News on WP8.1 Developer Preview Update 14-May-2014

[gohilurvish]

I cant believe that there is no post on this.

Please post the new features that you can see on WP8.1DP 14/May/14.

BTW, for curious and restless fellas...
-download for my 720 was around 24-25MB.
-Took 10-15min for "Preparing to install"
-At installation, took 15min at 1% and 5min for remaining...
-After Installation it took ~20min (depending on your data) for migration.
-And some more for installing Apps...


UPDATE: Here is the link to thread that was started earlier. I just missed it.
http://forums.windowscentral.com/wp...date-improves-battery-life-squashes-bugs.html

 

[vitorrloureiro]

Noticed any performance improvement? Mine seems faster on resuming apps

 

[Mr. Brown]

Both my L920 and my Icon have much better battery life. My Icon still has delays turning on sometimes and sometimes has a delay resuming the start screen.

 

[Kakes Kakes]

IE seems faster.. Seems to load pages quicker.

 

[darkest.white]

My battery has been at 100% for like 3.5 hours now.. And the phone is much faster and more responsive. Awesome battery life! Loving this update

 

[Lance_WPCentral]

Facebook account sync via the people's hub is working properly now. Earlier it used to keep saying it cannot sync

 

[Ed Boland]

Everything just seems faster and snappier overall.

 

[LTTG]

Are the transitions (as reported by users) reverted back to the old ones?

 

[James8561]

no transitions stay the same.
I notice the back button now tombstone FB beta instead of closing it. battery life is significantly improved on L920

 

[Rajat Malhotra]

Once new thing I noticed ws a retry all option in the downloads section of the store when there is an error while downloading some app
Earlier u had to select individual apps and hit retry

 

[Helixian81]

Anyone had the issue with start screen? Mine seem to be rendering the live tile, meaning the tile doesn't show immediately after u scroll down to the bottom of scroll back to top.. Other than this it's pretty smooth so far.. Mine is, Lumia 1020

 

[Ashish Saraf1]

Apps like battery sense and calendar still not getting tombstoned even after pressing back key..
Didn't notice any other changes..

 

[SRoshan143]

Anyone had the issue with start screen? Mine seem to be rendering the live tile, meaning the tile doesn't show immediately after u scroll down to the bottom of scroll back to top.. Other than this it's pretty smooth so far.. Mine is, Lumia 1020

+620 same issue with me

 

[SRoshan143]

Noticed one thing when Battery Saver is on the battery drains faster as compared to when it is off. Battery was at 60% battery saver was on in 3 hours (data off, wifi off, location off; didn't play any games, just going through some pics was thee only thing I did in that 3 hours that too for 15 mins) the battery came down to 24%. Charged battery to 100%. Then again when it was 60%, battery saver was off and did all the same things as before and after 3 hours the battery was at 47%. Don't know if anyone else found this thing.

 

[rlatarche]

The try all again buttons on the marketplace downloads has always been there in the dev preview. Only shows up when two or more apps need to be retried.

 

[muneshyne21]

I think this was the initial 8.1 update but I'm happy that I can finally save my e-mail picture attachments. Couldnt do that before

 

[HaibaneReki]

I haven't noticed any change in battery life of my nearly 1,5 years old 920. Might be the hardware though.. Other than that nothing to report (yet).

 

[azcruz]

I cant believe that there is no post on this.
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We've been talking about this since last night. Where were you?

http://forums.windowscentral.com/wp...date-improves-battery-life-squashes-bugs.html

 

[Blade800]

Anyone have problem with Viber after update? Cant recieve or send messages. *Sigh*

Now I have to reinstall and lose all messages history.

 

[Mohit Modi]

One major bug fixed is that games hub is back on apps list. .. Aa reported by wpcentral in the games update 2 days ago