Build 10149 and Glance Screen

[emperor_skull]

They would work if you upgraded from windows phone 8.1, then performing a hard reset with the windows 10 build installed, then you won't have access to glance screen, touch setting which will always crash, and other system settings that didn't come with windows 10, ( ie. The ones in extra settings icon within the setting)

 

[adrian1338]

Well ..when you flash from 8.1 directly the extra apps are listed correctly within the settings menu.
After a hardreset the settings apps will not be published in the settings area but in the app list. Some of those will work ones upon activation and disappear from that list as well. Looks like Win10 cant publish those properly in either the app list or the settings list. This problem existed with all build though

 

[vodda]

Another hard reset for me and Glance is back. I am not updating any apps via Store Beta nor gonna turn on Glance. I am going to leave everything as it is after a hard reset, check battery life and then play with settings to see if there is something that affects battery life or is that just as 10149 is.

 

[shaunydub]

My 1520 is back on 8.1 now, just put 10149 on my 920 from 8.1 with no hard reset, will see how that goes before loading the 1520 again.
​Be interesting to see how battery life is without glance on,

 

[docangle1]

The trick that worked for me was to Install 'SysApp Pusher', find 'Glance' when it asks which store, use the Store Beta. Install 'Glance' and it will show up in the App List (Only until you restart your device, at which point it will disappear again, but in the meantime go into your App list and pin Glance to your Start Screen) even when you restart you can access via the pinned version but as stated will disappear from your App List.

 

[Derausgewanderte]

The trick that worked for me was to Install 'SysApp Pusher', find 'Glance' when it asks which store, use the Store Beta. Install 'Glance' and it will show up in the App List (Only until you restart your device, at which point it will disappear again, but in the meantime go into your App list and pin Glance to your Start Screen) even when you restart you can access via the pinned version but as stated will disappear from your App List.

great idea. will try that if I have to hard reset for some reason. For now I live without the ability to access it. Somebody above posted that while you can access the glance screen you actually cannot change anything on it, such as night settings and color, just show or not?
PS: I do not believe glance screen is responsible for battery drain. For me the main culprits under battery saver are the store app and the music app (huge library).

 

[maclancer]

The trick that worked for me was to Install 'SysApp Pusher', find 'Glance' when it asks which store, use the Store Beta. Install 'Glance' and it will show up in the App List (Only until you restart your device, at which point it will disappear again, but in the meantime go into your App list and pin Glance to your Start Screen) even when you restart you can access via the pinned version but as stated will disappear from your App List.

The app is not longer available in the beta store... Microsoft removed it.

 

[Derausgewanderte]

The app is not longer available in the beta store... Microsoft removed it.

sysapp pusher is available here under the old store app. I installed it last night.

edit: never mind. I misread your post. Indeed, glance is not available in store beta anymore and installing it from the old store doesn't work because it already installed.

 

[vodda]

I get glance right after hard reset and can set it up, thou only time and notifications. but as soon as its updated via beta store its gone from the extra list.
I am still testing my battery life and checking out what causing battery drain, it was a 7% loss per hour on average during my night sleep so something must be eating into it. Right now I have my focus on touch (high sensitivity and double tap to wake) or cortana. Will have to test for one more day, then I can test with glance ON again.

 

[vodda]

Here, this is how my extra menu looks like right after a hard reset and not updating app via beta store.

Note, it is not a "glance screen", but just "glance."

I even tried installing glance screen from SD card, but no luck.

 

[Rasetech]

Not working for me because the store (beta) always crashes when I select it to open Glance.

 

[vodda]

Try a soft reset, my store beta also crashed a lot and was not able to search, then soft reset fixed it.

 

[Rasetech]

No the store is working fine for me, I think its due to the fact that the glance app is not available anymore in the store beta as stated by users before my post.

 

[vodda]

Its not, but it still gets updated in store beta, so it must be "somehere" on the servers the only problem is that is disappears from the menu, maybe the trick to "pin it to the start" would work, but I will only be able to test this later in the day when I can perform another hard reset.

 

[vodda]

I believe my battery drain was not connected to glance, but to Cortana.

Therefore I am doing another hard reset and will pin glance to start meni before updating via store beta and hopefully this will keep the setting available. Otherwise I will just enable it, set as I like it and update via store beta. This will remove it from Extras but it will stay enabled.

 

[shaunydub]

After going back to 8.1 and upgrading to 10149 without any hard reset I have glance options and have disabled it.
Now I can find out how it really performs battery wise, still Music app seems to make the phone run hot and battery run down about 1% per minute.

 

[vodda]

Interesting...any way of uninstall music app as I dont use it? I think I've read once an article how to uninstall system apps but forgot...

or its enough to just disable it in battery saver?

PS, did you update glance in store beta and its still available?

 

[vodda]

FYI, glance cannot be pinned to start, actually nothing from Extras menu cannot be pinned to start.

There goes my plan :/ I guess I wont update it now and just let it be.

 

[shaunydub]

It only drains when using it so if you don't use there is no need to uninstall or block in battery saver.
I often use my phone when walking to work or in office so don't want battery to be killed before midday.

I didn't look for glance, I don't want to tempt fate by checking store for it or touching it at all now it is off.

 

[franco-vela]

I have the solution: search "glance screen windows phone store" in MS Edge, then click on "install", open with "Store", not the beta, and then it will install it. After that, go to Extras>Glance Screen and you can turn it off or on. Hope that helps!