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antiquegamer
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Anyone notice any other change with No Do and Samsung firmware beside the commonly known fix
- camera default to anti-shake
- fix mic/headset bug
- fix bluetooth bug
- my podcast cover show up now (it never did before)
wpcentral report that the capacitive button area is disable so it won't get activate by accident. You have to specific put finger directly on the "button". I test this just now and yeah it's much better especially playing game like fruit ninja.
Other thing I notice (but could be my crazy imagination) touch screen work better now when phone is laying flat. (before it sometime would not register the touch when not holding in your hand.
Also I didn't know if this was possible before but now I can have more than 1 bluetooth connect at the same time.
If you are using "unapproved" SD card and your phone reboot it will tell you that you have unapproved card.
Icon lag seems to occur less than before, not sure if this is firmware / no do or the new SD card I put in but I haven't have of the lag in both home and the app list.
- camera default to anti-shake
- fix mic/headset bug
- fix bluetooth bug
- my podcast cover show up now (it never did before)
wpcentral report that the capacitive button area is disable so it won't get activate by accident. You have to specific put finger directly on the "button". I test this just now and yeah it's much better especially playing game like fruit ninja.
Other thing I notice (but could be my crazy imagination) touch screen work better now when phone is laying flat. (before it sometime would not register the touch when not holding in your hand.
Also I didn't know if this was possible before but now I can have more than 1 bluetooth connect at the same time.
If you are using "unapproved" SD card and your phone reboot it will tell you that you have unapproved card.
Icon lag seems to occur less than before, not sure if this is firmware / no do or the new SD card I put in but I haven't have of the lag in both home and the app list.
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antiquegamer said:
I know what should be happening, but it's not.
I'm gonna try for round 3 later after I get home and eat. I'm like 99% sure it should have worked last time, but what cha gonna do? 3rd time's a charm right? RIGHT?!?! LOL :]
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Are there any homebrew apps that do wi fi tethering? I'm going on a mini vacation and I'll need to tether a few devices, but I'd hate to have to swap to my Nexus One for a week. I know there is a USB tethering trick for the Focus, but I'd like wi fi tethering if possible.
DayShallCome
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antiquegamer said:
I definitely noticed this - in fact, I compared my post-NoDo focus with my wife's pre-NoDo focus, and there's definitely a difference there.
Also loving the capacitive button fix - very good stuff.
Anyone else notice when you get a text and it does like a double tone? Sometimes it's in my pocket and it does the text tone + the extra one when I'd assume the light sensor picks up light, which is weird cause it's in my pocket. It also seems to do it sometimes when it's flat on my bed in light and I pick it up. Not sure if there's a weight sensor? Maybe I'm crazy.
Anton Sugar
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Milly79 said:
It does this for me if I text someone, lock the phone on the conversation, and then get a response. You get the single text tone, then you get a separate tone indicating its for the conversation you have open.
brotkasten
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Hey VanMardigan, I have good news for you. I just wanted to let you know that I had the auto-correction bug, which means you didn't imagine it and you're not insane.
Vanillalite
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Okay so good news.... I DID NOT get both updates rolled into one... BUT...
I just got home and plugged my phone into try and go back to pre NoDo while I ate since it takes a while. Boom Zune tells me I have a Samsung update!
w00t no need to go through all of that BS again!
PS: No clue why I got it this way and not the other way.
I just got home and plugged my phone into try and go back to pre NoDo while I ate since it takes a while. Boom Zune tells me I have a Samsung update!
w00t no need to go through all of that BS again!
PS: No clue why I got it this way and not the other way.
Anyone tried this? Decent game, looks fantastic. Surprisingly smooth. Basically you're Han Solo in a daft punk inspired tunnel, dodging colored boxes, trying to survive as long as you can. I hope it ends with you escaping a disco ball as it explodes into millions of sparkles.
EDIT, also turn OFF the sound of the video below. Reviewer is...ugh. Play Daft Punk instead.
Warp
EDIT, also turn OFF the sound of the video below. Reviewer is...ugh. Play Daft Punk instead.
