ok last week my voice dialer was fair, it worked for most of my contacts when i told my titan to call someone, but yesterday forget it, it was thanksgiving and i had to make a lot call and i told my phone "call joseph adams" and she would reply back in her english accent can't find name in contacts list and then i tried different ways of saying JOSEPH ADAMS, i said it in an english accent and then i tried other names and she couldn't understand i almost through my phone across the room, is there anyway to fix this?
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ok last week my voice dialer was fair, it worked for most of my contacts when i told my titan to call someone, but yesterday forget it, it was thanksgiving and i had to make a lot call and i told my phone "call joseph adams" and she would reply back in her english accent can't find name in contacts list and then i tried different ways of saying JOSEPH ADAMS, i said it in an english accent and then i tried other names and she couldn't understand i almost through my phone across the room, is there anyway to fix this?
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you are not alone. we are all in the same boat. it's the bing voice recognition. not the phone.
I think it's a bug in the Titan.. The voice dialer should work much better than it does on the Titan.. I've seen a video where they test the Titan up against the HD7. The HD7 understood 10 out of 10, but the titan only got 3 out of 10 or something like that.. Another HTC issue with bad drivers for their devices.. :/
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I think it's a bug in the Titan.. The voice dialer should work much better than it does on the Titan.. I've seen a video where they test the Titan up against the HD7. The HD7 understood 10 out of 10, but the titan only got 3 out of 10 or something like that.. Another HTC issue with bad drivers for their devices.. :/
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Where is the mic on our titan?
May be its too low for recognition? because it doesnt even dial wrong person. it just fails to understand! probably it cant hear us?
drupad2drupad said:
Where is the mic on our titan?
May be its too low for recognition? because it doesnt even dial wrong person. it just fails to understand! probably it cant hear us?
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Don't think so.. The indicator on the screen indicates that it receives sound.. I think the mic is located where you normally speak, near the shell button.. But hey, what do I know, all i know is that the Titan performs horribly compared to HD7..
The problem is that we can only choose English as a display language, which is English UK effectively. And the UK accent recognition is horrible. My LG Optimus 7 was great in recognizing everything.
I guess we need to get an AT&T ROM that has English US on it... anyone?
Guys, it might be more complicated than what we think.
I downloaded an app called 'WhatIs' from marketplace. It's basically a SIRI that will only answer 'What is.... ?' questions.
I asked What is potato? and it recognised me in first go and described it too!
Also, it plays back what it heard. So it played me back my question and from that recording I can say the phone can definitely catch up on what we say. At least for this particular app.
It might be the inbuilt software is buggy on titan?
Yeah you're right! WhatIs actually performs very well on the Titan! Had no idea it would actually work.. Maybe it isn't the Titan, but a software bug that's causing the issue.. I only think it's strange because the HD7 performs perfect while the Titan don't work at all.. Also check out this video on youtube: HD7 vs. Titan..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8hRInVbDD0
Did you guys ignore what I said? lol
It's the British recognition on Bing. Other devices can be set to American, but the Titan can't. That's all there is to it.
Also, check the second last paragraph of this article: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-tellme-not-the-same-as-siri-as-video-explains
"It appears that, for the moment, voice recognition for Australian English needs work on Windows Phone, and that more commands should be recognized other than quickly falling back to searching for an unrecognized phrase on the Internet. Hopefully other English accents (or other languages) fare better than this!"
Even the Australian Bing has problems.
That's why we need to port an AT&T rom to the European Titan
kjettern said:
I think it's a bug in the Titan.. The voice dialer should work much better than it does on the Titan.. I've seen a video where they test the Titan up against the HD7. The HD7 understood 10 out of 10, but the titan only got 3 out of 10 or something like that.. Another HTC issue with bad drivers for their devices.. :/
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It was me and my Titan, with my Foreign voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8hRInVbDD0
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So WTF!
Things that stopped working that I have noticed about...
My trackball light
button lights
led lights
And now I'v been late for work for 2 days...and I just noticed that my alarm sound doesn't work...if I go into alarms and pick which sound it does nothing!!!!
Any help about this???
I think if its that broken, maybe you should return it?
Not sure what you did to your Hero....but mine is still in top notch condition.
I just used it as a normal person..will call support
There's already a thread about this, not sure its link, but if you search you'll find it. Seems a few people are having the problem and a hard reset does not fix the issue either.
so no solution yet?
Option is to turn it in...but Im not in favor to loose the phone already for 2weeks and more
skydivesanta said:
so no solution yet?
Option is to turn it in...but Im not in favor to loose the phone already for 2weeks and more
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Don't know how the rules are over seas (I live in holland) but when I went back with my previous htc diamond
I just got a new one and the old one got sent back to the manufacturer never saw it again.
