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[Windows Phone 8 General] dmw_4814:
The Windows Phone 8 desktop app does NOT work at all on my HP laptop running Windows 7 x64. Every time I plug my phone in, an error message pops up on my laptop screen saying, "Windows Phone has stopped working". It gives me the option to, "Check online for a solution and close the program" - that does NOTHING! If I click on that, it seems to be searching for a bit, then just goes away by itself, never offering me a solution to the problem.

The only way I can put music on my phone is to drag-and-drop through Windows Explorer, and THAT'S a disaster, too! Let's say I have 2 CD's/albums from The Airborne Toxic Event; 1 shows up on the phone listed (under Artists) as "The Airborne Toxic Event". The other shows up as "Airborne Toxic Event, The", EVEN THOUGH THE ID TAG INFO IS ALL CORRECT!! I'd say 80% of the artists I added to my phone last night (about 50 total) refuse to download any artist background image; the background is just gray. Also, even though I added album art for EACH album as I put them on the phone, some refuse to display album art. Others show it O.K. One track, that is playing fine tonight, the phone told me last night, "Windows Phone cannot play this file type (the file is in WMA format)!!!!

This is a COMPLETE DISASTER, and I'm probably taking my Lumia 920 back to AT&T this weekend for a refund.

Oh, yeah, my previous phone, which I still have, is a Samsung Galaxy S III Android phone, and NONE of the music playing software on that phone had any problem playing the EXACT SAME music files I tranferred to my WP8 handset, and My Samsung Focus & Focus S WP7.5 hansets also had NO problem with these same music files!

Rename the Zune software and bring it back so we can use it with WP8 handsets, PLEASE!!!

What an EPIC fail!!!

Dennis
[Windows Phone 8 General] loudog3114:
The windows phone application for windows works the first time it syncs, then it hangs on every subsequent sync unless I remove all the music from the device and start over. It hangs while trying to delete music. Awful.
[Windows Phone 8 General] morpheus1982:
Use Windows Media Player. It has been working flawless for me, and until MS beef up there current solution for WP8 users, I will not be using it.
[Windows Phone 8 General] dmw_4814:
Windows Media Player may work fine for getting music on the phone (drag-and-drop works just as well, too), but it's what the Xbox music service does to the songs AFTER they're on the phone that causes the bigger problems, at least for me. It removes metadata (tag info) and replaces it with what it thinks is correct, causing some of my albums/CD's to be split into two separate albums/CD's. For example, I put (4) tracks from Beyonce's "B'day [Deluxe Edition] [Disc 1]" on my phone. Xbox music service split (2) of those tracks into a separate CD titled "B'day [Deluxe Edition] Disc 1", that shows NO album art! It did the same to "Yourself or Someone Like You", by Mathchbox Twenty - it split (1) track off into a separate "Yourself or Someone Like You" CD by Matchbox 20 (it changed the artist from Matchbox Twenty to Matchbox 20 for just this one track)! I have a CD by Ned's Atomic Dustbin for the single of "Not Sleeping Around"; I verify that, after I copy it over to the phone, it is displaying album art - within 15 minutes, the album art disappears! I've tried setting the music files to "read-only" before copying, but that somehow gets changed when being copied over to the phone, and the "read-only" option, when viewing the file properties on the phone, is grayed out.

I also frequently get an error message when trying to play songs on the phone that says, "Sorry, we can't play this type of file on your phone", even though the file is either in .mp3 or .wma format & it STARTS PLAYING BY ITSELF!!

WTF?!! Why did Microsoft scew this up SO bad?!! WP7/7.5 handled all this flawlessly! I'm seriously considering returning my Nokia Lumia 920 to AT&T over this specific issue!

Dennis
[Windows Phone 8 General] Strike_Eagle:
I can't get WMP11 recognize my 920 as a device to sync.

But the Windows Phone Software works fine on Windows 7.

I think i am going up to Windows 8 Pro right after i got my SSD. Because the SDK doesn't work on Windows 7 either.

