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Pork Pie Hat: Apr 27, 2011

I too desired a massive yellow phone, so I ordered a Lumia 1520 from some outfit on amazon and it arrived this morning.

In the past, I've had a 920, and despite the 1520 being big (though, because I have big hands, it actually sits in my hand really nicely. Thanks childhood piano lessons!) it feels like far less bulk than the 920. Anyway, the thing is brilliant, I'd forgotten how much I enjoy windows phone as an OS.

I was really impressed with my phone company as well. I walked into the Three shop in town, told them that I am a PAYG customer with a micro-SIM, that I needed a nano-SIM and they just swapped everything over, right there and then. Now sure, it may well be that it's a sad state of affairs that customer service impresses me by it's uncommonness, but nonetheless, I was impressed with them. So thanks Three.

On a side note, is this the thread to ask dumb questions about making windows phone apps, or is there somewhere else for that?

# ? May 20, 2014 16:52

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Pork Pie Hat posted:

On a side note, is this the thread to ask dumb questions about making windows phone apps, or is there somewhere else for that?

There is no Modern app development thread yet. I've been wanting to start one, but I don't know what should go in the OP. You can just post in here for now if you have questions; there are a few of us who can help out.

# ? May 20, 2014 17:29

Jewmanji: Dec 28, 2003

Xylo, can you tell me the most effective place to lodge my bug report? As detailed a few pages back, the mic on my phone seems to not work during phone calls (both regular 4G on AT&T and Skype). Voice recognition still works seamlessly, but there doesn't seem to be a way for anyone to hear me. I'm left with a broken phone, and it doesn't seem like there's any clarity about whether rolling back to 8.0 is risk-free?

# ? May 21, 2014 01:34

Mikser: Nov 25, 2007

Did you try a soft reset? (Hold the Volume Down and the Power key until the phone reboots) This fixed the mic problem on my 925.

# ? May 21, 2014 01:40

OldPueblo: May 2, 2007; Likes to argue. Wins arguments with ignorant people. Not usually against educated people, just ignorant posters. Bing it.

Jewmanji posted:

Xylo, can you tell me the most effective place to lodge my bug report? As detailed a few pages back, the mic on my phone seems to not work during phone calls (both regular 4G on AT&T and Skype). Voice recognition still works seamlessly, but there doesn't seem to be a way for anyone to hear me. I'm left with a broken phone, and it doesn't seem like there's any clarity about whether rolling back to 8.0 is risk-free?

If you have a Nokia device you should be able to use their recovery tool to reimage the latest official release which is 8.0 of course. This means a full wipe naturally, and I don't know if anyone has ever restored from an 8.1 backup to 8.0, so there could be some caveats to that as well. You sure you just didn't have a physical issue that coincided with 8.1? Like sticking the SIM tool into the mic hole instead of the SIM tray hole or something?

# ? May 21, 2014 01:48

Jewmanji: Dec 28, 2003

Mikser posted:

Did you try a soft reset? (Hold the Volume Down and the Power key until the phone reboots) This fixed the mic problem on my 925.

This seems to have improved it from no audio whatsoever, to faint and broken up, but audible nonetheless. Better than nothing!

OldPueblo posted:

If you have a Nokia device you should be able to use their recovery tool to reimage the latest official release which is 8.0 of course. This means a full wipe naturally, and I don't know if anyone has ever restored from an 8.1 backup to 8.0, so there could be some caveats to that as well. You sure you just didn't have a physical issue that coincided with 8.1? Like sticking the SIM tool into the mic hole instead of the SIM tray hole or something?

It's very unlikely a physical issue. As I mentioned, Cortana can understand me fine, and all voice commands seem to work, it's only when placing calls that the mic acts as though it's not on at all.

# ? May 21, 2014 02:21

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So now my 1520 won't boot into 8.1 at all. I just get a BSOD every time I restart. I've formatted it back to 8.0, and I'm going to try upgrading again and seeing if something screwed up along the way, but I'm not sure what's happening.

# ? May 21, 2014 04:08

Jeherrin: Jun 7, 2012

Pork Pie Hat posted:

I too desired a massive yellow phone, so I ordered a Lumia 1520 from some outfit on amazon and it arrived this morning.

In the past, I've had a 920, and despite the 1520 being big (though, because I have big hands, it actually sits in my hand really nicely. Thanks childhood piano lessons!) it feels like far less bulk than the 920. Anyway, the thing is brilliant, I'd forgotten how much I enjoy windows phone as an OS.

