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[Windows Phone 7 General] Loki1973:
Attachments

No so much a missing feature, but more a broken feature.

This has happened to me since Mango Beta 2 (7712).

When I receive an attachment (let's say a picture) and I want to download it from the email, Mango always tells me that it cannot download it: "Try again".

If I return to the message list and do a manual sync, it downloads the attachment that was marked for download without any issue.

In 7392 it worked direcly from the email. Now I need to open the mail, tap Download and then return to the list, Sync my email and finally return to the email to open it.

Very annoying...

Anyone else having this problem? I sync to an Exchange 2010 box.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Actually, AVI is Microsoft's own container format, I can't imagine MS not including support for it due to licensing problems. DivX/Xvid is basically MPEG4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile which is already supported, but, funnily, in Apple's MP4 container.
[Windows Phone 7 General] edved:
Here's one I haven't read here yet...how about being able to dial a person by simply entering the first few letters of their name! Like you were able to with 6.1 and 6.5!

I too miss skype and had I known it would have taken this long, I would have opted for another phone.

I'm a long time WM user, but I'm ready to dump this OS. Wait and see.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drkfngthdragnlrd:
Yeah, jumped the gun on that one, forgot AVI is MS'es, although most AVI's I have are encoded with Xvid. I was able to convert a few though using the USB Enabler Hack though.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Aphasaic2002:
Sorry, haven't read this thread fully so may be repeating, but for me the most broken thing in Mango is the music player.

I use my iPod to listen to audiobooks, podcasts and language learning tapes. I want to replace it with my HTC Motzart so i don't have to carry 2 devices, but it misses some really basic features:

- No audio scrubbing. I cant just jump to the middle or end of a 2 hour track - have to hold fast forward (and of course around 50% of the time, i accidently tap it and jump to next track).

- No lyric support. Several of my language podcasts use mp3 embedded lyrics to give you information about the dialog or information containing, but wp7 cant display them.

- No way of ordering podcasts using the embedded episode number info. Download a series from iTunes (not available on Zune marketplace), and import into zune and..play in alphabetical order according to their track name :(

If Microsoft want this OS to be a competitor they need to take things like the above into consideration. May seem small to some, but for others like me they're complete show-stoppers.
[Windows Phone 7 General] regspy:
Wifi drops on screenlock...this is my biggest gripe about the OS...no option under battery saver....but does it on its own....i dont want to use my data package wen at home....and also dont want to keep the device plugged into the power socket.....

My iphone doesnt do it...android has an option to disable this...but windows phone ....naah it just kills wifi on screen lock.......i dunno whos dumb ass idea was that......i understand they might be trying to save battery.....BUT look at iphone....it does it and still has a great battery.......
[Windows Phone 7 General] tc4101:
1. Disable screen rotate. arrrgh hate landscape mode for browsing

2. Quick toggle for options such as brightness, wifi, bluetooth, rotate - i would of thought the bar on the right hand side of the homescreen, which is 95% empty would be perfect for that (or heck even a pull down from the top of the screen)

3. Flash dammit!!!

4. Tethering!!!

5. Direct access to flash memory

6. Custom color schemes

7. ability to resize tiles. 3 row across x 6 down would be better.

8. a decent youtube app

9. quicken up the animations
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
- Divx|Avi Codec

- Audio scrubbing

- Improved podcasts (OTA for all countries, etc...)

- Tethering

- USB mass storage as an option
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
But again, what's weird is that Divx/Xvid is in fact MPEG4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile in most cases, so it is mostly supported. I haven't tried it myself but I'm sure that if you take a real-life .avi file and remux it without reencoding into an .mp4 it should play just fine. Divx adds some esoteric functions on top of the MPEG standard codec, but they are rarely used AFAIK.

Why Microsoft supports an Apple container and doesn't support its own is beyond me. Maybe it has something to do with poor hardware implementation of the .avi splitter/filter/whatever they call it in the SoC, and Microsoft doesn't want to do software decoding due to battery drain concerns, I don't know.
[Windows Phone 7 General] illi:
A decent keyboard.

A decent keyboard.

