Lumia 822 lacks good ereader and camera sucks

Lumia 822 lacks decent app to enjoy books and magazines and camera sucks
I bought the Nokia Lumia 822 because it allowed use of a micro SD card which would expand available memory and because it came with Office. I have been happy with the SD card capability (although today I had to reseat the SD card because the card doesn’t snap into place, it just kind of sits there – I ended up losing all my photos from March 2013, but, hey, at least the majority were there). Office is functional though I wouldn’t be able to do major spreadsheets in it. I also had to send back my original phone for a refurbished phone when it crashed about a week after that major update. I wasn't happy about receiving a refurbished phone, considering what a personal item a cellphone is.
While I knew apps were a limitation being on the bleeding edge of technology, I assumed they would emerge soon enough and was willing to wait. I bought the phone in November 2012 and as of today (April 2013), there still is no decent app with which to buy books and magazines. This is a major bummer.
As an amateur photographer, I find the Nokia Lumia 822 Windows Phone camera incredibly disappointing on its own and particularly with respect to the iPhone 5. This is in stark contrast to Nokia’s assertion that they will set themselves apart with their cameras and comes after a February (or March?) 2013 update that was supposed to fix the camera’s color issues. It previously had a green tint, which improved with the update but the color is still not great. Just to note up front, I am not an Apple fanboi by any stretch, preferring the Microsoft Surface as opposed to the iPad3 (both of which I have owned).
The Lumia 822 camera takes forever to focus and shoot once you’ve hit the screen. If you instead choose to shoot using the camera button, you have to press so hard that the phone inevitably shakes. The pictures come out blurry with washed out colors no matter what you do. Taking the same shot with the iPhone 5, it shoots quickly and comes out crystal clear, with vibrant colors. I have noticed that the largest photo size on the Lumia 822 is like 2 MB, while it is over 4 MB on the iPhone 5.
Today, when I tried to send some photos from my brother’s iPhone 5 to the Lumia 822, I noticed that Apple provided 3 choices – the original photo size, which was like 4.5 MB, a medium photo size and a small photo size. Such choices are not available on the Lumia 822. In any case, I chose the original size of 4.5 MB and when I received the photo on the Lumia 822 chose Save to Phone. Yet when I forwarded my mom that same photo from my Lumia 822, it sent as 850 KB. I don’t know how to see the size of the photo that was saved on my phone but I’m guessing it wasn’t 4.5 MB for whatever reason.
I had been psyched about the upcoming Lumia that was a 41 megapixel camera but now I even have doubts about that.
I actually bought Nokia stock, some at $3.56 and some at $4.58, but I’m starting to regret it.
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I think you should have picked 920 instead of 822, I believe their new release 720 has better camera than 820/822.
I bought 920 for my brother as present, he is a good man and always wanted to upgrade his old phone to smartphone era.. Anyways, 920 felt superb, camera seemed quality wise similar to my Iphone 4s, which was excellent camera for smartphone, but it also added OIS and some nifty photolenses, like that animation edit thing and excellent other features that made my own Iphone pale in comparison.
As what comes to me, I bought Nokia 808 over 920 which I now regret. Quality wise 808 is WAYYY superior even to my Sony Alpha 300 SLR with basic lens. I still cannot believe how sharp and realistic images I get. Add excellent video recording and that lossless zoom, I absolutely love it. But as compared into Iphone as a phone and portable media device Nokia Pureview 808 is so bad! Browsing internet is worse, watching videos is worse, settings are mess up.. Its usable but I would give it an poor grade as a SMARTPHONE, as this tiny camera; Superior.
920 would have given me Excellent camera with all the other great sh*t Nokia offers nowadays.
I am waiting 920 + 808 combo Lumia with 41Mpx lossless zoom and OIS, with water proof and solar energy!

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My Lumia 822 upgraded to Denim, but now the camera button does not work. There is no "Camera" or "Photos" listed in the Apps list.
I have re-booted it several times.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks for your help.

