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wormil posted:Yeah, the developer preview breaks wifi calling and texting on tmobile so I will have to roll back. It's a shame but T-Mobile has poor building penetration and lackluster coverage so I depend on wifi. Makes sense. TMo has to make those changes to the image and the developer preview is directly from MS without the TMo work.
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I think this is the right thread: I was going to get my mom either a Lumia 520 or Lumia 521 (I just noticed the 635 and this question may be moot) and I'm pretty confused at what the differences are. Comparing them on MS's website says that the 520 has Bluetooth 4.0 vs. 3.0 and the 521 has some WCDMA radios, everything else functionally identical. This would be for using on T-Mobile's network and most likely without any cellular data turned on (she's on a voice only plan at the moment). I'll be buying direct from Amazon without any contract, if that makes a difference.
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Oct 18, 2014 00:03
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Uthor posted:I think this is the right thread: Get her the 635, it's better in almost every way. The 521 is just the 520 with support for TMobile bands.
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Oct 18, 2014 00:04
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Maneki Neko posted:Get her the 635, it's better in almost every way. The 521 is just the 520 with support for TMobile bands. It's stupid, but I like the dedicated camera button on the 521. :/ But now that I see it, I think I'll be going that route. Thanks. EDIT: Cases? Don't know if she'll want one, but she watches my sister's toddlers a few times a week and could probably use the extra protection. Or use her flip phone as a decoy, I guess.
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Oct 18, 2014 00:12
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Is funny because I never thought that a dedicated camera button was awesome until I got my 925, now I hate to take pics with my S4 and just do all of them with the superior design of the Lumia.
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Oct 18, 2014 00:14
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Uthor posted:It's stupid, but I like the dedicated camera button on the 521. :/ But now that I see it, I think I'll be going that route. Thanks. Yeah, I really hate the lack of a dedicated camera button on the newer phones, that's the one real advantage the 520/521 has over the 635. 
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Oct 18, 2014 00:23
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Well I'll be damned. I turned off wi-fi calling and have been getting a signal all day. I never get a signal inside my house. It has to be a fluke right? 8.1 couldn't improve cell reception?
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Oct 18, 2014 00:29
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wormil posted:Well I'll be damned. I turned off wi-fi calling and have been getting a signal all day. I never get a signal inside my house. It has to be a fluke right? 8.1 couldn't improve cell reception? No but it's possible that in the time you've been using WiFi calling because of poor signal, that T-Mobile has upgraded their network in your area 
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Oct 18, 2014 03:46
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Charles Martel posted:In MixRadio, XBox Music, or Awful Music on WP 8.1, how do I stop multi-disc albums from showing up all in one list? It will look like this: Weird, it's worked fine for me ever since I went to 8.1 with only the disc # tag.
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Oct 18, 2014 05:10
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clandestine cactus posted:No but it's possible that in the time you've been using WiFi calling because of poor signal, that T-Mobile has upgraded their network in your area That would be wonderful. My house is a dead zone, if I walk 10 feet in any direction I get a signal but the immediate area of the house has always been a black hole.
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Oct 18, 2014 08:28
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Hey my contract is ending soon on my Lumia 920, and I heard about the Straight Talk for 45 bucks a month. Right now I'm paying 90 bucks for 1 gig of data, and that's with an employer discount??? Well anyway my question is, which card do I need to get to do the Straight Talk and also does it affect my ability to get future updates for the phone? Like do updates come from carrier or some other magic I don't know about.
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Oct 20, 2014 21:49
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If cricket is near you I would use them for unlimited talk text and 3gbs data for $45 after the auto pay credit. I did that for my wife's Windows phone coming from at&t
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Oct 20, 2014 21:55
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DangerZoneDelux posted:If cricket is near you I would use them for unlimited talk text and 3gbs data for $45 after the auto pay credit. I did that for my wife's Windows phone coming from at&t quote:Auto Pay Credit Heck thats a great deal. I could get what ATT is selling me now (1g) for 35 bucks. loving ripoff jerks.
