yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Megiant:
I tried changing the permissions as I have the same problem. Windows tells me I don't have permissions to change the permissions of the object (being the "PHONE\Data\Users\DefApps\AppData" folder. It's a Lumia 950 unlocked using WPInternals and using Windows 10 pc.

So did one of you manage it? How?

EDIT: immediately after posting this managed it. Changed ownership of the DefApps folder containing the AppData folder was possible and gave me access to all containing folders. Needed to repeat it for the folder containing the file I needed and the file itself.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] gmirz2005:
great!
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] ikinal:
Bad GPT

Hi,

I am a new user of Windows Phone Internals. I am trying to unlock the bootloader of my Lumia 950 XL. The first time I tried it went through the process and failed at the end. If I try again, I immediately get the message Bad GPT. I have tried re-flashing the device a few times using Windows Device Recovery Tool - that succeeds, but I still get the same error if I try to unlock the bootloader again. Any suggestions?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] augustinionut:
Downgrade.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] augustinionut:
My unlocked and rooted phone cant get to mass storage mode :D

SOLVED, i reflashed EFIESP.bin partition from a previous backup.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Hemp007:
When you try to unlock the bootloader, the message "Error: Failed to read sector. Exception: 0x00000002" is displayed at the end.

You have to restore through WDRT, when you try to unlock again, the same error. Any thoughts?

Here are screenshots. github.com/ReneLergner/WPinternals/issues/5
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Hzlph:
I'm here for more or less the same. I've already succeded before getting WoA running on my 950XL but was discouraged because charging was non-existant. now it seems it's been resolved but now I can't do anything. I can't get into mass storage mode (it just restarts to Windows Mobile and thinks its updating). Also, now It says "Bad GPT", regrdaless of the many ffu's I've flashed back.

Any helping wpuld be highly appreciated.

---------- Post added at 11:44 ---------- Previous post was at 11:03 ----------

After further testing, the "Bad GPT" went away once I switched from using the .ffu WPInternals was providing, and instead using another. I still can't go any further but the error has at least gone away
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] toy_shi:
Stuck in "loading" homescreen and apps

Good day.

I'm hoping to find a little help around here. I recently used WPInternals to unlock my Lumia 650, Windows 10, to extract some data. Everything went successful, flawlessly. Then, the last thing I remember, after rebooting my phone back to normal supposedly, all the apps seem to be non-responding, stuck in a "loading" loop. The phone itself is still working, as the phone boots up to the homescreen, and the notification area are still responsive. But when I try to access any of the apps, they won't open, stuck in loading, even the homescreen tiles don't load.

I was hoping not to go through the hard reset or the WDRT phase (because if I read it correctly, everything gets erased), as I'm still aiming to extract some more data from the phone.

The specific things I did are these:

- I am migrating to an android phone

- I began transferring my photos, files, documents, SMS to the new phone, with success

- Transferred my contacts through the cloud, but there was a catch (later on that)

- Now, when I was needing to migrate my Whatsapp messages, I learned that I had to unlock the phone to get the encrypted messages

- Used WPInternals for it and successfully got the messages.db for Whatsapp and successfully transferred the messages

- Now, (the catch from earlier) I noticed that my contacts are incomplete. The recent ones are missing, so I assumed they were not backed up to the cloud (as I searched everywhere on my accounts already). So I thought, I had to boot up my Lumia again and just try to extract them from there (either through the messages+contacts backup app, or just sync them to the cloud)

- Then, when I booted up my Lumia, there you had it, the problem.

- I can still change it to different modes through WPInternals, (flash, mass storage), without any problems and can see the folders in explorer, but the phone itself, again, doesn't load the apps, even settings, or whatever, so I can't do anything with it.

Things I tried numerous times already:

- enabling / disabling root access

- unlocking / relocking bootloader

- soft resets

So, it seems like there's something corrupt in there. And I was hoping someone knowledgeable about this can help me. This is greatly appreciated. Thank you. :( :fingers-crossed: :D
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] JupiterFlux:
Can anyone explain what the “Scanning for flashing-profile” process is actually doing? Are the multiple attempts because it’s actually trying something different each time or is it just trying repeatedly because done things seem to just work if tried enough?

