xda-developers

You can now run an Android port on the Nintendo Switch

1 year

Thanks to the smart folks over at XDA Developers, you can now use your Nintendo Switch as an Android device. The hard work put in by XDA Senior Member langer hans and XDA Junior Member bylaws means that any hackable Nintendo Swi...

Chrome for Android is getting a super-useful desktop feature

by Surur

2 years

Based on Chromium commits, XDA-Developers have managed to reverse engineer and enable a great new feature Google is working on for the Chrome browser for Android. The feature will make it much easier to switch tabs when using the ...

New app lets you back up your app data for Interop Unlocked Windows 10 Mobile phones

by Surur

4 years

Despite the presence of APIs to back up app data to OneDrive some apps, especially games, do not do a good job of backing and restoring their state after a hard reset. If you have an interop unlocked windows 10 mobile handset (pos...

So you always wanted your Windows 10 Mobile UI to use Comic San Serif (hack)

by Surur

5 years

Windows Phone has always been known for its stylish user interface, including its understated Segoe font. For some people having only one font in their user interface is a bit too limiting however, which is why XDA-Developers hack...

A fix for the Project Astoria Missing Keyboard bug

by Surur

5 years

The latest build of Windows 10 Mobile TP 10512 brings a nasty bug to its Project Astoria environment where apps are no longer able to activate the soft keyboard, taking much of the fun out of the side-loading party we have been...

Latest builds of Windows 10 Mobile jailbroken/Interop Unlocked

by Surur

5 years

It seems unifying Windows Phone and Windows has drawn the attention of people with some special skills, as the hacks involving the OS just keeps rolling in. The latest is a partial jailbreak/Interop unlock of the OS which lets you...

New hack delivers Windows Mobile 10 Technical Preview to nearly any Windows Phone 8.1 handset, no microSD requ...

by Surur

6 years

A new hack has been discovered on XDA-Developers which will allow Windows Phone users to install Windows 10 Mobile Technical Preview on nearly any Windows Phone 8 handset. The hack used fiddler to trick the WindowsInsider app to c...

Stupidly simple hack may crack open Windows Phone 8.1

by Surur

6 years

The hackers on XDA-Developers never rest, and their latest exploit may have found a wide open hole in Windows Phone 8.1. XDA hacker DJAmol has found that simply by replacing the contents of a trusted OEM app that has been moved to...

XDA-Dev hacked Live Lock Screen shows the potential of the new feature

by Surur

6 years

One of the new features of Windows Phone 8.1 is Live Lock screens, which allows 3rd party developers to create their own interactive lock screens which overlay the actual Windows phone lock screen. Microsoft is however currently l...

Nokia Lumia 520 Interop unlocked the hard way

by Surur

7 years

LordMaxey on XDA-Developers has managed to Interop unlock the Nokia Lumia 520 using the JTAG approach. This hardware-based hack uses a Advanced Turbo Flasher box and clips which connects directly to the chipset of a disassembled h...

How about booting up Windows Phone 8.1 on your netbook?

by Surur

7 years

Bored geeks can do some rather interesting things, such as XDA-Developer member Moonlits, who, failing to get the leaked WP 8.1 SDK running on his PC, decided to grab the disk image included and try and boot it up on his old netbo...

Rooted Nokia X shows why Android is not the platform for Microsoft to differentiate on

by Surur

7 years

Well, that did not take long. Even before the first Nokia X has shipped the handset has already been rooted by XDA-Developers, and Google suite of applications , including Google Play Store, various Google Apps, and the Google E...