I am trying to find a better way to listen to voice mail messages that are WAV attachments.
I installed Remote Wave Free for this purpose and used Gmail to set a default association for the wav file but the association does not hold up in the included email app, only Gmail.
I noticed that the extension is always capitalized so I tried creating a new association entry using Astro File Manager using the capitalized WAV as the name. I have tried both setting the association to wav and WAV within the setup but neither have had any success.
I then renamed the file to lower case wav and emailed it to both accounts. Now, in the email client when I click on the attachment it gives me an option of setting Remote Wave as a default but it will not give me that option when the extension is in upper case.
Is there anything else I can do to get this working as a default? Currently I have to download the file then open a file manager to select and play the message. When it is stored on the phone it does not matter if the extension is capitalized or not but only a lower case wav will allow the email client the option of setting Remote Wave as the player. If it is upper case Remote Player does not appear in the list.
Is there a way to associate the application with the mime type and extension it is able to play so it will appear in the list with the upper case WAV?
Nobody?
I was hoping someone could explain how an application knows which optional programs to provide when it is asking which app to open a file with.
Apparently Gmail does not care about the case of the file extension and the other email app does but I had hoped adding a capitalized extension of the correct mime type would have compensated for it.
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Introduction
Over several years of searching XDA and the rest of the internet, I have finally succeeded in arriving at a solution for synchronising my mobile device with my PC that works for me. It fulfils my requirements and I know from reading many threads, my methods will answer many questions for inexperienced users in particular. So I will share.
My PC System
Windows XP MCE SP3
MS Outlook
Windows Media Player 11
Activesync 4.5
AV Art Fixer for WMP and MCE (Freeware - donations welcome)
MobSync 2.0.3 (Shareware - This has a 30 day trial period and registration costs $8.)
My Mobile System
HTC HD2 Leo T8585
Windows Mobile 6.5
HTC Sense 2.5
HTC Audio Manager
HTC AlbumMost of this guide will however apply to variations on these specs. I will arrange my guide into 3 areas.
1. Contacts and Appointments: Using ActiveSync/MS Outlook/HTC Contacts.
2. Music: Using Windows Media Player/HTC Audio Manager.
3. Pictures, Videos and any Folder or File Type: Using MobSync.
Contacts and Appointments: Using ActiveSync/MS Outlook/HTC Contacts
ActiveSync does this well but I recommend avoiding enabling the Media option as this just leads to confusion, conflicts and endless loops. ActiveSync, for all its critics at least manages to sync your contacts and appointments. I would avoid using it for anything else, especially the Media option! Now every time you connect via ActiveSync any changes at either end will be synchronised.
Procedure
1, Download and install the latest version of ActiveSync to your PC.
2. Ensure MS Outlook has your contacts and appointments as you would wish.
3. Give your Device a name you like by going to WinMo Settings/System/About on your device and changing your Device ID. Use underscores instead of spaces. This just means you can see your devices name in ActiveSync and it's very reassuring. If you have more than one device then the benefits are enormous!
4. Connect your device to your PC via USB cable. Bluetooth or Infrared connection is perfectly OK but I figure it cuts out several middle-men-glitches if you just connect the two with wires!
5. Your device should ask you how to connect, choose ActiveSync and Enable faster data synchronisation.
6. A wizard will commence and on the second screen you will have to choose what to sync. I suggest just selecting the tick boxes for Contacts and Calendar. However, if you wish, no harm will be done by selecting the Notes, Tasks or Files options as well. The Files option is not very useful and I will give a much better solution to file syncing later in section 3.
7. Finish the wizard and the sync will begin.
Music: Using Windows Media Player/HTC Audio Manager
Many of us have had trouble understanding HTC's Audio Manager's relationship with Windows Media Player and I think I've just sussed it! We have all bulked at absent album art and music files listed in Audio Manager but not present on the device. The two golden rules are ensure you have album art in Media Player and never delete music directly from your device. To be absolutely sure you can make sure album art is embedded in your Media Player music files before syncing, but I no longer think this is essential. You will not have to fiddle with "Folder.jpg" files either. HTC Audio Manager will play other music formats but will only have correct ID3 tag info, and so album art, for the MP3 format. So only use MP3 tunes. The upshot is that HTC Audio Manager is quite capable of synchronising with your WMP library using mp3 files without having to separately create Folder.jpg files.
