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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1
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brotkasten
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Steelyuhas
Member
The ATT version doesn't have 32GB internal storage and Qi charging that the 1520.3 does, so probably worth getting that one if you can find one.
NeOak
Member
Steelyuhas
Member
Whoa, how did you slip past the mandatory ATT device nerf
Anton Sugar
Member
Xbox Music (music.xbox.com) is now Groove Music (music.microsoft.com)
Functionally, doesn't look like much, if anything, has changed.
Functionally, doesn't look like much, if anything, has changed.
brotkasten
Member
At least Microsoft.com/Groove doesn't redirect you to SharePoint anymore, like it did a week after launch of Groove.
The Cowboy
Member
Got myself a 640 2 days ago, really nice looking phone IMO.
Having an issue though, a couple of apps/games I've bought off the store simply won't download. Most apps download just fine, as do a lot of games etc but 2 apps don't with an 80073cfb error.
I've tried all the fixed to the point of a full restore of the phone (it was only just purchased so not much stuff to re-download), but no matter what these 2 apps refuse to download for me.
Edit.
Guess i should have posted here sooner, they are now downloading - lol.
Having an issue though, a couple of apps/games I've bought off the store simply won't download. Most apps download just fine, as do a lot of games etc but 2 apps don't with an 80073cfb error.
I've tried all the fixed to the point of a full restore of the phone (it was only just purchased so not much stuff to re-download), but no matter what these 2 apps refuse to download for me.
Edit.
Guess i should have posted here sooner, they are now downloading - lol.
I get that every now and then with some apps, as you noticed, it usually just works by itself after a while (usually the problem isn't on your end). For instance, for 2 days now, Bing Translator has been acting up, and not downloading, apparently Microsoft renamed Translator to Bing Translator, but cannot update it, so you need to uninstall the old translator app and then the "update" works.
Had same issue with fitbit a few weeks back as well.
brotkasten
Member
Well, it isn't a -gate. Yet.
But what really, really bothers me, and I'm going to sound like a broken record, is the lack of any kind of presentation in Groove.
It's still an animated spread sheet right now and super boring.
That's my perception of Windows 10 Mobile right now.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I opened up the Android Groove Music app to see if it was centered on that version...... only to realize we don't even have a scrubber.
So.
Yeah.
PseudoKirby
Banned
hell yea found windows insider
although I thought that the preview for developers already did this for my phone...
although I thought that the preview for developers already did this for my phone...
José Mourinho
cocknose
Not really the place to ask but am I missing something seriously obvious with OneDrive and the displaying of images?
I swear it doesn't provide a single usable URL. Is it staring me in the face?
Edit: seem OneDrive doesn't provide static URLs. Useful.
I swear it doesn't provide a single usable URL. Is it staring me in the face?
Edit: seem OneDrive doesn't provide static URLs. Useful.
there is a new and different app for windows 10 insiders.
NeOak
Member
It was online only.
CaptainABAB
Member
For all of us WP fans...Joe Belfiore from 20 years ago....
https://vimeo.com/128528337
Especially the comment at 1:45
https://vimeo.com/128528337
Especially the comment at 1:45
lastflowers
Banned
how things change....and how things stay the same.
brotkasten
Member
What? Apple had their iPod U2 Edition...
NeOak
Member
I remember that
Seriously, I don't get Microsofts decision to lock Cortana to regions. I've said it before, many others have as well, and we've learned to live with it.
But now with Windows 10 and Edge, it's bubbling up again for me at least. Mark some text in Edge, right click, no search option, and since there's still no extension support in Edge, there won't be for a while. But guess what, if you enable Cortana, you get an "ask Cortana" option in the menu! How fucking sweet that Cortana isn't available in my region...
So how about this Microsoft, allow me to decide if I can live with Cortana not being localized to my language or not, don't fucking lock it away.
/rant
Edit: and to add to this silly decision, the how-to pages for Cortana are localized to Swedish:
http://www.windowsphone.com/sv-SE/how-to/wp8/cortana/solutions-to-cortana-issues
"you can't use this feature in your country, but if you could this is how you'd solve some of the issues you might have faced". And the ones that are using it in Sweden by changing region/language, don't need localized help.
