| • | Your Zune billing address differs from the credit card billing address. |
| • | You try to use a new credit card that has not been activated by the credit card company. |
| • | Your outstanding balance in the Zune Marketplace is more than the available credit in the credit card account. |
| • | Your entire name does not appear on your Zune account. |
| • | Your credit card account is not set up to accept online purchases or automatic billing. |
| 1. | Verify that the Zune billing address is the same as the credit card billing address. |
| 2. | Verify sure that your Zune account reflects your complete first and last name. |
| 3. | If you are using a new credit card, make sure that you have activated the card by following the instructions that came with the card. Contact the credit card company for help activating your card. |
| 4. | Verify that you have the required balance available on your credit card account to make the desired purchase. |
| 5. | Verify with your bank that your credit card is set up to accept online purchases and automatic withdrawals. |
| 6. | Use a different credit card. |
![]() | You need to update your phone using the Zune software on your computer. Some Zune and Marketplace experiences may be limited until you update. |
| 1. | The ability to browse and buy Windows Phone apps through the Zune software has been removed, making Windows Phone Web Marketplace the only computer-based complement to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace experience. |
| 2. | Windows Phone devices must have the Windows Phone 7.5 release (operating system version Windows Phone OS 7.1) installed in order to purchase and download apps, as well as write reviews. This applies to both the Windows Phone Marketplace and Windows Phone Web Marketplace. Note If you have not updated to Windows Phone 7.5, you can continue to browse apps and games available through Marketplace. However, you can no longer download or update apps on your Windows Phone. |
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| Map It | Ring It | Lock It | Erase It |
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| Sorry, we couldn't find your phone. Try again later. | Sorry, we couldn't ring your phone. Try again later. | Sorry, we couldn't lock your phone. Try again later. | Sorry, we couldn't erase your phone. Try again later. |
| We're sorry, but we can't locate your phone right now. If you'd like, we can keep trying and send you an email if we find it. | We're sorry, but we can't ring your phone right now. | We're sorry, but we can't lock your phone right now. If you'd like, we can keep trying and send you an email if we lock it." | We're sorry, but we can't erase your phone right now. If you'd like, we can keep trying and send you an email if we erase it. |
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Your first try with Find My Phone fails Try again. The Find My Phone service may fail when you first try to use it. | ||||||||||||||||||
Your phone can't send or receive short code messages![]() Contact your mobile operator to make sure that your phone number can send and receive short code messages, and then try again. Note This differs from SMS. Short codes messages (also known as short numbers) are special telephone numbers. They're usually shorter than full telephone numbers and can be used to address messages from phones. There are two kinds of short codes: dialing and messaging. ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||
Your Find My Phone setting is using the wrong phone number, or you disabled text messages on Find My Phone Check your phone number and enable text messages to find your phone on the My Windows Phone site:
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| 1. | To repair the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 software on the computer, follow these steps:
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| 2. | Install the .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1). To do this, click one of the following links:
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| 3. | Try to start the Zune software. If you still experience problems, reinstall the Zune software. For more information about how to remove and reinstall the Zune software, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 929358 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929358/ ) How to remove and then reinstall the Zune software |
| 1. | Install the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. To do this, click the following link: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en) |
| 2. | Try to start the Zune software. If you still experience problems, reinstall the Zune software. For more information about how to remove and reinstall the Zune software, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 929358 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929358/ ) How to remove and then reinstall the Zune software |
To turn on or off the delivery reports for text messages, select Menu > Messaging > Message settings (or Msg. settings) > Text messages > Delivery reports.
To turn on or off the delivery reports for multimedia messages, select Menu > Messaging > Message settings (or Msg. settings) > Multimedia msgs. > Delivery reports (or Request reports).
You can reject a call with a message in the following way:
Press and hold the key 1 until your device dials to your voice mailbox number or select Menu > Messaging > Voice mail (or Voice messages, or More > Voice messages) > Listen to voice mails (or Listen to voice msgs. or Listen to voice messages). For the first time use, enter your voice mailbox number which you get from your service provider.
Note: The voice mailbox is a network service, contact your service provider for subscription. If supported by the network, the voice mail icon (the icon on the key 1) will display on the device to indicate new voice mails.
Yes. Select Menu > Settings > Dual SIM settings > Default SIM for msg and the SIM card you want to use by default.
Yes, you can. Select Menu > Settings > SIM manager > SIM1 or SIM2, and the desired preference (e.g. Call, Text messages, Multimedia msgs. and Mobile data).
The main idea of instant messaging is that messages appear to the recipient automatically, very soon after being sent. No polling is necessary.