How is Lumia 950 XL in 2017 with Creators Update?
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i'm in the slow ring with the cu, nothing has changed to me, the phone always has been very responsive, but it stills warming like hell, the battery is decent but it could be better (aprox 8 hours with lte, gps activated, normal use)
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I'm on Fast Ring. With minimal to moderate usage, for example when at work where I use the phone mainly to make calls or surf a little social stuff, the phone lasts me about 7-8 hours, coming down from 100 to 30 percent battery. I've gotten more than 12 hours on a similar usage pattern with battery save on all the time. All the above are on LTE dual sim.
Performance wise apps seem to open faster, run stable as compared tp previous builds, overall a more polished feel (same as when the anniversary update had arrived). I would say performance is as I would expect from this phone.
Taking photos and videos is better, my phone doesn't heat up when doing so. However, the phone does heat up when put om charging some times. Phone heating up is much less frequent than I remember (or I may have gotten used to it).
Using the phone as a hotspot or similar uses, like processor heavy games, or prolonged camera use will start to drain the battery fast - since the first scenario is project wifi signals, and the others use the screen a lot.
Windows hello / iris scanner works much better, faster and quite reliable. Even works from a farther distance, the improvement is quite noticeable.
In some of the earlier builds the connect page in settings used to crash upon opening, but works fine now.
All in all, if you are thinking of installing, it's a good build/update
Performance wise apps seem to open faster, run stable as compared tp previous builds, overall a more polished feel (same as when the anniversary update had arrived). I would say performance is as I would expect from this phone.
Taking photos and videos is better, my phone doesn't heat up when doing so. However, the phone does heat up when put om charging some times. Phone heating up is much less frequent than I remember (or I may have gotten used to it).
Using the phone as a hotspot or similar uses, like processor heavy games, or prolonged camera use will start to drain the battery fast - since the first scenario is project wifi signals, and the others use the screen a lot.
Windows hello / iris scanner works much better, faster and quite reliable. Even works from a farther distance, the improvement is quite noticeable.
In some of the earlier builds the connect page in settings used to crash upon opening, but works fine now.
All in all, if you are thinking of installing, it's a good build/update
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ExpressVPN is working a lot better on this build, than any other for me. But as @beachhppr stated, it doesn't stay connected
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Would you recommend buying a second hand 950 XL now?? Im fed up with Android and Apple has never been my thing
I have a similar conundrum, I've been using a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and, although hate is too strong I really can't get used to it. I've been eyeing another 950XL. What put me off before was the battery life but I may just have to put up with that.
Well, lumia 950XL on creators update is more or less the same as it was, when you left the platform (if you already owned it before)
- battery life still mediocre
- iris scanner still load of crap
- camera still great
What changed: you can get it really cheap, it feels faster and edge is way better.
- battery life still mediocre
- iris scanner still load of crap
- camera still great
What changed: you can get it really cheap, it feels faster and edge is way better.
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I'm on slow ring but have not gotten any updates at all.
My version is still: 10.0.15063.138
Check for updates all the time but there are never any available.
Any ideas on what could be wrong?
My version is still: 10.0.15063.138
Check for updates all the time but there are never any available.
Any ideas on what could be wrong?
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Updated today automatically and everything seems to be working fine. Still a bit warm after the update. I'm not on any of the Insider Rings. I may be hallucinating but Edge seems to work much faster after the CU update and the ability to read ebooks in Edge is a nice feature. Also noticed that Glance seems far more responsive but iris recognition (while wearing glasses) is still very poor.
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Mine updated overnight. Everything OK except the Barclays banking app and Pingit report my 950XL is "jailbroken" and won't let me launch the apps.
Just updated on my 650. But 535 still not available. Couldn't see any changes or difference. LOL 
...but it is automatically turned off with battery saver enabled. (See my thread on this.) Lots of people in the Feedback Hub complaining that we don't have the option to enable during battery saver like we used to.
Does anyone use the Bose QC20 with their 950XL. I have a ticking noise in the left ear piece when there is no audio output. The noise cancelling function has to be turned on to hear the ticking.
I just upgraded to the creator update but that didn't fix it.
Not sure if a hard reset would clear this issue.
It is fine with other headphones and the headphones work perfectly with any other device (Lumia 930 etc).
I have seen this issue reported in forums but there hasn't been a fix documented.
any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
I just upgraded to the creator update but that didn't fix it.
Not sure if a hard reset would clear this issue.
It is fine with other headphones and the headphones work perfectly with any other device (Lumia 930 etc).
I have seen this issue reported in forums but there hasn't been a fix documented.
any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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