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Published by Boc Ly on January 30, 2013

TweetThe Windows Phone 7.8 update is beginning its rollout to phones currently running on Windows Phone 7.5. You can transform your Nokia Lumia with a host of exciting new personalisation features, such as the ability to resize your tiles, new lock screen options, and more theme colours.

Windows Phone 7.8 has already been shipping pre-loaded on the Nokia Lumia 510 and other phones in the Nokia Lumia family, with users delighted by the new features.

And now, following extensive software testing, update notifications will begin to appear for Nokia Lumia 510, 610, 710, 800 and 900 owners with an unlocked phone or operator approved software during February.

Starting today and rolling out over the coming weeks, a message will appear on the phone encouraging users to get the update. Simply connect your phone to your computer via Zune for PC, or the Windows Phone app for Mac – and follow the onscreen instructions as shown in the video above.

 

More tiles, features and signature experiences

As well as major system updates, there has been a stream of exciting new features introduced to Nokia Lumia. These include Internet sharing, Bluetooth sharing, imaging enhancements like Camera Extras, and the release of apps such as Contact Share, Play To and Nokia City Lens that are available.

With Windows Phone 7.8 installed, your Nokia Lumia gets even better.

The Start screen experience is completely refreshed with the ability to re-size your tiles: small, medium and large.

In addition, there are also new options available on your lock screen, such as having a daily background image from Bing; plus there’s improved pocket and child lock screen security.

Plus, there is increased language support, meaning even more people get to enjoy Nokia Lumia.

These new benefits, together with the new look Start screen, will make your Lumia feel like a brand new smartphone.

 

Availability

The Windows Phone 7.8 update is now rolling out for Nokia Lumia smartphones through February. Delivery of the update is operator dependent, meaning you will receive a notification in the coming weeks if you have an unlocked phone or if your operator has approved the update. If you don’t receive the update notification within the next three weeks, please contact your operator for more information.

In the meantime, you can ensure that you don’t miss out on the update, by checking that notifications are enabled on your phone. Go to Settings > Phone Update > “Notify me when new updates are found”.

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Comments http://twitter.com/guesshu_79 Richie Rulez !!!

Eagerly awaiting the update to make my already awesome Lumia 710 more awesome with more features & Customization

James Woodcon

can you bear with the physical buttons rather than touchable virtual ones?

rom nava

Prefer buttons 10 fold. its one of the only decent smartphones with buttons on.

http://www.windowsobserver.com/ Richard Hay

I am bummed I do not have a 7.5 device to update and see how 7.8 is but I am glad to see those early adopters getting some of the WP8 updates.

http://twitter.com/OldCongress zhenghao

Great Nokia! Steal BlackBerry’s spotlight hahaha.. their phones are crap anyway.. Windows Phone + Nokia = WIN

http://twitter.com/polaralex95 Alejandro

Is Cinemagraph coming to Windows Phone 7.8?

http://conversations.nokia.com/ Tiina Jaatinen

We’ve added great imaging features like Camera Extras to Nokia Lumia (running WP7.8) already. And we will continue to support all Nokia Lumia owners, but I’m afraid I don’t have anything more to share at present.

http://www.facebook.com/ipariszalonna Tamás Juhász

Camera Extras was in 7.5 so I don’t know what you are talking about.

James Woodcon

does it have auto-focus?

NGM123

Whens it coming to Australia? :-(

Luke

Still waiting for the update.

James Woodcon

in a short time

Rufus, o Lenhador

Still nothing here for a Lumia 800

rafiii

No Ringtone creator??

davidw316

OH YA!!

Dogma Hunter

I understand that the update is going to come to users in several waves. Meaning that the majority will not see the update today, but in a few days/weeks.
I was wondering… is there a way for us to find out in which wave our awesome lumia’s will receive the update?
And, just because I’m impatient, could we “force” something to be part of the first wave anyway? :P

Ahmed Mustafa Nematallah

of course, but you’ll ruin your warranty

http://www.facebook.com/ipariszalonna Tamás Juhász

Check WPCentral for a safe way to “force” the update. You can trick Zune into thinking that you are worthy of the update even if Nokia/Microsoft decided otherwise :D Several people confirmed that it works and it won’t void your warranty.

