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[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
this is a known bug... it is a result of an app taking control of the volume for music/sound (for example a game) and then you setting the volume to off in that game, then it results in zune also experiencing that. MS knows about this and I believe it will be fixed in the update around the corner. it's not a new bug at all.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
That's good to know, but I would advise against approximating the time of any update. Some ppl take it as God's word. :rolleyes: The update may be 2 months away or tomorrow.
[Windows Phone 7 General] SPVlover:
Try using Media Volume Settings

Its a free ad supported (or paid ad free) app on marketplace which solves the problem by letting you select the media playback volume separately:-)

Works great on my HTC HD7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sure haven't:
A new bug that's been happening to me on my LG Quantum:

If the device's screen is off, pushing the camera button won't actually start the camera function. The back/search buttons light up, but it won't go any further. If I then unlock it, then turn the screen off and right away try the camera again, it works.

With some testing, it seems that it the bug operates on a timer of sorts. ie if it's been off and in my pocket for a while, it won't work, but if I've just turned it off, it will.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Atrixx:
I'm having a frequent problem regarding internet explorer, as I use facebook a fair bit over my mobile, I usually keep a tab open, but after opening several times it will soon enough refuse to render unless I tilt the screen, and even then the render is still distorted, but I found a way to fix it as I need to close all the tabs and close internet explorer before it will start behaving normally, has anyone else been experiencing problems with the rendering?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
WP7 despite it's stability needs to rebooted as frequent as my WM devices.

Things which regularly stop working are Marketplace and WeatherChannel.
[Windows Phone 7 General] mcorrie1121:
So there's no "vibrate and ring" option, but is there a way to have the phone "ring only" and still be able to switch into "vibrate only" mode?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Apparently no...
[Windows Phone 7 General] haaksbergen:
There Is also official wp7 rom for htc hd2??
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
no not official... look at this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=802971
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Another annoying discovery:

YouTube on WiFi is full screen and good quality.

On mobile data is just terrible.

!!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
yea i have noticed this as well. i think it's throttled on purpose not to consume your data, but to be honest, it's throttled to a point of unwatchable. all i see is blocks on my screen.
[Windows Phone 7 General] bennyj71:
Volume

Sorry if I missed this one. The main volume goes to 30 right, but the phone volume only goes to 10? I don't remember this being the case but I could be wrong. I just noticed this the past week. I am unable to hear people with the headset when I was able to for the past two months.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Yeah it was always like that.

But my volume is at 5 and it's perfect.
[Windows Phone 7 General] magawa:
* No Arabic Support in IE .

* No RTL for Arabic and Hebrew support .
[Windows Phone 7 General] edved:
GPS is atrociously bad!

Has anyone experienced the absolute failure of the gps system with the Samsung lack of Focus? I recently moved to Montreal, a big Canadian city and the system has failed me miserably in being able to accurately locate my location consistently or the location/destination I've entered. The worst has been when the system completely shuts down and then reboots in the most inopportune times! This has happened to me at least three times where the systems reboots while using the gps! And why the f*** are they're no cardinals points? Brilliant!

I've been using Windows Mobile since late 2002 and WM7 hasn't impressed me very much. Why do I have to enter 4 buttons/push to place a simple phone call? I have several other gripes about WM7, but I don't have all day to complain about it!

I wish I hadn't dropped and broken my HD2!

Gerry.
[Windows Phone 7 General] galati:
I have a friend mine and when i tell him i put wp7 in my hd2 he send me this thread with so much bugs have wp7. Obviously she have a Galaxy S with "EXPECTACULARY" Android platform ,bla,bla,bla.... So my answer is : guys what the f. is this thread !!! If you dont like the wp7 dont buy it.If you dont trust it dont put it in your device.Y put it on my phone a month ago and y love it. The only bug for me is the wifi theter but i am shure some developer fix that soon.So i have a HD2 with WP7 and no :

restart

volume problem

wifi problem

3g problem

My SO is Moonlight and i use it in dual with Android in a SD but the Android is only for wifi thethering .

