Nokia Lumia 900 Data Counter and People Tile

Is there a data counter on the Lumia 900 that I can't find? I've tried to call the 3282 data number, and it always tells me I'm at 0 even though I know i've been on the data network and not wifi.
Also, can someone explain to me how much data something like the people tile/email account setup uses? I've never understood apps like that coming from suuper old phones. Is it constantly checking your email/facebook? On some time interval? I'd really like to set up facebook and such with the people tile because it seems really nifty, but I don't want to go over my 2gb plan. I just don't terribly understand how it all works, and i'd be willing to try it out if I could see how much data i'm using..but that goes back to my first question...In the past when checking email/facebook I'd always just use the internet browser on my old Nokia e71x, and it wasn't giving me updates in real time like I know this guy is capable of. I'd like to use it, I just don't wanna eat up my data plan. Thanks for any wise words!
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The email setting can remain always-on and email arrives instantly like a Blackberry if you set the synchronization settings to "as items arrive" for the email setup. There will also be a very small data usage checking for changes on various Windows Live services such as Calendar for changes so it can sync the data to the phone, or vice versa.
The People Hub tile uses existing picture thumbnails already stored on the phone from your contacts profile pictures and Twitter and the first profile picture it finds on your friends profile pictures on Facebook. Once the thumbnails are on the phone it doesnt use any more data.
It doesnt use any data to check for Facebook or Twitter until you go into the People Hub and swipe the screen into the "Whats New" section then it displays new Twitter and Facebook posts which have happened since you last checked it. Although if you have set Twitter and Facebook to email you when you receive a mention or interaction and you have your email set to receive messages instantly then you will have realtime alerts for those important things.
When you swipe to the "All" section of the People Hub and click on your picture it then gives you the option to post a message to Twitter / Facebook or Windows Live all at the same time, or selecting each checkbox for individual social networks if you only want to post a message to one or two not all. In this section you can also Check-In which places a Bing Maps location of the place you are using the GPS system. The Messaging system is persistent always-on and displays any contacts that are online on your Facebook chat and Windows Live Messenger if you have set it up, which when you receive a message is text only so uses very little data.

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Nokia Lumia 900 Issues and Questions

I bought my Nokia Lumia 900 last March and it's running pretty well. It's fast and reliable, although I have some issues regarding it.
1. When I'm in a conversation and I receive multiple text messages, I need to press the back button as many times as the number of messages I have received so I can go back to the menu. Not a big problem at all, but it can be quite annoying once you've already received a lot of messages and you try to go back to the messages screen.
2. I don't have the compass. When I try to download apps, it says my phone is missing some features that the app requires, which happens to be the compass. The phone's specification (on the Nokia website) says that the phone has a magnetometer, GSMArena and Wikipedia both say that the Lumia 900 has a compass.
3. It doesn't have Xbox Live. It's also included in the specifications that the Lumia 900 has Xbox Live, but when I go to Games, I only get Collection.
Issue number 1 isn't that much of a problem, but issues 2 and 3 are very disappointing. I tried searching for ways to fix these and I found an article saying that a reset will fix the compass and Xbox Live issue. I did that, and when I opened it, I saw Xbox Live on my Start Screen but when I activated my Wi-Fi, it changed to Games and still no Xbox Live there. The compass problem isn't fixed either. To those who experienced the same issues, can you please tell me how you fixed it? Thanks in advance.
Also, about the 7.8 update, I've been waiting for it for some time now and it's now available on my unit. Is it safe to install? I'm worried that if it fails it might make my phone useless. How long does it usually take?

Hi Ronio9riku,
Welcome to Nokia Support Discussions!
1. Once you received multiple text messages, can you not open one message and then press the Start button to go back to the live tiles and select Messaging again to go to the next message?
2. The phone supports compass (magnetometer). Have you tried to use the On-Device Diagnostic Tools to calibrate the Magnetomer? You can open the dialer and then input ##634#. Select Magnetometer and then calibrate the phone. Make sure that the location of the phone is On under Settings!
3. The phone supports Xbox Live which you can access on the phone by selecting Games on the start screen or by going to the App List. However, Xbox Live is not available to all countries/regions. You can visit the link for the countries/regions supported: www.xbox.com/LIVE/countries.
It's safe and recommended to update the phone whenever there is a software update offered. This improves the perfomance of the phone so why not connect your phone to your computer, open the Zune and install the update?
For more information, see this link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp7/update-central
If you're asking how long the update takes, it is usually 30 minutes to 1 hour.

AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 SW 2175.2307.8862.13100 now a...

