socialcarpet
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Since Live Tiles don't work, what's the big advantage of Windows Phone over iOS?
You should probably get an iPhone then.
My Live Tiles work perfectly.
Since Live Tiles don't work, what's the big advantage of Windows Phone over iOS?
But wait! There's more! The tile for WPcentral Board Express just disappeared. I go into BE to try to re-pin it and it says it already is. What next :-(
Sent from my Lumia using Board Express
You are lucky. If I'm doing something wrong or missing some setting I'd like to know. About to return this Lumia today.All my Live Tiles have worked great since loading Mango on my Surround. And since 4/6 no issues with the eight third party Live Tiles on my L900.
Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express
The recent article about Weather apps inspired me to install several of the apps, to do a side by side comparison. I then quickly became reminded that Live Tiles aren't updating for me. The WPCentral live tile isn't working either. When I first downloaded WPCentral (the paid version) in December 2011, it did work for, then the live tile stopped updating, I recall uninstalling and reinstalling, and that fixed the live tile for a little but it broke again, and I then gave up.
I've found a number of posts on this site and on other sites referring to Live Tiles not working for people. For me, the "system" tiles, like email, phone, test messages, etc. work fine. But right now, I don't think a single 3rd party app's live tile works for me - and this is something I've seen others report.
Pulling together the question/suggestions I've seen here and in other posts:
- I have a Titan with the 7720 build - phone purchased end of November 2011
- yes my data connection is on
- yes, background tasks are enabled for the individual apps in question
- I did try doing a full shutdown & restart - didn't help
- these apps were all installed over the weekend (so the 2 week auto-disable doesnt come into play)
- I've had battery saver turned on (only when battery is low), so just to see what happens, I've disable that (but I don't see this as a sustainable solution).
- I've tried a battery pull - no luck
- I've tried pinning & unpinning apps - no luck
- I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling apps - no luck
I am not interested in resetting my phone - that is not an acceptable answer, as I don't want to "rebuild" my phone. This has to be fixable without needing to do this. Plus, even if resetting my phone did fix the problem, how do I know that I won't run into the issue again in another few weeks?
I also don't want to hack/unlock/sideload (see above).
My questions:
- Has anyone found a real solution to this issue?
- Has anyone contacted Microsoft about this issue?
- If I wanted to report this issue to Microsoft & see if they have a fix for this, how would I go about doing this?
thanks!
I'm going to try this my Lumia 900 is pissing me off right now with WeatherFlow not working correctly.My tiles stopped working a while ago - got them running again.
There definitely seems to be a limit on how many live tiles you can have on the phone. I am using a Nokia Lumia 900, and had about 5 apps with background tasks turned ON, and about 20 apps with background tasks turned off.
I started removing all the apps with the background tasks turned off (keeping the ones which were ON alive) - and the live tiles started working again.
Since then, I have been re-adding apps slowly. I know I will reach that critical point again where the functionality will break, but then you just need to remove that last app that broke the live tiles.
The actual number of allowable apps seems to vary with different users / phones.
So delete apps showing up in SETTINGS -> background tasks (even if they are turned off), wait for the tiles to update again (>30min) then start re-adding the apps one by one... Worked for me.