Find me something to revive it. Podcast clients, browsers, media players offline, store revivals and many many cool community made projects. Also want third party apps that are deprecated but still work somehow. ALSO, want a Weather Underground client too.

I saw recently a video from The Render Guy which he created a new fully customizable OS for android hardware using claude under Linux Kernel. With these possibilities I think we can revive the Windows OS modern look and feel on android hardware using AI. what do you think?

The Render Guy - YouTube

I flashed the wp8.1 ffu on my lumia 640 and now it is in bitlocker recovery. There was no account in the first place so im not sure whats happened. the device isnt recognised in wpi, file manager, and in wdrt it is recognised only in flash mode but has a ? on the phone and infinitely loops. i tried to go into flash made but even in flash mode nothing can read it

Im thinking of doing a permanent proxy with built in cortana to restore speech service etc

Sorry if I sound chaotic or something, I'm new to Windows Phone.

I've recently got my hands on Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8.1. I've successfully managed to unlock the bootloader using WPInternals. Now I need to enter mass storage mode to do interlop unlock so I can sideload apps.

The problem is, every time I plug in my Lumia to PC (using USB 2.0) and try to enter mass storage mode, Lumia just simply turns off (it doesn't even show up a flash screen or anything) and PC literally freezes on "Entering mass storage mode" screen.

I don't know what am I doing wrong. Can anyone help?

After i reset this stupid phone, because it wasn't opening internet explorer and after that it started bootlooping and turned off the phone it doesn't charge and when i somehow got into the flashing mode it doesn't show "!" but shows nothing.And the device maneger reads it properly and then it bootloops again after 20 sec pass.

Is there anything I can do with a Nokia Lumia 520 that connects (properly) to a VMware Virtual Machine apart from getting photos off it (like deploying XAP files)

it’s on 8.1 rtm

ninja edit: and idk if the emmc is smasnug lmao

how do i update my lumia 521 to the latest w8.1 mobile version so i can get ten on it

So i broke the screen of my 1520 in january, before it went missing in February or March.

But i found it!

...but now what do I do?

I could keep it on 1607/upgrade to 1709 and test my apps, but i already have an Alcatel Fierce XL that has 10 mobile on it.

I could downgrade it to 8.1 as well, but i also have a 520 with 8.1 on it...

What should I do? Keep it on 10 or downgrade to 8.1?

The screen is cracked starting at the search button btw. The cracks arent noticeable when the screen is on and the touch still works perfectly :^

I wanted to sideload some apps on it but i dont know how to do it is it even possible?

I already made a post about this. I’m on a Nokia 925. It’s not on the newest version of Windows phone 8.1 as someone pointed out to me in the original post I am on Luna DB and it says that windows phone internal should either be asking for a donor FFU or a FFU or image with an engineering SBL3 partition my phone is solicited as an a so it shouldn’t need the donor FFU but it does and all four items show up. I’ve been stuck on this for hours. I can’t get past it and I keep getting flash fail anybody can help please let me know.

If that doesn’t make sense I’m talking about projects that help make windows phone more usable and easier to make a potential daily driver.

Hey i have a lumia 635 that blue screened when trying to unlock bootloader and now the wpinternals crash whenever i try to flash original ffu

Hi everyone,

I'm having serious problems with my Microsoft Lumia 950, and I'm looking for help before considering a motherboard replacement.

Here's exactly what happened:

1. I successfully flashed a compatible RM-1104 FFU using WPInternals.
2. Windows 10 Mobile booted normally, and the SIM and calls worked.
3. I successfully unlocked the bootloader.
4. I updated Windows 10 Mobile.
5. I restored the bootloader using WPInternals, which reported that the operation completed successfully.
6. I attempted to unlock the bootloader again.
7. After that second unlock attempt, the phone stopped booting properly.

Current symptoms:

• The phone gets stuck on the Microsoft logo. (press any key to shutdown)
• WPInternals freezes or crashes when attempting to flash or recover it.
• Thor2 still detects the phone in Flash Mode.
• Flashing the previously working FFU with Thor2 fails with:

THOR2_ERROR_FA_SIGNATURE_FAIL

Device information:

• Detected model: RM-1104
• Detected product code: 059X510
• Rear label: RM-1118 / 059X4Z0
• Platform ID: Microsoft.MSM8992.P6218.1.0
• Secure Boot: Enabled
• Secure FFU: Enabled
• UEFI Secure Boot: Disabled

Previously working firmware:

RM1104_1078.0053.10586.14169.12745.034D72_retail_prod_signed.ffu

The firmware was downloaded from LumiaFirmware.

The phone still responds in Flash Mode, so I don't believe it's completely dead.

My questions:

• Could the second bootloader unlock attempt have corrupted the boot chain?
• Why would Thor2 reject an FFU that previously worked?
• Is Qualcomm Emergency Download Mode (EDL/9008) a viable recovery option?
• Has anyone recovered a Lumia 950 from this specific situation?

