Official Lumia 920 GDR2/Amber Update Thread

[pankaj981]

Re: Wireless charging issue with GDR2+Amber

I'm having an issue with wireless charging after updating to GDR2/Amber. Before the update I could put my phone on the wireless charging stand before I went to bed and wake up in the morning with it fully charged. After the update I wake up with the phone around 70% and not charging (the light on the charging stand comes for a second every couple of minutes but won't stay on). I need to do some more testing but I think the phone is getting fully charged during the night, the charger is switching off and then the phone is discharging but the charger isn't turning on again, or at least when it does turn on it decides the phone doesn't need charging and switches off again immediately. Even in this state the phone still recognises that it's on the charger, it shows the plug over the battery symbol in the top right of the screen, but it's just not charging.

I have the Glance feature set to peak, which means the clock shows constantly (in night mode) while the phone is on the charger (and the phone recognises that it's on the charger, even in the morning when it's no longer charging). I'm going to try to turn that off and see if it helps but I thought I'd check first if anyone else has this issue?

No issues here

 

[pankaj981]

Re: NL 920 Flash no longer working after GDR2 (AT&T)

Likely a result of my flashing the rom and certainly not a dealbreaker on a phone I've had for a year now but if I can fix it, all the better. After flashing GDR2, my flash stopped working. For the record, I can confirm that it is a software issue as I've swapped out mine and my son's NL 920 casings with the flash built in and it worked on his whereas mine was at a loss (Of course this could imply a issue with the connection between the flash and the mobo but there really isn't much of one.) So, any suggestions?

Flash to your phone variant orig rom or try an unbranded rom like the euro dev

 

[Iain_S]

newer GDR2 firmware is starting to appear on Nokia servers for RM-821.
3049.0000.1330.0XXX

 

[z33dev33l]

Re: NL 920 Flash no longer working after GDR2 (AT&T)

Flash to your phone variant orig rom or try an unbranded rom like the euro dev

Don't believe flashing back to att stock is possible

 

[Devamps]

newer GDR2 firmware is starting to appear on Nokia servers for RM-821.
3049.0000.1330.0XXX

Really?
What is the product code, and that country is being released?

 

[Rod Hull]

Please understand that iOS is installed on only limited models of devices (3,3GS,4,4S,5) while there are variety of WP devices. This makes it very difficult for WP to prepare for the update "on par with iOS" if you mean to update all the devices at the same time. .

If you compare the internal specs of all of the iPhones and the Lumia range,there is actually more disparity between Apple's handsets than Nokia's. Had Microsoft not given reassurances that staggered update releases would be a thing of the past with WP8, many of us wouldn't be so frustrated.

 

[Blocks9]

On a further conversation with EE/Orange via a question regarding billing, i asked about the GDR2 availability, and i was told this will be coming soon, but not to expect until September. What a joke!

 

[Jonathan Piferrer]

In Latin America NOTHING YET..... :-(

 

[Rod Hull]

On a further conversation with EE/Orange via a question regarding billing, i asked about the GDR2 availability, and i was told this will be coming soon, but not to expect until September. What a joke!

Especially as the 920 launched in the UK on EE/Orange and didn't arrive on Vodafone for several months yet they have managed to push through the update almost immediately.

 

[KKRLessey]

Especially as the 920 launched in the UK on EE/Orange and didn't arrive on Vodafone for several months yet they have managed to push through the update almost immediately.

I know right! Hope they release it soon, got alot of apps I need to try out.

 

[loofmodnar]

Please understand that iOS is installed on only limited models of devices (3,3GS,4,4S,5) while there are variety of WP devices. This makes it very difficult for WP to prepare for the update "on par with iOS" if you mean to update all the devices at the same time. From the pace of the GDR2 official update release, we can see that devices of different brand/models/operators will experience different test procedure, which requires different time to finish. So just be patient as Nokia only promises to finish pushing Amber by the end of September. Move your target day of receiving Amber to the end of September and wait for some surprise to receive it earlier than that.

I get that there's a lot different Windows Phones out there but that doesn't mean jack to an end user who has to wait an extra three months to get a "released" update. Android has the same issue even on their Nexus line of phones. I waited a week and hadn't received a 4.3 update on my Galaxy Nexus then I got sick of waiting so I forced the update.

In terms of perceptions, Apple is a clear winner in that; if you read on a random website there was an update released you can go download it. It's funny because Microsoft had a great idea to get around this issue with their "enthusiasts" program that never materialized.

 

[Angry Pixel]

Isnt glance supposed to stay hidden and only get activated by proximity sensor or movement when kept in "Peek" mode? Its stays on always for me.

 

[z33dev33l]

Isnt glance supposed to stay hidden and only get activated by proximity sensor or movement when kept in "Peek" mode? Its stays on always for me.

mine works.

