Great. At least I'll have that. It will make the wait much more bearable.
Thank you.
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Nokia Lumia |OT| Worth the Weight
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Great. At least I'll have that. It will make the wait much more bearable.
Thank you.
aorange999
Member
Loving this phone so far. It took about a day to get used to it but I don't miss the iPhone but for one thing. My work phone is a SIP phone and there is no SIP app available to register third party services on WP8.
I still use my iPhone 5 to imessage and for work phone calls so I am switching throughout the day. The Lumia is so much richer in use and feel than the iphone its pretty intense.
The weight was a small issue first day but second day I am fully used to it.
I still use my iPhone 5 to imessage and for work phone calls so I am switching throughout the day. The Lumia is so much richer in use and feel than the iphone its pretty intense.
The weight was a small issue first day but second day I am fully used to it.
brotkasten
Member
I got no comeback for that, other that the colored Lumias are fat clowns.
Screw you, Jon!
Anton Sugar
Member
Battery level app just updated with new features, including a battery usage graph.
show me your skeleton
Member
mine reset & then froze on the nokia screen again. 
also seems to be having trouble downloading updates but that could be a microsoft store problem.
also has anyone been able to get the automatic time/date to set? mine doesn't seem to change & i have to set it manually.
one more thing, mine seems to not be cyan, where's the setting to change this?
also seems to be having trouble downloading updates but that could be a microsoft store problem.
also has anyone been able to get the automatic time/date to set? mine doesn't seem to change & i have to set it manually.
one more thing, mine seems to not be cyan, where's the setting to change this?
Some people were saying that app actually drains their battery. Any truth to this?
TheBryanJZX90
Member
Do you think the Wordament game is a big battery drain? Even though its just a word game its always checking stuff online.
I'm in a bad position with my battery here. I've had my phone for 7 days now, but I'm going to be busy for the next week so if I dont exchange my phone today I probably won't get a chance to before my 14 days are up. I've done pretty much every battery saving trick out there but battery life is still pretty crap. Has anyone that exchanged their phone seen a real difference? Or is my problem stuff I can't change like weak signal strength?
I'm in a bad position with my battery here. I've had my phone for 7 days now, but I'm going to be busy for the next week so if I dont exchange my phone today I probably won't get a chance to before my 14 days are up. I've done pretty much every battery saving trick out there but battery life is still pretty crap. Has anyone that exchanged their phone seen a real difference? Or is my problem stuff I can't change like weak signal strength?
My signal is a bit weak at home, it will sometimes bounce between 3G and 4G so yesterday and today I turned my data off and blocked BBC Mobile and it has made a big difference. Have had my phone on for 8 hours today and I'm at 65% left.
Good plan?
I wish stuff was unlimited T_T
That's the plan i'm going with... I feel it's a huge ripoff but I get 24% off because of my work so... *shrug*
The phone better be worth it!
antiquegamer
Member
I am not sure about the new version, but on the old version of the game I never play it without plugging in. The original game was a battery killer.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
TheBryanJZX90
Member
Went to the Microsoft Store, all I said was "I've been having some battery issues" and right away the sales guy was like "let's swap that out for a new phone." Hope this battery is better!
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
I think I get 17% off with my employer..
These fucking plans just seem like such a ripoff coming from prepaid.
What irks me is the data plans. With T-Mobile I got unlimited data with 4g speeds up until 5GB then throttled down for $25/month. Hell, I just downgraded to a $10/month plan that is still unlimited but 4g throttled after 2GB
Liberty4all
Banned
wonder of I should reinstall. I deleted thinking it was causing my battery drain.
antiquegamer
Member
That's a shame. My Lumia 920 connect better than the 900 and my Titan however my car Bluetooth suck anyway so I hardly use it.
:lol
My top 3 preferences would be grey, black and white. (no specific order)
ZERO interest in the other three colours.
NeOak
Member
AT&T and Verizon are fucking expensive.
I received my replacement phone yesterday, first phone had battery problems. I noticed that on the new replacement phone the capacitive buttons are a yellowish tint...as opposed to bright white like the original phone. The battery has been great on the replacement phone...but the yellow tint kinda bothers me. Below are some blurry pics but you can sort of make out the difference. Top is old phone with bad battery (bright white buttons). Below, replacement phone (yellow buttons)
Does anyone have a 920 with the yellow tint capacitive buttons?
Does anyone have a 920 with the yellow tint capacitive buttons?
