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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JeremyNT:
I'm trying to remember a time when my compass worked properly. I think it did, at some point, but that point is certainly not now. I'm running the leaked froyo build, and the compass - while pointing in the proper general direction - varies and jumps around greatly depending on how I orient the phone.

So, what about you? Has your compass ever worked right? If so, which build did you use? Do you find that changing ROMs changes your compass performance?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icandy75:
I've tried many different ROMS and it appears as though there is no major difference in the compass. Also tried all the different compass apps with no luck. I remember reading somewhere that the compass on our phones is very different than most and will never be 100% accurate. Anyone else heard different?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanwal236:
My compass has always worked, though now I'm on jk2 and it's not working so its not just you

Sent from my SXY-T959
[Touch HD General] Biges:
Hi!

I'm considering buying the phone, but I'm being put off by some things, among them inconveniently placed notification LED. Afaik it is in the power button, which quite sucks. So I'd like to ask what some handy alternatives there are? Probably something that would turn on the screen and it would stay on for some time?

Thanks
[Touch HD General] Biges:
No one? How exactly do YOU solve this problem? :)
[Touch HD General] retsam88:
Got soldering skills? Buy micro led, solder it in front of speaker mesh, enjoy.
[Touch HD General] Biges:
retsam88, it is better to be quiet if you don't have a reasonable answer.
[Touch HD General] motionz:
The majority of us just don't consider this to be a problem.
[Touch HD General] Biges:
OK, thanks, maybe I could also live with it.

I found two applications in case I could not:

Status LED:

http://www.modaco.com/content/i8000...http-i8000-modaco-com/301392/status-led-v0-4/

ReRemind:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=498161

Now the only thing remains to buy a Touch HD for a good price :)
[Touch HD General] Sp1tfire:
Frankly, i never noticed if HTC Touch HD's led is blinking or not when you have missed calls/sms and have been using it for 2 years now. Only noticed it blinking when battery is drained. But you can use S2U2, which is a free lockscreen application and has the options of reminding you about missed calls/sms/emails by playing sounds at certain intervals.
[Touch HD General] Biges:
Eh... is there an application which could be used to tweak the LED? Thanks
[Touch HD General] gagi75:
yes i have on top let blink for mesage mised call etc
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
anyone know why zune dosnt display all of my album backgrounds? how can i fix it. some albums work others dont. help!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stairmand:
Been wondering this myself, all my music has the correct tag data and album art. However the tile still dislpays the artwork for a track I played days ago :confused:

I've played dozens of albums/tracks since
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ceesheim:
I have the same thing ?

I like joe cooker put to see his face for ever .
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
WP7 Zune really needs an update to sort out these sort of issues. it would be better if it had the same "find info" and "find album art" option which it has on the PC zune software. theres got to be a way......
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weepatc:
You will have to subscribe to Zune Pass to see this working. The backgrounds change when you're streaming music from different artists. There is a free 14 day trial. I have subscribed & its amazing. Give it a try.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lumpaywk:
You don't need the pass for the backgrounds. However to save memory power network use or something it only downloads the art when you go to play the track and then it will only do that if you are on wifi or have a great connection. This is at least how i have come to see it.

I have also found though if you leave zune open on your pc and sync a again a couple of mins later it pushes the art across. I had a similar thing with my zune hd where it took a few syncs to get all the data but this i think is because it has to download more and so to keep it fast just gets the basic data then picks the rest up afterwards.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pipolas:
Same problem here...

I have a zune hd..and 90% of my songs on my zune hd have background and artist information...

Then, i bought my Mozart...and I made a sync with my computer...but only 2% of my music have background!!!

What's going wrong? Same computer, same library, same music...but on my zune hd, i have the background...but nothing on my mozart!!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dov74:
Same here as well.

Strange thing is, it worked fine for the first day, now it's stopped? I'm stuck with the same background picture on the music hub of my Mozart.

I also can't get Zune on my laptop to change backgrounds? Tried playing music from marketplace, playing from my collection, buying a track from the marketplace. Nothing seems to work? \i've tried with and without Zune pass as well.

