I replaced my UK Ativ S 2 days ago, however, now with GDR2 and lack of support and apps from Samsung, Im not sure if I should switch to a Lumia 920 and could do with some advice from the community.
My reasons are:
- Ativ S has an awful speaker with very low ringer and text message volumes, I sometimes miss calls.
- Since GDR2, my music/playlist syncing on SD Card is broken (2 or 3 tracks repeated, empty playlist), but is ok on the Phone storage.
- Camera is OK but sometimes blurry, so not an amazing Cam.
- AMOLED screen is a bit over saturated and unreadable in sunlight.
However, what Ive read about Lumia 920s, even after GDR2 update (Are these still true as of GDR2)..
Nokia music is still broken.. same issues as Im having above with the ativ sd card.
the 920 still randomly shuts down and crashes on basic tasks like phone calls and music sync.
Phone signal and wifi drops out randomly.
Sudden battery drains.
Im attracted to the Nokia because it has 32GB onboard , which is enough for me, useful Nokia apps, great sound and louder ringer volumes - apparently.
Great camera.. and of course, looks lovely.
I do love WP8, the best OS in a long time, I just cant decide whether to stick on Ativ S or 920.
Thanks
I'd stick with it. The only interop-unlocked device at the moment is the ATIV S, so I'd hold out until either a larger physical WP device releases e.g. the Lumia 1520? or a different device gets hacked.
For put music corect use a Windows phone app disponible in windows 8/ 8 Pro!
neergaby95 said:
For put music corect use a Windows phone app disponible in windows 8/ 8 Pro!
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????.. Don't quite understand what you mean..
Decided to stick on Ativ S... I sold the one I had.. and bought a brand new sealed one on eBay.. Scan Computers in the UK are selling an Unlocked batch off for £190 (inc P&P), now Sync'ing playlists to SD is working fine, so unless theres been an update, then I mustve had a faulty device.
Thankfully all sorted
Back to loving the Ativ S.. I just wish Samsung would Support it
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I am going crazy with windows mobile. i have never had a reliable phone with windows mobile there is always another problem. anyway who has had a nokia n95? how does it compare with your htc phones?
thicker, compared to touch hd , sometimes may open to the wong side while in your pocket(tight pocket) and go to media, It doesnt have a touchscreen!!! I only had it for 2days(a year ago), cause my Nokia 5610 was broken at that time, and after those 2 days I had to give the N95 back and use Nokia 6230!! How about some other nokia with symbian like Xseries or maybe some other phone (non Nokia) with touchscreen and symbian?
Still have mine!
You cannot compare to HTC phone as it like compare apples and bananas.
N95 is a very nice phone and I have no problem with mine actually the VoIP phone feature is very very good on the Nokia, much better than on any Windows phone I had.
But it's a question of taste, some like Windows some like Android and some like Symbian, but as said earlier it's a very nice phone.
Garcia
love the nokia n95
i have had this for about two years...i have used it as a back up phone. Completely customizable! i have android on it via flash. i also pay dumpphone unlimited internet prices thru at&t and in my town its gives me 3.5g full bars...i use at home as my internet just tether thru nokia suite and video works great....and no tethering fee!the cam is also still pretty good!
I had a Nokia N95 which I gave to my dad. Typical Nokia reliability and good voice/signal quality. Only problem the phone has is that the batery gets wasted pretty quick, nothing a spare battery couldn't fix. I am not sure what generation it is as I got the phone 3 years ago... He still has it though and it works perfectly and still looks great.
I used to have it, but sold it to get sony xperia x1.. I loved the camera on it, best camera i ever seen on a mobile phone.
Here are the smart phones that I have used:
Samsung SCH-I760 - 1 year
iPhone3G 16 GB - 3 months
Xperia X1 - 1.5 years
Nokia E90 - 3 months
Nokia N95 - 1 year
Here are phones that I have access through relatives:
HTC Touch Pro2 T-mobile - I've used it for 12 hours
Well...the Nokia N95 and the Nokia E90 are pretty much the same thing except:
1) You will realize that an accelerometer, not found on the E90, is useless on a Nokia N95 Phone because it's not a touch screen interface.
2) The N95 has 5 Megapixel Carl Zeiss high quality camera lens and senser. The Nokia E90 has 3 Megapixels with ordinary lens.
3) The Nokia N95 has excellent speakers. The Nokia E90 has excellent speakers but you need to place it on a surface that has an acoustic feedback (a wooden table is good enough). All-in-all the Nokia E90 speakers is 90% as good as the N95 (I promise).
