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[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
You're asking whether a bug that was patched almost a year before the Titan came out can be used to dev-unlock the Titan? Umm... good luck with that!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ashok:
Can chevron wp7 can be used to unlock lumia 710. Is so can anybody provide a working link for chevron wp7
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] pLUSpISTOL:
Yeah of course it can. Have you not searched the thread or Google'd at all?!

Just send me a PM with a video of you bashing your head off a brick wall and I'll be happy to send you a ZIP with a simple one-click EXE which will not only unlock your Nokia Lumia 710 but will install a Cydia app so you can play iPhone games on it too!

:eek:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ashok:
i downloaded it from 4shared. But when ever i run it it says it cannot detect phone. I am running windows 7 64bit, I have zune installed and its detecting my phone fine. What should i do?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Start by actually doing even a little research, perhaps. The original ChevronWP7 Unlocker hack was patched about a year ago. Any phone with NoDo (build 7389) or later shouldn't be able to use it at all. Additionally, the certificate it used (did you even grab the cert?) expired a few months back.

ChevronWP7 Labs (http://labs.chevronwp7.com) would work on your Lumia, but they're currently sold out of unlock "tokens" and MS doesn't seem inclined to hurry with getting them more.

Please tell me you at least realized @pLUSpISTOL was being sarcastic... and seriously, try doing a *little* reading on the subject before go wasting people's time repeatedly asking questions with widely-known answers.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ashok:
Yes I did. and I tried every method to make it work. But of no success. So I though somebody here would be able to help me to make it work
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] anaskr:
Nokia Lumia 800

i have updated to the latest firmware .... can you tell me how to hack my new nokia lumia 800 ... i am a newbie its just been less then a week :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] kms108:
just read through the thread.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Oh, to be fair, the thread is long and meandering. Reding the last few pages, or doing a quick search, would provide enough info.

Short version: You can't use this tool on the Lumia 800, for that matter on any phone that wasn't a gen1 (WP7.0 release) model. It was blocked around a year ago.

There are official unlocks available from Microsoft (free for students, $99/year for everybody else) but they only let you install low-privelege apps, and only up to 10 of them (3 for student account). We're working on finding ways to fix that for Nokia. For Samsung, LG, and some HTC, we already have a fix, though they keep trying to block us.

It's really quite annoying, the amount of development resources those companies must be spending to try and lock out their most enthusiastic users...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] svarog84:
It seems that Nokias are hard to break
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] NebZoNe:
@ashok, if you really searched for answers (on this thread, forum or gogol) you would already be able to notice that chevron app will NEVER work on a 2nd Gen phone like your lumia 710... Keep bustin' bro :D
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] catanzaro27:
What chances do i have to "jailbreak" a HTC Radar if i buy it now from store with the OS version it might have?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] jjayno2003:
Just a question have you guys figured out how to unlock the htc radar
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ArtieQ:
It sucks Win XP isn't supported, I have no chance of getting Win7 without buying a new computer. Any solution?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] jessenic:
You can not unlock your HTC TITAN! It is not a first generation device, those were released in 2010...

And for all others asking:

YOU CANNOT USE THIS TO UNLOCK ANY NEW DEVICES!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ArtieQ:
What unlock am I looking for then, interop?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] jessenic:
Only way to unlock your TITAN is to buy official developer unlock from Microsoft. It's $99USD.

Edit: This seems to be top post on this page, so I'll put this again here:

And for all others asking:

YOU CANNOT USE THIS TO UNLOCK ANY NEW DEVICES!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ArtieQ:
Yeah, but I've read that it only allows 10 "homebrew" apps?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] jessenic:
The chevron unlock is 99% the same as the official unlock. Only thing different is that the chevron fakes itself as MS web service that handles the unlocks. There is a registry key that you can change to get rid of the app limit, changing that key also does the interop unlock. You cannot do this on 2nd gen HTC devices though.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ArtieQ:
So I'm totally ****ed, damn. I'll probably be more than happy as the phone is tho.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Quintenn:
hi guys , eumh 1 question .

Run chevronwp7.exe, click both checkboxes

where do i find this .exe file ? :p haven't see it around yet..

grtz
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] LexSombra:
Where's chevron?

Hi guys!

The only link I've found to download chevron in this thread was a megaupload(RIP) link...

Does anyone have the program?

Another question, if I jailbreak it, and apply method that keeps it unblocked, I can upgrade to mango without any problems?

Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
The program doesn't work anymore... you know, like people have been tlaking about in this thread for some time. Getting it to work would require downgrading the phone, setting the clock on both it and the PC back, and then managing to re-upgrade without losing unlock (and typically, upgrading to NoDo or Mango does re-lock the phone). There are ways to re-unlock if you were unlocked once, but...

