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[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
Scratching my head as to how my phone that has worked for the last 9 months is useless......
[Windows Phone 7 General] giaima24h:
good for you

keke haha hihi huhu
[Windows Phone 7 General] winphoneviet:
i can't wait to have official mango :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] fishbowlhead:
1st September apparently according to pocket lint. Though i doubt the networks will finish there so called testing before 2020 ;).

Funny how all the unlocked phones that get the updates straight away always work just fine though :rolleyes:
[Windows Phone 7 General] evatari:
:)

good job
[Windows Phone 7 General] NNasher:
sweet work
[Windows Phone 7 General] Apollo-Chinese:
THX wo hope that！
[Windows Phone 7 General] sdxda:
nicely done
[Windows Phone 7 General] winphoneviet:
we're closing to the Mango official update :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] AKTOPSHOOTER:
Does anyone know if the current earlier release of mango support custom ringtones for contacts? I am very tempted to update my HD7 however only would like to if that was fully insituted in the update.
[Windows Phone 7 General] RSN5774912:
it does

just remember the rules for custom ringtones

must be mp3/wma, less than 40 sec, less than a certain file size that I've forgotten, and the genre must be set to ringtone

I apologize in advance if I've forgotten any other rules lol

and yes, I personally checked before responding in the affirmative

on build 7720
[Windows Phone 7 General] ruscik:
Ok I found how to assign ringtones to each contact but how do you add mentioned custom ringtones?
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Sync them in Zune like normal songs. I believe the Genre has to be RINGTONE or something like that. There should be a guide if your search a bit.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jakobkoester:
Running 7720 now..

It lacks:

Search for name in the number-block, just like good old 6.0 (Or nokia or Android)

Number lookup. If you punch a number without countrycode, that is stored with country-code, then the name is not showed and vice-versa

SMS forwarding

Phone-keyboard instead of qwerty

Better browser

Flash
[Windows Phone 7 General] andrew-in-woking:
Hi jakobkoester

It does have "Phone-keyboard instead of qwerty" it's just that you don't get to choose when to activate it. It selects itself for certain (mainly 1st party) fields which only accept numerical entries.

Cheers

andrew-in-woking
[Windows Phone 7 General] steve10:
And SMS forwarding has been present since 7004.

While I don't like the new browser UI, it does have a much better rendering engine with IE9 Mobile + GPU acceleration.
[Windows Phone 7 General] techsterr:
same here. I dont like it!
[Windows Phone 7 General] fouros:
http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/mango-may-add-wifi-hotspot-connection-sharing

could it be true
[Windows Phone 7 General] drkfngthdragnlrd:
It's true, but carriers can block it most likely. See;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1233612

The packages do exist, me & ceesheim have been working on trying to enable it but hit a road block.
[Windows Phone 7 General] fouros:
bugger finger xed it will come with the release
[Windows Phone 7 General] nizzon:
I know.

Its absurd.

I have volumeproblems with headset on my Omnia7 as well.

Im on my third headset and finally tones are acceptable, my "tinnitus" is starting to go away now.

Busy-tone and hangup-tone is the worst, goes straight to the brain like :eek:

For the love of hearing add better volume-controls and fix call-quality.
[Windows Phone 7 General] apollo15rover:
Dear Junior Member,

I'd say you got the wrong phone. Sorry but I am without sympathy - the specs are all over the place and info on WP7 is very public. Should probably sell yours and just get an Android or iPhone. I wouldn't have a phone I wasn't happy with either.

IMO even with some features not yet offered or matured, I love my phone and haven't looked back (had Android before).

Like others, WP7 is a fantastic piece of software (even as pre-Mango) but obviously not for everybody..

Good luck!
[Windows Phone 7 General] XxAndrexX:
sorry but IMO the Junior Member is right.

Maybe you are a Microsoft fan, so you don't see reality.

I'm a Microsoft fan too, and I bought my WP7 in february for 200€ because they were getting rid of the "loosing WP7" stocks.

I'm happy now, because I did the right choice, because in a couple of days I'll get a full functionally phone with the mango (I hope so).

But I'd be the same as furious if i'd have spent more than 400€ for a phone that's incomplete like NoDo.

