yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] aquaphx:
Nope, I think it's kinda hopeless if it's Nokia 430 since it's a very old model.. there is someone who recommend to use it as wifi tethering but then this model only support 3G and in my country (I think others too) will make 3G no longer available. so it's only for phone or text, I never touched it anymore probably I'll give it to someone.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] aquaphx:
but do tell me if it works.. i kinda forgot since it's been a while though
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] MaxisMan:
Forgot to note that I'm using a Lumia 1020, but what I did was:

Update to Lumia Denim using the fixed OTCUpdater version from xda (The tool only supports 8.1+, so if you're on 8.0 you will have to flash a stock 8.1 ROM first for your device. In my case I flashed the ffu from lumiafirmware of my RM-8XX via WPInternals to update from 8.0 to 8.1).

For bootloader unlocking, I used the ffu file for my specific device (mine was RM-875, you can check your product code on the about phone page or in WPInternals) which I selected for the first FFU part on WP Internals.

When it asks for the donor OS on the bottom of the page, I selected the ffu file of the RM-1085 (059X4T0) version 01078.00053.16236.35018. Once selected, the warning should be gone.

Hope this helps.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] stun3i:
Hi, I cannot unblock my 520 using the latest WPI 2.9.2

There is an error saying Parsing supported FFU file failed

All the details are in the attached video

The ffu and emergency files were downloaded using WPI tools. The donor ffu was downloaded from lumiafirmware.com
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] frgo:
I've got 2 nokia 520s (RM-914) from a friend. One is running win10, but bluetooth is not working and there are other bugs and performance suffers. I would like to keep the other one running 8.1 but it desperatly needs unlock.

Just like in previous post I can't get past this error:

No matter what ffu I choose it's always the same. I have also tried with RM-1085 and bunch of other ffus suggested by google as donors and no success. I also flashed downloaded ffu on my phone and phone works fine. OS version is 8.10.12393.890 and it's supposed to be supported.

Any clues?

Thanks
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] TIE_Interceptor:
Hi.

Can anybody assist with unlocking of the Lumia 950 XL?

Somehow I managed to unlock the bootloader a couple of times two days ago. Then I tried to install Astoria on it and the process failed at the final stage.

I did 2x consequent reflashing via WDRT and after that, I can't make WPI unlock the Bootloader. Seems like WPI doesn't detect the phone's state. It expects the phone to be in the Flashing mode, but the phone is already in that mode (reboots to it successfully).

Also, when I'm opening the Manual mods page - WPI seems to track the mode correctly (displays Flashing).

I'm stuck with this. Please help.

Thanks.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Yes
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
If you restore the bootloader, you must flash stock rom afterwards.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
It's not necessary to extract the SBL3. If you have a matching Engineering ROM, you can also select the FFU at the point where you have to select the SBL3. The tool will extract the SBL3 from the engineering ROM for you.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] hasan4791:
Does it apply for Lumia 730 too ?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] chinitopex:
I have a question

Maybe it's too silly, but I would like to know

which version of Windows running this software?

for now I have windows 7 :(
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Ranomez:
Just as I was thinking but do we actually need to flash a device to find out?

Can we not just extract and compare the SBL3's from an for example Lumia 920 ffu and a Lumia 625 ffu?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] titi66200:
Thanks works fine on Lumia 1020 RM-875 (059T471) Mokia.MSM8960.P5217.3.2.1.

Bootloader Unlocked.

Mass Storage Enabled. with RM825_1232.2101.1239.3001_PROD_developer_265_01_86530.ffu for SBL3

Root Access Enabled.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] chinitopex:
titi66200

I have a question the software run in Win7 or need win8/10 ?

Please.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] reksden:
I have interop unlock on my lumia devices and i write instruction on russian language:

Lumia 720

windows 8.1 x64

mass storage cooming soon on buttons.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] whoadood:
I think I completely bricked my phone. After doing some... wrong things, I am stuck in QHSUSB_DLOAD, and following the usual guides does not work.

