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[Windows Phone 7 General] ken52787:
My facebook chat finally started working. I had tied my facebook account to my live account, but I never use Windows Live Messenger so I didn't even have it installed. I installed it and upon opening it, it showed my facebook friends. On my phone I changed my status to offline then back on. Everyone popped up then.
[Windows Phone 7 General] A Dustman:
Has anyone gotten bing audio to work? I can't even find it...
[Windows Phone 7 General] redviper666:
Bing audio works for me. Its in the search page on the application bar. Bing vision is quite impressive also.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nok_fusion:
how can i saw my friends on an another account msn?

my friends are on my personnal live account different from that i use to register the device
[Windows Phone 7 General] mikeeam:
Same here, but I think that you can't do that. Just one WLM connected at once. And this one is your main account; the one you used to register your phone and everything else.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nok_fusion:
ohh what a pity :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] A Dustman:
Hmm, it must be a regional thing then, I'm in Canada, but I still have vision and local scout
[Windows Phone 7 General] behh:
after linking wlm and facebook (at m$ site, i dont have wlm client installed) i just did some offline online at messaging tab, and it worked : )
[Windows Phone 7 General] TOA Duck:
this worked for me too. working now and it is awesome!!

thanks given
[Windows Phone 7 General] A Dustman:
back to the tips and tricks part of this thread, has anyone noticed the new auto fix feature for pictures? and how it saves your camera settings? I think these are great features.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Marvin_S:
Could not send an HD video to skydrive...

It gave me an error every time... does anybody has the some problem or did somebody got it to work properly? Is it not yet implemented?
[Windows Phone 7 General] prjkthack:
My video upload went through fine.

I did a really short HD video though. I know there is a 100 MB upload limit, so if its bigger than that then that could explain why you are getting errors.

On a good note, Facebok Chat just started working on my phone and on my PC. I think Windows Live and Facebook just need extra time to connect Chat with each other. Took hours to do so. So just link it once, be patient and wait.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dtboos:
Just tested out the voice command for text messages. I was able to compile a message, but cannot send it for some reason with voice command. Am I missing something here?

*Edit* Just found the setting. Man this preview is sweet.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jkommeren:
Great thread :)

Got a question though: Is there a way to disable the jumplist feature in the application list? I don't have a lot of options (say ~40) and it makes my list twice as long :p

Other than that I keep discovering new features every time I play with it, latest ones:

"no appointments" on empty days in calendar

Smileys (although not very pretty)

Proxy servers @ APN settings (surprised me! it wasn't even announced :D, the opposite actually, only wifi was supposed to get proxies afaik)

Only real "issue" with mango so far for me is the OneNote performance, feels a bit sluggish. Loving skydrive though. Just loving it :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] prjkthack:
No, there isn't. Its only meant for long lists, so you must have hit a number that the phone thinks is a lot, and therefore you get the jumplist. You could always uninstall some apps? lol
[Windows Phone 7 General] Omega Point:
Are Facebook check ins broken for anyone else? When I try I get a message saying "Can't post message. We're having troubleposting your message to Facebook". It does work with Windows LIve and the Facebook App can perform a check in at the same locations.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ken52787:
Nope, I just tried and I was checked-in just fine. Is all other facebook integration working for you? Check your accounts page and make sure facebook doesn't say Attention Required. Maybe it doesn't have the proper permissions.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Omega Point:
Everything else woeks, even Chat. I checked the permissions though facebook and it does have enough to perform a check-in.

EDIT: Just reset the phone and still not working after re-adding the account.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ken52787:
Who else has played with the turn-by-turn directions? I'm glad they're finally implemented, but I feel like they have a long way to go.

Things I've noticed that I really dig:

Tap anywhere at any time to hear your next turn.

Auto-scaling map based on distance from the next move

Speech commands are clear and it'll tell you the next few moves if they happen quickly (turn left, then immediately turn right)

Two annoyances noticed so far:

The tap to recalculate when you go off it's path is annoying. There should be an option to auto recalculate.

