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  1. ListBox.ScrollIntoView doesn't work properly

    If a ListBox has elements with different sizes and you call ScrollIntoView to the last Item, the ScrollViewer doesn't scroll to correct position.

    You can reproduce it adding rectangles with 100px, 200px and 300px of height and calling ScrollIntoView to the last item.

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    • Backup and restore

      http://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/110705-app-platform/suggestions/2379628-real-device-backup-and-restore-functionality

      This functionality is incomplete. If we compare it with Android's Titanium Backup application, which backups from any Android device and restore (on any other Android device) with settings/configuratins and data and sync it on the cloud (Dropbox and Google Drive), the backup and restore in Windows Phone 8 is very basic (only provides pictures, videos, text-messages etc). Please provide us this feature so we can backup & restore the all or individual apps on multiple devices with setting and app-data.

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        2 comments  ·  Bugs  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Fix VoiceCommands so they work whether the app is in the foreground or not

        Right now, Voice Commands registered for an app only work when an app is off, or in the background. They do not work if you are in the application already, and use Speech from the Windows key to navigate somewhere else in the app.

        To the end user, it appears that the command is recognized and the system is taking you there, then it closes without actually doing anything. This appears to the end user like a bug in my application, not a system-wide OS bug.

        I understand this was not necessarily the designed use case, but consider that the…

        36 votes
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          1 comment  ·  Bugs  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Email headers broken

          Originally posted by Sergiy (http://wpdev.uservoice.com/users/26024506-sergiy)
          "
          russian characters in email subject field are replaced by question marks when reply is sent.
          Steps to reproduce:
          1. send an email from gmail web interface with word "тест" as subject
          2. download the email using phone default client (the subject is shown correctly)
          3. press reply (subject is still correct)
          4. send the email
          5. check Sent folder - subject is displayed as ????
          6. check email in gmail - subject is brolen as well

          p.s. the phone language and settings are UK english. russian is used only as additional keyboard…

          31 votes
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          • Debug over Wifi

            When you unplug a WP device from your computer while debugging, you get an error message that the device on an IP address and port is no longer responding. If the debugger connects to the phone via IP, then why not allow for debugging over the local network? That way, someone can develop for Windows Phone in a Hyper-V VM, and still debug on a physical phone, just without plugging it in. There ought to be a way to build a Debug Agent app that can broadcast itself to the network so Visual Studio knows where to look.

            19 votes
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            • Email app crashing upon loading certain code

              Hi Microsoft,
              I would like to report a bug certain HTML code that causes the Inbox to crash instantly upon viewing the email.

              I'm not sure if this can be abused as we've seen on Mango where the phone is non responsive upon receiving a specially crafted text via notification.

              Please leave your email so I can sent you the information. I do not wish to leave it out there.

              Thanks.

              15 votes
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              • Stop/Pause Media Queue when Bluetooth Disconnects

                If there is media being played via the Media Queue, the playstate should be paused automatically when a Bluetooth connection is lost. Currently the media continues to play via the internal speaker.

                Alternatively, if the Media Queue is currently paused when a Bluetooth connection is present, it should resume playing.

                At the very least, this should be a configuration settings to allow this behavior.

                13 votes
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                  5 comments  ·  Bugs  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Fix Bing Maps control for slow connection

                  When there's only a slow network connection available, the Bing Maps control freezes when the user hits the hardware back button. This delay can take up to 30 seconds after which it can even happen that the app is terminated by the OS.

                  The bug has already been documented in multiple forum threads:

                  Thread 1
                  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/wpdevelop/thread/03acca68-41f8-4cc6-b1a3-6a09463125bb

                  Thread 2
                  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpdevelop/thread/7ab6a447-8b0a-431e-993e-a38bd67509da/

                  13 votes
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                    2 comments  ·  Bugs  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • WebBrowser Control stops working if it reaches a site with BasicAuth

                    If you are browsing web in your app and you reach a site protected by basic auth the control stops working. It fires the navigating event but not the navigated event. Seems that it is waiting to receive credential but no popup is showed.
                    After this the control is no more usable the only option is to close the application and reload all.

