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Doomsday Jesus posted:I switched to an LG G3 and the only thing I miss, oddly enough, is podcast support. It seems like Android doesn't have a baked in way to handle it and everyone wants you to pay for their app. This isn't the Android app thread but as a user of both platforms, I'll say skip a hamburger tomorrow and buy Pocketcasts. Its an amazing app.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Yeah, the Lumia 535 is probably a sign that the age of 512 MB is over. Not that sure it was ever that wise a tier to have.
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Edward IV posted:How is the subtitle support? The last time I touched the Windows 8 version, it would only work with external and basic subtitle files which is useless to me since most of the stuff (fansubbed anime) I watch has an advanced subtitle file(s) muxed in .mkv files. I use moliplayer pro, it handles fansub mkvs fine.
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Just grabbing this from a couple of pages back in case Drastic missed it.Jeherrin posted:I'm on a 925, using the Awful app (it is not awful) but since the most recent update it's doing something a bit tiresome - it no longer remembers scroll position when flipping back from a thread to the thread or forum listings.
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Nov 22, 2014 15:39
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xylo posted:Christ I loving sure as poo poo hope so. 512MB only exists so OEMs can get to sub 100$ phones for cost conscience areas where there is poo poo tons of sales volumne (this is why there are like 120934575 lovely low end Android devices). There are millions of low end Android devices but holy poo poo, seems that Orange/Vodafone/Movistar have been gifting 520s they had on stock to every company because while moving two weeks ago, every worker that came to my new flat, used a windows phone and before that, I barely spotted a WP in Spain.
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I'm new to using a WP as my daily driver - is there a way in the MS podcasts app to just show what's been downloaded and not listened to yet in a list format? I'm having to manually click into each of the thumbnails to see that info.
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Nov 22, 2014 23:56
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Chasiubao posted:Turns out a 0h 0m sleep session will cause the Health app to crash when you tap the sleep tile Yep, I have this too. No way to delete it. It's also hosed if you try see the entry in the Activity History. I'm on a 1520 dev 8.1. Mr Funkface fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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Nov 23, 2014 03:23
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Mr Funkface posted:Yep, I have this too. No way to delete it. It's also hosed if you try see the entry in the Activity History. Chasiubao posted:I don't have access to a 1020, but an app update yesterday fixed the issue for me. I'm on a 920 right now, running dev preview (and had the issue on a 920). After the update I was able to go in and delete the 0h 0m sleeps. Fixed as of Thursday afternoon for me 
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Chasiubao posted:Fixed as of Thursday afternoon for me Oh hey check that poo poo out! Loaded and deleted.
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Just uploaded a big update to Harmony Music. Mostly a lot of refactoring and stability and exposing some formerly hardcoded behaviors as options. But:the changelog posted:+ added ‘shuffle collection’ to collection browse page No playlists yet (except oops parts of that was already in the UI when I uploaded the store package so I had to quick cancel the update, comment that stuff out, then rebuild the package and restart the store submission).
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Factor Mystic posted:Just uploaded a big update to Harmony Music. Mostly a lot of refactoring and stability and exposing some formerly hardcoded behaviors as options. But: Tangentially related, but given you're developing audio apps for WP8.1 is the any way to switch to mono audio? I want to listen to full music using one earbud not half the stereo track. Edit: Generally is there a way to change Cortana's units? I set an alarm just now for twelve-fifteen. It decided I wanted 12:15am so I had to reset it myself even though my phone settings are 24hr time. Did I say zero-fifteen? No I did not! Goddamn am/pm. Generally how does Cortana/WP deal with location and units? I'm an Englishman in New York (sup Sting) so I like my units metric/SI, my time 24hr, my currency in USD, my date DD/MM/YYYY, my local searches to be US based, my accent to be picked up as British English. Can I mix and match this poo poo or is there just one global Region/Location setting? I know Cortana is region specific but in what sense and extent? Mr Funkface fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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Mr Funkface posted:Tangentially related, but given you're developing audio apps for WP8.1 is the any way to switch to mono audio? I want to listen to full music using one earbud not half the stereo track. Yeah just get a notification while music is playing, then you'll be stuck in mono mode whether you like it or not. For a non-snarky response: If it's possible I don't know how. I haven't seen an API for it if so
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Factor Mystic posted:If you don't say what format, you're probably just going to keep being disappointed. I made them in Windows Media Player, so .wpl. I've tried copying them from both windows media player and the WP desktop app.
