Windows Phone 7 Launch Thread

DjFlin · 30-09-2011 06:26PM

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

I thought SeaRay was the code name for the new Nokia Windows Phones.

Oh? Maybe. Theres loads of rumors. Either way, neither will be arriving for a while.

AntiVirus · 30-09-2011 06:40PM

DjFlin wrote: »

Early 2012.

I think Tango is supposed to be a NoDo-esqe update, ie, small. Then later in 2012 SeaRay, which is the big update.

Apollo is the next BIG update after Tango. Microsoft likes O's

That update will bring the phone up to windows phone 8 and will most likely be released around the same time as Windows 8, around this time next year.

Trevor451 · 01-10-2011 12:57AM

I can confirm that the LG network app seems to work now on mango. I didn't think it would work considering I am not with a "real" network as such (tesco mobile) but surprisingly it did

I haven't tested MMS messages out yet but I was able to connect to 3G without changing any apn settings.

One other review stated that "Worked great for Vodafone. Mms etc working. Apn still needs to be set"

stevenmu · 01-10-2011 11:35AM

AntiVirus wrote: »

Apollo is the next BIG update after Tango. Microsoft likes O's

That update will bring the phone up to windows phone 8 and will most likely be released around the same time as Windows 8, around this time next year.

I haven't seen it confirmed that Apollo will be available to existing phones, has anyone seen any news on this?

wilser · 01-10-2011 01:07PM

has anyone with an lg e900 on vodafone got the mango update notification yet?
thanks

Odaise Gaelach · 01-10-2011 01:37PM

A friend of mine has.

wilser · 01-10-2011 02:20PM

ok thanks, i will try it again when i get home

DjFlin · 01-10-2011 03:53PM

When Mango was officially released, I restored my phone to NoDo. I was curious to see how long it would take for Mango to show up without forcing it.

So after a few days of waiting, It showed up today. Much faster than NoDo did. I was waiting weeks on that.

I'm using the Open European ROM on my LG Optimus 7 on Vodafone.

moonboy52 · 01-10-2011 04:00PM

I tried to update LG Optimus 7 the other day. Did the turn wifi off trick, it found the update, but i forgot to turn my wifi back on and it did not update obviously.

I have tried about 50 times to get it to update with no luck, so i guess i will wait for the update notification on the phone.

Im with O2 but the phone is Vodafone IRL branded.

Odaise Gaelach · 01-10-2011 05:28PM

moonboy52 wrote: »

I tried to update LG Optimus 7 the other day. Did the turn wifi off trick, it found the update, but i forgot to turn my wifi back on and it did not update obviously.

I have tried about 50 times to get it to update with no luck, so i guess i will wait for the update notification on the phone.

Im with O2 but the phone is Vodafone IRL branded.

Have you tried re-starting your phone and your computer?

moonboy52 · 01-10-2011 05:44PM

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

Have you tried re-starting your phone and your computer?

I have done both with no luck.

It keeps saying, we could not connect to the update service.

fat-tony · 01-10-2011 06:21PM

Just updated my wife's phone to Mango - all went well, but afterwards it wouldn't connect to gmail or facebook. She's on a billpay data plan with Vodafone. The phone is one of the German VF branded jobbies and I haven't loaded any open market firmware on it. I had enabled MFG some months back and had attempted to get MMS working with the Network Settings app from the marketplace, but no dice.

When I checked the APN settings now, after the update, they were blank! This would explain why no data connection was available. I input live.vodafone.com as the APN and re-booted and all was ok. I'm a bit puzzled why the mango update didn't retain or update the data and mms settings, though

Did anyone else have access problems after updating to Mango? I'd like to try and get MMS working also. Any bright ideas?

Trevor451 · 01-10-2011 06:51PM

fat-tony wrote: »

Just updated my wife's phone to Mango - all went well, but afterwards it wouldn't connect to gmail or facebook. She's on a billpay data plan with Vodafone. The phone is one of the German VF branded jobbies and I haven't loaded any open market firmware on it. I had enabled MFG some months back and had attempted to get MMS working with the Network Settings app from the marketplace, but no dice.

