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How to Jailbreak Windows 7 Phones & Access MarketPlace

December 14, 2010 by Neal

Windows Phone 7 LogoAfter Android its Windows Phone 7 which is continuously making itself heard. After the Apple iPhone Jail breaking the latest Windows Phone too caught up with unlocking pill. So, let’s check out the simple and effective way to jailbreak or unlock the Windows Phone 7 device. The unlocking procedure which we will be looking today will be with the help of Chevron WP7. No unlocking code or any hard techniques, just with the help of a simple procedure, you can unlock or jailbreak your Windows Phone 7.

It is very user friendly; user doesn’t need to have coding knowledge to operate this app. And the application has been tested and proved that it’s safe and reliable to be used.

Procedure to Jailbreak / Unlock Windows Phone 7:

  • First, you will need to Download and install the latest version of Zune desktop software suite for Windows.
  • Now, after downloading Zune, you also need to Download and install the latest version of Windows Phone SDK or you can also download the registry key and can install the same on your computer. This registry key basically will add the following entry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsPhone\ProxyPorts]
“DeviceReg”=dword:000069C5

  • Connect your Windows Phone 7 device with your PC with the help of USB cable.
  • Now, Open the Zune software and sync your device. Make sure that your device has established a full sync relationship, and NOT guest relationship with the Zune software.
  • Now, you will have to Download ChevronWP7 software tool for Windows Phone 7 un locker and need to run the same.
  • Make sure that before unlocking that your Windows Phone 7 device is not locked with any sort of PIN.
  • Check the option Ensure your phone isn’t PIN-locked and install the certificate on your phone using Internet Explorer at http://chevronwp7.com/cert”, and then click on the “Unlock” button.

This is it! Now, you can successfully side load your device with any applications without requiring to download the apps from the Windows Marketplace and also your unlocking of the device will be successful.

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Comments

  1. KD says

    December 15, 2010 at 10:04 am

    SORRY………… 🙁

    http://chevronwp7.com
    has discontinued the Unlocking tool now…. So you can not unlock your phone.
    you have to find another way….. :-i

    Best Regards
    KD

  2. sanjeev says

    December 16, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    Good sir. thanks

  3. Ricky says

    August 22, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    There is no way to unlock this at this moment. XDA forum has some good tutorial to unlock it. chevronWP7 no longer supports unlocking. There are download links of chevronwp7 and certificate file on XDA forum. You need to use both with the mentioned method in forum.

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