Okay so let me start off by saying that this is my first Windows Phone and I really love it (aside from the so-so camera). I went from a Captivate to the Galaxy S2 (loved both) to the iPhone 4S (awful, awful phone), and can say I might just be hooked on WP7. Anywho, I've found that I'm incapable of saving images from IE9 or the built in search app. Long pressing does absolutely nothing. I feel like the answer is something obvious that I happen to be overlooking, but searching gave me nothing. Any help?
EDIT- So after rebooting I got it to work in the web browser, but it looks like it's just not possible to do from the built in Bing search. Pretty lame on MSFT's part but whatever. Can a mod lock/delete thread? Sorry
I get the menu option to save the picture from the browser.
Yeah, it is pretty lame that save pic doesn't work from the Search app. Works fine from the browser, so if I want to save something, I just use Bing from IE.
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OK, I used my Tilt for everything. And I ususally get laughed at from friends cuz I have my checkbook as a spreadsheet, take notes for meetings, etc. on it.
However, I find that tying in Word, trying to cut and paste, etc., is almost impossible on my Tilt2. Is anyone else having this issue. For a recent convention I went to, I broke out my old Tilt to take noted on cuz it was faster to do so. Is there a setting I'm missing? A better keyboard I'm missing? Or something to make my Tilt2 MORE useful to me? I find everything else is OK, but I use mine for note taking all the time!!!! What can I do? Suggestions?!?!
have you tried using swype to imput data...??? once you get the hang of it, it is a much faster way of typing...just a thought...
I just use the stylus
aspromalee said:
OK, I used my Tilt for everything. And I ususally get laughed at from friends cuz I have my checkbook as a spreadsheet, take notes for meetings, etc. on it.
However, I find that tying in Word, trying to cut and paste, etc., is almost impossible on my Tilt2. Is anyone else having this issue. For a recent convention I went to, I broke out my old Tilt to take noted on cuz it was faster to do so. Is there a setting I'm missing? A better keyboard I'm missing? Or something to make my Tilt2 MORE useful to me? I find everything else is OK, but I use mine for note taking all the time!!!! What can I do? Suggestions?!?!
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For portrait mode, I'm using SPB Keyboard, which allows me to use the CTL key to do standard cut paste. However, what I generally do is open the hardware keyboard, the use the shift key and LEFT or RIGHT key to highlight. From there one can simply hold the stylus, or even hold the hardware CTL key + C to copy to the clipboard.
Otherwise, you have to hold the screen and enable text selection. But that generally doesn't seem to do me much good.
I don't like the select/cut/paste of the MS Mobile Office with the newer OS versions.
da9th_one said:
have you tried using swype to imput data...??? once you get the hang of it, it is a much faster way of typing...just a thought...
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I don't have it, and the beta tests are done. Any way to .cab it to me? It looks good.
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I don't have it, and the beta tests are done. Any way to .cab it to me? It looks good.
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i can email it to you...its not letting me upload it b/c its over the 5mb limit...
i sent the email to you with the following msg:
Before you install, please be aware of the only "side effect" that I have noticed. After installation, you will no longer be able to have your contacts auto-populate, when writing an email or text message.
I have no idea how to write or develop apps or anything but I had an idea I thought would be cool if someone could develop it. I have tried the new windows 7 phone and think the idea of looking quick to see everything is a great idea. I'm a car guy and think working gauges and graphs would be cool to use instead of the boxes. There could be gauges or graphs that show: 1) Battery Level 2) Memory for RAM, ROM and SD Card 3) How much the Processor is working 4) Missed Calls 5) Emails 6) Messages 7) Wi-Fi signal or whatever else. I have looked and found 2 apps that had a few of these together but they looked a bit simple, and there are a few out there for the battery. I thought it would be nice to see these on one page for a quick look to see whats going on. I'm not sure if it would work with android having different pages like it does or even if it's possible. It's just an idea I liked and thought others might also. I know I would pay a little something for it if it worked and looked good. If there is something out there I missed or someone does this give me a private message, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks
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I have no idea how to write or develop apps or anything but I had an idea I thought would be cool if someone could develop it. I have tried the new windows 7 phone and think the idea of looking quick to see everything is a great idea. I'm a car guy and think working gauges and graphs would be cool to use instead of the boxes. There could be gauges or graphs that show: 1) Battery Level 2) Memory for RAM, ROM and SD Card 3) How much the Processor is working 4) Missed Calls 5) Emails 6) Messages 7) Wi-Fi signal or whatever else. I have looked and found 2 apps that had a few of these together but they looked a bit simple, and there are a few out there for the battery. I thought it would be nice to see these on one page for a quick look to see whats going on. I'm not sure if it would work with android having different pages like it does or even if it's possible. It's just an idea I liked and thought others might also. I know I would pay a little something for it if it worked and looked good. If there is something out there I missed or someone does this give me a private message, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks
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So like... What phone are you using currently?