Sending OPEN_MULTI_REQ
Received valid response to OPEN_MULTI_REQ
Checking eMMC read / write test results...
eMMC Read test passed. eMMC Write test passed!
Programming image c
Image opened successfully for reading
Uploading MBN image 70
SAFE hex file was used and unallowed memory address was being written.
Reset the device and use the correct HEX file.
ALPHA EMERGENCY FLASH END
Emergency messaging closed successfully
Operation took about 10.00 seconds.

Unknown error code.

THOR2 1.8.2.18 exited with error code 85034 (0x14C2A)

I read in the help texts of this application that you can "permanently damage" your phone by doing this stuff. Is that even a real possibility?

Greetings!
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] ca_guri01:
It runs on windows 7 too, I m using it in x64 win 7
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] snickler:
That's why following the instructions completely as listed is important.... I think there's some thread on XDA that shows how to get out of QHSUSB mode via THOR2 though... Or even try using the Windows Device Recovery program directly.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] whoadood:
That's what I'm saying I'm trying and is not working.

The instructions in the application are scattered in lots of tabs and are full of technical terms that are never explained anywhere. The video itself is very slow and cumbersome and the voice is hard to hear and understand so I chose to skip it.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] afi1982:
is this tool works with lumia 515?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] _wook_:
1. Extract GPT0.bin with thor2 (it extracts gpt0.bin and gpt1.bin)

2. Find matching *.HEX file (fixed one)

3. Flash phone with thor (emergency)

After emergency flashing, you will be stuck in red screen, you can use wp internals app to flash ffu and that's pretty much it.

I did it yesterday and I fixed the phone.

--------------------

I have question though, for everyone... After mounting MainOS with OSFMount, if I fix image size, it will not be flashable, if I don't fix it it's not mounted properly. How to fix image size after applying a modifications so that I can flash it?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] whoadood:
Thank you. I found no way to fix it using Thor2. Luckily, the Windows Device Recovery Tool managed to flash the bootloader correctly to be able to boot to UEFI. Then I could use Thor2 to flash the .ffu file I wanted. Phone is alive again.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] andreak:
Hi everyone, beg your pardon, I have no wp, I have a different device, but a friend of mine has a lumia so I was wondering about modding on wp os...I mean for Android is plenty of custom roms, what about windows phone?...I read in the op that with this tool you can flash custom roms, but what's the difference in wp between stock or custom?...I know very well in Android OS , have no idea for wp...is there any tutorial so I can see a wp custom Rom?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] _wook_:
To tell you the truth, WDRT is not working for me all the times, neither does thor2, but after few tries, it works.

Well, you are familiar with the AOSP and CM, well, that's not going to happen to WP as there is no source of windows phone OS, however, hacking the OS so that we can have RW all over the system is what is the purpose of the WP hacking. Currently not many devices have custom ROMs, afaik.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Nope
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
OS version shouldnt matter. you just need .NET 4.5 installed.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
They different. So far exchanging SBL3 never worked for me (only with same CPU), because of different hardware profiles.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
NICE :)
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Wow! That's very ignorant!

There is a "Getting started" section. That is NOT scattered. You might just take a couple of minutes to read it. It is mainly about warnings to prevent you from screwing up your phone. And if you are too lazy, there is even a video. But you are too lazy for that too. Hmm.

Then you show a log from a tool which not mine.

Anyway. When you are in emergy download mode, you can also use my tool to recover. Just go to "Restore bootloader", connect phone, select prerequisites and go.

Better start reading before you start complaining here again.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bla0258:
Root Unlock ?

Does it mean we have an Interop Unlock too, during the Root methode ?

Thanks for answear :)
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] ngame:
same as GT-I8750_XXCMK2_R_signed.wp8

Samsung didn't remove the MassStorage Mode from their Retail ROM .

