 to host that e-mail (just moved it to outlook.com for free since it's a personal account), but it's still my Microsoft Account. It all ties together nicely with whatever combination of accounts you use.
I was just looking at the app list for wp8 and its getting better.
mrc87 said:
I consider essential apps like
Google reader,
adobe reader,
kindle,
evernote,
medscape,
epocrates,
Dropbox,
whatsapp (I barely eve use SMS'),
And of course Google maps
I'm a doctor so I use a lot of medical apps but seeing the shortage on android vs iOS I bell believe wp8 only to be worse...
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Being a 4th year pharmacy student I can answer your medical application questions. There is no epocrates, medscape, lexicomp, clinical pharmacology, etc...
But there is a PubMed Mobile not made by them as far as I can tell. Just shows you search results and then when you click one it takes you to the website. Found an application called Drugs&Medications it's a dollar and tells you facts about drugs (company, dosage form, common indications, and links you to the FDA website didn't buy it so can't fact check it).
That being said I found some applications from http://www.unboundmedicine.com/products/windows_phone/ on the store.
So yes you're right it is worse. I've already accepted that I'll have to switch to an iPhone for my rotations lol.
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You can definitely use your O365 account for e-mail, etc.; if you also have a Microsoft Account (a.k.a. .Net Passport/Windows Live/other names it's gone by in the past) set up using that same e-mail address, you can use it as your main account that's tied to the Store, etc. to buy apps and whatnot. I was doing exactly that for a while ([email protected] hosted on Office365 and also tied in as a Microsoft Account). I'm no longer using Office365 to host that e-mail (just moved it to outlook.com for free since it's a personal account), but it's still my Microsoft Account. It all ties together nicely with whatever combination of accounts you use.
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Anyway if you could tie marketplace to o365 account, you still need Live (Hotmail or Outlook etc) to connect with Facebook chat and twitter. It is still best to have the Live account as main account and other accounts like o365 secondary.