I’m actually trying to diagnose why mine always fails at that part when trying to unlock the boot loader, but since I’ve spent three days looking and found exactly 0 people who have had the problem I figure I need to start diagnosing the problem myself. Which is obviously easier if I know what isn’t working.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] eriam:
I am new to the forum and trying to find the answers to some probably very basic questions regarding WPintermals. I will appreciate if you could help me.

- There is a mention in WPinternals regarding mounting of the file system "offline" when using

the mass storage mode. I do not know how to access the offline media without making it active.

I just want to know which tool should I use on Windows machine to make a full sector based image of the internal WP storage in order not to corrupt the data? I am not really sure if there is one for offline media. Please suggest something for performing this task without a risk.

- Another concern regarding Samsung flash memory used in some phones.

My Lumia 1020 is definitely the one with this memory. I need to know what is the solution for that. WPinternals documentation says I have to find the special drivers for that memory but it does not say where and what to look for. Could someone point me to the right point.

- What is going to happen if the flash memory comes to that write protected state anyway? Is there anything I could do in this case?

And finally let me explain what I am trying to achieve.

Recently I was doing the backup of my photos and deleted about a thousand of "lores" files in camera roll folder.

Thanks Microsoft they did not tell anyone that if you delete lores images from the mounted MTP drive the highres images deleted respectively. Now I have no images and definitely want to get my photos back. To get this done I would like to mount the internal memory drive in mass storage mode, make a low level disk copy then build a disk image, mount it and then try to use unerase utility on this mounted disk image.

Do you think that is going to work?

Thank you.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] paulsimon:
Hi,

Yesterday I unlocked and installed WoA on my 950xl, all went well and my 950xl is now running WoA.

I've been looking around the Web and can't seem to find any information on how to return to win10 mobile as losing the camera is a problem for me.

Can anyone tell how to reload Windows 10 Mobile back to my handset please?

Thanks and apologies if I've missed the info elsewhere.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] augustinionut:
Fastest, using wdrt. Or, if you don't erased windows mobile 10 at install, go to woadeployer and enable dual boot.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] JupiterFlux:
If you don’t mind my asking, could you give me the exact instructions from initial setup on the phone to downloading files on your PC, flashing, everything? I can’t seem to get mine to work. When scanning for flashing profile it never succeeds, so I’m thinking other people are doing something else different somewhere else in the process.

---------- Post added at 01:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:29 AM ----------

Well... never mind. I hadn’t tried in months. Today I try again and poof. After several attempts it just worked. So.... great now...
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] ArmiNix:
I can not enable root access on the Lumia 925 WP 10 with WP internals 2.8

Hi all :)

I have updated successfully my WP 8.1 to WP 10 :cool:

With WP internals 2.8 I can unlock the bootloader and switch to the "Mass Storage Mode", so a full backup of my Lumia 925 works fine :)

But with the last step (enable root access) I run into an error:

I guess, my Lumia Version is not compatible (10.0.10586.1176)? Or what is my mistake?

WP internals 2.8 compatible phone list:

WP internal 2.8 phone info:

What can I do? I want use this Phone for my "smart home"... please help me :cyclops:

oooppppsss my pictures are not shown from my public album on XDA :eek: :confused: :angel:
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] spaikers:
Is there any solution to unlock (interop unlock) the lumia 640 xl?

I need to install an app, xap file, but I can't because it doesn't allow me to download applications from the microsoft store (error c101a006).

[IMG="Lumia 640 XL info"]https://i.ibb.co/MfX6ksn/Captura-lumia.jpg[/IMG]
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Speniopantollor:
Hello. when you realease new version of WPInternals? I can't unlock bootloader and go to mass storage mode becaus my windows version is't supported :(
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AMRooke:
Dual-boot via WoaDeployer

Assuming that you used WoaDeployer 2.6 to load WOA on your phone, and that you selected "Keep Windows 10 Mobile" (on the Advanced tab, but I believe it is the default), your Mobile OS is still on the phone. You just need to enable Dual Boot (another tab in WoaDeployer). You can only enable dual-boot after WOA has been successfully installed on the phone (complete the setup after the app has deployed WOA on the phone). You'll need to enable Mass Storage mode first, but the process is pretty quick and painless. Then you can boot into either version of Windows, mobile or desktop.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] andylaw5:
Hi, would you like to add other languages if there are volunteers?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Pierreo80:
Is there a plan for an Update?

