Android smartphones are not supported by ADE, which means that the protocol

for hooking up ADE to your smartphone in order to transfer ebooks won't

work.  Aldiko is an app that reads ebook file types, no matter how they

were transferred to your smartphone.  Let's work from there.

Adobe Digital Editions has limits of supported devices.  As stated in its

HELP section, you can have up to two computers and four ereaders supported

by a copy of ADE.  ADE keeps track of each device when it's 'new' and

increments a counter on the central computer at Adobe.  Each time you try

to activate your smartphone, even though it's not supported, your

activation counter is increased until it hits the limit.  You have to

contact Adobe and get the technical support guys to reset your counter.

Some of them are quite helpful - others try to brush you off.  Be

persistent.

DRM isn't something you can get rid of.  Digital rights were established by

the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 2000, and are implemented in

epublication software.  These rights are assigned, managed and controlled

by publishers, distributors and even authors of epublications, and can't be

changed by the user.  What happens often is that the DRM is set to prohibit

copying an epublication once it's downloaded.  That setting prevents you

from transferring the epublication to your ereader once you've downloaded

it to your computer.  Nothing you can do about it - sorry.  As a point of

information, Adobe created one set of the software that manages digital

rights - Content Server.  Don't get that confused with Digital Editions,

which is a library management system.  BTW: Aldiko also observes DRM.

My suggestion is that you investigate how you're supposed to download

epublications directly to your smartphone if you haven't already (that

point's not clear from your post).  Aldiko will manage the epublication and

you won't have to worry about a transfer from someplace else.

Hope this helps!

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