Windows Phone 7 Launch Thread

DjFlin

Captain Morgan wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

Good to hear. I havent tested it, too busy installing Mango Looks like its going to take a white though.

Mimikyu

This post has been deleted.

AntiVirus

DjFlin wrote: »

Good to hear. I havent tested it, too busy installing Mango Looks like its going to take a white though.

Creating a backup takes a lot longer than I would have thought! Do you have a developer licence?

EDIT: It took 859.62 seconds to complete the backup! I should have removed the music files first

mayordenis

Righto specific to the LG BargainAlerts 7 can anyone tell me how to actually change the homepage on IE from vodafone.de?

AntiVirus

mayordenis wrote: »

Righto specific to the LG BargainAlerts 7 can anyone tell me how to actually change the homepage on IE from vodafone.de?

Use the MFG tool to edit this registry setting:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
“Start Page”=”http://www.google.ie/”

DjFlin

AntiVirus wrote: »

Creating a backup takes a lot longer than I would have thought! Do you have a developer licence?

EDIT: It took 859.62 seconds to complete the backup! I should have removed the music files first

I reset my phone completely before doing it, took about 400 seconds to do the backup.

AntiVirus

DjFlin wrote: »

I reset my phone completely before doing it, took about 400 seconds to do the backup.

I didn't want to have to setup my phone again and thankfully everything works the way it did before.

wheresmybeaver

DjFlin wrote: »

...
Odd, I'm not getting any update notification. Does it have chat?

I don't think they'll bother with facebook chat in the facebook app since I believe Mango will have facebook chat integrated into the messaging app. Or is it just the facebook messaging service they're integrating? I'm not sure.

DjFlin wrote: »

I reset my phone completely before doing it, took about 400 seconds to do the backup.

AntiVirus wrote: »

I didn't want to have to setup my phone again and thankfully everything works the way it did before.

Congrats both of ye on getting Mango! So will ye be abiding by the terms of your Non Disclosure Agreement, or will ye be dishing the dirt on boards? Mango, in my mind, will be the finishing touch on one of the best mobile OSs I've ever used.

evolutionqy7

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

The Facebook app got a quiet update to version 2.0 this morning and brings with it live tiles and push notifications; even better you can specify what kinds of notifications you want or not.

If WP7 wasn't the ultimate Facebook platform before I think it would be safe to say it is now ;-)

Who will need a Facebook app when mango comes?

AntiVirus

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

Congrats both of ye on getting Mango! So will ye be abiding by the terms of your Non Disclosure Agreement, or will ye be dishing the dirt on boards? Mango, in my mind, will be the finishing touch on one of the best mobile OSs I've ever used.

I unofficially installed it on my phone so I've not agreed to any Non Disclosure Agreement but I'll tell you one thing everything seems to update and run a lot smoother which is hard to do considering it already ran a smooth as butter!

I love the groups, I've setup a couple and they work great, one for "The Lads" one for "Family" and one for "Office" and aonther for the "Chicks". The MSN messenger works great and I love that you can search your online mail for historic emails that aren't on your phone!

Xbox live looks and works a lot lot better as well.

It's keeping me away from my real job!!

wheresmybeaver

AntiVirus wrote: »

I unofficially installed it on my phone so I've not agreed to any Non Disclosure Agreement but I'll tell you one thing everything seems to update and run a lot smoother which is hard to do considering it already ran a smooth as butter!

I love the groups, I've setup a couple and they work great, one for "The Lads" one for "Family" and one for "Office" and aonther for the "Chicks". The MSN messenger works great and I love that you can search your online mail for historic emails that aren't on your phone!

Xbox live looks and works a lot lot better as well.

It's keeping me away from my real job!!

Oh cool, are any of the twitter or messaging services working? ie can you send facebook messages in the same way you can send a text?

AntiVirus

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

Oh cool, are any of the twitter or messaging services working? ie can you send facebook messages in the same way you can send a text?

