Get Missing Lumia Black Features with QR Codes

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During the update of your Lumia Phone to the new Black update, you may be missing some features.

When upgrades are rolled out, they consist of 'packages' that provide scripts that tell each piece of the software package how and where to install.  Everything should be tested, but in some cases things may get skipped.  That's what happened when I reset my wife's Lumia 822 to factory defaults.

We decided to switch her main Microsoft Account associated with the phone.  Last year, we used her existing pop3 email account as her main Microsoft account.  It needed to be cleaner to provide easy sync with her new Windows 8 Asus laptop. Her phone had already been upgraded to the Black update, so she had all the features: Glance, Storage Check, etc.  So I reset the phone to factory defaults to setup her other account.

Now, once you update to a new revision, like Black, when the phone is reset, it resets to the new revision, not the original OS that shipped with your phone.  That's because the update replaces the original OS.  It's just like on a PC with a hidden Recovery partition.

Well, since the update was going from the previous update of Amber to Black, it worked fine.  But when the OS was replaced it appears some of the scripts don't work when reinstalling from Black.  The features from Nokia that are not part of the core Windows system are not setup.  Hence the need to download them.

But don't look in the Windows Store.  They're not apps, they are OS features.  And if you try 'check for updates', it won't help either.  Fortunately, Nokia has come forward and released QR codes to access the downloads.

Here's a video on using the Bing Vision lens for your camera (any other QR reader will work as well).



Just follow the instructions in the video or just skip to the QR codes below to get your features downloaded.  I listed them in alphabetical order.  If you load them in this order, they will appear on your Settings list in that order (starting from the last entry already there.












Accessories    Accessories 
 Access Point    Access Point
 Audio    Audio
 Call & SMS Blocking    
 Display    
 Extras & Info    
 Nokia Feedback    
 Glance    
 Nokia Account    
 Nokia Plus    

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