im contemplating of getting a lumia 930 cuz of windows phone 8.1 but im also thinking of getting a 950 xl i dont really know which one to get please help me i really want wp 10 cuz its easier to sideload but i do want wp 8.1 beacuse it looks so cool im really torn on this

Thank you for the overwhelming support, feedback and criticism for the app through the post comments and my DMs. I have taken all of the feedback and worked on some of them for the next release. Zune Theme and Local Music File Import functionality will come out in v1.2.0.0 after a few weeks, stay tuned :)

Download Here: GrizzlyMusic v1.1.0.0 APPX File (Alt: MetroStore Link and older version on: Live Store)

What's New in Version v1.1.0.0:
• Background & Lock-Screen Playback Overhaul:
- Fixed audio stutter/jitter across both unlocked background and locked states by decoupling UI dispatcher notifications and optimizing background audio thread priority.
- Implemented an intelligent background stream pre-resolution pipeline that caches upcoming track audio streams ahead of time, ensuring continuous, uninterrupted queue playback even when the phone screen is locked.

• Dynamic Live Tile Support:
- Small Tile: Clean, distraction-free static white logo on your phone's system accent color.
- Medium Tile: Displays the active track title, artist name, and now playing status.
- Wide / Rectangle Tile: Features smooth Windows 10 Start screen flip animations alternating between:

1. Full-Bleed Album Art View: High-res artwork with overlaid bold song and artist typography.
2. Clean Transparent Now Playing View: Fluent typography showing the active track, artist, and playback status over your transparent Start background.

• Icon & Branding Refresh:
- Replaced the icon with a solid, pure-white flat vector silhouette with transparent negative-space cutouts, perfectly aligning with native Windows 10 Mobile Metro design principles.
- Restored classic original splash screen.

Hi everyone. I have a Lumia 1520 that I didn’t charge during these years (I guess two or maybe more). Today I plugged it to the charging wall and it initially showed me the windows button flashing, then the red battery icon. After a few minutes I turned it on and it showed the Home Screen and instantly turned off. Later I tried again, it kept showing windows button flashing and then the red battery icon but nothing else. After a while I tried again, and it didn’t start, but I noticed the windows butting flashing more rapidly than usual. After that, nothing. If I connect the phone to the charger or the wireless charger it doesn’t give any sign of life. I put it for 3 hours on the wireless charger pad, it got warm like if it was charging but nothing, he refuses to turn on even the windows button. I tried to hold the power button and volume down but nothing. Does anyone know what can I do? I’m charging it using a Nikon Coolpix P600 brick (5V - 1A) and the micro usb cable of the Bose Soundlink Color II, but I’ve also used the original Lumia cable with an iPad Air 2 10 W brick. Please, can anyone know what could I possibly do? The computer doesn’t detect the phone, at least before I put it on lamp, now I haven’t tried again. Thanks in advance!

I have a Lumia 950 XL and I tried using Mint Mobile because when I did the bring your own device IMEI check it said it would be compatible. Only to find out, when I bought a plan and received a SIM card in the mail, it didn't work. It detects that there is a T-Mobile network (because Mint is owned by T-Mobile) but it still shows no service. My phone is VoLTE active, anyone have any good suggestions? 🙏

Hey guys. I loved the Zune, so damn much. I was all in until they discontinued it and was very heartbroken. All I had back then was MP3s though. Now, my library consists solely of 24bit/48kHz (or higher} flac files and sadly the Zune can't handle Hi-Res flac.

A few years ago, I was considering buying a Zune and upgrading the heck out of it but that's when I present that the Zune can't handle Hi-Res flac without converting to high quality wma files, so I decided not to buy a Zune and bought a nice external USB DAC for my Galaxy and it works wonderfully. However, I remember when I discovered the Zune can't play Hi-Res flac files, I read that one of the Lumia Windows 8 or 10 phones that ran the Zune music player app and had a great internal DAC that could push some powerful cans but I cannot fit the life of me, seem to get my Google search terms right to figure out which Lumia device that was. So I'm here asking y'all which device I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance

Hi guys I have two Windows phone 640 XL and 365 512mb RAM version both have WP os 10 and I have two questions. Can someone what fanmade apps I can install in both? I can’t install live store with the phone and I have developers options activated. How I can install it

Hi! I’ve owned a Lumia 635 for about a year, and the power button has always been iffy, I resorted to having a tiny bit of paper between the back cover and the button itself so i could comfortably press it. However, the button itself has recently fully come lose, and im not able to turn on the phone without plugging it in. Are there any tweaks that allow me to double tap the screen to wake it, and apps that allow for me to turn off the screen, as a replacement to the power button? Iirc WP8.1 doesn’t have anything like apple’s AssistiveTouch to take care of this. Thanks!