Nobody remember the bugs of first version of Android or Ifphone ???

Be patient my friend. Wait for the first update.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
Have you contacted t-mobile about the reception issue?

Anyone else having the same problem with the hd7?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Alkhal:
On the Samsung Focus (AT&T) whenever I use the audio jack either for my stereo or my headphones, after I disconnect the (*)Voice Command does not hear my voice or any other noise? Have to reboot in order for it to work again..

*When you hold the center Windows logo button it brings up Voice Command.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dirty H4rry:
Any chance people could list their Hardware as well? Maybe some of these are hardware specific.

I have a HD7

Above errors highlighted in green are ones I've experienced, I've also had the phone reboot on me this moring causing me to sleep in for work, the phone was fully charged and on the charger at the time.

It has not yet ate my homework. :p
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I did go to the local T-Mo store, where I bought the HD7, and while sitting in the car, the reception was at most 2 bars. When I went inside the store, and compared it to their live HD7 display model, which had all five bars, mine also had all five bars. I explained this to them but they didn't have an answer so I exchanged it for a MyTouch 4G, rather than taking a chance on the HD7 causing me death in an emergency situation where I might need to make a call and not have reception. And I live in a large metropolis where there is excellent signal coverage.

But, now with the MyTouch, the signal is still very low, but on average, 1 bar higher than the HD7. However, the MyTouch showed to have data but it wasn't making throughput. So, tired of all this business, I returned the MyTouch and have washed my hands of all these new phones. I am back to my old, trustworthy, HD2, which gets outstanding signal and data. In fact, the cell reception is so good and steady with the HD2 I would say it wants to display more than the five bars. And sitting in my car at that same T-Mo store, it was a steady five bars.

I will wait a year and let the bugs get worked out of the HD7 and snag another.
[Windows Phone 7 General] TripOG:
everyonce in a while on my hd7 the touchscreen does not work properly it clicks the wrong things hits the wrong letters and generally just does not function correctly unless i reboot the phone

and just about everytime the alarm goes off in the morning it will not let me hit dismiss for a while... unless thats by design?
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
TBQH, unless you live in and generally hover around a great reception market for T-Mobile, I wouldn't even bother.

The only reason I have T-Mobile is because they're the only ones that get reception here (I have tried all 3 other major carriers), and the only reason why they get reception is because they give you free Roaming. If they didn't, they wouldn't, and even then my reception cuts out evey now and then.

But AT&T is putting up a tower close, so I'm going to be looking into switching back.

It's pretty sad that T-Mobile rather promote their fake 4G than build out their 3G network and let so many of its customers roam on Edge or G (or be totally dependent on WiFi outside of major markets).

They are a bit cheaper, though, but you do get what you pay for.

The biggest benefit to T-Mobile around here in a 3G area is 3G speeds. Since hardly anyone has them, their network isn't nearly as taxed as the competition.

But once you get on that interstate, you're SoL.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hsolo:
Hmm, I just tried that on my Focus, and Voice Command still works as expected. Granted I tried this after listening to a podcast direct from a web page (and not through Zune) using the headphones, but that shouldn't make a difference.

I will try with Zune tomorrow. Headphones in the car for the night:)
[Windows Phone 7 General] ekw:
i get this too on my focus.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ckacey:
sometimes zune shows the album art of the next track for me, not the last one
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
First post updated ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dazzla:
Sub folders in mailboxes do not notify you either on the lock screen or live tile that there is new mail, even though the account is set to synchronise.

Sub folders in mailboxes don't seem to synchronise quickly (if at all unless prompted) even though the account is set to receive mail "as it arrives".

When the phone is asleep it seems to sleep the wifi and the data connection (maybe?) because I don't receive emails instantly (even though it's set to "as they arrive").

For example, I put my phone to sleep, sent an email to my Gmail account. It is in my inbox online (has been for 7 minutes) but my phone hasn't received it. When I unlock the phone I go to the email and account settings and every account says "Not up-to-date" and will stay that way until I manually synchronise.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Hello dazzla.

