Electrical Brown Thumb: Lumia 920

A few weeks ago I was doing a job out of town and with my trusty Lumia 920, once I got to the location I checked my phone, and then put it down. Quickly realising, I should probably check something else, when I reached for my phone it was out cold. As if it ran out of battery. I guess the best way to describe it was it was “locked off”.So leaving it alone until I got back into town I did the usual troubleshooting, such as I know it was impossible, but maybe it did run out of power. Which it hadn’t, I decided to look up how you can soft restart etc. the device and preforming one booted the device up as if it was a normal day. Which was very odd.

It happened another time a few days later in which this time the screen showed a ! when I tried the trick again, only to boot up fine on the second try.

However it seems to be behaving itself since happening twice. But it is the weirdest issue I have ever experienced, more so then the issues with the Mozart. I hope this doesn’t continue and become an issue in the future.

I’ve done some research since I’ve experienced the issues. It seems like is a somewhat common problem. For me however it’s only occurred since the most resent update, which I assume was partly common problem, with people reporting freezing on bootup, and other people reporting more simular issues close to mine such as black screen and been able to hear the buttons make vibrating notices when using say the camera.

For me it has only been happening since a resent update, which I assume part of its purpose was to fix the issues some people had with the Lumia device turning off and other general battery issues. Which my theory is it could be a resulting effect of having the update.

The reported fix is the usual “return to Nokia”, or of course the fix I figured out where soft resetting it boots it back up as per normal.

Also one other weird problem, is occasionally calls don’t come through when on the charging stand, instead I just get the “missed called” sms and be all like “serious?”.

Has anyone else had these issues with the Lumia 920. Would like to hear your feedback, post in the comments bellow!