NOKIA Lumia 920: AMAZING phone! Got mine today

[Cubara]

Congrats! I'm considering it too.
I would like you to ask you about some things(issues for me), I don't like on my omnia 7 too much.
1. Is to possible to assign other search engine app to search button(like Google)?
2. Is it possible to disable contact & calendar synchronization with live account?
3. Is there any protection to avoid pushing back and especially search button when any apps are running?
Thanks for your experience. Sry for buggy english .

 

[jaygss]

Congrats! I'm considering it too.
I would like you to ask you about some things(issues for me), I don't like on my omnia 7 too much.
1. Is to possible to assign other search engine app to search button(like Google)?
2. Is it possible to disable contact & calendar synchronization with live account?
3. Is there any protection to avoid pushing back and especially search button when any apps are running?
Thanks for your experience. Sry for buggy english .

To 2:

you can not deactivate it completely, but you can set it not to sync/show
- in your contacts, filter contacts and uncheck "Windows Live".
- in the calendar you can select your windows live calendar not to show

Not to best way, but maybe a small help for your Omnia

 

[Niavlys77]

Campared to Lumia 900

Congrats!
I was just curious about the vibrate rattle you mentioned, any chance you could post a video to hear the sound? My 900 rattles horribly and it drives me nuts. Does it rattle when you simply shake the phone?
Also a big question for me: is there FM radio anywhere!? It's kind of a must have for me, but I keep looking and all I see is no mention of FM radio on any Windows 8 phones.

 

[socialcarpet]

Does black look as deep and dark as it does on the 900's AMOLED screen?

That's one thing I love about the 900 that I was kind of wondering about on the 920 since they went to IPS...

 

[Niavlys77]

Does black look as deep and dark as it does on the 900's AMOLED screen?

That's one thing I love about the 900 that I was kind of wondering about on the 920 since they went to IPS...

I'll second socialcarpet's question. The deep blacks really set the 900's screen apart. How are the blacks on the 920?

 

[Cubara]

To 2:

you can not deactivate it completely, but you can set it not to sync/show
- in your contacts, filter contacts and uncheck "Windows Live".
- in the calendar you can select your windows live calendar not to show

Not to best way, but maybe a small help for your Omnia

Thanks for your suggestion, I've tried it again few minutes ago, but it does not help me too much . If i disable showing a live calendar, I'm not able to use it at all. In case I add any appointment the calendar is automatically enabled again. Same for contacts, if I filter live contacts out i don't see almost any of them, even no SIM ones. I just forgot to mention, that these problems are relevant, because me and my brother have phones associated with same live account to avoid duplicite marketplace purchases... Just LMAO...

 

[jaygss]

Thanks for your suggestion, I've tried it again few minutes ago, but it does not help me too much . If i disable showing a live calendar, I'm not able to use it at all. In case I add any appointment the calendar is automatically enabled again. Same for contacts, if I filter live contacts out i don't see almost any of them, even no SIM ones. I just forgot to mention, that these problems are relevant, because me and my brother have phones associated with same live account to avoid duplicite marketplace purchases... Just LMAO...

Do you have another account with calendar and contacts available?

For example Google or so? Or just another live account.

I just tried it with my Calendar, and it selects automatically the next available Account if I disable the accounts I don't want (for example the main calendar of the main live account.

I am not 100% sure about the Contacts, but I think it should be the same, I just tried filtering my "live" contacts out and when I try to add another contact, it is to my Google account automatically!

I think it is not possible to use no (online) account at all, but for your case, make 2 live accounts (as secondary!) and one of you use each one of them For the calendar you could just make two calendars on calendar.live.com and each use of it it.

Hope it helps!

Edit: You can copy the Contacts of the Windows Live account by exporting it (online on mail.live.com at export) and then importing it with your new account (another hotmail, google or whatever account which supports contacts sync)

 

[graigsmith]

One more thing worth noting: You don't have to go through Zune to access photos, media, songs, etc. Even to put songs on your phone, you just plug the phone in and access it like a normal USB flash drive. Love that Microsoft went this route.