 

[uselessrobot]

Apple has the clout to impose their will because carriers want the opportunity to carry the iPhone. Microsoft, however, always seems desperate for partnerships even though they just end up getting screwed. The end result is that they, and their userbase, are the ones who get the short end of the stick. All carriers care about is peddling the most profitable hardware, be it the iPhone 5 and or the Galaxy S4, partnerships be damned. Good luck finding a Nokia Lumia in any of the big retailers and carrier stores tuck away those phones in the corner, actively discouraging their purchase. Coincidentally or not, the marketplace is aligned against Windows Phone.

The fact that there is a wide variety of devices running Windows Phone is Microsoft's fault for allowing it and Nokia's fault going nuts releasing a multitude of devices. Nokia alone has released something like 10 different phones in the past year. Many of these feature different chipsets and maybe half of them are crippled with insufficient RAM for many of the latest apps.

Apple, on the other hand, releases a single phone every year, each one of those a derivative of the previous model. The hardware through each generation has been based on the same chipsets. Apple is even smart enough to make their displays choices uniform and conform to easy standards. This makes it incredible easy for developers to scale their apps and games across all Apple devices. Even the budget oriented iPhone 5c is likely to feature the same hardware as an older, but still viable device, ensuring easy compatibility. Apple has a lock on uniformity down to the level of being deliberate about screen resolutions. Instead of the supplier-driven randomness of Android or Windows Phone Apple's displays all scale very neatly with each other.

Certainly, from a marketing perspective it helps that Apple doesn't spill the beans prematurely. Sure, the press loves speculating on the next iPhone, but this is very different than Apple themselves going nuts with product and feature announcements months before they're ready for release. So Windows Phone users are well aware of coming functionality long before they'll have access to it. That initial excitement inevitably leads to frustration.

In no way am I an Apple ******, but it can't be denied that they make very smart business decisions. This is not a level playing field at all, and it's an uphill battle for Nokia and Microsoft meaning that they can't afford to make mistakes. Unfortunately, they keep making them, so it's hard to argue that many of these problems aren't self-inflicted. And the end result is a lot of ill will amongst users.

 

[Angry Pixel]

Aah, got it. Its stays on always when phone is getting charged. I read it somewhere but forgot. Just checked after removing charging cable and it worked flawlessly

 

[KKRLessey]

The problem is that they need the large number of devices to grow the marketshare of windows phone. And they can't only use high priced phones. So the trick is the balance both.

 

[WPer]

If you compare the internal specs of all of the iPhones and the Lumia range,there is actually more disparity between Apple's handsets than Nokia's. Had Microsoft not given reassurances that staggered update releases would be a thing of the past with WP8, many of us wouldn't be so frustrated.

I guess by "more disparity" you mean a larger difference of hardware performance, for example the processor in 3 runs much lower than that in 5, different screen resolution, different cameras, different memories and so on. The WP8 devices which were released in 2012 or 2013 may not seem to have a time-spreading line of products as iPhone.

However, the diversity of the inside components for WP devices would definitely larger than iPhone devices, simply because there are more than one brand out in the market. Nokia is the one with most number of models. Samsung, HTC even Huawei also have their lines of WP8 devices. They all have different models and also different supply chains to provide the components. For example, the light sensor to control the screen brightness on Lumia 920 is very likely to be different than that on HTC 8X, and the battery control logic for Samsung device can vary comparing with that of a Huawei product. So there is more "disparity" underneath than what we can see from the spec and all these disparity requires extra testing effort for a generic mobile OS. As for iOS, although the key components like CPU and screen could be dramatically different in iPhone 3 and 5, Apple, as the only hardware manufacture for iOS devices, can have full control of the component supply chain to maintain a very good consistency in term of their OS design. And even with the device disparity resulting from the hardware improvement, they can directly have the information of the disparity to target their OS design and testing. So I would say it is much easier to release a bugless iOS update than WP.

I was impatient during the first few days when the Amber began to rollout. But later I find I am expecting a stable feature updates rather than an early but buggy update. I don't want to take the risk of a possible phone brick to use a not-thoroughly-tested update. I choose to wait. Again, no one ever promises an exact date of update except the "end of September" from Nokia. All the impatience is introduced by the "leaked" news. We are going to get the update for sure in the coming 6 weeks. No need to be frustrated.

 

[Pheno.menon]

Amber update on international red version?

I'm using a red unlocked lumia 920 on T-Mobile in the US. Will I see this update automatically or do I have to flash a rom for it?

 

[jhoff80]

Am I going crazy, or are the "Nokia message," "Nokia email," etc. tones different in this update?

I know I was using built in tones before and yet I can't find the ones I was using anymore.

I flashed the developer ROM, if that makes any difference.

 

[KKRLessey]

Guys I'm curious, did your other storage go down with GDR2? Mine is 16GB with GDR1.