My battery drain seems to be fine. But need a day usage to see if have difference

1) Phone UI is smooth now. The sudden lags seems to have been fixed.
2) Battery life better a bit, but then again I'm using back Cortana now. At least it's around 4 - 5 % drain per hour now, not the crazy 8% drain previously.
3) Fixed my WiFi connection issue, this result may vary among ppl.
4) Games seems to be smoother also, but still not completely smooth like in WP8.0

Don't enable Cortana if you don't need it

Yes IE is much faster. Odd Adobe Reader works fine on my phone.

If you have any other alarm apps, you need to remove them. Seems they screwing up alarm setting.

I think he not using WP8.1? Weirdly even though u can set notification sounds to something else now inside Whatsapp, u can't select custom ringtones in there.

Weird, all my picture folders in my SD card shows up when I wanna share a pic in Whatsapp now. Even the 'Other Pictures' that doesn't exist shows up. Haha!

Honestly this update is really good, it's way more stable, now can easily load those long msg history without crashing.

Phone updates are tied to your phone product code, not region settings in your phone. So yes, changing region does nothing to help.

Soft reset? U mean u hold Volume Down + Power for 8 secs? That always mess up date & time, ever since WP8.0. Nothing new ah.

Latest update seems to have solved all my battery issues. Phone back to normal like WP8.0 power drain.

Very interesting on your time & date still the same after a soft reset...

Perhaps it has something to do with which firmware your phone came originally. Just a theory lah haha no real idea why yours so nice is like that. I know time & date getting reset is normal since it's part of the troubleshooting FAQ that you adjust back time to correct date & time after doing a soft reset.

Yap this is my experience also.

You can use Nokia Camera app as well, but the beta have a little extra stuff. Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, the pic you see in photos or any app that can load the camera roll will always show just the 5MP version. The only time you're given the 16MP/19MP one is when you do a 'Reframe' with Nokia Camera app.

I was using Chronos Calendar for quite some time until I started using WP8.1. Now I'm using the stock calendar app in WP8.1 since it's actually pretty good now. Chronos Calendar is a paid app but it has gone free a couple of times, I got it when it was free.

Nope, not since I was using WP8.1 Dev Preview.

Wait for them to update.

Nope, it applies to ALL phones using Dev Preview. So either wait more or downgrade to WP8.0. This leaves a bad taste in my mouth.....

That's Update 1, it doesn't include Lumia Cyan update. So we still don't get improvements in camera for eg.

Lumia Cyan includes additional firmware drivers & updates that Nokia/Microsoft Devices put in on top of WP8.1. It needs testing hence the delay.

They already mentioned Xiao Na is specially tailored for China only.

Anyway, I LOVE the Live Folders! The fact that Live Tiles still update inside the folder, then u can arrange it any way u like inside the folder as well. Then if u use the medium or wide tile for the folder, it dynamically cycles to show u latest live tile update inside the folder. Wow mind blown!!! Sorry iOS & Android, your folders r freaking boring! Hahahaha!

Yeap, any app that shows up in the list can be moved. Nokia Camera is an app too hehe. Anyway, putting apps on SD Card might mean launching your app have delay if your SD Card read speed is not fast enough. I've been moving apps to & from SD Card when needed with Storage Sense. Like when I need more space in SD card for video recording in a hurry.

How long update takes doesn't really mean much in my opinion. For me, I have no idea how long it took since I started the install process right b4 I went to sleep around 1am then checked on it at 6am. As long as the new features show up then you're good

After trying this for few days I can confirm this DOES fix it. So yes don't put the phone in your front pocket faced down. If you do put your phone that way like me, when you have phantom clicks, just lock the phone & press lightly on both ends of the display. At least now I realise why most of the time I don't get the phantom clicks as I leave my phone facing up on table most of the time.

Yes this is correct, it's the new WP8.1 standard for Photo Hub, People Hub & Store Hub, in case you didn't notice Store also changed to that.

Yeah a lot of ppl complained bout it. It's not really Lumia UI, it's the Metro Landscape Panorama view that lost the background pic function. Lets see if we can complain loud enough to make MS put it back.

I've been using the Nokia Wireless charging stand since I got my L1520 in Dec 2013 & can honestly say I don't see any battery degrading issues with leaving my phone on the wireless charger from the time I sleep to time I wake up. So your worries of overcharging the battery are misplaced. Yes phones older than 2 years all have this overcharging will kill battery issue. Heck I think even current low & medium end phones still might suffer from it. But probably not the high end phones which from feedback seems to have the proper circuitry to stop charging when battery is full.

Haha I don't think that easy to crack the screen lah. Also, you are supposed to only push the top & bottom of the screens lightly only. Not use lots of force