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[Shift Development] idepazb:
Problems with Hackish steps to get WiFi driver working and get Internet access

Hi guys, hope you can help me.

I'm following all the steps from http://blogs.distant-earth.com/wp/?p=313 to het W8 running on my Shift.

I follow all the steps but something seems to be wrong on Step 5 "Hackish steps to get WiFi driver working and get Internet access"

This is how I proceed

- I install the HTC Shift Control Center with any problem and i just skip the .Net 3.5.1 installation as blog suggests and restart.

- Then I go to Metro and run Shift Control Center and it is opened and turn on Wifi. System asks me again for .Net and I say Cancel.

- Then I go to Computer-Device Manager-Other devices and there is nothing about Marvel drivers.... so I can't update the drivers....

Is this happening to any of you guys? Am I doing something wrong?

Best regards!
[Shift Development] rizwan327:
Does the phone fuction work with Windows 8 on HTC Shift

Can someone plaese guide me on how to make the HTC Shift make and receive calls after installing the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Thanks in advance
[Shift Development] AdinK:
Domain Accounts (Sort of off-topic)

I don't know if anyone else has done this but I succesfully installed Windows Developer Preview from MSDN and then joined to my active directory domain but when I log on to a domain account the Desktop icon is missing from the start menu aswell as explorer and some program icons and there are some minor issues with usability. Has anyone else done this and had the same problem?
[Shift Development] mshauny:
I need help with the WM side of my Shift, I recently installed Windows 8 on the PC side of it and then I went on to install WM 6.5 which obviously did not go well...so right now I don't have WM and I don't know how to install it again
[Shift Development] dervish666:
Working great here. Thanks!

:D
[Shift Development] lineus:
Thank you for perfect installation guide, everything worked flawlessly. Win 8 is much faster on Shift and I wish it has higher resolution screen. Looking forward to install released Win 8

WARNING: If you want to liberate your WM6 instead Snap View using instructions form here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378234 - be careful. Generally it works but the last step with ShiftPack.cab ruins WIN8

I had to restore Vista from recovery boot and reinstall WIN 8
[Shift Development] lestat_bishop:
Dear,

The link for this blog is offline. Does anyone have the steps for installing Windows 8 or other address with him?

Thank you.
[Shift Development] dony71:
windows 8 release preview

microsoft just release windows 8 release preview

issue with sd card still there and getting worse

marvell wifi sdio is not being recognized at all

notice sd card controller driver is being installed without any error mark

but my guess, OS uses wrong driver

does anybody know which vendor for sd card controller in shift?

if anybody knows, i want to search for correct sd card driver
[Shift Development] koala996:
sd card and wifi does not work

the sd card was working perfect with Win8 Consumer Preview... what was the "issue with sd card" ?

But sure it is getting worse... I can't even see it.

the Marvell wifi sdio is recognized for me, but cannot start... grrr... it was working very nice in Consumer Preview.

Except this 2 problems.... the Windows 8 Release Preview works pretty fine .. the shift is still an amazing device ! So sad it is a resistive touchscreen and that the border are that big.
[Shift Development] op_111:
same here, it was working on consumer preview and now cannot start

anyone?
[Shift Development] dony71:
do you notice everything responds faster in windows 8 release preview?

user experience increase to 2.1 compared to 1.6 in win 7

unfortunately wifi and SD card are not working so it's not useable for me

I will switch back to win 7 while waiting solution for this issue
[Shift Development] skearon:
I have the same problem, doesnt show up so cant install
[Shift Development] jay6700:
Same, doesn't show up. Damn it all.

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I'm currently downloading "developer preview" from an alternate site, since microsoft no longer has release preview available. If it works i'll let you know. It's a torrent from tpb. damn, 11:30pm with work tomorrow and 30min left on the download... but i really wanted to finish this tonight.

Started a 45min tv show so it will force me to stay up. Should be enough to get done.
[Shift Development] jay6700:
Confirmed, works if you download hte old developer preview. I'm doing a dev > consumer preview upgrade now to see if it retains the drivers, since consumer is a million times faster and more stable.

