The Windows Mobile Thread

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Re: The Windows Phone Thread

pranav0091 said:
People on WP8.1 - DO NOT update the Music app if prompted. Retarded update just about made the music part unusable on my phone. :|
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Gaurav Bhattacharjee said:
Xbox music eh? Yea, you're screwed.

Good thing I didn't go for it last night. Downloaded the pre-update and for some reason I held back. And boom, now I see people's phones getting bricked left, right and center. Or lag, or cellular data not working, or WiFi issues, or battery drainage, or Cortana not working properly. So many major bugs in the update... thank goodness I didn't. Gonna wait for a month to see if MS rolls out further updates to fix the glaring issues.
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ssk_the_gr8 said:
Good you didnt update... all us impatient folks are paying for it. I was using a 720 on WP 8.0 and I actually was missing the smooth feel.
8.1 is a brilliant update but it is beta. It definitely stutters at time. I'm on a 920 and I can only imagine people on 520's.

Everybody should at least wait for a few bug fix updates before going for 8.1
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ssk_the_gr8 said:
There's also the battery drain issue... when you use it... it literally sucks up the battery... Don't know why, maybe this will get fixed with updates or with Lumia Cyan firmware

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Another thing I was hoping to get rid of was easy access tiles and how could Msoft miss the data toggle in the action centre ! they have it for wifi but not for Mobile data! :evil:
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pranav0091 said:
Seaches for music from scratch every time I open it. Takes some minutes before I can use it, and thats every time I open the app.
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I was so excited about the preview update, after reading it on wpcentral. But you guys are scaring me..
How come wpcentral didn't even mention any issue in their WP8.1 preview update review?

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pranav0091 said:
Seaches for music from scratch every time I open it. Takes some minutes before I can use it, and thats every time I open the app.
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[h=1]Xbox Music is pretty terrible on Windows Phone 8.1, but an update is near[/h]
 
Shah

Shah

Cyborg Agent
Re: The Windows Phone Thread

Shah said:
Two questions.
1. Can I update to WP8.1 using mobile data?
2. I developed an App for WP8 and moved the XAP file to my SD card. But, I don't see the "sd card" option in the store. BTW, I have restarted the phone twice. Still, I don't see the "sd card" option.
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Bump..
 
Flash

Flash

Lost in speed
Re: The Windows Phone Thread

1. No, but not sure of 3G.
2. Do you have a dev account with MS? Only Dev-unlocked phones can sideload apps apart from store..
 
Gaurav Bhattacharjee

Gaurav Bhattacharjee

Tensor
Re: The Windows Phone Thread

Shah said:
Two questions.
1. Can I update to WP8.1 using mobile data?
2. I developed an App for WP8 and moved the XAP file to my SD card. But, I don't see the "sd card" option in the store. BTW, I have restarted the phone twice. Still, I don't see the "sd card" option.
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1. No. You need strictly WiFi for that. Period.
2. Hard luck. Better install directly from the Store.
 
Gaurav Bhattacharjee

Gaurav Bhattacharjee

Tensor
Re: The Windows Phone Thread

If any of you have major problems after updating to wp8.1 dev preview, know that you can re-flash your phone ROMs back to wp8.0 black + gdr3 using nokia recovery tool.

Shown here: *forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2515453
 
rijinpk1

rijinpk1

Aspiring Novelist
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i am not having any major issues. although video and music have gone subpar. battery drains quickly especially while using whatsapp through wifi.
wifi range sometime varies from high to low even if the mobile is near the modem..
 
Gaurav Bhattacharjee

Gaurav Bhattacharjee

Tensor
Re: The Windows Phone Thread

The sheer amount of bugs and breakdowns I've seen reported over at wpcentral alone makes me shudder... I already have a bad battery life on my 520. Cant imagine what will happen if i update it now lol.... But nevertheless, if you feel that you should go back to 8.0 then you can. Although i take no responsibility if you brick your phone.... :p
 
rijinpk1

rijinpk1

Aspiring Novelist
Re: The Windows Phone Thread

Gaurav Bhattacharjee said:
The sheer amount of bugs and breakdowns I've seen reported over at wpcentral alone makes me shudder... I already have a bad battery life on my 520. Cant imagine what will happen if i update it now lol.... But nevertheless, if you feel that you should go back to 8.0 then you can. Although i take no responsibility if you brick your phone.... :p
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i dont wanna go back until and unless some extreme thing happens to my phone:lol:. i am happy till now except some hiccups which can be tolerated...
 
