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[Q] A few question about WP7

Hello
I just got my Lumia 900, I use Windows Mobile for years, I feel a bit uncomfortable on WP7, I have a few questions:
1. How to sign out Windows Live? I don't want to sign in all the time, it waste data and battery. I know I can just turn off data, but sometimes I want to leave data on for other program.
2. How to know the phone is using data? On WM you see small 3G appears with signal bar, on Android you see 3G appears with up/down arrow. On WP7, I did not see any changes on upper indication area when I am using data.
3. How to lock the orientation of phone dialer? When I hang up the phone, the phone tilt a little bit and cause the dialer window rotates; so, can I lock it?
I wish someone could give answers. Thanks!
Edit1:
Q1 is answerd
Q2: I observed the phone behaviour. It shows 4G when I turn on the data, and sometimes it shows LTE. I assume when it shows LTE, it is using data. Maybe I am wrong.
Q3: Orientation Lock can only be installed for unlocked Lumia 900. so it seems mission impossible by now.
Some new questions:
Q4: Multi tasking: When I download some big files from internet, while I am waiting, I start to open another app. It seems the download is paused. This is very annoying. I cannot wait for hours to use the phone until the download completes
Q5: How to exit IE quickly? If I browsed 50 pages, looks like I have to press "BACK" for 50 times to exit IE......
Q6: Real time battery percent indication on live tiles? Tried to search the market but no success.
Q7: Can the upper status bar(Battery status/signal bar, etc.) fix on the screen?
Q8: How to set IE home page??

You can sign out of Messenger by opening the Messaging hub, selecting Status (from the AppBar at the bottom), and choosing Sign Out. You can turn off syncing of your Windows Live email by opening the settings for the email account and disabling the automatic sync, which will cause the phone to not use any data or battery life for that purpose. I'm not sure what other aspects of Windows Live you want to sign out of, but considering that things like your Marketplace purchases (including apps, even free ones) are tied to your Xbox Live account, which is in turn tied to your Windows Live account, you'd lose a lot of functionality if you actually signed out.
There's no official way to tell when the phone uses data. Short of temporarily disabling cellular data (to guarantee that the phone is *not* doing so), you could try enabling Airplane Mode, which turns off pretty much all background data usage but permits apps and user-initiated actions (web browsing, app purchase, etc.) to use data.
There's a homebrew app called Orientation Lock that sort-of handles the third question (it just turns off the accelerometer entirely until you choose to turn it on again). I don't believe it was ever accepted to the Marketplace though, so you need a developer-unlock for your phone.

GoodDayToDie said:
You can sign out of Messenger by opening the Messaging hub, selecting Status (from the AppBar at the bottom), and choosing Sign Out. You can turn off syncing of your Windows Live email by opening the settings for the email account and disabling the automatic sync, which will cause the phone to not use any data or battery life for that purpose. I'm not sure what other aspects of Windows Live you want to sign out of, but considering that things like your Marketplace purchases (including apps, even free ones) are tied to your Xbox Live account, which is in turn tied to your Windows Live account, you'd lose a lot of functionality if you actually signed out.
There's no official way to tell when the phone uses data. Short of temporarily disabling cellular data (to guarantee that the phone is *not* doing so), you could try enabling Airplane Mode, which turns off pretty much all background data usage but permits apps and user-initiated actions (web browsing, app purchase, etc.) to use data.
There's a homebrew app called Orientation Lock that sort-of handles the third question (it just turns off the accelerometer entirely until you choose to turn it on again). I don't believe it was ever accepted to the Marketplace though, so you need a developer-unlock for your phone.
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Thanks. One more question: On WM, if I connect the phone to the PC, my phone can get internet connection through PC by ActiveSync. It is very convenience, I don't have to turn on data/WIFI. Can we do on WP7? I tried but it won't work.

Connect your phone to your PC and start Zune music player. The phone should get internet connectivity, once Zune recognises your phone.

You need to reconnect 3-4 times it if it fails. It's annoying but it's working.

good!. Thanks, it works.

