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i cant find the backup. i'm looking for the path
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Phone Update\{Device GUID}\
but cant find the appdata folder. :/
 
Greyface said:
i cant find the backup. i'm looking for the path
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Phone Update\{Device GUID}\
but cant find the appdata folder. :/
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tools/folder options/view/*check Show hidden folders
 
I just signed up for AppHub via DreamSpark, where is mah email??? :(

I love how I take a class for fun at a cc once and get all of these student benefits for having a valid email address :P
 
WP7 Mango now less crippled down under

As Microsoft products make the trip across the Pacific, it’s not unusual for features to get lost at sea. After Windows Phone Mango Beta 2 ROM bits were released to the wild yesterday, a quick headcount reveals a surprising number of features that survived the journey – including both RTM and new Mango features.

Here’s what works in the current Mango build when the system region is set to English (United Kingdom) and search region is set to English (Australia) like the default without the region hack.

  • Improved: Speech recognition now supports the full function set (calling, texting, Bing search)
  • Improved: Bing Maps now shows local search listings (e.g. Bunnings) with basic information
  • New: Bing Local Scout works
  • New: Bing Maps directions works with tap-by-tap voice guidance including street names (with British pronunciations)
  • New Bing Local search works
  • New: Bing Vision works
  • New: Speech-to-text and text-to-speech text messaging works

Of course there’s still a few features which fell overboard.
  • Crippled: Bing Vision does not scan books, CDs or DVDs (only text, QR codes and Microsoft Tag)
  • Crippled: Bing Maps local listings does not show reviews
  • Missing: Bing Music Search does not show
  • Missing: Bing Quickcards (go to IMDB app) does not show
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http://www.istartedsomething.com/20110701/wp7-mango-now-less-crippled-down-under/

It's really the Bing stuff where Microsoft fails incredibly.
 
Love my iOS but damn. Win Phone 7 is really cool. If I ever upgrade outside of iPhone it will be with this. Think the UI design is awesome and really unique. Way better than android.
 
so is there any fix for push notifications for 3rd party apps? live tiles for facebook, flixster, rowi, none of them work.
 
Looks like I missed out on the first wave of developer invites which sucks because I need it for work :(

Not sure if I should try the XDA method
 
Yep, it looks like we have our first bug, surprise, surprise it's me... Phone went into and was stuck in flight mode... Just noticed it now :)

I did the only tech support thing I can think of and took the battery out, all is fine now.
 
I am currently considering buying a WP7.

Right now I still have a feature phone (that I never use….), but it looks like I will be doing an exchange semester soon (in France in the fall) and I think that would be the right time to switch to a smartphone (dictionary/translation apps, maps/gps, photos…).

Unfortunately I won't have time to wait for Mango or the Nokia phones. I'll probably buy the phone at the beginning of august at the latest and without contract.

I'm thinking I might go for the Omnia 7 or the Optimus 7, since those are said to be the best ones. Looking at ebay those can be bought for ~240 Euros and ~160 Euros respectively.


Any opinions on what/when to buy? Would you say the additional 80 Euros for the Omnia are worth it? Any reason to hold off from now till august?



P.S.

Too bad Germany/France won't get all those nice Mango features. Local scout would be nice. Or turn-by-turn nav.
(have MS by now released what Mango features will come to these countries? e.g. voice input/output?)
 
maeh2k said:
I am currently considering buying a WP7.

Right now I still have a feature phone (that I never use….), but it looks like I will be doing an exchange semester soon (in France in the fall) and I think that would be the right time to switch to a smartphone (dictionary/translation apps, maps/gps, photos…).

Unfortunately I won't have time to wait for Mango or the Nokia phones. I'll probably buy the phone at the beginning of august at the latest and without contract.

I'm thinking I might go for the Omnia 7 or the Optimus 7, since those are said to be the best ones. Looking at ebay those can be bought for ~240 Euros and ~160 Euros respectively.


Any opinions on what/when to buy? Would you say the additional 80 Euros for the Omnia are worth it? Any reason to hold off from now till august?



P.S.

