Desktop users have been rather spoiled when it comes to preview builds of Windows 10, but the same can not be said for mobile users.
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With Windows 10 Mobile just around the corner, many fans are anxious to upgrade their older Windows Phone 8.1 handsets to the new version of the operating system.
What this means to you: This isn’t the first buggy Windows 10 Mobile build. Even though Fast ring Insiders are a hardy lot, though, the big bug merits a few extra care.
With Continuum, capable Windows 10 Mobile devices will be able to act like PCs, hooking up to keyboards, mice, and monitors for a full Windows desktop experience, and Microsoft is looking into ways of expanding these capabilities.
Microsoft hasn’t yet announced exactly when it’ll begin pushing Windows 10 Mobile updates to Windows Phone devices that are out in the wild.
I suspect there will always be slight variations on the incremental element of the build number as each device goes through its continued updating/maintenance as part of Windows as a Service.
While Gabe did state that if you had hard reset your Windows Phone device on 10581, you could continue on to 10586 and then hard reset after the process, I’ve discovered in practice that it is not so.
The filesystem becomes partially corrupted after doing a factory reset on build 10581. Back in August, we told you that the Surface Phone will be released early next year with a 5.5-inch Clearback AMOLED display, carrying a 1440 x 2560 resolution.
Under the header ‘How We Use Personal Data, ‘ Microsoft has written up several new points, explaining that data might be used to assist customer support agents in diagnosing problems and in order to activate software and devices. If you’re already in the reboot loop, choose the option for unresponsive phones and work from there. After reinstalling the Windows Insider app you can then opt back into the Fast Ring and get build 10586 directly.
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Check for updates and you should see the build rolling out any time now. As a result, Microsoft says that you should perform a backup of your phone right before you upgrade to 10586.
