My Nokia Lumia experience, part 2: Reloading
After getting home, now the fun begins, right? (It’s 9:10pm and I still haven’t eaten, by the way.)
Email set up was incredibly easy. Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live all are happy. I didn’t have important messages, all my read emails are copied in Outlook.
I haven’t used Zune streaming since the free trial 2 years ago when I got my Surround. The music section picked up on my old information and loaded the 10 songs I have gotten. Pretty cool.
Microsoft, can we talk about apps? First of all, you have to log into the Store to get your purchase history. I couldn’t find Reinstaller in the store, and I don’t know if it’s still broken from the Store’s rebranding. When you get your purchase history, it doesn’t even show everything! Once I had MANUALLY downloaded everything, I found half a dozen games had been skipped, and more than that in other apps, most notably (for me) kik, which my husband and a couple of friends & I use because I have texting blocked at the moment, but also Netflix, Relax Melodies (which I hope works better than on the HTC). Oh, and where’s Skype for goodness sake?? There has GOT to be a better way to do this.
Oh, and while I’m discussing games: Tentacles, which is massively awesome, couldn’t be found. So I hopped on the laptop and went to the Store. I clicked on the “Reinstall” button, and had it send me an instructional email. I opened the email on the phone when it arrived, and I did get redirected to the app’s page in the Store on the phone, and got a “This app is not supported on your phone.” WHAT?? Developer, pleaseplease fix this as soon as you can!!
As soon as I think everything’s on that I want, I get to clear the Surround as a play-at-home game system for Junior. Wheee! No more, “Mommy, can I play IloMilo on your phone?”
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ilomio is a blast from the past. It was the first game I downloaded to play for myself and my daughter ended up playing it alot. That and Max & the Magic Marker are top notch Windows Phone games.
This app situation has turned into a big headache instead of a small inconvenience that it was supposed to be. I know they’ve been pulling overtime to get the OS and phones out on time but it is still frustrating nonetheless.
Skype was a big question mark for me also..
I just can’t believe it’s because of the screen size. I mean, they MUST have known the device’s specs well ahead of time!
photosynth isnt compatible either, and its made by microsoft. wtf. i was pretty upset myself that reinstaller doesn’t work.
I remember seeing something, either on Twitter or somewhere else, about Reinstaller breaking when they rebranded the Store. The dev knew it, and was working on it. But I suppose he hasn’t found a work-around yet. MS should have addressed that, really.
You can install (most) applications to the phone from the webstore. If you go to your purchase history you can see it all, and after that its a single click reinstall.
https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/my/purchase-history
True, but the Purchase History doesn’t always show everything: I had lots of frequently-used apps not even show. It seemed to be the older ones. I had to go through the app and game lists on the Surround to catch when didn’t show in the History list. THAT is a serious P.I.T.A.
Ah, and I did try the 1-click reinstall. It kept saying it couldn’t contact my phone. Now, because it was the easiest thing to discard when my husband & I were trying to cut costs when I left the job market in 2010, we’ve got SMS blocked. That could have been the culprit. Happily, if you go to the app’s page in the Store, and click on THAT reinstall button, you can get an email option. That’s how I reached the Skype and Tentacles pages on the Lumia, and found that, for Skype at least, the problem was only WVGA support.
Tons of ‘cannot reinstall app at this time. Please try again later. A few did work. I used the list to manually install the ones I needed ASAP.
Couldn’t get the My Home Server app to connect though. Works fine on WP7 and other computers.
Much better Bluetooth and speaker than any other phone that I’ve ever had.
Awesome camera –but take the protective film off the lens 1st…