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Nokia Lumia 800

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  • #1712
    ryaner1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭ryaner1979


    My Lumia has just froze and now turned off. Any ideas on how to get it back working??


  • #1713
    Ronan H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Ronan H


    muff03 wrote: »
    Does this not work?

    http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp8/basics/locked-phone-things-it-can-still-do

    It's like Ronseal. It does what it says on the tin, i.e. it will switch off the volume on the phone, but it will still vibrate.

    Unless I have read it incorrectly, the OP wants to put the phone into outright silent mode, i.e. with no ringtone and no vibrate. You can not put it to outright silent if the vibrate is enabled, because it will always vibrate.

    My school of thought is that silent is silent, no beeps and no vibrations. So on the 800 I can't achieve that unless I go into settings and turn off vibrations. That to me is awkward to say the least. When you hit the volume rocker, you should be able to cycle through ALL the options by tapping the little icon, i.e. ring & vibrate, ring, vibrate, silent, offline etc., just like you could do on the older models.

    Its mad that you have to do so much to set the phone to silent. One of the many baffling things about this phone...

    So to summarise:

    If you have vibrations switched on and you go into the volume settings, your options are:
    1. ring and vibrate
    2. vibrate

    If you have vibrations switched off and you go into the volume settings, your options are:
    1. ring
    2. silent

    I'll admit the graphic above doesn't explain that very clearly, but basically that is what it is saying.

    Ro


  • #1714
    muff03
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭muff03


    so you can't select silent unless you've already switched the vibration off in the first place? Odd, that'll surely be fixed in an update.


  • #1715
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    vectra wrote: »
    Could I not hand it back under the "Sale of goods and services act 1980" ?
    Not fit for the purpose it was sold?

    Yeah id say you could, they might insist on trying to repair or replace it though which they have the right to do.


  • #1716
    Jonny Drama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Jonny Drama


    ryaner1979 wrote: »
    My Lumia has just froze and now turned off. Any ideas on how to get it back working??

    Try a soft reset of the phone - either hold the power button down for 10 seconds or hold the volume down button + power until the screen lights up. See if that helps. If that doesn't then it sounds like a defective handset. If it's under warranty you can bring it back to get fixed.


    If you can get it turned on check to see what OS version are you running and what firmware? Settings -> About -> More information.

    Source: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056478384&page=64 Post #958


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  • #1717
    ryaner1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭ryaner1979


    Jonny Drama wrote: »
    Try a soft reset of the phone - either hold the power button down for 10 seconds or hold the volume down button + power until the screen lights up. See if that helps. If that doesn't then it sounds like a defective handset. If it's under warranty you can bring it back to get fixed.


    If you can get it turned on check to see what OS version are you running and what firmware? Settings -> About -> More information.

    Source: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056478384&page=64 Post #958[/QUOT

    Thanks. Ended up getting it back by connecting it to the laptop and then keeping my hand on the power button, Worked eventually


  • #1718
    Jonny Drama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Jonny Drama


    ryaner1979 wrote: »
    Thanks. Ended up getting it back by connecting it to the laptop and then keeping my hand on the power button, Worked eventually

    Good to know for future reference.


  • #1719
    A Brad Maddox Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,804 ✭✭✭A Brad Maddox Guy


    Really considering buying this, 150 euro seems like a great price for what it is. And having looked around a couple websites it seems like the phone itself has better specs than others at a similar price (lacking app store in comparison to iOS and Androids aside). But I feel I might as well ask if you would recommend this phone or if there are better alternatives? I reckon I could stretch my budget up to around 200 euro (Pay As You Go) but no higher. Also it would not be for business or anything like that, would purely be about having a gadget to mess about with since my current phone is not a smartphone and I've had it for years.


  • #1720
    tcjpmcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭tcjpmcd


    AntiVirus wrote: »

    I'd pick space, star wars seems to be the same as angry birds. You can download and try both to see which you prefer.

    Went with SW. Super fun but oddly doesn't have the XBL support or achievements?


  • #1721
    Joe Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Joe Public


    Ronan H wrote: »
    Is Flash being used at any stage along the process? 800 doesn't like Flash...

    Could be in some cases, I noticed one site needed to install Active X control on the PC before displaying video. The Lumia 800 doesn't display such requests.


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  • #1722
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    A Brad Maddox Guy wrote: »
    Really considering buying this, 150 euro seems like a great price for what it is. And having looked around a couple websites it seems like the phone itself has better specs than others at a similar price (lacking app store in comparison to iOS and Androids aside). But I feel I might as well ask if you would recommend this phone or if there are better alternatives? I reckon I could stretch my budget up to around 200 euro (Pay As You Go) but no higher. Also it would not be for business or anything like that, would purely be about having a gadget to mess about with since my current phone is not a smartphone and I've had it for years.

