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Partycat posted:Groove seems to work alright, but like most of the other apps occasionally they wig out. Presumably from things disappearing from out under them. Sometimes it won't play my onedrive tracks, and flashes through them all really fast until it tells me I have to sign in again (?). Othertimes it will resume playback when I get back in the car, and play through one song, or part of a song, then disappear off into the ether never to be heard from again. Groove frequently stops playing under lock screen or refuses to play music in the background. I have to reset my phone. Sometimes I have to reset it because it can't sign in. It happens often enough to be frustrating. The problem is, after 8 years I have a lot of subscription music that I would lose if I stopped using Groove.
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wookieepelt posted:Groove frequently stops playing under lock screen or refuses to play music in the background. I have to reset my phone. Sometimes I have to reset it because it can't sign in. It happens often enough to be frustrating. The problem is, after 8 years I have a lot of subscription music that I would lose if I stopped using Groove. Are you using Bluetooth?
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Mar 25, 2016 03:29
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CharlesM posted:Are you using Bluetooth? Sometimes. Not always. Bluetooth had an issue for me where my phone thought it was connected to Bluetooth even after I turned it of. I couldn't get phone calls or adjust the volume.
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Mar 25, 2016 03:34
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Using Bluetooth sometimes crashes the whole audio stack in 8.1, curious if that's been fixed. 
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Mar 25, 2016 07:59
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I've only had Groove crash on me a couple of times; however, I got my first pair of Bluetooth headphones a while ago and it seems to be a total crapshoot as to whether it connects to Bluetooth for voice, music or both and frequently requires reconnecting a couple of times to work properly. Why is that?
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Mar 25, 2016 10:27
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EdEddnEddy posted:Agreed. Continuum with x86 capability would be amazing. My initial reaction was that it'd basically doom the UWP platform but it'd probably be ok if they only allowed x86 programs to run while in Continuum mode (which would also be the only time it'd really make sense to use them)
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Mar 25, 2016 14:11
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loquacius posted:doom the UWP platform but it'd probably be ok if they only allowed x86 programs to run while in Continuum mode (which would also be the only time it'd really make sense to use them) UWP has it's own challenges and I don't think anyone really gives a poo poo about UWP mobile anymore. UWP is pretty much only a bad desktop platform right now with little to no advantages over Win32/x86 and ton of downsides. I think HTML5/web assemblies is far more likely to become a universal platfrom over UWP.
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Preparing anything special for your two year anniversary of calling WP app development dead next month Stick100? I figure a classic best-of may be in order!
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Mar 25, 2016 18:59
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Stick100 posted:UWP has it's own challenges and I don't think anyone really gives a poo poo about UWP mobile anymore. UWP is pretty much only a bad desktop platform right now with little to no advantages over Win32/x86 and ton of downsides. I think HTML5/web assemblies is far more likely to become a universal platfrom over UWP. You keep forgetting that UWP is not just desktop and mobile, it's whatever Microsoft wants it to target. That includes things Xbox and Hololens. Hell, maybe even other platforms someday. Honestly I much rather build a UWP app than a WPF one at this point, because the lead time to getting something production ready is much shorter than building separate desktop, mobile, whatever apps. It's just getting people to download it. Store engagement is not great verses people expecting an outside installer. Also  at HTML5/Web as a "universal" solution. While stuff like React Native are much better frameworks than what was/still is out there, you're still not getting the performance you're gonna get from going native. Hence why things like, say, Xamarin* exist. Which may indirectly spur UWP and other Windows development, as getting devs to write C# for their apps makes it much easier to target Windows too. And you're actually native performance versus a web view. *I may be slightly bias with this point, but whatever.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Preparing anything special for your two year anniversary of calling WP app development dead next month Stick100? I figure a classic best-of may be in order! I don't entirely recall that, I still dev on WP/UWP on and off and still think it's a dead platform. I'm really hopeful for the platform of UWP it's just not in a good spot yet. Win32/Android/iOS or HTML5 are the only things people currently care about. I'm really hoping Xamarin coming on board can allow us to get a Universal C# platform that would be amazing. I guess I found something like it. Stick100 in May 18, 2014 posted:I work in a largish city where the majority of developers work on Microsoft technologies. We have several companies that had large Silverlight projects and several WPF projects. Oh as a side note all of those companies have abandoned Silverlight for HTML/Javascript. I still stand by the opinion that we need Xamarin as part of MSDN or free to get any excitement on C# mobile development. Stick100 fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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Mar 25, 2016 20:38
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Drastic Actions posted:You keep forgetting that UWP is not just desktop and mobile, it's whatever Microsoft wants it to target. Yes, but I said "right now", someday it might be universal but right now it's just for their phones and desktop. I know it should be on Hololens/XBox someday but right now it's not available on XBox and Hololens is not a product. On desktop it has downsides compared to Win32/WPF due to the sandboxing and performance issues/missing functionality. On mobile it's of course the only solution but I don't think anyone is working on a WP only app/game at this point. x86 continuum on a phone + Xamarin/Mono putting UWP everywhere would be amazing but right now UWP is in a rough spot, but it's only a couple of days until Build and I'll be watching the Keynote hoping for some good news.
