Window phone 7.8 update
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Has anyone received the update yet? I have a nokia lumia 800 and everything I read online says that they started rolling the update out on the first off february and would be complete 3 weeks later however I still haven't received the update yet.
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Has anyone received the update yet? I have a nokia lumia 800 and everything I read online says that they started rolling the update out on the first off february and would be complete 3 weeks later however I still haven't received the update yet.
That's true for me too.
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Has anyone received the update yet? I have a nokia lumia 800 and everything I read online says that they started rolling the update out on the first off february and would be complete 3 weeks later however I still haven't received the update yet.
I updated my 800 over 2 weeks ago. It was not a simple update at all and kinda a PITA. I did NOT use NaviFirm, but I had an unlocked one that Microsoft sent me and I had taken it off all of my accounts so I could not get an update from a carrier. Like I said, this is a pain, but worked for me. It actually updated the phone 3 times, so I had to do these steps for each time. My laptop that I did this on is runing Win8 x64, not that it should matter. 1. Turn off all wifi and cell signals on the phone. You can put it in airplane or just turn those things off. 2. Connect the phone to the computer and run the Zune software. 3. Go to the Settings -> Update section. 4. This is the painful part... hit the button to check for updates, after about 3 seconds disconnect your machine from the internet. If you get an error that says that it cannot check for updates, then reconnect and try again. You also could get it to say that there are no updates. Again, reconnect to the internet and try again. This took me about 10 times to get it to show the update. 5. When the screen shows that there is an update, reconnect to the internet before hitting the continue. 6. After it is complete, check your version to see if you have the latest one. Like I said above, I had to do these steps for 3 separate updates to get all the way to 7.8. If you are on a carrier, it might be easier, but I know that this is how I updated my Lumia 800 up to 7.8. Good Luck.
Steve Maier
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I updated my 800 over 2 weeks ago. It was not a simple update at all and kinda a PITA. I did NOT use NaviFirm, but I had an unlocked one that Microsoft sent me and I had taken it off all of my accounts so I could not get an update from a carrier. Like I said, this is a pain, but worked for me. It actually updated the phone 3 times, so I had to do these steps for each time. My laptop that I did this on is runing Win8 x64, not that it should matter. 1. Turn off all wifi and cell signals on the phone. You can put it in airplane or just turn those things off. 2. Connect the phone to the computer and run the Zune software. 3. Go to the Settings -> Update section. 4. This is the painful part... hit the button to check for updates, after about 3 seconds disconnect your machine from the internet. If you get an error that says that it cannot check for updates, then reconnect and try again. You also could get it to say that there are no updates. Again, reconnect to the internet and try again. This took me about 10 times to get it to show the update. 5. When the screen shows that there is an update, reconnect to the internet before hitting the continue. 6. After it is complete, check your version to see if you have the latest one. Like I said above, I had to do these steps for 3 separate updates to get all the way to 7.8. If you are on a carrier, it might be easier, but I know that this is how I updated my Lumia 800 up to 7.8. Good Luck.
Steve Maier
Are you serious? Pfff if it's that hard to do a simple update I might just not bother, since I'm sure my phone will be fully reset aswell afterwards and I'll have to make all my settings again (like last time I updated) I'm not on a carrier, we don't really have that system over here you just buy the phone you want and every provider has to work with it. I did try the update button in zune sync settings a couple times today but kept giving me the 'your phone is up to date' message (7.10 8773 if I'm not mistaken) If it really takes that much effort to update microsoft is going really really wrong with this one. I love my windows phone but that's just rediculous.
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Are you serious? Pfff if it's that hard to do a simple update I might just not bother, since I'm sure my phone will be fully reset aswell afterwards and I'll have to make all my settings again (like last time I updated) I'm not on a carrier, we don't really have that system over here you just buy the phone you want and every provider has to work with it. I did try the update button in zune sync settings a couple times today but kept giving me the 'your phone is up to date' message (7.10 8773 if I'm not mistaken) If it really takes that much effort to update microsoft is going really really wrong with this one. I love my windows phone but that's just rediculous.
It took me a while to get the steps together from different places online. The steps did not reset the phone and all of the settings. All of those were still there.
Steve Maier
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It took me a while to get the steps together from different places online. The steps did not reset the phone and all of the settings. All of those were still there.
Steve Maier
Still shouldn't be that hard. Might give it a try in a week or 2 if I don't get the update automaticly but if I have to update like that it's a major let down. Anyway thank you for the info :)
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Still shouldn't be that hard. Might give it a try in a week or 2 if I don't get the update automaticly but if I have to update like that it's a major let down. Anyway thank you for the info :)
I totally agree with you. I am not what the issue was and why it would not recognise that there was an update. But even after the first update, it checks for more updates and that says that it is totally up-to-date, and I knew that it wasn't.
Steve Maier
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Still shouldn't be that hard. Might give it a try in a week or 2 if I don't get the update automaticly but if I have to update like that it's a major let down. Anyway thank you for the info :)
I have 1 or 2 more 800's at the house, what I really should do is to do a video of this and a blog post about it. That might be my project tonight.
Steve Maier
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I have 1 or 2 more 800's at the house, what I really should do is to do a video of this and a blog post about it. That might be my project tonight.
Steve Maier
Fun project :) It might even help in making microsoft dig in and solve this (I know very small chance but still one can hope :) )
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Fun project :) It might even help in making microsoft dig in and solve this (I know very small chance but still one can hope :) )
I will share it with some of my MS contacts, that might help ;-)
Steve Maier
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Has anyone received the update yet? I have a nokia lumia 800 and everything I read online says that they started rolling the update out on the first off february and would be complete 3 weeks later however I still haven't received the update yet.
I got update for my HD7 within 24 hours of release using the trick someone already posted. And there is three separate updates, so you'll need to perform all those steps three times. Fun time :)
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Has anyone received the update yet? I have a nokia lumia 800 and everything I read online says that they started rolling the update out on the first off february and would be complete 3 weeks later however I still haven't received the update yet.
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Has anyone received the update yet? I have a nokia lumia 800 and everything I read online says that they started rolling the update out on the first off february and would be complete 3 weeks later however I still haven't received the update yet.
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I updated my 800 over 2 weeks ago. It was not a simple update at all and kinda a PITA. I did NOT use NaviFirm, but I had an unlocked one that Microsoft sent me and I had taken it off all of my accounts so I could not get an update from a carrier. Like I said, this is a pain, but worked for me. It actually updated the phone 3 times, so I had to do these steps for each time. My laptop that I did this on is runing Win8 x64, not that it should matter. 1. Turn off all wifi and cell signals on the phone. You can put it in airplane or just turn those things off. 2. Connect the phone to the computer and run the Zune software. 3. Go to the Settings -> Update section. 4. This is the painful part... hit the button to check for updates, after about 3 seconds disconnect your machine from the internet. If you get an error that says that it cannot check for updates, then reconnect and try again. You also could get it to say that there are no updates. Again, reconnect to the internet and try again. This took me about 10 times to get it to show the update. 5. When the screen shows that there is an update, reconnect to the internet before hitting the continue. 6. After it is complete, check your version to see if you have the latest one. Like I said above, I had to do these steps for 3 separate updates to get all the way to 7.8. If you are on a carrier, it might be easier, but I know that this is how I updated my Lumia 800 up to 7.8. Good Luck.
Steve Maier
Apparently this whole "you have a update" thing doesn't work. Your method does work tho so thanks for that, had to install zune on laptop tho (never was installed there) On update 3 off firmware now This is going to take a while :( It's a pain in the ass tho, they really should get this fixed since I think I missed a lot off updates already like this.