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[Windows Phone 7 General] FTC:
...great, you will have a 25% chance of ever getting an (official) update during the lifetime of your device, which generally is appr. 2 years....
[Windows Phone 7 General] MikeyMike01:
25% is an exceedingly high number considering well under 10% of Android phones run 4.0. Quite pathetic on Google's part.

Sent from my SGH-I777
[Windows Phone 7 General] magicsquid:
This is an interesting point. WP8 will still be a relatively young OS, so additional 'polishing' / fixing minor issues will certainly be beneficial, as you mention.

Various comments / articles on (not) upgrading WP7.5 devices to WP8 refer to using resources efficiently. Does this mean:

a) that MS would have needed to pull a significant number of people off WP8 development / testing to work on an upgrade from WP7.5? and / or;

b) that the cost / benefit analysis showed that an upgrade from WP7.5 would be a waste of money because:

- the user base of WP7 is too small.

- the new WP8 features are primarily dependent on new hardware, so not useful on an old device.

I do not know where the balance lies. However, if the answer is mostly 'a', then MS is probably making the correct decision. It may be better for the future of Windows Phone to forgo this upgrade than drop features / bug fixes / 'polish' from a WP8 that is still maturing.
[Windows Phone 7 General] andyl66:
Wp 7.8 is yet to be seen. The first handsets with wp8 aren't even going to be released until fall, so you've already had a years use. The initial release will not be that much better than 7.8 and it'll be at least 6 months before devs have anything out to truly differentiate it from 7.8. That's 18 months use. Wait a few more months for Nokia HTC and Sammy to release their monsters and 2 years natural phone life has passed.

WP7 is the best os there is. No other os uses cloud storage like wp7. Just click on your photos and see how fast your photos load, all editing software can use and edit your cloud photos. Music on skydive can stream correctly even on a lowly edge connection. Android and ios are painful, they both see cloud storage as STORAGE not usable files.

Then click on your search button and look at the choices it gives you. Not only www search results but local results, with android you have to run the same search several times using different apps to achieve worse results. Google goggles is a joke, scan a barcode of a book and all it does is use the book title as a search, so it sometimes gives useless results.

If you have Nokia then you've got the best mobile gps in the world. Locations on my one x will murder the battery in one hour, seriously, then the temperature of the handset will be too high to accept a charge..

You've even now got better games on wp7 than android with some amazing licenses.

The only couple of things better on droid are the ability to use phone as external drive, and ability to use phone as WiFi hotspot. That is it.

Personalisation hahaha, every launcher on droid does exactly the same thing. It creates and manages folders, that is all it does. Widgets are so fragmented that they do not run from one launcher to another.

Stop whinging about not getting wp8, you will get 2 years good use out of your device.

Android is about to get jellybean, it is still uncertain whether my one x and the gs3 will receive this update fully. Yeah switch to android and get 3 months life. Or ios and receive updates that add nothing new apart from your phone running slower.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Where did you pull this stuff from? Did you just make it up as you type?

I'm a fan of all OS's, and can see through blatant lies. However I'm not even going to entertain this.
[Windows Phone 7 General] awrnsmn:
Boy, you want to talk about someone who is clueless! Check your facts bud....

Sent from my AOKP'ed Samsung GS2 with Eugene's kernel
[Galaxy S III General] Shipmate:
I reset the phone and headphones started working again.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Winston O'Boogie:
Can anyone give me a direct link to download CM9 nightly? I can't seem to download with my phone from the new galaxyics website :( It would be very much appreciated

Sent via carrier pigeon
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Avilove.Cullen:
Galaxyics is down from sometime .... :cool:
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] force_close:
we shouldnt give a direct link download as it says not to create a mirror, and I guess the link download is different depends on your ip
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Winston O'Boogie:
Their website is back online now dude.

Sent via carrier pigeon
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Winston O'Boogie:
Oh well, I guess I can't download it from my phone then :(

Sent via carrier pigeon
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Avilove.Cullen:
yeah that's what i was telling ... ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] huzzahpenguin:
The site is back up and looks pretty good.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xobro200:
*Noob* Honestly have been searching since 10:00am, it's now 5:30.

