Hacker gets Windows RT 8.1 (WinPE) running on a Lumia 520

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Hacker gets Windows RT 8.1 (WinPE) running on a Lumia 520

Recently, we reported about Windows Phone Internals, a new tool from Heathcliff. The tool allows users to unlock the bootloader of a few Lumia devices and flash custom ROMs on their Lumia device. The tool currently supports a few Lumia devices, including the Lumia 520, 521, 525,  620, 625, 720, 820, 920, 925, 928,  1020 and 1320. Obviously, the tool is pretty risky, and may damage your device if you don’t have much knowledge about custom ROMs and bootloaders. With that being said, the tool can allow users to do some crazy things on their Lumia devices. It seems like XDA member Wack0Distractor was able to getWINDOWS 8.1 RT (6.3.9600 WinPE) running on their Lumia….520. For those unfamiliar with WinPE, it’s theWINDOWS Preinstallation Environment. Thanks to @Heathcliff74 and co. for WPinternals, without that, this wouldn’t have been possible! After patching signature checks out of winload, and adding the halexts andREGISTRY ENTRIES for those, I had to patch 1 byte in the kernel, without which a SECURITY_SYSTEM bugcheck happens during boot. I haven’t fully added any drivers yet, other than the halexts, i’ll be doing that soon. So right now touchscreen doesn’t work etc. I will probably try to get some driversWORKING in this WinPE then nothing more, this was […]

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