Windows Phone 7 upgrade FAIL: C101002E 81080080 error restoration

By Richi Jennings. February 24, 2011.

The first Windows Phone 7 upgrade failed for some users, with 81080080 update error and the error code C101002E restoration. There is a fix suggested below. Is Microsoft's fault, or Samsung? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers cannot decide where to point the finger.

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Jeremy Kirk is stunned: [You're fired-Ed.]

Microsoft ... He pulled a software update for Samsung mobile phones running Windows Phone 7 after the operating system has caused problems. ... The update is delivered when a user connects to a mobile phone to a computer via a USB cable.
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Microsoft addresses the highly competitive smartphone market ... iPhone ... BlackBerry and devices that use ... Android. ... Technical problems like this will not help.

Preston Gralla calls update "botched":

It has botched a minor update for Samsung phones that devices "brick". ... Then compounded the error apparently not pulling the update after it said it had. ... Many sites ... reports that the update has not yet been extracted.
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This is just the latest of the comedy of errors that has become the mobile strategy at Microsoft. Has released a smartphone OS well before Apple or Google and then let it rot. ... The ill-fated Kin [was] one of the worst phone ever designed. The launch of Windows Phone 7 ... It was just exciting at best. And now you can manage to release a minor update correctly---or resolve the issue, when he finds out.

describes Microsoft Michael Stroh:

Contrary to some of the titles dark out there, our preliminary internal data paint a very different picture. ... 90 percent of people that you have received an update notification successfully installed the new software patches. ... 10 per cent of those who did experience a problem, almost half failed ... [from] a bad Internet connection or computer storage space insufficient.
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Given what we've learned so far, the best way to prepare for the upgrade is to make sure that your computer has an Internet connection and plenty of disk space before you begin.
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The smartphone world is complex and even a small update as this requires a coordinated effort from multiple companies to pull off.

StefanConijn suggests an unofficial fix:

Here are the steps i followed. ... Follow these steps at your own risk! ... As stubborn as I am that I tried to apply the update again, and it worked! :-)

However,Mary Jo Foley heard different advice from Microsoft:

[I] what could/should do those users whose phones were bricked. ... The word: "Contact your mobile operator or device manufacturer regarding options to repair the device".

Words by Nicholas Kolakowski return to haunt him:

In the past not so far away ... I suggested that implementing smartphone platform had to be near-faultless in order to have the slightest chance of success against Google Android and Apple iPhone. ... One flub of high profile with the Windows Phone 7 hardware or software be liable to any effort spent touting as a viable alternative.
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I'm not sure that this problem with the update counts as a disaster for the platform, but it's certainly give Windows Phone 7 a burst of negative publicity, which is not necessary.

And finally ...
Not just a wedding, a marriage of Samsung

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Lenovo ThinkPad descents, enterprise upgrade cycle, China to the strong third quarter

Lenovo delivered the third strongest tax in China acquired shares the results of the quarter and rode the ThinkPad as updates of corporate PCs has continued.

The creator of PC delivered strong growth and maintained its global market share to 10.2%. Lenovo stored with market share of 12.7% in China. Meanwhile, Lenovo has continued to gain ground in emerging markets.

Lenovo's strategy is to protect its market share in China and in consolidated markets while aggressively pushing into emerging markets.

Here is a look at China's Lenovo.

And emerging markets.

The company reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $ 100 million, or 98 cents a share, on revenue of $ 5.8 billion, 22 percent a year ago. These results are in line with expectations. Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo CEO said the company was focused on building its global brand and face the market of mobile telephony. Yuanqing has also indicated that the corporate PC refresh cycle is expected to continue.

By the numbers:

Lenovo had $ 2.7 billion in the third quarter sales from China, 18 percent a year ago.Emerging markets accounted for $ 1.1 billion of sales, 34 percent a year ago.The United States accounted for $ 2 billion in the third quarter sales, 22 percent a year ago.Laptop accounted for 59 percent of the total sales of Lenovo Mobile Lenovo. had sales of $ 218 million. Lenovo added it past supply constraints for devices as LePhone.

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic.