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Monday, March 21, 2016

Upgrade Windows 10 Mobile: clarified the effects on the Insider program

The news of the start of the distribution upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile for Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone has been well received in recent hours by users who have been waiting for several months the opportunity to install the new major release of the mobile operating system Redmond.

The enthusiasm at the same time, has been mitigated, first, from the fact that in the set of official update recipients devices missing several models such as those belonging to the Lumia range x20 (920, 820, 1020, etc). Smartphones that have had the ability to use Windows 10 through Windows Mobile Insider program, but they will not receive the official update to this software release.


The reasons have been illustrated in recent hours in the official support page, and are closely linked with the outcome in the performance of the Windows Insider program. Specifically, Microsoft has chosen to exclude some models based on the feedback provided by the Insider program and have taken into account all the main aspects of the experience of use (stability, bugs, crashes, general usability, etc.). The result goes in the direction of exclusion official by the update. Not only that, since Microsoft has provided an updated list of models in the future will receive Insider Preview build of Windows 10 Mobile: Also on that list are missing models forced to give official upgrade.

In summary, for terminals such as Lumia 920, 820 and 1020 games on the front of Windows Mobile 10 close substantially here. Will not receive Windows 10 Mobile as an official upgrade, nor the future of the Development Branch build (currently the latest build Redstone). For completeness, it shows the current list of devices that will continue to receive Insider Preview build of Windows 10 Mobile includes:

Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL, BLUE Win HD W510U, BLU Win HD LTE X150Q, Lumia 430, Lumia 435, Lumia 532, Lumia 535, Lumia 540, Lumia 550, Lumia 635 (1GB), Lumia 636 (1GB), Lumia 638 (1GB ), Lumia 640, Lumia 640 XL, Lumia 650, Lumia 730, Lumia 735, Lumia 830, Lumia 930, Lumia 950, Lumia 950 XL, Lumia 1520, CJD Madosma Q501, Xiaomi E4
Appropriate to consider, in addition, the official FAQ that clarify many doubts emerged after the start of deployment in Windows 10 Mobile:
For such models will be officially available to upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile? The list of Windows Phone smartphone can be found at this address. To download the app you are using Windows 10 advisor, downloadable HERE (note: in case of difficulty to be downloaded via smartphone, select the "Phone" mode of the browser)
What happens to smartphones included in the list of supported devices and already equipped with the current buid Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview? No user intervention is required. Insider Windows users receive the latest build and should not proceed to downgrade to Windows Phone 8.1 to get the official upgrade. The user is always free to change the refresh circuit, if you do not want to receive any more build Insider Preview, choosing Production ring (offers updates distributed for retail devices) or Preview Release ring (provides the latest updates to the sun app).
What happens to the smartphone not included in the list of supported devices and already equipped with a build Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview? E 'can continue to use the device without additional support. Updates will not be provided beyond the Current Branch build 10586. At some point in the future, these devices will no longer receive updates of the build Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview. To return the terminal to build a Windows Phone 8.1 supports you can use Windows Device Recovery Tool.
What are the effects to build Windows 10 Mobile Development Branch? At present, the Branch Development builds are being made available for Lumia 950, 950 XL, 650, 550, Xiaomi E4 and Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL. In the coming weeks all the devices in the updated list will receive future builds of Windows 10 Insider Preview. They were then added more devices, since most devices can now access Windows 10 Mobile.
Because you chose to remove devices from the Windows Insider program? Restrict access to the current models upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile and new device marketed under Windows 10 Mobile, will help to analyze the feedback of the Development Branch for devices that will receive future updates to Windows 10 Mobile.
In essence, the third point in a net clarifies what will be the fate of the device other than official with the upgrade to Windows Mobile 10, the final because Microsoft has chosen to remove them even from the Insider program. Microsoft obviously has no sense to analyze feedback about products for which it has established - according to the results collected in the first year of the Windows Insider program - not to release further updates to Windows 10 Mobile. For the excluded devices, but equipped with Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview, the streets are two: continue to use them, aware that even the Fast and Slow Ring, in the future, will convey no further update, or restore the Windows operating system Phone 8.1, using a supported software releases, but, at the same time, dated.

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