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I can't update my phone to Windows Mobile 6.1.
I have just spent about 2 hours with Verizons tech support. I'm able to download 6.1 and the phone accepts it, but the phone will not update. Verizon referred me to Microsoft who will help me for a fee, but they're only open M-F.
Does anyone know how to get this update through. I'm sure Verizon has blocked something because I am unable to directly do a Windows update option from my phone. It gives me an error, and the tech told me I had to use Verizon's Windows Mobile Device, which indicates to me that they have it blocked so that any type of upgrade has to be approved by them.
My guess is to force you to buy a new phone rather than simply update the phone you have. Newer phones have the 6.1 but you are also forced to purchase the data plan. I simply use the wifi on my phone at my leisure not Verizon's.
Anyway, I'm hoping someone can help me with this. If not I will pay Microsoft and you better beleive I will post the fix if I am able to.
mthrf569 said:
I can't update my phone to Windows Mobile 6.1.
I have just spent about 2 hours with Verizons tech support. I'm able to download 6.1 and the phone accepts it, but the phone will not update. Verizon referred me to Microsoft who will help me for a fee, but they're only open M-F.
Does anyone know how to get this update through. I'm sure Verizon has blocked something because I am unable to directly do a Windows update option from my phone. It gives me an error, and the tech told me I had to use Verizon's Windows Mobile Device, which indicates to me that they have it blocked so that any type of upgrade has to be approved by them.
My guess is to force you to buy a new phone rather than simply update the phone you have. Newer phones have the 6.1 but you are also forced to purchase the data plan. I simply use the wifi on my phone at my leisure not Verizon's.
Anyway, I'm hoping someone can help me with this. If not I will pay Microsoft and you better beleive I will post the fix if I am able to.
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How are you trying to " update " your phone.You cannot just download any WM 6.1 and unzip it to your phone. ( I apologize if I am insulting your intelligence, I am just trying to start from step one.) You must connect your phone to a PC with activesync 4.5 or windows mobile device center. And then run the Rom Udate Utility and nbh file from the PC.
Windows Update on the phone is a hold over from desktop Windows and has never done anything on a Mobile OS.
First off what file are you trying to run? And where did you get it.
None taken. I did it thru the desktop, and it did download the file onto my phone. The 1st Verizon tech couldn't figure out why it wasn't updating. The cab downloads, but for some reason it won't update to 6.1, & that's when she referred me to Microsoft. I called Verizon back, and he told me it wouldn't update because Verizon hasn't approved it yet and they didn't support it.
The first tech asked me to try the update that would be similar to your PC. When you go to your start menu, All Programs and click Windows Update. The phone has the same thing. The 2nd tech told me Verizon blocks that one and that you have to use get updates through Windows Mobile Device similar to activesync, but for Windows Vista. You can't choose your updates, they have approved updates & you can't stray from that.
mthrf569 said:
I can't update my phone to Windows Mobile 6.1.
I have just spent about 2 hours with Verizons tech support. I'm able to download 6.1 and the phone accepts it, but the phone will not update. Verizon referred me to Microsoft who will help me for a fee, but they're only open M-F.
Does anyone know how to get this update through. I'm sure Verizon has blocked something because I am unable to directly do a Windows update option from my phone. It gives me an error, and the tech told me I had to use Verizon's Windows Mobile Device, which indicates to me that they have it blocked so that any type of upgrade has to be approved by them.
My guess is to force you to buy a new phone rather than simply update the phone you have. Newer phones have the 6.1 but you are also forced to purchase the data plan. I simply use the wifi on my phone at my leisure not Verizon's.
Anyway, I'm hoping someone can help me with this. If not I will pay Microsoft and you better beleive I will post the fix if I am able to.
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Welcome to forums
Have a deep read here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Titan
You´ll be able to upgrade to 6.1 or even 6.5 cooked ROM´s that are much much better than the "official" ones!
Hope it helped,
I just got my WP7 phone, an Arrive - it "arrrived" yesterday - and I'm about to take the plunge into Windows Phone 7 development. I have previously developed on PPC4, WM5, and WM6, but this is all new...
I'm about to register on the marketplace as a dev, and if I understand correctly, I will then unlock my phone so I can sideload apps from VS2010.
If I've read right, the Chevron unlock doesn't work with the Arrive, but I'm wondering if unlocking it by registering as a dev means I can still sideload the apps for tethering?