A decent keyboard.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drkfngthdragnlrd:
What's weird to me is a lot of my movies won't show up in Zune under the collection & therefore I can't sync them in Zune, but if I have the USB Storage Hack, I can drag the file to WP7 & it will ask to convert it. Takes a while, but once done, the movie will play on WP7, only the thumbnail is missing.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
drkfngthdragnlrd,

I have the exact same problem. My movies don't even show up in Zune.

Could you please explain your workaround?

you are using USB Enabler I suppose. Then you drag and drop the file to your phone.... and.... ?

Many thanks

PS: I cannot explain that Divx|Avi codec is still not supported by WP7.... Are we in the middle age?
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
How I miss SWYPE.....
[Windows Phone 7 General] drkfngthdragnlrd:
Yes, I'm using USB Enable. I just simply drag it to a folder in Windows Explorer. A popup will come up asking you to convert it. I click yes & wait for it to go through. This takes a while. I managed to copy over a few videos that don't show up in Zune this way. I'll try again tomorrow, trying a few registry hack atm to see if I can get WiFi Tethering to show up.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Thank you very much drkfngthdragnlrd
[Windows Phone 7 General] truffle1234:
dude, u must be kidding......

i have tried keyboards on iphones, WM, android, no one is close to WP7....
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Jones:
Couldnt agree more. WP7 keyboard is easily the best. Swype is something totally different, I dont get on with it at all, but those that do swear its the best...
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
The WP7 default keyboard is really nice, but Swype is something even better in my humble opinion.

Once you are used to it, you can write any message at least twice faster with only one finger. It's pretty impressive.

Sliding is more convenient and logical than having to type the letters one by one.

I wish it can be on option soon on WP7. Users who want the regular kb can keep it, the ones that want to slide could just enable the option. I am sure Microsoft can do it (or... maybe MS shall purchase Swype? ;) ;) ;) )
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Nokia invested in Swype recently, maybe its something they'll work into their phones.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nizzon:
you suck mister ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] magicriggs:
I'm a new user to wp7 and I'm reading through this thread and I can't believe all the whining about features on a "newly" constructed platform. Do you guys understand most of the features you guys are missing didn't come when a Android or IOS came out. And that's what it sounds like people are comparing this to. And frankly you can't do that. All the other mobile os had time to mature, wp7 to my understanding was a complete rewrite. Basically starting over. Your expecting too much because you all have been spoiled. In good time we will see all the features you guys want and by the looks of it, in half the time.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Marvin_S:
I tried to upload an HD video to skydrive but since the filesize limit is there it is not that usefull. The upload to FB is really cool though and works good. It would be cool if we could upload video's straight to YouTube from the menu, however I doubt this will ever happen, since lack of license etc.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
Keep an eye on LazyTube. Dunno if it's coming with 3.0 already, but the ability to upload videos to Youtube is a feature that's definitely on those guys' to do list.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Marvin_S:
yeah, i know something like this will come in an app, though it would have been very usefull to have it baked in just like uploading to facebook :)

but thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 General] oscard:
i am thinking of

- smart dial

- being able to change ringing time

- explorer

- registry editor
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
If Nokia wp7 devices come with:

Swype keyboard + Ovi Map

It will be HUGE..........!!!! :D

....

(let's add 32gb storage and all my dreams come true :) )
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
http://wmpoweruser.com/no-real-led-torch-apps-for-windows-phone-7-mango/

Even this is not obvious for MS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drkfngthdragnlrd:
LED's you can't really blame on MS as this is reliant on OEM specific drivers. Also, not all WP7 use LED Flash, I know one HTC uses XEON & even their own Flashlight app for LED doesn't work on it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Aphasaic2002:
Problem is, WP7 is competing with the current versions of Android and iOS. Not the past versions, the CURRENT iterations. If it can't compete right now then it's dead on arrival right?

Microsoft actually have a unique opportunity coming this late to the market. They can look at the history of Android and iOS, work out which features were most important to users, and implement them. They can learn from the other companies biggest mistakes. Whether they have done that or not is not clear..

