dazbo5 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2005, 2579 posts, RR: 2 Posted (7 months 2 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1634 times:
Hi All,
I've just taken delivery of a Nokia Lumia 800 and trying to get to grips with where everything is and how it works. I must say, it's far more complicated than I was expecting with basic task seeming to be more complicated than they need to be.
My question relates to attaching photos to messages on and uploading photos to this site. I used my previous phonos for years to email photos via Yahoo as attachments and submit them to this site (once processes while away from home). I've never had a problem doing this with any other phone. However, with the Lumia 800, it doesn't seem to allow you to to this. On the add attachment page or photo sumbission page here, there is a box with a browse button that when you press, nothing seems to happen. On all phones previously, you simply press browse, select the file from the memory card / drive and press upload in the same way you would do from a pc. But this doesn't seem to be the case on the Lumia 800. When you press browse, nothing happens, you don't get a box to select a file from the phone or anything.
Has anyone any ideas of how to get around this? It must surely be possible to attached photos to email and select files for uploading from what is billed as a state of the art Window phone? If not, it may be a case of the phone goes back and I'll go back to using my X6.
Thanks,
Darren
Equipment: 2x Canon EOS 50D; Sigma 10-20 EX DC HSM, 50-500 EX APO DG, Canon 24-105 f/4 L, Speedlite 430EX
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To share a picture or video in a text message, email, or IM
On Start, tap Pictures.
Find a picture or video you want to share. (To share a picture from an online album, you'll need to save it to your phone first.)
Tap the More icon (· · ·) at the bottom of the screen (or tap and hold the picture), and then tap Share.
To send the item in a text message or IM, tap Messaging. To send it in email, tap the name of the email account you want to use.
A new email or message opens with the item attached.
Also do you use the SkyDrive option for storing your photos? I am not suggesting it in particular to solve your problem but it is a good way to back up your pics. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2413571
Tugg
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dazbo5 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2005, 2579 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (7 months 2 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 1498 times:
Thanks Tugg, it's not quite what I'm trying to do though. I'm simply trying to upload a photo file that's on my phone to this site using the photo upload page. It should be a simple case of opening Internet Explorer, going to the photo upload page, entering the aircraft details and selecting the photo from the memory card of the phone. But for some reason, it won't let you browse the files on the phone from within Internet Exlporer. You press browse, the box goes grey and nothing happens. It's so frustrating as any other phone, it's not a problem. It just seems the Windows Phone OS is riddled with software issues. You'd have thought a state of the art phone would allow you to do simple tasks like attach files to emails or upload to website wouldn't you, every other phone can!
Darren
Equipment: 2x Canon EOS 50D; Sigma 10-20 EX DC HSM, 50-500 EX APO DG, Canon 24-105 f/4 L, Speedlite 430EX
I've been uploading photos to this site using my X6 and other phones for over 2 years, so they can! It's a simple task, I'm not asking a lot from the phone.
Quoting Aesma (Reply 3): Could you maybe try another web browser ?
That's just what I've done. After a lot of messing about, I've installed UC Browser 8 and that seems to achieve what Internet Explorer 9 fails to do. After asking around, it seems there is a software problem on the phone that makes some functions of IE9 on a Windows Phone not work. I can't believe Microsoft would release an operating system and software for the phone when there are so many problems with in. How can a third party browser do a basic task that the native software can't? It's beyond me!
All sorted now though.
Darren
Equipment: 2x Canon EOS 50D; Sigma 10-20 EX DC HSM, 50-500 EX APO DG, Canon 24-105 f/4 L, Speedlite 430EX
Rara From Germany, joined Jan 2007, 1824 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (7 months 2 weeks 5 days ago) and read 1450 times:
Quoting dazbo5 (Reply 6): I've been uploading photos to this site using my X6 and other phones for over 2 years, so they can! It's a simple task, I'm not asking a lot from the phone.
When I do what you describe on my phone, it calls up a third-party app, because there's no native filemanager included in Android (or so I think).
Anyway, glad you got it to work.
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AirPacific747 From Denmark, joined May 2008, 2091 posts, RR: 23 Reply 8, posted (7 months 2 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 1366 times:
Quoting dazbo5 (Reply 6): I can't believe Microsoft would release an operating system and software for the phone when there are so many problems with in. How can a third party browser do a basic task that the native software can't? It's beyond me!
I think you are overreacting quite a bit. WP was smooth from the beginning. Remember what Android was like, even 2 years after initial launch? And how limited iOS was and still in some ways is? You knew that WP was a young OS when you purchased the phone (at least if you have done a tiny bit of research before your purchase).
No doubt MS and Nokia are late to the game, but it is clear that they are working very hard round the clock, and I believe with WP8, the OS is finally mature. Can't wait to get a Lumia 920.
baldwin471 From UK - England, joined Mar 2012, 211 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (7 months 2 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 1364 times:
Quoting AirPacific747 (Reply 8):
I think you are overreacting quite a bit. WP was smooth from the beginning. Remember what Android was like, even 2 years after initial launch? And how limited iOS was and still in some ways is? You knew that WP was a young OS when you purchased the phone (at least if you have done a tiny bit of research before your purchase).
No doubt MS and Nokia are late to the game, but it is clear that they are working very hard round the clock, and I believe with WP8, the OS is finally mature. Can't wait to get a Lumia 920.
Very well said and i fully agree. The Lumia 920 is nothing short of amazing.
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