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Oct 20, 2014 22:10
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:Hey my contract is ending soon on my Lumia 920, and I heard about the Straight Talk for 45 bucks a month. Right now I'm paying 90 bucks for 1 gig of data, and that's with an employer discount??? Well anyway my question is, which card do I need to get to do the Straight Talk and also does it affect my ability to get future updates for the phone? Like do updates come from carrier or some other magic I don't know about. Straighttalk is ATT network mostly, unless you explicitly want t-mobile or something else if it gets better poo poo in your area. Get an ATT-compatible StraightTalk card, and put it into an ATT branded phone and you'll get ATT's update. My SO did that and got 8.1 perfectly fine through her 820. I still need to get picture MMS working on her phone though through ST. It works fine via my ancient Nokia E71 but not on her Lumia 820.
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Oct 20, 2014 22:13
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jeeves posted:I still need to get picture MMS working on her phone though through ST. It works fine via my ancient Nokia E71 but not on her Lumia 820. I don't know if I understood your problem correctly? But have you tried to open Messaging, then start at new message (SMS) and then click on the paperclip icon, select what you need to attach and send off? AT least that's the way I've understood MMS works on my Lumia 1020.
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Oct 21, 2014 10:21
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Podcasts app will not automatically download podcasts over wifi for me anymore, so I am trying to manually download them. The app keeps crashing and starting my downloads over. I have restarted the phone. 
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Oct 21, 2014 12:38
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This is a nifty lockscreen app, yay Microsoft interns:quote:Tetra Lockscreen, a Microsoft Garage project, brings functionality to the forefront of your Windows Phone 8.1 device. Focused on fast, fluid, and frequent interactions, the simple tools it provides are always on hand when you need them. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/tetra-lockscreen/11076e3b-6a9e-46e5-a563-d1f6b32a5df3
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Oct 22, 2014 18:05
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Kidney Stone posted:I don't know if I understood your problem correctly? No I was talking about the SIM card MMS settings for StraightTalk on the 820.
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Oct 22, 2014 21:29
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Maneki Neko posted:This is a nifty lockscreen app, yay Microsoft interns: US Store only, it seems.
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That lockscreen is really cool but I've become so dependent on WeatherFlow taking up that real estate that I can't use it 
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It's a cool idea, but it still falters with the same poo poo as other non-system lockscreens. Takes a bit to unlock and it clearly takes a screenshot of the screen you were on so when you "resume"...it goes to a lovely artifacted screenshot for a second or two then to the actual screen. Weird. Nice idea though...love the "pacing" calendar.
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Oct 23, 2014 15:53
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BonoMan posted:It's a cool idea, but it still falters with the same poo poo as other non-system lockscreens. Takes a bit to unlock and it clearly takes a screenshot of the screen you were on so when you "resume"...it goes to a lovely artifacted screenshot for a second or two then to the actual screen. Weird. Yeah, I was wondering if it was just because I was on a 512MB device or what. After playing around with this in Android, the state of the windows phone lock screen makes me pretty sad. Not so much in the capabilities as the implementation.
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So catching up in here, I see a ton of Lumia talk but has anyone else here gotten their hands on the HTC ONE M8 for Windows? Currently it sits as the top hardware for Windows Phone right now, and HTC has been good about its updates (and Verizon surprisingly) that it has gotten most of the Cyan updates ahead of the Lumia Icon my mom has. The only complaint I have gotten so far about it is the lack of a dedicated camera button. Otherwise BlueTooth works great in a 2013 Kia Sorento, The DotView case got a upgrade showing a background on the dot screen, and I have not heard of any crashes, lockups, or weird WiFi issues yet. The 8X previous to this had the same random shutoff issue due to the sim card, but since that was fixed (scotch tape fix yay) it also has been a rather good device, now with the Cyan update from the Dev Preview pushed out, it got much better battery life too. My guess is unless Microsoft has some Flagships cooking up in house, it will be the next HTC Flagship device that ships in both an Android and Windows Phone flavor.
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EdEddnEddy posted:Otherwise BlueTooth works great in a 2013 Kia Sorento, Have you used Here Drive? On my car (Sony head unit, Lumia 925), driving instructions sound like phone calls. It's awful and I just leave it unpaired all the time. How is it on the M8?
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Dr Tran posted:Have you used Here Drive? On my car (Sony head unit, Lumia 925), driving instructions sound like phone calls. It's awful and I just leave it unpaired all the time. How is it on the M8? I'll have to check on that and report back. Phone calls are clear as a bell though and users on the other end say its like they are talking to you in the seat next to you, so that's a plus.
