Known Issues - Empyreal96/W10M-16212-Guides GitHub Wiki

Known Issues

This page will be update as issues are found.

General

  • CShell sometime hangs
  • Many apps may crash due to Multiple reasons. (Newer Interop Tools, MS Store and others)
  • Phone may take a while to unlock after a long sleep/screen off time
  • Bluetooth "Pair device popup" and similar popups don't show
  • Developer Mode can't be enabled through Settings App
  • Unable to find a working MS Store, Use W10M Group App Instead
  • Performance varies on device/soc
  • Bugs in transparency/acrylic effects
  • Cannot set wallpaper
  • Action Center Toggles are sometimes 'greyed out'
  • Navigation Bar cannot be removed. Physical navigation keys don't work.
  • Some users are unable to unhide the Navigation Bar after swiping down for hiding the Bar.
  • Some apps will show 2 Icons on the Start menu.
  • If you get "Boot configuration data store could not be opened" when modifying the BCD, make sure to boot the phone normally into W10M and shut down safely a few times, then boot straight to mass storage mode from boot. (not triggering reboot to mass storage while phone is booted)
  • Dual SIM phones have issues calling and messaging from second sim.

Hard Resetting

There are more issues than benefits with doing a Hard Reset, here I will list the issues.

  • Unable to re-enable Developer Mode features (Sideloading, Device Portal, Debugging) as no access to Mass Storage.
  • In most cases, Developer Menu does NOT Persist on a Hard Reset.
  • Action Center toggles will totally disappear. (See FAQ for how to restore the toggles)
  • Wallpaper gets unset, and cannot be changed.

Continuum Mode

  • If you connect to continnum and also keep using phone, the continuum start menu will be extremely buggy, and the phone start will also be glitch. (Restarting is the only solution)
  • If you start to open more than 5/6 apps in Continuum, there is a high chance it will crash and reboot the continuum session loosing all work/progress.
  • Resizing Windows are possible but resizing indicator which is shown when moving the cursor to corners of app container isn't shown.
  • Microsoft office apps were not resizable from some tests.
  • Setting a PIN and using Continuum can break apps opening when in Continuum mode.

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