Nob with Lumia 800 - few questions

[andy_con]

how come i cannt get the lumia to work as a normal usb hard drive?

also if i have a song/mp3 file why cant i set it as a ring tone?

 

[lumpaywk]

Neither of these features is supported in windows phone. You can get around the ringtone issue with apps but i keep mine on silent so i cant recommend any.

As for the storage issue its one of the prices you pay just like vpn but Microsoft do have a suggestions site you can add you vote to get these added. Personally i don't think they will add mass storage as they want to move more to cloud based but there you go. I wouldn't let it put you off but rather you can buy a usb memory stick for about £15 and then you wont also have to take a usb cable around with you.

 

[andy_con]

wow really thats poor, very poor. so i have a choice of like 20 crappy ring tones only

i use my phone for work to take pictures on and i normally just plug it into the work computer and copy the photos across.

not sure what im going to do now, work are very funny about install phone software onto the laptop

 

[Gahgah]

Custom ringtones DO work:

http://windowsphonesecrets.com/2011/06/28/custom-ringtone-support-in-mango-explained/

Or go to the marketplace and grab EasyRing, it has a free trial. I love that app when it comes to ringtones.

Using Windows Phone as an USB HDD is not supported currently!

Kind regards

 

[andy_con]

ok will check and download that one now thanks.

first major issue encounted and i actually had to phone nokia. phone frozen and i couldnt get it to do anthing, even the power button wasnt working.

phone nokia dn you have to hold the power button for 10 seconds to do a hard reset of the phone

 

[andy_con]

it would seem that with easyring i cant use existing mp3 already stored on my phone

 

[z33dev33l]

Does no one look into their 500 dollar devices before they buy them?

 

[andy_con]

$500 or free on upgrade...

 

[z33dev33l]

Either way, I'd think a power user would be more thorough. Ringtones are easily added via Zune and using it as a flash drive is available to unlocked devices. Windows plones point is simplicity

 

[andy_con]

who said i was a power user?

im a nob user

 

[lumpaywk]

I remember back in the day must of been about 2001 2002 ish i had a phone that could record your voice and use it as a ring tone. This gave us hours of drunk fun recording ourselves hideing the phone in the sofa and calling it to the confusion of whoever just sat down. Since then though i dont think i have ever got this love for ringtones at all. I think its just me. Either way i didnt mean to give the impression you where stuck with whats on there but rather you just needed to go about it in a different way. That phone also had a scroller on the side it really did rock cant beleive i forget what it was.

done some googleing and think i found it the sony cmd-j6

 

[RyanMacG]

I remember back in the day must of been about 2001 2002 ish i had a phone that could record your voice and use it as a ring tone. This gave us hours of drunk fun recording ourselves hideing the phone in the sofa and calling it to the confusion of whoever just sat down. Since then though i dont think i have ever got this love for ringtones at all. I think its just me. Either way i didnt mean to give the impression you where stuck with whats on there but rather you just needed to go about it in a different way. That phone also had a scroller on the side it really did rock cant beleive i forget what it was.

done some googleing and think i found it the sony cmd-j6

Sounds like the Panasonic something or other. I had one like that too...

 

[dladz]

who said i was a power user?

im a nob user

LMFAO sorry m8, that tickled me that one

Nob = Penis, noob = Amateur, just incase you didn't know