Improved Notifications

Dear Spotify teamI'm a heavy user on both Desktop (Windows) and mobile (Android).I've gather quite an amount of artists and playlists I follow (it says 585 in my profile). The thing that annoys me a bit is the way the notification area works. Some issues:It displays only 3 entries, scrolling needed for moreThe display area is not resizableIt sometimes doesn't mark them as read (I end up with 50+ notifications sometimes oh which only maybe 15 are new and the others are waaaaayyy down in the list)There's no easy way to distinguish the playlist and artist, etc notifications. I have to actually read which is cumbersome.My main use case:"I want a notification if one of my favorite/tracked artists releases a new song/album." The notification area doesn't really solve this in a convenient way.(I don't care too much about the changes in playlists etc.. It's nice to know but not really necessary.) Some ideas:Notification filter
Let me filter the notification for artists, friends, playlists (etc.)
A simple dropdown next to the title of the open notification area is sufficient (e.g. using the same icons for the filters as in the rest of the UI: artist - "microphone icon", etc.). "Mark bellow as read"
If I right-click a notification I can mark all the older ones as read.Different notification types
Give a visual aid to the notification entries which lets the user easily spot the difference between an "artist notification", a "playlist notification", etc.. (e.g. lead or trail an entry with the according icon maybe?)"Show all notifications" / notification view
Give the user a view where they can go through the notifications in a more convenient layout.
That dedicated view could of course also include filters or any of the above mentioned.
(e.g. Facebook does this with "show all" at the bottom of the open notification area.)That's all for now. I tried to keep it as simple as possible (but not simpler). To the Spotify dev team:
Thank you for your awesome work! Being a dev myself I can tell that some of those "little" features are super difficult to handle in the back-end and at the scale you're running. Very impressive!

Hello!
Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback, that's pretty awesome.
I've moved your topic over here since there were so many ideas in 1 topic. To get your requests working for the ideas exchange, we need to split them up in separate topics, so the received kudos & ideas statuses can be managed properly. So please re-post your ideas in separate topics (your 4th point has been suggested here).
Here are some great tips to submit an idea taken from the official guide:
1. Search for previously submitted ideas. Someone may have already submitted the same idea.
2. Use an intuitive title. Avoid vague or non-descriptive titles.
3. One idea per post. No double dipping.
4. Ensure the idea is implementable. Avoid posting general feedback or questions in the ideas exchange.
5. Keep the idea description short and sweet.
Thanks a lot! :)

