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The earliest of early adopters have now been using Windows Phone 8 for almost three weeks — and it seems that there may be a few teething problems. In particular, some users are reporting infuriating random reboots and some battery life issues.
The Verge has stumbled across a stack of forum posts over at WPCentral about the HTC 8X randomly rebooting while in use. The same problem is also being discussed over on Microsoft’s own support forums. Elsewhere, owners of Nokia’s Lumia 920 are complaining about the same issue, as well as griping about poor battery life.
Of course, all of these reports are anecdotal, and it’s not clear how widespread the issues are, so we’re handing over to you. Are you having problems with you shiny new Windows phone? [Verge]
WP8, android phones, why can’t most companies prevent their phones from turning off and on again? Is it a preventative measure in a kernel crash? Are they simply following the IT crowd’s advice? (http://www.uvm.edu/asptech/the_it_crowd_x_stitch_by_shellfx-d2yb4dm.jpg)
This is purely anecdotal of course but the only smartphones that I have never seen randomly reboot are (unjailbroken) iPhones, and WebOS phones….
I think you need to Google the following:
iphone rebooting randomly
There’s 2,910,000 results, enjoy
Google:
chickens rebooting randomly
Returned 25,600,000. Proof indeed. Useless chickens always crashing.
Relevant
http://www.failfunnies.com/4/images/shipment-of-chicken-fail.jpg
Put that in quotes. Only one result. Your post.
Well, yes, chickens don’t actually reboot at all. I think you’ve missed the point.
Also, “iphone rebooting randomly” only produces 10 results.
Here you go:
android rebooting randomly: 3,580,000 matches
linux rebooting randomly: 5,120,000 matches
penis rebooting randomly: 8,100,000 matches
One more:
random randomed randomly: 1,500,000,000 matches
As I’m sure practically every comment below you points out, google ≠ truth in results.
As I said, I provide anecdotal evidence, from stock phones, and looking at google will also give you jailbroken phones.
I don’t know a single person with an android phone below Jelly Bean (no data so far on Jelly Bean) that hasn’t experienced a random reboot. I have had an iPhone since the 3GS and use it every day and have NEVER experienced a reboot.
Anecdotal once again, but I don’t see why it’s such a prevalent occurrence (I hesitate to say issue) on other platforms.
my 3gs crashed all the time, thats why i moved to android with a dell streak which crashed all the time so i moved to wp7 that never crashed.
i guess each OS is different for each user.
Crash ≠ random (system initiated) reboot.
Had my 920 since the 5th and it’s been rock solid, not a single random reboot or system crash. Battery life is really good too. Very impressed with it so far!
Same here… My Win7 phone had the odd tantrum during music playback/multitasking but no such problems with the 920…
No, but my Windows 8 PC does if that’s any help.
I’ve been having a lot of problems with my Nvidia graphics driver crashing. Don’t know if u have a Nvidia GFX / Mobo though.
I have had my phone for 4 days now and i have had to reboot it 4 times.
This is 4 more times than i have had to reboot my lumia 800, however i have narrowed the problem down to words with friends and draw something. I don’t know what Zygna have done but sometimes the full phone crashes when in these 2 apps only and i have to force a reboot (hold the volume down, power and camera button for 10 seconds for anyone who didnt know).
However without that i havent had any problems and really love the phone, the weight issue is non existant i just wished i could of got it in blue rather than black!
On battery life, i have been using it quite heavily and towards the end of the day it was getting pretty low, however i have disabled NFC now and last night i had 42% of battery left after around 14 hours even though the phone predicted only 9 hours when i woke up.
The phone predicts how long the battery will last? That sounds like a neat feature assuming it’s accurate (or errs on the side of caution)
Yea so you can change the brightness of the screen or turn off wifi etc and it updates the life expectancy, its never 100% accurate as checking the life expectancy and then watching 3 hours of videos is going to ruin the guess.
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=135DFE4AF7BF4FC8!319&authkey=!ALq4gylICgt43ms
i shall test in 7 hours and see how it fairs! i’m guessing that means standby time though.
No issues here with my Lumia 920.
I have to wait until 05/12 until it becomes my de facto primary handset to properly assess battery life under heavy use but if it’s not as good as expected it’ll be the perfect excuse to splurge on a Fatboy pillow or two…
What you and Harry do in your private life is no concern of mine
My Lumia 920 showed pretty bad battery life initially, but it seems to have got a lot better in the last day or two as I’ve refined the settings. I had wondered if it just needed a full discharge/recharge cycle to calibrate itself.
Blocking apps that you don’t need running in background (Nokia Drive, for example) and turning off NFC (‘Tap and Send’ in settings) also seemed to help a fair bit.
No reboots, but I have had apps become unresponsive, and been forced to reboot the phone to clear them (because there’s no way to force close an individual app).
My Nokia 820 hasn’t had an issue yet! Although part of the reason i chose it over the htc 8X is i tried 2 separate htc phones in store, both crashed in minutes!