There has been
talk of MS pushing updates to Win7 and Win8 PCs to force users to switch to Win10. If this should turn out to be true, then I wonder if MS is sort of turning into Apple.
But the actual reason for starting this topic is the following:
I have two colleagues who, like I, have a Lumia phone running Windows Phone 10. All different Lumias of which mine is a 640. There's also an 850 and I forget the third but it's one with an OLED display.
All of a sudden, last weekend, my 640 started misbehaving. Running hot, becoming slow, draining the battery fast and crashing and rebooting randomly.
Monday I asked my colleagues and the 850 owner was experiencing more or less the same issues.
At first I thought maybe my uSD card was causing problems, the heat was in that area, though not the uSD card itself. I tried several things like testing the uSD in a PC (no problems) and trying another uSD card, all to no avail. Removing it seemed to help, and so did disabling some third party apps. But Tuesday evening it had become unbearable, crashing often. Even defaulting back to factory settings didn't help. At some point in time it became so bad that the phone locked itself down with the message that this was for security reasons and I had to connect it to a charger for at least two hours and attempt a restart.
![WTF? :wtf:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/wtf2.gif.pagespeed.ce.pxLiY5pjs4.gif)
As it was late in the evening I connected the charger and went to bed. The following morning it worked again and I went to work. At work I noticed that it had rebooted again. In the break I perfromed a soft-reset and it hasn't crashed or misbehaved since.
Now I have a sneaking suspicion that some MS update from shortly before the weekend caused problems on some Lumias because at the same time my 640 started working correctly again so did the 850. I'm thinking that MS pushed updates without me being able to deny them or even know about for sure, a bit Apple like?
The third Lumia never had any problems, but maybe that hardware was more different or it was not running some apps that the other two were running...
I'll never know for sure what the real problem was as now I can't recreate the issue anymore. The inevitable happened, the problems lasted just long enough for me to return to an Android phone and straight away I noticed that it lets me do things like I want to do them instead of being forced to do it how MS wants you to do it. Again, a bit like Apple?
Anyway, rant over. One fewer Windows Phone user.