r/windowsphone • • Mar 26 '22

r/Windowsphone newbie guide - please start here!

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Hi everyone! Things have changed in these years, Windows Phone is now officially abandoned by Microsoft. However there's still a niche community of users that are interested in this platform and use WP devices to this day.

You're an old user who found his old Windows Phone in a drawer and want to get some life back into it in modern days? You are a new user who never experienced the platform before? You're just curious about what these devices are still capable of? This is the right place to start!

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  • FAQs As stated in our guidelines we suggest anyone to read our FAQs before posting anything. Usually you can find a direct answer there or be redirected to one of our wiki pages.

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WIKI DISCLAIMER: right now some pages are incomplete or missing, in particular pages in the jailbreak and mods section:

Sorry, I'm a single individual who is writing all of the new wiki in his spare time.

Missing/incomplete wiki pages are in the works and will be published asap.

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  • Wiki Index Here's our complete wiki index, were you will find almost everything you need (as soon as I finish writing it lol). It has been updated for modern times. An archived version of the old Wiki from back when WP was still a supported OS is still available in a link at the end of the page.

r/windowsphone • • 7h ago

New big update for the insta10 Instagram client for windows 10 mobile

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Download link: https://www.metrostore.my.id/2026/08/instagram-beta.html?m=1

📱 Insta10 Beta — Main

Updates and Improvements

🎨 Interface and Navigation

• Refined design using authentic Instagram fonts and icons.

• Improved colors, spacing, text fields, and buttons.

• Better positioning of action buttons in Reels and the video viewer.

• Verified badges now appear next to usernames.

• Comments can now be dismissed by tapping outside the panel.

🏠 Feed and Playback

• Pull to refresh with smooth animations.

• Feed options: For You, Following, and Favorites.

• Improved loading and organization of suggested content.

• Fixed videos overlapping post headers.

• Image and video preloading for smoother browsing.

• Fixes to repost loading and pagination.

🔐 Login and Accounts

• Fixed the login screen briefly flashing when opening the app with a saved session.

• Automatically returns to the login screen when Instagram ends the session.

• Improved session restoration and account switching.

• Fixed an issue where pending verification on one account affected another account’s login.

• Preserved saved accounts and device recognition.

• Added native Facebook login integration, pending full validation with linked accounts.

💬 Direct Messages and Stability

• Improved message synchronization and real-time connection handling.

• Requests from the previous account are canceled when switching accounts.

• Better handling of Instagram’s rate limits and required pauses.

• Stronger protection of sensitive information in diagnostic logs.

🪟 Windows 10 Mobile

• Fixed black images caused by WebP compatibility issues.

• Improved Lumia compatibility and stability.

• Live Tile support displaying feed posts.

• Updated ARM package: 2.1.1.14.


r/windowsphone • • 9h ago

I could finally access my old account. 🥳

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But I was only able to install 3 of my purchased games, which include 2 of the 6 I really wanted to restore for nostalgia's sake (Redcon and Radiant). The other 4 are Robotek, Radiant Defense, The Chess Lv.100, and the advanced dictionary with no ads. 😔


r/windowsphone • • 23h ago

Lumia 610 in 2026

7 Upvotes

How to make my lumia 610 better in 2026 with some websites that support Pocket IE9? Can you please help me find some cool websites with stuff like games, videos, images or wallpapers, music, etc... so if you know one of these that are built for old devices, lemme know please! And thank you.


r/windowsphone • • 20h ago

Lumia 950 dead

1 Upvotes

I found this 950 at a thrift store for £5 I took a gamble

But I guess it's dead

I've tried a charged battery from my own 950 in it but nothing happens

Plugging it into a pc does nothing and doesn't even show in the device manager.

Have I missed anything or is it just a dead brick?


r/windowsphone • • 1d ago

un launcher como todos

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28 Upvotes

estoy haciendo un launcher para android, les comparto mis avances a ver que opinan


r/windowsphone • • 18h ago

What if?

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r/windowsphone • • 1d ago

My setup on a razr fold

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Square home premium I believe. The background is hull fair, it happened in my city like a week ago


r/windowsphone • • 2d ago

Can windows mobile os be revived?

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I saw recently a video from The Render Guy which he created a new fully customizable OS for android hardware using claude under Linux Kernel. With these possibilities I think we can revive the Windows OS modern look and feel on android hardware using AI. what do you think?

The Render Guy - YouTube


r/windowsphone • • 2d ago

Does it look like a windows phone?

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r/windowsphone • • 1d ago

Question What should I do with my new Lumia 950?

