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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1

BeforeU

BeforeU

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Here are some known issues

This is preproduction software going out to the Fast ring – so you should expect to see some bugs. The list below are some of the ones that we thought you should know about up front, and it’s worth reading carefully. We’re working to fix all of these in future builds.

•There might be situations in which auto-upload of your Camera Roll to OneDrive may not be working. Please be sure to back up your photos especially if you need to use the Windows Phone Recovery Tool to go back to Windows Phone 8.1.
•The Office Hub has been removed from this build. You won’t be able to open Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote files in this build. Preview versions of the universal Office apps will be available in the coming weeks.
•All Bluetooth-based interactions with Cortana are not working in this build because we’re reworking how Cortana interacts with Bluetooth. This includes dictating and reading text messages, initiating searches and chit-chat, and all system-level control (such as playing music, launching applications, or navigating settings.
•After upgrade, some apps that have been installed onto a SD memory card will fail to launch. To fix this, uninstall and reinstall the apps.
•About 1% of the time, incoming phone calls may not play a ringing sound.
•Call + SMS filtering will not work after upgrade.
•For people upgrading their phone from Build 9941, there is a bug in which your phone’s MMS settings will be lost after upgrade. The new Messaging app doesn’t yet have the ability to re-enter these settings. You will need to use the Windows Phone Recovery Tool to go back to Windows Phone 8.1 and then upgrade to this build to get MMS working again.
•Also for people upgrading their phone from Build 9941, the tiles on your Start screen for the Camera and Photos apps may be missing or corrupt. You will have to unpin any corrupt tiles and re-pin the apps to your Start screen.
•On some phones, due to a scaling bug the dismiss button won’t be visible when an alarm is triggered. To stop your phone from “alarming “just touch the arrow and swipe up on the notification and off the screen to end the alarm.
•On phones with 512MB of memory, apps can randomly crash due to an issue with memory management.
•Flight mode cannot be enabled.
•Data connections can’t be disabled.
•You may need to re-pin the Phone app after upgrade.
•The Insider Hub is now included on Phone but may fail to launch on some phones.
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Nope, looks like I still can't have this on my daily use device.
 
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MarkusRJR

Member
Opus Angelorum said:
Picked up the 640 today for £120.

Excellent device for the money.
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Random question: Is the 640 screen covered in an oleophobic (anti-fingerprint) coating? I remember my 6__ series Lumia all not having any and it always bothering me. Now that lower ends phones are doing it like the Moto E and G I'm curious if Nokia/MS started to also.
 
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Opus Angelorum

Member
MarkusRJR said:
Random question: Is the 640 screen covered in an oleophobic (anti-fingerprint) coating? I remember my 6__ series Lumia all not having any and it always bothering me. Now that lower ends phones are doing it like the Moto E and G I'm curious if Nokia/MS started to also.
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Nope, prone to fingerprints.
 
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José Mourinho

cocknose
Listening to Tom Warren's concerns about Win10 -- desktop -- is exactly how I feel when using it. Said a while back that it feels like a mix between 7 and 8 which isn't quite as good as either. Obviously it's hard to tell from the builds, but I'm not sure it's going to be as good as people think.
 
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kharma45

Member
Going by what Warren is showing it's almost pre-alpha.

MS would've been better off not realising this from the negative press etc. it's going to get.
 
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Nero3000

Member
huh interesting....

In the process of updated to WP10, my 435 went to WP8.1 Update 2...

aaaand it nots finding WP10....EDIT: found it and downloading now.
 
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Milchjon

Member
UI is starting to look a bit better.

Still not a huge fan of the new toggles.

Holy crap, they added an extra iOS style back button at the top in the Outlook settings. WHYYYY.
 
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Magni

Member
kharma45 said:
Oh interesting. So it won't just be the 735 and the 830 then. You're UK based too right?
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My RM-985 non-DP non-WI 830 is not finding any updates (so no 8.1.2 yet)

My dev device 820 is downloading something after getting on the WI Fast Track, hopefully the latest W10 build. edit: it's W10 :D
 
MrGreencastle

MrGreencastle

Member
Ape said:
Anyone else read the verge's macbook 2015 review and shake their heads?
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I mean. It's more of a fanboy hype piece than a review. But it is a really nice laptop. For those few still willing to shell out that much for a macbook in 2015... Next iteration I fully expect them to do a magnet-style connector for the dongle-fest that is new Macbooks, and have it have no ports at all. Might as well.

For that price though I have no idea why you wouldn't get a fully loaded Surface Pro 3 and just hackintosh it or something if you really need OS X. Microsoft really knocked it out of the park with Surface this last iteration.

I've had a Macbook Air in 2011, and more recently a XPS 13, which I got rid of due to coil whine. The XPS was much nicer in almost every respect to the Air at the time, honestly, save for the weight of it.
 
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