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12- Enhancing Backup function for SMS Messaging .
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3- Support wireless connecting to various devices , networking with & access to such as PCs & Printers for files sharing or exchanging , management.
Hardware improvements :
1- Support recognize handwriting that support Arabic language & applications that support Arabic handwriting.
2- Support memory Card readers and flash USB through mobile's micro USB .
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improve device security and protection against stealing , like making an app for detect the person who enter invalid lock key to open the device .
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System Improvements :
1- Windows Phone must include a System , folder & files Management app as embedded app rather than an external or independent limited functions app . Also files Explorer or Files Management app should handle all files ( whatever it was ) that are being transfered through Bluetooth and shows save location on the mobile .
Why? To what end?
You have no business in the main OS file system and due to the way the OS works this is simply not possible.
2- Install applications from external memory ( SD Card ) without needing to Internet connection , as well as doing search in the phone using Bing search button without need for an Internet connection .
Is possible now, download the XAP from the store and copy to SDcard. Internet connection will always be needed to verify regional restrictions and ownership amongst other things.
3- Allow phone book contacts linking to any of Social or communication , dialing or calling apps , such as Line ,
Telegram , KakaoTalk & WhatsApp as an example and not being limited to Skype, Facebook or Linkedin only .
Talk to the respective developers, the OS provided the hooks, they need to implement this.
4- Windows Phone must support running Adobe flash files ( swf & flv ) , Animated GIFs & Java files to be run & play on all WP8 devices .
No modern day mobile OS supports Flash, it was discontinued a long time ago
Not sure why JAVA would be such a big deal.. I can see the huge security issues and would expect it to conflict with OS
5- Fix consuming huge amounts of data on memory by installed apps , the matter that often not found on a PC! .
Not sure what you are getting at here, on your PC you need about three times the application install size as well.
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Any app can use the notification centre is the developer supports it, go talk to them. Otherwise this makes no sense to me at all. I have no idea what you are getting at..
7- There is no data connection switching & data speed connection type ( 4,3,2 G ) switching function in WP 8.1 notifications + actions center as well as Alarms function .
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9- improving Device hub function which display all connecting devices , but doesn't allow access to nor control or operate it .
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10- Support recognize handwriting that support Arabic language & applications that support Arabic handwriting
Could not care less.
11 - there are duplicated features in its functions such as backup & sync my settings , Advertising id & IE privacy protection , NOKIA account & email + accounts , Network + & phone settings , about & extras + info , display & brightness function , rate us & feedback function .
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Why/How? you need to save a txt.. copy/paste it to a note ..
13- one of many defects / faults / shortcomings is that when someone want to add a contact phone number , WP 8.1 doesn't let you select your save place or method , whether it was on sim card , SD card , phone memory or your Microsoft account , unfortunately WP save it directly only on your MS account by default .
Nope, when you have multiple accounts the OS will ask which account the contact needs to sync with.
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1- Much bigger support for major & significant applications in all areas and categories .
Talk to the developers of said apps
2- Improving & Enhancing Office document working experience & make preloaded or saved html browsed files can be readable easily .
Can't say I have any issues with Office
3- Must support & providing with Google apps & services , such as : Gmail , Google Drive , Translate , Maps , Earth , Youtube , Books , Google Chrome , Cloud Print , Voice , Wallet , Sites , Scholar , Panoramio .
Talk to Google, they choose to ignore Windows Phone for some reason
4- Develop & improve group video calls apps that can send and share various file types plus adding simultaneous group sharing or common group action / work for the same file in the same moment feature. that means you can open a video file for watching while all participants can watch it playing in the same time . Also we can open an app like papyrus and all what we do writing in is shown for all participants in the same time and also they can do writing in and save what they have done. Also, when playing audio file, all participants can listen to it at the same time ( this is completely different from upload and sharing feature and may looks like web conferencing ).
Again, talk to developers, ther groundwork is actually in the OS.. Take up developing apps and do it yourself. If you think it's a big deal you stand to make a lot of money.
5- Improving & Enhancing Remote Access apps & technologies for Devices & Systems Administration .
No problem accessing anything through SSH or through any of the apps I have to access my PC, my server, my media players or my Xbox..
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This is a phone, not a desktop computer.. Do a screenshot
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Never missed the home button, actually never use it on my PC as well.. as far as back/forward goes try the back button (forward makes little sense to me anyway
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Talk to the developers, they set these limits when publishingthe app(s)
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See the earlier mention of this one
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Tap/hold then save as favourite. Been there like forever
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Up to stores/developers/shops/banks to support. The option is there and built in.
Display & lock screen Improvements :
1- Make alerts & notifications on lock screen are interactive .
It's a lockscreen for a reason
2- there is no news reader function / feature on lock screen like rss feeds .
See above
3- Support wireless screen content sharing : Clone View , Miracast , WiDi ( WiFi Display ) , screen mirroring on large displays for all WP8.1 devices .
Depends on hardware, available where supported.
Print & printing improvements :
Support Wireless & Network printing for Office , Pdf , html & picture files or from any readable applications ( such as : news apps , health & fitness apps , some business apps , Education & books + reference apps ) .
several apps in store for this
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1- Expand WiFi , Bluetooth profiles & other wireless connecting technologies uses and functionality to include other technologies unlike ( rather than being limited to ) Bluetooth & WiFi , such as : WiFi direct , WiDi , Miracast , …etc .
Not sure what you are getting at here. IMO technologies should be used for what they are intended, not whatever side effects/hacks ppl made up oever time or at at time when there were no real options. Actually Bluetooth internet sharing is coming in the next update.
2- Adding Wi-Fi direct feature for all WP devices to send any files through a Wi-Fi Connection directly.
For what purpose?
3- Support wireless connecting to various devices , networking with & access to such as PCs & Printers for files sharing or exchanging , management.
My files are on Onedrive and available anywhere anyway.. no need for this
Hardware improvements :
1- Support recognize handwriting that support Arabic language & applications that support Arabic handwriting.
2- Support memory Card readers and flash USB through mobile's micro USB .
mentioned earlier, if you say so
Security & Protection Improvements :
improve device security and protection against stealing , like making an app for detect the person who enter invalid lock key to open the device .
Not sure how you see this.. once I take the SIM out and reset the link to you is gone
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The slightly longer version:
I was formerly a Gmail user for many years. All of my hardware is Apple made, so iCloud makes sense, including for mail. I have multiple third-party email accounts forwarding to my @icloud.com address.
I have had intermittent reports of missing or delivered-to-spam messages which I sent from my @icloud.com address over the past couple months. Messages were sent from either the Mail.app on my MBP running Mavericks or from the native Mail app on iPhone. Software on both devices is always kept up to date. Messages appeared in my iCloud Mail sent folder without issue. No delivery delay/failure notifications were received by me for the messages which were reportedly not delivered.
The recipients in question had nothing to gain from lying and playing the "I never got the email" card. The destination addresses to which I was sending these messages were both institutional Exchange accounts (three delivered to spam, one not delivered at all) or Gmail accounts (one, with the recipient subsequently receiving my original message without issue when I forwarded it from my own separate Exchange account).
Thanks in advance.

