Nothing Special About WM6.1 - General Topics

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Nothing. Great.

I wouldn't expect any major improvements from a .1 release anyway. It's alot of welcome changes though, and any speed increase is definitely an upgrade.

In short the news:
1. SMS Chat View Mode
2. Speed
3. Getting Started
4. PIE Zoom Out
5. Managed Programs
6. Task Manager
7. Office One Note
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To me this could be the great strength of the new Windows Mobile 6.1, this case is being tested in a HTC X7500 Advantage a machine by nature very quickly, that with this new version was even more, imagine, before the terminal took about 50 seconds to restart at the moment with the WM6.1 takes only 30 seconds, in the navigation menus is irreproachable.
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Hmmm, nothing great? #1 - Threaded SMS. Easier to read SMS's, no big deal. #2 - Speed. Yep, faster device. Nothing great about that. #4 PIE Zoom Out. Yep, nothing there either. #6 - Better task manager. Can't possibly be anything worthwhile there.
In the end, is this a huge revision to v6? Not really, that's why it's a .1 release, like everyone else is saying. But perhaps we're getting closer to what v6 should have been from the get go. Look for major improvements with v7, whenever that is.

It runs damn fine on my Touch and the memory leak is gone. Good stuff! I don't really get the getting started though, what's that supposed to be for?

imo mem leak problem removal is VERY important, if it is really fixed.
i do not need ANY new apps, nor touch ****.

nothin said:
imo mem leak problem removal is VERY important, if it is really fixed.
i do not need ANY new apps, nor touch ****.
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Someone in another thread said it wasn't fixed but that hasn't been confirmed. Several people noticed a huge improvement, myself included.

Been using it all weekend on my HTC Wing. I love it. Would not go back to WM6. Its definately better.

wm imho always had a pretty slow evolution rather then any revolution steps

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Windows Mobile 7 screenshots leaked

For more info go here:
http://microsoft.blognewschannel.co...bile-7-to-focus-on-touch-and-motion-gestures/
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Ok, it looks REALLY great. If it's as fast as it looks, we may have a winner
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/what.s-w...ow-wm7-and-wm8-are-going-to-fix-it-333536.php
What you should make a note of is the things that it improves upon from all the previous ui's of WM past. I'll wait for 8.
When is WM7 due? It's not until 2009 is it?
Detailed picture gallery here as well..
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/06/is-this-windows-mobile-7/
I've gone thru the entire gallery and if its truly able to deliver on what it can do.. Its pretty much gonna be good light years jump from what WinMo and all other platforms short of the iPhone and still good 5 years ahead of the iPhone itself...
They are really going big on movement based gestures and some of the concept is truly remarkable.. like if you see lets say, a name on the browser search. One can then tap and hold on it and start "shaking" the phone/device which tells the device to do a "smart search" where it'll "rain" down a bunch of animated icons that settle down to show the various things/files/pictures/activities related to that name existing in your phone etc... what a simple yet ingenious concept.
Although, I must say that this will open more questions than answers to why did MS have to make this Super-Quantum leap from WM6 and not have given us a good progression to it in the form of already having released such interface in WM5 onwards??!!?? After all, this kind of technology and its implementation could not have just been put together overnight within the last 6 or lets say 12 months subsequent to the announcement/release of the iPhone...
Good Ol' boy wizards Mr. Gates and Balmer holding back as usual I guess...
Oh well.. better late than never.
AJ
Will Windows Mobile 7 be available as an upgrade to already existing phones? I just recently bought my tilt and am wondering if I will be able to run this when it comes out? Thanks in advance.
For tilt maybe, but I don't think my old prophet can carry the weight... There was no WM6 update, so why should there be one for 7.
Depends on the Device.
ya i was really greatful at&t baked us a wm6 rom for hermes (8525), is 100% stable and runs awesome, but i still can't wait to try some wm7 fresh from the kitchen goodness!
wonder if the unit specs will ramp up much?

Switch Touch Pro 2 for Droid?

