Microsoft Pulls Windows Phone 7 Update After it Starts Bricking Phones

From DailyTech: The Windows Phone 7 platform was a pretty ambitious undertaking for Microsoft. It represented a complete reboot for Microsoft's mobile efforts and offered up perhaps the most innovative interface on the market today. But it was not without problems.

Since launch, Windows Phone 7 shoppers have griped about missing features -- copy & paste, third party multi-tasking, etc. -- which are found in competitors' phones. On Monday Microsoft began to roll out a small update to prepare phones for these missing features.

However, the update has been rendering Samsung Omnia 7s inoperative and unresponsive. After installing the patch, the handset attempts to reboot, hanging on the step where it's supposed to connect to your PC. An endless cycle of rebooting death ensues, leaving you the proud owner a new brick.

Attempting to hard reset doesn’t help and connecting to Windows Phone 7's PC recovery suite yields a "Restoration Error". It appears that owners should assume the worst, as Microsoft is advising that affected users exchange the bricked unit for a new handset.

One user, Tom Granville writes, "Basically, after plugging in my phone to receive the update, the process gets as far as stage 6 of 10 where the phone goes through the reboot process but the phone hangs on the ‘connect your phone to your PC’.

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