Yeah, probably a noob question, but I just want to make sure I don't end up screwing up my phone.
Thanks!
Yeah man if you get the official unlock you'll be able to install any sideloading apps you want!
Thanks. That's what I thought...
Now if I could ever get anything to go right with this whole deal. Now I'm waiting on GeoTrust to verify that I am who I say I am before I can get my account finished, and the Windows Phone Developer Unlocker tool in VS won't connect to my phone, even though Zune is working with it just fine. Ugh.
Yeah, until your account is verified the developer unlock tool won't work. Also note that while VS may send you to Zune to do the unlock, this is incorrect: installing teh WP7 dev tools placed an app on your PC called "Windows Phone Developer Registration" and it is this app that you will need to use for the unlock.
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If eligible, does a person signing up for this program recieve whatever is necessary to developer unlock a functioning handset (Focus)? I see that you can download the emulator...
You will indeed, when you sign up you are required to submit an application to Microsoft, they will also get a company called GeoTrust to run some checks on you and once approved they will enable your Windows Live ID developer status and therefore able to use to unlock tool on your phone.
The process is rather innocuous. You DEFINITELY need to submit a dummy app to get passed the first step. It will take roughly a week but maybe sooner.
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The process is rather innocuous. You DEFINITELY need to submit a dummy app to get passed the first step. It will take roughly a week but maybe sooner.
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seconded to this
it took me about 2 days to get dev access but I didn't get a confirmation email just plugged in my focus phone registration bam done
So, not to beat a dead horse... Once you're approved for the dreamspark program (I just got approved and now have access), you can download all this wonderful design software. At this point, you have to submit a new app in order to get the phone developer-unlocked?
Si, con queso. You summed it up perfectly.
Crap.... I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to make an app. This could take a while...
Just use FollowMyFeed to create some site-specific news app. These are guaranteed to get approved. You don't have to actually publish it.
Failing that, just use Chevron until you get approved. Either way, the only thing you're achieving is the changing of a single bit in the registry from a 0 to a 1. Unofficial developer unlocks work just as well as official ones!
Yeah, the problem is that I used Chevron to un-brand the phone (AT&T) so that I could force the NoDo update.
Obviously I didn't do the research into how to keep the phone unlocked post NoDo. It's a total failure on my part... The torturous part is that I saw the potential benifits of having a developer unlocked handset while I was in the process of forcing the update.
I love how my LG phone has a built in registry editor. So you don't need to do any hacks to modify the registry. You can just use the built in software to do the developer unlock, and off you go
So... there's no way of 'jailbreaking' Samsung phones anymore?
I still think you should check out FollowMyFeed. Spend 5 minutes making an app with that, and you'll be approved in no time at all.
Yeah, microsoft closed the Chevron "code error" with NoDo.
I checked out Followmyfeed. Does it produce an .xap when done?
I'm still loading the devopler software on my computer. I'm assuming there will be some sort of provision to upload the .xap for approval?
If you're going to go through the effort of submitting a dummy app just to unlock your device, why not just pay the $99 App Hub membership fee, submit two apps, and then get your $99 refunded back to you?
I didn't know that was an option... I'm learning. Getting suggestions is why I started this thread.
@ft55555: I havne't heard of anybody getting reimbursed, but even assuming that was possible...
No reason to go that route if you can use Dreamspark, it gives you the same unlock ability without the money.
Canceling your dev account will re-lock your phone.
I went ahead and submitted an app I created on followmyfeed. Looks like I'm just waiting for the identity verification from Geo Trust. We'll see how it goes.
Works
This method worked for me in just a few hours! Verification was relatively quick and painless, but I did have to use followmyfeed to create an app and submit it. It does not even have to work, but you have to go through the pain of creating artwork for the app and everything also.
Yeah, this method does work. It only took about 3 hours for approval once subbmitted. I did go and make an app with followmyfeed but the longest part of that was just selecting and propperly formatting the artwork (I just saved some pics from online and then formatted them to propper size with Photoshop).
I got the approval to developer unlock my focus within about three hours, and the rest is history.
ft55555 said:
If you're going to go through the effort of submitting a dummy app just to unlock your device, why not just pay the $99 App Hub membership fee, submit two apps, and then get your $99 refunded back to you?