Seems only Nokia / Microsoft remove this feature .

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when you root your device , device will not check for Capabilities any more so you have Interop unlock too .
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
I just made this tool. It was released yesterday. Since now it is possible to create custom rom's. So, there is currently no custom rom. This is the time that people can start making their rom's. This will take time.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
That is from Samsung ATIV S. As I explained here, almost all OEMs leave the Mass Storage mode code included in SBL3. But in most cases it is disabled. Nokia/Microsoft do not just disable it for retail phones; they completely remove the Mass Storage mode from SBL3 for retail phones.

In the tool I explain that SBL3 from cannot be exchanged. You can only use SBL3 if the OEM and CPU are the same. This is because there are hardware-profiles in SBL3.

So, you cannot use a Samsung SBL3 to unlock a Lumia.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
"Interop Unlock" is a term I invented back in the WP7 era. It unlocks the "interop" to the drivers. Drivers have higher privileges. If your app has interop unlock, the app can access the driver. The possibilities of the drivers are different for different models. So you could make somewhat elevated apps. Interop unlock also implied an unlimited amount of sideloaded apps. So, Interop unlock is still limited in capabilities.

My new tool disables all ACL checks, privilege checks and capability checks. That means you have real root access to almost every API. It also disables the check on sideload-count. So these hacks supercede Interop Unlock.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bla0258:
Can I get an Engineering ROM over the NaviFirm Software or wehre ?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] spavlin:
How, What you need to include alternative energy loader (bootloader unlock and allow root access) to the Ativ S ???
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] vcfan:
really nice stuff [MENTION=3254428]Heathcliff74[/MENTION] . :good:
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Not on Navifirm. Read the "getting started" section of the tool. You should then be able to find what you are looking for.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
My tool applies many different hacks to the phone. The hacks are in the SBL's, inside UEFI and inside the OS loader and OS kernel. Some of these hacks are different for Samsung phones. Especially the hack to flash custom bits to the phone and the hacks inside UEFI. Samsung would not need an Engineering SBL3 because the Mass Storage mode bits are not removed from retail SBL3. Porting the hacks to Samsung Ativ S needs time. I cannot give an ETA on that.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bla0258:
But i find something only for the Lumia 820 and Nothing for the 520, and i think i cant use it because of diffrent CPU ..

Or did someone knows where you could get the Rom ?

Thanks
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] thesmartguyy:
First of all, Heathcliff you are the man! After around 5 years, I returned to XDA Devs just because of this tool. I am hoping for some good development because of the milestone that you have achieved.

Good going sir!

On a side note, did anyone try to unlock frequencies and LTE bands after enabling root access?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Ranomez:
There are no other Engineering ffu's, you can not gain SBL3 unlock on Nokia devices with other CPU's.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] G.moe:
Are you implying that you have a functional Ativ S exploit in mind to research/attempt? If so, do you know if it is specific to the Ativ S architecture, or if it will potentially work on all Samsung phones? If it would work for all Samsung, does that include MSM8974 devices such as the Ativ SE? What has been changed that prevents your Lumia exploits from working with MSM8974 Lumia devices? Sorry for all the questions, just trying to gain a better understanding.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] onecosmic:
[MENTION=3254428]Heathcliff74[/MENTION] i can only say that you did an outstanding job! :D this opens the WP world to a new era.

On a side note, i've noticed that flashing engineering SBL3 on lumia 920 (Lumia 920 black) causes lost of audio (100% sure it's related to the engineering room being used.)

i've been able to reproduce the error 3 times to confirm.

Again, great job!

Cheers!
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] ntice:
I applied boot unlock to my 521, but unfortunately it doesn't boot any more. It goes to a "sad face" almost immediately. Is there a way to recover?

Edit: Ok, I see that there's a "restore bootloader" option. Reflashing now...

Edit2: Recovery successful.

