Windows Phone 7 Launch Thread

DjFlin

How long does the optimus update take? I'm on my way home, and will only have a few minutes before having to again.

Boo_hoo

Update takes about 20 mins. However it could take longer. I wouldn't attempt it incase it does and you have to go.

The updates are ones you can live without.

Has anyone tested out GPS etc. on the updates yet.
Endomondo wasn't working at all for me pre-update. I'll be trying it out later.

DjFlin

Boo_hoo wrote: »

Update takes about 20 mins. However it could take longer. I wouldn't attempt it incase it does and you have to go.

The updates are ones you can live without.

Has anyone tested out GPS etc. on the updates yet.
Endomondo wasn't working at all for me pre-update. I'll be trying it out later.

Cheers. Funny thing is, I'm going to a meeting in a hotel that's got no free WiFi, so tethering would be fairly handy.

danger_mouse_tm

gps still doesnt work after update on my LG. I'm getting fed up asking for directions!

MJPE

Hi all, I had made my mine up and was going to buy LG Optimus 7 but now I think I should hang on and wait for Nokia Lumia 710. Guys and Girls what would you do in my position?

Jomcc

Boo_hoo wrote: »

• OS version : 7.10.7720.68
• Firmware: 1.0.16.10
• Hardware: 1.0
• Radio Software: 1.0.16.10
• Radio Hardware: 0.3.5.0
• Bootloader: 1.5.10
• Chip Soc: 0.30.2.0

Optimus 7 ordered from Germany on Vodafone Ie Network.
Had previously forced Mango.

Tethering working.

Just updated my German Optimus 7 to version shown above after receiving notification today. Having problems connecting to internet now using vodafone.

I've set APN settings same as before.......I've set
APN to live.vodafone.com
Username

---

blank,
Password

---

blank,
Proxy server/URL--- blank,
Proxy port

---

blank.

Any suggestions please.....

wheresmybeaver

MJPE wrote: »

Hi all, I had made my mine up and was going to buy LG Optimus 7 but now I think I should hang on and wait for Nokia Lumia 710. Guys and Girls what would you do in my position?

I would definitely wait for the Nokia, it should be better build quality, a bit quicker (loading times etc), beter camera and display, and won't be much more expensive. You'll have to import it though as I don't think it's being specifically sold in the EU.

You won't be able to dev unlock these new phones either until they release the official chevron unlock (but that isn't a big deal anyway unless you want to customise the bejesus out of WP7).

Odaise Gaelach

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

You won't be able to dev unlock these new phones either until they release the official chevron unlock (but that isn't a big deal anyway unless you want to customise the bejesus out of WP7).

Hang on now... Sorry to be pedantic, but you can't "dev unlock" the phones? Surely you mean you won't be able to jailbreak them instead of unlocking them for developing apps?

gman2k

AntiVirus wrote: »

Make sure your phone is charged up and try to make as much free room on the phone as possible. eg remove all your music an try again

I fully charged up the phone, turned off wifi and data connection and the update worked. There was no need to free up space, as I had about 10gigs free already.
On Step 7, the backup hung for a long time at 92%, same as the previous failed attempts, but it upgraded successfully.
I have to say, tethering is fab!

wheresmybeaver

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

Hang on now... Sorry to be pedantic, but you can't "dev unlock" the phones? Surely you mean you won't be able to jailbreak them instead of unlocking them for developing apps?

Sorry yeah you're right, you will of course be able to officially unlock them for development purposes (€99 annual fee I think) but it's a simple unlock that only allows a handful of apps be sideloaded, and no interop functionality (ie no deep-level access to registry etc for some of the more hardcore hacks). The official chevron unlock, when it arrives, will probably be quite similar. It may be a while before somebody figures out a complete unlock / "jailbreak" of the new gen2 WP7.5 devices. But like I said, this should only worry you if you're into flashing your own ROMs, sideloading more than 3 apps at a time, tinkering with registry settings and the like.

GT_TDI_150

hey. How do you turn off auto correct on messages

Diddy Kong

Into Settings -> Keyboard -> Typing Settings, Keyboard (English - Tap to Change) -> change away

Trevor451

Yes! No more outdated bing maps for me

http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-maps-coming-all-windows-phone-devices-coming-weeks

danger_mouse_tm

Trevor451 wrote: »

Yes! No more outdated bing maps for me

http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-maps-coming-all-windows-phone-devices-coming-weeks

can't wait for the maps. I'm going to have to brush the dust off my Nokia 5800xm if I fund my way home from Dublin. If anyone sees a white Scania from cork looking for hicks foods in ballymount -HELP!

wheresmybeaver

Trevor451 wrote: »

Yes! No more outdated bing maps for me

http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-maps-coming-all-windows-phone-devices-coming-weeks

danger_mouse_tm wrote: »

can't wait for the maps. I'm going to have to brush the dust off my Nokia 5800xm if I fund my way home from Dublin. If anyone sees a white Scania from cork looking for hicks foods in ballymount -HELP!