Markus

Will the calendar finally show the calendar week!?

Sithick

Please elaborate following terms
improved pocket and child lock screen security.

Plus, there is increased language support, meaning even more people get to enjoy Nokia Lumia.

http://conversations.nokia.com/ Tiina Jaatinen

Hi Sithick, please take a look here: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/cmpn/windows-phone-7-8

malerocks

Not clarified on that page… Any other link / info available

mkr10001

FUCK YOU THREE UK! Fucking hell. fucks sake.

It’s not difficult to just make it fucking available.

http://www.facebook.com/reicle Reicle Kledson

Still nothing here too for a Lumia 800

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003635518214 Gustav Christensson

Come to Italy…

http://www.facebook.com/yash.rajora Yash Rajora

what for cinemagraph & smart shoot?

Ziad Mohamed

I asked the same question since Nokia promised by releasing them to 7.8 update.

http://twitter.com/anujgadre Anuj Gadre

Any idea about operators in India. I am using an unlocked lumia 900. Waiting to go 7.8.

Jorel Moldova

No multiple file select?
No screenshot?
No USSD suport?

http://twitter.com/ajitbhimesh Ajit Bhimesh

Will there be independent volume control for phone ring, music & apps in 7.8?

That’s probably the only -ve rather stupid thing I can think of in 7.5.

GrizlyDog

Disappointingly No! have updated my 710 and the volume issue is still there :-(

Miss Giggle Blossoms

Nokia Lumia 900 in us????? Went to zune and it said no updates available. Help!!! I really want this update!!!

http://twitter.com/nokialindsay Lindsay

Hi Miss, the update is rolling out throughout February. You will receive a notification when you can update your phone.

http://twitter.com/dalydose Jeff Daly

Or trick Zune into doing it now…see WPCentral’s website.

Sujay

Did it work for you Jeff?

Dogma Hunter

I can confirm it works, did it myself. It’s very easy.

http://twitter.com/ExNokian Anonymous Ex-Nokian

I hope Nokia is setting up FAQ for “My computer does not identify device named Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM, what do I do?”

http://conversations.nokia.com/ Tiina Jaatinen

Please contact Nokia Care.

http://twitter.com/LukaszKniola Lukasz Kniola

This is such a let down. Bought my L710 in June last year. 7.8 bits shown in July. Great, I though. Only I had to wait another few months before getting Tango which wasn’t even 7.8. Then waited some more. And then some more. In the meantime I waited for Audible app. Then for Paypal app. For any reasonable non-nokia app in fact. Then 7.8 was imminent. So I waited. End of January. It’s only out today because January doesn’t have more days in it. Pretty sure you’d make me wait more if it did. In fact you do. As Zune finds NO updates. So it will be another few weeks.
Good job I bough a Galaxy S3 a few months back and now only check for L710 updates for laugh.
I’ll check on Windows Phone in a couple of years. Maybe by then the big wait will be coming to an end.
Shame. I had big hopes. And the 7.8 mess put me off WP8, too. Pretty sure it’s the same story there. If not now – wait until MS promises an “imminent” upgrade.

chris_t610

I hate to be a party pooper, but I am about to break away from Nokia and my Lumia 800. I have been waiting for this update for ages that Im now tired to even connect my phone to my pc and check.

I know this is not Nokia’s fault at all, but honestly, I think Nokia was better off when it was independent.

I have been using my N8 for nearly 2 years and in those 2 years I lost count of the many updates Nokia has provided it. And these were major update,. not just some new tiles or themes.

Heck, even my E72 was updated sooo many times compared to this WP.

This was a very hard lesson for me. Frankly, I was always a Nokia fan through and through and I would love to see my next purchase as another Nokia.

But with the current platform Nokia has supported, I think I am better off with the competition.

