Official Windows Phone Central app v3.0 is now available!

[Jay Bennett]

Just to keep you updated, before I was only getting two toast notifications per story, but now my phone will repeadly toast me every 15 minutes or so until I open the app and look at the story. Otherwise it toasts all day long for the same story.

Arsenic, this should be fixed in the v3.2 update which I am finalising right now

 

[Arsenic17]

Arsenic, this should be fixed in the v3.2 update which I am finalising now

Good to hear jay. Thanks for the hard work. I know you mentioned it was wp8 issue but it also occurs on my old Lumia 900. Which I turned on yesterday for a few hours

 

[MrTofu]

I was having some issues with this app if you could help me. It was first crashing a few times when i tried to 'thank' a user. after that, it just 'denied' my requests. I wasn't able to post anything (though it showed me logged in). I uninstalled it to try to reinstall it but apparently there is no purchased list in the app store? I am new to Windows Phone and the smartphone world in general. Is there any way to recover this app instead of buying it again? and was anyone else having these issues?

*edit* ok, i see someone wrote in about the same issue a few comments up :winktongue: But is there anything that can be done about the 'missing' app?

 

[Jay Bennett]

You should be able to reinstall by tapping buy the first time and then you will be told that you have already paid and asked if you want to install again.

As for thanks issue, should be an update end of next week

 

[Jammo]

Same problem for me. I upgraded from an omnia 7 to a Nokia 920 and it states i need to buy the app again and it's not listed in my purchased apps.

 

[MrTofu]

Thanks Jay! Looking forward to the fix and it did show as already purchased so i was able to just download it again (after hitting 'buy')

 

[Jammo]

I clicked buy and it asked me to pay again 79p. Is this because i downloaded it when you dropped the price to free a while back?

 

[Jay Bennett]

I clicked buy and it asked me to pay again 79p. Is this because i downloaded it when you dropped the price to free a while back?

evoga that shouldn't happen if you're using the same account. If it is then please contact support at billing.microsoft.com as I have no control over the store

 

[Blkacesvf41]

Well, I'm impressed with this app. It works great and the UI with "live tiles" to access the forums is a nice touch! I sure was expecting something more basic. Well done!!

 

[Blkacesvf41]

This is by far the best way to view and post in the forums on a Windows Phone.

Agreed. This beats going through the browser by a mile!!

 

[MrTofu]

Thanks for the update, Jay, I'm able to 'thank' and post with no prob. I am noticing though, that during use of the app, when returning to the home screen or even after closing the app, the wpcentral icon goes 'dark' for a while with the word 'windows' on the left side of the tile spelled from top to bottom. It's basically a dark blank with the said word. Not sure if you've run into this yet...

 

[Jay Bennett]

Thanks for the update, Jay, I'm able to 'thank' and post with no prob. I am noticing though, that during use of the app, when returning to the home screen or even after closing the app, the wpcentral icon goes 'dark' for a while with the word 'windows' on the left side of the tile spelled from top to bottom. It's basically a dark blank with the said word. Not sure if you've run into this yet...

yeah very aware of it fixed a lot of instances just working on a permanent fix

 

[irvin792]

yeah very aware of it fixed a lot of instances just working on a permanent fix

mine seems to "black out" more frequently since latest update.

Love the app though, amazing work. The tile looks great on the 920 now

 

[abhishek8605]

This is a great app. However, I bought it mainly for the forums and I can't login with my passport account. Hopefully you guys can solve this issue sometime in the future.

 

[GreenScrew]

This app should be ported to Windows 8!!!!

 

[Jay Bennett]

This is a great app. However, I bought it mainly for the forums and I can't login with my passport account. Hopefully you guys can solve this issue sometime in the future.

If you logged in using a social network you just need to go to the account page on the site and create a mobile nations password then it will work

 

[Jay Bennett]

This app should be ported to Windows 8!!!!

you'd be surprised how much work is involved in that...

 

[Nogitsune Micah]

you'd be surprised how much work is involved in that...

Hi could you please help. It's not a huge deal(it's not a deal at all) but i was wondering why the live tile for WPcentral sometimes shows the normal tile
and then sometimes the tile is black and it has windows going down vertically?

Again not an issue so much as a curiosity as the app works fine regardless.
you can see in the screenshot what i mean

 

[Jay Bennett]

Micah I'm spending every second of my spare time trying to sort that one. It's about the most frustrating thing I've had to do and is because I'm rendering a custom tile outside of Microsoft's api & recommended practice.

Anyway it's being re-written from scratch tonight because i cannot solve it with adjustments to my existing code.

 

[c8m6p]

Hey Jay, I have 3 suggestions

1) High res live tile images for news stories

2) Headlines on the live tile get cutoff... Not sure if that is an inherent problem with live tiles as it happens on any app that tries to display a headline.

3) Fast resume!!!

Thanks, love the app.