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Or, if you are a student(/Microsoft Student Insider) like me, you can get your device developer-unlocked via dreamspark (you just need to find your school on the site to get verified) and pay $0 the whole time. As far as I know, you can keep the dreamspark status for as long as you're in school, possibly be able to keep it after graduating (but I haven't gotten to that point yet).
ok I have been able to set up dreamspark and download the windows phone package. I then made an app with followmyfeed. now how do you send it to Microsoft to get you phone unlocked please? (do you need to pay 99 bucks??)
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Ahhhh I hate Microsoft, Can't even do this in my country. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
I know it's fairly simple process (if nothing goes wrong), but if possible, i would appreciate if someone can confirm if i understand prerequisites:
1) phone name in Zune must be unique.
I hate that kinda, but ok.
2) i need to have WP SDK installed.
Is that that huge install of a couple of GBs?
I would give a link, but download center keeps redirecting to some windows server update
3) chevron unlock tool
Am i missing something?
Again, i know there is FAQ on chevron, but it's thin on SDK part.
1) Best to ask them on Twitter @chevronwp7 or @WithinRafael.
2) Download the Support Tools or the SDK from here ( 14 Mb Each )
32-bit system, download the WPSupportToolv2-x86.msi package.
64-bit system, download the WPSupportToolv2-amd64.msi package.
3) chevron unlock tool is cheaper solution but if you need to put your apps in Market place you need App Hub Account
Chevron Tool basically uses The SDK and Zune to communicate with WP to unlock.
Let me know if you have more questions. I have written a tutorial on how to do it and it includes a bit length video if you want it.
Thanks alot!
Lol I though that I will have my phone inter-op unlocked after buying the token key.
What am i missing if i don't have interop?
If so you are not able to deploy apps that need root permissions such as wp7 root tool etc, apps that needs access to registry, write are not permitted
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Thank you.
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If so you are not able to deploy apps that need root permissions such as wp7 root tool etc, apps that needs access to registry, write are not permitted
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So i might miss out on some "more advanced" homebrew apps?
Do you maybe have concrete examples?
the reason i'm interested in unlocking is, and i'm not ashamed to admit it, to pirate apps from marketplace.
WP has been on the market where i live (Croatia) almost right from the start, and i've been an early adopter (got my omnia in feb). And there is still not a mention of when paid marketplace and various other services will be available.
Also, because i had to create another live account registered to UK and use it as my main phone account (for free marketplace access), my office hub is empty, and there are no skydrive photo albums in pictures hub, since all of them are on the live account i actually use, and not on this token i had to create. I missing out on great features.
With that in mind, do i need interop unlock for marketplace apps?
Hi everybody.
Here is the story of the pointless week I just had. Some of the information might be needed to help me, but if you want you can skip to the end for the actual question.
I got hold of an old surface rt at my girlfriend's place and, since I left my laptop in my own house, I thought I might try to set it up and use it for a few things I needed to do (not much more than checking emails, watching youtube and stuff like that). I quickly realised the device was a bit useless (microsoft store and windows update were not working properly, internet explorer being internet explorer and so on).
I then found a guide from alexenferman, and a few threads in this forum, on how to install windows 10. I am neither developer nor a true geek, but I can follow instructions and I messed about with this type of things in the past, so I thought I'd give it a try.
The first half of the process went quite smoothly and I was able to install windows 10 with SecureBooth disabled. The only issues I had were that I could not update windows 10 either, and I could not sign in with a microsoft account, which prevented me to use the store again and I had no way of installing apps from the appstore put together by alexenferman.
Quite frankly, I just got tired of wasting my time, so I decided to revert back to 8.1. For that, I first clean installed windows 8. Then, since I could not update to 8.1, I used a usb recovery image and reset my surface rt with windows 8.1.
At the moment I am on windows 8.1, the store works, but windows update doesn't. I keep checking for updates and get different errors. After troubleshooting a couple of times I now just get error 8024A000. I looked it up and tried the methods found online, sfc scannow cannot find anything, other fixes do not really work. Basically I feel in a loop and a bit lost (Speaking of loops, contacting microsoft support has been an infinite loop between the windows and surface division).
tldr: is there anybody here that can help me with updating Windows 8.1 RT (My goal would be to get to update 3 and possibly jailbreaking after that)? Did I mess things up irreversibly by installing windows 10? Should I just buy a new tablet and chuck away this useless piece of junk that is causing me a nervous breakdown? Thank you very much for your attention, and sorry for the lengthy message but I need someone to talk to, somebody that doesn't simply repeat a script.
Updates ( read: patches ) automatically get rolled out by OEM if they deem it necessary.