Main points
1. Change your HTC Audio Manager content ONLY via WMP.
2. Restart your mobile device after every sync with WMP and preferably, after this, visit the HTC Music tab.
3. Remember that the Now playing tab in HTC Audio Manager and hence the Music tab display in Sense will be out of date until a new selection is made to the Now playing list.
Initial sync
1. Organise your music in Windows Media Player. This can take some doing and some time and some cursing, but is very helpful. Tidiness is next to obsession, but worth it in the end. So try to get as much ID3 tag info as possible, but especially album art. Close WMP before doing anything else. (Optional) Use AV Album Art Fixer to complete any missing media information and album art. I have found this very useful in completing ID3 tag info for media files. It's not very intuitive but worth a fiddle. It will also embed album art if you wish for security's sake or simply piece of mind, if obsessional! Close AV Album Art Fixer before doing anything else. It will ask you to open WMP and click Tools/Apply Media Information Changes to complete its work. If you have duplicates or missing data or missing files this will potentially cause errors with your sync.
2. Create a playlist in WMP. Name it as you wish. The idea is that you will sync this playlist only with your device. However, once mastered, you can develop this idea further. The world will be your oyster! I name my playlist "HD2" so I don't get confused.
3. Add all music that you want on your device to this playlist in WMP. You'll have to work out how to do this for yourself.
4. Connect with USB cable. Use ActiveSync connection.
5. Set up sync partnership. A one screen "wizard" will start where you can name your storage card and that's all! Choose a memorable name, it's going to be helpful. Click on Finish and as soon as possible Click Stop Sync in the bottom right corner of the screen. If this Stop Sync button is not visible click on the Sync tab at the top of WMP and it will be there. If you don't stop sync WMP will fill up your phone with everything its got room for!
6. Change sync relationship to only sync your intended playlist. In the left hand pane of WMP your device should be listed. Right click it and select "Set up sync...". A dialogue box will appear which is very important.1. In the right hand pane there are lots of possible playlists to sync. Highlight them and remove them all to the left hand pane.
2. In the left hand pane select your special previously prepared playlist (See step 4 above) and add it to the right hand pane.
3. Select shuffle if you want but it's not necessary, you can do it on your device later.7. Click finish and hey presto! Wait for sync to complete.
8. Restart your mobile device. After syncing it is necessary to reset/restart your device in order for HTC Sense/Audio Manager to register your changes. Then when you next visit the HTC Sense music tab the revolving circle in the top left will indicate that HTC Audio Manager is updating its recordsChanges to sync
1. To remove songs from your device. Remove them from the WMP playlist and do a manual sync.
2. To add songs to your device. Add them to your WMP playlist and do a manual sync.
3. Change what's "Now playing". Also note that the "Now playing" HTC Audio Manager tab will be confused after you change the music on your device until you select another tune, album, artist, genre or playlist to play. The Sense music tab dictates what is in the HTC Audio Manager "Now playing" tab.
4. Delete sample music. You may with impunity delete the sample music from your devices file memory without a problem. You won't find it in WMP as it is only your storage card/internal memory that is synced.
5. Deleting from WMP. If you want to delete a song from your PC and it is synced to your Mobile device, it is wisest to remove it from the WMP playlist before deleting it.
6. Dummy playlist. A trick I use if it all goes wrong: Create a playlist in WMP containing one tune or even one picture. Then in the "Set up sync..." WMP dialogue box move the Music playlist out of your sync list and the new single item playlist into the sync list, and sync. This will remove all your tunes and add the single item. Restart your device and then reverse the procedure to get your music back to your device. WMP will not let you have a sync setup without a playlist in the sync list.
Pictures, Videos and any other Folder or File Type: Using MobSync
Procedure
1. Download and install MobSync.
2. Create folders on your PC where you wish to sync files. I chose to make a folder in "My Documents" called "PDA Pictures" for my phones pictures and a similar folder called "PDA Videos" for my phones Video files. You make whichever folders you wish with names you like, appropriate to the files you want to sync.
