Recent content by OzRob

I'm really not sure what you're asking for. AFAIK no operating system plays music files without the use of application software. In Windows you need File Explorer to choose the music file and then opening the file opens the associated program to play it - and you can choose which program that...

Basically, no. Whatever you do you will need an app to play your music. If you're only interested in playing songs stored on the phone (as opposed to cloud services) you'll need to trawl through the apps in the store to see if any suit you. Most seem to focus on playing from cloud services.

If you're satisfying expectations 1 and 2 while at 36,000 feet in a jet, then I'd say you're got more to think about than getting a GPS lock...assume the brace position!

You're aware, of course, that all phones with Lithium-based batteries are actually on while charging - they need to be in order to supervise the charging process. The difference is that typically Android (don't know about iPhone) boots into a special charging mode where all the radios and the...

Thanks for your attempted solution. It has been posted before and it works to get rid of duplicates temporarily, but the underlying problem still remains. As you update your music library duplicates will eventually come back and you will have to redo the whole process again. There is some...

Have you tried restarting the phone? To the OP, looks like WhatsAp is using a lot of power - it's a known battery drainer. Try disabling it for a while and see if that helps.

That's just rubbish. This is a widespread issue on WP8 and it happens on all types of memory cards. Nokia Care is just brushing you off.

Have you paid for an upgrade to HERE Drive+. As far as I am aware the 720 comes by default with HERE Drive and not HERE Drive+, the difference being that HERE Drive only lets you get turn-by-turn navigation in the country in which the SIM card is registered when you first initialize your phone...

I think there's a bit of confusion between HERE Maps and HERE Drive (and HERE Drive +). Without a SIM you can use HERE Maps and download maps, but in order to use HERE Drive for turn-by-turn navigation you need a SIM. The reason is that HERE Drive is only license for a single country, and that's...

Try a soft reset: Hold Vol Down + Power for 15 secs and then release. Phone should reboot.

You can't overcharge your phone. This is not possible with modern phones with Lithium batteries.

The duplicates issue has plagued me since I first bought my Lumia 720 a year or so ago. So far I have not found a satisfactory resolution to the bug, but my solution to the issue was to move back to Android. I have resurrected the 720 after each update to see if the issue has be resolved, but...

As the previous poster mentioned, there's no quick and easy way of going from normal (sound + vibrate) to silent. You either have to turn vibrate off permanently or go through a few steps to go from normal to silent. I think I read that the 8.1 update will fix this by providing better toggling...

Uninstall WhatsApp and see if that stops the battery drain. WhatsApp on Windows Phone has often been the cause of battery issues. Other than that, I would uninstall all and any apps that 'sync' with servers in any way or use your location data, and then reinstall them one by one, checking for...

Why the obsession with who copied what from whom? Good ideas are always copied by competitors - and so they should be. If a feature is useful in one phone OS then it's probably useful in others. Microsoft SHOULD copy every useful feature and function in both iOS and Android because if I choose a...