Category: Windows Insiders

Installing Windows 10 insider on Lumia 630 Dual

I decided since the Windows 10 update was rolling in “waves” that I want to try Windows 10 early on my Nokia Lumia. I installed Windows Insider on the phone and choose the fast ring.

As soon I did so there was a Lumia Cyan update installed. And after the usual steps I began to install the insider build 166 (was out on July 13th 2015)

I left it installing because the download took a long time, after it finally downloaded and installed many things stopped working! I was given some error codes but doing some research did me nothing! (CV: irVVS0fyS0ifo9wW
0x80072f05)



    Office was gone!

    OneNote stopped working!

    All the updates that were pending stopped working as well.

    There were some nice improvements. I can’t deny! The already great typing experience has become even easier with the added cursor and several UI improvements that made it consistent with the desktop version.

    I had to install the 512 build that came out on the 12th/08/2015.

    After a while the 512 build finished installing. It looks good so far. Office is broken down to three apps: Word preview, Excel preview and Powerpoint preview. (Which needed to be purchased then installed from the store).
    The store worked fine after the upgrade, and the errors aren’t displayed anymore!

    The phone became slower and hotter. So a reset was due. It worked better. But the office applications requires an office 365 license to work. And Onenote became so hard to manage! (I needed to scroll so much to get to anything).
    The phone lags a little bit and Cortana became less responsive. So I decided to rollback to 8.1
    As confirmed by Microsoft upgrade adviser, Windows 10 won’t be available for Lumia 630 / 630 Dual. So this is the only way to get Windows 10 on your Lumia phone.

    Tech news digest July 2015 (Firefox focus mode and flash zero day vulnerabilities).

    Hey guys. This is what’s been going on the last few days, since it was too much to catch up I decided to make a digest of news.
                                       


    • Firefox’s latest update added the “Enter view mode” which is great to eliminate all the distractions and focus on reading without all the pop-ups and ads!
    • If you noticed that flash doesn’t work on your browser anymore, that’s because of the “Zero-Day Vulnerabilities” discovered on Windows Explorer. Which might explain why I got a ton of security updates for it although I never use it!
    •  Windows has finally chosen the build for the release with a clever name 10240 for the slow and fast ring. {Source}
    • Microsoft suspends Windows 10 Insider updates in preparation for RTM {Source}

    How did you like the tech news segment? Is it a keeper?