I have a couple Lumia Phones on Win8.1 and I want to update to Win10, but obviously I cannot connect to the store. I cant believe I didnt know about the Windows Store shutting down before now!
The really bad news is my Lumia925 does not have a File Explorer app so I dont know how to install anything on this. I've tried downloading various .xap and .appx files, is there no way of updating this phone?
so I was following the guides posted for setting up Windows Phone Internals to unlock the bootloader and mass storage, I thought I had done everything correctly as I found the FFU for my phone, I flashed it once and then selected unlock bootloader, but now my phone is softlocked with a blank screen that just says Nokia. I cant shut it off and this model Lumia 925 doesnt have anyway to remove the battery. hopefully I can recharge/reset it after the battery dies
I thought the 925 was like all the other Lumias but it doesnt even have an SD slot sigh! I guess this wasnt the right Lumia for me to buy lol at least I still have my Lumia 1520 working just fine, but I wish I didnt just throw away $50 on this thing
I was hoping to have a smaller sized WP (as backup to my 1520) but the only other model I want is the Lumia 950 and for that price I could buy a full windows tablet/winbook with keyboard lol... is the 950 worth it? or should I just wait a couple years for small notebooks to decrease in price
update: my battery finally died and when plugging in the charger the phone came back... now to see if i can figure out what went wrong :good:
Press and hold together [Volume down] and [On/Off] keys. This will reset your phone as a battery pull.
You can try a method call "offline update Win 10 mobile" to up Wp10 for your Lumia 925 in this XDA forum, it don't need to unlock bootloader. I can't get link to you in this post, sorry !
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[frustrating] HELP HD7 seen as "generic device" not as WP, drivers fail to install
So i got my wp7 today...i download zune on my windows7 pc, install, connect the phone....ERROR installing drivers, the phone is seen not as a mobile device, but as a generic usb composite device...in the device management window i have two "unknow device" icon...tried EVERY POSSIBLE SOLUTION i found on the internet...worked for others, not for me...
...then i think maybe it's my pc, so i try my xp netbook...SAME HAPPENS...
previous owner says he connected the phone to zune flawlessly on three different PCs...
i also did a full reset from the settings
HELP I'M DESPERATE
anyone?
It seems that your device is in diagnostic mode (the 2 unknown devices are typical for this...)
for now there is no way back, but if this is without you hacking something or so you could let it repair by warranty...
is it a complete new device?
thank you very much for the answer...
this is getting intresting
my situation is similar to his one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937235
but that image isn't showing up on my hd7 and my two devices are "unknown devices" no shubert, just unknown device.
(EDITrobably because he has his pc set up to receive the phone in diagnostic mode, but my pc isn't)
Now what i think is that the previous owner did some tethering (he told me that), but didn't put it back into zune mode...then he did a hard reset before giving the phone to me...but i'm pretty sure the reset doesn't FLASH the plain rom, but only wipes data because it's too fast
so i'm stuck here with a half usable wp7...nice
elmerendeiro said:
thank you very much for the answer...
this is getting intresting
my situation is similar to his one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937235
but that image isn't showing up on my hd7 and my two devices are "unknown devices" no shubert, just unknown device.
(EDITrobably because he has his pc set up to receive the phone in diagnostic mode, but my pc isn't)
Now what i think is that the previous owner did some tethering (he told me that), but didn't put it back into zune mode...then he did a hard reset before giving the phone to me...but i'm pretty sure the reset doesn't FLASH the plain rom, but only wipes data because it's too fast
so i'm stuck here with a half usable wp7...nice
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Did you try right clicking the device in device manager and selecting update driver software, then click Search automatically for updated driver software?
Mine kind of did the same thing until I allowed it to connect to microsoft and got the driver from them.
Also you could also check HTC website for HTC HD7 driver software.
Yep, but it doesn't find any driver...even if i point it directly to the zune drivers folder...the only driver that seem to get installed is "windows phone USB device" or something like that..i have to install it manually, then one of the two unknown devices transforms into that wp USB..the other one remains unknown, unless i force it to install "Windows phone" from portable devices->microsoft...then it fails and give me error10, but still the icon changes to the portable device one...
