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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.

Parallel space- auto sync issue-no update unless open the app

My whatsapp on Parallel space is not getting synced unless i open the app. I check whether it is in black list or what, but that i not the case. I also checked the Data usage, the background data was disabled and checked having enabled as well, but it is not working. Need your Help on the same. so that the user gets to know immediately whenever there is some msg. Otherwise it is a 5 star app. helps in separating the personal life from official life.

me too. And I'm using Redmi Note 2 with MIUI 7.2.3.0
@eoc please help.

Google Fit - Problem with synchronization between watch and phone

I bought yesterday Huawei Watch 2. Unfortunatelly, I can't sync my data (steps, calories) in Google Fit from my watch to my phone. When I wear a watch and a telephone at the same time, on both devices are the different data. I have the same google account on both devices. Does anyone have a similar problem? How to solve it?

Did you install the Huawei watch app and Huawei health?

Yes, I installed. But sometimes it doesn't sync with google fit. I don't know what kind of dependency. I noticed that the data goes to google fit on the phone, usually around 23 o'clock. Yesterday, I wear only smartwatch (without phone) and yesterday, for example, the data did not synchronize. I don't know how to fix it.

I went for a walk with my phone in pedometer only mode as battery was low..I came back with 17000 steps, this is reflected in the Huawei Health app on the phone.
However it doesn't seem to come to Google Fit in one go..slowly it has been increasing and is now up to 12000 steps from the 1600 it was at before the walk.
I don't understand the sycn between Health and Fit - if the apps are connected why doesn't it go into Fit as soon as the data is there?
Is there anyway to force synch, it's really annoying.
I don't normally use the phone in Pedometer only so didn't see this before, normally my watch faces are using Fit instead of Health so I see the results in Fit app on the phone a lot faster.

I'm having the same issues with my Huawei Watch 2 Classic and Pixel 2 XL phone. Please join this thread and send a bug report so that we can get this issue fixed! https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/77606997

Hi,
Have you tried doing the following in Google Fit:
1. Enter settings
2. Turn off "Track your activities"
This work for me om ny Huawei Watch GT. Still I ONLY gir the steps, not the other data.

Question Motorola Edge S (Delayed/No Notification until you open the App)

Hi, I'm planning to buy the Motorola Edge S (not G100) as it is cheaper.
Previously, I owned a Moto P30 (the phone that looks like the iPhone X) and China ROMs even on other OEMs have this weird bug where you won't receive any notifications say, in WhatsApp unless you open the app itself (already enabled app in background/disabled optimizations etc..).
Is this "bug" still persists in latest Moto phones using China ROM?
Hope someone can confirm. Thanks.

I personally bought it from AliExpress and the vendor already unlocked the bootloader and flashed the global ron with Google Play. My edge S with the global rom from the vendor has no problem with the notifications. Depending where you buy it you can have it with the global rom already instead of needing to do it yourself.
Keep in mind you wont pass safetynet, you may need to install Magisk for it

Thanks. I don't intend on flashing it to Global ROM. There is no issue with Motorola global ROMs as notification is working fine. I just need some confirmation if China ROM still has this weird bug. This is true for any Android phone without GMS (a lot of complaints in Huawei forums with this problem).

There should be some battery optimizing setting behind. If you cannot set it via whatsapp & phone setting, you will need to kill such background app by adb

Disabling battery optimization and putting the app with "unrestricted data usage" didn't help (on my previous Moto P30 running China ROM). Same case as the Lenovo z6 Pro based on China ROM. Android will kill the app (ex. WhatsApp) regardless whether you put it on whitelist.
But both are old devices running an old version of Android. Anyway, I would still buy the Motorola Edge S (Pioneer Edition). An irritating bug (for devices without GMS) which Android developers should have squashed a long time ago.

Settings Edge S with Chinese firmware.
1.Settings - System - Advanced. Google Play Services - On.
2. Download, unpack, and install Google Services.
3. Configuring notifications and application operation.
a) System-Apps & notifications-Special app access-Battery optimization.
For the necessary applications and notifications: Enable - Don’t optimize
b) Launch the application - Device shield.
Background running – Allow app running in background.
Auto start apps - Enable the applications you need.