(I went back to the store after just 4 days so maybe that's why they didn't repair the old oone and just gave me a new one)
So I would call them and ask how their service is, maybe you don't have to mis your phone
Excuse me friends,
i already posted a quest somewhere but no answer so i'll post once again. Could someone please say what the led should do acttually. i've spoken to some members. some say that it doesnt flash for missed calls n text. some says that it should have ...... mine flash only on charge and on receiving mails. (nothing on sms and missed calls.) i just want to confirm whether there is a problem or not before contacting my provider. thanks.
P.S i am refering to the led, not the trackball.
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Don't know how the rules are over seas (I live in holland) but when I went back with my previous htc diamond
I just got a new one and the old one got sent back to the manufacturer never saw it again.
(I went back to the store after just 4 days so maybe that's why they didn't repair the old oone and just gave me a new one)
So I would call them and ask how their service is, maybe you don't have to mis your phone
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here in germany it depends on the subscription plan. If you have one with a small fee they send it in. If you have one with those expensive business plans you get a new one in 48h (vodafone, dont know how o2, d1 or e+ handle this)...
deeren said:
Excuse me friends,
i already posted a quest somewhere but no answer so i'll post once again. Could someone please say what the led should do acttually. i've spoken to some members. some say that it doesnt flash for missed calls n text. some says that it should have ...... mine flash only on charge and on receiving mails. (nothing on sms and missed calls.) i just want to confirm whether there is a problem or not before contacting my provider. thanks.
P.S i am refering to the led, not the trackball.
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The led flashes on e-mail and charging (empty phone also)
The trackball flashes on sms (text messages)
At least that's what my Hero does
just got the update notification, flashing now.
already done it. works like a charm!
from which version did you update and did you noticed changes in camera?
i.e. Autofocus
I just purchased my mozart yesterday with the very first ROM on it. only thing I did was to connect it twice with zune and manually check for updates. firstly I got the feb update and then the no-do.. As for the camera, when I press the capture button I have a small rectangular box in the mid of the screen like zooming a bit and then take the photo.. I am not sure if this is what you mean as I hadn't test the camera prior the updates.. one thing I have to state though is that the loading time for marketplace, games and apps is lighting fast..and i mean it.. you can say that there is no loading an they start immediately! Hope that helps ;p
haven't noticed any camera differences
updated from stock rom....7008 was it? Sorry i'm new to Mozart (only got the handset this week) and had the February update waiting on the first time i used it. That's the version i updated from.
Camera shutter speed is definitely faster which should mean for better pictures especially in darker environments.
Overall am very pleased with the update as I love the OS but the bugs were incredibly frustrating, and whilst some remain the major ones for me (dns server errors, calls cutting out, phone switching itself off) seem much better.
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personally finding copy&paste to be quite temperamental....only managed to get it working properly once and that was copying from the URL bar in explorer.
Dont understand the reason for international english users NOT having voice search in Bing. The video i saw of it working was from somebody who obviously had English as a 2nd or even 3rd language and it worked fine for him....are you saying that it couldn't pick up my british english but it worked for him?
system DOES seem faster and more responsive - not that i had any real problems with system speed as it was.
For thise interested :
OS version : 7.0.7390.0
Firmware : 2250.09.13001.061
Hardware : 0004
Radio s/w : 5.54.09.21_22.33b.50.10U
Bootloader : 1.30.2250.1(117854)
I just realised that I can't use voice search option either! I have English (UK) in my settings and currently on O2 UK network (phone is branded to Orange though). Anyone knows why is this happening? and possibly how to fix it?! Thanks!
I think they are giving the update in small batches...
I have only got the feb update till now..
Hope it would come any day........
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I just realised that I can't use voice search option either! I have English (UK) in my settings and currently on O2 UK network (phone is branded to Orange though). Anyone knows why is this happening? and possibly how to fix it?! Thanks!
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i read somewhere that they were only rolling the voice search feature out for 'American English' devices
I can understand why they might not roll it out for other languages, but why they wouldn't also roll it out for international-english i don't understand.
considering it works so well for this guy : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR3NvksYMPk&feature=player_detailpage#t=61s
i think it could handle british english perfectly well.
carmello1911 said:
I just purchased my mozart yesterday with the very first ROM on it. only thing I did was to connect it twice with zune and manually check for updates. firstly I got the feb update and then the no-do.. As for the camera, when I press the capture button I have a small rectangular box in the mid of the screen like zooming a bit and then take the photo.. I am not sure if this is what you mean as I hadn't test the camera prior the updates.. one thing I have to state though is that the loading time for marketplace, games and apps is lighting fast..and i mean it.. you can say that there is no loading an they start immediately! Hope that helps ;p
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thx, that should awnser my question... i wonder why...
sounds like you didnt get the updated camera software.
what bootloader are you on?
and what firmware ?
the new camera app is supposed to autofocus without pressing the camera button half way... you get very much only stabalizied pictures after that, videorecording also improoved very very much...
i really wonder why carriers would remove that.... its a shame
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the new camera app is supposed to autofocus without pressing the camera button half way...
