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Gonna use this thing until its death. There's no reason to upgrade as long as I can do calls, send SMS & use my Discord client on it

I’m kinda new in Windows 10 Mobile, so I would wanna know you guys, what apps should I install? Is it even worth to keep W10M instead of WP8.1?

some old images of my 950 & 640 that I found on my hard drive, so why not upload them here? :)

Hi everyone, just wanted to share that a new book about the history of Windows Phone has been recently released on Amazon. It's titled "Windows Phone: Il Sogno infranto del terzo ecosistema mobile" (The Broken Dream of the Third Mobile Ecosystem).

It covers the entire journey of the OS, from its ambitious beginning to its end. The book is currently in Italian, but it's great to see that there is still interest in documenting the history of this platform in 2026.

If anyone is interested in tech history or collects WP memorabilia, you can find it on Amazon.

Ive just been given a Nokia Lumia 925 , which seems working and unused . Ive had a look through some posts here, but I'm still not sure what I can do with this phone, of course it would be great to be able to use this phone on a daily basis , so is any thing that I could do or is the best place for the Nokia Lumia 925 in my junk cupboard .

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eXeKsVGVwq7jgKLcevgEgWrb9gCV2PNbJvA5ohoEVxo/ Please do not use 8Store or any of his apps as 8NetDude got exposed for being a pedo + much more If you want some context on what he did and what he caused,feel free to read the google doc We dont want these type of people to be roaming around in the community anymore i am honestly disgusted at this

Well, haha, I think I'll look for alternative stores, because it's been almost two weeks and my internet is working fine. I don't want to use a VPN, plus I don't know of a reliable VPN that doesn't charge me or bombard me with intrusive ads just to be able to use it, haha.

It initially opens the Store and displays the apps and games

But then when i click any apps/ games, this pops up

The current browser version on my phone is (Microsoft Edge 40.15254.603.0 & EdgeHTML 15.15254)

Is there an new versions?

Please do guide me y'all...

It vibrates and only shows this. It never goes to the actual OS. Any advice?

I love it.

My Nokia Lumia had a black screen. I put it to charge and nothing happened, but if I connected it to the PC, it detected it as something with Qualcomm 9008. I installed drivers and used the Windows Device Recovery Tool and flashed what had to be flashed,(recovery flash completed) but in the next step, where it said package installer, something that had to be installed, the phone got disconnected and when I connect it to the PC, it doesn't detect it at all. And if I don't connect my phone to anything, it stays with a black screen, but if I connect it to a PC or to the power, the screen turns on, a purple code bar appears like a terminal, and it restarts quickly and does the same thing again. I don't know if it's the battery or what, but I want to revive it.

Here is all the screenshots and proofs provided to see how stupid these dudes are towards managing or developing apps

intro:

It all started from 7evencord, where I build a simple bridge on top of html + php which acts like middle man to send datas to discord with token, which I already SET DISCLAIMER AND ALSO WARNING MESSAGE AND MARKED AS "EXPERIMENTAL" build for it, and somehow this guy has all ignored and instead focusing on what's so called "safety"

Fine! if that's so , let's see how he behaves to make this whole windows phone community + windows 8 community to become worse and worse.

**1. Sending fake hopes for WhatsWin**

Tim, the owner of W8G, have been sending messages on like "Owww wE hAv pRogrezz guys" and something like that to hype the community up,

constantly sharing fake hopes to hype the community up, listen, he is not the developer. **and what you are waiting for is a path to a dead project**, we talk about actual work, not yappin . think yourself.

**2. Forcing others to imply his own idea**

See screenshot mentioned, bro has been forcing me multiple times and also suggestting me to migrate Live Store to 8Store, and when I did not fulfill his request, what I got is him **saying I am an hypocrite and also a fake nice guy**, this is a scenario of those fake assholes who **acts like to be friendly with you and meanwhile leaves you alone after you are being a bitch or happening with wrong things..** , check screenshots of how I deny multiple times and bro still decides to do that.

**3. Mocking Russian developers and also Crtisizing Developer Projects**

Looking at the so called OneLive team, from screenshots you can see how they decided to throw off things for themselves, an totallt **selfish action** just to gain them popularity. remember, that's what they called for a team work.

**4. Rewired store is a joke, full of empty promises**

They keep talking about some store in Rewired, but let’s be real — they won’t do it. They encrypt XAP installers, so nothing will ever work properly and nobody can even check what’s inside. It’s all just feeding people fake promises while hiding behind locked files. Pure clownery.

**5. They literally don’t give a shit about other projects, only their own**

All they care about is pushing their own stuff and getting attention for it. Other people’s work? They don’t give a damn. Zero respect for anything that isn’t theirs, just selfish from day one. That’s the real face of their “team”.