The right way would have been for WP7 what it is, but with 100% backward compatibility with WMo, to have at least some good old features available. Maybe they canceled WMo system because of piracy reasons, I don't know, I only know I was very disappointed as I saw WP7 for the first time, and I'm already disappointed!
[Windows Phone 7 General] aquanaut88:
Moderator: can you move this thread to Howard Forums? Sheesh!
[Windows Phone 7 General] keyboardP:
New camera and pictures features in Mango has been posted on the WPB.

A quick copy-paste of the summary:
[Windows Phone 7 General] stevenmu:
I don't think you need to be a Microsoft fan to disagree with this (altough I will admit that I am one :)).

I don't think it's fair to say that WP7 is "incomplete" or "unfinished" or "unusuable". It was released with a certain set of features, and those features were finished and worked fine. Some people may want other features, but it's not really fair to blame Microsoft if people buy a phone that doesn't have the features that they want.

When I bought my Omnia last February, I looked at WP7, saw what it did and didn't have and decided that it had everything I needed. So I bought it and have been very happy with it ever since. If I needed something else that it didn't have, then I simply wouldn't have bought it.

You wouldn't buy a 2-seater sports car and then complain that it can't hold 5 kids in the back. You'd just buy an SUV. :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] nizzon:
No way, I would get rid of the kids instead. ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] venitex:
HTML5 is the futrue~~
[Windows Phone 7 General] XxAndrexX:
I complain because WMo was a complete system, and many features disappeared with WP7. The worst thing is that they're based on the same engine, so they can't say, that they couldn't because of compatibility reasons.

WP7 is a totally locked phone, with great potential but with no permissions.

for example, i hate that for certain applications, i've got to use my nokia or my old Wmo cause WP7 isn't able to do anything. like I said, I'm a Microsoft fan, I'm not that upset about my WP7 because I payed it very cheap thanks to the incomplete system (because here in spain nobody buys WP7 so the phone-companies tries to get rid of this junk selling it for very cheap).

But since now, Microsoft policy was to upgrade their products, maintaining the old features like they are, but adding new ones.

Look at windows, we actually have DOS in the system, we can put our desktop-theme like win95, everything is 100% backward compatible, almost every program that worked with DOS or win95, goes on working.

That's why Im fan of microsoft, but WP7 disappointed me totally.

The baddest thing is the no support for pen and cursors like Wmo.

Te touch is a good gadged, but you can't base a device on 100% touch experience.

that's another step to the fail. 90% of my friends tells me that they hate touschscreen. me to, for work I prefer the old blackberry rather than the galaxy.

so its no wonder that the most people say WP7 sucks and its a fail.

now let's see what mango can do, but I heard, even Mango is nothing exceptional.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
Yeah, certainly. That's why Android and iPhone are so successful. Because of their stylus support. oO
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion, but it is so far from the truth that it is almost laughable. I have had hundreds of software applications from DOS and even Windows 95 that fail to run at all on Windows 7. Even major programs such as Photoshop needed updates to achieve complete compatibility.

Using this as an excuse to bash WP7 is more than a little disingenuous.
[Windows Phone 7 General] XxAndrexX:
Read good, that's why I say almost every program, because I never had compatibility issues, but maybe there are programs with issues, i can't try every program on the world to give you an exact % of programs that works and other that don't.

But that's not the point.

The point is that a new OS is an improvement.

And for every improvement, you got to guarantee at least the same experience as the past OS.

That's where WP7 fails. And its a big fail. There's nothing to add, its known that its a fail, and if you want a demonstration, you only have to ask someone on the street or some phone-dealer. The most of them will tell you that WP7 its a fail.

So if you want to give you a reason for your spent money, you can tell that WP7 is the best mobile OS on the planet. But it doesn't change the fact thats a big fail you know? If microsoft will improve the system with future updates, I don't know, I hope so, but for now, If an android is worth 400€ a WP7 is not even worth 200€, even with the same hardware. this is my opinion.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
That's exactly what it is. And it's far away from being fact.
[Windows Phone 7 General] pantsaregood:
DOS hasn't been "built in" to home versions of Windows since Windows XP. Windows ME was built on DOS, but prevented direct access to it in the way previous versions allowed. Enterprise versions of Windows have been based on the NT kernel since the mid-90s.

