Recent content by shinygerbil

More of a big city thing rather than UK-specific I guess, but I really don't rate the "nearby places" feature. Just because I live in South East London, I get "hey! Maybe you'll like... THE TOWER OF LONDON SIX MILES AWAY" rather than anything more relevant or closer to home. As soon as you get...

So I can choose to have them either a) never light up or b) light up all the time. The relevant setting is in the Display settings -> turn on battery saver for display. Assuming it's a bug with GDR1 as already mentioned; could be a bug with the Display app, given the number of problems people...

Are they on even in bright daylight? :0

I have a small issue since upgrading to 8.1 Update 1 - my touch buttons (Back, Start, Search) never, ever light up anymore. Not even in pitch darkness. It's pretty minor as I can still find them - but occasionally a little disorientating. Has anyone else noticed this? It was definitely fine...

Last time I checked, 4540 million = 4.54 x 10^9. Cortana is correct, unless you are European and thus interpreting the comma in 4,540 as a decimal point. Cortana uses US numbering systems.

I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones which work flawlessly with my 8X. They had to be paired once by going into manual pairing mode - but now whenever i turn them on they automatically connect to my phone. I'm impressed with how well it works, actually.

Yeah, inbox is linked with another (barely-used) Gmail account. I've already tried unlinking them, to no effect. I assume the problem is due to whatever is happening behind the scenes, as it's the same on my Win8 PC (which bizarrely I don't really use for mail, and if I do it's not the Metro...

Yep. :p Tried toggling it, rebooting, toggling the setting on Outlook.com also, nothing works :<

Ok, so this is pretty annoying. I recently took steps to consolidate my mail accounts - I have a fairly old BT Internet mail account (which goes through Yahoo! Mail) which still receives a large part of my mail. I also have a newer Microsoft account address which I'm switching to. Previously...

Same here, had it since I got the phone - very small, but noticeable if you're running your finger over it. I was vaguely nervous about whether it would get worse over time, but almost 2 months later it's just fine. Nothing to worry about. ;)

Personally I go with NewsSpot because it is slightly faster. Feature-wise they're both pretty complete, and as others have said, it's just down to taste.

In the Now Playing screen, if you have a little icon which looks like ((o)) next to the song title, then you're streaming. Otherwise the music is playing locally from the phone. In other news, I got a nice pair of Bluetooth headphones for Christmas (Philips SHB9100/00, I highly recommend them)...

Firstly, that's no use on an 8X. Secondly, is there an easy way to "put the pdf files on your SkyDrive" without using a computer?

Yeah, I've noticed that lack of "natural language"/"contextual" results and found it pretty annoying. Especially as it would be almost Siri-like if they included it. They have really missed a trick. (Seems like the story of WP8...)

Or maybe, perhaps, I wasn't talking about (or to) you, but rather the obvious culprits who were doing the other things I mentioned in my post. (i.e. taking a small piece of a post and responding to only that piece in isolation - which ironically you did just do 😉) I'd like to point out also...