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[Greg Welch]

Just did my update to 7.5 , now i get to use it today and ill report back 9-29-2011

[tojoski]

Just did my update to 7.5 , now i get to use it today and ill report back 9-29-2011

I updated mine last night thanks to the help of vinylfreak..

Theres so much new stuff it's like I got a new phone.

[ikon]

And, according to rumour, it's not even the big update; that's coming later.

[Greg Welch]

I'm still finding all kinks of stuff, very pleased, funny thing is you don't see it right off you have to snoop then you find all kinds of stuff.

I know how you got it early LOL

Nice trick

Now that's good gossip LOL

[IndyLux]

I have and HD7s but it's not updating yet. I tried the 'disconnect the internet' trick and that didn't work either. Looks like I have to wait patiently.

[Greg Welch]

I have and HD7s but it's not updating yet. I tried the 'disconnect the internet' trick and that didn't work either. Looks like I have to wait patiently.

OK this is the secret: right after you hit update pull the RJ45 right away and if it doest work do it again , ive done 2

http://www.redmondpi...ow-to-tutorial/

[IndyLux]

Welch - do you have the HD7S? I have tried pulling the ethernet right away, waiting a few seconds, putting the phone in airplane mode, I just don't think it works.

[tojoski]

I put Zune and my network connections side by side.. hit the check for updates and real quick disabled the ethernet... I've done both of our phones now without a hitch

you can turn the ethernet back on as soon as the black update window appears

Edited by tojoski, 30 September 2011 - 06:30 AM.

[ikon]

OMG, this is sooo 1990's-ish

[Greg Welch]

Welch - do you have the HD7S? I have tried pulling the ethernet right away, waiting a few seconds, putting the phone in airplane mode, I just don't think it works.

http://windowsteambl...e-htc-hd7s.aspx

also ran across the list of mango updates:

Twitter, LinkedIn, Viadeo integration in the People Hub
- Groups: Organize contacts by groups which can also be pinned on the start screen
- Contact cards now include all the contacts conversation history (sms,mails,mms etc..)
- Facebook Places check-in support
- Windows Live Messenger and Facebook Chat integration
- Threads: All messaging communication organized in a single thread (IM+SMS/MMS)
- Threaded email conversations support
- Outlook Tasks support: via Exchange. Tasks / To-Do’s are then located in the calendar
- Facebook events integrated into the calendar
- Linked mail accounts: Multiple email accounts can be combined and linked into one inbox.
- Built-in voice-to-text/text-to-voice functionality, which will allow for hands-free texting or chatting.
- Server Search (Exchange)
- Complex (alpha-numeric) password support
- Information Rights Management support for protecting e-mails and Office documents
- Outlook Out Of Office replies support
- Visual Voice Mail: depends on carrier support
- Send Direct Message on Twitter : D Username + Message (can’t receive DM directly on the phone though)
- Share Music and Videos with Windows Live Messenger (PC to Phone)

Bing:

- Bing Vision: barcode (US only), covers (US Only),DVD/CD/BR scanning (US Only), QR Code ,MS Tags and OCR text translation
- Bing Audio / Music Search; Shazam like audio search
- Bing Local Scout: Around me business locator
- Bing Quick Cards: Product/Media information, reviews
- Bing Maps: Indoor Maps (US Only) (Video demo)
- Bing Search: Image search results
- Bing Search: Extras / App Connect
- Bing Maps: Turn-by-Turn navigation Voice guidance
- Bing Maps: Submit correction for POIs to Microsoft directly from the handset
- Color dithering applied to Bing Daily image

Office Hub:

- Skydrive and Office 365 documents syncing. (PDF supported but Adobe PDF app required to view them)
- Share Skydrive hosted content over email, SMS and chat (Messenger / Facebook)
- Excel Mobile now supports Sum function
- Microsoft Lync support via downloadable application
- Music and Video Streaming from Skydrive via the browser.

Pictures Hub:

- Direct access to the camera roll
- People / Groups photo gallery (Skydrive and Facebook syncing)
- People tagging in the photos (Skydrive and Facebook syncing)
- Photo Auto-Fix: Automatically improves sharpness, brightness etc..
- Picture Hub Tile is now animated
- Video sharing via MMS and Email
- Video uploads to Facebook and Skydrive (upload is done in the background)
- Stream videos hosted on Skydrive.

