GDR3 (Update 3) Features & Information

[Nathan Duarte]

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I know the extra column of tiles might not be coming for devices like the Lumia 520, but I made this on Photoshop to see how it'd look like on my phone. I personally think it looks pretty great. :amaze: What'dyou guys think? rly:

 

[odehhasan]

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What'dyou guys think? rly:

I think it'd look great...

 

[Selfie13]

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When I am wirelessly charging, the phone sometimes stops and starts charging and I get the charging tone all night long every so often. This just started with Update 3. Anyone else have this issue?

Also, when in driving mode, my calendar appointments that usually show are gone and the date and time shift to the bottom of the lock screen. Small bug, but thought I would throw that out there.

Yes, I also have the wireless charging issue as well, but mine started right after I received"GDR2+Amber" from ATT on my 920. Its very annoying and basically useless for me right now, constantly disconnecting then reconnecting every few seconds, and it has nothing to do with the phone being placed on the charger incorrectly, as well as the Nokia brand case being taken off. Before GDR2, I could half *** lay it down on the charger with said case and never had an issue with it charging. Now that is just the start of the many more bugs that GDR3 has brought since I downloaded..... A few examples are - Using the Nokia Play To dlna app to stream music and videos to my Win8 Laptop via Wmplayer, if the screen turns off (mine is set to 3min) or I hit start button to read a text, then right before next song is to play, it will disconnect from Wmplayer. Never had this problem until GDR3. Inserting an auxiliary cable or headphones into the headphone port really makes the phone go bat**** crazy, hard to explain, but the volume gets stuck at zero with the drop down music controls just appearing, even if I haven't started a song, and it will not go away. It also makes the capacitive buttons useless at this time along with some other **** that shouldn't happen and is the first I've seen happen on Windows Phone. Another bug I've noticed is in Xbox music, or at least trying to navigate inside the music app. Once opened and tapping anything within the music app causes a few seconds of delay and alot of times it will not launch or react to my taps, thus making me tap multiple times, and from there, im pretty sure you know what can happen when doing that. I've restarted phone, soft reset, and uninstall some apps hoping one might be a bit wonky, but going on into day 3 with GDR3, I wish I would have just waited til official release with Nokia's Firmware as well as some driver updates.

 

[Roderick Aspiras]

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Took the plunge last night and when I woke up GDR3 behold! Nothing fancy as many have spilled the beans out already but I found that when you go to Photos and go to Picture of Me and other Albums the loading is fast! Just like it did on WP7.5. There surely was performance improvement I cannot measure but I felt it. Now unleash bittersweet shimmer!

 

[Kimi Alin]

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I'm so sad that these extra columns are not coming to phones with 768p display I was so looking forward to it for my lumia 920 since I have so many tiles on my start screen

 

[antsin3d]

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Is it just me or does the editing cursor appear more quickly when you hold your finger down? It always seemed a touch sluggish but now seems ok. Maybe I just got used to it tho

 

[crav4speed]

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So I read on the main page that the Bing weather app has been update. Instead of going to the store, I opened the app to check the weather before updating. a few second later, a message pops up saying that an update is available for the app. Cool stuff in this update!! Screenshot attached

 

[wspaw]

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I was expecting to be able to attach PDFs to emails (not sharing via SkyDrive). This was listed as a confirmed feature. Anyone know if it was removed?

 

[Varij Kapil]

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I have gdr3 developer preview on my Lumia 620, and i have noticed a new bug fix,, in my music player earlier while i scrolled to the songs section from the artists and albums page, the list took a while to show up. But after this update i have noticed that this issue has been resolved, now the song list shows up instantly,, and also i have noticed that the sound quality have also been improved a little in this new update..

 

[mpt15]

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I was expecting to be able to attach PDFs to emails (not sharing via SkyDrive). This was listed as a confirmed feature. Anyone know if it was removed?

It was not a confirmed feature. WPC had mentioned it in the unofficial list of features, but the official Windows Phone blog post didn't say anything about it. It doesn't mean that it won't be included at a later date. Fingers crossed!

 

[kingdark485]

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Is the gdr3 going to show the percentage of the battery in corner where is the battery icon?

 

[imbasaurus]

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Is the gdr3 going to show the percentage of the battery in corner where is the battery icon?

i think it's for windows 8.1 "blue"

 

[kingdark485]

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8.1 Blue is the next update for the Windows Phone right?

 

[Ymanish]

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Can we attach pdf files in mail after gdr3??? Anyone did that???

 

[mpt15]

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Can we attach pdf files in mail after gdr3??? Anyone did that???

you can do it without gdr3 by using either of these apps:
try using the Mail Plus app.
Or you can use the pro version of pdf reader to send files by emil and bluetooth. more details below. the pro version of the app by pompolutz is published by Ocius. this is the link:
PDF Reader Pro | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States)

 

[Fuzzy John]

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One bug has been found.
Now if phone number in contacts list contains spaces or anything else, phone unable to find it when someone calling you. For example if you have +1 (320) 555-55-55 it won't work, you should update it to +13205555555
Anyone else noticed such behavior?

Most of my contact numbers are stored as (320) 555-5555. I also have some stored as 320-555-5555. I do not see the problem you are describing. The phone shows the proper contact when they call or when they text.

 

[djmuzi]

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Till the last update call quality was excelent after the update my ear speaker makes the well know interference noise caused by the phone signal

 

[bryanstevecl]

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Most of my contact numbers are stored as (320) 555-5555. I also have some stored as 320-555-5555. I do not see the problem you are describing. The phone shows the proper contact when they call or when they text.

The problem he is mentioning is in the phone app, check off international assist





Sent from my Lumia 920 using Tapatalk

 

[freestaterocker]

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i hope that the GDR3/Bittersweet Shimmer will fix the glance notification battery consumption. and of course the post processing bug on 920

The battery consumption you're experiencing is not a bug. Your 920 has an IPS display, which means when you use glance your entire screen is constantly on. If you had a device with an AMOLED display, like the 925 or 1020, only the grey/white pixels of glance would be drawing power, and the consumption would be significantly lower. In my mind, honestly, AMOLED screen technology should be required for an OS that deliberately uses so much black space.

 

[impratick]

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need option for disable broadcast messages!!