A large amount of older software is very difficult to use on newer versions of Windows. Windows XP is as old as Windows 95 was in 2005, so it doesn't count as "modern" by any stretch - unless, of course, someone was running Windows 95 on an Athlon 64 X2 in 2005. Windows Vista and Windows 7 have severe compatibility issues with programs written for versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000, and occasionally run into issues with those designed for 2000/XP.

Windows Mobile was dropped because it was considered a failure. It was, to a large degree, an attempt to place a desktop OS on a phone. It simply didn't work well.

Windows Phone 7, though still based on Windows CE, is a completely different platform that makes use of different APIs. Windows Phone 7's relation to Windows Mobile is no closer than Windows 7's relationship to Windows NT 4.0.

Your assertion that "Windows Phone is a fail because people said so" is also flawed. Everyone may have an opinion, but there is certainly a such thing as an invalid opinion. I, for example, am a mathematician. I am not a very creative individual. I see things very logically and algorithmically. I am also colorblind and have absolutely no education, interest, or background in fine art. I can assert that a piece of art is "a fail," but in the end, my opinion is meaningless because my opinion is uninformed and invalid.

The average salesperson has absolutely no idea that there's a difference between Windows Phone and Windows Mobile, not to mention people pushing technology generally have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. Around 2004, going to Best Buy would result in having an Intel Pentium 4-based PC pushed on you, completely ignoring the fact that AMD's offerings at that time were superior in every way.
[Windows Phone 7 General] fleon888:
Well, if you want to get technical up there, pantsaregood...

DOS is built into all versions of Windows, even today. The operating system known as MS-DOS is not, but DOS is any disk operating system.

I am also going to argue with your statement regarding invalid opinions. There are such things, I agree, but your argument - at least from a statistician's standpoint - would go more toward relevancy than validity. You also don't take into account that the "hearsay effect" is both valid and relevant in marketing- many marketing metrics take into account surrounding opinions, not just the opinions of the speaker. So, I think you might want to rethink your statement- particularly in regards to the subject matter at hand.
[Windows Phone 7 General] OndraSter:
So why can't I simply use apps compiled directly for ARM Linux on Android? Oh wait, they used their own glibc and what not... And no X, too!

Different system, same analogy.

You can't keep always backward compatibility, if you want to do some huge change, which had to be done.

Oh and FYI, you can't run DOS apps on 64bit MS systems natively. You have to use something inbetween (make it DOSbox or virtual machine).
[Windows Phone 7 General] andrew-in-woking:
DOS?

fleon888

I think that DOS stands for Dirty Operating System, as it is a direct decendant from QDOS which was Quick and Dirty Operating System.

Can anybody confirm?

Cheers

andrew-in-woking
[Windows Phone 7 General] steve10:
No, that was correct. QDOS was Quick and Dirty Operating System. But MS-DOS is Microsoft Disk Operating System. Imagine selling IBM on an OS called "Dirty Operating System."
[Windows Phone 7 General] :
Video calling & tethering possible in Mango.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Tone_:
Windows Me was the last version with DOS, the command prompt is not an operating sytem
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Windows Me was not a version of DOS. Windows 95 wasn't even a version of DPS. OS/2 could boot to a command prompt as well, does that mean it was a DOS Shell?

Pretty sure a Microsoft Employee blogged extensively on this not too too long ago and dismissed this long-standing rumor...
[Windows Phone 7 General] Tone_:
Who said it was DOS, it was the last version with DOS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
If you want to go from a text to a phone call, click the contacts name, which will pull up their contact card. From there you just press call. So, 2 clicks :P
[Windows Phone 7 General] Speedn:
Ahh hadn't noticed that, the "switch to" option down the bottom was easier to reach. Guess I still miss being able to press call HW button from within a text message. Still you have essentially shot down that complaint :p

thanks
[Windows Phone 7 General] RafaelDario:
ok

great, im new here
[Windows Phone 7 General] Labarum:
Video calling check

Appearently Tango is an App that allows video calling released in a video demo a few days ago...