Also, LOL at "RIP". They explicitly rewarded people who uploaded copyrighted stuff for piracy (read the leaked memos), and used their own service (via internal search tools) to get access to such files. They got what was coming to them.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] lsguntu:
so this is not working anymore? could you guys please guide me to proper thread if i want to unlock my phone?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] kms108:
It depends on what phone you are using, and this is the right thread, the info are correct and working, just read through the thread.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Short answer: No, this can't be used anymore, are you blind? Read the great big text at the top of the page!

Longer answer: This hack was broken well over a year ago. Making it work now is extremely difficult and probably not worth the effort, even if possible. However, if you really want to try, you'll need to meet all of the following conditions:

* Your phone is a gen1 WP7 (HD7, Surround, 7 Pro, Mozart, Quantum, Focus, Omnia 7, Venue Pro, and a few others, but *NOT* gen 1.5 phones like the Arrive)

* You have a very early stock ROM for your phone (build 7004 or 7008 are the only ones that are known to work).

* You are able to flash that stock ROM (this requires a flashing too that varies depending on the OS and a working flashing mode in the bootloader, or a Zune restore point for one of those builds).

* You are willing to hard-reset your phone, or at least revert it to the state of your 7004 or 7008 backup (if that's what you have; if you flash a stock ROM you'll lose all data).

* You've downloaded the ChevronWP7 Unlocker tool and its certificate (no idea where you can get working links to them; maybe somewhere in this thread but I haven't tried).

* You understand how to set the clocks back to make the expired certificate work.

* You don't mind either staying on pre-NoDo, or you have a way to re-dev-unlock as you upgrade (certainly Mango, and I think also NoDo, will reset your hacked dev-unlock).

If you have all that, go to town. Personally, I suspect that's not worth $99 of my time and effort, so I'd probably just get an AppHub account instead, which will give you the exact same level of unlock...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] shawchyn:
Well Said!

:D
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] kms108:
are you refering to me, if you have read my post i did mention it will depend on what phone you have.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
More to @lsguntu than to you @kms108, but a bit of both. This is *NOT* the right thread for almost anybody, even if they have a theoretically compatible phone. The number of hoops one must go through just to unlock in the first place, and then to keep the unlock while re-upgrading, is ridiculous.

The correct threads, really:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1538801 (List of unlocks by phone and level of unlock)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1407652 (WindowBreak project, the closest thing currently available to the "just unlock it all for free" of the original ChevronWP7 Unlocker tool

http://dreamspark.com or http://create.msdn.com for an AppHub account (DreamSpark is free but only for students).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] kms108:
I know it's a long process to unlock the phone, it was a few months back that I unlock a samsung focus from 7004 just to add asian language aside the default 5 european language then upgrading to mango just for a freiend, it took about over 1 1/2 hours.

And yes I do have all the roms, tools etc to perform the task.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] emaculant29:
So is there a interlop unlock method out for the lumia 900 yet?

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] emaculant29:
I have done the developer unlock and am limited to 3 sideload apps. Also I'm unable to install anything else like apps and tweaks in bazaar because I'm not fully unlocked. Any ideas?

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Nickg.:
fon now there aren't any method to unlock Lumia 900 and so you can only devunlock with ufficial unlock, but with this you can't install hack application
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] xirsteon:
GoodDay, my phone recently re-locked for whatever reasons MS deemed fit to follow Apple's failed jailbreak approach. Until this morning, my phone was dev-unlocked using your xap [HTC Interop Unlock v2]. I even had ur oem Nokia trick working. This morning, I get the "app has been revoked by MS......". Not even Adv config works. Do you have any idea what trick I can use to reset this on the phone? since reg editor doesn't work and Adv confi closes as soon as I launch it [after the phone has relocked that is].

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Well, not this, for sure (not unless you want to roll back to 7008...)

If the "interop-unlock" entries are still in your Connection Setup list, you can use those again. If not, you'll need to dev-unlock the phone first so you can re-interop-unlock. Currently, we don't have a way to dev-unlock an HTC phone except by the official method (AppHub account).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ceesheim:
yup , I got the same to ,you can unlock it again and then it is working again :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] mathiaspe:
yeah, but how long...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Jaxbot:
Unlocked my device around 2:40ish, and it's already relocked for the second time. Not looking good, folks. :(
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] hounsell:
Contrary to what people are saying, it doesn't look to be an MS thing. The certificate is not revoked. My guess is that the Phone checks with MS every so often to make sure that the account used to unlock it hasn't expired. Since you unlocked it in the first place by spoofing the server with your PC, it now calls home and gets told that the phone shouldn't be unlocked, and so it locks itself again. Unlocking simply resets the process.

