If you’ve tried to use an app such as Geo Cam to get locations from your photos and it says it can’t find EXIF data or tags, you may have Location in Photos set to off.
Please verify the following:
1. Launch "Settings"
2. Choose "applications"
3. Choose "photos+camera"
4. Check "Add location info to the pictures and videos I take"
Please let me know how it goes.
Unfortunately, we generally try out our new apps sitting at our desk, on the bus or subway, or in a waiting room. Not places one expects to get good GPS signals. In all likelihood, your phone is very capable of getting a great fix on your position when and where you’d really need it--outdoors. That said, sometimes you want to get the closest address or find out what street you’re on.
How many signals? Signals from at least 4 satellites is good. To determine a location on the surface of the Earth, 3 satellites is enough but isn’t great. A fourth helps your phone trilaterate your altitude which is why you may get a position on Earth before the phone knows your altitude.
More inaccuracy. If your signal bounced off a building or canyon wall and traveled further than expected to get to you, it can throw off the calculations. Being indoors increases the likelihood of getting one of these indirect signals.
As always, please let me know how you do.
Everybody knows about the figure 8, right? Well, it turns out that not everyone does it the same way. As embarrassed as I may be about the production qualities of this video, it seems to help people figure it out. The best way I can describe it is to try to minimize movement to your wrist as much as possible.
A common misconception is that the calibration process varies by app or requires the app to be in some special calibration state. The truth is all you need is for an app to enable the compass. Calibration is handled by the Windows Phone operating system in coordination with the phone’s drivers.
If you’re using Jack of Tools, you may notice it will pop up a window describing how to calibrate. This simply happens when it notices the inaccuracy get greater than ±25°. This is considered a best practice for letting users know calibration is needed and how do it but it is not a necessary part of the calibration process.
If the compass simply won't calibrate, the best thing to do is to shutdown and restart the phone. Upon restarting, it will require calibration but often works better seemingly starting with a clean slate.
Please let me know if this helps!
I get asked this pretty often. Usually it’s because someone got a new phone or had to wipe their phone but sometimes, even though the Windows Phone backup/restore is amazingly full featured, the reinstalled apps don’t see to be aware of their licenses. Assuming you logged into your new Windows Phone with the same information, you are still entitled to all the same apps and in-app purchases you made with your previous phone.
There are two main methods I suggest.
Basically, you click the Buy again. Having already purchased it and assuming you've logged in with the same information you did with your prior phone, instead of prompting for money, it should say something like, "You already purchased this." I found this one scary myself because it really sounds like it's going to charge you again. Also, if you’re reacquiring many apps, this might be a little tedious.
The other way requires the use of a desktop/laptop computer but is more clear about the fact that it's re-installing an already purchased app.
On a desktop computer (that is, not using your phone's browser):
As I always say, please let me know how it goes.