I've only been using the MSN for sending messages but I just tried turning on facebook chat in the messaging settings and I'm getting an error. I'll mess about more with it later and report back.

AntiVirus

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Who will need a Facebook app when mango comes?

It works so well in the Mango build and its Fast!!

EDIT: In other words you won't need the app any more, facebook links in extremely well. I just need to get the chat working

cuppa

Hi just got the lg optmius e900 from germany, will one of them socket adapters you bring on holidays to spain work in the charger.

ta

wait or they the wrong way around,

a friend said i can plug in the charger, like the old 2 pin into the 3 pin

DjFlin

AntiVirus wrote: »

I unofficially installed it on my phone so I've not agreed to any Non Disclosure Agreement but I'll tell you one thing everything seems to update and run a lot smoother which is hard to do considering it already ran a smooth as butter! /QUOTE]

I got mine officially because I've a Student Dev account.

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

Oh cool, are any of the twitter or messaging services working? ie can you send facebook messages in the same way you can send a text?

So far, Facebook Chat is amazing. Its so seamless, and the connection hasnt dropped at all.

Twitter integration doesnt actually work yet though, it just says "Coming Soon".

I'll have more to say after I play around with it.


Quick Update:

Bing has some cool new features. My favorite is Audio, it listens to whatever is playing around you, then tells you what the song is, and links you to the marketplace.
Zune also has the SmartDJ feature now, it builds playlists based on the songs you've selected, which really rocks.

So far, these are my two favorite features of Mango. Unfortunately, you cant use them if you've an Irish account. Which is why, once again, I'm using my American one. Much more features in it.

AntiVirus

DjFlin wrote: »

So far, Facebook Chat is amazing. Its so seamless, and the connection hasnt dropped at all.

Thats the problem, its too good. I never really used it that much before but I've been using it all day, love the way the whole messaging system works.

T-b0n3

Just got my Optimus to the door today, delighted, its class.

@AntiVirus

After reading your guide on how to unlock the phone in the bargain alert thread. It says "DeveloperUnlockState" should equal 1, mine equals a big number. Any ideas? Should I just set it to 0 anyway??#

Thanks, you've been very helpful so far.

AntiVirus

T-b0n3 wrote: »

Just got my Optimus to the door today, delighted, its class.

@AntiVirus

After reading your guide on how to unlock the phone in the bargain alert thread. It says "DeveloperUnlockState" should equal 1, mine equals a big number. Any ideas? Should I just set it to 0 anyway??#

Thanks, you've been very helpful so far.

Just set it to 1 and it will work fine, make sure you switch to DWORD. Any trouble let me know, once unlocked you'll be able to install the Mango beta to see the BIG difference!


LG Optimus Unlocking

1. Open the MFG app and use the password 277634#*# to open it.
2. Go to Engineer Menu -> Other Settings -> Edit Registry
3. Set your ROOT PATH to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
4. Set your input path to "\Comm\Security\LVMod"
5. Set your input key to "DeveloperUnlockState" and set to DWORD
6 .Set your input data box to "1" and hit SET. Output result should be 1
7.Keep this screen open and read below



Zune will relock your phone when you connect to it so do the following to keep your phone unlocked after you have done the above:


1. Set your ROOT PATH to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
2. Set your input path to "\Software\Microsoft\DeviceReg"
3. Set your input key to "PortalUrlProd" and set to DWORD
4. Clear your input data box and hit SET. Output result should be 0
5. Keep this screen open and continue to Part 2

Part 2
1. Set your ROOT PATH to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
2. Set your input path to "\Software\Microsoft\DeviceReg"
3. Set your input key to "PortalUrlInt" and set to DWORD
4. Clear your input data box and hit SET. Output result should be 0
5. Backout to the password screen and shutdown the phone via powerbutton.
6. Reboot and sync. Your LG Optimus 7 should stay unlocked.

All done :-)

cuppa

i bought angry birds in the market place,, but putting in my visa details i had to use an english post code for it to work.

phone region is set to ireland.

