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Another problem: Youtube app not working.

Like I click on a video but it only shows me a black screen then I'm back at the phone menu.

wtf.
 
MCD said:
Another problem: Youtube app not working.

Like I click on a video but it only shows me a black screen then I'm back at the phone menu.

wtf.
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Tried restarting?

Also if you have recently installed a new app like weather bug, uninstall, restart and see if you still have problems.
 
Well, I restored Omnia 7 factory settings and now when trying to set up my Windows Live ID account, it says I need to call support to activate it on my phone.

Don't think I can do that, any other way online?
 
Robobandit said:
You can get an edit cursor.. press and hold on the text and you'll get a text cursor that moves with your finger.. just let go when it's where you want it.
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:lol I'm a newb. Didn't know about that. Works great.


I got 2 mobile numbers by having one on each contact for my roommate.. I have one phone number from his facebook information and another from my google contact info.. you're right about not supporting multiple mobile numbers on the device.. but you could create separate contacts and link them together to get around that.

You could have one that was like Your Friend (text) and Your Friend (phone) and link them into a single contact.
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Well that's pretty lame.

When you say, "You could have one that was like Your Friend (text) and Your Friend (phone) and link them into a single contact", I'm not sure I follow. I didn't see a way to specify (text) at all? And there's only one mobile selection as well.
 
We're getting some snow here in the Seattle area today and the Winter Weather Advisory was just recently changed to a Winter Storm Warning. Right on cue, my phone buzzed with an alert from the Weatherbug app to let me know what was up. The notification that appeared at the top had the little Weatherbug logo on it and said "Winter Storm Warning." This was the first kind of app-related push-notification I've gotten and I have to say I love the way the phone handles them. The live tile also now has a little badge on it to notify me of the alert

Although I've noticed that for some reason the alerts that it pushes to me are for the mountain areas around here and not my local area, despite there being a warning for my area. Interesting little bug...
 
Raistlin said:
:lol I'm a newb. Didn't know about that. Works great.



Well that's pretty lame.

When you say, "You could have one that was like Your Friend (text) and Your Friend (phone) and link them into a single contact", I'm not sure I follow. I didn't see a way to specify (text) at all? And there's only one mobile selection as well.
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Create 2 contacts for your friend.

Describe one as Text and the Other as Phone..

go into your contacts list and merge them into a single contact by tapping on one and hitting the "Link" icon in the middle on the bottom.

Then you'll be able to call/text either mobile number that your friend has.

It's lame that you can't have multiple numbers listed as mobile, but in all fairness most people don't have more than one mobile phone number... so for most folks this isn't going to be an issue.
 
Hey guys! I need your help! How can I connect my windows phone 7 with my pc? I have the Zune software on the harddrive but unfortunately the Zune software can't recognize the phone :/ I bought the HTC 7 Mozart.


Edit. It's now connected with my PC <3.
 
Robobandit said:
Create 2 contacts for your friend.

Describe one as Text and the Other as Phone..

go into your contacts list and merge them into a single contact by tapping on one and hitting the "Link" icon in the middle on the bottom.

Then you'll be able to call/text either mobile number that your friend has.

It's lame that you can't have multiple numbers listed as mobile, but in all fairness most people don't have more than one mobile phone number... so for most folks this isn't going to be an issue.
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I'm sorry but I'm still not following you. What do mean by "Describe one as text"? When adding numbers, there is no option for text. It automatically uses the mobile number in the People hub.

With the amount of smart phone users employing services like google voice, there is probably a decent amount of people with separate text and mobile numbers. So either they need to have separate text and mobile selection, or offer more than one mobile.

Similarly, I'd argue that there's a fair number of people with multiple mobile phones. One a work phone, the other personal. Having the ability to text each of them would be quite useful. Couple both of those situations together and I doubt it is nearly the corner case you believe.
 
Raistlin said:
I'm sorry but I'm still not following you. What do mean by "Describe one as text"? When adding numbers, there is no option for text. It automatically uses the mobile number in the People hub.

With the amount of smart phone users employing services like google voice, there is probably a decent amount of people with separate text and mobile numbers. So either they need to have separate text and mobile selection, or offer more than one mobile.

Similarly, I'd argue that there's a fair number of people with multiple mobile phones. One a work phone, the other personal. Having the ability to text each of them would be quite useful. Couple both of those situations together and I doubt it is nearly the corner case you believe.
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I mean make the contact name "Your friend (text)" and "Your Friend (phone)".. i.e. create 2 contacts, one for each of your friend's mobile numbers and then link them into a single contact entry.
 
got my phone (HTC HD7) a couple of hours ago. Almost filled up with my Zune Marketplace stuff. One of the things I wished it had was a jabber client though. My lowly Sanyo Juno had a AOL/MSN/Yahoo client which worked for me, I'm sure one will be released for the win 7 platform. Unless there is one that I haven't found yet?
 
Robobandit said:
I mean make the contact name "Your friend (text)" and "Your Friend (phone)".. i.e. create 2 contacts, one for each of your friend's mobile numbers and then link them into a single contact entry.
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What is the parenthesis stuff? Placing it in as part of their doesn't seem to do anything?


What your method will do is allow multiple mobile phones, so at least it's workable. It's still kind of crappy though since it will show up as 'call mobile, call mobile, text mobile, text mobile'. Usable, but cumbersome.

The point obviously is it shouldn't be this cumbersome. If linking accounts allows multiple mobile phone numbers, than why can't you just manually add a second mobile? And more useful why can't you simply edit to have a separate mobile and text instead of having duplication but using the multiple contact method?
 
