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hey guys, been wondering this for a while cause it's really been bugging me.
when i run, for example, the 3Dmodelviewer (or any other 3D game or app for that matter) it appears to split the screen in two and process the bottom half about 5-10ms later than the top half.
i'm sure there's a valid explanation was just wondering what that would be?
i also take note that before i upgraded to a WM6.5 rom i was using duttys latest 6.1 and the split was exactly the same but diagonally across instead of directly left to right.
anyone care to enlighten me?
Recently downloaded metro browser where you can shake the phone to flip to the web address page. On my HD7, I need to shake really hard to flip whereas I have seen another WP7 (not HD7) page flip with a gentle shake.
Is it only my HD7 or is the motion sensor slow/weak on HD7 as a whole? Anyone who have used an app which requires shaking the phone like dice throwing games etc?
Creka said:
Recently downloaded metro browser where you can shake the phone to flip to the web address page. On my HD7, I need to shake really hard to flip whereas I have seen another WP7 (not HD7) page flip with a gentle shake.
Is it only my HD7 or is the motion sensor slow/weak on HD7 as a whole? Anyone who have used an app which requires shaking the phone like dice throwing games etc?
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whats good about the metro browser? I have an htc hd 7, i am happy with internet explorer. maybe i download and let you know
Ok Edit after downloading.
I found out if you rest it on the palm of your hand and shake it its kinda hard but if you hold the phone kinda vertical with three fingers and not resting on your palm then not that bad.. Hope i make it clear
still i like IE so going back to it
Microsoft changes its logo for only the third time in its history, old one lasted 25 years:
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkZWvAJUr0&feature=player_embedded
Link:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/microsoft-...-time-in-its-history-old-one-lasted-25-years/
dont know what was the point of it, there is no much difference between the 2 logos... maybe Mr Gates was a bit bored..
I actually like it
Clean and simple. I wish Windows 8 would be more like that...
Dont know about "third time" as its pretty much evolved over the years for each version of windows software.
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Dont know about "third time" as its pretty much evolved over the years for each version of windows software.
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Nope the windows logo changed each time but microsofts logo hasn't changed in 25 years
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Looks boring. Bringing it up to standard with their boring ui
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Was this even necessary? I'm pretty much attached the to previous logo before the recent change.
I think it looks good. And it goes well with their boxy interface on everything these days.
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Simple minimalist design, pretty sleek and cool.
Saved hundred bucks of using Photoshop.
ugly
The new logo is ugly.
Exactly, simple and easy to remember.
rmkilc said:
I think it looks good. And it goes well with their boxy interface on everything these days.
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U said it... Their windows is becoming boxes... And its just boring. . I feel like windows phone is a basic and early phone let aline being a high-end phone.. U can barely change any color.. Im thinking of using everything linux based
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sucks
the other logos were simple yet elegant this one looks like someone sucked at the job of logo making :silly:
Personally, I don't really like it. It is way too simple, I could replicate it in MS Paint. It looks unpolished, just like windows 8 does.
I don't like the way windows is going, and I will stick to Windows 7. Hopefully the software industry will move towards linux. I use too many applications that are Windows only, (or windows and mac only), so going to linux is not so easy.
I dual booted with windows 8, and it just seems unpolished... it feels like I'm using 2 interfaces glued together. All the metro applications seem very simplified, and lack in functionality, and the metro interface seems to get in the way of what I'm trying to do. The fact that metro applications use the ENTIRE screen at one time is extremely annoying.
Example: I wanted to play a folder in the metro music player. I opened the application, and I got into a Xbox music store, and the first thought that came to my mind... "I probably am in the wrong application?". After right clicking, the menu bar appears with 2 or 3 buttons, one of which is 'Open'. I click it. Then a file browser appears, so I browse to the folder I want to play. However, I cannot find any 'play entire folder' functionality, I could only open 1 song. After a little messing around I figured that to get it to play the entire folder, I had to include it in the 'Music' library, and after opening any song, I could use 'Next' to get it to play another one (from the entire library however). The next time I tried to open 'Music', it crashed after pressing the 'Open' button.
Example 2: It seems like I am using 2 interfaces at the same time: there are 2 control panels, 2 versions of internet explorer (opening it from the used-to-be-start-menu, I have no idea if the desktop or metro version will open), 2 music players (windows media player is still there) and so on.
Even things that were easy to do since Windows 1, like turning off the computer, take some time to figure out: to turn off I have to move the mouse in the upper right corner, and a few useless icons appear. Than I need to click 'Settings' (even though there are no actual settings there), and from there I can power off.
After using windows 7, I think the Windows 8 desktop theme looks ugly. The taskbar is a semitransparent rectangle with a solid color, and in my opinion it looks very ugly. Maybe I am too accustomed to the windows 7 aero theme, but I still like some of the Gnome or KDE themes...
Also another thing that Microsoft has been doing for some time is removing useful features, so that grandma could use the computer. They couldn't just put an 'Advanced user' mode in the control panel, they had to REMOVE it. Things like... search. In windows 7, file searching is awful, I need to learn a whole new search language to find what I am looking for, instead of the old 'advanced search' in versions up to XP. They are simply dumbing Windows down so that novice users could use it, and driving medium/advanced users insane.
