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xylo posted:Uhhh... We were not the ones pushing for 512. You'll note that this came after 7 GA (tango specifically). Our tango partner was the one that wanted it just to keep BOM costs down for the low tier modules models. This is also the reason for button removals, lack of camera flashes etc You're right, I've actually already made the mental connection "Lumia=MS", forgetting that my 635 is actually a Nokia device. On another note, my 635 with Dev Preview 8.1 Update 1 has stopped updating Live Tiles...this is still a thing in WP? Argh. Happy_Misanthrope fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Virtual addressing does in principle mean that all used memory can be mapped into a single area transparently, so that should not be an actual aspect of the "nightmare" variety.
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Jan 17, 2015 02:40
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:You're right, I've actually already made the mental connection "Lumia=MS", forgetting that my 635 is actually a Nokia device. This happened a lot on my 521. It was really annoying when the weather tile said "50 degrees and sunny  " and then I went outside and it was 20 degrees. I'm not sure if it had to do with low memory or not.
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Jan 17, 2015 04:00
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Apparently background images (finally) and transparent live tile icons in WP10/W10M?  http://newmicrosoft.com/rumor-says-this-is-the-start-screen-of-windows-phone-10/
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Jan 17, 2015 19:11
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Those are fake http://www.windowscentral.com/psa-those-windows-10-phone-images-are-not-real?utm_source=wpc&utm_medium=twitter Jewmanji fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Jan 17, 2015 19:30
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 I make poor purchasing decisions. But hey, the 1520 is a nice phone, and its size makes me feel important  .Also   Search results, in MY Something Awful App? 
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Jan 17, 2015 20:28
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Drastic Actions posted:Search results, in MY Something Awful App? 
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Jan 17, 2015 21:22
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Jewmanji posted:Those are fake  So many trash sites out there. Personally I avoid wmpoweruser, microsofft-news.com (or anything that the guy that runs that stuff (Surur?) does since he post this junk all the time). WPCentral (or whatever they are calling themselves now) is normally better but they get fooled by this poo poo all the time too. Honestly just don't believe anything they post full as normally it's wrong or has one right piece and 99% of the rest is made up.
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Jan 17, 2015 21:37
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Well there aren't many other fan sites to check
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Jan 17, 2015 22:13
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 Harmony Music update quote:in this version: It costs $0.99 because  (Financial report: total revenue so far is $34.88, and the minimum balance for a payout is... $200. So I have not actually made any money yet) Also relatively new is more aggressive automatic album art acquisition, and as app... ackground. Which looks pretty neat. Sadly because I prefer to use the art as an app background rather than a page background (for continuity while navigating), I can't do any parallax stuff (or at least, haven't figured that part out yet).  Remember that even if you don't want to use my app or think it's dumb, you can still help a goon out by rating it FIVE stars in the store. Factor Mystic fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Jan 17, 2015 22:17
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Jewmanji posted:Those are fake  I hoped they relented and finally allow backgrounds.
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Jewmanji posted:Well there aren't many other fan sites to check
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Combat Pretzel posted:Awwwwww The do allow backgrounds behind transparent tiles though. I for one find backgrounds rather than the minimalistic elegant black or white to be quite.... ugly in all the workups I've seen. I hope the at least leave an option for the current background behind transparent tile with black on edges.
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xylo posted:When are you going to publish the updated reader? I desire my bookmarks to update again. When I have a working Entity Framework 7 build that works in release mode. Seeing that they took out Windows Store support out currently, I have no idea when... My other solution is to give out APPX files and everyone sideload them. I can't release a beta into the store compiled in debug mode.
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Jan 18, 2015 00:06
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Drastic Actions posted:When I have a working Entity Framework 7 build that works in release mode. Seeing that they took out Windows Store support out currently, I have no idea when...
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xylo posted:I thought they gave you a workaround after you submitted a bug report? Did they get back beyond the bug you submitted? I did get a workaround of setting the NeutralResourcesLanguage of the project. It didn't work, and by the time I tried it, they closed the bug as external (which it is, so I don't blame them for it). But looking at their newer commits with how the resources are being handled, once they add universal app support back, it should work.
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So after fighting with Entity Framework for two hours or so, I think I got a fix working. After finding this msdn blog article linked on stackoverflow and jerry rigging it to work with EF, it no longer throws on the resources. So all database functions should be working again in release mode! I pushed a new build to the store. Hopefully it actually works for everyone and was not a fluke for me (It worked on all my phones, and I've got three now so... ). This includes all the fixes I've been posting about too. But no search. Still working on that.
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Read this part of a post by Paul Thurrott and made me think:Thurrott posted:This is a big deal, if you’re a Windows Phone user and really care about music. To date, I’ve always recommended Xbox Music to those who stick largely with Microsoft’s most modern platforms, because it is updated so frequently on Windows and Windows Phone and works well. He's done nothing but (rightly) complain about the state of the Music app on WP for the past 9 months. What's he talking about?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Read this part of a post by Paul Thurrott and made me think: The windows 8 app is decent I guess, but yeah I have no idea on the windows phone side of things.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Do they actually power down unused RAM opportunistically though? Otherwise there is little point to tombstoning the apps into flash (which I assume is what has to be happening to get "resuming") when they can just stay resident but unscheduled. I assumed it was actually terminating the app (i.e. telling it to save its current state, then stopping the threads, terminating the process, releasing RAM). And when it said "resuming" then it was displaying a saved screenshot while re-launching the app. At least, when you implement an app, you're expected to support and test than exact scenario. Within Visual Studio you click the "Suspend" or "Suspend and terminate" button on the toolbar, then the "resume" button.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Read this part of a post by Paul Thurrott and made me think:
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:It is (or was, prior to the winter holidays) updated rather frequently so he's half-right at least Both correct! Updates were indeed released, though it's arguable whether updates that don't fix complaints and UI crappiness count.
