Windows Mobile Hacking 101

For a while I thought I had gotten stuck with a portable Vista on my new smartphone.  You couldn’t change ANYTHING about the way that the phone worked.  You couldn’t add items to the start menu, or even reorder them.  You can’t change the startup/shutdown options or sound either.  Heck, you can’t even run third party apps.  It seemed really odd to me that you pay so much more for the Windows interface but its vastly inferior to Nokia’s self-made Symbian OS, or even Motorola’s 5 year old OS on my really old phone.

Well, three hours worth of research and I have finally completely unlocked the phone.  Its pretty cool now, and eventually I will get to customizing the home screen, which I can now finally do.  I can post up unlocking instructions if anyone cares as it should work on any nearly any smartphone.

I passed the drug test ok the second time and now I’m finally working at the job.  Seems pretty good, but 60 hours a week wears on you.  You pretty much end up jettisoning your life except for a few hours of FF3 DS on the train.

Oh and my phone now plays the Windows 95 startup sound when I turn it on.  How badass is THAT!?

~ by krakenx on June 17, 2007.