This sort of shit never ceases to amaze me.
But now with Windows 10 and Edge, it's bubbling up again for me at least. Mark some text in Edge, right click, no search option, and since there's still no extension support in Edge, there won't be for a while. But guess what, if you enable Cortana, you get an "ask Cortana" option in the menu! How fucking sweet that Cortana isn't available in my region...
So how about this Microsoft, allow me to decide if I can live with Cortana not being localized to my language or not, don't fucking lock it away.
/rant
Edit: and to add to this silly decision, the how-to pages for Cortana are localized to Swedish:
http://www.windowsphone.com/sv-SE/how-to/wp8/cortana/solutions-to-cortana-issues
"you can't use this feature in your country, but if you could this is how you'd solve some of the issues you might have faced". And the ones that are using it in Sweden by changing region/language, don't need localized help.
This sort of shit never ceases to amaze me.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Can it get down with the sickness?
Opus Angelorum
Member
Ooo agh agh agh agh!
SpankmasterC
Member
Windows Phone gods!
Now that Microsoft is stopping with their Health & Fitness-app, I need some other app that can use the built-in stepcounter of my 930. Any recommendations? I don't care about all the fitness stuff at all, just my steps! (but if it's included in some app it's not a problem, I'm very good at ignoring things)
Now that Microsoft is stopping with their Health & Fitness-app, I need some other app that can use the built-in stepcounter of my 930. Any recommendations? I don't care about all the fitness stuff at all, just my steps! (but if it's included in some app it's not a problem, I'm very good at ignoring things)
Microsoft Health (the app that interacts with Microsoft Band) has that functionality I believe)
megarockexe
Member
So on Windows 10, now that they removed the useful Windows Phone sync app, what am I supposed to do to simply plug my phone in and have it auto-sync my latest pictures? The replacement Phone Companion app doesn't really do anything. Except maybe try to dump all 2000 files haphazardly into my Pictures folder instead of the From folder like the old one did. Really upsetting that it's basically all manually done now.
Any reason you don't just upload them to OneDrive in the background?
As horrible as it is, I think the Photos App took over for this?
I'm trying it now, so I'll find out shortly....
edit: okay, it took a few mins of "finding" pics & vids, but it's started importing them now. I wonder if it offers a way to get the highres 1520 pics
edit2: yay! it's actually copying them over. That's very nice....
Steelyuhas
Member
There is importing photos from devices in the Photos app, haven't used it myself though.
It's pulling the highres versions which I like, but it's also pulling rich capture *.nar files, which is rather ridiculous.
If the phone is Windows 10
I have a 640 when will I be able to upgrade to 10 on my phone?
Sky Interloper
Member
When it is available, yes.
hankster
Member
I'm running it on mine right now. Still some rough edges but I used it for a week as my only phone.
megarockexe
Member
And you could tell it to use the From Windows Phone folder and it only offered to transfer new images in subsequent attempts?
Also, my 920 has started getting SIM card errors. Is this the beginning of the end for my phone?
n64coder
Member
Who is your cell provider? I would try first getting a sim card replacement.
runningjoke
Member
Not happy with the new volume indicator in Win10 mobile. On 8 it was just a number which is fine, but now it's a bar that fills up. I only need to change my volume if I'm watching a video and I do that in landscape mode. Press the volume rocker on the left side and the bar fills up to the right.
Don't know yet how it will work next time I transfer images...I was concerned about that as well. Will it simply retransfer all the .nar files? Will it retransfer all the highres ones I deleted?
I hope not!
LukasTaves
Member
Is it just me or are the Here apps not appearing in the new store? Even with a directly link I either get an error or the app page, but saying it's no longer published so I can't install.
juliushandle
Member
ATT only has the 635 and the 640XL listed. Strange that the 640 went missing.
NeOak
Member
juliushandle
Member
Ahh OK, it's banished as a GoPhone.
hankster
Member
Works great with a Cricket SIM...
I believe MS has taken over their development and has rebranded them as MS apps. The default camera and maps apps at least.