4) N95 has headphone jack, and E90 has 2.5 mm miniature headphone jack.
Get the N95 if you want the music experience to be 10% better than the E90 and the camera to actually be useful. Get the E90 if you want excellent Personal Information Management and excellent media player.
All-in-all, I could not believe that the E90 was not marketed to the U.S. consumers. Because of this stupid bull**** reason, I bought the N95 first, which really fooled me. The E90 is a better phone.
Of course, this is coming from a guy who rarely use the camera, and mostly use the calendar application.
I agree with poetryrocksalot's points. I used my N95 in between my AT&T 8525 and Fuze. I love the N95 for:
- camera quality
- speaker quality
- Nokia SportsTracker. This is an excellent application for GPS tracking. I haven't found anything for WinMo that I like as much.
- smaller size and light weight
- built-in SyncML support
- general quality of hardware
Things I did not like about it that ultimately drove me back to WinMo:
- no touchscreen. I can't stress enough how frustrating it was to go from a touchscreen phone to a non-touchscreen phone.
- no copy/paste support outside of text editing areas. You can copy and paste in the SMS app, for example, but not the text of a web page.
- terrible, clunky email client. ProfiMail is better, but still limited.
- lack of ability to customize the OS. For example, the Nokia web browser comes with several useless bookmarks and bookmark folders that you cannot remove. There are apps that remove them for you, but they return on the next restart as they're built into the ROM.
- application signing
- lack of updates from Nokia
anybody want to trade me theirs? i have a good cdma touch pro i will trade or a htc wizard + sx66
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I agree with poetryrocksalot's points. I used my N95 in between my AT&T 8525 and Fuze. I love the N95 for:
- camera quality
- speaker quality
- Nokia SportsTracker. This is an excellent application for GPS tracking. I haven't found anything for WinMo that I like as much.
- smaller size and light weight
- built-in SyncML support
- general quality of hardware
Things I did not like about it that ultimately drove me back to WinMo:
- no touchscreen. I can't stress enough how frustrating it was to go from a touchscreen phone to a non-touchscreen phone.
- no copy/paste support outside of text editing areas. You can copy and paste in the SMS app, for example, but not the text of a web page.
- terrible, clunky email client. ProfiMail is better, but still limited.
- lack of ability to customize the OS. For example, the Nokia web browser comes with several useless bookmarks and bookmark folders that you cannot remove. There are apps that remove them for you, but they return on the next restart as they're built into the ROM.
- application signing
- lack of updates from Nokia
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Application signing was a nightmare
If you are looking for one, PM me. My father was talking about selling his yesterday.
Hi All
Back in July, I used to own an Ativ S, before I spotted the HTC One, after jumping ship to the One for 2 months, due to missing calls because of low ringer volume on the S and drawn by the Boomsound speakers, screen and lovely camera, I finally came back to WP8 as Android was just too messy for me and it never changes. Anyway, back in July.. my old Ativ S sync'd music and playlists great with WMP12 (Win7x64), no issues. I have about 15GB of music I like to carry round, so no good on internal storage.
However, now after returning to an unlocked UK Ativ S, v.8.0.10327.77, on the SD Card.. my music duplicates tracks (2 of everything) and the playlists are there, but with 0 songs in them, yet it all sync's perfectly when sync'd with the internal 16GB phone storage.. Im suing a 32GB Class 6 Samsung SD Card.
When I tried to sync using the WP desktop program, some tracks copied but most reported errors.
Anyone else seeing this or any suggestions
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Hi guys,
Im having real trouble getting music onto my Ativ S. I either sync it with Jriver or copy direct to the SD Card and it doubles up all of the tracks. Sometimes it triples or quadruples the track list. I then delete everything to start again but the tracks all stay listed on the phone. Is there a way to refresh the list? I dont want to blank the phone yet again.
I have searched but cant find any thing on this. Its so bad I had to go on holiday and had no music. Ironic that my old Android devices sync better with my Windows 8 desktop than my Windows 8 phone does!
I cant find any other decent music app in the store either. I really like my Ativ S but I also really like music. Will have to go back to Android just to have Poweramp back.
PS. I also tried by ditching the SD and just using the onboard memory, same issue. It all doubled again. Also photos seem to randomly double but that I can cope with.
It's a known issue, but should have been fixed in GDR2. Is your phone up to date? GDR2 should have been available for some weeks now.
I have a Lumia 920 (unlocked) which I flashed the dev 8.1
The problem started on the second update to WP8.1. Mic does not work, so people can't hear me talk and voice contorl/ Cortana does not 'hear' me. Also, there is zero sound output via either the speaker, headset jack or bluetooth. It's truly deaf and dumb.