Too bad Germany/France won't get all those nice Mango features. Local scout would be nice. Or turn-by-turn nav.
(have MS by now released what Mango features will come to these countries? e.g. voice input/output?)
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I have the Optimus 7 and must say that the Omnia 7 is clearly the better looking phone, but I still like my Optimus 7. The physical buttons are a huge plus for me (ask users with capacitive buttons how annoying it can get to hit the back or search button while playing a game :P) and even the Omnia's SAMOLED display can be a con, if you can't stand the pen tile matrix display. The build quality of both phones is pretty solid (both have Gorilla Glass).

Last time I checked, there was turn-by-turn navigation for Germany and France in Bing.
 
brotkasten said:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/201...ed-down-under/
It's really the Bing stuff where Microsoft fails incredibly.
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Some of those are such odd things to not work though. As I previously said, CD, DVD and Book artwork doesn't typically differ much in different regions. Why not just leave it turned on? It works flawlessly for me in the UK on everything I've tested it on with my region set to US. I guess they could easily work once Mango is ready for release though!

derFeef said:
Yes, Omnia 7 is mighty sexy.
And yes, capacitive buttons are annoying as hell sometimes :/
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They've been a lot better since the firmware update that turns them off when a finger is touching the screen though. Can't remember the last time I had an accidental press since.
 
Cj70 said:
Looks like I missed out on the first wave of developer invites which sucks because I need it for work :(

Not sure if I should try the XDA method
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There's no difference. All you need is an unlocked device and since you're a developer, you can install it.
 
InaudibleWhispa said:
They've been a lot better since the firmware update that turns them off when a finger is touching the screen though. Can't remember the last time I had an accidental press since.
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did not know that! is there a firmware update only for the Omnia?
 
NotTarts said:
Does Mango have music/video scrubbing yet?
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No, it doesn't. It's probably "by design". Doesn't really bother me, though. The only videos I watch on my phone are YouTube clips and my fav YT app, Supertube, has it's own media control interface, including scrubbing.
 
brotkasten said:
Nope, in fact, the Focus got the firmware update first.

http://techie-buzz.com/mobile-news/at7t-wp7-nodo-samsung-focus.html?amp&amp
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did the dell venue pro get this update too? by the way, has anyone gotten Mango on the venue pro?

Wonder reader just released an update so the app works better on phones running the Mango beta. Can developers add the multitasking for their apps right now?

NotTarts said:
Does Mango have music/video scrubbing yet?
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no but you can use the rewind and fast fwd buttons so it ain't so bad.

edit: could someone please make a lockscreen background with the "i heart Windows phone" icons in white and the rest on the image made transparent?
 
Greyface said:
no but you can use the rewind and fast fwd buttons so it ain't so bad
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Hmm, annoying. Seems pretty archaic, to be honest; sounds like they're not including it as to differentiate WP7 from the other platforms.
 
venne said:
So what's the verdict? Is the update worth it for the non-developer?
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The negatives for me (So Far):

Freezes more constantly. My XDA-Devs app (paid) and Boss Launcher exit immediately for me instead of starting. XDA launches time to time but freezes after a while and then exits

It took mah tethering ;_; I cannot tether anymore! Windows comes back with a "no dial tone" error even in composite mode

Facebook Chat and Live Messenger don't seem to be working yet. There are XDA Devs working on it, but when I play with it sometimes it freezes.

Bing has taken the place of Google in IE search. On my DVP when I typed in a search query in the URL box it would search it on google. Now it opens up the Bing app and gives me 3 or 4 useless web results and a million other media results.

The positive:

Everything Else
 
The Abominable Snowman said:
The negatives for me (So Far):

Freezes more constantly. My XDA-Devs app (paid) and Boss Launcher exit immediately for me instead of starting. XDA launches time to time but freezes after a while and then exits

It took mah tethering ;_; I cannot tether anymore! Windows comes back with a "no dial tone" error even in composite mode

Facebook Chat and Live Messenger don't seem to be working yet. There are XDA Devs working on it, but when I play with it sometimes it freezes.

Bing has taken the place of Google in IE search. On my DVP when I typed in a search query in the URL box it would search it on google. Now it opens up the Bing app and gives me 3 or 4 useless web results and a million other media results.

