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[Windows Phone 7 General] negruj:
I flashed my rom a few days ago and my HTC mozart no longer vibrates on pick up on the other end off the line.

When I called people and the other person picked up his phone i felt a small vibration. It doesn't seem to do it and I can't remember how I got this to work before. Can anybody give any help here?

Thx!
[Windows Phone 7 General] Rancor62:
Playlist shortcut

Playlists and genres are listed in Zune music and videos.

To save about 6 taps and slides I pinned my favorite genre and my favorite playlist to start. Now 1 tap and it is playing my songs.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dirty H4rry:
Marketplace Search

I don't know if this has been covered or not, but if you suffix your search in marketplace with the content type it filters everything else out

Example:

Google app - Apps only

Google Song - Songs Only

Google Album - Albums/Songs Only

This is useful for searches that have common names in them.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jmerrey:
holy crap this seems to work; however for apps it didn't work until I typed the entire word "application"
[Windows Phone 7 General] Avandor:
Dude, ya just made alot of people happy today:cool:

Thanks mate, awesome little tip.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jonasthebee:
Zune social tagger

i dont know if you know this one already but here s a programm i found to be very nice.

github.com/leetreveil/Zune-Social-Tagger (im not allowed to post links yet:(, so do a quick c/p)

it will link your previously unlinked music to the proper album in the Zune marketplace. this way you will get those lovely bios and artist pictures.

Some music may not be available in your country (well known artist like the Beatles).

if you still want those stuff just set yours pc region to US.

another problem i experienced is that it maybe wont install into the right file automatically (/programs/Zune), do this manually.

sometimes it may fool around or crash or st but most of the time it works just fine:)
[Windows Phone 7 General] pikacz:
in the month view in the calendar you can press the name of the month and then jump quickly to any month and year :) figured it out by accident just now
[Windows Phone 7 General] PearsonDKA:
Anyone know any decent camera apps or mods on wp7?
[Windows Phone 7 General] thekoopers:
Try SHCameraApp by Sergey_H. Check on the Apps thread and you will find it there.
[Windows Phone 7 General] whiteonline:
Working on HTC Arrive
[Windows Phone 7 General] lodz35:
cool tricks, thanks guys !
[Windows Phone 7 General] hamzie:
:eek: mind blown
[Windows Phone 7 General] XATAGuy:
This is a cool trick, but it can actually be accomplished a bit easier – without typing the “apps only”. Go to: programs>marketplace. From here, you can choose apps, games, or music. Once you choose one of these, hit the search button (hourglass – bottom right). From here, anything you type, (song, artist, type or name of app) will search only from the category you entered.

Dave
[Windows Phone 7 General] CyK1:
this is sort of a tip request: in an excel sheet, how can i drag an equation to the cells beneath the one i typed in? in the normal excel on windows you hold the bottom right corner of the cell and drag down. Can't seem to find a way to do it on my hd7. Is it even possible?
[Windows Phone 7 General] XATAGuy:
This is only a hunch, but I'd bet you'll be able to at least do it via copy and paste after the NoDo update next month.

Dave
[Windows Phone 7 General] Zahurtex:
Hey cees!

How are you... been busy with your wp7 haa...

I have also got an hd2 and flashed a wp7 and maan its really amazing !!!

I need just one help and I have been searching around but could nor find any solution.

I wanted to accesses my sim menu or stk menu where you have all the options provided by your network for news updates games etc. etc. I could not find any means to access that in wp7 ??? in winmo it was sim menu and in android also you have sim menu but not in wp7 or maybe I am missing something ... :confused:

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Phone 7 General] frazell:
I would like to throw another tip out there.

If you hold the power button for something like 10 seconds or so the device will soft reboot. Getting you out of any lockup situation pretty quickly.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jessiethe3rd:
there's a sideload app/XAP for that - it's for Bluetooth. Check under the 3rd party app thread.:cool:
[Windows Phone 7 General] gc48067:
Not on my Omnia....just turns the phone off....
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
I bet he had his device plugged in. If so, the device won't shutdown but reboot.
[Windows Phone 7 General] TheAperture:
If you happen to lose your "paste" button, just swiping the bat above the keyboard to the right will bring it right back again.

