I like, and I want to pay for the upgrade, but something seems to be up with the Handago store -- after entering all the info it comes back with a generic error message saying the purchase failed and my CC was not charged.
this has happened to me and several others as reported on the SPB forum.
I like, and I want to pay for the upgrade, but something seems to be up with the Handago store -- after entering all the info it comes back with a generic error message saying the purchase failed and my CC was not charged.
This happened to me last night and as of 5 minutes ago, it's still not working. Glad it's not just me. I'll quit trying to figure out what's wrong with my browser/computer.
It may be because I'm running a WM6.5 custom ROM on my Touch Pro...
Uh...yeah. It's pretty much impossible for Spb, or any developer, to optimize their software for a beta operating system that no one outside of Microsoft/OEMs is supposed to have. I'd hate to see Spb waste development resources on something like this.
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This happened to me last night and as of 5 minutes ago, it's still not working. Glad it's not just me. I'll quit trying to figure out what's wrong with my browser/computer.
Heard back from SPB -- they issued a code to me that allowed the upgrade price to work at Mobihand.
If Handago is still behaving badly, contact SPB to get a Mobihand code.
I've been using MS 2.0 since it came out and have been very happy with it. After playing around with 3.0, and reading the SPB Club forums, I've decided to stay with 2.0. Here's why.
1. The biggest deal breaker is that they removed the ability to customize the launcher. In 2.0, I can tell it exactly what apps to show in the Internet group, the Tools group, etc. That's completely gone in 3.0 so if you use Opera instead of IE for your browser, forget adding it to the Internet group. Overall, the new launcher is just a confusing mess where the old one mostly kept things well organized and easy to access.
2. It's a resource hog, taking about 1/2 again as much memory to run as 2.0.
3. They were so seduced by making lots of pretty screens go spinning around that they forgot that our WM devices are actually important tools we use for work. Almost everything that I could do with one touch in 2.0 now requires two or more touches (or a slide and a touch) in 3.0. The animations are pretty, but at the end of the day it has to be about function.
4. MS doesn't play nice with many Today screen apps. In 2.0, that was okay because the real Today screen was only one click away (or one swipe... your choice). I could put the other things I needed there and move easily back and forth between the two. It works nicely. In contrast, MS 3.0 replaces your Today screen and intercepts any program that calls for it. You can still get to it, but not easily. You have to navigate to the correct page and then choose the button for it.
5. Whoever was looking for a way to integrate this with PI, forget it. There is still a check box in the settings that says it's for doing that, but it doesn't work. It didn't work in 2.0 and it doesn't work in 3.0. Clearly they only want you to integrate with their own apps.
All that said, there are some features in the new version that I really would like, but it's not worth giving up the other features I would lose to do it. I don't know the people who program this, but they act like they learned their programming at Microsoft. (With each new version give one new feature that you need, give two new features that you don't need and take away three old features that you do need.) I was really looking forward to this new version, but now I'm just disappointed.
it's ok, but it hard codes calendar etc instead of calling WM's calendar link like it should.
also, you can't customize menus like in v2, which makes it useless now - I use none of its links for:
pic viewer
IE
calendar
mail
media player
phone book
Uh...yeah. It's pretty much impossible for Spb, or any developer, to optimize their software for a beta operating system that no one outside of Microsoft/OEMs is supposed to have. I'd hate to see Spb waste development resources on something like this.
That's completely understandable, but I was kind of hoping for other peoples experience with the time it takes to switch from portrait to landscape mode with this installed. The review I read about this new release on WMexperts also listed the lag in rotation on a 6.1 ROM as one of the "Cons".
I reinstalled it and timed it. Without it installed the screen rotates in less than 1 second. With it installed it takes 5 to 7 seconds. Can anyone with a Touch Pro, Titan or similar slider phone give a comparison with WM6.0 or 6.1?
1. The biggest deal breaker is that they removed the ability to customize the launcher. In 2.0, I can tell it exactly what apps to show in the Internet group, the Tools group, etc. That's completely gone in 3.0 so if you use Opera instead of IE for your browser, forget adding it to the Internet group.
For the life of me, I can't understand why they didn't enable this by default. That said, the problem you note is fixable as long as you are comfortable making registry changes.
The one remaining limitation is that it doesn't appear you can delete or hide the original menu items... but I'm sure that's just another registry tweak.
....I reinstalled it and timed it. Without it installed the screen rotates in less than 1 second. With it installed it takes 5 to 7 seconds. Can anyone with a Touch Pro, Titan or similar slider phone give a comparison with WM6.0 or 6.1?
Check the SpbClub forums; EVERY slider WinMO phone suffers an INTOLARABLE rotation-lag when the keyboard is slid out. Takes over 6 seconds for every known ROM image on the touch Pro and others...
Looks like the app is simply bad coded...it's like godzilla on your phone...
Too big, too many features, too little performance.... I liked MS2.0 much better (and TFLO3D even better)
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Check the SpbClub forums; EVERY slider WinMO phone suffers an INTOLARABLE rotation-lag when the keyboard is slid out. Takes over 6 seconds for every known ROM image on the touch Pro and others...
Looks like the app is simply bad coded...it's like godzilla on your phone...
Too big, too many features, too little performance.... I liked MS2.0 much better (and TFLO3D even better)
On my Tytn II -- rotate takes about 5 seconds the first time, then 2 seconds after.
Not great, but certainly not 6 seconds.
What I don't like about the rotate is that a bunch of my icons (in Lifestyle layout) get piled on top of each other on the rotate. I'm going to re-layout them while rotated and see if its smart enough to remember the two positions.
EDIT: yes, it does remember -- if you re-layout icons to fit better in rotated mode, MS3 will remember where to put them
I'm getting the same error message.
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