From HTC i will probably get vague or dumb answers...like "try hard reset"
Tomorrow i will see the guy who sold me the hd7 and try to connect to zune on his pc...if it works i have to keep it otherwise he will refund me...he says he tried with hd2 to tether then uninstall the tether software without putting it back to zune mode and he says that it works with no issues...HELP
i maybe wrong, but maybe u can try to load one of those rom's for europe brands, it may re set all the settings on your hd7...
but the best will be for the first owner to show you the way he did it...
so when he didn't put it back into zune mode there is no way back at the moment..
i will tell you if i know more...
the diagnostic mode isn't set on your computer... it's on the Qualcomm SoC (System on a Chip)
The drivers you need are somewhere http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922000 here (don't know exactly where)
but that won't help you much as you only get "HTC Diagnostic Interface" as Serial Device...
so you have to wait till there is a solution....
btw. I'm stuck in the same situation ;-) (Diagnostic Mode) xD
and there are lots of other people too, so you are not alone ^^
best regards
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@truffle1234:
i tried flashing another rom a few weeks ago, but it didn't help...
so it's better for all to stay with the stock-rom at the moment because we cannot get back to it at the moment
it's better for warranty
So if the phone is in diagnostic mode, it shouldn't properly connect to zune on the previous owner's pc,right? Let's see
it shouldn't connect normally at any pc...
ok, did the same on his pc so i got refunded...now maybe i go omnia7...the loose volume rocker and the visible sim card through the back cover have really bugged me in just one day...in any normal company who's responsible for that crap would be insta fired...i mean, didn't they produce any test device before sending the papers to production???? meh...
wp7 was nice btw
got another hd7 (no see thru battery cover, and no loose volume rocker this time!) and connected to zune flawlessly...so definetly that one was stuck in diagnostic mode
Great news, hope you enjoy it. It's a decent device and a great OS!
jimbonics said:
Great news, hope you enjoy it. It's a decent device and a great OS!
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well should be more than decent as it's supposed to be the top of htc wp7 line...but still...
i got a 2nd hd7 just because i hate big bezels around the screen...if omnia7 had a smaller case around that 4inch would definetly have been my choise
is there a fix for this? I feel like throwing my phone out the freaking window. ugh!!
What exactly is your problem turbo? What OS are you using, etc?
Here's what I can say about this.
Install Zune. Reboot your computer. Let your computer FULLY boot.
Plug in your phone. Seriously be patient and let your PC think for a good 3-5 minutes. The first time it goes through this it is NOT a quick process.
Lumia 820 jailbroken, it worked but it was not so smoothly and doesn't even good for jail broken. I tried my lumia 820 jail broken damn delay
Need have a good processor and good ram only jail break will get a good result
Um... assuming you mean Developer Unlock then yes it is actually possible. My Lumia 920 is dev unlocked (or as you call "Jailbroken"). I cannot seem to understand the second part, are you claiming that your device became slower after the dev unlock and you want to upgrade your processor and RAM?
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Um... assuming you mean Developer Unlock then yes it is actually possible. My Lumia 920 is dev unlocked (or as you call "Jailbroken"). I cannot seem to understand the second part, are you claiming that your device became slower after the dev unlock and you want to upgrade your processor and RAM?
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UM... Seriously updated to JAILBROKEN will be delay, so I updated my window phone with RAM, Processor can't be update
So you can try many fun in window phone, it many fun in window phone like computer :0
I don't know what your native language is, but could you please type your post in that and then use an online translator to English? I can't understand what you're trying to say at all. You can't upgrade the RAM in a Windows Phone (or any other phone that I know of) unless you just mean switching models. It has nothing to do with dev-unlock or any other "jailbreak" sort of feature anyhow. There's no "jailbreak" for Windows Phone 8 right now, although there is an official Developer Unlock feature which allows a limited number of low-permission sideloaded apps. Despite the name, Windows Phone is not much like Windows; there's no Desktop mode, you can't access the file system or registry except through the extremely low-privilege (sandboxed) apps and the indirect control of the Settings (Control Panel, basically) section. You certainly can't run Windows (Client, as in, desktop/laptop PC) software on Windows Phone, even with developer unlock.
