Nokia/MS/L920: I *want* to love you but ...
So I've had a month with my L920 now. Previously an android user and spent some time flashing custom roms etc. In fact, that latter point was one of the reasons I made a change - too much choice/customisation became a bit of a pain. That, and the L920's camera. But ... you knew there was one... some basic things still get me.
1) The freezing issue - requiring a soft reboot - well, just to be clear the phone goes off (screen black) and the phone is unresponsive to anything but a soft reboot. This had only happened to me once in the past (while on the wireless charger). Today it's happened twice while off charge. Thankfully I wasn't relying it on an alarm this morning but after this, I doubt I ever would. I haven't updated to Portico (UK user and software isn't due out to February. Could do it manually but really I don't want to as not really sure that what I'll be loading will be what Nokia release to the UK).
2) On soft resetting, as I've done twice today, the time gets reset to September 2012, 5.30am. Auto setting the time has never worked on mine. It's really tedious to have to do this manually each time. Why doesn't this work?
3) App updates - it amazes me that there can be updates out there for apps that don't get pushed to my phone until a week or so later. Yesterday I had eight of them - could be that the crashing is related but with no idea which (or indeed if it's a newer app I've installed), it's a real hunt and pick to find the culprit (if there is one!). A combination of known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Arghh!
4) Nokia Drive - this was working perfectly until I actually REALLY needed it this weekend. Then the app was freezing/not updating.
5) MMS. Due to the bug with WP8 not accepting a port number after the MMS url, I can't send MMS over Virgin UK. This is documented in various places. No fix works for me unless I connect to data - I'm sure I don't need data on to receive MMS ...
6) Backup - given I've had to hard reset the phone a few times to try and solve issues already, the backup/restore solution is truly poor. I know this is well-acknowledges but I'm just listing the issues I'm having.
7) Swapping between WIFI networks - it just doesn't do it for me. I mean, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. CHecking any time I wander into range of a different network (we have a couple in our house) is a pain.
8) The WP store - this has been out of service at least four times in the last month (and I checked and worldwide people seemed to have issues). In fact, right NOW when I go to reinstall Nokia Drive, I get: "The Microsoft account service in unavailable at the moment. Try again later.'
I love the hardware, I love the OS in general terms, even the nokia official case is brilliant (soft one). But the basics are just that. Fundamental to operating the phone.
I'm struggling here. Any advice? (And pls don't tell me to return it as I've got a dud. I don't think there's anything wrong with the phone and I've never had to return a phone for hardware issues in the past.)
Ok. Just putting on protective armour now. FIRE AWAY!
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