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DavidinCT 06-30-2011 09:43 AM

Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Edit: I created easier directions here

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:

Originally Posted by emiliano84 (Post 15219694)
Hi Guys,
I know that there are other threads but i want create this with instructions in first page and problems and suggests above:
thanks to hd2leo_fusion
MangoB2-ZuneClient.zip - ZIP file that contains the install for the pre-release Zune Client 4.8, required to update your Windows Phone retail device and to connect to your device from the Windows Phone SDK tools.
MangoB2-UpdateWP.zip - ZIP that contains the install program(s) that will install updatewp.exe into your Zune client, allowing you to update your Windows Phone to point to the test servers
MangoB2-DevRetailUpdate.zip - Tool that automates the backup and update process so that your retail phone can receive ‘Mango'
Update Instructions - Mango Beta 2 for WPDevs.pdf - Instructions to walk you through the update process. 15 minutes here can save you 4 weeks without a phone.
Finally, one last reminder about reading the instrctions:
thanks to asbesto
download file here:
1 megaupload DOT COM/?d=WGHWO7DM
2 megaupload DOT COM/?d=PL7H6FKJ
3 megaupload DOT COM/?d=9Q3LBQ4J
4 megaupload DOT COM/?d=KY8J8SIY
5 megaupload DOT COM/?d=WNKD3G9U
thanks to derausgewanderte
not there yet, it's upgrading at the moment (at the last and longest stage). I had mine unlocked via the MFG tool. I reset the two registry keys PortalUrlInt and PortalUrlProd back to the https links
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DeviceReg]
"PortalUrlProd"="https://developerservices.windowspho...on.svc/01/2010"
"PortalUrlInt"="https://developerservices.windowspho...on.svc/01/2010"
(thanks to drkfngthdragnlrd)
and set the DeveloperUnlockState to 1. While still in the MFG tool I started the MangoB2-DevRetailUpdate tool.
It would not work initially. Closed the tool, started the new beta Zune software and it relocked the phone. Closed Zune, disconnected phone and went back into the MFG app and unlocked it. Connected phone to PC again, restarted the tool and it started the backup and installation process.
How to Un-Lock your Phone without Chevron 7
You can unlock the phone by using the MFG registry editor.
Open the MFG app and use the password to open it. If you don't know it's (appmfg#*#)
Go to Engineer Menu -> Other Settings -> Edit Registry
Set your ROOT PATH to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
Set your input path to "\Comm\Security\LVMod"
Set your input key to "DeveloperUnlockState" and set to DWORD
Hit Query. Output result should return a "0" or a random long number. If it does continue.
Set your input data box to "1" and hit SET. Output result should be 1
How To Keep Your Phone Unlocked
You can keep your phone unlocked and prevent Zune from re-locking it.
Open the MFG app and use the password to open it. If you don't know it's (appmfg#*#)
Go to Engineer Menu -> Other Settings -> Edit Registry
Set your ROOT PATH to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
Set your input path to "\Software\Microsoft\DeviceReg"
Set your input key to "PortalUrlProd" and set to DWORD
Hit Query. Output result should return data. If it does continue.
Keep your input data box empty and hit SET. Output result should be 0
Keep this screen open and continue to Part 2

http://windowsphonehacker.com/articl...oper.-06-30-11

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...

rrjskj 06-30-2011 10:51 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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 ...

DavidinCT 06-30-2011 11:09 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by rrjskj (Post 2122568)
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 ...

If you have a HTC phone, your rom for your phone might be sitting around somewhere on XDA (that is the place to find it), take a full backup with Zune (gota look up how that's done)

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

mindfrost82 06-30-2011 12:27 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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 :)

rrjskj 06-30-2011 12:31 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
let us know how it goes mindfrost ..

eric12341 06-30-2011 02:41 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mindfrost82 (Post 2122596)
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 :)

yea this is the route im going to take tho I think u have to submit an app first .

deadwrong03 06-30-2011 06:56 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
im scared to even try this but i will read and ask questions for u mango users

DavidinCT 07-01-2011 12:42 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mindfrost82 (Post 2122596)
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 :)

Do you have access to a .EDU account ? If not how did you get it for free ? I have been playing with the tools a little and would love to get an account but, hate to have to pay $99 till I really know what I am doing.

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

dtrush 07-01-2011 02:49 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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.

steveo70 07-01-2011 03:05 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by dtrush (Post 2122972)
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.

I agree, it's soo tempting though! I wouldn't mind spending the $ and the other 2 methods I've read about are just 2 risky now that I'm riding a flash free summer. Decisions, decisions lol.

mindfrost82 07-01-2011 09:05 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidinCT (Post 2122936)
Do you have access to a .EDU account ? If not how did you get it for free ? I have been playing with the tools a little and would love to get an account but, hate to have to pay $99 till I really know what I am doing.

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

[APP] [UPDATED 6/1/2011] Working App to Backup Windows Phone 7 via ZUNE ANY TIME - Page 21 - xda-developers

Yeah...I have a .edu email addy :)

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.

DavidinCT 07-01-2011 10:37 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by steveo70 (Post 2122976)
I agree, it's soo tempting though! I wouldn't mind spending the $ and the other 2 methods I've read about are just 2 risky now that I'm riding a flash free summer. Decisions, decisions lol.