Just updated using Zune
Latest software release for AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 is SW 2175.2307.8862.13100
New start screen experience with resizable tiles: to change the size, tap and hold the live tile
Theme colors added
Lock screen improvements: Bing photo of the day as wallpaper, and accidental input protection for the security code
Operating system version 7.10.8862.144
Fix for functionality issues with Live Tiles, such as Live Tiles not updating
After the update, check out Nokia Collection in Marketplace for new or updated Nokia apps

My Zune software does not display this update. Why so?

Nokia Lumia 1520 OVERHEATED Symptoms and Died Afte...

My new phone Nokia Lumia 1520 is beautiful and it works great. I like its big 6" screen and everything else it was designed to do.
However, for first two months of using this new phone, it started showing overheating problem. I remember overheating occurred at least 4-5 times in last two month period. Last time overheat issue got really worst yesterday. It was not hot enough to burn your skin but It got to the point of intolerable. Overheat happens when my phone was heavily in use: frequent calls, texting, and internet usage, and other apps running in background like Microsoft OneDrive Cloud. I talk many times over 15 and 30 minutes long on the phone, and the phone heats up. When it overheated, I stopped using the phone and let it cooled. It cooled off after it has a little rest. The battery was always good; it runs almost of the entire day and only needs recharge at end of day.
Then until yesterday, I turned on the feature "Internet Hotspot Sharing" in Settings for very first time to get my laptop online. I worked on my laptop for several hours. When I got home last night, Nokia Lumia 1020 was completely knocked out. It went blank and unresponsive. I left it charging the entire night. This morning, it didn’t even turn on or off. It was just a dark screen, dead weight.
Today I am going to take it back to AT&T service store and have it checked out. I went online today and found this overheat discussion going on, and so here I post my facts to share with everyone.
Usage in 2 month period (60 days):
Phone calls: 1,503 times, 25.1 calls per day
Phone call length at least 60 minutes: 1 time
Phone call length at least 30 minutes: 17 times
Phone call length at least 15 minutes: 66 times
Total minutes used: 5,271 minutes
Total Picture/Video /Text/Data Used: 735 times, 24.5 messages per day
Data used: 168 times
Text used: 476 times
Picture & Video Used: 91 times
Total data used: 3,695 MB or 3.6 GB
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To: yasfer21 Mobile Visionary
Looking at the statistic of many people reporting overheat problems with the phone. Does that tell you something? I think Nokia is aware of their inferior product. Nokia needs to improve their product quality or risk of losing customers like me. I'm one of many reports about overheat problem. This is not an issolated issue; it's commonly reported from users like me regarding this phone.
I will be happy to show you proof of my transaction with AT&T. I can post it here for everyone to see. I bet if you go to Nokia assembling facility, you would probably see tons of returned overheat phones. Research it yourself rather than speculating. Your thought is irrelevant to the overheat issue experiencing by users.
The replacement phone I received from AT&T seems to be working fine now. It's working ok. Overheat issue has disappeared from the replacement phone. I will post my comment again if overheat issue repeats. Technology we using today is just a temporary for a better invention and idea tomorrow. Remember we have progressed from a little pager device clipped to your waiste 20 years ago to smartphone screen today?
There's no such thing as perfect on this planet earth, ranging from birth defects to space shuttle disasters Challenger & Columbia. All we can do is to learn, improve, and keep on moving toward Type 1 Civilization. We can never reach a perfect point, our universe is forever expanding.

Nokia Lumia 900 Camera White Balance "Fix"

I'm not sure if other people have posted about this but I figured out a pain in the @$$ way of coping with the atrocious white balance on the Nokia Lumia 900. I found that each time you change the white balance setting it will take the first picture with the white balance you choose. After that it resets itself to whatever it wants. It doesn't matter what white balance setting you have saved. So eact picture I have to go into the menu and switch the white balance to something else and then back to the whtie balance I actually want. It's totally unbelievable. C'mon Nokia! Flagship phone?! Really?! Do the engineers actually use the device or do they design it and ship the plans off to Asia and just assume everything turned out okay? The White Balance is malpractice. And before anyone asks I am on Tango with the latest Nokia update installed.

Hi. We are sorry to hear this. Try doing the troubleshooting steps provided on the below link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile/support/product/lumia900/troubleshooter/?categories=Phone%20me...
Let us know if this helps or not.