Warp
antiquegamer said:
Love that they've fixed some of the small little annoyances. The flat bug indeed was a bug and it's fixed, read it on wmpower I think. I would also love to get this whole SD card confusion out of the way and have some approved large capacity cards. I know the 8 GB cards that are apparently certified are supposedly available, but 8GB is still a little low for my tastes. skipdeez on WP Radio said he was using a SanDisc class 4 16 GB card and said he hasn't had issues, might go with that, just wish they'd get on the ball and provide some higher capacity authorized cards without having the doubt as to whether they'll cause any performance issues.
Also, absolutely no offense, you're likely the most tech informed posters here, your posts have helped me a couple times, but I read your posts as drunk hulk.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
brotkasten said:
This is an insanely annoying new bug, and although I'm glad that I'm not actually insane, it's still troubling that it isn't widespread enough to demand a fix before the next scheduled update in the fall.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
PG2G said:
On webpages in iOS, you can hit the top bar to automatically scroll to the top. Immensely useful. Although WP7 scrolls faster than iOS.
Vanillalite
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Commodore said:
I gotta be honest. I've yet to find a non crap game in the gaming part of the marketplace that wasn't an official XBLA game. Sad I know.
MCD said:
Yes, that doesn't run as well as my version on iPhone 4.
(I have an unlocked Focus)
However, I am impressed with with what NoDo brought. I wonder if it fixed some of the wifi issues my Focus has. If MS can get Mango out on time, learn from their mistakes, and Nokia puts out a top tier phone...I might upgrade to that instead of another iPhone.
Vanillalite
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Da fuck... Whenever I goto Google now it takes me to Google Spanish WTF?????
PS: What are the steps to reenable the speed increase for 3g on the focus. Searching for that info is a bitch on my phone.
PS: What are the steps to reenable the speed increase for 3g on the focus. Searching for that info is a bitch on my phone.
Anton Sugar
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kazinova said:
I love Wordament, but some of these "words" are reaching
How come "mun", "ree", "nae", and "pere" are words and "cuban" isn't? Come on.
Went back a few pages and didnt see this posted.... http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/21/nokia-and-microsoft-sign-definitive-agreement-bring-windows-pho/
One step closer to hardware worthy of wp7....
One step closer to hardware worthy of wp7....
Brettison said:
● From the number-dial screen:
● Enter ##634#
● Diagnostics screen should open.
● Enter *#32489#
● Test mode screen should open.
● Press back at the bottom. (bottom right, not the phone's back button)
● Press 5 for RRC (HSPA) control.
● Press 1 to view what yours is set at.
● Press 2 to change it.
● Press 3 to change to Release 6 HSDPA/HSUPA.
● Press to confirm.
I haven't tried that many games, but of the ones I have tried these are the (non-Xbox Live) games that I would recommend.Brettison said:
AlphaJax (multiplayer Scrabble, is fun even if I suck)
Chicks'n'Vixens (at least until Angry Birds comes out)
ColorSpill (classic color game but has local leaderboards based on location)
Decimation X2 (classic Space Invaders game with crazy particles)
Krashlander (physics based gameplay, get your guy to the robots... levels are added fairly regularly)
Scribble Defense (tower defense type game)
TapSplosion (Geo Wars-like gameplay)
Trine's Hangman (constant leaderboard updating makes this way more addicting than it should be for hangman)
Word Tangle (Boggle game with leaderboards and lots of game options)
Wordament (As mentioned by others, MMO-like Boggle game)
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
While we are talking good free games, I'd like to throw out Unite, a physics/accelerometer game where you guide metal balls and get them together. Also, Swipy Man is a lot of fun.
