i received RM150 voucher from Nokia but no news on the wireless charger availability. How to spend it...

nokia drive?

probably due to stock insufficient.

Guys need help. There seems to be a problem with my SMS. I can send out sms but the sent sms doesnt appear in the SMS app. Can receive SMS as well but doesnt appear also just banner only. Soft reset didnt help. arghhh

is it available on navifirm?

and i bricked my phone trying to solve the sms issue... now following the steps here http://forums.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-92...ned-inside.html to bring it back. WP8 just not mature enough. i think i will go back to my old iphone 4s. lucky havent sold it.

whats the firmware number? i could only find the original firmware.

Edit: nvm i found it. heh looks like theres one good reason for the bricking. Gonna flash it to portico. it should be this:

1232.5951.1249.1007

weird that theres malaysian firmware for Grey 920 for both stock and portico firmware when grey is not available here.

This post has been edited by prash: Jan 22 2013, 02:21 PM

successfully flashed my bricked 920 with Malaysian Portico firmware. will give more detailed review tmr after i test daylight photography which is supposedly better with portico and also the battery life.

GKwong u also flashed ur phone to portico? or u memang in US

still in office. indoor here i barely noticed any difference. seems to be slightly better but maybe placebo. here in kuching raining nonstop no sun outside also. hopefully better during lunch time. later tonite i wanna detail out some problems WP8 has that clearly shows it immaturity.

which means you have not tried the restore process. read my experience later tonite. Need to be careful with WP8 restore process for it to run smoothly.

and high number of users reporting bricking during hard reset including me.

follow the instructions here http://forums.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-92...ned-inside.html. After you installed navifirm look for RM-821 and then 1232.5951.1249.1007. Thats the malaysian portico firmware but dont blame if something goes wrong because indo should have their own firmware.

so as i was saying, i bricked my 920 while hard reseting and had no choice but to flash it to bring it back alive. thankfully the malaysian portico update is available and flashed to that. Below is my experience:

1. Flashing process itself is very fast

2. After its completed, its back to factory settings and will ask you to log in

3. This is where WP8 is rather stupid. You CANNOT setup wifi first. You must sign in using data. So happen my data connection was not stable and my phone got stuck at the sign in. Soft reset. I walked out of the hotel to get better reception and it signed in smoothly. walked back in hotel to get wifi and the restore process switched to wifi.

4. Contacts, calls history and sms history restored rather smoothly but the app restoration is flawed. this is because it only restores apps from your current region. u get some errors for the rest. i switched region later and some download but a bunch seems to still show error.

5. Despite the errors, i seem to have gotten all my apps back. But the download errors remains. So i manually delete the downloads one by one.

6. There is also just one backup for you to chose to restore from. The latest one. All app data is gone. My whatsapp message history all gone.

7. Over all i didnt enjoy the restoration process

8. On portico, the features it brought all works fine. wifi is always on now hence whatsapp works better. There seems to be no difference on battery life so far and pictures seem better but i am afraid its the placebo effect.


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i am thinking of selling off my lumia red and go back to my old iphone 4s. Maybe come later to WP with nokias 2013 flagship on WP9

edit: i meant for this to combine with my previous post

This post has been edited by prash: Jan 24 2013, 12:33 PM

there is no phone in market that catches my eye. Its 2013. better wait for some 2013 phones.

dont get u. Samsung yet to release their new flagship (S4) and Sony just announced theirs. Looking forward to see what samsung has to offer. If the built quality and design is like S3 then me no like.

but i have no complains on the 920 hardware wise. Nokia can provide superb phones but its microsoft that needs to step up.

i am not the type that changes the phone all the time. my last phone lasted 2 years and the reason i switched was the battery was shit and was bored of iOS. wanted to try something new.

IMO even though new phones are released every 6 months the hardware difference between these phones wont be so much to truly consider your phone "outdated". Besides while hardware is churned out every 6 months, can the software keep up? whats the point of all the hardware if the software cant utilize it?

I am just looking for a phone that has a good balance between hardware and software. iPhone has that but its so damn common and every year the phone seems to look the same.

I couldnt find a free pdf reader that supports password protected pdfs. I wanna read my CC statements on my phone.

no. I just didnt bother looking into details of the paid ones. This is option should be free. adobe seems to have official pdf app for wp7 but yet to make one for WP8. disappointing.


One another note, I am experiencing an issue with the proximity sensor. When i put the phone on my right ears, i tend to accidently end call midway because my cheekbone hit the end call button. I made a hypothesis that this is due to the fact that on my right hand side, the proximity sensor will be placed further from my head. Seems to be a liable theory since this does not happen when i have it on my left hand side. any one else facing this issue?