So I read that the Lumia Black update is out now and other 520/521 based phones have it, at least on ATT. Is there anyway to download the update and manually flash it to the phone? If they are not releasing this update for our phones, I fear they will never release the 8.1 update either when it comes out Also does anyone else have issues transfering files from their pc to their phone? It takes an extremely long time, slow phone write speed I assume, and half the time it times out altogether. I am running Windows 8.1 and have a good computer so I know its not on that end.
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So I read that the Lumia Black update is out now and other 520/521 based phones have it, at least on ATT. Is there anyway to download the update and manually flash it to the phone? If they are not releasing this update for our phones, I fear they will never release the 8.1 update either when it comes out Also does anyone else have issues transfering files from their pc to their phone? It takes an extremely long time, slow phone write speed I assume, and half the time it times out altogether. I am running Windows 8.1 and have a good computer so I know its not on that end.
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If you can't get it OTA, use NCS to check, download and flash new firmware (if it's available). Guide for that is somewhere on this forum, search for it.
I'm assuming you're talking about USB transfer? Try a different cable and port, though any USB 3.0 ports you may have shouldn't make any difference because the phone still uses 2.0.
DaviUnic said:
If you can't get it OTA, use NCS to check, download and flash new firmware (if it's available). Guide for that is somewhere on this forum, search for it.
I'm assuming you're talking about USB transfer? Try a different cable and port, though any USB 3.0 ports you may have shouldn't make any difference because the phone still uses 2.0.
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Thanks for the reply, Ya i checked for updates using the software and it is sadly still not available yet I guess. As for the cable thing, I tried with multiple cables in multiple ports on multiple computers, my 521 just takes forever to transfer via usb, its bad I actually have to take out my sd card and use a card reader if I want to transfer something fast or even at a normal pace. Many times the file copy will get hung up during the transfer and the only way to cancel it is to unplug the phone from the computer mid transfer. Is my 521 defective or do they all have terrible write speeds?
slyr114 said:
Thanks for the reply, Ya i checked for updates using the software and it is sadly still not available yet I guess. As for the cable thing, I tried with multiple cables in multiple ports on multiple computers, my 521 just takes forever to transfer via usb, its bad I actually have to take out my sd card and use a card reader if I want to transfer something fast or even at a normal pace. Many times the file copy will get hung up during the transfer and the only way to cancel it is to unplug the phone from the computer mid transfer. Is my 521 defective or do they all have terrible write speeds?
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More than likely it's a bad unit...
I've had gdr3 for a while, but no black. By the time black comes out 8.1 will probably be released via developers program. I'm thinking black will be released this month though for 521. Kind of weird the best selling Nokia phones are getting black so late. That's T-Mobile for you.
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aclegg2011 said:
I've had gdr3 for a while, but no black. By the time black comes out 8.1 will probably be released via developers program. I'm thinking black will be released this month though for 521. Kind of weird the best selling Nokia phones are getting black so late. That's T-Mobile for you.
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but then again they are the lowest-end models.
If you stick to the Preview for Developer's program, you should get Update 3 (previously GDR3) and 8.1 in the future.
As for Nokia firmware like Black and Amber, they are mostly independent of MS's updates.
hi, hope you are all well.
This is a bit of a long shot but got to be worth a try as we have come to a brick wall and desperately need some help.
To cut a long story short, as some background for you, a friends Nokia Lumia 800 Windows 8 was stolen by some skank head, the phone had cherished pictures containing the photos of her new borns when they were very ill in hospital. No other backups..we have the phone back but it has been restored to factory settings.
here is the problem, as it does not have a memory card and the storage is internal we cannot get the drive to be recognised by windows as 'a drive'
it states that it is 'generic hierarchial' and I cannot get any software to pick it up. have managed to edit the registry so it shows up as storage and can access it but recovery software just doesn't 'see' the drive. They are MTP and use 128bit bitlocker for encryption.
Can anyone please help with this? the family are gutted and I would really like to find a way to at least try and recover something from it.
thank you for reading and look forward to any help and replies you can offer.
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Lumia 800 is WP 7.x not WP 8.
For WP7 only Zune can sent media to the phone.
When the Lumia 800 was new, there was a bootloader hack to get it into USB Mass Storage Mode (this is how the first custom ROMs for the 800 were made). Unfortunately, Nokia patched that out really quickly, and prevented downgrading to that bootloader version. So unless the phone is missing a whole lot of updates, there's no way to get block-device-level access from your PC.