That's my guess anyway. Rafael tweeted to say it wasn't an MS thing either, and that there'd be a blog post coming to explain it...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Jaxbot:
I agree. If Microsoft was really trying to destroy homebrew, they would've said something by now. And would've blocked ChevronWP7 entirely.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] nok_fusion:
confirmation here => http://windowsphonehacker.com/microsoft_locks_wp7_devices_unlocked_with_chevronwp7-12-07-10.php
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Darnell_Chat_TN:
Does not matter whether MS put it in place before the device was sold or initiated it after the sale. Bottom line is that MS via WP7 is not allowing customers to express the FCC (USA) affirmed ability to customize their own property.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] hounsell:
How is that confirmation? It's just repeating the "news" that just quoted people earlier in this thread.

I suspect it's actually falling foul of a system to ensure that actual developers don't keep the device unlocked after their developer account expires, by calling back. There's no confirmation of that, admittedly, but there's not for MS remotely locking phones either, and mine makes more sense than MS suddenly pushing an OTA update to block something that's been around a good few weeks now, with no official or unofficial statement coming from anyone related to MS.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] gcmobile:
It runs fine here - no probs - no message - no lock ;)

Regards

gc
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Darnell_Chat_TN:
The article that link cites as its source of their post has already updated their thread to mention it's likely not an OTA kill directed at the app.

My whole issue, is that even the FCC has affirmed anyone can customize their own phone, which is their personal private property. And MS has made it very hard for a consumer to do so. I'm just not a fan of these built in measures that twart a consumer from expressing a little freedom with phones they purchase.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] WithinRafael:
I'm working to get approval to write about this. Contrary to reports, Microsoft is not doing anything OTA.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] otis85:
when i install e .xap file

the coms an error 0x89731811

please help
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] voodooutt:
great. I'm looking forwards to reading what the issue is :-)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] z31k:
Is the registry edit necessary for this to work? If so, where can I find it?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Jaxbot:
For those who missed it:

http://www.chevronwp7.com/post/2138185220/false-alarm-microsoft-isnt-remotely-locking-your

As a lot of people (me included) suspected, Microsoft isn't taking action. It's just part of a routine check-in procedure that the phone does automatically.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Darnell_Chat_TN:
This would never have been an issue in the first place, if MS allowed someone to unlock their phone if they desire to do so. It should be the consumer, not MS that decides and for how long.

I don't think the FCC's affirmation of consumer phone customization came with a 2 week expiration. The functionality should be built in, as Android has the setting to allow installation of apps from unknown sources, if the user so desires.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] sadoway:
can someone please tell me. in normal enlgish. hot to use TCPView to get my port cleared up... because i tried EVERYTHING else. and that has to be it.

but i dont understand it. so many numbers.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] nok_fusion:
false alarm : http://windowsphonehacker.com/microsoft_locks_wp7_devices_unlocked_with_chevronwp7-12-07-10.php
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] hounsell:
This comes not from Microsoft locking out Jailbreakers, but more from the fact that ChevronWP7 uses *exactly* the same approach as a true developer unlock. It's a double-edged sword. Yes, it means that closing it is near-impossible without breaking the genuine developer unlock. On the other hand, it means it's bound to the same restrictions and checks as a true developer unlock. One of those checks is a regular callback to MS, because developer accounts can close or expire, and the phone should relock itself if that is the case. Obviously, that impacts you if your phone never was unlocked using a genuine account in the first place, but just was approved by a spoofed unlock server like how ChevronWP7 does it.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Mclovin1001:
Does this explain why yesturday i could unlock my phone and now i cant.

Always get the error

"Please make sure the USB is connected"

"Please restart Zune"

Or is it something different. I was able to unlock and re-lock yesturday but cant now :(
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] chubnut:
Wonder if someone could help me.....

I've successfully unlocked my HD7. This is also confirmed by the fact that Developer Phone registration shows the device as "Registered".

I have successfully encoded some ring tones (48 Khz using MS Expression encoder) and created a xap file using the Chevron app.

When I use the application deployment tool I don't get any errors I get a "XAP Deployment Complete" message. So if I'm not mistaken - all good.

So where is my ring tone? I cant see it anywhere under Ringtones and Sounds. I've turned my device off and on a few times now but nothing.

What am I doing wrong?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] hounsell:
I believe there should be a new app in your programs list now. You run that to do the actual installation.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] chubnut:
Doh!!!! :o

Thanks for that. I feel like a right Muppet!! Yep - they are all there and all in!!

Excellent - my dodgy Cypress Hill ringtones are back in!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Darnell_Chat_TN:
I totally understand that and understood it fully when I made my earlier comments.

