All about Lumia Black for 920: Excitement, Bugs, User Experiences

[Aviad Kohn]

Re: Lumia 920 updating now, looks like Black

EU dev rom will get the black or should I flash it?

 

[hope4wp]

can someone update me with the size of the update??? :/ please I have an Australian L920 and I don't have the update and I'm a developer too :/

 

[nmilosevnm]

Re: Lumia 920 updating now, looks like Black

Not really sure, french version already got it AFAIK...

 

[AndrewL920]

Before Amber Update, the photo was wonderful, sharp and not yellowish which makes my friend using iPhone 5 and S3 Jealous.
After Amber Update, the photo was blurred and yellowish. ruined by jpeg/photo processing.
Nokia said that they address this issue with Black Update but unfortunately, they ended the support for their beta phone guinea 920 not fixing the problem.

Since Nokia ended their support for fixing camera issues with guinea 920, how do I get back to the stock firmware? Not Amber or Black.

PS: Open Nokia Camera App, Go to settings, and turn on Photo Preview. You will see how processing ruined the photo. As I said, before Amber the photos was sharp, wonderful, and not yellowish.

 

[broar94]

Re: Lumia 920 updating now, looks like Black

Thank you folks for the feedback. I've decided not to get Nokia 920 or 925. Can't imagine photos being ruined due to stupid post processing from Nokia itself. Lol.

 

[AndrewL920]

Re: Lumia 920 updating now, looks like Black

Thank you folks for the feedback. I've decided not to get Nokia 920 or 925. Can't imagine photos being ruined due to stupid post processing from Nokia itself. Lol.

You are doing the right thing. I love my phone but this camera firmware/software problem cannot be fixed by Nokia.

 

[FBirraque]

nothing EU dev version

I didn't received either Lumia Black for my Developer Firmware.

 

[anon(7900571)]

nokia beamer can now be installed on Lumia 920 running black firmware.

 

[Dietrich Cleijne]

It seems like my L920 is having a major update at the moment, looks like a big one so i guess it's the Black update.
I live in the Netherlands.

 

[Darren Walsh]

Re: Lumia 920 updating now, looks like Black

My battery is alot better now, even as I am messing with my phone a lot more because of the update, when I get home from work (07.00-18.00) I still have over 50% left

 

[benjaminries]

We really should not be surprised that there's no Black update yet for the EURO_DEV firmware. In all previous major WP8 updates, the EURO_DEV version tended to lag behind the carrier-branded releases by several weeks. This probably won't be any different.

 

[anon(7900571)]

Re: Lumia 920 updating now, looks like Black

even I noticed a great boost in battery life, I daily use runtastic pro for 1/2 hours with my fav playlist, I don't consider turning of Bluetooth,nfc and wifi they all are turned on 24X7(call me crazy on this but I am lazy ),don't use 3g/4g , wifi turned on even under lock screen,play casual games, checking wpcentral,forums,5 emails are synced in an interval of 30 min , reaching back home I still have 20-30 % left. Overall black update did something under the hood and I am quiet happy with it.

 

[Dietrich Cleijne]

Now i have the Black update installed.
The first thing i noticed was that my battery which was fully charged right before the update, was at 47% after the update.
Is that a bad thing, or is it a good thing and did the update give some extra battery life that just needs to be charged?
Time will tell.

 

[anon(7900571)]

Now i have the Black update installed.
The first thing i noticed was that my battery which was fully charged right before the update, was at 47% after the update.
Is that a bad thing, or is it a good thing and did the update give some extra battery life that just needs to be charged?
Time will tell.

Idk,it may be since updating phone needs lot of battery,Nokia also recommend connecting phone to wall.it does drain battery while the update is in progress,makes sense as new firmware,software is being downloaded and installed,migrating data,etc.

 

[bossmads]

to dayes agod in denmark

 

[Topherious]

I have the Australian Country Variant of the 920 and I just installed and updated to "Lumia Black"; I have the developer preview of GDR3 and updated with no problems. My new firmware version is 3051.40000.1349.007. Unfortunately for the Telstra branded 920 owners, the Telstra 920 update is still showing "Waiting for approval" as well so it looks to be still in testing which matches that Telstra were estimating a February release for the 920 update in their latest updates thread from last year.

The Nokia AU support page for the 920 has been updated to include the updated firmware and features of Black / GDR3:
Nokia Lumia 920 - Software Update and Downloads - Nokia - Australia

The .Availability in Asia Pacific web page still displays Black for the 920 as "Coming Soon":
Availability in Asia Pacific - Nokia

The one strange thing I have noticed is that in my Settings > About screen on my 920 the Hardware revision number has changed from 1.0.0.0 to 6.5.0.2. Everything else seems to be working well so far although I only updated 10 minutes ago so I'll see how it goes over the next day or so.

 

[Anbztht]

got mine last monday (spain country variant) so far so good no problems and it seems the battery life is better now, but i dont have the beamer app... u.u

 

[maverick786us]

When I updated mine to Lumia black. I charged it full. But next morning I was shocked when Insider showed only 41%. The surprising part, it remained 41% for 6 hours after heavy usage. I was surprised. I restarted my device and saw insider showing 74% :winktongue:

 

[Dietrich Cleijne]

I haven't got any issues with the camera on my L920 whether it was out of the box, or the amber or now with the black update.
The only problem with the pictures that i got was that my gel casing was reflecting the flash, which created a yellowish haze on my pictures.
So if i want to make pictures that require flash i take the casing of.

 

[Trent HartNick]

I also got the error message (80188309) ..
restarted phone..
tried updating again... also i made sure my screen did not time out..

Update done.. Now i have Lumia black..
what i noticed is..
the Temp files is now stuck 104MB.. which doesnt get cleared..