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More than once in the last few months I've blasted WP8/8.1 because something in the software stack resulted in the music player on my 520 puking into mega lag city when trying to shuffle the 60GB/11k track music collection I've got on a uSD card. The initial 8.1 dev preview only changed how it faceplanted but didn't really make it better...
Well the newest update I installed (I think this is the equivalent to the OTA update my simless phone can't get) has finally fixed things. The multi-minute freeze the phone totally bug from 8.0 is still gone, as is the 8.1 preview bug where the next/previous buttons had about 30 sec of delay before changing tracks. It now changes songs in an entirely reasonable second or so.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My phone did this weird thing over the weekend. It shut itself down, then there was some cogs moving, then it restructured a load of stuff. Then it said it was ready for 8.1.
Just checked - still 8.0, not that I'd probably even notice if 8.1 is there.
There's one bug I hope they fix. I've got the kids area on it which is a brilliant idea. But in 8.0, you still need to enter the same unlock code as you do for the main phone, hence the partition between the two is pretty much non-existent. Sort it out, MS.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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IIRC from when I upgraded to 8.1 dev preview they split the install into multiple parts; sort of like how on Windows for real computers you generally have to install all the normal windows update patches (including a new version of windows installer) before it will offer the service pack. 
Edit: Probably if you wait a few days it'll get around to pulling down the main 8.1 update and installing it for you. Or you could always install the I'm a developer tell my carrier to pound sand and install the new version now app and manually do the OS upgrade now. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It was that way in WP7 too, manufacturer specific things got in line before update.
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You would notice, there is a new icon for the new notification area on the top of the screen, and the logic of the call history changed: instead of an easy way to the contact card and a small icon to call back, now touching the name calls and there is a small icon for the contact card. The small icon went to the right side so it is even more marginal.
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Well my view of 8.0/8.1 is they appear to have removed the steering wheel replaced it with joystick for no good reason, I got into a flame war on Friday with someone who I was just trolling. They seem to altered too much in one go, I wasn't aware of the audio lag problems, it doesn't really surprise me though. I do a lot of interfacing and the FTDI drivers I rely on don't seem to work as quickly (or remember they were installed). Work wise I'm keep with 7 for as long as possible.
Glenn
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I'm talking about Windows Phone, not Windows for Desktop/Laptop/Large Fondleslab.
On my laptop/fondleslab combo I've mostly stuck to the desktop and the old standby WMP.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sorry I just can't get used to one operating system on everything, I head/saw Windows thought (didn't see the P!) Desktop/portable/laptop. One OS to rule them I don't think, I pity the poor sob who has to convert some of the more interesting DOS features to an ARM (:sing: "There maybe trouble ahead, but while theres....)
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The hard work there's already been done Windows 8, WP8, and the XBone all run the same kernel. W8.1 and SP8.1 can both use a unified .net runtime/library to build metro style apps (supposedly this will let you share almost everything except the GUI code). By letting you run Metro apps in normal windows, Win9 will make that option more widely usable.
With WPF at best a second class citizen now, and winforms/native win32 all too tightly coupled to pixel centric/raster UI using the Metro libraries is by far the best/easiest way to create an app that will play nicely with high DPI displays.
While the long tail of app updating is going to be a lingering pain for a number of years after high DPI becomes common, the mass of consumer facing shiny UI apps will probably go over since a lot are already done with WPF and they don't have any hard ties to classic windows UI anyway. Probably a lot of soulless LoB apps (that don't go to the web) will too since they're little more than thin wrappers on a data grid or two and don't have much custom UI to update in the first place.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I just have to wonder is this all because Ballamer put it in place or opposed it. I believe his real fall was Vista (which to my mind was a rip off of OSx) or was that a Gates thing? I have only messed with 8 a bit and on a non-touch screen tower PC it seems, well odd & counter intuitive to use. Unlike the previous versions of Windows where everything was there it was a case of finding it 8.0 & 8.1 either don't give you the same control or present it so oddly it's just as useless as it not being there. 
My twopence worth!
Glenn
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The first 928 I had, never had an issue with the screen locking up. With this replacement phone, well just had to reboot it 6 times so I could unlock it...Have no clue what its going on with it but man there should be no reason to reboot a phone a couple of dozen times a day. Extremely frustrating... 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Wow - makes me appreciate VS2010 - and that's saying something!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Have you had the same feeling with Netbeans?
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I've never eaten them
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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They give terrible gas.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That will be a Gas Cloud.
i'll get my coat.
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DaveAuld wrote: That will be a Gas Cloud
Azure or Amazon? Or do they both stink?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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As long as you don't get HemAndroids
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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DaveAuld wrote: Have you had the same feeling with Netbeans?
It's on my list to try next. You're using Beaglebone's, right? Are you using Netbeans for cross compiling?
Marc
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I haven't got to the beaglebone yet! It is sat on my desk staring at me, next to a Raspi + Getboard, an Arduino and strangely a Netgear gigabit card ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and how could I forget a tin of Stewart Luxury Scottish Fudge.
They Parallela boards are also still waiting, and now something else has got in the way. (more on that later... )
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Well, I await to hear your further adventures. I've been having fun getting the onboard UART to communicate to an MEI bill acceptor, which uses mark/space parity to distinguish between commands, data, and final checksum byte. And of course, only odd/even parity is supported by Debian even though the hardware supports mark/space. Oh, that was painful, but success was achieved!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: It's on my list to try next.
Please don't. It will spare you from several strokes and will allow you to have a longer life.
If you're interested in cross compiling, just use MonoDevelop. Honestly
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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beaten to a wind comment
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I had (and still have).
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Wow - makes me appreciate VS2010 - and that's saying something!
Yeah. Using Eclipse is a painful experience. Even tabbing between documents. I didn't appreciate how nice it is that VS puts my "last visited" tab into the "tab back to this tab" slot, so I can easily bounce between two tabs. I have no idea what that feature is called or even how to describe it well, but I sure miss it in Eclipse.
And then there's the whole "you have to save the file before it compiles the latest changes" BS. Why can't it auto-save first? There's probably a configuration option.
The thing that I find most amusing (and annoying) is that the most useful command "build project" has no hotkey!!!
Marc
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