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Nov 24, 2014 00:07
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jeeves posted:If I add a new account to a Win8.1 phone, will it delete all of the previous photos/contacts/text message history? This fell off from a few pages ago, and I was curious if anyone knew this? I think I can get MMS/pictures via text messaging working again if I update some stuff in 8.1 (wife says it worked before the 8.1 update), but I really can't remember/guess the password to her old account and I think I need to just make a new account for her as Microsoft's Live account recover does jack for me. However I need to prepare for it if it goes and deletes like all of her settings/pictures/contacts when adding a new account.
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Nov 24, 2014 01:12
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jeeves posted:This fell off from a few pages ago, and I was curious if anyone knew this? I think I can get MMS/pictures via text messaging working again if I update some stuff in 8.1 (wife says it worked before the 8.1 update), but I really can't remember/guess the password to her old account and I think I need to just make a new account for her as Microsoft's Live account recover does jack for me. I think it will delete everything. You can save the pictures on a PC or create a new Microsoft account and sign into OneDrive using the new account credentials before you replace your primary account. You might also be able to chat with Microsoft support and see if they can add a secondary email address, then go through the steps to reset your password.
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Upgraded from my 8x at the weekend to a Lumia 930, there's a massive amount of extra software that Nokia put on here compared with what feels like the very basics from HTC, call and sms blocker is a very welcome addition. The backup and restore process is fantastic, restored my 8x backup and everything was there apart from the single HTC app which was broken on the developer preview, and even when I was waiting for the sim swap to happen both phones text messages were in sync. The 8x always felt fast even with the developer preview but the 930 is so much smoother in the newer games and the resuming screens are completely gone. The 8x is a little easier to hold but both phones are the same depth, but the 930 being a little wider and taller. Screen is fantastic, little warm compared the the 8x but that looks like it can be changed. Overall, worth the upgrade. 
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Not sure theres a more lonely feeling than owning a Windows phone- in Canada. I really want a smartwatch, but there seems to be little available with true compatibility with our phones. Certain things I can deal with, okay so I have to login to my bank via browser instead of having an app (no big deal, its only my bank right). I see my girlfriend playing some interesting games on her ijunk, but they just aren't about to be ported over for us. The Band might be okay but its not available up here yet, and I'm not sure I like the styling, and I don't need(want) the fitness part of it. At least I'm not really in a position to buy another flagship right now, or else I'd be very tempted to jump back to android.
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codo27 posted:Not sure theres a more lonely feeling than owning a Windows phone- in Canada. There are a few interesting games that are only in WP, but there aren't many. With the exception of a few big apps, most don't get updated regularly and are missing features that the other platforms have. My wife traded in her 1020 for an iPhone 6, and I'm tempted to join her when my contract is up. I would consider Android, but I really don't like Google. It sucks that I've been using WP since the Samsung Focus, and I still feel like there is no how of WP becoming a viable 3rd choice OS.
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Anyone noticing a huge perf hit from 8.1 RTW to 8.1 Dev Preview? I got onto the preview for the Band, and my phone has taken a noticeable dive in performance since then. Everything seems slower, even just the screen turning on in response to the power button is slower. EDIT: Version is 8.10.14157.200 Chasiubao fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Nov 24, 2014 |
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wookieepelt posted:There are a few interesting games that are only in WP, but there aren't many. With the exception of a few big apps, most don't get updated regularly and are missing features that the other platforms have. My wife traded in her 1020 for an iPhone 6, and I'm tempted to join her when my contract is up. I would consider Android, but I really don't like Google. It sucks that I've been using WP since the Samsung Focus, and I still feel like there is no how of WP becoming a viable 3rd choice OS. Songarc is a cool game (ported to ios recently, maybe android?), and there are a couple others yes. I'm a hardcore gamer so I hate mobile games, but I see her playing quizup for example, that would be a nice time killer when I'm on the go. There just generally seems to be a mediocre quality app for something, or a fake bullshit piece of garbage that's really just a link to the webpage for something with extra ads, or there's nothing at all. I can still do everything I need to do but not well, and the performance on my 1020 has always been sluggish. I really want to support it because I don't enjoy the maintenance involved with android and I will never buy an apple device to save my life. I like the 830 and 930 looks cool, but you cant exactly rent one for a week to try it out. I need to be sure they can put out a quality, high performing device before I sink any more money into this platform.