For the first part, that does beg the question whether this is something that is more of a problem with iCloud than it is other providers, for whatever reason.
I'm not a huge fan of anecdotal "evidence" in general, but iCloud mail does seem to have the worst reputation for missing messages when compared to Gmail or even Outlook.com, at least going by a quick search. For other iCloud mail users, does this ever concern you? Any former iCloud users who left for similar reasons?

How do I improve performance while doing pull, push and delete from Azure Storage Queue

Hi,
I am working on a distributed application with Azure Storage Queue for message queuing. queue will be used by multiple clients across the clock and thus it is expected that it would be heavily loaded most on the time in usage. business case is typical as in
it pulls message from queue, process the message then deletes the message from queue. this module also sends back a notification to user indicating process is complete. functions/modules work fine as in they meet the logical requirement. pretty typical queue
scenario.
Now, coming to the problem statement. since it is envisaged that the queue would be heavily loaded most of the time, I am pushing towards to speed up processing of the overall message lifetime. the faster I can clear messages, the better overall experience
it would be for everyone, system and users.
To improve on performance I did multiple cycles for performance profiling and then improving on the identified "HOT" path/function.
It all came down to a point where only the Azure Queue pull and delete are the only two most time consuming calls outside. I can further improve on pull, which i did by batch pulling 32 message at a time (which is the max message count i can pull from Azure
queue at once at the time of writing this question.), this returned me a favor as in by reducing processing time to a big margin. all good till this as well.
i am processing these messages in parallel so as to improve on overall performance.
pseudo code:
//AzureQueue Class is encapsulating calls to Azure Storage Queue.
//assume nothing fancy inside, vanila calls to queue for pull/push/delete
var batchMessages = AzureQueue.Pull(32); Parallel.ForEach(batchMessages, bMessage =>
//DoSomething does some background processing;
try{DoSomething(bMessage);}
catch()
//Log exception
AzureQueue.Delete(bMessage);
With this change now, profiling results show that up-to 90% of time is only taken by the Azure Message delete calls. As it is good to delete message as soon as processing is done, i remove it just after "DoSomething" is finished.
what i need now is suggestions on how to further improve performance of this function when 90% of the time is being eaten up by the Azure Queue Delete call itself? is there a better faster way to perform delete/bulk delete etc?
with the implementation mentioned here, i get speed of close to 25 messages/sec. Right now Azure queue delete calls are choking application performance. so is there any hope to push it further.
Does it also makes difference in performance which queue delete call am making? as of now queue has overloaded method for deleting message, one which except message object and another which accepts message identifier and pop receipt. i am using the later
one here with message identifier nad pop receipt to delete message from queue.
Let me know if you need any additional information or any clarification in question.
Inputs/suggestions are welcome.
Many thanks.

The first thing that came to mind was to use a parallel delete at the same time you run the work in DoSomething. If DoSomething fails, add the message back into the queue. This won't work for every application, and work that was in the queue
near the head could be pushed back to the tail, so you'd have to think about how that may effect your workload.
Or, make a threadpool queued delete after the work was successful. Fire and forget. However, if you're loading the processing at 25/sec, and 90% of time sits on the delete, you'd quickly accumulate delete calls for the threadpool until you'd
never catch up. At 70-80% duty cycle this may work, but the closer you get to always being busy could make this dangerous.
I wonder if calling the delete REST API yourself may offer any improvements. If you find the delete sets up a TCP connection each time, this may be all you need. Try to keep the connection open, or see if the REST API can delete more at a time
than the SDK API can.
Or, if you have the funds, just have more VM instances doing the work in parallel, so the first machine handles 25/sec, the second at 25/sec also - and you just live with the slow delete. If that's still not good enough, add more instances.
Darin R.

