Windows Phone Radio on updates, ChevronWP7.updater not FUD

Windows Phone Radio, Microsoft's official Windows Phone 7 podcast, returns with hosts Brian Seitz and Matt Akers to discuss the weekly update blog posts by Eric Hatula (NoDo) and later on joined by Brandon Watson to talk about the ChevronWP7.updater.

Firstly, let's cover what is really meant when updates are in the "testing" stage over on Where's my update?...

"Information technology doesn't mean that they're [carriers] the ones exclusively testing at that point. It's a partnership at that indicate with ourselves, the mobile operators and too with the OEM…maybe the mobile operator finds some things that we need to go address in the operating system of the phone and nosotros will go do that piece of work then create some other package for them to go and do some more testing on, so it actually is a collaborative effort even in that stage. It'southward not as cutting and dry as it might sound…One time we're getting into the "testing" phase we're getting into the final stretches of this matter [updates] existence deployed for your telephone."

Now comes Brandon and the whole discussion about the potential issues surrounding the ChevronWP7.updater tool that users take been using to force-update their devices with NoDo.

"The net result is that it [the updater tool] was putting phones in a state where they couldn't be updated from us [Microsoft]. They could be updated, but beyond that, they would not be updatable."

Brandon also mentions they are going to produce material in the about future that puts into item how the tool is putting phones into an un-updatable state. For the fourth dimension being, the team is attempting to work out how to reverse the trouble without having users resort to having their devices flashed back to the original ROM by their carriers. He stated that this is a existent business organisation and is definitely not FUD.

It seems the continued plea is to not update your phone prematurely and be patient as NoDo will come up - easy for some to say. I wonder what'll come up first, the solution from Microsoft for the people who have used the tool or the NoDo update for those who oasis't (and are on the same network)?

Source: WindowsPhoneMetro

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