The positive:

Everything Else
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Facebook chat and WLM works just fine. You have to re-sync your FB account to make the chat work.
 
Facebook chat and messenger are working for me..

messenger worked right away.. facebook chat had to be configured on a computer.. I had to link my windows live to facebook and wait a few hours. An easy way to tell when it's done is to use windows live messenger 2011.. and wait until you have a "Facebook Chat" option in the menu.

Once I had that, I just had to disable and re-enable facebook chat on my phone and the FB contacts started appearing online.
 
brotkasten said:
Facebook chat and WLM works just fine. You have to re-sync your FB account to make the chat work.
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It did take some work but I have both wlm and facebook chat working.... that said I already disabled facebook chat again (had it disabled before and remembered why).

wlm is actually very awesome and its what me and my friends are going to use for messaging goiing forward (taking over txting).... also really cool that I will see updates if I am at my computer or on the xbox since both of those have messenger support and you can be singed in multiple places at once.



I also have scrubbing controls on video (atleast the podcasts)... you can move the little white dot on video by touching it and draggging.
 
Wazzim said:
Wow, thank you sir. It's backing up right now :)
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Happy to help.

I'll update my wife's Focus this evening as there are a good number of features she wants and, it appears, no major issues with the beta.
 
brotkasten said:
How does it work better? I only noticed that you can change the main menu order, but other than that ...?
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Before, I noticed that when I tried to post stuff some weird zooming happened when I touched the text box. I had to zoom out to find the post button. That's no longer happening.

Perhpas it was an isolated issue.

EDIT:

I'm now noticing some black bars over usernames after I go to last page. A refresh fixes it, tho. Believe me, a small issue compared to blurry neogaf image.
 
ochobit said:
Before, I noticed that when I tried to post stuff some weird zooming happened when I touched the text box. I had to zoom out to find the post button. That's no longer happening.

Perhpas it was an isolated issue.

EDIT:

I'm now noticing some black bars over usernames after I go to last page. A refresh fixes it, tho. Believe me, a small issue compared to blurry neogaf image.
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Yep that zoom thing used to piss me off too. Happy it's sorted.
 
ochobit said:
Before, I noticed that when I tried to post some weird zooming happened. Now I didn't notice anything wrong.
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Oh, that. Right, that was there. Never really bothered me, so I didn't notice that it was gone.
 
ochobit said:
Before, I noticed that when I tried to post stuff some weird zooming happened when I touched the text box. I had to zoom out to find the post button. That's no longer happening.

Perhpas it was an isolated issue.

EDIT:

I'm now noticing some black bars over usernames after I go to last page. A refresh fixes it, tho. Believe me, a small issue compared to blurry neogaf image.
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A refresh doesn't remove all the black bars for, but I can live with that. One nice new feature in the new browser is the scrolling indicator on the right side of the screen. I can finally figure out my position in a long page.
 
Greyface said:
A refresh doesn't remove all the black bars for, but I can live with that. One nice new feature in the new browser is the scrolling indicator on the right side of the screen. I can finally figure out my position in a long page.
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I could be wrong, but I think the indicator was always there.
 
brotkasten said:
I could be wrong, but I think the indicator was always there.
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It's there on mine, although with a change as big as Mango it appears to be easy to convince yourself something is a new feature if you never took notice before.
 
My Omnia 7, when on the lock screen, won't come on often despite pressing the Start button. Pressing the On/Off button works instantly and without fault. But when I leave the phone to sleep for a few hours, it needs to be pressed (Start) several times before the screen comes on
 
This is annoying, trying to use the tool linked before to mango my Omnia 7 but getting error code 80180048 when i get to the stage of letting zune do the first update. I see people who Walshed their phones having this error and using his tool to undo the walshing but I never walshed my phone.
 
Meus Renaissance said:
My Omnia 7, when on the lock screen, won't come on often despite pressing the Start button. Pressing the On/Off button works instantly and without fault. But when I leave the phone to sleep for a few hours, it needs to be pressed (Start) several times before the screen comes on
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That happens to me. But only because I'm an idiot and am somehow blocking the light sensor.
 
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