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Getting the same error on my Lumia 521. Easiest way is probably to install the Windows Phone Recovery Tool. https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/how-to/wp8/phones-and-hardware/recover-my-phone ***BACKUP FIRST (if you didn't back up just before you first attempted to install new build) You can...

I think I am going to have to do this as well. I have W10M on my Lumia 521, but it is really not ready to be on my daily driver. Half the time when I try to do something on the phone, I can barely unlock the phone, and even then it often hangs before loading the start screen. If it wasn't for a...

Thanks, that's kind of what I figured, but I hoped there was some way to get around the whole enterprise thing.

I'm a student, and my university installed Windows 8.1 Enterprise on my personal laptop. I'd like to upgrade to Windows 10 (Pro, preferrably), but I likely won't do that if I have to pay for it myself. My understanding is that Enterprise versions won't get free upgrades to Windows 10 come July...

I haven't tried this myself, but you can use Miracast for wirelessly sending your screen to another display over WiFi. Microsoft makes an adapter ( Wireless Display Adapter | Microsoft Hardware ) Apparently the Amazon Fire Stick (...

The HP Stream 8 also has GPS (in the US, at least. I've heard that models in other countries may not come with GPS built-in). (Stream 7, which is wi-fi only, does not.) Navmii does have offline map downloads, but they are based on community-sourced OpenMap data, which may not be as...

I raised this question in an older thread--- while HERE MAPS is available for Windows, HERE DRIVE (the app that has turn-by-turn navigation, which I think is what most people think of when they think of GPS) is not. Hopefully they'll do something when Windows 10 conjoins the app stores, but...

This might be a silly question, but why use an external GPS receiver when the Stream 8 has GPS built-in? (at least the models I'm aware of.)

I went for the Stream 8, partly because there was an Amazon lightning deal back in the holiday season, but mostly for the free 200MB of cellular data. I don't have a data plan on my phone (L521 on T-Mobile pay-as-you-go) since I'm on wifi nearly all of the time. I figured that I could either buy...

It would be awesome if you made a video of playing around with it, like asking cortana something, browsing around the UI. I'm very curious to see how it looks on this size of a tablet. I'm holding off until a "consumer" preview build because I don't have all the skills to handle the technical...

Any chance you've tried the new build, released today? I'm eager to try this out on my Stream 8, but I'm leery of the types of issues you had previously.

Yes, this is a fair assessment. There must be something about how it goes into standby that keeps it using battery, because it doesn't last as long as my Kindle HD. If you are mostly using it around the house or office, then the battery life isn't quite as important, but if you using it out and...

I have the exact same setup! My previous tablet was an Amazon Kindle Fire HD, though. I opted for the HP Stream 8, which I've been using since mid-December. The things that swayed me were: -Price. The Stream 8 was discounted to ~$150+tax at Best Buy and the MS Store during the holiday, but I got...

I finally got around to testing it out on the road, though just for a very short ride. I was pleasantly surprised that on the Stream 8, with the mobile broadband turned off, it still was able to find the address I searched for and provide turn-by-turn navigation as I drove. I still prefer HERE...

Funny thing happened (which I didn't realize until afterwards)--- I was trying out Navmii and it basically wasn't working... I had downloaded the maps and everything but it wasn't showing any maps on screen, just my little blue triangle in a sea of nothingness. It turned out that the *time and...