Edit: This is impossible as far as I can tell. When you try to upgrade from within windows, it says the cpu does not meet the 1ghz requirement. If you try to boot from cd/flash drive, and do an "upgrade" install, it says you must do it from windows. Until someone finds a way around that, I don't know. I'm going to go backwards to windows 7, then forward again from there, since you can upgrade from 7 to 8 consumer preview.
[Shift Development] h8isgr8:
There's really only two hurdles that will keep us from really using Windows 8.....

1) We need to modify the video driver to set the screen resolution to 1280x768. This will meet the minimum resolution requirements to run apps and also keep it 5:3. Yes, it will look like crap. :(

2) Fix this issue with WiFi and SD card reader. The problem is that they changed something in the release preview and now the SD host controller (C-Guys CG-200) no longer works, which it did under the development build.

jay6700, can look at the driver for the device under "SD host adapters" and post which driver version the developer build has? In the release preview it's 6.2.8400.0.
[Shift Development] natboy:
Not sure if this helps any, but this article explains why the the Consumer Preview cannot be installed from an old CPU link and why it worked with the old Preview. Basically they put a check in place to check for NX in the bios. It also says there might be a potential workaround:

This workaround may succeed because Windows contains two installers: the end user installer (setup.exe at the root of the Windows DVD) and the commercial installer (setup.exe found in the \sources directory of the Windows DVD). The commercial installer runs when the PC is booted from DVD/USB media and does not perform the NX/SSE2 checks and attempts to enable NX/SSE2 on supported systems.

But no guarantee. Someone needs to try it. I just got my device, and still need to liberate/hardspll it, and rerom it as it's Italian so I'm in no condition to try it at the moment. But hopefully someone else here can.
[Shift Development] h8isgr8:
All the versions (developer/consumer/release) install and work fine on the SHIFT.

Microsoft changed something that is keeping this specific SD host controller from functioning properly in the release preview. It's not specific to the shift either; I've read of someone with a Willcom D4 having the same problem.
[Shift Development] jay6700:
I installed release preview as an upgrade from within windows in consumer preview. Wireless was working in consumer preview and I did the bypass install from the sources installer to get to release preview. Killed wireless upon reboot. Also was a very ugly upgrade. Took just short of forever. I'll check on the SD driver version later today though.
[Shift Development] jay6700:
If you upgrade from within windows on DP or CP to RP, it still doesn't work.

Therefor you need 2 files from the old releases, sdbus.sys and dumpsd.sys. You need to put them in this path: c:\windows\system32\drivers\

Files needed:

http://nasomi.com/sdbus.sys

http://nasomi.com/dumpsd.sys

To replace them in release preview, it's tricky.

1. Have them on an sd card from the old version, i'll upload them for those that want when I get a chance.

2. right click on desktop, new, shortcut. type cmd, click next, ok.

3. right click on the shortcut, hit run as administrator

4. type: takeown /f c:\windows\system32\drivers\sdbus.sys and hit enter

5. type: takeown /f c:\windows\system32\drivers\dumpsd.sys and hit enter

6: type: cacls c:\windows\system32\drivers\sdbus.sys /G jay:F <note that jay is my username and you will have to replace ONLY that portion with your login name.

8: type: cacls c:\windows\system32\drivers\dumpsd.sys /G jay:F <same as above, replace jay with your login

9. you should now be able to replace the old files when you drag them over and click overwrite/replace

10. restart.

For those of you not familiar with a command prompt, after typing the first takeown and cacls commands, you can simply hit hte up arrow key and it will reappare, hten arrow over and delete sdbus to dumpsd and hit enter again. typing isn't great on this thing's keyboard.