I have trouble to unlock on the latest Win10M build 15254.603.

WPI doesn't find flashing profile
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AMRooke:
I assume that you are talking about the initial steps in the process, where WPinternals 2.8 only works with Win mobile up thru OS build 15254.547. If you have a later OS build, you will not be able to proceed with installation of the bootloader. You would need to reset your phone, which will probably take it back to around build 10586.318 (that's where mine reset to). You can either run WPinternals at that point (might be the simplest option) or run through a series of Windows mobile updates to get to a version no newer than 15254.547 (was 3 updates for me, called "2019-01 Update for Win10 ver 1709"). Then run WPinternals to install the unlocked bootloader (needed to be able to enter Mass Storage mode). Installation of the WOA "desktop" builds and implementing dual-boot are done with the WOAdeployer application. Once the bootloader has been installed, you don't need WPinternals again, and you can proceed to update to the latest version of Windows mobile (15254.603 is the terminal build), regardless of the versions of Win mobile and WOA installed.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Pierreo80:
The Last time i install 10536.318 then unlock and then with woa Windows 10 and dual Boot. After That i Updated to the newest Version. Than dualboot stops working. U really mean when i First update to 15254.547 then it works all after update to .603?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Ash2489:
How to create custom rom ?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] konker:
Failed to read sectors. Exception: 0x000001B1 unlocking Lumia 950 Dual-SIM bootloader

I have a Lumia 950 Dual-SIM that I am trying to unlock in order to load Windows 10 ARM.

However, I have not been able to successfully unlock the bootloader despite repeated attempts.

Kept getting the error: Failed to read sectors. Exception: 0x000001B1

Search this forum but could't find any post related to this issue.

I noticed that this error usually occur after trying to get into the Mass-Storage-Mode

Here's the information of my phone:

General info:

Brand/model: Nokia Lumia RM-1118_11280

Operating Mode: Normal (Windows Phone OS)

Product code: 059X4Z0

Operator: 000-88

Firmware version: 01078.00053.16236.35017

Anyone can advice me how I can proceed from here?

Phone is currently booted back into Windows 10 Mobile after restoring the bootloader.

TIA!
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] mivas:
Has anyone tried the AutoPatcher Tool? Can it detect and patch (root) unsupported WP8/8.1 builds?

WPI can't root, I have also tried with dump MainOS and EFI partitions and root there, but nope... Maybe there is still some hope with Autopatcher?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Umair baji:
I want to unlock bootloader of microsoft lumia 535
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] darksfatality:
Cannot unlock lumia 950xl using a never version than original ffu

Hi everybody,

I have issues unlocking my lumia 950xl using wpinternals. Every time I try an unlock I receive the following error: could not find a part of the path K:\Windows\system32\boot\winload.efi. This happens every time i try to unlock using a never version that the original ffu. If I do the same procedure using the orginal firmware everything works fine, any ideas?

Working version: 10.0.14393.1066
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] rhiakath:
Failed to unlock bootloader on Lumia 640

Hi there.

I need some help with this. I've been trying to fiddle around with my Windows Phone ( Nokia Lumia 640 RM 1075, Product code 059X407 )

I downloaded Windows Phone Internals v2.8, downloaded all the files from LumiaFirmware ( www[dot]lumiafirmware[dot]com/model/RM-1075/hwid/059X407 ), then proceeded to try to unlock the bootloader.

I flashed the stock FFU into the phone ( I had it fully updated before ), but still, it mostly hangs with the message "Rebooting phone to Flash mode...", even though the phone already rebooted and is showing the sync symbol. Why does this happen? I have to kill the app and open it again.

