The Official Nokia Lumia 920 Thread

RSR · 1 Jan 2013 at 14:02

edgedemon said:
My main issue is one of stability, after installing the Belgian release, I had a phone that spent 90% of its time in a locked up/ frozen state, completely unusable and it would take ages before the reset worked.
Going for the GB one and will see what happens

Mines been pretty stable so far.

Egon · 1 Jan 2013 at 15:22

Andy, will this only work with unlocked phones? Mine's on an orange contract.

Phate · 1 Jan 2013 at 15:33

Mr Jones said:
Also get Thumba and the likes to resize images for forum posting. Straight from SkyDrive, images are at taken resolution, way too big.

Mr Jones, do you use any of the Nokia downloadable lenses? Do you edit the photo?

All the sample photos I've seen online are better than anything I can get the camera to produce. One of the reasons I got this phone was due to the camera.

Chaaars.
Jake

RSR · 1 Jan 2013 at 16:30

Egon said:
Andy, will this only work with unlocked phones? Mine's on an orange contract.

It should work with any technically, well as long as its the same model for example RM-821.

RSR · 1 Jan 2013 at 16:37

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Peew971 · 1 Jan 2013 at 17:34

From Expansys:

Nokia Lumia 920 4G LTE Clarification

It has come to our attention recently there have been claims of the Nokia Lumia 920 unlocked smartphones sold by Expansys do not have 4G LTE capability. We have looked into this issue and can confirm that any Nokia Lumia 920 phones sold from Expansys will be able to connect to a 4G LTE network.

Currently, the only network offering 4G LTE capabilities in the UK is the EE network. So it is not the phone that is missing 4G LTE, it is the network.

If you are using a network other than EE in the UK, your Lumia 920 will use a 3G network instead. When your network operater launches a 4G LTE network for smartphones, Nokia, together with the operator, will be releasing an update for the Lumia 920 so you will be able to access the fastest possible data speeds.

Timo Joutsenvirta, from the Nokia Technology Marketing Team has stated:

“If you are not sure if 4g lte network is available you can check with your operator, if it is not available with your lumia 820 and lumia 920 you will be able to use the 3g instead the good thing is when your operator launches the 4g lte network for smartphones, nokia together with the operator will be releasing an update to lumia 820 and lumia 920 so you will be able to access the fastest possible data speeds when they become available.”

http://www.expansys.com/blog/?p=2096

Mr Jones · 1 Jan 2013 at 18:21

Phate said:
Mr Jones, do you use any of the Nokia downloadable lenses? Do you edit the photo?

All the sample photos I've seen online are better than anything I can get the camera to produce. One of the reasons I got this phone was due to the camera.

Chaaars.
Jake

I use Thumba mainly, it's lightroom equivalent in WP8, very good for editing on the go - no touch up brushes though. The photos from the phone needs some editing, it's very level straight out, so a tweak helps.

I also started using an app call CameraPro - allows you direct change of settings and even "manual" focus, it's amazing!
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=ee7b9093-62ec-48f5-9364-1b192509c86f

And if you like Instantgram type filters, Fhotoroom is awesome, good community too.

Gerard · 1 Jan 2013 at 21:09

Peew971 said:
From Expansys:

http://www.expansys.com/blog/?p=2096

Was posted a few pages back, does seem a bit odd though that there are 2 different boxes for the 920, one stating LTE (EE contract phone) and one not (unlocked phone).

firehawk · 1 Jan 2013 at 21:10

Peew - probably not the case to be honest with the issue I am having even though I bought mine from Clove. maybe a different batch... no idea.

andy: any confirmation about the enabling of 4G?

RSR · 1 Jan 2013 at 21:24

firehawk said:
andy: any confirmation about the enabling of 4G?

Using which firmware?

I am currently using the CV_UK firmware and it doesn't have 4G enabled.

firehawk · 1 Jan 2013 at 21:29

im referring to the one you used yesterday (the update you had done yesterday)

RSR · 1 Jan 2013 at 21:34

firehawk said:
im referring to the one you used yesterday (the update you had done yesterday)

I just updated using the same product code as my current code (CV_GB) which doesn't have 4G enabled.

I believe there is a chappy here > Link who is running German firmware who has 4G enabled.

firehawk · 1 Jan 2013 at 21:41

Thanks Andy, Problem is not only will the warrenty be voided but more importantly... doesnt save the apps/data

Peew971 · 1 Jan 2013 at 21:59

If you have backup active, you should be able to restore on any firmware/device as long as you use the same Microsoft account.

RSR · 1 Jan 2013 at 22:09

Peew971 said:
If you have backup active, you should be able to restore on any firmware/device as long as you use the same Microsoft account.

Not app data unfortunately in my experience.

Peew971 · 1 Jan 2013 at 22:21

[RXP]Andy;23471049 said:
Not app data unfortunately in my experience.

Nor game saves but if you haven't had the phone for that long that shouldn't be a big issue. It's still a massive step up from WP7 that had no backup at all.

Peew971 · 1 Jan 2013 at 22:49

Alright, so Portico is now on my PC. Trying to convince myself either way

Izi · 1 Jan 2013 at 23:04

I'm assuming this update will come over the air sometime this month and not void the warranty?

Peew971 · 1 Jan 2013 at 23:14

Izi said:
I'm assuming this update will come over the air sometime this month and not void the warranty?

Nokia and MS said February although it might come early. It won't void your warranty then as it will be an official update.

KiNETiK · 2 Jan 2013 at 09:08

dhatton1978 said:
I've had a stable battery for a few weeks now after the last time I posted about this issue. The problem I originally had was that I was losing 10-15% on flight mode overnight with only the cnn, bbc news and the battery apps allowed to run in the background.

Somebody quite rightly posted that the two news apps would try and pull through new data every hour. I sorted them out and all good.

Last night my battery went from 44% to 4% on flight mode! The only thing I can think is that I had just been on whatsapp before switching it to flight mode and can't be 100% that I had closed the app

The only slight (and I do mean slight) quibble I have is with the battery, compared to the 4S I had it does eat it faster. Don't get me wrong I really love the phone and don't miss IOS at all. Yes I also know that it isn't the phones fault if I have poorly written apps on it.

I have had issues with battery life as well. I think that Whatsapp is a battery drain, far more so than it was for me on iOS. I don't really want to uninstall Whatsapp but I really hope they can improve its background performance soon otherwise I will have to.

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