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Xbox One June Preview Update - My Real Name is External Storage

Tazo

Member
I've clicked no barriers, is that all I have to do?

I haven't installed the update yet actually, try a hard reset and it should be okay.

If anyone still wants to be in Xbox Early Access (preview program) simply follow/friend t4z0 and I'll add you back to invite you in. You'll get a message from Xbox Live in a day or so with a download code for the registration app.
 

def sim

Member
They may have finally fixed the cracking noise with the headphone/set adapter. It's possible it may come back as it did with the last fix, but so far so good.
 
The store page is better, but I think they've wasted an incredible amount of space with the very big tile, they need to be getting more games showcased on the front of the store. It doesn't need to have like 12 little tiles or whatever but they could do better than 4.

Next up they need to redo inside the store so its not such a terrible mess but i'll give them a few more months to do that.

Wants for the next few months:

  • Themes
  • Screenshot feature
  • Battery indicator popup on screen when its getting low
  • Move the twitch broadcasting tag when you've not got it snapped
  • When you press the snap button, it shouldn't snap it then ask you what to snap, it needs to come up with a (customisable!) grid of all the apps you've got that can be snapped and let you choose like that - will be easier for people without Kinect too
  • Get Xbox.com up to standard: profiles showing XB1 achievements, full web store where you can use your credit, buy DLC etc and view your GameDVR clips
I wonder if they can do something with the guide button to start recording GameDVR too? Might be a bit difficult but perhaps they can get it working.

I do like that they've not got out almost every feature they talked about last year? Twitch broadcasting, external hard drives... what else is there? Hopefully from here we should be getting some nice new features and tweaks to the UI etc
 

def sim

Member
Superficial thing:

I'd like for them to stop heavily compressing art assets for games, pins, and whatever else items they have in store. It's not a good look to see artifacts on a good number of these pictures. They pride themselves in their software and OS, the least they could do is make it look nice relative to their competition.
 

statham

Member
The store page is better, but I think they've wasted an incredible amount of space with the very big tile, they need to be getting more games showcased on the front of the store. It doesn't need to have like 12 little tiles or whatever but they could do better than 4.

Next up they need to redo inside the store so its not such a terrible mess but i'll give them a few more months to do that.

Wants for the next few months:

  • Themes
  • Screenshot feature
  • Battery indicator popup on screen when its getting low
  • Move the twitch broadcasting tag when you've not got it snapped
  • When you press the snap button, it shouldn't snap it then ask you what to snap, it needs to come up with a (customisable!) grid of all the apps you've got that can be snapped and let you choose like that - will be easier for people without Kinect too
  • Get Xbox.com up to standard: profiles showing XB1 achievements, full web store where you can use your credit, buy DLC etc and view your GameDVR clips
I wonder if they can do something with the guide button to start recording GameDVR too? Might be a bit difficult but perhaps they can get it working.

I do like that they've not got out almost every feature they talked about last year? Twitch broadcasting, external hard drives... what else is there? Hopefully from here we should be getting some nice new features and tweaks to the UI etc

agree with all of this, exp the battery.
Rushing to change my battery in the middle of a TF, PvsZ battle sucks. I've started to change my battery every 3 days, if they need it or not.
 

RoKKeR

Member
Got the update, can't wait for my friends to get their real names too. Still sort of iffy about the new store page but if it promotes new content and doesn't skip into like McDonald's advertisements then it's fine.

Also can't get auto sign in to work...says "couldn't sign in ________" when I turn it on. Anybody else having this problem?
 

Ape

Banned
So with the real name thing I can just make my name whatever I want, right? So it can basically be a new Gamertag that has already been taken if you use it right.
 
Auto sign in is completely broken for me ....

Well, it is a beta! I'm sure it'll be fixed soon. Also try a hard reset.

Also can't get auto sign in to work...says "couldn't sign in ________" when I turn it on. Anybody else having this problem?

The below post on the previous page helped me fixed the sign in issues, its now working perfectly for me. Ive covered up the camera and when I signed in it now comes up with the "HI STEVE <big gamer picture>" and it just signs me in. Perfect!

Auto sign in didn't work for me until I went into "Sign-in, security & Passkey" and changed the setting to "No barriers." Crappy thing is I no longer see that cool start up animation with my gamerpic.

Downloaded the smartglass beta on Windows 8 too which is very good, really like it. Its all coming together very nicely
 

def sim

Member
So with the real name thing I can just make my name whatever I want, right? So it can basically be a new Gamertag that has already been taken if you use it right.

Yeah, totally. That's how some of the people on my PSN friends list used the real name feature as well.

It's kind of a bummer when someone sends a real name request and you get "SniperElite420" or whatever while you give them your real name, though.
 

m23

Member
The below post on the previous page helped me fixed the sign in issues, its now working perfectly for me. Ive covered up the camera and when I signed in it now comes up with the "HI STEVE <big gamer picture>" and it just signs me in. Perfect!

