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[REVIEW] What's New In Windows 10 Mobile RTM

Few hours ago, Microsoft started rolling out Windows 10 Mobile RTM for Windows 8.1 running devices. To know about supporting devices and how you’ll get this update, refer this article:

How to upgrade your Windows Phone 8.1 devices to Windows 10 Mobile

Windows 10 Mobile is much smarter, robust than Windows Phone 8.1. However, there are still few issues on which company has to work hard, to make this new OS a great competitor to Andriod and iOS. Well, after a full day of usage, I found some pros and cons for this RTM version which I’m enlisting in this article.

What’s New In Windows 10 Mobile RTM

The improvements in Windows 10 Mobile OS can be checked by using different features and apps. One of the finest example of those improvements is Settings app which is almost similar to Settings app for Windows 10 Desktop edition. There are some new built-in apps introduced as well, which are essential for your day-to-day usage.

So here are the highlights of Windows 10 Mobile that will please you more:

More Quick Action Buttons In Action Center

Like Windows 10 Desktop edition, the Action Center in Mobile iteration lets you to work faster and smarter. You don’t need to open Settings app every time for minute tasks. For example, earlier you need to open Battery Saver app explicitly to conserve battery but you can now do the same by just a single tap on battery saver quick action button. Hence, this section is quite fast and improved.

Microsoft Edge: The Internet Explorer Complete Replacement

In Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft Edge will be the default browser, replacing Internet Explorer (IE) completely. Though on Desktop edition, IE is still available and even receiving updates as well. But on Mobile edition, you don’t have any choice and have to say goodbye to old IE. Also, Edge has got some nice features that IE was actually  missing (like the Downloads section), hence I don’t think you’ll miss IE for longer time.

Rock Solid Settings App

Settings app in Windows Phone 8.1 was good too but the same in Windows 10 Mobile is best. Its appealing UI, great placement of individual settings lets an average mobile user to easily manipulate his/her phone. There are some useful additions as well, like the device encryption which will help you to secure your content and prevent unauthorized access to it. Have a look:

UI Improvements To Start Screen

Start Screen is most dominating feature for Windows Mobile users. This time you’re receiving fully customization Start Screen with Windows 10 Mobile. With it, you can make tiles fully transparent, half transparent or solid. The background wallpaper fits whole screen and also covers all apps list screen. You can allow more tiles if you like, as per previous settings.

Updated Apps

Built-in apps for Windows 10 Mobile has been updated and they now provide minute details for the convenience of users. The Camera app, Alarms & Clock app, Outlook (Mail) app, Calculator app, Camera app, Messaging app, People app and the Phone app can be observed with nice improvements. All of these apps are now quick and much responsive.

Introducing One-handed Use Feature

Smart devices running Windows 10 Mobile generally requires two hands to operate themselves. But there is nice feature edition to Windows 10 Mobile and it is called One-handed feature. To activate it, you’ve to press and hold Start button until whole display sticks to bottom half of the screen. Thus in this way you can operate the phone with the use of thumb only. This feature was earlier introduced in iOS as well.

Powerful Office Apps

Windows 10 Mobile comes with most advanced Microsoft Office apps for mobile devices. Word, PowerPoint and Excel apps available inside this OS are highly optimized to work on even low end phones. Many new features and robust performance are the specializations of these apps. I hope they don’t miss a single chance to impress you when you use them.

FINAL WORDS

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[TIP] Move Apps To SD Card From Phone Memory In Windows Phone 8.1

If your Windows Phone supports SD card, then you don’t need to erase your phone memory to make space, for downloading and installing new apps. Generally, the default Windows Phone settings are such that it saves every new stuff to Phone memory even if you’ve plugged a SD card. Due to this, the phone memory get filled earlier with addition of new stuff and card remains empty. An average user thinks that he can only install apps to phone, so he deletes the apps on verge of downloading new apps.

But here is something you can do in this condition. You can very easily move your installed apps to SD card which were installed on phone memory, and free up space on phone memory to get new apps installed. Or you can simply change Windows Phone settings such that all the new stuff goes directly to SD card only.

Here is how you can move apps to memory card from phone:

Move Apps To SD Card From Phone Memory In Windows Phone 8.1

1. On the Start Screen, tap Settings app. The in the SETTINGS screen, scroll down and tap Storage sense option.

2. Next, in the storage sense screen, tap phone.

3. Moving on, then tap apps+games under phone memory.

4. Now the list of your installed apps will be populated. Tap the app entry which you want to move to SD card.

5. Finally, tap on move to SD option in next screen. You may receive following prompt at this stage:

This SD card has apps from another phone installed on it. To move apps to the SD card, the other phone’s apps must first be deleted. Do you want to delete the other phone’s apps from the card?