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mine does that - just checked
OS version : 7.0.7390.0
Firmware : 2250.09.13001.061
Hardware : 0004
Radio s/w : 5.54.09.21_22.33b.50.10U
Bootloader : 1.30.2250.1(117854)
Exactly the same details in my mozart. autofocus is working without touching the camera button at all, i noticed it better now!
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i read somewhere that they were only rolling the voice search feature out for 'American English' devices
I can understand why they might not roll it out for other languages, but why they wouldn't also roll it out for international-english i don't understand.
considering it works so well for this guy : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR3NvksYMPk&feature=player_detailpage#t=61s
i think it could handle british english perfectly well.
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what are the squares poppin up in bing search.. i tried to get them (now lookign for voice too) but was not able.
i think the guy has htc europe rom installed, he said he debranded his orange
also the model id states: HTC 7 Mozart T8698
thats the model id for unbranded models....
i managed to get them squares by setting
Redion & Language
Regional Format: English USA
Browser Searchlanguage: English USA
still no voice commands...
switched primary language to English and phone set everything to English UK
still no voice search, but its allright, im on early tmo bootloader
i get the squares ... they're just hotspots on the image that pop up after a second or two with 'trivia' about the picture.
agree with what you're saying about his mozart being unbranded, i'm just curious as to why it would be in some builds and not others - or why it would be in some english-speaking locales and not others.
He's in the UK by the sound of it (his accent - although a bit broken - has a tinge of irish in it and his searches all base areound belfast) so you'd have thought that the UK english rom would be fine.
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i get the squares ... they're just hotspots on the image that pop up after a second or two with 'trivia' about the picture.
agree with what you're saying about his mozart being unbranded, i'm just curious as to why it would be in some builds and not others - or why it would be in some english-speaking locales and not others.
He's in the UK by the sound of it (his accent - although a bit broken - has a tinge of irish in it and his searches all base areound belfast) so you'd have thought that the UK english rom would be fine.
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hm, the guy in the video has united kindom region
he uses exactly the same rom as yours
only his firmware is 401 which is htc europe
061 should be your orange then...
i had this rom installed once, but i think i never tryied other regions to see if it would enable voice search... dont want to reflash untill there is a nodo jailbreak
mine is indeed 061
hmmmm
also his OS version is 7.0.7389.0
mine is 7.0.7390.0
his bootloader : 1.30.22.50.1(117833)
my bootloader : 1.30.22.50.1(117854)
looks like mine is maybe a different build number too then?
Maybe they took this feature out ?
it would be a shame if there was no way to get this activated though
I got the NODO update a week or so ago cuz I used the turn off internet method. Still no auto Autofocus. A bit annoyed as I think the camera is the best I've used bar the Autofocus issue.
OS: 7.0.7390.0
Firmware: 2250.09.13001.061
Radio s/w: 5.54.09.21_22.33b.50.10U
Bootloader : 1.30.2250.1(117854)
Has anyone else with a Mozart on Orange receive the HTC update that some people are talking about, I for one haven't.
that's odd ... exatctly the same bootloader, firmware and OS as mine but i have the autofocus
do you have voice-search?
AFAIK the HTC updates don't apply for Mozarts (yet) and there's no firm confirmation for what exactly the updates are or what they fix.
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that's odd ... exatctly the same bootloader, firmware and OS as mine but i have the autofocus
do you have voice-search?
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No voice-search I am aware of. Pressing the Bing search button brings up the same old screen. I wonder if this is due to the fact that I "forced" the update. Might try and restore my phone to the Feb update and see if it will then pick up the Orange one.
Hi all.
First off a great site here. I am new to android (well not strictly true I did have the Desire when it very first came out and I hated it sold it after a week) Any way I am now converted to Android from Iphone. So I am a complete and utter noob
I have got the the S2 and what a phone, never miss a phone call or antenna problems on this puppy.
So my problem is when I get a text msg it only reads out the number of the person and does not read the actual txt. When I get phone calls it tells me who is ringing. This is a problem for me as I want this for when I am driving. Please help.
I have not rooted my phone yet as I said I am a complete noob. Does not look as easy as jailbreak.
