Post: Windows 10 TP For Phones; Build 10051 Released
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04-12-2015, 05:20 PM
#1
Geo
Don't Believe The Title
Build 10051 has taken a long time due to the amount of phones being added to the list, taking it from 6 to 36 including all Lumia devices apart from the recent flagship 930 and the ICON (929) due to what Gabe Aul, head of the Windows Insider program has stated as a 'scaling issue'
However after various server issues over the past couple of days including an unknown bug on why some users with 930's 1020's 1520's and a few other devices have been able to access Windows 8.1 Update 2 (GDR2) via the Insider app, most people have been able to download the preview onto their devices including myself.
This build also introduces a lot of new features which I will list and also various bugs which people should be aware off before downloading it if they are able to. I am generally fairly happy with the route MS are taking with this OS, some dislike certain unfinished UI changed but I myself am enjoying the new 'Wireframe' style. I will give more information below from WC.
Here are some quick thoughts from Daniel Rubino:
Originally posted by another user
- I would not use this on my main phone/daily driver. Grab a budget Lumia instead.
- The OS feels a bit smoother, but this is still very 'beta' software
- The OS is very different, yet the same. It can be a bit jarring.
- Windows 10 for phone has a ton of potential and you can see it here, but there is much work left to be done
- Using this build, you very much feel like what it is to be an alpha or beta tester: You get what you wished for, which is good and bad
- Lots of hamburger menus, but they are not all bad on a smaller display
- Project Spartan is interesting, but it is still very rough to use
- Outlook Email looks great although the icons without labels can be confusing
I agree with all points here after using the preview for a couple of days, I have installed this on my daily driver as it is the only Windows Phone I have, which is the Nokia Lumia 1020. I have noticed various bugs including; broken camera app (I use Lumia Camera anyway), Odd ASCII characters in some places, scaling issues, freezing and I have to reset on first install due to photos app and all photos functionality crashing so there are still rough edges, however the experience of the new apps overcomes this.
Here are the highlighted main changes:
Originally posted by another user
- Project Spartan: An early version of Project Spartan is available in this flight. It uses our new rendering engine to give greater interoperability with the modern mobile web, and includes early versions of Reading View and Reading List. For now, Project Spartan is not the default browser, and exists side-by-side with IE11. You can find it in the All Apps list and pin it to your Start Screen from there. Please send feedback on sites and design.
- New mail and calendar apps: Outlook Mail and Outlook Calendar are the new built-in mail and calendar universal apps for Windows 10. These new apps bring a fresh UI, with a toggle to freely move between your email and calendar without returning to the Start screen. Outlook Mail includes customizable Swipe Gestures, letting you swipe right or left to take actions like delete, flag, move or mark as read/unread. Also check out the new email authoring experience. Outlook Mail leverages the familiar capabilities of Word to create a richer email experience. You can do formatting tricks like inserting tables, adding pictures and using bullets and text. Outlook Mail and Outlook Calendar connects to Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Google Calendar, Yahoo!, IMAP, POP and other popular accounts. Please note that to add or remove accounts in Outlook Mail and Outlook Calendar, you do so within these apps. The Email + accounts page has been removed from the Settings app.
- New Phone and Messaging apps: You'll see our new Phone and Messaging apps in this build. Give them a try and let us know what you think. The Messaging app has a new visual design. You can also easily upgrade from a messaging conversation to a voice call with one click of the phone icon in the new app bar. Note: If you are updating a phone from Build 9941 – please see below for a known issue regarding MMS that will require you to go use the Windows Phone Recovery Tool to roll back to Windows Phone 8.1 first and upgrade to this build in order to have MMS working on your phone.
- New People app: The new universal People app has a new visual design but will continue to be the comprehensive list of all your contacts across the services you care about such as Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Facebook, etc. You'll be able to easily manage all your contacts and quickly connect with them.
- New Maps app: The first preview of our new universal Maps app on phone is now available. Maps offers you the features and tools you need to explore and navigate the world. This includes the best maps, aerial imagery, rich local search data, and voice guided navigation experiences from both Bing Maps and HERE maps, integrated together for the first time into a single app for Windows.
- Updated App Switcher: Check out the updated app switcher by pressing and holding the back button on your phone to see your recently used apps. We've added support for landscape when invoked from an app being viewed in landscape. For large phones like the Lumia 1520, we've introduced a new grid layout so you can be more efficient at switching between apps. And we've extended the length of recently used apps to 15.
Here are some issues MS have fixed in this build:
Originally posted by another user
- We've updated the keyboard layout based on your feedback. The keyboard layout now has period, comma and emoji keys on first page of keyboard. Language switching is enabled by press-and-hold on the &123 key. There is also an option to replace the emoji key with the language switching key.
- We've fixed the Cortana icon resolution so it now scales with tile size.
- We've fixed the issue where the Photos app would fail to launch periodically when attempting to add a photo attachment to an email, OneNote or Facebook item.
- We've fixed the issue where the Microsoft Band wouldn't sync with your phone after upgrading to Windows 10.
- The Photos app's tile will now pick up the phone's theme color before it's launched and then start showing pictures from your collection including OneDrive in the Live tile.
Here are the main known issues listed by MS, I would like to point out the significance of not being able to open any Office files, that is quite a hit but MS will be releasing the new universal individual apps soon so this will not be the case for long:
Originally posted by another user
- There might be situations in which auto-upload of your Camera Roll to OneDrive may not be working. Please be sure to back up your photos especially if you need to use the Windows Phone Recovery Tool to go back to Windows Phone 8.1.
- The Office Hub has been removed from this build. You won't be able to open Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote files in this build. Preview versions of the Universal Office apps will be available in the coming weeks.
- We are redoing how text messages are handled and processed by Cortana so in this build text messages cannot be read out over Bluetooth.
- After upgrade, some apps that have been installed onto a SD memory card will fail to launch. To fix this, uninstall and reinstall the apps.
- About 1% of the time, incoming phone calls may not play a ringing sound.
- Call + SMS filtering will not work after upgrade.
- For people upgrading their phone from Build 9941, there is a bug in which your phone's MMS settings will be lost after upgrade. The new Messaging app doesn't yet have the ability to re-enter these settings. You will need to use the Windows Phone Recovery Tool to go back to Windows Phone 8.1 and then upgrade to this build to get MMS working again.
- Also for people upgrading their phone from Build 9941, the tiles on your Start screen for the Camera and Photos apps may be missing or corrupt. You will have to unpin any corrupt tiles and re-pin the apps to your Start screen.
- On some phones, due to a scaling bug the dismiss button won't be visible when an alarm is triggered. To stop your phone from "alarming "just touch the arrow and swipe up on the notification and off the screen to end the alarm.
- On phones with 512MB of memory, apps can randomly crash due to an issue with memory management.
- Flight mode cannot be enabled.
- Data connections can't be disabled.
- You may need to re-pin the Phone app after upgrade.
- The Insider Hub is now included on Phone but may fail to launch on some phones.
That is quite a list of issues and some are rather major but now MS have released this to many more phones they should be working a lot more on stability and improvements with the help of all the new feedback.
And finally here is a rundown video from Windows Central's Daniel Rubino:
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I gave my views outside the quotations 
04-12-2015, 09:25 PM
#13
Geo
Don't Believe The Title
Originally posted by Reyz
Im definitely buying this phone :p
A lot of decent features but a fair few apps missing, although some good 3rd party ones to fill the gap, personal preference. SnapChat recently removed all third party apps due to a security risk. It is very open though, I am going to see what I can do with it going through college, as well as modding wise.
:madsal::laim:[/move]
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