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1 Before you start. This guide will show you how to update your Lumia to the latest software version. Updates give you access to new improvements and fixes bugs on your phone. Nokia Lumia 520 Windows Mobile smartphone. Announced Feb 2013. Features 4.0″ IPS LCD display, MSM8227 chipset, 5 MP primary camera, 1430 mAh battery, 8.
- Page 1Nokia Lumia 520 Review
- Page 2Software, Video and Internal Speaker Review
- Page 3Camera, Battery Life and Verdict Review
Pros
- Android 7.1 on Lumia 520 is now possible! The developers are finally able to flash Android 7.1 on Lumia 520 and we will tell you how to install Android 7.1 (Nougat) on Lumia. Android 7.1 on Lumia.
- Apr 09, 2014 The Nokia Lumia 520 is a low-cost, entry level Windows Phone introduced in late February 2013 at Mobile World Congress. A variant, the Lumia 521, was created for.
- Top performance for price
- Neat design
- Excellent value
Cons
- Highly reflective screen
- No camera flash
- Misses a few hardware features
- Rubbish physical shutter button
Key Specifications
- Review Price: £115.00
- 4-inch 480 x 800 pixel IPS screen
- Windows Phone 8
- 8GB internal memory, microSD
- Dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon CPU
- 5-megapixel main camera, no front camera
First reviewed: August 2013
What is the Nokia Lumia 520?
The Nokia Lumia 520 is Nokia’s most entry-level Windows Phone 8 mobile. You can get it free on even the cheapest contracts but it’s also worth considering as a ouright purchase. You can find it for less than £100 and, if you shop around, you can get it for even less on a pay-as-you-go deal. While it lacks some of the neat touches you’ll find on the more expensive Lumia 620, it proves that Windows Phone 8 is a great platform for budget phones.
Nokia Lumia 520 – Video Review
If you don’t want to read the full review you can watch our video of the Nokia Lumia 520, with all its key features explored.
Nokia Lumia 520 – Design
Entry-level phones tend to feel cheap and, quite often, tacky. Less stylish and a good deal chunkier than mid or high-end phones, they also tend to suffer from build quality issues.
Nokia has managed to buck this with the Lumia 520. It is among the best phones in its class in this respect and while it uses a plastic battery cover, like virtually all budget phones, the backplate manages to cover the whole phone aside from the screen.
This gives the Lumia 520 a more unibody look that is comparable to high-end Nokia phones, even though this is certainly not a unibody mobile. The plastic cover is reasonably thick which helps it feel sturdy and tough. It also comes with a matt, textured finish which helps it avoid the pitfall of tacky glossy plastic that plagues many cheaper mobiles.
While it’s not as cute or pretty as the 620 the Nokia Lumia 520 manages to both look and feel like a classy phone. The 620’s cover has a translucent layer that gives its finish an appearance of depth. On the 520 the plastic is quite basic and opaque.
From an ergonomics perspective it works very well, though. The textured finish means it’s grippy and the carefully curved rear helps it sit in your hand comfortably.
You even get a few neat style touches. for example the Lumia-staple trio of physical buttons on the right edge of the phone are stark black to contrast punchily with the phone’s hue. There’s no labelling of what these buttons do either – another aesthetic blunder common to cheap phones.
These side buttons control the power, volume and camera shutter.
These side buttons control the power, volume and camera shutter.
Lumia 520 Images
You get five colours to choose from; red, blue and yellow, as well as the more sober white and black. Both the microSD memory card slot and SIM slot live under the battery cover to help keep the Lumia 520’s exterior looking simple and slick.
Nokia Lumia 520 – Screen
The display on the Nokia Lumia 520 is a little bit bigger than on the Lumia 620. It is four inches across, which is quite generous for a phone priced this low. As well as being a shade larger than its more expensive brother, it’s also larger than the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2’s screen and Sony Xperia E’s display. And both of those tend to cost more.
