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App backup 12 hour hack-a-thon challenge failed, for now.

bAN01TgAZ — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:30:40 +0000

App backup challenge

I wrote an article earlier about Rafael Rivera’s 12 hour Hack-a-thon, it was my hope that he would succeed in his self made challenge, unforunately for us, he was not successful as yet, but has let us know the challenge timer may have expired but the task will still be worked on, perhaps by more individuals. I asked Rafael for a quote to add to the story and he said the following…

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dotcompt presents Deepshining v7 custom rom for HTC

bAN01TgAZ — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:09:41 +0000

dotcompt presents Darkshining v7 rom for HTC

We received a tip from ‘dotcompt‘ telling us of the latest homebrew custom rom for the HTC HD7, It offers 8107 os with DeepShining Marketplace to obtain and update your Homebrew apps.

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DFT rom for Omnia7 nears completion

bAN01TgAZ — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:34:34 +0000

DFT Custom rom on Samsung Omnia7

I told you about dotcompt releases Deepshining custom rom for HTC HD7 earlier and I happened upon a thread over on XDA-Devs which spoke of Team DFT’s custom rom for the Samsung Omnia7. It looks like it is nearing completion as its in the ‘testing’ phase (or beta testing). I saw a post from a tester of the rom and the above pic was attached to his small comment…

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Tutorial: Cab update to 8107 ( don’t wait for the Carriers )

bAN01TgAZ — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:10:06 +0000

8107 on Omnia 7

Following the news of update 8107 being reserved for carriers that request it, I was a little frustrated to say the least,I wanted to find a work-around and in my search I found this thread on xda-dev that listed the download locations to the official update files on Microsoft’s servers, and I remembered that xboxmod & YukiXDA had released a WP Update Cab Sender batch file that uses the WPUpdate.exe file that Zune updates your phone with, so here’s a tutorial that will enable you to update your phone to the latest version (7.10.8107) with a few clicks.

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Browser based Jailbreak for Samsung Windows Phone devices

Siddhartha Kumar — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:52:06 +0000

The Windowbreak Project

Jaxbot at WindowsPhoneHacker brings us this new browser based tool which jailbreaks and interop unlocks Samsung Windows Phones without needing to purchase a Developer Unlock for $99 or ChevronUnlock for $9. The instructions are fairly simple and does not require any other tool apart from a Samsung Windows Phone, internet connectivity and the will to jailbreak. (more…)

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Custom Tiles, Windows Phone Hack

Siddhartha Kumar — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:48:35 +0000

Remember the theme app we talked about a couple of days go ? It is now available. According to the devs behind this awesome tool you will need a dev / chevron unlocked Mango windows phone. interop is not a requirement.

Features:
Customize any tile (system or third party, including Marketplace)
Use your image as a background for the tiles
Use an accent color for overlay transparency
Import themes
Export themes
A bundle of joy with easy personalization ;)

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An SMS could cripple Windows Phone .. do you really want to know how ?

Saijo George — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:48:14 +0000

It seems that Khaled Salameh has discovered a bug with Windows Phone that could cause serious problem for Windows Phone users. Its is not know if this affect all Windows Phone users at this stage but winrumors does test this out on a Samsung and HTC device and it would seem both of them are affected by the bug, the effect of which causes Windows Phone to reboot and disables the message hub and it’s said that the user will not be able to open up the messaging hub unless they do a hard reset. All it takes is a SMS to be sent to Windows Phone ( using a specific set of text ).

Thankfully Khaled Salameh and WinRumors have not made this particular info public and its a good thing , imagine the trouble if something like this were made public.

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Opera Mini on Windows Phone [Unofficial]

Siddhartha Kumar — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:51:41 +0000

Opera Mini on Windows Phone

This isn’t the official Opera Mini app released by Opera running on Windows Phone, but instead a port of the Windows Mobile version to make it work on fully unlocked Windows Phone 7 devices, courtesy of recognized developer ultrashot at Xda-Developers. (more…)

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Possible Interop Unlock for Nokia Windows Phone Devices

Siddhartha Kumar — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:12:49 +0000

Nokia Interop Unlock

Senior Member Heathcliff74 from xda-developers brings to us a new potential vulnerability that can possibly Interop-Unlock Nokia Windows Phone devices. Now this still hasn’t been tested and reported on the forums so don’t take our word on it. But if you are a curios Nokia Windows Phone user and want to try this yourself follow the steps below and let us know. (more…)

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Nokia Drive Hacked, ported to other Windows Phones

Siddhartha Kumar — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:36:17 +0000

Nokia Drive running on a Samsung Windows Phone

While Nokia declared that its Nokia Maps would be coming to all Windows Phones via the Marketplace free, it also stated that its Drive voice navigation feature would stay on its Nokia devices only. Turns out someone proved then wrong, and as we can see the Nokia Drive has been hacked to run on non Nokia devices. (more…)

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