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hsr

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Re: The Windows Phone Thread

I updated my Lumia 920 to 8.1 Developer Preview day before yesterday. Have been running it for 24+ hours and these are the problems I faced:
(please note that this might not be the case with everyone, just a personal experience)

Overall sluggishness of menus, notifications and the top bar crashes from time to time and magically "appears" and disappear. The lock screen can freeze upto 2/3 seconds if the screen went off automatically (mine was set to 3 minutes) and if it requires a pin. The Games hub is a mess, all my games are now listed among the applications and none seems to be found in collections inside the hub. Video (the music+video hub was split into individual applications) seems aesthetic but is *very* laggy. The Phone application is also slower, but is now more convenient than before with speed dial and a better UX. People hub no longer syncs with Facebook/twitter to have all contacts listed, which is a plus for me but all the pictures are now messed up and very low resolution images exist in place. Whatsapp notifications had the option of not showing the message in the band, which it still does but when you open the notification (slide down from top), it shows every message that was delivered after the app was suspended. The back button no more terminates the application but rather suspends it, which is annoying for me as I have to look every time if the thing is still running in background. Internet explorer now seems to have YouTube HTML5 ready, but I didn't get to see any embedded videos play that way. During the 24hr period, I had to fully charge the phone 4 times (although I used a non-Nokia issued 1.5A charger). Cortana, the assistant seems to be great at the moment but I couldn't reproduce the results I saw others demo with. The store is now organized and better but the sluggishness of the OS seems to ruin it.
I hope these are things that would come along the beta tag and since this is a direct Microsoft patch and not a Nokia optimized version, I'd say we should wait for the actual release to happen and not rely on this release for any performance benchmarking.

I purchased the Lumia a little over a year ago and was a developer from the start. This is by far the largest update I have seen and it might be the case that they are still improving, adding and optimizing features and functionalities. It is too early to comment on performance but these are the issues I came to know in the last day. Will update you guys with more info as they pop up.
 
pranav0091

pranav0091

I am not an Owl
Re: The Windows Phone Thread

hsr said:
I updated my Lumia 920 to 8.1 Developer Preview day before yesterday. Have been running it for 24+ hours and these are the problems I faced:
(please note that this might not be the case with everyone, just a personal experience)

Overall sluggishness of menus, notifications and the top bar crashes from time to time and magically "appears" and disappear. The lock screen can freeze upto 2/3 seconds if the screen went off automatically (mine was set to 3 minutes) and if it requires a pin. The Games hub is a mess, all my games are now listed among the applications and none seems to be found in collections inside the hub. Video (the music+video hub was split into individual applications) seems aesthetic but is *very* laggy. The Phone application is also slower, but is now more convenient than before with speed dial and a better UX. People hub no longer syncs with Facebook/twitter to have all contacts listed, which is a plus for me but all the pictures are now messed up and very low resolution images exist in place. Whatsapp notifications had the option of not showing the message in the band, which it still does but when you open the notification (slide down from top), it shows every message that was delivered after the app was suspended. The back button no more terminates the application but rather suspends it, which is annoying for me as I have to look every time if the thing is still running in background. Internet explorer now seems to have YouTube HTML5 ready, but I didn't get to see any embedded videos play that way. During the 24hr period, I had to fully charge the phone 4 times (although I used a non-Nokia issued 1.5A charger). Cortana, the assistant seems to be great at the moment but I couldn't reproduce the results I saw others demo with. The store is now organized and better but the sluggishness of the OS seems to ruin it.
I hope these are things that would come along the beta tag and since this is a direct Microsoft patch and not a Nokia optimized version, I'd say we should wait for the actual release to happen and not rely on this release for any performance benchmarking.

I purchased the Lumia a little over a year ago and was a developer from the start. This is by far the largest update I have seen and it might be the case that they are still improving, adding and optimizing features and functionalities. It is too early to comment on performance but these are the issues I came to know in the last day. Will update you guys with more info as they pop up.
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You should not be worried about that, just let the phone handle it. Thats the whole philosophy of WP. Get in. Get it done. Get out. Forget it.
Just thought I'd mention this.

BTW, I seem to be the only one that doesnt have any battery issues. Using the app Insider, I see that my battery longevity has surely not taken a more than 10% or so hit. Which is expected since the update is new and I have been using the phone more to try all the things out.
 
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hsr

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Re: The Windows Phone Thread

Oh yeah, my bad. I actually meant it just for Whatsapp, not all the applications. WP is by far the best I've seen in handling background tasks; I agree.
 
Flash

Flash

Lost in speed
Re: The Windows Phone Thread

There are lot of users in wpcentral complaining on the preview update, especially on the battery/xbox music/games under menu, etc.,
Also with this preview, there are more apps pouring in WP store from devs. :thumbs:

So far, the preview is both good and bad.
 
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hsr

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Mine's a dreamspark dev account and it was free to create. IIRC, you can put up to 10 apps on the store with it (Free ones).
 
Flash

Flash

Lost in speed
Re: The Windows Phone Thread

hsr said:
During the 24hr period, I had to fully charge the phone 4 times (although I used a non-Nokia issued 1.5A charger)
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You checked this?

*www.wpcentral.com/background-tasks-not-removed-windows-phone-81
 
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