Recent content by simplex1

I have a Nokia Lumia 520 with WP8.1. I have never sent a TEXT message with it. 1) I have tried to send an SMS but I did not see a counter that would tell me how many characters I typed and what the maximum allowed number is (I guess it should be 160). How can I activate the counter? 2) I...

Yes, after reading your post, I found Easy of Access and I switched the Narrator on. It works. It reads the text messages. However, I struggled a bit to get out of Narraor mode. Finally I found this topic...

I have a Nokia Lumia 520 with WP8.1. I have tried all kind of combinations in Settings->Speech and also in Cortana but I have not been able to determine my phone to read aloud a certain TEXT message that I select from the list of received SMSs. I do not need speech recognition and other...

I have a Nokia Lumia 520 with WP8.1. If my mobile receives TEXT messages it rings one time, the duration of the sound depending of the length of the ringtone I use. (The alarm does not repeat.) Unfortunately, it just vibrate for a short while at the beginning of the melody and then the...

It appears that those four drivers are not necessarily related to Project My Screen because I uninstalled this application from my computer together with the above mentioned drivers in Device Manager. Once I plug the phone back in the USB port, I get this window: One driver installs but for the...

I can not properly install the latest version of Project My Screen application in Windows 7, 32 bits. Problem with drivers. (My smartphone is a Nokia Lumia 520 running Windows Phone 8.1) I down-loaded the Project My Screen application from here...

Unfortunately, I can use neither the mouse nor the keyboard with Project My Screen on my Win7 laptop.

There is an application called Easy Transfer that makes possible Direct Wi-Fi file transfer between a Win 7 PC and a Win 8.1 Phone. This is what I use. Why do I use MS Word? Because the original text I want to sent as an SMS can be something like this: I am looking for an application, that...

Tell me, please, how I can send an email to myself from my PC, if no internet connection is available, and then open that email using my smartphone.

Can you send emails if you have Wi-Fi but no internet is available?

I am looking for an application, that runs on an Windows 7 PC, which can transmit the SMSes, written using the computer keyboard, to an Windows 8.1 Phone and further to another mobile phone. I do not need a solution that involves, in a way or another, the use of the internet. For the time...

I have a Nokia Lumia 520 with Windows Phone 8.1. I have tried to set the phone to record the GPS location for photos but without positive results. In Pictures+camera. the option "Include location info in pictures you take." is checked and the GPS is turned on. There is an WP application called...

I believe it is a bug as long as the word "maps" appears under "SD card" in Storage Sense: SD card ... photos downloads maps temporary files ... "Maps" should not be in the list since no map can be stored in the SD card.

I have found an application called Storage Sense installed in my phone by the last updates. Storage Sense has clearly two options: (1) phone and (2) SD Card. However if I select SD card, and issue the following commands: Storage Sense -> SD card -> maps -> manage -> download maps -> "+" ->...

Can I extract somehow the old Here maps from a smartphone that still has them and install them in my phone?