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Free Developer unlock may be coming

December 15, 2011 | By Surur

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The ChevronWP7 team recently revealed that they have unlocked 5000 phoned for $9 each, making $45000 from their venture so far. If you rather keep your pennies to yourself wphonehacker has hinted that they may soon have a free solution available to most Windows phone 7 users, except of course the beleaguered Dell owners.

The ChevronWP7 team responded that theirs is official and will survive updates, something unlikely with a hacked version, but of course if its easy enough one and does not bork updates (something that is never guaranteed with a hack) one would of course lose nothing by trying the free version first.

What do our readers think – $9 and official or free and risky? Let us know below.

Via Professeurthibault.fr

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Wow! WM Opera Mini ported to fully unlocked Windows Phones

December 10, 2011 | By Surur

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There was a time when the mere survival of Windows Mobile was dependent on Opera’s software, so bad was IE Mobile.

Thankfully we are no longer in those days, and alternate rendering engines are not only not needed, but in fact not available on Windows Phone 7.

However if you yearn for those nostalgic days, or merely looking for al alternative, Ultrashot on XDA-Developers appears to have achieved the impossible. He has created a XAP wrapper for the Windows Mobile version of Opera Mini that will run on Windows Phone 7.

The handset does however need to be fully unlocked, like the DFT ROMs, not just Developer unlocked or even InterOp unlocked.

The only limitation is that it does not support rotation, but Ultrashot says this is coming.

He reports that it may be possible to port the full Opera Mobile, but that this has more dependencies.

Read more in this XDA-Developers thread.

Via WPSauce.com

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New hack available to customize built-in tiles–Do you want?

December 6, 2011 | By Surur

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Jaxbot has been hacking at Windows Phone, and has found a way to change both the background and graphics on the built-in Live Tiles.

Windows Phone Hacker is asking gauging interest in a public release of the hack, which only requires a Chevron Labs or similar unlocked device, not a more difficult Interop unlocked.

Are our readers interested? Let us know below.

Thanks Necro for tip.

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Possible Interop unlock found for the Nokia Lumia 800

November 25, 2011 | By Surur

It seems OEM apps with their high level of access and poor security is a gift that keeps on giving, at least to the hacker community.

The latest is the Nokia Network Setup App, which has a vulnerability which could allow an Interop Unlock, which gives full access to the device at a root level, to be achieved by deploying a specially crafted provisioning file.

The vulnerability and associated exploit was discovered by Heathcliff74 on XDA-Developers is is still in testing.

Update: Nanapho.jp reports that after the exploit has been made public Nokia has unpublished Nokia Network Setup from Marketplace. The XAP can still be downloaded, but can now no longer be installed.

Registry edit to enable A2DP audio while playing video on Windows Phone 7

November 19, 2011 | By Surur

2-26-07-dr-bt21g A repeated annoyance of some Windows Phone 7 owners is that when using A2DP sound over Bluetooth, this will be disabled when playing video.

Of course the reason for this is somewhat understandable – when decoding video, transcoding sound to the A2DP audio codec takes processor cycles which then lead to sound dropping out or low frame rate for video.

If however you want to take your chances and have an Interop unlocked device or a device with a built-in registry editor like some LG ones, Fabcal has a simple registry edit which will fix the issue.

With your unlocked handset and WP7 root tools or other registry editor, edit:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Zune\Playback\Video\A2DP\CapsSet1

Change dword value DisableA2DPPLayback from 1 to 0

Reboot immediately afterward and enjoy Bluetooth Stereo Audio playback while watching video.

Note that as the Bluetooth antenna is often the same as the WIFI antenna they can interfere, making the solution better for playing local content than streaming content from the internet.

Read more in this XDA-Dev thread for methods of editing your registry on Windows Phone 7.

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Bootloader hack may bring Android dual-boot to Windows Phones

November 19, 2011 | By Surur

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It remains to be seen how desired this is, but work by the Dark Forces Team to port the the MAGLDR bootloader to the Samsung Focus may mean Android dual-boot could be coming to certain Windows Phone 7 handsets.

This would result in a similar situation to the HTC HD2, which it seems has been hacked to run every mobile OS under the sun.

The work is being initially done on the Samsung Focus v1.3, but Cotulla writes that the next version will support the Samsung Focus 1.4 and Samsung Omnia 7 also.

Have any of our readers been waiting for this development? Let us know below.

Via Slashgear and WPCentral.com

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Windows Phone 7 home brew folder hack updated, now includes IE and native app links

November 4, 2011 | By Surur

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WindowsPhoneHacker have updated their Windows Phone 7 folder hack, which allows users with unlocked devices to add folders to their Start screens, to allow users to add websites and system apps like Zune to their folders.

