Windows Phone 7 unlock tool released

By on Nov 26, 2010 at 3:40 PM
Software November 26, 2010

If you have a Windows Phone 7 device and are itching to get some OS tinkering in, listen up. Blog ChevronWP7 has released their first Windows Phone 7 unlocking tool for users running Windows XP SP2 or higher. The unlock will allows for “the sideloading of experimental applications that would otherwise can’t be published to the Marketplace, such as those which access private or native APIs.” The tool itself is a dead-simple executable file that requires three to four clicks to delivery its payload. If you’re interested, hit the read link and let us know how you make out.

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  • hot_4_teacher

    This boy genius needs to go to grammar school…

    • justin

      Must be posting from an android based phone :-/

      • Drakar

        I think the post might have been copied-and-pasted, so it could not have been done on a Windows Phone :)

  • Norm

    that is not news…. DROID DOES not even need jailbreaking or unlocking. You can do it all out the box. DROID!

    • http://twitter.com/brswa Brandon

      Android troll be trollin’?

  • http://twitter.com/brswa Brandon

    “to delivery it’s payload”? Jeebus Andrew, do you EVER proofread?? It’s almost to the point where I do not read your posts because all I do is look for errors. Also, this is not an unlock tool. A jailbreak or root would be a more accurate way of describing it. Please use terminology correctly if you are going to continue to write for a tech blog.

    • sirpaul

      Engadget used the term unlock. When BGR copied the article they just took the news and put it in slightly different words, duplicating the improper term usage.

      • Anonymous

        Its the right term check out XDA-Devs

      • sirpaul

        So what do you call it when you “unlock” from a carrier? I think jb/root makes more sense.

      • Anonymous

        It does make more sense that’s why when iOS and Android came out the devs made new terms..

        But it really doesn’t pose much of a problem. In one scenario you are unlocking the hardware in the other the software, the two rarely overlap. Xda is one of many mainly Windows dev communities they have over 3 million members and half a million active so when people have been calling it one thing for 7+ years changing it would actually be harder…

    • Anonymous

      If you want to be technical the first smartphones to be “jailbroken” or “rooted” where Windows Mobile and the process was called “unlocking” so calling it an unlock tool is more correct than anything else.Now I don’t have a WP7 device so I don’t know what they community calls it, but the term “unlock” goes back over twice as far as any other similar term. So maybe do a lil research before you come down so hard…

      • http://twitter.com/brswa Brandon

        It may have been the term 10 years ago. But unlock in alot of non-tech folks eyes refers to using a phone on other carriers. I understand they are essentially “unlocking” the file system, but in a post iOS and Android world, the terminology has evolved and changed to be called a root or jailbreak.
        I wasn’t intentionally coming down hard as you put it, but terms need to be clarified before the goobers beyond the tech world start covering this as news and convolute the whole situation.

      • Anonymous

        root or jailbreak makes way more sense but unlock is the right word for WP7

  • Anonymous

    NICE. Didn’t take long did it. I wonder what kind of non approved apps are available out there for WP7? Wonder if this hack will allow a user to bling out and customize a handset half way to hell like on Android?

  • Drakar

    Windows Phone 7 is the most locked-up and closed walled-garden that anyone has ever devised. This platform is more closed than iPhone.

    The only trouble is, when someone finally breaks out of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 jail, they will find there are no apps anyway. Microsoft’s Marketplace is lacking apps itself, so there aren’t any outside either.

    • Anonymous

      Give it time man. I’m sure there’s a few people out there with some cool ideas. Who knows maybe in a few years the hacks for WP7 might offer some pretty cool eye candy.

  • Emil Ghoting

    I thought AT&T was worst culprit in doing this…. Glad there is a way around it

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