@fiVE,
I had this problem when I updated my Lumia 822 as well. The camera did not work, I had two Game icons and one would not work, I had no ability to get into pictures, some of my built in apps like the alarms had no graphics on the button, things looked REALLY odd.
Take into account that this is a phone that was put out before 8.1 so making 8.1 work on it may take some tweaking and some patience.
I ended up resetting the phone back to factory defaults. (Go to Settings and then About. There is a button at the bottom to reset your phone) I was expecting this to bring me all the way back to Windows 8 again, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that it brings the phone back to a base Windows 8.1. When I started setting up my phone, I told it that I did not want it to restore any previous phone settings and I wanted to start from scratch.
I am still in the process of re-building my phone which does kind of suck, but knowing the phone was not necessarily designed for 8.1, I am okay with that. The only issue that I am currently experiencing at the moment is the Verizon Backup Manager does not want to connect. I get an error on that.But I will continue to work with that as I go. But I have the camera, I have the ability to see my photos, I can setup a background picture, my apps all have icons on them, everything looks like it should and outside of the backup assistant, it works like it should.
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City Lens on Lumia 822 way out of date; any update...

I just bought 2 Lumia 822s (Verizon) for myself and my wife. We live in New York City. The City Lens app, and related Here! apps, are all way out of date. The list of restaurants in our neighborhood contains some that closed years ago. In one case, there are three restaurants listed for the same location, and they were all once there, just not at the same time. Right now only one of the three is in operation. Other restaurants nearby are not listed at all. Not only that, but the app on my wife's phone is bringing up some different restaurants than the app on my phone. The list goes on. Is anyone at Nokia, or the app supplier, in charge of keeping this information up to date? It is pretty useless when so many listings are wrong. I don't know if this is peculiar to the 822 or applies across all platforms. I suspect it is the app(s).

in CItylens goto options(...)>report a place and find this:
To report a place go to here.com, search for the place, click on more details next to the place name and then report this place.
Remember these apps only get as good as the feedback people provide on it..
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How can I use lumia 822 in china telecom?

I buy a Nokia lumia 822 from taobao.com and test,
In china telecom's network,lumia 822 can phone,SMS,but cannot surf internet,cannot 3G,and I install nokia access point app to change APN setting,It also cannot 3G
In china unicom's network,lumia 822 can phone,SMS and surf internet,can 3G
But I want use lumia 822 in china telecom's network,How can I do it?thanks
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The 822 is a phone not intended for the Chinese market. It is a Verizon Wireless device and built specifically for use in their network. It supports the following radio bands/frequencies;
LTE network bands: 13
WCDMA network: 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1900 MHz, 2100 MHz
CDMA network bands: BC0, BC1
GSM network: 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz
As Chinese Lumia phones have firmware specific to the chinese market and there are certain limitations and restrictions to using these phones in China it is not unlikely the APN settings for your carrier are not available through the access point settings. You will need to enter them manually there, settings can usually be found on the carrier (support) website. in Settings>Access point tap the plus sign on the bottom of the screen to access the manual settings. Obviously for this to work the phone needs to be unlocked from the Verizon network.
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Any good Lumia 822 case retailers?

My brother just gave me an early Christmas present: the Nokia Lumia 822 windows phone. I am really psyched and have already added an additional 32 GB micro SD card. The ability to add extra memory is a huge plus. I then transferred 4 GB of music and lots of photos directly to the card. I also imported my Contacts from Windows Live Mail. So I am now ready to roll!
But before carrying the phone around in my purse, I would like a good case for the phone. I have done about an hour's worth of searching on the internet for a cool case, but to no avail. There seem to be very few available and the ones that are have no imagination.
Does anyone know a good case retailer with some novel Lumia 822 cases or when Zazzle might be introducing cases for the Lumia 822?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Per my brother -- he popped the back of the phone off, took out the battery, slipped micro SD card into slot and it clicked in, replaced the battery, replaced the cover. Then turned phone on and it said, "I found an SD card. Would you like to store all your music, video and pictures on it?" and he said, "Yes" Then, he connected the phone to the computer via cable that came with phone. We downloaded Windows 8 phone to the computer. It said, "What music would you like to import to phone -- itunes library, xbox library or other locations?" We said, "Itunes" and it copied pretty fast.
I actually did the photo transfer but I can't remember how. I had an iPad3 (purchased in June), a Surface RT (just purchased) and now this phone. All these purchases were because my brother is in IT and wants to know how the devices work for his work. But it gets confusing to remember!

Camera on Lumia 822 Developer Preview Update 8.1 GDR1 not working, needs Cyan.