I was trying to install a rom on my phone and usually odin runs fine for me but it froze and I got p and hit my phone off the wire, now I cannot get it into download mode. I have tried holding the volume up and down for however long and it hasn't worked. I have held the volume buttons and the power button simultaneously but nothing can get it to go to download mode. Does anyone have any ideas? :confused::confused::confused:
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
ok, download for me is

taking battery out

plugging in usb cable

holding both vol up and down only

slapping the battery back in....
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xobro200:
That used to work for me too, but now I'm stuck at the phone /!\ computer screen and that doesn't do any thing /: If i hold all buttons down the screen will blink black and that's it
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Radiotsar:
The screen you've described is just an alternate download screen.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xxxSuperserieSxxx:
Use Qkster heimdall one click you can find it here.....http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xobro200:
Thanks it worked :)

Thank you so much!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] qkster:
How's come I didn't get a thanks? :D
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
I'll give it... buddy thx!

Sent from my SGH I717, Black Star.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] xxxSuperserieSxxx:
Give you big THANKS bro...all credit goes to you...
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] prsa01:
Only rooted (not cm7/9) 16g/1g NT using Dolphin.

I seem to notice very significantly better internet/wireless performance when at McDonalds or some other unsecured wireless than at home even though my home wireless is a much stronger signal and my home internet is 8mb/s DSL. My home wireless router is a fairly high quality dlink dir655 N/gigabit. All of my other home devices (computers), wireless and wired, have good internet performance.

I'm wondering if the processor is low powered enough compared to my laptop, etc that just dealing with the wpa encryption impacts performance noticably or if I should be looking at other configuration issues either on my wireless router or the NT.

Thanks much for any thoughts.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] mattc8210:
I could be wrong but Im pretty sure Ive always noticed a difference with my wireless devices. I leave mine unsecured, turn off the SSID broadcast and turn on the MAC filter. Nobody even knows its there, and even if they did, they cant connect unless I add their devices MAC address.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jgalan14:
Since I got this phone I like it a lot the speeds were very decent compare to my old nexus but today is been really bad here in las Vegas anyone else have this problem? It looks like LTE is far from coming Herr so I doubt is that
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] shook187:
Great another speed thread.

In before the lock!!!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jgalan14:
I'm asking if is in las Vegas problems or my account I updated profile and prl and same thing I got full bars and 3G (flashed a Rom so it tells me if I'm on 3g) you don't need to waste a post to just say that , really you have the much time to waste
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] DarkManX4lf:
Sprint data speed is terrible in most areas... The common answer you will get from here is either:

1) switch to a different carrier.

2) wait for network vision.

Or

3) take your phone to sprint.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Warrior 3000:
Welcome to Sprint...

The only true unlimited data network with no data cap.........since youll be spending half the month loading one web page ;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jgalan14:
Lmao I actually use over 1 gb ay week lol but when I had LTE I was using up to 10 gb I screwed up my Verizon plan so it was too expensive I guess ill keep my tmobile account open
[Nokia Lumia 900] tfn:
Hi guys...

Nokia has launched official support website for nokia phones for the UK

https://setup.nokia.co.uk/
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
Just picked up an optimus V off of ebay with a clean ESN and now all I am getting is an LG boot loop. Tried a bunch of combinations

Home, vol down, power

return, vol down, power while plugging in

menu and power

None worked. Not sure where to go from here. Never had the issue with my captivate. If it is bricked, which solution should I go about unbricking it?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] FitAmp:
Try home volume up
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
Nope, it does it's loop but then a blank screen blinks and it goes off. Left it plugged in for 2 hours and it just kept repeating the cycle, no battery charging, nothing.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
Alright, i've been screwing with it for a few hours now. Got into e-mode and tried flashing the optimus S (sprint) to try and unbrick it with this method

http://androidforums.com/optimus-v-...-how-fix-bricked-lg-optimus-v-s-firmware.html

But at step 9, it doesn't detect it while it's in e-mode, and when I put it in normal mode, it updates, gets to 94% and reboots, after which it sits in its LG splash loop. Unable to do anything besides boot it back into e-mode.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
Why would u want to flash a optimus S firmware on optimus V?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
Because that seems to be the only way to unbrick it.. Can't get into recovery and stuck in an LG splash loop.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
U should flash optimus v firmware on optimus v then only it will unbrick.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
Mind directing me to a working way to unbrick using optimus v firmware?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
U either use kdz or LGDMP to flash the firmware
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
From what I have read there isn't any working optimus v firmware out. The original that was leaked over a year ago was missing a dll and it hasn't worked since.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
For kdz:

Pre steps) turn off lg USB modem

1) turn the phone into e.mode and plug in.

2)start up kdz and select 3gqct

3) flash firmware and wait. (Mine took 1 hour)

4) if successful, ur phone should be unbricked. If unsuccessful, change the mode in kdz but not the 3gqct
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
Use O1's firmware then should be able to work.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
O1's firmware?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
Optimus one firmware
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
Alright. Attempting it with V20G_00.kdz and keep getting "Upgrade Error WParam: 100 LParam: 502" No matter which type I attempt.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
Can u take a screen shot?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
Here's a log and SS of the error/attempt

[08:20:21:506] : =============================================
[08:20:21:506] : Log is started on 21.06.2012, at 08:20:21:506,
executable: C:\Users\Veight\Downloads\kdz_fw_upd_en\KDZ_FW_UPD_EN\KDZ_FW_UPD.exe (ProcID: 0x00002164),
compile time : Dec 8 2010 09:19:37
[08:20:21:506] : Version :
[08:20:21:507] : Get Usb Port
[08:20:21:508] : rsi.strFriendlyName=Communications Port (COM1)

[08:20:21:508] : Remove Communications Port (COM1)

[08:20:21:508] : rsi.strFriendlyName=LGE Mobile USB Serial Port (COM4)

[08:20:21:508] : FriendlyNameList[iii].szFriendlyName=LGE Mobile USB Serial Port

[08:20:21:508] : WM_COPYDATA ¸Þ½ÃÁö º¸³¿ 1 - COM4
[08:20:21:508] : Port = COM4
[08:20:26:511] : RX Timeout : 5.0 seconds
[08:20:26:511] : RX TIMEOUT
[08:20:26:512] : UNKNOWN : Req(12) -> Rsp(13)
[08:20:31:523] : RX Timeout : 5.0 seconds
[08:20:31:523] : RX TIMEOUT
[08:20:31:523] : >> DIAG_STATUS_F FAILED
[08:20:31:528] : >>Get Model Name [DIAG_VERNO_F]
[08:20:31:529] : BAD CONN MODE : Req(0) -> Rsp(3)
[08:20:34:540] : RX Timeout : 3.0 seconds
[08:20:34:540] : RX TIMEOUT
[08:20:34:541] : BAD CONN MODE : Req(0) -> Rsp(3)
[08:20:37:552] : RX Timeout : 3.0 seconds
[08:20:37:552] : RX TIMEOUT
[08:20:37:553] : BAD CONN MODE : Req(0) -> Rsp(3)
[08:20:40:565] : RX Timeout : 3.0 seconds
[08:20:40:565] : RX TIMEOUT
[08:20:40:565] : FAIL (No Phone)
[08:20:40:565] : GetModelName() Operation Failed Check Diag CMD
[08:20:40:565] : EMERGENCY Booting Mode
[08:20:40:565] : >>Get Model Name in Emergency Mode [DLOAD_VERREQ_F]
[08:20:40:566] : LS670ZVD
[08:20:40:566] : First two character of model name is not BS
[08:20:40:566] : WM_COPYDATA ¸Þ½ÃÁö º¸³¿ 0 - No Phone
[08:20:40:566] : GetEmergencyModelName in Emergency Mode - FAILed (No Phone)
[08:20:40:566] : WM_COPYDATA ¸Þ½ÃÁö º¸³¿ 3 - Close Port
[08:20:40:566] : Close Port<<
[08:20:40:566] : TYPE_WPARAM_UPGRADE_ERROR
[08:20:40:566] : ¸Þ½ÃÁö º¸³¿ - TYPE_WPARAM_UPGRADE_ERROR Error Code = 502
[08:20:40:594] : Log finished
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
Switch type to 3gqct

Switch phonemode to emergency

and check that LG USB modem is turned off
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
Modem is disabled in device manager.

Heres the full log file after I hit okay to the error message.

