I remember reading somewhere that its not possible to do video or picture messaging on windows phone 7 is that a carrier issue or did microsoft leave that out? will that be implemented in the future?
picture messaging works fine, its video messaging that is missing. Not sure when its gonna get added. Seems that was MS decision (though carriers could have pushed for it).
deadwrong03 said:
I remember reading somewhere that its not possible to do video or picture messaging on windows phone 7 is that a carrier issue or did microsoft leave that out? will that be implemented in the future?
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Picture messaging works fine, you can receive video messages, but you cannot send them (except that you can forward video messages that you have received).
Not on this phone
Interesting, no my htc surround on at&t does not receive video messages not to mention not being able to send them. This is my biggest beef with wp7. A good laugh at lunch would be appreciated. Dumb phones can do this. Is it too lowbrow for Ms and their metro UI? It may seem trite but the wp7 is a visual medium. Video messaging goes hand in hand with social networking and is sorely missed.
Have most WP7's always been able to receive video messages, or is that something that came with the NoDo update? I don't remember it ever working and the next day after installing the updates I received one.
nrfitchett4 said:
picture messaging works fine, its video messaging that is missing. Not sure when its gonna get added. Seems that was MS decision (though carriers could have pushed for it).
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There is no way a carrier pushed for the lack of video messaging in WP7, when every other smartphone OS on every other carrier does it.
Video messaging is never an issue for them because there are size limitations in MMS and most if not all phones compress (rather heavily) the video, anyways, just as they do teh photos.
It just sucks because a lot of people still have feature phones and Picture/Video MMS functionality is a must for communicating with these people.
Ask winpho support on twitter & they said they had no info when vid msgs were coming...Pisses me off.....
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SeNiLe911 said:
Have most WP7's always been able to receive video messages, or is that something that came with the NoDo update? I don't remember it ever working and the next day after installing the updates I received one.
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MMS messages can be sent & received but they just show a static image & don't play. This has been the case since before NoDo.
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No mention of the new start screen purportedly coming in with the 7.8 update....so....its "Tango" eh?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-US/howto/wp7/basics/update-history.aspx
Change Log:
Update 7.10.8773.98
Messaging. Adds new messaging capabilities to your phone. You can now attach multiple pictures, videos, audio notes and ringtones to text messages.
SIM card. Adds features related to SIM card contacts. You can now export phone contacts to a SIM card and selectively import SIM card contacts to your phone.
Other quality improvements. Includes many other improvements to Windows Phone.
This update is not available in all markets or for all phones.
8773 is Tango. (there's also 8779 - which is still Tango with some (?) improvements or fixes)
Interesting though, I visited the page earlier today and 8107 was the latest update shown there.
@ZetaZynK is correct. WP7.8's feature list isn't announced yet (aside from the new Start screen). Tango, which is what you listed, is already being pushed to some phones. WP7.8 won't start arriving until probably late in the fall.
prembox said:
No mention of the new start screen purportedly coming in with the 7.8 update....so....its "Tango" eh?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-US/howto/wp7/basics/update-history.aspx
Change Log:
Update 7.10.8773.98
Messaging. Adds new messaging capabilities to your phone. You can now attach multiple pictures, videos, audio notes and ringtones to text messages.
SIM card. Adds features related to SIM card contacts. You can now export phone contacts to a SIM card and selectively import SIM card contacts to your phone.
Other quality improvements. Includes many other improvements to Windows Phone.
This update is not available in all markets or for all phones.
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Here is something that doesn't make sense to me. Okay it's cool that you can now add a ringtone as an attachment but if you send it from your WP to another What the ????? All you can do is listen to it but not save it to your ringones on your phone? Really? What's the use?
i don't think so, :cyclops:but 7.8 is closer for us
I just downloaded the latest update for windows phone, and they said that one of the improvements was that I could export contacts from my phone to the SIM card now. But I still can't find a option or something that lets me export my contacts. Can someone help me on this? Thanks in advance!
Yeah, me too Seems that such an option exists for a limited number of Windows Phones.