When I checked the APN settings now, after the update, they were blank! This would explain why no data connection was available. I input live.vodafone.com as the APN and re-booted and all was ok. I'm a bit puzzled why the mango update didn't retain or update the data and mms settings, though Did anyone else have access problems after updating to Mango? I'd like to try and get MMS working also. Any bright ideas?

Download the LG network app from the LG app store in the marketplace and see does that work

fat-tony · 01-10-2011 08:50PM

Trevor451 wrote: »

Download the LG network app from the LG app store in the marketplace and see does that work

That's the one I downloaded some time ago. Seems to have Vodafone settings for Ireland OK, but MMS didn't work then or now. It just seems odd that the data settings were lost in the Mango update. Anyone else experience this?

Alanstrainor · 01-10-2011 09:17PM

Alright, i've noticed a few bugs on my LG Optimus 7.

1. I can't send texts to more than one contact. If i try to it will just fail. This worked pre-Mango.

2. If i get a text, when my phone is connected to my bluetooth car kit while playing music. The music will just stop. And no restart, unless i pick it up and push play again.

Both very annoying. And my phone reboots once every two days at random. Noting in particular sets it off. It had rebooted over night last night. So it was just sitting there at the "Enter pin" screen when i went to look at it.

I might have to reinstall mango...god damn...

AntiVirus · 01-10-2011 09:34PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Alright, i've noticed a few bugs on my LG Optimus 7.

1. I can't send texts to more than one contact. If i try to it will just fail. This worked pre-Mango.

2. If i get a text, when my phone is connected to my bluetooth car kit while playing music. The music will just stop. And no restart, unless i pick it up and push play again.

Both very annoying. And my phone reboots once every two days at random. Noting in particular sets it off. It had rebooted over night last night. So it was just sitting there at the "Enter pin" screen when i went to look at it.

I might have to reinstall mango...god damn...

Sounds like you may need to reinstall it, here's the LG update version numbers. Check to see if your's are the same.

os ver 7.10.7720.68
firmware rev # 1.1.2.10
radio software 1.1.2.10
rdio hardware 0.3.5.0
bootloader 1.5.1.0
chip soc 0.30.2.0

danger_mouse_tm · 01-10-2011 10:51PM

I was reluctant to force any update to mango as I am heavily reliant on the phone for work. However, I decided to carry out the procedure as outlined earlier by turning off data on the phone and hooking up to the pc and disconnecting wifi as zune searches for updates. It took serveral attempts before I got the "timing" right as I'm using a heavily laden net top HTPC with a T2060 @160ghz as my main computer.

Tomorrow, will be the big test (first day back to work). I run the phone through a nokia ck300 in my truck for music and podcasts, however, I take a lot of calls in the afternoon when i give IT support. It's imperitive that i can use the phone without taking my eyes off the road. I have already noticed that the controls are in a different place for answering a call. I'm looking forward to trying out the speech to text/email. This could prove invaluable as often I have to stop to reply to emails.
I hope with the mango update, I am still able to pair to the multi media car kit and the LG hbm ear piece at the same time. This is an invaluable feature as it's damn near impossible for people to hear me on the car kit alone over the noise of the scania V8 on the open road.

I'm looking forward to the next round of phones with front facing cameras and mapping as good as the nokia maps (or better). I have used garmin XT on a nokia 5800xm in England and found it fantastic. The turn by turn app I have bought for my Optimus has fallen well short of this because of it's love for narrow side roads.

Trevor451 · 01-10-2011 11:04PM

Does the album art on the lock screen fiction work for anybody here? It just switches the wallpaper to the default zune one for me

Odaise Gaelach · 01-10-2011 11:20PM

danger_mouse_tm wrote: »

I'm looking forward to trying out the speech to text/email. This could prove invaluable as often I have to stop to reply to emails.

I hate to burst your bubble, but there's no speech-to-email.

AntiVirus · 01-10-2011 11:28PM

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

I hate to burst your bubble, but there's no speech-to-email.

