Insider & registry hack for 520, 920, 1020 rebirth?

[Maurizio Troso]

I red days ago about some registry hack to fool the Update check in order to install Redstone on unsupported Lumias (it seems someone did it on a 520, I can't believe if I don't see!)

Same strategy could be used to made 520, 920 or 1020 seem like 530, 930, 1520 ? :wink:

And so make them enter in official updates stream?

EDIT: or am I totally fool?

 

[abhishek singh21]

I red days ago about some registry hack to fool the Update check in order to install Redstone on not supported Lumias (it seems someone did it on a 520, I can't believe if I don't see!)

Same strategy could be used to made 520, 920 or 1020 seem like 530, 930, 1520 ? :wink:

And so made them enter in official updates stream?

EDIT: or am I totally fool?

this is indeed true and easily reversible.
Hack: Windows 10 Mobile Redstone Build 14267 on any Lumia

i am not sure that actually made those devices get the latest build but it did works on getting you the Redstone build at present

 

[JIPPY422]

Well i m using lumia 535 with redstone build 14291 installed and it is working really good. I did it with that registry method.

 

[JIPPY422]

It really works ..i have installed it last week on lumia 535 and 525

 

[Maurizio Troso]

this is indeed true and easily reversible.
Hack: Windows 10 Mobile Redstone Build 14267 on any Lumia

i am not sure that actually made those devices get the latest build but it did works on getting you the Redstone build at present

Then I'm not completely fool... maybe it could work even after the end of 10586 build support :grin:
A permanent Release Preview state!
And phones could use Windows 10 updated
I'll try on my 520

 

[abhishek singh21]

maybe it could work even after the end of 10586 build support

yup maybe

I'll try on my 520

good luck

 

[JIPPY422]

i installed RS build after upgrading to 10586.164. as i just did it as experiment and to my luck it was successful. but do it carefully, you may harm your device if you do any mistake while doing it.
GOOD LUCK BRO

 

[Maurizio Troso]

Let's bring this 3ad up then

 

[JIPPY422]

sure

 

[pankaj981]

Those Redstone builds are buggy at present and not optimized for the 512MB phones (and will never be).

 

[JIPPY422]

i didn't see any thing like that..i have redstone build on my two devices....but yeah none of them is 512 mb

 

[Maurizio Troso]

Those Redstone builds are buggy at present and not optimized for the 512MB phones (and will never be).

Just as try on a backup device

It's a matter of MS fairness

 

[JIPPY422]

 

[Pratyush Jayachandran]

Hey! This is interesting.
If anyone is able to run the RS build on 512MB devices do post.

 

[Maurizio Troso]

It really works ..i have installed it last week on lumia 535 and 525

With Windows Phone Application Deployment 8.1 I tried to install vcReg 1.5 but I got an error: The manifest could not be loaded and may not be valid

 

[anon(3463402)]

With Windows Phone Application Deployment 8.1 I tried to install vcReg 1.5 but I got an error: The manifest could not be loaded and may not be valid

Same here with 8.1.

Worked with 8.0:
Zippyshare.com - WP8.0 SDK Tools Lite Setup Av1.20.zip

 

[Torcher Death]

Ok so has anyone been successful in upgrading a 512mb device yet??

 

[Guytronic]

Moved to Development and Hacking.

I'm hoping most of you aren't going to try the registry hack on phones your using daily.
You won't be happy.

Tread with caution.

 

[Qtweeder]

just doing this on my 1020, that was on 10.0.10586.164 insider preview

couple of things i had to do which differ from steps mentioned in the link;

vcREG_1_5_W10M.xap installed fine via application deployment from sdk

CustomPFD_0600.xap wouldn't deploy, giving error (0x81030120)

so had to deploy Root_Tool.xap

then the CustomPFD_0600.xap installed

also, i didn't need to change the PhoneManufacturerModelName of my phone at all, only changed the PhoneManufacturer in the registry from NOKIA to MicrosoftMDG

then i changed to release preview ring (not sure if i needed to do that), which downloaded a configuration update, after that, changed to fast ring and am now in the midst of receiving 10.0.14291.1001

fingers crossed.

p.s. i didnt need to hard reset or anything, just went from what i was on to the new one. all data/apps intact etc

 

[ven07]

Just adding this.. If any of you are doing the reg hack and are "emulating" one of the official supported phones, at least make sure that you turn off automatic updates. If firmware is pushed for the device you are emulating and it installs automatically there might be scaling issues or worse.

Keep in mind that unsupported phones aren't supposed to be on .14291 so don't go telling everyone that this is equal to "gold". If you know what you are doing and if the older builds behaved on your phone, go ahead and give it a shot, but if anything goes wrong, it's on you.

Like the others have stated it's probably best to do this on a backup phone and not the one you use daily