yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
No. I'm not going to throw it out there. If someone has a very good reason I might share code on a need to know basis. Too much blood, sweat and tears in this. This is my tool and feel free to (ab)use it ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Darkyyy:
Android port ? :P
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] KingpinEX:
Thats Very cool thx alot heatklif,

any one knows a way to set up MMS apn with registry edit yet?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] chrislynch:
The keys are not present. Maybe it's because I don't have any apps installed? I thought they would be there be default. I'll look on my other phone and report back.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Chaoticaa:
You are a legend! Thanks a lot for this. Gonna be testing this out tomorrow and giving my feedback. Really appreciate the hard work, keep it up. :D
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] chrislynch:
Yep, my bad! I loaded your app on my Dev phone to test first. I just now installed it on my other Focus, and can see the keys now. Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] lucasryan:
I have made changes to my sms sounds HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds\SMS.....sound value to: \My Ringtones\My Documents\yourtone.wma

all works well but i have noticed that if i use just any ringtone it works just once then goes back to none. If i use the tone that is in one of the 4 ringtone folders above SMS folder HKCU\ControlPanel\Sounds it will stay. So my question is should it stay after writing it to another ringtone thats not in Ringtone 0,1,2,3...and also why is there 4 ringtone folders that have the same tone in it.

Just curious to see if anybody else has run into this? I have also tried it both ways by resetting the phone and just exiting out of root tools. Should it stay after a save, or should we reset phone?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Well, this is going a bit off-topic, but I just happened to read this post. Maybe that helps you out. For more on the topic of changing ringtones/smstones you better read that registry-tweak-thread.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Xerax:
Don't supose you have an ETA on a HTC release? I Really want to have a look around my phone :p
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Well, there are 2 ways to get this working on HTC:

1. Find a true device-independent hack (or combination of hacks) to get this done. I've tried a lot. But I have not succeeded so far. I decided to focus on getting this ready for Samsung at least, so maybe that could give me a boost into further hacking. I'm sure it's possible but I need to finish this for Samsung first in order to be able to do more research on that.

2. Find a similar hack for HTC as I found for Samsung. Looking at what I did with my Samsung device, I'm pretty sure I can find similar hacks in a HTC. But it's not going to happen, because I don't have an HTC :p

That said, an ETA is not realistic right now. First priority is to get file-explorer and certificate-stores working for my device. And with that, I'm sure I can hack a truly device-independent tool together. That is the ultimate goal. And who knows, the most beautiful hacks happen unexpectedly :) Famous words: Just bear with me...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Xerax:
Ahh, I see. Thank you for your time and I'm really looking forward to see what you manage :p my friend just got a Samsung so I'll swap phones with him for a bit ;).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ananzeh:
Heathcliff7 thank u so much for this great app. i noticed a minor issue which is not a big deal .when i chose the light theme i see only the file icon with out any discription ..so i need to click one the icon and press back to see the discription of the icon..wel as i said its not big problem but i though its good to bring your attention to this

thanks again man
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] tomgreer:
I had no problem browsing these keys and deleting them. My push tiles are working again.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] SuperSport:
Sounds Great! Thank you so much Heathcliff74. These type of tools are so cool to have, and without Dev's like you, a lot of us would be in the dark. Well dark ages. :D Really looking forward to where the tool is headed.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Chaoticaa:
So I just tested the app and it worked like a charm! :D It did stuff that other registry modifiers weren't able to do thanks to the root access.

Thanks a lot Heathcliff!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Flow WP7:
So you write xml all the time and then execute it with \Windows\dmstools.exe? Is there a specification for what that executable can do?

Would really like to know,

regards
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Oh oh oh. You make it sound so easy. You only scratch the surface. Of course there is no documentation :p Try to do this yourself and make it work stable. :cool:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] KooKiz:
I think the intent was not to make it sound easy, but rather to understand how it works. Especially because it isn't easy. When you have some free time, care to write a few blog posts to explain your background work? :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] :
Heathcliff, you've done some amazing work here! Thanks for this.

However, I cannot understand your reasoning for not releasing the source code for this application? You are making it free, and you are not even asking for donations. Can't you release this under a restrictive open-source license which prohibits resale/distribution?

I feel all of these projects would move a lot faster if people just shared their research. More people want to use your code for ideas & to further research into gaining full "root" access than want to take credit for your hard work.

I am not demanding anything, or saying you should do this or that - just stating that it would be helpful to the entire community if you could share the source.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] evolutionqy7:
I repect devs wishes to keep the app closed source. But i have to agree with above.