And in as much as it breaks a part of me to part ways with the Brand I so loved through the years, it will be a very hard decision that took many years to make.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1198150213 Joe Murray

Really, have you seen the abysmal rate of updates from Android devices?
As far as update rates, how often do you think there really needs to be one? MS has one every 6 months, Apple every year.

chris_t610

Yup, I have seen updates from across other OSes.

My point is that WP was designed to be too minimalistic. Aside from the added applications from WP8, there aren’t any notable differences from 7.5 as well.

I respect your perception towards WP, all I am saying is that ever since I adopted the platform it fell short of my expectations (especially I am coming from Symbian).

I would agree that WP will eventually improve in time, but that may also translate to current WP8 devices being left out in the cold just like 7.5 and no major differences in functionality.

Oh, and I am not about to proceed to other platforms for now. I’d rather stick it out with my N8 until a bright perspective comes along.

Dogma Hunter

The break from wp7 to 8 was due to a new kernel and the hardware requirement changes because of that. There’s no reason at all to assume that this story will repeat itself.
Consider how a lot of XP pc’s weren’t able to upgrade to Vista because of similar hardware incompatibilities.
All those who were a bit informed on the matter also knew this when they were buying their 7.x device.
I think you’ll find that the competition at this point is a lot worse.
Android is about the most fragmented system out there (logical result of allowing phone makers to mess with the code) and Apple has got an invested interest in making you buy new iphones all the time, since that is how they make money. There won’t be any “7.8?-like stories on iDevices… they’ll just tell you to cough up another 600 bucks.
Just saying…

chris_t610

Let’s suppose for a minute that what you said are correct, but the damage has been done isn’t it? No doubt that Nokia have been building fantastic devices, only to be dictated by the OS maker.

News of this 7.8 update has been circling the web since September and there were even some folks who were lucky to be enjoying it even before the official release.

But let’s not dwell in the past anymore since the update’s already here. Then we begin to ask: what’s new?

Oh look new tiles and colors and…?

Where is the screenshot that was said to be part of the update?

Was MS kind enough to include a file manager this time?

Bluetooth transfer…?

And the questions keep coming in…

At the end of thr day, the so called major update wasn’t major in features after all — way to go Ballmer and co.!

So let me ask; was the long wait even worth it of what the updates changed?

If you say ‘yes’ then Im happy for you.

As for me, I’ve had enough of MS.

I agree that the competition isn’t doing very well themselves. But in this case, Im choosing the lesser evil.

Dogma Hunter

Here’s the difference between you and me…
When I bought my Lumia, I didn’t expect it to get ANY kind of upgrade. Updates, yes (in the sense of support and bugfixes).
So ANYTHING they throw at me was a nice unexpected surplus.
When I buy a phone, or indeed any device, I buy it as-is. I don’t buy it thinking “yeah, that thing will be awesome in 2 years”.
Frankly, I don’t get all the whining about this.
It’s damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
Would you rather have your Lumia transformed into a fiasco like the “vista ready” xp machines back in the day?
In short, my humble opinion on the matter is “get over it”.
Go ask an android user how the latest version of android is working out for him. Or go ask an iPhone 4 user the same question about iOs.
I’ld rather have my phone stay usable and with good performance rather then to receive a crippling update that is even completely pointless because I don’t have the hardware required for as good as all the new features.

chris_t610

I am over it, that’s why I am leaving the platform right?

I have a device from the other side of the pond that will be stuck on 4.1, but I never complained co’z everything that I need are there.