    I'm regretting not going with the huawei g330 now to be honest, it's 149 on emobile/meteor :(

    As a first smartphone the lumia would be a great buy, but not if oyu are coming from ios or android

    Just my opinion after having one for 2 days lol


  • #1723
    wilser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭wilser


    calex71 wrote: »
    I'm regretting not going with the huawei g330 now to be honest, it's 149 on emobile/meteor :(

    As a first smartphone the lumia would be a great buy, but not if oyu are coming from ios or android

    Just my opinion after having one for 2 days lol

    I have the Huawei g300 & I regret not waiting a couple of weeks and getting the nokia tbh. Still find myself using my wife's LG Optimus 7 that's 18 months old for Web browsing and twitter on the go. I don't use many apps but the one's I do use are on wp7....
    Apart from jetpack joyride :-)


  • #1724
    AntiVirus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,395 ✭✭✭AntiVirus


    wilser wrote: »
    I have the Huawei g300 & I regret not waiting a couple of weeks and getting the nokia tbh. Still find myself using my wife's LG Optimus 7 that's 18 months old for Web browsing and twitter on the go. I don't use many apps but the one's I do use are on wp7....
    Apart from jetpack joyride :-)

    This is the problem with a lot of Android phones, unless you get a very high spec phone you're going to have problems with it. The great thing with the windows phone os is it will run great on all windows phones. The big plus Android has over windows phones is the amount of tweaking you can do. So it all depends on the what the user wants, for me the Nokia Lumia 800 is a great phone and a bargin at the current price. :)


  • #1725
    Landoflemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭Landoflemon


    Got my Lumia 800 back yesterday, it had to be sent away and get a new mainboard installed as it just wouldn't switch on no matter how I tried. I bought the phone on Adverts.ie and didn't have a receipt or anything, Fonemenders (Nokia Care Centre), took care of everything free of charge.


  • #1726
    Ronan H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Ronan H


    Joe Public wrote: »
    Could be in some cases, I noticed one site needed to install Active X control on the PC before displaying video. The Lumia 800 doesn't display such requests.

    Yeah it can't handle Flash stuff and to date no patches (or whatever) have been released to remedy it, so I'm not sure if they even intend to...

    Is there any workarounds that anyone is aware of?

    I saw a post on another forum that I use about IP Cams and smartphones, I'll look it up and see if there's anything relevant there...

    Ro


  • #1727
    Dunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Does it use a micro-sim?


  • #1728
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Ronan H wrote: »
    Yeah it can't handle Flash stuff and to date no patches (or whatever) have been released to remedy it, so I'm not sure if they even intend to...

    Is there any workarounds that anyone is aware of?

    I saw a post on another forum that I use about IP Cams and smartphones, I'll look it up and see if there's anything relevant there...

    Ro

    I think the idea is to move away from flash.


  • #1729
    Ronan H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Ronan H


    Dunny wrote: »
    Does it use a micro-sim?

    It does :).
    BostonB wrote: »
    I think the idea is to move away from flash.

    Ah yeah I know but it would have been good to have the support in the meantime. The phone is the guts of a year old now so that's quite a while to be without something that has had viral use over the last decade or so...


  • #1730
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Microphone gone again. Last time I dropped it microphone side down in food. No reason this time and I don't want to be without it for 2 weeks again, so annoying.


  • #1731
    Dunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Ronan H wrote: »
    It does :).

    Does one come with the phone(vodafone) do you know? Or will i have to cut the sim.


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  • #1732
    Sundance_Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭Sundance_Kid


    Hi, have just purchased the Lumia 800 - sim free from Amazon. It is my first smartphone so not to familiar with it as phones go.

    Without having to trawl through the thread, is there any updates or certain programs/apps I need to have/download etc

    Thanks in advance


  • #1733
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    Sundance_Kid wrote: »
    Hi, have just purchased the Lumia 800 - sim free from Amazon. It is my first smartphone so not to familiar with it as phones go.

    Without having to trawl through the thread, is there any updates or certain programs/apps I need to have/download etc

    Thanks in advance

    Download Zune. Plug it in. It will tell you all you need to know


  • #1734
    obliviousgrudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 703 ✭✭✭obliviousgrudge


    Got this phone yesterday.

    Very impressed, obviously not as many apps as Android but all of the apps I used are there (or some variant of them).

    Does anyone know of a web text app that works though? That's my only problem so far.

    Love the Music player, etc on it too


  • #1735
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    Dunny wrote: »
    Does one come with the phone(vodafone) do you know? Or will i have to cut the sim.

    They will give you a free one , just take care when punching it out of the card as it's easy to break the surround , which can be used as an adapter to put the micro sim into a phone that takes a full size one.......... my fat fingers broke mine :P


  • #1736
    Tommay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭Tommay


    obliviousgrudge wrote: »
    Got this phone yesterday.

    Very impressed, obviously not as many apps as Android but all of the apps I used are there (or some variant of them).

    Does anyone know of a web text app that works though? That's my only problem so far.

    Love the Music player, etc on it too

    I have 3 different webtext apps installed. Noelle, Sendu and Webtextr. I get problems with all 3, but there's always one which is working when I need it. I'm on Meteor, maybe they work better on other Networks.


  • #1737
    Copper_pipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,553 ✭✭✭✭Copper_pipe


    Can I use Bluetooth headphones on the lumia?


  • #1738
    kmart6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,174 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Copper_pipe wrote: »
    Can I use Bluetooth headphones on the lumia?
    I found this magical answer for you.


  • #1739
    muff03
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭muff03


    kmart6 wrote: »
    I found this magical answer for you.

    You're doing it wrong, lol


  • #1740
    obliviousgrudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 703 ✭✭✭obliviousgrudge


    Looks like none of the web text apps work on Vodafone.


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  • #1741
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    Copper_pipe wrote: »
    Can I use Bluetooth headphones on the lumia?

    Ofcourse


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