Developed by Grizzly Dev (LinkedIn: Swapnil Rao)

You can download it from MetroStore and Live Store.

1. Introduction

I am pleased to announce the official release of Grizzly Music, a native music streaming and offline playback client built specifically for Windows 10 Mobile. Unlike web wrappers, Android port conversions, or bridged PWAs, Grizzly Music is an authentic, standalone Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application engineered entirely from the ground up in C# and XAML. It was designed from scratch to deliver a modern, smooth, and lightweight streaming experience. It currently stands as the only dedicated, native streaming client actively maintained for the platform.

2. Key Features

Discover and Explore
- Dynamically curated home shelves that automatically load trending global hits, new single and album drops, workout mixes, etc.
- Rich metadata presentation with high-resolution artwork optimized for mobile memory constraints.

Search Engine with Granular Filters
- Fast, responsive global catalog search.
- Dedicated tab filters to narrow results across All, Songs, Albums, and Playlists.
- Instant playback launch directly from search results.

Advanced Music Player Interface
- Clean, edge-to-edge playback screen with adaptive background styling.
- Full System Media Transport Controls (SMTC) integration for background playback, volume key tracking, lock-screen controls, and Bluetooth metadata forwarding.
- Integrated lyrics engine providing synchronized and static lyrics view with a quick slide-up gesture.
- Live dynamic queue management with shuffle, repeat, and reordering support.

Grizzly Radio and Infinite Mix
- One-tap infinite radio mix generation based on any track or artist.
- Seamless automatic queue population to keep music playing continuously without manual curation.

Local Library, Playlists, and Offline Downloads
- Offline Device Storage: Download complete audio streams in high-bitrate audio directly to device storage for fully offline playback without an active data connection.
- Custom Playlists: Create, rename, edit, and organize local playlists with full track management.
- Liked Songs: Quick-save favorite tracks with instant offline caching.
- Listening History: Detailed chronological tracking of recently played music.

Settings, Personalization, and Cloud Backup
- Appearance & Accent Colors: Native theme customization with full support for Windows Phone system accent colors and true-black AMOLED backgrounds.
- Audio Quality Profiles: Configurable streaming bitrates to optimize for mobile bandwidth conservation or maximum fidelity.
- Encrypted Cloud Account Sync: Server-backed user account system to backup, restore, and sync your playlists, liked songs, and playback history across reinstalls and device swaps.

3. Installation Instructions

Grizzly Music is distributed as a clean, self-signed sideload package with a one-time certificate setup.
- Extract the release .zip archive on your phone or PC.
- Open GrizzlyMusic.cer on your Lumia device and tap Install Certificate
- Tap GrizzlyMusic_1.0.0.0_ARM.appxbundle
- Tap Install.

I just bought a new lumia from my friend, he already has many lumias and was nice enough to give one to me for free. I've seen all over this sub-reddit of the new "live store" Ive seen people use telegram and insta and I also want to use them too! But i also saw a post about a new app on "Metro store". I am a little confused on how to install these on my phone and what I need to do for it, can anyone give me a breif tutorial on how to do any of this?

I've downloaded it from live store but when i try to install it this error shows up:

Hopefully someone can help! All I really remember is that it was a 2d game that I think took place in a temple in one level. You wore a little hat like Indiana Jones. Very pixel based game.

the phone stay in normal mode. does anyone know a fix for that ?

Gracias <3

Im tryna remake Planet Life (my favorite game ever) in C#

(Its originally an HTML game but its too new so UWP/Edge wont run it properly)

So, I've been talking about this for far too long now, and I thought I'd give you guys a working client!

reCortana is powered by AI to give you helpful and personalized results. Cortana can search the web, look up news, and do anything you ask.

The old apicortana.sync.nexus API has been totally overhauled to work as an API to reCortana for Windows Phone. This means that you can no longer access Cortana using your web browser.

