cold, a one shot kill you can't prepare for. Apparently, WP devices
that receive a text containing a
certain string of characters will
reboot and return with a non-
functional messaging client which can only be restored via a hard
reset. The flaw is not
device-specific and has been found to affect other parts of the OS,
locking up your handset if
you've pinned a friend as a live tile and that buddy posts the
magic bug words on Facebook or Windows Live Messenger.
Fixing the problem requires quick tapping fingers, as you've got to
remove the pinned tile
after rebooting before it flips and freezes the phone again.
Before you go abandoning WP7's ship, just know that SMS issues are a
known phenomenon and have affected
all the major mobile players, iOS and Android included. Until
Microsoft releases a fix, cross
your fingers and hang tight, but in the meantime, all you mobile
masochists can see the bug in action after the break.
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