Nevertheless, after that, I select the FFU, and the EDE files that I downloaded from the previous website, press unlock bootloader, and it says "Assembling data for unlock". And it stays there for a long time before failing with the message "Failed to write to pipe: 4E4F4B58434242". At this point, the phone reboots.

What am I doing wrong?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] boortok:
I had an old Nokia Lumia 925 lying around which is on on windows 8.1 Cyan and thought I would try the WPInternals tool, I have managed to install rom RM-892 and I have unlocked boot loader and have root access and can switch into mass storage etc.

So is there any way to get apps onto the phone ? as I can not download from app store to phone and also lumia 925 does not have an sd card
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] davepascual39:
Hi, I have a Lumia 635 RM-975 512MB RAM T-Mobile US White (WP 8.1)

I'm having a problem unlocking its bootloader. I have the required files and drivers such as:

WPInternals 2.8 and 2.9

Windows Phone Recovery Tool

Windows Image Designer Tool

FFU-image for RM-975 (RM975_01061.00074.14391.37104_RETAIL_prod_signed_1020_00FD3B_TMO-US.ffu)

Emergency files (MPRG8x26_fh.ede)

Donor FFU-image (RM1085_1078.0053.10586.13169.12742.034EE8_retail_prod_signed.ffu)

I followed the given steps in unlocking the bootloader. From switching Lumia phone to Flash mode and loading the necessary files.

Whenever I click the "Unlock" button in Unlock Bootloader it gives me an error message

"Sequence contains no elements".

Is anyone here can give me a solution for my problem? I really want to unlock its bootloader so I can sideload apps given the Store app is shutdown since. And I can't upgrade to Win10M since supported models that can upgrade must be atleast 1GB RAM vairants and has a Windows 8.10.14xxxxx.

Thanks.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] davepascual39:
Have you try this?

https://xdaforums.com/t/tutorial-deploy-xaps-easily-with-wpv-xap-deployer.3263968/
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] georgex:
Hello,

Summary: Got into problems trying to unlock the bootloader, can't get to Windows Phone OS now.

I followed the guide on guides/BL-unlock.md at master · WOA-Project/guides · GitHub to unlock the bootloader on my 950xl, so I can install WoA with dual boot (I want to keep Windows Phone OS).

The Windows Phone OS is version .603

On the Download section of WPInternals I used Search & Download All and this proceeded without problems. Then on Unlock bootloader the phone entered (after many attemps) Mass Storage mode and I assigned a letter to the main OS partition (26GB) but I got a message: "Could not find a part of the path Z:\Windows\System32\BOOT\winload.efi"

I checked on the file system and see that there was no BOOT directory under System32.

I rebooted the phone, then I tried to select Unlock Bootloader again and it says Bootloader is already unlocked.

I try to take a backup of the phone and the phone can't get into Storage Mode.

I also cannot boot Windows Phone, I get in a boot loop with the spinning gears.

I run WPInternals again and select Interrupt Boot process and I get into flash mode, I think (the 2 arrows forming a rectangle).

On the General Info screen of WPInternals I see:

Bootloader: Lumia Bootloader Spec B

On section Bootloader Security:

QFuse: Blown (red)

Valid RDC certificate: Not present (red)

Super dongle: Not authenticated (red)

Effective bootloader security: Enabled (red)

On section Secure Boot technology:

UEFI: Not blown (green)

Secure Boot platform: Enabled (red)

Effective Secure Boot status: Disabled (green)

On section Hardware debugging:

Native JTAG debugging: Disabled (red)

Any suggestions please? Can I at least get back to Windows Phone OS? I get in the spining gears boot loop if on this screen I select boot to Normal mode.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] georgex:
Ok I fixed it by selecting Restore Bootloader ... It took a while though.

Still If anyone has any suggestion how to proceed with WoA...

Thanks
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] C Karthik:
Question : the tool does not ask for pin before unlocking or enabling root access. So anyone who has knowledge of this tool can access my phone's storage via mass storage mode, right? Am I missing something?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] lord_melchett:
Hi, when using Windows Phone Internals i am trying to download the relevant files and it keeps going to 0kb around 75% of the download. This is true on two separate computers. Any ideas? I've lost hours restarting the download just for it to happen again.