I purchased the Verizon Touch Pro 2 the day it came out, but I have never been happy with the phone. I have had some issues with two of them actually. I’m receiving my third new phone this Thursday. I’m going to sell it off on either Ebay or XDA or something, but I was curious to see if anyone else is jumping ship to the new Motorola Droid. Anyone? I think the droid is a great mixture between the customization of WM6.5 and the stability of Blackberry. What do you think? Anyone taking the leap? I think that will be my next phone. I was excited for the WM6.5 update and what not, but it my eyes WM will never be great until possibly WM7.
PS: If you’re interested in a new HTC Touch Pro 2, we can discuss that too! Just thought I would toss that in there…..
We have almost 20 TP2s. Everyone knows the Droid is coming, no one has asked. I have 10 more eligible for upgrades in the next 2 months, and most of them have asked for a TP2.
you say you have had problems? what kind of problems to go through 3 phones :\
I have seen videos of it and it is buggy. For instance if you go to scroll through contacts or a list you drag your finger and about a half of second later it decides to scroll. Plus I can't stand not having decent gps software.
Sweeny Russ said:
I have seen videos of it and it is buggy. For instance if you go to scroll through contacts or a list you drag your finger and about a half of second later it decides to scroll. Plus I can't stand not having decent gps software.
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are you talking about the droid not having decent gps software? The google maps on droid looks pretty damn good to me.
Be wary of "The Droid", last guy that thought it was a good idea to switch... well, it didn't turn out so well ...
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if you don't want the freedom of doing anything with a mobile device via mods, hacks, and forums (and I mean anything literally) but rather a very handy device that will perform well out the box...then I recommend the droid...but if you want anything you can think of on a phone...stay with the TP2. Pretty much, the TP2, you have to "fix" and "trick" out to see the "actual" potential of what you have where as the the Android OS, you get most of what you would want right out of the box but has limitations. I stay with windows personally cause if I need something, it's there either on xda or ppcgeeks, period. It's just a matter of finding it.
I say do it. The more people we have working on it, the faster we can root it and start modifying.
It looks like a great phone. I can't wait to pick it up friday.

Is this hack of any relevance to us?

http://phandroid.com/2010/12/11/data2ext-makes-quadrant-its-prison-friend/
Not sure, but i do remember Cyanogen proving Quadrant gives bugged results if you mess with partitions.
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Not sure, but i do remember Cyanogen proving Quadrant gives bugged results if you mess with partitions.
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Yeah, i remember that as well. Probably a similar case here rather than a real boost.
may not be completely relevant, but I've eventually got a successful run of it on the G1
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scores don't really matter. And it doesn't seem any bit faster, but then again I can't really tell since I haven't gotten it stable enough to test normal apps. The UI feels more smoother-ish, not quicker just less jumpy. *note i said "-ish", because there are no apps installed so obviously it's not gonna lag.
so far for me I have only gotten it to work on the first boot, and for some reason only when I don't flash gapps (and fyi, I'm using CM 6.1).
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may not be completely relevant, but I've eventually got a successful run of it on the G1
scores don't really matter. And it doesn't seem any bit faster, but then again I can't really tell since I haven't gotten it stable enough to test normal apps. The UI feels more smoother-ish, not quicker just less jumpy. *note i said "-ish", because there are no apps installed so obviously it's not gonna lag.
so far for me I have only gotten it to work on the first boot, and for some reason only when I don't flash gapps (and fyi, I'm using CM 6.1).
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Still, that's amazing.
Here's a link to what I posted in the N1 forums containing the update.zip with some fixes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9937499&postcount=105
This is not my work, its just some fixes on others works.
Have you tried any heavy duty real world applications? Like Angry Birds or Gallery? Kwaak3 would be another application that relies heavily on loading. Maybe a web browser.
Those are the only apps that I can think of that would benefit from faster loading.
http://bbs.anshouji.com/viewthread.php?tid=3509&extra=pageSD1&page=1
thats the original thread with data2ext u can reference to
google translate should cover most of it
Thanks, that's looks really useful. Just wish I could download it.

Whats your Best Phone?