BTW: yep, sync music on Windows 7 for the WP8 is a little bit troublesome. There are far more less convenient than the Zune Software.

I dont know how it works on Windows 8 yet.
[Windows Phone 8 General] AndyFZ1S:
I too am amazed at how bad the software for PC actually is, I have no need for cloud storage so that isn't an issue but album art has been replaced on most songs by Xbox music and the desktop client which I am sure is a Beta is next to useless, I am using Win7x64 so maybe an upgrade to win8 will help?

I managed to finally drag & drop my music to the device which did do the trick, And am kind of happy that option was available, I preferred the Zune client to be honest for stability and ease of use and hope they can soon sort things out so they are a bit more stable.,

I guess the lesson to be learnt here is not to rush out and buy on first release, Looking back on WP7 when you compare the first release to Mango that should have been warning enough, No doubt there are nerds somewhere in MS working their asses off to fix this :laugh: Yeah right.......
[Windows Phone 8 General] silhouetted:
This.

...and there's no way to edit the metadata manually like in the Zune software. Really pissing me off.
[Windows Phone 8 General] link68759:
You guys realize that WP8 devices show up in "My computer" and you can just manage your music and playlists by dragging and dropping things to and from the music folder, right? No one would be so ignorant to not know that.... right?

This isn't really a problem at all- we're better off than ios users who are stuck with itunes. It's not like a syncing program does anything special- in fact the only benefit I can think of is automatically mirroring music on the device and music on your computer. For any other music operation, it would be more prudent to pick from one of the hundreds of other well developed existing programs. But... considering all you have to do is "copy to music , and skip existing files" to "sync", there is really nothing to ***** about. As for playlists, it should be a simple matter of examining the structure of the playlist made from xbox music, use your preferred media program to make playlists and then use notepad++ to macro in necessary changes. Copy the file to your phone. Save the macro for later. It'll take another second at most in the future.

The amount of *****ing and moaning people do when something is in pre-alpha stage and god forbid they have to take another step to do something so simple...
[Windows Phone 8 General] kevvan:
I am aware that you can drag and drop in explorer but as it is reported through the body of this thread, three main things happen - it just flat out fails to play, it messes up the album art, and it's showing duplicates all over the place. I am one of the biggest fans of Windows Phone but this is a miss and to some point (no offense) your reply misses the point.

I so want to use my music software to drag and drop my collect - whether it be my large personal (well curated) music collection or some new album I just downloaded on my desktop from my Xbox Music subscription and now I want to take it with me on my phone. This is the simplest and most common use case that so many people are having a bad experience with. I know I can download it to my phone, but I just did in my Zune software so why make me do it again?

I'll stop because I don't want to sound hostile. I'm just frustrated as this was the one experience that I was looking for most with my new phone and it is a huge disappointment.
[Windows Phone 8 General] link68759:
.... I used drag and drop on my music collection of about 5000 songs with my 820, and

1. It plays.

2. Album art worked without my intervention.*

3. Duplicates are only for the songs on my xbox music, which can be eliminated by deleting the local copies and then downloading the songs from xbox music. I don't have many so that's not a problem- but you can just as easily filter to "local" instead of all...

It sounds like you have messed up tags or irregularly formatted MP3 files? Or maybe the files are getting corrupted in the process of copying over. Whatever the case may be, it works and works perfectly well for me, so I must assume something is wrong with your setup.

*:Embedding album art inside the tags is the only universal way I know of, so I had done that years ago, and it hasn't failed me since. In fact Zune was retarded with this because it kept insisting on extracting the album art and leaving it inside the folder, creating thousands of useless/redundant jpg files in my music folder.

Sent from my Windows 8 device using Board Express Pro
[Windows Phone 8 General] designgears:
Can't you just drag and drop? I really don't see a need for an app to sync things over when they give you full access.

[yes, I am using a lumia 920, shhh]
[Windows Phone 8 General] kevvan:
Your comments about the JPG files are spot on. I scrupulously used Zune to update my meta data on my music figuring it would be the most compatible. I noticed that it left extraneous files outside as you described. I suppose it is what I get.