Also, does anyone else have a problem with album art displaying on the now playing screen? I can see my album art everywhere else on the music hub, just not on that screen? It's just a black square which if I tap shows the 3 symbols (repeat, shuffle and the heart symbol I think)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arturobandini:
Same problem here. Zune really needs to be updated to correct this issue.:mad:

I nonetheless found a way to improve things:

- When you open Zune on your PC select "Collection":

- Right click on each of the Album of ur Collection and select "Find information on this album" then save the info.

Bu anyway, many artists are missing and do not appear (e.g. Sparklehorse)

I also tried a soft names "Zune Social Tagger" but it messed up my tags because some Tags used by ZUNE are actually wrong (weird but true) (e.g. it will replace Smog by Bill Callahan)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
I tried the Wifi Thing like someone mentioned and it worked but only for one artist paolo nutini. will keep trying. what might be of note is that it worked for one of his albums but not another of his albums. anyway in case peole are not sure what i mean i have now uploaded 2 dics to show the difference....please help! Zune looks so much cooler with artists backgrounds ....... as you should see, the muse album has no background pic. that image is just a reflection of my head. sorry.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dov74:
Thanks for the info and pics. I'll keep trying as well!

1 thing tho, on your pics, you have the album art showing on your now playing screen, did you do anything different to get the art showing there or did it work automatically once you synced with Zune on your computer? I still can't get this to show for any of my albums??
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
ah sorry thats my now playing screen but it does also work on the album screens. some pics worked automatically and others dont. i really cant find a reason for this. i think syncing may be the best option though but cant prove it yet
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dov74:
Cool. Glad you've managed to get it working!

I'll keep at this and will post if I find anything interesting. I'm in 2 minds whether to take all the music off and start from the beginning!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
it still only works for some albums hoping someone knows how to really make it work though im sure wp7 Zune needs an update
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fosormic:
Thats the way the Zune HD works and is documented (works that way on mine, took about 5 days to load them all). After the sync ends, backgrounds, bios etc are slowly loaded. In the HD's case it is evident on the screen, where it goes from Syncing to Sync Complete (downloading data) to Connected (once it has stopped downloading).

What they recommend is to leave connected to the Zune software overnight. Of course, when it downloads from the market while streaming, it keeps them.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/zune/thread/d0019422-1eb2-4604-8a81-7dedd04935d5 (for the HD)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckacey:
another thing that helps aside from leaving the zune device or phone connected overnight a few times is waiting until you see the status as "Connected" vs "Sync Complete" Sync complete means it has the songs and basic data, Connected means it isn't doing anything. (on the phones you'll need to go to zune, pictures, or anyplace that brings up the sync status, while on the devices, you have no choice it goes there as long as its talking to the software)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] havox22:
I could be that your not letting the sync finish, i know with the zune HD

while it syncs it says syncing

once the music is on the zune it says sync complete

But you have to wait until it says just "complete" to get the backgrounds

also make sure all of the artist are tagged correctly

EDIT: i didnt see ckacey post, my bad
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krissrock:
damn, i hope this all gets straightened out. That's a big thing for me. It's really frustrating when u spend all that time organizing and getting all the info correct for your deviced and then it still doesn't work.

This may also have to do with how your artwork is organized on your pc. I find that following a similar setup to iTunes (giving each artist/album) their own folder, really helps things like WMP and other devices to get the album art right.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Graveworm:
Hi.

I solved the problem.

Go to Zune (at your Desktop) and select the album with the missing cover than right-click there. Now you should see "Add cover" (or something similar)(I have the German Version). You can now add the cover and after the next sync with your Windows Phone you will see cover at your mobile device.

Hope it works for you, too.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
getting the album art isnt the problem, the problem is getting the Artist background working. some albums will only display the cover, when they should show both the cover AND the artist background. i have yet to try leaving my phone attached to the pc and leaving it on all night as this seems really silly. but will do it anyway.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yly3:
OK I will try to give a tip I learned from old iPod days. Only "adding" a cover isn't enough for a song to feature the artwork on ANY mp3 player . You need to somehow "incorporate" the cover in the metadata (I think this is how is called)

I suggest you guys try to add cover via Mp3Tag program (which is free and easy to use) and you should have no problems with covers in the future. I haven't received my HD7 yet but I am also a music enthusiast and I love having artworks on my player.

Hope this helps !
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Graveworm:
Well, I managed that both is working!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrAlchemist:
I'd love to know if anyone in Australia has got this working? Playing a song from a well known artist when connected to WiFi didn't make any difference.