video calling - (mango) note to update front page

link to the demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNwUv4dQFCk&feature=player_embedded
[Windows Phone 7 General] stevenmu:
There's actually two different things, a 3rd party app called Tango that does video calling, and a future update currently being called Tango as well.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Archange1:
The impression I got was that Tango was for bringing out cheap WP7 devices, which sounds like a blatant strategy to combat Android
[Windows Phone 7 General] adesonic:
zte just brought out a windows phone (called tania i think) which will no doubt be cheap as chips.
[Windows Phone 7 General] davepermen:
For your record, mango allows tethering. If the provider allows it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jacksprat:
I beleive that depends on the device. The leaked HTC ROMs didn't have tethering...
[Windows Phone 7 General] jasongohjr:
I want to know wad the radio software and hardware revision code in the official RTM with carrier and specific phone update.....
[Windows Phone 7 General] Travis16248:
Mango

i had a chat with a reptoday confirming
[Windows Phone 7 General] vergil1991:
Thanks from my Girlfriend!
[Windows Phone 7 General] 7carisfast:
What about Speed Dial? I remember WM 6.5 allowed to hold down a number on the keypad number to speed dial a contact. Apologize if this is repeated, but I searched the forum for Speed Dial.
[Windows Phone 7 General] stevenmu:
You can pin a contact to your home screen which works pretty well.
[Windows Phone 7 General] stickyshocker:
Is the not in mango then?

•AOL Messenger integration – Integrated into the people hub and messaging hub
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
No, it's not. And it was never announced to be.
[Windows Phone 7 General] menisck:
VPN is very important !
[Windows Phone 7 General] Marvin_S:
Check the app section, there are some apps in the making who do all this. (I know its far from ideal having to have an app for this) but mine just got released for sideloading and will be in the marketplace soon. Im open to all suggestions for improvement (Quick Dialer).
[Windows Phone 7 General] Sk8rjwd:
Tethering

Video Calling

VoIP Calling

They have tethering with the Samsung Devices.

Tango is video calling.

I am almost certain that they have VoIP
[Windows Phone 7 General] spymobiles:
Thanks for sharing this post. Its quite informative and interesting and increase my knowledge about the features of window 7.

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 General] arimozuki:
All unlocked phones have tethering
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
They're supposed to have it. But it requires certain drivers, which have currently not been delivered. At least not by HTC for the HD7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arimozuki:
Oh right, those ones :P

Apparently, the Dell will never have it too.
[Windows Phone 7 General] warlove3:
hmm i wonder did they think of integrating People and Me tiles into one, and support with tagging people check-in, wall post/comments...
[Windows Phone 7 General] steve10:
The Me "hub" technically falls under the People Hub. If you pivot to your contact list in the People Hub, you'll see your picture and status at the top. Before Mango, I believe it was actually an entry in your contact list. Either way, it just so happens that since it is already pinned to the Start screen from first use that the experience feels more separate from the People Hub than it really is. But if you were to unpin the Me tile, it would be re-pinned through the People Hub.
[Windows Phone 7 General] knightsoldier:
i just want to able to move the tiles around however i want them
[Windows Phone 7 General] amaric:
Also, on Samsung you need to restart the phone when you turn on USB tethering through a diagnosis application...not really a elegant solution.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lovesazu:
very nice, lets see where this lead microsoft
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dav2id34:
Thanks. I will edit the post with any information I receive. I would like to avoid workarounds and hacks. I am not sure how to handle 3rd party apps either
[Windows Phone 7 General] Th3 h4ck3r:
Thanks for the informations!
[Windows Phone 7 General] alexdiaz:
Help

Anybody got any idea on how I can enter the black recovery mode directly when starting the phone?
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
Which one are you referring to? The one that is shown during update processes? Just hold the camera button down while powering on.
[Windows Phone 7 General] finalzero:
Anyone else get the update that went out this week for WP7 (HTC Update)?
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
What update are you talking about? This is the first time I see an HTC update mentioned. Any sources?
[Windows Phone 7 General] hanog:
No, I'm not.
[Windows Phone 7 General] illi:
I cant "Find my phone"! Only got this:

Oops...

Something went wrong and we can't show you this page right now.

Go to windowsphone.com

And yesterday HTC update my bootloader to: 5.02250.1(131000)

No help from M$ and HTC. Anyone with similar problem?

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 General] Multipass22:
Anyone know when i receive software update on my omnia 7 please?
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
I think it'd be nice if they could do a number of folders, predefined line Windows 7 libraries, that you could drop stuff in and the various hubs (Music + Video, Pictures) would use as an additional data source and that apps with the proper permissions could access.
[Windows Phone 7 General] roqstr:
are there any "dates" for Tango or Apollo yet?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Pengod:
Apollo is not coming before summer 2012 so it'll take a while, probably nearing the end of 2012.

