Were you one of these Windows 7 Phone users, frustratedwith Microsoft's slow pace of updates, using a homebrew solution download software tweaks before its official push out? Yes? Then you might have a slight problem.
Despite the fact that many have argued that anunofficial update mechanism worked fine for them, Brandon Watson, Microsoft Director of developer experience for Windows 7 Phone, wrote in a May 4 postingon TheWindows Blog, warned us that the phones that are updated via this method were not going to to update the past to build 7390.
Thats a reference to the Theresienstadt cents NoDo update, which strengthened the app-loading speeds and introducedcut-and-paste functionality to your Windows Smartphone.
Unfortunately for those customers out there who acted oninformation from sources outside of Microsoft, rubber meets the road today, he added.
Telephones updated via supported method does not contain anofficial image and can not be updated further at this time.
Microsoft is currently prepping its first-ever security update for Windows 7 Phone, known as build 7392, that goodwill protect the devices against a vulnerability due to fraudulent certificates.
In addition to Windows 7 Phone, affected Microsoft products including Windows Mobile 6.x, Zune, Kin, and Windows.
In early April, issued the developer Chris Walsh of ChevronWP7.Updater, who gave Windows 7 Phone users abilityat least theoryto theirdevices update the software in advance of the official push through.
Three days later, though, hereversed course, asking people to avoid using his homebrewed tool.
I waslater informed by Microsoft that there were several problems with my tool andthe way it changes the phones, hewrote.
Watson's blog mail describes how unofficial tool, at least according to Microsoft, Windows unreadable Phone 7s underlying software.
The state machine looked more like pre-7390 than it did in 7390, he wrote.
Hence the error messages. Chris Walsh, in the May 1 4posting on her blog, asked users whod Walshed their devices to posttheir phone brand and model information from the settings, and their carrier. Personally, Zune updated 3 Walshed phones for 7392 just fine this morning. SoId love to hear if you have problems, so I can cheque it out and see theissue, he wrote. If you have posted below with your details I will be incontact with you with a solution to fix it. Walsh also suggested a solution in question was quite simplereally. Watson wrote: The creators of the tool is unsupported aclever gang, and wanted to get a timely solution designed for customers who have put Heir phones in this condition. we will work with them to validate their solution and applaud the team for takingresponsibility to do this. Reader Comments: Windows Phone Unofficial Causes Issues Updater > > > Be the first to comment on this article! \\ U0026gt; > > More Enterprise Mobility Articles > > > More by Nicholas Kolakowski.
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