Thank you very much. Look forward to your response and no doubt I'll get told off for reposting but I have looked now for 3 days
This phone can do this? I would like to know how to set this up.. I would love for the phone to tell me who is calling...please tell me how to do this...I am new to the Droid as well...came from BB...
roided said:
Hi all.
First off a great site here. I am new to android (well not strictly true I did have the Desire when it very first came out and I hated it sold it after a week) Any way I am now converted to Android from Iphone. So I am a complete and utter noob
I have got the the S2 and what a phone, never miss a phone call or antenna problems on this puppy.
So my problem is when I get a text msg it only reads out the number of the person and does not read the actual txt. When I get phone calls it tells me who is ringing. This is a problem for me as I want this for when I am driving. Please help.
I have not rooted my phone yet as I said I am a complete noob. Does not look as easy as jailbreak.
Thank you very much. Look forward to your response and no doubt I'll get told off for reposting but I have looked now for 3 days
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Homeuser66 said:
This phone can do this? I would like to know how to set this up.. I would love for the phone to tell me who is calling...please tell me how to do this...I am new to the Droid as well...came from BB...
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Double press/tap HOME key to bring ON Voice Talk.
Turn ON Driving Mode.
Hit the MENU button --> Settings -->Scroll down --> Voice Talk Settings --> "TICK" Show body of message.
I suppose that should solve your problem
(It sometimes takes a while to read out the message depending on your connection..so plz be a lil patient Cheers)
Not really the same thing. There should be a way in android to have it announce who is calling or just texted you without leaving in driving mode constantly. Symbian used to have this,but I don't believe Android does.
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lgkahn said:
Not really the same thing. There should be a way in android to have it announce who is calling or just texted you without leaving in driving mode constantly. Symbian used to have this,but I don't believe Android does.
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I just use Tasker for this, though some would balk at spending on an app worth 5 dollars for a phone worth a hundred times that =)
Hi,
Appreciate that i am new here but just want to vent / understand if any of these issues can be resolved with some patching or if (as i suspect) I am better off simply flushing this POS down the bog.
I have had a lumia 800 for exactly 48 hours and its driving me spastic.
my issues are as follows (no particular order)
1. Zune, wtf is this junk? why can i not simpy drag and drop my file where i farkin well want them? I will not be told that i HAVE to use Zune. Zune can suck my balls.
2. Why does mass storage not work? Even if i change the registry to allow it it only partially recognises the files, meaning all my mp3's end up as one giant album, thanks Nokia / Microsoft, you jizz monkeys.
3. Which genius decided to only include one volume? So i lesten to my giant album at a volume that does not make me black out and as a result my ringer is as loud as a sparrows fart. This really is the most retarded thing on a phone sinc about 2001
4. The sound quality, its just crap. Really crap. where is the bass, no really what have you dne with it mr nokia? is it a special thing that normal users cannot be trusted with?
5. No EQ? So not only have you robbed my of my aural pleasure as standard but you have emasculated me by removeing the only tool that could alleviate this pain.
6. Bing, bing can ram it as far as i am concerned, I don't like it, i don't want to use it, but not only is it set as a default, but one of my buttons is dedicated to it? WTF!! out of 6 buttons you have wired 16.5% of them into a function that only smelly old men in rain coats would use.
I could go on, but i just cant find the will. So sod off lumia 800, your going on ebay this weekend and i hope some chav uses your puny loudspeaker to try and play ndubz on the bus.
Anyone else feel this way or have any solutions?
Thanks for reading this rant, oh and Hi
iain-w said:
Hi,
Appreciate that i am new here but just want to vent / understand if any of these issues can be resolved with some patching or if (as i suspect) I am better off simply flushing this POS down the bog.
I have had a lumia 800 for exactly 48 hours and its driving me spastic.
my issues are as follows (no particular order)
1. Zune, wtf is this junk? why can i not simpy drag and drop my file where i farkin well want them? I will not be told that i HAVE to use Zune. Zune can suck my balls.
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No different than being forced to use iTunes. If you want drag/drop freedom, then Android is your option.
3. Which genius decided to only include one volume? So i lesten to my giant album at a volume that does not make me black out and as a result my ringer is as loud as a sparrows fart. This really is the most retarded thing on a phone sinc about 2001
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We're all waiting for this development. WP7 is still quite young and has MANY improvements to make.
4. The sound quality, its just crap. Really crap. where is the bass, no really what have you dne with it mr nokia? is it a special thing that normal users cannot be trusted with?
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Via loudspeaker or headphones? I have Sennheiser MX95 earbuds and bass is fine. Externally? I agree, it's quite poor, but I didn't really expect anything better.
5. No EQ? So not only have you robbed my of my aural pleasure as standard but you have emasculated me by removeing the only tool that could alleviate this pain.
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See #3.