I have downloaded and installed the Nokia Software Updater for Retail. It automatically detected and seems to have correctly installed the correct ROM (RM-820), which is ATT, since I see all the ATT bloatware. Yet the problem persists.
This is my work phone and I urgently need it.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
Ah yes, my old iPhone used to do this from time to time!. I recommend getting a really bright light and inspecting instead the headphone jack. Most likely, there is lint or some other debris in there. Clean it out, and you should be good to go! (I recommend a toothpick or other non-metal object, although I have used paper clips before with the phone off)
good luck!
Has anyone had any success using a Samsung Gear Sport/S3/Frontier with their Nokia 8? I bought a Gear Sport without realising that this Nokia flagship phone, only to find it will not complete the pairing process with the watch. Plenty of other non-Samsung Android phones work the Samsung Gear devices, yet Nokias sit in an odd niche that does not support them.
Really annoying because the device is really quite nice, just the odd idiosyncrasies of the Nokia 8 stopping it from working. Must be something to do with the Bluetooth implementation (where else have we see corner cutting in that department...AptX anyone?)
I use gear s2(predecessor) with Nokia 8 and don't have any issue so far. Software wise it should be similar to gear s3
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Has anyone had any success using a Samsung Gear Sport/S3/Frontier with their Nokia 8? I bought a Gear Sport without realising that this Nokia flagship phone, only to find it will not complete the pairing process with the watch. Plenty of other non-Samsung Android phones work the Samsung Gear devices, yet Nokias sit in an odd niche that does not support them.
Really annoying because the device is really quite nice, just the odd idiosyncrasies of the Nokia 8 stopping it from working. Must be something to do with the Bluetooth implementation (where else have we see corner cutting in that department...AptX anyone?)
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Same here... I bought Gear S3 a week ago but I can't complete the pairing process with my Nokia 8. I tried every method and solution I could find but still no success :crying:. I hear there are issues with car bluetooth conectivity as well. I just hope that Pie will fix this. I am getting very frustrated with this phone!
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Same here... I bought Gear S3 a week ago but I can't complete the pairing process with my Nokia 8. I tried every method and solution I could find but still no success :crying:. I hear there are issues with car bluetooth conectivity as well. I just hope that Pie will fix this. I am getting very frustrated with this phone!
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sucks that you're having the same! I'm going to hold out for Pie to see if it helps (should be here very soon!) And if it doesn't help trade up to a Galaxy S8 for guaranteed compatibility!
Stringy said:
Has anyone had any success using a Samsung Gear Sport/S3/Frontier with their Nokia 8? I bought a Gear Sport without realising that this Nokia flagship phone, only to find it will not complete the pairing process with the watch. Plenty of other non-Samsung Android phones work the Samsung Gear devices, yet Nokias sit in an odd niche that does not support them.
Really annoying because the device is really quite nice, just the odd idiosyncrasies of the Nokia 8 stopping it from working. Must be something to do with the Bluetooth implementation (where else have we see corner cutting in that department...AptX anyone?)
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Hello @Stringy I wanted to buy a gear s3
Can you please tell me how its working on nokia 8 after official pie update?
Also can you tell me about gear s3 functionality like notifications,apps etc are woking exactly same as on our device as compared to a samsung device.
If you have a video demo kindly send it because I am a bit nervous
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Hello @Stringy I wanted to buy a gear s3
Can you please tell me how its working on nokia 8 after official pie update?
Also can you tell me about gear s3 functionality like notifications,apps etc are woking exactly same as on our device as compared to a samsung device.
If you have a video demo kindly send it because I am a bit nervous
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Since Pie beta OTA update everything is working as it should. Watch automatically reconnects to phone after time away from it, all notifications are seamless and it functions perfectly! Setup worked first time after the update.
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Since Pie beta OTA update everything is working as it should. Watch automatically reconnects to phone after time away from it, all notifications are seamless and it functions perfectly! Setup worked first time after the update.
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What about the app support?
Does it have apps like in wear OS?
zia.sohal said:
What about the app support?
Does it have apps like in wear OS?
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Has Spotify with offline music support (unlike WearOS) so it can play directly to headphones.
It also has Strava, which is good for workout tracking.
This is where my app usage ends!
It does have apps, but I'd recommend reading/watching reviews to see if it has what you need as I think it has fewer than WearOS. What it does have, however, is far better battery life than any current WearOS device could possibly hope for.