Besides bug fixes the full list of new features include:

System applications: The tool now allows select "system" (built-in) applications to be added directly to folders. The list includes main built in applications (Zune, Marketplace, People hub, Games), as well as some other useful links (WiFi settings, Flight mode, etc).
Homebrew XAPs: Simple little import function now opens homebrew XAPs and extracts the info/icon, making it much easier to add homebrew programs into the folders.
Websites: Enter a URI and an entry for the site will be added to the folder.
Support for extended/non-default tasks: Add a /TaskName to the end of the GUID to launch non-default tasks (For the techies). Examples include 5B04B775-356B-4AA0-AAF8-6491FFEA5660/_default?StartURL=example.com for navigating to IE pages, etc.

Live tiles will remain unsupported, and due to complexity is not in the roadmap at all.

Read more and find the download at WindowsPhoneHacker here.

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Tip: Smart work-around allows screen capture from XNA Games also

November 2, 2011 | By Surur

We recently saw the release of a screen capture tool for Windows Phone 7 which allowed screens from silverlight applications to be saved.

The tool did not however work for XNA games, merely producing black pictures.

Nanapho.jp however thought of a creative work-around. By holding down the back button, the screen shots can be taken from the multi-tasking screen, where the OS itself does not seem to have an problem capturing screen shots of games, videos and even the camera viewfinder.

Screen shots are at a reduced size of 432 × 259, but that of course is still perfectly fine for illustrating something on the web, and miles better than taking a photo of the screen.

Read more about this simple ‘hack’ at Nanapho.jp here.

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Homebrew Folders for WP7 Mango released

October 27, 2011 | By Surur

WindowsPhoneHacker have released their promised homebrew hack for Windows Phone 7 which brings Folders to the home screen to unlocked Windows Phone 7 handsets.

The app needs:

Developer/Chevron/etc unlocked phone. This should be less of an issue once ChevronWP7 Labs is released
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango (for the secondary tiles)

Setting up and adjusting the folders need to be done on the desktop, as demonstrated in the video above.

Read more about the setup and download the app, if that is your thing, at WindowsPhoneHacker here.

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Homebrew Start page Folders on Mango demoed

October 24, 2011 | By Surur

Windows Phone Hacker have uploaded this video demo of their folder hack on Windows Phone 7.5.

The hack only needs a developer-unlocked device, and WPH are promising a release soon.

What do our readers think? Let us know below.

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Homebrew WP7 Start menu folders in the works. Do we want?

October 21, 2011 | By Surur

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WindowsPhoneHacker has found a way to create folder tiles in Windows Phone 7.5. The hack requires an unlocked handset and is still quite clunky to set up, according to the developer, but is at this point much more than a mock-up, but a real working prototype.

WPH is however gauging community response to the hack before investing time in refining it.

Do we want folders on our start screens and do we want it to look like the above screen shot? Let us know below.

Via WPCentral.com

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How to Enable Samsung AllShare DLNA app on the Samsung Omnia 7 and Samsung Focus

October 2, 2011 | By Surur

When the Samsung AllShare DLNA app showed up in marketplace we were all pretty excited, but it turned out it did not work on the Samsung Omnia 7, terminating with an error.

It turns out the app is in fact fully functional, suggesting the error was put in place to keep older generation devices out of the equation.

To get access to the app, follow these simple steps discovered by monwindowsphone.com.

Download the application AllShare Samsung
The launch and press the “home” phone before the error message appears
Return the application by holding down the “back” button and using the multitasking
You are now in the application
You have to login to your computer or your TV (set to the first DLNA) and select the media content to your device for viewing

Great news for Samsung Omnia 7 users, as the app clearly works very well, as can be seen in the video, and it does make Samsung look a bit underhanded.

Update: David on twitter says it works on his Samsung Focus also.

Samsung All Share can be found in Marketplace here.

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WindowsPhoneHacker promises enabling Internet Sharing on your Samsung phone is as easy as 1,2,3,4,5

September 29, 2011 | By Surur

WindowsPhoneHacker have simplified the guide for enabling Internet Sharing on your unlocked Samsung Windows Phone 7 handset to 5 easy steps taking 3 minutes.

The steps are:

Download DiagProvXML and Samsung Tools
Deploy both XAPs to your phone
Run DiagProvXML and hold down on the Internet Sharing item, press Execute
Close (press Back) DiagProvXML, and run Samsung Tools. Press Apply to set Auto Data Config.
Your phone will reboot, and everything should work from there on it.

Find the download links at WPH here.

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