I'm not clear on what you mean by 'embedding'. Can you be more specific about how you're doing that. Is there some Metadata tool you're using for your collection?

This might sound odd, but I rarely download music from Zune. I own just about anything that I'd want and I'm on the 10 credit a month plan still so I buy any new stuff to keep up. If I download something it is to listen to it for a week and then I delete it - or buy it.

Thanks for the insight - it is nice to know someone is not having a problem. It provides HOPE.
[Windows Phone 8 General] dmw_4814:
Are you using Windows Phone EIGHT?!!

Your experience has NOT been my experience AT ALL!! The metadata (tag) info on ALL of my music is correct (I'm VERY anal about that); indeed, ALL of these same files worked perfectly on my Windows Phone 7/7.5 handsets, using the Zune client. When I put those same files on my Nokia Lumia 920 WP8 handset, a few CD's that first appear on the phone with album art displaying later show NO album art at all, just a dark gray square. Some CD's that show up on the phone as one disc, as they should, suddenly later display as TWO separate CD's - for example, I have (4) tracks from Beyonce's "B'day Deluxe Edition" [Disc One]. It shows up as that CD with all (4) tracks when I copy it over. Then, at some point, it'll get split in two by the Xbox Music service, resulting in (2) tracks under "B'day Deluxe Edition" [Disc One], and the other (2) listed under "B'day Deluxe Edition" Disc One (without the brackets around Disc One), and that copy shows NO album art. Even if it's incorrect that the brackets be around Disc One, why does it leave the (2) tracks like that, after it rewrites the tag info for the other two?!! And, a couple of artists absolutely refuse to display a background image no matter what I do - even the Xbox Music store doesn't display a background image for those artists!

I realize I can turn off "Connect to Xbox Music", but then I'll get NO artist background images!

Dennis
[Windows Phone 8 General] LiFePo4:
FWIW - I had the same problem as others with no album artwork for the most part, so used Medimonkey as someone mentioned and it worked perfect. Pain in the ass but seems to be a way around Win 8 to WP8 transferring issues until (hopefully) MS gets this working properly (which they better or some people are going to be pissed off).

Mediamonkey was not very easy to use if it did not find the artwork right away and you have to look through all the results to find the right one or even run your own search. Not for the average PC/Phone user.:silly:

---------- Post added at 09:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:26 PM ----------

Try MPATool on the Marketplace - works great for this.
[Windows Phone 8 General] link68759:
Haha, yeah zune is not the best way to manage metadata. Get the program called mp3tag, and I recommend re-saving all of the tags on your music even if you don't change anything- I've had other programs write some non standard tags. Loading all your files and just saving them as they are in mp3tag will make sure your tags are written correctly. Adding album art is self explanatory- it will put the picture inside each mp3 file. Yay.

Sent from my Windows 8 device using Board Express Pro
[Windows Phone 8 General] OptimusDroid:
I use MediaMonkey and like the guy below..mp3tag. You really should have it, regardless of what you use because it's the only program that seems to 100% fix tags where MediaMonkey fails to update them..or even Zune.
[Windows Phone 8 General] blegs38552:
Multiple Track Listings

This problem just will not go away. I have all of my music stored on an SD Card. When I look under the Songs listings, I see some of the songs displayed two, three or more times. This has been the case since I bought this phone, and I am current with the GDR updates (phone is a Lumia 521 T-Mobile). I have tried all sorts of fixes - reformatting the SD and recopying the albums from my hard drive in Windows Explorer, using the Windows 8 desktop app , etc. No matter what I do, the problem is still present.

This has been mention in many forums, but still has not been remedied.

Any ideas will be appreciated.
[Windows Phone 8 General] mcosmin222:
I reported a bug with the media player in windows phone (which is present both in 7 and 8) to the dev forum.

The problem is actually a bit deeper than you think.

Not only does it duplicate your music, it also changes its tags and may render it unplayable on some devices.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matt_tee:
:victory:****** Solved *******

Hi, thank you for all of your help and assistance.

