Upgrading Nokia Lumia 1020 to Windows 10 & Project Astoria questions

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Wow you really got yourself Lumia 1020 too? Congrats!

At first I would try a factory reset to see if it appears, if it’s really not there you should try to reflash it with the FFU you used (WDRT) for your fathers phone, but this time you need to flash it through Windows Phone Internals. The reason is simple: You now might have a different “version”, maybe a carrier labeled one, to get rid of those things, you can just flash a “normal” ffu, to make it similar to your dad’s phone.

What’s weird that the app is not installed there. A good way to check before is the extras -> advance info app to see if the firmware is the same between both phones.

Also you might think 10586.107 is “good” but it’s really not. At the very very least please upgrade to 14003.1176 if you’re planning to use that phone in real life…it has SOO many bugfixes. Yes it’s not unlockable but in “normal use” it should never be a problem.

And since this is not your dad’s phone maybe you even want to try 14393 on it , might be worth a shot 

Hi, thank you! Yeah, I simply had to get one for myself, and you guys managed to convert me to Windows phone hahaha :-)))) And I love that Lumia camera for some reason :-)

OK, here's what I did with my phone:

1. As you suggested, I tried to hard reset, Nokia/Lumia Camera app didn't show on the phone.

2. As skaarj80 suggested, I restored it back again to Windows 8.1 using WDRT, Nokia Camera was now there. The phone then automatically downloaded latest 8.1 build and updated to it, Nokia Camera app was still there.

3. Then I did an upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile Version 1511 Build 10586.107 using your AWESOME upgrade tool Tourniquet :-) Nokia Camera app was still there (btw, in case of my father's phone Nokia Camera got renamed to Lumia Camera, in my case the app remained as Nokia Camera on WP10 build 10586.107

4. I created a backup with WPinternals (first had to unlock bootloader), everything completed successfully

5. Then I did a hard reset because I had some issues with the battery status (it was showing as 100% charged as soon as I would remove the phone from the charger even though it wasn't fully charged. False reading was being shown until I would restart the phone.
That's why I decided to make a hard reset to see if the battery charge issue would get cleared. But after a hard reset Nokia Camera app was gone from the phone :-(

6. Now the next step was either restoring a backup that I already had created on that build or trying once more to rollback to WP8.1 and try again with the upgrade to see if there will be any changes. I decided to take the longer way again.

7. After rolling back to WP8.1 using WDRT (and after the phone automatically downloaded latest 8.1 build and updated to it), Nokia Camera was there again.
Now something strange happened: I tried an upgrade to WP10 1511 Build 10586.107 but the phone couldn't upgrade during first two attempts (upgrade tool downloaded the package on Windows 10 Home laptop, deployed it on the phone, got to like 40% of installation preparation progress and then I got an error that the package couldn't be read by the phone, like it was corrupted or something. I restarted the phone, tried again and got the same error. Then I restarted the phone once more and did bootloader unlock with WPinternals and then the upgrade to WP10 went fine.

8. I got a Nokia Camera app still on WP10 1511 Build 10586.107 (wasn't renamed automatically to Lumia Camera app), and now I decided not to make a hard reset as that would most likely delete Nokia Camera app (at least in my case).

9. I disabled automatic updates from Windows Store, and immediately stopped Lumia Camera app and some other apps (like HERE Drive+) in the Store update pending list from getting updated. Those apps were then gone from the pending list (same like in my father's phone upgrade process).

10. The difference in my case compared to my father's phone (we are now both on the same build; Windows 10 Mobile Version 1511 Build 10586.107) is that his phone only got back HERE Drive+ and HERE Maps apps in the pending update list in the Store (I told him never to update them and never to enable automatic updates from the Store). In my case there are several more apps including Lumia Camera app that got back again on the list waiting to get updated :-(
I'm afraid not to accidentally click Lumia Camera app update button as that would replace current Nokia Camera app and make Lumia Camera app stop working showing only 'goodbye message'.

Here are my questions:

1. Is there any way to clear pending apps from being on Store update list, and if possible to somehow prevent them from ever getting back on that list again.

2. My father's phone has a different FW, his FW revision is slightly higher (3051.50009.1451.1004, phone was created for Hungarian market), compared to mine (FW rev 3051.50009.1451.1003, phone was created for Hong Kong market). I guess that would explain different Nokia/Lumia apps names and different pending update apps list.
Would anything bad happen if I would flash my phone with his FW revision? I didn't understand what you meant by flashing with '“normal” ffu', which FW would that be?
And then e.g. restore his backup on my phone? In that case I could perhaps avoid having Lumia Camera app on the pending update list in the Store.

Btw, thanks for your suggestion, I might perhaps consider upgrading to 14003.1176 build, but a bit later, first I'll play with the phone on this build to see
how it behaves. But as you already know, I might lose Lumia Camera app on 14003.1176 build and since WPinternals doesn't support that build I would need to go
back to WP8.1 and from there perhaps do a backup restore.

The problem is that at the moment I only have access to Windows 10 on a company's laptop (I no longer have access to a laptop with Windows 10 Home),
and I don't want to install WPinternals there as I read it can give false positives regarding malware/virus detection, and I'd like to avoid any
trouble with that (company policy rules). I do have a private laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit but as you know I couldn't get WPinternals on my laptop to
enter flash mode on Lumia. Now when I think about it, I will try to play with WPinternals app compatibilty option, perhaps that might do the trick.

It seems I got a phone with a bad/very old battery (after batt capacity drops to around 40%, it suddely drops to like 10% and then the phone switches off, so the battery
perhaps has half the usable capacity). So the next step in my case will be battery replacement (I'll purchase a new battery, not in a hurry at the moment, but I plan to replace it). I just hope there won't be any issues with new battery getting recognized correctly by the phone (I read somewhere yesterday that some users got such an issue after battery replacement and the fix was to flash the FW again).

Many thanks again for any suggestions and for your phenomenal support guys!
P.S. Sorry for the longer post. I hope people that are deciding to upgrade their phones will have at least some use from this long forum thread :-)