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RiftInducer posted:After using both the inbuilt Maps and Here Transit, I much prefer the dedicated Nokia app. I just wish it had Cortana integration.
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Nokia 630 3 month report: I am quite surprised with my last three months of use with the Nokia. For one thing, I never thought I would be pleased about the battery life of a sub 2a phone, but as much as I use the thing I've yet to get anywhere close to draining it fully in a day. I browse the web a lot, use it's loudspeaker for podcasts, and it keeps chugging along. I'm particularly surprised by how loud the speaker is in particular. I don't do music, but for podcasts a lot are recorded very quiet and have to cranked up. The ability to throw apps on the SD card is great. The screen colors could be much better and it's resolution is 'noticeable' in the sense that you will immediately realize it's not 720p or greater, but that's pretty forgivable for the $0 price from cricket. It does need to "resume" apps if I start switching from app to app too fast but any background apps (like podcasts) continue uninhibited. Call quality is pretty good and I've never had any reception issues. Unfortunately there are some apps I need that the windows platform does not have and I have to switch, but I doubt I will be selling the 630 if only to keep it as a back up. If you had a young child who needed a phone I would recommend it highly. It can take a beating and the battery life is pretty great.
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My poor white Icon fell out of my pocket in our driveway right onto the pavement face-first and will hardly show anything on the screen or respond to any touch feedback despite having a small crack in the lower-left corner of the screen.  At least we had Verizon's insurance, I guess, only on top of paying the $99 deductible, they didn't have any white phones and can only get me a refurbished black phone on Tuesday the earliest. God loving drat it.At least I had all of the backup services on so everything will come back once I login to my Microsoft account.  Lesson learned: Get an Otterbox for it ASAP. This feather shell case isn't going to cut it anymore now that I'm going to be paranoid about cracking my screen again.
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Something new is happening to my 1520. Randomly, my home screen will start scrolling around on its own, sometimes it launches an app, the screen becomes unresponsive, and the only way to stop it is to restart the phone. Good news is that the camera stop randomly launching. Is my phone broken?
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wookieepelt posted:Is my phone broken? This is normal behavior. What's the problem?
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Factor Mystic posted:This is normal behavior. What's the problem? Ok, I know it's not supposed to do that. Let me rephrase then. Is there an easy fix our do I have to send my phone in?
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wookieepelt posted:Ok, I know it's not supposed to do that. Let me rephrase then. Is there an easy fix our do I have to send my phone in? I swear I'd read somewhere that this was a (not really common, but not really rare) digitizer problem with the 1520. It can absolutely gently caress you if your phone is set to wipe itself after failed PIN attempts. You'll pull the phone out of your pocket and see the spinning gears as it hard resets. I've never seen anyone online post a fix for it aside from some suggestions about lowering the screen sensitivity (but that doesn't always help); you might have to just get the phone replaced. Edit: Not sure if this is you, but someone on reddit JUST brought up the issue here, so you can follow the thread to see if anything worthwhile gets posted: http://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/2hqzdr/touchscreen_issue_is_rendering_my_phone_unusable/ LentThem fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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wookieepelt posted:Something new is happening to my 1520. Randomly, my home screen will start scrolling around on its own, sometimes it launches an app, the screen becomes unresponsive, and the only way to stop it is to restart the phone. Good news is that the camera stop randomly launching. Is my phone broken? Maybe try this? Seems to be a big phone 1520 version of the OMG APPLE BENDGHAZI blah blah: http://forums.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-1520/297759-6.htm#post2689765
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wookieepelt posted:Something new is happening to my 1520. Randomly, my home screen will start scrolling around on its own, sometimes it launches an app, the screen becomes unresponsive, and the only way to stop it is to restart the phone. Good news is that the camera stop randomly launching. Is my phone broken? I had this happen to my lumia 1520. My only explanation was that the digitizer was separating from the phone near the bottom which happened with my old 2012 nexus 7. My phone was still under warranty (yours should be too I think since the warranty is one year) so I took it down to the Microsoft store and they replaced it no questions asked. I of course later broke the replacement by dropping something on it. I really miss the 1520. I'm currently using a lumia 1020. It's great but if anyone wants to trade me straight up for a 1520 I would do it.
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Sep 29, 2014 06:15
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None of my banks have apps for windows phones! I just had to be different.
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My bank, broker, local public transport company and everything has apps for WP. Quite the progress from when I first got the phone really. I probably would be less inclined to get another WP phone otherwise, but all that type of stuff is actually figured out.
