I have the colornote app on my gs3 and regularly use this for notes. It automatically saves your notes to a backup file as a .dat file. This saves to my micro sd card; I have put these files on my Win7 pc yet nothing on my pc can open and view these files. I have tried notepad, wordpad, ms word, internet browsers, etc. When it opens in notepad it is just Chinese characters. I have tried opening the files in notepad and saving as a .doc or .txt and that doesn't work. I have scoured the internet and found no answers. I could easily copy and paste to my email, but I do not want my intellectual property out there (cautious privacy concerns).So my question is, is there any way I can view these .dat files on my pc, or any way to get my notes on my pc in a different format that will be readable? And if there is no way to do this what other note apps work well that save your notes as a doc or txt?Thanks for the input.
It's probably a data table. Try using excel. If you don't have excel, then try installing openoffice.org and open it as a spreadsheet.
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how to make ANY OTHER viewer default-we have invested in these handset- so we can send out job sheets to engineers -however unless they save them first(unlikey) clearvue will always be the default viewer- and guess what- pdf unreadable have tried all pdfs viewers(and they work) but none disable clearvue.
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run this app from you pc to install in the pocket pc...then open the app and set the pdf file extension to the default viewer you want.
done that and is set to acrobat reader but pdf still open with clearvue? have done soft reset etc etc any thoughts?
Is there any way to save the attachment to your sd from gmail? Only thing it allows me is preview. Thanks.
I do this through the internet browser.
You may want to make a shortcut to gmail.
fishtank said:
Is there any way to save the attachment to your sd from gmail? Only thing it allows me is preview. Thanks.
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The other day I sent a word document and a PDF document to my gmail account from my work PC. I received it on my phone, opened up the email, clicked preview and it opened up with DocsToGo. Once it was opened I clicked menu>file and saved it to my SD card. Easy as that...
Usually at the bottom of the email there is a way to either preview of download attachment. I also believe it depends on what file type it is and if you have a file explorer that can handle it. Get Astro File Explorer and that should take care of your problem.
Files are usually pdf. downloaded full version of documents to go. View and save. Thanks for replies.
You can try GSaver to save or open your gmail attachment on Android.
just search GSaver to find it out. It's completely free
Is there a way of copying text from the windows clipboard into the android phone? I have Bible notes in a windows program that I want to copy to an android program. they are made by different companies, so the easiest way to copy would be to do a verse by verse copy and paste. However, I don't see how I can use my windows machine to get into the android clipboard.
I tried using droid explorer, but couldn't figure it out. I was able to do a screencast.
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Best way to do it is to copy the text on the pc into a txt file, like using notepad. Copy that to your phone, then open it using a file explorer, use that text editor, copy it on the phone, then paste it where you need it.
Yes, every will work. Not sure why I didn't think of that. I guess when you have something stuck in your head, it's sometimes hard to figure out alternatives.
To add on to what's already been said, once you save it as a .txt file and save it to your SD card you can import it into AK Notepad. I'm sure that there are other apps that allow this, but that's the app I use & I know that it works. You can also create a shortcut to the imported file on your homescreen (long-press on the note from within the app and select "pin to homescreen") or add a widget so you can access it easily.
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You can also use the Google Chrome to Phone extension and program to push snippets of text from your browser to the phone. I'm finding myself using Evernote more than that lately though. Catch notes, Springpad, or any of the other notepad apps that sync would work. It's nice because it works great both ways -- I can copy something from the phone and create a note, then read it from the PC, or vice versa.
Thanks all. I will use google docs. They already have my information.
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Is there a way of copying text from the windows clipboard into the android phone? I have Bible notes in a windows program that I want to copy to an android program. they are made by different companies, so the easiest way to copy would be to do a verse by verse copy and paste. However, I don't see how I can use my windows machine to get into the android clipboard.
I tried using droid explorer, but couldn't figure it out. I was able to do a screencast.
tyi
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A bit late, but here you go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821738
Really don't know what happened but I deleted an important and un-backed up folder containing important lab files from my Skydrive yesterday.....I nearly went mad. It brought me to the idea of an undelete feature in skydrive which I think can help most of us in this situation since once it's deleted, there's no way of getting it back. I even learnt Dropbox has an undelete feature so why can't MS incoporate it in Skydrive? Is it not possible?
Really don't know what to do now
I'm not sure exactly what process you're using, so I'll explain how I tested.
I'm using the updated SkyDrive app and the SkyDrive PC app as well. So, I have a folder on my D:\ whose contents are synced to SkyDrive and accessible from my phone.
On my laptop, I made a notepad file called SkyDrive Undelete Test.txt
I saved it to my SkyDrive folder
Confirmed via the office app that it was there, but was not easily deletable
Used the SkyDrive app to find/view the file
Deleted by long pressing the file name and choosing delete and confirm
Upon returning to my laptop, the file had been moved to my Recycle Bin
So, the question is, did you delete from the app on your phone or from the web on your computer... AND... had you updated/upgraded your SkyDrive to get the PC synchronization feature? If you updated, it should have already downloaded all of your files from SkyDrive online to the same folder on your hard drive. Of course, if you deleted before this process, you may be screwed.
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You could start by backing up important data.
anseio said:
I'm not sure exactly what process you're using, so I'll explain how I tested.
I'm using the updated SkyDrive app and the SkyDrive PC app as well. So, I have a folder on my D:\ whose contents are synced to SkyDrive and accessible from my phone.
On my laptop, I made a notepad file called SkyDrive Undelete Test.txt
I saved it to my SkyDrive folder
Confirmed via the office app that it was there, but was not easily deletable
Used the SkyDrive app to find/view the file
Deleted by long pressing the file name and choosing delete and confirm
Upon returning to my laptop, the file had been moved to my Recycle Bin
So, the question is, did you delete from the app on your phone or from the web on your computer... AND... had you updated/upgraded your SkyDrive to get the PC synchronization feature? If you updated, it should have already downloaded all of your files from SkyDrive online to the same folder on your hard drive. Of course, if you deleted before this process, you may be screwed.
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Wow, thanks for your detailed help. Actually deleted the app from my phone app and don't have the pc app yet so maybe I'm screwed.
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Guys,
Here's a problem that has me confused ~ With the exception of Evernote, no matter what Notes app I use if I open a large document file and select all the typed content then copy to the Clip-Tray, if I then go to any other notes app and select paste, only the top half of the notes in the doc file get pasted.
However, if I do the same in Evernote, all the docs notes get copied across!
It would appear this problem is isolated to my G3 because if I try and do the exact same on a different phone, the entire doc and all it's notes gets copied and pasted across.
Any ideas why there is this limitation?
P.S. I can't use Evernote because this particular doc has a lot of passwords. As such I need to use a secure notes app (which I have 'msecure' and have tried the same with others).
Further confusing ~ Even with only half the typed notes copied and pasted, if I then try to edit and type in the missing notes, although the keyboard pops up and I can type, however nothing gets added to the file.
Basically you can happily type as much as you want but nothing is added on screen or in the doc file.
Thanks in advance.
Anyone........ Any ideas?
It's driving me nuts.
I tried installing another notes app and same thing happens, I load a notes file into it but I can't add any more text to the file.
So no one has any ideas or thoughts on the subject?