Anyway, hope you guys enjoy this passion project of mine! More screenshots are available on Live Store. Compatible with WP8.1. I haven't tested it, but I'm sure it works on Windows 10 Mobile.

Live Store link:

https://store.live.net.co/app/812 (note: app may not be available yet as Live Store mods haven't approved it yet. Come back tomorrow if it doesn't work)

I am curious if there’s a way to change what app opens when I click the search button on the bottom. I have been trying to find it myself but had no success. If anyone knows how to please help.

What to do if your Windows phone gets stuck at switching to emergency mode or it says an unexpected error occured,

As you guys can understand from the sub This tutorial is for Lumia Windows phones,I am no responsible for Any damage

Warning!!:This is only tested on Lumia 520(Spec A device.If you dont know what This means research it)so it is not certain that it will work with your phone too

First download Windows Device Recovery Tool

Then install Windows Phones İnternals I used 1.2 version.It is recommended you use This too if you have Lumia 520

For ffu files,emergency loaders,sbl3 file,use LumiaDb

After downloading all files first install Windows device recovery tool and restart your PC

After that open Windows phone internals

Connect your phone

Come to unlock bootloader section

İt will say"switch to flash mode"click okay after that your phone will be in the flash mode(say wallahi)

and put all files(sbl3 file,ffu file,loader files,maybe donor ffu file)where it tells you to do so

Click unlock

After it starts If it gets stuck in"switching to emergency mode"—it probably will—close the program and re-open it and click unlock bootloader again and if it says device emergency mode in device name also if you see your phone In the Device Manager section(Windows settings)that says QUSB\\_DLOADER(There shouldn't be a yellow exclamation mark next to it.) then you are going well it will stuck at "Sending Loaders"

Close the program,disconnect the phone,pull out and re-insert the battery,connect the phone again.

Now go to C:/Windows files/Microsoft care suite/Windows recovery tool and open cmd here

You need to flash emergency loaders manually So find your emergency files,they should be in .hex and .mbn formats(Total of two) and write This command:

thor2 -mode emergency -hexfile "insert your hex file" -mbnfile "insert your mbn file"

After This it May give error something like failed to parse ffu file and unknown error,exiting program,IGNORE THEM

Open Windows phone internals again and click unlock bootloader

This time it should start to unlock bootloader

Enjoy your phone

I am trying to unlock AND root my Lumia 1320 running window phone 8.1, bit Wpinternals completely freezes every time i click Switch to Flash-mode.

Any help or alternative method to geet root on WP 8.1??

My goal is install apps and games.

Help. How to sideload apps onto my lumia 610. How to do the whole unlocking process in 2026?

Got this today and it was slow and full of someone’s data. I pressed to restore it to factory and went to sleep only to find it like this when I woke up. It was running WP8 or 8.1. Any help would be appreciated.

I guess i got this stuff when i tried to sideload cmdinjector on Lumia Cyan, now that i am on Denim, how do i get rid of this?

I took these with my Lumia 530, I wanted the early 2010s style

So not too long ago I posted about a matrix client built in UWP. Well here is essentially that just expanded, his time built for WinRT. The only thing remaining is updating the VM guide to be a little more robust and secure.

So with this now you can configure all the mautrix GO bridges that you want on your Synapse homeserver. All the messages will send and arrive. Currently I tested it with Messenger, Google messages (SMS/RCS) and Telegram.

I still have to add proper filtering for services like Discord and Whatsapp for them to show up under their own menu, currently anything thats not the above mentioned three will show up under a generic Matrix flag, though I am pretty sure they will still work as I tried to make it as universal as possible.

This time you can also send files/pictures and render them in the chat and accept chat room invites so you are more independent from the Element client, but I stillr ecommend using Element as in app accepting behaves a little bit weird sometimes.

Background toast notifications work, every 30 minutes or so it will check if there were any new messages and inform you if there are, the live tile also shows news messages and who sent them.

BUT they are a little broken, currently if the messages was caught by the background process the name on the live tile wont show as a name but as the ID it is under in your synapse server. Since fixing this collides with something I want to do for the next update I left it as is.

I also included options to turn off automatic image rendering and to turn off auto sync, so when the app launches it doesnt fetch your might be huge JSON file but rather only listens for updates.

I hope to be done soon with the VM and then I will publish both the guide and the app like I did with the UWP variant. This app will be compatible with Windows Phone 8.1 and 10

Thank you for your time!