I am using Gmail too. I receive all my emails instantaneously on my LG, even faster than my PC, even in 3G. The live tile also update immediately.

So I suppose it's maybe a problem in the settings. Did you to configure again ur email account?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dazzla:
Yeah, I've tried it with both the "Google" account setting and manually setting up an exchange account.

I just don't receive the emails without prompting for it.

Do you have it set to "as they arrive" as well? I'm on an Omnia 7 btw.

Edit, actually just tested it again after setting it manually as an Exchange account and it's instant. I'll try setting it up again as a Google account and see what happens.
[Windows Phone 7 General] mmelo76:
Sticky Thread!;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
sounds like you might have a bad screen. I haven't seen any screen calibration settings on the phone, I would try to get it exchanged.

can't disagree with that. I don't travel much and so far my signal has been fine, though there have been some outages.

As far as reception, I haven't had any problems on the hd7, still get 5bars at home. I'll check it at work where signal is worse (big hospital).

The only problem I have had so far is the marketplace bug where it closes and won't reopen. Not as annoying as on my hd2, since a reset takes so little time. Hopefully they'll find and fix the problem soon.
[Windows Phone 7 General] DanMc85:
Volume Bug

The windows phone 7 os has a volume bug or lack there of feature.

There is one global volume control for all sounds, so if you turn your music up, you are also turning up your ringer, messaging sounds, keyboard click (so annoying btw at high volume), they need to adapt a iphone or android style volume where it controls the ringer at all times, and media when media is playing. also the keyboard volume should be low or off and not have a reason to change.

Just my two cents, someone feel free to post this to microsoft.

- Dan
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dazzla:
Seconded, turned my music up in the gym and got deafened by a notification.
[Windows Phone 7 General] cpimentel:
I got my HD7 less than 24 hours before, and found some bug/not-feature too:

1) The phone froze this night during the charge. Had to remove the battery. This is serious, I don't mind the fone just restarting, but restart. Don't turn off or freeze! =)

2) It seems there is a lack of inconsistency in Zune. If I go to marketpace, selecte a 'Feature' album, it stream the full music. If I search for a band, it just streams 30 seconds, like if I'm not logged in;

3) When I choose VIBRATE it should silent all the sounds! I liked that on iPhone

4) The install process from Zune Software to the device seems a little odd. It does not download, upload to device and install. Instead, it 'notifies' the device marketplace to download the app. Is this just with me? Since the device is brand new, I wanna a lot of apps. And discovered that they are were waiting for my 'attention' on the device. The Zune Software shoul work like iTunes for this. Download locally, upload to device and install... and please, show a download progress bar.

5) The phone didn't work well with my Ford My Connection sound system. When I press the voice dialing, nothing happens. When I access the Addressbook, the contacts are from an older device. Could not test receiving a call.

For now... just this... and... I'm loving the OS and device. The only bug is this freeze thing. This can be a problem. Hope is a problem with software and MS fix it.

Regards friends.

Cris
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
I agree that he Zune desktop should have an apps choice at the top with the music, videos, podcasts.

Overall I am very pleased with this device.
[Windows Phone 7 General] enjoythemusic:
Agreed, MS really needs to up the Bluetooth software to be more versatile with various car systems.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Marvin_S:
Wow wow wow... you sound really frustrated with your new phone :(

Thats not a wp7 bug... nor have i experienced problems with my omnia7 gps. Maybe its your device. Or maybe the gps is just bad, and I have been lucky with it so far for not having failed for me yet.