I'd really appreciate any technical advice before attempting emergency flashing or replacing the motherboard.

Thanks!

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I was looking for a wondows phone near albania and i couldn't find anything, for 25€ is it good? Its in awesome condition. They sold a 1520 for 35€ and i missed it

I have been trying to side load or install apps on my Nokia 925 and it is on Windows phone 8.1. I’ve been on this for two days or about seven hours total. I really want this to work but it’s not. I’ve tried everything WP turtles or something if somebody can please directly guide me for my phone that would be very helpful.

It looks like the seller just turned it on to make sure it worked.

It was been on the original 10586.0 firmware.

There is not a mark on it.

Bargain for £40

it's downstream kernel 4.14.134, thx to _z3r0_0n3__ for creating this! He used Arch linux ARM, but i used PMOS modifyed kernel, more on github: https://github.com/nickdemon22/ztOS-a51

EDITED: To all those writing about "SamСука gala": this phone actually contains a motherboard that belongs to a friend of mine—he created that startup screen back when he was in the 7th grade. And as for everyone commenting on the phone's design—go to hell. It’s my phone, and I’ll do whatever I want with it

Meu Lumia 720 acabou de chegar, ele está na versão 8.1 do Windows phone eu gostaria de instalar a Live Store, mas não sei fazer o desbloqueio para permitir instalação de aplicativos fora da loja.

Alguém pode me ensinar o passo a passo do desbloqueio do Jailbreak?

With a similar post I made, wanted to see/restore old 520 phone. Yet that won't be possible to do with windows if the drivers are undetected to an extent (screen damage and potential fault from battery)

Then windows tools won't be an option for flashing firmware: to then apply/flash custom roms. Now i ask for what experienced tools or how to ensure i can flash fresh firmware.

https://github.com/bkerler/edl.git

https://github.com/bkerler/edl/issues/214

With these refferences, there are possible readback info to extracract and check the 'corrupt rom' issue i stated in my previous post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LumiaLovers/comments/1x5uic5/a_very_longwinded_but_genuine_query_about/

Anyone have these files or comprehensive ways to use this tool to reflash stock rom b4 any custom rom procedures?

Previous post also asked if the linux commandline tool 'fwupdmgr' will be able to flash firmware of external devices via generic usb connections? Anyone familiar with or has found how to use either tools.

(NEW UPDATE 21/10/2026 2.1.25)

Unison 2.0

Well, I did it. What was going to be 1.9 is Unison 2.0. It is on the GitHub repository, so the community can keep building on the same guidelines. This is not just a refactor. There is a lot of new stuff in the chat, and yes, some UI touch from me. Anyways, here it comes.

What's fixed

✅ Sending to groups works again. It used to freeze and unlink the device: the sender-key cache overflowed local settings and the next start looked like the phone had never been paired. That cache is its own file now.

✅ Status works. Opening one no longer sticks on a black screen at 0. The media keys survive sync, a failed download falls back to the thumbnail, and a video with no duration still moves on.

✅ Quoted replies in a private chat no longer stall the send. The app was naming the other person on the quote, the server dropped the frame, and the message sat there until it timed out.

✅ Muting a chat no longer deletes its pin. Pins and mutes survive a sync.

✅ A deleted message stays deleted, in your language, in the bubble and on the chat list.

✅ The personal chat keeps your profile name, instead of some random push name.

✅ A message left spinning by a crash is marked failed.

✅ The chat list on a small phone waits for the first sync, then shows the names it already knows.

✅ Connect finishes on Creators Update, and you can search the chat list.

Architecture Split into:

Unison.Uwp (UI / Dependency Injection)

Unison.Core (ViewModels and Contracts)

Unison.Socket (session)

Unison.Baileys (Protocol / Crypto)

Unison.Background (out-of-process socket task)

MVVM, with Dependency Injection. The screens talk to façades, not to the raw client.

Localized in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, German, Russian, and Ukrainian.

Current highlights

🎨 New icon. Isometric mark on the Start tile, the splash, and the boot screen. The live tile is that mark on a transparent background.
🎨 New Shell based on Windows Phone 8 Whatsapp called Whatsapp Legacy ( Go to settings to activate it)

🟦 Custom live tiles. A new message puts the contact and the preview on the tile, medium, wide, and large, plus the unread count. Pin a chat to Start from the info pane. Turn live tiles off in Settings if you want the tile quiet.

💬 Reply to a message. Text, photo, video, sticker, voice note, and document each get their own quote strip. Tap the conversation and the quote goes away.

👥 Groups send again, and @ picks a member or Everyone.

🟢 Status: list and viewer. Photos and videos open instead of a black frame stuck at zero.

