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The Lord Bude posted:Do what I did and upgrade your way into an iPhone. Flagship Androids are pretty nice these days too.
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I was fantastically annoyed with my Android try in between my 920 and 950. May have been unlucky, but I don't regret switching away from that particular phone, even into the life of a beta software guinea pig 
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cvnvcnv posted:Today's the day I can upgrade from my 1020 and what's this, the 950s and W10M have been such a trash fire that any chance of me getting a new Windows device have also gone up in smoke? Things have been on a downward slope since the end of 2014. Microsoft spent 2015 neglecting WP8.1 and their hardware. Then they released a half-finished mobile OS late with no compelling affordable hardware. They really had a tremendous amount of goodwill in the community. Many people wanted to like windows phone and for a time the marketshare was continuously increasing, but Lumia sales weren't strong enough to save Nokia and Microsoft clearly acquired them without a plan for how to use them. Then they managed to botch the W10M launch so badly that it's clear that Microsoft doesn't know what they're doing the in the mobile space.
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in idiot pieces, you potentially magnificent platform that only disappointed and baffled ceaselessly.
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Never mind the following and billion$ spunked away: I just got my mum up and trained on a 640 after years on my old SLVR. Thanks Microsoft you great arse, how do I train an old lady to use an Android phone.
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Mr Funkface posted:Thanks Microsoft you great arse, how do I train an old lady to use an Android phone. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lx.launcher8 :P
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Mr Funkface posted:Never mind the following and billion$ spunked away: I just got my mum up and trained on a 640 after years on my old SLVR. Thanks Microsoft you great arse, how do I train an old lady to use an Android phone. If the choice is between a lower end phone running android or a lower end phone running Windows 8.1 I'd still pick the Windows phone without hesitation. WP 8.1 is very good as an old persons phone OS. Keyboard is really good, and the stuff old people are likely to do - ie actually use the phone to communicate with people - is handled very well with pinning individual contact tiles and text message/email tiles.
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Jun 2, 2016 05:11
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New fast ring build. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/06/01/announcing-windows-10-mobile-insider-preview-build-14356/ quote:- We fixed an issue that resulted in the Glance screen clock occasionally not being up to date YES
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Looks like the official Windows 10 update for AT&T Lumia 640s is out now too.
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Maneki Neko posted:Looks like the official Windows 10 update for AT&T Lumia 640s is out now too.  I'm scared though  I'll probably wait till the weekend to try it.
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Jun 2, 2016 23:19
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Chasiubao posted:
Looks like it's build 10.0.10586.107
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Mr Funkface posted:Never mind the following and billion$ spunked away: I just got my mum up and trained on a 640 after years on my old SLVR. Thanks Microsoft you great arse, how do I train an old lady to use an Android phone. I mean, the future for the platform is looking drab, but if she is satisfied with what she has with the 640 then I think W10M is heading in a direction where you can probably let her stick with what she knows. The issue is more that Microsoft has created no compelling reason to switch to WP (and little to be excited for going forward), but if switching away seems a real hassle I think W10M will be fine for the foreseeable future.
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The Lord Bude posted:Do what I did and upgrade your way into an iPhone.
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Drastic Actions posted:Skype is a Win32 app. There was a Silverlight version for Windows Phone 7/8. Then there was a WinRT version for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1. Then they killed the WinRT versions for desktop, saying to use the Win32 version. Then for Windows 10 Skype was going to be integrated with Messages. Then they changed their mind and now there is a UWP app in preview right now. This is a perfect microcosm for the whole windows phone saga. New thread title: Windows Phone- Which Android Flagship are you going to buy?
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Maneki Neko posted:Looks like it's build 10.0.10586.107 If I never post again, tell the police it was W10M that did it. Edit: Download failed  Should I do a hard-reset after the update or is it fairly stable?Yup, repeated 8e5e0147 
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Jun 4, 2016 19:53
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I didn't realize until now that the 512MB Lumia 635 can still be updated to recent WM10 builds through Windows Insider. Would've been good to know when I spent a month using it as my primary phone, the current release preview is a lot faster than the old beta I was on.
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Jun 5, 2016 00:59
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Update: Still can't even download the update.
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Whoa the 950 at MS store had mega burn in on the screen.
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Issue resolved: Install requires 1.7 GB free, and it must be internal storage. Well, lucky me, the built in and thus cannot be uninstalled Podcast app is holding a cool gig of phantom data! Looks like I need to factory reset first 
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All you bemoaners, this WPhone shitshow is all part of the plan!quote:And so, where does this leave Windows 10 Mobile? The shortest answer is: it leaves Windows 10 Mobile exactly where Windows Phone began, and exactly where Microsoft has been telling us it resides. That is, Windows 10 Mobile is and will remain nothing more nor less than Microsoft’s Windows 10 SKU for OEMs that want to make Windows smartphones and other small Windows 10 devices. Windows 10 Mobile will take its place alongside every other Windows 10 SKU, right beside Windows 10 Home and Pro and Enterprise and IoT. Windows 10 Mobile is, in essence, the logical extension of Microsoft’s universal Windows 10 strategy — you can’t be Windows Everywhere if you don’t run on smartphones. http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-not-given-windows-phone-heres
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Mr Funkface posted:All you bemoaners, this WPhone shitshow is all part of the plan! RVProfootballer posted:2016 Microsoft: We're going to stop making Who is going to step up and fulfill my prediction? 
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Well, the link you are quoting contains a discussion of a surface phone which the author of that sprawling mess of a blog post appears to think is inevitable, so I guess you are aiming to fulfill it yourself?
