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http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/2123450-post27.html You still will need The Zune 4.8.XXXX version, your current version of Zune will not read the mango device correctly. __________________________________________________ _______________ Yep, someone on XDA released the files that came with a dev account to be able to install Mango beta on your phone. I believe this is the build that you have been reading on assorted sites. You need to download 5 files and do some registry settings on your PC then install in order. [HOW TO] Mango Beta Update - xda-developers The general thoughts are it's faster and has a lot of extra features but, not everything works 100% (Twitter was not working as of yet) Note: not all apps will support multi tasking (a change needs to be in the app, so unless updated for mango, it won't work). THERE ARE BUGS and INSTALL AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!!!!! Remember you should do your homework, if it does not work for you, you could possably BRICK your phone Dont say you were not warned !!! If you do it, post your results please, I downloaded everything but, need my phone today, but, trying to see others reults with a HTC Trophy before I try the next step Here's the details from the link above. Quote:
A script to make it easier (and to help make your phone so you can get updates) and http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1103011 How to take a FULL BACKUP of your phone in zune... |
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might be worth given it a shot i guess .. but i wouldn't do it dun wanna take the risk that i might bork my phone and be pissed off already stressed enough as is ...
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Make sure you have a rom of your current version so if you need to roll back AND make a backup of your device. SO as long as you can install the rom to your device, it should be restoring your data... I think...Never tried it before |
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I just got a developer account yesterday (for free) ;) and unlocked my phone. So now I'm waiting to see if I get an official email for the upgrade :)
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let us know how it goes mindfrost ..
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im scared to even try this but i will read and ask questions for u mango users
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Feel free to PM me if you don't want it public... As for Mango beta, Very, VERY tempted. I can't find a rom OEM for my Trophy (the ones on XDA claim to not work), so I really don't have a backout plan. I've been reading about people who have been using it on XDA (spent a lot of time on there today reading about this), and every one claims that it's very stable and faster than the current build. Also, a lot of the new features work fine, so you will be getting 85% of the new features working very well to great (some issues but, worth spending some time on XDA as there is a lot of people using it over there). The speed and perfomance difference is enough to tempt me alone...never mind the features. MMMMMM....Mangos... Edit: My question about the backup addon for Zune, from what I was reading, people used it to go back to Pre-NoDo before, so it might just work to take a full backup of your phone then installing Mango, if you hate it, or too buggy, just connect to Zune and restore... would like to know for sure http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1#post15247851 |
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I'm pretty tempted but it seems like a lot of work to go through to get it on there.
I'm not to worried about messing up my phone but it just seems like I'd rather wait it out. I'm not really missing the TP1 & TP2 with always being on a cooked rom with some stuff not working or breaking all of the sudden. A few more months will come soon enough. |
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I still haven't gotten an email about upgrading yet. Like you, I don't think there's a full working ROM for my Surround. I saw a few posted but not enough people that actually tried it. So I'm not sure I want to try this either. I also don't like the idea that I would probably lose all of my games/app settings when the official Mango comes out either. I already had to hard reset it to do the official unlock since I had it unlocked with Chevron before. |
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I am SOOOO Tempted and it's a long weekend.. If it adds a lot of features, is faster and just as stable and I can roll back, Why not ? Maybe I do miss my old Touch Pro 2 flashing days..... :scratch: Quote:
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I did last night on my verizon trophy, it is very nice. The 7661 update did take so time to do. Also don't forget to download zune 4.8.
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...installing now :D
One note is if you are a legit dev locked phone, you need to uninstall the Windows Phont Support Tool before it works. I installed it so I could run that backup tool, and everytime I tried to run the update it would say "UpdateWP.exe has stopped responding...". Finally figured out I had to uninstall those Support Tools, then re-run the UpdateWP-x64 installer, then ran the update and now its going so far. |
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I'm in the process of installing it too.....Will post results after playing with it for a while. I've been reading a lot and the general word is that it's much faster and the features are nice.
Edit: It's installed, took me about an hour. It's working great so far, no issues to note as of yet. |
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I gotta say...I'm really liking it so far. Once all of the features get finished, I think I might just have to make the switch from Android.
-Twitter doesn't work yet. -Facebook Chat brings me to a page that says "invalid address". -Bing Maps looks like its the full TTS version, but I'll have to test on my way home -IE9 seems nice and has tabs -Facebook notifications show up in the Me hub -You can create groups in your People hub and pin it to the start screen (great way to make your most contacted people easier to find) -Program list now has letter separation which adds to the list, but lets you click on a letter to skip to that section -Some more settings compared to the old one -Camera can now save settings and you can turn off the shutter sound -Battery Saver Mode can disable online services when your battery gets low -In Battery Saver settings you can see your battery life %, estimated time remaining and time since last charge (right now I'm at 75% and it says I can go another day and 6 hours...which is hard to believe lol) -You can to voice-to-text now to compose SMS -Office looks like it synced my docs from SkyDrive :) That's all I've noticed so far... |
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any news on third party multitasking? This is what I really need to use WP7 as a daily.
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Oh, well then it looks like I'll buy the second-generation WP7 device that has this actually integrated.