[R&D Test Tools Log File]

09:00:24 : Launching SW update
09:00:24 : Unpacking KDZ
09:00:25 : KDZ file extraced
09:00:25 : Files were extracted.
09:00:25 : LGMobileDL Load.
09:00:25 : Port = -1
09:00:25 : Connecting to phone
09:00:36 : Check Phone mode = 2
09:00:43 : Phone type check.......
09:00:44 : LGMobileDL.DLL Loading....
09:00:45 : _SetAuthMark Fail
09:00:45 : _SetAuthMark Ok : wAuthMark(23043)
09:00:45 : _DetachDLL Call
09:00:45 : _DetachDLL Call End
09:00:45 : Param : Path = C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone\LGP500AT-00-V20g-ESA-XX-SEP-21-2011+0-DZ.dz
09:00:45 : Param : moduleDir =
09:00:45 : Param : waitTime = 1
09:00:45 : Param : UsbHighSpeed = 1
09:00:45 : Param : PhoneMode = 2
09:00:45 : Param : BinVersion = V20G_00
09:00:45 : Param : AuthMark = 23043
09:00:45 : Call fn_StartUpgrade
09:01:06 : CDMA: wParam = 100, lParam = 502
09:01:06 : Step : Upgrade Error2 - Error Code : 502
09:01:06 : ResetStartInfo() Call
09:01:06 : _DetachDLL Call
09:01:06 : _DetachDLL Call End
09:01:06 : FreeLibrary Call
09:01:06 : FreeLibrary Call End
09:01:06 : ResetStartInfo() Call End
09:01:07 : ===FINISHED===
09:02:05 : OnModelDllMsg(OnMsgFromModelDll-CDMA) delete m_pLGCyonUpdate
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Veight:
Just an update. Installed windows xp into a VM and tried it since i saw some people were having issues with Windows 7 X64 and no go. Same error. :\
[Optimus One, P500, V General] allenwalker1998:
Wait it looks like ur phone is a cdma. Try type:cdma and phonemode: e.mode
[Windows Phone 8 General] TitusO:
Hello guys,

I'm glad to write the first post in this section.

We've all seen the Microsoft Windows Phone Summit this morning (evening) and had to notice, that they've focused on an "Complete Security Platform". Due to their "Enterprise Ready - Fundamentals", they implemented a Secure Boot and Bitlocker Encryption.

This will be very good for all of you, who are depending on a phone, that doesen't share all it's data if it's getting stolen etc.. But those of you, who built application for customization or any further experience, will get stuck.

I'd really like to discuss these news with you.

(Is the microSD support a hint for a sideloading possibility?)

It has already been hard from an interop to a full unlock for the existing devices. The Lumia 900 is up to now unaccessible...

Will this be a disadvantage in comparison to the Android strategy?

All comments are welcome!!!

Titus
[Windows Phone 8 General] snickler:
This is still all brand new, so I imagine later that someone will be provided with a prototype of some sort and may be able to answer those questions? I think we should start a donation for the pioneers of homebrew on WP so we can get something good done =)
[Windows Phone 8 General] StevieBallz:
Some pages state that there will be sideloading capabilities. I don't see those happen unless Microsoft is pretty sure that those can't be used to deploy Warez. Also companies will be able to deploy their own software so there has to be an alternate way to deploy software aside from the Marketplace.

But an official side load option would amount to pretty much the same as a current Developer unlock and deeper going functionality as what is provided by Interop/Full-Unlocks won't be available that way.

It is going to be interesting to get around those as the NT Kernel is likely to be a harder nut to crack than whatever Microsoft threw together on top of CE6 for WP7.
[Windows Phone 8 General] snickler:
Agreed. It will be difficult to break and it may take some time, but good thing we have some awesome people that are devoted to making it happen
[Windows Phone 8 General] Shaggykjb:
hack is possible

I think were looking at this from the wrong perspective. The App developers for Windows 8 Metro will be key in the implementation of hacking the Windows 8 phone. As Microsoft stated, this phone 8 will work harmoniously with 8 metro.

Windows 8 Metro is comprised of at least 80% HTML5 coded APPS. HTML5 has huge advantages that have been exploited before in the past.

So, If Windows phone 8 is comprised of similar HTML5 code. I'm sure developers will be able to comprise a boot hack to enable sideloading.

:good:
[Windows Phone 8 General] snickler:
I wouldn't say a boot hack could be seen anytime soon due to bitlocker and secure boot.