My nokia lumia 900 won't fully charge

Ok this started happenig like two weeks ago and i dont really know why, my lumia only charges like 40% sometimes 25% OVERNIGHT, it starts charging in a normal way and when it gets in 40% stops charging even when the icon still flashing it doesnt charges anymore and even if i have it plug into the Wall the battery life starts to going down, i dont know what to do, im kinda tired of this phone.....Do you guys know what can be the problem, how to fix it or what do i have to do next? Please help

Did something happen to your phone prior to this issue, m3t4lcor3? Have you tried using other compatible USB cables and wall chargers to verify if the issue is phone or charger related? Does this issue happen when a specific app or task is left running in the background while charging?
You can try resetting your Lumia 900. Press and hold the power and volume down keys simultaneously until you feel the phone vibrate. You may need to set the date and time on the phone after this. Note that this does not remove any settings or your personal content. Make sure that your phone's software is updated as well. This link give you information about SW updates: SW Update for Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone 7.8.
Let us know the outcome. BTW, welcome to the Nokia Support Discussions!

Having problem with my Nokia Lumia 900

hi i wonder if you could help me i'm trying to check in on my facebook and it keeps saying that theirs a problem and to try again which i have done a number of times but still having the same problem.
and my other problem is when ever i turn my nokia lumia 900 off then on it comes up no service and stays like that for a while then changes to orange which is the network that i'm on the mobile is'nt new it use to be a contract mobile my son brought it for me off a friend and the guy that he brought it off put all new software on it and i'm just sick of it coming up no service when i turn it off then on. please help.
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Try uninstall - reinstall of the HERE Maps and HERE Drive+ applications .. Also delete any maps data .. and reinstall fresh maps ..
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Already Converted 10 of my family members over to AT&T for Nokia Lumia 900!!!

Verizon,
You decided to drag you feet, promote the crap out of Android and stop supporting Windows Phone 7.
So I converted 10 of my family members over yesterday to AT&T for the Nokia Lumia 900.
I got them $100 credit towards the Nokia Lumia 900 which AT&T was charging $99 dollars for the phone on Pre-Order.
So my family members only had to pay $36 for the activation fee.
Verizon, you had your chance. You had multiple chances. If you truly wanted an LTE Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft, you could have easily worked something out with them, just like AT&T did.
All the information has been leaked out, Apollo/Windows Phone 8 was supposed to have LTE but because AT&T showed that they really were interested in Windows Phone 7 and actually carring a lineup of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft worked it out for them.
So you can take all your Droid crap that you have heavily invested in, along with all your iPhone 4s that keep hogging all the bandwidth on your network and stick it were the sun don't shine.
I promise you this, when my contract is done I will be terminating my account in FULL and switching over to AT&T as well.
To not even stand behind a product that we all have signed 2 year contracts with is unacceptable for the price were paying. To hold back all updates besides Mango is unacceptable just to lock in new 2 year contracts. And I'm talking about Droid too.
Carriers should not be in controll of phone updates PERIOD!!! Updates should be released from the OS Manufactures just like on computers. This business model that the industry has created is a SCAM, JOKE and an INSULT to everyone that puts there hard earned money up for phone service.
Verizon, you have lost all respect in my book, and I will do everything possible to get everyone and everybody I talk to away from your network.
Only way to solve this issue is to address the Windows Phone 7 community and actually annouce something, PERIOD!!! Release the 8107 update as a good faith measure and issue a press release stating your business model regarding Windows Phone 7... Unless you want more dollars going to AT&T.
Also, latest news shows that Android only made $22million in revenues last year, and spend $20 billion acquiring Motorola. So I don't see Andriod being able to do much in the year 2012 to ramp things up to compete against Windows Phone 7/Nokia and Apple.
Do Something, NOW!!! CAN YOU HEAR US NOW!!!
Also, here's another suggestion... Do like AT&T has done and give users a early termination fee to get out of there contracts. I believe they charge $35 dollars or something higher if your not satisified and want to terminate your contract early.
Since you don't want to support or offer any more Windows Phone 7, why keep us as unhappy customers. Give us an option to pay a early termination fee and leave!!!
TheJester77

thejester77 wrote:
Also, latest news shows that Android only made $22million in revenues last year, and spend $20 billion acquiring Motorola. So I don't see Andriod being able to do much in the year 2012 to ramp things up to compete against Windows Phone 7/Nokia and Apple. What news are you reading? Android is not a company but a phone operating system. GOOGLE acquired Motorola, not Android. GOOGLE's 2011 revenues were 37.9 billion, NOT 22 million. Google acquired Motorola for 12.5 billion, NOT 20 billion.
Also, here's another suggestion... Do like AT&T has done and give users a early termination fee to get out of there contracts. I believe they charge $35 dollars or something higher if your not satisified and want to terminate your contract early.
Since you don't want to support or offer any more Windows Phone 7, why keep us as unhappy customers. Give us an option to pay a early termination fee and leave!!! Again, where are you getting this information? The AT&T ETF is $325 less $10 for each month of your contract which has been completed. It is NOT $35. Verizon has a similar, although slightly higher ETF of $350 less $10 for each month of your contract which has been completed.
Yes, we can hear you, but you are not making any sense!

