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.
pfranceschi said:
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.
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Which app do you advise ? The Samsung integrated in the Social Hub or the official one from the market ?
I come from a TP where I really liked HTC's integration of facebook in Sense. Not too invasive and living quite well with my exchange account
Right now my contacts in my outlook (2011) on my PC are linked with their facebook profile, and so are they in Sense. With my Tab I worry a little bit about putting a mess in a system that has found its balance
Any risk to duplicate contacts if I use the Samsubg app ? Or the Android app ? Will they merge properly with my exchnage contacts ? Stay aside ?
I just dont wnat to make the step to find out after I messed up my contact list (More than 1200 people so clenaing that up would take me a few days....)
Hi I use Facebook from the market and also use one called boo
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The built-in one is pretty much for synching only, any actual facebook viewing would need to be done via the browser.
I switched from the built-in SNS client to the official Facebook client and didn't experience any problems.
knightnz said:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The built-in one is pretty much for synching only, any actual facebook viewing would need to be done via the browser.
I switched from the built-in SNS client to the official Facebook client and didn't experience any problems.
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I haven't installed anything yet Not tryig to fix anything just trying to be sure what I'll do wont create troubles to my contact list
The built-in app is just meant to sync your existing contacts on the phone and match them with facebook friends ? Or it adds all the facebook friends ?
The official app doesnt do this ?
Don't get the account permissions confused if you install the market app. Its annoying to find you gave the stock app permissions that arent on the market app.
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Alcibiade said:
I haven't installed anything yet Not tryig to fix anything just trying to be sure what I'll do wont create troubles to my contact list
The built-in app is just meant to sync your existing contacts on the phone and match them with facebook friends ? Or it adds all the facebook friends ?
The official app doesnt do this ?
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Both versions sync contact pictures etc. The official app gives you the option to sync pictures+status updates with all friends, just those with existing contact entries, or none at all.
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Both versions sync contact pictures etc. The official app gives you the option to sync pictures+status updates with all friends, just those with existing contact entries, or none at all.
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OK, thanks. To be clear the Samsung one will not offer more and wont let me the choice about what I sync and what i don't sync
Alcibiade said:
OK, thanks. To be clear the Samsung one will not offer more and wont let me the choice about what I sync and what i don't sync
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Anyone ? Maybe I am making too much fuss about this but I dont wnat to mes up my exchange contact list...
Not 100% sure about this, but I don't think it will mess up any of your existing contacts.
When logging in using the official Facebook app, it will create a sort of 'profile' for all existing contacts -- it won't merge info with the actual contact. You'll see this when you edit a contact, there will be 2 (or more) tabs when editing the contact.
It's like a 'Metacontact' in Trillian wherein it's only a merged 'View' of a contact, but in reality the data is in separate 'profiles'. The Facebook tab is uneditable and will only display info.
The only problem I have so far is that when creating a new SMS, it will display -ALL- contact numbers and e-mail address of contacts, even if the number is exactly the same:
i.e. I have a contact named Bob Smith in my Google, Exchange and Facebook accounts, and they are merged as one account. In the Dialer, all the info is merged into one contact when displaying, but when editing, they are editable in 3 separate tabs.
However when I create an SMS and scroll to find Bob Smith, it displays all contact infos of Bob Smith, even duplicate ones, like if I have his number +123456789 on Google and Exchange and Facebook, it displays 3 same numbers when selecting a recipient.
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Also, when you sign out or remove the Facebook app, it will delete the Facebook 'profile' of the contact on your contacts list, maintaining the state of the previous contact before you logged in / installed Facebook.
Thanks a lot, that's good to know
I already saw the mess it was having google contacts and exchnage contacts (I usually maintain both... for 1200 contacts!) The worst is for contacts for which I entered only the first name... they happen to be all merged together (Well done samsung... They could have defined a merge key a bit larger than just the name........)
What about when you use the Samsung app ?? Someone knows ?