Tap on the yes option to do the needful. Then your app will be moved to SD card. If you want many apps to move, you select multiple apps and tap move option (as shown in third section of below screenshot).

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[TIP] Prevent Data Wastage With Data Sense App For Windows Phone

One important concern about smartphones is that they consumes more data as compared to simply GPRS enabled mobile. Since most of telecom operators are not providing unlimited data plans now, thus it becomes our priority of paramount importance that we should prevent data wastage on our mobiles and make efficient usage. These days, the telecom operators are offering data plans on FUP (Fair usage policy or Fair user policy) basis. In these scheme the data plan is activated by the name “unlimited” but have specified limit and once user’s data consumption exceeds this certain limit, he gets controlled speed. In simple words, 3G speed becomes slightly less than 2G speed, once the FUP limit exceeds.

Thus, we should employ some techniques to reduce unnecessary data consumption. If you’re using Windows Phone 8.1 or later, there is a great default app inside it conserve the data, which is called “Data Sense” app. This app is especially designed to limit data by applying some constraints. Using it, you can save bunch of data and avoid yourself from going beyond FUP limit.

Here is how you can configure the Data Sense app for optimized usage:

Prevent Data Wastage With Data Sense App For Windows Phone 8.1

1. The first step is to identify your data usage pattern. Swipe the Start Screen to get into app list, and tap the Data Sense app. In the app’s overview section, you can see how much data your phone has consumed within a month. To further identify the app specific data consumption, swipe to get into usage section. Here you can found which app is consuming more data:

If an unnecessary app is consuming lots of data, you can disable it from running in background, or may uninstall it.

2. Next step is to set a limit for data usage. For this, tap the gear icon at bottom of screen (in above shown image) to open Data Sense settings. You can review here your current plan (default: Unlimited), tap on set limit option.

3. Moving on, set you best preferred settings for limiting data. Tap on the right icon to save your inputted settings.

4. Finally, we must set the browser specific settings to preserve data. So in the Data Sense settings screen, scroll down to look Browser data savings section. From the drop down, you can select best setting for you (default is Automatic).

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[How To] Uninstall Windows 10 Technical Preview For Phones

Since Windows 10 is under development, the preview editions of it offered so far may contains various bugs. These bugs doesn’t allows us to use the features correctly, whether we’re using beta edition for phone or desktop. Recently, I upgraded my Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows Phone 10, and faced a horrible experience. Although I got pretty much impressed by new features but the bugs were really odd and forced my uninstall back my Windows Phone 8.1. Here are the points which let me decided to do so:

The SIM card no longer recognized the phone, re-inserting it never helped me

I wasn’t able to even connect to any of WiFi networks at all whether they’re open or secure

In this way, I couldn’t receive calls, messages and can’t even use the Internet. Hence, neither I can upgrade the phone (in case if newer updates will available later) nor I can use current install. So what just I was looking for was to re-install my Windows Phone 8.1 copy which worked flawlessly. But I was already evident of the consequences of re-installation; which means that I will have to lose personal data on the go. Luckily, I have backup of my contacts and messages and I just have to lose my apps, which was a bit less painful.

Recommended : How to schedule phone updates installation time in Windows Phone 8.1.

So here started the journey of re-installation with these necessities:

1. Your Windows 10for phones running device

2. The USB data cable came along with phone

3. A Windows 8 or later running desktop operating system with strong web connectivity

4. And lastly the Microsoft official Windows Phone Recovery Tool installed on the OS mentioned in point 3. You can download the Windows Phone Recovery Tool from HERE.

Here is the how to part:

How To : Uninstall Windows 10 Technical Preview For Phones

1. Connect your Windows Phone to your Windows OS desktop via USB cable. Open Windows Phone Recovery Tool application, your phone would be detected automatically. Click on the phone name to proceed:

2. Next, the software will check for latest stable build available for your phone, which is Windows Phone 8.1‘s copy in this case. Click on Reinstall software, bypass the data will erased warning.

3. Moving on, the latest available operating system will be downloaded as per the speed of your network connection:

4. Once download finishes, the downloaded files will be verified for security purpose:

5. After verification, the installation will go ahead which usually takes 5-10 minutes.

6. Finally, you’ll get the Operation successfully completed message. Meanwhile the phone will be rebooted to Finish re-installation.

In this way, you’re now back to your Windows Phone 8.1 from Windows 10. That’s it!

Another brilliant idea by Microsoft, brilliant design, user-first thinking...

To change the primary account on your Windows Phone.. Easy..  One simple step.

1. Factory Reset. 

Yups.  There is no way of changing your primary account on a Windows Phone.  You have to factory reset the phone, losing all your apps, photos, songs, etc...  and go back to zero.