I might have some settings messed up, but it's not automatically telling me what to do next. It gives me a tone as I'm making the turns, but I have to tap the screen to actually hear the directions read to me.
[Windows Phone 7 General] moonshines:
anyone who can give some info about xbox live.

are there changes in restrictions especially for games with mature/gruesome content? were you able to install xbox live extras for mango?

and what are the features that arent working yet?

(planning to upgrade my hd7 to mango beta but im worried i might get tired of mango even before it comes out LOL!dang it! im missing all the fun:( afraid of getting my device bricked!:D)

thanks
[Windows Phone 7 General] moonshines:
got a question regarding voice command. since you have tested it, does it support other language than english?i believe you can set a different language for the keyboard does that apply also to the voice command?

thanks in advance
[Windows Phone 7 General] dtboos:
Same for me at first. Just delete your facebook account in the emails & accounts settings page and then create it again. Works fine after that.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prjkthack:
Changes in content description has nothing to do with the version of the OS on the phone, its a Windows Marketplace policy and that has not changed at all.

Xbox Live Extras is now only necessary if you want to edit your avatar, otherwise all the other functionality of Xbox Live Extras pre-Mango is now built into the operating system. So it is downloadable if you want, but its only an avatar editor.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dtboos:
There is a Beta Xbox Live Extras app in market you can download, but is only for Avarat editing. Everything else is now built in. Market restriction changes most likely will come with official release and are part of the system on Microsofts side.

Not sure, I would imagine it uses whichever language you have it setup for. I will test this later.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Omega Point:
I cannot delete Facebook, I just get a message saying the feature isn't working yet which does have a delete button but it does nothing.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dtboos:
hmm..try a restart of phone and try again? Didn't run across that issue.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Omega Point:
Fixed the delete issue, it seems you cannot delete a Facebook account while it is linked to your live Profile. Still hasn't fixed the problem, as even a reset didn't cure it I'm not sure what else I can try.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sayonical:
I notice you can now launch zune from pretty much anywhere using the volume keys, tap the playing song in the Zune pop up control. Love that (yay multitasking)

Office hub is awesome with SkyDrive and pdfs are supported natively. You can load up your SkyDrive with pdfs and it will launch into the adobe app, as well as show up in the recent docs list as a red tile ;) dropbox really isn't needed ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] DagsJT:
Anyone else get an error when they try to access the music section in Marketplace? Just gives me an error code.

Edit: working now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] kwajr:
Facebook chat works go to your live page on a pc and link it with Facebook then on your phone resync
[Windows Phone 7 General] cj_133:
Just installed Mango and loving it so far, though is anyone else Zune live tile not working? Do we have to re-download all the artist images?
[Windows Phone 7 General] DagsJT:
Working fine here.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jessiethe3rd:
I'm running 7661.WP7_5_Trial

Certainly like what I have seen so far but still a LOT of features missing.

Missing:

Local Scout not there

Bing Vision is not really working well

Twitter of course not working

LinkedIn not functioning correctly

Picture updating can be slow at times

Likes:

Notifications now make a LOT of sense - if you click on your own picture it gives you a nice Social Notification feed - still missing is some type of app notification area. They need to possibly put all app notifications in the same location and some type of ability to close notifications - I like the flipping tile notifications for your contacts - this seems to update a lot more quickly and a lot more frequently.

New Lock screen flexibility - much improved to allow one to avoid the irritation of having mandiated screen locks - you can push out the unlock time to 15 minutes which is a nice improvement. Like the music on screen, like the slide to shutdown.

Facebook Chat does work and it is pretty cool

Task switching

Tried to upgrade each of my Samsung Focuses with no success - got a error code within step 2 and had to restore my phone (tried everything from rebooting to removing memory card to reformatting... no go)
[Windows Phone 7 General] FunkTrooper:
There still doesn't seem to be a rotation lock :'(
[Windows Phone 7 General] A Dustman:
I'm in Canada too, and if you set your region to the US local scout works just fine, though i do not get bing audio
[Windows Phone 7 General] cj_133:
Yeah mine seems to be working now, however Smart DJ keeps saying it can't recognize the artists? You'd think they'd know who Beyonce is! (don't judge me :P)
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
when you say "pdfs are supported natively" are you talking about skydrive or wp7 open pdf without adobe reader app? I think wp7 adobe reader is the most horrible experience on any platform.
[Windows Phone 7 General] DagsJT:
Smart DJ doesn't work at all for me, something about connecting to Zune on my PC to do searches?
[Windows Phone 7 General] DavidinCT:
I installed a while ago, the whole marketplace just hangs there and never shows anything or will just error out like I am not connected to the internet. (everything "internet" related seems to work fine)

