Microsoft's Windows 10 Build 10052 solves phone-bricking problems

PC World ^ | Apr 21 2015 | Mark Hachman

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Microsoft released Build 10052 of Windows 10 for phones on Tuesday, along with a revised rollback tool that should help solve the bricking problems that Lumia 520 users and other unlucky souls experienced.

The major problem that the new build solves is an issue where some users—including owners of the most popular Windows phone, the Lumia 520—suffered catastrophic failures that “bricked” the phones when they tried to roll them back to Windows 8.1. Microsoft said it has solved the bug on Lumia 520 phones, with an update to the Windows Phone Reset Tool.

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The new build doesn’t contain any new features, just bug fixes. According to Microsoft, these are the things the new build addresses:

• Flight mode can now be enabled.
• You can now disable data connections.
• Microsoft fixed the bug in which your phone’s MMS settings were lost after upgrading from Build 9941.
• Microsoft fixed the issue in which you couldn’t download keyboards for additional languages.
• Microsoft fixed the issue where the viewfinder in the Camera app gets composed incorrectly on some devices, like the Lumia 1020.

Microsoft didn’t release any additional information about future builds or any features they might include.

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Windows 10 Build 10052 ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[ProtectOurFreedom]

V10,052...and it still crashes every ten minutes.

[Paladin2]

BSOD

[dayglored]

> V10,052...and it still crashes every ten minutes.

Now, now... :) Besides, this is a phone build.

I've actually found the desktop Win 10 builds to be decently stable, considering they're barely even alpha releases yet.

Of course, I don't know that anything in Microsoft's lineup will ever again approach the stability of my Win 7 systems. Damn things are near bulletproof.

Pretty much as stable as my Linux and Mac systems, and that's saying something.

[dayglored]

> BSOD

Hey, did you get the "BSOD Update"??

"Microsoft urges customers to uninstall 'Blue Screen of Death' update"

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2491256/malware-vulnerabilities/microsoft-urges-customers-to-uninstall-blue-screen-of-death-update.html

[Carthego delenda est]

I read the title and it reminded me of the days when having a “brick phone” was something really advanced and cool. Of course that was before the days when an average phone has far more computing power than that which NASA used to land a man on the moon.

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’m on Win 7 at work on Dell Latitude and Yosemite at home on mid ‘14 MBP. Win 7 is a disaster every day. MS Program so-and-so has quit working...please wait while Windows tries to fix the problem. Not once in 5 years has it ever fixed the problem. Colleague’s machine (same setup) dies w black screen up to ten times a day. IT fiddles w settings, but it never improves. My Dell trackpad does bizarre things if you breathe on it or look at it cross-eyed. There have been well known problems w Dell trackpads on Win 7 for years and they never get fixed.

Meanwhile, the MBP can go months without a reboot.

[dayglored]

Wow. That's horrible experience. I'm sorry you've had such a bad time.

FWIW, I currently run Win7 stably on a handful of platforms:

• Native (bare metal) on a Fujitsu Lifebook laptop
• Native (bare metal via BootCamp) on two different models of MacMini
• Native (bare metal via BootCamp) on an old MacBook
• As a VMware Virtual Machine under Fusion on the MacMinis
• As a Xen Virtual Machine on my CentOS Linux workstation

The only one that's ever had a serious problem was the Xen VM, which got scrambled after I joined it to the company Windows Domain and then unjoined it -- and that was not Win7's fault. I restored the VM from a recent image backup and all was well in about 30 minutes.

I'm not surprised the MacBookPro can go months between reboots. It's a Unix machine with a fancy Apple GUI on top. Unix rules for stability.

[RedStateRocker]

It’s a security feature!

[GeronL]

Is it going to be ready by August?

[dayglored]

Good question. I think they’ll do anything necessary to push it out by then, which may mean an update pack soon after.

[Deagle]

Anything good for Desktop users? Seems that all of the improvements (?) are for mobile devices.

[dayglored]

> Anything good for Desktop users? Seems that all of the improvements (?) are for mobile devices.

The underlying operating system will continue to improve, in performance, security, and stability.

But honestly, I don't foresee much more happening for desktop users, either in Windows or OS-X. The platforms reached a plateau of features and capabilities a couple years ago, and for the most part, users are content. There's only so much stuff you can ladle on before it starts running off the edges and folks don't use it.

Linux has a little more way to go to catch up, but it'll get there too.

So I tend to agree with your observation, and it doesn't surprise me that we've reached that point.

I imagine other folks will point out this or that new feature and call it a Big Deal if they want, no argument needed. But compared to the last 20 or so years of dramatic improvements, the desktop has about reached saturation.