6. Bing, bing can ram it as far as i am concerned, I don't like it, i don't want to use it, but not only is it set as a default, but one of my buttons is dedicated to it? WTF!! out of 6 buttons you have wired 16.5% of them into a function that only smelly old men in rain coats would use.
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What are you expecting here? This is a Microsoft OS. They want to use and encourage the use of Bing. Were you expecting Google, or just the ability to customize? If so, see #3.
I could go on, but i just cant find the will. So sod off lumia 800, your going on ebay this weekend and i hope some chav uses your puny loudspeaker to try and play ndubz on the bus.
Anyone else feel this way or have any solutions?
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By what you've written, I really don't think that WP7 is for you. Perhaps you should get the N9 once you sell your Lumia 800?
Thanks for reading this rant, oh and Hi
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You're welcome, oh and Hi!
anseio said:
No different than being forced to use iTunes. If you want drag/drop freedom, then Android is your option.
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Now to an extent I disagree, for two key reasons.
1. I can manage an i pod (the Mrs's) through winamp with no bother.
2. I expect that kind of bull**** from Apple, who make their products as difficult to customise as possible, windows is MEANT to run on mongrel hardware and support various uses while supporting programs and devices from other manufacturers. So this kind of strong arm move is in my eyes unacceptable.
anseio said:
We're all waiting for this development. WP7 is still quite young and has MANY improvements to make.
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I can appreciate that the OS is young, but come on, this is basic basic basic I can't think of a phone i have had that was capable of playing mp3's that did not have a separate volume for playback and ring.
anseio said:
Via loudspeaker or headphones? I have Sennheiser MX95 earbuds and bass is fine. Externally? I agree, it's quite poor, but I didn't really expect anything better.
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Headphones and amplification, Not getting into some sort of "FI off" but i have tried it on Super Fi Pro 10 phones and into a hifi consisting of Cyrus twin mono's and B&W P6's and it sounds un utterably crap, next to a sony X series mp3 player its not even a bad joke, even next to my work blackberry is complete pish. Now i dont expect Esoteric levels of reproduction but i do expect it to have better reproducton than i would get with a set of 99p headphones placed in a coke can.
anseio said:
What are you expecting here? This is a Microsoft OS. They want to use and encourage the use of Bing. Were you expecting Google, or just the ability to customize? If so, see #3.
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I could live with a non removable tile but to link a hard button to it is too much, same point as i am making about zune, its just not really acceptable imo
anseio said:
By what you've written, I really don't think that WP7 is for you. Perhaps you should get the N9 once you sell your Lumia 800?
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This is sadly the conclusion that i have reached, which is surprising as i have had a windows phone before all be it some years ago, and while that too was fairly crap in some respects I did use it for a few years without feeling the need to smash it into tiny bits and defecate on its remains.
Oh yeah, I forgot that iPhones can now be managed in different programs. It wasn't like that in the beginning.
I look at it like this. WP7 is new, yes. To keep it stable, it has to start out closed. I sincerely hope that it will open up over time.
I still gotta say that the sound from the Lumia 800 doesn't disappoint me. Honestly, I wasn't expecting greatness anyway. For that, I have a Walkman.
I really hope that these complaints you have will be addressed in the near future. I love WP7. That's why I became a late early adopter. I know a few who adopted really early, and aren't even techie people. They adopted when WP7 was so basic it barely did anything.
Good luck!!!
the way i see it, the drag and drop seems to work fine for me - i drag and drop music/videos/photos/podcasts onto the phone, i look in the music/videos/photos/podcasts bit of the phone, i see music/videos/photos/podcasts that i dragged onto the phone.
my beef with wp7 is the browser isn't particularly... good... but i just can't put my finger on exactly why...
About bing... On russian version of lumia there are yandex as default search provider and you have option in browser settings to choose defaults between bing and yandex. So I think there must be a way to customize search provider with interop unlock.
How are you editing the registry on your Lumia?
Sent from my Lumia 800 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
Wiggy Fuzz said:
the way i see it, the drag and drop seems to work fine for me - i drag and drop music/videos/photos/podcasts onto the phone, i look in the music/videos/photos/podcasts bit of the phone, i see music/videos/photos/podcasts that i dragged onto the phone.
my beef with wp7 is the browser isn't particularly... good... but i just can't put my finger on exactly why...
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So you are saying you can use the Lumina as a mass storage? because my pc won't even recognize it. I must install stuff, and i never got any CD i think. maybe i should look into the box.
Hydrad said:
So you are saying you can use the Lumina as a mass storage? because my pc won't even recognize it. I must install stuff, and i never got any CD i think. maybe i should look into the box.
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You don't edit the registry on the phone you edit the registry on the pc, you need to adjust the zune driver to enable legacy support, takes about 2 mins.