For the people that have it working outside the US or UK, do you have a Zune Pass or not?

I'm trying the leaving on and connected overnight, we'll see.....
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Graveworm:
Nope, no Zune Pass. But I read that right now only a few countries can use the Zune Musik. For example in Europe only UK, France, Italy, Spain and Germany.

So I guess Australia is still non of the supported areas (yet).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arturobandini:
mp3tag is indeed a good soft.

Zune application is supposed to let you tag the album also (search info on the Album), but I would recommend everybody not to use it, since many information/tags from ZUNE are actually wrong or inaccurate. Most of the time ZUNE will replace the Artist name by the Composer name. Which is not good.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkmurder:
I have, using an Australian account does not work, however I use a US email account with fake US details (only downside is for now I can't buy apps as it refuses my credit card so it's a big toss up but I can live without apps and have the full Zune experience).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
grave worm, do you images look like these while playing? note album and background or in my case, lack of! :(
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
by the way folks , do not have a zune pass and im still able to get some background so i dont think its needed. what might be helpful is if someone can show us what a properly tagged album should look like???
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yly3:
That was the also the problem of the iTunes. If you add it via Itunes it will only work on iPods/iPhone and not on other players while with Mp3Tag you are writing the cover in the mp3 data not puting a pic-stamp on it.

So has anyone elste tried what I suggested? Try to remove the non-working mp3s , use mp3tag , then sync them back. I am very curious
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrAlchemist:
My MP3 collection is very well tagged, using MP3Tag. I've also tried updating the data with Zune for an Album or two of really well known artists, still no backgrounds :|

I think there are 2 problems here.

A) You either live in Australia, or somewhere where Zune doesn't have the music experience yet, ie. we can only buy videos and apps, no music. so for whatever reason artist backgrounds don't work...

B) Tagging and sync issues listed above.

The background artist stuff really does make Zune, it'll be a shame if this doesn't get resolved soon....
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yly3:
I suggest someone would forward this issue over here

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsphone7/threads
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pipolas:
Well, i have a problem:

Sometimes, i have the artist background only when i am navigating through his albums and songs...but when i listen a song of this artist...I don't have the background...!!

Moreover, two weeks ago i was using an american zune account...and nearly 90% of my songs on my zune hd had backgrounds.

But then, i switch to a french zune account...and sometimes (50% of my songs), when i click on "more info for this artist"...i have an error message "this element is no longer available on the zune market"...but when i search this artist on the zune market, of course i can find him, and he has background...so i think my zune library is messed up because i switch frome the american market to the french market...

How could i erase all the information refering to the market on my songs??

Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrAlchemist:
Just to confirm, as suspected leaving your WP7 connected to Zune(signed in) on a PC, with an account from a country that doesn't support Zune music sales means you get no artist backgrounds.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
heck i rarely ever sing in, wonder if this is causing the probems? ive been a bit busy but i did managed to download mp3tag but just need to figure out how to use it. by the way. has anyopne managed to get the background artist for the band called Muse? the album i have is The Resistance.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arturobandini:
Yes, I have exactly the same. It's weird.

This is something I can hardly explain.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krissrock:
Has anybody tried transfering music via the Mass Media and seeing if the album covers are more likely to show up that way?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
album covers are not the problem. the problem is getting the artists images to appear in the zune background whilst the music is playing.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
still cant believe that at xda we STILL havnt really found a solution to this...i still have a phew more things to check like mp3 tag and media monkey... in the meantime though i found a Zune Media Reset Tool. ( im not allowed to put the link on here am i? i use it and seem to have got a lot more artist backgrounds working now... though still some albums are without..... bing it and give it a try and see what others come up with.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nrfitchett4:
I don't understand why your albums are not coming up. I haven't had any problem with mine.

Did you get these from legit sources or something like limewire?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
the album art comes up no problem, BUT its the Artist background which dosnt always appear. for example, go to the Zune homepage and select zune for phone, you shoud see a phone with eneniem album art, but in the background you will see a pic of enemien , which is the artist pic. mine dosnt always show the artist pic in the background. we here at XDA all seem to be stumped as to the real reason why this happens and how to fix it.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nrfitchett4:
maybe it's not recognizing your artists due to where you got your music from. All my albums, I get artist art in the background.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comeradealexi:
If you go ont music on your phone and click on an artist that DOESNT have the zune background showing up. Press the marketplace arrows button below and see what happens. For me all the artists that dont show the zune background pics, when i click marketplace button, nothing happens at all :S

any one else confirm this cause this might link in with the problem
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BIG-Stan:
it depends on your location on your live id. So if you have na US account, you'll get all the features like backgrounds and bio about the artist. UK account should work too btw.