Alanstrainor

cuppa wrote: »

i bought angry birds in the market place,, but putting in my visa details i had to use an english post code for it to work.

phone region is set to ireland.

But is your live account set to Ireland?

I can purchase fine with my Irish card and address.

sparks24

so when is mango being rolled out in ireland? the microsoft website said meteor was doing it now

evolutionqy7

cuppa wrote: »

i bought angry birds in the market place,, but putting in my visa details i had to use an english post code for it to work.

phone region is set to ireland.

If you set up your windows live id as locality to england therefore it will require an english address (postcode) to avail setting up credit card details. Hopefully with Nokia on board we will get add on billing to the statement rather than using credit cards.

cuppa

ok another question i connect to my wifi at home,but some time i like to do a bit of browsing when im out, i have no idea how to connect to vodafone live on the 99cents a day.
I am payg on double top up.

my hotmail is hotmail.com and i think its set to ireland cant see anything in profile on the pc to change.

all the prices show up in pounds in the marketplace and not in euro ,can that be changed too

DjFlin

sparks24 wrote: »

so when is mango being rolled out in ireland? the microsoft website said meteor was doing it now

You must be confusing Mango and Nodo. Nodo is currently being rolled out (Everyone should have it by now though). Mango on the other hand is scheduled for release later in the year.

cuppa wrote: »

ok another question i connect to my wifi at home,but some time i like to do a bit of browsing when im out, i have no idea how to connect to vodafone live on the 99cents a day.
I am payg on double top up.

Go to Settings -> Mobile Network (Or Cellular if your phone is set to American Engish) -> Data Connection -> On

You might also like to make sure 3G Connection is enabled, as it will provide better browsing speeds.

Also, Vodafone now let you get:

Free Calls and Texts to Vodafone plus free Internet
or
Free Texts to any network plus free Internet

When you top up by €20 euro. All you have to do is send a free text to sign up. I've linked it below

http://www.vodafone.ie/planscosts/prepay/prepaidoffers/freecallstxtinternet/

Trevor451

I bought some stuff on my Irish windows live account and I don't want to set up a US account just for the extra bing features

Will they eventually be brought over here?

evolutionqy7

cuppa wrote: »

ok another question i connect to my wifi at home,but some time i like to do a bit of browsing when im out, i have no idea how to connect to vodafone live on the 99cents a day.
I am payg on double top up.

my hotmail is hotmail.com and i think its set to ireland cant see anything in profile on the pc to change.

all the prices show up in pounds in the marketplace and not in euro ,can that be changed too

You probably have set up your account for England. No way to change it. Only way is to start a new one. Or try your luck with cc. You can get a new email and just set up your old one as a separate account. Once mango comes u can link them together

DjFlin

Trevor451 wrote: »

I bought some stuff on my Irish windows live account and I don't want to set up a US account just for the extra bing features

Will they eventually be brought over here?

Yes, eventually.








By "Yes" I mean "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH", and by "eventually" I mean "No"

Ireland is too small a demographic to invest in, they'd probably never be able to make a profit bringing those features out here.

evolutionqy7

DjFlin wrote: »

Trevor451 wrote: »

I bought some stuff on my Irish windows live account and I don't want to set up a US account just for the extra bing features

Will they eventually be brought over here?

Yes, eventually.








By "Yes" I mean "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH", and by "eventually" I mean "No"

Ireland is too small a demographic to invest in, they'd probably never be able to make a profit bringing those features out here.

Not unless all the salesmen in the country in shops start selling windows phone

Odaise Gaelach

It's a real pity. I'd love a Zune Pass.

DjFlin

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Not unless all the salesmen in the country in shops start selling windows phone

I'm not even sure if that'd do it. Microsoft have to pay to be able to distribute music and use services like the voice recognition (Which is done by an outside company, not in-house).

The problem lies with the fact that Ireland has a max potential of around 5 million customers. Take out all the people who dont have phones, then all the people who buy Android/IOS/Blackberry/Etc, and you're not left with much.

The costs to provide the services will outweigh the profits if they were to bring them out here.

