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Windows Phone 8.1 |OT| Update 1
- Thread starter brotkasten
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Awesome. Updating mine now
I can't watch this now. What bugs does he show?
Had to get a second phone because of the number of bugs. Both phones has issues where it
- wouldn't shoot 4K video
- notification shade not deploying
- camera would only launch in portrait
- outlook being so, so slow
- app updates and downloads timing out and not happening
- people hub tile not syncing with google account
- live tiles getting stuck and not updating
- lots of random reboots
LostMyNarbles
Member
I cataloged them in case anybody can't or doesn't want to watch the video. He mostly talks about them around 8:50 in.
Bug at 4:15 where a profile picture doesn't load in contacts.
Talks at around 8:40 that their phone gave errors shooting in 4K and they requested a replacement device that still had some issues.
8:55 Him saying notification shade wouldn't appear with repeated tries.
9:00 Camera button only working in portrait mode.
9:05 Outlook taking too long to send email.
9:10 Windows Store downloads/updates freezing or timing out.
9:12 People Hub not syncing with Google Apps account.
9:18 Live titles getting stuck.
9:20 Pretty much says the phone constantly restarts itself.
Talks at around 8:40 that their phone gave errors shooting in 4K and they requested a replacement device that still had some issues.
8:55 Him saying notification shade wouldn't appear with repeated tries.
9:00 Camera button only working in portrait mode.
9:05 Outlook taking too long to send email.
9:10 Windows Store downloads/updates freezing or timing out.
9:12 People Hub not syncing with Google Apps account.
9:18 Live titles getting stuck.
9:20 Pretty much says the phone constantly restarts itself.
(Edit) Beaten!
LostMyNarbles
Member
Qualcomm stays losing. Sucks for the L950 since the issue had more to do with outdated unoptimized apps than it did with the OS.
Kinky John
Member
That boot was slow as fuck.
juliushandle
Member
Dammit, Domino's Pizza app doesn't work for W10 Mobile. Someone call Satya, I need to get my pan pizza on.
Edit: Edge browser saved the day again.
Edit: Edge browser saved the day again.
I would think so, my gf doesn't have any of these issues on her XL either.
On a positive note, battery life is good for me.
I was at the football today, used the phone quite extensively including about an hour of gaming on the tube and after 14 hours without charging I have 25% left. My 1020 would not have made it anywhere near as far.
On a positive note, battery life is good for me.
I was at the football today, used the phone quite extensively including about an hour of gaming on the tube and after 14 hours without charging I have 25% left. My 1020 would not have made it anywhere near as far.
Speaking of which, the mail app on Windows 10 machines is broken.
Stuff gets lost in Sent.
Live tile doesn't work.
Come on. It's already the second public release.
Steelyuhas
Member
Try to unpin and re-pin your tile for Mail. That fixed my live tile issue.
My bugs have been with copy paste. It's riddled with bugs. I cannot copy paste a link in edge, I can copy a link from Edge and paste in Slack if I close the Slack app after I copy and then open the Slack app and paste. Fun stuff like that...
The Messaging experience is also pretty bad, but not seeing bugs there, just a lack of polish.
Didn't work.
juliushandle
Member
In edge you have to highlight the field and a select all or paste will appear.
I just updated my mothers 640 yesterday, 30 mins before the new update! oops.
She did have a gmail contact issue with the People hub. it only synced few contacts. But the issue was on Google's end I am fairly sure as it stores contacts very.... wrong.
Even finding the google page for contacts was not easy.
I ended up exported the contacts from her Microsoft account, since it was syncing with her Google contacts, and importing them to her GOogle contacts.
This took a long time to figure out.
I am not willing to blame Microsoft for that one. Google & contacts is a joke.
That sounds bad, but I haven't seen any of these issues on my 950 XL. Not that everything has been perfect, but I haven't noticed any of these.
Well most of us knew this was going to happen based on the state of the insider builds. Some of us still bought them. Not many.
Played with the 950XL today at the Microsoft store. Felt good in the hands. Screen was sick. Phone didn't blow me away though.
My XL has been getting decent battery life now that things have settled down.
I took the phone off the charger yesterday at 5 PM before heading out to a Christmas dinner party for my wife's work. I used the phone a bit during the party, including streaming some video from Onedrive. I didn't charge the phone over night and have been using the phone moderately today. Currently I'm at 40% battery after approx 30 hours between charges (some of that overnight though with no screen time).
nillapuddin
Member
Is that McLaren?
That's one big ugly phone lol.
On another note:
https://mobile.twitter.com/tomwarren/status/673267487765618688
On another note:
https://mobile.twitter.com/tomwarren/status/673267487765618688
NeOak
Member
Mine is with word flow on Edge. I have to press spacebar to add a space, but I don't need to do that on the other apps.