Edit3: Boot unlock successful. The problem was that the FFU that the Windows Device Recovery Tool downloaded was not the latest version and didn't match the phone (despite the tool claiming the version was identical). [correction: WDRT only gives 'firmware' version, not 'OS' version]

Edit4: The downloaded version is 8.10.12400.899. This is not on the list of supported versions for root access. Dang. Where can I find a download of 8.10.14219.341 for RM-917?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
You're right. So for 520 it is currently not possible to get mass storage mode. You can unlock the bootloader, but you can't get the extra features. You can only apply root access using the second method in the video.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
The current hacks can only be use on Samsung with MSM8960. MSM8974 CPU's come with different bootloaders. Some of my hacks are specific to a bootloader. It takes time to find the hacks and create exploits in other bootloaders. I've seen that some of my current hacks are also possible in the bootloaders of MSM8974 CPU's, but some are not.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Ranomez:
So after quite a few hours of work I (think) I have a custom W10M with root attempt ready to flash on my Lumia 625 but I want to first ask [MENTION=3254428]Heathcliff74[/MENTION] if flashing a broken efiesp partition could brick my device in a way I would be unable to repair it without a JTAG box?

Under normal circumstances I would just flash away and not care if I brick my device in a way that I can't fix it but unfortunately I do not actually own my Lumia (it is mine to use and tinker with as much as I want but I really shouldn't totally brick it) and I do not have the required knowledge related to WP and the way WP devices work that is why I ask.

I did see that there is a warning about the partition containing model-specific data but it was not specified anywhere that flashing a wrong or broken partition would cause a permanent brick and I wish I was 100% sure that what I did is right but although everything looks to be in the right place I am not so I would rather not take such a risk.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Ok. Thanks for the heads up. I knew already that the SBL3 contains important hardware-profiles. So this means that the SBL3 from Lumia 820 is also not completely compatible with Lumia920. I hope other engineering phones will show up and we can extract the SBL3 from them.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] andreak:
Just asking for a friend but i'm very curious too, wondering how things can be different for a different OS, you know, never say never! Thanks for your work, man, i' ll wait for future development... So curios about...
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
The way I designed the custom ROM format (only three partitions) makes it virtually impossible to brick the phone. When The SBL's and UEFI partiton are working, you are always able to flash a new Stock or Custom ROM. Because Lumia Flash mode is in UEFI and Mass Storage Mode is in SBL3. These boot partitions are not touched by Custom ROM flashing.

So, once you unlocked the bootloader, you are safe. The only way you can screw up is running Windows Update with a firmware update. And you can loose the unlocked bootloader when you flash back a stock rom.

If EFIESP or MainOS is corrupt in any way, can put the Windows Phone Internals tool on "Flash" section and reboot phone. The tool will detect the booting phone and immediately force it in Flash mode. From there on you can flash a stock rom, custom rom or backup of the phone.

So, go ahead! :)
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] -viperboy-:
Hey Heathcliff, check your PM :good:
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] kukmikuk:
Win 10 Mobile Root Access

On your Geting Started you wrote about Win 10 Mobile Root Access:

- After loading latest Win 8.1 ffu apply Boot Unlock using an Enginering SBL3 (only possibly on compatibles phones)

So, can I get Root Acccess on latest Win 10 M 10.0.1586.11 build if I DON´T HAVE SBL3 ? On my Lumia 620 without SBL3?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Ranomez:
No, if you do not have Engineering SBL3 you can not get it (at least not that easy, I am trying to cook a ROM using my ffu and the win10 cabs) but for lumia 620 I think there is a Engineering ROM (although I am not 100% sure if it was an Engineering ROM or a Developer ROM, nor do I know the difference between them) on a Chinese or Russian forum, do some searching on popular Chinese and Russian tech forums.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] nscxp2005:
This is awesome.

Does anybody know which is the best phone to get that has Windows 10 and supports this tool and also is not a too old phone?

