WELL! got the HD yesterday and immediately from the way it was packaged for shipping I knew there would be problems. I tried several things and it was dead. So backup in case of catastrophe was not going to happen. At that point I was awash with a devil may care attitude. So about 2:30-3am I got bored and it hit me that I was null about this. If something happened, fine, if not, great. So I manually updated the HwS, the one that is failing, that I use and it went smoothly and was done in "less than 10 minutes". I looked around and am not entirely impressed. Off the top visually, the dark version is more gray than "dark". The medium gray text on medium dark gray backgrounds is going to be a problem. Although on the same pages there is lighter text. Why can't all be the same for the sake of proper visualization. Oh there's the UI designer in me. It should called GUI, Gray User Interface. And it is slow. You press a button and about the time one would think the attempt failed it would respond to the action. I'll let it sit a couple of days and see if it "livens up". I looked all around and it'll be a learning curve to get use to the changes. But there seems to be a lot that is still incomplete: No Blue Button Widgets; Future airings and suggestions there but severely lacking in content. But there are some really neat things that give me warm fuzzies that just need to be filled out/finished. With monumental relief, I realized that Grandma, the Rocket Scientist, will be able to settle into this with a minimal amount of damage to me.
SO I decided I'd update the box she uses with her there and walk her through it since we had plenty of time to do so. Went to the widget and started the update. It downloaded, then reset and . . . well it didn't install but redownloaded another time on its own then reset to install and we ended up on the sleep screen with no install. I tried it again and it downloaded, reset to install and didn't again. I did a soft button reset, since I was several floors above the unit and didn't want to walk all the way to it, Lazy, and tried one more time. It reset to start the DL, I got the new sleep screen that would lead me to believe that the install happened, but then it wouldn't even download now, reset again and ended up on the original sleep screen. Of all the issues I was dreading, this never crossed my mind. My main fear is that it would update easily with out my knowledge and leave us with a mess. I'll try it again tonight and see if the C(G)UI will install. I have yet to read anywhere where this has happened.
So this book is for those that try or get the update so that you don't get that "OH SH!T!" feeling at anytime during the process. Just go with the flow and all will be ok (lower case OK denoting a minor amount of comfort).