Any idea ? Does having mango installed mean I can't use the marketplace ?
[Windows Phone 7 General] f0lken:
It´s not mango related, the marketplace is just ****ty today :p
[Windows Phone 7 General] cj_133:
Marketplace seems to be down at the moment so nothing wrong on your side.
[Windows Phone 7 General] DeathLamp:
Ok for those who do not get Facebook to work:

1.Goto www.live.com, sign in and then link your live-account to facebook

2.Goto Facebook and set the language to English (US) (this is very important!)

3.Goto Setting (on your phone) / Emails + Account and sync both, Facebook and your Live-Account

4.Make sure the Facebook-Chat-Switch is now turned on

5.Goto Message and set your state to offline and then to online.

This should do the trick ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] DavidinCT:
Oh, I guess that's good....

Local scout works great...even found my local bar and was given a rating of a 4 (that dive ?) This is somethign I neededed

Bing music didn't find anything (just errored out) and I put the phone up to a speaker...

So far besides the MarketPlace (and due to the service, not Mango), pretty cool and fast.

Worth the install, can't wait for the final
[Windows Phone 7 General] edpham:
hey im new here, can u tell me when i update my wp ( htc hd7 ) to mango, is it still jailbroken ? ( sorry becos of my bad english T_T, my wp has jailbroken in nodo )
[Windows Phone 7 General] DavidinCT:
No, you lose that according to what other people have said, It will be a locked phone after you install Mango
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiny17:
This all came in handy today at school as I forgot to take my laptop for notes. I had a fellow student email me the question sheet that we were supposed to fill in. I then downloaded it and saved it to my skydrive. From there I took notes in class using the lovely keyboard on my Arrive. Then I get home and can easily access the document on my computer.

On a similar note/separate occasion -

You can copy the text recognition, which is very handy. I scanned some questions from a piece of paper. Translated it from English to English. Copied the words, and then pasted them into a Word document where I then proceeded to answer the questions. Very cool stuff!
[Windows Phone 7 General] Lidanh:
- Is it possible to search server folders in Outlook?

YES! it is... Gmail also...

This is without doubt, the best email app for all smartphones out there.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Lidanh:
Two more things:

1. ListBox object acts way better now.

In some apps the ListBox was buggy (FIM, Facebook, etc...) and it appears to work much better, faster and smoother without installing a new release of the App. (actual infrastructure improvement)

2. Beautiful Bar-Code scanner! :-) (Inside the Bing search form)
[Windows Phone 7 General] sayonical:
Yup the bing vision is hella awesome! Even used it to scan your QR :)

Nice app!
[Windows Phone 7 General] ScottSUmmers:
Is anyone else having problems with Messenger? I have a buddy added on Messenger but he doesn't show up on my phone. Any one have any ideas? Thx.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiny17:
Haha thanks! Yeah I saw Engadget do this with their app, and I thought it was a pretty neat concept. Although I think I'm going to re-do it using Microsoft's QR code system, because I think I can then make it smaller, as this one is just too big - even after I shrank it from its original size.
[Windows Phone 7 General] cj_133:
ListBox scrolling still isn't perfect but once everything has loaded it's tons better. When pulling stuff from the network though it's still as choppy as ever, seems like it's up to the devs on this one to do everything off of the UI thread.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jessiethe3rd:
Is there more than one version of version of the beta Mango? I am running 7661.WP7_5_Trial - it's missing a lot of features including Local Scout.
[Windows Phone 7 General] cj_133:
Those types of features are heavily dependent on location. For example local scout only work in 3 or 4 countries at the moment, same with Bing Music.
[Windows Phone 7 General] EDDS:
I'm having the same problem, if my contact also has a linked facebook account then they show up, if they don't then they don't show....
[Windows Phone 7 General] jessiethe3rd:
That must be the issue... I'm considering upgrading another one of my phones to it but am starting to get a bit paranoid about the roll-back on multiple phones given I don't have a AppDev account.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jimmyzerol:
Lg app store seems open to me
[Windows Phone 7 General] derausgewanderte:
fine here too, installed a couple apps as well. no problems with LG store
[Windows Phone 7 General] jmerrey:
i had used the reg hack to get 32 bit colors, and I thought I had heard this wasn't going to be needed in mango. Sure enough, I can tell that i'm back to 16 bit in alot of areas (wallpapers, some pictures, some apps, etc)
[Windows Phone 7 General] ScottSUmmers:
Weird. Which phone are you using? I'm using the Arrive/7 Pro and have no problems with pixelation.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiny17:
On Arrive no 16bit banding here - which is impressive since I couldn't ever get the registry hack to work.
[Windows Phone 7 General] oldpueblo:
Things I found that I love and did not expect:

