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Windows Phone 7 update bricking phones?

article published on 23 February, 2011

Microsoft is making headlines this week after their recent Windows Phone 7 update has bricked some user's handsets and caused crashes on others. The official Windows Phone 7 Troubleshooting Guide has a list of 19 possible error codes, and the final repair is simply a rollback to the more stable firmware. While a small portion of users had their phones completely bricked by the update, ... [ read the full article ]

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SomeBozo
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23. February 2011 @ 13:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Prime example of agile development, things get more date driven rather then quality.


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23. February 2011 @ 13:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
lol, well done microsoft.

It will be intresting what gets the blame for bricking the phones here, let me guess its yahoo email again, or maybe something new this time...

ummm, android also released an OTA update for my phone this week, lol thats still working... sorry cheap shot, it felt good for me tho :> sr.
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23. February 2011 @ 18:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
At least they are continuing their tradition of excellence by always releasing a product or patch that has been thoroughly tested and is ready for the public.
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23. February 2011 @ 19:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by POGK:
At least they are continuing their tradition of excellence by always releasing a product or patch that has been thoroughly tested and is ready for the public.
Heheh, I think you have some of the works out of order :) Might be as dyslexic as me? I think you meant to say they are continuing in their most excellent tradition of releasing something ready for test to the general public?
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23. February 2011 @ 20:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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To make matters even worse, the update doesn't bring the promised copy and paste update, which Microsoft says is coming next month.

Haha that last line made my day!
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24. February 2011 @ 06:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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To make matters even worse, the update doesn't bring the promised copy and paste update, which Microsoft says is coming next month.

Haha that last line made my day!
Yeah...no copy n paste? The f**king PS3 has that...even without jailbreaking...and it isn't meant as a communications device. I'm a little surprised that they released it without copy-n-paste; that is like releasing it with a monochrome video driver.


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26. February 2011 @ 00:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No cheap shots.
Let microsoft die in peace.
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shortybob
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27. February 2011 @ 22:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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No cheap shots.
Let microsoft die in peace.

Yea, I don't think so. If Vista didn't kill Microsoft and if Kin didn't kill Microsoft, I doubt a few bricked phones are gonna kill Microsoft.
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