Is all well with Live Tiles on Windows Phone 7.8?

With the Windows Telephone 7.eight update finally starting to find its way on board user's devices, bringing with information technology the cosmetic upgrades of Windows Telephone 8, hither at Windows Phone Central our readers are noticing that not all is well for their newly-sized live tiles.

Users over in our forums take spotted that since the seven.8 update, their live tiles (those updated by background tasks at least) practice not seem to exist refreshing correctly.

A lot of times these issues are device specific, simply in this instance we're non convinced. I recently had a conversation with Lawrence Gripper (developer of BBC News Mobile) after he got in impact to ask if we had been receiving an abnormal number of support requests since 7.8, we have. Just like the reviews you'll see for BBC News Mobile, several users take been in impact complaining that their tile seems to have ceased updating now that they accept installed the new OS update.

The Details

Now, I'm not certain of the exact problem here, but based on the limited testing I've been able to accomplish I'k not convinced that the tasks aren't running (they appear to be). The issue instead may exist to do with the vanquish not updating the tile.

In conversations with our users then far many have reported that their live tiles do update correctly when full sized merely will not when the tile is the new smaller sized. Unfortunately this is not entirely consistent so we cannot say for certain that making your tile full sized will bring back updates.

In what may be an entirely unrelated coincidence I have experienced bug with the Windows Telephone 8 operating system not refreshing tiles until the tile was manipulated in the shell (or in simple English: resized), so if you'd like to help us smash down this problem, try resizing your tiles if they're not refreshing properly.

This particular bug can be stock-still by the developer, so if you lot're a boyfriend app dev then I can tell you it appears to go away if yous switch to entirely locally generated tiles rather than retrieving your tile images over the internet, and ensure you don't use the same image twice for the front and back of whatsoever tile.

The other adept news I take been able to confirm is that when an app switches to generating tiles specifically for Windows Phone 7.eight using the reflection method detailed by Microsoft here, again the trouble appears to get away.

However, every bit you might have guessed if you're reading this far I have not deduced the exact behaviour here (mostly cheers to non yet having 7.viii on my Lumia 800). Patently something is wrong, some people have fixed it by resizing their tiles, some past re-installing affected apps.

Speak up!

And so, here's where nosotros plough to you lot readers, have your tiles stopped updating? Is it affecting some apps and not others? Do yous have whatever success stories to share with the customs? Please get in touch either in our comments, via the original forum thread here or take our poll below (you lot tin can use the m.wpcentral.com site to vote mobile).

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