To all those who didn't use the insider program and have just joined the world of W10, you may well run into some issues.
Those of us who used the TP builds have come across a lot of the issues being seen on these boards.
Although Microsoft say it's a straight forward upgrade where you basically click and play, the truth is it doesnt always work for some.
Although it can be a pain in the neck, the only way to resolve some of these issues it to hard reset your device, and NOT restore from a back up. There seems to be, in some instances, a conflict appear, possibly due erroneous data loitering in shadows waiting to mug your fresh win10 code.
Here are couple of things I've personally run in to. Please note this is not the definitive list, and if any, more experienced users, want to jump in to help out then game on.
1) Greyed out tiles on start screen. Obviously, coming from 8.1 and having restored a back up, your apps need to update. It takes a while. Any that don't, you can go to my library and go through them manually.
2) Glance Screen. There is an update for win 10 and it can take a while to get it. It will turn up eventually.
3) Touch is off. I didn't find a simple cure for this one, so a hard reset was performed, and that was cured.
4) slow to respond straight away. Check the store. You will find roughly 40 updates!! If not more. I just left the phones alone for an hour or so, and things picked up from there.
5) App list icons slow to appear. Haven't got a clue on this one. It does it on my 950's and my 950xl's. I have asked Gabe, and reported it, so we will see.
5) For us in the UK, Cortana is a car crash, compared to 8.1! Doesn't track flights, doesn't update, live tile falls asleep etc. A workaround is to change your region settings to the USofA, but news and sport headlines will be mainly American.
6) Any other issues that affect performance or conflicts, or strange behaviour, then I can only advise a hard reset and not restore. Unfortunately, it's the only way in certain circumstances. Before you go throwing your device out, try the reset. It takes a while getting your apps back, but you WILL notice an improvement.
Hopefully, I haven't taught anyone to 'suck eggs' or patronised anyone, that wasn't the aim of this post. I just thought it would be helpful to those who haven't tinkered with the insider program.
If anyone has any more pointers for our recently inducted brethren, or if I've got something wrong, by all means poke me with a stick!
Those of us who used the TP builds have come across a lot of the issues being seen on these boards.
Although Microsoft say it's a straight forward upgrade where you basically click and play, the truth is it doesnt always work for some.
Although it can be a pain in the neck, the only way to resolve some of these issues it to hard reset your device, and NOT restore from a back up. There seems to be, in some instances, a conflict appear, possibly due erroneous data loitering in shadows waiting to mug your fresh win10 code.
Here are couple of things I've personally run in to. Please note this is not the definitive list, and if any, more experienced users, want to jump in to help out then game on.
1) Greyed out tiles on start screen. Obviously, coming from 8.1 and having restored a back up, your apps need to update. It takes a while. Any that don't, you can go to my library and go through them manually.
2) Glance Screen. There is an update for win 10 and it can take a while to get it. It will turn up eventually.
3) Touch is off. I didn't find a simple cure for this one, so a hard reset was performed, and that was cured.
4) slow to respond straight away. Check the store. You will find roughly 40 updates!! If not more. I just left the phones alone for an hour or so, and things picked up from there.
5) App list icons slow to appear. Haven't got a clue on this one. It does it on my 950's and my 950xl's. I have asked Gabe, and reported it, so we will see.
5) For us in the UK, Cortana is a car crash, compared to 8.1! Doesn't track flights, doesn't update, live tile falls asleep etc. A workaround is to change your region settings to the USofA, but news and sport headlines will be mainly American.
6) Any other issues that affect performance or conflicts, or strange behaviour, then I can only advise a hard reset and not restore. Unfortunately, it's the only way in certain circumstances. Before you go throwing your device out, try the reset. It takes a while getting your apps back, but you WILL notice an improvement.
Hopefully, I haven't taught anyone to 'suck eggs' or patronised anyone, that wasn't the aim of this post. I just thought it would be helpful to those who haven't tinkered with the insider program.
If anyone has any more pointers for our recently inducted brethren, or if I've got something wrong, by all means poke me with a stick!
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