I was really impressed with my phone company as well. I walked into the Three shop in town, told them that I am a PAYG customer with a micro-SIM, that I needed a nano-SIM and they just swapped everything over, right there and then. Now sure, it may well be that it's a sad state of affairs that customer service impresses me by it's uncommonness, but nonetheless, I was impressed with them. So thanks Three.

On a side note, is this the thread to ask dumb questions about making windows phone apps, or is there somewhere else for that?

I'm with Three, too. When I upgraded at the start of the year from the 800 to the 925, I had a faulty unit and they replaced it with very little fuss. Customer helpline was excellent, as were the attendants in the brick and mortar store. I was very happy.

In other news, my 925 turned itself off last night and wouldn't power in without a soft reset. Well, I actually tried to do a hard reset but it seemed to choose a soft reset instead. The phone appears to be working fine now though, but it was definitely a little odd.

# ? May 21, 2014 14:54

Zuhzuhzombie!!: Apr 17, 2008; FACTS ARE A CONSPIRACY BY THE CAPITALIST OPRESSOR

That's happened to me occasionally on my 1020.

Any reason to upgrade to a 1520?

# ? May 21, 2014 16:08

Ev: Aug 3, 2006

For the past few days I've been getting some warning popping up about my SD card potentially having an issue of sorts. The warning says it can try to repair the card but that I should back up any photos and data first.

I keep selecting the later or not now option and then the phone seems to work fine and has no problems saving photos. I do have it set to install all new apps to the SD card, so I wonder if it has anything to do with that... Though it seems to install and run everything just fine. Anyone else ever get this message? I'll take a screenshot the next time it happens.

It's a 32 GB SanDisk MicroSD card, class 10.

# ? May 21, 2014 16:17

xylo: Feb 21, 2007; <img src="https://forumimages.somethingawful.com/images/newbie.gif" border=0>

Jewmanji posted:

Xylo, can you tell me the most effective place to lodge my bug report? As detailed a few pages back, the mic on my phone seems to not work during phone calls (both regular 4G on AT&T and Skype). Voice recognition still works seamlessly, but there doesn't seem to be a way for anyone to hear me. I'm left with a broken phone, and it doesn't seem like there's any clarity about whether rolling back to 8.0 is risk-free?

Use the diagnostics app in the store to get logs and send them to us. Then you can use the nokia tool to reflash.

# ? May 22, 2014 03:38

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Read online that Lenovo has apparently confirmed they're putting out a WP8.1 device by the end of 2014. Interested to see how that turns out; I know Dell's handsets ended up being a disappointment but I still maintain that if any OEM could make me abandon the Lumia line it's probably Lenovo.

# ? May 22, 2014 15:30

Orcs and Ostriches: Aug 26, 2010; The Great Twist

So I have a 1 1/2 year old Samsung ATIV that's having some weird battery issues. I'll give it a full charge, and 10 hours later it will say 70% left or whatever. 2 minutes later, the battery is sub 10% and complaining, and often will start boot-looping.

Every now and then, like this morning, it'll last 3 hours before dieing on me.

I'm a pretty light user, so besides a few texts and a couple minutes in twitter, the phone's been idle with the screen off.

Is there an app that I can use to see what is using the battery, or to see if the battery is just dead?

# ? May 22, 2014 18:48

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

So I have a 1 1/2 year old Samsung ATIV that's having some weird battery issues. I'll give it a full charge, and 10 hours later it will say 70% left or whatever. 2 minutes later, the battery is sub 10% and complaining, and often will start boot-looping.

Every now and then, like this morning, it'll last 3 hours before dieing on me.

I'm a pretty light user, so besides a few texts and a couple minutes in twitter, the phone's been idle with the screen off.

Is there an app that I can use to see what is using the battery, or to see if the battery is just dead?

Windows Phone 8.1 has an app called Battery Saver and it shows you what's using the battery. Is upgrading to that an option?

# ? May 22, 2014 19:01

EdEddnEddy: Apr 5, 2012

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

So I have a 1 1/2 year old Samsung ATIV that's having some weird battery issues. I'll give it a full charge, and 10 hours later it will say 70% left or whatever. 2 minutes later, the battery is sub 10% and complaining, and often will start boot-looping.

Every now and then, like this morning, it'll last 3 hours before dieing on me.

I'm a pretty light user, so besides a few texts and a couple minutes in twitter, the phone's been idle with the screen off.

Is there an app that I can use to see what is using the battery, or to see if the battery is just dead?