It was all down to selecting the correct partitions (and me getting over enthusiastic in flashing roms and not reading FULLY on how and what partitions are required)

I have used HD2 Nand toolkit, and partitioned MAGLDR, then partitioned SD card within Clockworkmod.

Thank you all again for pointing me in the right direction...

Good Evening All,

I am sorry if this has been covered. I have searched the forums but cannot find an answer.

I have read all the FAQ and How-to's.

I am not an exact newbie, I have owned a HD2 before (about 2 years ago) and could install all sorts of different roms (including NAND)

I have Installed my Radio 2.15.50.14

I have installed HARD SPL 2.08

I have Installed MAGdlr 1.13

I ahve installed clockwork mod recovery 1.3 with 400M

Copied rom to root of SD Nexus HD2 jellybean v1.2 [dataonext]

and I have installed Nexus HD2 jellybean v1.2 [dataonext]

this installed fine,

I then decided to try another,

I downloaded QSEA_JB-MUSIC EDITION_V1 and placed on root of SD,

I booted into Magldr, then into clockwork mod

from here i wipe data, and factory reset,

wipe cache partition

and wiped delvic cache.

Then i install zip from sd card QSEA_JB-MUSIC EDITION_V1

when this is done,

It asks me to reboot,

Then it stays on the boot screen, and the rom does not load.....

I can restore the back up from the original rom install. but whatever rom I install (from Nand rom downloads) none of them install...

Please help...

Matt
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Marvlesz:
1-Why? Use the HD2 NAND Toolkit to partition your system according to the developer.

2- Never reboot directly from the "reboot now" option of amarullz's installer. Instead, uncheck the "reboot now" option, click finish and reboot manually from CWM.

(The reboot option somehow makes your rom not boot, at least that happens to me every time)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matt_tee:
Thanks,

I will give it a go!

Have already downloaded toolkit, and just watching the video on how to use...

Matt:fingers-crossed:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matt_tee:
So, do I just use Magldr to partition and don't install CWM?

I tried to re-partition with CWM, but lost magldr.....

What am I doing wrong?

Still cannot install NAND rom.

Going to do Task 29 again, where from there??

Thanks for your help and patience...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mengfei:
try the links below, it might help :cowboy:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Marvlesz:
I don't use magldr, so I am not sure.

But I think you have to "MAGLDR recovery update" first, and then after it finishes you have to "magdlr repartition". Im not sure though.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] matt_tee:
How do I just install clockwork mod? Without using Magldr?

If I Task29 first,

What's my next step.....?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Marvlesz:
After Task29 (don't do task29 again) you have to do the following: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25781675#post25781675 until you see the "recovery" .. from there, dont continue to flashing wp7, just put your rom on your sd and flash it from recovery. (don't forget to thank the the one who made the thread/guide)

Don't forget to NOT use 300mb, but use the one written on your rom's thread.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nigeldg:
You can't have CWM without MAGLDR. If you've flashed CWM you shouldn't have lost MAGLDR at all, so I don't know what you did wrong. Task 29s are also almost always useless and unnecessary, if a guide says 'task 29' as the first step then usually you can just skip that part. I find that the best guide is the one in my sig, try it out.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] przemek211:
Hello, I'm using Semaphore + CM10 JB for few weeks (installed with your support).

However I have a problem. The stability. My phone likes to resets byself, even few times per day. It happens irregularly. What's interesting, sometimes phone resets to the CWM. Sometimes resets and backs to work, sometimes totally offs the phone (and i need to pull out the battery) or freeze on cyanogenmod start screen (but not on normal start, only when resets)

Sometimes it happens when i'm using the phone, sometimes not. He likes to do that when i'm sleeping (for example, goes to the CWM and discharge the battery by whole night on full bright).

And much smaller, but maybe important issue: when the phone starts, shows the message Warning! A problem was detected with your device. Your device IMEI number is invalid. And invalid IMEI number could cause network issues including the inability to call emergency numbers.