Z10 Product Improvement Ideas: Peak, Flow and Navigation

Note sure what the best way to get some ideas across to Blackberry but since I've been using my Z10, there are a few ways that I think that navigation and application access can be improved. Sometimes I feel that you need to perform one too many swipes to get to something, often used features are hidden, navigation techniques are inconsistent (i.e. Accessing the hub, calendar and phone) or you have to make one more button press than necessary.
I've been a BB fan for years and have had many models. Want to see Blackberry succeed. Own stock. Got the Z10 first day. Got 4 coworkers to get the Z10. Big promoter.
Here are my suggestions and maybe with enough support, we can get a few adjustments made that improve the overall user experience and make us way more efficient. I also think that Blackberry can retain its innovation in peek and flow while still giving us alternative access that we are used across different devices such as our Ipads, playbooks, Desktops, etc. A couple items will be repeated depending on the suggestion type.
1. Calendar needs to be a core feature and should always be open and accessible instantly at a click or a swipe. Access to the calendar is not easy as I think it should be. Four ways that Calendar could be more accessible:
a) Have a calendar button next to phone, search and camera buttons
b) Support a swipe action of some sort (perhaps upwards and to the left (opposite of the hub))
c) Add calendar button to the mini-swipe/scroller menu that is available in the active apps or application screen
d) It should be clickable and launchable on the hub either on the bottom menu or as a hub filter item. Having upcoming events appear by scrolling to the top of my hub items is convenient but not what I am talking about.
e) Directly from the lock screen. I should be able to click and hold on the calendar event to launch my calendar.
2. Phone calling is a core feature and needs to be launchable from the hub, the mini-swipe/scroller bar, the applications pages (as an icon) and also from the lock screen similar to the calendar (ie hold the button down). In the hub you can filter on missed/all calls but it only acts to give you a call log and not any other phone feature. Launching through the hub should provide full features.
3. Phone and Hub should both be accessible from the applications pages as an application icon. This allows me to access hub and phone in a similar manner to my other applications and also reduces the learning curve for those used to the iphone (easier adoption). I can create logical visual organization of my applications and I can essentially put the calendar, phone and hub next to each other. I really like consistent access and behaviour and this would help.
4. Hub should be available in the active applications like everything else is. It is the only feature that isn't.
5. I dislike the fact that the Hub filter opens and closes after I make a selection. I would like to be able to click on the BBM icon and see my BBM messages, then quickly click on my Texts, then my mails. I think the filters should always stay open in the mini mode unless I shrink it. i.e. Click to open filter mode with icons only, drag again to stretch and see the icons with names (I think most of us know what the icons represent anyway) and click or swipe to close the filters menu. With the menu always open, I can view all content types by themselves very quickly.
6. Hiding the delete button  in the extended menu is not efficient. If I'm looking at a photo, reading and email, reading a text just let me delete immediately. It is an action that I do enough that it should be as available as the back, forward, reply to all buttons. Save me the additional clicks.
7. When I launch the phone, I want the number keypad open. I don't want to launch the phone and then have to click again to get to the phone pad. The speed dial screen should not be shared with the missed calls. There should be a new screen with a dedicated button.
8. I've found that once you set up your speed dial or world clocks, you can't edit the order. This means you are stuck with the order that you added the items and have to start from scratch if you want to re-order. This is frustrating. I don't have the ability to think about order that early. Anyone notice that when you add a phone number to speed dial, it might use a different contact than you selected if that other contact has the same number?
8. We should be able to shortcut phone numbers to the application pages the same way we can shortcut web pages. This gives me the ability to create folders, organize phone numbers and make calls quickly. Again, learning curve for iphone converts and consistency.
9. Alarm needs to be accessible easier. It can be an application icon accessible in the applications menu. Clicking on the alarm clock icon on the top should open the alarm clock, similarly, clicking on the wifi should open wifi menu, battery should give me percentage, and maybe a quick Bluetooth on and off. Potentially support a notifications quick menu too.
10. We should be able to put the phone to sleep with a long swipe from the top. I don't get why you need to get to sleep mode by first locking with the top button, getting to the lock mode and then swiping down the curtain. Is there a way to do this that I'm missing?
11. When searching in the hub, I have to clear the search to get back to an unfiltered view. Why not a quick swipe to the right? Why when I'm searching in the hub does the bottom menu disappear? I should be able to interact with those items the same way without opening the items.
12. On the lock screen, I want quicker access to different things through three swipe actions. A swipe up opens my applications page, a swipe left opens the hub, a swipe right opens my applications page. I need to be able to open the calendar from the lock page (long press on the calendar event) and I need to be able to launch the phone (add an icon for the phone (like the camera)). Long press of the voicemail, notifications, emails, bbm or texts opens those screens.
13. Why iis there no email or missed calls preview from the lock screen like the good old days of the torch. I want to know if I should even need to unlock the phone for the new events (is this a security issue?).
14. The mini-swipe/scroller bar should appear in the hub, active applications and application pages (currently it is only on the latter two). It is a cool features. As per above, it should include calendar and phone.
15. Active applications should allow pinning and re-ordering. i.e. I lock an open application in place and then I can re-order through drag and drop. Pinning isn't my idea but I like it a lot.
16. Cool idea. If we allow users to save the layout of an active applications page, they can essentially launch 8 applications in one go in the future. i.e. You save a layout with a name and then you close the entire layout and reactivate it when you want through a list. Very powerful.
That's it for now. Would be super happy to see these adopted and interested in seeing who else has ideas, likes these ideas and hopefully with enough support maybe BB will look at these seriously. Hope they look at them.