Write a word, have to press spacebar, write another word.
If i don't, what happens is I write a word, then go for a second one and instead of the second word, it adds the space.
Write a word, have to press spacebar, write another word.
If i don't, what happens is I write a word, then go for a second one and instead of the second word, it adds the space.
my gf (950) and I (950XL) get random reboots all the time.
This happens to me when I use the Facebook app. Annoying as hell.
This happens to me when I use the Facebook app. Annoying as hell.
http://youtu.be/hRwIXLcS4c0
This review has the same issue with the notification shade but a few others like videos locking up, photos album glitching, maps app not loading any maps and crashes.
That's what they thought, hence why they replaced the device half way through the review period but still had these issues.
I can't get my head around it. It's laughably amateur.
No he said he had fewer issues on the second phone.
Fewer can mean none of them apart from one or all of them.
Having looked at some forums, these issues are not common. Not that there aren't others, but the suggestion that they released something that barely functions is a load of shite.
Reading the written review the 4K video problem was with both devices, and with Michael describing the following bugs are being most prevalent that would infer it happened on both
Opus Angelorum
Member
Sadly I'm thinking of getting the Nexus 6P, the 950 seems to be a disappointment.
The recent W10 preview build seems to be the best yet, but apps still don't feel 100% reliable.
Facebook is forever showing duplicate posts, showing me notifications for stuff that only appear on the web based version etc.
The photos app is hit and miss, 90% of the time it will update recently taken photos, other times they never appear and I've to retake the photo.
Spotify is slow to resume, and the back button sometimes works and other times it just backs out to the start screen.
The updated Tune-In radio app is an absolute hot mess, runs so poorly.
The recent W10 preview build seems to be the best yet, but apps still don't feel 100% reliable.
Facebook is forever showing duplicate posts, showing me notifications for stuff that only appear on the web based version etc.
The photos app is hit and miss, 90% of the time it will update recently taken photos, other times they never appear and I've to retake the photo.
Spotify is slow to resume, and the back button sometimes works and other times it just backs out to the start screen.
The updated Tune-In radio app is an absolute hot mess, runs so poorly.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Oh and Groove Music still won't look at my OneDrive music.
Well it sucks that he's running into those bugs, but it doesn't look like those are problems most people are having.
We've all been using technology for a while, surely a faulty launch unit or an OS that has bugs at launch shouldn't cause widespread hysteria. Consult the internet for reference on any device, whether it's a new iphone or a Nexus.
And I'm not saying anything negative about him, his review was fair and detailed.
maximum360
Member
There are a few bugs that are annoying but nothing that would make me want to return the device. Just like with any launch there will take some time for a few of the bugs to be worked out. [Speaking of which my wife's surface 3 died last night after owning it just for a month.]There is an obvious texting bug though. When using the keyboard swipe function for text words in my message would constantly be omitted.
juliushandle
Member
I'm sure the 6P has it's own documented bugs but at least the updated apps will keep you satisfied.
I fired him a tweet just to see which ones affected which device. The 4K issue is one I hadn't heard until his review but strange it'd happen to two phones.
hankster
Member
I get that one my 640 with W10. It shows the correct word the preview / suggestion line then goes blank, sometimes returns a blank space. Even just now while typing this reply.
brotkasten
Member
I hope the tag line for the next phone is "beta tested in the future".
It's not that bad.
I was disappointed with Hello at first, but it now works quite well for me. Of course, you should expect the setup process to guide you through using different angles etc. to improve recognition and the result of it not doing that is that people think it's a bit shit.
There's still issues, like it being too slow if you don't hold it close enough but at least it now works almost all the time for me (probably 9 out of 10).
It should work 10 out of 10 times and it should be quicker and it should work from further away (so essentially it should work like it does on the Surface 4) I hope that's what they are working towards once they drop the beta tag. That said, while I haven't used a phone with a fingerprint reader, I have used various fingerprint readers in the past and none of them work 10 out of 10 times, either. Maybe they do on the phones, I don't know.
I was disappointed with Hello at first, but it now works quite well for me. Of course, you should expect the setup process to guide you through using different angles etc. to improve recognition and the result of it not doing that is that people think it's a bit shit.
There's still issues, like it being too slow if you don't hold it close enough but at least it now works almost all the time for me (probably 9 out of 10).
It should work 10 out of 10 times and it should be quicker and it should work from further away (so essentially it should work like it does on the Surface 4) I hope that's what they are working towards once they drop the beta tag. That said, while I haven't used a phone with a fingerprint reader, I have used various fingerprint readers in the past and none of them work 10 out of 10 times, either. Maybe they do on the phones, I don't know.