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Hey I just got my first windows phone- a Lumia 822 and I wanted to ask a couple questions: -I have the feeling this might be beating a dead horse but is there really, *really* no music player that will let me play my music from folders? That's how all of my poo poo is organized. Right now I get around this by selecting the song using Pocket file manager and playing it from there but doing it this way feels a little clunky. -Can someone recommend a podcast catcher that will let me subscribe to a podcast using an opml link and also doesn't suck? -Right now I have Windows 8. I'd rather wait for the official release of 8.1 but will the fact that I'm on Page Plus mean that I might not get the update at the same time as someone who subscribes directly to Verizon?
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Biggie Shorty posted:Hey I just got my first windows phone- a Lumia 822 and I wanted to ask a couple questions: I had your very same problem with music players, there's one called Folder play wich is barebones but works good enough.
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I just got a 64 GB micro sd card to replace the 32 GB one I currently have in my 1520. My concern/question is relating to the apps I have installed on the old card. Will my phone freak out if I switch cards without copying everything to the new card?
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codo27 posted:I really want to support it because I don't enjoy the maintenance involved with android and I will never buy an apple device to save my life. There hasn't been any maintenance with android for years now. From the issues I read in this thread WP may well require more maintenance than Android.
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Guillermus posted:I had your very same problem with music players, there's one called Folder play wich is barebones but works good enough. I saw folder play but it doesn't seem to work with 8 Browsing through the app store on this phone feels like shopping in a some third world bazaar. A bunch of knock off apps made by studios you've never heard with reviews in a dozen different languages and always a handful of people claiming that the app doesn't even work. Biggie Shorty fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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Biggie Shorty posted:-I have the feeling this might be beating a dead horse but is there really, *really* no music player that will let me play my music from folders? That's how all of my poo poo is organized. Right now I get around this by selecting the song using Pocket file manager and playing it from there but doing it this way feels a little clunky. What about your collection makes it work better in folders, rather than metadata based navigation?
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Factor Mystic posted:What about your collection makes it work better in folders, rather than metadata based navigation? Because separating music into folders is easier, faster and more intuitive than dealing with metadata
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My job supplies me a work phone (iPhone 4S), so I lug it around with my personal 920. My supervisor recently questioned why I don't just port my personal number over to CSpire and let the company pay for it and just have my personal phone be my work phone. It's a tempting deal, saving me about ~$90 a month, but CSpire notoriously hates Windows Phone, and also won't entertain the idea of activating an unlocked phone. Now I've got the choice of having a free iPhone/Android, or paying out of pocket to keep my Windows Phone. I'm torn, ya'll.
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I bought one of the Lumia 635's on Black Friday because I've been super curious about the Windows Phone OS and such for a -long- time now. I currently have an iPhone 5S. After dicking around with it for the past two days... ...Why isn't Windows Phone more popular? The OS is fun, streamlined, and flashy. I can customize my home screen pretty well. Live tiles are really cool. Hell, even on a $40 phone the OS is really responsive. Cortana is a dream. Where's the breakdown? I'm seriously considering dumping my iPhone on my next re-up because WP's are much more affordable and seem to be feature rich. I understand there's some poo poo app support, but I can work around that comfortably. I just feel even on a lower end phone for someone that doesn't use their phone for games that the 635 feels really not a lot different than an iPhone. Of course, my real problem is apparently Verizon having poo poo support for WP and AT&T/Sprint/T-Mobile are garbage where I live.
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Psyker posted:I bought one of the Lumia 635's on Black Friday because I've been super curious about the Windows Phone OS and such for a -long- time now. I currently have an iPhone 5S. After dicking around with it for the past two days... Microsoft couldn't sell water to a man dying of thirst. Sooo...
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BonoMan posted:Microsoft couldn't sell water to a man dying of thirst. Sooo... Let's be fair. They could, but he'd have to choose one of thirty different versions of water, all with their own licensing and pricing schemes.
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Chasiubao posted:Let's be fair. They could, but he'd have to choose one of thirty different versions of water, all with their own licensing and pricing schemes. Is that the issue then? Android-itis? Not keeping control of their own platform and instead licensing it out.