Now if you’re contented with this side then fine by mean, I couldn’t care less. Bottomline is Im done with MS.

http://www.facebook.com/ipariszalonna Tamás Juhász

Apple never did “7.8? like stories because they made sure newer ios versions are running on 2-3 generation old devices too. With all the important improvements. Nokia and Microsoft should have tried harder wiith the 7.8 update becasuse it seems a bit lackluster to say the least. (btw I’am a happy user of a Lumia800, what’s there is great but there are significant downgrades compared to simbian)

registradus

I feel a bit cheated too. owned this phone for less than a year and it is already out of date and unable to be updated to latest version. a new start screen doesn’t really cut it.

http://twitter.com/dalydose Jeff Daly

What else did you want that isn’t hardware dependent?

http://www.facebook.com/ipariszalonna Tamás Juhász

Offline navigation outside of Drive. Nokia claims it’s impossible on 7.x but I don’t buy it. It’s just lazy.

http://twitter.com/dalydose Jeff Daly

If you’re that finicky, you’ll be back after you see the grass ain’t always greener, my friend.

chris_t610

no thanks, I’ve had it with MS. :-)

Thomas

I want? to know only one – are music and all audio equalizer is
integrated into this update or it will be available to download from
Marketplace? Equalizer, Bluetooth transfer and new Start screen is only
what I want from new update. Bluetooth transfer and Start screen will be
available, but about equalizer is not information.. :(

James Woodcon

maybe i guess

mprice86

Glad to have the update, though I’d hoped that all of the promised apps would be available as well.

http://www.facebook.com/justin.agas Justin Agas

no update yet :((

http://www.facebook.com/enricko.lukman Enricko Lukman

I’ve updated my phone to 7.8 by changing the region to the US. But I can’t download the bluetooth share and the ringtone maker because it is not available on the region, anyone can help?

http://www.facebook.com/blackbayoe01 Black Bayoe

i got this problem too…
anyone please help us T.T

http://twitter.com/dalydose Jeff Daly

Nice. I have it on my Lumia 900 (forced with tip from WPCentral). I’m glad that I haven’t yet sold this device because it was a great backup since I bricked my Lumia 920 and had to get a warranty replacement. It’s now restoring. I also love the music experience with my 900 and Zune. It works with all of my Zune music and playlists. Xbox Music needs work and that’s what I’m forced to use with the 920.

So all that to say, WOO HOO, the 920 got updated!!

deeptirao

My update has been stuck on Step 6 of 9: Restarting Your Phone for the last hour or so. Should I take any steps to cancel or just wait it out?

James Woodcon

i think you should do it over again

Swapnil

same problem here. already tried twice but does not seem to work :(

http://twitter.com/thejeraldo Jeraldo Abille

Currently updating. Thanks Nokia and MS. Hope this is not the last update for the Lumia 800. We need screenshot capability to WP7! Please!… :D

alocut

Till now, how about Lumia 610 in VietNam ? I’ve just connected with Zune but it upgrade OS only, not upgrade 7.5 to 7.8. Anybody know how ?

Razvan

Still not 7.8 in romania. I am waiting.

Sujay

Unlocked Lumia 900 Phone bought in Singapore, used in USA. when should i expect an update?

http://twitter.com/kewlaniyash Ýäsh këwlâñí

when is the actual date realese..very eager

aditya

No cinemagraph or smartshoot or ringtone maker.. :((

http://www.facebook.com/rashidvp Mohamed Rashid

my lumia 900 already got updated to 7.8 a couple of weeks before from Nokia Care Centre. Looks great:)

Vaibhav

ive updated my lumia 710 but still it is not allowing me to download bluetooth share or ringtone maker,says either my phonbe is incompatible or they are not available in my region

Rob King

And yet the southern hemisphere compass issue (it doesn’t work) is still there. Nice going Nokia / Microsoft.

Ulf

When will the developer phones be updated. Last time they were updated later than many other Lumias, when 7.5 was released and the carrier were Nokia in UK. I want to test my apps on a real phone before I decide to update them.

http://www.facebook.com/i.ashu AShu Sharma

just updated l800 to 7.8 ( thanks nokia !!), but i noticed the volume output is decreased (like 30% loss at full volume compared to 7.5 earlier while playing at my 2.1 speakers – altec)… pls issue fix nokia(trusting u always) :(

http://ulbit.ru/ Ulbit

????? ?? ?? HTC radar ?????????

http://twitter.com/Almondz10 Leo Marasigan

I got my Lumia 510 updated here in the Philippines – via… ehem, via trick. I love it!

http://www.facebook.com/decyther Mark Ingram

Is this a different build to the one people updated to a little while ago with the care suite software? If so will we still get an update notice?