Yip, that's not coming till the Apollo update which will have much deeper voice integration. Soon enough you won't need to touch your phone

There won't be much need for touch screen keyboards with Windows 8, we'll be talking to our PC/Tablets and Phones, Microsoft is well ahead on this one. :pac:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-making-big-speech-bets-with-windows-8-bing/10303

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB6pWs46GY8

DjFlin · 01-10-2011 11:32PM

Trevor451 wrote: »

Does the album art on the lock screen fiction work for anybody here? It just switches the wallpaper to the default zune one for me

No. In countries that have access to the Zune Music Marketplace, photos of the artists are displayed on the Lock screen, as well as in the Music Hub, like this:

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attachment.php?attachmentid=442331&d=1289914393

Sadly, we do not get the music marketplace, so we get, this:
attachment.php?attachmentid=442330&d=1289914393

robbie67 · 02-10-2011 09:00AM

os ver 7.10.7720.68
firmware rev # 1.1.2.10
radio software 1.1.2.10
rdio hardware 0.3.5.0
bootloader 1.5.1.0
chip soc 0.30.2.0

i have updated to mango but some of the settings are wrong
firmware rev number 1.0.13.10
radio software 1.0.13.10
the rest is the same is there anyway i can way i can update them thanks

evolutionqy7 · 03-10-2011 12:28AM

Just got internet hotspot working on my Omnia 7

Happy days

This is pretty much the only phone feature that ive been dying to get my hands on lately

Im a happy camper now

If anyone else wants to get it you can follow the link to windows phone hacker on how to

http://windowsphonehacker.com/articles/video_tutorial_how_to_easily_enable_wifi_sharing_on_samsung_mango_windows_phones-09-29-11

You will need a developers unlocked device, wp7 root tools, inter op unlock, and tons of other homebrew apps to get up and running. If your familiar with the homebrew scene it shouldnt be hard. Took me about 5 mins to get this all done from scratch.

It works great so far :P

billgates · 03-10-2011 04:33PM

Looks like HTC is releasing a firmware update in mid to late October which will allow the older WP7 HTC handsets (hd7, surround, mozart) to avail of the new hotspot/tethering feature in 7.5.

http://phonetitan.com/htc-to-enable-internet-sharing-on-htc-hd7-surround-mozart-7-pro-trophy/

gman2k · 03-10-2011 09:23PM

I think I've done something bad.............
Tried to enable tethering via this link
But of course now, my computer does not even see the phone when I connect via USB.
I've gone back in and changed the USB switching mode to the other two options, but no joy with any of them, I've rebooted phone and removed battery etc, but no avail.
It'a a PITA, as I need to access photos etc via ZUNE..............

Any ideas???
(Also - any word on the forum approval?)

AntiVirus · 03-10-2011 09:31PM

gman2k wrote: »

Any ideas???
(Also - any word on the forum approval?)

Try reinstalling the Windows PC drivers

http://www.lg.com/uk/support/product/support-product-profile-mobile-redux.jsp?customerModelCode=LGE900&initialTab=drivers&targetPage=support-product-profile-mobile-redux&searchEngineModelCode=LGE900

gman2k · 03-10-2011 10:28PM

AntiVirus wrote: »

Try reinstalling the Windows PC drivers

http://www.lg.com/uk/support/product/support-product-profile-mobile-redux.jsp?customerModelCode=LGE900&initialTab=drivers&targetPage=support-product-profile-mobile-redux&searchEngineModelCode=LGE900

I changed the usb cable, and lo and behold................

Do-more · 04-10-2011 07:54AM

billgates wrote: »

Looks like HTC is releasing a firmware update in mid to late October which will allow the older WP7 HTC handsets (hd7, surround, mozart) to avail of the new hotspot/tethering feature in 7.5.

http://phonetitan.com/htc-to-enable-internet-sharing-on-htc-hd7-surround-mozart-7-pro-trophy/

Any word on being able to tether the LG Optimus without having to have the developers tools?

heid · 04-10-2011 11:43AM

Which apps do you use to download maps? gmaps, offline maps etc

AntiVirus · 04-10-2011 04:49PM

Do-more wrote: »

Any word on being able to tether the LG Optimus without having to have the developers tools?

We're waiting on a firmware update to be released from LG to update their drives to allow tethering

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