My Icon on 8.1 has gone insane!

[joanzen]

I've had 8.1 on my Icon since day 1 and things have been running well. I've experienced the non-responsive power button a few times, but nothing major. But then today all hell broke loose and I've experienced several issues. First, I noticed that my WiFi on my phone wasn't working, even though I'm sitting in my house and the WiFi is working for every other device in the house. I've never seen this before. OK, no problem, I'll just reboot. When I tried to shut down/restart, the phone completely froze when I tried to shut down. I got the normal swipe screen to shut down, and when I swiped, it went to the bottom and then just sat there, frozen (Let it go, let it go---DAMN YOU TO HELL, DISNEY!). I did a soft reset (power+vol down) and the phone did reset, but when I tried shutting down again, the phone looked like it was going to shut down, but actually just restarted itself. Instability seems to be the word for the day... I may have to try a hard reset. I've been loving the update, but this is making me nervous...

 

[antsin3d]

Is it running ok otherwise after the soft reset? I have the wifi hang when trying to turn it off sometimes-only fix is a reboot, but whatever.

 

[Hisham mubarak]

I am experiencing different problem with this developers preview.... My phone was okay after update.... Was running smooth and nice but some time it takes time to start some apps so I reset my phone... but sadly my real problems started after reset... My download restriction reduced to 20mb... I tried everything to fix it but sadly nothing won't work... Do you have any suggestion for that?? I am using a Lumia 620 and I am from India... Any answered will be appreciated...... Thanks for reading.....

 

[quantum tao]

my icon got hung up in a reboot once. i cant remember the exact sequence of events, but i know i was scared it wasn't going to come back on.

 

[joanzen]

Is it running ok otherwise after the soft reset? I have the wifi hang when trying to turn it off sometimes-only fix is a reboot, but whatever.

The Facebook app wouldn't start, so I tried shutting down again and, again, it just restarted itself rather than shutting down. I was finally able to get it to shut down normally and when I restarted it, everything appears to be back to normal - Facebook and all other apps I've tried are working. WiFi is working. We'll see...

 

[joanzen]

my icon got hung up in a reboot once. i cant remember the exact sequence of events, but i know i was scared it wasn't going to come back on.

Yeah, it's a bad feeling, for sure!

 

[LTTG]

I am experiencing different problem with this developers preview.... My phone was okay after update.... Was running smooth and nice but some time it takes time to start some apps so I reset my phone... but sadly my real problems started after reset... My download restriction reduced to 20mb... I tried everything to fix it but sadly nothing won't work... Do you have any suggestion for that?? I am using a Lumia 620 and I am from India... Any answered will be appreciated...... Thanks for reading.....

Try changing your download restriction with Data Sense.

 

[Hisham mubarak]

Try changing your download restriction with Data Sense.

I tried that too...

 

[quantum tao]

ok, happened again today.
phone was warm and battery seemed to be draining faster than usual so i decided to do a soft reset.
held the volume down and power buttons till it shut off, it rebooted, showed the nokia banner then went black, i waited......, nothing.
without touching any buttons i set it on the wireless charger to see if it was off or just sleeping. it booted again to the nokia banner (proves it was off), then went to verizon splash and windows phone to start screen.
before soft reset the battery level read 83% after the successful reboot it read 91%.

 

[joanzen]

ok, happened again today.
phone was warm and battery seemed to be draining faster than usual so i decided to do a soft reset.
held the volume down and power buttons till it shut off, it rebooted, showed the nokia banner then went black, i waited......, nothing.
without touching any buttons i set it on the wireless charger to see if it was off or just sleeping. it booted again to the nokia banner (proves it was off), then went to verizon splash and windows phone to start screen.
before soft reset the battery level read 83% after the successful reboot it read 91%.

There's definitely some instability in the current build, at least with the Icon. I suppose that's the risk we agreed to with the developer preview. Hopefully, one of the upcoming fix releases will address these issues. For now, it appears that soft resets are making the problems 'fixable'...

 

[Karpito]

Do you have Cortana on and live tile?
Since I turned Cortana off and remove the tile form start screen I didn't experience the problem anymore.
Just turning cortana off didn't help. You have to remove the tile from start screen. I haven't experienced the issue in about 36 hrs.

 

[joanzen]

Do you have Cortana on and live tile?
Since I turned Cortana off and remove the tile form start screen I didn't experience the problem anymore.
Just turning cortana off didn't help. You have to remove the tile from start screen. I haven't experienced the issue in about 36 hrs.

I do have Cortana on and the live tile pinned to Start. My phone is working fine for the moment, but if I have another instance of these issues, I'll definitely give your suggestion a try. Thanks!