Dave Darutto

I am currently outside of the UK where I purchased my lumia 800 from O2. Will I still receive the notification for the update? Do I have to have the O2 SIM in the phone?

blegs38552

I am a T-Mobile subscriber – Lumia 710 in the USA. No update yet. I am reluctant to try and force the update – hopefully, it will not be long in coming. I read that there were some API changes – any chance that these will enable a software developer to give us the Screen Capture feature that we are all asking for> I know that this was available for unlocked phones at the XDA-Developers forum, so it will work with our hardware. Just a question of someone building it and putting it in the Windows Phone store for us. Also, a battery level tile would be a good thing – also available for Windows Phone 8 phones.

ACI

I have read some news today that T-Mobile decided not to update Lumia 710 models. Search online and hope that it isn’t true.

Ahmed Mustafa Nematallah

that’s why I love nokia, always updating their old devices

http://artemyev.biztoolbox.ru Andrey Artemyev

Got it this morning! Not bad.

death

still i got nothing this is a bunch of bull shit

http://www.facebook.com/george.bergmark George Bergmark

Updated my Lumia 920 yesterday.
Noticed today that I can no longer attach files from my phone and/or SharePoint to emails.
Is this a Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Office 365 issue(s)?
When do you expect a fix?

http://www.facebook.com/ipariszalonna Tamás Juhász

Lumia 920 runs WP8. How could you “downgrade” to 7.8 when it is not even supported by your phone?

http://twitter.com/PhilK001 Phil K

According to Nokia, if your Lumia 800 has a firmware ending 122** then we WON’T get update – WHY FGS ???? Mine AND my wife’s Lumia 800's end like that. It should be ALL or none.

ACI

Where did you read about that?

http://www.facebook.com/umesharen Umesh Umesharen

my final update version is 7.10(8779) my FW is : 2175.2503.8779.12301 this is not AT&T or anything this is an RM-823 global unlocked version.. bgt from germany (made in korea) and now i’m in srilanaka…. bt still me not get WP7.8 update.. will i get update or else i have some other issus?

ste

Have he problem with whatsapp been solved? Is it still slow?

Chris Greenacre

My Nokia Lumia 800 is unlocked… Why haven’t I received this update yet?

http://twitter.com/PhilK001 Phil K

Ditto. Apparently if your firmware is ending 122** then no you don’t get it. Thing is, apparently MOST Lumia 800s certainly the ones where they were selling them off at good prices, are that firmware, a neat and filthy trick.
But it’s still baffling. Why alienate and anger so many potential loyal followers ?

Nik

When I try and update to 7.8 Zune can not find the update and then acts like there is no update.I have an at&t nokia lumia 900.

http://www.facebook.com/martin.ju.90 Martin Jü

I’m still sad that no Windows Phone 8 is available for your Windows Phone 7 devices. The availability of Windows Phone 8 for the HTC HD2 shows that it is technically possible.

But the thing that frustrates me most is that most apps made for Windows Phone 8 will not run on our Windows Phone 7 devices so that we cannot expect many more apps to flow into the 7 Marketplace :-(

Miles McCarthy

We have found a way to install Windows Phone 8 OS on to single core phones by our university researches. We implemented this on Lumia 710 and 800 series. But we have to disable some feature on WP8 which provides good sync. between threads and processes on real WP8 phones. However, we made it. We are testing the phones for 4 days, and we never been crashed.

We can never use dual core advantages but, by switching between processes so fast provides us a dual-core-like environment. (This slows down our application nearly %10 because of context switchings between processes, but cheats OS to think it is processing on a dual core processes.) Nevertheless, we can use the OS fully functional with applications and everything.

We will update you how to do that, pray for us not to things go bad.

Hazique Quazi

when will the update be available in India?

Aditya Gupta

i restored my lumia in previous 8112 version ..but now i m not getting update ..give me solution

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