The Official Nokia Lumia 920 Thread

RSR · 17 Mar 2013 at 14:04

Brenn47 said:
Oh, that's the one I use, don't suppose you know where you read it stopped the phone sleeping properly?

What do you use instead, I've just deleted it!

I'll see if I can dig it out, it was a while ago now, so it may have been patched.

I don't really use anything to be honest.

Brenn47 · 17 Mar 2013 at 14:56

Looking at the reviews, a lot of people moan about Battery level for WP8.

I've just installed "Battery" by Matthew, better reviews and some better features.

cu3ed · 17 Mar 2013 at 15:48

Brenn47 said:
Looking at the reviews, a lot of people moan about Battery level for WP8.

I've just installed "Battery" by Matthew, better reviews and some better features.

Im not seeing anything when searching, do you have a link?

Brenn47 · 17 Mar 2013 at 15:55

My mistake, it's "Battery" by Arthur Semenov, 686 reviews, 4.5/5

Much better than the one I had previously, I quite like the low battery indicator. Set it to like 30% and it beeps when it hits it, and every 1% drop.

dhatton1978 · 17 Mar 2013 at 21:33

Another good one is Battery Widget by Deekfit. The graphs are a bit more detailed than others.

Brenn47 · 18 Mar 2013 at 07:55

As it's full of adware, it's probably probably pretty bad for your battery!

dhatton1978 · 18 Mar 2013 at 18:07

I thought as much at first but its not. I thought about getting the ad free upgrade straight away but thought I'd wait and see and it's fine. I get about a day and a half with moderate use.

RSR · 19 Mar 2013 at 11:51

BlackBerry Z10 vs Lumia 920 video showdown

Pretty Cringworthy

Egon · 19 Mar 2013 at 12:30

[RXP]Andy;23966320 said:
BlackBerry Z10 vs Lumia 920 video showdown

Pretty Cringworthy

Ouch... even the tests that it "won" were debatable! It looked dreadfully slow and unresponsive. It also looked very Android/iOS samey in the use of icons.

Windows Phone is different and interesting!

RSR · 19 Mar 2013 at 20:42

Doh!

Egon · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:12

Microsft ending Windows Phone 8 support in July 2014 - http://paritynews.com/software/item/849-microsoft-ending-windows-phone-8-support-in-july-2014

Now I assume that means the next iteration of Windows Phone will be out before then. But I'm not sure what this means to users like me who are tied into a 2 year contract. Will we be able to upgrade our 920s to the latest version or will we be stuck on an old OS, like 7.5/7.8 users?

cu3ed · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:19

Nah, more than likely all the current gen will be upgraded where a new long term of support will be renewed.

Gerard · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:28

Egon said:
Ouch... even the tests that it "won" were debatable! It looked dreadfully slow and unresponsive. It also looked very Android/iOS samey in the use of icons.

Windows Phone is different and interesting!

Assuming that wasn't a dodgy phone that backberrry really does look like a heap of ****. And that putting it as nicely as possible, slow, unresponsive, turd.

Glaucus · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:35

Egon said:
Microsft ending Windows Phone 8 support in July 2014 - http://paritynews.com/software/item/849-microsoft-ending-windows-phone-8-support-in-july-2014

Now I assume that means the next iteration of Windows Phone will be out before then. But I'm not sure what this means to users like me who are tied into a 2 year contract. Will we be able to upgrade our 920s to the latest version or will we be stuck on an old OS, like 7.5/7.8 users?

Doesn't mean anything. They've already said wp8 phones will get wp9 update.
So it just mans if you do t update you won't get support.

Brenn47 · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:37

Egon said:
Microsft ending Windows Phone 8 support in July 2014 - http://paritynews.com/software/item/849-microsoft-ending-windows-phone-8-support-in-july-2014

Now I assume that means the next iteration of Windows Phone will be out before then. But I'm not sure what this means to users like me who are tied into a 2 year contract. Will we be able to upgrade our 920s to the latest version or will we be stuck on an old OS, like 7.5/7.8 users?

We'll be on 8.8 by then, pointless MS supporting the people who refuse to upgrade their OS.

Brenn47 · 20 Mar 2013 at 15:47

I have a 920 and Windows 8, but this did make me laugh.

cu3ed · 20 Mar 2013 at 16:30

Well at least now they use icons that at least relate to their titles!

neuromantic · 20 Mar 2013 at 17:21

Well mine has had to go back to phones4u again.

Went to bed the other night and woke in the morning to a totally dead phone. Tried charging but it was looping on and off, tried a soft reset after about an hour of it looping and it is now totally dead :-(

Nikumba · 20 Mar 2013 at 17:46

Egon said:
Microsft ending Windows Phone 8 support in July 2014 - http://paritynews.com/software/item/849-microsoft-ending-windows-phone-8-support-in-july-2014

Now I assume that means the next iteration of Windows Phone will be out before then. But I'm not sure what this means to users like me who are tied into a 2 year contract. Will we be able to upgrade our 920s to the latest version or will we be stuck on an old OS, like 7.5/7.8 users?

7.5/7.8 users were on the old kernel, 8 has the NT kernel in it so I should expect upgrades for the foreseeable future.

Giving 2 years support for a mobile OS is pretty good, its about as much as you get on an iPhone

Brenn47 · 20 Mar 2013 at 17:47

neuromantic said:
Well mine has had to go back to phones4u again.

Went to bed the other night and woke in the morning to a totally dead phone. Tried charging but it was looping on and off, tried a soft reset after about an hour of it looping and it is now totally dead

A lot of people had problems last night. My phones been problem free since day 1.

Last night, I noticed the battery was being hammered... tappety tapped the back button to close everything, woke up to find the battery saver on and the phone down to 10%.

I did notice there was a Network+ update today, but it's been fine today.

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