Guide: How to install W10M Insider Preview

[Lisa Rolfsen Kennedy-Kuhr]

Please help me I've been running insider stuck on 10149, have tried and tried to install 10166, get error message 8007000e. Don't have much room on phone, have moved everything to sd card that is possible. Unable to download or run Windows phone troubleshooter. On windows phone denim before insider installs. Have 1.8 GB free, on phone. What do I do to get to 10166?

 

[Lisa Rolfsen Kennedy-Kuhr]

Have Nokia Lumia 635 with 64 sd card. Also loose my apps on sd card every time it shuts down. Like they have a gray cast over them and they are unavailable.

 

[funnypharmacist]

Same error from last one week, Lumia 640, India

Sorry I may have posted in a wrong thread.

 

[Jonnny4]

I would like to try your method on my HTC One m8 but I do need to know if I setup the device like a new phone instead of restoring a backup will my text messages restore?

 

[David Brabec]

Same error from last one week, Lumia 640, India

Sorry I may have posted in a wrong thread.

I'm having the same issue in Czech republic.
Lumia 920
OS: 8.10.14234.375
Windows Insider 1.3.230.21

 

[Queen Kong1]

Help anyone know how to stop it downloading?..i downloaded like %10 stopped it uninstalled the App....but its still trying to download a build... id rather keep 8.1 for now. thanks

 

[Francisc Cristian]

I have a lumia 925 and I installed win10 using the insider app - slow ring. but I am stuck at build 10166, I don't get any other updates, what should I do?

 

[Teo Bartulovic]

Remove app, reinstall it, resign in and try again...

 

[horschti]

Hi all,

how long does the installation of WM10 preview usually take?
I followed the instructions and the installation process finally works (before I always got teh strange 0x80070020 error code).
The installation bar is at 100% for like 10 minutes. I used the "insider slow" option in the app.
Is that normal? How long should I wait before I can consider the phone crashed?

/E: Forget about it. It just finished and is now migrating data. Whatever there is to migrate on a freshly reset phone.

 

[tpapictures]

Still using that sticky for installation?

Are we still using this sticky to get Win10 preview installed? I know that changes happen all the time with this kind of thing and I want to make sure that it's still common practice to hard reset first, then start as a new phone, then Windows Insider, etc etc etc or is there another order of operations?

Thanks!

 

[Rose640]

Re: Still using that sticky for installation?

I updated to win10, then hard reseted. Don't know what you guys do.

 

[BryceMD]

Re: Still using that sticky for installation?

Technically, to get the best results you want to hard reset after installing Win10 and not restore from backup. Start fresh

 

[tpapictures]

Re: Still using that sticky for installation?

Technically, to get the best results you want to hard reset after installing Win10 and not restore from backup. Start fresh

So no need then to hard reset BEFORE installing the Win10 preview as that sticky says?

 

[Rose640]

Re: Still using that sticky for installation?

So no need then to hard reset BEFORE installing the Win10 preview as that sticky says?

Why would you do that, I don't see a purpose.

 

[tpapictures]

Re: Still using that sticky for installation?

Why would you do that, I don't see a purpose.

Me neither. I just figure if it's a sticky someone had to think that method was useful?

 

[Rose640]

Re: Still using that sticky for installation?

Doing a hard reset in 8.1 will give a fresh 8.1 experience, and I already had that, 640 came with the update 2, so no purpose.

 

[ncbartschi]

Re: Still using that sticky for installation?

I'd only hard reset before installing Insider Preview if you have a lot of apps installed. Migration takes longer, and it seems there's a higher chance something will go wrong in the process.

Far more useful to hard reset after installation of W10.

 

[tpapictures]

Re: Still using that sticky for installation?

I'd only hard reset before installing Insider Preview if you have a lot of apps installed. Migration takes longer, and it seems there's a higher chance something will go wrong in the process.

Far more useful to hard reset after installation of W10.

I'm going to be annoying now... How many apps is a lot?
Also... I'm guessing that the idea is to never restore your apps in Win10 tech preview? You HAVE to install them one by one again to not have problems?

 

[a5cent]

It's both the number of apps that matter and how much data and configurational data they've collectively stored. You can have only three apps, but if each of them manages half a GB of data than I'd very much prefer a hard reset to begin with. Storage Sense can give you an idea of both.

If you're only going to do one hard reset, do it after updating. There's usually no reason to limit yourself to that though, so I'd recommend doing both as suggested.

Also... I'm guessing that the idea is to never restore your apps in Win10 tech preview? You HAVE to install them one by one again to not have problems?

You don't have to. Everything/Anything you do with the insider preview you do at your own risk. Doing so is just the only way to ensure you'll get the best possible experience (considering its still under construction). You can ignore it and might be lucky to not suffer any negative consequences, you might not be.

 

[tpapictures]

It's both the number of apps that matter and how much data....You can ignore it and might be lucky to not suffer any negative consequences, you might not be.

Ok, good to know and makes sense. I guess if you're going to hard reset anyway later why not do it one more time. What's the proper way to hard reset, by the way because the last time I thought I had done it it turns out I didn't do it the "correct" way because I only used a button combo.