Thanks
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] hutchinsane_:
I have the emergency flash files for the 930 RM-1045 here (*.ede and *.edp), and Mass Storage mode seems to be in them. Maybe this info could be useful to you.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] G.moe:
Interesting. Well, in the future if you have any exploits you would like to test on the Ativ SE (8974), or if you need any info/files from the device, let me know. I'll be keeping an eye on this.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] HATA28:
[MENTION=3254428]Heathcliff74[/MENTION]

Awesome work!

Thanks for making this tool and for providing very clear and good instructions!

Successfully unlocked the bootloader and enabled MassStorage on my retail L920 (RM821-EU_nl) using the production ROM from an L820.

Also successfully upgraded to W10 (10586.11), and encountered no problems whatsoever.

I then tried to "root" using your tool, but unfortunately it fails after rebooting into MassStorage mode.

It seems that you can also safely use bcdedit when in MassStorage mode.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] reksden:
Are you should firmware update on your phone. didn't update phone.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] MBAAC:
titi66200,

please can you make a small guide on how you proceed

thx
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] pdaimatejam:
Mod lumia 920 will not turn stayed in QHSUSB_DLOAD

help please
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] reksden:
guide on russian language:

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=467083&st=200#entry44848378

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are you should instelling qcom driver and use windows phone recovery tool.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bla0258:
Problem to Root the Image

I had sucsessfully Unlocked my Bootloader but i mount the Images for Rooting the rom, but the programm WPinternals cant unlock it .. can someone help me Thanks :)
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] pdaimatejam:
I do not understand anything here :confused:
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] A AJAY:
ya,,,,, i also faced this problem..:(
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] reksden:
http://xdaforums.com/windows-phone-8/development/help-programmer-unbrick-jtag-t3082592
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] pdaimatejam:
thanks you :) :good:
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
There is a "Getting started" section in the tool. And there are instruction video's on my website.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
What failed?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
It is an unsupported OS version. Look at file in MainOS: \Windows\System32\BuildInfo.xml. Compare that with the list of supported versions in the FAQ.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
In the tool choose "Unlock bootloader" or "Restore bootloader" and follow instructions on screen. Should work.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bla0258:
Its look that the Image is Compatible. I had extracted with thor2.exe with is includet in the windows phone recovery tool. Now I will try it again.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<build-information>

<release-label>WPMAIN</release-label>

<build-time>20140522-2112</build-time>

<parent-branch-build>12393</parent-branch-build>

<builder>wpbldlab</builder>

<major-version>8</major-version>

<minor-version>10</minor-version>

<qfe-level>12393</qfe-level>

<build-type>fre</build-type>

<target-cpu>arm</target-cpu>

<target-os>MC</target-os>

<winphone-root>W:\WINCEROOT</winphone-root>

</build-information>
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Hm. Weird. Can you send the log file? C:\ProgramData\WPinternals\WPinternals.log

Maybe I can see what goes wrong.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Please send log file: C:\ProgramData\WPinternals\WPinternals.log.

I suspect a wrong file was chosen for SBL3.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] bla0258:
Logfile

So i send you the File. But i had found that the Images that i extracted over the Windows Phones Interals are ending with EFIESP.bin.pz

and not with .bin. and if i extracdet with the microsoft tool i can read and mout the files but dont root...
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Cholens:
Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 Don't want to install it on my pc anyone have an idea?

[IMG="http://s16.postimg.org/sh1z57m2d/Knipsel.png"]http://s16.postimg.org/sh1z57m2d/Knipsel.png[/IMG]
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
"Restore bootloader" in Windows Phone Internals tool does the same thing, but much easier.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Ah. Now it makes sense. When you dump the partitions, on use the compression-option for the Data partition! The other partitions should not be compressed. Compressed partitions cannot be mounted properly. And then Root Access cannot be applied.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Heathcliff74:
Try to remove the device and enable the option to delete the files too. Then try to install again.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Cholens:
o have already fixed :)