If WP7 takes off, and becomes the dominant Phone OS in the UK, USA and other big places, MS might consider expanding, until then, we're left out to hang.

evolutionqy7

downloading mango now ;] exiting stuff

evolutionqy7

God ita all might fast. Transitions are all smooth and fast while keeping animations I'm loving it so far

Charlie Haughy

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

downloading mango now ;] exiting stuff

Where?

AntiVirus

Charlie Haughy wrote: »

Where?

head over to xda, everything you need to know is there. It's where all the Mobile guru's hang out.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=605

markpb

AntiVirus wrote: »

EDIT: In other words you won't need the app any more, facebook links in extremely well. I just need to get the chat working

Only until Facebook add some new feature that isn't built into the OS and there's a one year wait for the next WP7 release. I like what they've done / are doing but I'd prefer if they did it through hooks that companies could build around instead of building it into the OS.

AntiVirus

markpb wrote: »

Only until Facebook add some new feature that isn't built into the OS and there's a one year wait for the next WP7 release. I like what they've done / are doing but

I'm not talking about facebook the website, I'm comparing it to the Facebook app that exits in the market place now. There's plenty of things that you can't do. When facebook brings out their video chat which they're working on with skype at the moment, that'll be another update needed.

I don't know where you're going with a year wait? MS have already done 2 updates so far this year with a HUGE os update coming in september.

markpb wrote: »

I'd prefer if they did it through hooks that companies could build around instead of building it into the OS.

I'm not following you here, what exactly do you mean?

markpb

AntiVirus wrote: »

I'm not talking about facebook the website, I'm comparing it to the Facebook app that exits in the market place now.

So am I. As soon as MS decided to move functionality offered by other companies into the OS, they limited the speed at which users can gain the user of new functionality. When Facebook Places was launched, it couldn't be added to the native app without an OS upgrade so a third party app was required. Ditto for Facebook chat.

I don't know where you're going with a year wait? MS have already done 2 updates so far this year with a HUGE os update coming in september.

It's well documented that MS plan to follow the Apple plan and have one major release per year.

I'm not following you here, what exactly do you mean?

I love the integration of Facebook into the People Hub but there are two problems
- Only MS can add new features to this and that means an OS upgrade
- No other company can tie into it which means that MS control access to it (and, once again, new integrations like Twitter require an OS upgrade).

Exposing hooks which allow third party developers to extend the functionality of hubs would be a better solution IMHO. It would make the OS more integrated and seamless but without making MS the only ones able to update it.

AntiVirus

markpb wrote: »

So am I. As soon as MS decided to move functionality offered by other companies into the OS, they limited the speed at which users can gain the user of new functionality. When Facebook Places was launched, it couldn't be added to the native app without an OS upgrade so a third party app was required. Ditto for Facebook chat..

In other words the App will need an update as well as the OS will need an update. I'm comparing the App as of now to Mango as of now

markpb wrote: »

It's well documented that MS plan to follow the Apple plan and have one major release per year.

The only thing comfirm is one major update per year, what we already know is there is more than one update done per year.

markpb wrote: »

I love the integration of Facebook into the People Hub but there are two problems
- Only MS can add new features to this and that means an OS upgrade
- No other company can tie into it which means that MS control access to it (and, once again, new integrations like Twitter require an OS upgrade).

Exposing hooks which allow third party developers to extend the functionality of hubs would be a better solution IMHO. It would make the OS more integrated and seamless but without making MS the only ones able to update it.

Not a chance in hell of that happening, I'd much rather this is left to MS to handle. This is something other companies have trid to do with Android and they fall far behind what MS has done. I don't want them messing it up and slowing down the OS

markpb

AntiVirus wrote: »

The only thing comfirm is one major update per year, what we already know is there is more than one update done per year.

We got one small update (which, by all accounts, was ready before the phone was launched the RTM deadline) and one security certificate update. It's hardly a demonstration of a quick turnaround inside the dev team but I agree that Mango will add a lot of badly needed features.

