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lastflowers
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settings charm. (posted from surface on my lap)
Found a NASTY, NASTY bug in Surface RT.
Note: This picture is not from my Surface but it should be the same.
See that first option there? I turned it off and boy, what a big ass mistake that was.
My newly bought Surface keeps rebooting by itself numerous times and whenever you try to restart it keeps crashing and crashing and crashing.
Deleted all apps, deleted my account to no avail. Tried to revert back to factory settings but gets stuck at infinite restart screen. Even deleted every Windows Update one by one but nope.
Finally, I remembered that I ticked the first option there so I enabled it back and lo and behold; Surface back to normal.
tl;dr someone PLEASE report this to MS and tell them to disable power tools if they don't fucking work.
Note: This picture is not from my Surface but it should be the same.
See that first option there? I turned it off and boy, what a big ass mistake that was.
My newly bought Surface keeps rebooting by itself numerous times and whenever you try to restart it keeps crashing and crashing and crashing.
Deleted all apps, deleted my account to no avail. Tried to revert back to factory settings but gets stuck at infinite restart screen. Even deleted every Windows Update one by one but nope.
Finally, I remembered that I ticked the first option there so I enabled it back and lo and behold; Surface back to normal.
tl;dr someone PLEASE report this to MS and tell them to disable power tools if they don't fucking work.
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Deleted member 81567
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Thanks.
KamenSenshi
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SON OF A SURFACE
So I downloaded and installed yesterday two apps with ~600mb and ~300mb. The problem is now that my free disk space went down from 14.9gb to 13.3gb. What are those additional 700mb? I uninstalled both of them but now the free disk space is 14.2gb...
Found the reason: Windows saves all those download files under Windows/SoftwareDistribution/Download, deleted all the files and I now have 15.4gb free disk space.
Found the reason: Windows saves all those download files under Windows/SoftwareDistribution/Download, deleted all the files and I now have 15.4gb free disk space.
MS store has two sleeves and there is another one on Amazon.
Thx.
I've found a nice one on Amazon but it can't be shipped where I live :' (
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009ZOT6GQ/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Found a NASTY, NASTY bug in Surface RT.
Note: This picture is not from my Surface but it should be the same.
See that first option there? I turned it off and boy, what a big ass mistake that was.
My newly bought Surface keeps rebooting by itself numerous times and whenever you try to restart it keeps crashing and crashing and crashing.
Deleted all apps, deleted my account to no avail. Tried to revert back to factory settings but gets stuck at infinite restart screen. Even deleted every Windows Update one by one but nope.
Finally, I remembered that I ticked the first option there so I enabled it back and lo and behold; Surface back to normal.
tl;dr someone PLEASE report this to MS and tell them to disable power tools if they don't fucking work.
Thanks, I'll pass things along.
Just beware though, you're on your own when you start doing anything with device drivers on Surface. Or any ARM or Clover Trail system. Since they're powered by a system on a chip, and you have multiple drivers controlling multiple different parts of the same chip, everything has tight expectations and dependencies between each other.
It's not intended or supported for you to touch or change anything for system devices like this, because small changes can cause major dependency issues.
As long as the issue is software related then I don't mind messing around with it. Plus Windows 8 restore back to default option is a godsend.
I loath hardware issues so I could see where Eggman was coming from even if I can just replace it back.
Now, can you tell the team to tell the LAZY DEVS not to release buggy and slow RT apps? Fruit Ninja is the biggest pile of shit on RT. Start with that lol.
I loath hardware issues so I could see where Eggman was coming from even if I can just replace it back.
Now, can you tell the team to tell the LAZY DEVS not to release buggy and slow RT apps? Fruit Ninja is the biggest pile of shit on RT. Start with that lol.
You can screw up literally any PC by doing unsupported things fucking around in Device Manager, the registry, etc. You shouldn't do anything like that on any machine without actually vetting things first to make sure you're not about to screw things up.
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Just returned it. I'll see ya guys around.
Gareth Bale
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How come you didn't you get the type cover like everyone said?
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Because I found a good Lenovo deal.
Gareth Bale
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I mean when you bought it, instead of the touch cover.
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The problem was never the touch cover, but the fact that the accelerometer was broken.
http://microsoft-news.com/huawei-e3...olution-to-the-microsoft-surfaces-lack-of-3g/
A possible solution to the no 3g support/software on Windows RT.
A possible solution to the no 3g support/software on Windows RT.
Was this typed on a Surface?
Not official ones but no worries as they're better.
Alx
Member
Ok, I spent some time with my Surface, here are my general impressioins, including both hardware and software :
Good :
- shape and build quality. I like the solid aspect of the whole device, the magnetic *click* when snapping a cover to it.
- battery life. Always a pleasure to use it for a long period, then checking the battery and seeing it 75% full. My old laptop made me paranoid about needing a power plug for any extensive use.
- all the features I needed are there : web browser, office, remote desktop,...
- everything is fast and fluid, mostly.
- features like Xbox music/Smarglass work perfectly, actually better than on my laptop (which sometimes loses connection and cannot detect the Xbox any more).
Bad / "Could be better" :
- fingerprints on the back (and on the screen of course, but that was expectd). It's annoying.
- using it on your lap isn't very convenient. The type cover is functional, but the balance of the whole thing doesn't feel stable (and isn't really). Annoying since I usually browse from an armchair, so I'm more frequently in tablet mode.