It’s just too hard to change an account.

If you’ve entered your primary account incorrectly (.co.uk instead of .com) or have made a spelling mistake in your account name - factory reset.

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[How To] Prevent Accidental Camera Launch When Windows Phone Is Locked

In your Windows Phone, generally there are three physical buttons. These includes power button, volume up and down on same button and Camera button. Now sometimes it happens that Camera physical button got pressed accidentally when the phone is inside your pocket, and thus default Camera app is launched as a consequence of this.

Thus to avoid such unexpected situations, Windows Phone is shipped to you with a setting that prevents this from happening. However in some phones, the Camera button is so crafted that it doesn’t gets accidentally pressed.

See : Disable Key Vibration & Increase Touch Sensitivity In Windows Phone

But if you’re facing this problem with your Windows Phone 8.1 or later, simply try this:

Prevent Accidental Camera Launch When Windows Phone Is Locked

1. Swipe your Windows Phone screen to open Notification Center and tap on ALL SETTINGS.

2. Next, in SETTINGS screen shown below, switch to applications view and scroll down to look photos+camera option, tap it then.

3. Finally, in the photos+camera settings screen, scroll down and look for Prevent accidental camera launch when phone is locked option. This may be turned off by in your case and is the root cause of the problem. So simply enable it.

You must now restart your phone and let this setting became effective. After restarting your phone, problem of accidental Camera launch in locked condition will be resolved.

Hope it helps! Learn these tips too:

1. Disable Predictive Text In Windows Phone 8

2. Set Live Lock Screen In Windows Phone 8.1

3. Remove Temporary Files From Windows Phone 8

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[FIX] WhatsApp Tile Greyed Out In Windows Phone 8.1

We all know that WhatsApp has replaced the custom of text messaging and made our life easy to communicate. WhatsApp is available with almost all mobile operating systems. As far as Windows Phone is concerned, WhatsApp team has introduced some nice features, that  this OS, which was earlier available for Android users only. WhatsApp by default makes a backup database of your messages periodically and thus using this database, you can restore the chat conversations.

However, in Windows Phone, there is a native backup option inside the OS itself and it helps you to save your settings, app stuff to cloud. Now due to two backup sections in the same phone or same OS, one may contradict with another. As a result of this contradiction, you may face the issue of WhatsApp tile being greyed out or the app becoming malfunctioned. Hence the app is no longer working and you can’t open it at all. If one message you during this scenario, he/her will get a sent receipt but still you won’t receive the message.

Obviously, reinstalling the app is straightforward solution. But if you don’t want to reinstall app, here is how to fix inactive WhatsApp tile so far:

FIX : WhatsApp Tile Greyed Out In Windows Phone 8.1

1. Go to Start Screen, open Settings app for your Windows Phone.

2. Next, in the SETTINGS app, scroll down, look for backup option and tap it.

3. Now in the backup screen under SETTINGS, tap the apps+settings option.

4. Moving on, in the app+setttings screen, first enable the Settings backup option and set it to On. Then tap back up now option as highlighted in below shown screenshot. Keep patience, until your phone completes backup to cloud. Once the backup is finished, turn off the Settings backup and App backup options.

Thus in this way, we have finished backup, if it was pending for your phone and then successfully turned off backup options to avoid possible contradiction with WhatsApp backup feature. Finally, reboot your phone and after restarting the phone, WhatsApp tile will now become active, also the app will start to work as usual.

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[TIP] Schedule Phone Updates Installation Time In Windows Phone 8.1

Time to time, Microsoft releases newest updates regarding latest features in Windows Phone OS. Especially, if you’re using Preview for Developers app mentioned here, you’re supposed to receive phones updates more frequently. In latest Windows Phone 8.1 builds, you can now schedule the time your phone should install latest updates. Till now, we all are familiar with following screen, when a new update is ready to install.

Here we can simply deny using “Not now” option, if we want to install the phone updates later. But now, moving a step ahead, scheduling of updates installation is possible too. So if you don’t want to waste your time in installing phone updates during work-time, you can schedule this task for night when your phone is offline. Hence, while you’re taking rest, your phone is getting new firmware updates. Here is how to schedule or configure updates installation time:

How To : Schedule Phone Updates Installation Time In Windows Phone 8.1

1. Go to Start Screen, tap Settings tile.

2. In the SETTINGS screen, scroll down to look for phone update option and tap it.

3. Now in the phone update screen, scroll down and look for the Preferred install time label. Tap on the time next to it and then you can see CHOOSE TIME screen. Thus from here, you can set whatever time is convenient to you, for scheduling the updates. Make sure your phone is on at this time and have a battery power above 60%.

You can now close Settings app and return to Start Screen if you like.