Windows Phone hacked even the Lumia will have their custom ROM
A new tool allows you to unlock the bootloader of some Lumia smartphones with Windows Phone, enable root permissions and possibly even install custom ROM.
There are many users, the most passionate, who delight by installing custom ROM on their smartphone. It is a very widespread practice of Android to improve the performance of a device or to unlock certain functions that users perform even at the cost of voiding the warranty. And soon this practice could also arrive on Windows Phone, specifically on some Lumia devices.
Microsoft occasionally embraces the concept of open-source some of its products and services, but it is essentially a closed society. Even the approach of the mobile is very closed, not allowing great leeway to those who want to customize the use of your smartphone. That is why the community of ” hacker ” has been working on the operating system to try to ” open “.
Windows Phone Internals is a new tool that allows owners of smartphones Lumia family to unlock the bootloader, access the root permissions of the operating system and possibly also install custom ROMs. A little what is possible on the Android world for years, and that has made a good part of its success among the legions of fans, power-user and ” geeks “.
The creator of the tool, known as Heathcliff74, announced the news: ” I am proud to announce the immediate availability of Windows Phone 1.0 Internals “, wrote on the official website. ” This tool allows you to unlock the bootloader of some models Lumia with Windows Phone. After unlocking the bootloader, you can enable root access to your phone or create and flash custom ROMs. ”
The developer says that through access to root permissions, you can load homebrew software on your smartphone giving highest privileges. Applications can also access other sandbox of the terminal, with the tool which can also create images of entire drive backup storage of phone and access its file-system in Mass Storage Mode.
The tool supports several versions of Windows Phone 8.1 and even Windows Mobile 10, with the compatibility of the devices available in the Getting Started section of the application. We do not recommend Ubuntu running the tool and the application of the release of the rights of the root: the procedure will void the warranty on the terminal and, given the lack of experience on the software, it is likely that the smartphone goes into ” brick “, and is permanently damaged in case of an undocumented error.
The news might not be so bad for Microsoft: unlocking the bootloader and the ability to install custom ROMs on Windows Phone and Windows Mobile 10 could lead the users enthusiast platform of Redmond, gnawing to Android, with the community third-party developers that could give new life to the ecosystem of Windows Mobile.