About 5 months ago when the 8.1 Developer Preview was released I went ahead and got it on my Lumia 822. Everything was going great. It worked flawlessly until Updated 8.1 to the 3rd small update that was released for it. Soon after my camera stopped working and soon after that my GPS started displaying very inaccurate results. When I use any app that uses the camera it instantly crashes and I know it is a firmware issue because neither camera works. Both cameras cause the app to crash if it tries to use the camera. I updated to 8.1 GDR1 thinking it would fix it and it didn't. This happened to me 4 months ago. The community says Cyan will fix it. I have had to deal with this for 4 months. 2 months waiting for Microsoft to give it to phone companies and now 2 months waiting for Verizon to push it out. Could someone at Verizon please give an ETA? I wasn't able to take pictures all summer. Not of my summer vacation or anything. I'm begging you Verizon to push the update. At least just for Lumia 822. I'm not the only one with this issue. If you go to the WPCentral forums or just Google it, many more people are having the same issue. I know I was risking it by using a "beta OS" but come on. Updates shouldn't take this long to get pushed.

No one told you to download or install the Microsoft Developer Preview.
That is not a Verizon wireless issue. It is a Microsoft issue.
maybe you can remove it and roll back until the real updated OS is shown to be stable and available.
And this is for both posters.
I can just imagine all the posts complaining how the updates caused this not to function or that no longer works when Verizon has nothing to do with those issues either.
After it is released by the cell carriers.

Lumia 822 camera has greenish tint indoors

My Nokia Lumia 822 camera has a greenish tint when used indoors. Outside seems OK. I heard a fix was coming but every time I click on Phone Update, it says my phone is up to date. Any info on when I can expect a fix?
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I have a 822 the next day after purchasing it went solid green. I did the power cycle and it went away. However, every single picture I take has a green line on the boarder on one side and green tint. This has to be know to Nokia and a fix needs to be issued soon. Otherwise sales representatives aren't going to push their products. I know I'm the one doing the demo for my company to determine whichever win8 mobile handset we go with. So I will have to point this out in my review if not corrected. So Nokia lets fix this asap please. This is the one I want to recommend, not the competition.
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Issues with Denim update; Lumia 822

Good Day,
I have installed the newly available Denim update for my Lumia 822. But not without some glitches. If anyone can help me out, I'd sure appreciate it!
Problems (by #):
1. The pictures/photos tile no longer works. It just bounces back to that part of the screen. It says on it: "@C:\Programs\Photos\PhotoRes.dll,-2002." It shows on it the Sample Pictures on the SIM Card. The built in camera did the same thing until one of the restarts. It's not my SD card, which has my photos/images on it - the music app sees the music fine.
What else I think is related to this particular problem: Under Settings/Applications/photos+camera, I cannot get into photos+camera; I cannot get into Settings/Storage Sense; under Settings/Backup, I cannot go into auto upload for photos+videos.
What I've done:
* Took out the battery.
* Took out the SD Card, rebooted the phone without it, then put it back in again. When I turned on the phone, it did not come up with the usual question about where to change photos/videos, etc.
* Deleted all pics off the SD card.
* Put a couple of pics back on the SD card.
* Took a pic with camera to see if that would make the photos tile work. Nope. Not even the new pic from the camera helped.
* When into camera's settings and asked it to "find photos and videos." Nope.
Nothing has changed. It's not working. How can I get this to work?
2. My glance screen does show the weather even though I asked it to through Bing Weather app. This is something I thought Denim was supposed to offer.
3. The wallpaper for the tiles screen - I don't see that setting anywhere, but it looks like Denim is supposed to have it.
4. The following app files in the apps list (not on the main screen) show up as blank, gray squares: Alarms; Calculator; Games (shows up twice, one as a gray box, one as the xbox symbol); Settings; Wallet. What's with this? Which "Games" do I choose and do I delete one?
5. All the individual games are showing up in my apps list, and are all still listed under my Games app. Weird.
6. Xbox Music app has changed for the worse; I ended up downloading and using another music app instead.
7. Xbox Games used to show my Avatar be-bopping around the live tile; now it doesn't. So much for spending THAT money. I know, it was stupid, but fun.
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Hi @avtir ,
Thanks for the feedback confirming the trouble is solved.
Temporarily disabling the real-time scanning in the antivirus software speeds up the download, both of the recovery tool itself and the firmware files, at least on my Windows-7 PC with MS Security Essentials. - The files are clean, the download just slows to a crawl if the real-time scan is enabled.
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Is the Nokia Lumia 822 buggy?