Confirmed:
[Shift Development] natboy:
That's awesome, good job! I still haven't downloaded the preview yet. Will have to try it now :) Out of curiosity, how long is the install, a few hours?
[Shift Development] jay6700:
more like a few minutes. No more than 30, closer to 20. I was done everything in an hour from start of install to all drivers installed and eveyrthing working in less than an hour.
[Shift Development] natboy:
Not sure how much time this will cut down in the installation process, but according the xda thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724009 .NET can be installed from the installation CD/USB key with the command

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /Source:G:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess

where G: is the drive letter of your source files.
[Shift Development] natboy:
using the the two sys files I can now see the wireless device, but after installing the drivers I get a code 10 and cannot start it. Bummer. I'll keep working on it.

Later: Hot damn, I got it working! Doing updates now.

Later later: One of the updates was for the SDIO/Wireless driver which killed it. Will have to put the .sys files back.

Later Later Later: I keep having to reinstall the driver in Device Manager to get wireless working, but hey, it works :) Also there's a new optional video card driver in Windows Updates that I highly recommend it allows the resolution to go higher, and therefore the Apps work.
[Shift Development] jay6700:
Odd. I ran windows update and it didn't find any driver updates. Mine's completely up to date. How are you running windows update?
[Shift Development] h8isgr8:
Good job Jay, now we just need to figure out how to get 1280x768 resolution.

I just put Win7 back on my shift so I won't be testing your wireless fix any time soon unfortunately. I'm going to wait until W8 is officialy realesed before I try again.
[Shift Development] natboy:
I ran Windows Updates through I guess you'd call the "start menu" (swiping left from the right hand side), then settings, then Windows Updates. Also then there's an option somewhere on there to access the optional updates, which really just brings up the standard Windows Updates from the Desktop.

I thought SD/Wifi drivers were a standard update, but maybe they were an optional one. The video drivers were definitely an optional one which I recommend and the video can then go up to 1024x768.
[Shift Development] natboy:
So the problem seems to be the SD controller. With the older .sys files in place wireless works, but as soon as you put in a SD card it borks them. Seems to be a problem people are aware, but googling it, I can't find a solution for it.
[Shift Development] dony71:
you need to disable wifi and enable it again after putting SD card

i'll try to make script to automate this step

i will share once i make this script successfully
[Shift Development] dony71:
how do you update windows release preview from consumer review?

i try windows update online, no option to upgrade to release preview

then i download release preview image, put in usb and execute setup.exe

but windows release preview says cannot install because cpu less than 1GHz
[Shift Development] dony71:
I manage to install Windows 8 Release Preview and I can see now problem with SDcard.

It appears this issue still related to Windows 8 RP SDcard driver.

I grab this additional 2 drivers from Windows 8 Consumer Preview and replace with drivers comes with Windows 8 RP.

After that you still need to disable wifi and re-enable when SDcard being installed.

I put it together in the zip all drivers which needs to be replace.
[Shift Development] justsopp:
the same problem,i can not find wifi device.
[Shift Development] goverweg:
Instructions please!

could you describe how to install windows 8 RP with the new drivers?

I went back to CR to use the SD card.

I would like to buy the final release of W8, but wants buth SD access and WIFI.
[Shift Development] dony71:
Please check in this thread page 6 by jay6700

He already explained there how to replace those drivers
[Shift Development] goverweg:
I installed Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation on my Shift. the SD card does work. Not WiFi. And Shift Control Center I do not get working.

How can we get a proper workig Windows 8 on our Shift at the time of the official release?
[Shift Development] 4all:
Authentec True Suite on windows 8

Hello, after some years with this issue I have decided to stand up and test on the HTC Shift the new operating system.

Discuss this facility is fully in face of evidence and not end up working correctly some features, we hope to develop with the help of all users of HTC Shift.

