Windows 10 for phones preview pulled for Lumia 520, 525 and 526

Windows phone is  a waste of money, I recommend you buy other brands

i hav lumia 525 updated to win 10 jst 3,4 days ago... it was awesom m..i lyked it as new features was available bt now som kinda yellow lined border came in my mob. scrn wat happened,???? i cant think its really difficult to use my phone noe any solutions??? plzz help me bro....

hey heil me when i download windos 10 on my phone its downloaded but it has problemb that is when it gone for restart it not restart and not open help me

There is nothing to do with the windows 10 TP as it was installed in our phones smoothly, so dont blame it.. The recovery tool is the culprit.. People who used the tool without even installing the TP also got this problem by just recovering their phone using the software. Microsoft only told us to install the TP at our own risk, they havent ever told not to use the recovery tool. So they should find a fix for all our bricked phones or should replace or repair it for free. I dont think the newly released WPRT 1.2.4 would fix all the bricked phones. We should only blame Microsoft for ending up our phones like this.

Also 52X-series are not the only phones that got bricked, some 620 n 920 also got the same issue..

hai my lumia 720 is updated to 10  preview.now i wish to go back to 8.1.when i reset my phone it loading to 10 preview only.

how can i get factory format in lumia 720.

I had a red screen with nokia logo issue last week and I tried to contact nokia care they said they could not flash my mobile. So I tried to flash ROM on my lumia 525 mobile . When I was trying to flash I got failed many times but when I retry everytime it shown some progress in the installation. So tried again again.

Finally I recovered my lumia 525. Thank God......

Things I did to recover my phone:

Before flash Rom just watch this video

video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhl6o9O4_Ps 

Prequisite Tools:

1. Navifirm plus to download firmware http://www.symbian-toys.com/download.aspx?file=NaviFirmPlus_3.2.zip

2. Nokia care suite 5.0 http://nokia-care-suite.en.lo4d.com/ 

Note : It will Erase everything from the phone. Do it at your own risk.

When will be the next wp10 build release??

get your att nokia unlocked at http://www.iphoneasyunlock.com

i installed wp10 preview on my lumia 520.First it crashed all my apps and my data.After hard resetting my mobile it wont get get back to wp8..but it bricked..and then i tried doing the process by turn off mobile and connect to charger and press the button in process..volume up + volume down + power + volume down..after doing this process two time my phone works well with wp10 preview..Thanks for this process...

You can use Lumia system recovery tool 5.0.7, dats d latest version.... It will roll back ur phone to last official update ur phone had received.... I too bricked my phone yesterday with windows phone recovery tool bt I managed to get it back to work with Lumia system recovery tool...... During installation it will fail a lot of times till 50%..... All u have to do is when an error occurred, repeat d process...... Choose option "my phone is unable to start" or something like dat appears on d very first screen and follow d instructions

Thank god.... I registered for win 10 preview.... But somehow I was not getting the preview update. I asked many people but none did replied.... Now I think I am blessed....

my lumia 520 suffered from same epidemic disease. I went to Nokia care point and those people replaced the motherboard of my lumia for 3000 INR (50 $). now, its healthy again and working like a new set.
now OS is windows phone 8.1 obviously.

my phone was OUT OF WARRANTY

my lumia 520 suffered from same epidemic disease. I went to Nokia care point and those people replaced the motherboard of my lumia for 3000 INR (50 $). now, its healthy again and working like a new set.
now OS is windows phone 8.1 obviously.

my phone was OUT OF WARRANTY

I Hope MS finds something for my device to come back to life. Or i'm gonna hate them for the rest of my life -_-

Any idea if MS is addressing the fix ?

My 520 was farked after putting 10 on it, it did hang on the rollback but I fixed it using the Lumia Recovery software....the rebranded Nokia Software Updater for retail.

I started to unlike Windows 10 :P

So what about those Lumia 520 owners who have already installed Windows 10 Technical Preview on their phones - should they continue to be on the Technical Preview or (assuming both Microsoft Software Recovery Tool as well as Lumia Software Recovery Tool fail) should they wait for the release of another mechanism to roll back to Windows Phone 8.1?