My point again, is that the ability to install something that nanny Microsoft does not have in their Marketplace should be something the device owner can do without having to resort to hacks such as ChevronWP7 in the first place.

We know the FCC has affirmed a device owner does not have to be "locked" in any sense. We also know, in OS such as Android, allowing installation of non-Market apps is a simple check box in device settings. All I'm saying if it was not clear earlier, is that MS should not have made things so difficult to begin with.

We know MS did not "target" ChevronWP7 via some OTA kill. BUT, MS devised WP7 to be so "locked" that people are having to resort to such extraordinary measures just to install a non-Market app. It's a bit too locked.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Ddriver:
the same with my phone this day. :-(
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] james2k2:
Hi everyone. Been following this website since a first got my HD7 and it has been great and I've finally signed up :). I've decided I would like to develop for my phone, but after applying this hack, I still get 'Access is Denied'. So I load Chevron again and its still showing relock, so I should be good to go? Anybody know what's going on? Also I find that after only a few minutes, Chevron goes back to saying unlock. I've checked with tcpview, and despite the modified hosts file, there are about 30 connections to windowsdeveloper. Many thanks in advance :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] hounsell:
Been able to remove the sideload limit, I was able to install 11 apps by my count, though I'd appreciate a third-party confirmation to be honest.

http://thounsell.co.uk/2010/12/chevronwp7-now-without-the-sideload-limit/
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] sushovande:
I am getting the same error with my samsung focus.

I had earlier unlocked the phone, but after the 14 day period, it locked itself. Now I cannot unlock it.

Obviously, I have tried following the advice on the dialog box. It is connected over USB, the lockscreen is unlocked, and zune is running. Sync relationship with zune is normal (i.e., not guest). Certificate is also installed.

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

Uh oh.

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

Sorry, I'm having trouble communicating with the phone.

- Please make sure it's connected using USB

- Please start the Zune application

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

OK

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[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] acbonnyac:
Hi guys, my phone got re-locked by Microsoft a few days ago and now I cannot re-unlock it again using ChevronWP7, got the same problem with Ddriver. I was very excited to develop some games on win phone 7 but now I cannot. Today I tried my luck again and (surprisingly) I could unlock it! But when I try to deploy my test app it still says my phone is developer locked.. After that I opened ChevronWP7 again and it has "Unlock" button indicating my phone is not unlocked..

Anyone got the same problem and could solve this?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Snppls:
I've got the same problem as the people above. It got relocked, the certificate is installed again, Zune is running and logged in, ChevronWp7 doesn't even start anymore but right from the start the Oh oh messagebox.

Edit: after rebooting the phone I can get the program to open again, but when trying to unlock it again it gives the same Oh oh messagebox.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Mclovin1001:
Glad im not the only person have this issue
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] songoku119:
Yes definitely an annoyance. I can't unlock it anymore. Tried it on my home computer where i unlocked it originally (Win7 x64) after not being able to do it at work either (xp sp3)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] bigfoune:
ME TOO :(:confused:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Ddriver:
Double post, sorry.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Ddriver:
Suspect, but just now I unlocket my Mozart again. :-O

Usit the new Unlocker (without sideload limit) with Win7 Ultimate and now I'm happy. :-)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] dcsmaniatico:
What new unlocker????

where can I download the new unlocker without the sideload limit?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] voodooutt:
Every time I plug the phone into my computer, it re-locks itself. I am able to unlock again via ChevronWP7 though.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] acbonnyac:
OK, today I could unlock my phone again, and my phone got re-locked itself again and I'm unable to unlock it again. My guess is that once your phone is locked by MS, the tool won't be able to unlock your phone again for some certain amount of time because I can and can't unlock the phone back and forth twice now. I will try again tomorrow (or a few next hours) and see if I can unlock again.

So, you guys just make sure to turn off all Internet connection first when you connect your phone to PC so that it won't be locked by MS through Internet. This is what I did and it worked for me, but I was curious so I turned it on and my phone got locked again :(

PS. ChevronWP7 with no sideload limit version doesn't work for me too. It has exactly the same issue.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Ddriver:
Post 127

Yesterday sync with Zune and again re-locket. :'(

Its time to found a solution to stop this. ;-)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] hounsell:
I've had this issue too since the first time it relocked itself. Seems strange. I can relock it straight away though. As long as I keep it disconnected from the PC, it stays unlocked too.

Theoretically, you could just create a permanent DNS Redirection to an alternative host having the same effect as ChevronWP7, or even use a proxy to rewrite packets on the fly, but it's inconvenient.

Still, someone could try using HOSTS to redirect developer.windowsphone.com to a non-existant host? Does that kill the check?