THE GOOD NEWS

The first Windows Phone 7 jailbreak has been released along time ago and its called ChevronWP7, it has been developed by well known and respected Microsoft community enthusiasts Rafael Rivera, Long Zheng and Chris Walsh. ChevronWP7 will allow anyone to unlock a WP7 device for developing purpose, giving you the possibility to install and run your won software without a developer account.

THE BAD NEWS

ChevronWP7 works only with the first version on WP7, with your stock software (before the big copy-paste update, the NoDo-7392).

Although at beginning I was enthusiastic and ready to pay the developer account yearly fee, guess what? My country (Romania) was not an option! and that almost filled my eyes with tears (just kidding). Anyway, because I’m from a different country not “supported” by app hub, I’ve decided to go along and try to unlock my phone for learning purpose. I’ve succeed that after hours of reading and trying that, and the other thing and doing recover from backup on failure and blah, blah, blah and here I am now, with my new HTC Mozart fully unlocked and updated to the latest big update, Mango. It is surprisingly very simple to activate your phone for developing purpose, you only need to make a registry entry on your phone: DeveloperUnlockState inside HKLM\Comm\Security\LVMod and then another one to prevent Zune to lock back the phone. But how the heck you will going to do that? because is not as easy as was on older windows mobile versions ,WM5-6 or 6.5. Well, just search on xda forums and you will find your way. Let me cut it down for you in some simple steps that I did for my HTC Mozart (this works only on HTC devices): Read more »