And the calling, 4 taps is not too bad! This is normal on most phones. WP7 is just very quick with text messaging and emailing to whoever is on your contactlist since you can just type the name. This is missing in the dialer, but Im sure something like this will soon come (number suggestion while typing the number/name). Like its fast to just speak and call with only one click on the windows button and say call 'the name'... this might look stupid but if your about to call your about to speak anyway!

sure right now its not perfect, but the contrast between how super fast it is to text or email somebody is big compared to searching for the name trough the people hub and than press call... this is why you notice it a lot more.
[Windows Phone 7 General] radde:
I've installed WP7 about 1 1/2 weeks ago on my HD2 and besides the bugs in the starting thread i also found some things which irritating me (though i'm not sure if they are occurring due to the fact that i use it on my HD2):

General:

- Pich to Zoom - Often it does not work or even drops me back to fullscreen - If I'm in BING Maps it pushes me out until i see my Country borders, or even further out until i see the whole world map. :-/

- Only Backwards - It's like you have a racing car without the ability to going into reverse. I like the feature to go backwards chronologically, but in many cases i also want to go forward (i.e. I wanna tell a friend via SMS a cool location but some details slipping my memory and so i have to go back to the pictures hub right where i was before starting the sms by hiting the back button. To get back to the SMS, I will have to navigate through the home screen back to SMS hub) It would be cool to lets say press and hold the hardware back button and then get a overview of the steps I've done last - This would be some sort of a task manager.

- No C&P - This is a well known fact but it is annoying me so much that i have to bring it up again. I want to Copy & Paste text!

- Text: Cursor placing - If I want to navigate to a certain point in the text with the text cursor, I press and hold on the screen until the blue cursor shows up and then move the cursor to the position i want it to be. This feature is nice but not very well implemented, since you have to move your finger down to get the courser to the text you just pointed your finger tip at. In some Apps this causes the page to scroll that makes it unpossible to move the coursor beneath the postion where you initially held down your finger. I saw this on a iPhone of a friend of mine, he held his finger down until a reading-glass appeared to exactly show him where his fingertip is pointing at, so he did not have - That was nice.

- Lack of customization options - More options to change the look of WP7 would be nice. But i think this is also a well known fact.

IE:

- Does not save formula data or passwords - That is a bit annoying since since i visit a lot of website that require to authenticate me with user names and passwords.

- No explicit forth and back button - To get back and forth in browser history i have to hit the fav icon and than wipe over to the history. That are to many steps for such a simple action.

Besides those small inconveniences I really love this OS!
[Windows Phone 7 General] mcorrie1121:
I find zooming works better using two thumbs. I do have the zoom-out issues in IE, but I'm not sure if that's because I use it in "desktop" mode.

You could try surfcube. Haven't tried it, but people seem to like it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
IE definitely saves passwords.

Just not all the pages do.
[Windows Phone 7 General] mKTank:
The phone seems to lose some performance over time, forcing the user to have to restart.
[Windows Phone 7 General] pikacz:
i discovered 1 minor bug on my new freshly bought mozart:

after turning the phone on, screen rotation doesn't work. i have to lock and unlock the screen and only then it starts to work

i also noticed that my phone shut down itself twice, but i think it's because the pocket in my pants is really tight and the power button might have got pressed accidentally :)

other than that, i'm totally and perfectly happy with it, much more than i was with god forsaken android
[Windows Phone 7 General] edved:
Dude, sounds like your making apologies for this OS. Everything was easier to do with the HD2. Answering or making a phone call, 2 clicks, while the unFocus requires four. I could go on and on how I think this OS has shortcomings. With the HD2, I could turn off the Wifi with one click or swipe while with the Focus, despite having pinned the settings to the main screen, takes one: turn on unit, two: slide wallpaper, three: touch settings and four: find Wifi and finally 5: enable Wifi. Wtf!

Just an observation and btw, the built-in gps consistently crashing the phone during use, I would constitute as a bug.

I wanted to like this OS, but so far it hasn't impressed me as much as it has impressed Paul Thurrott.

my2cents.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
i haven't had any issues with the built in GPS, perhaps you have a hardware issue? or you're using a hd2... please don't tell me you're basing all of this off a hd2...
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
A horrible bug:

After downloading carrier settings, ALL THE BOOKMARKS have been removed.

