New Wiindwos 8.1 User just switched from iPhone! PLS HELP

[BullGuard8]

While the iPhone's speed and camera are better, it was hindering my productivity, I had to purchase a special app (iExplorer) just to be able to move my photos from the iPhone to the computer, and attaching files when sending an email is so unintuitive. Anyway, enough of that, so I sed my iPhone 6 aside and bought a Nokia Lumia 930

I have a few questions:

1) I have an Office 365 subscription which allows me to install Office on 5 diff. computers and 5 mobile devices, when I try to sign in on my Windows 8.1 phone, it just gives an error and tells me to try again. Tried restarting my phone, no luck. Tried connecting via my VPN (US Texas) server maybe there is a geographical limitation as to where once can use his Office 365, no luck......what's going on here? now Office is in Read only mode not the full Office

2) Where the heck is the stopwatch in this phone?

3) There is an app called Lumia Camera that keeps failing to install, so I deleted it, how can I get it to install?

4) How come this is a 20MP camera but the 8MP iPhone camera takes sharper and crisper photos?

5) I was very disappointed that this 20MP camera can only shoot videos @ 30 FPS and not 60 FPS like my iPhone 6, is it ever gonna happen to allow us to shoot @ 60 FPS? the smoothness diff between 30 and 60 FPS is like day and night

6) biggest problem I have is my contacts, they were all in my iCloud account, I thought it would be as simple as exporting them and importing them into the People application but I was wrong because the iCloud exports the fields in a weird format that doesn't work properly on this phone. Please tell me there is an easy way of doing this instead of me having to manually enter 500 contacts

7) Is there no Google Maps for this phone? I think that's the best GPS maps app hands down and was very disappointed that it wasn't there in the App Store

Hope you can answer all my questions, thanks

 

[ven07]

Hey First of all welcome and ehm were you trying to post a video? In any case there must have been a link, otherwise you wouldn't be able to post this and ask for help ;P

 

[BullGuard8]

Hey First of all welcome and ehm were you trying to post a video? In any case there must have been a link, otherwise you wouldn't be able to post this and ask for help ;P

nope, no video, no link, just points as in 1) 2) 3), etc.

I cannot even report my post to a moderator it's telling me the same thing no links allowed

 

[ven07]

Ok let's get you to 10 posts and check if it still persists Why did you drop IOS?

 

[BullGuard8]

Ok let's get you to 10 posts and check if it still persists Why did you drop IOS?

Done, check the original post please.

iOS, while the iPhone 6 was great in terms of speed and the camera was the best I've had in any phone especially the ability to take videos @ 60 FPS is amazing.........but....

functionality and practicality wise it was too stupid for an OS this mature to be like this....

1) Try sending an attachment in an email, very difficult and only shows files in your photos or videos so let's say you have some documents stored on iCloud Drive, you can only send them one at a time by going to the file itself and sharing it via email but imagine you wanted to send many documents to a client, it's a nightmare

2) Your photos and videos are locked in the phone, there is no way you are getting them out unless you want to share them somewhere and download them from there, I had to purchase a separate app (iExplorer) for 20 USD just to be able to easily access my iPhone files

3) Loudspeaker should be renamed to low volume speaker, it sucks plain and simple, thats on iPhone 4S, iPhone 5S, and on the iPhone 6 (had them all)

4) While the app market is great in iOS and I had a few purchased, I came to notice that all I really use is Twitter, Facebook, email, Whatsapp, Viber, and Skype, so no win here for iOS. Plus the apps are becoming just like Android, full of fake reviews and shady apps, so again, app wise, I don't care

5) the biggest problem......... copying my MP3s to my iPhone, first time iTunes would sync my entire library, great, that was easy but then when I added a few songs, it wouldn't update the library, I asked on the iPhone forums and noone had an answer as to how to add the new songs only, working with iTunes is harder than studying for a pHD in nuclear science

 

[mj0]

There's no need to export/import your iCloud contacts. Just add your iCloud account to your phone and enjoy.

 

[ven07]

I play with my gf's 5s from time to time (for the cool games :winktongue and I mostly don't see any reviews at all?

 

[ven07]

The lumia cam bit is weird, but try installing it again or another 3rd party cam app and check what happens

The phone does not have a built in stopwatch (I hate it as well :/) so downloading one is the solution

4k recording is coming with the Denim update if you have a 1520 or 930

and give Here maps a shot

 

[BullGuard8]

There's no need to export/import your iCloud contacts. Just add your iCloud account to your phone and enjoy.

how to do that? plus, I don't have an iCloud email just an iCloud account

 

[BullGuard8]

The lumia cam bit is weird, but try installing it again or another 3rd party cam app and check what happens

The phone does not have a built in stopwatch (I hate it as well :/) so downloading one is the solution

4k recording is coming with the Denim update if you have a 1520 or 930

and give Here maps a shot

How do I update my denim? (crap that sounds weird when I think of Denim all that comes into my head is blue jeans )

 

[mj0]

how to do that? plus, I don't have an iCloud email just an iCloud account

The same way you add every other type of account: Settings - accounts - add account - iCloud

 

[ven07]

http://forums.windowscentral.com/wi...lopers/274478-icloud-windows-phone-8-1-a.html

Check Himanshu's answer

 

[ven07]

How do I update my denim? (crap that sounds weird when I think of Denim all that comes into my head is blue jeans )

You could wait it, because WC reported that 930's are getting the update nowadays. Or you could decide to flash the phone, but be careful when doing that

 

[BullGuard8]

Right, so I've added my iCloud account and all my iCloud contacts now show.

Now the questions is:

1) If I ever do want to add a new contact, where is it going? if it's going to my phone then it's going to be a mess with some contacts on the phone and some on the iCloud account.

2) Is there a way to mass copy all those iCloud contacts to my Windows phone so I can then delete the iCloud account?

 

[ven07]

When adding a new contact the phone will prompt you to decide between a hotmail or gmail account (in your case you might even get the icloud option; not sure). Give it a try ;p

 

[BullGuard8]

When adding a new contact the phone will prompt you to decide between a hotmail or gmail account (in your case you might even get the icloud option; not sure). Give it a try ;p

WOW! you are right man!! it did ask me and I chose iCloud, and the moment I added the contact I checked my iCloud on the web it had that newly added contact!

Excellent integration saves me so much headaches

 

[Harrie-S]

WOW! you are right man!! it did ask me and I chose iCloud, and the moment I added the contact I checked my iCloud on the web it had that newly added contact!

Excellent integration saves me so much headaches

And maybe you like the following even more.

If you go to the people hub and tap on "showing" you can uncheck the "hotmail".
If you than add a contact you can not choose the "hotmail".

 

[BullGuard8]

And maybe you like the following even more.

If you go to the people hub and tap on "showing" you can uncheck the "hotmail".
If you than add a contact you can not choose the "hotmail".

Awesome!! Thanks a lot man! great tip!

 

[Helder Costa1]

wellcome to the house. hope you enjoy. wait for denim and you will love the camera...

 

[corby lambert]

Try downloading the "Lumia camera classic"
I love here maps but I think you can use Google maps through IE
You'll have to download a stopwatch app