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How to browse Apps without Zune Marketplace.

I know some of you new WP7 owners, like myself , are irritated with how the Zune marketplace always jumps back to the top when browsing the apps.
I began looking for a way to browse apps without needing to use the marketplace and I found 2 things:
1. There's this app called Top Apps which collects all the top apps for you to browse from your phone. I just got it an hour ago and it seems to work pretty well. But it's not on your PC, which is what I really wanted so I found a bing website,
2. Just use the search term WP7 app list in bing and a gallery is one of the results and it shows the apps available. Not sure if it's all of them but it looks like it and it's damn convenient IMHO.
Hope this helps someone out there. You have any other methods? Please share.

For Zune.. Just recreate a new hotmail account, and make sure it is a USA as the country when you sign up... and just use this for downloading apps from the market place. I am in canada, so my email was originally created as Canada, and so can't use it.. it is a known issue at this time. So the only workaround from Microsoft is to create new hotmail account and use that.

http://www.appsfuze.com/

[Q] transfering Office Docs

Hi All
simple question.
can i transfer office files to and from wp7 to win7 via the usb cable?
regards

I dont think so , but you can mail them

ceesheim said:
I dont think so , but you can mail them
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Yes, that's great and very convenient. WP7 is a huge progress in this respect.
You can also print the office document and send it to yourself via FedEx
(I want my USB mass storage back)

arturobandini said:
Yes, that's great and very convenient. WP7 is a huge progress in this respect.
You can also print the office document and send it to yourself via FedEx
(I want my USB mass storage back)
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yes that is a real big - for wp7
Could be added simple by microsoft , just make another folder called Documents , and let it sync
same as Music, videos , potcasts , pictures .
but we early adopters have to live with it I think .
I think they (Microsoft) will change things like this really quick .

ceesheim said:
yes that is a real big - for wp7
Could be added simple by microsoft , just make another folder called Documents , and let it sync
same as Music, videos , potcasts , pictures .
but we early adopters have to live with it I think .
I think they (Microsoft) will change things like this really quick .
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Agreed. I hope so.
Otherwise I believe many users will jailbreak their WP7 phone in order to get this essential feature back.

arturobandini said:
Agreed. I hope so.
Otherwise I believe many users will jailbreak their WP7 phone in order to get this essential feature back.
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lol , only tweakers like us will jailbreak the phone (even when it isn't needed) , 99% of the users don't do that.
I know a lot of people that have a iphone and non of them are jailbreaked .
and that is the same for android and wm 6.*.*

Yeah I think they focused too much on Sharepoint integration.
Which by the way only supports Sharepoint 2010 when most businesses haven't upgraded yet.
I agree there should be document syncing in Zune just like there was in Active Sync.

thing was, i was out for the day working away had no gprs dongle as i left it at home and had a word doc to send. ohh i thought i know ill bluetooth it to my mozart no cant do that, ohh ill use the cable no cant to that. So it turns out office mobile is a waste of time on my mozart.

teoami said:
Yeah I think they focused too much on Sharepoint integration.
Which by the way only supports Sharepoint 2010 when most businesses haven't upgraded yet.
I agree there should be document syncing in Zune just like there was in Active Sync.
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Also, there are too many services: Sharepoint, Live, Zune, Hotmail, Skydrive, Mesh, etc... It is a REAL MESS.
Office documents shall be easily transferrable via USB cable, from any PC.
ZUNE (or any specific soft) cannot be the answer since not all the PC will have Zune on it.

Hey Guys
a simple tip for sending things to your computer
if you have a PC you can use the "map network drive" to create a drive which will sync with your skydrive.
so i use that to drag and drop files onto skydrive on the PC which i can access easily on my phone.
or you can download windows live mesh!
sorted

I'm an Android user so don't know if this applies to Windows Phone, but many people seem suprised when I tell them I xfer docs, music, files, etc quickly & easily with Dropbox. It really doesn't get much easier. Sure, a lot of people already know this, but many seem to overlook it too! But bring a new platform and all, there may not be a Dropbox app.
Also, I use ftp lots too. I have both a server and client app on my phones and they both work great. Again, not sure if this applies either tho, but maybe. I use Swiftp as a server, and andFtp as a client, both of which work great. If by chance they are available on WP. If not, maybe there is something similar.
Anyway, just some ideas. I probably don't know what I'm talking about tho, so ill go back to my own section . Hope ya find what you're looking for. I hate when I need a file and dont have access to it. Luckily there are some great tools available to make sure that rarely happens!
PS: Google Docs seems to be getting more and more serious in the mobile world as well. Today the just added editing capabilities on mobile devices.
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WM 6.X.X has Dropbox or Box.net clients also (Kinoma or ruttensoft Cloufiles).
But the problem is still here and still the same:
If someone has some office docs in his PC and you want to import them you will not ask this person if you can install Dropbox on his pc. And what if he does not have Internet connection?

