I installed the latest firmware manually. I also have the Win 10 cumulative update. Now every time I run Windows update, it tries to install 7/23/15 hardware update, and fails. hmmm
Firmware updates slowly being rolled out???
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Ah, too bad. So you installed both the new surface 3 firmware dated Nov. 9th (Download Surface 3 Wi-Fi from Official Microsoft Download Center) and the cumulative Windows 10 update (Threshold 2 / the November update) and the problem still exists.
By the way, I just checked my update history and noticed that today it also installed an update dated 7/23/15 called system hardware update. Mine installed successfully.
mfgillia - when it installed the 7/23/15 system hardware update - didn't it install the older drivers (over those from Nov. 9th) again?
Btw. I didn't install the Nov. 9th firmware yet and yesterday I noticed the 7/23/15 hardware update also failed... Moreover I tried to install the Win10 update, and it failed as well (it got stuck at 40% of the system update (23% of installing new files) - I let it run overnight, but nothing changed so I had to do hard restart... I will try again today)
Btw. I didn't install the Nov. 9th firmware yet and yesterday I noticed the 7/23/15 hardware update also failed... Moreover I tried to install the Win10 update, and it failed as well (it got stuck at 40% of the system update (23% of installing new files) - I let it run overnight, but nothing changed so I had to do hard restart... I will try again today)
I'll try to check later today but I don't think the July 23rd system hardware update replaced the new November 9th firmware. The size of the firmware update was much larger and contained a number of files that can be viewed in the zip file version. Both installed fine. It does appear I'm getting an additional 1-2 hours of battery life so pretty happy overall.
Lots of interesting changes on Threshold 2. Here's a good article that walks through most of them.
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kristalsoldier
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I have noticed the battery drain being less too.
So I had a similar experience - after taking the SD card out, the update finished succesfully. Then I installed the new Nov 9th drivers and then the WU found the 7/23/15 hardware update and installed it...
Khangozzy - how do you know it downgraded only the Surface Touch Controller Firmware? Did you check the versions of all the drivers? (still.. it's not very good thing to have older drivers there
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Less battery drain - that's great news! I was not able to see it yet, but hopefully I will.
Btw. Did you notice that the Nov 9th zip file is much bigger than the msi file? Any idea why is it like that? (e.g. zip file contains all drivers, but the msi files only new ones?)
One more thing: after the upgrades I noticed that hibernation is available (powercfg /a; and also when changing the powerplans) - it was not listed (possible to select) before the upgrade - does it mean the upgrade turned the HyperV on? (other option is the S0 state - is it the connected standby/InstantGo state?)
Khangozzy - how do you know it downgraded only the Surface Touch Controller Firmware? Did you check the versions of all the drivers? (still.. it's not very good thing to have older drivers there
)Less battery drain - that's great news! I was not able to see it yet, but hopefully I will.
Btw. Did you notice that the Nov 9th zip file is much bigger than the msi file? Any idea why is it like that? (e.g. zip file contains all drivers, but the msi files only new ones?)
One more thing: after the upgrades I noticed that hibernation is available (powercfg /a; and also when changing the powerplans) - it was not listed (possible to select) before the upgrade - does it mean the upgrade turned the HyperV on? (other option is the S0 state - is it the connected standby/InstantGo state?)
This went away for me after I did a few updates...btw... everything seems to be working fine now. Mail app is much improved for syncing. Also, connectivity after coming out of hibernate seems better.
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