[Q] Unauthorised message sent from Whatsapp

Something odd happened today with Whatsapp and I just wanted to report it in case it also happens to anyone else or anyone can shed light on it.
I left the house today at 8.45am to go to work. I cycle to work and so I had the phone in my bag . The phone was on the home screen before I turned off the screen and put it in my bag. I didn't get the phone out of my bag until 9.30am. However, when I checked my Whatsapp, I noticed there was a message containing a single smiley face to one of my contacts (they happened to be the contact at the top of the list as they were the last one I contacted legitimately). There's no way the phone would have accidentally sent that in my bag because of the way the phone was placed in the bag, there is nothing else in the pocket. Even if it was accidental, the presses would have had to turn on the phone, go launch Whatsapp, click the top contact, enter a smiley face message, press send and then press the home button to get back to the home screen before the phone switching off (or timing out). That's near impossible for it to do that.
I have the Nexus 5 phone. It's using Android 5.0.1 and I have the latest Whatsapp application with the new Whatsapp calling feature. I also use Whatsapp via the web using my Home and Work PC (both of which I have sole access to and both of which were turned off). I also checked my phone settings to see what computers were connected to my Whatsapp app, and it confirmed that only those two computers had access (I removed access to all PCs anyway and re-added my work PC).
Any ideas or thoughts?

Techno79 said:
Something odd happened today with Whatsapp and I just wanted to report it in case it also happens to anyone else or anyone can shed light on it.
I left the house today at 8.45am to go to work. I cycle to work and so I had the phone in my bag . The phone was on the home screen before I turned off the screen and put it in my bag. I didn't get the phone out of my bag until 9.30am. However, when I checked my Whatsapp, I noticed there was a message containing a single smiley face to one of my contacts (they happened to be the contact at the top of the list as they were the last one I contacted legitimately). There's no way the phone would have accidentally sent that in my bag because of the way the phone was placed in the bag, there is nothing else in the pocket. Even if it was accidental, the presses would have had to turn on the phone, go launch Whatsapp, click the top contact, enter a smiley face message, press send and then press the home button to get back to the home screen before the phone switching off (or timing out). That's near impossible for it to do that.
I have the Nexus 5 phone. It's using Android 5.0.1 and I have the latest Whatsapp application with the new Whatsapp calling feature. I also use Whatsapp via the web using my Home and Work PC (both of which I have sole access to and both of which were turned off). I also checked my phone settings to see what computers were connected to my Whatsapp app, and it confirmed that only those two computers had access (I removed access to all PCs anyway and re-added my work PC).
Any ideas or thoughts?
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May someone family member of yours did it accidently

Sushant Rohan said:
May someone family member of yours did it accidently
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Phone was in my bag while I was cycling and I have sole access to my PCs.

same happened... a message containing a contact was send to one of my groups from my account.... wat the hell is happening...

aruns r said:
same happened... a message containing a contact was send to one of my groups from my account.... wat the hell is happening...
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It's very strange but it hasn't happened since I reported this message. Do you use the Web interface for Whatsapp? I am only speculating, but I think it may have been something to do with that. I have since factory reset my phone a number of times and did not install a number of games/apps that I had previously. Therefore, it's plausible that it may have been caused by some malicious app on my phone.
If you wanted to list the apps you have installed (either here or in a PM) I can tell you if any of them sound like ones I had installed previously.

Mail count incorrect

Title pretty much says it all!
On my phone (Note 4) the unread mail count is currently one. On the S2, it is twenty-eight. Scrolling through the mail on the S2, I can see emails that I deleted days ago. Am I perhaps missing something from the settings?
(The emails relate to gmail and Google Apps mail)
Many thanks
KJ

I have the same exact issue. I emailed Samsung and they told me to do a factory reset to correct the issue as they have not heard of this bug from the latest update. A factory reset did NOT correct the issue. I believe the latest update caused the issue but convincing Samsung is another story. I was going to call them on Friday to see what the story is but does anyone else know what is going on here?