For example assigning the buttons to change resolution and access to Shift Control Center, run these applications from your shortcuts in Program Files / Htc :confused:

Referring to sensor validation've been testing and looking for an application that actually works properly on

Windows 8 and after try working properly. :good: :good:

http://support.authentec.com/Downloads/Windows/ProtectorSuite.aspx

The license to let fully functional with all its benefits. http://depositfiles.com/files/9r9lflwdw

Just run it and accept the insertion of the key in the registry ;)

Best Regards :laugh:

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Thanks jay6700, after being breaking my head with Wifi got following your tutorial install and make it work properly

Best Regard :)
[Shift Development] jinxmeistr:
Wifi is wokring on windows 8 enterprise eval

I got wifi working on the enterprise eval review on the shift using the instructions from the post indicated above (post #54, and using the zip from 64).
[Shift Development] angelizquierdo:
wifi

I got wifi working on the shift olso, using the instructions from the post indicated above (post #54, and using the zip from 64).
[Shift Development] khrisstyan:
Hi, anyone installed the rtm version and got wifi working? I used the files from here but all i get is an exclamation mark on wifi in device manager and it looks like he wants to install it but it can't.Can someone create a iso image of windows 8 with all drivers installed and upload it on a torrent and share it?Thank you
[Shift Development] dony71:
utility to fix wifi

Dear HTC shift user,

As I mention on post #62, I will try to make script utility to fix WiFi.

You need to apply wifi patch first before using this utility (post #54, and using the zip from #64)

So..... attached is the package.

Extract the package in directory and copy devcon.exe and nvspbind.exe in c:\windows\system32\

Once you have copied those 2 files, then just run wifiFIX.exe with administrator privilege.

The script utility will execute several commands to fix wifi, so that you don't need to disable and enable wifi manually

You can also put this wifiFIX.exe in windows task scheduler to run automatically,

for ex. execute after windows logon, etc
[Shift Development] khrisstyan:
It is working on windows 8 final release?
[Shift Development] Vuche:
Win 8 final (aMSDN) - WiFi working!

To make things short, I managed to make WiFi work on my dear ol' Shift!

I don't really know how I did it: after a fresh installation of an official academic msdn final copy of Win 8 Pro, and using the method posted here above, I could not manage to update the driver in the device manager (it kept mentioning something like it couldn't find the UI something...). So I decided to restore Win8 to a previous state and it took me back to where I was soon after my fresh installation (HTC drivers were installed). Then I copied the files needed in the system32 directory and so on, but still wasn't working. So I thought I should take a look at what's included in the directories found within the original HTC Marvell driver file. The driver contains a TOOLKITS dir. I decided to give a try and install everything there with the Vista SP2 compatibility trick (RegforHotfix.exe, ECTKit.exe, vcpj_TSinstall.exe). I don't remember in what order.I then tried updating the driver from within the device manager, and this time it seemed to work! But even after a reboot, there was still something not working, but at list I had the wifi icon in the task bar appearing. During my search for a newest driver for the wifi card, I downloaded I driver that seems more recent than all the other ones I could find (Marvell SD8686 8.114.134.168). so I tried this last one, and taa daa! There I am with wifi perfectly working!

If I manage to attach a zip of the driver to my post, you can try if it works for you too.

I think Win8 is what we need on our Shifts, although it sometimes lags a lot, like now with xda on the opera browser... But the finger interface (calibrate it in the control panel / Tablet settings for the angles and boarders issue) is great.

I installed the 2GB ram module and a 120GB msata OCZ nocti ssd with a zif adapter board (ebay) and it now boots very fast too! This is a real "ultra"book.
[Shift Development] Vuche:
In case you don't have WinRAR: latest driver in .zip instead of .rar if you can't uncompress it.
[Shift Development] 4all:
Web Cam

Greetings to all members and partners of HTC Shift. :good: :good:

I've been installing and looking for a web cam software that is compatible with windows 8 and working properly on HTC Shift but I can not find the right one .:(

Some audio only works, but no other recording camera detects the image capture, etc ....

What you have you installed?

Best Regards :D
[Shift Development] X-On:
Hi Vuche,

Can you communicate to me the zif adapter ref ?

I found this but can't tell if it's the right one...

About the WFi driver does it enable the SDCard reader ?

Thanks
[Shift Development] Vuche:
I bought this adapter http://www.ebay.com/itm/251140471738?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

It's the same one, a small little cheaper. I ordered three of them through the "make offer" option, $15.- each.

Yes, the SD card reader works too.