By default, WP7 implies that once you copy text, you can only paste it once. Swiping back the button means you have many paste opportunities in many applications.
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
Dont know if this is NoDo only, never noticed it before, but in internet explorer, if in the web address entry bar you dont type a web address, but just a word, it automatically opens Bing and searches for that word for you.
[Windows Phone 7 General] bennyj71:
It was always there.
[Windows Phone 7 General] CreepinJesus:
It works for whole phrases, too.

Also, if you highlight a word or a bit of text on the page, then press the search button, it searches for what you've highlighted.
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
Oh wow, love the highlight word/search feature
[Windows Phone 7 General] mlongue1:
... and it is not always bing search, it depends on what your search default is...
[Windows Phone 7 General] bennyj71:
I don't know what your default search is. Bing is set as the default. There is a hack to set the default to Google. I have seen no mention of any other search default. So like I said it was always there.
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
Non branded phones have Bing as default, O2 for example use Yahoo. I debranded as I changed to NoDo, so that would be why I had not noticed it before
[Windows Phone 7 General] jag233:
I got my hd7 from o2 and it had Bing on it, not Yahoo.
[Windows Phone 7 General] bennyj71:
Ok, gotcha.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dickturpin1976:
not sure if this has been posted but just found another cool tip, you can change the pictures tile background by entering into the pictures menu and holding your finger down on the background to reveal a menu with "change background" in
[Windows Phone 7 General] nucloxylon:
more keyboard buttons

I didn't see this on the list yet, but I was racking my head about how to do special characters like a ` (grave accent).

When you pull up the keyboard you can first hit the &123 button to bring up numbers and special characters. From here you can press the Right Arrow button to get more characters.

From the numbers and characters screen, you can also HOLD DOWN a special character to bring up more characters. For example, holding down the minus or hyphen button will bring up things like tilde, underscore and others.
[Windows Phone 7 General] gkoonjul:
didn't notice that thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
one thing I just found out...

When adding ringtones, MP3 files work fine.

Why do all of the ringtone adders requires them to be in a specific WMA format.

Much easier way of adding a ringtone.

Take any MP3 you want, rename the end file name to anything like .map or whatever

Drag and drop the file on to the phone using the usual storage trick.

Then using the file browser on the phone go to My Device/My Documents/Zune/Content/0400/ then in the folder in there will be a file with some random name, this is your actual MP3.

Selected it, cut it.

Go to My Device/My Documents/My Ringtones

Paste in there then rename it as whateveritwas.mp3

Tada, MP3 file apears in your ringtone list.
[Windows Phone 7 General] raven_raven:
If you use calculator in portait and rotate it clockwise, you get different set of buttons from what you get by rotating counter-clockwise.
[Windows Phone 7 General] XATAGuy:
Wow. I am not the brightest when it comes to these devices. This is why I rely heavily on this forum.

I don’t know the “usual storage trick”. I don’t know where the file browser is on my Focus – I didn’t know it had one. Can you please explain in a bit more detail how to do this?

Thanks,

Dave
[Windows Phone 7 General] cgibsong002:
I'm guessing that's for an unlocked phone. I'm pretty sure there's no file browser... unless maybe it's under diagnostics. I've never seen anything.
[Windows Phone 7 General] loomx:
Yeh it is for a developer unlocked phone, but it just means less fiddling with converters and deploying apps :) also shows that MP3s work as well as WMAs...

Also I read that there was no way to remove a ringtone once its added, just go into My Documents/My Ringtones and delete it, simple it comes out of the list :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] argentocruz:
WP7 install - What worked for me...

OK people, here's my thoughts and some tips and what things worked for me for WP7 on the HD2...

First, the tips...

Make sure you have the memory card you want to permanently use in the phone when you start the process... You don't want to try WP7, have it set up the way you want it then decide to swap the card out...

I used this youtube guide plus reading things off this forum to get WP7 on my phone... Don't start till you have everything in place and ready http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nac3Fnf-lY4

To get activation code I used the link off this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=920726 and told him I had a HD7 and when asked if I had the phone in front of me I said no and that I was at work as I was scared he'd ask me for a serial # off the HD7 which I didn't have, lol...