Windows Lumia 950XL
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] yowejowe:
Hi, thanks very much for this mage tool!!

I'm just wondering is there a way to delete preinstalled apps on like the Lumia 640?

I'm looking to delete apps like Facebook but I did not manage,

Please if some one can help me with it.

Thanks
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] DaneGleesak:
I can update my Lumia 1020 to windows 10 through some one elses method but i cannot unlock the bootloader i keep getting parsing ffu failed in either 8.1 or 10 any thoughts?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] MRP13:
Does anybody known exactly to benefit from rooted phone as developer?

I unlocked and rooted my Lumia 640 LTE succesfully, but there is very scarce information about what actually the root allows you to do. In the WPInternals intro video, @HeathcliffXDA says, that it disables checks on access rights, capabilities and privileges and run .NET console apps.

Nonetheless, when I try to write registry key from UWP app it fails on UnauthorizedAccess exception. I tried other things like to run other process from UWP (self hosted self contained console app for .NetCore3.1 on ARM) uploaded to Downloads. That also didn't work. I am able to pinvoke some stuff from UWP but that's about it.

Can somebody give me an insight what I am doing wrong?

Is there a howto for compiling .NET console app for Win 10 Mobile?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Bertonumber1:
Hi ,

I have a windows 10 nokia lumia 650 is it worth trying to source these files.

So far all i have is w internals 2.8 all the other links are broken , not sure ifthis model can even be had ?

anyone know or have any pointers ?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] nate0:
I used WPinternals 2.8 on all my devices up to about 2 years ago. I know of maybe another version 2.9? The developer moved on to other projects. 2.8 will work, and before you unlock a boot loader or go flashing stuff just make sure you read as much as you can in WPinternals in the app all sections, when you read a term or see something you do not quite understand look it up and read more before you commit to anything. Otherwise if you just want to experiment and don't care about the device as much check a couple threads where someone uses this tool to flash a custom firmware or to load a custom app or two. These tools really imo were development tools because W10M had huge potential but since Microsoft thought otherwise, it tools like this and many other projects and discoveries never unfolded. So really you would be using that phone and Windows Phone internals for your own edification and or enjoyment more than anything else.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Samyek07:
I need emergency files for lumia 540 dual sim RM-1141

pleaseeeee

can you help
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] boortok:
Have tried this just yesterday but it does not work on my windows 10 pc
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] boortok:
Nokia Lumia 925 on windows 8.1 Cyan have unlocked bootloader and have root access mass storage etc and can see internal files of phone on pc with WPInternals tool .have tried to deploy xaps with WPV Xap Deployer but it does not work on windows 10 pc.

any workarounds or any custom roms for lumia 925?
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] boortok:
I have now managed to update my Lumia 925 from 8.1 to windows 10 , Then I wanted to make a full backup of phone using wpinternals But when trying to unlock bootloader etc I use the original files that were flashed to the phone IE:-the original .ffu, the loader file and the .slb3 file. The original .ffu was this

RM892_3051.50009.1424.0008_RETAIL_eu_euro1_249_08_443141_prd_signed.ffu . But when I press unlock I get this error message parsing ffu failed . Then phone stays in red screen with white Nokia logo...what have I done wrong?

Then the only way to recover phone is through Windows device recovery tool which installs phone back to original state...

any help before I try to do all the updates again...thanks...

As I could not get it to work I have now used Windows device recovery tool to flash original and then used wpinternals to flash my backup of 8.1 and can now deploy apps using app deployer, so happy enough that I can now deploy any missing apps and wont be going back to w10...
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] aquaphx:
anyone how to unlock bootloader and root access for Lumia 430

i've tried everything.. i downloaded the RM1099, emergency files and also RM1085 as donor but it said

The OS version of the selected FFU is not supported. Select a donor-FFU with a supported OS version.

i'm on the end of giving up
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] MaxisMan:
Were you able to find a fix for this?

edit: I think I'll try testing firmware from other models to see if they work.