If putting in limited source for distribution others could learn and understand WP better
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Well, you have a very good point. But I said "If someone has a very good reason I might share code on a need to know basis". And in private mail I have already discussed some possibilities with other developers. The main reason for not throwing this in the open is that I want to prevent that my tools will soon be disabled. But maybe I'm wrong there. I will think about it.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Flow WP7:
Thank you,

Can you share which syncml specification you used?

Found only this so far: http://www.openmobilealliance.org/T...19-A/OMA-TS-DS_Protocol-V1_2_2-20090319-A.pdf

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms890704.aspx
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Well, Flow already corrected himself a bit there. If you look at his post and the quote in my reply and the fact that he edited the post in the time between his post and my reply, then you see he removed the word 'just'. And that was the part that made it sound so simple. I just did that and that... I didn't think that was the way to ask for something.

And as I stated before, I fear that exposing info about a hack may shorten the time that the hack will work. Other people may try to prevent the hack.

But I will think about writing a blog or open source my tool.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Flow WP7:
I corrected it because, it was mean and i didn't wanted to be mean. The problem is for me at least, when someone trys to break open a closed system and then by himself produces another closed system, that really pisses me off.

Ok it's your right to do so, but if you don't want that somebody closes a backdoor that you use, don't share anything at all.

So, honestly, sorry i didn't wanted to turn down your efforts, as they are really great!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Okay, no hard feelings then :)

About the closed source discussion here: I see it differently. I'm not trying to break open a system and then produce a closed system for myself. Well, actually I do, but really the point is that I want to break open the system in a way that we keep it open.

And if you're so pissed about the closed system, you should really try to break that system yourself and not breaking the tools of your friends. Just don't be pissed at someone who's helping you. But enough about that now. I will think about open-sourcing it.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] mousse04:
I prefer that you think about the file explorer :) !!!!

Joke .... No offense.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] domineus:
actually open sourcing wouldn't be too bad of an idea imho it should help and further develop on samsung based platforms and other platforms. Luckily, unlike previous samsung devices, the wp7 devices are at least popular enough to garner developer attention. Plus maybe it could help you heathcliff

not a bad idea at all.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Vintage144:
Great job Heathcliff Ive been following you and many other talented peopled on here! Just want to know if theres a way to access the registry through the desktop pc rather than directly through the phone , it seems the battery life sucks royally when "playing around" inside the registry! If I were able to "ghost" image or usb inside I might be able to look for stuff without trashing the battery just curious and once again great job dont worry about others , some people that cant engineer like to make it an assualt on the others who can , cheers to those can!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] :
Sorry if i'm missing the point here, but since you would need to be connected to the computer to do this, couldn't you just charge your phone while editing the registry instead? Seems like a simpler solution ;)

Used this tool to fix my broken live tiles, works like a charm! I had to switch my theme to dark because the titles on the folders are hardcoded to White, but I'll forgive it since it's an alpha :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Haha. Well, that battery-sucking is quite understandable. I'm using such a big work-around to get the info I need that it is probably very CPU intensive. Also your amoled will do its share of draining. You could of course keep it on the charger while browsing.

An import- and export-function is on my ToDo-list. That might help you out. Not sure when that will be done.

Thanks for the compliment.

Ciao,

Heathcliff.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
I will see if I can make an escrow build for the light-theme.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] the0ne:
Thanks Heathcliff74 :)

I have added it to 1800PocketPC

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[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] voluptuary:
I would say keep it closed, it's your work, and you are doing us a favor by simply letting us use it. And if you are in fact using a security loop-hole then MS is sure to plug it as soon as they know what it is. So I vote for keeping it closed or sharing only with people that you feel can contribute to the project on a case by case basis.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] fiinix:
Um yeah, lets be like Microsoft, hold back the community in progress of hacking... Not.

Anyways, Great job.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ironashram:
Thanks for this, i Will test and post my thoughts
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] xyap:
Thank you very much Heathcliff74!!!

How can we support you or donate for you? Please tell us.

Glad to be able to set now the regkey hklm\Software\Microsoft\DeviceReg\Install\MaxUnsignedApp.

All other solutions did not work on my Omnia 7 (maybe since nodo update).

btw, "back" does not close your app. I had to soft reset. Please fix this.

Keep up the good work and don't listen to some jealous guys here...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] lucasryan:
I also agree that i would keep it closed, and it by no means holding back the community of hacking. It has just opened the possibilities of hacking for the focus. It will only get better after a period of time with the release of file explorer and cert store. With full access the possibilities are endless.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] evolutionqy7:
Ah come on im sure a company like microsoft already knows of this tools already. Especially with all the blogs reporting it.

