![]() ![]() Linux users could look ahead to Windows Phone 8 Change PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell from 1 to 0.Then modify the below (If you have multiple phones, you'll have to do it for each one) go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB search for ZuneDriver, but then go to the parent folder.Open the registry editor by entering regedit in the Start menu.There is a well-known Windows registry hack to gain file-level access to Windows Phone 7 devices, but that won't help those of us not using Windows! Given the limitations, though, you might as well stick to desktop synchronisation. If you want to know more about how to set this up, read our guide. However, it will only check for podcasts after it has been plugged into external power for 10 minutes, and there's no other way to force an update. However, if you tap the 'Subscribe' button when viewing a podcast feed, the phone will take over the subscription for you. Primarily, podcasts are meant to be downloaded on the desktop Zune application, and synchronised with your device. Even if you do set your device to check for podcast updates, the schedule for such checks is rather obtuse. We've published a guide on how to set your Windows Phone 7 device to check for podcast updates, but unless you're in the USA you'll still need Zune to initially add podcasts to the device. Then we have the Zune desktop, this has been required for applying firmware updates, as well as synchronising, music, videos, and podcasts. Windows Phone 7 needs Zune desktop for firmware updates At least Windows (and Mac) have a desktop sync client though, there's no such client for Linux users. In my experience it can only handle a few thousand files before it fails to keep up with changes and is perpetually "processing changes". The Windows SkyDrive client is nowhere near as robust as, say, that of Dropbox. That is until you look into the detail of things. Indeed, the official SkyDrive app is a very capable file manager – as long as you have a reliable data connection.įrom a desktop user's point of view, integration with SkyDrive is fine, seeing as there's a desktop client for synchronising files. Windows Phone 7 was touted as being an always-online cloud-based phone – this was a nice way of spinning that there was no USB mass storage mode available and that you would instead handle your files via SkyDrive.
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