Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Windows 10 Phone Can't Send Email (Reply / Forward)

Recently discovered Windows 10 phone breaks my gmail and I can't reply or forward messages in my inbox. Original solution here: link

You need to delete and recreate your gmail account. Honestly Windows 10 phone added some nice features, but what it broke is insanely messed up....I'm moving to an android.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Windows 10 Phone Bluetooth Setting remains grayed out and unselectable after turning it off

 I had an issue where I turned the "Status" of my windows phone bluetooth to Off and it would never let me turn it back on. The solution is to drag down from the top of the screen to see the mini tile menu, you can restart the bluetooth from there

Southwest Airlines not displaying reservations in Gmail / read .eml files

For some reason the Southwest reservations were not being displayed in the email, attached were a bunch of .eml files, it turns out these have the reservations were in the .emls. For me to view them I simply renamed them to .mht and opened them in IE.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/how-to-open-eml-files-in-windows-7/8158751a-bc5a-4fd6-b8be-5755d2821c49

Windows 10 Phone Upgrade Google Calendar Events Set One Hour Later

I had an issue where after my Windows 10 Phone upgraded all my Google calendar events were appearing later than expected. It turns out this was not due to any of the following reasons:
  • Time Zones on either my Outlook Mail or Gmail as some posts suggested 
  • Daylight Savings Time Configuration 
  • Set Date and Time Automatically 
 I read a posts that this may only be an issue for recurring calendar events, but basically Windows 10 actually MOVED my events on my GOOGLE CALENDAR up one hour AND automatically sent out updates to guests. So that is insanely poor design, gmail makes sure to ask me if I want to edit any recurring events in the series, Apparently Windows just did whatever the hell it wanted. Unfortunately, the moved events will NOT appear in the trash, I had to manually drag the calendar entries on my Google Calendar back to where they should have been. I only figured this out because my gmail was cluttered with "updated events" Microsoft really screwed up on this on.

Monday, September 12, 2016

Quick Link to Re-Setup Google Chomecast

I don't known why this doesn't always pop-up when I search but I've recently had to setup a bunch and I keep ending up on the "Set up Chromecast" support page link which is not helpful when all I need is this:

https://www.google.com/chromecast/setup/
Just click "Set up your chromecast" using this computer

Google Calendar Copy Event

Needed to Copy an event, not do a re-occuring event, just wanted to copy and Edit:

  • Click on the Event to Copy
  • [More Actions] Drop down tab 
  • [Duplicate Event]