I have two accounts (US and German) and the differences are major. The US account is perfect with all the nice extras and apps. The German one sucks a bit at the moment. I hope Ms changes this stuff around. It really sucks that such features get cut or depend on the location. It's not like the bio of an artist would change depending on the country :p
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
same problem here, on artists with no background the market place does nothing in in the UK so should be getting most things but fail. This is a poor Zune experience as its missing a lot of things from zune. MS needs to sort it.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ren13B:
My album covers wouldn't show up while playing until I turned on "Connect with Zune" under Settings > Applications > music + videos. As soon as I turn this off the album covers go away for me.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcoob:
Same issue here. HTC HD7 in Hong Kong with a UK zune account. No background pictures for most of my collection. The marketplace arrows at the bottom don't pull up any info yet if I search for the artist in marketplace, bam its there (along with the artists backgrounds). I can't really say my whole collection is legit, but i noticed it also happens with track I ripped of my CD collection. Tried quite a few things already. 1st I let zune tag all my media. 2nd I removed all comments from my mp3 tags.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr mystery:
Microsoft needs to make the experience consistent wherever WP7 is sold, in Canada we get no access to Zune pass so we get no Background, or atist info offerings at all either. It's rubbish, and it cheapens the experience.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nrfitchett4:
not microsoft's fault.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr mystery:
I understand that, but don't dangle a carrot. If you can't get Zune pass sorted out than at least offer the same artist backgrounds and info until you do. Why the need for Zune pass to access the feature?

It's equivalent to Apple not offering Cover flow and Album art unless you bought the album from iTunes.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
i dont have a zune pass but i do get some artist backgrounds so im not sure if a zune pass is really needed.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VelJharig:
I think the issue is specifically that you don't get artist backgrounds if you are in a region that doesn't offer the Zune pass/music marketplace. If you're in a supported region, you get the backgrounds whether or not you have a Zune pass subscription. If you're in a location that doesn't have access to the Zune music marketplace, you get nothing for artist info, even if you use Zune to manage your personal music collection, and get the album covers/tag info from Zune.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ren13B:
I don't have a Zune Pass but "connect with zune" does have to be on for the covers to work. I'm in the US. This sounds like a bug to me. I shouldn't have to connect to anything to get album covers to show up.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcoob:
I think I figured it out. I used to log on to my Zune using an account based in the US (different from my live id I use for email). When I got my phone, I decided to use my email live id (based in the UK) to consolidate everything. From what I've noticed, the media is tagged differently in the US and UK marketplaces. So I keep getting this error "item is no longer available in the marketplace" whenever I right-click on an album and select "More about this album". This is probably the reason why Zune doesn't sync the background images. Your songs are tagged to the wrong marketplace which it can't access with your different location account. Solution? Go to settings->Metadata & Ratings and click Allow zune to replace all Media Information. It will gradually replace the invalid marketplace tag info.

I did this and it seems to be working now. If this is not the particular cause for your problem then hopefully it could help someone else out there :)

I should add that in addition to doing this I took the harrowing step of resetting my zune library database using the Zune Media Collection reset Tool. Am not to sure of the correlation between this step and getting the background images to work, so I'll advise you play it safe and follow the first step. Give it a day or two and if you still doesn't work, well. Your choice
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davidebanks:
i used the zune reset tool a few days ago and it did a reasonable job of getting some of the artist images. what you say about the location of the marketplace is definately worth i try so i will have a go when i get home tonight. if that fails then i will try mediamonkey or mp3 tag. and if thats fails. i will just give up.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pipolas:
Exactly the same problem here...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greener88:
Well it seems like the problem is affecting people in markets where the music marketplace is not offered. Anyone tried changing the Country/Region to US in the account settings for your windows live ID? Would that make a difference I wonder?

Or would that cause problems elsewhere that I'm not considering?