There may be hope in future versions of windows, but for now I am a 'lost customer' to them. If windows 9 will be just as bad (or dumbed down), I will most likely switch to linux, I will make this sacrifice and try to use alternative software (which in many cases is terrible).
PS: Sorry for the long post, I feel relieved to get this off my chest
Hello every one,
I just acquired a Nokia 920 yesterday. So far the handset is about the finest thing I have ever held, It just begs to be used when its in your hand. All is not perfect though, I have some questions. Any recommendations for solutions are greatly appreciated.
I started using PDA's in the early 90's, my first smart phone was a Blackberry, I switch to Android when they dropped the ball. I am of the opinion that the win8 ecosystem is the future for enterprise and productivity. Basically I expect a lot from a smart phone, I expect it to be a top notch PDA, a phone, and a good device for killing time.
1) How do you turn off the haptic feedback on the three hard buttons? I can't overstate how much I hate haptic feedback, this has me on the edge of returning the phone. I want to throw the phone across the room every time I feel it.
2) How do I turn off the touch points on the keyboard? I find having a little flag pop up with the letter I just pressed is annoying. Better yet, where can I get a decent keyboard? The installed keyboard is as bad as the iPhone one - crap. I can span 13 keys on a piano, I want my keyboard to span the screen, I want it to have alternate symbols accessible by long pressing, and it would be cool if it was skinnable, though the built in skin is nice for me. I tried the market place and all I could find was foreign alphabet keyboards.
3) Color coded emails. I did figure out how to merge both my calendars and my email accounts to a single tile. It would be nice to have some kind of color coding for the inbox so I don't have to open the email to see what account it is from.
4) recommend a good calendar. The default one only shows events for the same day. It would be nice to have the live tile show upcoming events in the future. The app must be able to let me make appointments as well. Did not find anything nice in the store.
5) A decent music player. As near as I can tell, Nokia music is just MS music re-skinned. When I hit the music tile, I want to see what I am currently listening too with buttons to skip/pause/etc. and a link to my library to change artists. Nokia Music is pure bloat, I have to navigate past market place stuff, then navigate around to find a pause button. Pretty much sucks to use. The mixer is buried inside the setting menu, so when I change music styles, I have to navigate down through the settings to change the mixer, then navigate back around to the music player. This whole set-up is about as crappy as anything I have ever seen. To make matters worse, the mixer is not pin able. I would love to have something comparable to PowerAmp.
Thanks in advance. I've used XDA for years, and always found my answers buried somewhere in these forums.
P.S. anyone who can get the sexy Samsung voice ported over to Nokia Drive deserves a special prize
joshua43214 said:
Hello every one,
1) How do you turn off the haptic feedback on the three hard buttons? I can't overstate how much I hate haptic feedback, this has me on the edge of returning the phone. I want to throw the phone across the room every time I feel it.
2) How do I turn off the touch points on the keyboard? I find having a little flag pop up with the letter I just pressed is annoying. Better yet, where can I get a decent keyboard? The installed keyboard is as bad as the iPhone one - crap. I can span 13 keys on a piano, I want my keyboard to span the screen, I want it to have alternate symbols accessible by long pressing, and it would be cool if it was skinnable, though the built in skin is nice for me. I tried the market place and all I could find was foreign alphabet keyboards.
3) Color coded emails. I did figure out how to merge both my calendars and my email accounts to a single tile. It would be nice to have some kind of color coding for the inbox so I don't have to open the email to see what account it is from.
4) recommend a good calendar. The default one only shows events for the same day. It would be nice to have the live tile show upcoming events in the future. The app must be able to let me make appointments as well. Did not find anything nice in the store.
5) A decent music player. As near as I can tell, Nokia music is just MS music re-skinned. When I hit the music tile, I want to see what I am currently listening too with buttons to skip/pause/etc. and a link to my library to change artists. Nokia Music is pure bloat, I have to navigate past market place stuff, then navigate around to find a pause button. Pretty much sucks to use. The mixer is buried inside the setting menu, so when I change music styles, I have to navigate down through the settings to change the mixer, then navigate back around to the music player. This whole set-up is about as crappy as anything I have ever seen. To make matters worse, the mixer is not pin able. I would love to have something comparable to PowerAmp.
Thanks in advance. I've used XDA for years, and always found my answers buried somewhere in these forums.
P.S. anyone who can get the sexy Samsung voice ported over to Nokia Drive deserves a special prize
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1) I have not yet seen a Nokia 920 yet, but in Samsung Omnia W/Samsung Flash, you can go to Settings->Extra Settings and remove it from there, check if you have a similar setting, you can request Nokia to add such a setting as its possible in Samsung and should be possible in Nokia too. If they get similar requests they may add it soon
2) AFAIK you cannot install another keyboard, but long pressing many keys you can have alternate symbols coming up. Did you try long pressing some keys? You can change the language of they keyboards via settings.
3) Dont merge the emails and have 2 separate very small tiles instead. Should solve your problem.
