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Windows Phone |OT3 Update 3| Please be excited
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killer rin
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Man Xbox Music as a platform needs a big overhaul. I'm trying to use the XM app on Win8.1 and it's horrendous. All of my playlists are out of order and I have to click on each one individually to delete them. That plus the horrible battery performance I'm experiencing on my 920 make me a sad man
You think thats bad? Xbox Video keeps on telling me Videos and Television Series that I defined in Zune (from ripped and converted DVDs) still exist on my harddrive. It gives me an error when I try to delete them and even though I have reinstalled it twice it doesn't want to get rid of them.
The first two seasons of Venture Bros won't show up on my phone at all. They show up on my PC, XB1, and Surface just fine but not my phone.
killer rin
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This could have been useful 4 days ago when I had to present a phone app infront of the class
http://www.wpcentral.com/microsofts-project-my-screen-pc-component-available-download
http://www.wpcentral.com/microsofts-project-my-screen-pc-component-available-download
Steelyuhas
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Yeah according to this thread on Reddit that seems to be a lot of people's culprit, and it back be bugged causing more drain than it should.
I'm going to disable background for IE and see if that helps.
I'm going to disable background for IE and see if that helps.
Anton Sugar
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I realize this is Siri 101 but I'm loving that Cortana can define words for me. Makes reading dense books that much easier.
NeOak
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I'm curious about this too, since it doesn't keep the webpages in memory like it used to, making it reload every. damn. time. D:
What I'm hearing is that cortana runs off ie processes.
johnny_park
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Why? It said IE was using a lot of my battery in the background so I turned off IE running in the background. My battery has improved since I did that.
My battery life is bad and it says IE hasn't used anything in the background. Guess it'll depend on what websites you've got open
antiquegamer
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My phone died ... not sure when but it won't come on. I think it just out of battery due to random drain...so hopefully it will come back to life after I plug it in.
edit: did a hard reboot and that's fix it.
edit: did a hard reboot and that's fix it.
antiquegamer
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If it's reputable sellers I don't see why not, just make sure it will be compatible with whatever carrier you are planning to use it on.
n64coder
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The sellers do have good feedback. I will be using it with AIO wireless which is ATT so there should be no problems.
The official price for an unlocked phone is around $600 so I'm always leery if there's a big discount.
Did a hard reset on my phone and the performance is MUCH better. Only problem is my MS, Twitter, and LinkedIn in accounts wouldn't sync. When I would try to access my MS account settings, I would get a message that there was "a problem syncing blu403-m.hotmail.com at the moment.". Had to delete my Twitter and LinkedIn accounts before my MS account started syncing again.
I do love how well the backup and recovery now. It was so nice not having to worry about my tiles.
I do love how well the backup and recovery now. It was so nice not having to worry about my tiles.
Refurb Lumia 925 for $80 on AT&T with no contract
http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/nokia/lumia-925-black-refurb.html
http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/nokia/lumia-925-black-refurb.html
dglavimans
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I have a feeling it does though, did disable it it today and it looks like the drain is far less now, 3 hours in and 10 precent off with some use.
Yesterday was pathetic though.. Off the charger at 1 pm and 5 pm without any heavy usage it was down to 10 precent..
dglavimans
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antiquegamer
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I have a Euro 1020, that I brought with me to the US over Christmas, got a pre-paid card with (supposedly) 3G, and the speeds absolutely sucked, not sure if it was T-Mobile that had bad bandwidth (in Miami) or if the phone couldn't use the proper frequencies.
NeOak
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You'll have to get the AT&T version if you want LTE. AFAIK, it doesn't have to be unlocked for it to work on AIO.
T-mobile uses 1700Mhz for 3G, and 1900Mhz is some markets after the failed AT&T buyout.
LukasTaves
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My phone started misreporting the correct battery level. For instance, I end a charge and goes from 100% to 22% in 5 minutes, but from there I can use it pretty much the whole day and it will only drop bellow 22% after about 15 hours.
This is really bad because the battery sense app gets tricked into thinking that whatever I was doing when I unplugged my phone drained tons of battery, so the Usage info is pretty much useless for me now.
I'm noticing IE draining battery really fast too, just leave it with a page open makes my phone warm to the touch, and I usually have to kill the process, otherwise even in background my phone gets really warm. Battery sense isn't picking that properly too, as it always show IE as not using much battery when in background.
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But at least I figured out my issues with notifications. I have a unlimited data plan but after 1GB downloaded my carrier throttles the download speed, so I've set up a limit to manage how data I use, but I asked it to not do anything once the limits hit. This used to work fine in 8, but in 8.1 even though I specifically told to not do anything once the limit is met it seems it won't allow some apps to do work in background...
Another issue I have, that's more of an annoyance is that even when I allow an app to run in background when battery saver is on the app still annoys me everytime I enter it with a popup reminding me that battery saver is on. The app do work on background now, but I think that if an app is always allowed the system could report to it that battery saver is off.
This is really bad because the battery sense app gets tricked into thinking that whatever I was doing when I unplugged my phone drained tons of battery, so the Usage info is pretty much useless for me now.
I'm noticing IE draining battery really fast too, just leave it with a page open makes my phone warm to the touch, and I usually have to kill the process, otherwise even in background my phone gets really warm. Battery sense isn't picking that properly too, as it always show IE as not using much battery when in background.
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But at least I figured out my issues with notifications. I have a unlimited data plan but after 1GB downloaded my carrier throttles the download speed, so I've set up a limit to manage how data I use, but I asked it to not do anything once the limits hit. This used to work fine in 8, but in 8.1 even though I specifically told to not do anything once the limit is met it seems it won't allow some apps to do work in background...
Another issue I have, that's more of an annoyance is that even when I allow an app to run in background when battery saver is on the app still annoys me everytime I enter it with a popup reminding me that battery saver is on. The app do work on background now, but I think that if an app is always allowed the system could report to it that battery saver is off.
I'm interested in grabbing a 520/521 to try this out but have a few questions. Microsoft has the 521 for $70 but Best Buy has the 520 for the same price and I can just go pick it up. Will a 520 work on T-mobile? It seems the 520 and 521 have the same bands but I might be misreading something. Will all the features work even with the limited RAM?
NeOak
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520 won't have 3G on T-mobile. Get the 521.
Chance Hale
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Is there a general idea of how long it will be for the 1020's successor to come out? Or even the 1520 with a better camera/gg3? Starting to want to upgrade my 920.
antiquegamer
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No they are carrier locked.
lastflowers
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Devs would have to implement it.
Ah, that's what i was thinking.
I would do a hard reset, but don't want to lose progress in a few games.
killer rin
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Considering what people are saying, I guess I'm lucky that I haven't run into any bugs with 8.1 yet.
In other news, I'm having an interesting time working with the Universal Apps. I pretty much decided to rewrite most of my apps from scratch to take full advantage of all the cross platform features. I kind of wish the updated documentation was all there, but its not too bad.
In other news, I'm having an interesting time working with the Universal Apps. I pretty much decided to rewrite most of my apps from scratch to take full advantage of all the cross platform features. I kind of wish the updated documentation was all there, but its not too bad.
Steelyuhas
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Looks like turning off background tasks for IE certainly has helped my IE battery suck.
Rushersauce
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I don't have battery problems with my Lumia720. I dare to say it's even better.
Steelyuhas
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I believe it keeps tabs synced between your phone and IE 11 on your computer/tablet/etc.
Not sure what else.
LukasTaves
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How are you able to disable background tasks for IE? Mine doesn't even show an option for it.
Steelyuhas
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Tap on IE in battery saver and the option should be there.
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