what am I doing wrong?

[ritaxis]

I got this Nexus tablet to travel with but I can't work on my files with it. Mostly it just won't open things. When it does open things, everything is apparently read-only. I have tried four different apps: "document viewer," naturally only for viewing: kingsoft office, which a friend of mine uses to edit just fine: android office: and android open office.  There is just no responsiveness at all: I can view the text, and scroll around in it -- but the onscreen buttons don't work.

These are files from dropbox and google drive, and only the .rtf ones, not the .doc ones. The .doc ones produce a grey field where the text should be. When I was trying this with kingsoft, I got errors with .rtf, but the docs would open.

I have spent hours and hours and hours on this. I am actually heartbroken. The whole point of spending money I didn't have was to edit my files while I am traveling.

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

It does sound like a file permission problem.

- Can you create new documents and do they work ok?

- are the permissions on the serving side - dropbox/google drive set correctly, or might you need to add your tablet as an 'editing allowed' device to it?

- what happens if you email yourself the file as an attachment?


Failing the above:

- are there any parental controls/other limitations that might be inadvertendly set?

Hope you can sort it out soon!