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So the newest update to Awful Forums Reader failed cert. Why? Because the testers said I did not provide login . Been there since the first release  But to make it up to you all, I'm going to resubmit with a new build with beta support for search and SAclopedia! Now watch it fail cert for some other reason! Drastic Actions fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Jan 20, 2015 |
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Jan 20, 2015 05:21
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You might want to change the password now that it's been publicly posted for anyone to see. 
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isndl posted:You might want to change the password now that it's been publicly posted for anyone to see. Accounts on probation (it's just a test account), so you couldn't do anything anyway. But yeah, I guess just in case.
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Quite a bit of brouhaha going on at WC right now. Chase Bank (US) is pulling it's app from the WP store in a week and shutting it totally off in March. They have given up on the platform. Not surprised. Of course I bank with Chase. Nice!
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hotsauce posted:Quite a bit of brouhaha going on at WC right now. Chase Bank (US) is pulling it's app from the WP store in a week and shutting it totally off in March. They have given up on the platform. Just move all your money and accounts to Indian and Vietnamese banks, I hear the platform's doing okay there.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Read this part of a post by Paul Thurrott and made me think: It's really amazing how little actual analysis the guy does, especially in terms of actually reviewing MS products in light of the competition. It's usually just throwaway lines in the middle of an article, such as when he lamented Spotify's march to dominance, despite Xbox Music being a "great" (or some such accolade) service. When the comments filled up with "WTF are you talking about? Xbox Music is awful!", his defense was "Well the Windows Phone Xbox Music app is better than Spotify!". Yeah, got that 2% marketshare segment locked up. tl/dr: Thurrott is really, really dumb and serves no point in existing Edit: Hah, he just posted an article on how to use Xbox music to manage your local music, of course not mentioning how absolutely awful it is for this express purpose. Happy_Misanthrope fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Chase, huh? Mother fuckers.
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MobMentality posted:Chase, huh? Mother fuckers. The last hope is they are working on a universal app. Right guys? Guys? Really doesn't bother me since I use Android as well, but if they truly are ditching the platform that's a shame. Hoping for a miracle tomorrow I guess. Or maybe they could take down the Music app with them. Wishful thinking?
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LifeSizePotato posted:Just move all your money and accounts to Indian and Vietnamese banks, I hear the platform's doing okay there. Australian Banks have excellent windows phone apps, especially the Commonwealth Bank, which was the first to really invest in a high quality Windows Phone 8 app. It's not just a shortcut to their mobile website either, it's a proper app, that put a good deal of effort into making it feel like a windows phone app. It's better than their Android app.
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The Lord Bude posted:Australian Banks have excellent windows phone apps, especially the Commonwealth Bank Uhh, ANZ?
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The Lord Bude posted:Australian Banks have excellent windows phone apps, especially the Commonwealth Bank, which was the first to really invest in a high quality Windows Phone 8 app. It's not just a shortcut to their mobile website either, it's a proper app, that put a good deal of effort into making it feel like a windows phone app. It's better than their Android app. St George hopped on the bandwagon pretty early in the WP7 days. That's about the last time it was updated, too.
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Navy Federal however, has not made an app and likely isn't going to. But I just bought a used Nexus 5 so hopefully I wont have to worry about that sort of thing anymore.
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FYI: The new database, search and SAclopedia enabled version of Awful Forums Reader finally got into the store yesterday  Let me know if your phones explode. You may need to uninstall and reinstall the app, do to the previous versions broken database features.
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Drastic Actions posted:FYI: The new database, search and SAclopedia enabled version of Awful Forums Reader finally got into the store yesterday Updated fine for me. I still can't get the page selection thing to work. Should I uninstall/reinstall to get that working or is that still a known issue? BTW, you rock for making this app. I'll echo everyone else who has said you should offer a donate option in the app for all the time you've put into it.
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Ev posted:Updated fine for me. I still can't get the page selection thing to work. Should I uninstall/reinstall to get that working or is that still a known issue? I did fix it at one point. Going through my change log, I accidentally reverted it when I added the font stuff. Because I'm a dummy. I'll fix it again and push another update.
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Drastic Actions posted:FYI: The new database, search and SAclopedia enabled version of Awful Forums Reader finally got into the store yesterday
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redbackground posted:When I click on "View Your Profile", yours comes up. Maybe you are trying to say that you were inside us all along, but just in case... Because it's hardcoded to me. I'm working on adding back the profile view, so I just hardcoded it so I could get to it. Oops. I'll remove it for now.
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Has he actually been "complaining" about the Music app though? I haven't seen it, rather he eventually just reports what people are saying in general around the web and in his comments, usually after he praises/promotes said product. Basically like his Windows 8 coverage - early on, dismissing the complaints as "whiners" and people just "resistant to change" (you know, like the Win8 thread in SH/SC), then promoting himself as a truth-teller from the start when the failure of it was so laughably obvious and impossible to ignore. He complained about it a few times in print, as well as the Windows Weekly podcast. I don't get where he's coming from a lot of the time, but he's handy for Microsoft news.
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