If you have any questions about the phone feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer them.

THAT'S AWESOME. I was worried that you would only be able to access cards and not the memory on the phone.

I do have a question.. alarms. can you use a piece of music to wake up to an alarm?

 

[Cubara]

Do you have another account with calendar and contacts available?

For example Google or so? Or just another live account.

I just tried it with my Calendar, and it selects automatically the next available Account if I disable the accounts I don't want (for example the main calendar of the main live account.

I am not 100% sure about the Contacts, but I think it should be the same, I just tried filtering my "live" contacts out and when I try to add another contact, it is to my Google account automatically!

I think it is not possible to use no (online) account at all, but for your case, make 2 live accounts (as secondary!) and one of you use each one of them For the calendar you could just make two calendars on calendar.live.com and each use of it it.

Hope it helps!

Edit: You can copy the Contacts of the Windows Live account by exporting it (online on mail.live.com at export) and then importing it with your new account (another hotmail, google or whatever account which supports contacts sync)

Thank you jaygss, you helped a lot. It behaves exatly as you describe it. The problem was that goolgle and facebook calendars were enabled in calendar setting but the calendar sync was disabled in google/facebook account settings, so that was the reason why the phone was reenabling live calendar over and over again. With contacts it works also. I will try move all our contacts to separate google accounts as you described. Thanks once again.

 

[pezman726]

I have a question...

What is the file system formatted as? NTFS or FAT?

Thanks,
Pez

 

[fierywater]

I'm pretty sure unity04 got rid of his 920 after getting two defective units in a row, per http://forums.windowscentral.com/lumia-920/200306.htm. Therefore, I doubt he'll answer these questions.

 

[iLLGT3]

I really can't wait to get one of these.

I've never really cared about a phone as much as I do this one.

 

[lippidp]

Does the home screen switch when in landscape? That to me is such a huge fail on WP currently.

 

[jonathan sink]

As bad as who says? I haven't read any legit reviews.

I read the cnet uk review this morning the writer was claiming 4hr battery life. He listed the things he was doing but it still caught me off guard not enough still getting the phone of course

Nokia Lumia 920 Review | Mobile Phones | CNET UK

 

[fwaits]

Thanks for your suggestion, I've tried it again few minutes ago, but it does not help me too much . If i disable showing a live calendar, I'm not able to use it at all. In case I add any appointment the calendar is automatically enabled again. Same for contacts, if I filter live contacts out i don't see almost any of them, even no SIM ones. I just forgot to mention, that these problems are relevant, because me and my brother have phones associated with same live account to avoid duplicite marketplace purchases... Just LMAO...

Couldn't you just create different calendars on the same account then on one phone turn off his calendar in the settings (not the account, the specific calendar) and vice versa on his phone?

 

[socialcarpet]

Does the home screen switch when in landscape? That to me is such a huge fail on WP currently.

If you can't lock orientation then no thanks.

 

[independentvolume]

I'll second socialcarpet's question. The deep blacks really set the 900's screen apart. How are the blacks on the 920?

The 900s blacks are way darker than the 920s. The 920 is an IPS screen so it's a bit lighter. The one thing I like about the 900 is the super blacks. I may pick up the 822 because of this.

 

[VagrantWade]

I prefer IPS. The AMOLED on my Vita was overrated. "The blacks are blacker!" Yea okay.

 

[Reeves]

Deep, inky blacks are great. Exaggerated colors, moderate brightness and blue-ish whites are not.

I copped a 900 today to help me with the wait. It's cool, but I'm glad they're losing the AMOLED for their flagship.

 

[independentvolume]

I prefer IPS. The AMOLED on my Vita was overrated. "The blacks are blacker!" Yea okay.

I prefer Ips as well, mainly for the increased battery life, but it's hard to argue that the 900 has some awesome, deep blacks. Also, why on earth did you buy a Vita?