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I'll give an addendum to this post, because I'm at 1 month with an att 635 and I kinda want to bitch about it.mugrim posted:Nokia 630 3 month report: This is true for mine, as well. Battery life is great and the speaker is nice and loud. quote:The screen colors could be much better and it's resolution is 'noticeable' in the sense that you will immediately realize it's not 720p or greater, but that's pretty forgivable for the $0 price from cricket. It does need to "resume" apps if I start switching from app to app too fast but any background apps (like podcasts) continue uninhibited. The screen ain't so hot, it's true. At least it gets bright enough that i can use it outside with sunglasses on. My first unit would always fully restart every application with no state resume if I switched away from it for even a few seconds, this problem continued even after a hard reset... quote:Call quality is pretty good and I've never had any reception issues. ...as did the missed calls and failure of the ringer to execute. So I sent it back to Nokia and got a replacement. So far no inexplicable missed calls, and it can keep my place in eg Podcasts for a more reasonable amount of time and allow for me to resume from where i left off. It's just too bad that media playback still sometimes shits the bed until I reboot the phone, and I'll randomly get a warning that I "shouldn't remove the SD card while the phone is on" even though I'd have to remove the battery to take out the card (this also makes every app on the phone stop working until I've rebooted). I guess it just stops reading my card sometimes. I don't know if this is the phone's fault or the card's. quote:Unfortunately there are some apps I need that the windows platform does not have and I have to switch, but I doubt I will be selling the 630 if only to keep it as a back up. I'm going to hold on to mine, too. On paper, the features you get for the price seems like a decent deal. If only the phone was stable and reliable. And had a decent instagram app. And a decent tumblr app. And could do predictive/self-correcting type as well as my old iphone. (although it does have swipe - I guess I'm just old-fashioned) quote:
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wookieepelt posted:Something new is happening to my 1520. Randomly, my home screen will start scrolling around on its own, sometimes it launches an app, the screen becomes unresponsive, and the only way to stop it is to restart the phone. Good news is that the camera stop randomly launching. Is my phone broken? Do you have double tap to wake turned on? If I have it on my pin unlock registers multiple presses when I only press one. But I turn it off and it works just fine. Before that though I was having all of the issues you had and had to just get my phone replaced. But turning off double tap to see how that works plus the link someone posted above is worth a shot first.
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Does Cortana really speak as smoothly and non-robotic as in the commercials or is that faked?
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A lot better than Siri.
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Aphrodite posted:Does Cortana really speak as smoothly and non-robotic as in the commercials or is that faked? They've been making her sound a lot less robotic. I'd say somewhere in between siri and an actual human. The commercials seem to have a voice actress doing everything.
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Basically yeah, as far as I know, they use Jen Taylor for what they can*, which includes any of the pre-planned dialogue (e.g. "tell me a joke"). Everything else, it's the speech synthesis designed to sound as close to Jen Taylor as possible. *Unless you're in the UK and get Posh Cortana instead, presumably other countries have their own version too.
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Aphrodite posted:Does Cortana really speak as smoothly and non-robotic as in the commercials or is that faked? redbackground fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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SMERSH Mouth posted:Plus you get to teach your kid about how to deal with malfunctioning programs and follow troubleshooting guides. And texting on it is very good typing practice, because it only autocorrects a very small number of common mistakes. Weirdly enough this was a change in some patch. 2 years ago WP corrected your typing far more aggressively. I am unsure when it was changed, and even more unsure *why*. Just Swype in English though, the implementation is excellent. Doesn't help us with other native languages though.
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You can Swype in other languages though; I've done Arabic and French. No Vietnamese. 
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Anyone else having issues with cutting and pasting in explorer after cyan
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Venusy posted:Basically yeah, as far as I know, they use Jen Taylor for what they can*, which includes any of the pre-planned dialogue (e.g. "tell me a joke"). Everything else, it's the speech synthesis designed to sound as close to Jen Taylor as possible. There's a lot of canned Halo-related dialog as well. Try asking Cortana: "Who is Catherine Halsey?" Arguably a war criminal  "What is a Halo?" A few different canned responses here. Best one so far: story of an AI who saves the day with her silent sidekick
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I wish they would have her(Cortana's) face instead of that stupid circle.
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joebuddah posted:I wish they would have her(Cortana's) face instead of that stupid circle. People in this thread don't like it when you say that. Look what happened to me.