arturobandini said:
WM 6.X.X has Dropbox or Box.net clients also (Kinoma or ruttensoft Cloufiles).
But the problem is still here and still the same:
If someone has some office docs in his PC and you want to import them you will not ask this person if you can install Dropbox on his pc. And what if he does not have Internet connection?
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this is my point i wanted to transfer them so i could send via phones gprs signal. my laptop had no wifi or a gprs signal as i didnt have a dongle.
any other ideas???

arturobandini said:
Also, there are too many services: Sharepoint, Live, Zune, Hotmail, Skydrive, Mesh, etc... It is a REAL MESS.
Office documents shall be easily transferrable via USB cable, from any PC.
ZUNE (or any specific soft) cannot be the answer since not all the PC will have Zune on it.
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SharePoint isn't a consumer Service. It's part of what Microsoft used to call BackOffice back in the day, if they still used that term (along with IIS, Exchange, SQL Server, etc. - basically what comes with Microsoft Windows SBS).
Live Mesh is part of SkyDrive, just like Windows Live Photos was killed and integrated into SkyDrive. Office Web Apps are also part of SkyDrive. It's one service. There is just an application you install on you PCs to Sync Files from them onto that specific area of you SkyDrive.
Windows Live Photo Gallery Syncs directly to SkyDrive. Office Web Apps save directly to SkyDrive and if you use Microsoft Office (desktop Applications) with SkyDrive it saves directly to SkyDrive. Hotmail/Calendar/Contacts are all basically one service. To-Do Lists (i.e. Tasks) are integrated into Calendar and supported fully by Windows Live Mail, as is all functionality of those components.
There are basically 3 Services: SkyDrive, Hotmail, Zune - all running off the same Windows Live ID (if you're organized).
There USED to be too many services, because everything was once separate. SkyDrive, Windows Live Photos, Spaces, Office Live Workspaces, Calendar, etc. was all separate. That's what Google is dealing with now, and trying to fix. Remember all the humbug about having different Google Profiles depending on which service it was? Picasa and Google Docs aren't related outside of their brand, things like that. Microsoft has fixed much of that and integrated the products quite well in Wave 4.
The only people who are suffering are those on Windows XP because they cannot install and use the update client applications (Live Essentials 2011).
Zune needs to be its own service. The same way iTunes isn't integrated into MobileMe for Microsoft and I'm sure Google Music will be as decoupled as everything else Google has when they release that (although the media industry seems to be quite apprehensive of Google these days).

stickyshocker said:
this is my point i wanted to transfer them so i could send via phones gprs signal. my laptop had no wifi or a gprs signal as i didnt have a dongle.
any other ideas???
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Use SkyDrive. Most people won't wait until they get into basically a no-signal area to get their files transferred over.

hboos said:
Hey Guys
a simple tip for sending things to your computer
if you have a PC you can use the "map network drive" to create a drive which will sync with your skydrive.
so i use that to drag and drop files onto skydrive on the PC which i can access easily on my phone.
or you can download windows live mesh!
sorted
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awesome!! thanks for the tip!

If you use Microsoft Office (2003 and above) to edit a file on SkyDrive it automatically maps it as a "Network Place" on your computer, BTW, after you open the first file.

