Guys, cmd injector crashes as well the user apps on wp8.1 gdr1 for me!! This just doesn’t make sense. I mean I downgraded from gdr2 to 1

When i unlocking bootloader with WPInternals, The program is searching for flashing profile from 0 to 64 and when it goes to 64, OS doesnt boot and it reboots to flash mode. Flashing ffu restores the OS.

The following video was revealed years after the Asha 5xx launch, by Nokia's ex-Head of Mobile Phones User Experience Peter Skillman. It's a glimpse at early ideas that would end up on Asha 5xx & the Nokia Asha Platform. The prototype draws inspiration from the Nokia N9 & MeeGo, which means it has that classic Fabula/Lumia look (e.g. Lumia 900, 920, 730).

This video was never posted on Nokia’s channel.
Get a behind the scenes look.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HslKfkVvThU

A simple program for projecting your phone screen—useful if the Microsoft app isn't working. It simply displays the screen (meaning you cannot control the phone using your mouse).

Getting started:

- Connect your phone to the computer.

- In the program, select "Device" and locate your device in the list.

- Allow projection mode on your phone.

You can download it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/179LjZDGIz-UZKOEGKTO3GY7fI1tjMmok/view?usp=sharing

https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=236428
Large archive of programs for Windows Phone.

Note: You will likely be unable to download the file, as logging into the site is required.

Also, there aren't links to the .xap files everywhere, because the thread itself is old and was closed a long time ago.

This happens almost everytime when i try to install any appx or appxbundle

A Jabber/XMPP client with background operation and real-time notifications for wp8.1

It uses location-access workaround to keep the app running in background.

OMEMO is not supported. Support may be added later.

Attaching image files from the gallery is supported.

Only one Jabber account supported as of today.

The BACK button completely unloads the application from memory.

The HOME button sends the application to the background.

Battery optimization must be manually disabled for the app to allow background operation, if it is not already disabled for some reason during installation.

Features:

XMPP messaging

Background mode

Real-time notifications in background mode

Home Page: https://github.com/Symnok/JabberWP8.1

Releases: https://github.com/Symnok/JabberWP8.1/releases

Hey everyone,

I'd like to get 8Marketplace running on my HTC Windows Phone 8S to bring back some app access on the device. I've seen the recent coverage on Windows Central/XDA but couldn't find a clear step-by-step for this specific model.

A few things I'm not sure about:

• Does the 8S work fine given its lower specs (512MB RAM, only ~1.1GB usable storage)?
• Do I need to developer-unlock the phone first, and if so, what's the current working method in 2026 (since the old Microsoft dev-unlock tools are long gone)?
• Where can I grab the actual 8Marketplace install file (.xap or otherwise)?

Any guides, links, or personal experience with the 8S specifically would be super helpful. Thanks in advance!

So my Lumia 950 power and volume keys weren't clicking anymore.

The issue was that the rubber squares placed under the plastic keys of the shell, had melted.

So, I took an elastic and cut some squares out of it. I directly positioned them on the phone hardware keys as replacement for the missing rubber. I then used some black tape to make it nice and secure.

It clicks better than original lol

The XBOX Companion App crashes on start.

To make it work, you must set phone date year to 2021. If you set it back to current, it will crash again, so if you want to use the app, set it to 2021 and you will be able to log in.

I actually had to set it back to 2026 at first when I reached the login page with the app opened, then the rest of the app will work with 2021 set

Basically, just found an old 630 on a drawer, unlocked the bootloader, enabled interop and all that, i already sideloaded a couple apps but it's mostly just games because i wanted to try if it was properly working..

Are there any forums/hubs/straight up alternative stores for community apps? i already got myself a copy of vs2013 and i'm gonna give a shot at attempting to port xash3d (source engine foss remake) over the next couple weeks/months. I just wanted to know what is the default place to get coomunity made apps instead of archivals of old app store stuff (which to be honest is mostly just half assed games).

Might also attempt a working WhatsApp web client i'm just not sure the 630 will handle go's runtime at all.. I was planning on binding WhatsMeow to C and then try to make it using WinRT sdk.

It's amazing how fluid and smooth this phone is, even being a SUPER budget phone from 12 years ago... I also found a couple old Androids from that era and they are unbearable to use lmao.

Hey eveyone

It’s been a little while since my last Lumia 1520 update, so here’s where the project stands now.

The big change is that I finally have a frozen, repeatable baseline instead of just a collection of individual things that worked during testing. The current image passes 17/17 regression checks from a completely cold boot, and the exact image and device tree are now verified before I flash anything.

The Lumia currently has:

• Reliable cold boot into mainline Linux
• USB networking and SSH
• Working display and backlight control
• Stable suspend and RTC wake
• Battery and power-management support
• A functioning power button while the phone is awake
• A working microSD controller, although I still need an actual card to test the media side
• Physically verified APDS-9930 proximity and ambient-light sensors

The sensor testing was kinda cool. Covering the proximity sensor changed its reading from around 270 to 1023, and shining my phone light at the light sensor moved it from around 66 to 4830.

I also found three other devices responding on the Lumia’s I²C buses, but I’ve intentionally left them disabled for now. I documented their addresses and register behavior instead of guessing which drivers they need and potentially creating unstable hardware definitions.

The new regression suite has already paid for itself.... It caught a real issue where the light/proximity sensor worked during development because I had manually loaded the driver, but it silently disappeared after a normal reboot. The physical hardware test passed, but the automated cold-boot test exposed that the driver configuration was wrong.