4) & 5) not sure yet. But since the SDK is updated with calender access soon you should get many apps with calender.
my question
does the lumia 920 or any win phone 8 device have FM radio??? if it doesnt, is it supported in win phone 8??
monotheist said:
1) I have not yet seen a Nokia 920 yet, but in Samsung Omnia W/Samsung Flash, you can go to Settings->Extra Settings and remove it from there, check if you have a similar setting, you can request Nokia to add such a setting as its possible in Samsung and should be possible in Nokia too. If they get similar requests they may add it soon
2) AFAIK you cannot install another keyboard, but long pressing many keys you can have alternate symbols coming up. Did you try long pressing some keys? You can change the language of they keyboards via settings.
3) Dont merge the emails and have 2 separate very small tiles instead. Should solve your problem.
4) & 5) not sure yet. But since the SDK is updated with calender access soon you should get many apps with calender.
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Thanks for the reply
Only thing in the Nokia extra settings is phone info, no actual settings at all.
Long pressing gives some alternate letter forms like hats, or umlauts. It does not work on all the letters, and you don't know what the long press gives you until you try it. Stuff like beta is on the lower case s, not the upper case. Like I said its a crap keyboard
I actually use 5 email accounts, though only 3 feed my calendar. Thanks for the suggestion though.
All devices support it as far as I know, but the software didn't made it to RTM. It will be in a upcoming update.
It's widely heralded as one of the best and most responsive keyboards ever...
- There is no built-in option to turn off haptic feedback on those keys. Manufacturer needs to develop an app (with interop level or higher access) to disable it, Microsoft needs to update the OS to add such an option, or someone has to hack the thing to turn it off. Considering that the first two probably won't happen in a timely fashion, and that WP8 has yet to be "hacked", don't expect this to change anytime soon.
- Keyboard cannot be changed. As someone mentioned, its actually heralded as one of the best keyboards on the market, and I agree. Once you get used to it, its a joy to use and is tons better than anything on Android, and as good as, if not better than the iOS keyboard. Seeing as how you said this is your first time in Windows Phone land, it may take some time for you to adjust to it, but it really is a wonderful keyboard. I do understand that it isn't for everyone, and unfortunately there is no way to change it if you happen to hate it. You also cannot disable the letter flags that appear on the screen when you tap on the keyboard.
- No color-coding for a combined inbox... yet. Not sure if this is something they are considering, and I don't think I've ever read someone suggesting it, but it makes sense, and I'd love to see this happen.
- Considering developers only really just got Calendar access with the WP8 SDK, I doubt there will be anything useful in the Store just yet. This a brand new platform that just launched, so its gonna take some time for people to figure out what they can or cannot do, and then put it on the Store for us to use.
- Xbox Music or Nokia Music will be as decent as it gets currently. Apps are able to pull from your media collection (like Nokia Music does), but I have not seen anything mind-blowing yet. I'm more than happy with Xbox Music, as it fulfills all my needs. I don't watch videos aside from stuff on YouTube though, so while I don't care for video codec support, I can understand not having total codec flexibility like you can on more open platforms or on apps like VLC.
It really sounds like that you, coming from Android, are expecting a lot more than Windows Phone 7/8 was designed to do. Windows Phone 8 can do a lot, but this OS was built from the ground up to be rather different than your typical PDA operating system. You will not get the same kind of flexibility on Windows Phone 8 that you would with Android.
For comparison:
- Windows Phone 7/8 is more like iOS. Relatively stable/reliable, curated store, locked down, relatively consistent.
- Android is more like old Windows Mobile. Infinitely more customizable and flexible, open market, relatively nonrestrictive, not very consistent, not completely reliable/stable.
I upload photos on my Samsung ATIV S I8750 through my lap top using USB connection. Photos are named from 01.jpg to 97.jpg, so, when i open albums on the Photos hub it shows all the photos in that album but not in order from 01-97 like it should. Instead of that photos are starting from 01.jpg in order to lets say 32.jpg then continues down from 60.jpg to 97.jpg (which should be on the bottom since its last) and then continues to down from 33.jpg to 59.jpg (in this case its the last picture). I did this with names (numbering) pictures just to show you the point (which in this case it is as it is). So, pictures are somehow messed up, and not in order like they should be because i intentionally put picture names with numbers because i wanted them in that order. Hope you got my point here. There is not an option like "Sort by names" or "Sort by Type" or "Sort by Date", etc. like back in time in windows mobile devices we had. So, in hope that you got my minor stupid problem, i would ask if there is some trick or solution so i can view my pictures in sorted order?
Maybe this a stupid question but i am new in WP8 devices so kinda this is new for me and i am keen to learn more like i learned everything about Windows Mobile 6.x.x. devices from you XDA-Developers guys.
Cheers.
P.S. If i open the same album with some kind of File Explorer (like in this case for example with Total Explorer) i see pictures in order from 01-97, not messed up.
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"Ok i search the net for this issue little bit better than previous time and i find out that it's OS related, so maybe they gonna fix this issue in the upcoming WP8.1.
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