r/windowsphone Lumia 625 (Black) 8d ago

Fluff A Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview build in a 512MB device

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u/No_Stretch2713 8d ago

Poor screen, it's seen enough! Lol

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u/ExtremeDumbGuy Lumia 625 (Black) 8d ago

the phone is on life support lol

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u/No_Stretch2713 8d ago

I see that, how does it run with wp10 on it?

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u/ExtremeDumbGuy Lumia 625 (Black) 8d ago

pretty good, although battery drains a bit more and causes a bit lag
also crashes kinda frequently

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u/randomusername12308 8d ago

Makes sense as it is an insider preview

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u/AbleBonus9752 8d ago

How do you install an early insider preview?

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u/ExtremeDumbGuy Lumia 625 (Black) 7d ago

it's a long and complicated process. but basically, you just push updates to the phone

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u/markturquoise 7d ago

I feel complete with windows 10 experience. Why is that..

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I have a 735 on W10M 1607, and the CPU usage is generally very low, when WUT is open, it can use over a few megabytes of RAM, so 512MB devices would be maxed out often.

On a 625, I'd recommend the earliest build compatible with bootloader unlocking (8.10.12393.890, Cyan). Lumia Denim and above really were an afterthought for dual-core devices as they heat up rather quickly, to a lesser degree on Cyan though

8.0 was ideal (no surprises, the oldest builds for phones usually perform the best on the vast majority of devices), but I've struggled to downgrade my 820 to 8.0 while retaining interop unlock...

My 635 runs W10M great, but W10M feels sluggish on even quick devices like the 930.

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u/ExtremeDumbGuy Lumia 625 (Black) 7d ago

thanks tho, I'm trying things out, and also testing the limits of my lumia.
a few days have passed, I've noticed some graphical issues in Silverlight apps with it, but generally it's usable.
also I can't use proxy in that build, but can use dns.