And im sure they have well trained engineers to take this apart and see how and where and what does this app uses to access the registry and see the files and edit certs.

I dont mind if its closes or open. I just think MS has the ability to open it up itself and examine it. Its always the case and always will be.

You open a hole. They close it. You find another one. They close it again. This isnt Windows Mobile or Android. It will be like iPhone and all the holes will eventually get patched up.

It might not be great for homebrew scence but it works better for security reasons.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] SuperSport:
I was stumped too, until I Opened the Menu and Tapped 'exit'. ;) I always check the menus before rebooting.

I vote to keep it closed for the moment. He's already offered to share the code privately, that should be good enough for the time being.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Thank you. More people requested a possibility for donations. The "Donate to me" button should work now.

Back-button-fix will be in next escrow-build (see updated first post). Windows-button and "exit" in menu will work for now.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] sifon187:
Awesome app and I cannot wait for the next update. keep up the good work
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] lucasryan:
Dont know if anybody else has noticed or not but if you have been playing with registry and add a new value or key and dont want it anymore just hold it down and it will delete it. Glad to have that when trying new keys.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] marcox92:
question

Wher can I find instractions how to install this on an european Omnia 7

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] lucasryan:
If your device is unlocked just use a deployment tool, if it not then you need to read this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=857127
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] gpunkt1977:
Very Cool Tool. I tested a lot of regeditor because Samsung had a special read/write access. With this editor I have change my registry to change the sms custom sound.

Great and Thanx

The only that i need is a FileExplorer to Copy and Paste Files from PC to MyDocuments etc. (Full access)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] lucasryan:
Heathcliff74, when you have the explorer finished will we have the options to copy/paste, rename and delete files in the windows folder?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] gpunkt1977:
I have a idea. Speak with schaps the builder of Windows Device Manager. You and schaps together - that means perfect programms. :D

All Samsung users have the fu...n Problems with a Explorertool with rootaccess.

Have a heart for Samsung Users :o
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Marvin_S:
schaps does not care either to share, so why would he give schaps the piece of the missing puzzle?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] contable:
That´s true. Indeed the latest WPDM version is not very useful for Samsung users without functional file explorer extension but I think we should wait what kind of file explorer Heathcliff74 will release. I´m sure that he will make all Samsung users happy... So let him do his work and have patience.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] gpunkt1977:
Sorry, it was only a idea. Heathcliff74 make a super job (specially for samsung user :D)

I hope in future you can access the phone from the desktop explorer.

And Heathcliff, thanx for the work.:)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] lucasryan:
IS it possible to make the app stay at the part of registry that we are viewing after the screen timeout and then go back by unlocking screen. It goes back to the beginning of the app instead of the path i was searching. Of course we could always enable the "never" lock screen timeout, just thought it would be nice to be able to go back then use the exit feature to exit the app.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] :
I think all these tweaks & interface changes will come eventually - hence the alpha tag - this is really just a proof of concept with a UI wrapped around it at the moment.

I'm sure when Heathcliff has the functionality nailed, he will work on UI.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] stopmybeat:
Legend :-)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] k_aftab:
Thank you :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] FJosep:
Any way to load this in a locked phone? Chevron is not working for me :(
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] atmonline:
Great tool Heathcliff74. After some testing what I notice on the UI (scrolling) is slow, (IMO) you are trying to get total # of child keys while scrolling, I think if you introduce muti-threading or store key values to local variable would fix the problem.

thanks,

atmonline
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] TOA Duck:
@FJosep.

wow. seriously
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Albertomarigua:
Waiting for the next release!!! Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
New release: version 0.2 alpha

Hi, I'm back!

I got a new release of the WP7 Root Tools. Consider this an "interim build". It's version 0.2 alpha. Most changes are under the hood. I did a lot of refactoring for performance improvements and paving the way for the file-explorer. This version does not include the file-explorer just yet. That will be the next release. Fixes in the new 0.2 alpha version:

- Compatible with light theme.

- Navigate out of the app with back-button.

- Due to refactoring and better use of the exploit I gained a lot of performance. It is very fast compared to the previous version. Should also reduce battery drain significantly.

If you like this, hit the "Thanks" and/or "Donate to me" button.

Ciao,

Heathcliff74

Edit: attachment of version 0.2 alpha removed. Newer version is now in the opening post.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] SuperSport:
Great News Heatcliff74! Thank you for all your hard work.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
I was very busy with visiting family, research and updating the tool. I did not reply very much lately. So here it goes...