- IE in portrait mode is ugly : the text font seems downsampled (and there's no point in watching a site like neogaf in landscape), it's still readable but not too comfortable. I hope it will be fixed in an update since it's obviously a software problem, or that better browsers like Opera will be released for RT.
- IE "swipe to go back" can be interpreted as the left swipe to change active app.
- I had trouble on the store at first because the tablet thought I was located in the UK. There was no option to change it from the regular option menus, I had to go to Control Panel to change my location, which wasn't very intuitive. It works now, though.
- I've had it slow down to a crawl once, needing a complete restart to make it work again. I think I was doing an update while launching the store, or something like that.
On the whole, I'm quite satisfied with it. It really makes my everyday use of computers more comfortable, even though it's still not perfect yet. It is definitely a good thing to be able to use a tablet "almost like a laptop". They should just make it easier to hold on your lap.
Good :
- shape and build quality. I like the solid aspect of the whole device, the magnetic *click* when snapping a cover to it.
- battery life. Always a pleasure to use it for a long period, then checking the battery and seeing it 75% full. My old laptop made me paranoid about needing a power plug for any extensive use.
- all the features I needed are there : web browser, office, remote desktop,...
- everything is fast and fluid, mostly.
- features like Xbox music/Smarglass work perfectly, actually better than on my laptop (which sometimes loses connection and cannot detect the Xbox any more).
Bad / "Could be better" :
- fingerprints on the back (and on the screen of course, but that was expectd). It's annoying.
- using it on your lap isn't very convenient. The type cover is functional, but the balance of the whole thing doesn't feel stable (and isn't really). Annoying since I usually browse from an armchair, so I'm more frequently in tablet mode.
- IE in portrait mode is ugly : the text font seems downsampled (and there's no point in watching a site like neogaf in landscape), it's still readable but not too comfortable. I hope it will be fixed in an update since it's obviously a software problem, or that better browsers like Opera will be released for RT.
- IE "swipe to go back" can be interpreted as the left swipe to change active app.
- I had trouble on the store at first because the tablet thought I was located in the UK. There was no option to change it from the regular option menus, I had to go to Control Panel to change my location, which wasn't very intuitive. It works now, though.
- I've had it slow down to a crawl once, needing a complete restart to make it work again. I think I was doing an update while launching the store, or something like that.
On the whole, I'm quite satisfied with it. It really makes my everyday use of computers more comfortable, even though it's still not perfect yet. It is definitely a good thing to be able to use a tablet "almost like a laptop". They should just make it easier to hold on your lap.
I was on a trip, so I used internet sharing on my phone so my Surface could connect to the internet for like an hour which drained the battery to 60%, then I plugged in a usb cable to my phone to charge it and took a nap. By the time I woke up again, my Surface had like 70% battery left and my phone was up to 100% again.
Pretty awesome.
But I'm going to send my touch cover back because it has the splitting issue. :/ I don't think the design of the cover ever really accounted for the use case well enough. Does the type cover has similar design on that area?
actually a note 2 !
I'm still annoyed that there's no AIM app that works well. Still a good 'tablet' for college, but yeah the apps that are coming in are mostly very low in quality.
EDIT: An example of the great app selection on WinRT
These are the new apps that were just approved into the store.
Oh, what is this, 'cutlet'?
how magical
IM+ works okay for me, though I'm using it more because there isn't really much else out there. Still, it works.
App discoverability is bad yes. Every app store has that problem because they allow in far more apps indiscriminately rather than filter through quality (gaming side GFWL complaints anyone?). They might be improving a little bit on that though, now they're failing any app submission that doesn't have a unique logo.
Try http://www.greatwindowsapps.com/, I have still yet to really look into it myself but it seems like a good start to help things.
App discoverability is bad yes. Every app store has that problem because they allow in far more apps indiscriminately rather than filter through quality (gaming side GFWL complaints anyone?). They might be improving a little bit on that though, now they're failing any app submission that doesn't have a unique logo.
Try http://www.greatwindowsapps.com/, I have still yet to really look into it myself but it seems like a good start to help things.
that site helps, thank you
i've tried to use IM+ however it is incredibly slow. switching between conversations and getting to the point where you can actually type up a new message can take up to 10 seconds. it also always says that the person you're talking to is typing.
I had a good laugh. At least it's free.
I like the idea that I can use my Surface to charge my Lumia 920, while tethering the Surface to the Lumia 920
I was impressed that I could tether my Note 2, charge it and explore the phone's SD cards through windows without any mucking around. Soooo good.
Alx
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Thanks for the greatwindowsapp link. There are still many silly apps, but it's easier to find useful ones.
I already like the On Time one.
*edit : Taskorami doesn't look bad either.
What I miss for the moment is a good DVD library manager (I have "My Movies" on my old android phone, and it's great : just scan your DVD bar code and it will identify it and download all infos from the web). IMDB features, in the same app or a separate one, would be appreciated too.
I already like the On Time one.
*edit : Taskorami doesn't look bad either.
What I miss for the moment is a good DVD library manager (I have "My Movies" on my old android phone, and it's great : just scan your DVD bar code and it will identify it and download all infos from the web). IMDB features, in the same app or a separate one, would be appreciated too.