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http://www.windowscentral.com/cortana-now-tells-your-other-devices-your-phones-battery-low-or-missed-text This sounds rad.
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Drastic Actions posted:Also It definitely is, even though it's worse, because worse is better. The best native app will always be better than the best web app, but it doesn't matter, because the web is everywhere people care about. The promise of UWP is well and good & the overlap with .NET Core is well and good & opensourcing .NET is well and good & acquiring Xamarin is well and good & none of it matters because the web is eating everything and the vast majority of apps that people care about are web focus if not exclusively web apps because distribution is painless & there's no fee to pay anyone. At least we can still write C# on the server, I guess, at least until the node infection fully metastasizes and the only language anyone knows is javascript.
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Oh of course people will keep using it. But seeing the growth in Xamarin usage, especially among big companies, people do want performance. A good amount of the companies who switch to us do because they tried HTML5 apps and it failed (You could argue it's on them, but whatever  ). And as more companies see users reject lovely web apps, I think more will seriously consider things like Xamarin. HTML5 has its advantages, and is getting better for perf, but I'm confident that it won't be as good as what we're doing. Again, slightly biased.But make sure you watch the Build keynotes next week, some really cool stuff is coming that'll be awesome and solve some of these pain points. And for anyone is going, I'll be there! So be sure to say hi.
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My 950XL is up for sale on SA Mart. I just don't use it and have tinkered with WP long enough. Bye felicia! (keeping my cheap-o 640 around for fun though...) http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3769818 I don't sell junk. Buy my phone, goon. $490 hotsauce fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Mar 26, 2016 |
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Tivac posted:http://www.windowscentral.com/cortana-now-tells-your-other-devices-your-phones-battery-low-or-missed-text Rad, but useless to most of the world since Cortana is still idiotically limited to a handful of regions. Just like WP10. I have a 930 which is on the supported list for receiving the final build of WP10 but nothings available yet. For a company that needs every bit of market share it can get, MS really seems desperate to have WP10 in as few hands as possible. And by tying all these new features into Cortana and making huge announcements about them, but then still not making Cortana available to most of the world, it's like they really enjoy giving a big up-yours to the diminishing support-base that they have left.
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Drastic Actions posted:Oh of course people will keep using it. But seeing the growth in Xamarin usage, especially among big companies, people do want performance. A good amount of the companies who switch to us do because they tried HTML5 apps and it failed (You could argue it's on them, but whatever are we going to get android apps on wp finally? when are the iPhone ones coming? beuges posted:Rad, but useless to most of the world since Cortana is still idiotically limited to a handful of regions. Just like WP10. I have a 930 which is on the supported list for receiving the final build of WP10 but nothings available yet. because wp10 is buggy and they're ashamed :P
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Drastic Actions posted:But make sure you watch the Build keynotes next week, some really cool stuff is coming that'll be awesome and solve some of these pain points Any chance this amazing new world will make it possible to play music in the background without pausing or dying?