Also there is no Location Services Icon in the status bar when an app uses my location, do you have the same problem?
At least the WiFi Bug seems to be fixed.
Same situation here with my Titan.
Don't see the option to Export contacts to SIM and the icon doesn't appear...
2nd generation windows phones also got Voice notes and ringtones via mms. 1st Gen did not... used cabsender on my titan... i got the options... same packages to wifes surround and coworkers trophy, and they only get picture and video for attachments.
en, i can't do this too, it's hard to use wp7 to do such a simple function:crying:
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2nd generation windows phones also got Voice notes and ringtones via mms. 1st Gen did not... used cabsender on my titan... i got the options... same packages to wifes surround and coworkers trophy, and they only get picture and video for attachments.
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The weird thing is that I have a LG E900 (1st Gen) and while I don't have the option to add a voice note to a message (MMS), I do have the option to add pictures and videos and ringtones.
Hi Guys
This is a wierd issue. My daughter is travelling in South America. She has, to all intents and purposes, lost her iPhone 3 or 4 and has bought a new Samsung Galaxy S4. With her new phone she had to buy a sim card. Her only means of contact with us is via Whatsapp and Viber. Since she has a new number and the two apps work off the old phone number is there any way to restore her old accounts to her new phone?
Appreciate some help
Brian
BrianGM said:
Hi Guys
This is a wierd issue. My daughter is travelling in South America. She has, to all intents and purposes, lost her iPhone 3 or 4 and has bought a new Samsung Galaxy S4. With her new phone she had to buy a sim card. Her only means of contact with us is via Whatsapp and Viber. Since she has a new number and the two apps work off the old phone number is there any way to restore her old accounts to her new phone?
Appreciate some help
Brian
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Hello,
As for Viber, she can simply reinstall it on her new device with the new sim, restoring previous account is not available.
Good luck!
So you are not talking about the messaging history to restore. But the app itself. In that case, I would say try to port the old phone number either to the new galaxy s4 or to a second device. After you get the number ported than its easy to intercept the whatsapp SMS verification code.
For the future, I recommend using a Google voice number to register with these apps. That way, you always have access to the number to verify. Of course you'll than have to deal with two numbers.. one is the real cell phone and the other for whatsapp and other apps.
Hi guys
It's probably been asked before, but I'll do it anyway
I have two android phones using my main SIM number, I alternate according to my mood or battery draining
I have viber installed on both, and every time I change phone, and start viber, the app asks my number to insert the new code blá-blá, and all my messages and call log vanish
Is there any trick to overcome this issue?
I have two different cell numbers from different carriers
My phones are Samsung S3 mini and Sony Xperia E
Cheers
Antonio
Hey Antonio,
Your Viber ID is your phone number - just as you can only have one phone number per device, you can only have on Viber ID per mobile device.
As a security feature, when Viber is activated on a new device, your account is deactivated on your old device. This ensures that if your phone is lost or stolen, the person that gets your old phone won't be able to access your account. This is why you lose your call and message history. We recommend that you keep Viber installed on one device, but if you must switch please read here: http://bit.ly/1dapLXE for info on how to back up your message history before deactivation.
antonioduarte said:
Hi guys
It's probably been asked before, but I'll do it anyway
I have two android phones using my main SIM number, I alternate according to my mood or battery draining
I have viber installed on both, and every time I change phone, and start viber, the app asks my number to insert the new code blá-blá, and all my messages and call log vanish
Is there any trick to overcome this issue?
I have two different cell numbers from different carriers
My phones are Samsung S3 mini and Sony Xperia E
Cheers
Antonio
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You're telling me that you disallow two mobile phones logging into the same account, which is technically possible, because you think I might lose my phone and would want to sign out the other account.
Perhaps then, you could create a button in the interface to log out all other devices.
But no, you assumed what your customer would want.
Viber Team said:
Hey Antonio,
Your Viber ID is your phone number - just as you can only have one phone number per device, you can only have on Viber ID per mobile device.
