Looks like it is only possible to chat via your main Live Messenger Account in Mango.. I have an older secondary account with about 100 contacts and I see nothing in the messages tile for them even when I know they are online... My primary account I use for Xbox Live and Zune... with no Live Messenger contacts.. Obviously both accounts work ok for email..
Am I missing something???
ebzrascal said:
Looks like it is only possible to chat via your main Live Messenger Account in Mango.. I have an older secondary account with about 100 contacts and I see nothing in the messages tile for them even when I know they are online... My primary account I use for Xbox Live and Zune... with no Live Messenger contacts.. Obviously both accounts work ok for email..
Am I missing something???
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Nope, you're actually not missing anything. Chat will only work for your primary live id.
dkp1977 said:
Nope, you're actually not missing anything. Chat will only work for your primary live id.
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yes, it's like this
Well that's not great !!! and they are trying to block devs making WINDOWS LIVE CHAT apps when their native one will have zero flexibility... Another crazy idea...
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ebzrascal said:
Well that's not great !!! and they are trying to block devs making WINDOWS LIVE CHAT apps when their native one will have zero flexibility... Another crazy idea...
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just like xbox live only works for primary live id... why wouldnt use ur older one as primary ?
I have the same problem. I am from India and I had set up a new live id with a fake US address when I got wp7 last year so that I could use the app store and other features. Though I use another live id as my main live id and have been using that since ages. So all my contacts, etc. are on that ID.
Now I can't use that ID on mango to logon to messenger. That sucks.
Any work around for that?
gjain13 said:
I have the same problem. I am from India and I had set up a new live id with a fake US address when I got wp7 last year so that I could use the app store and other features. Though I use another live id as my main live id and have been using that since ages. So all my contacts, etc. are on that ID.
Now I can't use that ID on mango to logon to messenger. That sucks.
Any work around for that?
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No.
That is, aside from downloading a separate app like Messenger by Miyowa and logging in with that.
How to change the primary Windows Live id?
sulehri said:
How to change the primary Windows Live id?
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hard reset will do
stan2 said:
hard reset will do
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Already did that
But Im bitterly disappointed... this must be resolved
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Hey guys,
is it possible to run the messenger without having it save all of my msn contacts to my phone's contacts?? It gets really annoying having all those entries.
thanks!
kritikal said:
Hey guys,
is it possible to run the messenger without having it save all of my msn contacts to my phone's contacts?? It gets really annoying having all those entries.
thanks!
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Nope ..........
postbus31 said:
Nope ..........
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well that sucks.... can they at least be integrated with my current contacts, meaning if I have someone's phone number, the IM profile is assigned to that contact instead of having duplicates?
I would be grateful for the thing to actually work. Since my network provider upgraded their internet offering to include their version of msn (going through their servers), it now blocks any other client trying to access the service. Skype works though.
EDIT: Got it to work - grabbed my wife's new O2 SIM and was able to set up WLM and log in. Then I placed my 3 SIM in and it now works
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/07...roid-mail-messenger-and-search-now-available/
The Messenger app does pretty much what you’d expect: it allows you to chat with your Yahoo!/MSN friends, and can run in the background (with push notifications) for that always-on availability. If you live in Canada, Indonesia, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan, Thailand, United States, or Vietnam, you can also use the app to send SMS to friends, which will appear in the current conversation. Oh, and it supports emoticons, because it ain’t IM without emoticons.
The Mail app is also a no-brainer, and allows you to check, search, organise, and send mail from your Yahoo! email account, as well as download/upload attachments. It can use both your Yahoo! address book, as well as the one on your phone, so you should be able to find the email address you need. And, like the Messenger app, it also supports push notifications and emoticons.
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Yes! Just about time. I've been waiting for this apps for so long.
Thanks for noticing
Wowww... yahoo messenger on android... android No1 :x installed it & testing...
Thanks!
long over due thanks for the post downloading now
anyone know how to add your live messenger ID? Do you need to use the PC version for this?
britoso said:
anyone know how to add your live messenger ID? Do you need to use the PC version for this?
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+1 I want to know it too
I'll be installing this shortly to check it out and see how it works..
I figured they'd be working on this when I saw Yahoo! News pop up on the Market as well.
Seriously? yahoo?
Who in the world would use yahoo when there's gmail?
Yuck.
Yeah I used this app when I was on Blackberry and it's one of the reason I went Android...Yahoo and Yahoo messenger suck. I don't even think any of my friends use it anymore.
i mostly use gmail, but i still have my old yahoo account. the yahoo email app is very nice though! i like it!
I have tons of friends who use yahoo and wont switch over to Gmail. A lot of them have android phones and still use yahoo for there main mail service. So having an official app is great for me and them. Not everyone love's gmail.
Yahoo messenger doesnt sent & receive fast as yahoo messenger version pc hope the yahoo team can fix it in next version...
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Looks good and works better than stock email app. Hopefully it doesn't drain my battery. Does anyone know what is the refresh rate?
Too bad Yahoo doesn't give two ****s about their paying small business customers.
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leyvatro: It's push based, not polled based, there is no refresh rate.
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I have tons of friends who use yahoo and wont switch over to Gmail. A lot of them have android phones and still use yahoo for there main mail service. So having an official app is great for me and them. Not everyone love's gmail.
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And you know why they won't switch over to yahoo? Cause yahoo charges a fee for pop3/imap access. Which is about as dumb as charging for sand in the desert. Otherwise they'd just set up gmail to grab mail from yahoo and they'd be good to go.
Preferring yahoo over gmail is like preferring old mechanic typewriters over PCs and printers.
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And you know why they won't switch over to yahoo? Cause yahoo charges a fee for pop3/imap access. Which is about as dumb as charging for sand in the desert. Otherwise they'd just set up gmail to grab mail from yahoo and they'd be good to go.