Does Nokia Maps have POI info for Ireland? Shops, Banks, ATMs and that sort of thing? If so that will be ideal. Hopefully it'll be integrated into the Bing search results.

evolutionqy7

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

Does Nokia Maps have POI info for Ireland? Shops, Banks, ATMs and that sort of thing? If so that will be ideal. Hopefully it'll be integrated into the Bing search results.

Well as far im aware POI and local data search results should be merged from Nokia Maps to Bing.

But yes Nokia Maps has POI's for Ireland. Has quite a good POI database for Ireland.

Ask any one that has a symbian device that their Nokia Drive Sat Nav is top class

It was great even on my ex N97

danger_mouse_tm

Myself and the other windows phone user here in Cork have noticed that neither of us are getting vodafone text alerts to say we have a voice mail.

stevenmu

danger_mouse_tm wrote: »

Myself and the other windows phone user here in Cork have noticed that neither of us are getting vodafone text alerts to say we have a voice mail.

Yes! I've been getting the exact same thing with an Omnia 7 on Vodafone too. I've noticed though if I look at the last voicemail text recieved it does seem to have been updated with the correct number of voicemails, so I think Vodafone is sending the text but WP7 is overwriting the last one and not flagging it as new for some reason. I do have 171 configured as my voicemail number so I'm going to try unsetting that and see if it makes a difference.

edit: nope, didn't work.

edit2: I think it started happening for me when I upgraded to mango, it definitely did work previously.

edit3: According to Vodafone NZ it's a known issue that MS will fix. They also seem to have the possibility of enabling a voicemail icon notification, not sure if that's available here.

evolutionqy7

danger_mouse_tm wrote: »

Myself and the other windows phone user here in Cork have noticed that neither of us are getting vodafone text alerts to say we have a voice mail.

As in a text message altert?

Whenever i get a voicemail it comes up as a notification on the "Phone" tile.

Once you ring up your voicemail and hear the voicemail it goes away.

Im on Meteor

neonman

Got my first windows phone. I've owned an iPhone and a few Android phones in the past. Like the windows interface, its fast, screen is great (Sumsung)

Looking for some tips and tricks if you guys have any. I've installed a few apps already that I used on other platforms and they're working great.

Any recommendations for twitter apps or do you just use the built in twitter app (Mango).

Thanks all.

evolutionqy7

neonman wrote: »

Got my first windows phone. I've owned an iPhone and a few Android phones in the past. Like the windows interface, its fast, screen is great (Sumsung)

Looking for some tips and tricks if you guys have any. I've installed a few apps already that I used on other platforms and they're working great.

Any recommendations for twitter apps or do you just use the built in twitter app (Mango).

Thanks all.

My favorite twitter app i used is MehDoh

But i dont use it alot. Integrated twitter client is the usual way

AntiVirus

neonman wrote: »

Looking for some tips and tricks

Couple good place's to start

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/tips-and-tricks.aspx


http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36413/72-windows-phone-7-tips

youcancallmeal

I'm thinking about get the HTC Titan but I have some worries maybe someone could help me out with?

- Is there really no 3g data counter? Did some searching and apparently there are no APIs for developers to access network data.

- Is there any app to quickly turn off auto rotate? I've read there is a registry hack but sounds very inconvenient for quick switching.

- How quick is it to turn on/off 3g/wifi? Do you have to delve into menus or can you get some sort of live tile app for the homescreen?

- Like above how easy it to change screen brightness/volume on the fly? Going into something like "settings/sound/ring volume" would be very annoying

- Does not having flash affect the Internet experience much?

evolutionqy7

youcancallmeal wrote: »

I'm thinking about get the HTC Titan but I have some worries maybe someone could help me out with?

- Is there really no 3g data counter? Did some searching and apparently there are no APIs for developers to access network data.

- Is there any app to quickly turn off auto rotate? I've read there is a registry hack but sounds very inconvenient for quick switching.

- How quick is it to turn on/off 3g/wifi? Do you have to delve into menus or can you get some sort of live tile app for the homescreen?

- Like above how easy it to change screen brightness/volume on the fly? Going into something like "settings/sound/ring volume" would be very annoying

- Does not having flash affect the Internet experience much?

I'll start from the bottom.

