Microsoft launches wobbly Windows 10 phone preview for Lumia daredevils only

it's not the amount of storage that is the problem it's how the storage is partitioned. The cheaper Lumias have SD card support so they are given more generous OS partitions. The more expensive Lumias have larger internal storage but no SD card support so the OS partitions are smaller to maximise the available flash space.

I think it's also possible these phones have been chosen because there are plenty out there so more targets for testing and they share a common CPU.

Mine has 2GB RAM and 26 from 32GB free... I don't see how 26GB is too little, if the 630 can do it in 8GB...

the 635 also has 512mb with 8gb, so can't be that. The only difference I know of between 630 and 635 is it's 4G

Less storage

Yes, there is a Lumia out there with less storage: the Lumia 530 only has 4GB. This was basically a chassis designed by Nokia to run either Android or Windows Phone. The savings don't appear to have been worth it - Microsoft are essentially replacing it with the Lumia 532, which has 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage for basically the same price. (The launch price of the 532 is actually lower than that of the 530.)

If you have the Windows Phone 8 or 8.1 emulators installed on your computer, you can actually see the problem by mounting the .vhdx file. The storage is divided into a number of disk partitions, with the OS partition being essentially immutable. This means a phone reset is easy, you just wipe the user partition, rather than having a backup copy of the OS as Windows 8 does on desktop, laptop or tablet. It sounds like it's impossible to resize the OS partition in a device update, in order to make more space, or at least not in just a Windows update. The talk of 'partition stitching' suggests that they might intend to spread the OS into more than one partition for WP8.x phones - of course the Windows NT volume manager driver has been able to do this since at least Windows 2000.

I wouldn't be surprised to see this partitioning behaviour go away for phones built for Windows 10. It's just added complexity. It doesn't look like Windows Phone supports the Compressed OS feature from Windows 8.1 yet, so there could still actually be a reduction in size from WP 8.1 to 10.

Re: No help for long suffering 1020 users then

I've had no problems with my 1020 with 8.1 and 8.1.1 (now also on Denim). That said, I've been in the developer programme for 8.1 until now and the process has worked well. It is a shame that we are being left out this time around.

Re: No help for long suffering 1020 users then

If you're talking about the bug where a 1020 freezes / locks up and needs a reset to come back to life. The fix for this is in "Denim", this is being rolled out at this very moment. Of course that depends on your carrier but if you're on O2 UK or a country variant it's available now.

Turn off preview for developers and check for updates, this will pull down the new Firmware and your 1020 should be back to normal. I got it yesterday and haven't had the problem since upgrading, I was having to reset the phone a couple of times a day before that

Re: hmm

Apple's 'magic touch' turned my gen 3 iPad into a tortoise with iOS8!