Even the iPhone had only one volume setting for everything until recently. It sounds like you want Android. Instead of being agitated by a new mobile system, just get an established one.
Yea it sounds like your lumia sucks! I'll buy it from you if you can ship to the US? There are countless droids out there that do everything you want per above, and they will no doubt keep you coming back to XDA to "vent."
So go with the Samsung Galaxy 2 or the N9 - I'm sure it will be all roses with those.
(Side note: if you want to see a limited OS on a phone, check out the N9 with Meego. It is mind-bending how limited that OS is. But at least you can drag and drop! Woooohoooo!)
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pittphan said:
Yea it sounds like your lumia sucks! I'll buy it from you if you can ship to the US? There are countless droids out there that do everything you want per above, and they will no doubt keep you coming back to XDA to "vent."
So go with the Samsung Galaxy 2 or the N9 - I'm sure it will be all roses with those.
(Side note: if you want to see a limited OS on a phone, check out the N9 with Meego. It is mind-bending how limited that OS is. But at least you can drag and drop! Woooohoooo!)
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I agree, I do wonder though why these, what i would call simple issues are not resolved pre release? I can only assume that its essentially the iphone effect where by is desn't really matter if a phone can do pretty simple things well, infact it can be a flaming turd rolled in glitter providing that it looks pretty and you can show if off in the pub.
If you want to make me an offer please do, i didn't get round to ebaying it this weekend as i was too busy being sicked on by my daughter
Its unlocked as standard as i am on the isle of man, happy to ship to outer mongolia provided i have the cash in my account before it leaves my sweaty palms.
Itaintrite said:
Even the iPhone had only one volume setting for everything until recently. It sounds like you want Android. Instead of being agitated by a new mobile system, just get an established one.
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I had an original iPhone, i got it a few months after it was released. It had separate volumes for music and ringtones back then. It was something that impressed me at the time which is why i remember.
iain-w said:
Hi,
Appreciate that i am new here but just want to vent / understand if any of these issues can be resolved with some patching or if (as i suspect) I am better off simply flushing this POS down the bog.
I have had a lumia 800 for exactly 48 hours and its driving me spastic.
my issues are as follows (no particular order)
1. Zune, wtf is this junk? why can i not simpy drag and drop my file where i farkin well want them? I will not be told that i HAVE to use Zune. Zune can suck my balls.
2. Why does mass storage not work? Even if i change the registry to allow it it only partially recognises the files, meaning all my mp3's end up as one giant album, thanks Nokia / Microsoft, you jizz monkeys.
3. Which genius decided to only include one volume? So i lesten to my giant album at a volume that does not make me black out and as a result my ringer is as loud as a sparrows fart. This really is the most retarded thing on a phone sinc about 2001
4. The sound quality, its just crap. Really crap. where is the bass, no really what have you dne with it mr nokia? is it a special thing that normal users cannot be trusted with?
5. No EQ? So not only have you robbed my of my aural pleasure as standard but you have emasculated me by removeing the only tool that could alleviate this pain.
6. Bing, bing can ram it as far as i am concerned, I don't like it, i don't want to use it, but not only is it set as a default, but one of my buttons is dedicated to it? WTF!! out of 6 buttons you have wired 16.5% of them into a function that only smelly old men in rain coats would use.
I could go on, but i just cant find the will. So sod off lumia 800, your going on ebay this weekend and i hope some chav uses your puny loudspeaker to try and play ndubz on the bus.
Anyone else feel this way or have any solutions?
Thanks for reading this rant, oh and Hi
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Just my 2 cents on the issue:
1. I don't have issues so I'm curious to see what yours is. I also have zune pass and its one of the best subscription services I've every used. Love it and love the zune layout (though I have had an HD forever so I'm used to it).
2. See #1
3. That is strange; I've never noticed it. Are you listening with headphones? It doesn't make an audible ring if you have headphones in. Plus I would never ever listen to music straight out of any device; phone, mp3, or otherwise. Sometimes I listen to talk radio on the speaker but quality doesn't matter as much there.
4. Either use headphones or see #3
5. I'm pretty sure I've seen a music app that has eq. Do a search on wpcentral for one. I have an HTC Arrive and HTC has put an eq on it so Nokia must have dropped the ball.
6. I used to totally agree with you there. I hated bing at first. Now with adding local scout (must have!) I find myself using it all the time and loving. Plus I noticed google sucking lately and read this article (gizmo.do/xhiUe1) which helped change my mind for bing for sure.
Plus the Lumia 800 is so pretty and WP7 so slick that I wouldn't care about most of the things you have stated above. I use skydrive for all my file sharing so don't need my phone to be a usb stick.
iain-w said:
Hi,
Appreciate that i am new here but just want to vent / understand if any of these issues can be resolved with some patching or if (as i suspect) I am better off simply flushing this POS down the bog.
