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
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Hey. I'm a new owner of a tytn, and everything has been going great with the learning curve. his forum sure has helped! But right now, I have a question that i cross posted in another forum in the hopes that someone can help me....
I wanted to download an attachment or two I sent myself on gmail. I connected to the gmail account via their web interface, and one was a cab file, and one was a zip file. I can see the e-mail fine, and the attchment appears as a link. However, when I right click on the attachment, I do not get the option to download the attachment. It gives me the menu-
select all text
back
refresh page
favorites
add to favorites
full screen
If I click on anything on a webpage, it gives me the option to save that thing. In fact, if I right click on the paperclip indicating that attachment instead of the link, it gives me the option of saving the picture of the paperclip.
Any ideas? is it a limitation of Gmail? Will I need to get push e-mail to be able to get attachments effectively? Or perhaps really use the e-mail functions instead of web based e-mail?
don't know about google but I can download attachments from yahoo mail or hotmail (standard and mobile versions) just fine, could be a google limitation but I believe you can download attachments from google using a third party program like flexmail.
for the record, I got an answer on HoFo... and I quote:
"neo, he's not using Mobile Outlook, he seems to be using Mobile IE to do it.
Blue Puma - what you need to do is enter in the HTML version of Google into the address bar. Go to Gmail on your desktop and click HTML and then email yourself that link. That should work.
Actually, to avoid confusion, here's a link that might work:
http://mail.google.com/mail/h/m6bqty081ipc/?"
it worked like clockwork.
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.
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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
hi,
I have outlook and outlook express e-mails in my pc for business archieve and copied them to storage card.
When I click on it, it says "there is no application related with this file"
How can I open them in HD2.
thanks.
any help please?
I use a lot of .eml & .msg formated files/messages in my business too. This sounds a little backwards but it's the only way I've been able to achieve what you're trying to do using windows mobile.
Attach the .eml file to an email and email it to yourself. The messaging program in WM is able to open it as an email attachment. However, make sure your email is set up as POP and not IMAP. For some reason, WM messaging on the HD2 will not open .eml files using IMAP mailboxes, only POP.
Alternatively, you can also run Darkstone's Desire HD V2 Android build and open using HTC messaging. This new version of Sense is the only Android build I have found that handles .eml and .msg files correctly on the HD2.
thank you fatappel.
awaiting for alternative advices.
first I may be totally wrong,
secondly I have no way to check it now (having no .eml file at hand),
having said that:
isn't the format based on html (if so you could try opening it in browser) or at least readable as plain text file (for this you could use notepad of any kind, or eve word in the worst case)?
if I'm correct, then all you need to do is assigning any of those apps to open file with .eml extension (either by hand in registry editor, or using Resco Explorer or similar)
if you can want, you could send me - preferably small - eml file, and I'll try checking it for you
thank you. but it don't work this way either.
any other advices?
.eml are purely for outlook express to read, you woudl probably need to convert them to another format for them to be readable on the hd2 email client
the alternative method is to load up outlok and import the messages into outlook then sync your phone with outlook
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.