                    12 votes
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                    • System volume

                      When the volume is in the rang 01-09, the volume does not decrease.
                      This is experienced on a Nokia Lumia 800, OS version: 7.10.8107.79

                      11 votes
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                      • PhotoCamera.GetPreviewBufferArgb32 is broken on WP8 emulator

                        This function used to return the correct debug screen on Windows Phone 7 emulator, but it returns a buffer full of 0xffffffff values when executing it under Windows Phone 8 emulator.

                        9 votes
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                        • Icon lose quality in the Marketplace

                          Hi,
                          the biggest icon size requited is 200x200 bit in the Marketplace single App page this is resized to 240x240 losing quality.

                          8 votes
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                          • Contact object does not contain company phone number

                            If a contact has a phone number whose type is "company", then you have no way to access it in a 3rd-party app, because the Contact.PhoneNumbers does not contain it. It must be a bug, and it's terribly annoying for dialer apps. Pls fix it ASAP!

                            6 votes
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                            • Hardware acceleration not working in IE9

                              Hardware acceleration was working in beta 1 but not working in 7712 nor 7720. Please fix. The browser is as slow as an iPhone now :(:(:(

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                              • Live Tile Update

                                The Live Tile doesnt seem to update by itself for new items until i open the app and close it. No amount of rebooting/resetting seems to help. While Toast Notifications seem to work "real-time", the Live Tile update simply doesnt. To my mind this defeats the very purpose of a "Live" tile. Went through quite a few forums and this seems to be a common refrain. Using a Lumia 920.

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                                • Bug : SMS Copy-Paste Multiple Recipient Number

                                  If you try to copy-paste multiple recipient number to the "To:" box in the messaging, the 2nd until the last number will be duplicated.

                                  Step to reproduce:
                                  1.) Type multiple number with semi colon separated :
                                  For example : 1234;5678;9012;
                                  2.) Copy this text, and paste it to the "To:" box in the New Message

                                  Expected : 1234;5678;9012;
                                  Actual : 1234;5678;5678;9012;9012

                                  4 votes
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                                  • Renaming an Email Account by making the letters capital or lowercase, cause an error message

                                    If you are trying to rename an Email Account, by making the letters capital or lowercase, you get an error message:

                                    ‘You’re already using <account_name> for another account. Choose a different name for this account’.

                                    Let’s say you need to rename ‘account_name’ to ‘Account_name’. User needs to then rename ‘account_name’ to ‘account_name_1’ (as an example) and then to the desired ‘Account_name’ (with a capita ‘A’).

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                                    • Fix System.IO.FileNotFoundException when using ToggleButton derivatives!

                                      There is an very old bug that is still present in Windows Phone 8 SDK: when a page has a control that inherits from ToggleButton (for example, CheckBox), System.IO.FileNotFoundException is thrown and shown in the Debug output.
                                      One can read more here: http://nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com/post/2012/01/06/Framework-Exceptions-in-Windows-Phone.aspx

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                                      • The last update at the end of Jan made touch worse

                                        That last update at the end of Jan 2013 made the touch responsiveness on my Nokia 920 much worse. the phone jumps to other pages when I am scrolling up and down. Wish I can undo that patch.

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                                        • Battery drain after running Spotify until phone reboot

                                          Phone: Nokia Lumia 800,
                                          OS Version 7.10.8773.98,
                                          Firmware: 1750.0805.8773.12220
                                          Hardware: 112.1402.2.3
                                          Europe.

                                          The symptom was that some days the phone battery would not even last a day, while on the other days it would easily last more than a day.

                                          Apparently, this depends if the Spotify had been used - if I use Spotify even for short time (15 minutes) the phone battery will be dead significantly faster (say after 8-10 hours instead of 30) than on a day when I had not listened to Spotify. If I reboot the phone after using Spotify the problem goes away.

                                          I suspect…

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