I got a reply from the guy who created the backup program for Zune, he said that he was able to take a backup, upgrade to NoDo, then use his backup to restore back to Pre-NoDo to unlock (something we never had for WM). Almost at Rom level, so this kind of makes me think, I do have a roll back plan.

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:

Originally Posted by hx4700 Killer (Post 15256703)
I can't promise it will work because I don't know what Mango will do to the phone. Assuming backup/restore works as normal then yes this will put whatever ROM level you are at back on to your phone. I Installed Nodo before dev unlocking it and then restored from the backup Zune made and I was pre-nodo again. It is a complete system backup. "ROM Level" would be the best description I guess.


winger46146 07-01-2011 11:39 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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.

mindfrost82 07-01-2011 01:23 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
...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.

DavidinCT 07-01-2011 02:11 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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.

mindfrost82 07-01-2011 03:33 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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...

orangekid 07-01-2011 03:38 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
any news on third party multitasking? This is what I really need to use WP7 as a daily.

mindfrost82 07-01-2011 03:46 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by orangekid (Post 2123171)
any news on third party multitasking? This is what I really need to use WP7 as a daily.

Its got multi-tasking options, but I think most apps have to be updated for it to work...atleast that's what I read.

orangekid 07-01-2011 04:15 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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.

DavidinCT 07-01-2011 04:19 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mindfrost82 (Post 2123167)
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".

A few people reported the Facebook issue, Go back into your account settings, delete facebook and re-add it... It should fix that problem. There has been assorted issues reported, I did that when my phone first came up (so I would not have to deal with it)

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:

Originally Posted by orangekid (Post 2123171)
any news on third party multitasking? This is what I really need to use WP7 as a daily.

I did 2 games and some built in apps, it appeard to work, but, angry birds just reloaded when it came up (it always does that when I hit back)

orangekid 07-01-2011 04:35 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
hopefully there will be an HD2 port soon so I can test this.

DavidinCT 07-01-2011 06:21 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by orangekid (Post 2123205)
hopefully there will be an HD2 port soon so I can test this.

Can you take updates from Zune ? Because that's all it is...

dtrush 07-01-2011 08:54 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mindfrost82 (Post 2123167)
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...

Just wondering if this voice to text function requires a data connection or does the phone have everything to recognize what you're saying to transcribe the text or e-mail?

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.

mindfrost82 07-01-2011 09:41 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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.

DavidinCT 07-02-2011 12:56 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Well worth the install...No question, glad I did

eric12341 07-02-2011 07:09 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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

DavidinCT 07-02-2011 10:34 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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

dtrush 07-02-2011 01:29 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mindfrost82 (Post 2123321)
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.

The TellMe app works without a data connection for voice dialing contacts. If you want to search for something on the internet a data connection is certainly required.
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

deadwrong03 07-02-2011 02:23 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by orangekid (Post 2123205)
hopefully there will be an HD2 port soon so I can test this.

Mango Spread for HD2 Users Monday!

July 2nd, 2011 | Author: Malcolm.Williams

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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

eric12341 07-02-2011 03:23 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidinCT (Post 2123450)
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, 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

yea I already downloaded the tools from that site im just waiting to pull the trigger on it tonight for sure after I got all the information I needed. what's great is it doesn't delete any data which makes it a bit different than flashing a ROM

mindfrost82 07-02-2011 05:59 PM

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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.

eric12341 07-02-2011 06:16 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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.

mindfrost82 07-02-2011 09:00 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
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.

eric12341 07-02-2011 09:38 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mindfrost82 (Post 2123581)
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.

yea I eventually did that and it doesn't show anyone online. oh well it'll sort itself out hopefully, I was lookin forward to that so I won't have to rely on the shitty FIM app that (still?) doesn't send me push notifications

DavidinCT 07-02-2011 11:14 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Now I just want to unlock WP7 so I can use emulators of NES...

dtrush 07-03-2011 09:32 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by eric12341 (Post 2123551)
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.

Maybe I'll do it then. I need to find a 2 hour block of time to get it started and finished without being interrupted.

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.

GoodThings2Life 07-03-2011 10:27 AM

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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.

DavidinCT 07-03-2011 11:03 AM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by dtrush (Post 2123730)
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.

You do not lose your text messages, it's a an upgrade. Not sure about the hidden Wi-fi, I didn't try it.

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.

GoodThings2Life 07-03-2011 12:53 PM

Re: Want WP7 Mango today ?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidinCT (Post 2123746)
You do not lose your text messages, it's a an upgrade. Not sure about the hidden Wi-fi, I didn't try it.

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.

FWIW, that fix did NOT fix the Facebook issue for me... although perhaps I simply didn't give it enough time to take effect. I will try again later. :) Update: I had to link my Windows Live and Facebook accounts (thought I had already done it, but some of the boxes had become unchecked).

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.

eric12341 07-03-2011 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by GoodThings2Life (Post 2123762)
FWIW, that fix did NOT fix the Facebook issue for me... although perhaps I simply didn't give it enough time to take effect. I will try again later. :)

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.

how I fixed mine was I went to hotmail and linked it to Facebook then re synched both of them then went offline the back online and then everything magically worked.


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