List here what you DO NOT like on 8.1.

[Zacharyw70]

Just tried uploading to OneDrive. The Photo gallery simply doesn't make it an option to share. However opening Onedrive allowed me to upload individual pictures to it.

 

[thatotherdude24]

They've removed the option to disable the vibration of the capacative buttons...and if you had it disabled, you're out of luck. The vibration's back.

Negative....I had it disabled on my 928 before the update and it is still not back.

 

[Jack Janik]

Re: 8.1, What dont you like about it?

No Facebook messaging is the main client.. People Hub doesn't have any functionality anymore (if you tap on a status it asks you to get the app) Battery life is abysmal. Music is soooooo sluggish, and I had to wait an hour first time to play any of my songs. I thought they delayed it for fixes.. WTH happened?!

 

[DennisvdG]

its on my first page. did you do the tick in the settings?

Thank you lol

 

[MikeSo]

Lol nevermind

Haha.

 

[thatotherdude24]

Where is the file manager to attach documents in an email I saw a couple people post about?

 

[homieson89]

Can't seem to be able to change text message ringtone, music hub is really slow to see the songs, how do you silent the phone, when pressing the volume you can't silent the phone or put into vibrate.. These ate some of my gripes. Hope anyone can figure these things out.

 

[DJCBS]

The WiFi toggle is interesting. It's only a shortcut when it comes to turning it OFF, but it toggles it ON without moving away. The BT setting is a true toggle, as is airplane mode and rotation lock (the only ones I've tried), so it's definitely far from useless. I'm not sure why they decided to make the OFF wifi a shortcut. Makes no sense to me, but there must've been some thinking behind it.

Agreed that battery saver is a no-brainer to have as an option there.

Yeah I know, but I can count with the fingers of one hand finger the amount of times I switched BT, internet sharing or airplane mode in the last 6 months.

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- another thing: they didn't add new accent colours but they changed some of the existing ones. Cobalt was a nice vibrant blue and now it's an uninspired pale blue. Great way to cut another colour out of the restricted amount of colours I liked on that pallet...I'm now restricted to dark grey (thanks to Deutsche Telekom) and Indigo. Shame.

 

[thatotherdude24]

From what i'm reading WP8.1 is not living up to the hype.

It does seem much more locked down, similar to iOS but I think we're all forgetting it's just a developer preview.

 

[johnson_patrickw]

Re: 8.1, What dont you like about it?

Somehow they've managed to make listening to my music an even worse experience

 

[johnson_patrickw]

I really cannot believe they found a way to make an already terrible user experience even worse. It's borderlin unusable. And why in the hell is the tile no longer live? Ugh. Remarkably underwhelmed by this "update."

I really don't understand how they manage things like this

 

[Adretheon]

another thing: they didn't add new accent colours but they changed some of the existing ones. Cobalt was a nice vibrant blue and now it's an uninspired pale blue. Great way to cut another colour out of the restricted amount of colours I liked on that pallet...I'm now restricted to dark grey (thanks to Deutsche Telekom) and Indigo. Shame.

Yea I'm still hoping for a color picker eventually.

 

[josef.r]

Quiet Hours application doesn't work anymore unfortunately

Sent from my Nokia Lumia 1020 using Tapatalk

 

[Nimdock]

Not specifically WP8.1, but also WP8, I used to have a L710 WP7.x and the screen time-out was able to be set to 30 minutes, which is great because I always have chat open and the phone plugged into the PC USB next to my keyboard, since WP8, they reduced it to a feeble 5 minutes, constantly timing out, constantly having to hit physical buttons to turn it back on, or remember to touch the screen every few minutes

@MS - Where is our choice? Give us back 30 minutes or Never option in screen time out, you want WP8.1 to be closer match to Windows 8.1? Give us the same power options then

L920 here and I have always had 30 minutes and never. (WP8 and WP8.1).

 

[LMKz]

Is it just my phone, or can you no longer position the cursor in text by holding?? Seems like a bug??

 

[Nimdock]

I do agree that the music tile with the artist background was gorgeous.

In my mind it had already taken a step back from when it used to use the last artist played as background (so even when not playing it would still show an artist background)... Then it became no background in tile when not playing, and now no tile background period.

 

[inteller]

I really don't understand how they manage things like this

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holy crap....I can understand The Donnas, but Nikki Lane has no explanation.

 

[Zacharyw70]

Can't seem to be able to change text message ringtone, music hub is really slow to see the songs, how do you silent the phone, when pressing the volume you can't silent the phone or put into vibrate.. These ate some of my gripes. Hope anyone can figure these things out.

To change Text Message ring tone go into settings>ringtones+sounds>Manage App sounds>Messaging then change the tone. To do individual contact notifications simply change their text sound from the contacts list.
Best way to silence phone is to make quiet hours a quick action in the command center. Go to Settings>notifications+actions>Choose Your Quick Actions, then set quiet hours on one of the spots. Then simply use the notification center and enable quiet hours to be muted.

 

[Nimdock]

Is it just my phone, or can you no longer position the cursor in text by holding?? Seems like a bug??

Oh my, you are right. That is bad!

 

[Adretheon]

Is it just my phone, or can you no longer position the cursor in text by holding?? Seems like a bug??

You can its just different. Press and hold then take your finger off and there's a blinking cursor, now you can drag it around with the little circle.