Enjoy
[Shift Development] perci09:
HTC HD

Hi guys how can i install windows 8 on htc hd7? any step by step procedure?
[Shift Development] crazyjim_68:
Anybody know where to pick up the fingerprint reader software registry update in link #69?
[Shift Development] Armazia:
I tried the Wifi fix, but when I enter the cacls cmd, it tells me to use icacls, and when I use icacls, It says "Invalid parameter "/G"(While I've checked my username 10 times). It seems like this one has another syntax, But I'm not that familiar with cmd, could someone help me out?

Edit,

Have found out how it was working, Proper syntax is:

icacls c:\windows\system32\drivers\sdbus.sys /Grant john:d

Where the username is john.
[Shift Development] jinxmeistr:
Windows 8 Enterprise Eval Expired

I have windows 8 Enterprise Eval running wonderfully on the Shift thanks to all the help in this thread. I don't see any other limitations since it expired except that I can not update my desktop profile etc. however, I did notice that Netflix video won't stream indicating that the audio and video drivers have expired. I would like to legitimize the Shift by going to Windows pro but with the least amount of work. I don't see anywhere where I can make the shift downgrade from an enterprise version then apply a windows 8 pro version. So I was going to reset to Vista (in its factory setting) then upgrading with the win 8 pro, but now I"m getting an error that I'm missing some files. So I have two questions - 1- does anyone have any idea to make my enterprise eval legit with win 8 pro without going to vista then upgrade or 2) if 1 is impossible, how to factory reset to vista since I'm getting an error.:confused:

Update: I updated video driver and Netflix is working now so it has nothing to do with Win 8 Enterprise eval being expired. I still want my shift to get windows 8 pro on it. I decided to go ahead and reset back to Vista but the win 8 upgrade assistant tells me its under 1 GHz and won't let me download the software. How do you bypass this?!
[Shift Development] pmcall:
Thank You to the OP! I got WinPro 8 up and running on my shift, and somehow got through the Wifi madness. My shift had been sitting in the box for a couple of years, now it is a fun ( ctional ) little device.

I had upgraded my laptop last week - and created a USB install in the process- so I just popped that into my SHIFT - followed the installation directions in the OP (deleting partition,etc) - and voila.

Thank You!
[Shift Development] jinxmeistr:
How did u bypass the 1ghz minimum requirement?
[Shift Development] pmcall:
I originally installed on a laptop that was >1 Ghz and chose to install from USB. the ms install program then uploads to the USB drive and ran the setup program. After I installed on the laptop, I inserted the same USB drive into the SHIFT and ran the setup program again.
[Shift Development] ramaeder:
touch driver problem

Hi

I do have two shift and could'nt get Touchscreen running on both. I did it as you wrote in your installing win8 preview but with the win8 pro intalled from DVD.

What could i have done wrong .:(

Please help!!!

Thank you very much

Regards Ralph
[Shift Development] Fnurga:
Hi Guys,

I have now got everything to work with win8 on my Shift, exept the touchscreen. It appears like the shift don't even find the touchscreen.

It worked perfectly before i installed win8.

Anyone have any suggestions what i could do to make it work?

Regards
[Shift Development] angelizquierdo:
http://blogs.distant-earth.com/wp/?p=313

It work, if you do all this.

Regards
[Shift Development] pgunning1:
Hi Guys

Just tried to install win 8 on my shift it is Win 8 pro, most things are working fine and not crashes or blue sceens although I think the vga driver needs reinstalling as I cant go above 800x600, but thats not my real issue, I cannot get wifi working (theres a surprise) I have an error 10 code!!

Tried the fixes and files from post 64 which went fine and the wifihotfix that went fine to, turned wifi on & off no dice.. Used legacy to find the device but not working due to code 10.

I am trying to use a usb wifi to try to download updates with the hope to upgrade the onboard wifi drivers, will this work ??

Any help fixing this as I am liking Win 8 on this device but I havent found anyone else with a code 10 error.

Big thanks for any help or advice.

ATB
[Shift Development] angelizquierdo:
Post 69 explains very well how enable wifi.