Sounds like a bad battery as that is similar to what a laptop battery will do near the end of its life. The Ativ's battery is replicable right?

# ? May 22, 2014 19:59

OldPueblo: May 2, 2007; Likes to argue. Wins arguments with ignorant people. Not usually against educated people, just ignorant posters. Bing it.

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Windows Phone 8.1 has an app called Battery Saver and it shows you what's using the battery. Is upgrading to that an option?

It might not be, I recalled seeing this earlier (depends on which ativ I guess):

http://www.wpcentral.com/psa-dont-install-windows-phone-81-samsung-ativ-se

I second the battery going bad thought though, batteries that are winding their lives down seem to have a hard time remembering how much charge they have left.

# ? May 22, 2014 20:14

LentThem: Aug 31, 2004; 90% Retractible

Ev posted:

Question for everyone here--does anyone else have problems with the Xbox Video app loading their collection?

Mine just crashes right after opening it, as the very first menu is swinging into place.

# ? May 23, 2014 02:09

Pork Pie Hat: Apr 27, 2011

Drastic Actions posted:

There is no Modern app development thread yet. I've been wanting to start one, but I don't know what should go in the OP. You can just post in here for now if you have questions; there are a few of us who can help out.

Thank you, once I've got my head around what I want to ask I shall be back. They will probably be really n00bish questions, so, y'know, fair warning.

# ? May 23, 2014 17:18

MC Hawking: Apr 27, 2004; by VideoGames; Fun Shoe

I don't know if anyone noticed but Newegg has Nokia 521s on memorial day sale for a whopping $59 before tax. Good if you want a device to screw around with or a backup beater phone.

Link

# ? May 24, 2014 16:45

Happy_Misanthrope: Aug 3, 2007; "I wanted to kill you, go to your funeral, and anyone who showed up to mourn you, I wanted to kill them too."

Another update for Xbox music. Still slow as gently caress, but some decent usability improvements.

- Swipe up/down to change tracks.
- Album art now takes up more of the screen, the ridiculously huge XBOX MUSI- now shrunken to actually fit on the screen. I hope this is a trend to move away a bit from metro's religious overuse of huge typography that limits the space for on-screen controls.

So the seek bar is now a little bit more usable, controls in general are easier to hit with your thumb. Still gotta get that performance up though.

# ? May 24, 2014 17:37

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Happy_Misanthrope posted:

Another update for Xbox music. Still slow as gently caress, but some decent usability improvements.

- Swipe up/down to change tracks.
- Album art now takes up more of the screen, the ridiculously huge XBOX MUSI- now shrunken to actually fit on the screen. I hope this is a trend to move away a bit from metro's religious overuse of huge typography that limits the space for on-screen controls.

So the seek bar is now a little bit more usable, controls in general are easier to hit with your thumb. Still gotta get that performance up though.

If you play a song in the app, leave the app and pause the song with the volume control buttons and return to the app, the seek bar will not be in the right location and the play button will still be a pause icon. Also if the artist has a backdrop image and you change tracks, for me it reloads the image and flickers while doing so, even though it's the same artist.

But yeah, these are minor issues when placed next to "App crashes at launch fifty percent of the time" and "List view displays blank artists when scrolling". It has come a long way, but there is still so much left to do.

# ? May 24, 2014 17:55

LentThem: Aug 31, 2004; 90% Retractible

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

Another update for Xbox music. Still slow as gently caress, but some decent usability improvements.

My favorite part with the newly sized XBOX MUSIC title is that if you swipe over to the Collection list, the title now says OX MUSIC.

# ? May 24, 2014 18:30

Maneki Neko: Oct 27, 2000

Man I really hope AT&T announces some new phones soon. Verizon better not have a lock on the 930 in the US, because there's no way in hell I'm switching just for that.

# ? May 26, 2014 19:57

Sri.Theo: Apr 16, 2008

It annoys me that there's no compass on the Lumia 630, is there any phone in that price range that has one?

# ? May 27, 2014 20:56

Doomsday Jesus: Oct 8, 2004; Doomsday Jesus we need you now.

I've been having a lot of issues with Bluetooth (still) and general phone performance. I have 17GB free on my 920 and very few apps installed.

Kind of disappointing.

# ? May 27, 2014 21:02

Maneki Neko: Oct 27, 2000

Doomsday Jesus posted:

I've been having a lot of issues with Bluetooth (still) and general phone performance. I have 17GB free on my 920 and very few apps installed.