There is an app called eRay, I'm not sure if it is on the marketplace or not but I have used it and it works well for this. Very nice graphical statistics. Do a google search to see if you can find it.
I've ran into this a couple times now, but i've yet to find any type of method that works other than going to the browser and visiting bing/google.com...
But is there anyway to search for images when you're using the search button and bing search on the phone. when using the search button on the phone for say "will ferrell janet reno" because i want to see pictures of the skits from saturday night live, i only get the options for web, local, and news. is there a faster way of searching for images other than going to internet explorer or a third party app?
I am also wondering this? I know they have a google search app, but I feel like the bing built in search should include image results
There are third party apps that can do the job. But you have to pay.
But it's a shame that Bing does not even include such a basic feature.
So I'm using the Google Search app, which is anyway better and includes images search.
I really wonder how MS expect to compete with Google with their crappy Bing service. It's maybe ok in the US, but here it's unusable.
Yeah this has been pissing my off recently. I've tried even the most basic searches like, "dog" or "mcdonald's" and I get no results in the built in image search. WTF?! If I use a third party app like Bing Image Search ( http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/a7819f29-d887-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8 ) then I get results as expected...
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Yeah this has been pissing my off recently. I've tried even the most basic searches like, "dog" or "mcdonald's" and I get no results in the built in image search. WTF?! If I use a third party app like Bing Image Search ( http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/a7819f29-d887-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8 ) then I get results as expected...
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I just searched 'dog' and got results on the images page.
Odd. I get plenty of images even for more obscure terms, let alone stuff like dog.
Keep in mind Bing is very dependant on your localisation. When I ran the phone in czech, the search button took me to the desktop version of bing. Switching to English - UK gives me the normal phone version of bing that works completely fine.
Just did a search for dog as well - no problems.
Well to be more clear I'm using the built in search. So if you press the search button on your phone.
But guess what? Its working now. I restarted my phone after doing a backup using WP7 Easy Backup Tool. Maybe the reset fixed it.
Yah there's an odd bug with Bing image search on the phone. I reverted to a previous backup and get "no images" for most everything now. Was going to reset the phone completely but my Lumia 900 will be here in two days
enter search term, search and switch to images instead of web, if thats what you are looking for.
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enter search term, search and switch to images instead of web, if thats what you are looking for.
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Thats exactly what I do, and no images are shown. Its odd. It doesn't always happen, but it happens quite a bit. And on simple terms (like say "dog")
Sometimes search is down.
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Thats exactly what I do, and no images are shown. Its odd. It doesn't always happen, but it happens quite a bit. And on simple terms (like say "dog")
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Could really be an issue with your phone localisation somewhere which messes up bing from time to time. Or you're just unlucky and keep getting sent to a really bad server.
Hi folks.
Did a search on this but no cigar. The manual keeps this a big secret as well so here goes:
I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to save webpages to the phone. I flat out refuse to believe it shouldn't be possible. I'm positive there is a little trick I haven't tried yet. Even old WM6, being about as stable & reliable as the Greek national economy, had this feature. I don't travel by plane very often but when it happens I usually spend the time on board reading pre-downloaded webpages from a couple of writer sites. The GPRS connection over the north Atlantic tends to be a tad unstable ;-). The browser menu doesn't show this option anywhere that I can see.
Someone please bring me out of my misery and tell me where the function is hidden.
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ELO.
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Hit the menu button then add bookmark? Sorry if i miss-understand your question.
So menu--more--save page isn't an option to save the page?
It seems to work fine to me.
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I think what they're asking is "is there a way I can download a webpage so I can view it offline later?"
Try Opera Mobile browser. It implemented such a function to allow you save pages and browse them offline.