My order is still on the way. I'll try that once I received my purchase. Thanks.

So I got my phone already setup with all Google-related apps installed.
I configured the settings by whitelisting Google and all apps important to me like WhatsApp.
In Device Shield, I ensured my apps are whitelisted to allow background processing at all times and put them in auto start.
Adding to that, in battery settings, I put them in Do Not Optimize. I also ensured to allow background data.
For now, everything works PERFECTLY. Notifications arrive on time and I don't even miss any WhatsApp calls. It is either that OR my I'm still using my phone too much (not even 12 hours since I got it).

ijuanp03 said:
So I got my phone already setup with all Google-related apps installed.
I configured the settings by whitelisting Google and all apps important to me like WhatsApp.
In Device Shield, I ensured my apps are whitelisted to allow background processing at all times and put them in auto start.
Adding to that, in battery settings, I put them in Do Not Optimize. I also ensured to allow background data.
For now, everything works PERFECTLY. Notifications arrive on time and I don't even miss any WhatsApp calls. It is either that OR my I'm still using my phone too much (not even 12 hours since I got it).
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Hi, I got the same problem. WhatsApp calls don't work properly. If any one knows how to remove/kill the background app procedure through adb, please share the same.

Find My Device (Google) and Find Device (Xiaomi)

Last days I was testing Google's Find My Device (gFMD) vs Xiaomi's Find Device (xFD) on my two Xiaomi phones:
Davinci: Mi 9T, Xiaomi.eu MIUI 12.5.2/A11
Lisa: 11 Lite 5G NE, stock MIUI 12.5.8/A11
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Both gFMD and xFD come as preinstalled system apps
gFMD can be set through Google settings, xFD must be activated through Xiaomi Cloud
gFMD can be installed to every Android with GApps (it relies on Google Play Services)
xFD comes with (stock) MIUI firmwares
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If you have several phones registered to the same Google account (each of those phones may have also other/multiple Google accounts set), with gFMD you can check for each of them
Similarly, if you have several phones registered to the same Xiaomi Cloud account, with xFD you can also check for each of them
For gFMD you must have Google History Location enabled
Of course, both gFMD and xFD require Location to be turned on (although some features like playing sound or erasing data remotely work also.with Location disabled)
Both gFMD and xFD work with Mobile Internet or WiFi
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Precise requirements for gFMD can be found eg here:
https://support.google.com/maps/thread/9580022?hl=en&msgid=9582219
Some screenshots in the guide might be outdated (Google settings may look little different now/with the newer Android version).
But all required settings are properly described - except I was nowhere able to find the Visibility status for Google Play
Note: When I properly set everything, gFMD locating was still failing for me on one phone. Then I disabled gFMD, rebooted, enabled it back and rebooted - gFMD finally started to work then
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Both gFMD and xFD can be used (find location of the phone, etc) through browser (on the PC or the phone, incl. the own phone):
https://www.google.com/android/find
https://us.i.mi.com/mobile/find
gFMD can be used also through that app, but xFD only through browser
Of course, for the real use there is no sense in using the browser on the own phone (except to test do xFMD and gFD work) or in using xFMD app to check the own phone
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With both gFMD and xFD you are supposed to locate your phones.
With gFMD you can also inspect it's history of locations (Maps Timelapse)
With both apps you can force playing a sound on the target/remote device. Also, with both you can erase data remotely and inspect the battery status
With gFMD you can change unlock pin/pattern remotely.
xFD has a similar Lost Mode option (forcing a user on the remote phone to login with your Xiaomi Cloud password to unlock the phone)
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To work properly, both gFMD and xFD must have Autostart enabled and Battery Optimization disabled.
Btw, for xFD, Autostart cannot even be controlled/disabled
gFMD shows notifications on the remote phone that phone is trying to be located and then that phone was located. This might be useful while testing but not in the real case if the phone would be lost or stolen.
Notifications are coming from Google Play Services and must be disabled there: Settings, Apps, Manage apps, Show System apps, find Google Play Services, Notifications, Disable notifications
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Through the tests (while traveling on vacation and now back at home) I found:
gFMD properly locates both my phones in some seconds but Davinci is usually located little faster. Sound can be played even if the remote phone was not located (similarly should work for changing pin/pattern or erasing data but I didn't test)
xFD always successfully locates my Davinci (maybe little slower than gFMD)
However, more often than not, xFD fails to locate my Lisa. On the next try (immediately or after some time), or even after a few unsuccessful attempts it then successfully locates Lisa.
I could not find why it sometimes fails. Eg, I'm testing through browser from the Lisa itself (hence Lisa is not sleeping), and gFMD has just successfully located Lisa, but xFD fails several times to locate Lisa and then suddenly locates successfully
However, you can still play sound when locating fails
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Long story short, I found Google's Find My Device more reliable than Xiaomi's Find Device but I will continue using both (just in case)