With that said, I haven't been following the Lumia 800 hacking scene recently, but it's possible that there's a way to root the phone. If so, a high-privilege app could (theoretically) get direct access to the storage and attempt to extract the images that way (basically, the kind of software you'd have run on the PC, but run it on the phone instead). That would be a lot of work to write such an app, though.
Also, if Bitlocker was enabled before the hard reset, the data is going to be quite unrecoverable. Bitlocker uses a different master key each time it is "turned on" and cracking AES is not something you can do by whining at people hard enough.
I realize this isn't what they want to hear, but... this is why you back things up! I don't like the "automatically upload my images to Sky/OneDrive" option, but it's there; if you choose not to use it then you're taking responsibility for keeping your photos safe yourself.
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When the Lumia 800 was new, there was a bootloader hack to get it into USB Mass Storage Mode (this is how the first custom ROMs for the 800 were made). Unfortunately, Nokia patched that out really quickly, and prevented downgrading to that bootloader version. So unless the phone is missing a whole lot of updates, there's no way to get block-device-level access from your PC.
With that said, I haven't been following the Lumia 800 hacking scene recently, but it's possible that there's a way to root the phone. If so, a high-privilege app could (theoretically) get direct access to the storage and attempt to extract the images that way (basically, the kind of software you'd have run on the PC, but run it on the phone instead). That would be a lot of work to write such an app, though.
Also, if Bitlocker was enabled before the hard reset, the data is going to be quite unrecoverable. Bitlocker uses a different master key each time it is "turned on" and cracking AES is not something you can do by whining at people hard enough.
I realize this isn't what they want to hear, but... this is why you back things up! I don't like the "automatically upload my images to Sky/OneDrive" option, but it's there; if you choose not to use it then you're taking responsibility for keeping your photos safe yourself.
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hi, many thanks for your reply, I was sort of resigned to the fact all was lost but thought I'd at least try. I always back things up and advise all my friends to do so, this particular phone had come through a friends boyfriend who I didn't know and hadn't backed up, then the phone was stolen.
The phone was restored to factory settings so I am assuming it has had no updates since then, it is on Bootloader 7.41.0.0 Windows 7.8
Do you looked in the Live Account Online, if the option was set on the Camera, they will Upload all Pics to your live Account.
A6C9 plus 3G
I have flashed supercows android 5 and reisntalled win 10.
The problem i have now is of course the SD in android-
And more important i have 3G in Windows but no sim card can be detected in android?
No camera in android, but fully working in Windows.
And last, in Windows when i touch the screen it slightly responds about 1 cm under my finger.
I can press the screen but i have to point it slightly over the item i wanna open.
This is very annoying, can this be fixed???
I have tried Stock rom, and mireks rom and no Luck on simcard,sdcard,or camera..
If this is bios issue can i reflash it With an older rom again, but does anyone have it??
Many thanks for all help!!
Edit. I have played around With some IMEI apps and it seems like my IMEI is missing, I have it on a sticker on the back of my x98 but the only imei chamger i have partially managed to work needs 16 digit imei and i have a 15 digit on the back..
Also. Since its working in Windows 10 it seems like android needs some drivers to Connect to the simcard, but where do i find them and how do i install them??
This is driving slightly mad, i have worked on this now for almost 7 days With installing, reinstalling, deleting, flashing bios etc etc and now im very very Close, but i only miss 3G.
Also- if nyone With the A6C9 can send me the touchsettings.gt file in C:windows/INF i would be very happy to see if thats more correct.
I tried to calibrate screen, but that made it Incredible worse so i wont do that again..
Ill buy a beer for the one who help me fix this..
what tool u are use for edit the IMEI ? please tell me..
Thanks
Well. No app worked.
Sold this POS tablet and bought a new PIPO W6S wich works way better!!!
Let be detecting 3G in andriod.
suddenly A6C9 plus 3G sim card not be detect.
solution is only one. (no rootting)
1. Install IMEI changer app. and than run.
2. Input IMEI code. and than apply.
3. run windows mode change app.
4. windows os : run android mode changer sw.
5. will be detect SIM card.
but. it is temporary method.