Now, what works for me...

I've been a windows smartphone user since year dot and I've always loved the ability to sync up calender and contacts from outlook to any new windows phone... No-can-do with WP7... So I exported to CSV my contacts (near 700 as I use the phone for work too) and calander from outlook and used my main gmail account to import them. Worked a treat but I had to manually upload the photos for the contacts I had photos for... Then on my phone I go to the email settings for that account, sync settings, sync contacts and calender... Voila!

Now I don't bother updating outlook with contacts and calender, I just do it on gmail... The upside is I'm not yolked to a single computer... Anyhow, I'm just happy the contact list imported to gmail and synced to the phone...

When syncing video that's not mp4 zune converts it to mp4... I don't bother allowing zune to do this, I simply use the HTC Touch HD conversion tool to convert video for our phones... http://www.mediafire.com/?q4xg3cg60edaonu

With my music, I ensure the info such as genre/artist/album is correct as it makes it heaps easier to view in-phone and therefore play what I want...

That's all I can think of at the moment... Thanks to all techies who slaved to get WP7 onto the HD2... Much love to you all...
[Windows Phone 7 General] elmanortega:
sim contacts

guys i have like 1500 contacts in my live account

i have 2000 contacts in facebook

etcetc

ok my problems is i like to have only my sim contacts in my device because i dont want to scroll 750 names tog et to what i need

how can i select in the filter

show only sim contacts?

thanks a lot
[Windows Phone 7 General] keyboardP:
Are you running Mango? If not, then you can hide the contacts by doing what's mentioned in this blog post.
[Windows Phone 7 General] pikacz:
if you go to Pictures hub, view by Date and touch the name of the month, you'll see a scrollable list of all months :) discovered it by accident
[Windows Phone 7 General] evilangelic:
Pinning Webpage Tip

When pinning a page to your start screen in Internet Explorer:

Make sure you are zoomed in on a recognisable part of the page. The current zoom level of the page becomes the Tile snapshot image.

Tip is then: Zoom in on the page logo etc!

e.g. XDA:
[Windows Phone 7 General] powersquad:
^ thanks. that is indeed a very nice tip for every wp7 owner.
[Windows Phone 7 General] evilangelic:
Something else to note is the Alarm 'app' is extremely limited. :mad:

There are no options to ring the alarm whilst phone is on silent (but does on vibrate) etc.

The alarms rings at whatever volume you leave the phone at... :(

Obvious Tip:

Before bed put phone into

Flight Mode

in Settings to stop notifications and emails waking you up.

(Since you have to leave it on high volume to hear the alarm...)

Vibrate silences speaker noises, but it still vibrates which is loud on a table lol :P
[Windows Phone 7 General] evilangelic:
Ok one more everyone should do...

Phone music & calls to PC Speakers

For me the headset & AV service work perfectly, straight away.

Turn on bluetooth, pair with your PC, and touch again to connect.

Apparently my old HTC Desire had these services (AV Source and Headset) but it always paired but didn't maintain a connection... no obvious reason, didn't bother to look up why lol.

I was just excited when as soon as I connected with my PC with WP7, the Headset service asked for permission and after that all phone audio came through!

Old news to some but it is really cool having your phone blast music through your PC speakers wirelessly ;) absolutely no effort or hassle at all!

Edit: Even before the phone has fully booted it connects to the PC :D you even hear the keypresses to unlock the phone... simple things lol.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Spybreak:
Not exactly true. I leave my phone on silent every night and the alarm still sounds fine in the morning. To put it on silent click the volume up/down button and press on the bell icon. It'll change to vibrate, but the alarm will still sound.
[Windows Phone 7 General] DaWolfey:
A few things i've discovered:

1. If you're using Exchange Server and you are using a self signed certificate on it for SSL on WM6 you could copy the .cer to the phone and tap to add it to the certificate store. In WP7 you have to email the .cer file to yourself (setup a hotmail or gmail address temporarily if you need to) and tap on it, it will then install the certificate and Exchange syncing will now work.

2. When you turn the device off, it also turns off WiFi - the upshot of this is if you have disabled the data connection via the mobile network (in settings / mobile network) you will NOT get any new email!
[Windows Phone 7 General] evilangelic:
Hmm i'm trying to figure that out too... although my WiFi is connected, it doesn't sync with my google account if mobile network data is off.

