One day later: Two ways to put Mango on your non-dev phone

One day later: Two ways to put Mango on your non-dev phone (Image - 0)

Yesterday we saw the developer release of "Mango" for Windows Phone 7. The method requires a $99 AppHub subscription and for you to make a backup of your phone before the flash. It likewise voids your warranty.

Today, of course, people have already figured out means around having a developer unlocked telephone to wink Mango to it. We want to stress a couple of things first though:

This voids your warranty
Yous tin't upgrade to the last Mango from this build, so you lot MUST dorsum up
If you lot loose your backup, your phone is permanently in preview-Mango mode--no going dorsum, no going frontwards
If this flash doesn't work and you brick your phone, information technology's your fault. Remember, even the offiical method has some issues (see here).

The commencement method comes by way of WPSauce. In essence, it requires iii steps:

Reverting back to 7004 or 7008 (aka pre-NoDo) by using your backup in Zune
Using ChevronWP7 to unlock your phone
Downloading and installing the official Mango update tools

We won't link to the files here, but rubber to say you tin can do a little sleuthing around to find them yourself. This method at to the lowest degree will create a fill-in of your device (which you should besides backup) and allow you to get frontward once the real Mango update comes out this autumn. Of all the ways, this is the safest (though withal risky).

The second method comes via Windows Phone Hacker. It does not require you lot to revert back nor have a programmer unlocked device. It basically will "...provision your device to receive beta updates. It requires the Windows Phone Support Tools to be installed, and your device needs to exist updated to NoDo or across". Note: it does not create a fill-in, but y'all can do it yourself.

Again, we caution yous to hold off on doing this, at least for a few days. Wait till others have tried it, wait till Microsoft responds, wait till we know more about what is happening here. The second method is certainly the about risky and no 1 wants to hear your story about how your phone broke because you did this, and then patience is a virtue hither.

Source: WPSauce, Windows Phone Hacker

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