Preferring yahoo over gmail is like preferring old mechanic typewriters over PCs and printers.
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These are not "tech" people like most of us here. These are casual users who don't wanna start over with a new email address. They don't even know what pop3/imap is and really don't care to know. They just want a simple way to use there yahoo services on there phone.
I think sometimes we lose site that not every android user is like us. Matter of fact I would guess that people like us who know the true power of android and the real advantages gmail has over yahoo and other services are less than 5% of all android users.
Thanks for the post
Gonna check this out soon
still waiting for a proper non disconnecting windows live messenger client
Hello my xda friends,
Last night I updated to Mango RTM version. Its all working very good.
I synced my Windows Live account with mail and people.
Also the chat is working good thru the Messaging hub.. But only facebo
ok is showing up..
So my question is: How can I add Windows Live accounts to the chat function?
Thanks alot
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Some additional information: I have 2 Windows Live account. One for the marketplace (a fake one). This is also the one I add first in the phone.
This is because Zune then sees my fake account so im able to download apps.
After that I add my 'good' account. The problem is, the people from this account are not showing up in the Messaging hub??!!
Sounds excessively complicated to me. I'd just stick to one Live account (I use the one tied to my Xbox Live account, personally).
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Sounds excessively complicated to me. I'd just stick to one Live account (I use the one tied to my Xbox Live account, personally).
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Yes I know but as far as I know its the only way to download / install apps from the Marketplace?
I tried a hard reset and entered my normal account first... then the Messaging page IS showing my people BUT as you can guess, I cannot download anything from the marketplace.
So right now its Marketplace VS Messenger....
You can't. The built-in Messenger only uses the primary Live ID. You cannot have it sign-on to multiple Live IDs at once, or use an alternate ID.
It seems to be that the marketplace is already available
At the 23 of august MS finally added the Netherlands to the list!
Finally I can drop my fake account
Thanks for all the answers
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to add a Windows Live friend from the phone? Only way I found was to actually go to Hotmail web site and add it from there. But this takes a few minutes and is a little annoying. Any app to do just that?
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Peoples Hub -> tap the + button on the bottom of the screen -> new contact -> Windows Live
Shouldn't that work?
dkp1977 said:
Peoples Hub -> tap the + button on the bottom of the screen -> new contact -> Windows Live
Shouldn't that work?
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You need mango to chat with people on messenger, just fyi
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dkp1977 said:
Peoples Hub -> tap the + button on the bottom of the screen -> new contact -> Windows Live
Shouldn't that work?
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Yeah. That's how it should be done.
pfranceschi said:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a way to add a Windows Live friend from the phone? Only way I found was to actually go to Hotmail web site and add it from there. But this takes a few minutes and is a little annoying. Any app to do just that?
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The people hub manages all your contacts, specifically here, WL contacts. If they have a WLM account and you add that email to their contact, I do believe they will show up in chat.
Yes, I was referring to WP Mango. However, adding a Windows Live contact from the People Hub is not the same as Adding a Friend. When you add a friend, the other end has to specifically accept you as a friend. Only then will the contact show up as available for chat. If you add a contact (using only email) from the people hub, it wont even show up on your Messaging hub in the contact list. Only those with phone numbers and marked as friend are available to chat.
If I am mistaken, please let me know because it is annoying to have to go to the hotmail.com website to do so.
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Yes, I was referring to WP Mango. However, adding a Windows Live contact from the People Hub is not the same as Adding a Friend. When you add a friend, the other end has to specifically accept you as a friend. Only then will the contact show up as available for chat. If you add a contact (using only email) from the people hub, it wont even show up on your Messaging hub in the contact list. Only those with phone numbers and marked as friend are available to chat.
If I am mistaken, please let me know because it is annoying to have to go to the hotmail.com website to do so.
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i asked the same question when I first updated to mango. Had to add my friends via messenger on the desktop :/ really should have an easy way to add someone...
Can't you just is the browser on the phone to do that? there is a messenger integrated with hotmail
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N8ter said:
Can't you just is the browser on the phone to do that? there is a messenger integrated with hotmail
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Yeah, only that to do that it takes me 5 times as long as it would with an app or phone feature.... It's a workaround, but there should be an app for this if the phone won't support it.
I'm having trouble getting Xbox LIVE access on my Surface. I use my email, but my dad's email has Xbox Music and Xbox LIVE access. Even though our accounts are linked, I can't access it. How can I?
If you log on with a live account to the pc, you can't specify a different live account in the apps. If you log on with a local account, you can manually specify a different live account for each app like music, video etc. Is this what you mean?
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If you log on with a live account to the pc, you can't specify a different live account in the apps. If you log on with a local account, you can manually specify a different live account for each app like music, video etc. Is this what you mean?
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So my account has to be local?
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The website says there isn't a way to connect my PC to SkyDrive if I use a Microsoft account. Can I use my dad's for SkyDrive as well?
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Dadstar said:
So my account has to be local?
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If you want to use an alternate live account t for services such as the store or music apps then yes, I believe so.
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You can transfer Xbox Live accounts from one account to another if they works for you. That's what I ended up doing when I had one email tied to Xbox Live and another tied to my Surface. Stupid that it doesn't work even though they're linked.
yokuyuki said:
You can transfer Xbox Live accounts from one account to another if they works for you. That's what I ended up doing when I had one email tied to Xbox Live and another tied to my Surface. Stupid that it doesn't work even though they're linked.
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How do you do that? all the ms pages say that is not possible
ItsTobias said:
How do you do that? all the ms pages say that is not possible
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I followed the procedures outlined in "Can I switch my gamertag to a different Microsoft account?" and it worked for me