How to get the Preview:
Video Instructions:
Credits: Winbeta.org
Who should try it?
If you’re a Windows Phone customer and love to try the latest stuff before anyone else, or a Developer or IT Pro who works with Windows Phones, joining the Windows Insider program and trying out this build may be right for you. You’ll be getting an insider’s view and getting builds that normally would have only been available to Microsoft engineers in the past.
What’s included
There’s a lot to love about this build, including familiar features and small improvements, as well as some great new capabilities. Take a look at some of the highlights for this first preview build:
Known issues
This is still an early build and while there are many things that work great, there are also known bugs and things that just don’t work quite right yet. Remember that you’re seeing a work in progress, and a huge goal of the Windows Insider program is to work with a large community of people to provide feedback. Here are the big issues that we think you should know about for this build. In most cases a fix is coming in a future build, but a few have workarounds you can try in the meantime.
For this first preview build these are the devices currently supported:
How to get started
Instructions on how to join the Windows Insider program and get your phone set up are available on the Windows Insider website at http://insider.windows.com. As with this post, I recommend that you read the instructions carefully so you can upgrade easily and comfortably.
Share your feedback!
Once you’re up and running, use the Feedback app to send us reports on any problems you hit as well as suggestions for things that you think we should add or change. If you’re using Windows 10 on your PC this app will look super familiar to you, since as a Universal App it’s the exact same code you’ve been using already.
You can launch the app from the tile, but the easiest way to access it is simply to press and release the power + volume down buttons to launch it from anywhere.
The Windows Insider Community forum at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider is a great way to connect with others, get tips and advice, and help solving problems.
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwi...of-windows-10-technical-preview-for-phones-2/
- Join the Windows Insider Program
- Download and install the Windows Insider App: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/windows-insider/ed2b1421-6414-4544-bd8d-06d58ee402a5
- Once you install the app on your phone, go to Settings > Phone Updates and check for updates.
- Builds will come to you automatically as they are ready, after being validated by engineers at Microsoft and used on their own phones
- Use the built-in Windows Feedback app to send us problem reports and suggestions
- Updates will continue all the way up to the final build that goes out to all customers
- You can roll your phone back to the previous OS any time you’d like
Video Instructions:
Who should try it?
If you’re a Windows Phone customer and love to try the latest stuff before anyone else, or a Developer or IT Pro who works with Windows Phones, joining the Windows Insider program and trying out this build may be right for you. You’ll be getting an insider’s view and getting builds that normally would have only been available to Microsoft engineers in the past.
What’s included
There’s a lot to love about this build, including familiar features and small improvements, as well as some great new capabilities. Take a look at some of the highlights for this first preview build:
- Full-size Background Image for Start: We believe phones should be intensely personal – so we’ve added another option to customize the start screen with a full-size background image.
- More Quick Actions in Action Center: We’ve increased the number of quick actions available to you. Windows Phone 8.1 has four programmable quick actions – but with Windows 10 you also get an expanded view that can now have up to three rows.
- Interactive Notifications: Notifications are now interactive, allowing you to take action directly like dismissing an alarm, or seeing images for maps. For example, for text messages, when the toast pops, you can quickly reply inline via text or voice.
- Significantly enhanced speech-to-text capability: You can talk to virtually any data field you choose. Your words show up as you speak them – and punctuation appears automatically. This feature is smart enough to understand when to use ‘two’ – the number — instead of ‘too’ as in ‘also’.
- More powerful Photos app: From your very first launch, Photos will show the aggregated set of all your local photos and all your OneDrive photos
Known issues
This is still an early build and while there are many things that work great, there are also known bugs and things that just don’t work quite right yet. Remember that you’re seeing a work in progress, and a huge goal of the Windows Insider program is to work with a large community of people to provide feedback. Here are the big issues that we think you should know about for this build. In most cases a fix is coming in a future build, but a few have workarounds you can try in the meantime.
| Issue | Workaround |
| Existing alarms will not be migrated to Windows 10 | Reset alarms after upgrade |
| Wi-Fi settings don’t roam when phone is upgraded to Windows 10 | Manually set Wi-Fi settings when on Windows 10 |
| VPN not available in current Windows 10 builds. Setting will fail to launch. Coming in a future update | - |
| Additional language keyboards may not be present and may not be able to install on US builds after upgrading to Windows 10 | Reopen the Windows Insider app and re-select Insider Fast/Slow again. The download of keyboard packages will then work |
| Photos app will fail to launch periodically when attempting to add a photo attachment to an email, OneNote or Facebook item. | Try again. Succeeds after a few attempts. |
| Quiet Hours is missing the automatic rule that enables Quiet hours during calendar appointments marked busy. Also the setting “Anyone breaks through if they call 2 times in 3 minutes” us unchecked but enabled. | - |
| Apps are not displayed in Battery saver after the upgrade. | - |
| Access Point Names (APNs) in recovery images can fall out of date. For some phones/networks, this will block the cellular data and MMS capabilities of a phone when recovering back to the base image. | Before using the Windows Mobile Recovery Tool to recover, record the specific APN settings on your phone. Set manually once phone restored |
| Cellular data not working while roaming, despite enabling data roaming | The setting doesn’t work the first time it’s enabled. Turning off and then turning on again will enable data while roaming |
| Using a Bluetooth headset while playing back video results in low frame rate for video, due to a bug in the interaction between video playback and Bluetooth. | Use wired headset for listening to audio when playing videos. |
| Sync to Microsoft Band doesn’t work after updating to Windows 10. If you have your phone synced to Microsoft band, it will not pair after the update to Windows 10. | After upgrade to Windows 10, go to Bluetooth settings, un-pair the Microsoft Band device and re-pair it. |
| DataSense resets data use history on upgrade to Windows 10. | No workaround. Will calculate correctly after the reset. |
| Trying to set lock screen picture will fail at times | Re-attempt the operation. |
| After upgrade, tapping on “Playlist” from start screen or from within Music App fails to play music. Playlists are greyed out. | - |
| Cortana tile and settings are missing on the start screen after upgrade | Go to app list and re-pin the tile |
For this first preview build these are the devices currently supported:
| Lumia 630 | Lumia 638 |
| Lumia 635 | Lumia 730 |
| Lumia 636 | Lumia 830 |
How to get started
Instructions on how to join the Windows Insider program and get your phone set up are available on the Windows Insider website at http://insider.windows.com. As with this post, I recommend that you read the instructions carefully so you can upgrade easily and comfortably.
Share your feedback!
Once you’re up and running, use the Feedback app to send us reports on any problems you hit as well as suggestions for things that you think we should add or change. If you’re using Windows 10 on your PC this app will look super familiar to you, since as a Universal App it’s the exact same code you’ve been using already.
You can launch the app from the tile, but the easiest way to access it is simply to press and release the power + volume down buttons to launch it from anywhere.
The Windows Insider Community forum at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider is a great way to connect with others, get tips and advice, and help solving problems.
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwi...of-windows-10-technical-preview-for-phones-2/
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