All this blaming toward the US...again. And again. And again. How does Canada fit in to your logic? Please tell me.
EDIT: Look. I would be peeved too. What's getting to me though is this constant anti-US sentiment which makes no sense in light of Canada. We don't know what the **** is going on. We don't know if it's the carriers or what. Calm down because this rage post gets you nowhere. Email Nokia. Call Nokia. Call Microsoft. Do something that would make a difference for god's sake.
Errrm, whose blaming anything on the US? We were simply reacting to a completely unbalanced situation with regard to this particular update. As an aside, I'm American myself. I have several prepaid accounts in the US that I try to keep active (two with AT&T and one with T-Mobile) and I spend a large part of my year in the States every year. How my life looks is exactly why I would never get a locked phone, here or in the States. Someone said earlier that AT&T surely paid Nokia to get updates first and I'm sure they did. Normally, however, those priority position sales would be limited to the coverage area market, i.e. AT&T before Verizon or Sprint or T-Mobile, but not fully globally. I mean, why would it make a difference if AT&T in the US gets an update before Rogers in Canada or EE in the UK? Even if it did, having a release difference of a few weeks is one thing, but more than two months? The disproportionality of the whole thing is what gets our goat.
"Do something that would make a difference for god's sake."
Errm, again, if you look at the posts in between these "friendly discussions" you might notice that I've been trying to get people info on the handful of unreleased Portico versions available on Navifirm. So, on that note, we'll return to the positive discussion we already had before the interruptions...
...so I finally managed to install the Belgium Proximus version of the firmware on my unlocked Swedish 920 (RM-821) and it went relatively well. I couldn't manage to get it to work on my 64-bit Windows 7 system, but it all went as planned on my 32-bit Windows 7 computer. I opted to reinstall my backup and ran into a few issues there. Because the backup doesn't save (or didn't for me) the wifi info, a bunch of the apps didn't want to install automatically. I put my local SIM card in and it took a few extra seconds to get the mobile data running. Whereas it said "4G" before, it now says "L" presumably for LTE, but I've speed tested it and I am getting 4G speeds. Also, I had a bunch of apps preinstalled on my original Swedish firmware, installed some with the region/language settings in Swedish and some in US/English, so I had to fiddle with that a bit.Still, a bunch of apps refused to install giving me some 8ffff error or something. That was sorted out by long-press on the download page in the Store and quitting the download. Then I was able to install or update those apps manually no problem.
As to the improvements, this Belgian firmware has the wifi always on option and the pictures feel a bit better, but I'll have to wait until I get more time to test it and compare it to my other phone cameras.That said, this work around has given my international 920 a new lease on life. Still, just to be sure, I'll be contacting my vendor to see if they've extended their return period for the Christmas holiday so I can make sure I'm certain I want to stick with it.
Having said all this, I'd just like to mention the fact that had I not felt obliged and free to complain a bit about this and if I hadn't received all the support from a good many of you (THANK YOU!), I wouldn't have found the energy or impetus to get this work around up and running. But now I have the update running on my international 920 with 4G working in spite of how Nokia is handling their official releases. Thanks to all of you who've been supportive! I hope my notes here might give you some options, at least until February.