Windows Phone Internals - Unlock bootloader, enable Root Access, create Custom ROM

mybabysexy · Dec 27, 2015 at 12:03 PM

Heathcliff74 said:
NICE! What was the problem?

corrupted dll

btw, the systray only shows black/white icons, not color icons. I tried to give them colors but it failed. The original Home button I modded is Blue Cyanogen Head, not white

MrCego · Dec 27, 2015 at 12:22 PM

What registries did you modify?

werty100 · Dec 27, 2015 at 1:36 PM

Heathcliff74 said:
I doubt this has to do with the last update. The Windows 10 updates so far have not overwritten the bootloaders. I did the update myself and the bootloader was still unlocked. Or do you mean that you had to disable Root Access?

If you want to unlock the bootloader on Windows 10, you can follow the same procedure. But there is a risk. If your partition layout was changed during the updates (probably not, but not sure), then your phone won't boot properly after unlocking the bootloader. You can still recover from that, because you can still flash a stock ROM or custom ROM after that. But your data on the phone will obviously be gone then.

i am in lastest win10 and i have unloked boot and root access so no problem a lot of thanks

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werty100 said:
i am in lastest win10 and i have unloked boot and root access so no problem a lot of thanks

I have try to restore phone via Settings app and it briked the phone
I am flashing win8.1 another tiem to recover it...
How can you perform a hard reset for making a dump FFU with win10 , still working the combo bottons for hard reset of win8.1?¿

MrCego · Dec 27, 2015 at 7:24 PM

werty100 said:
i am in lastest win10 and i have unloked boot and root access so no problem a lot of thanks

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I have try to restore phone via Settings app and it briked the phone
I am flashing win8.1 another tiem to recover it...
How can you perform a hard reset for making a dump FFU with win10 , still working the combo bottons for hard reset of win8.1?¿

yep, sure.

Heathcliff74 · Dec 27, 2015 at 8:15 PM

werty100 said:
I have try to restore phone via Settings app and it briked the phone
I am flashing win8.1 another tiem to recover it...
How can you perform a hard reset for making a dump FFU with win10 , still working the combo bottons for hard reset of win8.1?¿

I did it many times. Doing reset using Settings-app and also using key-combo's. Also with latest Windows 10 build. Not sure what went wrong with with your phone. What exactly is bricked? Did you follow the procedure, which I described in the "Build and capture" section?

MrCego · Dec 28, 2015 at 3:03 AM

@Heathcliff74, when I create a captured clean ROM from W10M, are partitions unlocked by default?

Heathcliff74 · Dec 28, 2015 at 9:22 AM

MrCego said:
@Heathcliff74, when I create a captured clean ROM from W10M, are partitions unlocked by default?

Root Access survives a hard reset. So, the state of your clean ROM depend on the state of your phone when you capture it. If your phone does not have Root Access when you capture it, your ROM will also not gave Root Access. But it is possible to enable Root Access on the ROM image. You can also see that in my instruction-video.

werty100 · Dec 28, 2015

Your tool works with RAR format for flasing customs roms?¿ because i have used RAR for compresign a rom and i got a very good compresion just 1GB from the original 30GBs

Heathcliff74 · Dec 28, 2015 at 10:16 AM

werty100 said:
Your tool works with RAR format for flasing customs roms?¿ because i have used RAR for compresign a rom and i got a very good compresion just 1GB from the original 30GBs

No. It only accepts zip-format. You can use zip with high-compression.

_wook_ · Dec 28, 2015 at 12:37 PM

Heathcliff74 said:
No. It only accepts zip-format. You can use zip with high-compression.

What about different method of backing up the Data partition? I don't use much space on my L1020.

Heathcliff74 · Dec 28, 2015 at 2:22 PM

_wook_ said:
What about different method of backing up the Data partition? I don't use much space on my L1020.

You can backup as zip-file. It compresses on-the-fly. What else do you need?

_wook_ · Dec 28, 2015 at 2:36 PM

Heathcliff74 said:
You can backup as zip-file. It compresses on-the-fly. What else do you need?

I was thinking more like unix style backup (or tape)...but it's not flashable though...

Heathcliff74 · Dec 28, 2015 at 4:13 PM

_wook_ said:
I was thinking more like unix style backup (or tape)...but it's not flashable though...

I still don't see the problem. The resulting backup in zip-file IS flashable, because the "Flash archive" function in Windows Phone Internals decompresses the archives on the fly (in memory) and flashes the containing partitions straight to the phone.

Heathcliff74 · Dec 29, 2015

WPinternals 1.2 released

A small update this time. Changes in this version:

Compatibility improvement for Windows 7. In previous versions "Enable Root Access" could result in "Failed to enable Root Access on MainOS".
"Restore bootloader" now uses a different Flashing interface. Previously, when you restored the bootloader, you were forced to do a full flash afterwards. With this new method you can keep your current Windows Phone installation. Remember that you need to disable Root Access before you restore the bootloader.
Many small fixes and tweaks.

Happy hacking!

MrCego · Dec 29, 2015 at 4:34 AM

Heathcliff74 said:
A small update this time. Changes in this version:
(...)

"Lock bootloader" now uses a different Flashing interface. (...)

You mean restore bootloader, right?

pdaimatejam · Dec 29, 2015 at 6:12 AM

Heathcliff74 said:
A small update this time. Changes in this version:

Compatibility improvement for Windows 7. In previous versions "Enable Root Access" could result in "Failed to enable Root Access on MainOS".

"Lock bootloader" now uses a different Flashing interface. Previously, when you locked the bootloader, you were forced to do a full flash afterwards. With this new method you can keep your current Windows Phone installation. Remember that you need to disable Root Access before you relock the bootloader.

Many small fixes and tweaks.

Happy hacking!

sound fix?

Heathcliff74 · Dec 29, 2015 at 6:53 AM

MrCego said:
You mean restore bootloader, right?

Yep, you're right. I fixed the description. Tnx.

Heathcliff74 · Dec 29, 2015 at 6:53 AM

pdaimatejam said:
sound fix?

Audio was already fixed in version 1.1.

atlaware · May 18, 2010 42 1 0

Hi Heathcliff74! Thank you for your great job! I successfully unlocked a Lumia 820 phone with Windos Phone 8.1.

I have only a question. Now I have a unlocked phone with root access and registry access, but how can I access to the file system and to the registry? There are some Windows Phone applications compatible with WP Internals with the ability to access to file system and/or to registry?

Thank you a lot!

djtonka · Dec 29, 2015 at 4:33 PM

Our first custom ROM for L625 based on GDR2 FFU flashing image

http://www.windowsmania.pl/romy-321...[gdr2]-windowsmania-v1-os-8-10-15153-a-26929/

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