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kode54 posted:Is there a WP8.1 development topic? Or is this just it? As Drastic Actions said, you'll need a background task. Then you need to invent a protocol to control your background task effectively. Then you need to scour the internet trying to find out why the system will occasionally but not reproducibly kill your background task when the screen shuts off or your app goes out of focus. Then you will discover that it just ~one of those things~ that makes WP bad and you should have selected Silverlight as it does not experience this defect. Then you will give up!
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Factor Mystic posted:As Drastic Actions said, you'll need a background task. Then you need to invent a protocol to control your background task effectively. Then you need to scour the internet trying to find out why the system will occasionally but not reproducibly kill your background task when the screen shuts off or your app goes out of focus. Then you will discover that it just ~one of those things~ that makes WP bad and you should have selected Silverlight as it does not experience this defect. Then you will give up! I'll be fair to UWP; it's not as bad as it once was. I've only poked around with it since we'll need to use it for VLC but it's at least somewhat more predictable if/when it closes. The actual handoff is still crap, and Microsoft's samples are still bad for handling this usecase though. So  .
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Anonononomous posted:Is there any way to get Living Images to a computer and/or viewable in anything but the camera app? IIRC, if you connect your phone to the computer, the living images are stored as .THM files. Rename them to .MP4 to play them on your computer.
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Venusy posted:IIRC, if you connect your phone to the computer, the living images are stored as .THM files. Rename them to .MP4 to play them on your computer.
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So there's not really any info about it anywhere online except a few people going "uhhh it should work theoretically" but Quick Charge 2.0 does appear to be functioning for any Windows Phone with a Snapdragon 800, or at least it works with my Lumia Icon. Here's my charge rate with this charger http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01302K2WK?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 Pretty impressive considering a regular wall charger gives maybe 20-25%/hour and my Qi charger gives 30-35%/hour.
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How is the Lumia 640? Looks like Best Buy has them on sale for $70, thinking about picking one up just to test out Windows Phone.
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$70 is outrageously good value for a really good phone. At no point has it left me wanting for more power and and the battery life is a huge step up from my old iPhone 4S.
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Hughmoris posted:How is the Lumia 640? Looks like Best Buy has them on sale for $70, thinking about picking one up just to test out Windows Phone. I'm a huge fan, but I'm the weirdo that never had a smartphone before a Samsung Focus so I have Stockholm Syndrome 
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Chasiubao posted:I'm a huge fan, but I'm the weirdo that never had a smartphone before a Samsung Focus so I have Stockholm Syndrome I'm with this guy, Lumia 640 is my first smartphone and it's nice but I have no experience with others to compare it to, hooray affordability Indecisive fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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I went from Focus, to 900, 920, 1020, now I have the 640 XL. I really like it. Despite being a budget phone it really doesn't feel "cheap". It's screen and touch accuracy leave a bit to be desired, and not having the hardware camera button and nav buttons are a bit inconvenient, but overall it's a decent phone at the regular $250. $70 is a no brainer buy.
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Indecisive posted:I'm with this guy, Lumia 640 is my first smartphone and it's nice but I have no experience with others to compare it to, hooray affordability
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Anyone here use Google Voice on their Windows phone? Is it a smooth experience?
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I picked up a 640 as a holdover until my iPhone gets here but I really like it. I used the 920 for a while and loved that and I'm liking the changes to WP since then. As another said, touch accuracy leaves a bit to be desired but otherwise performance and battery life are pretty good for a sub-$100 phone.
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Whelp, It's been nice hanging out in this thread for the past two years, but the windows phone experiment is over for me. I dropped my $1379 on an iphone 6S plus yesterday, and it will be arriving on the 25th. Those of you who've moved from windows to iphone, is there anything special I need to know about migrating? All my contacts and calendar stuff is synced through my microsoft account. Is anyone bothering to use outlook on their iphones vs the stock mail app?
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The Lord Bude posted:Whelp, It's been nice hanging out in this thread for the past two years, but the windows phone experiment is over for me. I dropped my $1379 on an iphone 6S plus yesterday, and it will be arriving on the 25th. Those of you who've moved from windows to iphone, is there anything special I need to know about migrating? All my contacts and calendar stuff is synced through my microsoft account. Is anyone bothering to use outlook on their iphones vs the stock mail app? On iOS I use Outlook & Sunrise, the stock mail and calendar apps are not great. Expect to feel bummed about how lovely the contacts experience is compared to be people hub, I haven't found a way to fix that, otherwise the rest is pretty straightforward. Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Sep 13, 2015 |
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Maneki Neko posted:On iOS I use Outlook & Sunrise, the stock mail and calendar apps are not great. Expect to feel bummed about how lovely the contacts experience is compared to be people hub, I haven't found a way to fix that, otherwise the rest is pretty straightforward. what is wrong with contacts? I don't use any of the social media integration in people hub, I just need a list of contacts with names, phone numbers, email addresses, and a profile pic.