Can't sync my Macbook with my new Nokia Lumia 900.

I spent two hours with a couple of the tech folks at the AT&T store yesterday, trying to get my new Nokia Lumia 900 to sync to my Macbook... but with no luck. No matter what we did, I kept getting a message that the server was not secure, and so the calendar and address book wouldn't sync. Other things probably as well, though these two were my primary concerns. And, yes, we had downloaded the Windows Phone 7 Connector. It didn't seem to matter. Any suggestions, other than taking the phone back and getting another iPhone for a couple hundred more than I paid for the Lumia?

Take it back and buy an iPhone...
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Nokia Lumia 900 Front camera issues

Hi Moderator,
I bought the new Nokia Lumia 900 few days back and today for the first time when I tried using the front camera on one of my video calls it just froze. Thinking that it is software(skype, tango) problem I tried to open regular camera but the front camera wouldnt come up. I called At&t technical support he advised me to switch off the phone, remove sim, re-insert the sim and turn it on. It worked(thought I still dont understand the realtion between sim and camera). But after some time the camera again hung up on me. This time I switched my phone off for 5 minutes and then turned it on it worked. And I cannot do the whole process again and again all day. Is that a known issue or defect in my phone.

I also have a new Lumia 900 with skype installed. I am finding that the experience on wifi is still not as smooth as Facetime on an iPhone. I am also finding that after I use it a second time (my call hung up in the middle), suddenly my front camera will not work correctly anymore. It is showing the image as though it has some kind of a filter applied and there does not appear to be a way to turn or reset this filter. Switching to the front view worked fine. Audio continued to work fine and my phone did not lock up, other then possibly internet delays. I got the front camera to work again by powering down. I think there might still be software issues.

Nokia Lumia 900 needing at least 2 factory resets ...

Hi there
I'm currently on my second Nokia Lumia 900 device (the first had deformed defects at the top two corners after overheating) and since i've received the second device at least twice a month i have to perform a factory reset in order to prevent the device locking up...
I'm not sure if it's a combination of things or that maybe my expectations of the device are too high possibly however here's my scenario
In a typical day i use the following apps: -
rowi/Cowlick!/gleek/Twitter app (i switch between them all with varying performance)
Facebook
Email
Zune Music
Nokia Music
Internet Explorer
What i've found is that Windows Phone runs really smooth and without a hitch... when connected to a WiFi signal! When i run things through a 3G connection, this is where the phone starts stuttering in general and not just through apps. for example, the Cowlick and Gleek apps tend to take roughly 60 seconds to load my twitter feed timeline (and this is with full strength 3G signal outdoors) yet rowi will take 10 seconds tops, which lead me to assume that rowi seems to handle 3G connections better than the Cowlick or Gleek apps HOWEVER even just exiting the apps by pressing the back button is majorly delayed compared to when its connected via WiFi - when trying to exit the Cowlick or Gleek app using a 3G connection takes normally 9-10 presses of the back button before it will respond to take me back to the Home screen yet over WiFi it takes no more than 2-3...
Now I remember there was an article talking about Background tasks taking up resources etc and i've switched off all of these which leads me to believe that possibly there are a few things causing these lock ups so I can only think of this being caused by a few things: -
1) I have too many apps installed on the device at one time
2) Despite turning off the Background tasks, the Twitter and Facebook accounts set up in the emails + accounts section are updating in the background and removing them may solve the problem
3) My expectations of the device are too high (I came from a Samsung Galaxy Nexus as my previous phone)
I will confess at one point I had a mixture of 75 apps and games installed on my Lumia 900 at any one time so there's a good chance that may have caused the issue, although all the background tasks were switched off and on my previous phone I had a similar amount of apps installed with no impedement on performance regardless of connection type (WiFi/3G)
Can anyone possibly shed some light on what could be the cause? Is it my heavy usage or app whording or just too high an expectation of Windows Phone 7.5 after moving from Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich?
P.S. Any american Lumia owners care to comment on what like performance is like on their Lumia 900 on AT&T? 3G in the UK at the moment is painfully slow (despite the Lumia 900 DC-HSPA capabilities) so I wonder if it's the 3G performance that's causing my device to hiccup.

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Nokia Lumia 920 data back up

Please I need help regarding the below:
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