Music & Video:

- Zune SmartDJ Mix support
- Artist picture now displays on lock screen when music is played
- UI change of the media controls on the lock screen
- Re-located playback controls
- Re-located Shuffle / Repeat controls
- Ability to re-size video aspect-ratio during playback
- Single music track repeat without having to pin it on the start screen
- Podcast downloads / Subscriptions (US only)
- Open / Play media content by voice
- Improved artist images
- Improved History and New
- Better data management for Zune Pass subscribers: shows current data consumption
- Ability to create music playlists directly on the phone
- Improved color dithering in the video player
- Ability to scrub/seek in videos via the timeline

Marketplace:

- Revamped Marketplace UI and search
- New categories

Camera:

- Disable/Enable Shutter sound
- UI changes (new icons + added arrow icon on the lower left of the viewfinder to indicate camera roll)
- Settings are now saved when the Camera application is closed
- Smoother 720P video recording
- Touch Focus Touch the screen to trigger the camera shutter
- Front Facing camera support

Xbox / Games hub:

- Re-designed games hub
- 3D Avatar
- Avatar customization is now integrated in the Hub
- Friends and achievement now integrated in the hub
- In-Game purchase API
- Improved game request notifications
- Improved Spotlight content
- Improved Xbox LIVE messaging
- Edit your profile
- Improved Spotlight Content

IE9 Mobile:

- Hardware accelerate HTML5 rendering
- Support for HTML5 video playback (through the native media player) and Background Audio Streaming
- Geolocation
- New JavaScript Engine and support for CSS3
- New UI with URL bar at the bottom of the screen
- URL Bar and UI now available in landscape
- Color dithering is now enabled in the browser and Browser control

Other OS changes:

- Third party applications Multi-Tasking and fast application switching
- Battery Saver: Enabling this feature will allow the phone to automatically disable power consuming services and applications running in the background.
- Hardware search button will now always access Bing Search. A search Icon is now added in the native apps to search in them.
- Ringtone manager
- Search icon and Jumplist added to the application list
- 16 new languages supported
- East-Asian hand-written recognition
- New on screen Keyboard with support for new languages and emoticons
- New Live tiles (can have content displayed on the front and back)
- Live Tasks and Background agents
- App Connect: Deep linking into third party applications. A specific application feature can also be pinned on the start screen
- Hidden WiFi network support
- Optional 32bit color support for Silverlight applications
- Silverlight 4 support with all of its 1500+ APIs
- Silverlight + XNA support in the same application
- Raw Camera feed access
- New Sensor API (Compass, Gyro, Accelerometer)
- New Listbox control with improved scrolling performances
- New WebBrowser control uses IE9 rendering engine
- Clipboard API
- Hardware accelerated video decoding in the Mediaplayer control
- TCP/IP Sockets support
- SQL Compact 4.0 engine Embedded Database
- Background file transfer
- Generational Garbage Collector
- NEON/SIMD support for XNA applications
- Qualcomm MSM7X30 and MSM8X55 SoCs support
- XNA games are no longer limited to 30fps (info)
- Phone shutdown confirmation: long press on the power button and then slide down the screen to shutdown
- Wifi Hot-Spot support. Carrier depended.

[ImTheTypeOfGuy]

I was playing with a friends mango update the other day. Very, very, nice. This should get windows phone 7 into the game much stronger. The new groups functionality is really cool.

[Greg Welch]

Its ok to admit you want one, we are all friends. Here. LOL

[ImTheTypeOfGuy]

Its ok to admit you want one, we are all friends. Here. LOL

not sure who you are talking to but yes, I would take one in a second and ditch this iphone4 if Verizon had any good ones to choose from.

[IndyLux]

Mango is like having a new phone. It really has made the phone a much more enjoyable experience and I already really liked it.

[Greg Welch]

not sure who you are talking to but yes, I would take one in a second and ditch this iphone4 if Verizon had any good ones to choose from.

Hey maybe they will get the HTC titan WP7

[no-control]

After the Nokia event yesterday I'm in for a WP7. I'm not going to wait until 2012 though too far. This POS driod needs to go pronto. I'm also dumping Verizon after 12 years their charges are outta control. I get better discounts via ATT and Sprint. So if no one coughs up an 800 before Xmas I'm rolling with the titan.

[Greg Welch]

A new large update came out for WP7 today. it fixed a problem called visual voicemail that wasnt working on my phone.

[ikon]

After the Nokia event yesterday I'm in for a WP7. I'm not going to wait until 2012 though too far. This POS driod needs to go pronto. I'm also dumping Verizon after 12 years their charges are outta control. I get better discounts via ATT and Sprint. So if no one coughs up an 800 before Xmas I'm rolling with the titan.

Paul and Mary Jo seem to think it will be a 900 that will come to north america, and it will have a front facing camera.

update: now Paul and MJ don't seem too sure what it will be called, but they're speculating it will be unveiled at CES.

[Greg Welch]

The sky drive app is pretty cool, am having some one note viewing issues. But still really nice app

[Greg Welch]

we have another update , it started rolling out yesterday Update 7.10.8107.79

http://www.microsoft...te-history.aspx

On-screen keyboard. Fixes an issue to prevent the keyboard from disappearing during typing.

Email. Fixes a Google mail syncing issue.

Location. Fixes a location access issue. With this fix, the Me feature in the People Hub sends anonymous information about nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers to Microsoft only if you agree to allow the Check In function to access and use location information.

Security. Revokes digital certificates from DigiCert Sdn Bhd to address an encryption issue.

Email threads. Fixes an email issue related to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. With this fix, when you reply to or forward a message, the original message is now included in your response.

Voicemail. Fixes a voicemail notification display issue that occurs on some European and Asian networks under certain conditions.