What a crap!!
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
ANOTHER:

MMS can't be loaded over WiFi.

Over WiFi pictures are not displayed in email.

In email when a picture is pasted into email body AND attached, you don't see attachement.

Those idiotic things make me crazy.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Lidanh:
Is there any way to change the volume per application? or less, per notification?

For example: email from gmail, email from outlook, SMS, alarm, etc..

From what I'm experiencing, there is no way to modify the volume per application.

Am I wrong?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
There's no separate volume settings.

But I remember here on this forum somebody mentioning a working app for controlling these things.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Lidanh:
Thanks to your reply I had the guts to search for one.

Found it here:

forum.touchxperience.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=590

Working great!
[Windows Phone 7 General] Disinto:
I don't see any bug report for Facebook photos integration in the Photos hub. Three weeks ago, all my FB albums were showing fine but they suddenly disappeared after I forced a manual sync to refresh my contact list. How to get the list back?

Sorry if the question has already been asked
[Windows Phone 7 General] xCharisma:
One of the things I've found is sometimes when I'm trying to charge via USB, it actually drains the battery/or does not charge it enough even though I just leave it on standby.

EDIT: this is for Omnia 7. A customer I served today (had previously bought the phone 2 days ago) also found that problem as he primarily charges via USB and his battery is completely flat.
[Windows Phone 7 General] bennyj71:
I have the same issue with my Focus. It has happened three times.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Disinto:
I think it's more of an USB port issue rather than the phone itself. The USB may not deliver enough current to feed the phone AND recharge the battery at the same time. It may even be the contrary.
[Windows Phone 7 General] kms108:
Has anyone notice any problem with the Mozart after the update, my phone slightly lags, and has freezed twice, I had to remove the battery.

Non of these problem before the update.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Adobe Pdf not allowing send files

And some pictures not appearing in email body.
[Windows Phone 7 General] romperstomper:
I've not read the whole 40+ pages but the two features that really affect me are:

-Not being able to accept a self-signed or incorrect certificate for an Exchange account. Every other OS that license MS Activesync allows certificates to be accepted following a warning (iOS, Android, Symbian etc). It makes connecting to some Exchange servers very difficult. (download cert, email to hotmail account, set hotmail account up on phone, install cert from email, setup Exchange account, delete hotmail account).

-Gapless playback in Zune music player. Pretty basic, although it too MS a long time to update the original Zune players with this capability.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jason.hamilton:
New Bug: Double alarm??

New Bug: Double alarm??

Just started happening on my samsung focus, not unlocked. I have recurring alarms for wake up, clock in and breaks and for some reason they are going off twice. Whenever the alarm goes off there is that screen to snooze or dismiss, there is actually an arrow to the right and it says 1 of 2. I have deleted all my alarms and recreated them and it still happens.
[Windows Phone 7 General] JamesAllen:
"Blinking" Battery Icon

After 2 months with no issues with my AT&T Focus, I have the following problem that AT&T Technical Support told me:

. Known issue with WP7 that AT&T TS was just briefed on.

. Many users reported it to AT&T

. MS is aware of it.

. MS states it is caused by a "virus".

. MS indicated the fix will be in the early March update along with other fixes.

. AT&T is NOT holding up the update.

Symptoms:

. While plugged into a PC or charger, no issues.

. When not plugged in, battery icon "blinks", sometimes with a "plug" across the icon (indicating charging), sometimes not.

. Does this about once every 2 seconds.

. "Beeps" everytime it "blinks"

. Screen will not turn off per settings (state change of icon appears to stop this)

Annoying as hell, have to put the phone in vibrate to use it, screen will not turn off.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hoaisonongame:
happened exactly to me, too :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] shkk:
Here's one: the camera app won't save its settings
[Windows Phone 7 General] arag0n85:
I wonder how no one mentions the un-ability of bing maps to cache the pictures and show them when no-data conection is abalible. I hate when I need to start the phone into a low-quality signal area that my data connection can't load properly the pictures and bing maps takes more than 5m to load everything.