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The Lord Bude posted:what is wrong with contacts? I don't use any of the social media integration in people hub, I just need a list of contacts with names, phone numbers, email addresses, and a profile pic. The way the iPhone adds pictures to your concert list from social media is based on phone numbers. Only nine contacts of mine provide a number to Facebook so i have to either manually add pictures for the remaining 150 or convince them to put their number on Facebook. There's no way to link the contacts to a Facebook friend manually either. Other than that, if you don't use social media from the people hub you probably won't notice much. I Also use outlook over the stock mail app. Outlook works way better on the iPhone than it does on windows 10.
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wookieepelt posted:The way the iPhone adds pictures to your concert list from social media is based on phone numbers. Only nine contacts of mine provide a number to Facebook so i have to either manually add pictures for the remaining 150 or convince them to put their number on Facebook. There's no way to link the contacts to a Facebook friend manually either. Other than that, if you don't use social media from the people hub you probably won't notice much. I Also use outlook over the stock mail app. Outlook works way better on the iPhone than it does on windows 10. Yeah I'm not on Facebook so it shouldn't be an issue. I've noticed from reviews that outlook on iOS seems to be more polished.
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I dropped WP for months ago and I've used Outlook ever since. It was poo poo on Android but really good on IOS, and constantly improving. Onedrive and OneNote are great for me too. And I'm not sure what wookiepelt is talking about with linking Facebook contacts. All mine where automatically linked and you can manually add profiles by edit->add social profile in contacts. It doesn't automatically download photos for everyone from Facebook, but you can just use the sync.me app to do that. I am annoyed that the pictures can be seen in the contact list of the 6 Plus, and not the 6 however.
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Cyanogen going to integrate Cortana into their fork of Android. http://www.ibtimes.com/cortana-cyanogen-ceo-kirt-mcmaster-building-next-great-smartphone-os-2093032
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The Lord Bude posted:Whelp, It's been nice hanging out in this thread for the past two years, but the windows phone experiment is over for me. I dropped my $1379 on an iphone 6S plus yesterday !!! How?! I specced all I could (pink gold) and only got to $1176 which included extended warranty, $50 case (lavendar)) and $50 dock (pink gold), also all the RAMs. Did you get some Beats headphones too? I had no idea the price difference was so wide between iApple and WP.
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Mr Funkface posted:!!! How?! I specced all I could (pink gold) and only got to $1176 which included extended warranty, $50 case (lavendar)) and $50 dock (pink gold), also all the RAMs. Did you get some Beats headphones too? From what I remember, Bude is in Australia. Which might explain the price hike.
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Drastic Actions posted:From what I remember, Bude is in Australia. Which might explain the price hike. Ah, alles klar. Also AUD conversion comes higher. Still though I was quite shocked at the price differential when I specced the USD. Srsly $1.1k for a phone is ten times the current 640 price and it certainly isn't 10x the phone. Madness!
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Mr Funkface posted:Ah, alles klar. Also AUD conversion comes higher. I'd happily spend $250 on a 640 spec machine with a good camera, that's really the only thing the ~$100 phones are lacking these days (although standalone camera prices have dropped to the point where could probably pick up 640 & a small camera and be happy).
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kode54 posted:One thing I'm curious about is, as I was involved in the development of a media player that is ported to WP8.1, how one keeps a background process alive, playing audio via xaudio, without it being terminated. Currently, the only workaround we've found is to spawn a MediaPlayer instance that plays a loop of silence while we're playing. Long-running background audio via XAudio is officially "not a supported scenario". Nor via AudioGraph (the WinRT projection). The only supported way to do background audio for UWP apps is as shown in the official sample: https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples/tree/master/Samples/BackgroundAudio (I never like the phrase "not supported". I never know if it means "we flat out prevent it" or "you'll have to cobble the stuff together but it will work then" or "you can cobble stuff together but there will still be some unavoidable problems that we know about but don't plan to fix anytime soon". In this case I assume it's the latter). (PS. I'm just repeating what the background-audio team told me. I've not actually looked at that GitHub sample myself.)
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May be old news but it looks like Microsoft is set to announce their new phones on October 6th.
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Hughmoris posted:May be old news but it looks like Microsoft is set to announce their new phones on October 6th. Oh an new Band?! Interested... Otherwise the flagship-lite WPhones are still underwhelming.
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Drastic Actions posted:The .NET thread is a catch all right now for Windows Development, so probably in there would be best. We did register a background task. The handset kills it when the screen is locked.
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Mr Funkface posted:Otherwise the flagship-lite WPhones are still underwhelming.
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Mr Funkface posted:!!! How?! I specced all I could (pink gold) and only got to $1176 which included extended warranty, $50 case (lavendar)) and $50 dock (pink gold), also all the RAMs. Did you get some Beats headphones too?