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Factor Mystic posted:Any chance this amazing new world will make it possible to play music in the background without pausing or dying? I wish! All I know is Xamarin specific stuff
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Factor Mystic posted:Any chance this amazing new world will make it possible to play music in the background without pausing or dying?
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It's always been an issue for me. Playing music though Bluetooth works perfectly. Playing music through headphones or nothing at all will inevitably cut out after a few songs.
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Crumps Brother posted:It's always been an issue for me. Playing music though Bluetooth works perfectly. Playing music through headphones or nothing at all will inevitably cut out after a few songs.
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Mar 27, 2016 02:54
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It was never a problem with Silverlight, but WinRT background audio would intermittently pause without explanation. Never when the debugger was hooked up. Searched all over the web, no clear picture as to what's happening. I've posted more details about it itc I think. Eventually I just gave up.
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xylo posted:I thought this was fixed a long time ago. Is it really still broken? It was fixed and then it rebroke in a recent update. I listen via speaker and it sometimes craps out after my phone locks or I switch to a different app. Once this happens, I need to power cycle my phone to get it to work.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I've only had Groove crash on me a couple of times; however, I got my first pair of Bluetooth headphones a while ago and it seems to be a total crapshoot as to whether it connects to Bluetooth for voice, music or both and frequently requires reconnecting a couple of times to work properly. Why is that? I have the same problem with my 640 and my car. I miss my L900 being able to do this without any problems.
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I haven't seen a peep about the Lumia 650 since the release date was announced, no reviews or anything. Is that good or bad? At this point my primary need is a Windows 10 phone that can support a 200gb MicroSD card for Groove music and can text so I assume I shouldn't be disappointed.
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Mar 27, 2016 14:03
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Can you set your VPN only to activate only on insecure hotspots? Not worried about secured wifi obviously.
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The VPN has a toggle in the notification center, so depending on your client you could just push that when you're on an open network and you're good to go. I am not sure of any sort of task manager thing that would do that for you. Bluetooth and audio playback are not at all top notch on W10 at the moment, but they're not the worst that I've ever used. I miss Mixradio a bunch since it worked really well. Groove still won't play from a consistent set of music - it just sometimes seems to focus on certain tracks and ignore others. Slacker works like rear end on the 640, takes forever to open, randomly starts blaring out of my phone during the work day. Once it pairs though BT is fine. I have some Plantronics earbuds that work fine. Volvo Sensus works fine, though the text doesn't always update. The Band 2, well, the keyboard and audio controls don't work most of the time but that's something they're aware of.
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There was a lot of hope that the "mind-blowing" feature that would prove Windows phone ain't dead yet would happen at this evening's Build presentation titled "Something Awesome This Way Comes." They just retitled the session to "Linux Command Line on Windows."  (Almost zero mention of WM10 was made at the keynote this morning.)
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LifeSizePotato posted:There was a lot of hope that the "mind-blowing" feature that would prove Windows phone ain't dead yet would happen at this evening's Build presentation titled "Something Awesome This Way Comes." Maybe it'll come to W10M? 
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Terry Myerson posted:Windows Phone: it's not the core of where I hope to generate developer interest over the next year I wonder if there are any companies for whom high quality smartphones is a main business?
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I thought another party was bringing Android apps to Windows Phone but I guess not. 
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Should my mind be blown because my mind isn't blown.
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The Bash on Windows thing blew my mind but I develop on a Windows machine at a Linux/Mac company so
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loquacius posted:The Bash on Windows thing blew my mind but I develop on a Windows machine at a Linux/Mac company so This is super exciting for a large number of people who work with computing (not just developers). Don't worry.
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Yeah, it is one of those things which will never have really broad market impact or anything, but it does go a long way to charm a lot of techies. Expect to see more windows laptops at tech conferences of all kinds. It would be nice it this could come to W10M via Continuum as well, but I would be pretty unsurprised if it is tied to x86 in some sufficiently troublesome ways to make it low priority.
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Stick100 posted:I still stand by the opinion that we need Xamarin as part of MSDN or free to get any excitement on C# mobile development. How's that?
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I'd think that qualifies, especially for anyone concerned with what Microsoft thinks about developers . They have been killing it this build.
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