I rarely reach 200 points, still haven't made it into the top ten. There's some seriously skilled players in the mix. But the way the game is set up makes it constantly alluring to keep shooting for the top. The ever changing restarting nature of the game makes everything in flux. Its genius.Klocker said:interesting thanks...still loving the game, getting my brain to work well enough to get a good score is a different story...
but having to get my brain to work AT ALL in a moblie game is a nice treat in and of itself.
brotkasten
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And while we're at it:VanMardigan said:
Blackboard Gems
Pixel Man Zero
Platformance
Quadra
TapSplosion (free)
Triangula
Nom Nom Worm
Pixodus
antiquegamer
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Commodore said:
LOL, no offense taken, English is not my first language and at time I know my posts came across as something written by a first grader. Also, I usually type my responses or posts at work and in between doing other things and I often get interrupted, which lead to posts that are incoherent mess. (Working night shift also doesn't help matter). I am sorry and I will try to write better in the future.
Speaking of future, this is interesting bit about some of the phones that are out in the wild. This along with that Dude, WIMU app shows there are several version of the OS and phone out there being tested.
http://www.wpcentral.com/game-stats-reveal-some-new-wp7-devices
So does this mean we might get 2nd wave of first year phones? or are they next gen versions. I don't know much about when and how new phones get release to market (I used only iPhone the past few years). I know there seems to be endless supply of new Android phones. There were rumors about another Dell Venue (At&t compatible) and we already know about HD7s.
antiquegamer
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PG2G said:
That would be great to have. I was so disappointed that all my game saves were all deleted after I reset my phones. I thought at least XBLA games would save to the "gamertag" like some of the games on Xbox 360.
I don't know any app that utilized Skydrive beside the camera and Office app.
Vanillalite
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Supposedly that is in the works. Like alot of shit though it's a wait for Mango thing sadly.MCD said:
Darth Tigris
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Now there is talk that HTC Mazaa device actually IS the Verizon Trophy.
http://www.wpcentral.com/game-stats-reveal-some-new-wp7-devices
http://www.wpcentral.com/game-stats-reveal-some-new-wp7-devices
Anybody run into a problem where you have to repurchase apps that you paid for? My brother had a problem with the NoDo update so he did a complete reformat and sync before I could tell him about the steps to allow the phone to update.
When he logs into zune through the software and goes to account -> purchase history -> apps, it only shows the apps that he has downloaded since he reformated. I had him send me a screen shot showing that it is only giving him the option to buy on an app that he had already paid for when he goes to the app page on the marketplace. For example, on ilomilo it shows the price on the window that pops up where on my marketplace, it says already purchased under price.
All the apps he bought were over the air on the phone. I guess it isn't a good idea to purchase apps like that?
edit: nevermind, he entered in the wrong live ID when he setup his phone again... He did find out that the Windows Phone 7 phone support is embedded under menus for Zune support.
When he logs into zune through the software and goes to account -> purchase history -> apps, it only shows the apps that he has downloaded since he reformated. I had him send me a screen shot showing that it is only giving him the option to buy on an app that he had already paid for when he goes to the app page on the marketplace. For example, on ilomilo it shows the price on the window that pops up where on my marketplace, it says already purchased under price.
All the apps he bought were over the air on the phone. I guess it isn't a good idea to purchase apps like that?
edit: nevermind, he entered in the wrong live ID when he setup his phone again... He did find out that the Windows Phone 7 phone support is embedded under menus for Zune support.
New random error:
I awoke to find my phone plugged in and unresponsive, as if it were off. Pulling out the cord and replugging it in did nothing. The power button wouldn't turn on or wake the device no matter how much I pressed it. Finally, I had to pluck the battery out and put it back in and then the phone powered on as normal with a fully charged battery.
Alarms were set, is there a new alarm bug? I also sync wirelessly, that might be the culprit as well. Any thought? Similar experiences?
I awoke to find my phone plugged in and unresponsive, as if it were off. Pulling out the cord and replugging it in did nothing. The power button wouldn't turn on or wake the device no matter how much I pressed it. Finally, I had to pluck the battery out and put it back in and then the phone powered on as normal with a fully charged battery.
Alarms were set, is there a new alarm bug? I also sync wirelessly, that might be the culprit as well. Any thought? Similar experiences?
Anton Sugar
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Need a recommendation for a portable speaker set! I'm going camping tomorrow and would like to be able to listen to my Focus for music--any recommendations that can be had at Best Buy/ATT Store/Target?
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