So, how's everyone doing so far with the 4/19 updates? I had such high hopes when I had my SB check for updates just before I went to bed and it found a huge list of driver and firmware updates. I seriously thought "oh, please, oh please let this fix most of my problems so I can stop feeling like the SB was a waste of my money!" I let it complete them, it finished rebooting and I closed it (put it to sleep), plugged it in, and went to bed.
My installation went smoothly. Everything installed, I rebooted it, and it went through the blue and yellow progress bars for the firmware updates. After the yellow bar, the screen shut off and there was a fairly long pause before the Surface logo came backup (this was a bit scary, but I just waited). It booted up fine. Everything is good in the control panel. All updates show successful installation.
This morning, my SB was completely off. So, I guess this means the random shutdowns during sleep have yet to be solved. One major hope dashed there.
So far, I think there's an improvement in the graphical issues in Firefox with the video driver updates, at the very least. I plan to allow my SB to enter hibernation, and I'll plug it in (which usually results in the Hello camera failing) to see if the updates for the cameras have addressed that issue.
Another thing I've noticed -- my Store has always been ridiculously slow to open. I don't know why, but it always sits on the blue screen with the store logo and spinning dots for far longer than any other machine I have (I'd say it took a good 5-10 seconds longer than my desktop to load the store). This time, though, it's launching much faster (more like my desktop). *shrug*
Anyone else notice anything good or bad? I'm really hoping this update brings some much needed stability, though I'm already disappointed in the lack of fix for the sleep shutdown problem.
My installation went smoothly. Everything installed, I rebooted it, and it went through the blue and yellow progress bars for the firmware updates. After the yellow bar, the screen shut off and there was a fairly long pause before the Surface logo came backup (this was a bit scary, but I just waited). It booted up fine. Everything is good in the control panel. All updates show successful installation.
This morning, my SB was completely off. So, I guess this means the random shutdowns during sleep have yet to be solved. One major hope dashed there.
So far, I think there's an improvement in the graphical issues in Firefox with the video driver updates, at the very least. I plan to allow my SB to enter hibernation, and I'll plug it in (which usually results in the Hello camera failing) to see if the updates for the cameras have addressed that issue.
Another thing I've noticed -- my Store has always been ridiculously slow to open. I don't know why, but it always sits on the blue screen with the store logo and spinning dots for far longer than any other machine I have (I'd say it took a good 5-10 seconds longer than my desktop to load the store). This time, though, it's launching much faster (more like my desktop). *shrug*
Anyone else notice anything good or bad? I'm really hoping this update brings some much needed stability, though I'm already disappointed in the lack of fix for the sleep shutdown problem.