As many of you with Windows Phone devices know, Microsoft, manufacturers and carriers have started to release the highly anticipated product. Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update today. Unfortunately, only about 10% of Windows Phone owners are currently eligible to receive the update, and it may take weeks for your phone to see the update popup for installation.
Well, if you’re not the patient type, there is currently a way to shake and roll Mango on your phone. It includes the same Zune trick that popped up when Microsoft rolled out the NoDo update.
Note that three updates are required to get Mango. 7392, 7403 and finally 7720 with Mango. So you’ll probably be sitting around for a while before the update is finished.
However, those are instructions, out of courtesy. WPCentral:
- Connect your Windows Phone to a PC and launch the Zune software
- Click . Let the software tell you if an update is available. If so, skip this guide. If not, go to the next step.
- Click the update button again and this time immediately disconnect your computer from the internet (some people are luckier than waiting 1-2 seconds). You can do this by pulling out the Ethernet cable, disabling Wi-Fi, etc. do it.
- Wait about 30 seconds and you should get a notification that an update is available. This is 7392, Mango pre-update.
- Now reconnect to the internet and continue with the update through the Zune software.
- After the 7392 is fully installed, you may receive a notification that another update is available. So, install Mango now. If not, go to the next step.
- If the second update isn’t booting on its own, take steps 3-5 for update 7403 to appear. repeat the steps.
- Download 7403, brave reader.
- Mango time! At this point, the Zune should automatically start installing 7720, Mango. If it doesn’t happen automatically, force it as in the previous steps.
- This last step is very important! Celebrate your phone’s new found Mango status by purchasing a mango smoothie from your nearest Smoothie King, Jamba Juice or Baskin Robbins.
We strongly recommend that you perform step 10. It sounds good.
In any case, if you follow these instructions, you should get Mango. Back up the files if you can in case something goes wrong but as far as we can see this works like magic.
Let us know how it went.