You May also check the screenshots I provided, and I will be writing off a documentation to give them a *Best* memory of their life.

I rarely fight back, but idiots make me do so.

hey so 2 weeks ago I picked up this Lumia 535 for free with the intent of turning it into a project webserver for my personal static link aggregator site, simple blog running blog.sh or smth. like that. Which prior to writing was failxontour.de but in the future will reside in any shape or form on f4il.de not rying to advert for my site. So mods if you think this is inappropiate just remove it. Just if you wanna find the github/codeberg project that way it's easier.

But I failed at flashing with Windows Phone internals. Even after reading a bit into the reddit wiki and newbies guide so please bare with me. I'm not intentionally stupid.

As brief sidebar​ i also decided to delete last week my Windows 10 (Tiny 10 @ 21H2) / Enterprise LTSC "flash station" that's what I call the vintage Dell Inspiron Zino 400HD which I also picked up 2nd hand a few months ago bcs. short on budget this is my main computer and with that OS it was running terribly slow. And for now I put Alpine Linux 3.23 / with x and xfce de on it. But prior to that as in the seen in the screenshots it picked up the Windows phone just fine after installing drivers. Would you recommend using a specific Windows 8.1 build or enviorment for flashing Windows phones or just go for the latest and greatest edition of windows?

I managed to download some firmware for it from lumiafirmware.com and wanted to verify if I found the right corresponding emergency files and ffu for the device. As that could not be automatically be downloaded via WPI as i suppose the server adress is dead/archived for the project as I am not common with flashing if someone could provide me with some helpful assistance, guidance after checking the newbie section on flashing I personally think I understand how to update it to W10M what be one common goal here to get it to function properly here.

But I still have a few questions from my current version is this a preview dev version build? Could I update straight to the newest version or just as with a Windows desktop do I need to pick up any partial update, kbu as update servers seem dead to me? What do you run on your Lumia 535? Does updated Windows 8.1 M still have active download servers & store or are they dead as I red somewhere? The phone got gifted for free because of this reason that you currently simply cant install any apps on it. Are there besides reddit any active community hubs for windowsphone where you can chat with others currently that might still develop for the platform or use it for educational, dd purposes etc..?

Can I simply unlock the bootloader on Lumia 535 with WPI and the right ffu? Or does that not work with these type of bootloaders as indicated being 2nd gen. And I need other tools such as I read somewhere like Thor?

If so are there other roms, custom recovery available like twrp besides ​projects like LumiaWOA (which definitly wont work on this underpowered device) say e.g. stock android 6.0, lineageos any x.x, cynagoenmod 13/14.x.

But i am still unsure weather what I should do I picked it up with the intent to flash a wip version of postmarketOS on it. Maybe there is other ways I could achive my inital goal of webhosting from the device say via, terminal interface on W10M or hosting a IIS on Windows phone. Or someone has done something similar and can share their experience.

So first off if you read all of this thank you for your time and patience and I hope to get nice feedback from y'all.

I’m building a native Telegram client for Windows Phone in 2026.

It’s called Vianigram, and it’s not a wrapper or a webview — it’s a real client built on top of MTProto.

The UI is still evolving, but the core is already working.

What works today:

• Full login flow (phone, SMS, 2FA, QR, signup)

• Real chats powered by MTProto (no stubs)

• Chat list with pagination and live updates

• Typing indicators, online status and read states

• Chat screen with message bubbles (text, photos, voice, documents, polls)

• Rich text support (bold, italic, spoilers, links, mentions)

• Voice messages with waveform + scrubbing

• Background sync using system tasks (no reliable push required)

• Toast notifications and live tiles generated locally

• Smart coordination between UI and background (single MTProto socket)

• Avatars with preview + HD async loading

• LRU cache for chat pages

What’s different:

Windows Phone push notifications are basically dead in 2026.

So instead of relying on push, Vianigram uses a hybrid background system:

• Periodic maintenance task (~30 min worst-case sync)

• VoIP-based triggers for near real-time wake events

• Local cache used for toasts and tile updates

This means:

You still get notifications, badges and live tiles — even without reliable push.

Limitations (alpha):

• Delays when the app is fully closed

• Calls UI not finished yet

• Proxy settings not wired yet

• Message send is optimistic (ack UI missing)

Why I’m building this:

Because Windows Phone deserved a real Telegram client.

And the platform is still more capable than people think.

Downloads and updates:

Telegram — search for PivoraApps or VianiumApps

☕ Buy me a coffee if you want to support the project

Not affiliated with Telegram.

Windows Phone is not dead yet.