Windows Phone Homebrew Hits a Snag 185
symbolset writes "TheNextWeb is reporting that the first official jailbreak for Windows Phone 7, ChevronWP7, has 'sold out' of tokens to enable homebrew application support. Only 10,000 tokens to jailbreak Windows Phones were ever granted. According to an announcement through ChevronWP7's Twitter feed, they're discussing whether they will ask Microsoft to make more available. With Lumia falling flat in Europe Microsoft needs all the enthusiastic modding fans they can get."
Re:Nokia Lumia (Score:5, Informative)
Lumia was not even available to buy in sweden until this january.
Nokia Lumia demand boringly flat (Score:5, Informative)
Erm, try again:
European customers yawning at Microsoft/Nokia Windows phone. [forbes.com] ... lukewarm response in Europe despite rock-bottom dumping prices financed by Microsoft who badly wants Android to fail.
Re:Nokia Lumia (Score:5, Informative)
Well I'd trust the mainstream tech media to give some reliable numbers on Lumia sales rather than an MS astroturfing site.
Let's see: El Reg [theregister.co.uk], Grauniad [guardian.co.uk], Gizmodo [gizmodo.co.uk], and many others..
Re:ChevronWP7 (Score:4, Informative)
If you've got a Samsung phone, head on over to WindowBreak [windowsphonehacker.com]. It'll give you developer access and native execution abilities, even starting from a locked-down 7.5 (Mango).
Re:So.... (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, desktop Linux is secure enough for only semi-loud malware story about it to be "someone uploaded trojan shell script masked as a Gnome addon to a third-party Gnome addons site, some people actually downloaded it and some even ran it". Can't remember did it try to get user to sudo it or just did what it could with user's permissions.
Server Linux, on the other hand, is very attractive target as it hosts a big part of the web and targeted software is not Linux per se, but usually buggy CMS's and unpatched Apache installations.
Windows, on the other hand, has a few nice MS-introduced OS level vulnerabilities discovered this year - not to forget about the beautiful times brought by LoveSan and alikes.
Re:Nokia Lumia demand boringly flat (Score:5, Informative)
Microsoft does collect money on iPhones - they contain no small amount of Microsoft tech as well (Exchange ActiveSync licensing, etc).
Re:Nokia Lumia (Score:4, Informative)
Perhaps because it is a dead end. Advertised as such since over six months before it launched, which makes the average consumer scratch their head and wonder wtf is going on in Nokia's marketing department.
Re:ChevronWP7 (Score:5, Informative)
What do you mean, locked out of the system? Use WindowBreak, then go install WP7 Root Tools (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265321) using the free dev tools for app deployment. You'll have access to almost anything, limited only by what the dev of WP7 Root Tools has implemented so far. There are a handful of other apps out there that will also work, such as from http://touchxperience.com/ [touchxperience.com] and elsewhere on the XDA-Devs WP7 hacking forum (http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=606).
WindowBreak is an easy way to "interop-unlock" a Windows phone. Interop-unlock means you can can install and run apps that call into high-privilege drivers, breaking out of their sandboxes. Immediately, that opens up a lot of potential, but it also means you can run code as TCB (the WP7 equivalent of "root" or "Administrator"). Apps like WP7 Root Tools take advantage of this to enable a wide variety of functionality, though the current version only enables doing so on Samsung phones (the high-privilege drivers being different from each OEM).
Incidentally, there are other ways to interop-unlock other phones. LG phones actually ship with a built-in registry editor that can be used to dev-unlock (install app packages) and interop-unlock (install high-privilege homebrew packages) the phones - there's absolutely no need for ChevronWP7 or the official AppHub account (which does the same thing, plus allowing you to submit apps to the Marketplace). HTC phones (the first-generation ones) can be interop-unlocked if they are already dev-unlocked. Their bootloaders can also be "unlocked" to allow custom updates (modify the current ROM) or full custom ROMs, with most of the latter having excellent support for homebrew (the kinds of changes that WP7 Root Tools can make being applied by default, obviously already being interop-unlocked, and having the ability to install app packages directly from the phone without needing a PC).
Nokia, Dell, and Toshiba/Fujitsu phones do not have known interop-unlocks yet, nor do second-generation HTC phones. People are working on this, though.