Contract us up, And there is alot to pick from,.
Currently have the HTC Desire, While this is a good phone, its time for a change.
Had my eyes on the Galaxy S II.
Looking for a phone to take me over the next two years like the HTC Desire has
(First phone to ever last me 2 years! that says alot about it)
Anyway What phone are you Guys using, How you finding it?
Battery Life
Performance / Lag
Call Quality
Camera
How it feels in your hand.
**** No Need for Iphone Recommendations, I have the Iphone 4, As a company phone that is enough for me, Android for a Personal phone!! Cannot live without it *******
Cheers
I think you should check Nexus S...It's Android and I'm still hesitant to root it and install new ROM because the original one is quick, the phone does not freeze, super-fast, big screen...I also got an extended battery for it that keeps it alive for 2 days. Perfect phone.
Battery Life - Mugen Power
Performance / Lag - Very fast, crashes very seldom.
Call Quality - No issues here
Camera - has 2 cams (5 mp primary and 1 for on front for calls etc)
How it feels in your hand. - Comfortable.
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this might answer you question http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1298425
dave7802 said:
Contract us up, And there is alot to pick from,.
Currently have the HTC Desire, While this is a good phone, its time for a change.
Had my eyes on the Galaxy S II.
Looking for a phone to take me over the next two years like the HTC Desire has
(First phone to ever last me 2 years! that says alot about it)
Anyway What phone are you Guys using, How you finding it?
Battery Life
Performance / Lag
Call Quality
Camera
How it feels in your hand.
**** No Need for Iphone Recommendations, I have the Iphone 4, As a company phone that is enough for me, Android for a Personal phone!! Cannot live without it *******
Cheers
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What he said

Phone running out of memory.

I'm sorry if I'll sound retarded but I just don't know much about this platform yet, so you may enlighten me on this one. A few minutes ago I was trying to save a favorite in the browser, but the phone didn't let me: an error message popped up telling me I was out of memory. What's that? I've got plenty of memory, is that a bug? I updated the firmware to the latest version just the other day, maybe this is what is causing the issue? I knew about a bug not allowing you to edit one, but this looks different. I also tried to delete the others but it didn't help. Thanks in advance.
update: apparently I can add favourites from any other site, but not from the specific one I was browsing. Now that is weird...
vnvman said:
I'm sorry if I'll sound retarded but I just don't know much about this platform yet, so you may enlighten me on this one. A few minutes ago I was trying to save a favorite in the browser, but the phone didn't let me: an error message popped up telling me I was out of memory. What's that? I've got plenty of memory, is that a bug? I updated the firmware to the latest version just the other day, maybe this is what is causing the issue? I knew about a bug not allowing you to edit one, but this looks different. I also tried to delete the others but it didn't help. Thanks in advance.
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update: apparently I can add favourites from any other site, but not from the specific one I was browsing. Now that is weird...
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This cannot be Windows Phone! It's memory management surpasses thousands of other toys out there!
BTW, try this - look up your background tasks, see if manually turning one or two off gives you more room to favourite that particular page?
What happens after a restart? May be clearing all the temp files might be the case? I have only restarted/switched off my Titan 5 times max in last 3 months! 3 times was for updates and 2 times was because I wanted to drain battery to 0. Now that worries me because I am so used to restarting my old green man phones to keep temp and cache clear. - non-tech speculation this is.
Wooa, I found an answer by myself in the end...get ready because this one is pretty dumb: apparently the name given by default to the favourite was way too long, once I shortened it I could add it just fine. So I guess I found a new (very minor) bug: if the name is too long the phone displays an error message saying the phone memory is full, pretty weird heh...
Here's a link to the site I was trying to add, maybe you can reproduce the issue even on your Titan, let me know, I'm pretty curious
http://yourlifeupdated.it/2011/11/n...ows-phone-download-xap-nokia-drive-video.html
Actually, this is a well known bug that affect favorites.
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Actually, this is a well known bug that affect favorites.
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Yeah, but it's not literally a memory issue, it simply displays the wrong error message.
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