A girl at my work had gotten a Windows Phone and was telling me that there was no way to set custom ringtones. Is that true? Also, is there any shoutcast apps yet?
 
Thanks to a friend (and a gaffer) I managed to get a code, he just called them for me and after several tries, we finally got one.

Another issue I ran into was Hotmail not downloading any messages and giving me this error:

df.s.live.com server error no 80072efd.

I fixed it simply by changing server from df.s.live.com to m.hotmail.com

As simple as that.

Now the only remaining issue left is youtube not working. I can only see a black screen then it returns to the main menu. Hitting back gives me this error:

There was a problem playing the video you selected. If you are connected to Zune, disconnect and try again.
 
Raistlin said:
What is the parenthesis stuff? Placing it in as part of their doesn't seem to do anything?


What your method will do is allow multiple mobile phones, so at least it's workable. It's still kind of crappy though since it will show up as 'call mobile, call mobile, text mobile, text mobile'. Usable, but cumbersome.

The point obviously is it shouldn't be this cumbersome. If linking accounts allows multiple mobile phone numbers, than why can't you just manually add a second mobile? And more useful why can't you simply edit to have a separate mobile and text instead of having duplication but using the multiple contact method?
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My thought for the parenthesis was just helping to designate which contact was which and was part of the illustration of creating two separate contacts.

I agree that it's clunky.. and I'd be surprised if they didn't change it in the future.
 
You know what would be great- while we are on the subject of bitching about messanger clients- if MSN didn't crash every so often.
 
Raistlin said:
:lol I'm a newb. Didn't know about that. Works great.



Well that's pretty lame.

When you say, "You could have one that was like Your Friend (text) and Your Friend (phone) and link them into a single contact", I'm not sure I follow. I didn't see a way to specify (text) at all? And there's only one mobile selection as well.
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You can't make custom phone labels in the contacts section?

iPhone's contact section supports it but it's not immediately obvious. Try pressing on the label to see if it can be renamed.
 
Raistlin said:
Here a thread with some useful trips and tricks
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Thanks to this one, I have a nice NeoGAF logo on my start page!

When pinning a page to your start screen in Internet Explorer:

Make sure you are zoomed in on a recognisable part of the page. The current zoom level of the page becomes the Tile snapshot image.

Tip is then: Zoom in on the page logo etc!
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CrankyJay said:
You can't make custom phone labels in the contacts section?

iPhone's contact section supports it but it's not immediately obvious. Try pressing on the label to see if it can be renamed.
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Renaming isn't the issue it's the fact that the type is used to automate actions. I'll show u what I mean Wednesday. It's hard to describe if u aren't familiar with the UI
 
Currently setting up my wife's Focus.

I must say, syncing media with Zune software is a revelation coming from iTunes. Very impressed.
 
MCD said:
Now the only remaining issue left is youtube not working. I can only see a black screen then it returns to the main menu. Hitting back gives me this error:

There was a problem playing the video you selected. If you are connected to Zune, disconnect and try again.
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Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
 
I finally figured out how to change the background image and live tile image for the Pictures app.
Can't believe it took me this long, haha.
 
venne said:
Currently setting up my wife's Focus.

I must say, syncing media with Zune software is a revelation coming from iTunes. Very impressed.
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Lucky you. I went from zune to itunes, syncing is archaic compared to zune.
 
trinest said:
So how do you do that?
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Oh, ha.

Open up pictures, and just press and hold on the background image.

It gives you the option to choose your own background, or have the phone pick a random one to change.
 
Topher said:
Lucky you. I went from zune to itunes, syncing is archaic compared to zune.
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Not to mention taking forever to do so on iTunes. Often time when I have to sync my iDevices I would have to dedicate the time when I know I won't be needing the phone or the iPad for at least an hour.

I love how fast my Focus sync, though I am hoping for better podcast and may be in the future app management and sync (which would be useful for those stuck with 8gb space).
 
antiquegamer said:
Not to mention taking forever to do so on iTunes. Often time when I have to sync my iDevices I would have to dedicate the time when I know I won't be needing the phone or the iPad for at least an hour.
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Alright, as slow as iTunes can be, this is hyperbole.
 
Anyone know if WP7 supports whatever codec iPhone uses when it sends videos via MMS? I've gotten a few videos from friends and I just get a black screen with audio.
 
Talon- said:
Alright, as slow as iTunes can be, this is hyperbole.
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Syncing my iPhone 3G took 45min bare minimum. My Focus syncs while I sleep wirelessly:D . I love everything about Zune on PC, its lightyears ahead of the turd that is iTunes.
 
kazinova said:
Syncing my iPhone 3G took 45min bare minimum. My Focus syncs while I sleep wirelessly:D . I love everything about Zune on PC, its lightyears ahead of the turd that is iTunes.
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Same. My 16GB 3GS would take a minimum of 20-30 minutes to backup and sync.
 
Mr. Snrub said:
Same. My 16GB 3GS would take a minimum of 20-30 minutes to backup and sync.
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So to compare I plugged in my phone to the computer and it launched Zune and synced in about a minute and a half. I love the report it gives you of what photos and videos it backed up and what songs and podcasts were removed or added to the phone.

I was worried that I'd lose the great podcast experience that my iPhone had but its 100% comparable. I manually added each series that I want up to date and it handles the rest. What a slick system. All it needs is a skip back 30sec button to be sheer perfection.
 
PG2G said:
Anyone know if WP7 supports whatever codec iPhone uses when it sends videos via MMS? I've gotten a few videos from friends and I just get a black screen with audio.
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Not sure but I could test later with my mom who has an iPhone 4.

PS: Wow thread over 2000 posts now. GAF curiosity/excitement over WP7 confirmed!
 
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