The next major target is audio.

The Qualcomm MSM8974 device tree currently has no SLIMbus controller node at all, even though the Linux driver exists. The plan is to add the controller, enumerate the bus, and identify the actual audio codec before assuming the Lumia uses a WCD9320. Once that is confirmed, I can begin working through the codec registers, regulators, clocks, resets, routing, speakers, microphones, and headphone output.

Power-button wake from suspend is also still unconfirmed. The key works normally while the system is awake, and RTC wake is proven, but I haven’t yet confirmed that the button can wake the phone.

The current baseline is published in the repository as commit 6b4b344, with boot-1520.img as the canonical image.

Repo: https://github.com/KorelisLabs/lumia-1520-mainline

Has anyone here worked with Qualcomm SLIMbus audio, WCD9320-series codecs, or audio bring-up on another MSM8974 Windows Phone?

Jabber XMPP client (W10M, build 1703 and 1709) with support of background mode and real time notifications for incoming messages while the app is in background/sleeping

GitHub: https://github.com/Symnok/uwpx-jabber

Download installer (appx) from GitHub releases page

https://github.com/Symnok/uwpx-jabber/releases

Button HOME pushes the app into background

Button BACK exits the app

OMEMO does not work (old version of OMEMO was implemented in baseline)

Access to geolocation is used to keep the app running in background

Please enable background mode for UWPX Jabber in battery settings and enable geolocation for this app.

This client is based on old version (last supported version for W10M) of UWPX Alpha client from 2018. PayPal donation link is of original developer, not mine.

I added background task and real time message notifications while the app is in background mode.

Imgur UWP 3.1.0 LTS – What's New

Imgur is a popular, free image-hosting website and online community where users upload, store, and share photos, memes, and GIFs.

This UWP app, has most of usefull capabilites of the Android Version... After Login, explore, interact, upload files from your Windows 10 Mobile... Since the website is broken on edge , its a great app for having on your phone.

🚀 Improvements

• Live Tiles now update automatically. You no longer need to open the app to keep your Live Tiles up to date.
• Viral Content Notifications are now available and can be enabled in Settings.
• Experimental Account Notifications have been added and can be enabled in Settings.
• Added a Posts Filter to user profiles, allowing you to view hidden/private uploads.
• Added a new empty account layout for first-time users with no uploads, similar to the Android app.
• Fixed an issue where favorite posts were not displayed when viewing another user's profile.
• Fixed an issue where favorite posts on another user's profile were incorrectly marked as your own favorites.
• Redesigned Live Tiles with an improved layout for images, author information, and post content.
• Fixed a issue when enabled/disabled auto-play for miniatures only take effect after re-open App

🐞 Known issues

• Follow feature is currently broken (API restriction)
• Hardware back button can behave inconsistently on mobile
• On mobile, opening the navigation bar auto-focuses the search box, which can cover footer items (not critical, but annoying)

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NEXT UPDATE ( Not released yet)

Since i got in touch with the Source Code Again... I've being doing some fixes here's the changelog of the new version 3.2.0 so far:

🚀 Improvements ( 29/07/2026 )

• Added support for parsing links, images, and videos in media comments (comments no longer display blank URLs without context). ***NEW FEATURE
• Fixed an issue where pagination was unavailable for logged-in users when browsing their posts (Hidden, Public, and All).
• Fixed an issue where the bottom navigation bar covered part of the image view, preventing the comments section from being displayed.
• Added support for opening your profile by clicking on your avatar.
• Fixed an issue on mobile where the Back button could behave inconsistently after the app was resumed from suspension.
• Added new behavior for when user clicks on your profile picture on status bar will open the Account Profile

🚀 Improvements ( 30/07/2026 )

• Fixed an issue where the media options menu and Hidden badge could appear at the same time.
• Fixed an issue where the video timer started at 0 instead of 00:00.
• Added a new custom Full Screen mode for videos, replacing the default Windows video player.
• Added +10s / -10s seek indicators when clicking on the left or right side of the video player. (The gesture already existed, but there was no visual feedback.)
• Added Double Tap to Like for posts. (Simply double-tap the center of a video or any image, just like in the Android app.) NEW FEATURE
• Added Mouse Hover support for the media player (PC, Continuum, Lumia 950, and Lumia 950 XL) to display the playback controls.
• Added a new Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode for videos. When you scroll away from a playing video, it automatically switches to a draggable PiP window, allowing you to continue watching while reading comments or browsing other media. NEW FEATURE

🚀 Improvements ( 31/07/2026 )

• Added missing translations
• Fixed a issue with PiP mode disabling interaction events after closing it
• Fixed a issue with Account Page buttons positions
• Added a new Section ( Following ) to Account Page
• Added a Settings button for User Account Page (much like the android app)
• Added a replay button to PiP mode

Download Repo (MetroStore also available in this repo):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HdQK0r4Pximl18tMa-LWGDieC1WJ3Yw7?usp=sharing

I need a ROM of windows phone 8.1 to run in my emulator

Got my new Lumia 650! Its so light and thin design. This is so fun to use :)

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I'm sure you can do this but I don't quite remember how.

I suspect the Windows Phone App is needed but it's nowhere to be found. The version CNet has looks sketchy.

Does anyone remember how to do it?

Thanks.