3. Locate where on your device the files you wish to sync reside. I find it best to let the phone do its thing here. By that, I mean, set your camera to use your storage card/internal storage for saving images/videos and they will then appear in the Storage Card/DCIM/100MEDIA folder
2. Connect your device using ActiveSync method.
3. Open MobSync.
4. Now add a Sync "Job" by clicking Job menu and then Add. Then you will have to decide what folder and files you want to sync.
5. In the dialogue box that ensues, name the "Job". I chose to have one job for pictures and one for videos so as the two types of files would be synced to my newly created PC folders separately. My first Job name was "Pictures" and my second "Videos".
6. Using the ... button below next, navigate to your chosen PC Folder ("PDA Pictures" in my case for my first Job), to direct your phones pictures to the correct folder on your PC.
7. Using the ... button below next, navigate to your chosen WM(Device) Folder, to direct MobSync where to find your phones pictures, in this example. This will be Storage Card or Internal Storage/DCIM/100MEDIA, as we decided earlier.
8. Now use the "Target File" box to decide what files within these folders you wish to sink. In this example, I chose to delete the "*" line and to edit the "*.*" line to "*.jpg". So you can see already how you can use this method to sync any file type from any folder as vaguely or precisely as you wish.
9. Click OK to complete the Job creation.
10. Repeat as you see fit. I then created a similar Job for videos which differed only in its name, PC Folder and the Target file type being "*.mp4".
11. Your Jobs will appear in the main window now and you can choose to sync when you're ready and set it to sync on connection and how often if you edit the Job.
So there it is! The music procedure is a little exacting, but in the end you get the hang of it. Feel free to suggest any changes in content or readability. Hope it helps.
Anyone know how to set a gmail specific tone and a diff tone for another email such as hotmail??
Also how to set tones for specific contacts? ?
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For the e-mail issue, I suppose it depends on the app you are using...I use Enhanced E-mail and in the account settings for each individual account you can specify a unique notification tone.
As far as contacts go, go to the Contacts tab of the dialer app, click on the contact you wish to assign ringtone to, select Menu and Options then select your ringtone...repeat as necessary.
If you don't want to use the supplied ringtones, I think if you create a folder on your sdcard (or maybe internal storage) called 'media' then sub-folder 'audio' then sub-folders there for 'ringtones', 'notifications', and 'alarms' then place your personal mp3/ogg files in the appropriate folder that should work (may have to reboot for system to recognize the tones). Alternately, you can just put the tones in the appropriate folder in the 'system/media/audio' folders (will need to mount the system as read/write in order to copy files over - I use ES File Explorer...just go into settings to enable rooted options then mount system).
Hi,
I have a ton of mp3 folders neatly organized on my GS2 and sometimes when I have people over I´d like to simply share a playlist that I´ve created on a folder. Is there an app that lets me do that? So far I´ve only found apps that allow you share files by manually selecting each file...which would mean having to select each song one after the last one ended.
WiFi File explorer lets you share any number of files/folders. You just type an IP address in any browser window.
On mac, I use an app called "FileShuttle" that lets me drag files onto it on my dock and it would create a random name (normally a bunch of numbers) for my file (to avoid file name conflicts) before uploading it to my own FTP server. So for example, when I drag my sample.jpg into FileShuttle, it would be called 4283748013.jpg instead.
I want to now if there's an app like that for Android, only, instead of having to drag and drop, I want to use the built-in "share" functionality in Android so along with Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, etc, I want to have an option to "Upload to FTP" or "Share with FTP" with the file file still being randomly named. After uploading, the path to the file (which I'll define) should be copied to the clipboard, ready for pasting.
Anyone know of such an app?
Wonder if you can help me please. I'm new to android and I'm using my icloud email address as my main account on the phone.
I get a weekly pdf document sent through to this email address and as far as I'm aware it does download the file and then the save file icon appears but when I press this I get the popup message of "cannot save file"
The document tries to open in archive view but again a popup message says cannot open page.
I've got Adobe downloaded but cant seem to find the file to open. I don't get an "open with" option either. I did once get a message about not having permission to save the file but have no idea how to rectify this.
Any ideas?
iCloud and Android is a bad combination.
I'm trying not to be rude, but Gmail is what is meant to be used with Android, and far superior too.
Sorry my English