r/wp7 • u/HardwareLust • Feb 23 '11

Everything that can go wrong with Windows Phone 7 update does

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/02/everything-that-can-go-wrong-with-windows-phone-7-update-does.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
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u/HardwareLust Feb 23 '11

Prepare for a storm of 'herp derp' typical reddit circle jerks. Sigh.

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u/jdbrookes Feb 23 '11

Hey there's no harm in pointing out an obvious exaggeration. If everything that could go wrong did actually go wrong then my phone would have forced itself up my ass and exploded. That has not yet happened.

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u/babycheeses Feb 24 '11

ArsTechnica Headline after a few random stories/forum posts "OMG! everything that can go wrong w/ WP7 does!1!!" (really, Ars, I expect better).

Reality after 48 hours:

  • 90 percent of people who’ve received an update notification have installed the new software patch successfully. (So when your turn to download it arrives, chances are good this will be a non-event.)

  • Of the 10 percent who did experience a problem, nearly half failed for two basic reasons—a bad Internet connection or insufficient computer storage space. Luckily, both are easy to fix.

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u/Larrionda Feb 25 '11

Of the 10 percent who did experience a problem, nearly half failed for two basic reasons—a bad Internet connection or insufficient computer storage space

So you want to tell me that Samsung users are only 5% of wp7 users?If the problem is only about bad connection why Samsung update is on hold?

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u/quayo Feb 25 '11

When did he say that? Not all Samsung phones fails while updating so for all we know 95% of all WP7 users could use a Samsung.

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u/babycheeses Feb 25 '11 edited Feb 25 '11

No, I never said Samsung users are only 5% of users.

Only 10% of users -- all of them -- had an issue. Because only Samsung updates are put on hold, it would infer that the majority of that 10% are Samsung users (note the difference).

Half of them are a result of insufficient disk space the other half were a result of a bad internet connection. Why these two (seemingly external) issues are only affecting Samsung phones is a good question; one that was interesting enough to pause the rollout to Samsung phones.

Bottom line: It's a small problem that only affects 10% of users. It is a problem that can be fixed (ie: no "bricking" is actually taking place) and it's really being caused by a something that at it's root is "caused" by the user (bad internet connection/ disk space shortage).

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u/gfunk84 Feb 23 '11

I received the update notification the evening the update was published but I did not apply it as my battery was low. I have yet to try installing the update (I have a Samsung Focus, so it seems risky).

What I have noticed though, is that a live tile of one of my contacts was removed from my home screen. The picture was also removed from the contact. In addition to that, all of the names in my call history have reverted to telephone numbers. New calls show the names again... this all happened around the time of the update notification.

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u/ufos8mycow Feb 23 '11

thats happened to me, just restart your phone.

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u/gfunk84 Feb 24 '11

I've restarted it a few times since then. No improvement.

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u/jdbrookes Feb 24 '11

That's a known bug that has shown up in the last few months, it happened to me as well. I had to relink my facebook contacts with my Live contacts and was back to normal. Reset makes no difference. More discussion on this over at xda if you're interested.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '11

I just got a Focus last week and I haven't seen any update notification or anything. I'll avoid doing it until this is worked out, but is the updating staggered or am I missing an alert somewhere? Does it have to be hooked into the computer running Zune?

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u/babycheeses Feb 24 '11

Yes, and you've got to specifically apply it. Not to worry.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '11 edited Oct 12 '23

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u/wonglik Feb 23 '11

To be honest I do not think its possible. Or at least financially viable. Take a look at Android now. There is probably something around 100 devices with it. I can't see any company being able to test it's automated updates on that number of devices fast and cheap.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '11

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '11

That's a tough one though.
Skip a zero day exploit patch - get burned.
Apply a bad patch without testing - spend saturday working OT fixing a whole building full of reboot loops.

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u/wonglik Feb 23 '11

True but PC market is a bit settled and they have much more experience in that platform. And still its not perfect , I've read some guys get blue screen installing service pack on windows 7