Official 8.1/Cyan for the Icon?

[Brenda Smeby]

I'm doing this now myself (rollback to 8.0). That's one big ol download. Sigh

 

[Brenda Smeby]

I'm curious, how do you do a 'fresh install' over an update? Using the recovery tool? Or do you do a hard reset after the update?
I am currently downloading the latest via the recovery tool and will be rolling back to 8.0 as soon as it completes. Is there another step I need to do to make it a 'fresh install'?
I just want a clean slate to get my Icon back to the top operating condition it was in before I ran the DP. I like the features of 8.1, but Cortana can't do text to speech on text messages apparently and I really missed my all day battery.

 

[Kieta]

Anyone else experiencing problems with the latest update on developer preview? If so, I wont update.

I haven't. But I think me rolling back to 8.0 recently and not restoring a backup has cured a lot of the lag I was having. My update has been running fine.

 

[quantum tao]

Battery seems to be draining faster after today's update. I checked the usual suspects, I want cyan so I can do a hard reset and start fresh.

 

[drewman77]

There were a lot of updates and apps re installing right after I updated.

Now that all of that is done, everything seems fine.

 

[Indistinguishable]

I'm just going to sit on 8.1 until cyan. No more rolling back or updating.

 

[Brenda Smeby]

OMFG.
So I'm trying to roll back with the recovery tool. I've been sitting here waiting 90 minutes for my Icon latest version software to finish downloading..get to 97 % and the bloody thing starts all over again?? WTH. Anyone else gone through this?

 

[winrayjay99]

OMFG.
So I'm trying to roll back with the recovery tool. I've been sitting here waiting 90 minutes for my Icon latest version software to finish downloading..get to 97 % and the bloody thing starts all over again?? WTH. Anyone else gone through this?

You may have crashed or are low on memory.

 

[Airlid]

Everything is running great here. No issues.

 

[Brenda Smeby]

The phone hasn't crashed..its working fine. I have 16G of free space on the phone, and 400G on my PC that I'm downloading the software to, presumably.
Should I have the phone off? Is it downloading to the phone through the PC and that's whats taking so long? The file size is 4.29G. This is just nuts

 

[Brenda Smeby]

I think this will be my last attempt. and my last windows phone. This is beyond ridiculous. We have to roll back to 8.0 to get Cyan when it does roll out (I just read this on the Nokia site, updated today as AT&T releases Cyan for their last phone). But the file is mammoth and won't complete the download? If I didn't have so many lines on Verizon I'd jump ship in a hearbeat. MAN.

 

[MikeSo]

The download from Nokia was REALLY slow on my PC as well, and i also had to startover problem. Be patient, it'll work. I understand your frustration though.

However, didn't today's Preview update make it so the AT&T phones on Preview no longer needed to roll back to get Cyan? In the WP Central article it says "Update 4 - The AT&T Lumia 920 and Lumia 925 are two of the phones that can now receive Lumia Cyan if already on 8.1.1". So hopefully this will be the case now when we get to Cyan on Verizon as well.

 

[Dreamspell]

It seems like i'm getting better battery life in use and in standby. I could just be tripping from over-analyzing though...

 

[anon(7901790)]

I'm just going to sit on 8.1 until cyan. No more rolling back or updating.

Same here. The only thing that will cause me to roll back is if I'm having major problems.

 

[DavidinCT]

Same here. The only thing that will cause me to roll back is if I'm having major problems.

I'll take every update that comes down....My main hope is Cyan, or at least they fix IE....it's a POS now after 8.1....every site redirects to the mobile/WAP site, even though I have it set in Desktop mode... THis is a HUGE deal for me.

I just picked up a LG G2 and going to use that for a week or 2 till Cyan comes out for the ICON....

Fed up is a understatement...

 

[Kasey Pierce]

Honestly? i don't think this is as bad as Verizon has been on Android updates. IT was torture waiting for Kitkat...only to find my device wasn't getting it. I like the Icon the way it is. Cyan? Debian? Official 8.1 Update 1? they are just perks.

 

[Brenda Smeby]

It did take forever but it finally worked. I did get a clean install out of it so I'm not gonna complain. Think I will wait it out for Cyan now. But Indigo is staying put��

 

[Surmisation]

Honestly? i don't think this is as bad as Verizon has been on Android updates. IT was torture waiting for Kitkat...only to find my device wasn't getting it. I like the Icon the way it is. Cyan? Debian? Official 8.1 Update 1? they are just perks.

O, if only the forums contained a downvote button, it would be attributably dedicated to the asinine post quoted above.

 

[Digitalmonk73]

I'll take every update that comes down....My main hope is Cyan, or at least they fix IE....it's a POS now after 8.1....every site redirects to the mobile/WAP site, even though I have it set in Desktop mode... THis is a HUGE deal for me.

I just picked up a LG G2 and going to use that for a week or 2 till Cyan comes out for the ICON....

Fed up is a understatement...

I believe they changed the user agent in Update 1 for Mobile IE so that it would play well with sites designed for iPhones/Android.

Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; Windows Phone 8.1; Android 4.0; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 930) like iPhone OS 7_0_3 Mac OS X AppleWebKit/537 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537

 

[Surmisation]

It did take forever but it finally worked. I did get a clean install out of it so I'm not gonna complain. Think I will wait it out for Cyan now. But Indigo is staying put��

What many of us have found is that the update to 8.1 is unoptimized but functional. It's when updating to 8.1.1 is when the problems intensify.

Feel free to update to 8.1 disabling automatic updates. Upon updating to 8.1, remove the preview app, reset the phone through settings>about and you will be on 8.1 proper.

Also bear in mind that the least amount of apps installed expedites the install process. So perhaps you may want to reset on 8.0 first & use a secondary microsoft account to grab the preview and uninstall all the bloat. Good luck!