So I contacted Samsung technical support and they asked me to resync my bluetooth connection with my phone. Basically you just disconnect the gear s2 from the phone and hit connect again in the gear manager. It seemed to have worked for the first email deleted but not for any subsequent emails. I just tried it again and it is actually not working at all.
Because this is not a "software issue" they claim, the watch would need to be sent for repairs. I don't know what else to do but I'm not sending off the watch for repairs. If you are experiencing this issue, please call Samsung because they do not believe this is an issue and let us know here. If you AREN'T experiencing this please let us know as well...
The issue is that when you delete an email from your watch, it will delete from the phone CORRECTLY. However, if you delete an email from your PHONE it will not automatically delete it from the watch... causing you to have to manage the deletions on your watch manually. This was working prior to a software update recently.

Murphinator2000 said:
So I contacted Samsung technical support and they asked me to resync my bluetooth connection with my phone. Basically you just disconnect the gear s2 from the phone and hit connect again in the gear manager. It seemed to have worked for the first email deleted but not for any subsequent emails. I just tried it again and it is actually not working at all.
Because this is not a "software issue" they claim, the watch would need to be sent for repairs. I don't know what else to do but I'm not sending off the watch for repairs. If you are experiencing this issue, please call Samsung because they do not believe this is an issue and let us know here. If you AREN'T experiencing this please let us know as well...
The issue is that when you delete an email from your watch, it will delete from the phone CORRECTLY. However, if you delete an email from your PHONE it will not automatically delete it from the watch... causing you to have to manage the deletions on your watch manually. This was working prior to a software update recently.
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I am not having the same issue, if I delete my email from the phone it does delete it on the watch. It will not delete it from the watch when I am connected remotely though, but it does remove it once I get back on bluetooth. This is exchange email through the normal android email system. Have you also tried deleting the email on either outlook or the web client and see if it updates the phone and watch that way?
One thing I do notice though that does throw my mail number off at times. If I do not receive the notification on my phone then I do not get that email on my watch. So far no matter what it doesn't seem to sync back to it. The only instance I have ran into with this is if I have my email application open and a new email comes in. Because the email app is open it never does a notification to my phone so the watch never gets it.

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I am not having the same issue, if I delete my email from the phone it does delete it on the watch. It will not delete it from the watch when I am connected remotely though, but it does remove it once I get back on bluetooth. This is exchange email through the normal android email system. Have you also tried deleting the email on either outlook or the web client and see if it updates the phone and watch that way?
One thing I do notice though that does throw my mail number off at times. If I do not receive the notification on my phone then I do not get that email on my watch. So far no matter what it doesn't seem to sync back to it. The only instance I have ran into with this is if I have my email application open and a new email comes in. Because the email app is open it never does a notification to my phone so the watch never gets it.
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Thanks for the post. I reinstalled Gear Manager and it MAY have fixed the issue. I'm still going through some tests. The only way to get the emails to your watch all the time is to turn off the Limit notifications in Gear Manager > Notifications on your phone. I turned it off for the very reason of getting all the future email to go to the watch.

Murphinator2000 said:
Thanks for the post. I reinstalled Gear Manager and it MAY have fixed the issue. I'm still going through some tests. The only way to get the emails to your watch all the time is to turn off the Limit notifications in Gear Manager > Notifications on your phone. I turned it off for the very reason of getting all the future email to go to the watch.
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That's good that you may have got it resolved.
So for mine, I have already turned off the limit notifications option a few days ago. That works good so if I am using my phone the notification will still come to the watch, before I had turned it off if I was using my phone the notification would not come to the watch until my screen on the phone went black.
The problem is that if I actually have my email app opened up on the phone, and an email comes in. The phone doesn't give a notification because I had the app open already and see the email. At this point the watch never gets a notification for that email because the phone never did. So that email never makes it to the email app on the watch. Its almost like the watch didn't see a notification so the email doesn't exist for it.
This is not the same result for text messages, text messages still seem to sync correctly even if I did not actually get that notification on the phone.