Have you seen any exploits on the current Windows 8 through HTML5? Since Microsoft's implementations of ANYTHING are always different (Even when they say it is compliant), I would imagine that the HTML5 on W8 won't have the same exploits. I'm thinking it will be quite difficult, but I wouldn't say impossible. That's why I think we need the current WP7 hackers or even the Android hackers in on this... The ones that know and understand the low-level aspects of x86 and ARM to be able to know what is going on behind the scenes and try to get around it. Given that a good bit of the second gen windows phones still aren't able to be interop-unlocked and sideloaded, I am sure Microsoft has patched the ways those backdoors in w8 and wp8.
[Windows Phone 8 General] StevieBallz:
As so much Malware was installed through IE previously Microsoft did a great deal of work to harden it against Exploits. But furthermore it would only be the first step to find a vulnerability in the browser or an HTML5-App.

IE itself is run in it's own OS compartment which runs below regular user rights. So if code gets run in the Browser context it effectively can't do very much. This is one of the reasons why desktop exploits started to rely more heavily on Flash and Adobe Reader Bugs (those plugins ran on user privileges).

The HTML5-Apps are most likely to execute in the least priviledged chamber separated from each other very much alike to the way WP7s Silverlight Apps are isolated from each other.

Given that I guess it will need people who understand the system architecture pretty well to crack it open. The easiest vector for getting Homebrew Apps on most likely is the LOB (Line of Business)-App support.
[Windows Phone 8 General] ZetaZynK:
Even if you were to find an exploit, it's highly doubtful that it will give you anything. WP8 is with UEFI Secure Boot something entirely new in that aspect, in that it's likely to see a full bottom-up chain of trust. You'd likely need to break UEFI itself to get any binaries persistently with elevated privileges. If the UEFI firmware is not upgradable on the device (for instanced burned on the chip) the protection is unlike for current phones theoretically perfect.

Of course, it remains to be seen in what extend WP8 will validate signatures, but if say any elevated code needs signing, then a permanent full/root unlock is very unlikely to achieve.

Hard SPL unlocks as they're seen with the Titan and Radar will also be a matter of the past with WP8.
[Windows Phone 8 General] vickylance:
i think if memory card access and file access as in symbian and android is available in windows 8 then we can sideload apps if not its impossible as inh lumia 900
[Windows Phone 8 General] ZetaZynK:
You have removable SD card support and can install applications to it. However, Microsoft stated that sideloading is only available for enterprises for a (nominal) fee. Meaning, it's highly likely that the phone will check signatures on all applications, including those on the SD card and you won't be able to run them otherwise. (actually WP7 does this already - if your devel unlock expires and the phone relocks, all unsigned apps will not run anymore)
[Windows Phone 8 General] StevieBallz:
Have you got any source for Microsoft anouncing a fee per device to allow this. To my knowledge not much is yet announced in that regard. We know that there will be a cloud based solution for Management/Deployment (most likely inTune) and an on premise one.

According to CNet Asia a Microsoft Employee during Technet told them that SD-Card installation meant installation from SD-Card instead of App-Installation to the SD-Card (see here: http://asia.cnet.com/apps-cannot-be-installed-to-microsd-cards-on-wp8-62217133.htm)
[Windows Phone 8 General] kenikh:
The latest rumor is that WP8 will include TPM chips on all handsets. Thus will drive added hardware security to the firmware. I am feeling very skeptical that WP8 will be rootable as a result. I have a TPM system in my Win 8 laptop and it is damned secure.

Sent from my Kindle Fire running ICS
[Windows Phone 8 General] ZetaZynK:
Hm, I believed I had read this, but seems you're correct. Not sure where I believed to have done so right now.

TPM is not the problem here - secure boot is. Considering Microsoft announced secure boot as part of the WP8 announcement, it's kind of likely that all devices will ship it.

Secure boot and a TPM both can deliver a trusted boot path, but with significant differences in the execution. With a TPM you store a key and Platform Context Registers (PCRs) on the module - if the PCRs mismatch then some part of the configuration was altered which is likely indicating a breach of trust in the boot path. With Secure Boot, one or more vendor generated keys (and not a self-generated one, like on a TPM)are stored in the system's firmware. If the boot loader is not signed by one of those keys, the device refuses to boot. This means that you can't replace the boot loader with custom code (as you do with for instance a HSPL). In a TPM-based scenario, the user can re-assign TPM ownership, Secure Boot has no such concept.

Note: x86 PCs will come with Secure Boot too, soon. However, MSFT requires ARM devices to have these keys assigned by the OEM and requires the manufacturer to allow changing the keys or disabling Secure Boot - for x86, they require the opposite, a PC without an option to add your own keys or to disable secure boot would fail the Windows 8 hardware certification.