So I am in search of a new phone because I am overdue for an upgrade and my phone is not being reliable. I would care less about being able to upgrade as long as my phone works but that's not the case right now.
I been through a Droid 2, which I was dissatisfied with battery life, often crashes and long restart time. Anyways I cracked the screen multiple times and now it's put away. A friend sold me his Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S1) and I was also dissatisfied with battery performance, crashes, and reboots. The worse is loosing contacts and application information. I gave up on setting up my emails because it has failed on me so many times and what really **** me off was loosing contacts.
Anyways I read a few reviews of the Nokia Lumia having trouble receiving text msg is this true ? Was this true, does it still happen ?
Help me out guys, I want a reliable phone.
My top priorities
- Battery Life
- Stable
- Price
- I heard that they have good cameras does this model have a good camera also if so it would be a huge plus.

My wife currently has the Nokia Lumia 822. She has the white version of it. She never said that she would get used to the virtual keyboard on a smartphone (she tried using my HTC Trophy) but she loves the phone! As far as buggy, she hasn't been having any of the problems that have been reported on the forums. She has only had it freeze once, but I assume that it will be fixed once the Portico update is pushed out around MWC 2013. She has had the phone for over a month.
She can receive group messages just fine. She can get around a day and a half out of the battery. It's a great phone. You might have some minor issues, but like I said, she hasn't had those issues and it will be fixed once we get the Portico update.
I can say that you would be satisfied with the Lumia 822. It's a great phone.

Nokia lumia 822 - out of luck I guess

I bought the Nokia Lumia 822 when I renewed my contract. Early on the phone was randomly turning itself off during the day and at night. I do not have a land line at home and this is also my business phone. Random shut downs are not safe at night nor good for getting business calls.
In order to get it to come back on I have to either remove the battery or hold the power and volume button down for 20 seconds.
I stuck it out after reading in Verizon's forums that this was a common issue and might be fixed in a software patch release by Nokia/Microsoft.
After several patches and a recent (this week) reset to factory settings the problem has persisted. Just this week it has happened over 15 times causing missed calls.
No software updates have helped.
The Verizon / Nokia forums still have numerous posts complaining of this issue but Verizon / Nokia does not seem to be aware of it or want to acknowledge it...
I had to reactivate my old Droid X on my line to keep a reliable phone powered on.
I did have a phone and email conversation with technical support who promised a solution and never got back to me. Now she will not respond to my emails.
I don't think another Nokia product will be purchased again.
Ryan

this is the OS, not phone. it is happening to other Nokia windows phones as well. i've had this phone for approx 2 mths and have been told by verizon tech support that microsoft was supposed to issue the patch to correct this issue by the end of june. ha! i've made repeated calls to tech support, now they say patch delayed till end of july. HA! again!! sad part is, verizon has known this was an issue and continued to sell the phones. i tried to return my phone within the 2 week period, but was told that the 2 weeks start on the day you ordered the phone, not received and activated it. now i'm stuck for 2 years with a piece of crap phone. no more windows phones for me. i missed the 2 week mark by 24 hours.

Lumia 822 - bad choice...out of luck i guess

I bought the Nokia Lumia 822 when I renewed my contract. Early on the phone was randomly turning itself off during the day and at night. I do not have a land line at home and this is also my business phone. Random shut downs are not safe at night nor good for getting business calls.
I stuck it out after reading in Verizon's forums that this was a common issue and might be fixed in a software patch release by Nokia/Microsoft.
After several patches and a recent (this week) reset to factory settings the problem has persisted. Just this week it has happened over 15 times causing missed calls.
No software updates have helped.
The forum still has numerous posts complaining of this issue but Verizon does not seem to be aware of it or want to acknowledge it..
I had to reactivate my old Droid X on my line to keep a reliable phone powered on.
I did have a phone and email conversation with technical support who promised a solution and never got back to me. Now she will not respond to my emails.
After my contract is done, I will be taking my 2 phone lines elsewhere, just about the time I will be adding a 3rd line.
Hopefully someone will think twice about purchasing this phone.
Ryan

this is the OS, not phone. it is happening to other Nokia windows phones as well. i've had this phone for approx 2 mths and have been told by verizon tech support that microsoft was supposed to issue the patch to correct this issue by the end of june. ha! i've made repeated calls to tech support, now they say patch delayed till end of july. HA! again!! sad part is, verizon has known this was an issue and continued to sell the phones. i tried to return my phone within the 2 week period, but was told that the 2 weeks start on the day you ordered the phone, not received and activated it. now i'm stuck for 2 years with a piece of crap phone. no more windows phones for me. i missed the 2 week mark by 24 hours.

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