Xbox One Update: April 2014

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Thank you for taking time to do this. Can you share with us what the process is?  Do you fill out a form?  Or is it a post on the beta forms?  I assume there is no guarantee if you submit our names that we will get an invite, can you provide any other info on the process?

 

At the beginning of the preview they had an area in the private forums to submit GTs, but they stopped that after the March update.

 

Now the Preview registration app gives participants an option to invite friends. Just tick everyone you want to invite and Microsoft decides who gets in. And as you guessed it, no guarantee you'll get in but it's worth a shot, so good luck to you all.

[BoDEAN]

At the beginning of the preview they had an area in the private forums to submit GTs, but they stopped that after the March update.

 

Now the Preview registration app gives participants an option to invite friends. Just tick everyone you want to invite and Microsoft decides who gets in. And as you guessed it, no guarantee you'll get in but it's worth a shot, so good luck to you all.

 

Thanks again, appreciate your time and help!

[George P Global Moderator]

Looks like the 1404 update is now live and starting to go out to people.   Guess this means those of you in the preview should see the next update at some point in the future, maybe 1405.

[jerzdawg]

I've submitted everyone that posted/PM'd so far.

 

Looks like I can do it as many times as I want, so if more want in I'll do another mass-invite.

please add jerzdawg    thanks!

[xendrome]

please add jerzdawg    thanks!

 

Are you asking for an invite to the new update preview? If so, the update is out for everyone.

[George P Global Moderator]

Are you asking for an invite to the new update preview? If so, the update is out for everyone.

 

Those in the preview program keep getting updates though, so a week or so from now they could start giving out previews for the next update, could be 1405 unless they skip a month again.

[bigbas]

I'd like to try and get into the preview again if it's still possible....bigbas21....thanks

[MikeChipshop Member]

At the beginning of the preview they had an area in the private forums to submit GTs, but they stopped that after the March update.

 

Now the Preview registration app gives participants an option to invite friends. Just tick everyone you want to invite and Microsoft decides who gets in. And as you guessed it, no guarantee you'll get in but it's worth a shot, so good luck to you all.

 

If you happen to still have the ability to invite people, i'd be up for getting in on future updates early.

 

MikeHellstone is the GT. Cheers!

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

As George said, the preview is ongoing but the next possible preview dashboard would be May (if they don't skip). That goes for everybody I have invited so far, as I believe you miss out on the current dash no matter when you join. You'll most likely find out at the same time as each other if you got in.

 

Will add the rest of you tonight (Y) More are welcome, just remember no 1 post wonders. You also need to accept the friend invite as I can't select you from the list if you don't appear in mine.

[freak180]

javier180 is mine :)

[jerzdawg]

Are you asking for an invite to the new update preview? If so, the update is out for everyone.

sorry.. my mistake.  I thought this would get the additional future updates as well.. ignore!

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

sorry.. my mistake.  I thought this would get the additional future updates as well.. ignore!

It will.

[0sit0]

Does this update fix the issue with HDMI passthrough freeze? I've had this issue since day 1 and the only solution that works ok is playing a silent audio file. The problem is the file sometimes stop playing and i have to remote desktop into the computer to start it again and it is a pain lol.

[timster]

I am Captain8000 and I play video games!

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Does this update fix the issue with HDMI passthrough freeze? I've had this issue since day 1 and the only solution that works ok is playing a silent audio file. The problem is the file sometimes stop playing and i have to remote desktop into the computer to start it again and it is a pain lol.

I actually believe your solution is an indication of the root cause of the problem. Your audio settings are more than likely incorrect.

 

I say this as someone who had a decent amount of issues. Laggy video. Out of sync audio. Complete freezes. I just thought it was growing pains of the One itself, and they had a lot of work to be done.

 

A friend of mine let me know I may have my audio settings set up incorrectly, sure enough I did, and once I set them up correctly, I have not seen any of the aforementioned issues.

 

Truth is I think they do a very poor job of letting the end user know which audio settings really do what, but in my example I had chosen DTS as it only made sense to me since my receiver was DTS capable, yet that was the wrong setting completely.

 

So try changing your audio settings and see if you still have the issues. Especially since you say it is an audio file that helps the issue, that leads me to believe it is the audio settings itself causing the issue to begin with.

[BoDEAN]

Andrew G.

 

I got an invite today for the preview program. thanks again for it

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Andrew G.

 

I got an invite today for the preview program. thanks again for it

 

 

Nice (Y) :) What did it say? Does it automatically accept you into the preview or did you have to go into another selection process?

[0sit0]

I actually believe your solution is an indication of the root cause of the problem. Your audio settings are more than likely incorrect.

 

I say this as someone who had a decent amount of issues. Laggy video. Out of sync audio. Complete freezes. I just thought it was growing pains of the One itself, and they had a lot of work to be done.

 

A friend of mine let me know I may have my audio settings set up incorrectly, sure enough I did, and once I set them up correctly, I have not seen any of the aforementioned issues.

 

Truth is I think they do a very poor job of letting the end user know which audio settings really do what, but in my example I had chosen DTS as it only made sense to me since my receiver was DTS capable, yet that was the wrong setting completely.

 

So try changing your audio settings and see if you still have the issues. Especially since you say it is an audio file that helps the issue, that leads me to believe it is the audio settings itself causing the issue to begin with.

 

I have tried every single setting available and nothing works. I'm not the only one... google "HDMI Passthrough Freeze" and you'll see.

[BoDEAN]

Nice (Y) :) What did it say? Does it automatically accept you into the preview or did you have to go into another selection process?

 

Im on the road working, but i checked my smartglass app on my iphone, said I had a message.

Message said, dated 1130pm 4/14/14  you invited to preview xbox one updates. use this code to download the registration app..

 

I will be home tomorrow to download it

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Im on the road working, but i checked my smartglass app on my iphone, said I had a message.

Message said, dated 1130pm 4/14/14  you invited to preview xbox one updates. use this code to download the registration app..

 

I will be home tomorrow to download it

 

Same process as I went through then.

 

A second member also PM'd to let me know he was invited so at least a few of you are having some success (Y) Maybe it'll ramp up as we head into the next build.

[Houtei]

I got the official april update this morning.  So far only big thing i noticed is that my kinect seems to hear me very well now even when my tv sound is up pretty loud.  No longer seem to have to yell at it. And xbox ON worked! The first time its ever worked for me since launch.  Also i think when i launched titanfall it popped up and said i had 2 friends playing titanfall right now which was kinda nice to see.

[trooper11]

I got the official april update this morning.  So far only big thing i noticed is that my kinect seems to hear me very well now even when my tv sound is up pretty loud.  No longer seem to have to yell at it. And xbox ON worked! The first time its ever worked for me since launch.  Also i think when i launched titanfall it popped up and said i had 2 friends playing titanfall right now which was kinda nice to see.

I hope more people that were having issues with voice see the update fix those issues.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Reminder

 

I've had 2 people ask me this now so just in case anyone else missed it when I mentioned it before. If you don't accept the friend request, I can't invite you to the preview. I'm not asking because I want to pad my friend list count, I literally can't invite you unless you appear in my list.

[jerzdawg]

Reminder

 

I've had 2 people ask me this now so just in case anyone else missed it when I mentioned it before. If you don't accept the friend request, I can't invite you to the preview. I'm not asking because I want to pad my friend list count, I literally can't invite you unless you appear in my list.

I never got a friend request from you..  :cry:

[dipsylalapo Supervisor]

If you can still invite folk I'd love to get in on the action. GT - dipsylalapo

 

And I'll remember to accept your friend request.