You still get that boot up message? I haven't seen it ever since I enabled auto sign in. Maybe the console is even faster at booting up than before since Kinect doesn't need to look for someone. Also my TV might be too slow at turning on.
 
So with the real name thing I can just make my name whatever I want, right? So it can basically be a new Gamertag that has already been taken if you use it right.

If it's anything like the PS4, your real name is tied to your Facebook account. So I guess you could just make a fake one with whatever name you like.
 

def sim

Member
If it's anything like the PS4, your real name is tied to your Facebook account. So I guess you could just make a fake one with whatever name you like.

Your real name isn't solely tied to your Facebook account on either console. The option is there for the PS4, but you can write your own.

You still get that boot up message? I haven't seen it ever since I enabled auto sign in. Maybe the console is even faster at booting up than before since Kinect doesn't need to look for someone. Also my TV might be too slow at turning on.

Boot from stand by is much faster with auto sign in, definitely.
 

Special C

Member
Auto sign in is nice, since Kinect does not recognize me in my glasses (unless I redo recognition in which it no longer recognizes me in my contacts)
 
You still get that boot up message? I haven't seen it ever since I enabled auto sign in. Maybe the console is even faster at booting up than before since Kinect doesn't need to look for someone. Also my TV might be too slow at turning on.

Yup, I was sort of disappointed when I saw your post that it didn't have the message but then when I tried it, it worked so I was happy
 

MaulerX

Member
If it's anything like the PS4, your real name is tied to your Facebook account. So I guess you could just make a fake one with whatever name you like.


I think it's tied to your Microsoft account. Even before the update, when I logged in it always said "Hi Real Name!".
 

njean777

Member
Question for people in the beta: I have a 2TB External that has two partitions on it. Both are set to 1TB, I was wondering if it will ask me to reformat one of them and leave the other alone. I use one for my macbook air and school files, and the other is for an old windows partition that I no longer use. Will it let me reformat the windows one and use that or will I have to reformat the whole drive?
 

The Flash

Banned
Question for people in the beta: I have a 2TB External that has two partitions on it. Both are set to 1TB, I was wondering if it will ask me to reformat one of them and leave the other alone. I use one for my macbook air and school files, and the other is for an old windows partition that I no longer use. Will it let me reformat the windows one and use that or will I have to reformat the whole drive?

It'll reformat the whole thing
 

RoKKeR

Member
Something I've noticed, the achievement popup is much, MUCH faster now. Before if you didn't click on it it would stay up for at least 15-20 seconds, now it pops and disappears within 5 seconds, which is just right.

And that action of switching to Achievements from the game and then back has gotten so much quicker in the past few months.
 
Something I've noticed, the achievement popup is much, MUCH faster now. Before if you didn't click on it it would stay up for at least 15-20 seconds, now it pops and disappears within 5 seconds, which is just right.

I wish they applied that to the "Game has been found" notification too.
 

Majine

Banned
Here are some ideas for Snap mode.

- Default should be that if you snap from within a game, you keep the control of the game, and in an app it switches controls to the snap window.
- Make snap apps context sensitive. For example, snapping achievements when playing a game will bring up the achievements for that particular game first and foremost.
 

U2NUMB

Member
Updating as we speak... have a fresh 3TB drive waiting to pop its cherry.

EDIT: Setting up the hard drive was super slick.. transfering games now. BF4 looks to be taking 7-8 min to move 45gigs or so. So happy for this update... I was full and deleting games just for space.
 

VE3TRO

Formerly Gizmowned

Ade

Member
From where? Or did you register for a beta test?

You have to be part of the Early Access Preview.

Existing members can invite people, usually takes a couple of days, but Im not sure if they've currently frozen the recruitment process.
 

RonanN1

Banned
Oh, I understand now. Thank you :)

Well I guess I'm gonna request one invite :) (if this is still working) if not I'll just wait for the normal update ^_^

GT: RonanN1
 

Ade

Member
Just put on Wolfenstein and have it pop up with "Who are you"... I assume this will be fixed in the beta?

I've intermittently had this since launch with almost every game.

I assumed it was some kind of "Kinect can see a person with the pad, but we don't think its you" kind of thing.
 

Lima

Member
Ok guys I've been looking around and decided to get both of these for the storage.

External Casing
http://www.ebuyer.com/554553-starte...rnal-sata-iii-hard-drive-enclosure-s3510bmu33

SSHD
http://www.ebuyer.com/583697-seagate-desktop-4tb-sshd-st4000dx001

Now I read somewhere that with the SSHD you can get different versions with more Cache. This one has 8GB but read you can get the same at 16, 32 and 64GB.

Anyone know if this is true because I haven't found any shops that sell them.

Nope 8Gb is the max at the moment for SSHD's.
 
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