thank you for the careful and thorough walkthrough of your experience with both Google's and Xiaomi's find my device services. I hadn't even begun to think about those aspects of my phone security in nearly as much depth as you have until I read what you had to say about it.
I'm tempted to activate Google's fmd service, but I'm hesitant to share such sensitive data with more than one international corporate giant. I had an unpleasant experience last year with getting my phones (two Redmi Note 7s* and two 9s) hacked and a lot of data compromised, including precise location. This might just be making me overly skittish.
However, it still seems prudent to ask whether there's any way of being confident that you, and only you, are accessing that location data when, and only when, your trusted software does so for good reason. Or something reasonably close to that, if that's simply too high a standard.
Is the FMD redundancy worth the doubled personal data exposure? More generally, would you consider Xiaomi and Google equally secure? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
* I had two Note 7s, identical (same unlock, both logged into everything), except only one had a SIM. One got stolen. I got locked out of things, and my remaining phone got overrun by malicious software... a separate story

summervelvet said:
thank you for the careful and thorough walkthrough of your experience with both Google's and Xiaomi's find my device services. I hadn't even begun to think about those aspects of my phone security in nearly as much depth as you have until I read what you had to say about it.
I'm tempted to activate Google's fmd service, but I'm hesitant to share such sensitive data with more than one international corporate giant. I had an unpleasant experience last year with getting my phones (two Redmi Note 7s* and two 9s) hacked and a lot of data compromised, including precise location. This might just be making me overly skittish.
However, it still seems prudent to ask whether there's any way of being confident that you, and only you, are accessing that location data when, and only when, your trusted software does so for good reason. Or something reasonably close to that, if that's simply too high a standard.
Is the FMD redundancy worth the doubled personal data exposure? More generally, would you consider Xiaomi and Google equally secure? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
* I had two Note 7s, identical (same unlock, both logged into everything), except only one had a SIM. One got stolen. I got locked out of things, and my remaining phone got overrun by malicious software... a separate story
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I see your risks but I prefer the advantages (hoping to be able to erase my lost/stolen phone, in case it ever happens)
Also, I don't think that my data at Xiaomi are less secure than my data at Google.
Actually, I'm more unhappy since the corresponding govt agencies of the two superpowers having easy access to my data through their back-doors at Xiaomi and Google respectively
Btw, long ago I enabled Xiaomi Cloud (prerequisite for Xiaomi Find Device) because of backup/restore and that helped me couple of times to super easily and quickly restore almost everything upon factory reset/data formatting
Therefore I backup parts of my data on Google side and parts (some common to both sides) at Xiaomi.
Hence again to whom should I believe more (and why?) about security of my data on their servers.
And similarly about giving my privacy to the two giants (again, I'm more worried about the corresponding states/agencies than the two companies)
But unless you left everything and go to the woods, you cannot protect your privacy in the modern life, and you can never be sure that your accounts here or there would ever be compromised, hence I again have to choose between the pros (commodities) and contra (privacy and secure of my data)
After all, my sins are mostly about sometimes driving over the speed limit and discussing here about Magisk and so, hence I don't care that much about being spied