Not having flash doesn't bother me with HTML5 you can watch (in my case all the news website) videos.

Depends what you visit the most. I could try it out does it work

Ring volume goes down quick with volume button. There's also a quick vibrate button once you press the volume key.

For brightness you have to go to settings. Though im rocking my Omnia at full brightness and get a day out of it easy.
for data and WiFi you can pin live tiles to the homescreen to access the menu with one click.

Nothing for auto rotation. WP7 is mainly portrait orientated to it doesn't affect it that much as it does on android I think.

no data counter either.

wheresmybeaver

danger_mouse_tm wrote: »

Myself and the other windows phone user here in Cork have noticed that neither of us are getting vodafone text alerts to say we have a voice mail.

Ha! Feels like that sometimes; I'm a Cork based HD7 owner and in the last year I have not met a single other WP7 owner. Although in fairness my circle of friends wouldn't exactly be very techy (no iPhone owners, even).

stevenmu wrote: »

Yes! I've been getting the exact same thing with an Omnia 7 on Vodafone too. I've noticed though if I look at the last voicemail text recieved it does seem to have been updated with the correct number of voicemails, so I think Vodafone is sending the text but WP7 is overwriting the last one and not flagging it as new for some reason. I do have 171 configured as my voicemail number so I'm going to try unsetting that and see if it makes a difference.

edit: nope, didn't work.

edit2: I think it started happening for me when I upgraded to mango, it definitely did work previously.

edit3: According to Vodafone NZ it's a known issue that MS will fix. They also seem to have the possibility of enabling a voicemail icon notification, not sure if that's available here.

Yeah this happens with O2 on my HD7 - it started with the Mango update.

What happens is that Irish mobile phone providers don't use the "official" voicemail-notification method of a voicemail icon on phones (even the old Nokia 3210 had this feature); instead, they send a text message. And i'm not sure how they do it, but say if you received a voicemail text notification an hour ago, and you get another voicemail 10 minutes later, the same text message is updated from "1 new message" to "2 new messages". Problem is, when there is already a New Voicemail text on your Windows Phone 7.5, when the text is updated to notify of additional voicemails, you don't get a notification. Before Mango, this message updating would prompt a new text message alert.

So, long story short, every time I get a voicemail alert I delete the message immediately so that if I get another voicemail later I will get my alert. Otherwise, it updates silently.

Seems like the obvious fix for this would be just to implement visual voicemail for smartphone users. Or properly implement voicemail flags. But god forbid they would spend money on improving service for Irish phone users ;-)

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

As in a text message altert?

Whenever i get a voicemail it comes up as a notification on the "Phone" tile.

Once you ring up your voicemail and hear the voicemail it goes away.

Im on Meteor

Yeah Meteor does it right; Vodafone and O2 (and Three?) do it the old text-message-alert way. Nonsense.

neonman

Just got my first windowsphone the other day, and it seems they still haven't updated bing with hearby information or see+do for Ireland anybody know if they're updating this service. It would be nice to have.

wheresmybeaver wrote: »

I'm seeing the same thing.

I suspect it's because bing doesn't hold much data for Ireland; we should be seeing a "local" tab in the bing results that would should us addresses, businesses, restaurants etc. Because doesn't have ANY ROI info in this regard, it looks like the "local" tab is not being shown at all, which means we can't search the map!

I'm assuming Google (or aome other developer) will come to the rescue with this one, and either build a similar app based on bing maps with better functionality, or just do a Google maps version altogether (which would be good, since Google Maps DOES have loads of ROI maps data, and street view too of course).

The price of being an early adopter

billgates

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

My favorite twitter app i used is MehDoh

But i dont use it alot. Integrated twitter client is the usual way

+1 on MehDoh, best Twitter App on Windows Phone at the moment.

GerardKeating

danger_mouse_tm wrote: »

Myself and the other windows phone user here in Cork have noticed that neither of us are getting vodafone text alerts to say we have a voice mail.

Same here (am on O2)..

billgates

Does anyone know if I bought the new Nokia Lumia 800 Sim Free up north when they are released on the 16th Nov will it work ok with a microsim from the Republic (e.g.. Vodafone Ireland)?

Not willing to wait until Jan or Feb next year for Ireland launch, i want it now!! I see that they are on preorder on Expansys now for €709.99, but i'll be dammed if i pay that sort of money for one.

Already own an O2 UK sim free HD7 at the minute (which i purchased 2nd hand) and it works fine with VF Ireland SIM. Just wondering if the term SIM free also means carrier unlocked if you waked into say carphone warehouse up north and bought one for example?

AlmightyCushion

Yes, sim free means unlocked.