Firstly I installed CM10, i had the problems with the network, but after @xsenman's help (reinstall with older ROM before flashing CM10) everything works correctly and i can see IMEI too. I made an EFS backup in that old ROM, should i use that? This message doesn't intrude me, but i'm just thinking if this could be connected with reseting problems. My SGS works really nice, but that one issue is really annoying.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] przemek211:
100 views and really no one can help?

Come on, i feel so lonely :( :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueFlame4:
I'd recommend flashing a clean GB stock, restoring your IMEI, flashing CM9 twice and then flashing CM10 ROMs (if you want them lol). Always be sure that you wipe your phone after installs.

Sent from my Gameboy Color
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] przemek211:
thanks for your answer. However, maybe it's not a ROM problem? Maybe some application makes an issue. Is there any log where i can check that?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueFlame4:
That IMEI stuff definitely isn't app-caused. I can only repeat my statement above. Don't worry about data, you can backup everything using Titanium Backup and SMS Backup+.

Btw: What ROM are you on?

Best regards

Sent from my Gameboy Color
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] przemek211:
True, IMEI not, but it's not a real issue for me. Actually, i'm absolutely satisfied of my i9000 (maybe flashlight absence, but it's hardware). Everything works fine, but reseting problem makes me nervous when I use the phone as car dvr or for endomondo ect.

I use Cyanogenmod 10, one of october's nightly versions.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueFlame4:
So basically you don't want to change anything but you want us to help you? Sorry, that's not the way a community works.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] przemek211:
You didn't understand me. My problem is phone reseting. I want to find the reason of the issue. Because without it, i can install new software and still have the same problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
Since when has this problem occurred? I doubt an app makes a phone reset itself.

Edit: I looked around your post history and you seem to have posted in the semaphore thread. Maybe something is wrong with the kernel?

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] przemek211:
Thanks for your answer. It's hard to say because I've flash a ROM and out of hand I installed the applications. It's the worst type of problems, because it doesn't happen instantly or regularly. Actually since i wrote the topic, i didn't see the problem, however i saw two-three times the attention about IMEI, so i think, the phone resets, but not seen.

/// amerkiller: you are using i9000 too, could you recommend me any other ROM? Probably I will need to install a ROM and wait, two-three days and check if the ROM makes any issues.

/// maybe, but how can i check it? It looks like work nice, my question in Semaphore's thread was about the features :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
I use Remics-JB, you can try it out if you want a Samsung touchwiz feel, and apps from the S3.

Slimbean if you want a minimalist ROM.

Hopefully, the problem will disappear.

Powodzenia:D

Edit: regarding the kernel, you can flash Devil and see if the problem persists.

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] przemek211:
So I will try Devil + Slimbean, thank you :)

Poles everywhere? :D

pozdrawiam :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] przemek211:
Ok, so i want to reflash my i9000. So - i have JVU's gingerbread ROM, is that correct stock ROM? Should i make the WIPE here? I'm not sure about restoring IMEI. Should i do that in GB's temporary ROM or (as I think) later in JB's? Of course, earlier I need to backup the efs folder with IMEI so i think i should do that in GB's and restore it in CM10 (or in Slimbean which I want to test). And one more doubt. You said flashing CM9 twice. Why is that? And how can I do that if i'm installing the ROM in CWM?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
You can find tutorials about flashing to stock.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1102881

Flashing the stock ROM will recover your IMEI number if you currently don't have it and will wipe your personal files. Backup your IMEI while you're on GB and if you lose it, then restore it. Fyi I never lost my IMEI, it's not common. You should flash JB / cm10 twice, ICS/cm9 should be okay after one flash. Remember to wipe if the instructions say so.

When you'll attempt to flash cm10 in recovery, you'll get a warning about partition change. You'll have to chose to flash second time, this time it should work and the phone will reboot into a bootloop. Pull out the battery and enter recovery and flash cm10 again. This time it well install and reboot successfully. :)

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amerkiller1995:
It's everything working nicely? Asking out of curiosity.:rolleyes:

Sent from my GT-I9000