Update process, why so irritating ? - Nokia Lumia 800

I tried forcing the Tango update on my Lumia 800 and it took me an hour of disconnecting to get the useless 8112. Tried again for another hour for the next update and still nothing.
Is this how updates are supposed to be done ? Or should I just wait 3 months for the phone to realize there's an update ? (legit questions)
Notice it became available a week ago (not on the promised 27th June; also, some people are still waiting) and magically the phone and Zune are both still unaware of it.
This is some really dumb stuff, Microsoft.

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June 27 (or whatever date they announced) is when they begin roll out, not when it will be instantly available for your region.
There could be many reasons why they chose the dates they have for rolling out the update.
Some of the few:
1) Limit problems, if they release it to everyone and find out after many testing that it manages to brick phones, everyone will come in and complain. For assurance and risk reduction, its safer to release it in small markets to large markets.
2) Waiting for carriers, some carriers won't allow an update through until they do their own testing that the phone works on their networks (since they will be the one contacted by angry customers if something were to go wrong)
The disconnect trick is for those who want the update asap. If you can't wait a few weeks then by all means continue wasting time to get an update you consider useless. You could have even forced the install through the cab method. And it shouldn't have taken you an hour to do it; an easy misstep would be to forget to put the phone in airplane mode with wifi off.
You may think their process is dumb, but not many people know (including me) in full detail what Microsoft has to go through to get an update out. There could be regulation (FCC), legal ramifications and all sorts of headache that made Microsoft do what they do.

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inket said:
I tried forcing the Tango update on my Lumia 800 and it took me an hour of disconnecting to get the useless 8112. Tried again for another hour for the next update and still nothing.
Is this how updates are supposed to be done ? Or should I just wait 3 months for the phone to realize there's an update ? (legit questions)
Notice it became available a week ago (not on the promised 27th June; also, some people are still waiting) and magically the phone and Zune are both still unaware of it.
This is some really dumb stuff, Microsoft.
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You're complaining because a trick isn't working for you. The trick is not the intended method of updating.
Updates are rolled out in stages. The normal process is to wait for your phone to be updated as and when the companies choose.

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@ekw: I had Wi-Fi and Data connection disabled and kept trying with no luck.
I cabbed 8773 today and it finally installed. Weirdly, the phone detected the Nokia update moments after the restart. Why can't OS updates be like that ?
That's what I meant by this thread. Microsoft seems to be either really dumb or just doing it on purpose.
Apple always releases updates on time, and they have no problems with server limits (even though there's 300m active iOS users) or carriers.
Seems to me like an easy problem with a difficult solution. The fact that we all could update using cab sender proves that there's an easy solution, yet, sadly, unofficial.

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Blame the carriers. Only Apple has the market clout to force carriers to do things their way.