However, it’s pretty basic in a number of different ways. Its viewing angles are fine, but the display quality is otherwise limited. There’s a reddish tint to the display, ensuring colour accuracy is average and the lack of any sort of reflection-battling layer reduces the impression of contrast. This means that the Lumia 520 a bit of a pain to use outdoors in sunlight — it’s seriously reflective.
The glass covering the display isn’t robustly toughened, either. It has some scratch resistance, but will flex under the pressure of a firm thumb prod. However, it’s far from the worst case we’ve seen, and any normal of pressure does not cause any screen distortion.
The glass covering the display isn’t robustly toughened, either. It has some scratch resistance, but will flex under the pressure of a firm thumb prod. However, it’s far from the worst case we’ve seen, and any normal of pressure does not cause any screen distortion.
Screen resolution is 800 x 480 pixels, resulting in pixel density of 233ppi. Sharpness is well below the top phones out there, but for a low-end phone it’s perfectly good. Plus top brightness is impressively uncomfortable to gaze upon in most situation, and the screen size is large enough to happily read websites and play games on.
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Android 7.1 on Lumia 520 is now possible! The developers are finally able to flash Android 7.1 on Lumia 520 and we will tell you how to install Android 7.1 (Nougat) on Lumia. Android 7.1 on Lumia 520 will be faster than Windows 10 Mobile as.
It is worth nothing that Windows Latest is not responsible for any damage that may occur while flashing your Lumia 520 in order to install Android on Lumia.
Steps to install Android 7.1 on Lumia 520
- Full backup Win32diskimage to 7.8GB of memory if you want to return 520 Windows Phone:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ - Windows device thor2 recovery tool for the bootloader to load:
https://support.microsoft.com/vi-vn/help/12379/windows-10-mobile-device-recovery-tool-faq - Link booloader, file gpt, twrp, rom cm13 :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_4r4JB1Is2QRHZSbU5hVks3WWs - Update link CM14.1 (HOT):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_4r4JB1Is2QM2NjcmotTnN3Z3M - Unlock bootloader: unlock bootloader via WP internals (search on google.com)
- Backup WinPhone if you want to return to Windows Phone: Mass Storage mode via WP Internal mode. Use Win32DiskImage then full 8gb memory backup. (Store carefully, do not delete)
- Proceed to install Android on Lumia 52X
- On Windows: 4.1: In mode flash bootloader Nokia Boot Manager to the directory of the device recovery tool windows Shift + Right: Open command here Type the command: -mode rnd thor2 -reboot
- When the phone to vibrate 1 knocker: mode rnd thor2 -bootlumiabootmgr
- If it does all of the machine partition is oke, ph Nokia loud big logo will hang Rest assured, continue to flash the bootloader of the android: UEFI -partitionimagefile thor2 -partitionname uefiflash -mode “aboot-xxx.mbn file path
- On the phone screen will display green NOKIA (already successful flash)
Remove the battery, insert the battery, the phone will not turn on the machine display Nokia logo. No problem, the machine has to be the android fastboot mode. - Boot ubuntu and switch terminals. repartition memory through Mass Storage Mode Mode, Type: fastboot devices (displays the first line device is xxxxx)
fastboot reboot-dload oem
GDisk sudo -l / dev / sdX to check the partition windows phone
sudo sgdisk –load-backup = “path file.gpt” / dev / sdX (to repartition) - deleted Win old data to install Android:
Remove the battery inserted, the holding power + silencer. USB cable connected to your computer and type: fastboot devices
fastboot format system
fastboot format userdata
cache fastboot format
fastboot flash recovery “twrp.img file path” - Then, remove the battery, keep the power + volume, wait times are boots twrp 1
Copy rom into memory, this time I was like 1 child Lumia phones running android true.
Wipe system, data, cache, cache dalvik - Flash rom
- Reboot
- To Fix Audio issues: Return fastboot mode by turning it off, hold the power button and the muffler to access the fastboot mode, turn on the terminal and type: fastboot devices
fastboot flash TZ “TZ file path”
fastboot flash modem “modem.img file path”
A video has been also published which shows a Lumia 520 running Android 7.1. Are you able to install Android Nougat on Lumia 520?