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Psyker posted:I bought one of the Lumia 635's on Black Friday because I've been super curious about the Windows Phone OS and such for a -long- time now. I currently have an iPhone 5S. After dicking around with it for the past two days... This is an anecdote from like 8-12 months ago when my wife used a Lumia 521 for around a month after she broke her Galaxy S4 and before she replaced the Lumia with a Nexus 5... She thought it felt really slow in general, but especially loading webpages. Some webpages that worked fine on Chrome on Android didn't work on IE on the Lumia (I think things like navigation bars with drop downs and editing in blogger or something like that, not sure). Camera was really bad (obviously since it's super budget, but that was a deal breaker for her). Display had really poor colors (ditto). She hated live tiles, since they would flip randomly between things; this is compared to widgets, where you set up what you want it to show you and it just shows it to you. This was before Windows 8.1, so toast notifications rather than a notification center killed her. She didn't like not having a swipe keyboard (fixed now, I know). I think this may have been before you could upload videos to Instagram? In any case, she only really used Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and a few other (major) apps, and she was frustrated by more of them than not. I think she tried to find some specific photo editing apps, retail store apps, that kind of thing, and just didn't find what she wanted. I'm sure she could have found replacements for some of them, but that takes work to tell apart the garbage knockoff apps from the decent knockoff apps. In general, she's not super tied into Google, but she does use Chrome, Gmail, Hangouts, and Blogger, and they all naturally work best on Android. A lot of these annoyances are problems with a budget Windows Phone, not the OS in general, but the nice cheap Windows Phones are the only really compelling ones. I keep wanting to get a cheap 530/635 to have as a backup phone, and she keeps saying if her current phone breaks, she'd rather go phone-less for a couple days than use one of them, haha. So that, plus the fact that I can quickly get a Moto E or Moto G if one of our phones breaks, means no need for a cheap Windows Phone for us.
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Psyker posted:Is that the issue then? Android-itis? Not keeping control of their own platform and instead licensing it out. No that was a joke about the Windows OS licensing scheme.
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Psyker posted:Why isn't Windows Phone more popular? Psyker posted:Of course, my real problem is apparently Verizon having poo poo support for WP and AT&T/Sprint/T-Mobile are garbage where I live. You answered your own question.
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BonoMan posted:Microsoft couldn't sell water to a man dying of thirst. Sooo... Same reason the Zune never got any respect: Microsoft employs the worst marketing team on earth
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ElGroucho posted:Same reason the Zune never got any respect: Microsoft employs the worst marketing team on earth Marketing only addresses awareness, which isn't the fundamental problem with adoption. The fundamental problem with adoption is... Factor Mystic posted:The reason it's not surprising is because most people don't buy phones, most people are sold phones. And what phones are CSR's selling? Let's check: http://www.neowin.net/news/when-talking-with-customer-service-reps-it-becomes-clear-why-windows-phone-isnt-selling-well
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Factor Mystic posted:Marketing only addresses awareness, which isn't the fundamental problem with adoption. The fundamental problem with adoption is... To be fair at least with Sprint only a maniac would recommend the WP they currently have.
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With Sprint you learn to enjoy torture and sadism. When the Ativ S and 8XT showed up they were meh, and nothing replaced them. My experience with them and Win6 and iDEN/Hybrid was the same - not a big market for them, so reciprocally they get poo poo. I have the 8XT on SERO and every time it crashes for WiFi poo poo I am tempted to cancel and go to Cricket or something. Honestly, the value isn't quite there unless Sprint is working good for you or you have and can use the data. I am not at all shocked regarding their recommendations, like the various niche phones of the past of course reps have no idea.
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Psyker posted:I bought one of the Lumia 635's on Black Friday because I've been super curious about the Windows Phone OS and such for a -long- time now. I currently have an iPhone 5S. After dicking around with it for the past two days... It largely boils down to 'Microsoft sucks at marketing' although they do alot better in Europe and developing markets. Also apparently the music player sucks. Windows phone seems to do worse in the US than any other country, and I suspect it has a lot to do with different phone companies insisting on having exclusives of certain models. Here in Australia all the phone companies are selling them, and they seem to be putting some effort into marketing. The Supermarket I work in has just brought in the Lumia 530, and put it on sale for 34 dollars outright (normally sells for 90 - 120). Considering the next best phone is spending 200 on an Android phone with a 3.2" screen and android 2.2, you can see the appeal - Since I'm the only windows phone user in the store, I gathered all the other supervisors up and explained how good the phone is, and how it would still be the best phone someone could buy from us even if it cost 200. Now everyone pushes it, we can hardly keep them in stock, and I've personally sold about 20 of them in the past week.
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