Amber for the Lumia 720 appears on Nokia Care Suite; rollout imminent

Nokia Lumia 720 + Amber

Good news for those with the crawly Nokia Lumia 720, as the 1334 Amber firmware and 10328 Os update (GDR2) is at present sitting on Nokia'southward servers.

If you're audacious and use Nokia Care Suite or Navifirm+, you tin can download the ROM and manually flash your device (losing all information in the process); alternatively, you can wait until your carrier begins to roll it out over-the-air, which is what we recommend.

Nokia Lumia 720 + Amber
Manually flashing a Lumia 720 with Amber update

Nokia's Amber update for the Lumia 720 (and the 620 and 520) accept been slower to be released when compared to the high-finish Lumias, though Nokia has promised that all devices should be updated by the end of September. Lots of people accept been looking forward to the Lumia 720 update every bit that device is quite pop. With the new files on Nokia's servers, information technology means the OS build is finalized and it should exist rolling out to the various regions within the next few days.

Nokia Lumia 720 + Amber and Glance Screen
New Glance screen on the Nokia Lumia 720 + Amber

Windows Phone Central can confirm that Amber on the Lumia 720 brings with it Data Sense, Glance Screen, FM Radio, default-camera selection, Lumia Colour Profile, Call + SMS filter and the Other Storage fix, amidst the top items. Although double-tap to awake is supposed to be there, we have not been able to find that feature enabled for the Lumia 720 on our device.

Nosotros'll keep yous posted when the update starts rolling out over-the-air. In the concurrently, head into our Lumia 720 forums for further give-and-take: http://forums.windowscentral.com/nokia-lumia-720/

Thanks, husam2277, for the tip

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