I have had a lumia 800 for exactly 48 hours and its driving me spastic.
my issues are as follows (no particular order)
1. Zune, wtf is this junk? why can i not simpy drag and drop my file where i farkin well want them? I will not be told that i HAVE to use Zune. Zune can suck my balls.
2. Why does mass storage not work? Even if i change the registry to allow it it only partially recognises the files, meaning all my mp3's end up as one giant album, thanks Nokia / Microsoft, you jizz monkeys.
3. Which genius decided to only include one volume? So i lesten to my giant album at a volume that does not make me black out and as a result my ringer is as loud as a sparrows fart. This really is the most retarded thing on a phone sinc about 2001
4. The sound quality, its just crap. Really crap. where is the bass, no really what have you dne with it mr nokia? is it a special thing that normal users cannot be trusted with?
5. No EQ? So not only have you robbed my of my aural pleasure as standard but you have emasculated me by removeing the only tool that could alleviate this pain.
6. Bing, bing can ram it as far as i am concerned, I don't like it, i don't want to use it, but not only is it set as a default, but one of my buttons is dedicated to it? WTF!! out of 6 buttons you have wired 16.5% of them into a function that only smelly old men in rain coats would use.
I could go on, but i just cant find the will. So sod off lumia 800, your going on ebay this weekend and i hope some chav uses your puny loudspeaker to try and play ndubz on the bus.
Anyone else feel this way or have any solutions?
Thanks for reading this rant, oh and Hi
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The search button is an easy fix, Under
[[[settings>Region+language>Browse and Search Language]]],
set it to something other than USA. I have it set to my country, trinidad and tobago, and the search button defaults to google
veer01_42 said:
The search button is an easy fix, Under
[[[settings>Region+language>Browse and Search Language]]],
set it to something other than USA. I have it set to my country, trinidad and tobago, and the search button defaults to google
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Well, I don't know if that is true, but unfortunately it is still stuck in bing for Portugal and UK.
Hi I have Z2 D6503 the European version and recently I realised I have a problem - when I speak with somebody the other person hears his worths like echo. It happens whith every call and various phones. Only the other person hears the echo, I dont hear it.
The phone is with the latest software. Hard reset doesn't fix it.
What could be the problem and how can I fix it?
svetliol said:
Hi I have Z2 D6503 the European version and recently I realised I have a problem - when I speak with somebody the other person hears his worths like echo. It happens whith every call and various phones. Only the other person hears the echo, I dont hear it.
The phone is with the latest software. Hard reset doesn't fix it.
What could be the problem and how can I fix it?
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does the other person struggle to hear you too ? i am sending my Z2 back for so say repair , because i am so frustrated about the amount of calls i make where the other person either gets feedback or just cant hear me . for a flagship phone i think this is such a lack of quality control on sonys side . thing is there are a lot of people with this problem .. so if they just replace the microphone for another .. i cant see how this will fix anything .
strommy1966 said:
does the other person struggle to hear you too ? i am sending my Z2 back for so say repair , because i am so frustrated about the amount of calls i make where the other person either gets feedback or just cant hear me . for a flagship phone i think this is such a lack of quality control on sonys side . thing is there are a lot of people with this problem .. so if they just replace the microphone for another .. i cant see how this will fix anything .
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Just because there are 10people on xda with microphone issues, doesnt mean all devices are like that. I dont see your logic, you seem to ignore all these other thousand users who dont have this problem
The other person hears my voice clear but because of the echo cant understand me. I tested a Skype and Viber calls and there is no echo, so I can conclude this is a software problem.
feis said:
Just because there are 10people on xda with microphone issues, doesnt mean all devices are like that. I dont see your logic, you seem to ignore all these other thousand users who dont have this problem
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well there is a lot more than Ten i can assure you ! when the phone first came out there were a lot of threads about the call quality ! my reasoning is that if it is a software issue ... then just replacing the microphone wont make any difference at all . and if its that the microphone itself, is just crap , changing it like for like wont help either !
svetliol said:
I tested a Skype and Viber calls and there is no echo, so I can conclude this is a software problem.
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Or mobile network, or interference or environment, or anything really. A few VoIP tests don't really result in software issues.
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It's not a network, interference or environment becouse I have tested the phone with different networks and plases. Tell me then why there is no problem on 3rd party apps like Viber and Skype?
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Or mobile network, or interference or environment, or anything really. A few VoIP tests don't really result in software issues.