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Hi y´all & thanks for the interest.
@ equlizer:
If i get the works of this then, what your´e suggesting, only saves the page address. When i´m off-line e.g. on a plane i can only view the page if it has been saved in its intire form.
@ dr.m0x:
This would do the trick nicely, exept i don´t have that menu option. Under menu-more i have: Home, Find on page, text selection, page info, share page, Downloads, History, and finally settings.
I´m running stock ROM 1.32.405.3 rooted.
@ Dazultra2000:
That is exactly what i´m asking. Thanks for claryfying.
@ Teroz:
That is an option of course. I just couldn´t bring my self to believe the feature wasn´t there. Dr.m0x appears to have a menu option that i´m missing. I dunno. Maybe there´s something fishy i my ROM, but everything else seems to be humming along nicely.
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Elo.
I'm running the newest 1.86 and don't have that option.
Firefox mobile has it, it saves the webpage to a PDF file. Fx itself is a tad unstable as it is in a test phase, but the save-to-pdf function works pretty well.
I'm on 1.72 and definitely have that option in the stock browser. I also have Dolphin Browser HD installed as my default browser so maybe that is the reason I have the extra functionality. Not prepared to remove it to confirm though.
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Running stock 1.72, and i'm also missing that option.
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Running stock 1.72, and i'm also missing that option.
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Must have been added by dolphin hd then.
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Ok i started on a wp 8.1 IE on it was horrible, always kicking you back on sights be in the middle of reading something and BOOM throws you back to bing... like wtf?? So yeah i tried a bunch of browsers on the WP all did about the exact same thing. So i updated to win 10.. now edge still sucks, its way better than IE on win 8.1 but it still has so many issues. its sad when im trying to look somthing up on my phone and end up giving up and booting my PC b4 the browser even gos back a page... like really what is a browser that actualy works on these dang things? Really im to the point im not going to even bother to look stuff up on it anymore, sad that were dealing with microsoft of all companys and they cant seem to get a stupid browser right. Ive searched and searched to find a way to get firefox on my phone but seems hopeless =( anyone know anything that helps these worthless browsers or just a browser that works right? anything would be great thanks guys.
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Ok i started on a wp 8.1 IE on it was horrible, always kicking you back on sights be in the middle of reading something and BOOM throws you back to bing... like wtf?? So yeah i tried a bunch of browsers on the WP all did about the exact same thing. So i updated to win 10.. now edge still sucks, its way better than IE on win 8.1 but it still has so many issues. its sad when im trying to look somthing up on my phone and end up giving up and booting my PC b4 the browser even gos back a page... like really what is a browser that actualy works on these dang things? Really im to the point im not going to even bother to look stuff up on it anymore, sad that were dealing with microsoft of all companys and they cant seem to get a stupid browser right. Ive searched and searched to find a way to get firefox on my phone but seems hopeless =( anyone know anything that helps these worthless browsers or just a browser that works right? anything would be great thanks guys.
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Back in 8.1, third party browsers weren't that good. With Windows 10 though, even though the browsers use the same engine for rendering, the apps are way smoother, UI is much better, easier to use etc. The browser I recommend to you is Monument Browser. It's so much faster than edge, way more features, has fluent design, you can draw on pages and when you are done, it doesn't reload them, save pages...
There are so many things this browser does right go download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh1nsvj
Remove the brackets and spaces. I'm still new so the forums won't let me send a proper link lol
you ever tried s60v5's browser?
s60v5 ...
no ive never heard of it, ill look into that. The only solution ive found so far is use UC browser set to Speed mode it stopped all crashing and flip-backs, but theres no flash and stuff like that running so it works to look stuff up most times but its not 100%
Monument Browser........ that sounds interesting ill deff look in to that
i have the same problem in lumia 530 with 512 ram (edge browser reload and i can't read any things or watch videos), to resolve this just increase your page file from 256 256 to 512 512 and you will get better performance on edge .
i know its been a wile but i decided to make a new post ... Sadly since windows phones are now discontinued my phone is about worthless for webpages, now it just crashes or freezes up on the page 98% of the time. I honestly am not a fan of android but in about a week im buying a Android phone and making my windows phone into a Police scanner. Really hate to do it cause i really do love the phone, but i guess times change =(
You own an...let me guess.... lumia530?