Official Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 Discussion and Problem Solving Thread

[eortizr]

8.1 gdr1 has ruined my internet browsing experience. Now is just a mess. All webpages will load as mobile regardless of the setting been in desktop. And now I'm unable to watch 1080p youtube videos since it only loads m.youtube.com and if I choose 'desktop' within YouTube it will say the video is not available for my device.

Any way to revert to just 8.1?

 

[rencelvin]

My 620 has been trying to install the update for the past 8 hours, please do help with these. It doesn't show any error, the bar has not moved an inch.

 

[lungjo]

I hav download the WP 8.1 GDR 1 ,But I don't see any changes in my HTC 8S. Can anyone help me

 

[Rahul Vadgama]

Re: Official Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 Discussion nd Problem Solving Thread

Store Live Tile isn't working in mine too, but if region is set to india, set Language to English(United Kingdom)
Cortana worked for me that way.

 

[Rahul Vadgama]

I update my Developer Preview with Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1.
I haven't been able to use WhatsApp, it doesn't open.
Cortana however worked with speech selected to English(United Kingdom) and region set to India.

I use Nokia Lumia 720.

 

[Vinubrdy]

Re: Official Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 Discussion nd Problem Solving Thread

It is because, you don't have English (US) or English (UK) in your phone.
Go to settings, select speech language and select English US or English UK.
Your phone will download and install speech language pack and then Cortana (Alpha) will start working

You can find "activate-cortana-alpha-version-india-canada-and-australia" article in wpcentral for detailed explanation.

 

[wpgeek820]

Store Live Tile not working. The option is set to ON in the settings.

 

[EC Translating Services]

Quick opinion on the last Beta.
- No significant increases in speed in my 1520.
- Merging tiles is finally decent and more interactive. I have already managed to save about 50% of space on my display.
- Phone network is weaker, so weak in areas where i had full coverage before now i have just one or two bars.
- Battery died real quick (some may advise a hard reset at this stage).

Will test a bit more later on...it's recharging.

Edit:
- Battery appears ok.
- Phone network coverage issue is confirmed.
- Merged tiles are now better than the primitive option Android offers. They also show unread emails for single email accounts and also for news. That's really useful. And in my opinion the tiles in this way look much better than Android. You can even resize tiles INSIDE the merged folder so one tile looks bigger than others and shuffle them around in their slots or even add an header tile (with a third party app) and insert your tiles in the header tile. I think Microsoft has made a good thing here. It's improvable but almost perfect.
- Microsoft has forgot once more to add the Traditional Chinese with Qwerty (PinYin) input. It's beyond me how they think to enter the Asian markets with an OS that after over 4 years still lacks basic input methods.

 

[Ed Boland]

Store Live Tile not working. The option is set to ON in the settings.

Toggle it off and then back on again and report back...

Quick opinion on the last Beta.
- No significant increases in speed in my 1520.
- Merging tiles is finally decent and more interactive. I have already managed to save about 50% of space on my display.
- Phone network is weaker, so weak in areas where i had full coverage before now i have just one or two bars.
- Battery died real quick (some may advise a hard reset at this stage).

Will test a bit more later on...it's recharging.

My 1520 feels faster!

 

[sudhindra9]

Remove your SD card and hard reset your phone.

I left in on for 2 more hours and they went away. But, 6 hrs is really annoying.

 

[asmat_1991]

Anyone with Store live tile not working?? toggling off and on live tile option didn't help

 

[Darth litku]

I already reached the end of the status bar with the gear rolling and nothing happened... the gears keep on rolling for so long... is this normal? is there anyone experienced this? thanks

 

[sam1374]

IE is in total mess after this update..WP central is not going to mobile version. Someone else facing this problem?

 

[Blacklac]

8.1 gdr1 has ruined my internet browsing experience. Now is just a mess. All webpages will load as mobile regardless of the setting been in desktop. And now I'm unable to watch 1080p youtube videos since it only loads m.youtube.com and if I choose 'desktop' within YouTube it will say the video is not available for my device.

Any way to revert to just 8.1?

Damn, you're right. Even forcing the HTML5 streams doesn't work. Wtf.

 

[Amar1987]

Toggling off didn't help me too

 

[trivialovi]

My Store Live Title isn't live as well. Also, I know there are updates for WPCentral app and Bing apps but when I check for updates, in the Downloads tab nothing appears. Store does not automatically update apps!
- Store settings are set properly.

 

[Boris Alexandrov]

WhatsApp is still giving me noise from the speaker... damn MS can't fix such an obvious bug!

 

[Akhilesh Bhambhani]

Anyone with Store live tile not working?? toggling off and on live tile option didn't help

Same here. I did a soft reset too..tried everything almost 10 times..
Anyone with ANY proper fix on it?

 

[Davulsukur]

IE is in total mess after this update..WP central is not going to mobile version. Someone else facing this problem?

IE is a mess i agree. Alot of websites seem to think I am running android as well when it tries to load a mobile site.

 

[rusty_sim]

Currently attempting the update on my L820 sitting at about 1/3 on spinning gears

Fingers crossed :/

Edit: updated successfully to 8.10.14147.180