Update content type definition in sandboxed solution

In my web application I am using a content type hub. The content type hub contains a sandboxed solution which contains several content type and column definitions like this:
<ContentType>
<FieldRefs>
<FieldRef ID="" Name="" />
</FieldRefs>
</ContentType>
<Field ID="" Name="" />
Now I need to update a content type definition by adding a new column. In my content type definition in Visual Studio I added the field refence to the column and build a new WSP.
I am updating the sandboxed solution with PowerShell. First I add the new solution:
Add-SPUserSolution -Site $url -LiteralPath $newSolutionFile
Then I update the old solution with the new:
Update-SPUserSolution -Identity $oldSolutionName -Site $url -ToSolution $newSolutionName
The old solution is deactivated and the new solution is activated, so the update did go well. But when I go to see the content type, it's not updated. The newly added column did not get added.
When I manually deactivate the newly added sandboxed solution and activate it straight away the content type does get updated. So it looks like the Update-SPUserSolution command does not update the content type and column definitions.
Does anyone has experience with updating content types with the Update-SPUserSolution command?

Hi,
Please check the link below.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/library/ff798382.aspx.
you can use the Update-SPUserSolution command
in Windows PowerShell to upgrade your solutions. However, this requires access to the server environment, which is not necessarily available to sandboxed solution developers or site collection administrators.
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