Battery sucking should be reduced a lot with the new version. I did a lot of optimizations, that result in less CPU usages and better response of the UI. Controlling the app from the PC will probably be implemented some time, but it is not at the top of my list now.

Nice coverage! Thanks!

Thanks. This is pretty much how I see it now. Later on I will start a blog and explain some stuff. I'm already cooperating on some other projects (through private mail). And I hope other hackers may benefit, by simply using WP7 Root Tools.

How I see it, I'm helping hackers a lot with WP7 Root Tools, and I'm absolutely not holding back people. Everybody can use it for free, can't they? Again, I'm sharing on a need-to-know basis.

Glad I could help. Thanks for the donation. It is greatly appreciated. The back button works in the new version.

Amen.

Maybe.. But why did Microsoft want to question the Chevron guys then?

Yes, that will be possible. Only exceptions are the files that are in use and files with the 'system'-flag can't be edited. For both limitations I have possible work-arounds that I yet have to investigate.

I'm not sure what the angle is of Julien Schapman. If he needs something, he can contact me and we'll see.

In-app-navigation will be improved later on. Not at the top of my list now.

Nope. Consider downgrading to pre-nodo, unlock and apply prevent-relock-tweak and upgrade to nodo again. See other threads on this topic for more info.

You wouldn't believe how much multi-threading there is already. The exploit is simply very slow. I improved a lot in the new version. Should be much smoother now.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] TctclMvPhase:
Thanks for all your work.

I am new to this, so perhaps I am missing something, but this doesn't seem to be able to write binary values?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Hence the 'alpha' tag. It is not feature complete. I can write binary values. But I simply don't have a proper edit screen for binary values yet. I want to implement all the basics first. And that includes a file-explorer. A binary value edit screen will come later. Bear with me.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] contable:
@Heathcliff74:

I would like to support your great work a little bit and have donated via paypal:

57673380GD817350F.

Thanks again.

contable
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Greatly appreciated :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] contable:
Always a pleasure. Since you you have started this project I believe again that I bought the right phone: OMNIA7, but sometimes it´s hard because the most useful hacks and developments are available for HTC devices. I have also donated to Schaps for the WPDM project but I think without your help we´ll never get full support for Samsung devices...

Keep on doing your great work.

Cheers

contable
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] hr_kaleu:
great work - keep it up!

samsung omnia gettin' some love!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Mightyhog:
I'm trying to use your great tool to fix my Live Tiles. Unfortunately, I can not read anything within the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\. This is the only area where I can not read the reg values. I can see all the subkeys within Microsoft but then all those show 0 for subs and values. :(

Any ideas why this is?

Thanks,
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Hey, you're right. This is a bug introduced in the 0.2 version. In version 0.1 it was working ok. I will fix that later today.

Ciao,

Heathcliff74
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Mightyhog:
Forgot to mention I'm using a Focus.

:eek: My first bug discovery? Really? lol

Thanks for fixing so soon. I really appreciate this whole community. Hell, w/out it I wouldn't have NoDo or any sanity. lol
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] gms0012:
sorry

did not find it..

which changed did you make (changelog)

www.dotCONN.de
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] contable:
@Heathcliff74: I have sent you a pm....
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
WP7 Root Tools 0.3 alpha released

See opening post.

Thanks for the bug-report. I attached the new version in the opening post.

I added a 'changelog' in the opening post.

Ciao,

Heathcliff74
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] premikkoci:
Hi. Can anyone hack Hidden Wifi app by HTC for Samsung smartphone? Is it possible if You use Root Tools?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] contable:
Thanks again for the latest V0.3...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Nope. Not possible. It would have been easier when you posted a link to something that explains what the Hidden Wi-Fi app is, like this. Anyway, I downloaded and analyzed it. And it uses a HTC-specific driver called "WRO1:". It is not present on Samsung devices; I checked.

I guess it would be possible to add a hidden Wi-Fi manually in the registry, using the WP7 Root Tools. But I don't know the exact location where this info is written and what format is used for it. You should look for that and then add it to the registry yourself.

Good luck,

Heathcliff74
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Mightyhog:
Nice. Thanks for the quick fix Heathcliff. :D

I was able to clear my pushclient/endpoints and now all of my Live Tiles are working again. Finally.

Thanks again for all your work.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] theblueeyz:
Healthcliff74 is tricky. I see what you did there..

Extremely interested to see where this project goes.