As a security feature, when Viber is activated on a new device, your account is deactivated on your old device. This ensures that if your phone is lost or stolen, the person that gets your old phone won't be able to access your account. This is why you lose your call and message history. We recommend that you keep Viber installed on one device, but if you must switch please read here: (link removed because this forum does not want me to post links, yet another ****up) for info on how to back up your message history before deactivation.
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Viber Team said:
Hey Antonio,
Your Viber ID is your phone number - just as you can only have one phone number per device, you can only have on Viber ID per mobile device.
As a security feature, when Viber is activated on a new device, your account is deactivated on your old device. This ensures that if your phone is lost or stolen, the person that gets your old phone won't be able to access your account. This is why you lose your call and message history. We recommend that you keep Viber installed on one device, but if you must switch please read here: http://bit.ly/1dapLXE for info on how to back up your message history before deactivation.
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so, the same security feature is not included in the tablet/laptop version? this doesn t make sense. users should have the option to decide for themselves..
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has anyone tried backing viber up on a tablet with titanium and then restoring it on the phone?
nikapos said:
so, the same security feature is not included in the tablet/laptop version? this doesn t make sense. users should have the option to decide for themselves..
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has anyone tried backing viber up on a tablet with titanium and then restoring it on the phone?
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just tried it, doesnt work...
Yes it work.
Oh is that genuine viber team replying? I do not but the theory of security. I have same account viber on my ph, small tablet, big tablet, 2 laptop and a desktop. Now recently got another phone and decided to use both alternately, viber cannot extend to second ph with sim. If i can fool viber that it is tablet, my problem would have solved.
I just lost all contacts and chat history when i try to install Viber on new phone (with same number). Viber on new phone was also without chat history and contacts. This "security feature" was completly unknown to me, and it is incredibly counter-intuitive and stupid. Facebok Messinger of course worked perfectly normal on both phones., when it was installed on new phone.
Same crap...this is quite not user friendly from Viber... I lost all my chats, and I can only use on 1 device. Shame on Viber.
Same to me. I logged in on the new phone prior to changing SIMs (beacuse I wanted the new phone to be ready when I do so), and every and all messages was deleted without notification. Also, my laptop wanted me to revalidate it with QR. Why doesn't it only warn me there is no fresh backup?
have you tried this? https://www.androidinfotech.com/2016/04/use-same-viber-account-in-two-different.html
I have installed Viber on my laptop, using Phoenix OS, and I lose all the things in my smartphone.
Really bad, just thought it's like in the Windows 10
As soon as I have bought new tablet with android 7.0 installed, I can't have any more viber on my blackberry Q5 and the new tablet at the same time.
I can't post the link because I don't have 10 posts on the forum.
support dot viber dot com slash costumer slash en slash portal slash articles slash 1593168
"Before you start
Download the latest version of Viber on your phone before you add Viber to your tablet. If you don't have the latest version, Viber will not sync between your phone and your tablet."
I need to use viber version 5.6.5.1885 on Q5, because only this version work on BB10 OS, and on android 7.0 tablet I can have the latest version. And when I activate viber on the phone, I am immediately logged out from tablet. And vice versa. While I was using viber on my older tablet with android 4.2.2. installed, I didn't have this problem.
So I need to use viber only on one device.
I don't know, but viber is definitely forcing us with such manners to have only the latest viber, if we want to have synchronized chats, and also in such manners we have to use only newest mobile devices.
Went to install Viber on my old phone while I work on the current phone. Didn't realize phones counted as 'primary devices', and that you can have only one. So as soon as I activated Viber on my old phone, I lost everything on the other phone. Some sort of warning would have been nice... @Viber Team
Viber support is anything but supportive... They cant even understand basic issues like why is there a possibility to use viber primary on phone and secondary on tablet and why cant this be done...
We have to find a new app that can do that
Just want to say that telegram sorted it out in a best way possible. You can have as many devices as u like and never will lose chat history. And viber has much bigger user base then telegram! Shame on you viber! If it isn't that a lot of people in my country use viber I would never install it! Telegram is much better in all things!
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