I was bored with Android, as I had been before. Windows Phone is more personal and fun. So I bought the new Nokia Lumia 925.

Yes, this is the real photography phone ever existed up until today. I have been using several "photography phones" before like Pixels, Xiaomis. Xiaomi 14 Ultra is the last of em I bought before jumping to the real camera (Sony a7C II).

Xiaomi 14 Ultra with 1-inch type sensor sounds very interesting but in reality, the photo quality is not quite good if not bad for pixel peepers like me. What's the problem? The image processing and the AI. Bad denoiser, bad AI generation, over sharpened everything. (I know you can get better photos out of the sensor with modded Gcam xmls + root but that's different story).

Lumia 1020, it's photo quality is comparable with my Sony a7C II's RAW. Jpeg isn't that good but the RAW is chef kiss. The details like sharpening is perfect, noise pattern is so good like film grain. Don't quite remember how good it is when I used it back in 2013 since I didn't shoot Raw.

The negative side : slow shutter speed but still fun to play around, and dynamic range isn't on par with current gen sensors. Imagine new Lumia 1020 with latest 1-inch sensor with the same/perfected image processing algorithm? Glad I bought this back 😎

Htc HD2 replica.

Its here! TailStreamr for WP8.1!
It's the same TailStreamr from iOS you know and love but for Windows now too.
You can download the appxbundle here: https://tailstreamr.tailmuncher.org/

NOTE: The app is still in development. It will likely crash many many times and have a few bugs here and there, so just try restarting the app is all I say for fixes. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Some day i droped my nokia on

Concrete sice than it dosnt open the camera anymore

Hi fellas, i got myself in a pickle here. Ive been off windows phones for at least 3 years now, so most if not all of my knowlege about them is covvered in a thick layer of rust. I need to clone a 950 into another 950, excluding the device identifiers. So i unlocked the bootloader on the target, did a backup of efiesp, mainos and data of the source and flashed them on the target. One of the mods i have done to the source 950 is the enabling of the bootanimation (this is relevant for the point i wanna make). The target 950 gets stuck in the splash image after the boot animation but before the final windows logo splash, gets stuck there for 5 or so minutes then reboots. Is there a way i can make this clone work on the target. To be fair the source is a single sim and the target is a dual sim, but i am sure the amount of time i have spent when setting up the source phone is greater than troubleshooting this thing. On another note i have successfully restored a 630 dual sim backup on a 635 years ago, so i dont see why the 950 would have an issue with it

Nokia Lumia 930 wallpaper had souls unlike modern smartphone, very nostalgic for me

A few months later, I'm back in the Windows Phone community!

Back in January or February, I wrote a post about my Lumia 535. But two months later, it died:(

With my birthday approaching, I wondered what to get next—another Lumia, or something different?

In the end, I decided to try something else... an iPhone 4S (yes, I’m still a fan of older Apple tech).

Still, every now and then, I’d think back to my Lumia and miss it.

About two weeks ago, I decided to get another Lumia. I started looking through listings—and was, to put it mildly, shocked by the prices for the 600 and 900 series. I didn’t really want another 535, so I settled on a 430. It suits my needs, though it turned out the seller had included a dead battery that gave off a terrible chemical smell 😱

I immediately set out to find a replacement battery—which turned into quite an ordeal—and placed an order. Now, the Lumia has a fresh battery.

And that’s that—that’s the whole story.

The current President (back then the prime minister) of Finland Alexander Stubb was as a guest in a comedy show called Putous in 2014. During his acting he pulled out a Lumia 1020 from his pocket to read a text the character he was impersonation had gotten.

https://youtu.be/HZCdQUl9dRs?is=ytA4M9qFK0bOacMD

Unison 2.2 — Faster Mobile, Forwarding & Windows Integration

Another major step forward for Unison! Version 2.2.50 builds on the 2.1 line with new messaging capabilities, contact integration, keyboard shortcuts, and a substantial refactor focused on making the app faster on Windows 10 Mobile.

This release is all about improving the everyday experience: sharing messages, managing favourites, connecting with contacts, and making navigation feel much more responsive on mobile devices.

What's new

💬 Forward Messages (Preview). Forward text messages and media captions to other chats. The destination chat opens automatically after sending.

📤 Share to Unison. Added Share capabilities, allowing content to be shared directly with Unison conversations.

⭐ Favourite Tabs (Preview). A dedicated favourites experience with contact visualization.

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts (Preview). Press Esc to close media viewers, or use Ctrl+V to paste images, audio, and documents into an open chat.

👥 Group Join Messages. Newly added group members now appear in the conversation timeline, with improved participant name resolution when phone number information is available.

📇 Contact Integration (Preview). Receive contact cards, start conversations directly from contacts, and add contacts to the Windows People app when their phone number is known.

🔔 Smarter Notifications. Toast titles and group author names now resolve contact display names more reliably, avoiding raw identifiers whenever a name is available.

Performance & improvements

📱 A Faster Mobile Experience. A major refactor of navigation, lists, and synchronization targets faster cold starts and quicker chat opening on Windows 10 Mobile.

⚡ Improved UI Responsiveness. Urgent dispatcher handling and a UI stall watchdog help identify and address interface freezes.

🎨 Legacy Shell Polish. Refined the WhatsApp Legacy mobile StatusBar, added mandatory delete-chat confirmation, and improved chat list context menus across PC and Mobile.

🌐 Localization Updates. Missing resource keys have been synchronized with en-US, including Brazilian Portuguese translations for the new features.

Under the hood

🏗️ Continued Service Extraction. Connection, history, alias resolution, and persistence responsibilities continue moving out of the compatibility client into dedicated services and façades.

🧩 Improved Architecture. New dedicated interfaces handle message forwarding, clipboard media, and group-join participant resolution.

Known limitations

⚠️ Message forwarding currently supports text and media captions. Full binary media re-upload is not included yet.

⚠️ Group member names may remain unresolved when phone number information and known aliases are unavailable.

⚠️ Background notifications still rely on the existing broker and journal name mapping. Background socket handoff is not yet implemented.

Installation

Important: Install the new APPX as an update to preserve your linked WhatsApp session. Uninstalling Unison clears the linked session.

Thanks to everyone testing Unison on Windows 10 Mobile and reporting navigation, performance, and contact-resolution issues. Your feedback helps keep this project moving forward!

Credits

u/MaskNinjaSquared

u/Mayconus

u/Negociation

Download

WinArchive: a Microsoft Store replacement with software update, and a web store.

Metrostore: another Microsoft Store replacement. Apps are installed by hand.

GDrive (Unison / WinArchive / Metrostore):

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nI6Xez…zj7dTbyL1XqV4X4iOMUoHcC?…

Unison 2.2.50 — continuing to bring WhatsApp Multi-Device to Windows 10 Mobile, with desktop support where it matters.

I have been using my Alcatel Idol 4s for a good while and have considered using it as a daily driver. However I wish to know if T-Mobile still supports it in its 4g network

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.

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. 😔

To answer the 'how?': I logged into my 2015 Hotmail account, and my purchases from 2016 appeared in My Library. This was my last hope to recover the apps I couldn't find on Telegram, Discord, or the Internet Archive, which were only 2 of 6 by the looks of it, I'll keep searching. (Sorry, wrong last picture, I meant to show Error Code: 0x80073CF0, my bad. My phone is a Lumia 640 xl and already has interop tools and cmd injector.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.