Nokia Lumia update spreads Black death Nokia has been rolling out its latest Windows Phone update across multiple territories over this last week, to much fanfare. The update, simply called Nokia Black, offers interface and camera enhancements to a range of existing Lumia handsets, further differentiating its Windows phones portfolio from the rest of the pack. There …
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Do these problems apply to them all or just the bright yellow ones?
Per title, no problems. A happy lumia 1020 owner here, the app folders are very useful as is the glance screen improvement. The camera updates make a brilliant camera option, even better.
Would be nice to see an update that helped it not die a death midway through the day due to exhausting a fully charged battery in about 12 hours though :)
Right. We've got two succesful updates right here. This article is obviously full of shit when it claims that every update is bricking phones.
What? It didn't say that? You sure? Why else would people think it was worthwhile posting a "my phone updated ok" message if we already know that a lot of phones are updating ok?
Oh, it's to give smartarses like me something to bitch about? Tidy!
Sir would like a phone which acts as a phone instead of an Instagram photo prettifier (which is all Nokia is contractually allowed to add while MS struggles to add features from the last decade that everyone else takes for granted)? Can't say there's much demand for one, but Sir could always try a Nokia Asha, over that way...
Haven't seen this one, but I'm running the GDR3 developer preview..
Anyone else have issue with audio crackling then going to one channel only until a restart? Happens on my Lumia 920...weird. (not as weird my Nexus 7 2013 losing apps and the last two hours I spent failing to install AMD drivers on a friends new PC (Linux mint).
I'm not a fanboy but nothing ****ing works for me. All modern tech sucks as regards UX.
Do I have a strange unnatural EM field?
Day (well evening) of the update I checked, it told me there was one, and ten minutes later I had Black. Beamer was installed and works fine for me, and as I have a 925 I already had the photo apps.
It is annoying Nokia couldn't pre-flag those for download though.
Sorry it was a trauma for you, I have been there on other updates, but not this one. The Amber update was a PITA taking four reboots to install.
Ive been lurking here for long enough to know, I just find it funny that you can probably guarantee that a major update will brick a percentage of devices.
But due to fanboism some people like that AC just seem to shit in their brain and then allow that to be transferred on to the screen as they type.....
Shit for brains just doesnt even cut it
""MS control the hardware and the software" except this wasn't MS. Yes, the MS GDR3 update was included, but Lumia Black is a Nokia software update for Nokia devices... er... OK."
Given how closely MS and Nokia have been working together from the get-go with WinPho devices and given the ex-Microsoft man at the Nokia helm back then, it'd be pretty daft to think that they were genuinely separate or that MS didn't have stranglehold control of what Nokia were doing from the get-go. That's now irrelevant though, since Microsoft purchased Nokia's mobile phone business in September 2013. When it comes to phones, MS and Nokia are now one and the same.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/10283087/Microsoft-buys-Nokia-mobile-business-to-challenge-Apple-and-Google.html
I have mostly Samsung Android devices and when they release a big update about 1 in 3 gets it's knickers in a twist and the result is several hours with the screen showing "Updating" or "Installing" with nothing happening. I finally figured on my Note 10.1 that it had failed at the final reboot and did a hardboot on it which worked. A friend had a similar problem with a Tab2 10.1 and a reboot got around that too. Looks like the mobile world has the same problems as the mainstream software world. They let marketing people decide when to release software but under-fund development and QA, presumably so they can pay the sales/marketing types their nice fat bonuses. My one experience with an Apple update went without a hitch but it's a company phone and our IT doods blocked the update until they were certain it wouldn't tank the phones.
It all went OK on my 925, I too was running the developer preview of GDR3 beforehand.
App folders are useful, Beamer is interesting, but a little flaky i.e. stops updating the screen after approx 1 minute, though this may not be the handset causing this.
Even if Microsoft did control the hardware, they still have many handsets to support. Apple release so few handsets and still screw it up, so Nokia not as bad as some may think.
The missus and I have Lumia 920's and they've updated just fine. I'm grateful for the improved glance screen and App Folders are encouraging me to be even more lazy-fingered.
I did have problems with updating my 800 to 7.8 a year or so ago, though. Having to have it plugged into Zune (horrible, horrible, horrible application) didn't help.
Has anyone had a chance to play with the Beamer app? Any good?
We have four winphones in the house, and I haven't tried updating them yet, but I saw Beamer working at a workshop a few months ago - I didn't know it was heading for winphone at the time, but since I was in Finland, not very surprising. I thought it was extremely awesome at the time. Very excited to see try it out now.
"Has anyone had a chance to play with the Beamer app? Any good?"
I have been using Beamer for a few months - just static pics - it does what its says and never a problem
Just point phone at target pc and read barcode.
Now it reads Powerpoint from my SkyDrive I can see me not walking around with laptop for presentations. Just rely on some other dork bringing theirs
All rather spiffing.
Just before I sold my 920 I decided to do a factory reset (pretty obvious thing to do). When the phone restarted I got the "gears of death" screen. Had to use their service tool (something only dealers are supposed to have access to) to rescue it.
Nokia serious need better QA, they've always been a bit buggy and nothing seems to have changed.
I am guessing that means yet again that this is only for WP 8+ devices...
well of course it is. This time last year MS were telling anyone with the ability to use an interest search tool that phones with WP7 weren't going to get WP8. WP7.8 was the end of the line. Hell even my gran knew that and she knows shut about mobile phones and stuff.
OK on the update & arrived about an hour after the announcement.
One turn off turn back on again before the update would actually download.
I too had the extras app update at the same time but had to go looking in store for the additional updates for the Camera update, Beamer, the app folders are a slight waste of time however, as you cant pin everything into them to make a genuine hub for each type service. Train times at specific stations as an example.
The ability to kill background apps from a single screen is probably the most useful part of the update, allied to the camera improvements.
Still, cant knock the phone itself, its a great converged device & getting better it seems.
Just wait till this is added to metro, and we get "folders" in the "tiles" and it'll be just like... I don't know, a desktop or a start menu in functionality?
I thought the whole reason for touch/phone OS is it avoids the clunky parts of a desktop OS? Perhaps the few of us who like desktop OS, or a phones simplified one, were actually right? It's when you try to mix the two things get messy.
I think I'm loosing the will to live.
Nokia's market 3.9%
Windows phone share 3.6%
Other OS market share 0.4% (not Android, iOS, Windows or Blackberry)
If we pretend that 0.4% is 100% Symbian, that means 3.5% of the market is Windows phone on Nokia. That leaves 0.1% for Windows phone on Samsung, ZTE and HTC. (up to 0.25% if you are generous with the rounding errors). Even assigning all 0.25% to HTC would mean Windows phone was only 10% of their business.
Nokia does not need to differentiate because 'the rest of the pack' doesn't care, and because Nokia sold their mobile phone business to Microsoft.
You are running a Nokia firmware update - known for years to be as flaky as a lepers crotch at the best of times - and running a screen grabber at the same time?
Seriously - you are actually putting fingers to keyboard to complain? If you do *anything* while a Nokia update is running - up to and including straightening it on the desk it will crash and burn faster than an Airbus at an Airshow.. this has been common knowledge since they started using Symbian 3rd.
Sorry - got zero sympathy for this - you were fairly lucky you didn't brick the thing...
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