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well it was also interesting that i went into my local vodafone shop at the weekend as i needed a different size sim card for my daughters new phone . i was chatting to the lady that served us, and i mentioned to her the problems that i was having with the Z2 and the problems with the caller hearing sometimes .. and guess what ???? she had got the Z2 and she said she had had this issue at times too ! like i say its not every call .. but it is a large amount of them that this problem comes up. i certainly cant just wedge the phone under my chin and chat away like i could with my old galaxy S2 .. i have to be so careful how i hold this phone and keep the mic as close to my mouth as possible . and even then it wont always work. Not everybody that owns a Z2 will be members of XDA .. so its hard to asses how many handsets have this problem . but for me having to use this phone for work .. its not fit for purpose !
strommy1966 said:
well it was also interesting that i went into my local vodafone shop at the weekend as i needed a different size sim card for my daughters new phone . i was chatting to the lady that served us, and i mentioned to her the problems that i was having with the Z2 and the problems with the caller hearing sometimes .. and guess what ???? she had got the Z2 and she said she had had this issue at times too !
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Not trying to bait you, I'm just saying, if you are on Vodafone, Vodafone rep on Vodafone, good chance that the complaints Vodafone hears are from Vodafone customers, your daughter is on Vodafone so you call people on the Vodafone network. There is more in common then the software.
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svetliol said:
Tell me then why there is no problem on 3rd party apps like Viber and Skype?
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I am assuming you are using normal Viber and Skype. If so, Viber and Skype are voice over IP not gsm!!!!
That's like saying 'tell me how a horse and a car are different, they both get me from a to b'
Gsm and IP work differently. You voice is transferred differently.
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well i use the phone for my business , so i have loads of calls coming in from, and i make to land lines and other mobile networks. and when i rang Sony UK and spoke to them about the problem and they told me to do pc companion repair .. and they rang me back a few hours later to see how the "repair" went , even the lady i spoke to at Sony had said she had heard the feedback ! but when i then spoke to phones 4U the lady i spoke to there .. said "sorry sir could you speak up im struggling to hear you " i said to her "exactly " that's why im wanting to return this phone ! . i used my old galaxy s2 on vodafone .. never had these problems with that phone .
strommy1966 said:
well i use the phone for my business , so i have loads of calls coming in from, and i make to land lines and other mobile networks. and when i rang Sony UK and spoke to them about the problem and they told me to do pc companion repair .. and they rang me back a few hours later to see how the "repair" went , even the lady i spoke to at Sony had said she had heard the feedback ! but when i then spoke to phones 4U the lady i spoke to there .. said "sorry sir could you speak up im struggling to hear you " i said to her "exactly " that's why im wanting to return this phone ! . i used my old galaxy s2 on vodafone .. never had these problems with that phone .
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Please relax, this is obviously a SOFTWARE problem. Proof is, that this problem doesn't happen on calls on Skype and Viber. So hardware is just fine. I don't know if you know, but "phone" is an app aswell. So this is a problem with the phone's "Phone" application and most likely will be fixed in next update. There might be some other applications you've installed on your phone which might cause this problem aswell, also consider this.
Don't worry yourself.
causing Echo while talking to other
Hello Sony
I'm using Sony Xperia Z2 and I have a little problem about the phone, I really appreciate it because it has many cool stuff but my friend keep complain that Xperia Z2 suck because
they hear an Echo voice while talking I hope that you can fix it and if you know how please tell me
Pisces X said:
Hello Sony
I'm using Sony Xperia Z2 and I have a little problem about the phone, I really appreciate it because it has many cool stuff but my friend keep complain that Xperia Z2 suck because
they hear an Echo voice while talking I hope that you can fix it and if you know how please tell me
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you will need to send it back for "repair" i have this recognized call quality issue too. The other problem is getting the other to hear you too ! they often say "your breaking up ,or they say like your across the other side of the room. at the moment im sending mine back to try and have this fault sorted.
strommy1966 said:
you will need to send it back for "repair" i have this recognized call quality issue too. The other problem is getting the other to hear you too ! they often say "your breaking up ,or they say like your across the other side of the room. at the moment im sending mine back to try and have this fault sorted.
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HI guys!I solved this problem ... you have to check noise suppression ...I have another one problem: every person that talks with me:
or hears my voice like it is hoarse or as if I put a hand in front of the speaker . how is it possible???
have you the same problem?
thanks
morgy82 said:
HI guys!I solved this problem ... you have to check noise suppression ...I have another one problem: every person that talks with me:
or hears my voice like it is hoarse or as if I put a hand in front of the speaker . how is it possible???
have you the same problem?
thanks
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they normally get feed back or cant hear you very well too .. turning off noise suppression wont fix the problem. yes it helps ... but im afraid there are a fair few Z2 out there with this problem. it will need to be returned