Kind of disappointing.

On 8.1? 8.0 with the latest updates is fine for me, 8.1 and my car (ford sync) went back to trainwreck status sadly

# ? May 27, 2014 21:55

Doomsday Jesus: Oct 8, 2004; Doomsday Jesus we need you now.

Maneki Neko posted:

On 8.1? 8.0 with the latest updates is fine for me, 8.1 and my car (ford sync) went back to trainwreck status sadly

I am on 8.0.

# ? May 28, 2014 05:33

Doomsday Jesus: Oct 8, 2004; Doomsday Jesus we need you now.

My buddy has a 1520 and has an issue when he plugs his charger in it is delayed up to 1 minute for it to start charging. Anyone else getting this?

He has tried different brands of chargers with the same result.

We just tested it on my Nokia charger (wired) and it took nearly 2 minutes.

Doomsday Jesus fucked around with this message at 15:54 on May 28, 2014

# ? May 28, 2014 15:50

Ev: Aug 3, 2006

Doomsday Jesus posted:

My buddy has a 1520 and has an issue when he plugs his charger in it is delayed up to 1 minute for it to start charging. Anyone else getting this?

He has tried different brands of chargers with the same result.

We just tested it on my Nokia charger (wired) and it took nearly 2 minutes.

I have a 1520 and occasionally I'll see a delay when I plug it in to a charger before the phone registers that it's charging, but I usually just unplug it and plug it in again and it picks it up the second time. Is he using the charger the phone came with?

# ? May 28, 2014 16:30

JPrime: Jul 4, 2007; tales of derring-do, bad ~~and good~~ luck tales!; College Slice

Do any of the MS people in this thread know if syncing a playlist from the desktop app is ever going to work again?

# ? May 28, 2014 20:48

Maneki Neko: Oct 27, 2000

JPrime posted:

Do any of the MS people in this thread know if syncing a playlist from the desktop app is ever going to work again?

From libraries or itunes?

# ? May 28, 2014 21:01

Doomsday Jesus: Oct 8, 2004; Doomsday Jesus we need you now.

Ev posted:

I have a 1520 and occasionally I'll see a delay when I plug it in to a charger before the phone registers that it's charging, but I usually just unplug it and plug it in again and it picks it up the second time. Is he using the charger the phone came with?

He is using the same charger, plus he has tried the two Nokia chargers I have.

# ? May 28, 2014 21:30

JPrime: Jul 4, 2007; tales of derring-do, bad ~~and good~~ luck tales!; College Slice

Maneki Neko posted:

From libraries or itunes?

I still have my keep 10 songs plan, so I still make playlists in Zune. I've tried in zune and windows media player and I end up with a 0-song playlist on my device.

# ? May 28, 2014 21:30

Venusy: Feb 21, 2007

Cortana is apparently coming "soon" to UK phones. Maybe next month?

Also yes, sometimes my 820 takes a minute or two to recognize a charger.

# ? May 29, 2014 09:32

MyFaceBeHi: Apr 9, 2008; I was popular, once.

My 920 recognizes the charger almost immediately. :smug:

Also, when is the 930 supposed to be coming to the UK. I have a hankering for a new phone and that looks right up my street...

...until the 1530 gets announced!

# ? May 29, 2014 12:50

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

Yeah, my 920 also sometimes takes a while to notice that it is charging. If it didn't have the charging sound I probably wouldn't notice, it always starts within the minute, so it really does not matter at all.

# ? May 29, 2014 14:59

Combat Pretzel: Jun 23, 2004; No, seriously... what kurds?!

Given how long ago the 930 was announced by now, and how various suppliers keep shifting the release date on their sites, while Nokia is still not committing to an official date, I have to notice that it's the same old poo poo. Looks like they'll never learn.

# ? May 30, 2014 02:01

The Lord Bude: May 23, 2007; ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

Venusy posted:

Cortana is apparently coming "soon" to UK phones. Maybe next month?

Also yes, sometimes my 820 takes a minute or two to recognize a charger.

That depends on where they learned how to use the word 'soon'. Blizzard and Valve for example have very interesting definitions of the word.

# ? May 30, 2014 05:17

squarerandom: Mar 24, 2007; Obviously you're not a golfer.

I just had to replace my iphone 4, I JFK dropped it and the front glass is shattered and back is completely off unless I have a case, and numerous problems. So I picked up a Lumia 520 and threw in the sim because I couldn't deal with the problems anymore and I'm pretty impressed, it's pretty rad.

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