So I can browse the internet and marketplace as the WiFi is on, but it isn't recognised as a sync-eable data connection?

If I then go to Mobile Network (data) and turn it on, and then back to off (after letting an email come in), emails start to come through again using the WiFi as a data connection.

Google error
Last update about an hour ago
We're having a problem connection to m.google.com. Try again later.
This may be because your data connections are turned off.
Last tried 6 minutes ago
Error code: 80072FA8
[Windows Phone 7 General] Seven_PRX:
You sure this works? Somewhere else I read it's vital your Primary Live account is a foreign one (let's say US), and then the other important thing there is that your billing address on that account is also in the US.

You write that you can use a non-US (let's say Dutch) Live account as primary, and add another US as secondary. That sounds better for me personally, just want to make sure you can browse and mostly importantly install (free) Apps from the US Martketplace?

=7
[Windows Phone 7 General] becknise:
72 Windows Phone 7 tips and tricks here http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36413/72-windows-phone-7-tips Top 10 are

1. Using the Windows Phone 7 voice controls

Press and hold the Windows key at the bottom of your screen and you can start talking to your phone. Try saying "Open Calendar", to see what we mean.

2. Adding apps to the Start screen

When you are in the long applications list on your phone pressing on an icon and holding brings up a contextual menu that gives you a series of options, one of which is "pin to start". Press on this option and the app will be shown on the Start screen.

3. Add people to the start page

No it's not just about adding apps to the start page, but people too. Find them in your contacts book, click on the "pin" icon, and they'll be added to your Start page so you can speed dial them whenever you need.

4. Moving your tiles around

Adding a new app or tile to the Start screen will place it right at the bottom. If you want it to be elsewhere, press and hold on the tile in question and then you are free to move it up and down and rearrange your tiles to best suit your needs.

5. Removing apps from the Start screen

You like the app, but you don't really want it on your Start screen anymore. No worries. Hold your finger on the tile in question for a couple of seconds and when it highlights press the no pin icon in the top right-hand corner.

6. Uninstalling apps

You've tried it and you don't like it. No problem. Head over to the menu list and press down on the app in question until you get the contextual menu. Select uninstall and you're done.

7. Rating and reviewing apps

You really love the new app you've downloaded, so much so that you want to rate and review it so anyone else interested knows whether it's any good or not. With Windows Phone 7 you don't have to wait until you delete it to rate it, you can rate and review it at any time. Press and hold down on the app in question until that contextual menu appears and then choose "Rate and review". It will bring up another page allowing you to have your say and give it a rating out of five. Easy peasy.

8. How to change the theme

If you've got your Windows Phone 7 phone from Vodafone the theme is going to be all red, O2 is dishing out blue themes and Orange, orange ones. An all red themed phone might be a bit much (we hear you), but fret not as you can change the colour of the tiles and other features in the Setting area. Zip on over to the menu list, select Settings, and then Theme. Here you can choose the colour of the background and the accent colour. Background options are "Black" or "White" while you'll get nine accent colours to pick from. Lime, anyone?

9. Swipe to the left

Windows Phone 7 is built around the idea of panoramic tiles that you swipe to reveal more content off screen. It's always worth seeing if you can swipe to the left as there might be more stuff waiting to be revealed.

10. What are the dots?

Whenever you see three dots at the bottom of the screen, that's a menu for more options. In photo playback for example, it will give you the options to delete the image or perform a quick upload.
[Windows Phone 7 General] pikacz:
this is one sweet site :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] ceesheim:
thanks man , real good find .

I updated the first post with it .
[Windows Phone 7 General] Sir. Haxalot:
So, if I add my Swedish Live account as a primary, and a secondary UK account, will I be able to access Xbox Live with my Swedish account, or only the UK one? And which account will "own" the Apps I buy?
[Windows Phone 7 General] risq:
Your Xbox LIVE account has to be the primary....what screwed me was the fact that my Xbox LIVE was not a @live.com or @hotmail.com - instead it was a passport of a @Gmail.com, so setting that as a primary caused all sorts of problems. I've now gotta wait 30 days to change my associated XBL Live ID on the Xbox itself, transferring the points.