But end of the day, normal users don't care about the history of the OS, the backstory, how it was re-written; they just want a working OS. If you're happy to wait, cool, but 99.999% of normal people just want a decent working phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
That's the point...
[Windows Phone 7 General] andycted:
Non-exaustive list, not including developer side missing features

In order of magnitude (last ones are less important or random thoughts)

1. Flag emails

2. Lockscreen text/icons delay when waking up

3. IE9 missing 'find on page'

4. IE9 is very slow on many JS heavy websites. Android browser trounces it

5. IE9 address bar

6. IE9 address bar present in landscape

7. IE9 progress bar position inside the address bar

8. IE9 missing forward menu item

9. IE9 commands, everything is inside soft menu

10. All Maps, Bing, Scout, We're In, etc services outside US

11. Select All Text or easier big selection

12. Second/Third Mobile number in contact

13. Skydrive photo albums copy/move/edit/delete photo(s) and folder(s)

14. Select all emails / Mark all as read / Bulk actions

15. Save draft SMS

16. Full Turn by Turn directions without tapping

17. Edit forwarded or quoted text in emails

18. Lockscreen flashes red before going to sleep

19. Task switcher could include recent processes which have closed (with back)

20. Better Live Tile support while behind firewalls or european 3G (announced but not quite delivered)

21. Bigger Xbox hub game icons

22. Better Marketplace visibility for indie developers

23. Contact name search with dialpad

24. More Twitter integration

25. Wifi hotspot out of the box (not sure)

26. Better battery life (maybe OEM update related)

27. Torch ! (maybe coming with an app ?)

28. Skype ! (also coming ?)

29. A fixed release schedule !!!!! No clue when Mango rollout starts yet !!!!

30. Lack of Silverlight plugin for IE9
[Windows Phone 7 General] Marvin_S:
The built in fb messenger eats battery, does not allow you log out of msn seperatly but stay online on fb.

Also the built in fb integration still does not let you send (offline)messages, the most obvious and annoying shortcomming of the fb integration.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Yeah, this kind of sucks. It makes sense though, when you consider it was built at a time where Facebook Chat was Facebook Chat (online only) and Facebook Messages were Facebook Messages. It just happens that within the last month or so (and after the Mango beta was already complete) that the two became one.
[Windows Phone 7 General] adminlt:
Are you sure you can edit the email that is being forwarded?

I can't edit my forwarded or replied to emails as well and this is critical for me. I can't believe Microsoft overlooked this.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
- Long press on the volume to skip songs in the media player...

- Edit forwarded emails, indeed

- Microsoft services outside the US
[Windows Phone 7 General] oldpueblo:
You must mean edit the original e-mail that you're forwarding, because I can edit forwarded e-mails too. But only the part that belongs to me (at the top), if I scroll down to the message that came from someone else then yes I can't edit that. Why I'd want to I don't know since you can just copy anything below up to your area if you want to dice it up/correct it, whatever.
[Windows Phone 7 General] eric12341:
thats quite a list there my responses are in bold.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
I am amazed that someone is trying to justify such a ****ty turn by turn implementation.
[Windows Phone 7 General] andycted:
Good for you

https://windowsphone7community.user...stions/1958541-keep-find-on-page-in-ie9-mango

It has 'only' 327 votes and is among the top requested features

Never said it's worse than NoDo. I said JAVASCRIPT is crap compared to Android.

It's been 'proven' (through some Microsoft test pages) that it's faster for HTML5 GPU accelerated stuff.

By the way, android browser name isn't chrome

Too big, ugly grey, too big address space, no buttons besides refresh

Oh, I'm sorry if that makes you mad. I never wanted the landscape address bar, and because of that I feel this is a step back.

It's less visible than where it was before. And I don't think I can find a browser without a progress bar today

Makes me perform twice the gestures to reach favs or tabs

hehehe, yeah right. That's why every single navigator out there doesn't do it ? Like risking to crash my car to pound a touchscreen would be a feature. Or do I have to guess the next turn after the beep ?

Put the phone to sleep, sometimes it flashes bright red before turning off

They might aim to what they want, I don't like them now

We'll see, nobody knows for certain.

