Right, so here's my story...
I've gone from an TouchPro2, to a 7Pro, to a Lumia 710, with a Lumia 610 business phone (still running 7.5 because it's rapid!!), to a Lumia 620, and finally got a Lumia 920 last Saturday...
Never in my life, have I known a phone as useless as the 920!! How on earth did Nokia even allow these units out of the factory (and don't say some units are okay, because it seems from threads on here, 50% of 920 users are happy, and 50% are being pushed towards iPhone's thanks to the useless battery).
Anyway, I've got rid of tonnes of Live Tiles (even the apps themselves incase, facebook, Bing suite of apps etc), turned off Location, Bluetooth, Tap to send, brightness to auto with lowest setting, only had 4 apps left with access to background services, done a soft reset of the phone (which interestingly perked the battery life from 33% before reset to 19% after it), turned off Facebook chat, turned off auto upload on photos, cut emails back to checking every hour... basically yeah, you get it, RENDERED THE PHONE NIGH ON USELESS!!
And still, I left it overnight, and during just under 5 hours sleep... it went from 100% charged to 48!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So now I'm on to a hard reset, just waiting for the phone to re-download the apps (why the hell can't it re-position the live tiles either - pathetic Microsoft, truly pathetic!), speaking of which, for the first time ever on a hard reset, it kept saying "attention required" on the apps, and telling me I had to accept the terms of service, I mean WTF!!! Eventually, I found the terms within the windows phone website, but what a complete joke, how fecking long have I been using the store for, made my first purchase in 2010 IIRC!!
So WITH all the stuff listed above running, on the 620, I'd get a good 8-12 hours, maybe even more, battery life on standby, even if hammering the phone, I'd get a good 4 - 6 hours.
With the 920, it's losing more an hour sitting there doing next to nothing because everything is turned off, than the 620 would with everything turned on, and me actually using the phone from time to time.
Don't get me wrong, I love the phone, the design, the feel, the camera, the screen etc, but Nokia have really screwed up here... I'm hoping a hard reset does the trick (thanks to Microsoft for making the process less automated than it should be), but if it doesn't, do I have a defective unit, or do I just keep hard-resetting until I have a unit that works as it should? Why are Nokia still permitting the sale of the 920 (and the 925 for that matter since the issues seem similar) when they clearly suffer severe issues (telling someone like me to hard reset is okay, but what about a n00b!).
:angry:
EDIT - just going through the phone (actually just done a hard reset so re-setting it up because Microsoft don't actually backup half the settings, how useful!!), and I have the following background tasks allowed, ONLY:
- Battery Pro+
- Frost Free
- Global News Reader
- Markets & Me
- my3
- WPCentral
All these have live tiles attached to them and all running on the 620 and 710 at present. Additionally, the 620 and 710 have double the amount of these live tiles, without issue.
I've also had Xbox gaming and music set to disconnected, which again, isn't done on the 620 or 710.
Anything that involves sending data to Microsoft or Nokia, is turned off. Facebook chat as mentioned, is turned off, it isn't in the 620 or 710. Location services are turned off, again they are turned on on the 620 and 710. Also save check in searches etc...
Mobile network has been changed from automatic to manual and my home network selected, maximum speed set to 3G (we have DC-HSDPA2+ but not 4G until December anyway).
I've actively turned lots off on the phone and in effect limited my enjoyment and usage of the phone, in a bid to conserve battery life. The lack of location services means frost only gives me my home location weather forecast for instance... what is the point in releasing such amazing phones, that aren't actually suitable for their intended use??
If I was an Apple, Blackberry or Android convert, I'd be running a mile right now!
I've gone from an TouchPro2, to a 7Pro, to a Lumia 710, with a Lumia 610 business phone (still running 7.5 because it's rapid!!), to a Lumia 620, and finally got a Lumia 920 last Saturday...
Never in my life, have I known a phone as useless as the 920!! How on earth did Nokia even allow these units out of the factory (and don't say some units are okay, because it seems from threads on here, 50% of 920 users are happy, and 50% are being pushed towards iPhone's thanks to the useless battery).
Anyway, I've got rid of tonnes of Live Tiles (even the apps themselves incase, facebook, Bing suite of apps etc), turned off Location, Bluetooth, Tap to send, brightness to auto with lowest setting, only had 4 apps left with access to background services, done a soft reset of the phone (which interestingly perked the battery life from 33% before reset to 19% after it), turned off Facebook chat, turned off auto upload on photos, cut emails back to checking every hour... basically yeah, you get it, RENDERED THE PHONE NIGH ON USELESS!!
And still, I left it overnight, and during just under 5 hours sleep... it went from 100% charged to 48!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So now I'm on to a hard reset, just waiting for the phone to re-download the apps (why the hell can't it re-position the live tiles either - pathetic Microsoft, truly pathetic!), speaking of which, for the first time ever on a hard reset, it kept saying "attention required" on the apps, and telling me I had to accept the terms of service, I mean WTF!!! Eventually, I found the terms within the windows phone website, but what a complete joke, how fecking long have I been using the store for, made my first purchase in 2010 IIRC!!
So WITH all the stuff listed above running, on the 620, I'd get a good 8-12 hours, maybe even more, battery life on standby, even if hammering the phone, I'd get a good 4 - 6 hours.
With the 920, it's losing more an hour sitting there doing next to nothing because everything is turned off, than the 620 would with everything turned on, and me actually using the phone from time to time.
Don't get me wrong, I love the phone, the design, the feel, the camera, the screen etc, but Nokia have really screwed up here... I'm hoping a hard reset does the trick (thanks to Microsoft for making the process less automated than it should be), but if it doesn't, do I have a defective unit, or do I just keep hard-resetting until I have a unit that works as it should? Why are Nokia still permitting the sale of the 920 (and the 925 for that matter since the issues seem similar) when they clearly suffer severe issues (telling someone like me to hard reset is okay, but what about a n00b!).
:angry:
EDIT - just going through the phone (actually just done a hard reset so re-setting it up because Microsoft don't actually backup half the settings, how useful!!), and I have the following background tasks allowed, ONLY:
- Battery Pro+
- Frost Free
- Global News Reader
- Markets & Me
- my3
- WPCentral
All these have live tiles attached to them and all running on the 620 and 710 at present. Additionally, the 620 and 710 have double the amount of these live tiles, without issue.
I've also had Xbox gaming and music set to disconnected, which again, isn't done on the 620 or 710.
Anything that involves sending data to Microsoft or Nokia, is turned off. Facebook chat as mentioned, is turned off, it isn't in the 620 or 710. Location services are turned off, again they are turned on on the 620 and 710. Also save check in searches etc...
Mobile network has been changed from automatic to manual and my home network selected, maximum speed set to 3G (we have DC-HSDPA2+ but not 4G until December anyway).
I've actively turned lots off on the phone and in effect limited my enjoyment and usage of the phone, in a bid to conserve battery life. The lack of location services means frost only gives me my home location weather forecast for instance... what is the point in releasing such amazing phones, that aren't actually suitable for their intended use??
If I was an Apple, Blackberry or Android convert, I'd be running a mile right now!
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