Glorious Ownage
Member
I received my replacement phone yesterday, first phone had battery problems. I noticed that on the new replacement phone the capacitive buttons are a yellowish tint...as opposed to bright white like the original phone. The battery has been great on the replacement phone...but the yellow tint kinda bothers me. Below are some blurry pics but you can sort of make out the difference. Top is old phone with bad battery (bright white buttons). Below, replacement phone (yellow buttons)
Does anyone have a 920 with the yellow tint capacitive buttons?
My phone also has a different tint to the buttons I see it as almost a slightly blue tint which I thought was on purpose since I have a cyan phone...Hmm...
On the other hand I've owned every single iPhone since the original including the 5, I've had a palm pre, an htc hero, galaxy nexus, galaxy s2, galaxy s3, htc one x and for a short stint the LG optimus G and this phone is far and above my favorite phone ever. I think I've finally found a keeper, the camera is amazing especially after a few small tweaks with nokia's creative studio. The phone never lags, I love all the live tiles and unique customization, I've found all the apps I use regularly besides mint and Pandora and I'm finding Nokia Music to be an excellent substitute especially with create your own offline mixes. I've also had good battery life and the screen is beautiful. Oh and the phone is absolutely gorgeous and feels amazing in your hand. My only complaint so far is the voice to text is terrible and inaccurate but that could always be fixed down the line
So false alarm. The guy's wife works for Nokia. It is a prototype. Still got the old windows logo on it.
The wait continues in the UK.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Everdred
Member
It was easily the most impressive phone hardware, absolutely brilliant. Wonderful screen, great camera, very fast but my primary function is music so I need that to work. I'm going to wait and see what happens with it, if they patch it or if Microsoft announces a surface phone. Will go WP8 at some point, love the OS.
Unfortunately I had to do the same. The 920 wouldn't pair with my car either and random reboots were getting to be a little too frequent. I hope that future software updates address these issues, and if they do, I may jump back in.
Didn't expect it to sell so well with it being £520 SIM free, not exactly cheap.
Liberty4all
Banned
Just want to mention my battery life has greatly improved after uninstalling the battery app (which was the older version). I'm nervous to reinstall the updated version ...
Liberty4all
Banned
I honestly think the problem was a combination of unoptimized apps (7.5) running on wp8 and badly optimized batteries from the warehouse.
TheBryanJZX90
Member
Man so far the phone I got in exchange has even worse battery life. I turned literally everything off, even cell data, and it's at 8% left after 5 hours. I hope it's just because it's the first cycle of the battery!
Liberty4all
Banned
It took mine a week to stabilize in combination with deleting any apps not optimized for wp8.
TheBryanJZX90
Member
And the 920 I returned never changed much at all from its poor initial battery performance. Don't worry, I'm giving this one a chance too. I just hope it gets better. Also, would turning off cell data absolutely correct any battery drain from having a weak signal?
Van and I have noticed a difference. I easily get through the day now. I still don't get readings like 2 days on a full charge. It says usually 17 hours and that's what I seem to be getting.
Cool. Hopefully Best Buy will have stock.
Remember that if you want to keep your number you need to not cancel with Bell and let Rogers do it for you. For some reason I keep seeing people change phones / providers and posting their new number. Confuses the hell out of me. Keep you phone number people!
Got it from Rogers store, doing same promo, right now too. No activation, $0. Woot. Only had one left, Sunridge store.
Yea. Porting my number from bell.
killer rin
Member
Alright so Best Buy is giving the phone away for free (on a three year contract) and i'm seriously inclined to jump now instead of later in December. What I'm wondering is, I know there may be some problems(battery is on/off, syncing and whatnot); but are there any truly wide scale problems that everyone is hitting?
Is the battery really that bad, or is it being solved by a few charges?
Also, with the battery, I usually do anywhere from 1-2 hours of web browsing max per day and always charge my phone at night time, would I be hit by any problems?
How many people have had bricked phones?
I have heard reports of it freezing on people.. Is it widescale?
Is the battery really that bad, or is it being solved by a few charges?
Also, with the battery, I usually do anywhere from 1-2 hours of web browsing max per day and always charge my phone at night time, would I be hit by any problems?
How many people have had bricked phones?
I have heard reports of it freezing on people.. Is it widescale?
there are many 920 owners, myself included, that are not experiencing any troubles. Then again, I don't live in an LTE area so I turned that off along with NFC. Plus, I can't seem to stop taking pics, videos, and cinemagraphs with this thing so no way in hell am I going to judge battery life now. I haven't had a single reset either. Someone did mention having NFC on may contribute to resetting. Oh, if you use it, you might look more into Bluetooth in-vehicle pairing as a few mentioned it's buggy.
I gave up my phone number =(
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