Official Lumia 820 Amber Update Thread

[Telu Darkwaver]

Received the Amber update today on my Nokia Lumia 820 EE/T-Mobile (UK) Phone information has "Amber" stamped on it, so I cant really miss it...

Took a few minutes to download, 10 minutes to install, all went smoothly, running all day so far.

Impressions: (i marked them out of 5, low score indicates a feature thats useful but not really something I would consider to be priority)

Data sense: good idea, it is handy I guess if your on a limited internet tariff 1/5
Camera: seems much quicker, now supports the nokie 920 cam app, seems more responsive too....3/5
Color profile: not a bad idea, played with it a little, seems okay, seemed a bit low priority feature to me...1/5
Tap to wake: probably my favorite item, about time, no more power buttons, a very important feature!...5/5
Glance: its okie, but i leave it off as "tap to wake" allows me to check the screen anyway, feels like "tap to wake" x2...4/5
Radio: works okay, dont really use it much, again useful but not exactly a priority feature...3/5
Txt/calls: handy and about time, a priority feature to me, very handy for those bad numbers! 4/5
Video trim: Its a phone, Its useful and handy but not a priority feature...1/5
HTML5: Again useful improvements, but not something I would consider a priority feature 2/5 (for stability)

Apart from "tap to wake" and the camera, I was a bit underwhelmed...

I just wish we would get a notification light, I am beginning to think that MS/Nokia has a problem they dont seem to want to talk about technically speaking. I mean "glance" and "tap to wake" address the issue of not getting notifications partially, or missing them because you have to physically turn the phone on to find out if you have missed a call or message or email.

But is MS/Nokia incapable of adding a blinking light notification??? This seems a tad odd considering they just used the proximity sensor for glance??? Is the hardware not capable of this feature? What are they not telling us here??? One of the most important aspects of a phone is communciation, "tap to wake" and "glance" address some of that issue, but a notification light would alert you visually. Just seems a tad strange they havent dealt with this problem yet....

*Added at the end of the day, battery usage seems much better, the phones been on all day, wifi, a few calls, internet, a game, text messaging, skyping, I have reset the phone twice to make sure its not a stuck battery level to be sure, but so far after 12 hours of use I still have 71% of my battery left, I hope that holds up...

Glance/peek doesnt seem to have impacted my battery at all, which was probably my biggest concern....

 

[JimiDiGriz]

You don't mention any improvement in 'other' storage. Mine hasn't budged and inch, this was one of the main reasons I was looking forward to GDR2. The other stuff is fine but I want my 2gb back!

 

[Telu Darkwaver]

if you are asking me about storage, i did not really notice any difference, why I didnt mention it. Seems about the same to me...again, overall why I was underwhelmed by the update...the only great thing seems to be the tap to wake, battery life and faster overall use of the phone... i checked it and it says other storage 584mb, I cant remember what is was before, so no idea if that was an improvement...

 

[pgoelz]

I just wish we would get a notification light, I am beginning to think that MS/Nokia has a problem they dont seem to want to talk about technically speaking. I mean "glance" and "tap to wake" address the issue of not getting notifications partially, or missing them because you have to physically turn the phone on to find out if you have missed a call or message or email.

What all smartphone are missing is a missed call BEEPER so I don't have to take the danged thing out of my pocket to see if MAYBE I missed a call. There are plenty of times when, even if the phone is in my possession, I miss a call due to a noisy environment. The phone shoul dperiodically remind me that I missed something. This is a ridiculous omission in a device that as you aptly said is a COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE. Why this is not baked into the OS from day one is utterly beyond me. It is also one of the reasons that, as much as I like WP8, I am still considering going back to Android. At least in Android you can get an app that can do missed call reminder BEEPS.

Paul

 

[Telu Darkwaver]

Does seem a tad strange does it not... They are either unwilling or unable to make this change...? I mean its a big boo-boo to not know if youve recieved calls or texts on a phone, I would consider that to be a very high priority feature that they appear to have overlooked, Design flaw....???