N8ter said:
SharePoint isn't a consumer Service. It's part of what Microsoft used to call BackOffice back in the day, if they still used that term (along with IIS, Exchange, SQL Server, etc. - basically what comes with Microsoft Windows SBS).
Live Mesh is part of SkyDrive, just like Windows Live Photos was killed and integrated into SkyDrive. Office Web Apps are also part of SkyDrive. It's one service. There is just an application you install on you PCs to Sync Files from them onto that specific area of you SkyDrive.
Windows Live Photo Gallery Syncs directly to SkyDrive. Office Web Apps save directly to SkyDrive and if you use Microsoft Office (desktop Applications) with SkyDrive it saves directly to SkyDrive. Hotmail/Calendar/Contacts are all basically one service. To-Do Lists (i.e. Tasks) are integrated into Calendar and supported fully by Windows Live Mail, as is all functionality of those components.
There are basically 3 Services: SkyDrive, Hotmail, Zune - all running off the same Windows Live ID (if you're organized).
There USED to be too many services, because everything was once separate. SkyDrive, Windows Live Photos, Spaces, Office Live Workspaces, Calendar, etc. was all separate. That's what Google is dealing with now, and trying to fix. Remember all the humbug about having different Google Profiles depending on which service it was? Picasa and Google Docs aren't related outside of their brand, things like that. Microsoft has fixed much of that and integrated the products quite well in Wave 4.
The only people who are suffering are those on Windows XP because they cannot install and use the update client applications (Live Essentials 2011).
Zune needs to be its own service. The same way iTunes isn't integrated into MobileMe for Microsoft and I'm sure Google Music will be as decoupled as everything else Google has when they release that (although the media industry seems to be quite apprehensive of Google these days).
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Thanks for this useful clarification N8ter.
Still I think it's a bit complicated, and services shall be more integrated.

I think they will have issues trying to integrate them "more" than they already have.
Couple Windows Phone 7 with Windows 7 + Live Essentials, and it's hard to get more integrated with such a good workflow [than they already are].
I'm sure there are areas where the integration can be made tighter, though.
Also I made a typo. I said "... iTunes isn't integrated into mobileMe for Microsoft..."
Microsoft should be "Apple."

Adding Word Documents to WP&
I'm confused on how to send word documents to WP7. I added the documents to Skydrive but I don't see them in my phone. Anybody know what is the ebst way to do it? Thank you

[Q] Internet explorer WP7

hey there. with the hopefully soon WP7 rom i just wanted to know if you will be able to use internet explorer? cotulla says that we wont be able to use live services, what are these live services? i know one will be obviously the marketplace, but what else?
regards

jiminho said:
hey there. with the hopefully soon WP7 rom i just wanted to know if you will be able to use internet explorer? cotulla says that we wont be able to use live services, what are these live services? i know one will be obviously the marketplace, but what else?
regards
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I'm not exactly sure what the question is.... Live services could be pertaining to the "Ring", "Lock", and "Map" features. But again, shot in the dark.

ok well when WP7 rom is released what wont you be able to do on it? will features like internet explorer be enabled?

Not sure what rom are you referring to?
The one for the HD2??

Not sure but I'm guessing it means anything you need to use your windows live ID to sign in.
So youre windows live contacts, xbox live, windows live calander, live email etc, basically their cloud services. I dont see the point in using the phone without many of these features as its a big part of the way the phone works.

Migrate Apps from one WP handset to another w/same Windows Live Account - How?

So here is a strange one, and I was wondering if someone knows how to do this correctly.
With my new phone I am using the same Windows Live account as my other WP7 device. It automatically downloaded a few of the games I had on my Samsung, but not others. Like maybe a third of my games showed up.

tiny17 said:
So here is a strange one, and I was wondering if someone knows how to do this correctly.
With my new phone I am using the same Windows Live account as my other WP7 device. It automatically downloaded a few of the games I had on my Samsung, but not others. Like maybe a third of my games showed up.
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I think the only way now is manually install all the apps and game you had purchase in marketplace by browsing the marketplace all over again...
Some nice tips to ease this progress, use Zune software rather than your WP7 when browsing the marketplace for more efficient

Thanks
OK, it looks like I have to do it on the phone actually. On the computer, I click "Buy" and then it says the game is already purchased, but doesn't present me with an option to re-install, but on the phone it does.
Either way, it is still odd that some games downloaded and installed on their own, while others didn't.

tiny17 said:
Thanks
OK, it looks like I have to do it on the phone actually. On the computer, I click "Buy" and then it says the game is already purchased, but doesn't present me with an option to re-install, but on the phone it does.
Either way, it is still odd that some games downloaded and installed on their own, while others didn't.
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zune can't tell what apps you purchase directly on the phone. Only ones that you buy/download through the zune software.
I have talked to the zune support team and they are trying to add the functionality in a future update of zune.

nrfitchett4 said:
zune can't tell what apps you purchase directly on the phone. Only ones that you buy/download through the zune software.
I have talked to the zune support team and they are trying to add the functionality in a future update of zune.
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BINGO! That makes total sense as to why only a few auto downloaded.
Thankfully, NoDo made the marketplace 100x better to use. I was able to quickly find the apps and que them all up without any crash. A minute later, all my games were in their hub.
Lesson to be learned here: Download apps through Zune if at all possible.

