Constant Rebooting... DO NOT UPDATE TO WP8.1

[grizzlyaddams]

PLEASE FOR THE SAKE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, TAKE MY ADVICE AND DO NOT UPDATE TO WP8.1 YET!

There are so many different tales on here of success and failure, there is no way for you to know which you will encounter. I have an HTC 8XT and the device is now worthless. This is my primary phone and now I have no idea how I am going to communicate with my wife and kids (especially while they are babysitting at work)

I understand this "developer preview" came with no guarantees, but this update was available through official Microsoft channels and I had no idea that the bugs I might encounter would not only include poor performance, loss of ancillary functionality, but also constant radio crashes and phone reboots.

The most offensive bugs are that once the phone falls asleep, the wifi radio will not work again until you reboot the phone. Oh well, at least I can still use talk and text? NO! Think again. I have been sitting here for 10 minutes with my phone on my desk untouched, and every 3 minutes the phone just reboots itself.

I was so excited for this update I did not consider the officially available preview would render me without a phone. PLEASE DO NOT UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE!

I am now desperately scouring the internet for a way to recover my phone via flashing back to 8.0 but there is nothing, not even on XDA. The only options seems to be available for Nokia phones.

 

[kingenu]

have you tried a reset? (settings-about-reset phone)

 

[fzkpfw]

Or the hard reset button combo?


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[Muessig]

You seem to need a hard reset, which will fix these issues most likely. But actively discouraging others not to update because of your experience is going a bit far.

 

[ven07]

Whoa this will definitely give people second thoughts :/

 

[grizzlyaddams]

I was very hesitant to perform a hard reset because of other people saying a hard reset wiped their carrier settings and were unable to activate the device. I am trying it now. The point is, does anyone really want to go through all of this? I was so excited for the update I did not consider what a hassle it would be and I think other people deserve the warning. If I had come to these forums before updating, I probably would not have!

 

[zu5be]

No problems here. You should try hard reset.

 

[ven07]

Try the hard reset mate.. At this point you have nothing to lose...

 

[SonOfDad]

Whoa this will definitely give people second thoughts :/

A solo rant doesn't usually sway me, I've had no trouble running it all day

 

[myoujin]

You should get lumia

 

[grizzlyaddams]

You should get lumia

No lumia available on Sprint, with whom I have a contract.

 

[ven07]

A solo rant doesn't usually sway me, I've had no trouble running it all day

lol yea but we have weak-minded people in the world my phone has been running for almost a day with cortana and 8.1... no problems as of yet

 

[prasath1234]

No problems here except heating nd battery drain

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[MATRIX RELOADED]

Whoa, slow down. Just like what others said, you may have to reset your phone. I'm using Lumia 620 and already rocking wp8.1. So far no problems, instead I'm experiencing a lot goodies on my phone. Although apps like lock screen and volume control stopped working with wp8.1. Developers need to recode or update their apps I guess...

 

[Expression2]

My Lumia 1020 works like nothing has ever happened. I'm using the swipe keyboard to type this.

 

[SonOfDad]

lol yea but we have weak-minded people in the world

I call them iPhone users! (or they've just converted over to an SGS3, cause the "cool people" run Android now)

 

[ven07]

I call them iPhone users! (or they've just converted over to an SGS3, cause the "cool people" run Android now)

Lol yea "cool people" idjits... lol

 

[grizzlyaddams]

Well just an FYI, I did a hard reset on my phone, got through device activation DID NOT RESTORE FROM A BACKUP SO AS TO START FRESH and my device is still rebooting itself.

 

[Muessig]

If you sign in with your Microsoft account and are on a data connection you should get the option to restore from a backup, provided you have a backup on the cloud (you have to have backups enabled on your phone).

 

[grizzlyaddams]

If you sign in with your Microsoft account and are on a data connection you should get the option to restore from a backup, provided you have a backup on the cloud (you have to have backups enabled on your phone).

That is not what I said at all. I purposefully skipped restoring from a backup to rule out any problem related to the old settings, and I am still getting reboots. Please read before replying.