Look, I see you're desperately in love with this platform, and it's a good platform. But some of these shortcomings are a bit weird if Microsoft wants to catch up
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
There are even more.

My question is: does IE9 on WP7 have text reflow?

Lack of it makes current IE a joke.
[Windows Phone 7 General] eric12341:
alot of these complaints are very ridiculous and doesn't matter to over 90% of the wp7 users.
[Windows Phone 7 General] eric12341:
I dont have any issues reading text on sites. the browser renders the text to fit in the default zoom level,I'm pretty sure u noticed that.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
No the text is not fitted in NoDo once zoomed and makes me constantly move the page in order to read it, what is ridiculous in modern browser. That's why I ask. NoDo IE has also problems with some txt font sizes, interesting if they improved that.

So in Mango there is fit to screen in any zoom?

Regarding the address bar: in android it disappears once you perform the movement. And appears again once you scroll to the top OR hit the menu button. Quite convinient I'd say, and could be working similarly on WP7.

@andycted

I agree some of your complaints are quite subjective and have nothing to do with real OS lacks or problems.
[Windows Phone 7 General] eric12341:
yes the text does seem to fit to screen in the default zoom level in mango.
[Windows Phone 7 General] andycted:
• no text reflow in ie9

• font size problem is still there, like here http://www.ansa.it/mobile/

• the zoom to fit performs pretty much as it did in ie8, which is actually ok, but doesn't replace reflow

-

I never said I speak the universal truth, or that my issues should be yours and viceversa. I've given a priority to the list too.
[Windows Phone 7 General] eric12341:
zoom to fit is somewhat better than reflow and the font size problem is a problem with the formatting of that site alone,i went to the full version and it displayed just fine.

and u still haven't given an example of the JavaScript rendering problem so I call bull**** for now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] VonCrisp:
I think I might be able to explain this one.

The 16bit banding issue that phones were experiencing led to users to mess with the registry to enable full colour. Many experienced a red screen bug as a side effect.

It could be that you need the ODM drivers. Since you forced Mango onto the phone you now have to wait for your ODM to release the optimizations.

That should resolve this issue.

I agree with many of your points.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Isn't the best way to improve WP7 by suggesting features here?:

https://windowsphone7community.uservoice.com/forums/84435-feature-feedback/filters/top

...
[Windows Phone 7 General] eric12341:
at least the browser isn't redirecting u to mobile sites anymore, that was ur biggest complaint with opera mobile.
[Windows Phone 7 General] littleasian:
just installed mango on my DVP and its awesome! i'm very happy with how it has turned out. it is noticeably faster than nodo and the multitasking interface is pretty good. there are obviously other features they can implement to make it even better but stock out of the box is as good as android/iphone.

the only thing i've noticed is that IE9 is supposed to support html5 directly, yet whenever i navigate to google or yahoo i get their non-html5 mobile website. when navigating to it on my iphone, i get the html5 version. the 2 browsers are comparable so why is it i can get the html5 version on my iphone but not on my WP7 device?
[Windows Phone 7 General] andycted:
that could be the case, however I "think" it also happens on my developer mango RTM device...

Thanks though !
[Windows Phone 7 General] edved:
Just because someone disagrees with you or dissents you don't call them names!dude, you need to grow up!
[Windows Phone 7 General] vash_h:
hey!

jst found something annoying.. sooo they integrated facebook chat.. WHY CANT THEY INTEGRATE FACEBOOK MESSAGE as well?

i have some annoying friends which do not connect to their facebook chat, and prefers to send messages (for privacy reasons, do not want to be disturb, ALRIGHT, i can respect that)

if only the messages from fb can go to our message hub instead of me having to see the 'toast' notification from wp7's fb app, then launch fb app, and go to message..

some fix will be great :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] qsr786:
The only thing that annoys me is that in IE9 you have to open the menu to switch tabs and open favs, everything else is just perfect :D.
[Windows Phone 7 General] zorozorec:
Unable to add Hidden WiFi
[Windows Phone 7 General] eric12341:
nope don't got that at all, like I said it must be a hardware issue with YOUR device like the GPU is fried or something and that might also be the JS issue since u still have not showed me a site where these rendering problems exist.
[Windows Phone 7 General] JC_Agga:
I don't get how it's annoying if the features are missing?
[Windows Phone 7 General] jpijper:
Well, let me try and explain. Suppose you want to make a phone call, but it turns out your phone does not have the make-a-phone-call feature. Wouldn't you find that annoying?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Theycallme Tim:
Haven't read all of the posts, so I'm sorry if these are repeats:

