Recent content by kevynpm

For those asking how to do this: Go to music.Xbox.com and it will tell you how and walk you through it. It's front and center on the site. Can't miss it.

Is anyone else on the preview having problems with their live tiles? Mine are just static - no longer flipping and updating with information. Two examples are News and also Weather. When I tap and hold or right-click them to bring up options, there is no longer the option to enable the live tile...

​This worked for me. Note: I have 2-factor authentication on my Microsoft account so I had to create a new app password on the Microsoft account - Security web page and use that password to connect to the mapped drive. My normal password would not work. But now I see all my OneDrive files...

It makes jumping through your app list alphabetically faster. Want to go to the S apps? Tap any letter, then tap S from the jump list that appears. Boom. There.

this is absurd

It has multi-touch but those UIs are designed to prevent accidentally toggling or selecting something until the UI is fully displayed. Luckily the notification center pulls down really quickly so you don't have to wait long before you toggle that button.

Check out the AGENT smartwatch on Kickstarter. It is .NET powered and will work very well with Windows Phone. I have one coming in December to hold me over until a Surface watch springs forth into existence.

I think you'd be better sticking to Mail and Outlook.com for personal use. In the enterprise environment, though, Outlook is pretty handy.

This workaround seems to help: Plug in headphones. Make sure Beats Audio turned on in settings. Play music. Unplug headphones. Plug them back in. Resume playback. Seems to take a few tries sometime. Still, toggling Beats on/off has no effect, but the workaround does produce...

Hmm. That does seem to sound better... I still can't toggle Beats on/off to be able to tell for certain that it's really working. But I think it is. Where did you find out about it being something HTC is working on? I've been searching and searching. Thanks for your help :-)

I am on my second 8X and both have had this issue. Before applying the "Portico" OS firmware update, the Beats Audio functionality of this phone was phenomenal! While listening to music, you could toggle Beats Audio on/off in the Settings, and with it off, music was quiet and normal. With it...

Song credits still work on WP8 phones if you have the 14.99 music pass. Works just like on WP7. On Windows 8 (including RT / Surface), you can't use them directly. Gotta use either the Zune software (won't run on RT) or use ANY Windows Phone (7 OR 8).

Song credits still work on WP8 devices as well, if you have the old 14.99 music pass still. I can "buy" songs directly on my phone in Xbox Music, and it asks if I want to use my song credits, and tells me how many I have available, just like in WP7. So, if you have one of the old Zune Passes...

Don't worry about the tool. The whitelist is just a text file (.xml) that you can edit with Notepad and save. Open “C:\Users\[USER_NAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IECompatData\iecompatdata.xml” in your favorite XML editor (notepad works fine). Scroll through the document until...

The app "Battery Level for WP8" also lets you display battery status on the lockscreen, as one of the five apps that can show status at the bottom of the lock screen. It's pretty awesome.