Same problem with lumia 535 dual sim. I had to take it back to "nokia care" to roll it back to Windows 8.1

bricked my lumia 620 

I used the desktop recovery tool for my 1520 from win 10 back to 8.1
Didn't take long. Had to take it off my phone. Was to buggy.... Awaiting for the next build. Hopefully there will be done improvement. But I have to say the outlook app on win 10 is amazing!!

my lumia 520 suffered from same problem. I went to Nokia care point and those people replaced the motherboard of my lumia for 3000 INR (50 $). now, its healthy again and working like a new set.
now OS is windows phone 8.1 obviously.

Mine got bricked while updating to windows 10 twice bt I rolled it back easily

How to download

The preview for developers for 8.1 was very good so i think everybody expected win 10 to be similar in functionality. It's really a joke and they should've never released it.

It's not worth putting on any phone. I can't even turn cellular data on, on my l920 with the win 10 preview

I rolled back on my 525, at first i used nokia software recovery tool but it fail. Afterward i reset my phone, my phone restart at first then reset then i connect capble and try to reinstall through nokia recovery tool, it run faster and success. You can try on it. Good luck!
Note: Dont do anything after your phone which restart at first. Let it at first step. The step of choosing language.

my L620 is bricked. I should have used "lumia recovery tool". what i did i followed windowscentral suggestion "windows phone recovery tool" and my phone is dead. i didn't even know "windows phone recovery tool" exist. I will never rely on windows central again. I would use lumia recovery tool by myself if i didn't read windows central.

When I rolled back my O2 1020 it was loaded with a German O2 rom. I had to download new keyboard and speech but all is working ok, does anyone here know how I can get back O2 uk rom?

some days ago i updated my 520 to windows10 preview update now i am rolling back to 8.1 but my recovery tool1.1.0 downloaded pakage but of 1.60 of Gb (Windows Technical preview x86EnGb) named on my desktop what happend and what about downloaded file ?? where is 8.1

Managed to roll back here, wouldn't be surprised if many are doing so - the WP10TP is a mess. Yes, it's alpha - but far more alpha than one would expect for public testing. What's worse is that it makes 8.1 feel like an OS made by the gods.

It's not 'early days' (MS will most likely roll WP10 out this year) so it seems like W10 could be an absolute shamble. IMO, they've got the nippiness and UI consistency of 8.1 to contend with if they want WP10 to be successful.

So what happend to those who have bricked phones? Are they shit outta luck or is MS replacing/fixing them????

when they say they gonna work with those who have had issues reverting to 8.1,how will that be done???....tried reverting & from staurday afternoon the phone has been dead 4 days now...i'll be patient though

Windows phone 10 is a horrible experience..

Hey, i have the same problem with a Lumia 630. I'm not able to return to 8.1 because recovery tool can't find my phone, even if it's recharging with the USB.
There were no more available: settings, phone, keyboard, messages, search...
I need some help to return 8.1. Is there any other way to turn 8.1?
Thank you so much all

why is anyone rolling back, this is a not a production OS so you should only be installing it to play & test. I have installed it on my spare 520, and yes it is horrible but I expect it to improve with each new release.

I'm pretty sure most people go into this knowing there will be bugs but still expect basic functionality to be there. There were so many problems with basic functionality on my 1020 I rolled back. Hell, even the insider app used to share your experience would not run. Internet sharing being non-functional was deal breaker.

Just a tip for those experiencing this problem: Try the hardware-based reset tool to do a hard reset. For example, hold the power/volume down buttons until it restarts, then as soon as you see the Nokia logo, hold the volume down button. You will then see and exclamation mark. Plug the phone into a charger, then press the following keys in order: Volume Up, Volume Down, Power, Volume Down. This will reset the phone. I had to reset my 521 several times before it would run stably enough. You may think your phone is "bricked", but it just takes a little finagling to get it going again.

Cortana not working.

Good news right there.  That is where the bulk of the mass whining orginates.

This mean that if I roll back to win 8.1 denim therefore I can't install win10 tech preview again please reply

Hey everybody!I have a lumia 530 and i succesfully upgraded my phone from 8.1 to 10 and my choose was a big fault,better we wait the final version caz it's horrible with most problems,bugs and crashes.

What a disaster

I also installed Win 10 but it just s. U. C. K. S so I downgraded again to win 8.1 with the help of Lumia software recovery tool.

Hard resetting and rolling back both erase your data, demanding backup, or clean install. Hard resetting the phone first should be tried in many cases? I mean, hard reset solves lots of problems with W10. Of course, there are those who are sure they need to roll back instantly. Just trying to help here. 2 cents. Cheers!

