JesseDiaz
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I was thinking the same thing....
New Firmware - July 8, 2014
- Thread starter clrk9000
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Thanks very much. I hadn't located anything to do a rollback on firmware, but hoped you had found some magic answer :
JesseDiaz
Member
I concur...actually Im not that bothered...just wondering why the delay
Release day owner, no update as of yet, installed the 6/19 only. Still running on factory drivers as the3 5/14 driver sucks for Bluetooth and wireless. What a pain to have to wait. At least provide a downloaded file gezz.
Edit; http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38826
Shows the Surface Pro 3 with a July 2014 release. So perhaps that's the manual download link. Testing now but its a slow download.
Edit; http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38826
Shows the Surface Pro 3 with a July 2014 release. So perhaps that's the manual download link. Testing now but its a slow download.
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JesseDiaz
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Well I downloaded manually a couple of days ago but haven't installed it waiting for it to appear on my UPDATE...got impatient and installed the Wireless driver....for me it was horrible...couldn't connect to anything...and noted that the driver version number is lower than the one I had installed. The July driver was 14.69....the one that I had from June was 15.68.3040.775. So I rolled back and now I get limited on 5ghz ...so I went to 2.4 ghz
CustomSurfaceP2
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The update decreased my battery life from 8.5hrs to now only 5! and I'm barely doing anything at all, screen brightness at 1/4. anyone else having issues with battery? I thought this update was supposed to increase battery life.
You must have done something wrong, the wireless driver in that package is "DriverVer=06/03/2014,15.68.3042.79". At least for the "Surface Pro 3 - July 2014.zip" file... did you download the wrong one perhaps?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deployme...ying-drivers-and-firmware-to-surface-pro.aspx
Use that guide to install your drivers/firmware.
Couple notes on the above guide;
-> 1. Execution policy for powershell scripts needs to be changed to Unrestricted for this to run.
-> 2. If you see Access is Denied messages it is because you didn't run as administrator.
-> 3. Not all drivers will install in that package so don't freak out if you see that occur.
-> 4. If you see a pause during the script execution, try and press enter.
-> 5. Once you run through this, a reboot is required although not prompted. When you reboot you will get the traditional a system update is being applied message. When I did this I heard my fan kick up speed. After reboot, I checked some of my drivers firmware and the wireless as an example has a date of 6/3 which is the official latest now.
All that said, I'm seeing an improvement on stability of the connections with both Bluetooth and Wireless N as to similar to what I had on my Surface Pro 1st Generation.
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