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I know nothing about Windows phones but my wife is having an issue with her 8.1 1020. She pins recipes from websites and they show up as tiles. After a few days the tiles go black. She can click them but she can't see which tiles she is clicking. Any ideas?
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Oct 23, 2014 21:22
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Maneki Neko posted:This is a nifty lockscreen app, yay Microsoft interns and employees working on side projects: Small correction.
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Maneki Neko posted:Yeah, I was wondering if it was just because I was on a 512MB device or what. After playing around with this in Android, the state of the windows phone lock screen makes me pretty sad. Not so much in the capabilities as the implementation. Had a "critical update" on my HTC 8X (developer preview program) this morning that seems to have fixed this weird delay issue. Maybe I'm crazy, but seems like they actually resolved it  . Can anyone else confirm? I had stopped using custom lock screens because of the weird lag, but just happed to have Tetra enabled when it did the update this morning.
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I'm on a 1020 and you seem to be right. Exciting! Now if only that app could use the daily Bing wallpapers and had weather integration.
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My WeatherFlow lock-screen had to be re-setup post-update and there was a "lock-screen assistant" app I had to install too. Bit of a hassle, but it looks much better now. Must have been a pretty big lock-screen API shakeup, and not a moment too soon from the sound of it 
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EdEddnEddy posted:So catching up in here, I see a ton of Lumia talk but has anyone else here gotten their hands on the HTC ONE M8 for Windows? Currently it sits as the top hardware for Windows Phone right now, and HTC has been good about its updates (and Verizon surprisingly) that it has gotten most of the Cyan updates ahead of the Lumia Icon my mom has. The more I thought about the M8 the more I realized that I don't care all that terribly much about WP and just rather love Nokia camera tech, and the software stack that goes with it on WP. I probably could find another phone on another platform that could compete (iPhone obviously, but avoiding that for other reasons), but overall my 920 started out great and has actually steadily improved over its lifetime, so I am going Lumia again next phone just because I trust that I will get decent photos out of it.
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I love my 920 and as crazy as it sounds I loved my surface rt. All I use my rt for is word processing, light web browsing and watching movies on the go. Anyway I am due for an upgrade and want to stick with a Lumina. But I don't want anything much bigger than then 920. Any recommendations?
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joebuddah posted:I love my 920 and as crazy as it sounds I loved my surface rt. All I use my rt for is word processing, light web browsing and watching movies on the go. Anyway I am due for an upgrade and want to stick with a Lumina. But I don't want anything much bigger than then 920. Any recommendations? Is the 930 available where you are? That may be your best bet, or you can see what the next few weeks/months brings as Microsoft is supposed to launch phone "soon".
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Maneki Neko posted:Is the 930 available where you are? That may be your best bet, or you can see what the next few weeks/months brings as Microsoft is supposed to launch phone "soon". I wouldn't trust anything launched pre-Windows 10 unless there was an ironclad statement saying that it would be upgradable to 10.
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benitocereno posted:Had a "critical update" on my HTC 8X (developer preview program) this morning that seems to have fixed this weird delay issue. Maybe I'm crazy, but seems like they actually resolved it
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Sick of my 1020, mulling over whats on the market now, do I go get the 930 and kill myself next month when they release something MS branded that's better?
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codo27 posted:Sick of my 1020 Careful, you will miss that camera and recording audio quality. I just bought a 1020 after owning and selling a 1020 like 9 months ago because nothing else measures up. Not even close ($339 at the Microsoft store and I had a $100 MSFT gift certificate). But to semi-answer your question, there's always something new in the works. Microsoft is teasing something soon, so who knows if it will be a 1528 or 1028. In other news, a 2020 will arrive sometime in the next 3 years. There's nothing wrong with the 1020. Why are you sick of it again? Just want new shiny?
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I've just always found it slow. And lately I can't seem to get a decent shot out of the camera, don't know if I've hosed something up where I dropped it a few times. I dont like the feel of it either, I know the 930 is bulky as well but at least its symmetrical at both ends. Plus I want a removable back/battery again.
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So I turned on my 1020 to update it and check out some new apps. I got a free Rdio subscription thanks to work, so I checked out the app on Windows Phone. On Android and iOS, it's really great; the interface is quite good and playback is excellent (They also look and operate very similar, mostly because they are all written in C# and use most of the same code). Windows Phone? The code behind might be the same, but man they did not give two shits about the interface. Also, it has not been updated in a year.
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