Dell Venue Pro Firmware Update: T-Mobile Mid-July, Unlocked Devices This Week (Updated)

Some would have probably assumed that Dell would wait on that promised firmware update until the Mango release comes around the bend. You know, they've been promising and promising to get this update out for the phone for months now and, while we've heard amazing things about it, Dell hasn't exactly shown that their ecstatic about their Windows Phones. But if you're a disgruntled Dell Venue Pro owner, your cynicism is about to get turned around. Well it won't be right away, but it appears the company has finally figured out a real time-frame for the release: next month!

But there's a tiny caveat: Lionel Menchaca of Dell has stated this update is for T-Mobile device owners only. So if you picked up one of those (admittedly tempting) AT&T Dell Venue Pro's a while back, it looks like you'll be sitting at your current version for a while longer. Hopefully we'll learn more about each soon, as Menchaca has promised to write up a blog post about the firmware update at the Direct2Dell blog so we'll keep an eye out for that.

Update: Lionel has delivered and here is that promised blog post. He reconfirms that the T-Mobile and global customers will receive their updates in mid-July, but if you have an unlocked device your update will arrive beginning this week. To actually see the update, your phone must have NoDo installed beforehand. He also addresses exactly what has been going on with the DVP's Wi-Fi issues:

The main fix in the updated firmware is that it addresses the Wi-Fi and lockup issues. Here’s what was going on: the Wi-Fi and the user memory storage area both use the same DMA channel. So, if you downloaded a lot of data via Wi-Fi (like a game or other Marketpace app, or even a YouTube video) while the phone was trying to write to the user memory storage location, you sometimes see lockups due to a DMA conflict. In other words, lockups could occur when Wi-Fi data downloading conflicted with writing to the user memory storage location.

Via: PocketNow
Source: Twitter (@LionelatDell), Direct2Dell