Hi Meredith,
Thought we had everything solved, however the failure to merge to HDR is solved. But the fix causes many problems. Now you can get to the final HDR picture however making small modifications will slow the computer to a crawl. The hourglass blinked for 5 minutes just to make a small highlight change.
What were the preferences restored by deleting the preference file and having Photoshop reload the defaults. These are the ones I am sure about.
my settings                           default
memory usage was 80-85%   now 49% (834 -838 mb)
animated zoom was off            now on
save in background off             now on
graphic processor on basic      now off
cursors others precise            now standard
transparency grid size small    now medium
By turning up memory to 50% or higher increase (1% or more) the merge to HDR screen opens as a black picture. Progress bar disappears and reappears as loading but Merge to HDR finishes with exception of black picture to start with. Click on 32 bit and.the picture appears. Local Adaption doesn't work !
Turned ON graphics card on NORMAL ,..memory back to 49% . Merge to HDR works and local adaption works. Appears not to be slow (graphics card helping now) Process bar turns on and off during Merging to HDR
Resetting all my preferences except memory (at 49% 838 MB) Merge to HDR works with the exception of a progress bar that disappears and reappears.
In conclusion with Windows XP 32bit and 4g installed (windows seeing 3g):
Memory over 49%+ GPU on =fail and progress bars turns on and off
Memory 49% + GPU off= black window and Local Adaption fails
Memory 49% + GPU on = Everything works but process bar turns on and off
GPU On= process bar failure
GPU off= process bar works but slow
Memory over 49%=Merge to HDR failure
Interesting note is that at a 40% memory setting Merge to HDR failed too
Thanks,
Meredith

Notifications no longer working on my iPad after update to iOS 8

I have turned on Notifications (all Green) in my Settings and I have each of the Apps that I want to receive notifications from also turned on individually (all Green), yet I have not received any updates since upgrading two nights ago to iOS 8. I am not getting news feeds or my daily newspaper alerts! I swipe down and Notifications has been empty for two days straight. This is driving me crazy. What's wrong???

No improvements on wifi connection, getting very tired of reconnecting connection every few minutes. How many times do Apple need to get this correct, I've already changed my phone from Apple to sony Experia z1, great phone I might add and now will be looking at how or if Apple can resolve this for iPad air , if not I will have no choice but to ditch Apple permantely. I wonder if this is the things to come from Apple now, the great demise as I watch.

I have the iPhone 4, just updated to iOS 7 and I no longer get any notification with my messages. Tried to fix the settings, it all supposed to show up but wont. help?

Messages are not showing up on my phone. no noise of notification. help?

Camera improvements
Swipe through different camera modes – video, still photo, square aspect, and panorama
Real-time photo filters with iPhone 4S or later, and iPod touch (5th generation)

E-mail Notification On Home Screen 5800 v.30....wh...

This so called feature is not available after updating so a hard reset is required for it to be seen which i did do.
I then restored a back up and it disappeared.I then tried 2 back up's, one with settings and one without and it still wasn't anywhere to be seen.
So, if you really really really want E-mail notification on Home Screen then you'll have to start the phone from scratch, excellent work there Nokia.....why implement a feature that disappears after restoring a back up from your own software (PC suite)!
Still shaking my head at this **bleep** up!
Grayburn @ www.nokiausers.net & www.dailymobile.se....come say Hello!!!
If you appreciate ANY help from a member,then show it by clicking on the Blue Star button, cheers
Solved!
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For all of you who consider hard resetting the phone and starting it from scratch, so that the email notification on the homescreen appears: it works just fine, even if you use the Nokia Email instead of the built in email client!
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