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Welcome to the Windows Phone Developer Feedback site
This forum focuses on the developer platform (APIs, runtimes, and controls) that you use to build great app experiences for Windows Phone. Additional WPDev forums are available using the links along the right of the page. Consumer features suggestions should be submitted to the Windows Phone Suggestion Box site (http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/).
Suggestions provided via the WPDev UserVoice forum will be reviewed and read by the Windows Phone developer platform team, providing feedback to help with planning ideas and to better understand how developers are using the development platform, and all suggestions will be considered.
Two important notes about this site: (a) List items (and item rankings) represent community interest in features, and does not represent an actual priority list for the product team; and (b) Suggestions made using this forum will be moderated if they do not actually represent a feature request.
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Add support for TMC
TMC allows to get traffic Information for Windows Phone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_message_channel
This would enable live traffic aware apps.
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Please enable HttpWebRequest.AllowWriteStreamBuffering
Without this being enabled, an app can run out of memory pretty quick when transmitting large data using HttpWebRequest.
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How many users are using which version of my app?
I have released several versions of my app throughout its life cycle. Knowing how many users are using which version of my app would be great.
Something like: %10 is using version 1.0.0.0, %20 is using version 1.1.0.0, %70 is using version 1.1.1.0 etc. on my dashboard.
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36 hours max for app certification :)
Making app certification faster.
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Extand the storage API so they are actually useful and remove the pointless reserved format plicy
Why is it that every single nice API that allows for great things to be developed on this platform has to have some stupid limitation? Why do you reserve the media formats supported by the phone? We can't even read a god forsaken txt file from SD cards. Why even bother introducing the API in the first place...
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Add SIMD instructions and hot swapping to improve CLR performance
The CLR needs some major performance improvements. Add SIMD instructions for better use of ARM NEON instructions for math and games.
Also, using a hot swapping code generator (optimized machine code like HotSpot in Java does) would also be very helpful to mitigate slow C# code.1 vote -
Add geofencing APIs
A lot of scenarios require "always-on" geo location like location based reminders. Both iOS and Android have geofancing APIs and are highly efficient (requires only 1% battery life per hour). Would be great to be on par with other platforms. Thanks
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fetch sip call history from the api
fetching the sip call history is useful to the user to see the sip call detailscall
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3 votes
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Reply to/report reviews.
I think the title speaks for itself. The Market is overwhelmed with reviews like "This isn't Snapchat, just get hte real thing!", "I hate WIndows PHone I don't have a real Instagram", or just plain spammy/harassing reviews that do nothing beneficial.
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In applications shared in Kid's Corner, allow all tasks in the application to function
It is up to the parents what apps they decide to share from the Main Phone to Kids Corner, regardless of the capabilities of the app. Currently if you want to use a task that is regularly blocked in Kid's Corner, like Phone Call Task - you are displayed a message that indicates that you are not able to use that functionality. My use case, as a parent, is that I really don’t want to give the kids a full functioning smart phone, I don’t want them dialing random people, I'd like to keep them in Kid's Corner. I’d like…
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Deploy app to locked device
Just a small issue: When I work on my WP app the phone often times out and locks itself. When I hit the Play button, more often than not, I get the error message that I must first turn on and unlock my phone.
The phone in question is not password protected and has a connection with my PC already (I can browse the phone with Explorer).
It'd be great if Visual Studio automatically turned on & unlocked the phone upon deployment - if needed.
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Events upon outgoing/incoming call started and ended
I would be extremely useful in a variety of app types to be notified upon call started and ended events, at least be able to check whether or not the device is being used for a phonecall.
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Statistics for the App Developers / views
It would be cool if the developers could see how many times their App is viewed. For example, my app is viewed 1000 times, but only downloaded 1 time. If this is so, i can maybe change the story and the images so people would understand my App better.
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add PROFILES
add the possibility to add PROFILES, so you can select from a list of profiles the user can create.
And with RULES you can switch automaticaly between those profiles.
Examples :
- a 'silent' profile : select this profile at the beginning of a meeting, and let it return to a 'normal' profile at the time the meeting ends. If you can select a time the profile will end, you cannot forget to change your phone back to normal.
- switch off WIFI when the Bluetooth is connected to my car-kit.
- automaticaly switch to 40% volume between 22h and…2 votes -
An app that can give a repeating sound/noise (every 1 minute) if you have an unread SMS/Text-messages, or a missed call, or a calender item.
An app that can give a repeating sound/noise (every 1 minute) if you have an unread SMS/Text-messages, or a missed call, or a calender item. And by reading the SMS/text-messages the repeating sound stops. The current sollution is looking every 5 minutes to the live-tiles on the home-screen, which is not very efficient.
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Fix Altitude Bug in GeoCoordinateWatcher and Geolocator when using in WP8
Fix Altitude Bug in GeoCoordinateWatcher and Geolocator when using in WP8. On my lumia 520 (WP8) i get jumping values of altitude, even outdor with a strong and good GPS-signal. The altitude jumps from 27m to 200m up and down, 200m is the right value. The values from GPS-accuracy are top. This occurs In both classes on WP8. I always use the DisiredAccuray = high! I have read, that another user have the same problem with WP8-Phone, like HTC. All GPS-App in the store have the same problem with the jumping altitude.
But i found a solution. If you take…3 votes -
offline voice recognition
Android supports text-to-speech and vice versa without online connectivity. This is great for dictation. Please add this feature to Windows Phone.
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3 votes
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I do not know i am on the correct page or not...
Hi Team,
I dont knw is this the wright page or not... But i need suggestion.. I want to buy lumia 720. Everything seems to be all wright.. till the time i knw that it has only 512 RAM. I have only one question. Will next window updates available for the devices with 512 RAM ? and what to do of those games which needs 1 gm RAM. Anroiad dont have that issue with here middle end phone.
1 vote
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