Glance/Peek goes some way to fixing this issue, but doesnt address the underlying problem... I have always like windows phones, (since my pocket pc days), so will stick with it and hope they do something about it soon, I dont want to go back to android...

 

[jimbow76]

I just got the Amber update OTA

820
Developer Device
USA
Carrier unlocked with AT&T GoPhone SIM

Is yours rm-824?

 

[Musa Auwal]

Please help Me with a correct link where I can download the rm-825 l820 amber update custom roms, I need it please me guys

 

[markybean]

I got amber update.. But still I have duplicated music files.. I already reformatted my memory card.

 

[X0LARIUM]

Anyone else has the Facebook picture issue? I have realized this problem is common on 720 as well. The Facebook picture reverts back to some old picture. In spite of uploading it through the phone...help?

Sent from NOKIA LUMIA 820!

 

[Ivan Hristov]

Am I imagining or after the update the camera is draining the battery much faster. Also the camera app is heating the phone(not like playing games but it wasn't like that before Amber)

Sent from my RM-825_im_mea3_429 using Tapatalk

 

[Toykan Topcu]

Hello everyone, it's my first post!

I bought lumia820 a week ago. It is the first wp experience I have. So I had no idea about GDR2 or Amber updates. The day after I bought the phone, there was 3 or 4 different update notifications showed up and I did them without taking them seriously.

Then I read some about amber and gdr2. Recklessly I gave a factory reset to my phone in order to a fresh start with more awareness of optimization for battery. After factory reset, there was no update. And without opening pages in store, I could not update my screen and etc. But when I glance an application at store which is not updated on my phone, then the store shows "1" on tile which brings me to the update to application. Is it what you had to do on "amberation" period?

More specific, I want to ask you that
1. is it normal to be have to use a "lumia updater" or "sys pusher" for getting functions of amber one by one?
2. when you successfully updated amber, did you have to update some tools like "extra-info" by manual?
3. how can i check whether my phone is properly updated (both gdr and amber)?

That's all..
I hope I could make my problem clear.

 

[hoj1955]

Finally got my usa ATT gdr2 & Amber update. All went well. Really missed the fm radio from my N8. Better late then never I suppose.

 

[SajId Shaikh]

How can we get Amber update (apart from WiFi)? I remember, old Nokia phones had a PC Suite to update firmware. Can we get the Amber update through a similar way?

 

[stiflingcobra]

How can we get Amber update (apart from WiFi)? I remember, old Nokia phones had a PC Suite to update firmware. Can we get the Amber update through a similar way?

Its a called Nokia Software For Retail.

Download it and flash away!!! Although it will do a hard reset if your data so back everything up first!!

 

[Jesuszc35]

I am a little concern about updating my cell phone using nsu, but it seens that workout pretty well for you, thank you for share that pic.

 

[Piratelooksat40]

I just got my update yesterday 10/14. I have AT&T and a 820. I am now updated to 8.0.10328.78. However I don't have Data Sense on my phone.

 

[tpbklake]

It's not in the AT&T build. :unhappy:

 

[SajId Shaikh]

Its a called Nokia Software For Retail.

Download it and flash away!!! Although it will do a hard reset if your data so back everything up first!!

Flashing your phone even through Nokia software can void the warranty. So, is it a good idea?

 

[Carlos Galvez]

HELP! I updated my phone but i didnt realize that i have enough space i think. There was a notification that i can update the os without internet connection. I clicked yes and it updated by itself without connection, for some reason . At first i thought it was updating but it took so long that i removed the battery so that it will cancel by itself, but what happened is , it restarted and restarted multiple times and i cant even open my phone anymore. What solutions can i do with this problem? Please reply asap.

 

[dgaga]

hello everyone?
am in Rwanda and my country is not listed (Availability in Africa - Nokia), then when i go to setting ›› extras+info i find software release " lumia Amber" but when i check on setting ›› phone update the message is your phone is up to date.
plz can someone help me how to get lumia amber? because can't wait...