HTC 8x won't get Windows 10. [Speculative]

[Joao Silva2]

I had turning gears with the progress bar at what looked like 100% for quite a long time and now it is rebooting. Not working, rebooting over and over.

I am stuck on the 100% already for about 15mins... Looks like i know what i can expect. I'll be damn!

 

[Joao Silva2]

I had turning gears with the progress bar at what looked like 100% for quite a long time and now it is rebooting. Not working, rebooting over and over.

Yep... rebooting over and over here too. Don't know what to do now!

 

[HTC_8X_User]

Yep... rebooting over and over here too. Don't know what to do now!

And guess what the recovery program is not finding any files to recover the phone back to Windows 8.1.

 

[Joao Silva2]

And guess what the recovery program is not finding any files to recover the phone back to Windows 8.1.

I let it be rebooting and he did go live now! It's finishing the installation... but the signal and the battery simbol on the upper part of the screen are so so so small.. barely visible! :|

 

[paulove]

HTC 8x won't get Windows 10. Confirmed!

I am resetting the phone using this guide (link under) the To reset an unresponsive phone part. Will update this to tell how progress is.

Everything looks good so far. Restoring from backup now. Things are very tiny...

Reset my Windows Phone 8.1 | Windows Phone How-to (United States)

 

[Anubhav Kumar]

My phone has been restarting for past 20-30 mins. Is there any hope it will complete the installation?

 

[Dominic Farquharson]

My own eventually stopped restarting after multiple soft resets. It's finally up to the "We're Getting There Screen."

 

[HTC_8X_User]

I finally gave up on the rebooting and did the "Reset" in post 45. It then looked like it was going back to 8.1 but did the Windows 10 installation. It looks like it recovered most of my Windows 8.1 settings, but there is something way wrong with the screen resolution like mentioned in the posts above. Everything including the tiles are very small and do not fill out the screen. Not sure how they will fix it.

 

[xandros9]

Doesn't download the TP help?

It's not supposed to.

 

[paulove]

The reason for the tiny elements on the screen is a display scaling issue. An easy fix that hopefully MS will push in next update.


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[HTC_8X_User]

OK, I turned off show more tiles and now the live tiles fill the screen, but everything on the other screens are so small you can hardly see it without a magnifying glass.

 

[HTC_8X_User]

Under "Ease of Access" and "More Options" there is a "Text Scale" that will help with the text size as a work around.

 

[svaethier]

Only reason the 8x is getting this build is because the build has a problem with the detectoids, Gabe is advising that you reflash your devices as the phone is still unsupported in this build and problems can come up.

 

[Anubhav Kumar]

I finally gave up on the rebooting and did the "Reset" in post 45. It then looked like it was going back to 8.1 but did the Windows 10 installation. It looks like it recovered most of my Windows 8.1 settings, but there is something way wrong with the screen resolution like mentioned in the posts above. Everything including the tiles are very small and do not fill out the screen. Not sure how they will fix it.

I tried doing the hard resent from the link in post #45, but it doesn't show me any exclamation mark instead takes me to the rotating gear screen and the again switches off after some time.
Any tip?

 

[HTC_8X_User]

Only reason the 8x is getting this build is because the build has a problem with the detectoids, Gabe is advising that you reflash your devices as the phone is still unsupported in this build and problems can come up.

here is the link to the info Non-supported phones will see Windows 10 Mobile build 10536, but you shouldn't install it | Windows Central

 

[BataBole]

Anyone able to share some screenshots?

 

[HTC_8X_User]

What an interesting conundrum! Other than the tiny elements and text it seems to be working.

Performing a factory reset using phone buttons seems to reset it to Windows 10

1. Turn the power off.
2. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button. Release the VOLUME DOWN button when you see an icon on the screen.
3. Then press the following hardware buttons in sequence: VOLUME UP > VOLUME DOWN > POWER > VOLUME DOWN.

 

[Joao Silva2]

What an interesting conundrum! Other than the tiny elements and text it seems to be working.

Performing a factory reset using phone buttons seems to reset it to Windows 10

1. Turn the power off.
2. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button. Release the VOLUME DOWN button when you see an icon on the screen.
3. Then press the following hardware buttons in sequence: VOLUME UP > VOLUME DOWN > POWER > VOLUME DOWN.

I can't do this. In the sequence, when i press the power button the phone reboots immediately...
I can't restore the phone with Windows phone recovery tools either... stuck on this right now

 

[Alex Jong]

What an interesting conundrum! Other than the tiny elements and text it seems to be working.

Performing a factory reset using phone buttons seems to reset it to Windows 10

1. Turn the power off.
2. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button. Release the VOLUME DOWN button when you see an icon on the screen.
3. Then press the following hardware buttons in sequence: VOLUME UP > VOLUME DOWN > POWER > VOLUME DOWN.

I was having random reboots even after trying your steps to do a factory reset. The problem lies when the phones started to ask if I would like to restore from a previous phone settings I opted for a fresh start instead. Till now it seems to solve my problems of the random reboot issues.

 

[Alex Jong]

Here are some of the images.. Despite the small text.. But when running other apps, the text seems to be fine..