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Total time to update so far: 3+ hours. That's one factory reset, an update, another factory reset, and now another update. Wheeeee 
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Jun 5, 2016 21:48
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Internet Explorer for WP8 was bad, but Microsoft Edge is SOOOOO BAD. Like, at least IE would just crash instead of continually chugging along but freezing and/or going glitchy every time you open a page with a couple of images on it.
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Oh for Christ's sake. Now my phone isn't recognized as a valid USB device by any PC. Now I can't access it to copy over ringtones or anything else.
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Jun 6, 2016 03:02
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You know you can just download ringtones, right? It's not like an iPhone that requires a computer. And you can also connect via Bluetooth.
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wookieepelt posted:You know you can just download ringtones, right? It's not like an iPhone that requires a computer. And you can also connect via Bluetooth. I did not, actually! Will try that tomorrow then. Also not sure how to just straight download one. I tried copying from OneDrive to my local ringtone folder, but it didn't show up properly, and I read that using the File Explorer app doesn't count.
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Chasiubao posted:I did not, actually! Will try that tomorrow then. Also not sure how to just straight download one. I tried copying from OneDrive to my local ringtone folder, but it didn't show up properly, and I read that using the File Explorer app doesn't count. Make sure the genre on them is set to "Ringtone". For some reason that matters.
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Tivac posted:Make sure the genre on them is set to "Ringtone". For some reason that matters. I'll have to try that. The BT copy put them in the music folder, and moving them to the ringtone folder using file explorer resulted in the same problem if them not showing up  Edit: Still hosed! Chasiubao fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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YeahTubaMike posted:Internet Explorer for WP8 was bad, but Microsoft Edge is SOOOOO BAD. Like, at least IE would just crash instead of continually chugging along but freezing and/or going glitchy every time you open a page with a couple of images on it. If it's doing the crazy flickering thing, cold reboot your phone. Mine started with that poo poo a couple of weeks ago but a reboot fixed it and it's been okay since. (Also, if anyone experiences the crazy gmail nonsense I was moaning about before, completely deleting the account from Outlook, rebooting, and re-adding it seemed to repair that for some reason.)
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Maneki Neko posted:Looks like the official Windows 10 update for AT&T Lumia 640s is out now too. I did this upgrade yesterday. Had to factory reset once because the phone wouldn't sync contacts and email from my MS account, but things seem to be moving smoothly now. The one exception: Cortana's music commands aren't working. I say "play New Order" (or other artist/album/song) and she just does a search instead of actually playing things. That's a feature I use all the time in the car, so it might be a dealbreaker if I can't get it working. Do I have to explicitly enable that somewhere?
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I've also had trouble where I ask her to create a reminder and instead she does a search 
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Soylent Heliotrope posted:I did this upgrade yesterday. Had to factory reset once because the phone wouldn't sync contacts and email from my MS account, but things seem to be moving smoothly now. The one exception: Cortana's music commands aren't working. I say "play New Order" (or other artist/album/song) and she just does a search instead of actually playing things. That's a feature I use all the time in the car, so it might be a dealbreaker if I can't get it working. Do I have to explicitly enable that somewhere? Have you let Groove launch & index all your music?
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All ~20GB of music on my SD card is showing up in the library and it's been nearly a day, so I assume Groove's done all the indexing it needs to. Does Cortana do additional indexing on top of that?
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MS' forum says copy with usb, a mp3 to the Ringtones folder. Can't use Bluetooth, cant be wav, genre doesn't matter. I'll try this in a bit.Chasiubao posted:I'll have to try that. The BT copy put them in the music folder, and moving them to the ringtone folder using file explorer resulted in the same problem if them not showing up
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The Lord Bude posted:If the choice is between a lower end phone running android or a lower end phone running Windows 8.1 I'd still pick the Windows phone without hesitation. WP 8.1 is very good as an old persons phone OS. Keyboard is really good, and the stuff old people are likely to do - ie actually use the phone to communicate with people - is handled very well with pinning individual contact tiles and text message/email tiles. Ah that gave me a good laugh. Keep em comin!
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Partycat posted:MS' forum says copy with usb, a mp3 to the Ringtones folder. Can't use Bluetooth, cant be wav, genre doesn't matter. I'll try this in a bit. I can't copy with USB because the update hosed up my device. It won't register as a valid USB device when plugged into three different machines. Luckily I finally got this to work, here is my stupid roundabout solution:
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When I plug my phone in on WinPho 10, a "Windows Phone" thing pops up from somewhere. But that's all that occurs. There are no files. I enabled developer mode, as well as the couple of various USB things that were there (including Device Portal) and now I can see the files. I put a MP3 into the Phone's "Ringtone" folder (there was not one on the storage card). Then I went into sounds and picked the file. Worked fine.
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Partycat posted:When I plug my phone in on WinPho 10, a "Windows Phone" thing pops up from somewhere. But that's all that occurs. There are no files. I enabled developer mode, as well as the couple of various USB things that were there (including Device Portal) and now I can see the files. Right, when I plug my phone in I get a 'USB Device not Recognized' error from Windows and at that point I'm hosed. On 8.1 if I did that, I could see the device's folders in File Explorer on the PC and could drop files normally, and it worked. This is specifically because USB no longer works for me
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Chasiubao posted:Right, when I plug my phone in I get a 'USB Device not Recognized' error from Windows and at that point I'm hosed. On 8.1 if I did that, I could see the device's folders in File Explorer on the PC and could drop files normally, and it worked. You checked the cables you're using? Hard reset? My beloved 920 died because a cable I was using shorted and melted the phone input. Now a cable won't even fit. Bunch of bullshit that was.
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Mr Funkface posted:You checked the cables you're using? Hard reset? Yes. Multiple cables. This was after a hard reset, too.
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