Mango RTM installed, but its worse, please read

Here it is, in Mango Beta i had Bing Music. I also have Bing Vision now, but i can only scan Tags and QR codes. And from the Me - Hub, the threads section have disappeared. There is no list of people from windows live or facebook in a list like it was before.
Anyone else got that problem? Please help.

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ryssfemma said:
Here it is, in Mango Beta i had Bing Music. I also have Bing Vision now, but i can only scan Tags and QR codes. And from the Me - Hub, the threads section have disappeared. There is no list of people from windows live or facebook in a list like it was before.
Anyone else got that problem? Please help.
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nope, not sure what you did. everything working here. With the non-existent information you provide there is not much we can help either

ryssfemma said:
Here it is, in Mango Beta i had Bing Music. I also have Bing Vision now, but i can only scan Tags and QR codes. And from the Me - Hub, the threads section have disappeared. There is no list of people from windows live or facebook in a list like it was before.
Anyone else got that problem? Please help.
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The list of people active on Facebook is in the messages hub and not in the Me hub.
I haven't tried the bing vision on RTM yet.
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derausgewanderte said:
nope, not sure what you did. everything working here. With the non-existent information you provide there is not much we can help either
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Well it was like this, when i had the beta for developers, the bing vision was fully functional and bing music was available. Now with RTM, bing vision is available but i can only can text and translate, and scan QR codes and MSFT - Tags. Bing Music is tab is not available anymore and neither is Local Scout.
Sorry for not being so specific.
I live in Sweden with carrier free LG Optimus 7.

ryssfemma said:
Well it was like this, when i had the beta for developers, the bing vision was fully functional and bing music was available. Now with RTM, bing vision is available but i can only can text and translate, and scan QR codes and MSFT - Tags. Bing Music is tab is not available anymore and neither is Local Scout.
Sorry for not being so specific.
I live in Sweden with carrier free LG Optimus 7.
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that is odd. so you are missing scan books, cds and dvds? have you tried temporarily switching your System Locale to US (under settings/system/region and lanuage)? I know that worked for some with the previous beta. Scout is only on if you have "use my location" enabled under settings on the bing page (three dots)

ryssfemma said:
Well it was like this, when i had the beta for developers, the bing vision was fully functional and bing music was available. Now with RTM, bing vision is available but i can only can text and translate, and scan QR codes and MSFT - Tags. Bing Music is tab is not available anymore and neither is Local Scout.
Sorry for not being so specific.
I live in Sweden with carrier free LG Optimus 7.
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I experienced this behavior in Mango Beta 2 once. Believe me, the Local Scout will only appear when the phone can recognize the place / town / city you are in. If it is not able to recognize that, the Scout button will not appear.
Just try going to a different location and launch Bing... you would see it again.

derausgewanderte said:
that is odd. so you are missing scan books, cds and dvds? have you tried temporarily switching your System Locale to US (under settings/system/region and lanuage)? I know that worked for some with the previous beta. Scout is only on if you have "use my location" enabled under settings on the bing page (three dots)
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Yes, and Bing Music Search. Tried to switch System Local to US, even region format, not working ...
[EDIT]Ok now i also changed Browser & Search Language, Local scout and Bing Vision is upgraded to scan books, dvds and other covers. But Bing Music service
is not available, any solutions guys?

ryssfemma said:
Yes, and Bing Music Search. Tried to switch System Local to US, even region format, not working ...
[EDIT]Ok now i also changed Browser & Search Language, Local scout and Bing Vision is upgraded to scan books, dvds and other covers. But Bing Music service
is not available, any solutions guys?
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I don't have Bing Music either in Austria. I think it's only available in countries that have the Zune music store. Just like artists in the lock screen.

ryssfemma said:
Here it is, in Mango Beta i had Bing Music. I also have Bing Vision now, but i can only scan Tags and QR codes.
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This depends on the language selected in Regional for Browser and Search. I think it is dependent on whether or not you can already use these features in your country. If you set it to UK you can do it all..

As far as the People Hub issue, if you're talking about seeing comments to posts, you can click on the post, and if its on more than one service, you can just go right or left on the pivots and it'll show you all the services.