Windows Phone 7 Update Rolls-Out for Samsung Devices

Last week, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft started to deliver a new software to users of Windows Phone 7 devices, so as to prepare them for the deployment of a new OS update in the coming weeks.

Although only a minor firmware bump, aimed at enhancing the update capabilities of Windows Phone 7 devices, the software managed to cause various issues on users' devices, and even bricked some of them.

Microsoft confirmed at the time that those handsets affected by the update came from Samsung, and also pulled the update for these devices, so as to make sure that no more users are affected by the said problems.

However, on Wednesday, the company announced that it resumed the delivery of this software to Samsung Windows Phone 7 devices:

“Starting today, we plan to resume rolling out the February update to Samsung phones. Meanwhile, we’re continuing to dispatch the update to other Windows Phone models,” the company announced via a post on its Windows Phone Blog.

“As has been the case, the software patch is being sent out on a rolling schedule. You’ll see a message on your phone when it’s available.”

Microsoft needed about a week to find the issue with the initial software, but did not unveil specific details on them at the moment.

“During the past week the engineering team has pinpointed and fixed problems that were preventing a small percentage of Windows Phones from installing the February software patch. We apologize again for the delay and continue looking for ways to improve the update process,” the said post reads.

For those out of the loop, as should note that, for some devices, update process hanged at a certain point, as it could not complete making a backup of the content on the device.

Other handsets were more severely affected, as the update process rendered them unusable until a hard reset was performed.

Microsoft said last week that only around 10 percent of the users were unable to complete the installation of the new software, and that only half of them were affected by issues with the software itself.