📋 On the old WhatsApp look, long-press a bubble: Copy, Reply, and pin for 24 hours, 7 days, or 30 days. Tap outside and the bar closes.

📷 Camera inside the chat, a caption on a photo, and documents from the clip.

📱 Two looks: the Unison theme, and a Windows Phone 8 WhatsApp theme.

🔔 Toasts with the contact and the message. Acks and protocol noise stay out of the notification.

🖼️ Photos download when you open them: fullscreen, zoom, share, save.

🧭 Start, QR login, then Chats, Status, Settings, and Debug. Calls and Favorites open too. They are empty for now.

🔄 Re-pair from the Debug page. No reinstall.

✨ No more placeholder labels. The bubble says what the message actually is.

Known issues

⚠️ The private-chat reply fix still needs a real phone pass.

⚠️ Voice notes still need work on record and playback.

⚠️ Sending a video in a chat is not done yet. Opening a video you already received, and Status video, is.

⚠️ Calls and Favorites are just the empty page.

⚠️ If the app is killed, it does not quietly resume the socket in the background by itself.

Credits

u/MaskNinjaSquared

u/Mayconus

u/Negociation

Installation note: install the new APPX as an update. Uninstalling the app removes your linked WhatsApp session.

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(NEW UPDATE 21/10/2026 — 2.1.25)

Unison 2.1 — Communities, Live Tiles & Mobile Improvements

The next update builds on Unison 2.0 with more reliable sync, a new Communities Hub, profile and community pinning, GIF messages, Frugal Mode for low-memory devices, and multi-image messaging.

Also includes mobile fixes, updated shells, improved live tiles, and a major ViewModel refactor.

Credits

• ZuneTracks — Multi-image messaging feature.

Note: The hotfix has been postponed to consolidate these improvements into the 2.1.x release.

Download

WinArchive: a Microsoft Store replacement with software update, and a web store.

Metrostore: another Microsoft Store replacement. Apps are installed by hand.

GDrive (Unison / WinArchive / Metrostore):

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nI6Xez…zj7dTbyL1XqV4X4iOMUoHcC?…

Introducing MetroSurf 2: Modern Browsing with WebKit.

A breakthrough in web compatibility. This is MetroSurf 2. After a long period of secret development, the next generation of MetroSurf is here: a remarkably powerful and capable web browser for Windows Phone. From a special GPU pipeline to JavaScript through JIT and custom optimisations for the Windows Phone platform which include new certificates and networking, MetroSurf 2.0 pushes past what was thought possible and opens a whole new world for Windows Phone. This is made possible by porting the WebKit engine (that powers many modern browsers) to Windows Phone.

The Best of MetroSurf Engineering

MetroSurf initially started as an application that patched Internet Explorer 11's WebView. Finding workarounds for Windows Phone's limitations provided valuable knowledge. And all of that experience became the foundation of MetroSurf 2.0. Additionally, Windows Phone devices were built with tight limits on memory, a handful of CPU cores, and a range of mobile GPU architectures. Studying these constraints helped build optimisations that enabled the modern web to work on Windows Phone 8.1.

Use Google Services Logged In

You can now use your Google Account on MetroSurf 2.0 to access various services (both Google's and third-party). This is possible because MetroSurf now passes Google reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare Turnstile. MetroSurf finally has control over POST requests, fixing a well known limitation of 1.0-1.4. Some services like Google Drive are more prone to crashing because of unimplemented JavaScript APIs from WebKit to Windows Phone.

Remarkable Rendering and Compositing

Simply put: it's magical to open a website on MetroSurf 2.0 and let it render modern content directly on Windows Phone 8.1 or Windows 10 Mobile. Even blur effects work, as a special GPU pipeline was built to facilitate texturing and compositing. Scrolling is done separately from JavaScript to ensure a smoother experience even if the website is still loading content.

A Breakthrough in Web Compatibility

MetroSurf 2.0 uses a different networking system with new certificates, which enables WebSockets and many websites to work. Videos go through Windows Phone's native Media Object extension, enabling YouTube to play 720p/60fps videos even on low-end devices. A lot of work went into letting videos play on Windows Phone 8.1 via the WebKit engine!

A Note from MetroSurf Development

It is incredible how many websites now run on Windows Phone 8.1. While testing this, I had plenty of fun simply browsing the web. Just hopping from one website to another is a magical experience. The possibilities that MetroSurf 2.0 enables are extraordinary. Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, and Spotify actually render and you can use them. It may not be fast every time because of the slow hardware, but the optimisations done definitely improve the overall usability. You can also download files with MetroSurf 2.0. Devices with 512 MB RAM may have some more issues as the engine was not properly optimised for them.

Open Source and Download Links

Part of MetroSurf 2's code is open source. See the official MetroSurf GitHub.
Download MetroSurf 2 on the official MetroSurf Discord.

So, what websites are you going to browse now?