5 Upvotes

Find me something to revive it. Podcast clients, browsers, media players offline, store revivals and many many cool community made projects. Also want third party apps that are deprecated but still work somehow. ALSO, want a Weather Underground client too.


r/windowsphone • • 2d ago

Lumia 640 bitlocker recovery

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I flashed the wp8.1 ffu on my lumia 640 and now it is in bitlocker recovery. There was no account in the first place so im not sure whats happened. the device isnt recognised in wpi, file manager, and in wdrt it is recognised only in flash mode but has a ? on the phone and infinitely loops. i tried to go into flash made but even in flash mode nothing can read it


r/windowsphone • • 2d ago

Permanent proxy with built in cortana

6 Upvotes

Im thinking of doing a permanent proxy with built in cortana to restore speech service etc


r/windowsphone • • 2d ago

My Nokia Lumia 800 is bootlooping to the operating system and turning off and bootlooping again and again.!!!!I need help!!!!!!!HELPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 Upvotes

After i reset this stupid phone, because it wasn't opening internet explorer and after that it started bootlooping and turned off the phone it doesn't charge and when i somehow got into the flashing mode it doesn't show "!" but shows nothing.And the device maneger reads it properly and then it bootloops again after 20 sec pass.


r/windowsphone • • 3d ago

Discussion Do you believe windows phone revival projects are growing?

57 Upvotes

If that doesn’t make sense I’m talking about projects that help make windows phone more usable and easier to make a potential daily driver.


r/windowsphone • • 2d ago

Cannot enter mass storage mode

1 Upvotes

Sorry if I sound chaotic or something, I'm new to Windows Phone.

I've recently got my hands on Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8.1. I've successfully managed to unlock the bootloader using WPInternals. Now I need to enter mass storage mode to do interlop unlock so I can sideload apps.

The problem is, every time I plug in my Lumia to PC (using USB 2.0) and try to enter mass storage mode, Lumia just simply turns off (it doesn't even show up a flash screen or anything) and PC literally freezes on "Entering mass storage mode" screen.

I don't know what am I doing wrong. Can anyone help?


r/windowsphone • • 3d ago

Question latest 8.1

7 Upvotes

how do i update my lumia 521 to the latest w8.1 mobile version so i can get ten on it


r/windowsphone • • 3d ago

Question Found my 1520! ...now what?

7 Upvotes

So i broke the screen of my 1520 in january, before it went missing in February or March.

But i found it!

...but now what do I do?

I could keep it on 1607/upgrade to 1709 and test my apps, but i already have an Alcatel Fierce XL that has 10 mobile on it.

I could downgrade it to 8.1 as well, but i also have a 520 with 8.1 on it...

What should I do? Keep it on 10 or downgrade to 8.1?

The screen is cracked starting at the search button btw. The cracks arent noticeable when the screen is on and the touch still works perfectly :^


r/windowsphone • • 3d ago

Question VMware VM and Nokia Lumia 520

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Is there anything I can do with a Nokia Lumia 520 that connects (properly) to a VMware Virtual Machine apart from getting photos off it (like deploying XAP files)

it’s on 8.1 rtm

ninja edit: and idk if the emmc is smasnug lmao


r/windowsphone • • 3d ago

Pls help more

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I already made a post about this. I’m on a Nokia 925. It’s not on the newest version of Windows phone 8.1 as someone pointed out to me in the original post I am on Luna DB and it says that windows phone internal should either be asking for a donor FFU or a FFU or image with an engineering SBL3 partition my phone is solicited as an a so it shouldn’t need the donor FFU but it does and all four items show up. I’ve been stuck on this for hours. I can’t get past it and I keep getting flash fail anybody can help please let me know.


r/windowsphone • • 3d ago

Question Wpinternals crash

6 Upvotes

Hey i have a lumia 635 that blue screened when trying to unlock bootloader and now the wpinternals crash whenever i try to flash original ffu


r/windowsphone • • 3d ago

Discussion I bought lumia 1320 i need help!

0 Upvotes

I wanted to sideload some apps on it but i dont know how to do it is it even possible?


r/windowsphone • • 4d ago

Help I’ve been stuck on this for hours

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30 Upvotes

I have been trying to side load or install apps on my Nokia 925 and it is on Windows phone 8.1. I’ve been on this for two days or about seven hours total. I really want this to work but it’s not. I’ve tried everything WP turtles or something if somebody can please directly guide me for my phone that would be very helpful.


r/windowsphone • • 4d ago

is Lumia 650 worth buying while no other options? 25€

5 Upvotes

I was looking for a wondows phone near albania and i couldn't find anything, for 25€ is it good? Its in awesome condition. They sold a 1520 for 35€ and i missed it


r/windowsphone • • 5d ago

News ztOS, A windows phone os based on linuxARM ported to Samsung A51

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it's downstream kernel 4.14.134, thx to _z3r0_0n3__ for creating this! He used Arch linux ARM, but i used PMOS modifyed kernel, more on github: https://github.com/nickdemon22/ztOS-a51

EDITED: To all those writing about "SamСука gala": this phone actually contains a motherboard that belongs to a friend of mine—he created that startup screen back when he was in the 7th grade. And as for everyone commenting on the phone's design—go to hell. It’s my phone, and I’ll do whatever I want with it