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-620

-520

I have a Lumia 525 and I did roll back perfectly fine. I used the Windows Recovery tool too and not the older Nokia tool. But the firmware I flashed was old, very old. It was the firmware I had to download when I had to roll back from Preview for Developers to get Lumia Cyan. So if anyone needs the firmware package for your bricked device you can ping me on twitter (handle : rabbit00010) and I will provide it to you. :)

I'm one of those to which it happened and reported it in the Technet forums.

I hope they find a way to fix these bricked phones, I'm stuck on a Siemens dumbphone for now :/

Good

visited Nokia center yesterday to bring back my phone to life.

I'm not sure why people throw their hands up in the air telling at MS. Who warned people this was a technical preview which is inherently buggy and flight asking for users to help retort bugs. So don't install it on your daily driver.

My 520 with W10 tp would not let me get to settings. So I could not even tell what version I was running. Nor could I do a reset. So I tried the recovery tool which essentially bricked the phone. I tried all key combinations...nothing working. Recovery tool does not see the phone. It's essentially stuck on the red screen with big white letters that says NOKIA. No cogs, no exclamation. On reboot, the att logo shows for 1/2 second, then right away to the red screen with white logo. I will try to fully drain the battery and then fully charge and pray that it gets back to a resetable state. It's my backup phone but the kids were having fun with it until I tried the upgrade from 8.1 to W10 build xxxx.

People I you don't have experience in tech previews or any tech experience please refrain from installing such updates. I have a Lumia 520 and I have over ten years tech experience I had windows 10 tech preview installed and I rolled back the software no problem in now back on windows phone 8.1 update 1 on preview for devs and was waiting On a more stable release of WP10. Because of this Microsoft has pulled it so that genuine tech savvy people such as myself cannot get the OS.

This happened to me too on my Lumia 1020... Luckily it was in warranty and AT&T replaced it for free.

I had a problem on my lumia 1320 i installed windows 10 but then there were lot of bugs outlook mail n calender kept crashin so i decided to reset my phone....what a pleasant suprise the out of the box apps were missing such as outlook mail calender and a dialer setting wer not usable i cudnt reset my lumia for the second time the sim was not working my phone wasnt working..then i had revert back to windows cyan... M gna wait for better builds of windows 10

Wow... so they pulled it because some people "oh it's too buggy... I knew it and read it but I still wanted to install it. now I will roll back" wowooww... just wow, I mean, I don't expect people to stay always on a preview, but some people should not use thier main phones, which means or

1. they don't install it

2. get a second phone to test it and leave it there.

end.

Now if I wanted to install it on a 520 I wouldn't be able to for these idiots who don't know what a preview is and they think it is like car accident they should watch directly, only because other idiots are watching too. I mean.. the thing was released on friday, and people already were rolling back? again, where are their second devices to test this kind of stuff?? oh yeah, they don't have but still wanted to try something and 5 minutes later roll back. and complain how it sucks and buggy it is. it surely makes sense /s

Why don't just people stick to read WCentral or Neowin or WinBeta or other sites? Microsoft should do it harder for clueless people to install these previews. they make it easy and they get stupid crap because they ignore using a second device for this preview and not install it on their main phone. and they also can get stupid feedback too "Spartan crashed with 10 tabs opened" "why are hamburger buttons at the top? I don't like it" "my phone is slower, do something Windows Phone is dead" "why are we treated like crap, other platforms are better supported by Microsoft but Windows 10 doesn't work well on my phone, if it was released for iOS or Android it would better"

Idiots idiots, always idiots everywhere. But I thank you for this and your crap. 7 days since preview release and you keep rolling back? what feedback did you give?. again, please better stick to articles if you can't do something right like at least, not install it on your main device. clueless people, hope a car will hit you, maybe the hit will actually make you stop doing these "1 day trial" and whatever crap you call it, without giving valid and important feedback. I am glad your phone broke and I hope it burns by it self too ^______________^

I've given up the Windows 10 tech preview on Windows Phone for my Lumia 625 here is why

1) Cannot turn down cell phone data, I lost all my credit on my pre-paid phone since the update downloaded all from the cellular network, although is set as off. In Data Sense you can also can't change this, so this is basically keeping me out of having chance to make phone calls.

2) Video player doesn't work well on my recorded videos. It shuts down randomly.