*I don't have to pin unlock my phone every time I turn it on because of our exchange policy. Now I can set a one hour time-out.

*Pinning an email sub-folder to the tile screen.

*Having text messages read to me and being able to reply fully with voice.

*Many settings options are now available in their native apps instead of having to go all the way to the settings area.
[Windows Phone 7 General] f0lken:
Oh boy i feel so stupid now LOL

I spent the last two days lamenting that MS didn't implement a "Who's connected" function for msn and facebook chat, I searched in settings, in the people hub, tried to create a group, etc and no luck.

And just a moment ago I had to send a SMS so I went to the messaging app and accidentaly swipe to the right and surprise!!! There was the "Connected" screen.

It seems so obvious now but it was a pleasant surprise and not the only I've had with Mango :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Endeavour1934:
I miss two things from NoDo:

Favorites and Tabs buttons in IE. They should have left the reload button inside the address bar and make the left button one of these two functions. Maybe Tabs. And whenever you open a new tab, show the list of favorites on it.

"Extras..." link on images, to open them on related apps.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
The extras were already announced to be missing in this build. But they will definitely find their way back in the final mango release.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Kaitian:
If this wasn't noted,

Microsoft limited group sizes to 20 people maximum which is dumb. I have hundreds of contacts on my phone and it'd be nice to just throw everyone into a category I don't want to see unless the need for looking at them comes up. So hopefully someone will figure out how to circumvent this limit in the future.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Talys:
Mine says, every time I go to the LG Apps Store:

MARKETPLACE ERROR

We're sorry but we can't complete your request right now.

Try launching Marketplace again. If the problem continues, restart your phone and try again.

Error code: 805a194

[ close ]

I have a Telus branded LG Optimus 7 (unlocked), running on the Fido network.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jessiethe3rd:
Interesting issue that keeps popping it's head up for me. Whenever I plug my Mango'ed HD7 into the computer Zune puts up a message that it must be updated. As soon as I try to do this I get an error that says "can't find the media installation package 'Zune WMDU Component.' It might be incomplete or corrupt.

FYI - anyone with this issue needs to update to Zune 4.8 beta - once I did this it worked perfectly fine.
[Windows Phone 7 General] shanssv:
anyway to color code mails in linkedinbox from different mails like gmail,yahoo,hotmail ?
[Windows Phone 7 General] dtboos:
no

10 char
[Windows Phone 7 General] Shahab2500:
hehe try this:

play a music on your phone , then go to games hub and see your avatar dancing! :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] EDDS:
Agreed I miss tabs more than Fav's but I would still like both to be available with one touch.
[Windows Phone 7 General] suprmatt:
Has anybody been able to get the text to speech option working while the screen is locked? When my screen is locked and I receive a text, it just repeats the two commands, either "read it or ignore" no matter what I say after the prompt... It works just fine when the screen is unlocked though.
[Windows Phone 7 General] A Dustman:
It works fine for me
[Windows Phone 7 General] TheBladeOfGrass:
That was great! Never thought I would be amused by something so simple!
[Windows Phone 7 General] derausgewanderte:
have you tried to change system locale from English (Canada) to English (US) ? just a thought
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruben302:
Well that sucks since I am using my 1st windows live account only for the marketplace. :( really hope someone finds a way around it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jessiethe3rd:
I flashed my HD7 and Local Scout, Bing Vision work fine now... some reason it won't work on my Optimus 7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brokenflipside:
So this is weird, but I swear, the "find" option is no longer in ie9? No more searching for words on a page? :(

BTW about the multitasking debate. If an app has been compiled with the new SDK in VS then it will have multitask capability.

