Light in the tunnel for Windows Phone 8
Posted on 08-13-13 02:10 pm

It's been a struggle, lately, for WP8, Microsoft, and users in general lately. It's a sine wave, I suppose, with repeating phases of highs and lows.

But I'm happy to report that, despite my leaving everyone on a low note, there is some exciting news on the Windows Phone hacking front.

Free official 2 app sideload

Microsoft, as part of their new Windows Phone App Studio offering, is allowing everyone a 1-device, two app sideload, for free. That's pretty exciting for homebrewing. Now all we need is someone to build a Homebrew Hub app that dynamically loads app modules from submitted projects, and presto, homebrew on WP8 is alive again. (If anyone is interested in setting up something like that, do let me know ;) )

Here's the relevant quote, from the source:

Beginning today we are simplifying the developer phone registration process. Now, any developer can unlock and register 1 phone to load up to 2 apps. Registered developers with Dev Center accounts continue to have the option to unlock up to 3 phones and upload up to 10 apps on each.

Lumia Registry Modifier

Snicker and GoodDayToDie have been busy over on XDA, and have released a neat little app by the name of Lumia Registry Modifier. That name is pretty self explanatory. There are, of course, limitations to it, e.g. it doesn't support dword values at this time, but this is certainly leaps and bounds further than WP has been lately, so I'm excited to see these developers are picking up the traction. Go give them a thumbs up!

If there's any news I've been missing during my move to college, do drop me a note. Thanks!




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