I still don't understand why Windows 10 technical preview was first released for a small subset of phones, and others had to be 'added in' later, and now W10 TP is bricking a small subset of phones. Like, what is going on here--Microsoft has to make different versions of Windows 10 for every possible device that is running it? That seems like a lot of work. I don't get it.

-520... Going to BugDroid

I have face so many issue after installed windows 10 in my Lumia 525 and I uninstalled without any issue by 1day trial

MS is playing game with this platform. Releasing such buggy OS to phones significantly reduce the performance of handsets. This type of OS should not be allowed. It may hamper the development of this platform as well.

So maybe I should wait to rollback my 925.

I know this is kinda irrelevant but I found the Lumia Icon is available again on both MS store and amazon, I'm kinda surprised I never heard about it from this site :O

Ok

I installed it on my 520, it was slow as hell so I rolled back to 8.1 to do a clean install... after that I upgraded again to 10TP, no problems on my end, but the build is still slow and buggy :( Well I won't roll back to 8.1. I'll just wait for the next 10TP build :) and use the current on until then.

Lot of silly people can't rollback, because they can't use WP, but a lot of people who want to try Win 10 now suck! Thank you all guys who can't rollback. (I'm tested it out on my Lumia 520, and I now on 8.1 Denim because no Office and I can't turn off cellular data.)

It happen to me last week

Not also to those phone also to the 925 on T-Mobile

Ohh , this users save me. Thanks friends who have installed and informed us and Microsoft. Really big thanks. I am about to thinking to install the preview. Thanks a lot. I have already known without issue Microsoft won't release an update. There must.

My phone 1320 im update windows 10 too much error.....so what i do and i have a laptop and i donwload windows 8.1 recovery tool and i back windows 8.1 ...... Now my phone not windows 10 windows 8.1

Same here, but I hadn't even installed Windows 10. I simply tried to recover my phone using the Windows Phone Recovery Tool and it got bricked. Now it won't even turn on or do anything. It's completely dead.

Good thing Microsoft is acknowledging a problem, but what about a solution? My phone was unfortunately out of warranty, but I think Microsoft should offer some support or exchange, considering we were using an oficial tool provided by them in their support website.

Can we expect any solution to recover a bricked 520?
I have taken my phone to Nokia care!
They said its useless now unless I change motherboard!

there is a huge list of people that have a brick now ... windows only recognizes there is a unknown usb device plugged in ... it can't even read what type of device

I rolled back my 520 w/o a break using Nokia software updater for retail.

Cut to Gahan Wilson cartoon depicting blood spattered surgeons reassuring anxious relatives that they are doing everything humanly possible to avoid a malpractice lawsuit. 

Well I had W10MTP on my 920 and cannot revert back to wp8.1 via wpsrt of not seeing the device as connected. However, I could revert back to wp8.1 via lsrt. I don't know why but LSRT works fine, but wpsrt could not even recognize my device.

No issues...i m happy. L520.

If it gets stuck on the Nokia screen keep trying, just force a restart and try again. I finally got my 520 restored on the 8th try.

I had Windows 10 installed on a spare 520 with a broken screen. It performed horribly, and several of the built-in apps wouldn't even open. Probably because I upgraded the OS instead of clean installing.

When I tried to go back to 8.1 and redo the upgrade I was confronted with a red NOKIA screen. Seems bricked. Luckily I followed instructions not to use it on a main device. 

I updated my 520 to windows 10 and had some issues about sim + cellular.. So i planned to roll back, i used Lumia Recovery Tools instead of Windows Phone.. It's fine. *Back up first files

Installed windows10 in Lumia 520. Did a factory reset n nothing was there in phone even the settings in the app list. Hardly 6-7 apps were there Used recovery tool n installed wp 8.1 and then wp 10 again. Works great except for few glitches.

​I think this is an issue with the recovery tool, not the preview.

I couldn't even install the preview on my Lumia 521 due to issues with the OS causing the Insider app to crash when checking for builds, and the recommended action that i could find to take was to reset your phone with a fresh copy of the firmware through the Windows Phone Recovery Tool.​

Now my phone is stuck in emergency mode and cannot reboot or switch to anything else (I've tried the button reset combo then volume up as a number of places suggested, but the device won't reboot or do anything that will allow me to flash it regularly.) It's stuck in emergency mode til i can get the emergency config xml for the Windows Phone Recovery Tool Thor2 Flasher utility

I was able to rollback successfully once but the second one bricked my device #Lumia520

Bricked my 520.
MS would be giving any solution or need to go to NCC?