As for Tango, isn't it only adding videocall ?
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Tango should add support for LTE, forget what else has been rumored. Youre thinking the Tango voice chat app. Anyway, should be announced at CES, alongside Nokia's US plans and it sounds like a new Verizon phone
[Windows Phone 7 General] sarathvenmony:
thx for the post ////
[Windows Phone 7 General] mad3max:
Official information

Are there any official Facts or strong Rumors what Apollo will bring? Skype, CallLog width Duration, more access for devs?
[Windows Phone 7 General] vasileios13:
+1......:D
[Windows Phone 7 General] andrew35133:
Flash is not coming to WP7 since Adobe stopped mobile flash development
[Windows Phone 7 General] Zloy Pryanik:
andrew35133

adobe has stopped development on all mobile platforms:)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Boby-HRZ:
Just got the message with a new update for my phone and I installed it. It's the HTC update, took about 25 min and I have tethering now. So happy :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Ludacris:
HTC Mozart and HTC HD 7 are now getting the tethering Update!
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peekay_Subbu:
Is this available for HTC phone?

Is this available for HTC phone?
[Windows Phone 7 General] timmes:
Turn-by-turn Navigation

What is currently the best Turn-by-turn Navigation for WP7 ?
[Windows Phone 7 General] bobzero:
Garmin or Navigon.

Navigon works offline.

There is also "Turn by Turn", but I prefer the other 2 because they have online traffic.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emanuelparedes:
I only wish the LED on my Trophy worked as a Notification light, for sms, missed calls, etc...
[Windows Phone 7 General] nguyenhoangvk:
Smart Dialer Smart Dialer pleaseeeeeeee
[Windows Phone 7 General] memeqxda:
I want better camera on my hd7

the photos always look blue
[Windows Phone 7 General] Nimac91:
You can download Nokia Drive for non Nokia windows Phones as soon it comes as an XAP file for unlocked devices. A working version has been introduced a few times, I think it will be downloadable sooner or later. Nokia drive is also offline and online navigation ;) The only thing missing in it is showing you your arrive time. But I'm sure it will be fixed in an update.
[Windows Phone 7 General] OrangeTang:
Now that I have Mango all I really want is for all the app devs to update their apps so they take full advantage of all Mango has to offer, Its slowly happening! :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] SeaComms:
WOOHOO!!!! Last week got the Omnia 7 update on Optus, now have WiFi tethering :) Just wish there was a quicker way to access it to turn it on than having to get into settings.

Now all I need is the voice mail SMS indication fixed and I will be happy!
[Windows Phone 7 General] gburt:
Auto Fix

memeqxda

In Pictures / Camera roll when I open a picture, in the menu there is an 'auto-fix' option.

I was very surprised at how good the results were, maybe this option would remove the 'blue' cast?
[Windows Phone 7 General] darthveda:
there are quite a few apps which does this already.. i use trudialer and it has been great so far
[Windows Phone 7 General] ZANTE96:
when wp8 will come out? in the end of 2012?
[Windows Phone 7 General] otherworld:
Autumn 2012 is the current thinking for windows 8 (not windows phone 8)

http://www.techradar.com/news/softw...rosoft-hints-at-windows-8-release-date-966233

This mentions mid-2012 for windows phone 8:

http://www.windows8update.com/2011/10/27/windows-phone-apollo-confirmed-for-2012-release-by-nokia/
[Windows Phone 7 General] svtfmook:
so about 24 hours into my wp7 experience, here's what i would like to see in upcoming updates:

browser improvements (homepage?)

a native youtube app (that works)

improved turn by turn (not just birds eye view)
[Windows Phone 7 General] scoobysnacks:
how are you liking the transition otherwise?
[Windows Phone 7 General] vasileios13:
Turn by Turn,for me...........:cool:
[Windows Phone 7 General] Martee2:
I think ms will release wp8 after release of windows 8.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brutus_98235:
MS

Microsoft is not aware of anything. They just release a program and don't give any support!
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
Seems to me you haven't even used any Microsoft product in the last 10 years in the first place.