Not a chance in hell of that happening, I'd much rather this is left to MS to handle. This is something other companies have trid to do with Android and they fall far behind what MS has done. I don't want them messing it up and slowing down the OS

It's technically possible to do both. The core of most operating systems is the ability of third party apps to extend the functionality. Apple went for almost zero integration and Microsoft offer tight integration but only at their time-frame. This means that anytime a new site/feature is launched, it won't be available in the core until that's updated which, rightly, doesn't happen quickly on a mobile OS.

Mimikyu

This post has been deleted.

AntiVirus

Captain Morgan wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

It refreshes fine on mine, maybe try deleting the bookmark and adding it again. could be a problem with the bookmark.

If its a bug with your phone the problem should happen on other websites not just the boards.ie site. So test with some other sites and see if you get the same results.

EDIT: Just seen your using the mobile version, I was refering to the desktop version on the phone.

markpb

Captain Morgan wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

Same thing happens me but without any bookmarks, whenever I go to m.boards.ie/?filer=subbed, I get the old copy of the page too.

Odaise Gaelach

I got Mango from the Microsoft Connect invite. Damn No Disclosure Agreement, I feel a bit stupid for agreeing to it now. :pac:

I love some of the new app features that we can use; they're also quite easy to code up and the MSDN website has lots of great examples. I'm gonna make good use of them. :cool:

T-b0n3

Now that I was able to get the phone properly unlocked and get touchexperience working and the flashlight installed, is there any other good apps people can recommend? Or even some where I can look at the 3rd party apps that are out there?

Sorry new to all of this. Thanks.

Also working on getting mango installed which I'm looking forward to, it looks very good.

AntiVirus

T-b0n3 wrote: »

Now that I was able to get the phone properly unlocked and get touchexperience working and the flashlight installed, is there any other good apps people can recommend? Or even some where I can look at the 3rd party apps that are out there?

Sorry new to all of this. Thanks.

Also working on getting mango installed which I'm looking forward to, it looks very good.

You might be interested in this:

http://www.1800pocketpc.com/2011/07/04/play-pokemon-zelda-on-windows-phone-using-warios-jewels-video.html

There's tons of stuff over on XDA that you could install

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=605

The best section for you to look at is probably the Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games , Windows Phone 7 Software Development and then Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking.

Have a look and a read on there, you'll find help on everything you need to know :-)

testicle

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

I got Mango from the Microsoft Connect invite. Damn No Disclosure Agreement, I feel a bit stupid for agreeing to it now. :pac:

http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-backtracks-on-windows-phone-mango-developer-nda-lock-down/

Odaise Gaelach

FREEDOM!

Yes, Mango is really great, though there are a few things that irk me (the black sliders when using light backgrounds, how the songs appear in Music+Videos, the search button being exclusively dedicated to Bing - horrible choice in my opinion).

However, the pros really outweight the cons and it's a great update. I thought all the animated tiles would become distracting, but they haven't bothered me as much as I thought they would. The Battery Saver is really welcome and they've fixed the issue whereby app icons with transparency will be shaded in your phone's chosen colour, instead of the black that it defaulted to before.

Yep, I'm really loving Mango.

mayordenis

Anyone on 3 having issues recieving MMS messages on the LG optimus 7?

AntiVirus

mayordenis wrote: »

Anyone on 3 having issues recieving MMS messages on the LG optimus 7?

Oddly enough my mate sent me one from Spain about 10mins ago, most likely of a beer and a pool, it just says "Get Media Content Now" but doesn't do anything. Anyway I found the solution to the problem in the link below.

The person having the problem is using a HD7 but the solution will only work on the LG Optimus 7 as the other phones don't have the MGF menu

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1689588-HD7-MMS-settings-on-Wind-Mobile

mayordenis

AntiVirus wrote: »

Use the MFG tool to edit this registry setting:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
“Start Page”=”http://www.google.ie/”

I'm able to get into edit registry but from there I wouldn't know what to type into which fields any chance you could elaborate?