Yes, pressing back exits an app, (sometime you have to hit it more than once.)

Its not time travel, each app is a room with 1 door for in and out. You have to leave the same way you came in, unless the dev built an exit soft key.
[Windows Phone 7 General] adiliyo:
works fine for me too, my phone sits in a cup holder in the car, so sometimes i have to speak a little louder, but 98% of the time, it's flawless.

and dancing avatar = hilarity.
[Windows Phone 7 General] weepatc:
Add some pics as 'Favourites' in the Pictures hub & select 'Shuffle background picture' you now have a sldeshow on the backround & on the Start screen tile.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Shahab2500:
WOW. Very cool. Great.

**

Anybody knows how to change the lockscreen wallpaper while playing music? (the Red one i mean)
[Windows Phone 7 General] 0711:
Hi there, mango is great so far but is it possible to disable the abc letters in the app list? My list is normaly not this long and now it is near double as long as before....this sucks for me very hard.

Hope i can disable this.

Another little thing i dont like...ie9 tab handling....i want the tab button back and dont want to open the menu for this (one senseless tab).

Anyone an idea?

Greetings
[Windows Phone 7 General] elitemikes:
Thanks for the tip on the pictures live tile. I was wondering how to get the slideshow option.

I wish there was a way to just let it cycle through certain albums
[Windows Phone 7 General] mcorrie1121:
If you have 44 or fewer apps, the category letters don't show. Not a real great fix, but maybe you're close to the limit.
[Windows Phone 7 General] oldpueblo:
Just tap on the A or any of the letters to jump straight to the section you want, same as the people hub.
[Windows Phone 7 General] 0711:
ok not a real fix but a beginning...cause i think the limit should be dynamic (maybe reg hack)

so i need shazam no more :) deleted

maybe i dont need barcode scanners/price searches...dont know at the moment if i will delete

thx

i know but this is exactly what i dont want in app list, cause i dont have so many apps ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] jessiethe3rd:
Anyone with a Samsung Focus have issues with Jumplist showing up in the program list? The alphabetical listing doesn't show up on my phone for some odd reason on my Focus. Everything else appears to be running just fine.
[Windows Phone 7 General] 0711:
you have more than 44 entries and see the abc letters but yout cant access the jumplist itself?
[Windows Phone 7 General] jessiethe3rd:
oh it's 44 entities!?? okay well that makes sense... :o
[Windows Phone 7 General] weepatc:
Anyone got Bing vision working on UK O2 HD7? Can't seem to get it to work. Maybe I'm missing something!
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiny17:
Yeah, wish you could simply enable/disable. It will probably be a long while before I have that many apps, but I would still like using the jump list.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
Having a jump list with just a few apps doesn't make any sense. In fact, it would make your app list just appear larger.
[Windows Phone 7 General] keyboardP:
Nope, I can only seem to access the 'text translation' feature using the camera. (Mozart on Orange). When using Bing Vision, I get 'no results' for everything I've tried. I've tested various popular books, Visual Studio cd case and Windows Vista cd case but none of them were recognized. Is it just locked to the US?

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but there's another cool avatar trick. Open the xbox hub and wait for you avatar to appear. Make sure he/she is not doing anything. Then quickly slide the pivot left and right a few times and your avatar should fall down. Alternatively, you can shake your phone left and right and the avatar should also fall down. Make your avatar fall down a few times in a row and see the various actions it does. Pretty cool :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] andrew-in-woking:
Hi keyboardP

I have found that QR Code Reading also works on an Orange UK Branded HTC Mozart.

Cheers

andrew-in-woking
[Windows Phone 7 General] keyboardP:
Hi Andrew,

You're right. I just tested a QR tag for the first time and it decoded it at a very impressive speed. Managed to go from screen to marketplace very quickly!