I recently purchased a Lumia 920 and was migrating from Lumia 710. I was floored to discover WP7 had no backup capability and had to redownload everything manually. WP8 took care of that (sort of) with its new backup capability so I can overlook this.

I had to return my 920 for another one to have support diagnose issue and was stunned how poor the backup/restore capability was for WP8. Yes, signing in with Microsoft automatically re-downloads your applications but all app data was lost. Another HUGE hole in this process is that the Live Tile layout wasn't backed up/restored!

A huge part of the experience is the customization of tiles and you guys aren't backing that up for the user? It's such a small effort that goes so far in the experience. I'm also a former iOS user so this particular experience was jarring and a disappointment.

Please, on the next update expand the backup to include:
Live Tile layout/customizations
Application data
Customized system settings (not sure if this carried over or not)

When I think phone backup I expect it to backup the entire phone, not just a hacky listing of applications to re-download. Windows (desktop) backups aren't just a listing of applications you have, it's a true backup. You can do the same here.

Windows Phone 8 users desperately need a Data Counters App similar to Nokia Counters released for Windows Phone 7.x.

This is an absolute basic need for phones which run on Operators who DO NOT currently support the Data Sense Feature.

I DO NOT need any of the nifty features like Data Compression and all of that, just a basic Data Counters App which works the same as Nokia Counters for Windows Phone 7.x.

It's really a shame that you leave out such a critical feature when you know NOT every operator in the world would have been capable or even interested (in the interest of making more money) to support Data Sense at the time of release of Windows Phone 8 or even later on for that matter.

Don't dump unfinished Beta software on us, fix this ASAP and release an app or an update.

WP8 needs a proper night/bedtime mode in its alarm clock settings!! It would be an option like this:

1. Turn on night mode

- Turn on Night mode at... (specify time range, e.g. from 11 pm till 8 am on weekdays or from 1 am till 10 am on weekends)

- option to only turn into night mode when charging (so you can be sure that your night mode is only on when you are sleeping and your phone is charging. If you're out at night, it shouldnt turn into night mode)

- option to turn off certain connections in night mode (4g or Wifi or whatever)

- option to turn off certain sounds (ringtones for calls or messages or emails or all of them... so that you can sleep without being disturbed)

- option to whitelist certain contacts, so that they can call you even at night

- option to automatically dim the light of the screen when in night mode so you dont get dazzled when you put your phone next to your bed on a charging stand (like the nokia one)

- show a clock and maybe your alarm setting on the night mode screen (maybe choose the type of the clock, e.g. digital or classic clock)

Not everybody needs a kids mode, but we all would make use of a night mode... Please help me with that!

Games and Apps are growing in size (some hundreds of MBs). 8GB on a phone is not enough anymore and yet 8 GB phones are still around, which to me is not enough--even with an SD card slot.

Having SD support is great, but only music/pictures/videos can be installed on them currently.

I understand that installing apps/games is different, but could they still be installed onto the main storage of the phone AND have the game assets (music/voice/videos/saves, for example) stored onto the SD card instead. This would use less of the main storage for these games/apps?

Also, Nokia Maps is great, but they also take a lot of space for offline navigation. Can those maps be stored onto the SD card as well?