To be honest, it's annoying. They should of added a seperate option for Xbox LIVE, like for facebook etc.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Contact linking:

I noticed today you can link multiple contacts in to one.

If you have the same contact on sim, facebook, phone memory and what ever else. Select the one you want to display and click on it. Middle icon that looks like chain, click it. If there is enough similarities you will have suggestions which contacts to link if not click browse.

If two contacts are identical WP7 has probably already linked them for you.

What is good is it does not make any changes to original contacts so you can always unlink them if needed.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dougp.me:
What do you mean it caused problems? I didn't think a passport account would be that big of a deal.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
when you are setting your live account for first time it will tell you it has to be the main account as it will be the one used for zune and xbox live. If you have all your contacts on hotmail but your xbox live account was registered via gmail or other you will get a new account rather then linking your old one.

If you registered to zune pass using gmail you will have the same issiue.

I understand integration with your own services but as it stands now it is live or nothing. I do not use hotmail account at all and now I am forced to.
[Windows Phone 7 General] pikacz:
guys, one very important question: i know it's possible to pin settings as a tile to the home screen, but can you also pin a specific setting? i'd love to pin wi-fi and cellular as 2 spearate tiles to the home screen to quickly toggle those features on/off
[Windows Phone 7 General] rlatarche:
Yes and No, yes you can pin settings to the home screen, but nothing any deeper down the menus
[Windows Phone 7 General] pikacz:
that's disappointing :( well, hopefully there're gonna be some 3rd party widgets/tiles to do that
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Hi,

I have some few questions:

- How to quickly switch the phone to Silent mode/Vibrate, etc?

- How to quickly stop the audioplayer playing when you are somewhere else in the menu ?

- Why some album cover arts are wrong, or black in Zune?

- Is there a way to change the music/audio settings (equalizer, bass, treble ?)

thanks
[Windows Phone 7 General] sameerabedi:
Hopefully the above helps.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Thanks sameerabedi for your answers.

Much appreciated
[Windows Phone 7 General] chubnut:
A couple of tips from me.

Firstly - More for O2 members here regarding call waiting, call divert etc. All from the O2 website as their help desk aren't up to speed on the device yet:-

If you're not reachable, you can:

Activate diverts by pressing * * 62 * 901 # [send]

Cancel diverts by pressing # # 62 # [send]

Check the status of your divert by pressing * # 62 # [send]

To divert calls when your phone is busy:

Press * * 67 * 901 # [send] to activate

Press # # 67 # [send] to cancel

Check status by pressing * # 67 # [send]

To divert calls when there's no reply:

Press * *61 * 901 * 11 * number of seconds # [send]

Cancel by Pressing # # 61 # [send]

Check status by pressing * # 61 # [send]

Note: You only need to press * 11 * if you want to change the length of time your phone rings before it goes to Voicemail. It's normally set to 30 seconds, but if you prefer, you can amend this to 5 - 25 seconds in increments of five seconds.

To divert all calls:

Key * * 21 * 901 # [send]

Cancel by keying # # 21 # [send]

Check status by keying * # 21 # [send]

To cancel all your diverts:

Key # # 002 # [send]

Call waiting

Call waiting lets you take another call when you're already on the phone. Just dial *43# [send] and you'll be able to see if someone's trying to get through when you're already on a call. It's free to all O2 customers.

Have set but not fully tested any of this yet. The device confirms the settings when you send so I'm assuming it has worked.

Next set of tips is for those of you wanting to use Exchange (whether business or personal) rather than Live for your contacts and calendar.

Outlook in Office 2010 will enable you to have 2 Exchange accounts on the same profile!! This means that if you have a business and personal exchange account you can have them both open on one Outlook at the same time and it means ..... you can do the same drag and drop as if you had used the Outlook connector to link to Live!

When setting up the Exchange accounts on the phone, remember - the Server is the OWA address not the actual server address.

More later
[Windows Phone 7 General] eeter:
pin to start Bluetooth?

Is there a way to pin to start bluetooth or Wifi switch?
[Windows Phone 7 General] chubnut:
Not that I can tell at the moment