Too much of what I do requires it, but this does look sweet and I am pretty impressed with the speed that MS is fixing their OS and implementing new features. |
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No Twitter, no tweeting for me :( Over all, the Scout works really good (even found a dive bar near me that got a 4 star rating). This alone was worth installing it for (when traveling around) Bing vision works pretty good, found UPC symbols fine and got a good price on some things. Xbox live now has small icons(a big deal when you have bunch of games) and the news shows images....Your Avatar will dance with out needing to load the app (mine even plays with his WP7 phone) This was 100% worth installing. It's faster, has a ton-o-features and No crashes so far. Can't wait till the final !!!!! Quote:
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hopefully there will be an HD2 port soon so I can test this.
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If it doesn't need to send the speech to the cloud to get it done that would be awesome. I sure wish they'd integrate this with the calendar. Probably a little clunky but would be so sweet. |
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I did get Facebook chat working after I made my post.
For voice to text, I'm guessing it requires the internet since I think its based on Tell Me from WM. Google's version is the same way. |
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Well worth the install...No question, glad I did
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whooo looks like i may have to go this route then, im already downloading the dev tools but who knows how long itll take for them to send the invite
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How to install mango on your WP7 device with a roll back plan(backup)
Download the 0.02 version (lower on the site), it will automaticly create a backup of your phone (the zune backup process, full rom level of your phone, Read the text file it comes with). You only need the Windows Support Tools installed, not the whole dev package (get at the below link) Get the Mango update now. Without being a developer. - Windows Phone Hacker It's so easy, a caveman could do it. Download 0.02+ (what ever the newest version is), Connect your phone to PC and close Zune, click on the Update.bat, follow instructions, it will take a backup of your phone (could take a 1/2 hour or so), then will provision your phone to take the update. After this, check your phone, it will say an update is available, it will install a 7401 update (1 through 9 steps) after it's done, you'll get another message "update is available", then it will install mango. The whole process takes about an hour to an hour and 1/2. Your current settings, programs, apps, etc are not touched. Only think to note, save your backup (files are not stored just in the root) or just don't rebuild or nuke your computer, as the files are there. Enjoy |
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I just figured that since a person could voice dial a contact and it could repeat back what you said that some language recognition files were on board for text dictation also. Thanks for checking. That's a little bit of a bummer for me. Oh well:-D |
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July 2nd, 2011 | Author: Malcolm.Williams 6Share http://wmpoweruser.com/wp-content/up...7/25209548.jpg Mango on HD2 Image Courtesy of DFT Wow, mango is a delicious OS (so far) for developers and the media alike that have updated their devices or were given test devices. But the mango sexy doesn’t end with current windows phones 7 because it seems the HTC HD2 super phone has also received Mango from DFT. But there are some warnings and considerations: windows live functions aren’t working and you have to use MS Hotmail Connector to sync with Outlook. A huge bummer is multitouch isn’t working properly, but that’s a hardware limitation. For the users of the T-Mobile US HTC HD2, Mango works, but 512 MB of NAND is used versus the supported 1024. Bold enough to grab Mango for the HD2 to extend its shelf life? Mark Monday on your calendar to get a sweet taste of Mango on a device that may never die. wmpoweruser.com |
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My biggest gripe is how they said we'll have to roll back to NoDo before we can upgrade to the official release.
We won't lose any data we had before but we'll lose everything from the time we put the beta on until the official release comes out. If you buy any apps, Zune will keep that, so that's not an issue, but any app/game data will be lost. Hopefully they'll change this by the time the official version comes out and will give us a direct upgrade path. |
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that kinda bites but it's understandable I guess. I'm installing it now.
UPDATE: install complete, I was a little scared because it hung on the final step and the windows phone boot screen for quite sometime and things were a bit unstable till I performed a soft reset now everything is working well except Facebook chat which im working on right now. I strongly recommend all my fellow arrivers to install this update as well. u will not regret it. |
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Yeah, mine hung at the HTC screen for a while at first boot, probably 2-5 minutes.
For Facebook chat, I had to link it to my Live account on the PC. The URL it tried to bring me to on the phone didn't work, just said it was not a valid address. |
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Now I just want to unlock WP7 so I can use emulators of NES...
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Question for everyone: Do you lose your text messages? Is the blasted Hidden Wi-Fi issue resolved in this build??? <--- That's mainly the big tempter for me to want to upgrade. |
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Guess who's back?! Back again?! ;)
I just traded my EVO in for a Sprint Touch Pro 7 (testing WP7 for work and the Gingerbread update for EVO pushed my sanity level over the edge ... HATE IT), and when I saw this post I was all "WOOT!" and stuff, so I figured what the heck... I'm testing WP7 (finally), might as well REALLY test it, right? :lol: So I'm back for a little bit and will post on anything useful I find with Mango. So far, WP7 is only missing a few features that I would care about and Mango fixes *most* of them. I still need a good Remote Desktop application (that supports Network Level Authentication and Remote Gateways), and I'd still like to see support for SWYPE. From a hardware perspective, I really want the HD7S on Sprint, because I refuse to use AT&T-Mo, but hopefully Sprint will have some new devices once Mango is released this fall. |
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For people with the Facebook problems, Delete the account, then re-add it. This has been posted all over XDA and it fixes 95% of them. Must be a bug that came over. |
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Indeed, as an upgrade, it doesn't remove any content. The hidden wifi does seem to be fixed... at least for my test wifi connection. |
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