HELP!! I have a Lumia 1020 (Avaxx), and I was trying to roll it back to Windows 8 so that I could get the Cyan update. I know I should have been patient, but I wasn't. I knew that the mini USB connection on my phone was kinda quirky, and sometimes it would connect to my computer when I plugged it in and sometimes it wouldn't (Windows would tell me that it would connect and disconnect, repeatedly, and sometimes it said it didn't recognize the device.)

So while I was trying to do the recovery, it connected and disconnected, and the Nokia Recovery Tool didn't go anywhere. I was hoping that it would but after a long while, it didn't go anywhere again. (it was stuck at 0%...)

I restarted the Nokia Recovery Tool and my Phone...but the recovery tool won't pick up my phone, and my phone is stuck on the red nokia screen.

Is there anything I can do?


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perhaps you should try other PC to recover?? or replace our USB cable?

yesterday i'm don't what the problem, my phone suddenly high data usage.

i received sms from maxis suddenly remaining 200mb, then i checked the status remaining 150mb ...then i fast fast reboot the phone and check back the ussd status and remaining 110mb...

before i reboot the phone, data sense also stated i left 200mb. after reboot, i check the data sense back to 600mb...

i also not sure what the heck is going on and i using dev pre wp8.1 gdr 1....

soft bricked
this one is tricky to recover it
you may send to nokia store if you don't want to mess up anything

I do notice that in update 1 the data sense is not accurate
it shows 64mb remaining for my plan but, I ady got sms for mobile operator saying that I used 100% quota
maybe we should wait for Microsoft to update data sense for update 1

620 already got cyan update or not?

Somehow tried to update my Nokia 520, but it seems to be getting stuck at "checking for updates" for a very long time until the 5 minute screen time out cuts in.

sometimes it will need longer than 5 minutes
the longest time i wait is 15 mins

how to view the video on youtube in desktop mode??

using IE redirect the youtube to its mobile mode

Done updating to 8.1 on my 1020. Should I soft reset, hard reset, or leave it be?

Wanna leave it be at the moment to test the battery drainage.

Type "www.youtube.com/?app=desktop" in the URL and press enter OR just go to the mobile site, press the youtube icon on the left top, scroll down until you see desktop



PS : You may need to request to use HTML5 from Youtube here

This post has been edited by Assassin's: Aug 18 2014, 01:52 PM

Thank you for the reply, wow, that's a long time to wait. It's unfortunate that Windows Phone(s) doesn't have the ability to leave the screen continuously turned on without sleeping like on some Android phones. Have to manually tap the screen then.

WP have Glance Screen , glance screen background. Sadly some Lumia model no longer have glance screen.

screen always on battery drain like hell lol.

windows phone sales is declining..

that means possibilities many developers will abandon windows phone ship are high and beta apps will remain beta forever.this worried me because i love my 925 so much and plan to upgrade my windows phone..

what do you think?windows phone still have future?

yes, you can adjust screen timeout to never so it stays always on

for checking updates, you wont need to keep the screen on. it can runs in background.

user are increasing, apps are increasing, app downloads are increasing
windows phone is growing

I don't think my 520 running on Lumia Black update has the glance screen, screen always on as an option is useful when you're reading or watching some long video, I personally set my androids to "always on" and "immediately lock via power button" to avoid accidental turning it on and keeping it on when I needed it.

On the 520, it seems maximum is 5 minutes, I thought it could run in the background too, but each time the screen time out and I turn it immediately back on, the process seemed to stop. Already on my 15th minute waiting for the "checking for updates" to change to anything useful, couldn't be the connection since I'm on 10mbps and had done a test download before pressing on "check for updates"

This is starting to be a little frustrating

maybe do a soft reset?

on my 920 there is an "never" option for screen timeout

Had actually posted on Nokia Malaysia regarding it. Last resort, backup, reset, try again.

Wow, 8.1 really have huge improvements on battery usage. During 8.0 my batt drain was 8% per hour as reported by Battery app.

After updating, it drained 10-11% because I didn't disable apps in the Battery Saver. After disabling most of them, leaving only the essentials apps to run in background, and a full charge.. I get 5% per hour (data on, LTE on) And I didn't need to soft/hard reset at all.