rgburress said:
That's good that you may have got it resolved.
So for mine, I have already turned off the limit notifications option a few days ago. That works good so if I am using my phone the notification will still come to the watch, before I had turned it off if I was using my phone the notification would not come to the watch until my screen on the phone went black.
The problem is that if I actually have my email app opened up on the phone, and an email comes in. The phone doesn't give a notification because I had the app open already and see the email. At this point the watch never gets a notification for that email because the phone never did. So that email never makes it to the email app on the watch. Its almost like the watch didn't see a notification so the email doesn't exist for it.
This is not the same result for text messages, text messages still seem to sync correctly even if I did not actually get that notification on the phone.
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Ahhh ok I got ya. If the app is open, no notification, therefore no email on watch. Nice. I wondered why Samsung decided to handle emails like this to begin with. It would have been easier to just read from the phone or something instead of this convoluted sending notifications of future emails. That way I could access all the emails at once as well.

Yeah I agree, not sure what the thoughts were with it either. Owell, hopefully they will have some tweaks to it. The good thing is that it really isn't a big concern. If I already saw the email on my phone before the notification came in then I'm not that concerned about seeing it on my watch. The situation just won't come up very often as I don't just stare at my email app waiting for emails to come in haha. Just more of thought it was an interesting way they did things. Would be nice to know how that back end for that is working.
Either way, maybe it is because it is my first smart watch, but so far I'm still loving it even with some bugs and a lack of apps.

I just got a s2 classic, I am experiencing the same issue, I delete the messages from my phone, and they still show on the watch, I have tried removing gear from my phone and reinstalling, but it did not work, I still have the same issue.
any other people have this issue and have any other advice on fixing it.
thanks

Stop Whatsapp Web flakiness

For the last 12 months I've been running into this issue on multiple phones:
1. I hook up Whatsapp Web, everything is sweet.
2. After some time, Whatsapp Web stops syncing up, and I the message: "trying to reach phone"
3. I have to open up Whatsapp on my phone in order to get it to send a message to a server somewhere to notify that it's time to sync up.
4. Everything is fine on Whatsapp Web again, for a while. Then it happens again.
I've tried multiple phones:
KitKat 4.4
Marshmallow 6.0.1
iOS 10
At no point have I ever had a flaky internet connection.
Is there a phone out there where this doesn't happen?
I've tried turning off any battery optimizers, it still happens, even when the phones are plugged in!

Notifications sync on multiple devices

If you have multiple devices, you'll get the same notifications on all of them, if your setup is the same.
For example, if you receive an email, the notification will come through on all devices. Now if you act on the notification on one device, such as opening the email or deleting it, the notification disappears on the other devices, if they are online at that time.
Here is the problem:
If your other device (s) is offline, you'll still receive these notifications the moment that device turns online, even though you may have already acted on that notification on another device earlier.
The notifications sync only on devices that are online at the time you act on them. But if any device is offline, it will recieve these notifications later when it turns online. This becomes a headache if you connect a device (you don't use often) online after a few days. Because a very large number of old notifications (that have already been acted on) begin to bombard you each time.
Is there a way to force the notification sync in a way that a notification that has already been acted on in one device, stops showing up on other devices that come online later?

Look for an app that runs in the cloud. I believe that in that case, the notification will appear only once, because opening the interface to the application from the cloud does not launch another instance of the program.

ze7zez said:
Look for an app that runs in the cloud. I believe that in that case, the notification will appear only once, because opening the interface to the application from the cloud does not launch another instance of the program.
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I'm not sure if you understood the problem mentioned in the OP correctly.
What can I do for apps like Gmail, Outlook, Calendar, YouTube, News apps, etc.
For now, I have simply turned OFF notifications on my other devices for most apps so I don't get bombarded with old notifications in each device.
I'm not sure if this is something that Google Play Services can fix, because that is the common service running on all Android phones.