Recent content by dmusicant

Ah, found the answer. I had it in my data because 2 years ago I had the same problem. I believe it's a bug. When in the Maps app, the loudness controls (i.e. the two adjacent buttons on the right upper edge that increase/decrease volume are for Ringer and Notifications, whereas it should be for...

This Alcatel Idol 4S Windows 10 Phone's Maps app used to have nice, loud navigation when I was driving. Suddenly it's pretty quiet and hard to hear what with the traffic noise on city streets. I can't find a way to make it louder. In the app's settings it has 3 settings, quieter, normal and...

--------> ANSWER: Found a solution, pretty much by accident. Did not see a way of accessing Music and Apps volume while the Maps App was active and full screen. I had my music volume at 25/30 a couple days ago, never turned it down. But for some reason it was at 17/30 today. Playing with the...

Using my Idol 4S Windows 10 phone today I opened Maps and it appeared that the app had been updated. None of my favorites or recent destinations were there. I can forgive that, maybe... but once I managed to get my directions going for my destination (was in my car), the volume was very very...

I have a 64GB card in my Lumia 520 and most of that storage is given to MP3's. They are tagged but the only categories I see are these: Artists Albums Songs Genres Playlists Radio There are many more tags available in Windows. Why do I see only these and is there something I can do to expand...

I've been using my Nokia 520 (AT&T) for over a year. I can find my desired tagged MP3 eventually, but sometimes it takes way too long, or can't find it period! Sometimes, changing the search category (e.g. Album to Song) and then back lets the phone find the selection. Other times, this doesn't...

I've been doing this for over a year. I can find my selection eventually, but in general it takes way to long, and sometimes it just doesn't find what I'm looking for. For some reason my 520 doesn't see certain tagged MP3s, in particular if I've just copied the files to the phone's SD card...

My Nokia Lumia 520 is running Windows Phone 8.1 and I have it configured to play a sound when unlocking or locking the phone. The sound I'm hearing is a tiny click, a slightly different tone for lock versus unlock. I want the sound to be more dramatic (in particular for unlocking). Can I change...

Speaking of backups, I'm appalled at what I've seen. I made a backup the other day from my old phone (defective USB port), and restored that to replacement 520. I had to redo it, and that backup was no longer available. Plus, a backup from July was at first available, then wasn't, then it was...

I made another backup of the old phone, reset the new phone after formatting the SD card (opting to "Erase" the SD card at the same time), restored from the backup and then initiated a copy/paste of all the folders on the backup of the SD card except for the \WPSystem folder and went to bed. In...

Ah, I found it in google search -- Settings/Lock screen. Interesting, if you forget your password you have to reset your phone! Another good reason to do backups!

I just set up my replacement 520 and opted to have a password. I misunderstood what this is about and now to unlock the phone I can't just hit the power button, I have to enter a password. Where do I turn that off? TIA...

Damn! Now the 3/27 backup isn't there!!!!!!!!! I see the 3/28 made with the new phone, one from July 13, 2014 (which I couldn't see yesterday for some reason, ugh), and another one from 3/28, which must have been created automatically. Now I have to put the card back in the old phone (with SIM...

Too late, you didn't say that before. I told you I need step by step, I don't have the gotchas internally. Now, I have to do it all over again... - - - - ...uh, why does it matter? Should I also use the USB of phone when copying large amounts of data to the card? I sometimes copy ~20GB (for...

I finally got this working. I have been confused about all this because I seem to have two Microsoft Accounts. One has my ISP's domain (i.e. @sonic.net) and the other has domain @live.com. The account that my old phone was signed in on was @live.com. My email address is @sonic.net. When prompted...