When Windows Phone 8 was first discussed, it was said that the new OS would be supporting OTA updates. Later the promise was made into a reality after the company actually introduced the OTA updates for WP8. Now, per reports, more details about the WP8 OTAs have arrived.
It is said that the new Windows Phone 8 will now deliver different type of updates Over The Air (OTA), and that there are different sort and sized updates that can be delivered. The new move by Microsoft is seen by many as an initiative by the company to take more control on the situation, and is expected to push out fixes and updates far more easily without the involvement of carriers and device manufacturers.
As far as features are concerned, Windows Phone 8 users should be able to select between either manual or automatic updates. When updating automatically, the phone will try to wait for an opportunity to download the update over a WiFi network, and once they are saved locally, it will prompt the user to install it.
Users, however, can also put the updating process off until later, but once the user decide to go through with it, the phone will reset, the update will install, and in ten minutes or less the phone will reset again, booting back up with the update in place. It is to be remembered that while automatic updates can be downloaded to the device without the need of the user, manual updates are initiated by the phone users.
More specifically speaking, automatic update will inform the user that an update is ready to install, with the user also having the authority to postpone the update or install the update immediately. Next, if the user accepts the update, the phone will restart in the update bootloader screen. Once the update is complete, the phone will restart again, and this time to the updated operating system.
There will also be a dialog box that indicates that the update was successful, and the update will already be downloaded even before the update notification is seen. This is the reason why the update process, as mentioned earlier, will take less than 10 minutes.
The prompted or manual update, on the other hand, will ask a bit more from the user. Like the automatic method, this will also prompt users that a new update is available and that if the update is ready to be downloaded. The notification, per a Pocketnow report, will also provide the user with the size and content of the update. The rest will happen when the user decides to go through with the update.
There are two principal settings associated with updates that can be customized by the users. These can be found under “Settings – Phone Update“. The third one will be a self check. Check out more details here.