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Having spent a career on Blackberry and Nokia I don't understand phone cases. You buy a device whose primary physical feature is how light and thin it is and easily double that weight and thickness for more money. Nevermind that the most fragile part of an iPhone has always been the glass but the best you can do for that is Invisible Shield if you like ruining your touch sensitivity.
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Shumagorath posted:Having spent a career on Blackberry and Nokia I don't understand phone cases. You buy a device whose primary physical feature is how light and thin it is and easily double that weight and thickness for more money. Nevermind that the most fragile part of an iPhone has always been the glass but the best you can do for that is Invisible Shield if you like ruining your touch sensitivity. Counterpoint: Otterboxes. That typically triples the weight and thickness, though.
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Shumagorath posted:Having spent a career on Blackberry and Nokia I don't understand phone cases. You buy a device whose primary physical feature is how light and thin it is and easily double that weight and thickness for more money. Nevermind that the most fragile part of an iPhone has always been the glass but the best you can do for that is Invisible Shield if you like ruining your touch sensitivity. IPhones have historically been more fragile than other phones due to the use of glass everywhere, but I kinda think that's no longer the case particularly with this latest model. On the other hand, iPhones have crazy good re sale value, so many people use cases to prevent the sort of minor scratches that would bring down the sale value.
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Shumagorath posted:I don't see how they're flagship-lite? WP has always performed well on hardware that Android can't even squeeze into. With Continuum maybe it will actually matter but maybe I'm just coming at this as someone who doesn't play games on their phone. I'm sure the innards are great and satisfactory; the externals, the design, the leaks just look meeeh uninteresting. I don't mean metal, I love the 920 and 720 designs with lovely utilitarian tapers and curves, I mean there's just no apparent effort. Flat screens, single radius on the corners, even the renders show them the same size when there's a good 0.5in difference. And the buttons oh lordy power between the volumes +/-, but only for one! The other is different! Having said that these could be cheeky leaks with little to no resemblance to the final we shall see.
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Mr Funkface posted:I'm sure the innards are great and satisfactory; the externals, the design, the leaks just look meeeh uninteresting. I don't mean metal, I love the 920 and 720 designs with lovely utilitarian tapers and curves, I mean there's just no apparent effort. Flat screens, single radius on the corners, even the renders show them the same size when there's a good 0.5in difference. And the buttons oh lordy power between the volumes +/-, but only for one! The other is different! Having said that these could be cheeky leaks with little to no resemblance to the final we shall see. furthermore current scuttlebutt is that both phones will come in two colors: white or black. The blue in the leaks is according to the rumors only for the prototype stage. If true colorful designs will be another thing windows phone (or rather nokia) invested heavily in , saw adopted by other manufacturers and has now walked back on. I hope i'm wrong and they trot out with a cyan 950xl on October 6th however.
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Colourful phones are somewhat inventory management nightmare, you never know which one of colors will sell and many operators might not want to stock them. Especially since there's no guarantee that Lumias will sell at all anymore, so having just black & white is safer.
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Shumagorath posted:Having spent a career on Blackberry and Nokia I don't understand phone cases. You buy a device whose primary physical feature is how light and thin it is and easily double that weight and thickness for more money. Nevermind that the most fragile part of an iPhone has always been the glass but the best you can do for that is Invisible Shield if you like ruining your touch sensitivity. You really need something with the current iPhone generation, the curved sides, smooth finish and flush glass make it feel like you're holding a very expensive bar of soap. I've never felt like I needed anything with any of the Nokias (although I did break th screens on a few focuses back in the day).
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Going from a Samsung Focus to a Lumia 900 really drove it home for me how much build quality makes a difference. Nokia phones are goddamn tanks, Samsung phones are cheap lightweight plastic held together with wishes, dreams, and unicorn farts, and so far Microsoft phones appear to be somewhere between those two extremes.
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Maneki Neko posted:You really need something with the current iPhone generation, the curved sides, smooth finish and flush glass make it feel like you're holding a very expensive bar of soap. I've never felt like I needed anything with any of the Nokias (although I did break th screens on a few focuses back in the day). I've read the new aluminium they're using on the 6S is 'grittier and grippier'. We'll see. I do like the idea of one of those saddle brown leather cases - I can have my cake and eat it too vs the MotoX/ LG G4.
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The Lord Bude posted:Whelp, It's been nice hanging out in this thread for the past two years, but the windows phone experiment is over for me. I dropped my $1379 on an iphone 6S plus yesterday, and it will be arriving on the 25th. Those of you who've moved from windows to iphone, is there anything special I need to know about migrating? All my contacts and calendar stuff is synced through my microsoft account. Is anyone bothering to use outlook on their iphones vs the stock mail app? Same. Droppin my 920 for a 6s
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