Recent content by Generalheed

Just the other day, my 1st gen Surface RT suddenly won't charge anymore. The light on the charger doesn't turn on when it's plugged in. I can still briefly turn the Surface on but it just shows the low battery alert and won't boot of course. I thought it was the charger at first so I ended up...

Now that HP discounted the Elite X3 to 399, I took a look at it and it is indeed the GSM version only with the Verizon version still very expensive at the Microsoft store. However I noticed in one of the footnotes for the specs, it says that Verizon 4G LTE is supported. So I'm working if that's...

I already own a HoloLens and it was a significant investment for sure. But now it seems like Microsoft has a renewed focus on VR instead with their Windows Mixed Reality headsets. I was wondering though if games released for the Windows Mixed Reality platform would still be compatible with the...

I decided to wait a day and let the updates search again actually, and this time it finally worked and the correct updates were found and installed successfully. My Surface RT is now totally up to date again after the reset and is running very fast again, almost like the day I first bought it...

I've tried a couple more times and its the same result every time. Multiple windows, office, and defender updates fail to install. After that when I attempt to search for updates again, windows update just hangs and keeps trying to search for updates forever. Where can I downloaded this recovery...

Ok, I'm trying to search for the 2nd set of updates now, but when I checked the list of installed updates with the first set that included the firmware, there were multiple failed updates. The firmware update itself succeeded though. Hopefully the 2nd set of updates will be more successful. If I...

Alright I'm in the process of doing that right now. But after the first update with the firmware, you're saying I should turn wifi OFF and then go to windows update while wifi is still off and do updates right?

Nope that update isn't there. The closest update related to it is this one: Security Update for Windows RT 8.1 (KB2964757) without KB2919355 That particular update failed to install as well among many others and Windows Update still is stuck in an infinite loop of looking for updates. And yes...

I reset my Surface RT and already it's a lot faster now. However, I've been having issues with the Windows Updates. I managed to get the firmware update installed as well a decent number of updates after that. But after that step, Windows Updates just hangs and searches for updates for ever. It...

I'm on update 3 as well with the Windows 10 style start menu. Windows Update does work for me but it seems the Store updates don't work. I'm not sure about the recovery partition but most likely I do still have it. Should I just do a refresh or a full factory reset?

My Surface RT has been getting very slow recently and will often hang on a lot of simple tasks like right clicking on a file or even opening file explorer. Sometimes it runs smoothly again though. In task manager, CPU and RAM usage are within normal levels, but for some reason the hard drive...

The power cover is very cheap now and I was thinking about getting it for my original Surface RT. I'll be going on a long flight soon (around 8-9 hours) and I'll be using my Surface to watch some movies with my friend the whole way. I figured for such a long flight, I'd probably need extra power...

I'll be travelling abroad soon from the US to multiple European countries. I was wondering if the Lumia Icon supports other global networks when travelling abroad. I know it's a Verizon phone but it does support AT&T and T Mobile networks from what I understand, just no LTE. After all, I have a...

I can't add my Gmail account to Outlook anymore because whenever I try, it takes me to the web sign in page but after I sign in, it says that Google has disabled authorization requests for embedded browsers since April 20th. Is there any way around this?

I remember back when they first announced the Windows 10 Creators Update, they demoed an app called Windows Capture 3D on the HP Elite X3 that allowed you to use any Windows 10 mobile device to scan objects into 3D models. After the demo, they announced it was coming to Windows 10 Mobile "soon"...