After update 2 L625 downloading wp10 hang with 53% please fix it

Use lumia software recovery tool to fall back to windows phone 8.1 from windows 10. I have used it on my lumia 520 for upto 3-4 times and my phn is still working perfectly doesn't know what will happen if you use windows phone recovery tool......

Haha, and I just sent in my phone for repairs, we'll see what they say about warranty stuff for the L520. Oh well - a minor setback.

So if I have the preview installed on a 520, what do I do?

My start button is super unresponsive on my Lumia 520 w/ Windows 10. Anyone got a similar issue?

I had trouble rolling back on my 1020. I think my mistake was loading the backup that was taken while running W10. It screwed up my mail. I no icon in all apps for mail, just a setup mail on home. When I tried to add my outlook.com account, it said it already existed, but there was no way to open it. I eneded up having to do a reset and load an older backup, but then I realized that backup was from the latest 8.1 and the recovery tool restored base 8.1, so I lost my home screen configuration and all that.

I installed it then did a hard reset and rolled back

They should have used Lumia Recovery Tool...

quick question but what happened to office, becuase it is nowhere to be found on my 928 WP 10 preview ??

Please tell what to do if my phone has been bricked in this way? No display no response not even charging notification !! :(

My L925 bricked when tried to rollback to 8.1. It was my primary phone so I had to get a new L635 to use until an official W10 phone is released.

535 please

I used Lumia recovery tool to jump back to 8.0. It was easy.

I am definitely not going back!

It also bricked my 635!...No love for me.  Having to stop by the ATT Service Center today to see if they can reimage my phone.

I have a bricked L520 because of rolling back from win 10 to win phone 8.1. It is my primary one. Time being m using my brother's L730. Hope MS fixes the issue and gets my phone back. MS please do something.

Thankfully I was able to roll back to 8.1 without bricking my 520, though it did fail a number of times initially.

Thanks all who are participating to make this OS more refined.
I cant put it on my primary/secondary/dailydriver/only one 620.This is too scary.

I has roll back

I couldn't get it work on my 1520...

I am one of them whose 520 is no more !! :(

I've 525 and I just opened insider app and it said build is available for your phone select the ring. Everything worked fine but I stopped installation I.e. Did not let phone reboot

I also did the rollback to 8.1 and I too felt that my phone has been bricked as the spinning gears went on and on for 12 hrs but then I removed the sd card after removing the battery directly and voila !! the spinning gears went on for some minutes and it rolled back successfully

My L520 is already dead! Tried everything except jtag :( 

Too late for my 520. It doesn't even turn on after using WPRT. Yet, it's somehow stuck in flash mode. Just got the 635 to replace it.

Good that they did it. I hope they fix it and release it soon. I am glad that I didn't installed it in my phone

I have an 1520. After using it for a week, I decided to go back to 8.1. The phone restarts itself after clicking on a picture in a text message. The touch becomes unresponsive 4 times in a single day. I had to soft reset it to make a phone call. Not able to answer phone call is frustrating. Even for a technical preview, there has to be some basic standard. It is very badly managed.

No issue for me in rolling back to 8.1 it was smooth no hiccups just hoping the new build solve the data connection bug

U do they release if they know the issues... Pathetic

Should I update my Lumia 520 to wp 10 is?

I rolled my Lumia 925 back. It is back on cyan but can no longer receive any updates at all. It is something to do with the time on the phone not being same as server and I have to update the time manually. It won't sync automatically. Dunno what to do.

I think it is pulled back for Lumia 620 as well. I first installed Windows 10 and then rolled back because of data connection issue. After rolling back when I tried to reinstall Windows 10, I did not get the update. 

I am anyway waiting for the next build with some issue fixes, especially the one related to data connection.

Thanks,

It did work for a few people

Hm, but i successfully rolled back my lumia 525 from win 10 to 8.1 with help of lumia recovery tool. It is some different tool, or i just lucky?)))

I installed WP10 on my 520 and now want to roll back. I accept the challenge.

I rolled back my 520, had to run the recovery tool twice to get it to work though.

When will it release on L535

Did anyone have installed Windows 10 tp on high devices like 1520 or 1020? Is there any problem appear?

I waiting. Lumia 920

Off topic: Bing not giving cricket fixtures or predictions or anything...
Anyone else?

The tech preview is a good reminder of how insanely complex it is to build an operating system.