1. Custom volume profiles/settings. By this I'm referring to what I had on my Blackberry which would allow me to set volume levels for various things based on whether I was indoors, outdoors, in the car, and so on. Using these settings, I could enable a ring, but maybe mute everything else. The simple volume control Mango offers seems pretty crude in comparison.

2. The ability to forward emails as a SMS text, or vice versa. I figured out a way around this by emailing to the person's phone number if I want the person to get it as a text. Should be pretty simple to automate that. Maybe it was only easy because all of my stuff was going across a Blackberry server.

3. More ring tone options.

4. Toggling "live" tiles off. (Yes, I know. That's what makes Mango so great, but I don't like them.)

5. Flash video.

6. A flashlight app that can turn on the camera light, rather than using the screens.

There is plenty to like about the OS, as well as the Dell venue Pro. ... It still feels though like Microsoft is playing catch up. Some of the things I have seen listed just seemed like no brainers with respect to what should have been included.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MrAdelphi02:
A decent call history.....
[Windows Phone 7 General] dakommonklod:
The lack of a sim tool kit and support for deep level USSD codes... yeah, that's what riles me
[Windows Phone 7 General] oldpueblo:
Why is hidden wifi such a big deal? The only people that I ever hear mention it these days are people that think it's added security which it's not. What am I missing here?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Snake.:
SIM toolkit is in final Mango.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Why did MS remove hardware search button support?

I mean till nodo if you pressed search in IE it was bringing search provider. If you pressed it in e-mail it was searching there same marketplace. Now always bing pops up and you have software button to do all you did with one key.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dtboos:
For consistency. That way the hardware search button always does the same thing, not something different depending what app you are in.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Yyyy but it was consistent. It was doing search like icon shows. It is not Bing icon at the end.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
It wasn't consistent because hitting it in a native app would provide a different experience than hitting it in a third party app.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Like? In games it did nothing or was game button in other apps like imdb, tv show it was search or back to bing like now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
I preferred the search button hardware as it was before.

Why the hell MS did not leave this as an option???

The problem with WP7 is the lack of OPTIONS for everything. :mad:

MS decide what is good, and the users have to follow like sheeps.

Can they let us some freedom ?
[Windows Phone 7 General] livejazz:
Big deal because a lot of us provide enterprise level support and there are a few things, especially beginning with Mango, that we will be able to do with our mobile devices through the wireless network. In most higher level networking scenarios there is at least one non-broadcasting WLAN access point. Not a security issue as much as a confusion issue for authorized users in the building.

matt
[Windows Phone 7 General] tc4101:
1. The ability to close open programs in multi-task view, either a quick flick or at least a close tab "x"

2. Typing in an SMS and bloody accidentally hit back button exits SMS program, i have to type the whole message from scratch

3. Put customizable setting toggle key (brightness, wifi,3g, settings etc) on the right hand side of the screen, u know the area where its all BLANK?!!? sheeeez Or make a 3rd screen all for quick toggles. Or just allow the settings to be changed via the tiles.

4. Setting to disable auto-rotate
[Windows Phone 7 General] oldpueblo:
Yeah the irony here is not long after I posted that I went to join the wireless at my work and completely forgot that they hide it. :o
[Windows Phone 7 General] imdnme:
Screen rotation lock ..

Been looking for an hour ...it's not possible?? :mad:

Also no VPN ?!

:confused:
[Windows Phone 7 General] 937dytboi:
No multi selection of text messages.

No way to toggle quick view of new incoming text messages

No updated flash
[HTC EVO 3D] navymoss35:
How do I get the previews to show up? Not the 4 app shortcuts but the preview if you get a text message or misses call it'll pop up on tje lock screen. My wife's EVO 3d does it