Well, when I synced my Facebook account with WP7, I saw there was a widget in the homescreen called "Me".. I didn't like it and I deleted it.. Now I want it back and I dont know where is it.. I tried syncing my FB account again, but it didn't appear.. Where I can find it?
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Well, when I synced my Facebook account with WP7, I saw there was a widget in the homescreen called "Me".. I didn't like it and I deleted it.. Now I want it back and I dont know where is it.. I tried syncing my FB account again, but it didn't appear.. Where I can find it?
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read this, solution there
Go into the people hub, at the top of your list of contacts there should be a picture of you. Click on it and it will take you to your "Me" page. In the app bar at the bottom there is an option to pin to start.
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Just long press your name in people and pin to start. sorted
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Thannks for you both..
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Thannks for you both..
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I don't mean to be rude or offensive in any way, but could you scale down that image in your signature please?
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.
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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?
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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
I have a HTC HD7 with mango, but although I have a hotmail account (which I use for MSN) it only gives me the options to sync emails, and I cant find anyway to enable messenger on it, anyone know how this is done on mango? or if it is even possible?
Im sure it supposed to work like the facebook chat but i dont appear to have an option for it (my facebook chay DOES work).
It's not in the settings as it's activated by default. Just change your status in the messaging hub to anything but "Offline"" and you should see your Messenger contacts that are online.
tried that but it doesnt show any of my msn contacts, I even tried playing around with my filter options (for the people hub contacts) and none of my MSN buddies or in the list.
also when you press the icon with the 2 arror buttons (left/right arrows) it only gives options of TXT and Facebook, it foesnt give a messenger option.
i have the same problem on my HD7. the 'onlline' tab only shows my friends from facebook chat and not WLM.. and i dont know why
is your windows live account the one you used to sign into the phone? go to home.live.com and see if you can see and chat with your friends online via hotmail....
After I updated to mango I had to hard reset my phone and everything worked.
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abond32 said:
After I updated to mango I had to hard reset my phone and everything worked.
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Yup that might help too. Also have to make sure the MAIN Windows Live ID that your phone is signed into is the one you use for Messenger. If you've added additional Windows Live IDs, you'll get e-mails/calendar/contacts..etc but not Messenger.
It works reasonably well for me (the first message you get in a convo has an annoying tendency to to go the phone and not to the PC, which is a pain if you're signed on to both at once. The real problem, though, is that it only works with the primary WLID. Such a waste of a good feature.
I have superlite 5.1 on my 727R and I have 2 accounts in the email app.
The problem is that on the bottom, there is no search option... which is a big problem for me. I've attached a screenshot to demo what I mean.
Anyone know of a fix for this? Is this in all ICS roms?
that's aosp email client. if u need exchange support as well ur out of luck. Its one or the other
What is exchange support? I just want to search my emails for a specific word.
Thanks. I'm a noob at this
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Gonna bump this until I can post on the Dev forum
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if u don't know/don't need exchange support, download an app called k9mail from the market (Google play). It gives u essay more flexibility than stock email client, and it has a unified inbox as well as a search feature
If you click at the top and change from Combined View to say one of your accounts, does the search button come up at the bottom then?
Because Im using this AOSP email client and I have no issues but then again I dont have a combined view, I only have one accounts on it (my corporate exchange server).
Dixit
dixit said:
If you click at the top and change from Combined View to say one of your accounts, does the search button come up at the bottom then?
Because Im using this AOSP email client and I have no issues but then again I dont have a combined view, I only have one accounts on it (my corporate exchange server).
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no, if I go into say only my hotmail account, the option to search its still not there
icenight89 said:
if u don't know/don't need exchange support, download an app called k9mail from the market (Google play). It gives u essay more flexibility than stock email client, and it has a unified inbox as well as a search feature
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I will try this out, thanks
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Search it from individual inbox
you can't search it from combined mailbox view. click the individual mailbox and the search icon will appear