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Chinese Cortana is the best one. I'd still like the option to pick it.
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 This error shows up when playing a video I recorded on my phone. 
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This phone really sucks. The Nokia Lumia 635 has options that set themselves and has problems ending calls. I turned off WiFi calling in the options, but my phone still uses it exclusively, and anytime I try to end a call using wifi calling it hangs up on the ending call screen. No amount of mashing end call will fix it, and I'm reduced to restarting the phone. Should have stuck with the iPhone
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vigorous sodomy posted:This phone really sucks. The Nokia Lumia 635 has options that set themselves and has problems ending calls. I turned off WiFi calling in the options, but my phone still uses it exclusively, and anytime I try to end a call using wifi calling it hangs up on the ending call screen. No amount of mashing end call will fix it, and I'm reduced to restarting the phone. SOunds like a defective phone? I'm on AT&T, but my 635 has generally been fine.
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Looks like the Windows 10 chat just finished, guess we'll have to wait for a bit to actually get better info on the future of Windows Phone, other than "we're moving everything to Windows 10"
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Maneki Neko posted:Looks like the Windows 10 chat just finished, guess we'll have to wait for a bit to actually get better info on the future of Windows Phone, other than "we're moving everything to Windows 10" 
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Maneki Neko posted:Looks like the Windows 10 chat just finished, guess we'll have to wait for a bit to actually get better info on the future of Windows Phone, other than "we're moving everything to Windows 10" I was concerned when he mentioned that 10 is the new Windows Phone OS, and also that 10 is due "late 2015." I thought we'd be getting flagship "Threshold" phones in the spring. WP10 will probably continue the proud tradition of playing catchup to 1-2 year old iPhones and Androids. LifeSizePotato fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Sep 30, 2014 |
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Doomsday Jesus posted:
I get this now and again,a reboot of my phone always sorts it out.
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I had the same error on Xbox music, I think both video and music were updated yesterday so maybe that's why.
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LifeSizePotato posted:I was concerned when he mentioned that 10 is the new Windows Phone OS, and also that 10 is due "late 2015." I thought we'd be getting flagship "Threshold" phones in the spring. This whole post is Mostly because it is true.
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So I'm guessing having your Start screen, IE bookmarks, and apps restored after signing into your Microsoft account is only an 8.1 thing? I've always had backup running on my old phone, but when I signed into my replacement phone I got today...nothing. Yet, all my text messages synced back, which makes it even more bizarre. And an extra special gently caress You to Verizon's backup assistant. Every time I try to start it, it spits out a PIN in a text message but always says "Sorry, there was a problem accessing Backup Assistant Plus." Useless. Thank God I backed up my contacts to Outlook as well.  Edit: I did a phone reset on a whim and re-signed into my Microsoft account. It found my backup. All of my settings, bookmarks, apps, and contacts are back, but my Start screen isn't back to the way it was. Close enough.  I was really dreading trying to restore all of that poo poo. I guess I shouldn't have made the dumb mistake of trying to set up my phone without putting in the SIM card first, but I was in a hurry out the door when UPS stopped by.
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LifeSizePotato posted:I was concerned when he mentioned that 10 is the new Windows Phone OS, and also that 10 is due "late 2015." I thought we'd be getting flagship "Threshold" phones in the spring. This, combined with the fact that there still hasn't been a successor to the 1020, makes me tempted to just get an iPhone 6 in the meantime.
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LifeSizePotato posted:I was concerned when he mentioned that 10 is the new Windows Phone OS, and also that 10 is due "late 2015." I thought we'd be getting flagship "Threshold" phones in the spring. I don't understand how that is going to work with the chipsets. We now have 8.1 RT/WP for ARM and 8.1 for intel. Will we get a 10RT which will run on Phones and Tablets? On the bright side, that's one OS less. 
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There already is Windows 8/8.1 on ARM, it's Windows RT. I wouldn't be surprised to see Windows 10 on ARM, which is now the OS used for phones, Surface Mini, and 8" and less devices.
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I am at my wits end with the podcast support on this system. It never auto downloads over wifi like it used to. It loses my place when resuming a podcast. And this morning I kept getting errors when trying to play a podcast I manually downloaded last night. Podcast support is my key feature and it is not working.
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I downloaded a podcast last night and I'm listening to it right now, on cyan. Have you tried a soft reset? A hard reset would probably fix it, but that's irksome depending on what version you're on.
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